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  Going Postal in the Land of Lunacy Criminals, vigilantes, and good Samaritans Donald Jeffries On December 4, United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed outside the entrance to the New York Hilton Hotel. Right in the heart of what’s left of New York City. That seems like a lot of symbolism there. At least it didn’t happen on Wall Street. Don’t want to get those Occupy protesters riled up. Now, I haven’t paid all that much attention to this case. I have been lied to so often by our state controlled media, and every authority figure with a public platform, that I simply assume that these incidents are distorted, misrepresented, or fabricated theater. My first impression was that the gunman had on what appeared be a bizarre, lifelike mask, with a maniacal grin like the Joker plastered on it, reinforcing my innate skepticism. As it turned out, it wasn’t a mask, but the seemingly perpetual smile on the face of the assailant, as shown in all the photos published of him. Th...

  The day the media decided militant jihadism was respectable Suddenly, after years of misrepresenting Hamas, western politicians and media are desperate to clarify – if only in Syria – the difference between jihadists and Islamic nationalists Here is a very strange thing. For years, western media outlets and politicians have been recklessly indifferent to the fact that Hamas is not a jihadist movement, like al-Qaeda or Islamic State, but a specifically *Palestinian* national resistance movement – if one underpinned by an Islamist ideology that distinguishes it from secular Palestinian national movements like Fatah. Shortly after Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7 2023, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood alongside US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and claimed unchallenged: “Hamas is ISIS [Islamic State]… and Hamas should be treated exactly the way ISIS was treated.“ But Hamas, unlike al-Qaeda and Islamic State, is not seeking to recreate a caliphate embracing all...

  Cynical Overtakes Sacred, as the West Bares its True Face Simplicius One can hardly believe it anymore. The West has dropped  all pretense  of their sacred cow of ‘democracy’, used for generations as an instrument of moral superiority with which to browbeat the rest of the world. Romanian candidate Calin Georgescu larruped his opponent in the first round of presidential elections, only for the entire result to be ‘nullified’ by a Romanian court, absurdly citing “Russian interference on TikTok”—with no real evidence. ( See here for a deep dive on said ‘evidence’. ) A few context-setting reactions: On top of that, current Romanian president Klaus Iohannis—taking a page out of Zelensky’s playbook—has declared he will illegally stay past his term’s constitutional deadline to absolutely no outrage, calls to action, or even criticism from his Western partners: As the West finally unravels, we are witness to a veritable  string  of shocking perversions of the so-call...