An Abundance of Uncertainties

By Rich Kozlovich

George Friedman is the owner of Geopolitical Futures, a subscription site, and well worth it, I just upped my subscription for three more years, who has stated on more than one occasion the cold war didn't really end with the collapse of the Soviet Union.  The cold war was predicated on preventing Russia from conquering Europe, hence the creation of NATO.  But the collapse of the Soviet Union didn't alter Russian goals.   They still had the same goal of taking over Europe just as it was the Soviet Union's.   As a result the cold war continued as a practical reality.   George states that concern ended with the Russo/Ukrainian War, which ended the cold war reality.

•  A confusing world without a hegemon  A growing concern dominates Western politics and diplomacy: the unraveling of the so-called rules-based world order. Many place the blame on the Trump administration. However, this shift was inevitable because of geopolitical, geoeconomic and demographic forces, regardless of who occupies the White House.  This world order – never truly universal – provided a framework for relative global stability under the Pax Americana. From the 1950s until the collapse of the Soviet Union, it served as the foundation for peace and prosperity in the free world. The threat of mutual nuclear destruction created a tense balance between the capitalist and communist blocs. ..............

Previous to this, everyone, including me, believed NATO was a wet paper bag without the United States, and it was!   As a result without American support it was reasonably beleived Russia could drive down the North European plain right into France, and Europe wouldn't be able to stop them.  While I believed Russia could cut right through Europe, but I didn't believe they could hold it.  Even before this it was clear Russia didn't have the economic wherewithal, nor did they have the manpower to do so as Russia's demographic pyramid was a mess. Well, everyone, including me, was wrong!  Even without American support we now realize Europe still had the technological and military capability and wherewithal to have stopped them in Poland.

Russia has what they consider seven defensive gaps that must be maintained.  Ten years ago they only had manpower to fully man three of them, and it's gotten much worse since then as Putin is destroying his young population.  The Russian demographic pyramid was already all out of whack with the 15 to 50 demographic filled with alcoholics, drug users, victims of AIDS and drug resistant TB.   The critical 15 to 50 age group which creates the economy and the next generation, both of which he's destroying.   Socialism always turns into a form of monarchy.    It doesn't matter whether you call an autocrat Emperor, Chairman, President or King.  An autocrat is an autocrat and invariably they cannibalize the societies they control.

We now we know Russia isn't the mighty bear we thought it was.   Russia had what was considered the number two military in the world, yet it has been unable to defeat the number twenty two rated military in almost four years, and has now had to resort to threatening to use nukes.

Russia's now lost hundreds of thousands of young men, and is now running out of young bodies to fight the war and being forced to using "volunteers" from N. Korea and China.  They can't manufacture all of their own military hardware, and is now being attacked with drones deeper inside Russia destroying their oil and gas depots, which they had already used to  destroy the Russian Black Sea fleet.  Drones are the new military strategic horizon, giving small nations a fighting chance, and that technology is going to expand massively now, right along with laser weaponry, which I've written about. 

The reality of Russia's demographics is coming home to roost as now they're inviting immigrants from Africa and Asia to work in their factories, and that's a poison pill since it was estimated over ten years ago the ethnic population of Russia would be a minority in their own land by 2040, fifteen years away.  I've not seen any recent estimates but I wouldn't be shocked to see that's closer to eight years away now.  It's interesting to see how many are coming from the former Soviet Republics of Central Asia, since they're following their own economic visions with international trade and moving closer to China.   And... Russia's economic minister is predicting a recession.  The hits just keep right on coming. 

So, back to George Friedman.  He notes this real end of the cold war has put the world's leaders in a quandary seeking an anchor to their thinking and planning, and that's moving away from Europe to the Middle East and Asia.

What the world is facing is a much higher level of  geopolitical risks than has existed for decades, none of which will go away any time soon, and those are tied in with very serious domestic political issues which are going go haunt us for decades, much of them due to the unbridled immigration the Obama/Biden cabal forced on America in order to destroy America.  And please stop foolishly believing otherwise because if you can't accept that, you can't understand anything going on.  The evidence of that was obvious to the most casual observer while Obama was President, and now it's overwhelming since Trump was reelected and everything they did is being exposed for the treason it was.  

Islam is the greatest threat to western civilization, the second and third greatest threats to western civilization is debt and an oversized state.  Economically the world is in trouble with the world's nations being in debt to almost 310 trillion dollars,  much of which can't be repaid, and most political "leaders" are averse to fixing that as they're embracing the welfare state mentality to keep their jobs, including America, which I believe the Big Beautiful Bill will demonstrate when it passes. The result is we're looking at inflation and a worldwide recession on the horizon. 

Investors are becoming more and more risk averse, and rightly so, especially the new generation coming up.   Fixed income is in jeopardy, and trade policies are shifting the world's focus on investments with no idea what to do about it.  

Do I believe there will there be less violence, enhanced with a better, safer, and more stable economic climate in the near future?  No!  

And that's the only thing I'm certain about. 

Update:  This article appeared on June 18th, America and what 250 years may mean asking, "can anyone give me a convincing argument that we are not living through the end of America?" I responded saying I’ve read three books on historical cycles, all complicated, and if there ever was a history regimen that needed an academic discipline, that’s it. All the authors have their own terminology and time frames, but all three agreed on one thing. We’re facing the end of this historical cycle, and it’s worldwide. All end cycles are filled with violence and economic downturns, but for a nation to survive it needs six (I amended my original comment) things.

1. It must be able to feed itself.
2. Fuel itself.
3. Arm itself. 
4. Defend itself.
5. Create it’s own internal market.
6. Pay off it’s national debt.

America is the only nation in the world capable of all five. Will there be serious issues? Sure, but the nation is capable of surviving intact, even if diminished. The world is not only in a domestic state of flux, it’s in a geopolitical state of flux looking for an anchor for their decision making and direction. When the new historical cycle begins things will be different, when that begins and how different it will be no one can say, but it’s my belief there are a lot of existing nations that will be broken up into smaller states, not an uncommon occurrence throughout history.

Democrats Were Once Against Illegal Immigration Before They Were For It

By Robin Itzler;

Editor's Note:  This is one of the commentaries selected from Robin's weekly newsletter Patriot Neighbors.  Any cartoons will have been added by me. If you wish to get the full edition, E-mail her at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com to get on her list, it's free.

 

We focus on how Europe is disappearing before our eyes, but it’s happening in the United States, too. Prior to 1965, about 85 percent of all immigrants to the United States came from Europe. The majority were white Christians. Only 10 percent came from Mexico and Latin America.

Today, nearly half of all immigrants are from Mexico and Latin America. Another 30 percent comes from South and East Asia. Europe and Canada comprise only about 12 percent.

Republicans welcome LEGAL immigration. There was a time when Democrat leaders also believed in secure borders and legal immigration into the United States. For example, in past speeches, these Democrat leaders ALL sounded like President Donald Trump.

Then-Senator Barack Obama—April 3, 2006; speaking on the floor (excerpt):

“The American people are a welcoming and generous people. But those who enter our country illegally, and those who employ them, disrespect the rule of law. And because we live in an age where terrorists are challenging our borders, we simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, and unchecked. Americans are right to demand better border security and better enforcement of the immigration laws.”

Comments by Hillary Clinton at a 2008 campaign rally (excerpts)"

“If they committed a crime, deport them. They’re gone. And you have to try to learn English and you have to wait in line. …So I think we gotta have tough conditions, tell people to come out of the shadows. If they’ve committed a crime, deport them, no questions asked, they’re gone. If they’ve been working and law-abiding, we should say here are the conditions for your staying. You have to pay a stiff fine because you came here illegally, you have to pay back taxes, and you have to try to learn English, and you have to wait in line.”

Bernie Sanders during 2020 campaign; told to Washington Post reporter:

“Oh my god, there’s a lot of poverty in this world, and you’re going to have people from all over the world. And I don’t think that’s something that we can do at this point. Can’t do it.”

President Bill Clinton; 1995 State of the Union address: 

“All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public service they use imposes burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens."

Why do Democrats now support illegal Immigration?   It’s ridiculous, but the Census (conducted every 10 years) counts ALL residents residing in the United States of America, regardless of immigration status. For every 760,000 or so ILLEGAL ALIENS who are deported = one congressional seat. Plus, the number of congressional seats is how the number of Electoral College electors per state are chosen.

New York/Florida Comparison: The Contrast Becomes Ever More Dramatic

June 21, 2025/ Francis Menton @ Manhattan Contrarian

Among the larger states, the two that are closest to each other in population and demographics are New York and Florida. According to the latest U.S. Census data (from July 1, 2024), the population of New York was 19,867,248, while the population of Florida was 23,372,215. More recent estimates from a source called World Population Review put New York’s 2025 population at 19,997,100 (an increase of about 130,000 on the year), and Florida’s at 23,839,600 (an increase of about 467,000 over the same year).

Yet in terms of the approach to state government — taxing, spending, and government programs overall — there could not be a greater contrast than between these two states. And that contrast only grows stronger every year.

In recent weeks the two states have finalized their budgets for the 2025-26 fiscal years. Here is New York’s Fiscal Year 2026 Executive Budget Briefing Book. The budget was enacted in May. The total of the budget can be found in a table on page 21: $252 billion, an increase from $243.4 billion last year. Florida’s legislature just finished work on that state’s budget this week, on June 17. The total as enacted, according to the Tallahassee Democrat, is $115.1 billion. That’s actually a decrease of about $3 billion from the current year. And it’s still subject to line item vetoes from the governor, which could reduce it still further.

So how could Florida, a state with almost 20% more people than New York, have a state budget that’s less than half the size? Doing a little arithmetic, the Florida state government spends $4,828 per person, while New York’s spends $12,602 per person, more than two and a half times as much.

With the gap that large, you might think that New York must have some huge special categories of services that it provides and Florida does not. But that is not correct. Instead, New York spends vastly more to provide essentially the same services provided by Florida.

The two big categories in both states’ budgets are education and health care.

For PK-12 education, Florida’s state budget allocates approximately $31 billion. In New York, the figure is $37.4 billion (page 55 of briefing book). The difference becomes more striking when you take account of the fact that Florida has almost 2.9 million students enrolled in public preK-12 schools to New York’s approximately 2.4 million. New York pays approximately 50% more per student. Does it get anything for the much greater spending? According to the NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) data pages, in the most recent tests in 2024, Florida scored somewhat higher than New York in both 4th grade reading and math, while New York scored somewhat higher in 8th grade reading and math. The differences do not look significant to me. For example, in 4th grade math, Florida gets a 243 to New York’s 234. In 8th grade reading, New York gets 257 to Florida’s 253.

But healthcare, and particularly Medicaid, is where the really big numbers pop out. From New York’s briefing book, page 68:

Total Medicaid and Essential Plan spending is expected to be $123.8 billion in FY 2026.

That’s more than Florida’s entire state budget for everything! The best number I can find for a comparable Florida spending figure for Medicaid (from the Florida Policy Institute) is $34.7 billion — less than a third of New York’s spending for a 20% larger population. The difference is in part due to New York’s higher enrollment (7 million versus 5.4 million), reflecting a complete lack of discipline in allowing people to sign up; and in part due to New York adopting every possible bell and whistle of Medicaid benefits, most famously paying hundreds of thousands of family members as caregivers for their parents and spouses.

Is New York’s population notably healthier than Florida’s? Not that I can determine. Life expectancy figures seem to have swung back and forth over the past few years, as Covid deaths went up first in New York and then later in Florida. I don’t think that Medicaid spending had anything to do with that. For our almost $90 billion additional Medicaid spending over Florida, you would think there would be something very dramatic to show for it; but there is not.

Everywhere you look, New York just has a cavalier attitude of lack of fiscal discipline and that spending more money is a good thing. As another point of comparison, this report from the Empire Center found that New York State executive agencies had some 188,455 “full-time equivalent” employees in 2022. In Florida, this Politifact piece from January 2024 gives a figure of 164,829 — again for a substantially larger population. The point of the Politifact piece is to “fact check” a claim by Florida Governor DeSantis that Florida has the lowest ratio of state employees to population of all the states. Politifact ends up rating that “mostly true.”

Looking around at coverage of New York’s government spending in the local media, there is almost never any mention of the dramatic contrast to Florida. Florida is living proof that just being careful about spending and watching where every dollar goes can make a huge difference. It’s not so different from managing a family budget.

Muffing a Gimme on Social Security

June 20, 2025 by Dan Mitchell @ International Liberty 

I was not a fan of George W. Bush’s economic policy. But he had one idea – personal retirement accounts – that would have been great news for the country. The Committee to Unleash Prosperity has calculated the nest eggs that average workers would have today if either Bush’s plan or the Ryan-Sununu plan had been enacted.

Sadly, since we just learned that the inflation-adjusted cash-flow deficit for Social Security is $65.8 trillion, we have a very grim comparison.

• We could have had a pro-growth system based on real savings.
• Instead, we have a Ponzi Scheme based on taxes, spending, and debt.

The above chart, however, is only part of the story. In addition to letting workers shift payroll taxes to personal accounts, there were also discussions during the Bush years about reforming the program to restrain spending so there was no longer a giant unfunded liability.

Andrew Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute (and former Deputy Commissioner of the Social Security Administration) authored a new report looking at what would have happened if workers had been allowed to have personal retirement accounts while the program was changed to slow the growth of benefits for people with above-average income.

Here are some excerpts that summarize his study.

 

Twenty years ago, in winter and spring 2005, President George W. Bush embarked on a nationwide tour to promote his plans for Social Security reform, which included slowing the growth of benefits for middle- and high-earning individuals and establishing voluntary personal accounts in which workers could invest part of their payroll taxes. Bush’s changes to traditional Social Security benefits, termed “progressive price indexing,” would have addressed about two-thirds of the program’s long-term funding gap. … 

I model total Social Security benefits for individuals retiring in 2025, incorporating Bush’s progressive benefit changes and personal account balances based on investment market returns. Workers with very low, low, and middle earnings would have received total Social Security benefits 3–8 percent above those scheduled in current law, while high-earning employees and those earning the maximum taxable wage and above would have received benefits 2–4 percent below scheduled levels.

And here’s the key table from the report. As you can see, lower-income and middle-class workers retiring today would be enjoying more retirement income.

And ordinary workers retiring in the future would benefit even more, with 11 percent-26 percent more retirement income.

For what it’s worth, I think the assumptions in the report (only 31 percent of personal accounts would be invested in stocks at age 65) were too cautious, so I think it’s quite possible everyone would wind up better off with the Bush approach.

But even if we stick with Biggs’ assumptions, it should be clear that the country would be much better off today if Bush’s approach had been adopted two decades ago.

What a huge missed opportunity. We had the economic version of a lay-up, and Congress didn’t even take a shot.

P.S. We also had a chance to reform Social Security during the 1990s. Unfortunately, the fight over impeaching Bill Clinton derailed that effort, leading me to write that his “sexual dalliance” with Monica Lewinsky “was the most expensive you-know-what in world history.”

P.P.S. Mike Tanner produced a report back in 2012 showing that workers would have been better off with personal retirement accounts even if they retired right after the 2008 financial crisis. The bottom line is that investing in financial markets is far safer than trusting empty promises from callow politicians.

P.P.P.S. For those who think personal retirement accounts are risky and untested, please see what I’ve written about Australia, Chile, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Netherlands, the Faroe Islands, Denmark, Israel, and Sweden.

P&D and The Week That Was

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Another amazing week has flown by.  The L.A. riots have failed to do what has always worked in the past, making the Congress and the President cower to the demands of leftists.   There's a new sheriff in town, and no one seems to understand.....he's not Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George Bush, or Jimmy Carter, and they have no idea who their dealing with.  A mentality that's playing out in the geopolitical arena.... and they're shocked, shocked I tell you!

 

Europe is now trying to act as if their views matter in the Middle East, it doesn't, along with Russia and China, but what Israel has done in Iran with American support has rattled them. 

 

Russia’s economy minister says the country is on the brink of recession and they've wasted hundreds of thousands of young mens lives in their insane war with Ukraine, and now Russia is encouraging immigration from all over Africa and Asia to fill their labour needs.  Iran will no longer be able to manufacture drones for Russia's war and Russia can't fill their ranks without N. Korean and Chinese "volunteers" to fight Ukraine.  

 

Russia's censorship is absolute, but the world is changing, and Russian soldiers in Ukraine are sending videos back home via Smartphone "boosting the profile of opposition causes".  Why is this being allowed?  Their commanders are unwilling to confiscate their phones and punish them.  

 

What can we glean from that?  First, I think it's very possible a lot of the officer corp are as disgusted as are the enlisted men. Secondly, I think it's possible they may be afraid to do so because that could trigger a rebellion in the ranks.   Conclusion, the Russian military isn't into Putin's war, there must be a von Stauffenberg cabal in their midst, and I keep wondering when his downfall will occur, but I have no doubt it's coming. 

 

The upside for Russia is the price of oil has been dropping killing their economy and with Israel destroying Iran's energy sector the price should go up.  Saudi Arabia says they want to increase out put in order to keep the price stable....so.... we'll see.  

 

China is rattled since this kind of thing could become contagious, and resistance to China's interference around the world could escalate, more and more information is being published warning America of the danger China represents.  Their interference in the 2020 election by printing counterfeit US ballots, has now been confirmed by the FBI.  

 

I always wondered how anyone could print what must have been hundreds of thousands of fake ballots without anyone noticing.  Now we have to ask who in the Democrat party was part of that criminal conspiracy, and how far up did it go?  I also find it interesting Trump is going to allow 500,000 students from China to come and be educating in our universities.  Don't ask, I don't get that at all, and I think that's nuts.   Don't we have enough spies in America?  

 

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China's partners in crime here in the US, the Democrat party, is taking a beating not only in the polls. The DNC is in chaos and broke, and the DNC's leadership is being attacked by the left as weak,’ whiny and invisible, and this is in my opinion partly due to kicking out Hogg as a Vice Chair.  The problem is their base is old, their leadership is old, they no longer represent labor and the middle class, and the young that are active are as radical as Hogg, and many of their traditional supporters are walking away from the party.

The party is a disaster promoting and creating disasters in every major city in America, and the L.A. Riots is just a symptom of what Democrat control means. High unemployment, viable businesses fleeing the state, destruction of public education allowing students to ‘pass’ with a score of 21% correct. There's going to be long term political consequences over this, for both parties, but only one will benefit, and it won't be the Democrat party.

 

The Pravda media is dying, and it's my view CNN will be among the first to go, but the print media is equally vile, especially the corrupt science journals, which I've been reporting on for years.  Now these poor confused, starving reporters are desperate after killing themselves by refusing to be honest journalists speaking truth to power, instead of being what they were, "paid political propagandizing whores."

Corruption in the military is rampant, the Navy has as many admirals as they do ships, and the Air Force has a general for every 22 planes, and Hegseth is firing a lot of them.....given how so many caved in to DEI insanity, firing a host of them will benefit the nation beyond description.  The purge of the Deep State is ongoing, as Trump is firing anyone who fails to share his vision, and the left is outraged they'll no longer be able to undermine and thwart his actions.  How dare he fire traitors and back stabbers.   

 

As for the Big, Beautiful Bill, I have no idea where this is heading.  The Senate is making changes, Trump says he's okay with that, the House is in an uproar, and I'm like most of America, I'm have no idea what's gong to end up in this bill, except we're definitely going to increase the national debt.  That much I know.   

 

I have six commentaries of my own, and I really like what I've done regarding the L.A. riots, and I will have more on this next week.  I also have eighteen commentaries by others I think are really well done, so, take a little time and review those topics that interest you. Have a great weekend and best wishes.

 

Rich 

My Commentaries

1. The United Nations is a Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy.
2. L.A. Riots, Part V
3. L.A. Riots, Part IV
4. Let's Have Negotiations....Maybe!
5. Nitwit Brigade on Parade, IV
6. Be Careful What You Wish For!

Commentaries 

1. How to End “Forever Wars”  By Paul Driessen
2. Spain’s Impossible Dream of ‘Green’ Electricity By Paul Driessen
3. Iran Has Been at War With Us for 46 Years By Daniel Greenfield
4. The Stories We Tell By Daniel Greenfield
5. Thought For the Day By Robin Itzler
6. Events From Around the Nation and the World By Robin Itzler
7. Simone Biles Never Competed Against Men By Robin Itzler
8. Higher Education For Future Communists By Robin Itzler
9. Why Democrats Focus on Karine Jean-Pierre's New Book By Robin Itzler
10. Los Angeles Burning: What Readers Are Saying... By Robin Itzler
11. The Left Not So Happy With The Monster They Created Francis Menton
12. Trump Closes Notorious EPA Lab that Conducted Illegal Human Experiments By Steve Milloy
13. Social Security’s $65.8 Trillion Problem By Dan Mitchell
14. Iran’s Oppressive Economy and the Anti-Convergence Club By Dan Mitchell
15. EPA Gets Moving On Its Push For Energy Deregulation By Dan Mitchell
16. Florida: A Role Model for Education By Dan Mitchell
17. Self-Destructive Class Warfare in the United Kingdom By Dan Mitchell
18. A Palestinian State? By Terry Payne

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2. My Seven Rules of Geopolitics
3. The John Boyd Legion of Honor
5. Former White House Advisor: “Trump to Release $150 Trillion Endowment”

 No matter what anyone says, you can’t marginalize the truth!  You can suppress it, you can ignore it, you can avoid it, you can attempt to undermine it, you can attempt to subvert it, you can attempt to organize against it, you can even laugh at it, but if we have the courage and the fortitude to stand and confront the lies, irrespective of the personal costs, the truth will stand the test of time, because truth and time are on the same side.

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The United Nations is a Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy.

Halfwits, nitwits, misfits, dipsticks, and meritless pinheads.  A vile cesspool of destructive self interested corruption. 

By Rich Kozlovich

 

I would like to start out by saying I didn't originate the title to this article.  It's is a quote from an article I read recently.  I got it from Dan Mitchell in his "Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy" series, who I think got it from the first Star Wars movie quoting Obi-Wan Kenobi (played by Alec Guinness) calling the community, Mos Eisley, a "wretched hive of scum and villainy".   And this should be the definition of the EU,ICC, UN, WEF, WHO, and a host of others international organizations and NGO's. 

That phrase is so rich in eloquently defining just how corrupt and vile the UN is I just had to use it, as the United Nations has turned out to be the Mos Eisley of international politics: 

 

"a wretched hive of scum and villainy". 

 

It's also no surprise the International Criminal Court demonstrates there's no such thing as an "international community, only national interests", most of which are based on corruption, self-interest and lies, and as far as I'm concerned, it's corrupt to the core!  Israel, as well as the United States aren't signatories of the Rome Statute agreement so the ICC has no jurisdiction in either nation, and there is no state of Palestine. 

 

When it was created there was fear this unaccountable court would become a tool of leftists and anti-Semites to attack Israel and the United States in order to promote antisemitic and leftist agendas.  They were right. They're an uncontrolled body that makes up it's own rules, and is in dire need of a good smack in the mouth, and I think it should be declared a terrorist organization.  

Recently the world's ruling class, most of them either thugs or leftist misfits, descended  on NYC to Rant at U.N. General Assembly, "North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin,  Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Vietnam’s communist dictator To Lam, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and socialist Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Nepalese communist leader KP Sharma Oli will also be in attendance, as well as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron,  among others.

 

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who traditionally speaks first before the world leaders, has used the weekend prior to the event to pressure countries to adopt what is currently a 56-page international legal document known as the “Pact for the Future,” which would commit member nations to a massive global wealth redistribution plan intended to fund the U.N.’s “Agenda 2030” proposals to end poverty, racism, discrimination against women, and other social maladies...... presenting his 2024 priorities encompassing everything from global financial structures to climate control.

 

Totalitarian schemers each and every one of them.  

 

Guterres "despairs" the chaos "enveloping the world and guess who's fault it is?  You got it...It's the Jews fault!  Why?  They actually decided to make a real fight of it against Hamas, and winning, until they agreed to a cease fire, and another, and another, ad nauseum.  

 

Nothing seems to upset Guterres more than Israel winning with claims there's no end in sight for the fighting, and Israel's defense of their nation will “exponentially increase what is already a humanitarian nightmare with untold regional consequences”, calling for an "immediate humanitarian ceasefire and the unconditional release of all hostages.”   What he means is Hamas prisoners of war, not the innocent hostages captured by Hamas, who were starved, beaten, and murdered. 

 

Well he's not so stupid as to believe Hamas would give up those hostages unless forced to do so, and if they need humanitarian aid, let the Muslim world provide it, which they're not, which should make everyone ask why.   It's also interesting no one called for a cease fire until Israel started winning. 

 

 This Hamas war was part and parcel of Iran's "ring of fire" they created around Israel with someone attacking regularly, but this Hamas war has triggered backlash from Israel, and in spite of years of bombardment of civilian targets from Gaza and Lebanon UN “Experts” condemn Israel’s military operations in Lebanon.  All the while UN Peacekeepers in Lebanon are complicit in Hezbollah's murderous, criminal, and inhumane actions. 

 

Iran has been at war with Israel, the United States, and western civilization for almost fifty years, and no matter the provocations, nothing was done, but there's a new sheriff in town, and things are changing, changes that would have never taken place if Antony Blinken (More about Blinken here, and here.) and the entire misfit brigade of the Obama/Biden cabal was still in place.    

•  Trump’s Foreign Aid Suspension: A Good First Step to Disrupt USAID’s Terror Finance 

As for that ring of fire of Iranian proxy's around Israel.... they've been destroyed, and now Israel is destroying Iran, saving western civilization.  So, now it's time, at least in the demented minds of leftist academics and political analysts, for Israel to surrender and give the "Palestinians" whatever they want in order to stabilize the region.  Now who could find fault with that kind of logic and intelligence?   The rest of the Muslim world who think it's Iran that's the destabilizing force in the region, not Israel or the US. 

 

The fact is the UN is an antisemitic pro terrorist organization.  Hamas hostages were being held in UN compounds, they fed the lie about Gazans starving by blocking aid, they gave Hamas $1.3 billion in cash, and had does anyone have any they knew it would be used for buying weapons?  There was some "humanitarian" aid the UN didn't restrict, like the shipments of ammunition, and they even provided a bodyguard for a Hamas leader.  And no one in the UN administration noticed?  Remarkable!

 

Representative Stefanik "speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was asked to describe the UN in one word, and responded, "antisemitic,"', and has every intention to work at reviewing American funding to the UN.  I'll tell you what, we'll come back to that. 

1.  More UN 'peacekeeping' hypocrisy
2.  The Leftist History Behind The Creation of Arab ‘Palestinians’

It's also clear, at least to me, the UN is not only anti-white, anti-capitalism, anti-freedom of speech, and adamantly opposed to the US Constitution, it's anti-Christian.  There's all this false outrage over the lies about Gazan genocide, and the screams about Islamophobia, yet nothing is being done about slaughtered Christians in Nigeria,and the media is complicit in these outrages.  Here's a short list of the articles I've saved dealing with Christian persecution. Horrors for which the UN is complicit by it's lack of action, western civilization for ignoring these outrages, and the media for it's deliberate silence. 

1. Hundreds of Christians killed with ‘extreme cruelty.’
2. Over a Hundred More Christians Massacred by Islamists in Nigeria in Ongoing Genocide Campaign — Where is the Media Coverage?
3.  Beheaded for Belief: The Urgent Need to Protect Christians in the DRC
4.  Thousands of Christians Killed and Imprisoned for for Their Faith in 2024, Report Reveals
5.  6 Christians Slain by Radical Fulani Herdsmen in Nigeria
6. Study: Nearly 400 Million Christians Persecuted Globally, Islamism and Communism Main Drivers
7. Muslims Dump Killed Christian’s Body at Pakistan Hospital
8.  Yemen's Forgotten Christians
9. Where are the Christians of Bethlehem?
   
10. Killing Christians in Syria
11. ‘The Caliphate … Killed 41 Christians [Who] Were Stabbed with Knives’: The Muslim Persecution of Christians

Tell me again about all this Islamophobia I keep hearing about.  The world need to fear Islam, it's not a phobia, a delusion, it's a reality.   Lie to me again about how mankind is responsible for climate disasters that kill people all over the world.  Tell me again how the global fertility is in decline, so the UN's solution is to provide more contraceptives and more abortions.   

There are a two things we need to grasp, which would have been obvious over 50 years ago if not for the corruption of the media, and both political parties.  The UN want's to create a worldwide socialistic tyrannous system of government under their control using all their tentacles of propaganda and coercion.  

There are a two things we need to grasp, which would have been obvious over 50 years ago if not for the corruption of the media, and both political parties.  The UN want's to create a tyrannous worldwide socialistic system of government under their control using all their tentacles of propaganda, lies, and coercion.  

The covid disaster was one such effort, global warming is another, their 'Pact for the Future' would "dissolve national sovereignty" and identity, and impose mass migration from the third world to the first world, use the corrupt and fraudulent "science" of global warming to end energy development, control how food is grown.  Starvation is a powerful tool.  

Impose massive spending and debt on governments, forcible redistribute the world's wealth, and declare there's never enough money being distributed demanding more money from productive societies to give to crap hole nations run by corrupt tyrants.  

End fossil fuel production and use based on their fraudulent claims and science on global warming turning the world into medieval feudal societies.   Impose systems of welfare that places much of he world's population on government dole turning them all into the serfs of a modern system of feudalism, and call it justice.   

Have you ever wondered why the left in America is so hot to decriminalize theft, murder, rape, pedophilia, vandalism, squatter rights, and calling anyone who resists racists or white supremacists...well they got it from the far left cabal running the UN, and they're following the plan.... and it is planned.  

The World Health Organization demanded....demanded mind you.....the world give it a billion and a half dollars to handle emergencies.  Trump cut the funding to WHO dramatically, and ending their coup attempt at world domination via health crises, and given their positions of covid, probably fake.  Their Pandemic Treaty was adopted this year, but nations still  have to ratify it, and if adopted it will be an important tool to impose all the vile actions of the UN's Pact For the Future.   

Let's not be delusional, history is king, and history shows how UN got started,  and how it's always been anti-American, and FDR is largely responsible.  The UN's corruption can only  continue if the American taxpayer keep wasting billion on these monsters, and eighty years of that insanity is enough.  

House Judiciary Committee: UN Workers Resettled 77,000 Illegal Aliens on U.S. Taxpayer’s Dime   The Biden-Harris administration’s open borders policies are facing increased scrutiny after a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security and Enforcement report revealed an alliance with United Nations bureaucrats. The committee reported that U.S. taxpayer funding was directed to the salaries of UN bureaucrats who staffed migration....

We can withdraw from the U.N. and stop paying for its existence, but the global octopus has already spread its tentacles in every direction and all its babies have already reproduced and are embedded around the world at every government level.  Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh asks if a if a U.S. withdrawal from U.N. is a move too late?   No it isn't, better late than never, and that starts with ending the cash flow.  No cash, no octopus.   

Iran Has Been at War With Us for 46 Years

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog 

 

“America can’t do a damn thing against us,” Ayatollah Khomeini bragged while holding our hostages.

The Carter administration had undermined the Shah’s government in favor of the Islamists who seized power and then prevented the embassy’s Marine guards from defending the facility and the people inside against the Muslim ‘student’ groups who claimed to be coming in peace.

The “peaceful” student activists took over our embassy and held our people hostage.

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei taunted President Trump with the same slogan in June after being asked to give up Iran’s nuclear weapons program. “Our response to the US nonsense is clear: they cannot do a damn thing in this matter,” he echoed his regime’s founder.’

Carter’s failure to defend Americans had turned Khomeini’s taunt into a confident slogan.

America couldn’t stop its diplomats and soldiers from being taken hostage and paraded through the streets. In subsequent decades, future administrations couldn’t stop other Americans from being taken hostage again, tortured and executed. By the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Iranian IEDs alone had accounted for as many as 1,000 American victims.

Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s IRGC terror mastermind, had thought that America couldn’t do a damn thing. In January 2020, President Trump taught him otherwise with a Reaper drone.

It was the first time in a long time that America had done a “damn thing” about Iran.

In 1983, Iranian backed terrorists set off truck bombs in Beirut that killed 220 US Marines and 21 other servicemembers. Mohsen Rafiqdoost, Khomeini’s bodyguard who helped found Iran’s IRGC terror force, boasted that, “both the TNT and the ideology, which in one blast sent to hell 400 officers, NCOs, and soldiers at the Marines headquarters, were provided by Iran.”

Beyond a few airstrikes, America didn’t do a “damn thing” because the intelligence proving Iran was behind the attack was suppressed so that it never reached Reagan. Eventually we placed multimillion dollar rewards on the heads of Hezbollah’s Ibrahim Aqil and Fuad Shukr who continued to live without a care in the world until Israel took them out after Oct 7.

The Biden administration assured the media that it had nothing to do with the Israeli strikes.

Over the decade, Iran’s Hezbollah proxies took dozens of American hostages. Some were released after months or years in exchange for concessions, while others were killed.

In 1984, Hezbollah kidnapped, tortured and killed CIA Station Chief William Francis Buckley whose identity they learned from classified documents seized from the embassy in Tehran. Buckley was transferred to Iran and tortured there, before being returned to Lebanon. Videos distributed by Iran’s Jihadists showed him in agony. “Buckley was close to a gibbering wretch. His words were often incoherent; he slobbered and drooled and, most unnerving of all, he would suddenly scream in terror, his eyes rolling helplessly and his body shaking.” 

 

America once again did not do a “damn thing”.

In 1985, Hezbollah hijacked TWA Flight 847. One of the terrorists was Imad Mughniyeh who had also interrogated Buckley. Navy diver Robert Stethem was beaten and kicked to death before his body was dumped on the tarmac. 

 

“They were jumping in the air and landing full force on his body. He must have had all his ribs broken,” Uli Derickson, the stewardess, described. “I was sitting only 15 feet away. I couldn’t listen to it. I put my fingers in my ears. I will never forget. I could still hear. They put the mike up to his face so his screams could be heard by the outside world.”

Instead of sending a message and holding Iran and its terrorists accountable, the United States made a deal to have Israel free hundreds of Jihadists. 

 

In 1988, Hezbollah kidnapped Colonel William R. Higgins and tortured him for months. An autopsy found that he had been starved, the skin on his face had been partially removed along with his tongue and he had also been castrated. Finally his body was dumped near a mosque.

“I am one of a small handful of Americans who knows the exact manner of Rich’s death. If I were to describe it to you now – which I will not – I can guarantee that a significant number of people in this room would become physically ill,” a friend of Higgins stated.

Finally, decades later, in the last days of the Bush administration, the CIA teamed up with Israel to take out Mughniyah with a car bomb. America had finally done a “damn thing”.

But Iran continues to hold American hostages today like former FBI agent Robert Levinson.

In 1996, Shiite terrorists backed by Iran bombed the Khobar Towers killing 19 American servicemembers, but Iran was also pursuing other options including a new Sunni terror group.

Al Qaeda built a relationship with Iran. The 9/11 Commission noted, 

“Iran facilitated the transit of al Qaeda members into and out of Afghanistan before 9/11” (with the aid of Soleimani, later taken out by Trump) and “Al Qaeda members received advice and training from Hezbollah.”

After 9/11, some Taliban leaders relocated to Iran to fight America. By 2010, Iran was paying $1,000 for each American soldier killed and Iranian IEDs were claiming American lives.

After losing in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda relocated much of its operations to Iran.

Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, Al Qaeda’s second-in-command, responsible for the bombings of American embassies across Africa, was taken out in Tehran in a joint Israeli-American operation during the first term of the Trump administration.

Saif al-Adel, the current leader of Al Qaeda, lives in Tehran and has been there for two decades. Even while supposedly in Iranian custody, he ordered the 2003 bombings in Saudi Arabia that killed 9 Americans.

As recently as last year, Iran and its terrorist proxies continued murdering American soldiers and contractors including Scott Patrick Dubis in 2023 and Sgt. William Rivers, Specialist Kennedy Sanders, and Specialist Breonna Moffett in 2024. 

 

No matter how much politicians and social media influencers may insist that we’re not at war with Iran, the Islamic terrorist state has been at war with us for 46 years. And is still fighting us.

It only takes one side to have a war. Fighting back isn’t what makes the war endless.

Refusing to fight back or to fight back effectively is what makes wars endless.

The Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush administrations for the most part failed to act. The Obama and Biden administrations took it one step further by aiding Iran. President Trump first stood up to Iran and showed the Islamic terrorist state that there would be consequences.

“America can’t do a damn thing against us,” the ayatollahs mocked us as they killed our people.

For the first time in two generations, the smirks have been wiped off their murderous faces.

Those complaining that President Trump is too tough on Iran aren’t upset because the president isn’t keeping his campaign promises, but because he is, they’re not upset because he changed his foreign policy, but because they want the old Carter and Obama appeasement of Iran back.

America is not contemplating bombing some “random middle eastern country.” After 46 years of kidnapping, terrorism, torture and murder, we’re fighting back against Iran’s war on us.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

L.A. Riots, Part V

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags:  

 

What we're seeing in Los Angeles is a full blown insurrection. 

Buildings have been burned. Vehicles set aflame. Federal officers assaulted. Immigration enforcement disrupted. And worst of all, those organizing and fueling the chaos are openly and proudly doing so under the false pretense that Los Angeles is a “sanctuary city,” immune from federal immigration law.

This isn't about free speech, and the President has every right to nationalize the California National Guard, and send in Marines, and can do so under the Insurrection Act of 1807, which the "law allows the president to deploy the National Guard or other U.S. military personnel to put down an uprising that interferes with the rights of the populace if “the constituted authorities of that state are unable, fail, or refuse” to do so."

It provides some of the only exceptions to the Posse Comitatus Act, an 1878 law that generally forbids the use of the military against American citizens. Those exceptions include suppressing insurrections, enforcing federal authority, and protecting civil rights when state authorities fail to act........George Washington called up state militias under the 1792 law to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion.........Abraham Lincoln at the outset of the Civil War, and afterward by President Ulysses S. Grant against the Ku Klux Klan........Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy invoked it during desegregation disputes in the South.

And the majority of Americans approve, as hundreds of Marines move in, and these riots are boosting Trump in the polls.  The rioters and their supporters are the losers, if for no other reason Trump Is the only one restoring order in Los Angeles.

• Trump popularity surges on LA riots, immigration stance.
• Trump Does Newsom's Job for Him, Sends Troops to LA to Face Off with Anti-ICE Rioters

In times past these misfits would riot, burn, murder, rape and the nation's "leaders" crumbled, but this is Donald Trump, it's not Tim Walz who allowed Minneapolis to burn.  Trump won't fall for any of that, and in point of fact, he's doubling down on his deportation plans, especially for L.A.  

 

Another political hack masquerading as a federal judge says Trump misused the law and ordered him to return control of the California National Guard to Newsom, who along with Mayor Bass should probably be arrested, but that's apparently part of the plan.  At any rate, that judgement hasn't stopped anything, he's been overruled, and there's a lot of movement behind the scenes to deal with these radical out of control judges. 

 

Let's take a look at who ICE has been arresting, murderers, child predators, assailants amid riots, gang members, and violent gun, drug and sex offenders.  Tom Homan has made it clear, ICE ain’t leaving, they're not going to stop arresting illegals, and he intends to even investigate cartel money laundering.

 

And ICE isn't stopping with L.A.  ICE has arrested 72 illegals in South Caroline linked to a Mexican cartel, and the anti-ICE rioters in NYC didn't prevent arrests there.

 

Democrats been stoking this violence against ICE agents, but Governor Newsom is claiming Trump’s ‘shock troops’ are the ones who are out of control.   But it's the Angelinos who are disrupting ICE raids in downtown Los Angeles, one rioter punched a punched a Customs and Border Protection officer, and there's a 500% increase in assaults against ICE agents trying to arrest illegal aliens.   

 

According the left and their catspaws in the media, this is all "mostly peaceful",  and it's absolutely not an insurrection like January 6th was, where there were no buildings burned, no one was raped, no one was murdered, no one working for illegal gangs, not one car was burned, and no police were attacked.   Remarkable!

 

Events From Around the Nation and the World

By Robin Itzler 

Editor's Note:  This is one of the commentaries selected from Robin's weekly newsletter Patriot Neighbors.  Any cartoons will have been added by me. If you wish to get the full edition, E-mail her at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com to get on her list, it's free.

 

Around the Nation: 

California:  On June 10, Democrat California Governor Gavin Newsom posted a video to the nation deriding President Trump for sending in the National Guard and Marines. Guess Gov. Hair Gel would have preferred Los Angeles burning down. Or maybe Gavin likes seeing all those Mexican flags. The video had multiple technical glitches including NO AUDIO! (Think billions of dollars spent on the high-speed train to nowhere.) 

California is electing a new governor in 2026, and believe it or not, a whole lot of people want that job.  There were eleven Democrats, with seven other potential candidates, or those who've expressed interest, including Caitlyn Jenner.  Imagine that.  One green party candidate, one socialist party candidate, and one with no political affiliation.   Eight Republicans and one, Richard Grenell, who expressed interest.  That's twenty nine people with some serious issues with masochism.   What sane person would want to have to deal with the disaster that's California?  A far left legislature, a far left administrative state, a far left voting population with far left fraudulent votes, and in serious debt.  What could possibly go wrong?

Nebraska: Republican Governor Jim Pillen signed Legislative Bill 89 that legally requires all student-athletes (public K-12 to college) in sports to compete on the team that matches their biological sex. The “Stand with Women Act” takes effect on September 3. 

New Jersey:  New Jersey will be electing a new governor in November. Following a closed primary, Democrats have voted for Mike Sherrill and Republicans went with the Trump-endorsed Jack Ciattarelli.  There were six Democrat candidates and Sherrill won the primary with 33.9 percent of the vote. There were five Republican candidates and Ciattarelli won with 67.9 percent of the vote.

New York: Christian photographer Emilee Carpenter firmly believes that marriage is between a man and a woman. Judge Frank Geraci of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York (an Obama appointee) recently ruled in Carpenter’s favor. This means Carpenter cannot be cited for going against public accommodation laws that prevent nondiscrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Washington State: Representative Pramila Jayapal, who is as ugly as she is stupid, is openly holding “shadow” hearings on illegal immigrants that the U.S. government is deporting back to their host countries. These are Democrats undermining the President of the United States. Did Jayapal hold hearings about the 300,000+ illegal alien children that President Joe Biden lost over four years? 

• “The DNC Is Weaker Than I Have Ever Seen It”: Democrats Slam “Weak and Whiny” DNC Chair as Trump Continues to Steamroll

Read LA Riots: Traitors Defend Invaders by David Scott.

Around the World:

Denmark: Their Prime Minister says immigration is the greatest threat to the Nordic regions of Europe.  And it only took a decades for them to realize that.  Remarkable.  

Europe:  It appears the judiciary in Europe is, like America, filled with political hacks,  and European leaders are in revolt against "globalist" judges blocking deportations.  The very judges they put in place to promote globalism.  Well, reality bites.  

Ireland: Recently, many citizens in Cork protested their government’s insane immigration policies that they rightly see as ruining their nation. From County Local News: On June 7, 2025, Cork, Ireland, became the focal point of a significant protest against what many locals perceive as an "illegal invasion" of young men into the country. The event, which drew thousands of participants, was covered live by journalist Jim Ferguson, who took to Twitter to report on the unfolding situation. His tweet indicated that the protest was motivated by concerns over immigration policies and the demographic changes occurring within Irish society.

Mexico: The Big Beautiful Bill includes a 5 percent remittance tax. That means every dollar legal and illegal folks send to Mexico from the United States would be taxed 5 percent. In 2024, remittance income accounted for close to $65 BILLION in revenue for Mexico or 3.5 percent of their GDP. Mexico would lose 5 percent of that money and they are not happy. (Who cares?) 

Netherlands:  Geert Wilders has brought down the government over their refusal to deal with their insane immigration polices, refusing to revoke citizenship, and deporting these wolves destroying Europe. 

Russia:  What was considered the number two military in the world, Russia, has been incapable of defeating the number twenty two military in the world in just under four years.   It's no longer capable of manufacturing their own military equipment having to buy drones from Iran... those days are over... and cannon shells from N. Korea.  They have insufficient manpower for the military and both N. Korea and China have been supplying soldiers.  N. Korea is offering to help rebuild what Ukraine has destroyed with their drones.  The price of oil is dropping, and now it's being reported Russia’s economy minister says the country is on the brink of recession.   I wonder how much longer Putin will be their secular Czar. 

Sweden:  "Sweden is launching an investigation into Islamic infiltration.....This move comes in the wake of a damning French intelligence report – revealed by Le Figaro and covered by RAIR Foundation USA, which warned about the deep and dangerous influence of the Muslim Brotherhood across Europe."  

Islam is now and has always been misogynist, and now Sweden's shocked that Islam is a threat to women’s rights in Europe.  And again, it only took decades of rape, violence, murder, and a report from another nation to realize there's a problem.  Yessir, nothing gets passed those Swedes.