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-Great Cultural Revolution
DataRepublican has scans of George Soros’s old Open Society Foundations tax returns
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Posted by: trailing wife || 06/14/2025 2025-06-14 00:45 || Comments || Link || [46 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
The Third World Is Forever Chasing The White Man
[Alt-Market] This week I was researching the history of the modern African economy as well as the financial effects of "colonialism", largely in an effort to discern if Africa is actually better off with or without western influence. One can of course argue that racial divisions like Apartheid in South Africa or segregation in Rhodesia have their own oppressive social effects beyond the financial. There’s also the argument that only "white colonists" ever benefited from the infrastructure they built (which is actually untrue, wherever white colonists were established, everything from water access to roads to medical care improved for everyone).

However, I think it’s fair to ask if these nations were experiencing growth and prosperity under white governance, or if things were relatively the same. We’re not supposed to talk about it — We’re only supposed to say "colonialism bad". I don’t care about that, I just want to know what the realities are.

In the process I came across an interesting video featuring a black South African man who presented the race issue and the South Africa issue in a way that was simple but it brought impressive clarity. In summary he said:

"Africans are forever chasing the white man."

Beyond reparations.
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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Replacing a T-72 tank gun barrel in field conditions
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Tank crews from the Alexander Nevsky Brigade carried out a scheduled replacement of gun barrels on their active combat vehicles. The brigade’s Telegram channel shared footage of the process on a T-72B3 tank.
Alexander Nevsky Brigade is a component of the Russian 336th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade.
At the start, the interior of the old barrel is shown, revealing the extent of wear caused by intensive use. By the time of filming, the thermal insulation sleeve had already been removed. The fume extractor, which channels propellant gases away from the breech, was the last component left to be dismantled.

Thanks to modern tank designs, there’s no need to remove the turret. The barrel tube can simply be unscrewed in place using a sledgehammer and the crane of a maintenance vehicle.

Once that’s done, a brand-new smoothbore barrel is installed in reverse order.

It was noted that, after final testing, the tanks would be returned to combat missions.


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Fifth Column
And So It Begins: Leftist Monkey Wrenching Is Leading To Civil War
[Alt-Market] If you thought that the leftist delusions of grandeur had finally hit their peak you are about to be unpleasantly surprised. There are no limits to the insanity that progressives will embrace in their pursuit of power, and they continue to adhere to the fantasy that they are the "good guys" despite the fact that most of the world has been telling them for the past several years that their ideology is repugnant.

The events in Los Angeles are just the beginning and the path this situation will take is relatively predictable. There is a large enough percentage of the US population (around 25% to 30%) that is inexorably rooted in the ideologies of Marxism and multiculturalism. Many of them might not even understand what they’re supporting, but they’ll still do what they’re told by their gatekeepers.

For decades now the progressives have treated America like an experiment in social engineering; the US has been their personal multicultural playground. What has them enraged today is the fact that they are hitting a wall of opposition. They aren’t used to being told "No" and the only way they know how to respond is by lashing out.

The agenda is simple enough to understand — Open borders, third world replacement of the native population, a complete overhaul of our culture’s fundamental principles and ultimately the utilization of the foreign populace and leftist activists as a weapon to eliminate any resistance.

Interference on a political level is met with mob violence, looting, rioting and eventually terrorist actions and assassinations. This is the classic model of leftist revolutions throughout modern history. They seem to be disjointed and reactionary, yet their efforts end up highly coordinated and conveniently timed. There is nothing "grassroots" about these movements.

Currently, there is a push to make the LA riots go national with something called the "No Kings" protests scheduled to take place in cities across the country this weekend at the same time as the US Army’s 250th anniversary celebration (and Donald Trump’s birthday). The Democrats continue to spin the narrative that Trump is a dictator or "king" when he was duly elected by the majority of Americans and almost everything he has done so far is in line with what he promised during his campaign. All the usual suspects are pushing the spread of the riots, from NGOs to Democrat politicians to the corporate media.
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Posted by: Besoeker || 06/14/2025 01:32 || Comments || Link || [90 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  What Would Roof Koreans Do?
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ASRA NOMANI: The $2.1 billion machine behind 'spontaneous' anti-Trump protests
See also here. Also submitted by Besoeker, because it’s just that good.
[FoxNews] Pearl Project investigation exposes 198 Democratic organizations orchestrating Saturday's #NoKings demonstrations

Early Tuesday evening, as National Guard troops faced off against protesters and rioters on the streets of Los Angeles, powerful teachers’ union president Randi Weingarten hosted a virtual town hall with Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear.and two leading political operatives in Democratic Party politics, Leah Greenberg, founder of a political nonprofit, Indivisible, and Rev. Al Sharpton, founder of another political nonprofit, National Action Network.

Greenberg hailed an upcoming wave of protests this Saturday — set to sweep through even "really red areas of the country," marked with mostly Republican voters — as a stand against President Donald Trump. Throughout the call, Weingarten beamed, excited. Sharpton phoned in his enthusiasm about people with "different political beliefs" uniting. They touted Saturday’s campaign as the "#NoKings" protest.

But what they didn’t detail is the massive network of Democratic organizations funding and orchestrating this supposedly spontaneous uprising.

As editor-in-chief of the Pearl Project, a nonprofit journalism initiative I founded in honor of my friend and colleague, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, I’ve spent the past two decades investigating how ideology, identity politics, and sectarian hatred can turn violent. Radicalized Pakistani militants brutally murdered Danny after kidnapping him in 2002 on the streets of Karachi, Pakistan, and demonizing him as an American, a Jew and a grandson of Israel. I have warned about an unholy alliance between far-left radicalism and Islamist extremism, and it has now come home to the streets of the United States.

In my 2023 book, "Woke Army," I documented how this alliance has morphed into a new threat inside our institutions, from higher education to politics — weaponizing identity and cause-based activism, like immigration, to undermine civil society.

The #NoKings protest is the latest front in this propaganda war.

According to new research by the Pearl Project, the #NoKings protest is being organized by an estimated 198 groups, all of which are aligned with the Democratic Party and many of which claim tax-exempt, "nonpartisan" nonprofit status. Collectively, these groups take in $2.1 billion in annual revenues.

Here is the breakdown of 198 "partners" listed in the official publicity material for the financial and political machine behind #NoKings:

  • Three official entities of the Democratic National Committee: College Democrats of America, Manhattan Young Democrats and Westside Democratic Headquarters in Norwalk, Calif.

  • 16 Democratic political action committees, or PACs, including Friends of Bernie Sanders, Progressive Democrats of America and Vote Blue — with about $19.4 million in spending power for Democratic political candidates.

  • 18 Democratic-aligned 501(c)(5) labor unions, including lead organizer, the American Federation of Teachers, along with the United Auto Workers, the Communications Workers of America and the National Treasury Employees Union, with a total of $1.1 billion in revenues, most of their political contributions going to Democratic candidates.

  • 76 Democratic-aligned 501(c)(4) political nonprofits, including the ACLU, Sierra Club, League of Conservation Voters, Working Families Organization Inc., Human Rights Campaign, Planned Parenthood Action Fund and lead organizer Indivisible Project, all with another $734.3 million in revenues.

  • 47 501(c)(3) nonprofits, legally restricted from partisan advocacy, including innocuous-sounding groups like the Unitarian Universalist Association, Accountable US and the American Humanist Association, with $286.7 million to the cause.

  • 38 additional Democratic-aligned groups, including Michigan Resistance Coalition, Families Over Billionaires, 50501, Tax the Greedy Billionaire and Mennonite Action, with undisclosed financials.

I’ve made the research public in an online database that I am working on making into a user-friendly digital encyclopedia for the protest industry, so everyone from parents to police officers can understand the organizations fomenting chaos from our streets to our campuses.

I’ve been tracking the anti-Trump protesters since 2017 when #Resistance became the buzzword for activists like Palestinian American Linda Sarsour, leading the Women’s March against Trump. Since Trump’s inauguration this past January, I’ve investigated the companies behind the #TeslaTakedown, #HandsOff and #MayDay protests that have marked "resistance 2.0" over the past several months against the Trump administration.

The groups include several organizations, including Jewish Voice for Peace and Sarsour’s MPower Change Action Fund, that represent the unholy alliance of Islamist sympathizers and leftists who have fueled fiery protests against the existence of the state of Israel, following the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas on Israelis. I’ve identified 1,500 groups in the anti-semitism protest industry.

Most certainly, this week’s protests and the protests coming up are not an organic, citizen-led "resistance."

This is top-down political warfare, branded as grassroots activism but actually an AstroTurf political operation.

The anti-Trump protest industry is very broad, and these are some additional findings:

  • Along with the 198 groups behind #NoKings with revenues of $2.1 billion, there are another 267 groups that have been organizing protests against Trump with revenues of $1.3 billion.

  • That makes a total of about 465 groups aligned with the Democratic Party with combined revenues of $3.4 billion organizing protests against Trump since January.

  • The #TeslaTakedown protests included an estimated 32 local and state affiliates of the Democratic National Committee, from Florida to California, who put Tesla CEO Elon Musk in their crosshairs.

These organizations are not your local knitting club. They are professional protest organizers.

For the #NoKings protest, the "Indivisible Digital Asset Management" team has assembled an online digital "brand folder" with 29 brand "assets" in a folder marked "Flyers, Rally Signs, & Printed Materials," 25 "assets" in a "Graphics" folder, 8 "Templates," two logos, a brand palette of four vibrant branding colors, easy-to-read fonts and engaging "design elements."

Indivisible also created a 12-page digital "NO KINGS Toolkit for Hosts," shared on Google Docs, with "messaging," "NO KINGS Mobilization Tactics," "sample event agenda" and tips on "getting media attention." Its tips noted: "Identify at least 1 group member to be responsible for firing up the crowd…" I’m including various parts of this orchestrated protest in an online protest industry folder.

Some of the sample messages for signs: "NO KINGS IN AMERICA!," "Stop the Shakedown!" and "We are Not For Sale!" They will be repeated across the country.

The templates have been leveraged to now create a cookie-cutter production of graphics on social media orchestrated around the hashtag #NoKings.

Importantly, just as the mainstream media examines the dynamics of "white supremacy," "fascism" and "MAGA," we must not be naïve about the ideological undercurrents driving "progressive" protests to violence.

A while back, The New York Times exposed a wealthy tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, for funding and promoting Chinese Communist Party propaganda, and he has been tied to funding many of the groups – Party for Socialism and Liberation, the People’s Forum, the Answer Coalition and CodePink — engaged in the most confrontational protests in recent days and months against Israel and the United States. These groups are proudly self-described socialist organizations stoking discontent to push an anti-capitalist, anti-American agenda.

While Singham doesn’t yet appear to have his fingerprints directly on the #NoKings protest, the ideological DNA is the same.

The #NoKings protest is likely to be the next playing field for the anti-ICE, anti-Trump agitators. Indeed, #ResistTrump, one of the "partners" for Saturday’s protests, promotes an "orientation" slide deck that itemizes the elements of "expressing political dissent" from "voting to violence." While the group claims to promote "non-violence," it includes – without comment – "political violence" as a part of the continuum of protest, including "armed revolts," "riots," "terrorism" and "insurrections."

#ResistTrump outlines a "theory of change" to "remove or replace Trump" and realize a "future without Trump."

As an investigative journalist, I am reporting on the protest industry and its propaganda, because these protests are not just political statements. They are well-financed, orchestrated performances—designed to generate viral imagery, manipulate public perception and blur the line between civic engagement and ideological agitation.

Fairfax County resident Lissa Kenkel, a researcher who helped me cull data for the #NoKings protest, has been studying protests since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas in Israel, and she said: "The irony is staggering about the groups driving the NoKings uprisings."

"The very people bankrolling and leading these so-called grassroots movements are the crowned royalty of the non-profit world, sitting in their air-conditioned offices, collecting six-figure salaries, while encouraging the common folk to torch their own cities in the name of ‘saving democracy," she said. "It’s manufactured chaos, sold as revolution, by people who wouldn’t last five minutes in the rubble they’re creating."
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Posted by: Skidmark || 06/14/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [84 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  California Democrats Dumped $73M into Migrant NGOs Opposing ICE
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/14/2025 5:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Remember the man standing in front of XI’s tank?? I am betting this happens in DC.
Posted by: Old Salty || 06/14/2025 10:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Sharpton a week ago: "We were kings."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/14/2025 12:22 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Mike Benz tells everyone it's over, the Epstein topic has been closed
[YouTube] How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Accept We May Not Get The Epstein Files Anytime Soon
A good debunking of all the various conspiracy theories out there.

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Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 06/14/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [85 views] Top|| File under:

#1  At this point, "what difference does it make?"
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/14/2025 1:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, Pom Pom Pam's desk got a bit cleaner. One file folder isn't much, but that stuff can add up.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/14/2025 9:13 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Elon Musk calls for America's $150 billion beacon of hope [International Space Station] to be terminated
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Elon Musk is again calling for NASA to scuttle the International Space Station (ISS) after a former engineer of the agency revealed hidden problems with its structure.

Casey Handmer, a physicist and engineer who worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for four years, posted on X that the 26-year-old station's structure integrity is far worse than the public knows.

'We could wake up tomorrow and find, with zero warning, that it has failed catastrophically,' Handmer warned on X Thursday.

Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, quickly responded, saying that even though his commercial space company makes billions from delivering cargo and astronauts to the station, it should be brought down by 2027.

'There are potentially serious concerns about the long-term safety of the [ISS]. Some parts of it are simply getting too old and obviously that risk grows over time,' Musk posted early Friday morning.

The renewed push to decommission ISS came hours after NASA delayed a private astronaut mission by Axiom Space Inc because of a pressure leak in one of the station's Russian-built sections, meaning there could be less air to breathe.

The billionaire leader of SpaceX, Tesla, and X has been calling for NASA to scrap the $150 billion project since February.

At the time, Musk was also the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and recommended to President Trump that the station be brought down 'as soon as possible.'

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Posted by: Skidmark || 06/14/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [67 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...This isn't really anything new; it's been assumed for a few years now that ISS was going to have to come down. It would save money if it was deorbited sooner, but that's about it.

Mike
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Ben Shapiro Explains How Trump's Policy Led to Israel's Surprise Strike on Iran

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Posted by: badanov || 06/14/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [41 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
The Z-Man: We Are Doomed
The show was recorded while the usual suspects were starting yet another war in the Middle East, this time with Iran. At this point it is hard to know where it leads,
…it leads to the end of the Mad Mullah’s plans for nuking Israel and Saudi Arabia, not to mention the previous end of their long-cherished idea of crushing the Jewish state between Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, with Iran providing the crushing blow from safely afar. It might even lead to the end of the Mullahcracy, though not, I suspect, the reestablishment of the heir of the House of Pahlavi on the peacock throne…
but we know Trump is powerless to do anything about it. It is sadly clear over the last three administrations that no White House runs foreign policy. The important decisions are made by people outside the political system.
As an aside, is the ZMan Jewish? In Hebrew zman means time… Anyway, Mr. Time somehow fails to notice that no Americas were used in this war except that President Trump and Secretary of State Rubio fibbed a little about being ignorant of Israeli plans.
It couldn't be clearer that the blob does not answer to our elected government.
True. That’s why they are being pared down, both financially and employment numbers in the federal bureaucracy.
Trump is fighting hard but they are simply too strong.

The moment his term is up it's right back to the old ways of starting wars all over the planet and open borders.
That assumes a Democrat wins in 2028. This seems increasingly unlikely….
That is why war is on the list of things that could bring doom to America. The people making these decisions are not thinking about what is best for the United States or the American people. Therefore, the United States and the American people could easily be sacrificed, deliberately or accidentally, in service to the alien cause. Civilization ending wars tend to be tragic accidents.

Even so, America is in no danger of being conquered militarily, so it is hard to see war as the direct cause of our demise.
Kurt Schlichter yesterday suggested it is time for Americans to carry (legally, of course) because of the likelihood that infiltrated Iranian sleeper cells will be given orders to act here in CONUS.
War could trigger other things, like a massive spike in oil prices
….when American production — along with everyone else — is ramping up again??
that then set off a financial collapse. If Iran decides it needs a regional war and blows up Saudi oil facilities, then we could see an energy crisis. Unlike the 1970’s, an energy crisis today could trigger collapse.

That is the show for this Friday the 13th. I go through the possible end times scenarios and rank them on a scale of one to ten. A bit of a spoiler, but war is pretty far down the list of possible doomsday scenarios. It could be a triggering event that eventually leads to one of the other items on the list, but war itself is not a likely end for us. The most likely cause of our doom is, well, you will just have to listen.


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  Israel has resumed its strikes on Iran, targeting the underground Fordow nuclear facility
Fri 2025-06-13
  Israel launches 'preemptive strikes' on Iran as explosions are heard across Tehran: Jerusalem declares 'special state of emergency' and braces for all-out-war
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  Over 330 illegals were arrested for partaking in the Los Angeles riots, and will now be deported
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  Internet shut down in Iran and game is waiting on IAEA vote UPDATE: IAEA sez Iran noncompliant, Iran announces to start toward nukes
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  Israel attacks Iran
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  Self-proclaimed Tren de Aragua member who shot NYC cops gets 28-year prison sentence
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  Third Chinese scientist charged with smuggling illegal biological pathogen into US from Wuhan
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  LA Mayor Karen Bass says LA doesn't need ''troops'' because the LAPD can handle the chaos as CNN plays a clip of rioters storming the 101 Freeway
Sun 2025-06-08
  President Trump sends National Guard as violent anti-ICE riots erupt in Los Angeles
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  President Trump sends National Guard as violent anti-ICE riots erupt in Los Angeles
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   Salam says army dismantled 'more than 500' Hezbollah installations in south
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  Columbia University’s accreditation at risk over alleged civil rights violations
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  As Gazans clamor for aid, looting and shootings underscore new dangers
Wed 2025-06-04
  Rockets fired from Syria for first time in a year, Israel blames Sharaa; another Houthi missile downed without effect
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  Over 30 Soldiers Killed As al-Qaeda-Linked Group Invades Army Base In Mali
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  Nine Feared Dead, Several Injured As Bomb Explodes At Borno Bus Stop
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  IDF says dozens of strikes hit terror sites across Gaza; Hamas authorities say 60 killed
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