Inside the Democratic Machine | Evan Barker

Former Democratic Party insider, Evan Barker, left the Party, posted a Tik Tok resignation which went millions viral. She talks, with The Free Press, of her experiences as a fundraiser, in the heart of the Democratic Party.

Fauci lies. He CREATED the pandemic

Above: main critic of Fauci, Senator Dr Rand Paul, talks to Stephen A. Smith

When I look back at my coverage of the Covid Pandemic, I'm pretty happy with what I wrote. It stands up well. 

On Anthony Fauci, for example, I see that I was early in seeing through the man. Who appeared this week at a Senate Committee to be grilled by Rand Paul, only to "Plead the Fifth" (aka, not answer), 111 times. 

I was early in coming to the judgement that Fauci was (and remains) complicit in creating the Covid pandemic, via the gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Which all credible observers and analysts are now pretty much unanimous was the source of the virus via the escape of an experimental virus. Which we might concede was an "accident" ... if we're being charitable.

And of course the reason Fauci denied the Lab-leak theory is that he was the main man responsible for it! It's just as much "the Fauci virus" as it was, per Trump, "the China virus". 

Fauci was at the very, very long-time head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Who, absolutely coincidentally I'm sure, had billions to give away to epidemiologists who supported his deceptions. His murderous duplicity.... 

Those were judgements I came to based on studies of what Fauci said and did during Covid, and the mountain of evidence, circumstantial as it was, for the Lab-leak vs Zoonotic origins.

There was a better way to deal with the pandemic than the Fauci way. What's more we knew it at the time. Even though Fauci crushed dissent and discussion of it. Shameful. (We know why, Tony. We know).

That alternative was published at the time as the Great Barrington Declaration. 

My first post of it was on 15 October, 2020 as "The Great Barrington Declaration". 

A principle architect of it, one of the three co-signatories, was then professor Jay Bhattacharya. He is now the Head of the National Institutes of Health, with oversight of the the very Institute that Dr Anthony Fauci headed for 38 years. 

I signed the Barrington Declaration in 2020. As did thousands of others, laypeople and professionals. We were all smeared as purveyors of "Disinformation", by Fauci and his acolytes. The media. But it's we that have turned out correct. Though we will hear nothing of that from the MSM, let alone an apology. Because the drill is: if the Left gets something wrong, it's "let's move on". Let's "not re-litigate what happened years ago".... But it remains important. The source of any major virus is always important to know. 

Fauci labelled professor Bhattacharya a "fringe epidemiologist" for having the temerity to suggest an alternative to the policies of lockdows, school closures, forced vaccinations, mandated masking and all the rest of it. 

Now that same "fringe epidemiologist" is the boss of the organisation that Fauci once headed. 

Oh the sublime Schadenfreude!

Dr Vinay Prasad gives more detail on the whole "Fauci thing". Prasad doesn't charm everyone, but he's knowledgeable and spot on: "Biden Covid Czar says it was Lab Leak". 

If you're interested in ancient history as it pertains to the pandemic, you can click on the Labels on the right: "Barrington Declaration", or "Coronavirus", or "Zero Covid Policy". 

Or in the Search Box on the right "Fauci". 

The Barrington Declaration is still relevant because if/when there is another pandemic, it's the road map of what we should do. For heaven's sake, NOT the Fauci roadmap. 

As Jay says: "there is nothing novel in the Declaration. It's what we've done with every pandemic in the past. It's the way we actually went about trying to prevent the spread of Covid that's the novel path." Talking here to The Goodfellows. 

I seem to be running a few laps glazing myself here. But, oh well, I'm nearly 80 and if I wanna I gonna. 

"Vehicle" goes rogue and plows into Berlin crowd...

... kills and maims dozens. 

Strange how these "vehicles" seem to have a mind of their own and plow into LGBT Pride parades and Christmas festivals. That's what we read in the headlines. A "vehicle" plowed into the crowd. Nary a mention of who might have been at the wheel or why....

Vince Dao can talk about this openly. As I cannot; this elderly, white, heteronormative, male. I mean, I can, but I’ll be labelled an “elderly, white, heteronormative, male” who has no right to speak because “no lived experience”. 

Vince's parents are Vietnamese refugees from the 1970s. They've done well in America, as has Vince himself and he talks of the family's gratitude to the U.S. for taking them in, and allowing them to prosper.  

Not so everyone. Many hate the west. Hate the country that's given them refuge. And try to kill random of its citizens. Guess who? I let Vince tell you. Spoiler: if you jumped to a conclusion, you're likely correct. 

Despite which the MSM in Germany and the U.K. tries to paint this as somehow the fault of media in the west that's not as leftie as the mainstream broadcasters. Which is absurd, but, I guess, a distraction. 

“Woke activists cope and seethe…”.   Greg Foreman 

Islamist is attacks. Berlin, London, New York. Winston Marshall. Winston talks of how “radical, extremist vehicles” keep on attacking crowds in the West.

Lefties see the light

Bridget Phetasy is like me. I'm like her. Both lefties from way back, now migrated to the small "c" conservative side. The Right. Or centre Right: we both still share many of the small "l" liberal values of the Left. 

Just that the Left has moved more and more left, until now it's known as the "loony left", the "crazy left", the "hard left", the "communist left", the "islamist left", the "Red-Green Left". And in the process left us...

That's now happening to famous folks on the Left. Here: Bill Maher and Van Jones.

Let's let Bridget tell the story in her inimitable way. Good on you, B!  Good on these guys. It's, like, finally!

Why Elon Musk bought Twitter | Seth Dillon

"We [The Babylon Bee] have a refusal to treat silliness seriously"

-- Seth Dillon

Towards the end: Free Speech isn't enough. It's the start.  The news media, social media, commenters, news reporters all have a responsibility to get it right. To report the Truth. There is such a thing. Not "your" truth, or "my" truth. But THE truth. 

The Babylon Bee is the new -- and better -- The Onion, which has gone off because it went Woke. 

They're a bunch of practicing Christians at the Babylon Bee. But, atheist me, I don't mind. They make nice jokes. 

A 2018 headline: "CNN Purchases Industrial-Sized Washing Machine To Spin News Before Publication." 

This specific headline became highly famous after the fact-checking website Snopes officially rated the satirical article as "false". Fact-checked! Yikes!

Hamas are the real Nazis

 Alexandra Marshall

The Left running around calling small government, capitalist, social conservatives 'Nazis' while praising Palestine ... the county whose leadership ACTUALLY sided with the real Nazis while conservatives were off fighting Hitler.

You seriously could not make this crap up.

We are living in psycho world run by the delusional spawn of angry communist professors.

And the media nods along because they'll print literally anything to bring about the Big State, endless gravy train ticket of Labor's socialist utopia. [Link]

She’s 100% correct. 

In WWII, the leader of the Muslims of the Middle East was the Grand Mufti  of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al-Huseini. I’ve read a book about him, called “Hitler’s Mufti”. He spent the war in Berlin, a guest of Adolf Hitler, broadcasting on radio wild Jew-hatred to his captive Middle East followers. He organised Muslims into S.S. Army units to help the Germans liquidate Jews in Eastern Europe. He told Hitler that he would “take care of the Jews in the Middle East” once Hitler had done the job in Europe.

Al Huseini was -- and still is -- a hero to Muslims in the Middle East. Yasser Arafat was a distant relative and idolised him. By some measures he’s the foundational root of the venemous Jew hatred that only allows “No” as an answer, to never acccpet Jews as neighbours, to kill them even when they “hide behind every tree”.

Hamas are Al-Huseini spawn. Direct. 

It doesn’t matter, not to me, that the majority of people in the west seem to have been infected with Hamas’ Hatred of Jews. I mean, of course it matters. But it doesn’t mean that the majority is right. Just as all the millions of Brownshirts idolising Hitler didn’t mean they were right. Or that he was…

When I first mentioned Hamas 15 years ago in this blog, I noted their Nazi practices. They used the Roman Salute. They are supremacist. They hate Jews. HATE! Hitler woulda loved them! And today’s young western Hamas-nicks too.

Americans Can’t Get Enough World Cup Attention | Bridget Phetasy

My dear, my lovely, my love, the amazing Bridget Phetasy, flipping out on the Europeans' reactions to America during the World Cup. 

Super Fan Freddy the German, gets calls from Governors, talks to the International Space Station, tickets to Ella Langley concerts. Started the trip with 10k followers now has nearly a million. 

The Europe Soccer fans main American loves: Ranch Dressing. Smoked Brisket. Air conditioning. Endless coffee and sodas. Pick-up trucks. Ice (the water variety...). Buc'ees gas stations. The super friendliness of Americans. 

And there's this:

"America could simultaneously host another whole World Cup only using the stadiums they're not using for the current one".

Pride Fatigue is Real | Bridget Phetasy

Tell me Bridget Phetasy is not funny... In the vid above. 

And a great presenter. 

She should have her own show. My bet is, if she were offered a job, she'd say no. She's having too much fun, as her own boss, able to say whatever she wants. 

Why does the Left hate Elon Musk?

I've been meaning to write a post on "Why does the Left hate Elon Musk?" 

I would say that it's because he changed from a centre-left Democrat to a Trump supporter. So, word: Trump. 

Before that, the Left loved Elon. A major player in climate change, with his Electric Vehicles and Solar City. 

Then, he says he'll support Trump in 2024, and all that goes. They hate Elon. Just as they hate Trump. 

The reason why he migrated to support Trump, is that he thinks that reducing the national debt is an existential issue. Neither side has been good with this, but the Trump admin tried harder. They did. With DOGE, which was to tackle Waste, Fraud and Abuse. Which sent the left into paroxysms. Because, it turns out, the whole of the NGO, the non-profit, the charity sector is one big boondoggle to wash money for Democrats. But that's another story. 

Then there's a twist I heard about the other day from the likes of the creaky centenarian Democrat Strategist, James Carville, that they think Elon "stole the 2024 election" for Trump. Which is not true, because the swing states that Trump won, the 7 balance states, had zero input from Elon. What's more, the Dems spent way more money than the Reps, 1.5 billion to around 800 million. So there's that. 

Now there's another reason, by the insightful Cathie Wood, of Ark Invest. 

Namely that the Left hate that Elon is actually doing something for Climate Change. And if he manages to solve it, then there's nothing more for them to campaign on. A new twist on the stuff relating to NGOs. That they don't want to solve the problems they've been set up to tackle. For then the money flow stops. They have to stop feeding at the trough.

Cathie Wood just named the contradiction nobody wants to touch.

She compared Elon Musk to Thomas Edison.

Not as praise. As a pattern.

Wood: “I think he’s the Thomas Edison of our age… he wants to do the right thing to transform the lot of most of humanity.”

The media sees a reckless billionaire setting fires.

Wood sees the only person in the room building anything at all.

The gap between those two readings tells you everything about who controls the narrative.

Start with Tesla.

Wood: “Tesla was an environmental move, which I think a lot of people attacking his cars… they’ve forgotten.”

He built the exact machine environmentalists spent thirty years begging for.

Didn’t lobby for it. Didn’t write a whitepaper. Built it.

Forced every major automaker on Earth to abandon the combustion engine.

Then the second he won, the same movement made him the enemy.

Because the establishment never wanted the problem solved. They wanted the problem funded. And those are two very different things.

A solved problem kills the committee. Kills the nonprofit. Kills the careers built on managing the crisis instead of ending it.

Musk ended it. And they have never forgiven him.

SpaceX looks like an escape hatch if you never read past the headline.

Which is exactly what the press counts on.

Wood: “What we learn about material science and technologies… is going to help us here on Earth as well.”

Mars was never the exit.

It is the lab.

Build under conditions so brutal that every breakthrough changes what is possible back home.

You learn to keep a human alive in a frozen irradiated vacuum.

Fixing an energy grid on a temperate planet becomes arithmetic.

He is not running from the cradle.

He is stress-testing the technology that preserves it.

But that story doesn’t sell ads. Doesn’t move polling numbers. So they bury it under hit pieces and congressional theater and call it journalism.

Most people who reach his level stop building and start protecting what they have.

They buy senators. They buy newspapers. They buy silence.

Musk keeps picking the hardest unsolved problems on the planet and running straight at them.

That is what terrifies the establishment.

Not that he might fail.

That he might succeed without them. Without their funding. Without their approval. Without anything they can hold over his head.

A man they cannot buy is a man they cannot control.

So they do the only thing they have left.

They send the media after him.

Every legacy outlet runs the same playbook. Strip the context. Clip the quote. Frame the motive. Let the algorithm do the rest.

It has worked on every builder before him.

It will not work on this one.

They will spend their careers trying to tear him down.

He will spend his building the thing that saves them anyway.

The stones always come from inside the walls. From Dustin.

Exonerating the Iranian regime. Why? | Eliza Le Bon

 

Click above for the X post by Elica Le Bon, Iranian-American activist 

Reza Pahlavi goes ballistic on the EU media

The Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi’s father, ruled Iran for 30 years. He modernised Iran. Focussed on education, health, women’s rights…. He also had Savak, his secret police arrest and torture opponents of his rule. A flawed leader. All the west can remember is the bad stuff. They recall nine of the good stuff. 

Meantime the western media seem unable to recall a single bad thing done by the Islamist theocracy since it overthrew the Shah in 1979. And proceeded to murder 30,000 of its leftist supporters. And commit even greater evils recently.

If it’s a choice between someone flawed and someone evil, you go for the flawed. So why is the western media like this? I don’t get it. 

Reza Pahlavi has words for the supine western press. Enamoured as it is with violent extremist Islam, in the shape of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Mad Mullahs.

Here is Reza Pahlavi:

I want to speak DIRECTLY to the people of Europe. In the past two weeks I held TWO MAJOR press conferences — one in Stockholm, one in Berlin. Over 150 JOURNALISTS showed up. We spent MORE THAN TWO HOURS with them…

And guess what? 

NOT ONE SINGLE of those 150 journalists asked about the 40,000 IRANIANS SLAUGHTERED on the streets of my country on January 8th and 9th! 

NOT ONE asked about the 19 political prisoners EXECUTED in the last two weeks.

When I told them 20 more are currently sentenced to death — CRICKETS. Not a damn question.

I stood right next to a grieving mother and father who lost their sons in that massacre and begged them to listen to their stories… 

NOT A SINGLE ONE of those 150 journalists asked them a thing.

Let that sink in.

My 40,000 BRAVE INNOCENT COMPATRIOTS who were butchered fighting for liberty? They don’t give a damn.

They are too busy criticizing America and Israel for taking out the dictator who’s been slaughtering our people for 47 YEARS — instead of going after the regime that’s actually doing the killing!

They’d rather dig up Iran’s history than talk about what’s happening RIGHT NOW or the free democratic Iran we’re fighting for. 

One EU parliament member even had the nerve to say Iranians aren’t ready for democracy. To that coward and to every fake journalist in the room I say this:

Iranians aren’t just “ready” for democracy… 40,000 of them just DIED for it! And I will NOT let their blood be in vain. 

SO HEAR ME LOUD AND CLEAR:

Whether Europe stands with us or not…

Whether your journalists do their damn jobs or not…

Whether your politicians grow a spine or not…  

I WILL FIGHT FOR MY PEOPLE AND MY COUNTRY. 

Even if we have to do this ALONE — we are fighting until IRAN IS FREE! 🇮🇷💪

#RezaPahlavi‌ForIran 

@PahlaviReza

H/t Neo

A "Binational, Democratic, State" in Israel run by Hamas?? | Einat Wilf

 

Dr @EinatWilf

This is a response to all those who think that if Hamas takes over Israel, if the Intifada does work to overthrow the Jewish state, if Islamists rule "from the River to the Sea", then all will be fine and well. That there will be a return to some pre-1948 time when apparently all was sweetness and light between Muslims and Jews in this area of the Levant. 

People believing this, calling for this, include pretty much all the Left in the west, the media, all of Europe, all the Muslim countries. ie, pretty much everyone. Including the loopy fringe group of fundamentalist Jews, the Naturei Karta, recently seen on New York streets, together with Hamas and other "Palestinians" calling for the downfall of Israel, and shouting Allahu Akbar. Go figure. 

Einat Wilf I've posted about before. She's super shart. Intelligent, eloquent. And not blinded by any false delusions about what might happen if Hamas or the PA took over. Which, to be clear, would be genocide -- and actual genocide -- of all Jews in the area, just as a first up, followed by killing all Jews and all non-Muslims they could get their hands on. 

How do I know this? Because they say so. Over and over. It's part of their founding document, the Charter of Hamas. 

Iran Crumbles...

 

... and it's good news for the West. 

I am most certainly aware that that's not the view of the legacy media. That they're taking every opportunity to big up any perceived negatives against America; and to diminish any of the achievement of Operation Epic Fury. 

I find it disgusting that the European West, the American media, the media in Australia, the UK, the EU, can be against winning a defensive war on Iran -- defence against a burgeoning Islamist caliphate -- because they don't like the man waging it. 

I'm fully on side with winning this war. I know that America and Israel are trouncing Iran. But also that Iran's is not a finished regime. And that the main battle now is against the headwinds from the West itself. Weird and disturbing. And should not be so. 

Shame on pusillanimous leaders like France's Macron, Britain's Starmer, Italy's Meloni, Germany's Mertz and the Spanish socialist shill whose name I can't be bothered to remember. But who seems happy to have the Modern Moors reconquist Andalusia. Which, bottom line, is what this war is all about. Pushing back Islamist Jihadi attacks, of which Iran, its Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, are just the tip of the spear. 

Is that too tough to read? Too difficult to acknowledge? So be it. 

00:00 Long View on Iran War 03:02 Iran Weakened Militarily 04:24 Winners and Losers Russia Gulf 06:22 Global Fallout China Europe NATO 09:16 US Outlook and Conclusion

Victor Davis Hanson is an American classicist, military historian, and political commentator. He has been a commentator on modern and ancient warfare and contemporary politics for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the National Review, the Washington Times, and other media outlets.

Victory? | Michael Doran and Gadi Taub

Victory? 

Of course not to the legions in the media, the Trump and Bibi haters worldwide. 

Not to the “Gleeful Defeatists”. Whose personal hatreds of two men trump their support for the enlightenment values of the west. Who openly cheer for the victory of the worst tyrannical theocracy this century. 

Michael Doran and Gadi Taub have been fair-minded yet hard-headed analysts from a right-of-centre perspective. If you want perspective from left-of-centre, you just need to go to any of the mainstream media. CNN will give it you. So will the BBC. And so will Australia’s ABC. And Democrats too, of course. Australia’s Labor government. All of Europe….

Mike and Gadi are fair: they read out a list of ways the pro-Iran-regime crowd claim IRGC has won. As well as the counter to that. Which amounts to a reckoning that we, the west, are much better off than we were on October 8th 2023. This will no doubt be mocked as being “major cope”. You watch.

But, yeah. A Victory on points.

There’s discussion of the moral dilemmas of asymmetric war. Where the enemy is perfectly willing to put its citizens in harm’s way, to kill them if they dare resist. Gadi mentions an Israeli analyst who says that if the enemy puts civilians in front of military targets, you must stop the war. Which of course will mean that the west can never win another war against terrorists. It’s the ultimate “terrorist veto”. 

It’s what happened with the hostages in Gaza. One’s own military becomes hostage to the hostages. It’s a dilemma. Which some people, like Yishai Fleisher, argue against. And I support. Such are the exigencies of existential battles. Not “if they go low, we go high”. Uncomfortable, sure. 

Me? On the issue of “ceasefire” I’m not at all keen, as  I wrote. So I remain firmly of the opinion of “hmmm…”. Which is, at best, “we”ll see”. What do I know? Nothing. “I know nothing…”.

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Vince Dao, a young conservative commenter, makes some good points. He strikes me as pretty smart. Head screwed on. Why Iran regime is changed, whatever the current appearance.

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ADDED: There are reports — unconfirmed— that China pressured Iran into agreeing to this ceasefire. This could make sense. End of the day what they want, what we all want, tbf, is a peaceful Middle East. Or at least one without an Islamist, terrorist, genocidal-suicidal, millenarian, regional-global bully.*

*ADDED (2): Grok answer to my query: 

Yes, multiple credible reports confirm that China exerted pressure on Iran to accept a recent two-week ceasefire with the United States (and involving Israel), which was announced on April 8, 2026. The truce includes a pause in hostilities and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz for safe passage. [More]

Resurrection Rescue — the “Easter Miracle”

 

Resurrection Rescue. The day of Jesus' resurrection, a daring rescue brings the downed airman home.

Max Afterburner tells the story. Surely a movie here. 

Retired Colonel Joe Buccino, shows us the map.

ADDED: Mainstream Media — CNN, MSNBC, ABC, New York Times… — can hardly bring themselves to mention the rescue. Such is their hatred for Trump they’d rather the American pilots had been lost, or, even better, captured as hostages. 

Meantime: Chinese media was claiming that America had killed its pilots. Then.. that they were trying to kill their pilots. Apparently based on IRGC propaganda. Vince Dao, grandson of a South Vietnamese Army general who was airlifted in the infamous “Fall of Saigon” helicopter evacuations, talks about the U.S. doctrine of “no man left behind”. And how anti Americans are spinning this rescue (“Huge cost in wrecked aircraft”). 

On the issue of costs of the rescue, I did the calculations. They come to 0.000013 of the Pentagon budget. Less than a rounding error. While Morale boost is huge. And imagine the opposite effect on morale of the Iranians parading a captured pilot. So, yeah, very much worth it. And to be lauded. Screw the Europeans petty-minded shitty take. 

Things you won't see in the news: 12 Muslim nations denounce Iran

The Ministers in Riyadh. Pic from the World Socialists 
 site, who are very angry at the Ministers! 🤣

How about this? 

On March 18, 2026, foreign ministers and top diplomats from 12 Arab and Islamic countries met in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for a consultative ministerial meeting where they issued a joint statement strongly denouncing Iran for its recent military actions. They're calling it the "Riyadh Statement". 

The countries: 

• Azerbaijan
• Bahrain
• Egypt
• Jordan
• Kuwait
• Lebanon
• Pakistan
• Qatar
• Saudi Arabia
   (Host)
• Syria
• Türkiye
• United Arab Emirates

Never before today, never before the current situation in the Middle East, have we seen such unity amongst Arab and other Muslim states. Denouncing a rogue, terrorist Muslim state. 

Muslim states denouncing Iran. Now, who does NOT denounce Iran and its fanatical terrorists?

1. The mainstream media, all the usual suspects: the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, the New York Times. And all the rest. They don't even acknowledge the Riyadh Statement! 

2. All of leftie Europe and the U.K. They do not denounce the Iranian regime. My own Australia is pretty limp as well. The PM, Anthony Albanese is in hock to the Muslim vote. 

3. And the Democratic Party is actively hoping for an Iran win, because otherwise, Orange Man Bad would have a win. Can't have that.

Isn't that somehow disgusting? 

That the most involved states in the region reach unprecedented unity in denouncing this horrid extremist Shi'a Iranian regime. But no one on the Left in the west can bring themselves to wish for a US and Israel victory, so much do they hate Donald Trump. 

A US-led victory, should it happen, will be a victory for the West. Also a beginning of real peace in the Middle East. For if Saudi Arabia joins the Abraham Accords, the wars against Israel will cease. 

Annals of Turning a blind eye: the Trump Dismissal Syndrome

Meantime… in more unsurprising news of the “news” failing to tell us the news. 

Because … Trump. 

Consider, from M.A. Rothman:

𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗣𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗠𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗥: "𝗜𝗙 𝗪𝗘 𝗛𝗔𝗗 𝗔𝗡 𝗛𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔, 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗪𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗕𝗘 𝟮𝟰/𝟳 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦"

He's right. And he knows they know he's right.

Stephen Miller just read the scorecard out loud. In one year under President Trump:

• 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆.
• 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆.
• 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗿𝘂𝗴 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆.
• 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆.
• 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆.
• 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱, 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱, 𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆.

And the headline number: the lowest national murder rate in 125 years. Not five years. Not ten. Not a generation. 𝟭𝟮𝟱 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀.

Now ask yourself: if a Democrat president had delivered those numbers, what would the front page of every newspaper in America look like right now? What would the lead story on every network be? What would the tone of every late-night monologue be?

You know the answer. You've seen it before.

Instead the media spent today covering whether Tom Homan had a well-thought-out plan to guard airport exits. They spent last week debating whether ICE agents would brutalize travelers. They spent the week before that explaining why Iran was probably telling the truth and Trump wasn't.

Miller's point isn't partisan. It's mathematical. These are the largest improvements in public safety in the history of this country — achieved in a single year — and the people whose job it is to inform the American public have buried them.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄.

This House belives that... Thoughts on Iraq, Iran, and the justification for war

This House believes that... 

... we believed that the 2003 Iraq war was wrong. We all believed that, in this house, unanimously, at the time. Ditto the war in Afghanistan. 

We remember Colin Powell making the case for attacking Iraq in the United Nations. We were unconvinced. Powell later admitted that he'd oversold the "evidence" and apologised. Gee, thanks Col.... 

I remember a simple case counter-terror czar Richard Clarke made against the the 2003 Iraq war: 

"Attacking Iraq after 911 is like attacking Mexico after Pearl Harbour". 

We, in this House, agreed with Clarke, and we were right. It did turn out to be a mistake. (Though the attack and military operations were successful, the Occupation was not so). 

Now we have the war in Iran, Operation Epic Fury. 

On this one, this House is divided. I support it. Others don't. 

I support it because I believe the dangers Iran poses. I believe Iran poses serious, clear and present existential dangers to us all in the west. 

Iran, its Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), its Supreme Leader, all repeat the same thing. They chant it before every parliamentary meeting: "Death to Israel, Death to America, Death to the West". 

They mean it!

They have been working to achieve that. They fund powerful proxies in the region, as a "Circle of Fire" around the "Little Satan" of Israel: Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis. 

They spend more on digging vast tunnels than they spend on health care. They spend more on drones that on schools. They spend more on Hamas than on Hospitals. 

The attack America and the West, over and over. Here's a list. 

Their aim is for a world of one religion only: Islam. Their Shia version. 

They have been working hard to get an arsenal of nuclear bombs. 

This was clear even during the time of Obama's "Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action". After the signing of the JCPOA, United Nations weapons inspectors reported that Iran had repeatedly breached the deal. 

Meantime the JCPOA did not even cover the program of building Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. Iran were free to build as many of those as they wished. Some deal!

These are missiles they will aim at Europe first. The Supreme Leader and the IRGC have said the "Black Flag of Islam" will fly over the St Peter's. How much of resistance would Rome offer if an ICBM were to land in the middle of the Vatican? Please let's not test this. 

The IGRC say their aim is to have an ICBM reach the United States. Building ICBMs was nowhere covered in the JCPOA. Go figure that one. Gee thanks, Barack....

I followed this issue over the years. Debates by experts, at the likes of Intelligence Squared, ended with wins for the side doubting the value of the JCPOA. 

No wonder. And good riddance to a bad deal. 

If Iran achieve the building of a nuclear weapon, their leadership repeatedly said they would use it on Israel. And then on Europe. And then on the United States.

Iran's madman theocrats are determined to vanquish the world in the name of their millenarian Shia Islam. That's a fact.  

I would have supported any military action against Iran by any president since 1979. I didn't care if it was Jimmy Carter, or George H.W. Bush, or Bill Clinton, or George W. Bush, or Barack Obama, or Donald Trump. Just so long as the threat was attacked and neutralised. 

None of them did. Until Trump. I salute his brave decision. Others hate him for it. 

Whether he succeeds or fails, at least the has the guts to take on Iran, the largest, the most serious, the most clear and present existential threat to the West. 

On the other side, we have those against this war. 

I grant that they may have genuine concerns about it. 

But what I'm seeing is that their opposition is more because they don't like Trump. 

Some have said it outright: "If the war ends and Trump and Bibi survive, we've lost the war". These people -- which is all the Mainstream Media and pretty much all the Democratic Party, apart from John Fetterman -- hate the war because they hate Trump. That's not a reason!

They are cheering for an American loss in the war, so that Trump loses. 

That, to me, is disgusting. You're free to oppose the war. But not just because you hate Trump. You're hoping for America to fail, because you loathe Trump??!

Make a better case. 

This House believes that whether your support or oppose Operation Epic Fury, you should have reasons. I mean decent, based, reasons. Not because you hate the Orange Man. 

I've set out my reasons, above. If you oppose the war, what are your reasons? 

ADDED: Then Florida Senator Marco Rubio (now Secretary of State) set out the reasons we have to be worried about Iran, back in 2015. Eleven years ago. It's worn well. 

Perfect, Marco! Link here. 

What’s going on in the Hormuz Strait? | Navy Decoded

 

This channel, Navy Decoded, is unabashedly patriotic, pro-America, pro-Navy, describing the positive side of Operation Epic Fury.

It’s a counter to the unashamedly unpatriotic, anti-war mainstream media. The CNNs, MSNBCs, ABCs. 

The MSM and Party Democrats may have good reasons to oppose this Iran war. But even if they think war against the Iran regime is a good idea, they’re against it. Because … it’s Trump's war. And anything Trump, they want the opposite. Including for America to lose a war. 

Early in the video above talks a of the difference between tanks in World War Two. The German Tiger Tank was superior to the American Bradley. But the Bradley was made on production lines. Result: many more Bradleys than Tigers. Bigger result: the Bradleys won. 

That’s the same issue we’re hearing so much about now in Iran. Cheap Iranian drones downed by multi million dollar American missiles. How long can that go on? Well, America solves this quandary by destroying the drone and fast-boat production facilities. As described in the vid above. And by reverse engineering the Iranian Shahed drone as the American made LUCAS drone.

In sum: this vid is a counterbalance to the anti-war mainstream media. A counter to the media’s clear-deep hope that America should lose. America should lose, because… well… because Trump.

It’s also a pretty interesting video! 

"Where's the Truth?": a case study from New York

 

It keeps coming up at our gatherings. "What's the truth?", and "where can you find it?".

My answer is always: you have to read around a subject. Read Left, Right and Middle. Imagine the Venn diagram of those three, and the middle bit is going to be the Truth or thereabouts. 

A simple way of saying this: In America, read the New York Times and the New York Post. Watch CNN and Fox. In the U.K. read the Guardian and the Telegraph. Watch BBC and GB News. In Australia read the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian. Watch the ABC and Sky News Australia. 

If you're really obsessed, get Ground News, a news aggregation site, for a collection of news from all perspectives. 

The latest "What's the Truth?"  brouhaha is about the recent bombing attacks at the NYC Mayor's Residence, Gracie Mansion. 

This is "The Truth", as far as an reasonable person would agree: 

1. There was a demonstration outside the mansion, to "Stop the Islamic takeover of New York". This demonstration was perfectly legal under the 1st Amendment free speech clauses of the United States. 

The reason for the anti-islamification theme is that the current mayor, Zohran Mamdani is a Muslim. And a pretty radical one at that. 

2. There was a counter protest against those protesting against Mayor Mamdani. This too was perfectly legal. 

3. Suddenly two teenagers threw Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs, at the first group. The IEDs didn't go off. But if they had people on all sides would have been killed or wounded. 

The two teenagers have been arrested. They have admitted they are ISIS members. Which is why they bombed the anti-Islam protesters. 

That's the truth of what happened. The Important Truth. Not yet the Full Truth, but enough to know, that's the Important Truth. 

Now, here's the thing.

The reporting on CNN and also in the New York Times, made it seem like the bombing was from the anti-Islam protesters, in Group 1, and that they were targeting Mamdani. This is the opposite of the truth.

The reporting on this issue from the Right, from the likes of Fox and Sky News Australia, plus a myriad YouTube sites was far more on point, far more truthful, far more correct and far more honest than any of the reporting on the Left. 

That's the TRUTH, right there. 

If you only follow the likes of CNN, you don't know the correct story. If you only follow the likes of Fox, you know the story. At the very least: You're much closer to The Truth by watching the horrid, "far-right" Fox, than you are  from watching the supposed purveyor of truth, CNN. 

I've thought that I might look at the media over the period of Trump 45, from 2016 to 2020. I would guess that, objectively, if you were after getting at what the Truth is, you'd have been better off with Fox than CNN during that time. Not that I'm saying that right now, I'm just thinking that. And also thinking that, of course, it's always better to go for both. Watch both. Read on both sides. 

But the concept that -- if you had to choose one cable channel -- it might be Fox that is the better source of *FACTS*, would be total anathema to those on the Left. 

But it might be true nonetheless. 

The recent NYC terrorist bombing incident is just the most egregious of recent failures of the media on the Left to report the news. The TRUTH. 

ADDED: CNN’s Abby Phillip’s on-air apology.