Howard Gutowitz

Récapitulatif terminé : liste des personnalités candidates, quasi candidates ou susceptibles de l’être en 2027. Mea culpa si j’en ai oublié 👀

🚨 In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court holds that state-law tort claims against military contractors are not preempted by federal law where the contractor’s conduct was not ordered or authorized by the federal government.

Well that ends the debate on deaths in Gaza. Hamas itself is admitting that 80% of casualties were combatants. There was never a genocide. You have been lied to and manipulated.

🚨BREAKING: DOJ charges the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with wire fraud, false statements, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The SPLC secretly funneled $3M+ in donor funds to violent racist extremist groups: -Ku Klux Klan -American Nazi Party -Aryan Nation -United Klans of America -Unite the Right -National Alliance -National Socialist Movement -Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club -American Front To hide the payments, SPLC allegedly opened bank accounts under fictitious entities to conceal the source and control of donor funds. Per the indictment: an SPLC field source was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville — made racist postings under SPLC supervision and helped coordinate transportation to the event. FBI Director Kash Patel: "They lied to their donors, vowing to dismantle violent extremist groups, and actually turned around and paid the leaders of these very extremist groups — even utilizing the funds to have these groups facilitate the commission of state and federal crimes." Acting AG Todd Blanche: "The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence. Using donor money to allegedly profit off Klansmen cannot go unchecked." Scheme allegedly ran 2014–2023. FBI calls it an ongoing investigation. Insane!!!

So is the Democratic party embracing Mamdani now? No problem that he's a Socialist? Or that his wife liked October 7th? This is the new normal?

It was just over a year after the war ended, in the Polish town of Kielce. A small group of Jewish survivors, maybe 150 or so, had gathered in a building at 7 Planty Street. They were trying to rebuild some kind of life after losing everything in the Holocaust. Most had come back from camps or hiding, hoping against hope that home might still be safe. On 1 July 1946, a nine-year-old Polish boy called Henryk Błaszczyk wandered off without telling his parents. When he turned up two days later, he spun a story to avoid a telling-off. He said Jews at that Planty Street building had kidnapped him, held him in a basement, and were planning to kill him along with other Christian children for some ritual. There was no basement, of course, and none of it was true. But the old blood libel rumour, that ancient lie about Jews murdering kids for their blood, caught fire anyway. Early on the morning of 4 July, Henryk went with his father and the police to the building. Word spread fast. A crowd started gathering outside, restless and angry. Police went in first. They quickly saw the boy’s tale did not add up, but by then the mood on the street had turned ugly. People shouted that the authorities were covering for the Jews. Soldiers arrived around ten o’clock. The Jews inside felt a flicker of relief, thinking help had come. Instead, shots rang out. Some say a Jewish resident fired in panic to defend the place. Others point to the troops themselves. Either way, the violence exploded. Police and soldiers joined civilians in dragging people out, beating them, shooting them. Men, women, even a mother with her baby, no one was spared. By midday, workers from a local foundry poured in during their lunch break, armed with iron bars and clubs. The courtyard turned into a killing ground, littered with blood and broken weapons. The horror spilled beyond the building too. Jews on passing trains through Kielce station were pulled off and attacked. In total, 42 Jews died that day. Dozens more were badly hurt, some so severely they did not survive. Two Polish men who tried to help the victims were killed as well. Imagine surviving the camps, losing your whole family, and then facing this from your neighbours. The fear it spread was enormous. In the weeks that followed, thousands of Polish Jews decided they could not stay. What had been a trickle of emigration became a flood, with over a hundred thousand leaving the country. Kielce showed them, in the most brutal way, that the old hatred had not died with the war. Later, Polish authorities held quick trials. 40 stood trial, 9 people were executed, but many of the police and soldiers involved faced little real punishment. The event shocked the world and remains one of the darkest chapters in post-war Europe.

⚡️The von der Leyen quote is one of the most revealing things a European leader has said in the last decade and almost nobody is going to process it correctly. “The cheapest energy is the one you don’t use.” That is a sentence spoken by a person presiding over civilizational decline who has decided to reframe the decline as virtue. It’s not a policy statement. It’s a theological position. The energy crisis isn’t a problem to be solved by producing more energy. It’s an opportunity for Europeans to need less. To want less. To consume less. To live smaller lives in smaller apartments heated to lower temperatures with less travel and less activity and less economic output. The scarcity isn’t a failure. It’s the goal. This is the thing Americans and everyone outside of Europe cannot fully grasp about where European elite thinking has landed. They genuinely believe that reducing European energy consumption is morally good regardless of the economic consequences, because European consumption is tied to European environmental guilt which is tied to European colonial guilt which is tied to a broader belief that European civilization has been net negative for the world and should shrink. The energy crisis gives them political cover to implement policies that would otherwise be unpopular. Now they can say circumstances force the reduction when the reduction was always the plan. Von der Leyen is not an aberration. She represents the consensus view among the European political class. Macron believes this. Scholz believes this. The entire EU Commission believes this. They don’t say it this directly usually because it polls badly, but every major policy they implement is consistent with this worldview. Degrowth is not a fringe academic position in European politics. It’s the operating framework at the top. The American version of this framing would be “the cheapest energy is the one we produce ourselves at scale.” That’s what actually reduces cost and increases resilience. Building more nuclear, extracting more gas, expanding the grid, investing in new production. The European version is the opposite. Don’t build anything. Don’t extract anything. Don’t produce anything. Just use less. And when citizens can’t heat their homes or fly for work, frame it as virtue. This is why Europe can’t recover from the current trajectory. The recovery would require a complete reversal of the ideological framework that produced the decline, and that framework is held most strongly by exactly the people who have the power to change it. They’re not going to reverse it because they don’t see the trajectory as a problem. They see it as necessary and good.