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  What the Springfield Cat Controversy Exposes About Immigration Cats and dogs are a distraction Ayaan Hirsi Ali  and  Connor Tomlinson President Trump said, in  his first debate  with Democrat candidate Kamala Harris, that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, are “eating the dogs [...] eating the cats [...] eating the pets of the people that live there”.  X  was awash with AI-generated images of Trump  surrounded by cats  and saving them from  hungry Haitians . Democrat politicians, city officials, and hostile media seek to distract from the failings of the Biden-Harris administration by debunking Trump’s hyperbole. But the story of small towns and cities in America, suffering from the costs and cultural consequences of mass demographic change, is being lost in the weeds of internet memes. Mass immigration is going horribly wrong in Springfield, Ohio — as it has across the US, UK, and Europe. So far, the only arrest for eating a cat in Ohio (a sentence I never thought I’d write) is 

  Searching for Monsters Public acceptance of U.S. foreign excess — searching for monsters to destroy — leads to acceptance of war, and to acceptance of war by other means,   writes  Andrew P. Napolitano. President George H.W. Bush displaying what he said was a bag of crack cocaine during a 1989 speech promoting his “war on drugs.”  (C-span still) Andrew P. Napolitano “ America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy … She might become the dictatress of the world, But she would no longer be the ruler of her own spirit.” — John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) I n the middle of his term as secretary of state, the future president John Quincy Adams addressed a joint session of Congress. What prompted this unusual event? The United States had just fought Britain to a draw in the War of 1812. It was fought almost entirely in Canada. Some historians believe the British began this war to win back their former colonies. Some believe the U.S. began it to seize Canada from Britain. Adams was w

  There Is Something Rotten in Washington Scott Ritter is harassed by FBI for calling for peace while Israel’s Lobby overthrows elections Philip Giraldi One thing you can say about the Administration of President Joe Biden is that nearly every week there is something new and exciting to discuss. Galloping dementia recently gifted us with Joe’s 11 minute abdication speech in which he announced that he would not be running for another term as president. He babbled about how he was taking the step in spite of his desire to continue. The president, who is 81 and recently best noted for his failing mental state causing him to fall down stairs, felt  compelled to say that  he believes that his record as president “merited a second term” but that “nothing can come in the way of saving our democracy.” He  also claimed that  “I’m the first president in this century to report to the American people that the United States is not at war anywhere in the world,” even though it is engaged in a milita

  Iwo Jima 2.0: What Story Is This Picture Telling? PEPE ESCOBAR   If the Deep State cannot influence the outcome of the November elections, they can find Six Ways from Sunday to cancel it. The Iwo Jima 2.0 pic, immortalizing the Trump fist surviving an assassination attempt, has taken the world by storm – generating everything from a meme tsunami on China’s Weibo to fresh anime in Japan. Not to mention the deluge of hats and T-shirts. This carefully composed pic changes everything – in more ways than one. So let’s engage in a first attempt to deconstruct it. We start with the major losers. The combo running Crash Test Dummy’s teleprompter/earpiece set up is essentially composed by Mike Donilon, Steve Richetti, Bruce Reed and Ted Kaufman. Government functionaries like Jake Sullivan and Little Blinkie, for their part, are placed at the heart of what is known in Washington as the “inter-agency” racket, better described as The Blob. The inestimable Alastair Crooke has explained how Sulliv