Author: HP McLovincraft

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Israeli MPs furious over Trump’s ceasefire with Iran

A ceasefire deal struck by Washington and Tehran is a “disaster” and “failure,” several prominent Israeli politicians have said. Israel was left out of the equation, they argued, calling it a strategic mistake on the part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

US President Donald Trump announced a two-week pause to the US-Israeli war on Iran to negotiate a long-term solution to the conflict on the basis of a 10-point plan put forward by Tehran. It reportedly includes Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz, acceptance of its uranium enrichment, the lifting of sanctions, and the cessation of war on all fronts, including Israeli attacks on Lebanon.

Netanyahu’s office said on Wednesday it “supports” Trump’s decision while maintaining that Israel would continue its military campaign against the Iran-linked Hezbollah group in neighboring Lebanon.

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Israeli-Backed Militia Launches Deadly Attack on Gaza Refugee Camp Under Cover of Airstrikes

The dead and wounded were brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al-Balah by car, truck, ambulance, and motorized rickshaw following a brutal attack by an Israeli-backed Palestinian militia supported by airstrikes on Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza on Monday.

Inside the hospital morgue, young men wept openly as they gathered around the lifeless bodies of their relatives lying on blankets on the floor. “Don’t leave me brother,” one man screamed as he put his head on the chest of his dead relative before grabbing his limp hand and putting it to his lips in grief. At least 10 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in the assault, according to the WAFA news agency.

The attack began when members of an Israeli-backed militia raided the eastern part of Al-Maghazi refugee camp, multiple eyewitnesses told Drop Site News. The area was just 50 meters from the “yellow line,” where Israeli troops withdrew after the October “ceasefire” agreement, effectively cleaving the Gaza Strip in half.

“We were shocked when Abu Nasira’s forces—or the militia—entered the neighborhood and began firing at people’s homes and at the children inside those homes,” Ahmed Al-Maghari, a resident who witnessed the attacks, said in reference to an Israeli-backed militia. “Some residents of the neighborhood were forced to go out and defend the area and their community, so they began firing back at the militias that were there,” he said, adding that the area was then targeted by Israeli aircraft with multiple airstrikes.

“There were three or four injured people just three to four meters away from our homes, and we were unable to reach them because of the direct gunfire from the militia,” Al-Maghari said. “Whenever anyone tried to approach to provide aid to the injured, they were immediately targeted by the aircraft.”

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Biden Judge Says President Trump Cannot End Protected Status for Thousands of Ethiopians

A federal judge on Wednesday said President Trump cannot end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for thousands of Ethiopians.

In 2022, the Biden Regime allowed more than 5,000 Ethiopians to enter the US and live here with special protections.

Their TPS status was extended again in April 2024 and expired on February 13, 2026.

Upon taking office again in January 2025, President Trump immediately revoked the Biden-era ‘Temporary Protected Status’ and ordered the DHS to ensure that the TPS designations were limited.

On Wednesday US District Judge Brian Murphy, a Biden appointee, said President Trump violated the process by revoking the protections.

Judge Murphy postponed the effective date of the termination of Ethiopia’s TPS designation.

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‘Arctic Frost’ called overreach of monumental proportions and consequence

Recent disclosures about special counsel Jack Smith’s Arctic Frost investigation raise a deeply troubling question for the American people: Did federal law enforcement cross the line from pursuing justice into wielding government power for political ends?

Documents released by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley describe investigative actions by the Biden-era Department of Justice and FBI that were not merely aggressive but aggressively partisan in focus and sweeping in scope. It is increasingly clear this was an overreach of monumental proportions and consequence, using law enforcement authority in a manner that transformed the justice system into a political weapon.

That is the very definition of lawfare.

Arctic Frost itself may have been partisan in its execution, but the response to it cannot be. Accountability must be rooted in principle, not party.

According to materials released by Senate investigators, Arctic Frost was the internal codename used for a broad federal inquiry into efforts to challenge the 2020 election results. Under Smith, the investigation issued at least 197 grand jury subpoenas and sought information from more than 400 individuals, organizations and lawmakers connected to post-election activities.

That scale is not a minor detail. It reflects an investigation that moved beyond specific alleged crimes and into a systematic mapping of political actors and associations. One of the most consequential disclosures involves an intrusive investigation into Kash Patel, the current FBI director, who at that time was a private citizen.

According to Senate materials, investigators subpoenaed Verizon, Patel’s phone carrier, for his phone records spanning multiple years, between 2020 and 2023. These demands included not just basic call and text message logs (whom he contacted, when and for how long — metadata that paints an intimate portrait of personal and professional associations), but also residential and mailing addresses, email addresses, IP addresses, usernames, screen names and, crucially, payment information, including credit card numbers and bank details tied to his phone account.

These subpoenas came with court-authorized gag orders lasting up to a year, meaning Verizon was legally barred from telling Patel he was being spied on. As a result, he had no chance to challenge the requests in court. So here we have raw, unaccountable surveillance of an American citizen that went unimpeded for years.

The issue is not whether the government has authority to investigate. It does. The issue is whether that authority was exercised with appropriate limits, neutrality and respect for constitutional protections.

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JD Vance’s Task Force Uncovers $6 Billion in Potential Fraud, Begins Taking Action: Report

Vice President J.D. Vance has reportedly uncovered over $6 billion in potential fraud after President Donald Trump tapped him to lead a nationwide task force meant to root out criminal activity.

The task force has identified $6.3 billion in government contracts linked to potentially fraudulent businesses, The Daily Caller reported Wednesday.

“The task force, alongside the General Services Administration (GSA), are beginning to send out letters to nearly 400 businesses with government contracts that they believe could be fraudulent,” according to the report. The investigation found 895 contracts awarded to 392 businesses, totaling $6.3 billion, “with $3 billion still left to be rewarded.”

These businesses will have 30 days to prove their legitimacy and must provide evidence of a real, physical location where their operations take place.

The task force was created shortly after reports circulated of mass fraud that was uncovered in Minnesota earlier this year, when multiple day care centers — many run by Somali immigrants — were found to have no children enrolled, yet were still receiving massive quantities of taxpayer funds.

The Department of Justice estimated that several billion dollars have been stolen by phony organizations in Minnesota alone. The DOJ cited examples of waste and mismanagement of social services programs meant to provide food and health care for the needy.

In his executive order establishing the task force, Trump wrote, “The staggering fraud and waste in Minnesota alone is a case in point. Federal prosecutors in the State estimate that Medicaid fraud in recent years could total in the billions. Nearly 9 percent of the roughly $866 million spent on food stamps in Minnesota each year is estimated to be spent in error.”

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For The Third Time, SCOTUS Tells Colorado To Stop State-Enforced Homosexuality

The Supreme Court, for the third time, has slapped down another attempt by Colorado to control what people say, think, and do regarding sexuality and the sexes.

First, the Colorado Civil Rights Commission told Jack Phillips that he may sell baked goods only if he’s willing to include messages that violate his religious beliefs. The Supreme Court said that violated Phillips’ First Amendment rights. Up next, Colorado’s “anti-discrimination” law allowed creative entrepreneurs, like web designer Lorie Smith, to do business only if they, too, would include messages in their work that violated their religious beliefs. Again, the Supreme Court said this violated the First Amendment.

But Colorado had another law, this one dictating what licensed counselors like Kaley Chiles may say to their young clients about sexuality and the sexes. They may, the law says, provide acceptance, support, and assistance for “an individual’s … identity exploration and development.” That much might sound OK, but it only works in one direction. Counselors may help an individual who wishes to separate so-called gender identity from his or her sex, but not those who wish to align them.

In other words, a counselor in Colorado may help a boy — even without his parents’ permission — accept that he’s actually a girl, but must tell a girl — even with her parents’ permission — who doesn’t want to be a boy that she has to go elsewhere.

The law uses the extremely broad brush of “conversion therapy” to include everything from discredited and abandoned physical techniques to the “talk therapy” that Chiles uses. That’s no doubt intentional, a rather crude attempt at guilt-by-association, but seriously misleading. And the First Amendment flag has to go up whenever the government attempts to dictate what you must or can’t say.

Colorado is being especially authoritarian here. Under this law, any person who thinks a counselor is saying the wrong thing may file a complaint with a regulatory board, which triggers a disciplinary review process that can result in a counselor losing his or her license. This invites activists to target mental health professionals with such complaints, knowing that even the rumor of a disciplinary proceeding, no matter how bogus, can ruin a professional’s reputation.

Equally undeterred, the Supreme Court on March 31 held that this violated Chiles’ First Amendment right to freedom of speech. The First Amendment’s “jealous protections for the individual’s right to think and speak freely,” wrote Justice Neil Gorsuch for an 8-1 majority, means that government attempts to control the content of speech are “presumptively unconstitutional.” This Colorado law did not ban counselors from talking about sexuality and the sexes, but dictated what they may say when they do. Attempting to control the opinions or perspectives an individual may express, Gorsuch wrote, presents “even greater dangers” and constitutes an even more blatant violation of the First Amendment.

This time, the Supreme Court repudiated Colorado’s authoritarian tendencies by a resounding margin, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson the lone dissenter. As she did during the argument in this case, Jackson suggested that there’s no difference between physical interventions like electric shocks and simply talking. She insisted that a ban on certain speech affects speech “only incidentally.” Yes, she really did.

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Media Lies About ICE: Shot for No Reason, Suicide in Custody, and Married to a Soldier

The media keeps misrepresenting stories by focusing on half-truths and omitting crucial details of ICE cases with the intent of evoking emotions and hatred toward law enforcement. These stories often include emotional and irrelevant framing, such as claims that someone was on his way to see his premature baby, his wife was having chemo, someone close to him had a heart attack for unrelated reasons, or he was on his way to donate a kidney when he was arrested for no reason or for being brown.

They say he was in the process of getting his paperwork done, he was hardworking, she just wanted a better life, or they were confused because they spoke no English. But when you investigate the cases, you find that ICE was right, the people were in the country illegally, and here is what actually happened.

Three cases this week follow the same pattern.

The first narrative is of an innocent man shot by ICE for no reason. The facts are that an illegal alien, a gang member wanted for murder, was shot while using his vehicle as a weapon against ICE agents.

ICE identified the target as Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, an illegal alien and 18th Street Gang member wanted in El Salvador for questioning in connection with a murder. He was flagged by the National Targeting Center.

The Department of Justice has described the 18th Street Gang, a designated transnational terrorist organization, as a “well-known and established international criminal organization and violent street gang” with more than 100,000 members in the United States.

ICE agents conducted a targeted vehicle stop near Interstate 5 in Patterson, about 90 miles south of Sacramento. As agents approached the car, Mendoza Hernandez used his vehicle in an attempt to run over an agent. Officers fired defensive shots to protect themselves, their fellow agents, and the public.

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Far Left Democrat Rep. Tells Crowd in Michigan That Upper Class Americans Are the ‘Enemy’

Summer Lee, a far left Democrat rep. from Pennsylvania, was recently campaigning in Michigan for far left senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and told the crowd that upper class Americans are the ‘enemy.’

This view of the world has become common among Democrats and it can be traced directly to Senator Bernie Sanders, who is also backing Abdul El-Sayed. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, the Squad, and other Democrats are promoting a political philosophy that is based entirely on envy.

The other thing that’s happening is that as candidates like Zohran Mamdani win elections. these radical leftists see this political philosophy as a path to success and they’re all trying to emulate it.

FOX News has details:

Squad member Summer Lee calls ‘upper class’ the ‘enemy’ at El-Sayed rally

Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., suggested that higher-earning Americans were the real “enemy” during a campaign rally headlined by a far-left social media influencer on Tuesday.

“I see other people who are fighting like hell to make you feel like your enemy is sitting next to you,” Lee said in a video posted by The Washington Free Beacon. “That your enemy is somebody who worships differently than you are, or looks differently than you are, comes from a different socioeconomic background than you, unless they are the upper class.”

“They only have the politics of fear and division and destruction and disruption. They need us to keep our focus away from the people who have participated in the biggest sex trafficking ring in our country,” Lee continued, appearing to reference the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “I need you to instead lead and learn and live in your power.”

Lee, a left-wing lawmaker affiliated with “the Squad,” made the remarks during a campaign event she participated in to boost Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., another “Squad” member who is supporting El-Sayed, was in attendance.

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When is a Hate Crime Not a Hate Crime? In Two-Tier Britain, When it’s Against Whites

When is a hate crime not a hate crime? In two-tier Britain, the answer is when it’s against whites. I’ve previously written at length about this double standard for the Daily Sceptic, with the most obvious example of it being the failure over many years to ever prosecute the grooming gangs as racial hate crimes. It’s clear these laws were two-tier from the beginning, and the way the multicultural state continues to work means there is every incentive that they stay that way.

But when offences aren’t treated as hate crimes that probably should be, who precisely is to blame? Is it the fault of the police, the Crown Prosecution Service, or the courts – or all three? Here are three recent cases which would seem to fit the bill of anti-white hate crimes which weren’t treated as such – and the way the authorities have attempted to explain to me why they weren’t.

Amar Hussain

During the Southport unrest an armed Muslim mob attacked the Clumsy Swan pub in Bordesley Green, Birmingham. This formed part of considerable disorder in the Bordesley Green area on August 5th 2024 in part of an “anti-EDL protest” by local Muslims, organised supposedly to defend a local mosque after a rumours of a ‘far-Right’ march that day (this did not transpire). This “protest” involved large groups of masked Muslim men, many of them bearing Palestine flags, menacing reporters, attacking one terrified Skoda driver and trying to kick in the barricaded doors of the Clumsy Swan as families sheltered inside.

One of those to attack the Clumsy Swan was 34 year-old Amar Hussain. While most of the customers had sheltered inside, one lone white man remained outside, Sean McDonagh, 51, and he was set upon by Hussain and others, punched and kicked to the ground, and left needing to be hospitalised with a lacerated liver.

Hussain pleaded guilty to violent disorder and assault by beating, receiving for his two offences one month less than Lucy Connolly did for her single tweet. Hussain’s paltry sentence for the unprovoked attack could have been much higher if the offence were treated as a hate crime. Why wasn’t it? The CPS told me this: “The EDL is not recognised as a racial or religious group. There were no factors in the behaviour that made this a specific assault due to religious or racial motivations.”

This is a bizarre excuse and indeed, an outrageous one. “No factors”? Was the fact that a Muslim mob set upon a random white bloke, the only one not barricaded inside the pub, not a factor? What about the assault on the pub itself, pubs being bastions of Englishness in a highly segregated city in which notionally non-drinking Muslims rarely step? The claim that the English Defence League is not a recognised racial group, meanwhile, is not only puzzling (are the English not a racial group?) but is in a total non-sequitur. McDonagh was not a member of the EDL (the group has been defunct for several years). He was simply white man standing outside a pub not holding a Palestine flag. This was apparently all it took for this anti-EDL mob to unleash its violent fury upon him; he was clearly targeted as an Englishman and non-Muslim. But in the apparent absence of a specific exclamation like ‘get whitey’ or ‘you white bastard’, the CPS insists this mob was entirely colourblind.

Ameer Khalile

The previous day at the other end of the Pennines in Middlesborough, Ameer Khalile was part of another Muslim mob which shouted “white racist scum” as they chased a man down the street, before Khalile stamped on his victim’s head in a “vicious and violent” attack. The judge noted that his innocent victim, who, having been left face down in a ditch, could easily have drowned, was “probably attacked because he was white”. Khalile’s sentence for violent disorder and attempted grievous bodily harm with intent was just 34 months.

When I initially asked the CPS why the offence hadn’t been prosecuted as racially aggravated, I was told that in fact it had. What followed was a long back and forth in which, essentially, the court and the CPS blamed each other for racial aggravation not having been considered.

The CPS said: “At Ameer Khalile’s sentencing the prosecution asked the judge to consider that his offence was racially aggravated, under section 66 of the Sentencing Act 2020.” However, in his sentencing remarks, which I obtained, Judge Richard Clews said (emphasis mine):

The attempted causing grievous bodily with intent took place first, it’s captured on CCTV. You were part of a group that attacked Lewis Cook for no other reason, it seems to me, other than that he appeared to be simply in your path at the time and was a convenient target. As far I can tell, he done absolutely nothing wrong and nothing to any of you, and he was probably attacked because he was white, indeed certain comments were made by members of the group to that effect. You’re not charged with a racially aggravated offence, that much is clear, and I, therefore, take that into account. There’s no evidence it was you who uttered those words, and although you might have been associated with them, I can’t be sure of that.

When I put these comments at sentencing to the CPS, a press officer, having double-checked, said that “our advocate in court did ask the judge to impose an uplift”. He then appeared to question the judge’s ruling, adding: “We’re not sure why this is not reflected in the judge’s sentencing remarks.”

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Coming Soon – Federal Red Ink Barfing Skyward Like You’ve Never Seen

Self-evidently, the news has been overwhelmingly focused on Washington’s current endeavor to unload $200 billion of imperial destruction upon Iran and its neighbors around the Persian Gulf. Well, and also upon all other users of petroleum products, LNG, LPGs, nitrogen fertilizer, food, helium, semiconductors, manufactured goods and most everything else anywhere on the planet.

Accordingly, comparatively scant attention has been given to another recent milestone on America’s headlong dash to fiscal disaster. To wit, the public debt crossed the $39 trillion mark and nearly in the blink of an eye, too. Just four years ago, we were at the $29 trillion level and nine years ago at the $19 trillion mark.

Needless to say, the “peacemaker” in the Oval Office has played no small role in this skyward ascent of the public debt. During his first term, the public debt grew by a staggering $8 trillion and already another $3 trillion has been racked-up during his second go-round.

Stated differently, the King of Debt has surely earned his place in the history books. The $11 trillion of new debt on his watch to date already accounts for 28% of all the public debt incurred in America since George Washington!

Then again, he still has got nearly three years to go, and the debt impact of both the OBBBA and the impending financial and human bloodbath in the Persian Gulf are just getting started.

Indeed, as to the latter it’s as clear as the orange glow around his cranium that the Donald is doing another round of fake rope-a-dope negotiations with the Iranians. That’s to buy time to get the 82nd Airborne, various amphibious landing ships and other invasionary forces in place for his next “win”.

That’s right.The fool in the Oval Office is actually going to attempt to seize the Alamo Kharg Island. That will mean military chaos in the Gulf, unprecedented turmoil in the global economy and soaring military expenditures, which will make the pending $200 billion DOD supplemental look like a mere down-payment.

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