It’s Always Cute When Canada Thinks It Matters

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Just what the hell are the Canadians thinking? Do they think that if they cry enough, America’s going to roll over? We’re now in another trade war with them, and the Canadians are whining, and the Democrats — who never side with America — are whining right along with them. It’s about time to be done with the country that is touted as America’s best buddy but is actually tied for its most annoying next-door neighbor. They cry that America is being mean because it’s looking out for its own interests. How dare America expect Canada to pull its weight on its own defense? How dare America not want to perpetuate unfair and unbalanced tariff and trade rules in perpetuity? And how dare America not recognize the moral superiority of a country that, if it were a stereotype, would be a fugly, sexually dysfunctional wine woman with a “Hate Has No Home Here” sign on the front lawn of the condo it shares with five cats, all named after characters in "Twilight."

Americans don’t think much of Canada — literally. We didn’t have to, because for a long time Canadians were just pleasant, sturdy, and trustworthy neighbors who were different from us but shared enough in common that we managed to share the longest demilitarized border in the world. Canadians don’t want to be Americans, and that’s OK. It’s silly, because everybody should want to be Americans, but it’s all right. We didn’t take offense. We’d have to be thinking about them to take offense, and we weren't. It’s nice to have a neighbor you don’t really have to think about, except when you need to borrow sugar.

But when we did think about them, they used to be kind of amusing. Now they’re actively annoying. And their obsessive loathing of the United States has morphed from a vaguely tiresome affectation into something genuinely grating. They are ripping us off on defense and trade, they are failing to back us up around the world, and they have become a petty dictatorship. They are still funny, but the Ralph Wiggum of nations is longer ha-ha funny.

They thought about us a lot, and you can’t really blame them. We’re economically successful, stubbornly free, and masculine — all the things that Canada either never was or no longer is. Canada has been taken over by the faculty-lounge left. It’s less a country than a giant, freezing college campus where the government will literally destroy your life if you do something like point out obvious truths about how a man is not a woman or that there was a giant scam involving allegedly dead Indian children — oh wait, we’re supposed to call them “First Peoples.” Of course, they have enshrined collective guilt over taming their vast lands as their national ideology. They despise us, but they also despise themselves. We have a glorious Constitution, and they have an endless land acknowledgment.

The Canadians harken back to their European roots in other ways too, such as a hatred of free speech and dissent. After all, they were never man enough to throw out the Brits or the French, and now they have fully embraced the same kind of supine and feminine national identity that focuses on crushing actual Canadians and importing the entire Third World to replace them. And like the Europeans, they won’t ever shut up about their free healthcare, bragging about it endlessly to us and complaining endlessly to each other about having to wait six months for a blood transfusion. Pro tip: When you’re in one of their clinics, if you can ever get in, just remember to keep smiling and appearing happy; otherwise, they’re going to recommend you for medical termination.

One of Donald Trump’s great qualities is that he refuses to obey the dictates of America’s foreign-policy elite consensus. That consensus was to let the Canadians keep drafting off us on defense, trade, and the Chinese communist infiltration that has corrupted their entire government. We’re supposed to ignore all that because Canadians are nice, but Trump’s not nice. Trump actually cares about America’s national interest, and it’s not in our interest to carry Canada’s rucksack any longer or to open our markets to it. At the same time, it closes its doors to ours and allows our great enemy a foothold on the frozen tundra above us. That’s why he has been hard on Canada, and that’s why Canada is whining like a little girl.

Canada has not been marching beside us, its allegedly closest ally, for a long time. It’s been half-stepping. Now, the argument you hear back is that Canada came to our aid after 9/11 and lost 158 soldiers in Afghanistan, so we should shut up and take whatever they give us, or not give us, as the case may be. Baloney. No one minimizes or belittles the death of those heroes. Their forces were studs, and you can’t say that about all the Allied forces by a long shot. Every American who’s worked with Canadians, including yours truly, respected them as tough and dauntless warriors. You talk bad about the Canadians who served with Americans overseas, and an American soldier will deck you.

But what happened yesterday doesn’t give a free pass for what needs to happen today. The last Canadian killed in Afghanistan died 15 years ago, when they pulled out of combat operations. That’s a decade and a half. That’s a long time. We appreciate that they came, but let’s be real. That was their obligation as a NATO ally when we, a NATO ally, were attacked. They didn't do us a favor; they did their duty under the treaty. Moreover, those semi-human Islamist scumbags murdered 24 Canadian citizens — they were avenging their own as well as ours.

They deliberately chose to stop having a military and let us do it for them. Today, Canada has no real army, no real navy, and no real air force. The once-mighty Canadian military is now a micro-military more focused on DEI than making the enemy DOA. It shamelessly lets the United States defend North America, Europe, and the rest of the world alone. It has no capacity to project power. It’s not in the Red Sea, it’s not in the Persian Gulf, it’s not anywhere helping us do the heavy lifting of keeping the world free. And that’s just the way Canada wants it, because it doesn’t want to spend the money and it doesn’t want to dirty its soft, girlish hands helping big, mean America. Moreover, its communist Chinese masters love having a disarmed and vulnerable pseudo-ally right next to the CCP’s main adversary. Canada has long failed to pay its share of NATO, and Trump isn’t going to tolerate that. No American should tolerate that. But the Democrats do, because if Trump wants it, they have to oppose it, even if it means opposing America.

Democrats call that a “win-win.”

Canada’s military free-riding is only surpassed by its fake free-trade free-riding. Not only do they restrict American imports to their own advantage, but they demand America open its markets to them. Worse, they allow Chinese commodities and products in and let them be transshipped into the United States to circumvent tariffs on China. Again, Trump doesn’t understand the idea that we are somehow morally obligated to allow lesser nations to take advantage of us. This is a right and proper attitude, but because it’s Trump, it has to be bad. That’s one reason Democrats are so eager to take the side of a foreign country screwing over the United States on trade. The other reason is Democrats despise America.

And let’s face it: Canada isn’t anything like a real democracy. It holds no moral high ground. It persecutes people for speaking. It murders those it deems a burden on society. It embraces every disgusting aspect of DEI, including having a justice system that treats different races differently. You can be destroyed for saying things in Canada — financially and maybe even placed in prison. You are also unable to enjoy the God-given right to keep and bear arms; the government keeps a monopoly on lethal force, meaning it keeps a monopoly on power, and those who should be citizens are merely subjects. It’s frankly disgusting, and a country like that is unworthy of our friendship.

But of course, nations don’t have friends. They have interests. And it's in America's interest to redefine our relationship with Canada.

Now, this is not to say that all Canadians are bad people. Many Canadians are great people. And many Canadians are disgusted by what’s happened to their once-proud nation. We should support them in their struggle to regain their freedom and their dignity. The Albertans seem to be on the verge of seceding; we should support that, but they don’t need to be part of the United States. They should be their own thing. And if they want to be our buddies, we need mutual respect, equal trade arrangements, and they need to do their share for the common defense. If their whole country did those things, we wouldn’t be having a problem.

Trump should keep the pressure on Canada. Canada needs to do its share for our mutual defense. It’s going to have to spend more money and put more people in uniform. That’s just the way it is. And it’s not going to have the benefit of the postwar era’s uneven trade-deal regime that it has been relying on for decades. America has a right to equal trade treatment, and it’s going to use its economic power to enforce it no matter how many high-pitched screams issue from our garbage foreign-policy establishment and the foreigners whose gravy train has been derailed. Finally, America is a nation based on respecting the rights God gave every human being; if you want to be a close ally, you’ve got to respect those too, and throwing people in jail for observing that someone with a penis is not a woman disqualifies your country as a friend.

So, Canada, we’re right here ready to be close allies again when you get your act together. But you need to get your act together first. There’s some real talk for ya, eh?

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America’s Comeback

American Thinker 

The U.S. government is working at full speed to reindustrialize the country. With tax cuts, deregulation, and hard-nosed tariff policy, German companies are also being persuaded to engage in the United States. And when persuasion is not enough, U.S. investors go shopping.

For the left and the German media mainstream, Elon Musk is the proverbial “Lord, help us.” An entrepreneur who takes a political stand. For many Germans, the free world ends right there, especially since the voices of entrepreneurs have largely disappeared from public view as soon as things become politically uncomfortable.

Despite all the disputes, Elon Musk still stands firmly behind U.S. President Donald Trump, another persona non grata in the German public sphere. Trump is pursuing perhaps the most aggressive form of reindustrialization policy we have seen since the German economic miracle after the end of the Second World War. With tariffs, deregulation of energy policy, and tax cuts, Trump is getting to work, and the numbers speak for him: Private-sector investment is rising by between 8 and 10 percent year-on-year. The U.S. economy is growing steadily at an annual real rate of 3.5 percent, roughly in line with the increase in labor productivity.

The situation in Germany is different. Here, private-sector investment, after depreciation, slipped into negative territory around the turn of the year. Labor productivity is stagnating or even eroding slightly. In Germany, the economy is now being held together only precariously by the debt hammer and the construction of a domestic war economy. Nothing economically innovative can emerge in such an environment. The consequence is that next year, once the municipal deficit and the special funds are included, the debt burden will rise by more than 5 percent, measured as a share of GDP.

In the United States, the trend is moving in the opposite direction. Despite being largely ignored by the German press, the Trump administration has at least managed to reduce the budget deficit from 6.9 percent under his predecessor Joe Biden to probably around 4.7 percent in the current year. It would not be surprising if the Americans managed to break the dynamics of debt altogether.

To initiate growth, the Americans are relying above all on massive investment in their energy grids, nuclear power, artificial intelligence, and robotics. But traditional industrial sectors as well -- from the automotive industry and aluminum production to the steel sector -- are to be dragged back to the United States through the blunt-force argument of high import tariffs.

Elon Musk plays a significant role in this. Alongside numerous major projects such as the space company SpaceX and the automaker Tesla, his latest project, the chipmaker Terafab, could make economic history in the United States.

Terafab was announced in March 2026 and is to be built in Texas as a joint project between Tesla, SpaceX, and chipmaker Intel. The facility is ultimately planned to cover up to 9.3 million square meters and thus become the largest building in the world. Depending on the stage of development, investment is estimated at between $16.8 billion and $119 billion. In the long term, Terafab is intended to provide more than one terawatt of annual AI computing capacity.

The facility is to manufacture customized AI logic chips and memory chips, primarily for Tesla’s Optimus robots, autonomous vehicles, and Cybercabs, as well as SpaceX’s planned space-based data centers. In the long term, production of up to 100 to 200 billion of these AI and memory chips per year is envisioned. Musk is therefore not simply trying to build another chip factory, but to bring the entire value chain -- from manufacturing and memory to packaging and testing -- under one roof. Step by step, the Americans are making themselves less dependent on chip production by Taiwanese giant TSMC and are slowly but surely pushing themselves back into pole position in the competition with China.

Good economic policy removes infrastructure bottlenecks while otherwise largely staying out of economic affairs. Germany’s energy policy should be proof enough of the damage that ideologically driven delusion and persistent intervention can cause.

German industry is playing an increasingly important role in the reindustrialization of the United States. In 2025 alone, U.S. investors acquired stakes in or control of 76 German industrial and manufacturing companies worth around $29.5 billion -- double the figure recorded in 2022. By August 19, 2026, another $23.9 billion had already been added. Prominent cases include Viessmann and a stake in Aixtron, as well as the acquisition of fan manufacturer EBM-Papst by Madison Air for $5.4 billion and further transactions in mechanical engineering, automotive suppliers, energy, and manufacturing.

Across industrial sectors, know-how and technologies protected by German patents are therefore flowing into the United States -- strengthening its industrial base and the competitiveness of its economy. German policymakers apparently do not seem concerned. Quite the contrary: The German chancellor once again underlined his priorities at the beginning of the week -- the fight against CO2 emissions; energy policy, he said, should not change.

Germany’s deindustrialization therefore appears increasingly unstoppable. It is becoming increasingly irreversible.

Which brings us back to Elon Musk. Good entrepreneurs are what the country needs to turn the ship around. Visionaries who open up markets and thereby create prosperity. True elites are needed. But being part of the elite also means standing by one’s country and by values such as performance, individual and social responsibility, and the fight for civil liberties -- values that are considered outdated nonsense and taboo in the political mainstream.

Where are Germany’s Elon Musks hiding? Where have the courageous representatives of the Mittelstand retreated to? Why are so few willing to step into the public arena and criticize the growing state economy, dangerous censorship, and the ideological rampage of the obsessive world-improvers that has paralyzed the country?

In Germany, 188,000 businesses were abandoned last year. Just 24,000 of them disappeared as a result of insolvency.

Many German entrepreneurs are throwing in the towel these days. They sell up and take their profit -- whether to Americans, Chinese, or competitors in other successful locations no longer matters. What unites them all, what everyone in the country can feel, is this: Entrepreneurs, young and ambitious academics, independent minds, and friends of freedom are no longer welcome in Germany in 2026.

German mainstream media, the political class, and the left-green establishment that sustains it cultivate an aggressive, one-dimensional socialism that turns against anyone who dares to disturb the subsidized paradise of perpetual recipients with criticism.

Conrad Black :Europe Is at a Double Crossroads

 

Simultaneously with the arrival of important deadlines on tariffs and trade arrangements between the United States and Canada, comparably important and complicated decisions will soon have to be attempted between the United States and the European Union. These discussions take place against a background of genuine and rising concern about the stability and future of the brave European experiment.   It is easy, 80 years after the end of World War II, to forget what an extraordinary accomplishment it has been to establish and maintain such a broad collective unity of the objectives between almost all the European countries west of the innermost republics of the old Soviet Union and Turkey, a total of 27 countries. Except for Sweden, Ireland, Spain, and Portugal, all of these countries were heavily engaged in World War II and many of them, including Germany, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Hungary, had the red-hot rake of war dragged over them by the contending sides, often twice.  Most were also pounded mercilessly from the air, and Spain, though not a combatant in the world war, in 1939 concluded a civil war in which Italy, Germany, and the USSR intervened, ravaging the entire country and killing more than a million people.   To have constructed out of this terrible hecatomb a functioning economic and social confederacy where there have been no violent disputes between the countries, and the 80 years of peace—especially the last 35 years in the case of formerly Soviet-dominated countries—have produced a general per capita standard of living approximately two-thirds of that of the United States, must rank as one of the most astounding and positive phenomena of international diplomacy in the history of the nation-state.   The performance of these 27 European countries in comparison to their own individual histories has been remarkably positive. Not so upbeat, however, is their competitive performance. As a percentage of world GDP, from 2000 to 2025, while the United States has risen from 18 percent to a current 25–26 percent, and China has risen from approximately 7 percent to 18 percent, Europe has descended slightly from 19 percent to 17 percent.   There is a great deal of evidence that much official Danegeld has been dispensed as part of the settlement to create institutions and continental policies designed to discourage economically any temptation toward the terrible upheavals that the working and agrarian classes of Europe had resorted to countless times with increasing intensity after the French Revolution began in 1789.  It is hazardous to generalize too much over so many countries and different economies, but in general it must be said that economic growth has moved more slowly as a result of these socialistic policies, although that growth has been more evenly distributed than it might otherwise have been.

It does not lie with contemporary observers to criticize the determination of the founders of the European Common Market, the precursor of the European Union, to emphasize peace and stability over the maximization of economic growth. But the fact remains that Europe is now facing a much different challenge for reconstruction than after the horrors of the two world wars and the brutal oppressions of a number of the principal European governments between the wars.  The comparatively compromised system of capitalism adopted by much of the EU is not ultimately competitive with the United States or even in many respects with China, where a totalitarian government manipulates the value of its own currency and the pricing of its exports and operates almost entirely outside useful international agreements.   The challenging economic decisions confronting Europe and the correct answers to them will almost certainly constitute a radical change of course from the social democratic model that almost all of Europe has pursued from the first days of multi-nationalism with the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951. The six original members of the Common Market were France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.  This was an initial gesture of cooperation between six countries which had all suffered terrible damage in World War II, not only physically, but from the profound and lethal scars left by Nazism, Fascism, and collaboration with brutal foreign enemies.   There is now serious political uncertainty about the viability of the institutions of the new Europe. In practice, the member governments name commissioners to deal with individual policy areas, and these commissioners are like a national cabinet of specialist ministers. They are not individually directly responsible to the European Parliament in Strasbourg.   Ultimately, even more than concerns about immigration, it was the undemocratic European practice of administrative directives showering down from Brussels on every conceivable subject that were not legislated, not adopted by elected people, and were supposedly not appealable, that repelled a narrow majority of the British public and produced the vote a decade ago for the United Kingdom to leave the EU.  When put to the test, Great Britain could not justify subsuming the democratic parliamentary system that had gradually evolved in the 800 years since the Magna Carta with relatively little violence compared to most European countries, into the very well-intentioned but altogether unfledged system in Brussels. (Britain has had six monarchs who died violently at the hands of rivals in 960 years, and only one temporary overthrow of the constitutional system, attempted by Oliver Cromwell.)   Nor is Brussels a plausible source of authority for the British: Belgium was established in 1830 as a buffer state primarily by the statesmanship of the long-serving British foreign secretary and prime minister, Viscount Palmerston, and has never been a serious political centre.   To strengthen the loyalty of Europeans to an integrated political system, as opposed to just an alliance and free trade area, Brussels will have to self-democratize. Instead of doing this, however, the current leadership is trying to abolish the impractical regime of unanimous agreement for a mere majority. If this proceeds, the Euro-government will collapse, the experiment will fail, and trade negotiations with the United States will become a pell-mell competition between the current ostensible European partners, especially France and Germany.  Europe is at a double crossroads: political and economic. https://list.mailexpress.com/archive/N16K7HBub~331/KJNmJy00sx~331/Y01LCSDPlw~331

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Hasan Piker’s Mocking Of Charlie Kirk Is Part Of The Left’s Assassination Prep Campaign

Laughing at Kirk’s murder reinforces this idea that murdering a conservative is a joke, isn’t that important and signals to the next radical that their violence will be met with applause and laughter rather than universal condemnation.

The Federalist

When President Donald Trump was nearly assassinated in Butler, Pennsylvania in July of 2024, the moment was assumed (perhaps naively) by some on the right to be a watershed moment. The egregious display of political violence that was the culmination of a years-long assassination prep campaign against the president and more broadly, Republicans, was certainly the last, so many thought.

It was not.

A little more than a year later, Charlie Kirk was murdered on a Utah college campus for speaking to students. And it’s more clear now than ever that even Kirk’s murder won’t be the watershed moment the country needs, as evidence by the recent viral mocking of Kirk.

Islamic Marxist Hasan Piker mocked Kirk during a live tour performance, singing the “We Are Charlie Kirk” song as his podcast co-hosts and audience laughed.

The sick mocking was just another act of assassination prep. When political opponents are dehumanized, their suffering is a “joke” and audiences and the public are gradually conditioned to treat their murders as funny, justified and even deserved. This creates a culture in which political violence becomes normalized and accepted.

Nearly one year after Kirk’s murder, the message to the radical left from the right is that it can still mock the victim before cheering crowds with no meaningful social or political consequence. That reality reflects a failure of the right to crack down on the violent moment that produced Kirk’s killer and continues to threaten Americans, the administration, and officials nationwide.

Trump announced he was designating Antifa as a terrorist organization just days after Kirk was murdered. But as I previously wrote, the administration needs to act “with sufficient and necessary force” to solve left-wing violence, but that doesn’t appear to have happened yet. That failure is both producing and accelerating left-wing violence and assassination prep, as evidenced by Piker’s cruel mocking.

And each time someone is able to add to this culture of dehumanization, it helps lay the groundwork for future political violence. Each failure to crush the organizations and networks behind political violence signals that each escalation will have few repercussions.

Take for example what has happened since Kirk’s murder. Just a few weeks after Kirk was murdered, “No Kings” protests sprung up across the country, with several protesters outright calling for the murder of Trump. Some protesters even had signs calling for political violence against ICE agents. That rhetoric (the same type of rhetoric that led to the many assassination attempts against the president) is the type that leads to the December incident in which four far-left extremists were arrested for allegedly planning a series of New Year’s Eve bombings and an ambush on ICE officers in Los Angeles.

During Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis just a few weeks later, one rioter bit off an ICE agent’s finger. In May a rioter was charged “for allegedly kicking and biting ICE officers” at a New Jersey illegal immigrant holding center, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on X. Another individual was arrested after threatening to murder an immigration officer and his family.

Meanwhile, 31-year-old Cole Allen rushed past a Secret Service checkpoint while armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives at the White House Correspondents Association dinner this past April. He then headed toward the ballroom at the Washington Hilton Hotel, where Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and other members of the cabinet were. Allen was ultimately subdued by law enforcement. That assassination attempt was a result of the years-long assassination prep campaign against the president that dehumanized him as Hitler and painted him as an existential threat that would not be solved with an election.

These incidents are part of a larger problem — left wing violence. For years the left has said Trump is Hitler, conservatives are fascists, ICE is the Gestapo, and signaled that elections are not enough to stop them. Once people accept those premises, it justifies resistance by any means necessary and up to and including violence, which we have seen.

This is why Piker’s sick joke matters. Laughing at Kirk’s murder isn’t just cruel and depraved and a sign of the devil. It reinforces this idea that murdering a conservative is a joke, isn’t that important and then signals to the next radical that their violence will be met with applause and laughter rather than universal condemnation.

US Sanctions Foreign Tech Group For Providing Infrastructure For Left-Wing Domestic Terror

The A/I Collective website is open about its desire for unrest and the destruction of Western civilization.

The Federalist

The State Department on Wednesday announced that a foreign tech group provides online infrastructure to U.S. domestic terror groups to conduct violence across the country. The department formally recognized Italy-based Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist group and subsequently sanctioned it.

According to the State Department, Autistici/Inventati, or the A/I Collective, is a “hacker cell that provides far-left extremists with encrypted communications, calls, and web-hosting services — all concealed from law enforcement. The A/I Collective is a central node in the far-left’s war on our civilization.”

“These tools are specifically designed to support the operations of far-left terrorist networks, built to enable them to organize, recruit, communicate, disseminate propaganda, share target information and tactics, and carry out violent attacks — all while remaining anonymous, untraceable, and beyond the reach of the law,” the State Department said. It operates in the U.S. and around the world.

The A/I Collective supported terror groups like Jane’s Revenge, which is responsible for firebombing pregnancy centers across the country after the overturn of Roe v. Wade, according to the State Department. Jane’s Revenge “relied on A/I Collective tools and services to publish official communiqués and claims of responsibility for violent and criminal acts and to incite copycat attacks.”

The Rose City Antifa cell in Portland, Oregon, used A/I Collective’s tools to organize and incite more violence, including “an attack on Customs and Border Patrol helicopters,” spreading doxxing lists on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, and call for assaults on ICE agents “in their homes,” the department said.

“There will be no refuge for violent extremists who wage war on our civilization and plot to undermine law and order, destroy critical infrastructure, assault political opponents, or conspire to conceal their crimes from authorities,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.

The terror designation means that no American or U.S.-based financial can do business with the A/I Collective and that its assets in the U.S. are frozen. “Violations of U.S. sanctions may result in the imposition of civil or criminal penalties on U.S. and foreign persons,” the Treasury Department stated.

The State Department says the A/I Collective hosts about 16,000 mailboxes, 1,500 websites, 5,500 mailing lists, and 10,000 blogs.

Its blog platform, NoBlogs, includes topics such as “Anarchist Anti-Militarism, Indigenous Rights, and Global Liberation Struggles,” “Radical anti-militarist sabotage and prison abolitionism,” “Gentrification, Touristification, and Urban Displacement,” and “Critique of State Power, Carceral Systems, and Legal Repression.”

Topics page on Autistici/Inventati’s blog platform NoBlogs (Screenshot).

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The A/I Collective website is open about its desire for unrest and the destruction of Western civilization. Its “manifesto” states “standing outside the commercial attitude of payed services and web spaces, we happily welcome those unresting towards cultural and media censorship, against the globalized imaginery being prepared, packed and sold to us each and every day.”

“We support individuals, collectives, communities and groups whose political and social activities fit within this worldview and who share with us some fundamental principles: anti-fascism, anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-militarism,” the “about” page continues. “On top of that, one has to share our basic attitude towards money and the capitalistic world: a deep feeling of uneasyness and unrest.”

The group’s “policy” page states that “to be hosted on our servers you have to share our principles of anti-fascism, anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-homophobia, anti-transphobia, and anti-militarism.”

It further notes that “misuse” of its platform includes “promoting fascism, nazism, militarism, state nationalism or contributing to the discrimination, harassment or harm against any individual or group through forms of discrimination based on gender, race, religion or sexual orientation, along with issuing statements which are racist, xenophobic or discriminatory in any other form.”

Interestingly, it also has a “policy” against “publishing of others’ personal information,” but caveats that it is allowed so long as there is a “legitimate right of reporting such information.” Doxxing federal agents trying to do their job appears to fit into that caveat.

“The services we provide are not intended for (directly or indirectly) commercial use, or to be used by organized religions or political parties, or, in short, by those who already have the means and resources sufficient to widely spread their own ideas, or who use the concept of representation and (explicit or implicit) delegation in their day-to-day relationships and projects,” the manifesto continues.

They operate as a nonprofit and primarily through volunteers with “no sponsors or funding of any kind” except for the donations of true believers. It is unclear who their donors are.

“Political terrorism has no place in our society, and we will continue to cut the financial lifelines of these groups until they are eliminated,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.

America Wants Reindustrialization. That Means Building AI Data Centers.

Townhall 

A central Republican concern in recent years has been how to reindustrialize America. Part of the answer may lie in the factory of the future: the AI data center, currently one of the country’s most unpopular infrastructure projects.

Jesse Arm, a pollster and vice president of external affairs at the Manhattan Institute, argued Tuesday that the path to a reindustrialized America may run through embracing AI data centers. He praised Montana Sen. Tim Sheehy for drawing a stark comparison earlier this week between data centers and the timber mills and factories that politicians have spent years shutting down in the name of helping workers and communities.

Sen. Sheehy and Arm’s point is that the same political impulse that hollowed out traditional industry is now turning against the infrastructure needed to build the next one. Politicians claim they want jobs, innovation, and a stronger domestic economy, until the projects that make those goals possible arrive in their own communities. Data centers may not resemble the factories of the past, but they are a vital foundation for the technology, businesses, and productive capacity America will need to compete in the future.

"Yeah, there's a lot of hysteria. There's a lot of panic about data centers right now. The AI companies that came out and said, doom and gloom projections about this technology is going to lead to massive job loss, best case scenario, worst case scenario, Terminator-like killings of all of us. So surprise, surprise, people are upset about data centers and have whipped themselves up into a real frenzy about it," Arm said.

He went on to point out that politicians such as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, both initially supportive of data-center expansion, quickly shifted course amid rising public backlash. Arm described the turn as “performative,” particularly because most data centers are ready to comply with the guidelines being proposed and will likely be built anyway. In other words, the moratoria amount to shiny new red tape meant to quell public backlash, inviting more government involvement in an industry where its role should be limited.

“One lawmaker who stood out to me as a really effective communicator on this issue has been Senator Tim Sheehy of Montana, who’s something of a rising star within the GOP. He’s gone to great lengths to point out—he recently tweeted something about this—that, look, we’ve wanted to reindustrialize. We wanted to rebuild America’s ability to create new things,” he said. And data centers are essential to doing exactly that. 

Their value is not limited to the construction jobs they create. By expanding the computing infrastructure available to AI startups and technology companies, they give those firms the capacity to grow, innovate, and hire more Americans. They also help preserve U.S. technological leadership over foreign adversaries.

A CNN panelist then raised the familiar criticism that AI data centers do not create many jobs. It is worth pointing out how shortsighted that argument has become. 

The American economy is not a jobs program. Its purpose is not to preserve outdated ways of producing goods simply so people can remain employed in them. Republicans used to understand that. The economy’s job is to embrace the future, increase productivity, and create the conditions for Americans to build better lives. 

Yes, data centers create a major influx of construction and skilled-trades work. Once operational, they generally employ dozens to a few hundred long-term workers, critical-facility engineers, network technicians, electricians, HVAC specialists, security personnel, maintenance workers, and operations managers. 

But the jobs critics ignore are the ones made possible by expanded computing capacity. Data centers give AI startups and technology companies the infrastructure to grow, hire, and develop new products: software engineers, researchers, data scientists, cybersecurity professionals, product managers, designers, sales teams, legal and compliance staff, and countless workers at businesses that adopt the technology. The direct headcount at a single facility may be limited; the productive capacity it unlocks for people across the country is not.

When we talk about reindustrialization, it does not mean nostalgically rebuilding the factories of the past, where workers performed backbreaking labor for eight or more hours a day in dangerous conditions. It means ensuring that America can build the infrastructure, develop the technology, and power the industries that will define the future. 

The factories of the next American industrial age may not look like the steel mills, assembly lines, or textile plants of the last one. They will be data centers, chip fabs, automated-manufacturing facilities, energy projects, research labs, and the companies built around them. This is how America will reindustrialize. Not by freezing the economy in place or clinging to outdated modes of production and productivity, but by embracing the future.

Iran Running Out of Gas, Situation 'Not Sustainable' VP Says

RedState 

Iran has been teetering on the brink with its economy. 

As we reported, the U.S. naval blockade has cut off the regime's shipping, in and out. That's killing their revenue. Their currency has plunged to a record low, and inflation is stifling the people. 

Now, on top of it, the U.S. has upped the pressure even more with Operation Economic Outcast to cut off any economic lifelines the regime has with countries/entities/people all around the world, and sanctioning anyone who continues to do business with Iran. The United Arab Emirates, one of their biggest trading partners, has now cut them off. 

Their parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf admitted they were running out of time and said, “No matter how strong we are militarily, if the people are hungry and we do not have financial circulation, economic growth and domestic production, we will not endure." 

Now, Executive Vice President Mohammad Jafar Ghaempanah is confirming that Iran cannot import gasoline because of the U.S. naval blockade and is warning that the current fuel situation cannot continue, the state-run IRNA news agency said on Wednesday.

“Continuing on this path is impossible,” Ghaempanah declared, explaining that the domestic gasoline production was insufficient and that “with the US naval blockade, we cannot import gasoline.”

There are long lines at the gas pumps in Tehran and other cities. Including Mashhad. 

They've already had to go deep into their strategic reserve.

Iran's drawdown of strategic fuel reserves has reached a “red alert” level and could exhaust remaining stocks within weeks, fueling disagreement between President Masoud Pezeshkian and the Revolutionary Guards, informed sources told Iran International on Wednesday.

The reserves, intended to cushion severe shortages and emergencies, have been tapped at a pace in recent weeks that has prompted warnings from experts within the state about the consequences of continuing, the sources said.

They used to make up any shortfalls in domestic production with imports, but now, with the blockade, they are unable to do that.