Gee, Where Did I Put That Sign? - Denninger

 Oh, you know the one...

I'm speaking of Iran, of course......

.....This is a conflict we cannot win.  The people do not want to overthrow the government and replace it with a "western" one in sufficient numbers; there are far too many who support the existing structure.  The only way to "conquer" such a nation is directly, with boots on the ground, and we would have to kill all those who oppose same or you wind up with a permanent state of guerilla warfare.  America has no good way to get that many people there, we lack the material to do it in the current time and our nation will not tolerate the tens of thousands of American troops who will come back in a box or bag if it was attempted.  These are not goat-screwing savages; these are Persians as I've repeatedly noted and they're both not stupid and have a history of our nation screwing with them going back to the 1950s, thus they were ready for this and are not going to simply lay down and surrender.  They never were going to and they certainly will not do so now.

Full text:

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=255671 

The Verdict of Mars - Vox Popoli - (History is a cruel teacher and deservedly so to its obsturant students! - CL)

 Success always contains the seeds of failure. Unfortunately, Donald Trump doesn’t realize that his strategic bluffery has been comprehensively called by Iran and its allies......

https://voxday.net/2026/07/08/the-verdict-of-mars/ 

....So when the economy implodes, understand that it is Netanyahu and Trump who are the two primary individuals responsible. They chose to fight this war. And it looks like every deranged leader in history who couldn’t bring himself to accept the verdict of Mars and throw in the towel before defeat became undeniable, they’re going to take the ship down with them.

Remember, Iran defeated the Epstein Alliance with only a small amount of assistance from its allies. Even if the US and Israel up their antes, Iran will be able to call them and raise. And I don’t think the Gulf States and Saudi Arabia are going to stay onside for long.

How to Stop Corruption - Vox Popoli

 China has a less-corrupt government system than any government in the West these days.

A court in eastern China has sentenced a former city official to death for taking more than 2.2bn yuan ($325m; £243m) in bribes over 30 years.....

https://voxday.net/2026/07/08/how-to-stop-corruption/ 

...If your political rivals are corrupt, then obviously an anti-corruption campaign will purge them. That’s a feature, not a bug. The difference between Xi and the ineffectual Trump could not be more obvious than the former’s massively successful war on corruption and Trump’s total failure to arrest or convict, let alone execute, a single traitorous and corrupt government pedophile.

There’s no excuse for that. Waging a stupid and disastrous war on Iran while failing to make peace with Russia is always going to be a major stain on his legacy. But that’s how things go for big-talking cowards. Sooner or later, the rhetoric has to become real, or it just looks ridiculous.

Trump isn’t a terrible president. But he had a real opportunity for greatness, and for one reason or another, he failed to seize his moment. Now, barring the possibility that there are things going on that we can’t presently see, it appears he’ll go down with his friends in Clown World.

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Villains of Judea: Armand Hammer, by Jose Alberto Nino - The Unz Review

 

Armie Hammer spent the summer of 2026 back in the headlines, and not gently. His comeback vehicle, Citizen Vigilante, a low-budget thriller written and directed by the pro-Israel German provocateur Uwe Boll, reached theaters and digital platforms on June 19 and immediately drew fire. Hammer plays Sanders, a wealthy American in Zagreb who guns down criminals, rapists, and the judges he believes let them walk, most of them written as Muslim migrants.

German regulators refused to rate the picture, effectively banning it over fears it incites violence against immigrants. Elon Musk then posted the entire film to X for free, and right wing figures rallied to it. Hammer, who lost his career after 2021 sexual misconduct allegations that Los Angeles prosecutors declined to charge, told The Hollywood Reporter, “I’m pretty sure I cried,” adding, “I just wanted to work again.” He has always denied the accusations, insisting, “I didn’t do what people are saying I did.”

Yet the frenzy over one actor obscures a far stranger Hammer story. Armie’s great grandfather, Armand Hammer, spent nearly a century turning intrigue into a business model, and almost every chapter of his life arrived wrapped in some type of scandal......

https://www.unz.com/jnino/villains-of-judea-armand-hammer/ 

Armand Hammer spent a lifetime laundering Soviet money, poisoning American neighborhoods, and bribing presidents. Armie Hammer spent his prime years accused of the kind of depravity that usually ends careers. The family story is not one of redemption or assimilation. It is a straight line of dysfunction, one that suggests no amount of wealth or Western education can overwrite what runs in the blood.

America's missing middle: The shrinking 45-64 population

 

Change in U.S. population by age group, 2020-2025

A bar chart that shows U.S. population change by age group from 2020 to 2025. Adults 65 and older grew the most, up 16.2%. Ages 25 to 44 rose 5.7% and ages 18 to 24 increased 3.2%. Under 18 fell 2.4%, while ages 45 to 64 declined 3.2%.

1. Under 18
   -2.4%
2. 18 to 24
   +3.2
3. 25 to 44
   +5.7
4. 45 to 64
   -3.2
5. 65 and older

Data: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 population estimates; Chart: Russell Contreras/Axios

America has a missing-middle problem — and this one is demographic.

Why it matters: The shrinking 45-64 population could leave fewer experienced adults to run institutions, mentor younger workers and care for the fast-growing population behind them.

• This is the Gen X-ish squeeze: The age group includes most of Generation X, plus younger baby boomers.
• It also overlaps with the "sandwich generation" years, when many adults are juggling children, aging parents, careers and their own retirement worries.

By the numbers: The U.S. population ages 45-64 fell by 2.68 million from April 1, 2020, to July 1, 2025, according to new Census Bureau population estimates reviewed by Axios.

https://www.axios.com/2026/07/07/gen-x-population-shrinking-taxes-economy 

The Zero Literature Campaign - Vox Popoli - (CULTURE controls your life - NOT politics! - CL)

 We know about Clown World’s Zero History campaign. We can see signs of it everywhere from Fructidor to the Khmer Rouge. But it was also accompanied by a Zero Literature campaign. This is not just our imagination at work. You can still see it in action. But the campaign to disappear traditional literature with historical Western values began at least a century before the ALA was cancelling Laura Ingalls Wilder.

A division of the American Library Association has voted to remove Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name from a major children’s book award over concerns with how the early-to-mid 20th century author portrayed blacks and Native Americans.....

Full text:

https://voxday.net/2026/07/07/the-zero-literature-campaign/ 

...I have no doubt that if Laura Ingalls Wilder had published a century before she did in a language other than English, we would never have heard of her. Both Benito Perez Galdos and Zenaide Fleuriot were much more significant in their native languages than Wilder was in English, and yet somehow, the English publishing world never saw fit to translate them despite producing dozens of editions of far less popular, far less marketable, and far less significant works.

This is why it is absolutely vital to stop blindly supporting those things that the mainstream feeds you, and go out of your way to find those things and support those things that are in line with your values, and not the “core values” of things like the ALSC.

Alexander Hamilton and Franks Dynasty: Jewish Masterminds of American Revolution and USA, by Marco de Wit - The Unz Review - (Was USRAEL baked in DaCake? - CL)

 Table of Contents

• • 1. First Stage: Jewish Fatal Embrace
  • 2. Second Stage: Jewish Culture of Critique
  • 3. Third Stage: Jewish Great Game
  • 4. Fourth Stage: Hiding Game
  • REFERENCES

Image: Summary of the article emphasizing the banking and geopolitical aspects of the American Revolution. Thesis: Alexander Hamilton served as a crypto-Jewish instrument of the Jewish Franks dynasty in the long-term Jewish “master plan” of transforming America into the philosemitic safe haven and power center of the diaspora through the creation of the American central bank.

Introduction

With the 250-year celebration of America’s independence, interest in the Founding Fathers has greatly increased. However, there is one taboo that has stood the test of those 250 years: Alexander Hamilton’s possible Jewishness and the Jewish origins of the American Revolution and USA. This topic is still often treated as a “Nazi conspiracy theory.” However, perhaps understanding American history requires looking through the lenses of both liberty and ethnicity.

Full text:

https://www.unz.com/article/alexander-hamilton-and-franks-dynasty-jewish-masterminds-of-american-revolution-and-usa/