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July 2025

The World Woke Up In half a year, the impossible became obvious: borders closed, recruits returned, Iran retreated, and elites were exposed—all because people finally said, “Enough.” By Victor Davis Hanson

https://amgreatness.com/2025/07/17/the-world-woke-up/

In less than six months, the entire world has been turned upside down. There is no longer such a thing as conventional wisdom or the status quo.

The unthinkable has become the banal.

Take illegal immigration—remember the 10,000 daily illegal entries under Biden?

Recall the only solution was supposedly “comprehensive immigration reform”—a euphemism for mass amnesties.

Now, there is no such thing as daily new illegal immigration.

It simply disappeared with common-sense enforcement of existing immigration laws—and a new president.

How about the 40,000-50,000 shortfall in military recruitment?

Remember all the causes that the generals cited for their inability to enlist soldiers: generational gangs, obesity, drugs, and stiff competition with private industry?

And now?

In just six months, recruitment targets are already met; the issue is mostly moot.

Why? The new Pentagon flipped the old, canceling its racist DEI programs and assuring the rural, middle-class Americans—especially white males—that they were not systemically racist after all.

Instead, they were reinvited to enlist as the critical combat cohort who died at twice their demographic share in Iraq and Afghanistan.

How about the “end of the NATO crisis,” supposedly brought on by a bullying U.S.?

Now the vast majority of NATO members have met their pledges to spend two percent of GDP on defense, which will soon increase to five percent.

Iconic neutrals like Sweden and Finland have become frontline NATO nations, arming to the teeth. The smiling NATO Secretary-General even called Trump the “daddy” of the alliance.

What about indomitable, all-powerful, theocratic Iran, the scourge of the Middle East for nearly fifty years?

Although it had never won a war in the last half-century, its terrorist surrogates—Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis—were supposedly too dangerous to provoke.

Palestinians’ Latest Scam: Hamas Can Become a ‘Political Party’ by Khaled Abu Toameh

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21759/scam-hamas-political-party

Abbas cannot have forgotten the atrocities Hamas committed against his men during the 2007 coup. Some of his loyalists were dragged to the streets and lynched, while others were thrown from the high floors of tall buildings.

In addition to the 2007 coup, Hamas, a few years later, was caught planning a second coup to try to take over the West Bank as well as the Gaza Strip.

The calls for Hamas to “join political action” actually aim to legitimize the terror group and present its leaders as a bunch of politicians seeking seats in parliament and jobs in government, when the reality is anything but that.

The international community, including the Trump administration, must not fall for this scam. Hamas was not established to serve as a “political party.” Rather, the terror group was established with the main objective of murdering Jews through Jihad (holy war) and replacing Israel with an Islamist terror state.

Instead of inviting Hamas to engage in political action, Abbas and other Palestinian leaders… should have outlawed Hamas a long time ago. That would send a message to all Palestinians that there is no room for genocidal Jihadist groups in Palestinian society. Apparently, Abbas and Rajoub’s desire to destroy Israel is even stronger than their decades-long hatred of Hamas.

Destroying Hamas’s military capabilities is not enough. The group must also cease to exist as a “political” entity. The only politics Hamas is interested in is Jihad, destruction and death.

According to reports in some media outlets, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has called on the Iran-backed Hamas terror group to “surrender its weapons to the Palestinian Authority.”

Abbas was quoted as saying: “Hamas will not rule the Gaza Strip.” His comment came long after the current war, which began on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas terrorists and “ordinary” Palestinians invaded Israel, and murdered 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals and wounded thousands. Another 251 Israelis and foreign nationals were kidnapped to the Gaza Strip, where 50 – alive and dead – are still held captive.

Civilians Slaughtered in the Middle East: Will the American Left Even Notice?By Jessica Hornik

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/civilians-slaughtered-in-the-middle-east-will-the-american-left-even-notice/

Some grim news out of the Middle East this morning: a community under attack by government forces, dozens slaughtered, civilians being evacuated, chaos.

The victims are the Druze residents of Sweida, a southern Syrian city, and the forces are those of the Syrian government. Don’t expect to see protests in the streets of the West on behalf of this beleaguered population. Don’t expect even so much as hand-wringing.

The Druze, a small non-Muslim minority in Syria and Lebanon, are hated by Islamists. How this group would fare under the new regime led by Ahmed al-Shara, himself once part of an Islamist group linked to al-Qaeda, has been just one question as the region’s tectonic plates keep shifting. The government moved into Sweida after clashes between Druze and Bedouins, a tribal group. Was this on al-Shara’s orders or a rogue militia action? There’s much that is still uncertain.

In Israel, too, there is a Druze minority, whose members participate fully in Israeli life and institutions, including as loyal defenders of the state by service in the police and the military. Israel is taking military action in Syria to defend the Druze, keeping its promise to the Israeli Druze community. In a particularly dramatic action, the military headquarters of the Syrian army in Damascus was bombed.

Naturally, you should also expect to see no appreciation by the activist left for Israel’s actions in defense of a minority that few in the West are even aware of, or its critical role as a bulwark against Islamist brutality.

Democrats’ identity crisis shows no sign of getting better. It’s actually getting worse Democrat-commissioned poll shows party is now viewed as ‘out of touch’ and ‘weak’ among voters in swing counties across battleground states Liz Peek

https://lizpeek.com/news/democrats-identity-crisis-shows-no-sign-of-getting-better-its-actually-getting-worse/?utm_source=newsletter.lizpeek.com&utm_

The Democratic Party has no leader and no message. That’s not a right-wing talking point; that’s the findings of a poll commissioned by a Democrat SuperPAC.

As reported by The Hill, a survey conducted between May and June by Unite the Country showed voters perceive the Democratic Party as “out of touch,” “woke” and “weak.” Worse, perceptions and confidence in the party have actually soured since last year’s election, when Democrats not only lost the presidency, but also the Senate and the House. Democrat support from White men, Hispanic men and working-class voters in general has collapsed to below 35%.

The poll is especially worrisome for Democrats in that it surveyed voters across 21 swing counties in 10 battleground states – the regions which will determine the outcomes of future elections.

What can Democrats do to turn their prospects around? For starters, according to the survey, find new leaders who will talk about issues that matter to people, and particularly economic issues. Also, get back to common sense, which the party has rejected.

Can anyone be surprised by these findings? After all, Democrats with unerring aim find themselves on the wrong side of almost every issue. Biological boys competing in girls’ sports? Check. Open borders? Check. Opposing school choice? Check.

Why Mexicans Are Protesting Mass Immigration Victor Joecks

https://pjmedia.com/victor-joecks/2025/07/16/why-mexicans-are-protesting-mass-immigration-n4941818

Many Mexicans have similar complaints about American immigrants as Americans do about Mexican immigrants.

Earlier this month, a major city saw a xenophobic protest against immigrants. Those gathered hurled ethnic slurs at the foreigners. Someone spray-painted “not your home” on a wall. One sign read, “Respect my culture.” Complaints included the influx driving up housing prices and foreigners not speaking the native language. At some point, the demonstration turned violent, with some participants vandalizing local businesses.

If that protest had happened in Dallas or Jacksonville, the left would be outraged. They’d blame President Donald Trump. They’d attack Republicans for being racist. They’d smear conservatives as violent, Christian nationalists.

That’s harder to do in this case. This protest was in Mexico City, and the protesters were Mexicans. They’re upset about the many Americans and other foreigners who’ve settled in their city, especially with the advent of remote work. Mexican officials actively encouraged this immigration.

In 2022, Claudia Sheinbaum, then-mayor of Mexico City, worked with Airbnb to tout Mexico City as the “capital of creative tourism.” Sheinbaum, currently the president of Mexico, claimed the arrangement wouldn’t increase costs for Mexico City residents. Locals are now complaining about gentrification and the increasing number of apartments that are being converted into Airbnb rentals.

Foreign money has shifted both the local economy and culture. Some corner grocery stores have become high-end restaurants. Many foreigners expect the Mexican waiters to speak to them in English. One study found housing prices in Mexico City quadrupled between 2000 to 2022, even while per capita income fell after adjusting for inflation. Little wonder many residents feel priced out of their own city.

Catering to expats and promoting tourism is a great way to boost GDP. The average salary in Mexico City is under $375 a month. But those economic benefits aren’t evenly distributed. For those who own property or have capital to invest, this influx of wealth is a boon. Their property values are up, and they can charge higher rents. Low-income residents, however, face high prices that may force them to move out of their neighborhoods.

Child Sex Traffickers and Non-Governmental Organizations Linda Goudsmit

https://goudsmit.pundicity.com/28711/child-sex-traffickers-and-non-governmental

http://goudsmit.pundicity.com and website: lindagoudsmit.com

Let’s be clear about the term non-governmental organization. According to Wikipedia:

A non-governmental organization (NGO) is a typically nonprofit organization that operates partially independent of government control, though an NGO may get a significant percentage, or even all of its funding from government sources. NGOs often focus on humanitarian or social issues but can also include clubs and associations offering services to members. Some NGOs, like the World Economic Forum, may also act as lobby groups for corporations. Unlike international organizations (IOs), which directly interact with sovereign states and governments, NGOs are independent from them.

The term as it is used today was first introduced in Article 71 of the newly formed United Nations Charter in 1945. While there is no fixed or formal definition for what NGOs are, they are generally defined as nonprofit entities that are independent of government management or direction—although they may receive government funding.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was established in 1961 by executive order of President John F. Kennedy. Its mission was defined as a global program of technical and financial development assistance to low-income countries to be administered under the direction of the Secretary of State. Between 1961 and 2025, USAID morphed into a political arm of the increasingly radical leftist Democrat party that funded anti-American policies and programs both internationally and domestically.

USAID was involved in the funding and fomenting of anti-American policies through educational indoctrination and the culturally abhorrent practice of intentionally sexualizing children to destroy families and collapse America from within. But there is more. USAID was also actively involved in child sex trafficking and exploitation through its payments to NGOs.

On April 26, 2023, Health and Human Services (HHS) whistleblower Tara Lee Rodas testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement. The hearing titled, “‘The Biden Border Crisis: Exploitation of Unaccompanied Alien Children’ will examine the unprecedented surge of unaccompanied alien children at the southwest border and how open-border policies enable the exploitation of children.” Excerpts from Tara Lee Rodas’ chilling testimony:

Today, children will work overnight shifts at slaughterhouses, factories, restaurants to pay their debts to smugglers and traffickers. Today, children will be sold for sex. Today, children will call a hotline to report the[y] are being abused, neglected, and trafficked. For nearly a decade, unaccompanied children have been suffering in the shadows.

EXCLUSIVE: Secret Meeting Opens Document Floodgates on Trump/Russia Hoax Paul Sperry

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/07/16/exclusive_secret_meeting_opens_document_floodgates_on_trumprussia_hoax_1123108.html

The floodgates holding back long-buried classified documents exposing government efforts to claim Donald Trump conspired with Vladimir Putin to manipulate the 2016 U.S. presidential election might finally be opening. 

Trump administration officials held an urgent meeting Sunday to discuss “new information on Russiagate,” which they might use to build a criminal conspiracy case against Obama and Biden administration political appointees who allegedly weaponized the government against Trump, two Trump administration officials told RealClearInvestigations.

The documents are said to contain long-classified information, including a secret 200-page congressional audit that reveals details about how an intelligence community assessment on Russia ordered by President Obama after the 2016 election was framed in a way that portrayed Trump as being beholden to the  Kremlin.

Sources told RCI that emails and other records tying the CIA’s controversial drafting of the Intelligence Community Assessment [ICA] to the FBI’s discredited “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation targeting Trump could be released as part of an Office of the Director of National Intelligence report as early as Thursday. The White House was briefed on the development Tuesday, the sources said.

Participants in the Sunday meeting involving intelligence officials and their Department of Justice counterparts also discussed declassifying investigative notes and depositions taken by Special Counsel John Durham during his probe of the CIA’s and FBI’s handling of the ICA, which relied in part on an anti-Trump dossier financed by the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Strengthening Case for Conspiracy 

The information could strengthen a criminal case against Obama’s top intelligence officers, including former CIA Director John Brennan, who allegedly gave false testimony to Congress about their role in using the dossier in the ICA, according to the officials who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive information. Although the five-year statute of limitations on perjury means much of the testimony given about the ICA cannot be prosecuted, officials could still be charged with a conspiracy to commit perjury.

Stu Smith On the Fourth of July, These Radicals Made Plans to Topple America At the Socialism 2025 conference in Chicago, mainstream academics called for revolution.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/socialism-2025-conference-chicago

While the rest of the United States celebrated American independence on July 4, a rogues’ gallery met in Chicago to discuss how to dismantle our constitutional republic. The event, Socialism 2025, was billed as “a four-day conference bringing together thousands of socialists and radical activists from around the country” to discuss “social movements, abolition, Marxism, decolonization, working-class history, and the debates and strategies for organizing today.” Held every Fourth of July weekend, this conference, which meets in person and livestreams to YouTube, is “a place where activists share lessons from their struggles—from Palestine solidarity campaigns to the fight for gender liberation, from striking workers to the struggle to stop the destruction of the planet, the fight against racism, migrant justice, and more.”

As video from the event reveals, this wasn’t just a fringe gathering. The speakers’ roster included dozens of influential figures—Ivy League professors, faculty from top public universities, current and former leaders of the Chicago Teachers Union, Weather Underground co-founder Bill Ayers, and UAW president Shawn Fain. Attendees praised mass rioting, called for dismantling higher education, advocated abolishing the family, and openly called for ending America as we know it.

Multiple professors endorsed using the university as a power base to destabilize the status quo and carry out their political designs. University of Chicago professor Eman Abdelhadi noted that, while the university is “evil” and a “colonial landlord,” she teaches at one because it’s “one of the biggest employers in the city of Chicago . . . a place where I have access to thousands of people that I could potentially organize. . . . This is where I need to build power.” Similarly, Princeton University’s Lorgia García-Peña said scholars should “get the university’s money to do the work you want to do to dismantle the university within”—quickly adding, “hopefully, I won’t end up in court for saying this on the mic.”

Can Trump Fire Fed Chairman Powell? Yes, He Can — And Should

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/07/17/can-trump-fire-fed-chairman-powell-yes-he-can-and-should/

Will President Donald Trump soon fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, as is now hotly rumored? And do you care? If not, maybe you should. Because at this moment, the Fed chief seems to think he has to re-fight the inflation battle he lost three years ago. And his refusal to cut rates is starting to choke our economy.

Make no mistake: Having lost the confidence of the president who appointed him, Powell should resign. As a matter of practical stewardship of the nation’s central bank, Powell’s effectiveness as a financial leader has been called into question. Time to go.

But Powell’s defenders bizarrely argue that Fed chairmen can’t be fired. In fact, they can be fired “for cause,” which is vague enough to cover a whole host of sins, major and minor.

His backers also argue that Fed chiefs have independence, and that Trump letting him go would shatter that.

But that’s also not true.

Will Any Russia Hoaxers Go to Jail? The dire consequences if they don’t. by Lloyd Billingsley

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm-plus/will-any-russia-hoaxers-go-to-jail/

The CIA recently revealed that former director John Brennan wanted to include the discredited Steele dossier in the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) of the 2016 election. As the people might recall, in his 2020 Undaunted: My Fight Against America’s Enemies, at Home and Abroad, Brennan repeatedly claims “Vladimir Putin personally ordered the influence campaign to boost Donald Trump’s election prospects.”

The Russia hoax bullhorns never explained how, exactly, Putin influenced the election. It now emerges that in 2020 China’s Communist Party manufactured thousands of fake American driver’s licenses, which could help stateside Chinese nationals to vote illegally through mail ballots. The FBI knew about China’s campaign but held off because it would contradict the testimony of then-FBI director Christopher Wray.

“We have not seen, historically, any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether it’s by mail or otherwise,” Wray told Congress in September 2020.

News of the fake licenses first emerged in June, when FBI Director Kash Patel declassified a document revealing China’s fraud campaign. The allegations “while substantiated, were abruptly recalled and never disclosed to the public.” The report was recalled on the instruction of Nikki Floris, the FBI’s Deputy Assistant Director for Counterintelligence, who served as the FBI’s “election security lead” in 2020. Sen. Charles Grassley is calling for an investigation, and while the probe proceeds, Wray’s FBI record deserves a second look.