🇺🇸 🇨🇳 JUST-IN: THEY ARE ALREADY LEAKING AGAINST TRUMP'S... PRIMETIME SPEECH BEFORE HE HAS EVEN FINISHED WRITING IT, WHAT ARE THEY SO AFRAID OF! Nobody firebombs an empty building! Thursday night at nine, President Trump addresses the nation on election integrity. He is calling it really, really big news. "It doesn't get bigger," he told reporters, "because without free and fair elections, you don't have a country." Then Reuters dropped Wednesday. Four anonymous officials, warning the country that whatever the President says could be "misleading." Their own story admits the speech text is not finalized. They are fact-checking a document that does not exist yet. That is not journalism. That is a fire alarm pulled by people who already smell smoke. A White House task force has spent weeks pulling records from the intelligence community, and somebody inside that building sprinted to a reporter the second the request landed. The same crowd that spent four years telling us questions about voting machines were forbidden is suddenly desperate to get ahead of the answers. If there is nothing there, let him say it and laugh him off the stage. Why the preemptive strike? The SAVE America Act is sitting in the Senate right now, one filibuster away from law. Thursday night, forty million Americans find out exactly why the swamp fought this hard to keep it there. Thoughts? ⬇️show more

President Trump is being duped on polling numbers about... the popularity of War with Iran and does not realize it. CNN released a clearly fake or cherry picked poll saying that almost all of MAGA supports the War. This could not be further from the truth. If you think it is, go ask a few MAGA people in your actual life their thoughts on the War. A lot of them are strongly against it. But both the mainstream media and the neocons around President Trump want him to believe these numbers. The left leaning mainstream media want him to believe these numbers because the longer this war goes on, the better it works out for Democrats in upcoming elections. The right leaning mainstream media want him to believe it because their biggest donors are very pro war in Iran. The neocons surrounding him want him to believe it because then they can have the war in the Middle East they have always pushed for. I do not think President Trump is playing 4D chess with this war. I do not think he is super pro war. I do not think he cares about the Middle East that much. I just think he is being manipulated by the people around him and he does not realize it. The best thing for President Trump and the country as a whole is that he recognizes how unpopular this disaster is, corrects course by getting the United States out of involvement, and fires anyone who has lied to him about polling around him. Now to be clear, I do think there are many in MAGA who are suddenly pro this war, but that is just the people who would believe the sky is green and grass is blue if President Trump told them to. That does not represent the majority of the MAGA base. As always, I am not the holder of truth. This is just my assessment of the current situation.show more

They started with 50. Now they say they’re 18,000... In 1996 there were fewer than 50 of them. Today, according to the organizers, up to 18,000 walked through Copenhagen. From Dronning Louises Bro to the Imam Ali Mosque. Look at the curve. This is how it happens. First a handful. Then a few hundred. Then it fills a bridge, a district, a capital. A little at a time, until it is no longer a little. And let me be fair, because fairness is the point. There is nothing strange about them holding this mourning procession. They have done it as part of their faith for more than a thousand years. It is theirs, and they believe in it. There is nothing strange about that at all. What should stop us is the other half. There is nothing strange about Europe allowing it either, and that is exactly the problem. Europe allows it because Europe has forgotten who it is. A people that remembers what it stands for does not need to ban anything, it simply knows where its own line runs. We have lost that. And so the issue was never them. The issue is us. Now look at what actually moved through the streets. Men in front. Women in the second row. That is not a detail, that is the whole point. It is a view of women set into a system and marched out into the public square, in a city where generations fought for women and men to stand as equals. The real question is not whether people may believe what they want. They may. The question is why our capital should cultivate a political law-religion that commemorates a 7th-century power struggle by dividing people by sex on Nørrebrogade. One of the organizers is the Imam Ali Mosque, repeatedly described as the Iranian regime’s extended arm in Denmark. The same regime that hangs women and young men from cranes. We are not importing culture. We are importing a system. And we let it grow, not because they are strong, but because we forgot why we were. First a little. Then a lot. Then too late.show more

This runner at first was caught in a pick... off move by the pitcher. Pitcher throws to first and the first baseman fires to second and the umpire calls him out. He looked safe on the play. However, the umpire admits he was safe but said he called him out because the other team was losing 10-0 in the first inning. He said “he was so safe but I just gave it to them.” Basically saying we gotta’ get the game moving right? Fellow umpires, some coaches and parents said they respect the call and why. But many people said you are cheating that one runner by calling him out. They said no matter the score you have to have integrity even if it is 20-0. They said this is why kids grow up disliking umpires and why parents act the way they do. Tough one- I actually understand where he is coming from but if that were your kid, would you want him called out? I say call the game the right way 100% and let it play out the way it is supposed to. How is the other team supposed to get better if you are giving them calls? Do you agree with the umpire and why he did it? Or, are you totally against that and that should never happen?show more

The clinical term is malignant narcissism. There is a... specific kind of man who walks into a room and immediately begins rearranging it. Not the furniture. The people. By minute four, he has forgotten the names of half of them. That is not a flaw in the system. That is the system. The clinical term is malignant narcissism. It sits at the intersection of four things: narcissistic personality disorder, antisocial features, paranoia, and sadism. The sadism part is what people miss. He does not simply lack empathy. He has inverted it. He reads your emotional state with the precision of a surgeon, then uses that information like a scalpel. Maximum discomfort. Minimum legal risk. Otto Kernberg, the psychiatrist who formalized the concept, called it one of the most dangerous personality structures a human being can carry. Not because it is loud. Because it is effective. And because it is almost impossible to name while you are standing inside it. History keeps producing the same man. Robert Maxwell looted his employees’ pension funds while they trusted him completely. Hundreds of millions. He knew the whole time. There is no evidence he experienced this as a problem. Silvio Berlusconi governed Italy like a man who had confused the country with his personal property. Laws bent to fit his legal situation. Courts were hollowed out when they became inconvenient. People who spent time close to him reported the same thing afterward: you left the conversation certain you had agreed to something. You just could not remember what. Charm makes you feel good about yourself. This makes you feel good about him. There is a difference. It takes most people years to locate it. The pattern has a shape. Once you see it you cannot unsee it. It begins with grandiosity so complete it functions as a worldview. Other people exist in one of three categories: instruments, obstacles, or audiences. He is perfectly pleasant to all three, for exactly as long as they remain useful. The moment that changes, so does he. The switch is not gradual. It is a door closing. It continues with a specific relationship to truth. He does not lie the way ordinary people lie, defensively, to avoid consequences. He lies the way a chess player moves pieces. If I can make you accept a false thing, I have demonstrated power over your reality. If you push back, I do not retreat. I escalate. The goal was never the fact. The goal was always the submission. It sustains itself by dismantling anything capable of judgment. Independent courts. A free press. Rival centers of power. These feel to him not like inconveniences but like attacks. The structure that can judge him is the structure that must be broken. This is not calculated. It is reflexive. It is as automatic as flinching. The frightening thing is not that these men exist. The frightening thing is the gap between when the room starts rearranging itself and when anyone names what they are watching. That gap can last years. Decades. Sometimes it outlasts the man entirely, and the next generation inherits the rearranged room and calls it normal. By the time someone says it plainly, the furniture is long gone. And he is already in the next room. Gandalvshow more

This is Great! Even Fox News is now admitting... that Trump is a liar and that the 2020 election "was not rigged" and it was "not stolen." Do people really still believe Trump's lies? Do people really believe that Trump isn't lying when he makes these ridiculous claims? Yes there is a small amount of election fraud in just about every election, but it comes from both sides, and it wasn't even close to changing the outcome of the election. I'm glad Americans can finally be unified over the truth. At least some of us.show more

Let me give everyone just a little common sense... test. It may be that I retired from the United States Air Force, that the answer is crystal clear to me and maybe a bit more challenging for others. So the guy on the left is claiming to be the president of the United States of America. He claims his name is Joe Biden but we know Joe Biden is dead. He faced a military tribunal and was executed. So really do you really think that a president of the United States of America gets off a plane and gets into some random dudes vehicle? Only someone that doesn't know anything about the military would think such nonsense. Or are you someone that has a great deal of common Sense and critical thinking ability and can see this motorcade on the right and know that that's what a presidential motorcade looks like and that means the president is really in there. This so happened to be president Trump on his way to South Carolina rally. So is the real president on the left side or is the real president on the right side? This really should be a no-brainer but of course we know liberals absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt or no brainers they have no brains, they have no common sense, there are cognitive dissonance is all messed up, and they have zero critical thinking capabilities. By the way even former presidents don't have motorcades that look like that for anybody thinking that the excuse for it. So-called president gets in an Uber carrying his own luggage and people can't wake the hell up.show more

The political establishment in Australia is not entirely stupid,... they just think you are. As they lament the rise of One Nation, they pretend they don't understand it. Because if they showed us that they understand the resons, they then have to make a major admission. Hanson's rise is all their fault. Because the major parties and the faux independents have been on a unity ticket on all of the big problems they have jointly caused for decades. They can’t hide from the messes they have caused, so now they want to blame everyone else but themselves. Today, on ABC’s Insiders, Annabel Crab belled the cat, as Karvelas did the two step crab walk. Annabel correctly diagnoses the political situation here right now. It is not a love for Hanson, or One Nation that is causing the surge, but a total lack of faith in the other offerings. It almost does not matter what Hanson says or does, because her greatest strengths are that she is there, and she is not one of them. Those are enduring traits and the more the major parties hit her, the more the media carry on about her, and the more the establishment present her as a “deplorable”, the more people they will push in her direction. It is like they are in quicksand... the more they struggle, the deeper they sink. People are growing ready for wild political change. A worsening economy and a growing collapse in social cohesion has put the nation on edge. The big end of town want to pretend everything will be fine when the latest special envoy delivers their newest report, but nothing changes. Nothing changes because nothing is supposed to change. Because the government, the opposition and their Green Teal cheer squads want things just the way they are. They didn’t just pass all of the enabling legislation for no reason. There are real beneficiaries of these things, it is just that none of the beneficiaries are the Australian people. Australians have broadly been the target of the changes made to benefit foreign interests, the political class and major corporations. We have been targeted for so long it is impossible not to feel the cross-hairs of the scope resting on our forehead. Hanson and her team simply have to talk about that feeling... they don’t even have to have a solution. Because when the establishment continues to pretend the problems don't exist, just acknowledging the pain is enough to earn a vote. Annabel nails this sentiment in just a few words. Right as Karvelas changes the subject, because it is not that this isn’t obvious, it is because Karvelas is there to cover it up, and hit Hanson’s credibility again. Fuelling the vicious cycle of the rise of the outsider. Unless something significant changes in the establishment, and I don’t expect it will, there will be major upheaval at the next election. Most people will not be voting for their favourite party or person, they will primarily be voting against the status quo, because in their minds, it could not possibly be worse than what we have experienced for decades... but it just might be a little bit better. And that is a risk worth taking. After all most of us like a punt. I just want Australia back.show more

🇺🇸 WHY DO WE KEEP PAYING FOR ALLIES WHO... GHOST US WHEN IT MATTERS?! Trump just said the quiet part out loud on NATO. He went to the summit in Turkey almost as a favor to Erdogan. Not because Europe earned it. His words were blunt. He said America was not treated well after taking action in Iran. Then he dropped the line that should be on every front page. "We don't need anybody's help." Read that twice. The most powerful nation on earth stood alone and did not even blink. Meanwhile the so called allies folded like lawn chairs. Trump named names. Italy said no. Germany said no. France said no. Even the UK tried to hedge, offering help only after the fight was already over. That is not an ally. That is a fair weather friend showing up for the parade after the war is won. For decades America has poured trillions into NATO. Trillions. To protect European borders from threats that never once crossed our own ocean. And when we finally needed a hand, the cupboard was empty. Trump said it best. "Why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars and they're not there for us? We've always been there for them." That is not isolationism. That is basic fairness. You do not keep paying the insurance premium for a company that vanishes the one time you file a claim. America First is not about abandoning the world. It is about refusing to be the only one holding up the roof while everyone else collects the rent. Trump tested them. They failed the test. Now the whole country knows exactly who our friends really are.show more

What happens when Europeans find out how poor they... are? The Europoor? Nothing. That’s what happens. Americans ring the White House every morning to ask what the GDP is today, the way the rest of us check the weather. The trouble is that GDP is what you get when you stick Jeff Bezos and a man sleeping in a Walmart car park into a spreadsheet and take the average. It tells you the country is rich. It does not tell you that a hundred million people inside it are quietly not. GDP measures how much money sloshes around. It does not measure whether any of it ever reaches you, or what sort of life you get to live once it does. It also, rather conveniently, doesn’t mention the bill. Because the whole American miracle is being run on a credit card that has been on fire since the Reagan administration. The federal government owes nearly forty trillion dollars. The households owe another eighteen. Car loans, student loans, medical debt, a mortgage the size of a small principality, and a Visa bill that arrives in an envelope you have to open with tongs. This is the country lecturing the rest of us about prosperity. This is a man pulling up to valet parking in a leased Lamborghini and calling himself rich because nobody at the table has yet asked to see his bank statement. Run any household like that and the bailiffs would be through the door by Thursday. Run a country like that and apparently you get to be on the cover of The Economist. And this is where the whole sermon falls apart. Because on every single thing that actually makes a life worth getting out of bed for, Europe wins. Not by a bit. By a humiliating distance. The food. The streets. The holidays. The pavements you can walk on without being flattened by a Dodge the size of a small barn. The cities built before the invention of the strip mall. The Tuesday afternoon that contains an actual lunch, rather than a protein bar eaten standing up over a keyboard. The summer that contains an actual summer. Pick any parameter that matters to a human being who is alive and would like to remain so in reasonable spirits, and Europe is ahead. Often by a mile. Sometimes by an ocean. So no. Europeans are not about to find out how poor they are. We found out years ago, had a long hard look at the alternative, the debt, the diabetes, the drive-thru funerals, and decided we’d really rather not.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ If you like what you read, follow Gandalv on X: Gandalvshow more

Officials say they don't have video from inside the... building of the Brown University campus where a male student open-fired. 2 are dead and 9 are hospitalized. There are cameras and it is a matter of time before more footage is discovered. It was odd that LE said they don't know who it is or where he is, but outside the campus is safe? Hmmm Also, they said the shooter was masked and the face couldn't be seen. Why do they think he is 30? Looking forward to seeing this photo/video. #BrownUniversity #Brownshootershow more

🇺🇸 REPUBLICANS ARE PLAYING CHESS WHILE DEMOCRATS ARE STILL... LOOKING FOR THE BOARD! Marco Rubio is quietly becoming the most dangerous man in 2028 politics. Secretary of State. Senate veteran. Foreign policy hawk. The man has receipts. And the conversation is already happening, Rubio / Vance or Vance / Rubio. Either way, that ticket is a freight train. People forget there is no constitutional limit on serving as Vice President multiple times. Vance could ride shotgun again and nobody can stop it. The left will lose their minds over that alone. On pure experience, Rubio edges it out. The diplomatic credentials he has built under Trump are no joke. He has been in rooms that most politicians only read about. But here is the thing. It almost does not matter who is on top of that ticket. Both men are sharp, battle-tested, and America-first to the core. Meanwhile the Democrats are out here workshopping a Newsom / AOC ticket like that is a serious governing vision and not just a California fever dream wrapped in a TikTok filter. The Republican bench right now is the deepest it has been in a generation. While the other side argues about pronouns and recasts their losing cast, the GOP is quietly building a dynasty. 2028 is not an election. It is a coronation waiting to happen.show more

Jeff Bezos just described the era you are living... in. It sounds nothing like what you have been told. Bezos: “The world is so interesting right now. We’re in multiple golden ages at once.” Not one golden age. Multiple. Simultaneous. Overlapping. Bezos: “I think there’s never been a more extraordinary moment to be alive.” He was not being poetic. He was being literal. For the entire history of civilization, humanity got one revolution at a time. Fire. The wheel. The printing press. Electricity. The transistor. One breakthrough. Then centuries of silence before the next. That pattern just shattered. Artificial intelligence. Space access. Gene editing. Energy storage. Quantum computing. Five revolutions running inside the same decade. That has never happened before. Not once in ten thousand years of recorded progress. And the story being sold to you every single day is that everything is falling apart. That the future is something to survive. That the best days are behind you. The people closest to the actual technology do not believe a single word of it. They are not debating whether the world is ending. They are too busy building the next one. Fear is the most profitable product on Earth. It moves faster than any breakthrough ever will. The greatest concentration of technological revolutions in human history is unfolding right now. Most of the world is too busy arguing about which version of collapse to believe in to notice. Bezos did not say a golden age might be approaching. He said you are already standing inside several of them. The gap between that statement and what you currently believe about the world is the most expensive blind spot of your lifetime. You were not born at the end of anything. You were born at the exact point where the entire curve bends upward. That does not happen twice.show more

Elon Musk gave the entire entertainment industry its expiration... date, and he is the one building the thing that kills it. Musk: “My guess is that we see the first compelling half hour, pure AI show next year.” Next year. A complete show generated entirely by AI. No writers. No actors. No cameras. No sets. No crew. No studio. Just a prompt and enough compute to render a reality that never physically existed. And shows are the easy part. Musk: “I say probably we’re maybe three years away from AI does the whole video game.” A show plays the same way every time. A game has to generate a living world that reacts to every decision in real time across every single frame. That is a fundamentally harder class of problem. And Musk put three years on it. Right now a single AAA title takes seven years and half a billion dollars across thousands of engineers and artists just to ship it. Musk is describing a world where one person types a paragraph and gets something comparable. The entire value proposition of a multi-billion dollar industry lives inside that gap. And it closes in thirty-six months. But the prediction is not the story. The person making it is. This is not an analyst speculating from the sidelines. This is the man building the largest AI compute clusters on the planet. The man who built xAI from zero in under two years. The man stacking hundreds of thousands of GPUs into facilities designed to do exactly what he is describing. When Musk says three years, he is not guessing about what someone else might eventually ship. He is reading you a delivery date off his own roadmap. Every media company on Earth is valued on a single assumption. That quality content is expensive and difficult to produce at scale. That one assumption is the structural foundation underneath every studio, every network, and every publisher in existence. Musk is dismantling it with raw compute. The studios still parading thousand-person production teams are not demonstrating strength. They are advertising the exact cost structure that one person with a prompt and a GPU allocation is about to make irrelevant. And it does not stop at entertainment. If AI can generate an interactive world that responds to human input in real time, it can generate anything. Advertising. Architecture. Training simulations. Product design. Every industry built on humans manually constructing visual experiences frame by frame is sitting on the same countdown Musk just read out loud. Now zoom out. Because this is not just an industry story. For the entire history of human civilization, the distance between imagining a world and actually creating one required thousands of people, millions of hours, and billions of dollars. That distance built Hollywood. That distance built the gaming industry. That distance made content scarce and studios powerful. Musk is collapsing that distance to zero. When the gap between imagining something and it existing disappears, every business model built on the difficulty of creation disappears with it. That is not disruption. That is a full inversion of how human beings create. Musk did not make a casual prediction on that podcast. He told you what he is building. He told you the timeline. And he told you which industries do not survive it. The entertainment industry is still debating whether this future is real. Musk is not part of that debate. He is building. And he just told you the delivery date.show more

The largest theft in history has already happened. The... people behind it just cannot open what they stole yet. Right now, intelligence agencies and criminal groups are quietly copying the world's encrypted data, bank records, medical files, state secrets, private messages, and storing every byte untouched. They cannot read any of it. They are collecting it anyway, because they know the key is about to be invented. The strategy has a name, harvest now, decrypt later, and in 2026 it stopped being theory. Washington declared this the Year of Quantum Security in January, backed by the FBI, the NSA, and NIST. Canada ordered every federal agency to file a migration plan by April. Europe set its deadline for December. Governments do not impose operational deadlines on a someday problem. They do it when the clock is already running. Here is what moved the clock. Every password, every transfer, every secret on Earth is protected by one assumption, that a certain math problem is too hard to solve. Quantum computers solve exactly that problem. For years the machine that could do it looked decades away. Then in late 2025 Google's Willow chip cracked the hardest part of building one, and in March 2026 Google's own researchers estimated that breaking the encryption behind Bitcoin might take fewer than 500,000 qubits, down from 20 million, and could run in minutes. The day this becomes real has a name, Q-Day, and the latest estimates place it between 2030 and 2033. Now make it concrete. Roughly 6.5 million Bitcoin, about a third of every coin that will ever exist, worth close to 500 billion dollars, sit in addresses that have already exposed the very key a quantum computer needs. That includes the coins of Satoshi, the anonymous creator. On Q-Day they become, in the researchers' own word, trivially stealable. It would not look like a crash or a whale selling. It would look like half a trillion dollars of the most secure money ever built simply walking out the door. The asset designed to trust no one and no institution turns out to rest on a single unverified bet, that one math problem stays hard forever. This is what sits beneath the entire digital world. A bank balance, a Bitcoin, a classified cable, all of it is real only because of a proof you supposedly cannot forge. Quantum breaks the proof. Everything we call secure is true only until someone finally checks, and for the first time the check is visible on the horizon. You cannot know whether your data has already been copied. You cannot know the exact day the key arrives. The trust holding up the digital age is a clock counting down to a zero no one can see. The honest counter matters. No machine on Earth can break this encryption today, and serious cryptographers still argue the real threat is a decade or more away. The timeline is far from certain. Quantum-safe codes already exist, the migration has started, and Bitcoin can move its coins to safety before Q-Day if it acts in time. The danger is not that everything breaks tomorrow. It is that anything which must stay secret into the 2030s, a state secret, an identity, a private key, is being stolen today and is already on the clock. The breach is not coming. It is already here, sitting in storage, perfectly encrypted, waiting for a machine that does not exist yet to read it out loud. Research and opinion, not investment advice.show more

🚨 STARMER’S WAR ON FREE SPEECH: WHY HE WANTS... X SILENCED AND BRITAIN CONTROLLED Keir Starmer’s government is rapidly becoming one of the most despised in modern British history — and for good reason. This is not a cabinet that rose on hope. It is a cabinet that rose on fear, censorship, and managed decline. In just a short time, Starmer’s Labour government has managed to alienate almost every pillar of British society: Working people crushed by taxes and energy costs. Farmers facing land grabs and inheritance raids. Veterans watching Britain give up strategic territory. Families struggling while billions are sent abroad. And citizens silenced for daring to speak out. This is not incompetence. It is ideology. Starmer governs as if Britain is an obstacle to be managed, not a nation to be defended. His cabinet speaks the language of global institutions, not the language of the British people. They treat borders as optional, sovereignty as outdated, and free speech as dangerous. And nothing exposes that more clearly than their obsession with shutting down X. They do not fear “misinformation.” They fear information. X is one of the last platforms where ordinary people can still challenge power in real time — where whistleblowers, journalists, dissidents and citizens can bypass the gatekeepers of the BBC, the Guardian, and the permanent political class. That is why Starmer wants it controlled, regulated, or banned. Because control of speech is control of reality. The same government that is prepared to hand away the Chagos Islands, weaken Britain’s strategic position, and bend to foreign pressure now wants to decide what you are allowed to read, say, and share. They are not governing. They are managing decline. They are not protecting democracy. They are containing it. And the public knows it. Polls show historic distrust. Protests are growing. Support is evaporating. Starmer’s cabinet is not unpopular because it failed to communicate. It is unpopular because people can see exactly what it is doing. And what it is doing to Britain is unforgivable.show more

GTA 6 IS 3 MONTHS AWAY AND MOST PEOPLE... WILL PLAY IT WHILE A FEW QUIETLY GET PAID GTA 5 pulled $8.6 billion. $800 million of that in the first 3 days. GTA 6 is the same machine at 3x the scale, and the money is made in the launch window, not the game. One of the plays, just so you see it is real: FiveM already runs 100k+ servers that buy Lua scripts for $15 to $500 each. Claude writes a full one in under 2 minutes, then it earns while you sleep. And that is the easy one. There are 7 total. And the one almost nobody is covering has nothing to do with playing the game at all. The catch is timing. Whatever exists on day one inherits the traffic. The window is the next 8 weeks, then it shuts. All 7, with the numbers and the exact steps, are right below.show more

President Trump made putting an end to child trafficking... a focus point of his first administration and that hasn’t changed. Anyone who has supported Trump from the beginning knows that to be a fact. When he says things like “I don’t understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody” … he does not mean that, and if you believe that, then you have simply forgotten how Trump plays chess in order to make his opponents do what he wants. And it’s working phenomenally. All of the people on the right who refused to talk about Epstein when all of the Anons were, are now screaming for the Epstein files. All of the people on the left who called us conspiracy theorists, including the pedophiles themselves, are now screaming for the Epstein files. “When he says things like “Really only pretty bad people, including fake news want to keep something like that going” … it is more of the same tactic. It sounds so ridiculous that Howard Lutnick burst out laughing! This has always been about the children, and it still is. Protect your mind and control your emotions.show more

The Hug of a Hyena: A Warning to the... Kinshasa Opposition ​Before the tragedy, there is a warm embrace; after it, nothing but crushed bones. ​There is an old, cautionary fable about a man who carried a hyena on his back wherever he went. ​Seeing this, a passerby stopped him and warned, "My friend, put that beast down. One day, that hyena will make you its lunch." The man ignored the advice and kept walking. ​A second man approached him with the exact same warning. Again, the man brushed it off, confident in his bond with the predator. ​Eventually, curiosity got the better of the man. He turned to the beast on his back and said, "Hey, my friend, people keep telling me that you are going to eat me. Is it true?" ​The hyena, at least, was brutally honest. It whispered into his ear: "You should always fear a threat that two or three men have already warned you about." ​Before the man could even process the words, it was too late. The hyena gave him no time to think, snapping its jaws shut. ​This fable perfectly illustrates the fatal mistake of forming an alliance with Félix Tshisekedi. He is political death on legs. ​It is tragic to watch the opposition in Kinshasa place their faith in a man who is ready to sell out the entire country, and himself along with it, just to retain the presidency. Having tasted the luxury of flying across the world millions of times, he has absolutely no intention of ever going back to a normal life. ​The political diagnosis is clear: the only cure for the nation is his absolute removal from that office. And for many, the only viable path left to achieve that is through the AFC-M23, for DRC to be at Peace.show more

Today a group of Muslims prayed next to the... Ministry of Defence, facing the Iraq and Afghanistan memorial. As I have said before, choosing to pray in this way in public is a political act. It is a social statement and, yes, it is an act of domination. Anybody who understands Islamism understands that the domination of public spaces is part of the modus operandi. It is done so Islamists can show who is in charge - and to show other Muslims and the wider public that the authorities will bend to their will. There is quite obviously no need to pray here. The decision to do so is symbolic and pointed. It is not welcome. We have freedom of religion in this country, which is why there are mosques. But we are not a Muslim country and this is not welcome. It should be stopped.show more