The joke used to be the best way to build your country up was to go to war with US and lose.
Now the winners make out.
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Syria’s Al-Qaeda Group No Longer “Terrorist”
Posted by M. C. on July 11, 2025
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Yesterday Was Not A Good Day For Trump’s Base of Supporters
Posted by M. C. on July 10, 2025
How can the US be a peace mediator when we give weapons to Ukraine and building IDF bases, for “free” (to them)?
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What do ALL THE FLOODS have in common? You wont believe it…
Posted by M. C. on July 10, 2025
Pushing us out of the country into 15 minute cities…that I can believe.
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This “Gun Ban” Is Smarter Than You Think — And More Dangerous
Posted by M. C. on July 9, 2025
This Rhode Island law attempts to avoid “thorny issuers” (the Constitution).
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Happy Independence Day!
Posted by M. C. on July 4, 2025
Celebrate but remain vigilant.
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Independence Day 2025
Posted by M. C. on July 3, 2025
Empire: That would be the form of government from which Jefferson and his colleagues violently and successfully seceded.
Unchecked government is the archenemy of personal liberty. And a government that rejects its founding values, that keeps persons dependent upon it rather than independent of it, one that recognizes no limits to its powers and assaults the liberties of those it governs should be altered or abolished before liberty’s last gleaming becomes a long cold darkness.
We are independent of London, but are we independent of Washington?
Is there more freedom when governed by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants a few miles away?
Does government today remotely resemble the values articulated on July 4th 1776?
When the President of the United States bombs the lawful facilities of a foreign country that pose no threat whatsoever to American national security and does so without a congressional declaration of war as the Constitution requires, when thousands of non-violent folks in America are arrested by masked federal agents without warrants and kicked out of the country without due process, when troops patrol the streets of a large city in defiance of federal law, when both major political parties support mass surveillance, undeclared foreign wars and borrowing trillions of dollars a year to fund a bloated government, nearly all of which is nowhere countenanced by the Constitution, we can safely conclude that personal liberty in our once-free society has been radically diminished and is in the twilight of its existence.
Two hundred and forty-nine years ago this week, Thomas Jefferson was fuming in his rented rooms in Philadelphia as the Continental Congress was softening the tone of his final draft of what would become the most critical document and radical articulation of the origins of human freedom in American history.
The Declaration of Independence is an indictment of King George III as well as a manifestation of limited government and maximum individual freedom. Though the final version dropped some of Jefferson’s more bellicose language, the document as we know it is largely his — not only his lofty language but also the three principal Jeffersonian values that it manifests.
The first of those values is natural law. The natural law teaches that our rights come from our humanity and our humanity is a gift from God.
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A Countdown of the Greatest Threats to Liberty
Posted by M. C. on July 2, 2025
The minimum wage has been used as a tool to buy votes, under the guise of providing a “living wage.” However, what politicians don’t tell you is that every time the minimum wage increases, available job openings for entry level, or low skill positions decrease.
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| July 4th will always be remembered as the day that would-be Americans shed the shackles of abusive taxation and their dominance by an oppressive government, risking everything to found what would become the most prosperous and free nation ever created. Throughout the month of July, the Libertarian Party will be counting down the 31 greatest threats to liberty, as voted on by our membership. We encourage sharing these themes on social platforms, debating the order and magnitude of each threat, and of course demanding course-correction and eradication of these threats. To kick things off, the 31st ranked threat to liberty: The Minimum Wage Help us push back against minimum wage increases across the country >>> The minimum wage has been used as a tool to buy votes, under the guise of providing a “living wage.” However, what politicians don’t tell you is that every time the minimum wage increases, available job openings for entry level, or low skill positions decrease. Minimum wage laws make large businesses contract, and hurt small businesses even more, who can’t afford to pay wages to hire desperately needed help for start-ups that have razor thin profits or aren’t even breaking even. Laws passed to impact wages in big cities with high costs of living are forced upon businesses in small towns that can’t possibly afford to pay them. They do not discriminate, they simply mandate. Increasing the minimum wage is no magic bullet to cure poverty, or enrich anyone. It doesn’t pay a “living wage” no matter the increase. This is because every product made, every good and service, every ounce of food bought, must cost more due to a forced increase in wages. This means we are simply staying even at best, but in almost every case, costs outpace wages, so we are actually poorer, in a market that now has fewer jobs. |
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Sentinel ICBM first flight date now in flux, Air Force says
Posted by M. C. on July 1, 2025
The troubled ICBM program was supposed to fly for the first time in 2026, but now the Air Force says that the date is unknown.
Despite the program’s woes, officials have emphasized fielding the new missile is imperative to maintain America’s strategic deterrence…
Lucky thing major (non-nuclear) threat Iran’s missiles can barely reach the Mediterranean.
Feeling better about war with Iran, China and Russia while stuck in quagmires against such formidable adversaries as Iraq and Somalia “terror groups”?
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/06/sentinel-icbm-first-flight-date-now-in-flux-service-says/
WASHINGTON — An ongoing restructuring of the beleaguered Sentinel ICBM program has left its flight testing schedule up in the air, and a new date for the missile’s first flight is now unknown, an Air Force official tells Breaking Defense.
Officials previously planned to fly the missile for the first time in 2026, itself a delay of over two years. But as part of the program’s overhaul, mandated after an 81 percent cost spike last year, “the team is actively assessing the overall schedule, including potential impacts on the timeline for the first full-system flight,” the Air Force official said today.
The revelation of the shifting flight test plan came in response to Breaking Defense’s query about a Government Accountability Office report published Wednesday [PDF], which stated that the Sentinel’s first flight is now set for March 2028, a total delay of over four years. The Air Force official did not comment directly on the GAO timeline, saying only, “Updated schedule details, including key milestone dates, will be available once” officials complete the program’s restructuring — a statement that does not deny 2028 as a possible date, but leaves open options for it to be both sooner and later.
Since the cost increase caused what’s known as a Nunn-McCurdy breach last year, officials have been rethinking several aspects of the over-budget plan to modernize the land leg of America’s nuclear triad, such as whether they can reuse existing Minuteman III silos. The Sentinel program has apparently also decided to make changes to the flight testing campaign itself, which the Air Force official said now involves “a more deliberate, phased” approach.
“Rather than waiting until the end of development for a single, comprehensive test, the new strategy introduces an incremental ‘crawl, walk, run’ method that allows for earlier flight testing of key components. This approach is designed to reduce risk, validate technologies earlier, and ensure a more reliable path to full system integration,” the official said. As the overall restructuring continues, the official pointed to continued progress for the missile, such as a full-scale, static fire qualification test of the missile’s first stage solid rocket motor held in March.
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The Real Winners: The Strategic Fallout of the Israel-Iran War
Posted by M. C. on June 30, 2025
Perhaps the most significant development of all is one that cannot be measured in missiles or casualties: the surge in national unity within Iran and the widespread support it received across the Arab and Muslim world.
The message from Tehran is unmistakable: We are here. We are proud. And we will not be broken.
That is the message Israel, and perhaps even Washington, did not anticipate. And it is the one that could reshape the region for years to come.
Blowback (a CIA term and they should know!) is the unintended consequences and unwanted side-effects of a covert operation. from Wikipedia
by Ramzy Baroud
On June 24, US President Donald Trump announced a truce between Israel and Iran following nearly two weeks of open warfare.
Israel began the war, launching a surprise offensive on June 13, with airstrikes targeting Iranian nuclear facilities, missile installations, and senior military and scientific personnel, in addition to numerous civilian targets.
In response, Iran launched a wave of ballistic missiles and drones deep into Israeli territory, triggering air raid sirens across Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Beersheba and numerous other locations, causing unprecedented destruction in the country.
What began as a bilateral escalation quickly spiraled into something far more consequential: a direct confrontation between the United States and Iran.
On June 22, the United States Air Force and Navy carried out a full-scale assault on three Iranian nuclear sites – Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan – in a coordinated strike dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer. Seven B-2 bombers of the 509th Bomb Wing allegedly flew nonstop from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri to deliver the strikes.
The following day, Iran retaliated by bombing the Al-Udeid US military base in Qatar and firing a new wave of missiles at Israeli targets.
This marked a turning point. For the first time, Iran and the United States faced each other on the battlefield without intermediaries. And for the first time in recent history, Israel’s long-standing campaign to provoke a US-led war against Iran had succeeded.
Strategic Fallout
Following 12 days of war, Israel achieved two of its goals. First, it pulled Washington directly into its conflict with Tehran, setting a dangerous precedent for future US involvement in Israel’s regional wars. Second, it generated immediate political capital at home and abroad, portraying US military backing as a ‘victory’ for Israel.
However, beyond these short-term gains, the cracks in Israel’s strategy are already showing.
Netanyahu did not achieve regime change in Tehran – the real objective of his years-long campaign. Instead, he faced a resilient and unified Iran that struck back with precision and discipline. Worse still, he may have awakened something even more threatening to Israeli ambitions: a new regional consciousness.
Iran, for its part, emerges from this confrontation significantly stronger. Despite US and Israeli efforts to cripple its nuclear program, Iran has demonstrated that its strategic capabilities remain intact and highly functional.
Tehran established a powerful new deterrence equation – proving that it can strike not only Israeli cities but US bases across the region.
Even more consequentially, Iran waged this fight independently, without leaning on Hezbollah or Ansarallah, or even deploying Iraqi militias. This independence surprised many observers and forced a recalibration of Iran’s regional weight.
Iranian Unity
Perhaps the most significant development of all is one that cannot be measured in missiles or casualties: the surge in national unity within Iran and the widespread support it received across the Arab and Muslim world.
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