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SPIRITUAL:

 Verse-for-TODAY:

New International Version

 

You are my refuge and my shield; I have put my hope in your word.

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You Need to Hear This!

This sums up life and all the ups and downs, knowing the seventh string is God, found in Jesus Christ…

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Listen, as ERIC CHURCH shares his heart with hundreds of Graduation Students in his Graduation Speech!

Brian Plum



CANADIAN

Doug Ford meets Prime Minister Carney

In the final scene of “Casablanca,” Humphrey Bogart’s Rick Blaine famously turns to Claude Rains’s Capt. Louis Renault as they stroll across the foggy airfield tarmac and says, “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”


Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport has long evoked that movie aerodrome with windswept passengers boarding twin-engine propeller planes from outdoor stairs.

After Prime Minister Mark Carney stunned his political ally Premier Doug Ford late Friday by decreeing any Billy Bishop expansion would be limited to already planned safety changes instead of allowing for commuter jets, it might be fair to ask, “Is this the beginning of the end of a beautiful friendship?”


Not yet. But it’s a reminder that even close political partnerships and alliances of convenience have their limits — whether you’re a prime minister and a premier or two unlikely allies in wartime Morocco.

At a time when U.S. President Donald Trump presents an existential threat to Canada — and whose tariffs are devastating to Ontario’s trade-dependent economy — Carney and Ford serve as a sort of yin and yang.


The Liberal prime minister plays pliant statesman to the mercurial president, making cash concessions to open the Gordie Howe International Bridge between Windsor and Detroit, while the Progressive Conservative premier takes to U.S. cable news channels to bluster against Trump and defend Carney.


That doesn’t mean the relationship isn’t strained right now.

As first revealed by the Star on Monday, there was a tacit agreement between the two leaders that Carney would back the airport expansion if Ford endorsed the federal government’s proposed Alto high-speed rail line between Toronto and Quebec City.

In one of their many private meetings at the premier’s Etobicoke home, the pair even shook on it.


Despite the misgivings of rural Tory MPPs alarmed by the prospect of 300 km/h trains cutting through farmland in their ridings, Ford has been supportive of the Alto scheme.

But in a retaliatory salvo at Ottawa, 11 members of the premier’s caucus — including two cabinet ministers and the PC house leader — issued a statement Tuesday night expressing alarm at the federal high-speed rail plan.


A senior Ontario official, who spoke confidentially in order to discuss internal deliberations, says that should be the extent of the provincial warning shot on Alto — at least for the time being.


(That’s in sharp contrast to federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who has derided the rail line as “a $90-billion Liberal boondoggle.” It is highly unlikely Ford, whose disdain for Poilievre is well known, would align himself with the federal Tories just to spite Carney over the Billy Bishop vacillation.)


Still, the premier could be forgiven for feeling burned by a prime minister who bunked at his Muskoka cottage near Port Sydney last summer.

“We had dinner, we were up till 12:30 at night, chatting in front of the fireplace, solving all the world’s problems,” Ford recounted with a smile at the time.

On March 31, this reporter asked Carney for his thoughts on the premier’s dream of an expanded Billy Bishop, which is owned and operated by the Toronto Port Authority, a federal agency.


“It’s a very interesting vision, big possibilities there,” the prime minister replied in his first public comment on the subject since Ford had said the province would usurp the City of Toronto’s place in the tripartite agreement governing Billy Bishop.

“It’s a shared jurisdiction and we’re engaged in discussions with the province of Ontario … so we have some component of responsibility there,” said Carney, adding that there was “an efficiency” to Ontario taking over the city’s role at the airport.


“We deal directly with the province. Just to be clear, it’s something that’s moving. The federal government’s now getting involved, but we’re not going to make a premature determination on it,” he said, stressing “the level of co-operation and engagement and the focus on making progress and getting things done.”

On June 4, Carney changed his tune, insisting he had not “formed an opinion” on the expansion, and promised a public consultation process that would eventually conclude last Friday.


Despite cynicism in many quarters — Waterfront for All claimed the online exercise was “a waste of time” — the results of that consultation ultimately forced the federal Liberals to back off with 87 per cent of 87,000 respondents opposing changes to the airport.

That led to MacKinnon saying Friday night that “at this stage” Ottawa would “exclusively” be proceeding with extending the runway end safety areas.


“We will not pursue any plans that infringe on treasured public spaces like Little Norway Park or Hanlan’s Point Beach, result in elevated noise, have significant environmental impacts, or hinder Toronto’s ability to build much-needed housing,” he said, pointedly leaving the door open to Billy Bishop expansion down the road.


Ford, meanwhile, is mindful Carney acted out of political expediency — it was not coincidental that on Sunday the prime minister called an Aug. 31 byelection for the key lakefront riding of Beaches—East York.


The governing Grits were apparently rattled by a Star report former city councillor Mike Layton — son of late federal New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton and stepson of Mayor Olivia Chow — may run for the NDP in a seat the Grits are desperate to hold. Tanveer Shahnawaz, an aide to ex-MP Nate Erskine-Smith, is the Liberal standard-bearer.

So, with Toronto political concerns clearly preoccupying Carney, Ford is remaining uncharacteristically silent.


That same week, in an Empire Club of Canada speech widely seen as an endorsement of Ford’s scheme, federal Transport Minister Steve MacKinnon emphasized Billy Bishop’s importance to the economy.


But amid protests, pressure from advocacy groups, and media coverage, the 23 Liberal MPs representing Toronto ridings were already feeling the heat and growing skittish.

Perhaps he is now channelling Dooley Wilson’s indefatigable Sam in “Casablanca” and hoping that, as time goes by, things will get back to the way they were.

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Here are five stories that caught my eye this week:

Robert Benzie is the Star’s Queen’s Park bureau chief and a reporter covering Ontario politics.

Robert Benzie

 The Star

 

 

Canada’s 'hate crime' culture has gone too far

A billboard truck defending women's sports sparks a police investigation, raising questions about free speech, political disagreement, and whether Canadians are facing new limits on expression

When a disagreement turns into a police investigation, it raises a serious question: are Canadians still allowed to express views that others find offensive?

This week, a video truck owned by Rebel News displaying a message about protecting women’s sports was stopped in Toronto after a complaint was made.

 

In 2025, Canada grapples with a troubling surge in hate crimes and racist incidents, challenging its long-held image as a global standard-bearer for multiculturalism. Recent data from Statistics Canada shows a startling 48% increase in reported hate crimes over the past two years, with Black, Indigenous, Asian, and other racialized communities bearing the brunt.


“Canada is at an inflection point,” says Desmond Cole, a Toronto-based journalist and activist. “For too long, we’ve told ourselves that racism is only a problem south of the border. Now, the numbers and stories are showing us otherwise.”

This article explores the multifaceted reasons behind the rise of hate and racism in Canada in 2025, drawing on expert analysis, community testimonies, and a look at how Canadians are responding—and resisting.

 

The Statistics: A Disquieting Surge

 

According to the 2025 Annual Hate Crimes Report by Statistics Canada, racist and ethnically motivated hate crimes have shown a dramatic increase:

  • ·        Anti-Black hate crimes have grown by 41% since 2023.

  • ·        Anti-Indigenous incidents rose by 38%, affecting both urban and rural communities.

  • ·        Anti-Asian hate crimes spiked by 27%, continuing a trend that began with the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • ·        Islamophobic incidents increased by 32%, while antisemitic hate crimes rose by 29%.

“These figures are more than just numbers; they represent individuals who are experiencing fear, trauma, and violence,” says Dr. Barbara Perry, Director of the Centre on Hate, Bias, and Extremism at Ontario Tech University. “The question we need to ask is: Why is this still happening in 2025?”

 

Political Rhetoric and Polarization

One of the key drivers behind the resurgence of hate and racism is the polarized political climate, both at home and internationally. Right-wing populist movements have found fertile ground in Canada, capitalizing on economic uncertainties, global conflicts, and anti-immigrant sentiments.


“Politicians who stoke fear for electoral gain have emboldened hate groups,” explains Evan Balgord, Executive Director of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network. “When officials use xenophobic or anti-immigrant rhetoric, it legitimizes bigotry.”


In particular, fringe political parties have used social media to spread disinformation and conspiracy theories, often scapegoating racialized minorities for housing crises, job shortages, and tax burdens.

 

Online Radicalization and Social Media Algorithms

In 2025, social media platforms remain a leading conduit for hate speech and extremist content. Algorithms designed to maximize engagement inadvertently promote inflammatory, divisive posts, creating “echo chambers” where racism and hate can flourish.


“Online hate doesn’t stay online—it spills into real life,” says Brenda McPhail, Director of Privacy, Technology & Surveillance at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA). “We’ve seen violent attacks, such as the 2024 stabbing spree in Toronto, directly linked to radicalized chat forums.”


Lillian Allen, a spoken-word artist and educator, echoes these concerns: “Our youth are especially vulnerable. They’re navigating social platforms where hateful content can go viral in minutes, normalizing racist attitudes.”

 

Economic Pressures and Scapegoating

Housing shortages, inflation, and wage stagnation have exacerbated economic pressures. In times of financial stress, minority groups often become convenient scapegoats.


“We see a narrative that blames immigrants and refugees for ‘stealing jobs’ or driving up housing costs,” says Armine Yalnizyan, an economist at the Atkinson Foundation. “This scapegoating not only deflects from systemic economic issues, but also fuels hostility toward newcomers and racialized Canadians.”


Indigenous communities face a unique challenge: centuries of colonialism have left a legacy of underfunded schools, dilapidated housing, and higher unemployment. “Economic injustice and racism are deeply intertwined,” says Pamela Palmater, a Mi’kmaq lawyer and Indigenous rights advocate. “You can’t address one without tackling the other.”

 

Global Turbulence and the International Context

International conflicts—from Middle East tensions to crises in Africa—have reverberated in Canada, often manifesting as Islamophobia, anti-Black racism, and antisemitism.


“When global crises happen, diaspora communities here in Canada can become targets of hate, even though they had nothing to do with those events,” says Harsha Walia, an activist and author focusing on immigration and border policies. “Ignorance about global politics can transform into local hostility.”

 

Institutional Racism and Lack of Accountability

Experts argue that Canada’s institutions—from law enforcement to the judicial system—have not done enough to protect marginalized groups or to root out systemic racism.

“We still see racial profiling, disproportionate policing, and lenient sentences for hate crimes,” says Desmond Cole. “The message is clear: if you commit a hate crime in Canada, the system might give you a slap on the wrist.”


Fae Johnstone, President of the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity, points out the overlap of racism, homophobia, and transphobia: “When institutions fail to address one form of bigotry, it’s easier for all forms of hate to persist.”

 

Stories from the Front Lines

Antonia’s Experience

Antonia, a Black nurse in Montreal, recalls a recent incident: “I was walking home when a stranger yelled racial slurs at me, telling me to ‘go back to where I came from.’ I’ve lived in Canada all my life. It feels like someone is always questioning my belonging.”

 

Amal’s Story

Amal, a Muslim university student in Halifax, was harassed on campus: “A man pulled on my hijab and said it was a symbol of terrorism. I reported it, but the university’s response was slow and inadequate. I felt completely unprotected.”

 

Dennis’s Frustration

Dennis, an Indigenous entrepreneur from Winnipeg, says securing loans for his small business was a constant battle: “Banks kept turning me down, even though my credit score was solid. I can’t help but think it’s because I have an Ojibwe name. This is racism masquerading as ‘risk assessment.’”

 

Community Responses and Advocacy

In the face of rising hate, communities are mobilizing:

  • ·        Grassroots Organizations such as Black Lives Matter chapters and Indigenous-led coalitions are demanding policy changes, including hate crime law reform and anti-racism education.

  • ·        Faith Communities are forging interfaith alliances, hosting workshops and communal events to foster solidarity.

  • ·        Legal Advocates are pushing for stricter penalties for hate crimes and expanded definitions of what constitutes hate speech.

“In every province, people are coming together to say ‘enough is enough,’” observes Evan Balgord. “It’s a tough fight, but these coalitions are growing in size and influence.”

 

Possible Solutions and Future Directions

Experts suggest a multi-pronged approach to counter the spike in hate and racism:

1.    Legislative Reforms – Strengthening hate crime legislation, establishing independent oversight bodies, and ensuring harsh penalties for offenders.

2.    Education and Public Awareness – Incorporating anti-racism curricula into schools and workplaces, and launching national awareness campaigns.

3.    Economic Investment in Marginalized Communities – Addressing housing shortages, job disparities, and health inequities that disproportionately affect racialized groups.

4.    Regulating Social Media – Increasing government oversight on tech companies to curb online hate speech and extremist content.

5.    Greater Diversity in Leadership – Ensuring racialized and Indigenous representation in political, corporate, and community leadership roles.


Amira Elghawaby, Canada’s Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia, emphasizes that none of these measures can stand alone: “We need a coordinated, national strategy that acknowledges the root causes of hate and directly addresses them.”

 

Charting a Path Forward

The rise in hate and racism in Canada in 2025 is not an isolated phenomenon. It is the culmination of political polarization, social media radicalization, economic woes, and longstanding systemic inequities.


Yet, there is hope. Across the country, grassroots movements, community alliances, and civil rights organizations are challenging hate head-on. From online petitions to peaceful demonstrations, Canadians from all backgrounds are voicing a unified stance: there is no place for racism in our society.

 

“The question isn’t whether we can overcome this rise in hate—it’s whether we have the collective will to do so,” says Dr. Akwasi Owusu-Bempah. “Canada’s identity as a welcoming, diverse nation depends on our answer.”

As the nation stands at this crossroads, the choices made today will shape Canada’s future, determining whether it remains a beacon of multicultural co-existence or succumbs to the forces of division and prejudice.

References

  • ·        Statistics Canada, Annual Hate Crimes Report (2025)

  • ·        Centre on Hate, Bias, and Extremism, Ontario Tech University

  • ·        Canadian Anti-Hate Network

  • ·        Interviews with Desmond Cole, Harsha Walia, Armine Yalnizyan, Amira Elghawaby

  • ·        Various testimonies from community members across Canada

CANADA News

 



TRUMP: 

Hunter Biden claims he owns no car, no phone, and no assets in sworn deposition over $17 million in unpaid legal fees

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a court under oath that he is effectively broke, owning no car, no phone, and no assets of value, even as his family collects book advances and he tours podcast studios across the country.


The former first son's sworn testimony came during a February 9 deposition in a lawsuit filed by his former law firm, Winston Taylor, which alleges Biden stiffed the powerhouse firm out of $17 million in legal fees. The Washington Free Beacon reported this week that Biden's current lawyers released the deposition transcript as part of a rebuttal to Winston Taylor's discovery request for his emails and encrypted text messages.

The picture Biden painted under oath is stark. He told the firm's lawyers he has nothing left.


"I don't have any assets. I don't own a car. I don't own a phone."

He went further, testifying that the only items of any possible value he possesses are paintings he made himself, and he does not even know what they are worth.

"I don't own anything of any value other than, and I don't know the value of it, my paintings which I painted myself. So that's it. And I don't even have any other assets at all, stocks, bonds, anything like that, savings accounts."


When pressed about whether his family, headed by a former president of the United States, could help cover his debts, Biden shut the door on that too: "My family doesn't have any money, and it's not their debt anyway."


A Yale-trained lawyer who says he cannot pay his lawyers

Winston Taylor, formerly known as Winston & Strawn, filed suit against Biden in June 2025. The firm had represented him in federal criminal cases, including the tax evasion charges that grew out of revelations by IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, as well as congressional investigations and multiple defamation lawsuits. The total tab, according to the firm: $17 million.


Biden's deposition testimony offers his version of how the arrangement began. He said attorney Abbe Lowell, a prominent Washington litigator then at Winston & Strawn, approached him after the 2022 midterm elections and offered to take him on as a client. Biden testified that Lowell reached out through one of his existing lawyers.

"Abbe had reached out to one of my other lawyers offering his help."


Biden claimed Lowell assured him the money would not be a problem. "He absolutely at the beginning said, 'Don't worry, we'll work it out, we'll work something out,'" Biden testified. He also said the aggressive legal strategy that ran up the bills, including lawsuits against the IRS whistleblowers, former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and former Trump White House aide Garrett Ziegler, was not his idea. "It was all part of a whole strategy that was instituted by Abbe, Winston," he said.


That strategy included suing individuals who had publicized information from Biden's abandoned laptop. Giuliani and Garrett Ziegler had both played roles in bringing the laptop's contents to public attention. Biden's legal team, led by Lowell, went after them in court, adding to the firm's billable hours and, ultimately, to the $17 million tab Biden now says he cannot pay.


Lowell tried tapping the 'Democratic ecosystem' for cash

Lowell, who has since left Winston Taylor and now represents multiple Democratic figures in legal disputes with the Trump administration, was also deposed in the case. His testimony revealed behind-the-scenes efforts to find someone, anyone, to cover Biden's mounting legal costs.


Lowell said he tried to help Biden raise money through third-party donors and within what he described as the "Democratic ecosystem." He also disclosed discussions with Bob Bauer, the former Obama White House counsel who served as Joe Biden's personal attorney, about setting up a legal defense fund and even a 501(c)(4) political nonprofit, a type of organization that can accept unlimited donations without disclosing its donors, to help cover the costs.


None of it, evidently, produced enough money to satisfy the firm. Biden's public rehabilitation tour has not come with a matching financial recovery.

When asked why Winston Taylor would sue a client it knew had no money, Lowell offered a carefully hedged answer: "I don't have any evidence, but I can say that it is something that people have raised the question about." He added that his friends were "bewildered" by the firm's decision to pursue Biden for fees they knew he could not pay.


Biden's 'broke' claim collides with the family balance sheet

Hunter Biden's assertion that his family "doesn't have any money" is difficult to square with the broader financial picture. His father, former President Joe Biden, reportedly received a $10 million advance for a book scheduled for release in November. Joe Biden has stage IV cancer and has struggled to command large speaking fees or raise money for his presidential library, but a $10 million book deal is not nothing.


Former first lady Jill Biden likely received a substantial advance of her own for a memoir published in June. That book peaked at number one on the New York Times best-seller list, though the ranking was boosted by what the Free Beacon described as "bulk" sales. Biden's grandchildren, meanwhile, have racked up tuition bills at the University of Pennsylvania.


The family is not living in a shelter. They are collecting seven- and eight-figure publishing deals. Yet Hunter Biden told a court that they cannot help him cover his debts.

Hunter Biden himself recently obtained a job at a luxury addiction treatment center in Los Angeles. His lawyers have described him as "living abroad," though he has made regular appearances at U.S. podcast studios. Just this past Thursday, he sat for an interview on the Macrodosing podcast, taped at Barstool Sports' studios in Chicago, part of a string of media appearances that have defined his post-indictment public life.


Winston Taylor wants a piece of the Byrne judgment

Earlier this month, Hunter Biden won a $1.7 million default defamation judgment against Patrick Byrne, the former Overstock CEO who had made accusations linking Biden to Iran. Byrne did not contest the case, and the default judgment was entered in Biden's favor.


Winston Taylor moved quickly to place a lien on that judgment, meaning the firm wants to collect directly from any money Byrne might eventually pay. But Byrne is believed to be overseas, and there is no guarantee the judgment will ever be collected.

Biden's financial woes do not end with Winston Taylor. Lunden Roberts, the mother of Biden's daughter Navy, is pursuing her own legal action against him. Roberts claims Biden is not meeting his child support obligations, a charge that adds another layer to the portrait of a man who says he has nothing but his own paintings.


Biden's broader effort to reshape his public narrative has been relentless. He has taken to social media, podcasts, and interviews to recast the laptop story and push back against his critics. But sworn deposition testimony is a different arena than a podcast studio. Under oath, the story he told was not one of a man fighting back, it was one of a man with empty pockets and no plan to fill them.


Open questions the transcript does not answer

The deposition transcripts raise as many questions as they settle. Biden blamed Lowell and Winston Taylor for the aggressive litigation strategy that generated the $17 million bill. Lowell hinted, without evidence, by his own admission, that the firm's motives for suing Biden might not be straightforward. Neither man offered a clear account of who, if anyone, was supposed to pay the tab when the bills started arriving.


Winston Taylor's discovery request seeks Biden's emails and encrypted text messages, which could shed light on what both sides understood about the payment arrangement. Biden's lawyers released the deposition transcripts as part of their effort to push back against that request. The Biden family's reemergence in public life keeps producing new chapters, and new legal exposure.


Biden's current residence, his actual income from the Los Angeles treatment center job, and the precise terms of any child support arrangement with Roberts all remain unclear from the available court filings.


A man who billed himself as a Yale-trained attorney, who lived for years on the largesse of foreign business deals, and whose father sat in the Oval Office now says he cannot afford a phone. The court will decide whether it believes him. Taxpayers who watched this family operate at the highest levels of American power already have a pretty good idea.

The AMERICAN Almanac

 

 

 

GLOBAL:

DSA members sign pledge to 'support' and 'defend' Chinese socialism as party's ties to Beijing deepen

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About a dozen activists from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Democratic Socialists of America have publicly pledged to "support" and "defend" China, the latest sign of a deepening relationship between the DSA and the Chinese Communist Party.

The signatories, approximately eleven self-described DSA or DSA International Committee members, put their names to a declaration hosted by Friends of Socialist China, a London-based group that has collected 952 total signatures for its pro-Beijing pledge. The New York Post identified the DSA members among the signatories after The Times of London first reported on the list.


The pledge itself leaves little room for ambiguity about its aims. Signatories "resolve to support, defend and build understanding of Chinese socialism" and declare that "the global advance to socialism is indispensable if humanity is to survive and to flourish." The document calls capitalism "totally incapable of solving the problems of poverty and inequality" and "inextricably linked with war, empire, racism, misogyny, alienation, and environmental destruction."


China gets special billing. The pledge explains why in its own words:

"We foreground China in particular because its size and level of development give it an objectively critical role in the global transition to socialism."

The document goes further, calling China "the most prominent force pushing for the establishment of a multipolar system of international relations" and "a global leader in the struggle to avoid climate breakdown." It concludes that "the continued survival of Chinese socialism is a crucial matter not only for the Chinese people but for all humanity."


Beijing trips, monthly seminars, and a delegation that rubbed shoulders with dictators

The pledge is not an isolated gesture. It sits inside a pattern of escalating DSA engagement with Beijing that stretches back years. Internal DSA meeting minutes dating to 2021, obtained by Newsweek and published in January, show members openly discussing repeated trips to China to meet with CCP officials. Those trips were conducted under the banner of "anti-imperialism."


Last year, the DSA launched a monthly seminar on "modern China and lessons for US socialists." A few weeks before that seminar series began, a five-person DSA delegation flew to Beijing to celebrate China's 80th anniversary of the victory against Japan. The growing coziness between the DSA and the Chinese Communist Party has raised alarms even among Democratic leaders worried about the party's leftward drift.


NYC DSA member Dee Knight wrote about the Beijing event in Socialist Forum, and the description reads less like a political observation than a fan letter:

"It was an impressive display of 'unity in multi-polarity' featuring Russian President Putin and Indian Prime Minister Modi, as well as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Beijing buzzed with excitement."

Putin, Modi, and Kim Jong Un. That is the company DSA activists chose to keep, and then celebrated in print.


DSA's first China seminar praised Beijing's 'strong democracy', and skipped the repression

The DSA's monthly seminar series on China has offered its own revealing moments. The first session included a claim that China has a "strong democracy" with no mention of China's well-documented restrictions on freedom of expression. For an organization that bills itself as a champion of democratic values, the omission is telling. It suggests the seminars function less as education and more as advocacy for a one-party authoritarian state.


The DSA did not respond to The Post's request for comment.

That silence fits a broader pattern. As the DSA has gained ground in Democratic primaries and pushed the party's center of gravity further left, its leadership has grown less willing to answer uncomfortable questions about the organization's international affiliations.


Internal dissent shows not every DSA member signed up for this

Not all DSA members are on board with the march toward Beijing. The meeting minutes obtained by Newsweek reveal sharp internal division over the organization's relationship with the CCP. One unnamed DSA International Committee member put it bluntly:

"This isn't what I signed up for and I imagine it's not what a majority of members signed up for."


The same member added: "There's no way you can be a part of the organization and promote the things they're doing."

Those objections did not stop the delegation from flying to Beijing. They did not stop the seminar series from launching. And they did not stop roughly a dozen members from putting their names on a pledge that explicitly commits them to defending a communist government's political system. The internal critics were outvoted by the activists willing to act, and the actions kept escalating.


Meanwhile, the DSA's political influence continues to grow domestically. Democratic leadership in Congress has welcomed Mamdani-backed socialists into the fold, even as the organization's foreign entanglements become harder to ignore.


Mamdani's party keeps drifting toward an adversary

Mayor Mamdani is not personally named as a pledge signatory or a participant in the Beijing delegation. But the DSA is his political home, the party apparatus that built his career and continues to shape Democratic politics in New York City and beyond. The question is whether the party's growing alignment with Beijing will become a political liability, or whether Democratic leaders will continue to look the other way.


The DSA's internal war over China mirrors a broader conflict inside the Democratic Party about how far left is too far. But this is not a disagreement over marginal tax rates or housing policy. This is a faction of an American political organization pledging solidarity with a foreign adversary's governing ideology, and doing so publicly, proudly, and repeatedly.


Friends of Socialist China's pledge page remains live. The DSA's seminars continue. The meeting minutes document a years-long pattern of engagement with CCP officials that shows no sign of slowing down.


When American political activists sign their names to a document declaring that the survival of Chinese communism is "a crucial matter" for "all humanity," voters deserve to know, and the leaders who share a party label with those activists owe the public an answer.

The AMERICAN Almanac

 

 

FBI Says It Will Take 158 Years to Process “Hidden Room” Records

This is simply amazing. The FBI has told a federal court that, at a rate of 500 pages a month, processing records from the “hidden room” at FBI Headquarters would take approximately 158 years.

The room — now dubbed the “burn bag room” — holds over 2 million pages of records, according to the FBI’s own filing. Then-Deputy Director Bongino said in May 2025 that some of the records were found stashed “in bags.”


The figures came in a Joint Status Report filed July 30, 2026, in our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Justice (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:25-cv-04047)).


In the filing, we asked the court to allow it to question the FBI, through a limited deposition, about its handling of the records — including who discovered the room and when, who had access to it, its security classification, how records ended up stored in file cabinets, safes, boxes, and burn bags, what the FBI has done to bring them under standard records management, and whether the records were ever searched in response to other FOIA requests.


The FBI reports that it has yet to access a safe believed to contain records. The agency also alleges that “it will take approximately 158 years to process at a rate of 500 pages a month.”


The FBI opposes the request for discovery. A status conference is scheduled before U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich on August 3, 2026 in Washington, DC.

Our 2025 complaint sought all records in the room, which it described as “[a]ll documents referenced by Deputy Director Dan Bongino” concerning a room at FBI Headquarters, as well as internal FBI communications among officials in the offices of Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Bongino about the discovery of the documents, and any directives issued on how the records should be handled.


The FBI currently says it has no records responsive to the Patel/Bongino communications and directives categories. The plaintiff is challenging the government’s search for these records as well.

In a Fox News interview on May 29, 2025, then-FBI Deputy Director Bongino disclosed the room’s existence, stating:


“There was a room [in FBI Headquarters], and we found stuff. A lot of stuff … hidden from us at least and not mentioned to us. And then found stuff in there. A lot is from the Comey era. We are working … right now to declassify. And just so you know, because I get the public—I totally understand people saying ‘well do it now.’ The process is: not all of the information is ours to declassify. Some is other intelligence agencies’…. We literally can’t do it. Once that gets done … and you read some of the stuff we found—that, by the way, was not processed through the normal procedure, digitizing and putting in FBI records. We found it in bags, hiding under Jim Comey’s FBI. You’re going to be stunned.”


We previously uncovered that the room is a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) containing several safes—now identified as twenty file cabinets—holding between roughly 950,000 and 1,900,000 pages of records, split into two categories: “legacy files,” older records mostly tied to two closed historical investigations and more recent files tied to active investigations and prior Special Counsel records, reportedly including material connected to Special Counsel Jack Smith.


American citizens should be outraged that the FBI just told a federal court judge that its stonewalling means it will take 158 years to release the 2 million weaponization and lawfare records in its secret ‘burn bag’ room. The American people need to know today how the FBI was used as a political weapon against Donald Trump and other innocents.

This is the latest in a series of Judicial Watch investigations targeting shady FBI weaponization and abuse of power.


In August 2019, we uncovered “302” report material from FBI interviews with Bruce Ohr, who was removed from his position as U.S. Associate Deputy Attorney General in December 2017.

In March 2019, we received heavily redacted records from the Justice Department that reveal that Ohr remained in regular contact with former British spy and Fusion GPS contractor Christopher Steele after Steele was terminated by the FBI in November 2016 for revealing to the media his position as an FBI confidential informant.


In December 2018, we uncovered U.S. State Department documents showing classified information was researched and disseminated to multiple U.S. Senators by the Obama administration immediately prior to Trump’s inauguration. The documents reveal that among those receiving the classified documents were Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), and Sen. Robert Corker (R-TN). We obtained the documents through a FOIA lawsuit for records of the Obama State Department’s last-minute efforts to share classified information about Russia election interference issues with Cardin.


In August 2018, we announced that in response to a our FOIA lawsuit, the Justice Department admitted in a court filing that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held no hearings on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) spy warrant applications targeting Carter Page, a former Trump campaign part-time advisor who was the subject of four controversial FISA warrants.


Also in August, we forced the release of heavily redacted records about Christopher Steele, the former British spy, hired with Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee funds, who authored the infamous dossier targeting Trump during last year’s presidential campaign. The documents show that Steele was cut off as a “Confidential Human Source” (CHS) after he disclosed his relationship with the FBI to a third party. The documents also show at least 11 FBI payments to Steele in 2016 and document that he was admonished for unknown reasons in February 2016.


In July 2018, we released documents about FISA warrants targeting Carter Page, who had been a Trump campaign adviser.

 

Virginia Removes 6,531 Declared Noncitizen Registrations from Voter Rolls

Records from the Virginia Department of Elections show the commonwealth cancelled 6,531 “declared noncitizen” voter registrations between June 2024 and June 2026 after we launched an inquiry.

The Virginia Department of Elections produced records in response to the below June 2026 Judicial Watch request:


Pursuant to Section 8(i) of the National Voter Registration Act (“NVRA”), Judicial Watch, Inc. respectfully requests from your office all pertinent records in the past two years concerning “the implementation of programs and activities conducted for the purpose of ensuring the accuracy and currency” of the Virginia official list of eligible voters.

Specifically, Judicial Watch requests the following:

1. All records concerning the names and addresses of registrants removed from the official list of eligible voters pursuant to Va. Code Ann. § 24.2-427(B)(iii) and Va. Code Ann. § 24.2-427.

2. All records concerning all voter registrations that may not to be United States citizens by reason of reports from the Department of Motor Vehicles or from the Department of Elections based on information received from the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements Program (SAVE Program).

3. All ERIC reports, data, match lists, or other records received from or related to the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) system concerning potential voter deaths, change-of-address notifications, or other eligibility issues (including any associated processing, verification, or removal actions taken by the Department of Elections in response to such ERIC reports).

No voting histories were produced for the cancelled declared noncitizen registrations.


According to an April 2026, Virginia Attorney General letter:

DMV [Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles] creates a list of “all persons who have indicated a noncitizen status” when applying for or renewing a license, or identification document. In practice, DMV compiles a list of any individual who checks “no” in response to the question “Are you a citizen?” in an online portal. There are reports that this method has resulted in flagging eligible citizens due to inadvertent user error.


DMV furnishes this list of self-attested noncitizens to ELECT daily. ELECT then electronically matches the DMV list against the voter registration list, and transmits, for each match, information from the DMV list to the appropriate registrar. After independently confirming that the individual flagged by DMV matches a voter registration record, registrars must send a notice of intent to cancel, allowing the person 14 days to submit a sworn statement confirming citizenship. If the person does not respond and confirm their citizenship, the registrar must cancel their registration. For clarity, in this opinion, this second program is called “Self-Attestation Removals.”


Also in April 2026, Virginia entered into a settlement with leftist groups in which Virginia agreed to pause the program to remove declared noncitizens from voting rolls for the 90-day period before federal elections. (The Attorney General letter cited above confirms this new policy.)

A federal law –18 U.S.C. § 1015(f) — makes it a crime to knowingly make a false claim of U.S. citizenship in order to register to vote or vote in any federal, state, or local election. 18 U.S.C. § 611 — is the direct prohibition on aliens voting in any election for federal office.


It is disturbing beyond belief that as many as 6,531 noncitizens were registered to vote in Virginia. We are demanding more details and so should federal law enforcement, especially as Virginia is set to stop removing declared noncitizens from the rolls in the run-up to the November election. These Virginia numbers show that the New Jersey noncitizen voter scandal is just the tip of the iceberg and is a national crisis.We are a national leader in election integrity and voting rights litigation, with a record of successful lawsuits enforcing constitutional redistricting standards and cleaning voter rolls nationwide.


Our lawsuits and legal actions have caused the removal of six million ineligible names from voter lists nationwide, including from Oregon, Colorado, Kentucky and New York City. Judicial Watch legal pressure also resulted in voter roll clean-ups in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Ohio.


Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced its intention to file a motion to intervene in our federal lawsuit filed on behalf of a California political candidate and a state political party against the State of California due to its failure to maintain accurate voter rolls as required by the NVRA.


A federal court in Illinois ruled that our lawsuit to force the cleaning of voter rolls may proceed in that state.

In January 2026, in a historic case we filed, the Supreme Court decided 7-2 in favor of Congressman Mike Bost and two presidential electors who were before the court to vindicate their standing to challenge an Illinois law allowing the counting of ballots received up to 14 days after Election Day.

 

Judicial Watch Sues FBI for 30 Million Transferred January 6 Phone Records

The infamous House January 6 Select Committee didn’t target just President Donald Trump. Republican senators were also dragged into scandal.

We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for records concerning the committee’s transfer of approximately 30 million lines of telephone toll data to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (Judicial Watch, Inc., v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:26-cv-02557)).


We sued after the FBI failed to comply with an October 2025 FOIA request for:

  • · Communications of former Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Denver Riggleman (R-VA) with FBI officials regarding the reported acquisition or offer to provide the telephone toll data.

  • · All FBI records and internal communications regarding the reported acquisition or offer to provide the telephone toll data collected by the House January 6 Committee.


In February 2022, the FBI opened “Arctic Frost,” an investigation into alleged efforts by Trump campaign associates to obstruct Congress’s certification of the 2020 election. The probe aggressively targeted dozens of GOP officials and organizations before closing in January 2025.


A December 2023 FBI FD-302 interview summary reveals that Kinzinger proactively offered the January 6 Committee’s massive database to the FBI. The summary states:

Kinzinger stated the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol (the “Select Committee”) collected and linked a substantial amount of telephone data, and noted the FBI may already possess such data.


While former Congressman Denver Riggleman worked with the Select Committee, he (Riggleman) had a contact and was able to obtain toll information, including for White House “root” or switchboard numbers via congressional subpoena. Kinzinger noted that he (Kinzinger) did not conduct the analysis himself, but that Riggleman had identified certain telephonic connections between numbers identified as being associated with the White House and certain individuals….


Kinzinger indicated that Riggleman may have never received direction on what to do with the toll data, which included approximately 30 million lines of data. Kinzinger believed it was in an electronic format, but did not know if it was the original [redacted] returns.


In October 2025, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary reported that “the FBI targeted eight Republican senators’ personal cell phones for ‘tolling data’ as part of its Arctic Frost investigation. One Republican member of the House of Representatives was also impacted. The Arctic Frost investigation formed the basis of [Special Counsel] Jack Smith’s elector case against President Donald Trump.”


The FBI must stop concealing the truth. Thirty million lines of Americans’ phone records weaponized by a partisan committee and federal investigators against President Trump and his supporters represents one of the most brazen abuses of power in modern history. The American people deserve every record — no more stonewalling.


We have conducted a massive, independent investigation into the events of January 6.

On July 6, 2026, the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department released to us over 1,000 hours of body-worn camera footage in 1,627 videos from the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol event. The videos were released because of an April 2026 court ruling in a DC FOIA lawsuit. The videos are available via the Judicial Watch website here.


In August 2025, we announced that the U.S. Air Force would finally provide full military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran who was shot and killed inside the U.S. Capitol by then-Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd on January 6, 2021. Babbitt was the only official January 6 homicide victim. The Biden administration had previously denied Babbitt and her family these honors in retaliation for being at the U.S. Capitol that day. This decision came on the heels of a massive, nearly $5 million Trump administration settlement to her family for wrongful death and other claims against the U.S. Government.


In July 2025, we sued the Justice Department for records on accelerated January 6 prosecutions after Trump was elected president in November 2024. The Biden administration, anticipating President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to issue pardons for January 6, 2021, defendants, is believed to have accelerated prosecutions in the final months of Biden’s term.


In March 2024, we received Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) records from the Justice Department in a FOIA lawsuit that showed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) deployed personnel to Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021.

In October 2023, we received the declaration of James W. Joyce, senior counsel in the Office of the General Counsel for the Capitol Police, in which he describes emails among senior officials of the United States Capitol Police (USCP) in January 2021 that show warnings of possible January 6 protests that could lead to serious disruptions at the U.S. Capitol.

 

Judicial Watch Sues for Robert Mueller Records 

The American people deserve a full accounting of Robert Mueller’s record—from the FBI’s dramatic expansion of surveillance powers after September 11 to the abusive special counsel investigation targeting President Trump. The Justice Department should immediately release every record concerning Mueller so Americans can judge his work for themselves.


Accordingly, we filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for records regarding the late FBI Director and Special Counsel Robert Mueller (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:26-cv-02566)).


We sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the Justice Department’s Office of Information Policy (OIP) failed to respond to a March 24, 2026, FOIA request seeking:

All records in any form related to the former FBI Director, Robert Swan Mueller, III, born on August 7, 1944, in New York City, NY, who died on March 20, 2026.


Mueller served as FBI director from September 2001 to September 2013. During his tenure, the FBI significantly expanded its domestic surveillance authorities. Among other powers, the bureau made extensive use of expanded authorities under the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, including National Security Letters, which allowed the FBI to compel the production of financial, telecommunications and internet records without prior judicial approval while often prohibiting recipients from disclosing the requests.


Three years after Mueller left the FBI, the bureau launched “Crossfire Hurricane,” also known as “Russiagate,” into allegations of links between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia. Then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller as special counsel in May 2017 to continue the investigation. Mueller served in that role until March 2019.


Mueller’s investigation concluded that it “did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”

In May 2023, Special Counsel John Durham concluded that the FBI failed to uphold its mission of “strict fidelity to the law” when pursuing Crossfire Hurricane and found that the bureau lacked sufficiently corroborated information to justify opening a full investigation.


In March 2025, President Trump issued a memorandum, calling for the immediate declassification of materials “related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation.”

We have pursued dozens of FOIA lawsuits in connection with the illicit targeting and other abuses of President Trump and his associates.


In October 2020, we uncovered emails between former FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok, who joined the Mueller team in 2017, and former FBI attorney Lisa Page showing that Microsoft Outlook’s Exchange server had to recreate multiple meetings that were “missing” from Page’s initial calendar entries. These missing meetings included the subjects “Going Dark Strategy Meeting,” “Twitter” and “702 Reauthorization Strategy Coordination Bi-Weekly” (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-00154)).


In September 2020, we received Justice Department records showing that senior members of Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office repeatedly and “accidentally” wiped phones assigned to them (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:19-cv-02693)).


Also in September 2020, we uncovered Justice Department records that included a May 2017 email documenting that Mueller informed the attorney general’s office he was withdrawing from consideration for FBI director. The email raised questions about Mueller’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee in July 2019, when he said a May 2017 interview with Trump was “not about me applying for the job” as FBI director (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:19-cv-00481)).


In July 2020, we uncovered emails showing that Strzok, Page and other top FBI officials in the days before and after Trump’s 2017 inauguration discussed a White House counterintelligence briefing that could “play into” the FBI’s “investigative strategy” (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-00154)).

In May 2020, we received the electronic communication (EC) that officially launched Crossfire Hurricane. The document was written by Strzok (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:19-cv-02743)).


In February 2020, we made public Strzok-Page emails showing direct involvement in the opening of Crossfire Hurricane. The records also showed additional “confirmed classified emails” were found on Clinton’s unsecured non-state.gov email server “beyond the number presented” in then-FBI Director James Comey’s statements; Strzok and Page questioned the access the Justice Department was granting Clinton’s lawyers; and Page revealed that the Justice Department was making edits to FBI FD-302 reports related to the Clinton Midyear Exam investigation. The emails also detail a discussion about “squashing” an issue related to the Seth Rich controversy (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-00154)).


In February 2020, we uncovered Rosenstein’s communications with former Obama officials, such as Eric Holder, as well as information sharing with the media in the days immediately surrounding the inception of the Mueller investigation (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:19-cv-00481)).


In October 2019, we released Rosenstein’s communications that included a one-line email to Mueller stating, “The boss and his staff do not know about our discussions,” and “off the record” emails with major media outlets around the date of Mueller’s appointment. In May 2017, Rosenstein had written a memo to President Trump recommending that FBI Director James Comey be fired. That day, Trump fired Comey. Three days later, on May 12, Rosenstein sent the email assuring Mueller that Trump and his staff were not included in their “discussions” (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:19-cv-00481)).


In May 2019, we released Justice Department records containing text messages and calendar entries of Mueller special counsel prosecutor Andrew Weissmann showing he led the hiring effort for the special counsel team. Weissmann was formerly the Obama-era chief of the Justice Department’s Criminal Fraud Section (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-01356)).


In July 2018, we received FBI records concerning the assignment of Strzok to Mueller’s operation, showing that Strzok insisted on retaining his FBI security clearance, declassification and other authorities before moving to the Mueller team (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Federal Bureau of Investigation (No. 1:17-cv-02682)). Strzok was removed from the Mueller investigative team in July 2017, with the move becoming public in August. He was reassigned to a human resources position.

 

SPLC’s Radical Curriculum Used to Train Educators Across U.S.

Do you know what they’re teaching your children? Do you know what they’re teaching your children’s future teachers? Our Corruption Chronicles blog has a disturbing report.


The left-wing ideology deeply embedded in the American public education system is being fortified with the incorporation of a radical “Learning for Justice” curriculum—often funded with taxpayer dollars—in colleges across the country that are training future teachers, assuring that the indoctrination continues for generations to come.


A new report published by an education nonprofit reveals that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a controversial leftist group that slanders conservative organizations in an interactive “Hate Map”, created the program lessons, resources and Social Justice Standards (SJS) in the educator training classes at Colleges of Education (COE) across the country. In some cases, federal grants pay for the biased teacher training that blends social justice standards into virtually all lessons.


The outrageous Learning for Justice curriculum is used to train future educators in 38 states plus the District of Columbia and at least 100 COEs nationwide utilize it, according to the probe conducted by the nonprofit Defending Education. The Virginia-based group confirms that the COEs that have adopted the SPLC’s material are responsible for preparing K-12 classroom teachers as well as the continuing education of present teachers and administrators, which means they play a major role in what content, materials, best practices and perspectives shape the educators.


“This report also examines academic journal articles, doctoral dissertations, and master’s theses to provide additional insight into how SPLC materials and Social Justice Standards are incorporated into Colleges of Education, teacher preparation programs, and K-12 classrooms,” reads the report published by the charity that aims for the reestablishment of a quality, non-political education for all students. “Importantly, few COEs outwardly acknowledge their use of SPLC materials; instead, many COEs hide their usage and promotion behind faculty login pages.”


Among the cases outlined in the report is a $275,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for a venture between Northern Arizona University and the Flagstaff Unified School District that incorporates Learning for Justice’s SJS into its computer science curriculum. In another example, the Department of Education gave a California graduate program $3.3 million to “develop and cultivate educators-in-training” with “social justice teaching ideas and practices,” including “Social Justice Standards from Teaching Tolerance.”


The University of Maryland College of Education’s master’s for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) teachers features a key theme of “Equity, Access, and Anti-bias Education” that integrates social justice standards and critical practices from the SPLC’s Learning for Justice into its programs. The entire Maryland State Department of Education also incorporates Social Justice Standards into its regulations governing new teacher induction programming run by school districts.


The University of Michigan’s education program is centered on a “more just and equitable elementary science teaching” that draws from Learning for Justice and Kutztown University in Pennsylvania forces future educators to complete a special “teaching tolerance module” to fulfill a requirement of developing an understanding of diversity.


The list of examples goes on and on, with colleges in California, Oregon, Washington State, Massachusetts and Virginia using the discriminatory SPLC material. Even top public universities in Republican states have adopted it and mandate it in educator training courses. The University of Florida’s College of Education has a required course called “Equity Pedagogy Foundations” that aims to define educational equity by exploring the foundational concepts of race, class, ability and sexuality as they impact children in schools.


Florida Atlantic University trains future teachers with courses such as “Introduction to Diversity for Educators, Equity Issues in Multicultural Education and Education in Multicultural Society.” The University of North Texas makes future educators take an advanced teaching course that features required readings from Learning for Justice’s Social Justice Standards. The University of Kansas incorporates the SPLC’s “importance of multicultural education” in all teacher programs and Western Kentucky University mandates a diversity in the classroom course that requires students to read a book called “There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom.”


This latest report on the SPLC’s enormous influence in training the nation’s educators comes on the heels of an equally disturbing investigation that revealed the leftwing group has received millions of taxpayer dollars to spread its hateful message and materials across the United States, including in public schools. The money came from states, cities, counties, universities, school districts, and other public entities to help fulfill the SPLC’s stated mission of “dismantling white supremacy” and “creating a world where Black and Brown communities are represented and respected by our democracy.”

Tom Fitton

Judicial Watch


Patrick Bestall’s INPUT:

Widow's Bay [tv series] Desensitizes us

I continued to watch horror films after I let Jesus into my life.  Then it really bothered me when Hollywood started adding either comedy or nudity to horror films.  I thought to myself, "How screwed up is this? Talk about mixed feelings!  I could see impressionable minds being conditioned by the process of association, like Pavlov's dogs, to think violence and horror was funny. I could see young people being conditioned to find sadism and horror sexually exciting, or conversely wanting to add an element of pain and horror to their sex lives.  


I got rid of my TV over ten years ago and only keep up to date now by reading about trends.  And this trend is very disturbing.  Especially when they introduce the idea that there was cannibalism in a church.

Pray for your family's viewing habits, and even the actors in those shows.

.PB

 

 

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Sports Betting; $100B in Ontario alone!

The Long Story took 4 pages in the Saturday paper.  I've copied and pasted some of the most shocking paragraphs below.  The article didn't mention it, but I bet the next big effect is going to be renewed interest in the occult for demonic assistance and punishment.

 

A federally funded survey in 2024 suggested that one in three young Canadians had gambled online and almost 70 per cent of those met criteria for problem gambling. Another study pointed to a near-doubling of calls to Ontario’s problem-gambling help lines. Bankruptcies involving gambling have tripled in the province.

And there may be even darker consequences.


Data obtained by the National Post from the office of Ontario’s chief coroner show a sharp rise in suicides of individuals with gambling issues in the two years after the new system was introduced. Chief coroner Dr. Dirk Huyer says it’s too early to say for sure what the trend means. But problem gambling is a well-documented risk factor for suicide, and Huyer said he’s asking Ontario’s 300 local coroners to begin actively looking for evidence of gambling when people take their own lives.


All the major leagues and many of the teams have forged partnerships with online betting companies, while sports broadcasters have embedded discussion of betting into their programming.

Most of the pro leagues have seen players arrested in recent years on match-fixing charges, something that used to be a rarity.


Sports betting a gateway to casino gambling

Combining the two types of betting actually gives operators a key synergy, argues Michael Naraine, a sports management professor at Ontario’s Brock University. Many bettors are enticed by sports gambling — an extension of their interest in hockey or football or track and field — but often navigate casino games between those wagers, he says.

 

Flutter Entertainment, for instance, relies on “successful cross-promotion” and minimizing “friction” between the two sorts of gambling, its 2025 annual report says. The firm’s popular FanDuel app lets customers “play a subset of casino games without leaving the sportsbook app.”


The industry welcomes such behaviour because casino games are more consistently profitable than wagering on the less-predictable outcome of athletic competition, says Naraine.

More troubling, almost 40 per cent of the online players overall, and 70 per cent of those aged 18 to 29, met criteria for problem gambling, compared with less than six per cent for people who stuck to physical casinos and other types of gambling. 

 

The per-capita rate of calls to Ontario’s problem-gambling help lines has almost doubled since the province first allowed limited online gaming, then legalized private gambling apps and their ubiquitous marketing, noted a study published in March in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

 

As many as 30 per cent of clients at Toronto’s Harris and Partners Debt Relief have gambling problems — about twice the rate before Ontario’s legalized internet gambling initiative, says proprietor Joshua Harris.

“Just around my office … we see tons of people doing sports bets,” he said. “I tell them, ‘You’re making poor choices.’”


Athlete threats and match-fixing

While some desperate or frustrated players do find help, others lash out at athletes whose performance caused them to lose bets. Often the beef is over a proposition — or prop — wager, a popular feature that lets users bet on the actions of an individual player — either over or under a performance standard set by the app — rather than await the match’s final outcome.


The 2024 U.S. Open was the first major golf tournament where gambling spectators actually yelled at individual players, to encourage or spoil their performances. Scotty Scheffler, the world’s No. 1-ranked golfer, says he shut down his account on the American cash-transfer site Venmo because of all the requests to reimburse losing bets.


The WTA, which runs the premiere women’s pro tennis tour, called last year for the gambling industry to crack down on harassment after a survey found 8,000 “abusive, violent or threatening” posts directed at players in one year. The organization, which itself has partnered with leading gambling app FanDuel, did not respond to a request for comment on the issue.


Match-fixing scandals like the 1919 “Black Sox” affair were once an infrequent, if sensational, occurrence in North America, though some cases undoubtedly went undetected. But U.S. authorities have laid a slew of charges against professional and college basketball, baseball and football players in the last few years. One of the highest-profile cases is that of former Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter, who was banned for life from the NBA.

 

Porter pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy in 2024, admitting that on two occasions he had faked an injury or illness and left a Raptors game early, making sure that gamblers who had placed an “under” prop bet on his performance would win. A New York City court heard that Porter was hooked on online gambling himself and pressured into match-fixing by people who promised to forgive his debts.

 

“If I don’t do a ‘special’ with your terms, then it’s up,” Porter acknowledged to one of them in a Telegram group chat. “And u hate me and if I don’t get u 8k by Friday you’re coming to Toronto to beat me up.”

 

Luke, of Sport Integrity Canada, says his group has repeatedly urged the federal government to adopt the Macolin Convention, an international treaty that sets out how countries should combat the problem, including by making match-fixing a crime. The group has also developed preventive guidelines for the sports associations it serves and would like Ottawa to make them official.

Federal authorities have yet to act on either request.

.PB

 

 

Spain Falling - crazy footage

Estimates from Spain’s Interior Ministry and local sources put the number who crossed into Ceuta alone at around 49,000 in 24 hours—roughly equivalent to the U.S. troop presence in the Middle East.  

.pb comment:  It's actually over 60,000 now. Where's Russia when you need them?

.PB

 

 

Turkey stays a friend of Russia

This was particularly evident at the this month’s NATO summit in Ankara when the West attempted to pressure the Turkish leadership into adopting a clear anti-Russia stance.

For Washington and Europe, Türkiye is particularly valuable. It is not just a member of the North Atlantic Alliance, but a country with the second-largest army in NATO, a developed defense industry, a strategic location in the Black Sea region, and significant influence in the Middle East and parts of Eurasia. Therefore, for the West, it is crucial to not just secure Ankara’s formal loyalty (which is already ensured by its NATO membership), but to make it part of the unified anti-Russia front. 

 

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Reset Intelligence: Gaza Disarms, Baghdad Watches





By Reset Intelligence | @EXIT_FIAT





Trump’s Board of Peace just ordered the complete disarmament of Hamas in Gaza. Read it as a Gaza story and you miss it.

We read it as the first move in a Regional Disarmament that reaches Baghdad’s militias next, and it changes the order Iraq’s reset has to run in.

 

One Order, Three CapitalsOn July 30 the White House announced a historic agreement for the complete disarmament of Hamas and every armed group in Gaza, brokered by Egypt, Qatar and Turkey, with an international stabilization force and a new Palestinian police to hold the ground. The same instruction is already sitting on Baghdad. A senior commander of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces went on record refusing it, asking out loud, “Who is going to take our weapons?” He was answering a federal disarmament deadline of September 30, and Washington wrote that deadline into the money.


The Money Is Moving Too• Gaza deal – complete Hamas disarmament, Egypt, Qatar and Turkey mediated, announced July 30

• PMF deadline – September 30 federal cutoff to disarm; the US defense bill ties half of Iraq’s security funding to real disarmament steps

• Iraqi banks – 35 of Iraq’s 72 banks lost dollar access; 7 cleared July 19 to resume correspondent banking; the rest pushed to meet Federal Reserve compliance

• CLARITY Act – White House signed off on the ethics rule; Senate floor vote targeted for the first week of August

• Camp David – Trump decides today whether Iran stays at the punishment level or escalates


Why It Matters For The Dinar

The rate does not move first. Interior and Defense get settled, a seated cabinet writes a budget, and only then does the dinar move. The disarmament fight is the lock that has to turn before any of that is on the table. That is the short version.

 

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