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Finland has been named the happiest country in the world for the sixth year in a row. The World Happiness Report — compiled by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, a global initiative of the United Nations — is published annually on 20 March to mark ‘International Day of Happiness’. The study asks respondents to evaluate their life using the mental image of a ladder, with the best possible life for them as a 10 and worst possible as a 0. These life evaluation results are then correlated with various life factors: GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom, generosity, and corruption. Once again, all of the Nordic nations performed well in the 2023 report, making up five of the top seven places.

… While the American media and political system fixated on Russian President Vladimir Putin and his armies of cyber warriors, trolls, and bots, what was completely missed in the Russiagate investigation of 2016 was the Israeli connection … Nor did any mention of Israeli involvement ever leak into the press. Yet I can reveal here the details of an elaborate covert operation personally directed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that aimed to use secret intelligence to clandestinely intervene at the highest levels in the presidential election on behalf of Trump … In fact, a recent multinational journalistic investigation revealed that Israel has become a world center for the export of election fraud, fake news, hacking of private e-mails, and disinformation.

Four months prior to the invasion of Iraq, I found out that the George W. Bush administration was selling the war to the American people based on a lie. I was attending the 1st Marine Division birthday ball in Primm, Nevada, where a former U.S. Central Command commander, recently retired, was our guest of honor. Prior to the festivities at a closed door meeting in a large, empty conference room with the division’s officers, he shocked many of us when he said, “Marines, there is no ongoing WMD program in Iraq, but you are going to war anyway.” He paused, and with an exasperated look on his face, said gravely, “The administration is cooking the books on the intel about WMD in Iraq.” … The ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus’ words rang in my ears: The truth is the first casualty of war.

… A Washington Post poll in May of 2022 revealed that three quarters of Blacks are worried that they or someone they love will be attacked by a white person — while the reality is that Blacks perpetrate the vast majority of interracial crime. And nearly as many, 70 percent, believe that half or more of all White people “hold white supremacist beliefs.” A Rasmussen poll taken in February of 2023, exposed the inevitable and disturbing reality that only 54% of Blacks think it’s ok to be White. Race based hatred and discrimination now appears to pervade the bulk of the Black population. This same mindset is also pervasive within far too many of the nation’s private and government institutions … Race relations have so deteriorated that animosity between the races is on the cusp of degenerating into near irreversible alienation.

A bombshell secret letter sent from the abdicated King Edward VIII to Adolf Hitler has been unearthed by a historian in the royal archives … Edward thanked the Nazi leader for his ‘great hospitality’ during a trip shortly before the start of World War Two … Written in German on October 23 [1937], the day after the couple first met Hitler, it read: “The Duchess of Windsor and I would like to thank you sincerely for the great hospitality you have shown us, and for the many options you gave us to witness all that has been done for the working people of Germany. “Our trip through Germany has made a great impression on us, and we won’t forget the attentiveness you surrounded us with and the warm welcome we received everywhere.” Edward concludes with heartfelt thanks for the “beautiful hours” that he and Wallis had enjoyed at Hitler’s Bavarian retreat.

British Pathé newsreel footage of the visit of the Duke of Windsor (formerly King Edward VIII) to Third Reich Germany, October 1937. During the twelve-day visit, Edward and his American-born wife, Wallis, met with the German leader at his home in the Bavarian alps. Along with nearly all visitors to the country during the six years of peace before the outbreak of war in late 1939, Edward was impressed with conditions there, and the obvious affection and trust of the great majority of Germans for Adolf Hitler and his administration. Some historians believe that if Edward had not abdicated in December 1936, British-German relations would not have broken down, and war between Britain and Germany could have been avoided. Runtime: two minutes.

An easy-to-understand introduction to “Kosher awareness.” Few Americans realize the vast extent of Jewish rabbinical certification of items they routinely purchase. Not just food items, but even cleaning products, aluminum foil, soft drinks, dishwasher detergent, and some appliances, are kosher certified. Companies pay rabbinical inspectors to “certify” their products as kosher, and this cost is passed on to clueless non-Jewish consumers. Just how much money is paid is secret, but apparently it amounts to many millions of dollars each year. Orthodox Jewish groups that receive this payoff engage in political activism. It’s no wonder that the kosher certification enterprise has been called a scam and a racket. Runtime: 38 mins.

France’s public international news channel France 24 has decided to suspend four journalists working for its Arabic service over accusations of publishing anti-Semitic messages. The journalists had been taken off-air pending an internal investigation into accusations made by media watchdog Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) … The media-monitoring group has accused the journalists of making references to the Holocaust and of bias in their reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on social media.

More than 3,600 antisemitic incidents were recorded in the United States in 2022, more than in any year since the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) began tracking the issue in 1979, it said in its annual report released on Thursday. It was the third time in the last five years that antisemitic incidents reached all-time highs, the ADL said. Acts of harassment, vandalism and assault directed specifically at Jews took place in nearly every corner of the country, it said … Adding that the 2022 number of incidents rose by more than a third over 2021. The number of incidents involving organized white supremacist propaganda activity doubled, incidents at K-12 schools increased by 49% and by two-fifths on college campuses in 2022, the organization found.

Judaism is the most favorably viewed religion in the United States, according to a Pew Research Center study, despite a rise in antisemitic incidents across the country. Jews scored a net +28 rating in the analysis released Wednesday. The study also found that Americans generally view Roman Catholics and mainline Protestants favorably but tend to view Muslims, atheists and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as Mormons, negatively. Nonevangelicals tend to view evangelical Christians more negatively than positively, the study showed …

Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published an article on Substack on Wednesday that said the CIA was instructed to come up with a cover story for the Nord Stream bombings that was fed to The New York Times and the German newspaper Die Zeit. The cover-up story was created to shift blame from the US after Hersh’s bombshell report published on February 8 that said President Biden ordered the attack on the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines, which connect Russia to Germany. “It was a total fabrication by American intelligence that was passed along to the Germans, and aimed at discrediting your story,” Hersh was told by a source within the American intelligence community. Hersh said that the CIA was ordered to come up with a cover story after President Biden met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Washington on March 3.

It’s been six weeks since I published a report, based on anonymous sourcing, naming President Joe Biden as the official who ordered the mysterious destruction last September of Nord Stream 2, a new $11-billion pipeline that was scheduled to double the volume of natural gas delivered from Russia to Germany. The story gained traction in Germany and Western Europe, but was subject to a near media blackout in the US. Two weeks ago, after a visit by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to Washington, US and German intelligence agencies attempted to add to the blackout by feeding the New York Times and the German weekly Die Zeit false cover stories to counter the report that Biden and US operatives were responsible for the pipelines’ destruction.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Germany’s response to the explosion on North Sea pipelines showed that the country remained “occupied” and unable to act independently decades after its surrender at the end of World War Two. Putin, interviewed on Russian television, also said European leaders had been browbeaten into losing their sense of sovereignty and independence … “The matter is that European politicians have said themselves publicly that after World War Two, Germany was never a fully sovereign state,” Russian news agencies quoted Putin as telling state Rossiya-1 TV channel. “The Soviet Union at one point withdrew its forces and ended what amounted to an occupation of the country. But that, as is well known, was not the case with the Americans. They continue to occupy Germany.”

As mainstream U.S. media outlets pause to remember the US invasion of Iraq, it’s clear that there’s a lot they hope we’ll forget – first and foremost, the media’s own active complicity in whipping up public support for the war. But the more you dig into mainstream news coverage from that period … the harder it is to forget how flagrantly news networks across the broadcast and cable landscape uncritically spread the Bush administration’s propaganda and actively excluded dissenting voices. The numbers don’t lie … The result was a barely debated, deceit-driven, headlong rush into a war of choice that would go on to destabilize the region, accelerate global terrorism, bleed trillions of dollars from the US treasury, and kill thousands of US servicemembers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, most of them innocent civilians.

Former U.N. Chief Weapons Inspector Hans Blix gained notoriety 20 years ago when he disputed President George W. Bush’s claims about alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq. He asked for more time to search for those weapons. Instead, US and British forces attacked the country. Twenty years later, Blix joins MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan to discuss lessons learned from the war, and why he’s worried history that could repeat itself. Blix believes that, in principle, both former US president George W. Bush and former British prime minister Tony Blair deserve to be charged as war criminals and brought before an international tribunal. Swedish diplomat Blix served as his country’s Foreign Minister, and was later head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Runtime: 9:15 mins.

On 20 March 2003, US and allied forces invaded Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein’s regime. The US said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was a threat to international peace, but most countries refused to support military action against it. Why did the US want to invade Iraq? … President Bush claimed Saddam was continuing to stockpile and manufacture WMDs and that Iraq was part of an international “axis of evil,” along with Iran and North Korea. In October 2002, the US Congress authorised the use of military force against Iraq … The US said it would not wait for the inspectors to report … The UK’s then-Prime Minister, Tony Blair, said it was “beyond doubt” that Saddam Hussein was continuing to produce WMD.

An important conference in Tallinn, Estonia, on the weekend of May 13-14, will bring together writers, thinkers and activists from Europe and America. They will take an informed and clear-eyed look at the trajectory of our times and the future of the West. The speakers will include: Prof. Edward Dutton, author and evolutionary psychologist; Ruuben Kaalep, Member of the Estonian Parliament; Guido Taietti, author and political scientist; Jared Taylor, founder and director of American Renaissance; Mark Weber, historian and director of the Institute for Historical Review; F. Roger Devlin, author and scholar; Timo Hännikäinen, author, poet and publisher; Frodi Midjord, responsible for the “Guide to Kulchur” website, and host of the online Decameron film festival.

Classical music blasts from the public speakers throughout the Los Angeles Metro station at the Westlake/MacArthur Park stop as part of a new plan hoping to drive down crime and increase ridership. “The music is appropriate for spending maybe five to ten minutes in the station and catching your train, not hanging out all day inside the station,” said Dave Sotero, a Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesperson. The transportation authority is trying to address the rapidly declining ridership as many fear for their safety amid higher crime rates. According to Metro, the most serious violent crimes — including assault, murder, rape and robbery — rose 24% since 2021. Across the transportation system, there were 21 deaths reported in 2022. There have been 21 deaths on Metro buses and trains in the first three months of 2023.

For the first time, a poll by Gallup found that Democrats are likelier to sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis, though a majority of Democrats have a favorable view of Israel. Asked, “In the Middle East situation, are your sympathies more with the Israelis or more with the Palestinians?” 49% of Democrats sympathized more with the Palestinians and 38% sympathized more with the Israelis. An additional 13% sympathized with neither, both, or had no opinion. It was the first time since at least 2001 that more Democrats sympathized with the Palestinians than with the Israelis. Sympathy for Israelis among Republicans remains strong … Overall, a majority, 54%, of Americans sympathize more with Israelis and 31% sympathize more with Palestinians.

The president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has called for the excommunication of unrepentant white supremacists in the church’s ranks, rebuking an extremist effort to exert influence within the conservative Lutheran denomination. In a letter dated Feb. 21, LCMS President Matthew Harrison said he was “shocked to learn recently that a few members of LCMS congregations have been propagating radical and unchristian ‘alt-right’ views via Twitter and other social media.” He noted far-right members were causing “local disruption” for congregations and alleged that LCMS leadership and deaconesses had fallen victim to online threats, some of which he described as “serious.”

… Drug use is rampant in the [Los Angeles] Metro system. Since January, 22 people have died on Metro buses and trains, mostly from suspected overdoses — more people than all of 2022. Serious crimes soared 24% last year compared with the previous. “Horror.” That’s how one train operator recently described the scenes he sees daily … “We don’t even see any businesspeople anymore. We don’t see anybody going to Universal. It’s just people who have no other choice [than] to ride the system, homeless people and drug users.” Commuters have abandoned large swaths of the Metro train system … For January, ridership on the Gold Line was 30% of the pre-pandemic levels, and the Red Line was 56% of them.

The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and related causes received an astonishing $82.9 billion from corporations, a new funding database from the Claremont Institute has found. The Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life explained the necessity of their report in an article published in Newsweek, where the Center asserted that the 2020 BLM movement was about more than just “rioting and destruction.” The Center explained that “The BLM pressure campaigns, harassment, and moral blackmail also amounted to possibly the most lucrative shakedown of corporate America in its history.” … The sum of $82.9 billion includes “more than $123 million to the BLM parent organizations directly,” as well as much more to other organizations supporting BLM’s agenda. 

As we approach the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, there are a lot of lessons on which to reflect … In the months leading up to the March 2003 invasion, those sounding caution were cast as “unpatriotic,” “pro-Saddam,” and worse … The political establishment — including U.S. President Joe Biden, who as past (and future) chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee should have been in a position to know better — willingly stampeded into a historic foreign-policy disaster, the consequences of which Americans are still grappling with. Americans should’ve paid better attention. And they should pay attention today, where similar invective is deployed against critics of U.S. policy toward Russia and China.

Twenty years ago this spring the US government was finally successful in lying us into war with Iraq. Administration after administration had sanctioned and bombed and even invaded the country, but finally 20 years ago next month the Bush Administration unleashed “shock and awe” to flatten a country that did not and could not threaten the United States. After eight years of battle in Iraq perhaps as many as a million innocent people died, either directly or indirectly, from Washington’s aggression. No one was brought before a tribunal over the lies and destruction. No one even apologized … Many of us have watched with alarm as the Biden Administration – with the enthusiastic backing of many Congressional Republicans – has continuously escalated involvement in the Russia/Ukraine conflict …

When a prominent American political figure speaks boldly about Jewish-Zionist power, that’s news. So the remarks by South Carolina’s senior Senator that Iraq was invaded “to secure Israel,” and that “everybody” in Washington knows it, are indeed remarkable … Bush’s motive in going to war for Israeli interests, charged Ernest “Fritz” Hollings, was to get Jewish support in election campaigns.

It’s a textbook case of an overseas scam — except the victim was an American city. Officials in Newark, New Jersey, were initially thrilled to partner with the Hindu nation of the United States of Kailasa. The only problem? The country doesn’t exist. After hosting “delegates” from the made-up country at a formal ceremony in January, City Hall has admitted that the whole thing was a scam led by notorious Indian fugitive Swami Nithyananda. Newark officials said the agreement only lasted for six days and was rendered “baseless and void,” adding that no money was exchanged in the ceremony.

A prominent Jewish organization and a German human rights group have called on European authorities to fully ban far-right marches taking place annually across the continent … The report highlighted 12 annual marches it said glorify Nazism — in Hungary, Germany, Spain, Latvia, Bulgaria, Belgium, Finland, Italy, Greece and Poland. Collectively, these events draw tens of thousands of participants each year. Antisemitic signs, slogans and imagery are a common sight at many of the events covered in the report, the authors wrote. Present-day glorification of Nazis and their collaborators in Europe is a multifaceted phenomenon. Especially in the continent’s east, collaborators are celebrated as patriotic heroes for siding with Nazi Germany against Russian domination.

… On Monday [March 6], we showed you unreleased videotape from January 6. It proved, that tape proved, that three of the most important claims our leaders have made about that day were untrue. Their claims were lies … In this case, the sociopaths turned out to be both Democrats and Republicans. The commitment to lying in Washington is far deeper and more bipartisan even than we realize … But is January 6 the worst assault on the U.S. government since the Civil War? That’s insane. It’s not even close … The people in charge of history are liars – liars, And lying is bad and on a national scale, it’s deadly. It’s corrosive of everything that is good in the country, including trust and your grasp on reality itself and that’s what they try to make.

Until it happened, it was unthinkable. The United States has for decades guarded its role as the sole negotiator in the Middle East. It has insisted on being the chief arbiter of agreements and the architect and decider of partnerships. But on March 10, China emerged as the broker of a transformative agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia while Washington was sidelined and left out of the room. The most important recent realignment of the Middle East was shaped by Beijing.

… The vast majority of those caught up in the incursion of the Capitol did not commit serious crimes, engage in violence or know what they would do in Washington other than protest the election results … The Jan. 6 protestors were not the first to occupy Congressional offices, including Nancy Pelosi’s office. Young environmental activists from the Sunrise Movement, anti-war activists from Code Pink and even congressional staffers have engaged in numerous occupations of congressional offices and interrupted congressional hearings … The cheerleading, or at best indifference, by Democratic Party supporters and much of the left to these show trials will come back to haunt them. We are exacerbating the growing tribalism and political antagonisms that will increasingly express themselves through violence.

Payments of $5 million to every eligible Black adult, the elimination of personal debt and tax burdens, guaranteed annual incomes of at least $97,000 for 250 years and homes in San Francisco for just $1 a family. These were some of the more than 100 recommendations made by a city-appointed reparations committee tasked with the thorny question of how to atone for centuries of slavery and systemic racism. And the San Francisco Board of Supervisors hearing the report for the first time Tuesday voiced enthusiastic support for the ideas listed, with some saying money should not stop the city from doing the right thing.

In September 2022, the Nord Stream gas pipelines exploded in one of the most spectacular political and environmental acts of terrorism in history … On February 8, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published a detailed account of the “act of war” that concluded that it was carried out by the US. A month later, The New York Times has now published a story that assigns responsibility to “a pro-Ukrainian group.” The story is so thin and vague in its detail, its sourcing and its reporting that it seems surprising that it met the paper’s criteria for publication … The same day as The Times report came out, Die Zeit reported that joint research by several German outlets found that “traces lead in the direction of Ukraine.” … Like The New York Times report, the German report is characterized by more uncertainty than certainty.

A lack of oversight guidance within the Pentagon is a major reason why it’s still the only large government department that has yet to pass an independent audit, though it spends billions trying to modernize its fiscal systems, a watchdog report said Tuesday. The Pentagon has been unsuccessful in overseeing its financial systems and imposing the necessary guidance to make them fully effective, according to the report conducted by the Government Accountability Office. The Defense Department has one of the federal government’s largest budgets annually … Last fall, the Pentagon again failed its yearly independent audit mainly because auditors said the department couldn’t provide a complete set of fiscal records for review. The Pentagon has never passed the yearly audit …

… The pretense is that what’s happening now with Israel amounts to a surprising aberration from its natural state. At times, the denial even rests on the tacit and absurd assumption that Jews are less inclined to commit atrocities than any other people. But recent events in Israel are continuing a long Zionist process that has been propelled by mixtures of valid yearning for safety and extreme ethnocentrism, with terrible results. Three widely esteemed human rights organizations – Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and B’Tselem – have rendered a clear and convincing judgment: Israel operates a system of apartheid against Palestinians … Far from being a “Jewish democratic state,” Israel has evolved into a Jewish supremacist state. In the real world, “Israeli democracy” is an oxymoron. Denial does not make that any less true.

… But here’s what worries me. The Biden administration’s rhetorical support for Ukraine keeps increasing, and it continues to promise us some sort of happy Hollywood ending. Biden’s trip to Kyiv was a bold move that underscored his stamina and personal commitment to helping Ukraine, but it also tied his political fortunes to the war’s outcome more directly and visibly. If Biden can’t deliver what he’s promised, then what looks like a compelling demonstration of U.S. leadership today will look a lot less impressive a year from now. If the war is still at a brutal stalemate in February 2024 and Ukraine is being destroyed, then Biden will face pressure either to do more or look for a plan B. Given what he’s promised, anything less than complete victory will look like failure.

While speaking to The Spectator for a new interview, The Italian Job star responded to a British counter-terrorism report that ruled his 1964 film was a “key text” for white nationalists and supremacists. The Prevent study also named works including The Lord of the Rings books, William Shakespeare’s writings and The Dam Busters and The Bridge on the River Kwai as texts that could encourage far-right extremists. Reacting to the report, Caine said, “That is the biggest load of bulls**t I have ever heard.” Zulu depicted the Battle of Rorke’s Drift, during which outnumbered British soldiers did battle with Zulu warriors in Southern Africa in 1879.

The United States saw its highest-ever distribution of white supremacist propaganda last year, jumping 38 percent, according to data collected by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The group recorded 6,751 incidents of propaganda activity in 2022 — a jump from 4,876 in 2021 that the ADL attributed to growth in the number of white supremacist groups and their membership … Three white supremacist groups — Patriot Front, Goyim Defense League and White Lives Matter — were responsible for 93 percent of this year’s activity, which includes banners, posters and events. Much of that content was specifically antisemitic in nature, with ADL noting that such propaganda surged from 352 incidents in 2021 to 852 incidents last year.

A prolific Holocaust denier who is wanted by authorities in France has been handed a second warrant for his arrest in court. Vincent Reynouard, 54, was handed the warrant as he sat in the dock at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Thursday, where he appeared for the latest stage in his extradition battle. The Frenchman was convicted under anti-Nazi laws across the Channel and handed a four-month jail term in November 2020, and a further six months in January 2021. After Reynouard was served the fresh warrant in French and English, his lawyer Paul Dunne told him: “Take your time and read it so you understand the nature of the offences against you.” … Mr Dunne said: “He does not consent to his extradition to France.”

At Potsdam District Court this week, German prosecutors have demanded a prison sentence of four years and eight months for the 87-year-old lawyer, philosopher and revisionist historian Horst Mahler. The present trial began on 29th November last year: further hearings are scheduled this week and next week. Mahler is accused of publishing forbidden opinions, under the Federal Republic’s notorious volksverhetzung (‘public incitement’) laws. Many of these forbidden opinions relate to the ‘Holocaust’. … In many European countries, the authorities have moved relentlessly to charge, fine or imprison revisionists.

Jean-Claude Pressac’s book, Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers, is the first serious and detailed response to the revisionist critique of the generally accepted Auschwitz extermination story … His book features hundreds of valuable illustrations, including many good-quality reproductions of previously unpublished original diagrams and documents that simply cannot be reconciled with the generally accepted Holocaust extermination story. Reproduced on the following pages are a few of these illustrations, which were selected from Pressac’s book by Mark Weber, who also provided the captions.

With the Ukraine war now reaching its one-year mark on February 24, the Russians have not achieved a military victory but neither has the West achieved its goals on the economic front. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States and its European allies vowed to impose crippling sanctions that would bring Russia to its knees and force it to withdraw … Not only has Russia withstood the economic assault, but the sanctions have boomeranged – hitting the very countries that imposed them … Ukraine’s economy has shrunk by 35% or more, despite $46 billion in economic aid from generous U.S. taxpayers … The British economy is projected to actually contract by 0.6%.

Hungary is seriously affected by the war in Ukraine, the Western countries are not seeking peace, and EU leadership is following American interests, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told a Swiss weekly. “There are some who want to force Hungary into the war, and they are not picky about the means with which to achieve that goal,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told Swiss weekly Weltwoche … Orbán said the most important realization of the war in Ukraine is that “Europe has retired from the debate.” In the decisions adopted in Brussels, I recognize American interests more frequently than European ones. In a war that is taking place in Europe the Americans have the final word,” he added … Regarding the outcome of the war, Orbán said “no one can win it.”

Mark Weber joins host Tim Kelly to bring the Ukraine War and the US-Russia rivalry into sharper perspective. One year after Russia launched its “special military operation” in Ukraine, Weber reviews what’s happened, how the reality of the war has shattered expectations in both Moscow and Washington, and what’s likely in the months ahead. Weber and Kelly also discuss parallels between what’s happening in today’s world and events of the past, including at the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939. Weber also talks about how the events of the past year, including US policies based on faulty premises, are accelerating the decline of US “unipolor” power and influence in the world. Runtime: 97 mins.

A staff attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-wing organization that publishes a “hate map” targeting conservative groups, is among the agitators arrested on domestic terrorism charges for rioting at a proposed police training center in Atlanta. Authorities arrested Tom Jurgens after the attorney joined more than 30 other black-clad activists who used Molotov cocktails to destroy construction equipment at the construction site of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. The FBI has used the SPLC as a resource in identifying domestic terrorists…. The riot was a “very violent attack” for the purpose of “anarchy” and “the attempt to destabilize,” Atlanta police chief Darin Schierbaum told the press. Republican Georgia governor Brian Kemp called the attack “domestic terrorism.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) says its primary mission is to fight hatred, teach tolerance, and seek justice. These are noble goals for most Americans, but this is not a noble organization. It is the exact opposite. Given the SPLC’s power and influence over the media and members of Congress, this once highly-regarded civil rights organization deserves fresh scrutiny. Here are seven reasons why the SPLC fails to serve the public interest: The SPLC ignores basic standards of scientific research in selecting and classifying hate groups and extremists. The SPLC’s definition of “hate” is vague … The SPLC attacks and smears mainstream public service organizations, including churches, ministries, and various pro-family entities.

2024 will mark the fourth decade since AIPAC [American Israel Public Affairs Committee] and the Israeli Minister of Economics stole classified American industry data to aid passage of America’s worst bilateral trade deal. Among all bilateral “Free Trade Agreements” (NAFTA and CAFTA are multilateral) the 1985 U.S.-Israel deal has produced the highest inflation adjusted cumulative merchandise trade deficit — $365.9 billion — since going into effect. In 1984 American companies were steamrolled by corrupt politicians on the take from AIPAC-directed stealth political action committees or PACs.

Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels have been edited to remove a number of “racial references” and racist content, The Telegraph reports. In April, Ian Fleming Publications Ltd. will release new versions of the books that have been approved by sensitivity readers. The release date will coincide with the 70th anniversary of “Casino Royale,” the first title in the series published between 1951 and 1966. According to The Telegraph, changes include the replacement of the N-word with “Black person” or “Black man” in some instances. Many racial or ethnic descriptions have been dropped altogether. In other cases, language that is now widely recognized as offensive will remain, such as racial slurs targeting East Asian people … The Telegraph also reported that misogynistic and homophobic language will stay.

The House voted 103-321 on Wednesday against pulling U.S. troops out of Syria, rejecting a war powers resolution to do so introduced by Rep. Matt Gaetz. The Republican from Florida used expedited procedures laid out under the War Powers Act to force a floor vote on the bill, which would have required the Biden administration to withdraw the approximately 900 troops stationed in Syria within six months. Democrats from the Congressional Progressive Caucus joined libertarian and America First-aligned Republicans in rallying behind the Gaetz resolution but fell short of the votes needed to pass it amid opposition from leaders in both parties. “Congress has never authorized the use of military force in Syria,” Gaetz said in a statement upon introducing the bill last month.

… For decades, campus standards have been plummeting. The hallowed, ivy-draped buildings, the stately quads, the timeless Latin mottos — all that tradition and honor have been slipping away. That’s an old story. Then Covid struck and all bets were off. With college kids doing college from their bedrooms and smartphones, and with the explosion of new technology, cheating became not just easy but practically unavoidable. “Cheating is rampant,” a Princeton senior told me. “Since Covid there’s been an increasing trend toward grade inflation, cheating, and ultimately, academic mediocrity.” Now that students are back on campus, colleges are having a hard time putting the genie back in the bottle. Remote testing combined with an array of tech tools … have permanently transformed the student experience.

Israeli archeologists have found an ancient comb dating back some 3,700 years ago and bearing what is likely the oldest known full sentence in Canaanite alphabetical script, according to an article published Wednesday … The sentence contains 17 letters that read: “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.” Experts say the discovery shines new light on some of humanity’s earliest use of the Canaanite alphabet, invented around 1800 B.C. and the foundation of the all successive alphabetic systems, such as Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Latin and Cyrillic. The mundane topic indicates that people had trouble with lice in everyday life during the time — and archaeologists say they have even found microscopic evidence of head lice on the comb.

A series of antiwar protests over the weekend [Feb. 25-26] saw Western European citizens in mass demanding their governments pursue diplomacy with Russia and halt arms shipments to Kiev. As the current conflict in Ukraine turned one year old, major demonstrations – which saw people united across the political spectrum – were seen in Germany, France and Italy.; 10,000 people gathered in Paris to protest against France’s membership in both NATO as well as the EU. Attendees also demanded an end to the French government’s military aid to Kiev … Thousands of people participated in peace demonstrations in the Italian cities of Genoa and Milan … Many thousands of people participated in a massive protest in central Berlin, where attendees railed against German military aid to Kiev.

The greatest blunder President Vladimir Putin may have made so far in Ukraine is giving the West the impression that Russia could lose the war. The early Russian strike on Kyiv stumbled and failed. The Russian behemoth seemed not nearly as formidable as it had been made out to be … The trouble is that Ukraine has only one surefire way of accomplishing this feat in the near term: direct NATO involvement in the war … Absent NATO involvement, the Ukrainian Army can hold the line and regain ground, as it has done in Kharkiv and Kherson, but complete victory is very nearly impossible … If Mr. Zelensky wants to complete his self-image as Winston Churchill sooner rather than later, he will want to hasten the day when he can toast NATO’s — which is to say, America’s — entry into the conflict.

Business owners are fleeing Portland in droves amid a pronounced rise in crime and homelessness, officials in the Democratic stronghold have revealed. Public data shows that since the pandemic, more than 2,600 downtown businesses have filed changes of address with the U.S. Postal Service to leave their downtown ZIP codes. Several big-name employers, from Unitus Community Credit Union to Umpqua Bank, have been among the mass exodus, carried out by owners who have taken issue with the rising crime levels and homelessness – and the city’s failure to address it. Once hailed as the ‘crown jewel of the West Coast’ for its trendy art and food scenes, The City of Roses has been in peril since 2020 …

Summarizing British plans for economic warfare against Germany in World War I, Winston Churchill wrote that the objective of the blockade, as sanctions used to be called, was to “starve the whole population of Germany — men, women and children, old and young, wounded and sound — into submission.” … President Joe Biden, echoed this theme, claiming that the ruble would soon be “rubble.” True to form, nothing of the kind has come to pass … It has become clear that he or whoever planned the sanctions strategy didn’t really understand the Russian economy very well, especially its place in the global system … The economic war against Russia is likely to have more serious consequences for U.S. power, since it accelerates the de-dollarization of the global economy …

Hungary needs to watch out for potential sabotage on pipelines that deliver Russian natural gas to the country, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Monday, pointing to the September 2022 blasts on the Nord Stream pipelines connecting Russia to Germany via the Baltic Sea. “The blowing up of the Nord Stream was a simple act of terrorism,” Orban said in a speech to parliament in Budapest. “What we need to know is, if they did it in the north just to stop the Russian gas coming to Europe … then they could do it in the south as well.” … Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto this week called for the UN to investigate the “scandalous” attack on the pipelines. Budapest wants to know “who committed it and why,” the minister said.

There’s so much darkness awaiting Ben Platt in his new Broadway role these days that he’s countered with a dash of brightness … Platt, who is Jewish, deserves all the joy he can grab while playing the doomed lead anti-hero in the musical “Parade,” adapted from a true story that took place in Atlanta just before World War I. He plays Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-born Jewish factory manager falsely accused of murdering a young girl. He is tried and convicted, has his death sentence commuted but then is lynched by a Southern mob who hates his religion and Northern values … The musical is being revived on Broadway just as the nation endures another wave of antisemitism …

My name is Mary Phagan-Kean and I am the great-niece and namesake of “Little Mary Phagan,” the thirteen-year-old girl who was raped and murdered by Leo Max Frank, the president of Atlanta’s B’nai B’rith Lodge No. 144, on April 26, 1913 … In fact, the evidence of his guilt was overwhelming, and on August 25, 1913, after a month-long trial in the Fulton County Superior Court, Leo Frank was found guilty by a jury of his peers, and on the next day, he was sentenced to hang for the murder of Mary Phagan. What followed was an unprecedented effort by Leo Frank and his legal team and supporters to pin this horrific crime on everyone but himself. It is an effort that continues to this very day … Driven by the need to exonerate a Jewish leader, they intend to convict an innocent African American man, James Conley …

The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Volume Three: The Leo Frank Case, The Lynching of a Guilty Man is a 536-page study referenced with thousands of footnotes and illustrated with maps, diagrams, and graphics that touch on every aspect of this controversial case. Here are a few of The Secret Relationship’s documented findings … Anti-Semitism was virtually absent from the case, but anti-Black racism was brutally present: Leo Frank, as leader of B’nai B’rith, publicly and openly referred to Blacks as “niggers.” … Both private detective agencies hired by Frank concluded that Leo Frank was the murderer of Mary Phagan … After Frank’s conviction powerful Jewish leaders rallied to his defense, but in private documents they admitted that they could not stand Frank’s personality and that he probably was guilty.

Our aim is to “starve the whole population — men, women, and children, old and young, wounded and sound — into submission,” said First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. He was speaking of Germany at the outset of the Great War of 1914-1918. Americans denounced as inhumane this starvation blockade that would eventually take the lives of a million German civilians … After the Armistice of Nov. 11, 1918, however, the starvation blockade was not lifted until Germany capitulated to all Allied demands in the Treaty of Versailles. As late as March 1919, four months after the Germans laid down their arms, Churchill arose in Parliament to exult, “We are enforcing the blockade with rigor, and Germany is very near starvation.”

In this 1941 book, a Jewish-American author calls for the genocidal elimination of the German people through a program of mass sterilization, and the territorial dismemberment of Germany. Complete text, with an introductory note by Mark Weber.

After Russia invaded Ukraine, the west formed what looked llike an overwhelming global coalition … By contrast, Russia seemed isolated … But the West never won over as much of the world as it initially seemed … A year on, it’s becoming clearer: While the West’s core coalition remains remarkably solid, it never convinced the rest of the world to isolate Russia. Instead of cleaving in two, the world has fragmented. A vast middle sees Russia’s invasion as, primarily, a European and American problem … The sanctions [against Russia] have not been as devastating as the West hoped. A handful of countries have filled the gap, increasing exports to Russia well above prewar levels …

A poll released by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) on 22 February has revealed a growing chasm between western nations and the population of the Global South concerning the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. While most US, UK, and EU respondents said the war must be fueled until Ukraine “regains all its territory,” citizens in China, India, and Turkiye disagreed, saying they prefer a quick end to the war even if Ukraine has to concede territory … The ECFR survey polled nearly 20,000 respondents across 15 countries … Even in the west, a majority of people agree that the US-led world order is on its last legs … Since the start of the war in Ukraine, a growing number of Global South nations have moved away from Washington’s sphere of influence, refusing to impose sanctions on Russia and even dumping the US dollar …

… In the early days of World War II, Britain and France planned to bomb Russian oil fields. The goal was to impede Hitler. The outcome would probably have helped Hitler win the war. The idea was foolish, but not irrational … Thus was born Operation Pike. Flying from Allied bases in Iran and Syria, as well as neutral but anti-Soviet Turkey, more than a hundred British and French bombers would continuously attack Soviet oil fields in the Caucuses in a night strategic bombing campaign. This was more than idle planning … If Operation Pike had been launched prior to the surrender of France, then the British government would have faced the prospect of fighting a Nazi-Soviet alliance, with no French ally and the United States still withdrawn behind its walls of isolationism.

… In the spring of 1940 the Allies came ridiculously close to declaring war on the Soviet Union … A month after Daladier had asked General Gamelin for a plan, he finally delivered his report on February 22. Gamelin’s report suggested it would be better to bomb the Baku and Batum oil fields by getting permission from Turkey and Iraq to fly over them as opposed to sending in the navy into the black sea to disrupt the shipments of resources themselves … So by this stage in March 1940, the French High Command was considering bringing Turkey, Iran, and the Soviet Union into the war, launching a sizeable air offensive in which planes would have to be moved from Western Europe, a land invasion of the Soviet Union by Turkey and Iran, and instigating a “Moslem” uprising … The French continued to prepare for the “invasion” well into April.

… The French and British high commands had [by early 1940] prepared their enormous bomber offensive, Operation Pike, in hopes of destroying Russia’s oil resources, and their unmarked reconnaissance flights had already overflown Baku, photographing the locations of the intended targets. The Allies were convinced that the best strategy for defeating Germany was to eliminate its sources of oil and other vital raw materials, and with Russia being Hitler’s leading supplier, they decided that destroying the Soviet oil fields seemed a logical strategy … We should be seriously concerned that events of such monumental importance spent more than two generations almost totally excluded from our historical records.

Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter, accused “the media” and “elite colleges and high schools” of being “racist” against white and Asian people, espousing his views without providing evidence on Sunday. Musk posted his comments on Twitter, where he has nearly 130 million followers, in response to news that media organizations around the country decided to cut the comic strip “Dilbert” from syndication after its creator, Scott Adams, delivered a racist tirade in a video on his YouTube channel last week … Adams also said that he personally chose to live in a community where few or no Black people lived, and then advised his white viewers to “get the hell away from Black people,” saying he didn’t “want to have anything to do with them.”

Elon Musk accused US media outlets of racism on Sunday while defending “Dilbert” cartoonist Scott Adams from backlash over remarks in which he urged white people to avoid black people. “The media is racist,” the billionaire Twitter owner tweeted. “For a *very* long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they’re racist against whites & Asians,” Musk added in a second tweet. “Same thing happened with elite colleges & high schools in America. Maybe they can try not being racist.” Adams’ strip was pulled by the Washington Post, USA Today and several other major newspapers in response to racist remarks he made on his YouTube channel last week.

Alain Finkielkraut is a professor of philosophy at France’s elite École Polytechnique who for years has been a darling of a certain section of the Parisian intelligentsia … “Ah, how sweet it is to be Jewish at the end of this 20th century! [he writes] We are no longer History’s accused, but its darlings. The spirit of the times loves, honors, and defends us, watches over our interests; it even needs our imprimatur. ” … Obviously, it is “sweet” to be Jewish in these final years of the century, but only a Jew has the right to say so. In effect, as Finkielkraut acknowledges, it is no longer possible to publish without the imprimatur of organized Jewry.

No major antisemitic incidents were immediately reported in the United States on Saturday, despite widespread alert over a “national day of hate” that had been planned by white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups. Instead, officials issued statements of solidarity and demonstrations of unity were held in Washington, DC, and elsewhere, while Jewish communities defied the threats by sticking to their normal Shabbat activities. Law enforcement and Jewish groups had urged vigilance ahead of Saturday … Ahead of the weekend, the New York Police Department had stepped up security at houses of worship out of an abundance of caution and urged New Yorkers to “remain vigilant” and report any suspicious activity.