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Friday, April 10, 2026

"Mene Mene Tekel Uparsin", by E. Michael Jones - The Unz Review - (No one - you and I included - escapes divine scrutiny! Repeat: NO ONE! - CL)

 Forced into a war that it did everything to avoid, Iran is now insisting that it will not return to a corrupt status quo ante. The Americans who have been forced to pay for one more war whose sole beneficiary is Israel, thanks to AIPAC and Jewish backers like the late Mr. Radvinsky, who channeled $11 million in ill-gotten gains from his porn site Only Fans into AIPAC coffers should not be forced this status quo ante either. The system of Jewish control of our Congress and culture needs to be broken up, and at this moment in time, the Iranians are the only geopolitical players who have the will and the wherewithal to accomplish this goal.

This is not the first time Iranians or Persians, as they were known then, played a crucial role in salvation history. When Belshazzar, son of Nebuchadnezzar, the man Jeremiah referred to as “the servant of God” because of the role he played in chastising an incorrigible Israel, profaned the Temple vessels to impress his retinue during their drunken revelry, a hand appeared out of nowhere and wrote on the wall of his banquet hall, “Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin,” an Aramaic phrase, which means, “You have been weighed and found wanting, and your kingdom will be divided and given to the Persians.” Daniel told Belshazzar and his father that “The Most High rules over the kingship of men (Daniel 4:14),” but Belshazzar had to learn that no earthly king is above God’s moral law the hard way by being deposed, and then blinded, and then left to meditate on his fate until he died in exile. “Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin” is not simply an ancient riddle; it is “a dramatic biblical declaration that God numbers, weighs, and divides the fates of nations and individuals according to His justice. The story of Belshazzar’s feast remains a timeless theological warning: no power, however grand, escapes divine scrutiny.”[5]


https://www.unz.com/ejones/mene-mene-tekel-uparsin-is-donald-trump-belshazzar/ 

Like Nebuchadnezzar, Donald Trump “killed whom he pleased, spared whom he pleased, promoted whom he pleased, degraded whom he pleased. But because his heart grew swollen with pride, and his spirits stiff with arrogance, he was deprived from his sovereign throne and stripped of his glory.”[6] Like Nebuchadnezzar, Donald Trump’s pride and arrogance became so great that they deprived him of his reason; “his heart grew completely animal; he lived with the wild assess, he fed on grass like the oxen, his body was drenched by the dew of heaven, until he had learnt that the Most High rules over the empire of men and appoints whom he pleases to rule it.”[7]

Trump, as of this writing, is thinking of cutting his losses by withdrawing from the region leaving Iran in control of the Strait of Hormuz. We pray that he follows the example of Nebuchadnezzar, who finally came to his senses after a period of derangement and admitted that “the Most High rules over the kingship of men.” But he could end up like Belshazzar, the blind leader of a blind people. “Caecus dux, caici populi” is the phrase Silvio Aeneas Piccolomini, who became Pope Pius II, applied to Jan Zizka, the Hussite general. Belshazzar was literally blinded by the Chaldean king who inflicted God’s chastisement on Israel because “you have not humbled your heart. . . . You have defied the Lord of heaven.”

Cyrus, the Persian king who defeated Belshazzar, set the Hebrew captives free and told them to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple. God is now using Persia to inflict punishment on Israel. Let’s pray that the same rod will destroy the Israel Lobby and free America from its Jewish oppressors. Trump needs to heed the warnings now emanating from Tehran and abandon his faithless Jewish partners in crime, lest he end up like Belshazzar.

Killing and Indifference - Judge Nap

 Is the president required to tell the truth? Is the government required to tell the truth? Why is it that the government can lie to the people but it is a crime to lie to the government? Does the government work for us, or do we work for the government? Does the government know more about us than we do about it?

What happens when the government is untruthful and the people believe it? Isn’t truth the essential bond between the government and the governed in a free society? Doesn’t the government derive its just powers from the consent of the governed? What happens when the government does things to which the governed have never consented?

Full text:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/04/andrew-p-napolitano/killing-and-indifference/ 

What World War II Really Changed — And Why It Still Matters - LewRockwell

 Post-war recovery was not financed through independent national development alone, but increasingly through debt-based mechanisms. Countries borrowed — often at scale — to rebuild infrastructure, stabilise currencies, and manage economic transitions.

Over time, this evolved into a system in which:

  • national economies became structurally dependent on borrowing
  • repayment obligations shaped fiscal and monetary policy
  • access to credit became conditional on adherence to specific economic frameworks

In practical terms, economic sovereignty was no longer absolute.

Countries were not simply managing their own internal affairs — they were operating within a global financial architecture in which key decisions were influenced, and at times constrained, by external institutions.

This shift did not occur through a direct democratic mandate.

There was no widespread public referendum across nations on whether such a system should be adopted. Instead, it emerged through wartime agreements, post-war mechanisms, and the gradual institutionalisation of financial governance at an international level.

Over the decades, this system expanded in scope and influence.

Institutions originally presented as stabilising forces increasingly became central nodes in a broader framework of global economic coordination — one in which debt functioned not just as a financial tool of control, but as a mechanism of alignment.

This was not just reconstruction—it was the foundation of a new monetary architecture


https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/04/mark-keenan/what-world-war-ii-really-changed-and-why-it-still-matters/ 

Conclusion

World War II did not simply end one conflict and begin another era.

It marked the transition into a different kind of system—one in which power is exercised less through territory, and more through financial structure.

The post-war order embedded a model in which nations operate within a shared monetary framework, carry permanent debt obligations, and interact with institutions that exist beyond direct democratic control.

This system did not emerge through public debate or popular consent. It took shape through wartime agreements and was consolidated in the decades that followed.

Whether one sees it as stabilising or constraining, it defines the modern world.

Understanding World War II, therefore, is not only about the past.

It is about the structure of the present.

In my book Censored History, I explore a wider range of twentieth-century sources and interpretations — many of them overlooked, contested or diverging sharply from mainstream academic consensus — and examine how they relate to the structures that emerged in the aftermath of World War II.

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Declaring Victory - Vox Popoli - (Victory? Yes - if America can get its Zionist monkey off its back! - CL)

 Despite all of the claims of TACO and so forth, declaring victory and retreating from the Middle East would be the best possible outcome for the United States.....


https://voxday.net/2026/04/08/declaring-victory/ 

.....Is it a victory? Of course not, in the strategic sense. The war with Iran was unwinnable, just as was the case with Ukraine, Afghanistan, and Iraq. But it was objectively a comprehensive military victory on the battlefield for US forces, which has rather usefully served to point out the limitations of military power to the rabid Zionist imperialists who now have a much better grasp of the fact that their influence over the US government and its military guarantees them nothing in the Middle East or elsewhere, even if they haven’t accepted it.

Mark Levin is currently on air with shaking and crying over the ceasefire with Iran: “The people of Iran!! Are we going to just leave them there? There’s nothing we can do, and we’re going to wash our hands over that? That to me is morally very difficult to accept!”

Yes. Levin should be relieved, because if the USA was the Middle East morality police, invading Israel, ending the genocide, and liberating Gaza on behalf of the Palestinians would be its top priority, followed by ejecting the IDF from southern Lebanon.  Leaving the Middle East to its own devices would be a real victory for the American people, who have sufficient challenges of their own inside their own borders to resolve. So let’s hope the ceasefire between the USA and Iran holds, even if the one between Israel and Iran almost certainly won’t. This two-week ceasefire is a good sign, but it definitely doesn’t mean the war is over and AIPAC will be working overtime to try to overturn it.

Trump’s Iran War: Worse Than Expected, But Better Than Hoped? - Karen Kwiatkowski

 "Virtually every person I know, from my leftist comrades and colleagues to my MAGA high school classmates, is saying the same thing: they’re tired of Israel’s shit."


https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/04/karen-kwiatkowski/trumps-iran-war-worse-than-expected-but-better-than-hoped/ 

DACost of Kissing Bibi's ASS—How The Donald Bombed Energy Consumers, Too - Stockman

 In any event, global crude oil was at $60 per barrel at the beginning of 2026 and the national average pump price stood at $2.75 per gallon, eliciting a noisy chorus of atta boys from MAGA-land.

No more. It’s a global market where pricing pressures transmit rapidly accross markets and among various related elements of the hydrocarbon supply system. With global crude oil above $100 per barrel the domestic gas pump price is now at $4.03 per gallon for one reason and one reason only: The Donald kissed Bibi Netanyahu’s ass and joined his war of aggression not only against Iran but the entire Persian Gulf supply system for no good reason of America’s Homeland Security whatsoever.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/04/david-stockman/the-market-law-of-one-price-how-the-donald-bombed-energy-consumers-too/ 

Christianity Is Right for Smart People, Too - LewRockwell

 Lewis and others mentioned by Murray provide more targeted guidance than most people we meet in person ever could. These gifted teachers can be gateways to richer lives. And to this distinguished group of literary companions, we can now add Charles Murray.

That is quite an achievement—especially for someone like Murray, who describes himself as having a deficit in perceiving spiritual realities. His experience suggests that with religion, as with cognitive therapy, when we change our thoughts, our feelings follow. The surest wellspring of faith may simply be to gain an increasingly true understanding of how God and Jesus have left their imprint on the hearts of those who came before us, then on those around us, and ultimately on us.