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A fiscal storm is brewing in the Netherlands. With the potential introduction of a tax on unrealized capital gains, The Hague is set to become a testing ground for the systematic transfer of wealth from the private sector to the state. Across all government levels, the European Union is increasingly transforming into an aggressive parasitic system.

A fundamental clash between the public and private sectors is intensifying across the EU. In March, both chambers of the Dutch parliament will decide on the implementation of an annual tax on unrealized gains. Going forward, all increases in value—from real estate and stocks to bonds and cryptocurrencies—would fall under this fiscal framework.

This move significantly accelerates the extraction of capital from the private sector, constituting a political rule violation. Already taxed income and assets would be hit again based on hypothetical gains, severely impeding private wealth accumulation.

Support for this measure spans both right- and left-wing parties. It reflects a form of fiscal horseshoe logic, apparently anticipating a severe national financial crisis.

Newsbusters.

Indicted ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon’s actions belie his claim he was acting as a Constitutionally-protected “journalist” when he disrupted a church service last month – but, even if he was, he still doesn’t have the right to violate the religious freedom rights of others – legal experts say.

On January 29, federal authorities arrested Lemon for his role in the January 18 storming of a St. Paul, Minnesota-area church by an organized mob of far-left rioters under the guise of protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) efforts to detail illegal aliens. He has been charged with violating laws protecting the right to freedom of religious worship.

Despite his claim to be a journalist covering, instead of a participant in, the church invasion, actions speak louder than words, legal analysts note.

“Don Lemon was part of an organized mob that stormed into a church service and prevented the parishioners from practicing their faith,” Constitutional lawyer, commentator and Author Mark Levin wrote in a X.com post explaining that Lemon was acting as a participant, not a journalist, in the church invasion.

“He can claim he was merely reporting, but he was not. Even if he was, he still intentionally joined in the disruption of the church service,” Levin notes. “And he obviously knew beforehand what was going to take place.”

ABC News. 

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has announced it will cease publishing the World Factbook, a free online resource used by millions around the globe.

Frequently cited by journalists and academics, the Factbook offered regularly updated statistics and information about countries and communities all over the world, in an easily understood and searchable format.

A statement on the CIA’s website did not include a reason for the decision, simply stating that the publication had “sunset” while encouraging readers to “stay curious about the world and find ways to explore it … in person or virtually”.

I can reach out with my right hand and comfortably touch my copy of the CIA World Factbook 2024-2025. It has been an invaluable resource.

SATNEWS.

On February 4, 2026, reports from European intelligence and space agencies surfaced detailing a series of aggressive “satellite interceptions” by Russia that have placed NATO’s orbital infrastructure at unprecedented risk.

European security officials believe that at least 17 key European satellites have been shadowed or compromised by Russian signals intelligence (SIGINT) spacecraft over the past three years, sparking fears that Moscow could not only steal classified data but actively hijack the satellites to send them “hurtling back to Earth”.

The primary actors in this orbital espionage are the Russian satellites Luch-1 (launched in 2014) and Luch-2 (launched in 2023). According to tracking data from the French space situational awareness firm Aldoria, Luch-2 has engaged in risky close-range maneuvers, lingering within 20 to 200 kilometers of sensitive geostationary (GEO) assets for weeks at a time. Major General Michael Traut, head of German Space Command, confirmed that these Russian vehicles are likely intercepting “command links”—the unencrypted communication channels used by older satellites to receive instructions from ground control.

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Today, Wikipedia celebrates its 25th anniversary. What began as a promising vision for shared knowledge and a free internet encyclopedia has devolved into a battlefield. Today, interest groups orchestrate disinformation and chaos, erasing narratives, deleting documented historical evidence, and even distorting facts in the exact sciences.

Why does this matter in 2026? Beyond its average of 3.5–4 billion monthly visits (according to SimilarWeb) and its dominance as the top Google result for countless terms, Wikipedia is a primary training source for LLMs like ChatGPT, Gemini, and others.

In practice, this means that when fake news is injected by anonymous users who have accumulated enough permissions, it flows directly into AI engines. This cycle perpetuates lies until they effectively erase reality.

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It’s AI, but well done, and the story itself is telling.

Net Migration of UK Millionaires 2014-2025

The Register.

State and federal lawmakers have stepped up their efforts to prevent the creation of 3D printed guns. But Adafruit, a maker of electronics kits, warns that the proposed legislation is so broad it threatens everyone involved in open source manufacturing and technology education.

Recent bills attempting to grapple with this issue include New York’s FY 2026–2027 executive budget bill (S.9005 / A.10005), Washington State House Bills 2320 and 2321, and the 3D Printed Gun Safety Act introduced last June in the US House and Senate.

The renewed enthusiasm for clamping down on 3D printing technology follows allegations that Luigi Mangione killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024, with authorities saying a 3D-printed “ghost gun” recovered after his arrest was consistent with the weapon used.

Adafruit, which previously raised concerns about the Washington State proposals, said on Tuesday that the New York bill is also problematic.

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When 38% of students at one of America’s most elite universities claim disability status, the system isn’t broken—it’s working exactly as designed. And that’s the problem.

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This thesis nails it. The gaming has become normalized, and it’s not limited to DraftKings and crypto—it’s metastasizing through our most prestigious institutions.

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Nancy Guthrie, 84, disappeared from her home in the Tucson area between the evening of Saturday, February 1, and the early morning hours of Sunday. Authorities say the evidence no longer supports a voluntary disappearance and are treating the case as a suspected abduction.

Law-enforcement sources said Guthrie’s implanted pacemaker stopped communicating with her Apple devices at about 2 a.m. on February 2. When deputies later entered the home around midday, her iPhone and Apple Watch were still inside.

We have the technology.

The Telegraph (Uk).

Schoolgirls will be banned from wearing skirts as part of an equality drive that requires all children to wear trousers.

The 1,600-pupil Brynteg School in Bridgend, South Wales, will impose the new policy at the beginning of the next school year in September.

The War Zone.

The U.S. Navy has shown no signs of reversing course on major changes to its pipeline for new naval aviators in its latest draft requirements for a replacement for its T-45 Goshawk jet trainers. The Navy has already axed carrier qualifications from the syllabus for prospective tactical jet pilots and has plans to significantly alter how other training is done at bases ashore. These decisions have prompted concerns and criticism, but the service argues that advances in virtualized training and automated carrier landing capabilities have fundamentally changed the training ecosystem.

This is a very disturbing development. No ‘virtualized training’ can match the effectiveness of actually Doing It.

Feds sued a second time over halting Hudson River tunnel cash, this time by NY and NJ

‘No Smoking Gun’ On Trump In Epstein Files | Trevor Hunnicutt (Times News [UK])

Donald Trump lashes out at reporter for not smiling while asking about Epstein survivors (Daily Record [UK])

Judge who blocked Trump’s Haitian deportations bankrolled Dems ??? including Biden who let migrants in (Josh Christenson/New York Post)

After Republicans push Clintons to testify on Epstein, Democrats warn they’ll haul in Trump (NBC News)

The toxic culture that killed Alex Pretti (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)  A toxic culture that people like Will Bunch did much to create, although he won’t admit that.

Judge limits federal officers’ use of crowd control munitions at Portland ICE building (Conrad Wilson/OPB)  Obviously, the judge wants the crowd to be uncontrollable.

Not a Single Republican Shows Up to Hear Renee Good’s Brothers Testify (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)  Why would Republicans show up to a Democrat circus?

I Wrote a Book in Support of Nationalizing Elections. Trump Changed My Mind. (Richard L. Hasen/Slate)  Trump just keeps on winning.

DHS Reports Spike in Vehicle Attacks on ICE, CBP Officers

DHS Law Enforcement Experienced More Than 180 Vehicle Attacks Since President Trump Took Office (Department of Homeland Security)

Jerry Nadler Suggests Americans Would Be ‘Justified’ Shooting Masked Attackers in Rant Against Trump’s ‘ICE Goons’ (Sean James/Mediaite)

The Paramilitary ICE and CBP Units at the Center of Minnesota’s Killings (Ali Winston/Wired)

LAPD Won’t Enforce Ban on Masked Federal Agents  It’s just virtue-signaling.

How Stephen Miller Stokes Trump’s Boundary-Pushing Impulses (Wall Street Journal)

Citadel’s Ken Griffin says Trump White House has ‘enriched’ family members (Amelia Pollard/Financial Times)  Proglodyte Projection: Left-wingers accusing you of doing what they are doing or are planning to do.

“This Job Sucks”: DOJ Attorney Asks Judge to Hold Her in Contempt (Hafiz Rashid/New Republic)  They could always go work for a living.

It’s the Billionaires, Stupid (David Rothkopf/Need to Know)

Minneapolis Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize After Anti-ICE Protests (Jasmine Laws/Newsweek)

Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country (Greg Sargent/New Republic) Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Who is Hurting Kids? ??? The irony should not be lost on Americans that the MAGA movement … (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Kimmel Attends Anti-ICE Rally, Hails Sign That Called Trump ‘Racist Sexist Nazi POTUS’

JD Vance refuses to apologize to Alex Pretti’s family after spreading ICE ‘assassin’ claim (Phillip Nieto/Daily Mail)

How the Immigrant Defense Network trained nearly 30,000 Minnesotans as constitutional observers (MPR News)

Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved (Jon Collins/MPR News)

ICE Was Terrorizing Worshipers Long Before Don Lemon Entered a Church (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark)

In Ohio, I Caught a Glimpse of the New Resistance (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)

Pro-ICE Billboards in San Fran Pre-Super Bowl ‘Raising Eyebrows,’ ‘Making Some People Angry’

Rethinking Trump 2024 As An Epstein Coverup Campaign (Brian Beutler/Off Message)  Epstein! Epstein! Epstein!

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The U.S. agency that enforces laws banning workplace discrimination said in a court filing Wednesday it is investigating Nike for allegedly discriminating against white people through its diversity policies.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in the filing that Nike has refused to comply with a sprawling subpoena seeking information such as data on the racial and ethnic makeup of the company’s workforce and a roster of employees chosen for mentoring and development programs.

The commission said it is investigating allegations that Nike intentionally discriminated against white employees and job applicants, including by disproportionately targeting them for layoffs, and that it needed the information to determine whether Nike violated the law.

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Two Minnesota school districts and a statewide teachers union filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday seeking to block immigration enforcement operations near schools, escalating legal challenges to the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegals in the state, The Hill reported.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, asked a judge to prohibit federal immigration agents from carrying out enforcement operations within 1,000 feet of school property or school bus stops unless agents obtain a judicial warrant or face what the suit describes as “exigent circumstances.”

The case was brought by the Fridley and Duluth public school districts, along with Education Minnesota, a union that represents more than 80,000 educators statewide.

Newsbusters.

An interesting story from the United Kingdom is filling left-wing journalists with horror: Amelia. She’s an Artificial Intelligence creation that has escaped its left-wing government master and been rebadged as a heroine to the anti-mass migrant movement online.

The U.K. is suffering societal backlash and financial pressure due to mass immigration from cultures with little respect for women, yet the Labour Party government is obsessed with patrolling social media to inhibit “far-right” discussion of the migrant problem.

U.K. conservatives have turned the tables, taking an animated character, “Amelia,” the purported purple-haired antagonist of a government-issued left-wing game aimed at U.K. teens, and coding her favorably, not as a font of hate and disinformation, but as a pro-British patriotic meme.

The intent of the “game” — to warn British teenagers that taking anti-migrant stands may lead to police intervention — has backfired, with UK residents opposed to mass immigration adopting Amelia as their own mascot.

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A Texas LGBT judge with a history of clashing with authorities over her activism has been arrested and charged after she allegedly handcuffed and held a defense attorney captive in her jury box for the crime of arguing for the right to confer with her client during a probation hearing.

Bexar County Judge Rosie Speedlin Gonzalez was indicted last week on a felony charge of unlawful restraint by a judicial officer and misdemeanor official oppression. The controversial judge was arrested for the 2024 incident, during which she and defense attorney Elizabeth Russell clashed in the courtroom.

Gonzalez has had run-ins with the law before. In 2022 she was was fined for bringing a loaded rainbow-painted gun through San Antonio International airport in her carry-on luggage. In 2019 shortly after she took the bench as the “first openly gay judge in Bexar County”, Gonzalez was sanctioned for pasting her courtroom, office and robes with gay pride flags in violation of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct. In 2023 the sanctions were lifted by a three judge panel.

Former staff members of the court report that the LGBT judge created a “hostile work environment”. Multiple former workers/partners with the Reflejo Court program accused Gonzales of increasingly erratic and aggressive behavior, primarily toward defendants/litigants in the courtroom. Others accused her of being “unstable” and prone to violent outbursts.

The judge is, however, considered a favorite of local prosecutors.

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In one of his most revealing moments years ago, Don Lemon sat down with Morgan Freeman and admitted exhaustion with the race narrative. “Sometimes, I get so tired of talking about it,” Lemon said. “I wanna just go, ‘This is over. Can we move on?’”

Today that same man harasses pastors, calls ordinary churchgoers entitled because of “WHITE SUPREMACY,” and defends mobs that storm Christian services.

Lemon’s dramatic transformation reached a new level this month when he was arrested by federal agents in connection with the anti-ICE mob that disrupted a worship service at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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By no co-incidence whatever, ‘legal observers’ is what the anti-ICE mobsters call their agents provocateurs,

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Trump’s repeated threats to bomb Iran seem to have resulted in some Iranian officials abandoning ship. There have been reports of two such recent instances.

In the latest, Iran’s chargé d’affaires in Vienna, Gholamreza Derikvand, abruptly abandoned his post and is reportedly seeking asylum in Switzerland for himself and his family.

The Iranian government has not confirmed this, however, and Iran’s Foreign Ministry has simply said amid the speculation of the diplomat’s sudden absence that it is “avoiding discussing the case or claiming ignorance due to fear of intelligence agencies.”

Derikvand’s colleagues told Iran International that Derikvand was widely seen as a rising figure within Iran’s diplomatic corps and could have been promoted to ambassador had he stayed on. His résumé includes a previous stint as chargé d’affaires at Iran’s embassy in the Czech Republic from 2011 to 2014.

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A digital billboard near San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf is cycling through pro-Immigration and Customs Enforcement messages ahead of Super Bowl LX, drawing sharp criticism from some immigrant advocates as the region prepares for the NFL’s biggest weekend.

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In recent weeks, calls to defund or even abolish ICE have ramped up from the Democratic Party, particularly after the shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. However, despite their rhetoric, American voters are far more aligned with Trump’s immigration crackdown. In fact, it looks like their views on immigration enforcement are so far out of touch with mainstream America that it could cost them the midterm elections.

The latest Cygnal survey has made some rather telling discoveries: enforcement is popular, defunding ICE is toxic, and Democrats are walking straight into an electoral buzz saw by pretending otherwise.

Cygnal, widely regarded as one of the most accurate private pollsters in the country, polled likely 2026 midterm voters and found that voters still see the border as a question of law, not vibes. A full 73 percent of voters say that entering the United States illegally is, in fact, breaking the law, which means most Americans still accept the basic premise behind the word “illegal.”

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Suppose you’re a democratic socialist who has been invited to speak at a college campus. Who do you think would be more likely to try to silence you, a left-leaning woman or a right-wing man?

It may be reasonable to assume someone with a similar ideology would be more tolerant of your views, but new data by FIRE suggests that’s not the case. Amazingly, it turns out men are often more tolerant of the opposite side than women are of their own side.

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Federal and local authorities are investigating suspected illegal biological laboratories in Las Vegas and California’s Central Valley linked to a Chinese national accused by Congressional investigators of ties to a PRC military-civil fusion enterprise, who spent a decade operating what Canadian courts found was a systematic technology-theft operation from British Columbia before fleeing south with a $330 million fraud judgment against him.

The FBI and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department executed search warrants over the weekend at two residences connected to Jiabei “Jesse” Zhu, a 62-year-old Chinese citizen already under federal indictment for operating an illegal biolab in Reedley, California that contained labeled samples of at least 20 infectious agents including HIV, tuberculosis, and what the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party described as “the deadliest known form of malaria.”

Las Vegas Metro Sheriff Kevin McMahill confirmed Monday that investigators recovered over 1,000 samples of biological material “consistent in appearance” with items found in the California facility.

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A Canadian comedian with a solid international fanbase just watched six sold-out shows vanish in Minnesota. Ben Bankas lost his gigs at Laugh Camp Comedy Club in St. Paul after clips of his routine on Renee Good’s death blew up online – the routine hit raw nerves in a city still reeling from the January 7 shooting.

Club owner Bill Collins cited threats, media frenzy, and street chaos as the reasons for the cancellation. “After discussions with, and concern from public authorities, legal counsel and staff, combined with heightened threats, increasing media attention and civil disorder, we have determined the risks and related liabilities cannot be overcome,” Collins told People Magazine.

Search YouTube for Chris Rock’s video “How Not To Get Your Ass Kicked by the Police,”

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The massive hospice fraud racket thriving under California’s lax oversight is finally getting the spotlight it deserves, as the Trump administration’s CMS chief Dr. Mehmet Oz hits the streets of Los Angeles to call out the billions in stolen taxpayer dollars.

With organized crime rings, including Russian-Armenian mafia elements, infiltrating the system through ghost patients and fake companies, the scam highlights how globalist policies have opened the door to foreign exploitation of U.S. resources. As fraudsters traffic beneficiaries like commodities, real Americans suffer denied care while the deep state looks the other way.

Los Angeles County alone accounts for 18% of the entire country’s home health care billing, a staggering figure that screams foul play.

Newsbusters.

Free Beacon writer and 2023 MRC Bulldog Award winner Andrew Kerr unleashed a massive investigation on Monday morning, telling readers that a 2021 hate crime trumpeted by a who’s who of the liberal media — where a black teen in Plano, Texas named SeMarion Humphrey was pelted with BB gun bullets and forced to drink urine at a sleepover by white kids — was fake.

Not only did Kerr report the story was deemed fake, a Texas jury found it so in a court of law on January 22 and ordered the boy’s mother Summer Smith and attorney Kim Cole “to pay $3.2 million in damages to” the boy Humphrey claimed to have been the ringleader.

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In the last week, protesters in Minneapolis began putting up barricades to create checkpoints that bar federal immigration officers from entering certain neighborhoods.

It is all too familiar to those of us who remember what the mayor in 2020 called “the Summer of Love” in Seattle and the establishment of an autonomous area known as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP).

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The Affordable Care Act would “bend the cost curve” in health care, “moving the health care system toward higher quality and more efficient care.” So said a White House statement in 2013.

Many people now agree that didn’t happen.

“We pay more than any other country in the world for worse health care,” Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said while campaigning for office in 2024.

“Families pay more, get less, and we’re left with few choices,” Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) testified in a December 2025 committee hearing.

A combined 70 percent of Americans believe the U.S. health care system is either in crisis or has major problems, according to a 2025 Gallup poll.

Health insurance premiums have more than doubled since Obamacare began in 2014, rising twice as fast as inflation. And satisfaction with the cost of health care registered a record low in 2025, at 16 percent.

How did that happen?

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The UK Home Office’s Pathways training package was intended to counter the threat of radicalisation in the United Kingdom. Needless to say, this wouldn’t be the most ferocious form of radicalisation, which is Islamism, and by a huge margin. No, they decided to spend a great deal of time and taxpayers’ money on a programme highlighting that spectral terror which lurks only in the minds of civil servants and Church of England clergy—the dreaded ‘far right.’

Marketed as an interactive educational tool for schools, Pathways adopts the language and aesthetics of a video game to guide young people away from ‘dangerous pathways.’ In practice, of course, it’s only the one pathway they’re worried about. It reveals a great deal about how the modern British state now defines extremism and why that definition is detached from reality. Pathways has become a case study in institutional overreach, ideological confusion, and the persistent failure of Britain’s counter-extremism establishment to understand either public opinion or the threat landscape we ask them to manage on our behalf.

At the centre of Pathways is a character called Amelia; a purple-haired goth girl wearing a choker and a pink dress. Unless you have completely detached yourself from the internet over recent weeks, you will have almost certainly come across her, and you will have probably seen her indulging in such extremist practices as waving a Union Jack and generally loving her country.

Amelia is a teenage activist who questions mass immigration, protests against demographic transformation and expresses alarm at the direction of modern Britain. Within the game’s internal logic, engaging with Amelia’s views increases a ‘risk’ score, pushing the player closer to state intervention and the government’s Prevent process. The message is not subtle. Concerns regarding mass immigration and unwanted cultural change are treated not as political positions to be debated, but as symptoms to be managed. The line between radicalisation and dissent is not merely blurred—it is erased.

This framing exposes the true function of Pathways. It is less an anti-terrorism tool than a mechanism of ideological conditioning, one that treats mainstream concerns about borders, identity, and social cohesion as inherently suspect. In doing so, it confirms what many critics of Prevent have long argued: that counter-extremism policy has quietly expanded into the regulation of thought.

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“The entire population of Gaza is facing the risk of famine,” Sigrid Kaag, the UN’s coordinator for Gaza, falsely claimed, echoing Hamas propaganda. “Israel must halt its devastating strikes.”

Kaag (Pictured above, left), a leftist Dutch politician and UN official, had been picked for the role in Gaza by the Biden administration. And she had all the right credentials including the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO), the World Economic Forum and leftist politics. She had cheered the BLM race riots and claimed that America was systematically racist because New Yorkers had mistaken her husband, who worked for a Muslim terrorist group, for a janitor.

Now she’s been picked for a seat on the Gaza ‘Executive Board’ by the Witkoff team.

Sigrid Kaag had been ousted from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1994 after she secretly married a top member of the PLO, Anas Al-Qaq. The same behavior that made her untrustworthy however qualified her for a job at the UN. There she worked for the IOM, the UN’s mass migration group, and UNRWA, the UN’s ‘Palestinian’ agency: known as a front for Hamas.

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Authorities in Greece have announced a major operation to identify and shut down all illegal mosques in the Municipality of Athens, alongside deporting the foreign nationals operating them.

The initiative was confirmed by Greece’s Minister of Immigration and Asylum, Thanos Plevris, during a parliamentary committee meeting discussing a legal immigration bill.

The crackdown follows a recent case in Agios Nikolaos, where a Bangladeshi national had his legal residence permit revoked for running an unlicensed place of worship. The site was sealed by police, and the individual was sentenced to prison for operating the mosque without authorization. Plevris stated that “what happened in Agios Nikolaos will happen everywhere.”

Europeans finally start to get a clue.

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A set of internal documents published by the Republican members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee (Judiciary GOP) has sent shockwaves through Brussels.

Released under the title The EU Censorship Files, Part II, the investigation presents documentary evidence of a sustained strategy by the European Commission to influence public debate on social media and digital platforms, pressuring major tech companies to censor lawful content, alter their internal rules, and restrict certain political viewpoints.

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The revelations go far beyond an abstract debate over content moderation. According to the material made public, the Commission has directly or indirectly intervened in at least eight electoral processes across six European countries since 2023, using high-level meetings with digital platforms in the days and weeks leading up to elections to demand stricter censorship of political speech.

After a brief experiment with democracy, Europe descends into the totalitarianism it had enjoyed back in the 1930s.

UPDATE: Police Raid on X Paris Offices: No Comment From EU Leaders 

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A Greek Coast Guard vessel and a boat carrying migrants collided in the Aegean Sea, killing 15 people, according to authorities on Wednesday, February 4th—updating the previous death toll.

The incident occurred on Tuesday off the island of Chios, near Turkey. According to a Coast Guard statement, the pilot of a high-speed boat—operating without navigation lights and carrying foreign passengers—failed to comply with the Coast Guard’s visual and audible signals.

Instead, the pilot turned around, and the boat then collided with the starboard side of the Coast Guard patrol boat…. the force of the impact caused the boat to capsize and sink.

Fourteen bodies were retrieved from the sea, including three women. Another woman, who was pulled out alive, later died of her injuries, the coastguard reported. Among those rescued were 11 children who have been taken to a hospital, along with two injured coastguards.

The tragedy follows an earlier incident in January, where a boat carrying more than 50 migrants sank off the Greek island of Ikaria.

The perpetrators don’t care, since they get paid up front—sort of a scene out of the movie Casablanca. (“I repeat—in cash!”)

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German police are preparing for nationwide unrest ahead of a Hungarian court verdict in the case of Maja T., a “non-binary” far-left extremist accused of traveling to Budapest to carry out violent Antifa attacks. Authorities warn that a guilty ruling could trigger riots, arson, and attacks on Hungarian diplomatic missions across Germany.

The 24-year-old accused has been imprisoned in Hungary since June last year, after being extradited from Germany in connection with political violence conducted by the so-called Hammerbande (Hammer Gang), an Antifa-linked extremist group known for attacking people they label as ‘right-wing’ or ‘fascist.’ Maja T. is alleged to have taken part in coordinated assaults in Budapest in February 2023, during which victims—including some lying immobilised on the ground—were beaten with hammers and batons. A verdict is expected today, February 4th.

The Antiplanner.

Minnesota’s Northstar commuter train made its last run about a month ago. Planners had predicted that the train would carry 5,900 passengers a day, but in 2024 it carried only 435 per day. Collecting fares that averaged $3 per rider, its operating costs were $121 per rider.

Charles Marohn, a planning advocate over at Strong Towns, argues that, as a transportation project, Northstar was “doomed from the start.” This is because it wasn’t designed for transportation. Instead, it was aimed at getting money from the federal government.

“Northstar wasn’t a transportation project that failed,” wrote Marohn. “It was a funding project that succeeded.”

And that funding went to favored companies supplying the trains, building the tracks, and creating the other infrastructure needed for this boondoggle—and, more likely than not, into the pockets of Democrat politicians and bureaucrats (it is, after all, Minnesota).

Your politicians’ fantasies at work.

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Hint: No.

The stream of Tories jumping ship to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK shows no sign of abating. Amid Reform’s fresh new recruits, the defection of Suella Braverman stands apart. In my opinion, she is likely to add several percentage points to Reform’s vote share immediately—not through any sudden mass conversion, but by crystallising the disillusionment among the Conservative base that has been building since the 2024 wipeout.

There is tentative evidence to support this, for instance, a recent YouGov poll suggesting that around a quarter of 2024 Tory voters now view Reform more favourably following the Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick defections. Furthermore, Rishi Sunak’s sacking of Braverman back in November 2023 coincided with a sharp rise in the Reform vote.

Those who ‘switch sides’ in any walk of life can expect a degree of censure, but political defections are almost impossible to pull off without violent condemnation. For we ask a great deal of our politicians: loyalty to country, to party, to a manifesto they likely had little or no hand in drafting, and above all to principle—even when many if not all of those things are unaligned. Few of us would satisfy such a test in any 24-hour period. Braverman, however—a paid-up Conservative for the best part of thirty years—might just make the grade.

The British Conservative party hasn’t been worth a shit during my lifetime, certainly, and probably within the lifetime of my father, who was born in 1918. Time to take Old Yeller out back and shoot him.

The Economist, a Voice of the Crust.

At first glance the global economy looks more uneven than ever: billionaires’ fortunes keep breaking records, asset prices have soared and voters across rich countries insist that life is getting harder and more expensive. Yet in the 21st century the world economy has kept getting more equal.

Technology will do that. Of course, the Narrative Media are heavily invested in complaining about ‘inequality’, whether in ‘incomes’ or ‘wealth’ or whatever they think you have more of than you ought; it is beneath their notice that ‘poor people’ have access to resources that John D. Rockefeller would have given half his net worth to have.

The Guardian, a Voice of the Crust.

Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) have more in common with cigarettes than with fruit or vegetables, and require far tighter regulation, according to a new report.

‘More in common with’ means ‘just as noxious to us’ in Karen-speak. Nobody eats tobacco (except inadvertently), of course, just as no one smokes fruits or vegetables, but the nanny-state totalitarians must have some way to Indicate Their Displeasure with people who follow their own judgment and make their own choices rather than being guided and controlled by the preferences of the Enlightened.

UPFs and cigarettes are engineered to encourage addiction and consumption, researchers from three US universities said, pointing to the parallels in widespread health harms that link both.

The cited author is, of course, female, so the role of Karen in this fable is a good fit. The Narrative Media is never more at home than when telling other people what they ought to do, preferably by government mandate.

The Times (UK).

A former town mayor helped her son to hide evidence when he was arrested at her home for raping a 15-year-old girl, a court was told.

Naheed Ejaz, 61, who had recently completed her one-year term as mayor of Bracknell Forest in Berkshire, allegedly refused to let police officers into her home when they came to arrest her son, Diwan Khan, 41.

The Labour councillor delayed the officers’ entry for “some minutes” and spoke to her son in Urdu to assist him in hiding his phone, which allegedly had a video of the sex attack on it, the court was told.

Urdu is the dialect of Hindi used in Pakistan, differing chiefly by being written in Arabic script rather than Devanagari. Presumably these two are Muslim.

Import Turd World people, get Turd World problems.

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Congressional Democrats said Tuesday they plan to subpoena President Donald Trump to testify under oath about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein if they regain control of the House, citing what they describe as a new precedent set by Republicans’ aggressive oversight tactics.

“We are absolutely going to have Donald Trump testify under oath,” Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., a member of Democratic leadership, told NBC News, saying the issue would be a priority once Democrats have subpoena power.

Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., a former House majority leader who is retiring at the end of this Congress, said the prospect of Trump testifying would be significant. “It is a big deal,” Hoyer said. “And it’d be interesting to see what former President Trump thinks of that premise.”

‘It’s Been Brutal’: Twin Cities Economy Suffers Under ICE Crackdown (Lydia DePillis/New York Times)  Mostly due to left-wing violence.

Democratic victory in deep-red Texas district casts a pall over GOP plans to keep the House (NBC News)  And the Narrative Media are rubbing their hands with andicipatory glee.

Judge Blocks Trump From Ending Haiti Protections

Tulsi Gabbard accused of trying to ‘bury’ whistleblower complaint (NBC News)  Accused! That proves it!

‘Crisis’: The fallout from Trump’s surprise plan to close Kennedy Center (Washington Post)

What it’s like to see ICE tear gas kids (Marisa Kabas/The Handbasket)  What it’s like to see parents bring their kids as attempted human shields to protests.

Joe Scarborough’s Screaming Anti-ICE Rant, Devoid of All Context  Hard to believe he was once a Republican Congressman.

NY citizens, others sue to block Trump administration’s visa ban targeting 75 nations

Gateway sues Trump administration over freezing Hudson River tunnel funding

NY is putting extra eyes on immigration enforcement officers, state AG says

6 Things to Know About Judge Who Blocked Trump Deportation of Haitian Immigrants  The judge is, of course, female. ‘Feels over reals”.

Why the Epstein scandal may never die (Zachary Basu/Axios)  Because the Narrative Media will try to make it into a stick with which to beat Trump if it’s the last thing they do.

‘Grassroots’ anti-ICE campaigns funded by left-wing billionaire donors: sources (Chadwick Moore/New York Post)

Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon (John Woodrow Cox/Washington Post)

Dunh dunh DUNHHHHHHH….

As some states try to show ICE the door, others put out the welcome mat (NPR)

Three issues that could sink Trump (Caitlin Dewey/Vox)  They hope, they hope, they hope….

The plot to undermine the 2026 elections (Popular Information)  Proglodyte Projection: When the Left accuses you of planning to do what they always do.

How to tear gas children (Sarah Jeong/The Verge)  Step 1: Bring your kids to a demonstration and attempt to use them as human shields. (Teachers Unions Accused of Using Kids at Anti-ICE Protests)

Democrats want to unmask ICE officers to cause them violence and harm (Christopher Tremoglie/Washington Examiner)

Immigration agents draw guns, arrest activists following them in Minneapolis (Associated Press) Good.

Dear media, stop acting like Trump means what he says (Margaret Sullivan/American Crisis)  Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

Leaked Email Reveals Border Patrol Goon’s Jaw-Dropping Complaint About Tactics (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)

ICE Is Watching You — In the latest stop in Donald Trump’s war on liberal democracy … (Tressie McMillan Cottom/New York Times)

Donald Trump Has Built a Clicktatorship (Donald Moynihan/The Atlantic)

‘Monster’s Paradise,’ lampooning US President Donald Trump, has world premiere at Hamburg Opera (Ronald Blum/Associated Press)  They may have won all the battles/But we had all the good songs….

Jerry Nadler Says People Feel Justified Shooting ICE Agents Because They’re ‘Masked Hoodlums’ (Harold Hutchison/The Daily Caller)  No, people feel justified shooting ICE agents because of proglodyte indoctrination—by people like Jerry Nadler.

Trump Is Doubling Down on All the Wrong Things (Jonathan Lemire/The Atlantic)  From the viewpoint of the Narrative Media.

The Influencer Who Spurred the Federal Crackdown on Minneapolis (Ruth Graham/New York Times)  Let’s see whether we can get a proglodyte mob to show up on his doorstep, shall we?

Newsbusters.

In fact, the only people who have a problem with it are Democrats, becuse it stands in the way of their favorite sport, stealing elections.

Read it.

Yet Another Corrupt Black Democrat Politician.

Hmm. That would make an interesting book….

Newsbusters.

Media bias isn’t just on TVs or in newspapers anymore. Now, it’s woven into digital devices, and it’s worse than you think.

MRC President David Bozell highlighted the issue in an interview with Laura Trump, host of the Right View Podcast, on Thursday, describing how it feels like Americans are “watching two different movies,” resulting in completely opposing realities.

The dichotomy between the left’s perception of America and the right’s perception of America is wider than ever. So what’s causing this divide? It’s no shock—from the Media Research Center’s perspective—that the elitist media plays an outsized role in shaping how Americans view the world.

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Democrat lawmakers in Washington state unveiled legislation Tuesday that would impose a new tax on residents earning more than $1 million annually, Politico reported.

The move advances a proposal supporters say would fund key services, while opponents warn it could worsen economic challenges and fail to address the state’s immediate budget shortfall.

The proposal would levy a tax of nearly 10% on income exceeding $1 million, marking the latest attempt by Washington Democrats to implement an income tax in one of the few states that does not currently impose one.

Party leaders say public support and shifting political dynamics have strengthened the bill’s chances of passage.

Newsbusters.

When a grand jury on January 29 indicted former CNN host Don Lemon for allegedly participating in the disruption of a Minneapolis-area church service, the corporate media responded with unanimous outrage. But for all of their handwringing, not a single journalist has acknowledged even once on any of the big three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) that Lemon’s arrest was, in fact, the result of a grand jury indictment.

MRC analysts examined all coverage of Lemon’s arrest on the big three broadcast networks’ flagship morning (Good Morning America, CBS Mornings, and Today) and evening shows (ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News), from the morning of January 30 through the morning of February 3, 2026. Across the seven different reports about the incident, totaling just over 14 minutes, not once was it mentioned that Lemon’s arrest was not a reckless act by an out of control Justice Department, but rather the result of a grand jury indictment.

All three networks covered the event once on their evening newscasts on January 30, and a second time the following morning — for a total of 163 (ABC), 351 (CBS), and 334 seconds of coverage, respectively. CBS Mornings also ran a report just hours after the arrest on January 30.

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A viral video compilation circulating on X has laid bare the dramatic reversal in Democratic positions on immigration, showcasing top party figures advocating for robust border security measures that they now vehemently oppose.

This shift comes amid growing public demand for deportations, exposing a calculated pivot away from policies that once aligned with American interests.

The video, posted by @WesternLensman on X, features archived clips of prominent Democrats articulating views on immigration that echo today’s America First agenda. It underscores how border security was once a bipartisan consensus before the party’s radical elements took over.

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Last October, Dubai-based billionaire and Emaar Properties founder Mohammed Alabbar unveiled an audacious $400 billion proposal to help solve America’s worsening housing shortage by building millions of housing units, describing it as both a humanitarian and economic opportunity that could “reshape the U.S. market” and create up to 20 million jobs.

According to Alabbar, the United States is experiencing a significant housing-supply shortfall, which has led to a crushing lack of affordable housing. Analysts estimate a gap of about 4.7 million to nearly 5 million housing units currently exists in the US. This shortage is the result of many years of underconstruction, soaring costs, regulatory and labor constraints. The effects are broad: higher home and rent prices, fewer first-time buyers, and mobility barriers for workers. In short: a weak supply side has become a drag on affordability, economic growth and inflation control. In response, Alabbar – who now runs the largest real estate developer in the UAE – proposed a $400 billion “fix” at the Reuters NEXT Gulf Summit in Abu Dhabi, capital which he claimed could be raised in as little as one week if the right partners are assembled.

But while Alabbar’s proposal was unlikely to be taken seriously – as it benefits his company as much as it does US homebuyers – the logic behind it is sound – build much more housing – and has seemingly impressed the Trump admin.

It does explains why, as Bloomberg reports, US homebuilders are working on a plan for a massive program to develop up to a million “Trump Homes” that would address the US affordability crisis while allowing private capital to deploy many billions of dollars.