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The Looming Threat to Our Homeland It has never been greater. Jeff Cruere

Posted By on June 27th, 2025

https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-looming-threat-to-our-homeland/

After the successful completion of “Operation Midnight Hammer,” in which 125 U.S. military aircraft bombed three Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities, the threat to our homeland has never been greater.

President Donald Trump only authorized America’s first military attack on Iran after repeated diplomatic efforts failed to convince the Iranian government to end its nuclear weapons program. Trump called the operation a “spectacular military success,” which “completely obliterated” the three Iranian nuclear enrichment sites.

In the area of national security, Trump has great latitude and, as Commander-in-Chief, he can use military resources to respond to imminent threats, such as the Iranian nuclear weapons program. Unfortunately, his ability to implement homeland security changes has proved to be much more limited.

Every move the President makes is challenged in court by leftwing Democrats who do not want to protect our homeland from recognized threats. This is the political party that delivered open borders during the administration of President Joe Biden. According to Vice President J.D. Vance, Biden allowed approximately 20 million illegal immigrants to enter the country during his disastrous term in office.

Illegal immigration was already a severe problem before the start of the Biden administration. In 2018, a Yale University study discovered 22.1 million illegal immigrants living in America. This is why Trump was so determined to build a wall and close the southern border. He made tremendous progress during his first term, using creative methods to fund the border wall that Congress refused to authorize.

Unfortunately, all of Trump’s progress was halted when Biden took office, and a genuine problem turned into a five-alarm fire for the nation. Biden stopped construction of the border wall and allowed illegal immigrants from more than 160 countries to enter the country.

With the new Trump administration, the border has been effectively closed once again. In May, the U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) apprehended only 8,725 illegal aliens in the Southwest region, an astounding 93% decrease from the previous year.

Nationwide, there was a decrease of 88% of “border encounters” from the last year of the Biden administration. Even more remarkable, last month zero illegal aliens were released into the country by USBP.

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Zohran Mamdani’s progressive intifada will be a disaster for New York His Democratic mayoral primary win speaks to a party and a city in terminal decline. Joel Kotkin

Posted By on June 27th, 2025

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/06/26/zohran-mamdanis-progressive-intifada-will-be-a-disaster-for-new-york/

Whoever is elected New York City mayor in November, Zohran Mamdani’s impressive win this week in the Democratic mayoral primary marks a breaking point in the party, the city and US society as a whole.

New York, where my family settled 120 years ago, is special. It is America’s capital of intellect, art and, most importantly, capitalism. New York’s financial elite have largely tolerated the ‘progressive’ excesses of the Democrats in recent years, but the prospect of a self-described ‘socialist’ running the city may be a bridge too far. We can expect them to renounce the Democrats altogether or join the mass migration south.

Yet while the financial elites might be reeling from the result, Mamdani’s win was no working-class uprising or revolt of the lower orders. His main rival, former New York state governor Andrew Cuomo, did best in heavily black and ethnic white enclaves, many of them quasi-suburban, as well as some elite precincts in Manhattan. Mamdani won most convincingly in the far-from-impoverished hipster belts of Brooklyn, Queens, the Upper East Side and Lower Manhattan. These precincts now dominate a Democratic Party once driven by white ethnics and working-class African Americans.

The key element here is the younger, mostly white, economically marginalised new proletariat – sometimes called the ‘precariat’. They are most lured by Mamdani’s propositions like frozen rents, free buses and childcare – all funded by higher taxes on the wealthy. Their angst reflects the realities of today’s New York, which works for the wealthy elites but suffers very high levels of inequality. Job growth has been weak and concentrated in low-wage sectors like hospitality and tourism. While incomes for most have stagnated, housing costs have not – rising to record levels this year.

The New York these young people have inherited is no longer the epicentre of economic opportunity. It flourishes largely as a hub for trustafarians, top-tier professionals, globe-trotting elites and cultural creators. While New York’s overall population has declined, the number of ultra-wealthy residents has continued to grow. There’s nothing like the job prospects that earlier generations of New Yorkers had – neither in manufacturing nor in business or financial services.

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RFK Jr. Axes ALL Funding For Bill Gates’ Global ‘Vaccine Alliance’ Benjamin Bartee

Posted By on June 27th, 2025

https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2025/06/27/rfk-jr-axes-all-funding-for-bill-gates-global-vaccine-alliance-n4941219

Whereas the general modus operandi in legacy media is to smear RFK Jr. as an “anti-vaxxer” within the first sentence, the Washington Post courteously waited until the second paragraph to label RFK Jr. a “vaccine misinformation” spreader on its way to condemning him for cutting federal funding to Bill Gates’ global “vaccine alliance,” GAVI.

Via Washington Post (emphasis added):

The United States will halt its contributions to Gavi, the global alliance that works to expand access to vaccines for children in some of the world’s poorest countries, said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wednesday — a move that public health experts said would have deadly consequences.

Kennedy, who has a history of spreading vaccine misinformation, announced the decision in video remarks made to a Gavi summit in Brussels, during which he accused the group of neglecting “the key issue of vaccine safety.”…

In his remarks, Kennedy cited a study linking the DTP vaccine — for diphtheria,a highly contagious bacterial infection that kills 5 to 10 percent of those affected, as well as tetanus and pertussis — to increased child mortality. Kennedy also said Gavi should “consider the best science available,” and “re-earn the public trust.”

The Bezos paper didn’t actually cite or quote the DTP study referenced by Kennedy, so I went and found it.

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Successors to Khamenei A tyranny’s move to survive. by Christine Williams

Posted By on June 27th, 2025

https://www.frontpagemag.com/successors-to-khamenei/

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei has declared that Iran “isn’t a nation that surrenders”:

Those very words from Khamenei are reflected in the regime’s move to survive, as it now seeks likely candidates to succeed Khamenei. “Iranian officials consider removing Ali Khamenei in plot to replace supreme leader – report,” Jerusalem Post, June 22, 2025:

Iranian officials are considering removing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the Supreme Leader of Iran after the country endured airstrikes by Israel and the United States, two sources involved in the discussions told The Atlantic in a report published on Sunday.

The plot to replace the supreme leader is being planned by a group of businessmen, military and political figures, and relatives and high-ranking clerics, the report said.

“Ours is just one idea,” a source told The Atlantic. “Tehran is now full of such plots. They are also talking to Europeans about the future of Iran. Everybody knows Khamenei’s days are numbered. Even if he stays in office, he won’t have actual power.”…

Discussion about Khamenei’s ill health, ability to rule and whom his successor would be were happening well before the recent escalation, pointing to a likely longstanding determination by the regime to install a successor. A few days ago, The Atlantic reported about an inside plot to remove Khamenei as the Supreme Leader after the debilitating airstrikes by Israel and the US. The plotters, comprised of businessmen, military and political figures, and high-ranking clerics “agreed that a leadership committee consisting of a few high-ranking officials would take over running the country and negotiate a deal with the United States to stop the Israeli attacks.” Of course Iran must never be trusted to make any lasting deal; it only manipulates to buy time.

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Dem Congressman Tells Jewish Stephen Miller to Go Back to ’30s Germany This is who the Democrats are. by Mark Tapson

Posted By on June 27th, 2025

https://www.frontpagemag.com/dem-congressman-tells-jewish-stephen-miller-to-go-back-to-30s-germany/

To paraphrase the late Freedom Center founder David Horowitz: scratch a tolerant, inclusive, compassionate “liberal” and just underneath the surface you’ll find a raging, totalitarian racist and antisemite. Wisconsin Democrat Congressman Marc Pocan is the latest example of this ugly truth.

On Wednesday, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller tweeted in regard to New York City Democrats embracing Muslim socialist Zohran Mamdani, a Ugandan immigrant, as the city’s mayoral candidate: “NYC is the clearest warning yet of what happens to a society when it fails to control migration.”

In response to Miller’s suggestion that America needs to quit importing people who are actively seeking to undermine our nation and civilization, Rep. Pocan, 60, tweeted this intemperate message: “Racist fuck. Go back to 1930’s Germany.”

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Blue-State Socialism: You Wanted It, Now You Get It … Good And Hard

Posted By on June 27th, 2025

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/06/27/blue-state-socialism-you-wanted-it-now-you-get-it-good-and-hard/

Faced with the failure of their policies, far-left and outright socialist Democrats in blue-state America are doubling down. Whether it’s New York, California or midwestern leftist havens Minnesota and Illinois, the socialist model will bring only more failure and misery to its citizens. And, because they voted for it, they’ll get what they deserve.

We’re not gloating here. The Democratic Party was once a serious political group that based its popularity on appealing to centrist blue-collar working class Americans and moderate urban liberals. The extreme left was largely, though not entirely, marginalized.

Today, that’s sadly no longer true. Take California.

Los Angeles is run by Mayor Karen Bass, an unabashed follower of deceased Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, while California governor and presidential-wannabe Gavin Newsom and the California state legislature are both far left.

They’ve distinguished themselves by their inept response to last winter’s wildfires and this summer’s riots, which required federal intervention in the form of National Guard troops.

Under its leftist leadership, California is losing hundreds of thousands of its most productive citizens, not to mention hundreds of its most innovative firms. All are fed up with the state’s insane DEI culture, heavy regulations, and super-high taxes.

But the real topic du jour is in New York City, The Democratic mayoral primary just delivered a radical democratic socialist, the global-intifada supporting Zohran Mamdani as the desired candidate. It wasn’t as if New Yorkers didn’t have a choice: Mamdani handily defeated the seasoned, centrist alternative, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in what Politico called a “stunning primary.”

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Why U.S. Intelligence Has Been So Wrong About Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program A leaked DIA report downplaying Iran strike damage is the latest example of politicized intel, aimed at undermining Trump and shielding Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. By Fred Fleitz

Posted By on June 27th, 2025

https://amgreatness.com/2025/06/27/why-u-s-intelligence-has-been-so-wrong-about-irans-nuclear-weapons-program/

he recent Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) assessment claiming that the U.S. bombing of Iran set the country’s nuclear weapons program back only a few months was irresponsible and probably intended to undermine President Trump’s foreign policy. This assessment was written to be leaked to the press and reflected a long pattern of politicized intelligence analysis to undermine Republican presidents.

The DIA assessment was not credible because a battle damage assessment of the bombing of Iran’s Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan nuclear sites will be complicated and probably take weeks or months of intelligence collection and analysis by dozens of experts and other intelligence agencies. A low-confidence assessment, like the DIA analysis issued 24 hours after the bombings, was a fraud and an abuse of intelligence to produce a high-profile assessment that deliberately misrepresented the outcome of the U.S. attack and helped the president’s political adversaries use the bombings to hurt him politically. Not surprisingly, this assessment was quickly leaked to the press.

The DIA assessment followed similar efforts by U.S. intelligence agencies and the left to deny that Iran had a nuclear weapons program.

Last weekend, Secretary of State Marco Rubio did an extraordinary interview with Margaret Brennan on CBS’s Face the Nation that hinged on the misleading way U.S. intelligence agencies have long framed Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

Brennan demanded that Rubio tell her what intelligence the Trump administration had indicating that Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei ordered the construction of nuclear weapons. She claimed the U.S. Intelligence Community had not seen such intelligence and that this was a crucial element of its analysis of Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

Rubio dismissed Brennan’s question as irrelevant because Iran’s extensive nuclear weapons-related work indicates it intends to make nuclear weapons. Rubio told Brennan, “We have intelligence that they have everything they need to build a nuclear weapon, and that’s more than enough.” He cited nuclear weapons activities such as enriching uranium to 60%—a level with no peaceful purpose—and building a uranium enrichment facility deep inside a mountain.

Prior to 2007, the U.S. Intelligence Community had assessed that Iran had a nuclear weapons program. But in November 2007, fearing that President Bush might order an attack on Iran’s nuclear program, a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) was published by the National Intelligence Council that found Iran’s nuclear program was halted in 2003 and Iranian leaders had not made a decision to resume weaponization efforts and construct a nuclear weapon.

The NIE’s conclusion was a deceptive argument. It is true that Iran’s nuclear weapons program was slowed in 2003 after the U.S. invasion of Iraq and some weapons activities were suspended. However, other critical nuclear weapons work was conducted in secret. Dual-use nuclear activities with plausible peaceful purposes were continued, such as uranium enrichment. In addition, Israel learned from documents it stole from Iran in 2018 on the Iranian nuclear weapons program that Tehran began an aggressive program in 2003 to deceive the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors about its covert nuclear weapons effort.

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The Globalist War on the Planet: Humanity, Nature, Wildlife ‘Climate Change’: Grift of the Century, Part IV by Robert Williams

Posted By on June 27th, 2025

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21664/war-planet-humanity-nature-wildlife

The system that many global elites and governments are planning for us is the totalitarian Communist system of China: The government and the globalist elites — while they continue flying on their private jets between their various mansions — will decide your means of transport, how much energy you are allowed to consume to heat your home, drive your car, and even how much you will be allowed to eat and drink — not to mention going on holiday or other “leisure.” Oh, and you will not be allowed to complain about it, because that would be “hate speech.”

In 2013, Sir David Attenborough, the renowned nature expert and one of the greatest filmmakers ever, famously declared humanity a pestilence.

“We are a plague on the Earth,” he postulated. “It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so.” His recommendation was that the world needed a smaller population. “It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde [of people].”

The idea that humanity itself is the problem has only been reinforced by a mainstream media that can tend to overheat (such as here and here).

Humanity requires the growing of food and livestock; it needs energy to make necessary consumer goods and cars, and to heat homes, which must be built in the first place. The World Economic Forum (WEF), however, would prefer you to “own nothing and be happy.” Whatever you need, it added reassuringly, can be delivered by drone.

“We need to eat less meat,” said Jane Goodall, famous anthropologist and UN “messenger of peace,” in an interview with climate high priest Al Gore at a WEF meeting in 2020. “We need to stop land being used for cattle and for growing grain for the billions of animals that we keep in our intensive farms.” She stressed that if only the world was less populous and instead had the population of 500 years ago, none of that would have been a problem.

As humanity does not seem to have plans to disappear voluntarily, the unelected UN, its Agenda 21, and agencies such as the WEF and other global “elites,” have apparently decided that, by 2030, life should be dismal and dystopian. After depriving you of the right to ownership, they will tell you what to eat. Meat will become “an occasional treat, not a staple, for the good of the environment and our health.” In addition, as a result of “climate change,” the West will have to accept taking in up to a billion migrants. There will be “a global price on carbon” to “help make fossil fuels history.”

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The toxic narcissism of Palestine Action This gang of bourgeois irritants sums up the religious mania of ‘Palestine solidarity’. Brendan O’Neill

Posted By on June 26th, 2025

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/06/25/the-toxic-narcissism-of-palestine-action/

Last month, Jews in London awoke to the sight of shattered glass. A local business, a Jewish business, had been savagely attacked by masked men in the dead of night. The vandals coated the walls in blood-coloured paint to remind residents of the blood-thirstiness of their homeland: Israel. Even the mezuzah, the small parchment scroll some Jews affix to their doorposts to remind them of their faith, was stained red in the frenzied assault. Who carried out this vile act that will have triggered the darkest historical memories among local Jews? Some neo-Nazi outfit? It was Palestine Action, the anti-Israel ‘direct action’ group that has suddenly become a cause célèbre of all of the worst people.

It was in Stamford Hill, a part of London with a large, lively community of Orthodox Jews. It was on 28 May. Three Palestine Action pricks high on the fumes of self-righteousness laid waste to a landlord business. In the kangaroo court of their own Israelophobic delirium, they’d found the business guilty of renting out premises to Elbit, the Israeli arms manufacturer. And they passed their sentence: violent destruction of the sinning premises. But the business said it wasn’t true. We have ‘no connection with Elbit’, said a spokesman. We need to talk about this, no? The possibility that a protest group gushed over by Sally Rooney and praised by every faux-radical arsehole on the internet smashed up a Jewish business with no justification whatsoever?

To my mind, it doesn’t matter if the business had links with Elbit (though I am more inclined to believe the business itself than the turbo-smug vandals that gutted it in the vain and risible belief that they were ‘helping Gaza’). The point is that Palestine Action visited on Stamford Hill a night of broken glass. It inflicted on a Jewish community the historical memory and moral injury of another Jewish business targeted for destruction. There will be Jews in Stamford Hill whose families came to the UK to escape the shattered glass of centuries of Jew-hating mania in Europe. And yet here it was again – those glinting shards on their streets, whispering: ‘Do you belong here?’

Palestine Action’s vandalism struck terror into the heart of Stamford Hill’s Jews. ‘For Jewish people it is very, very scary now’, said a local business-owner. Shomrim, the Jewish neighbourhood security organisation, lamented the return of ‘criminal harassment of Jewish-owned properties’. Who could look at the photographs of Orthodox Jews surveying the red-stained ruins of a local business and not feel sickened? So, my question for all those activists, novelists, luvvies and even MPs who are swarming social media to say ‘We are all Palestine Action’ – are you this?

Palestine Action is all over the news following UK home secretary Yvette Cooper’s promise to proscribe it as a terrorist organisation. Its incursion into RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, where activists sprayed red paint on two planes, was the last straw for the government. The activist class, the Guardian and human-rights groups are up in arms: it’s ‘unhinged’, they say, to proscribe a protest group. I agree. Like Luke Gittos, I think the banning of Palestine Action would set a terrible and authoritarian precedent. They’re posh irritants, not ISIS. Here’s the thing, though: while I’ll defend these people’s right to organise, I also want to explain how awful they are. They’re even worse than you might think.

The media handwringing over Palestine Action tends to focus on its destruction of property. That’s understandable. Its infiltration of an RAF base was a very serious matter. Its ghoulish splashing of red paint on the walls of every business judged to have consorted with the devil – Israel – is pompous in the extreme and grossly anti-social. I regularly cycle through Portman Square in London where there is always the fresh red paint of their sanctimonious rage on the walls of the investment firm, Invesco. (I pray for the day I’ll catch them in the act.) And yet let’s not forget the other things they do, things that frequently cross the line from protest into sheer immorality and the most despicable theatre.

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The barbarians inside the gates Yascha Mounk on woke, Trump and the death of the university. VIDEO

Posted By on June 26th, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBSxdJttGkM

America’s Ivy League universities have long been hotbeds of censorship and intolerance. Unpopular views are deplatformed, unorthodox professors are cancelled and research prioritises PC fads over facts. Donald Trump has vowed to force universities to clean up their act – but is he helping on hurting? Here, Yascha Mounk – editor of Persuasion and author of The Identity Trap – argues that Trump’s campus diktats are only stoking a woke backlash. Free speech and reason are just as imperilled as ever, he says. The university could now be in its death throes. Watch, share and be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel.