Hardcore Protestant Conservative from Northern Ireland is Also a Child Sex Abuser

The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is a unionist, loyalist, British nationalist and national conservative political party in Northern Ireland. DUP members used to be Irish Catholics, but for centuries they were occupied and starved by the English invaders and forced to become Protestants, and the English crooks used them to break Ireland in two. So of course, like the American Evangelical conservatives, these traitors hate Catholics.

But as conservatives with plenty of Christian family values, they join with the conservative Catholic Church in sexually abusing children. Didn't the Messiah say, "let the children come to me?"
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Jeffrey Donaldson stripped of knighthood by King
Luke Sproule - BBC News NI
Thu, July 23, 2026 


Jeffrey Donaldson was convicted on 22 June [PA Media]

Former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Jeffrey Donaldson has been stripped of his knighthood by the King.

Donaldson, who was an MP from 1997 until 2024, was convicted in June of 18 counts of sex abuse including one count of rape, which he committed against two women when they were children.

In the aftermath of his conviction he asked to be removed from the Privy Council and for his knighthood to be forfeited.

On Thursday a notice was published in The Gazette - one of the UK's official journals of record - stating that Charles III had directed the cancellation of Donaldson's knighthood.

The notice, published by the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood stated: "THE KING has directed the cancellation and annulment of the knighthood conferred upon Jeffrey Mark Donaldson on the 11 June 2016 as a Knight Bachelor."

Donaldson was awarded the honour in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in 2016.

He was removed from the Privy Council, which advises the monarch, earlier in July.

The DUP has commissioned an independent review into Donaldson's time in the party.

He was previously a member of the Ulster Unionist Party, which has said it will appoint an independent, external organisation to establish a process for people to confidentially share information about Jeffrey Donaldson during his time in the party.

Donaldson was convicted unanimously on all counts by a jury of seven men and five women at Newry Crown Court.

He was told by the judge that the sentence would be a lengthy one.

It has since been confirmed he is to appeal his convictions.

His legal team lodged the paperwork with the Court of Appeal in Belfast on 17 July.

His attempt to have his convictions overturned is unlikely to play out before he is sentenced.

The process will involve a hearing at which leave to appeal would either be granted or denied - it is speculated this could happen sometime in September.

Should leave be granted, a full hearing would then follow at a later stage.

How is a knighthood taken away?

An honour such as a knighthood can be removed on the advice of a body known as the Forfeiture Committee if the holder is deemed to have brought the honours system into disrepute.

Recommendations to remove an honour are considered byt the committee and if it agrees to remove an honour, that advice is passed onto the King via the prime minister.

If the King gives his approval a notice is then normally placed in the Gazette.

The holder of the honour is then asked to return their insignia to Buckingham Palace and cannot use the title or post-nominal letters any more.

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Zionist Gottheimer Hates Muslim Mamdani who intends to Arrest Netanyahu per ICC Warrant

It makes so much sense. If you're a Zionist, being a Democrat is secondary. You will go after a fellow Democrat if he/she can freely express himself about the Zionist colony in Palestine. Tribalism is king among the Zionists. You protect your own against any higher principle or objectivity.

American Zionist Rep. Josh Gottheimer is going after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for being a socialist - bad word among dumb Americans in general. For decades and generations, the policies of the Democrat Party have been "socialist" in kind but not in name, and many of these policies were also those of the Republicans. You know this is stupid because in the US you can do socialist but never say socialist. It's political bigotry aiming at fooling the American people into submitting like sheep to the dictates of the wealthy who control the country. 

In this particular case, the "dictate" as it were is to never ever criticize Israel because Mr. Gottheimer is a Zionist member of the Democrat Party. Mr. Gottheimer was pontificating and lecturing the American people about how they should view New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a Democrat and a Muslim, insisting that Mamdani is are trying to "hijack" the party and pull it away from its traditional values. By "traditional" values, the Zionist means a party that is a bad clone of the Republican Party, a party that is subservient to the primitive conservatism that has prevailed in the country since WWII, after many of the "socialist" policies (e.g. social security) had been enacted. 

Zionists often complain that they are victims of everyone else because of their faith. The standardized and etched-in-stone terminology here is the "antisemitism scarecrow". Any word, idea, thought, or conscience that suggests that the Zionist colony in Palestine may be wrong is immediately cast into the "Antisemitic" wilderness.


Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks at a rally in New York alongside 1199SEIU members and immigration advocates after the Supreme Court ruled the Trump administration can revoke protections for Haitians and Syrians.

"They have lots of views which are not in line with Democratic values. They're very anti-American, anti-Democratic, anti-capitalist, so asking me to understand a lot of their thinking, I can't," declared the capitalist pseudo-democrat Gottheimer. 

The Zionist imbecile was particularly incensed by Mamdani's pledge to honor an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he were to visit New York City this year. You see, Netanyahu has killed more than 100,000 innocent civilian Palestinians in a vengeful rage of biblical vintage and, like Trump, he keeps warmongering as a deflection from his pending prosecution for fraud and abuse of power by his own country. 

The ICC is not Trump, and the ICC is not paid by AIPAC to submit to the will of the criminals. The ICC can speak and act freely in the spirit of genuine justice, not the sham justice of Trump's DOJ.

But Mamdani has admitted that while he would like to honor the ICC warrant against Netanyahu, he lacks the authority to do so. He instead is calling on the federal government to execute the ICC's arrest warrant if the Israeli leader pays a visit to the Big Apple.

"The mayor is clearly obsessed with this issue. He should probably be a little more obsessed with making sure that his city is running well and that he's picking up the trash and fixing the potholes," Gottheimer said, implying that it is more important to fix potholes than to see the Zionist war criminal Netanyahu prosecuted. 

"I made very clear, as I have before, that my interest in executing that warrant is not specific to Benjamin Netanyahu, but to anyone who they put a warrant towards for war crimes and crimes against humanity," Mamdani has said. 

"I can also look at Benjamin Netanyahu and see the way that he has orchestrated this genocide and also deem him to similarly be a war criminal ... crimes are so grave that they offend all of humanity. And... I believe that we should hold those who perpetrate them accountable."

Anonymous MAGA Official: Trump's 'Rigged Elections' Claim is False. But we're Afraid of Him

There is no more crucial issue at this time than Trump's criminal preparations to deny election results if they don't go his way. The midterms are only a couple of months away, and the convicted felon is scheming in multiple ways to attribute his defeat - which seems almost certain - to "rigged elections". He is threatening to send his ICE-GESTAPO police to polling stations to harass people. He is threatening to prosecute state election officials.

He's done it before and it is virtually certain he will do it again. We must keep talking about this problem, and officials on both sides of the political divide - Republicans and Democrats are cringing at the thought of what the Criminal-in-Chief might do.

As you'll read below, his own GOP-MAGA shills are terrified at the prospects of election results denials by trump, but admit anonymously that they prefer not to say anything for fear of angering the Felon-in-Chief. What a sad state of affairs when people's representatives are afraid of speaking up because they are afraid of the Dick-tator Trump. This is the US, people. Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. It isn't what it used to be. We are now the Land of the Slaves and the Home of the Cowards.
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‘Got to be kidding me’: GOP officials pan Trump’s claims of shocking new election threats
Marshall Cohen, Gabe Cohen, CNN
Thu, July 23, 2026 


A screen showing US President Donald Trump's July 16 primetime address to the nation is seen in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House. - Kent Nishimura/AFP/Getty Images

Four days after President Donald Trump declared that his administration uncovered "shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure," dozens of state election officials from across the country gathered in Boston.

But they weren't there for an emergency summit to tackle the supposed crisis, even though the midterm elections are only 15 weeks away.

Instead, these election officials from 37 states met for a long-scheduled professional conference that struck a strikingly business-as-usual tone. In fact, Trump and his primetime address hardly came up.

In interviews with CNN, more than a dozen election officials from both parties said Trump's address surfaced little new in terms of evidence. Several GOP officials even scoffed at his presentation, pointing to the data that the administration released to try to bolster its case that there are massive numbers of non-citizens voting in US elections.

Matt Crane, a Republican who runs the Colorado County Clerks Association, said his text chat with a bipartisan group of colleagues was filled with "a lot of laughing emojis, and like, 'you got to be kidding me?' that this was all it was."

A GOP official from a state Trump won three times also panned the speech, which included the declassification of intelligence reports that Trump said posed an "unprecedented election security nightmare" with threats from China and Venezuela. (Trump didn't mention that the reports also made clear that neither country ever tampered with US election results.)

"I read the documents," the official told CNN on the condition that his state not be identified. "It was old. I've already seen this stuff. It wasn't new to me. We already had most of this information."

Democratic officials and election experts have condemned Trump for, in their view, escalating his longstanding attacks on the voting process, accusing him of laying groundwork to explain away any potential GOP losses this November.

Many Republicans who run elections have been far more circumspect in their public comments – broadly expressing support for Trump's stated goal of cleaning up voter rolls and preventing illegal voting, while defending their record in their states.

But in private, many decry what Trump is doing.

"We all know elections aren't rigged, but we have to keep our heads down and do our jobs," one Republican election official told CNN, on condition of anonymity, because they didn't want to anger the Trump administration.

Pushing back on Trump's data

The president's speech last Thursday, and a follow-up presentation from the Department of Homeland Security, singled out several states that supposedly had staggeringly high numbers of non-citizens on the voter rolls.

Trump has long peddled false and fantastical claims that thousands and perhaps even millions of undocumented immigrants are voting in US elections. Isolated cases do exist, but comprehensive studies from right-wing and left-leaning think tanks have concluded that this occurs on a tiny scale.

Still, the administration said it had reviewed public data and uncovered hundreds of thousands of non-citizens on the rolls in Pennsylvania and Nevada, and in California and New Jersey, which are Democratic strongholds. Some officials in those states have called for more transparency, demanding to know how DHS arrived at those numbers.

Even some red states that voluntarily turned over their voter lists to the Trump administration for examination were swept into the president's latest push. The administration said more than 28,000 non-citizens had been found on rolls in states with GOP election officials.

The DHS citizenship database being used to review voter rolls – called SAVE, or Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements – has a record of overstating the number of registered non-citizens. DHS itself acknowledges that states using the system voluntarily for voter-roll maintenance must further investigate any matches.

Sam Hayes, the GOP executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections who has aggressively backed several of Trump's election policies, said his team wouldn't rubber-stamp the administration's findings. He said the state, which DHS claimed had 1,599 non-citizens on its rolls, would conduct its own verification, which takes time and requires contacting registrants.

"There's nothing we accept at face value and just start removing folks" from the voter rolls, Hayes told CNN. "We've got to make our own independent assessment of this. … We still have to do the due diligence on our end."

Hayes also threw cold water on Trump's desire for quick answers, saying: "It's going to be tough to get it done by the midterms, but we're working toward that goal."

Georgia election officials told CNN the administration's claims about non-citizens on their rolls appear inflated. Of the 2,549 registrants flagged by DHS, they said, only about 20 had ever cast a ballot in the state.

Despite questioning the White House data, officials from both parties stressed that they take seriously their duty to keep non-citizens off the rolls.

New Jersey's governor announced Tuesday that a software error at the state Motor Vehicle Commission accidentally added about 6,600 non-citizens to the voter rolls, and that 400 cast improper ballots in recent elections.

The surprising revelation from a Democratic governor in a liberal stronghold immediately made waves and drew "told-you-so" recriminations from the Trump administration.

Brushing off Mullin's threats

At a follow-up press conference Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatened fines and even potential "prison time" for election officials who don't comply with the Trump administration's demands for voter rolls and other election overhauls.

Election officials told CNN they take these threats seriously, especially after seeing the Trump-era Justice Department indict several of his political opponents. But at the same time, officials said, their focus is on their work.

"There is the concern about, 'Could I be made the example of?'" said Crane, the Republican who runs Colorado's bipartisan election clerks' association. "But I think, by and large, it's become somewhat white noise at this point."

A Democratic election administrator from a battleground state told CNN, on condition of anonymity, that he got a concerned call from his mother after she heard Mullin's comments about possibly prosecuting election officials.

Earlier this month, the Justice Department sent similar warning letters to all 50 states. Idaho's Republican attorney general was among those who pushed back, rebuking the DOJ in a sharply worded reply letter that said the "insinuations of criminal violations of the federal election laws are not well taken."

"Stop threatening your friends in Idaho," wrote James Craig, a top lawyer from the Idaho attorney general's office.

A GOP election official from another state told CNN that even some officials in red states don't feel safe, because of the Trump administration's unpredictability.

"It's extremely concerning when they talk like that, and we have no idea what they're going to do," the official said.

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US Soldiers Who Fight and Die are from Communities Trump's ICE is Persecuting

Over the weekend, US soldiers were killed in Iranian attacks on surrounding Arab countries  mostly from non-white communities

These recent deaths and injuries bring the toll to at least 18 US soldiers who have been killed since the US was bamboozled into the war by the Zionist allies of Trump.  

The two morons leading the war - Trump and Hegseth - keep claiming victory even as the war rages on and US casualties mount, with Iran managing to strike U.S. bases and kill and wound scores of US soldiers posted in the Gulf region. The Arabian peninsula is home to a large number of US bases from which strikes are launched against Iran, which is the pretext that Iran uses to respond to the American attacks by targeting those countries housing US bases.

Like in the Vietnam war of the 1960s and 1970s, the bulk of US casualties in these foreign wars are from non-white anglo-saxon communities. They generally hail from minorities that are being hunted down the streets and persecuted by Trump and his ICE-GESTAPO police (Black African Americans, Hispanics and Latinos, Asians, etc.). Trump and Hegseth see these disenfranchised communities as cannon fodder for futile wars they want led by higher ranking white anglo-saxon generals and which have historically failed (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Somalia....)

But at the same time, white supremacist and racist Trump and Hegseth fear that these minority communities might one day demographically surpass the white population (per the 2025 project), which is why they have been targeting immigration, banning travel from what they call "shithole" countries, limiting visas, re-districting statewide to dislodge any minority candidates from arriving to Congress, deporting "dark-skinned" immigrants while inviting white Apartheid racists from South Africa to immigrate, encouraging births from white mothers, etc. Anything you can imagine would serve a white supremacist, Christian nationalist, agenda, they are doing. 

Black African-Americans, whose legacy and contributions to the US are being deleted from parks, museums, exhibits and history books and websites. Hispanics who are blanket-suspected of being illegal migrants when a good third of the country has its foundations in Spanish-speaking Hispanic and Latino communities.

Pvt. Isabella Gonzales who died in an attack in Jordan was born to a migrant mother.

Pfc. Isabella Gonzales, 19, enlisted in the Army last year and served as an air and missile defense crewmember maintaining and using the systems which have been key to protecting U.S. bases from Iranian attacks. She was killed Friday during an Iranian missile and drone attack at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan. 

This is how hypocrite white racists in the higher echelons of the US Army announced her death. Brig. Gen. Glenn Henke said, "We are profoundly saddened by the loss of Pvt. Isabella Gonzales...She gave the ultimate sacrifice for her country and will always be remembered as a hero. Our hearts go out to her family, friends, and teammates." 

Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28, of Ozone Park, New York, who has been killed in on July 17, 2026 by an Iranian attack at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, Jordan.

Rampersad, who enlisted in March 2019, was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 52d Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, in Ansbach, Germany, according to the U.S. Army. She served as a signal operations support specialist, operating and maintaining radios and other communication tools.


Army Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, died during the controlled detonation of a drone at Erbil Air Base, Iraq, the Pentagon said.

Swinton served as an early warning systems operator, responsible for detecting, tracking and reporting incoming enemy threats to help protect U.S. forces from missile and drone attacks.

Trump's Untouchable Elite of Corrupt Billionaires

Trump leads the American financially-corrupt criminal elite, and his fundamental strategy that has so far worked with much of the ignorant, illiterate and dumb American people is to cover his criminality by playing the victim of his own real victims. A strategy very similar to the one used by both the Iranian Shiites and the Israeli Zionists. 

Both the Iranian Shiites and the Israeli Zionists wallow in victimhood. The Iranian Shiite Muslims hold a 1,300-year-old grudge from a political bloody war between them (Persians) and the Sunni Muslims (Arabs). The Israeli Jewish Zionists claim to be victims of everyone else (Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Romans, Arabs, Europeans and others) for thousands of years, when historical facts show them to be perpetrators of two genocides and ethnic cleansings: 1- Palestine Palestinian Canaan circa 2,800 BC, and 2- their 20th-21st century genocide and ethnic cleansing of contemporary Palestine. 

Victimhood swindles imbeciles into feeling pity for the swindler. Pity then translates into the imbeciles' guilt which is redeemed by blind subservience to endless demands. Those who adulate Trump genuinely believe his lies that he is the victim of others (Democrats, deep state, foreign countries, imaginary enemies,....) and they support him out of pity, when in reality he is the cheater and the criminal who is swindling them and the country for his own financial interests.
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Opinion - Trump’s growing gang of untouchables
William S. Becker, opinion contributor
Mon, July 20, 2026



One of a president's principal responsibilities under the U.S. Constitution is to ensure that the nation's laws are "faithfully executed." The Constitution also requires that laws be applied equally to all citizens. And in a tradition that goes back to the Magna Carta, our democracy operates on the assumption that no one — not even the president — is above the law.

That changed in July 2024, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that presidents cannot be prosecuted for breaking the law while performing their "core" duties. In addition, a Justice Department rule shields presidents from prosecution while they are in office.

Presidents can still be impeached and removed by Congress. The vice president can also orchestrate a president's removal if a majority of the Cabinet declares him unable to fulfill his duties. That process, authorized by Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, has never been used.

These sanctions have rarely been necessary, because most presidents have accepted moral and ethical accountability, even when their conduct is not strictly prohibited by law. President Trump is different. He is loath to accept any limits on his behavior, and the current Congress has refused to impose any.

Trump is not intimidated by his unprecedented pair of impeachments, nor by the 88 criminal charges filed against him between his terms in office, nor by his conviction on 34 criminal charges. He has carried his contempt for the law into the nation's highest office.

In his second term, Trump is doing more than ignoring legal and ethical constraints on his behavior. He is helping his allies escape legal accountability, too. He has subverted equal justice to create two classes of citizens: one privileged, the other persecuted.

The privileged group includes around 1,500 supporters who participated in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. As president, Trump not only released them from jail and erased most of their criminal records, but he also wants to pay them millions of taxpayer dollars in restitution for the inconvenience of facing justice for trying to overturn a lawful election.

Trump has also granted pardons to people who have given him political donations and financial favors, as well as to colleagues with whom he has direct financial or political ties. This pay-to-play scheme is wildly unethical, but the Constitution does not limit the president's pardon power. At last count, Trump's pardons had not only deprived victims of justice; they also wiped out nearly $2 billion in court-ordered fines, forfeitures and restitution for victims and taxpayers.

This privileged group apparently includes the 1,835 loyalists Trump has appointed to federal jobs as well as his 22 Cabinet-level officers. He has promised to issue mass pardons to "everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval" before he leaves office.

Thus protected, members of his Cabinet have openly lied to Congress and ignored laws. For example, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche refuses to comply with the bipartisan law that requires him to release all files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The withheld files may contain additional references to Trump.

They also contain the allegations against the "Epstein class" — that is, other rich and prominent people who live lives of leisure, lack moral scruples and could have been involved in Epstein's crimes. The Justice Department has prosecuted none of them, except for Epstein's colleague, Ghislaine Maxwell.

The untouchables also appear to include tens of thousands of federal immigration and border officers, including some who should be charged with civil rights violations and even killings. They are allowed to wear masks, the kit of cowards and criminals, so that they can't be identified. It has months since ICE agents killed U.S. citizens Alex Pretti and Renee Good during protests in Minnesota. Both cases remain unresolved.

Trump has not ruled out pardoning himself for acts outside the Supreme Court's protection. He claims he has the "absolute right," although no previous president has exercised it.

What about the second group of thos whom Trump has turned the Justice Department against? The department is investigating, indicting or prosecuting Trump's perceived enemies using unsubstantiated allegations and the thinnest of pretexts. They include former FBI Director James Comey, indicted for taking and sharing a photo of seashells.

This group includes legal and illegal immigrants in the U.S., among them at least 3,800 children, arrested and detained, deported or imprisoned. Under the law, they have the same rights as citizens, yet many have been denied due process. This group also includes untold numbers of Americans the Trump administration brands as domestic terrorists and insurgents, simply because they lean left. Yet, the administration mostly ignores far-right groups whose history shows they are far more likely to be violent.

It is no longer accurate to say that Trump aspires to be an autocrat, king or dictator. With his self-serving sabotage of the rule of law, he is already there.

William S. Becker is a former U.S. Department of Energy central regional director and special assistant to the assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy. He is executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project.

Child Sex Abuse Cases in the US vs in Germany

With the background of a Donald Trump having been a very close friend of the notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein (who, as a Jewish American, is now also suspected of having been an Israeli Mossad agent), I queried AI for trends in child sexual abuse cases in the US and compared them to Germany. Both countries are generally considered of the same western white Christian "tribe", and both being countries of immigration in contemporary history.

According to AI, in 2025, the United States saw significant volumes of reported child sexual abuse cases across different tracking systems: Federal sources report 66,662 total reported cases in fiscal year 2025. Children’s Advocacy Centers investigated 224,520 cases involving sexual abuse allegations, which represented 51% of all abuse cases handled by these centers. The combined total: Across the network, these centers served 365,140 children experiencing allegations of abuse in total. Organizations note that the actual scope of the problem may be larger than federal statistics indicate.

Child sexual abuse and exploitation cases showed a 30% rise in 2025 compared to 2024 and a 44% growth in FBI child exploitation cases between fiscal year 2022 and 2025.

In Alabama, Prescott House reported that cases in 2025 were approximately 30% higher than in 2024, with counselors on pace to match this record volume in 2026.

Online Exploitation: Reports of sadistic online exploitation handled by the NCMEC surged by 125% in 2025 compared to the previous year.

Historical Context: The most recent multi-year trends through 2025 demonstrate a sharp upward trajectory in case volumes.

Hence, the suspected pedophile friend Donald Trump has not done anything to stem the creeping rise in child exploitation in the US. In fact, these cases have risen significantly during his term. Most criminal cases seem to cluster around US-born (neither migrant nor immigrant) white trash Americans committing the bulk of these crimes. [See: https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2026/03/crimes-du-jour-by-us-born-white.html]

In Germany, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) reports over 17,000 cases of child sex abuse in 2025. The number of registered cases of child sexual abuse in Germany has risen significantly over the past five years, with police recording 17,126 instances in 2025, authorities said on Tuesday. These are cases that have been reported and registered, the total number being potentially much higher since many go undiscovered and/or unreported.

A report by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) said the figure was around 1,600 more than in 2021, and represented a rise of 772 cases compared to 2024. In more than half of all cases, suspects had a prior relationship with the survivors, with girls making up 74% of victims.

Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, and Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) chief Holger Münch and the government's commissioner for child sexual abuse, Kerstin Claus, presented the figures in Berlin. The national situation report is based on data from police crime statistics and focuses in particular on the areas of sexual abuse, abuse imagery (child pornography) and the sexual exploitation of minors.

A total of 18,736 victims were registered in connection with the sexual abuse of children, an increase of 3.6%. The number of suspects also rose again, from 12,368 to 12,823. These were mainly male suspects acting alone, the report said.

The statistics reflect only crimes that were reported to authorities and processed by police, with the authors warning that a significant hidden figure of unreported cases must be assumed.

Using the 365,140 total number for the US and the 18,870 total number for Germany, one can get an insight into the relative prevalence of child sex abuse cases in these two countries.

In the US, 365,140 cases over a total population of 343,603,404 gives a ratio of 0.106%.
In Germany, 18,870 cases over a total population of 83,467,117 gives a ratio of 0.022%.
Which means that child sex abuse in the US is five times (or 400%) more frequent than in Germany on a per-capita basis.

For more, see: https://www.fileabuselawsuit.com/child-sex-abuse-statistics/

Signs of Israel Decline in US Public Opinion

My fellow Americans. It's Ok to criticize Israel. You are not an antisemite for doing it. Those who have blackmailed your consciences for decades by accusing you of being an antisemite if you dared say one negative word against  the violent Fascist Zionist colony in Palestine (conflating such criticism with antisemitism), have now been exposed and discredited as extremist right-wing racist pro-apartheid entities. The gall of Zionists has reached such unprecedented levels of mind-control that they now demand that the words Jew, Zionist, and Israeli be treated as one and the same. Under this method of controlling language (typical of Fascist regimes... remember the "ignorance is bliss" of Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel Brave New World where citizens are programmed to accept without questioning and the truth is suppressed?), any criticism of the colonial Zionist program of land theft, ethnic cleansing and the de-Palestinization of historic Palestine was immediately tagged as antisemitic without any room for nuance or fact-checking historical events. 

I remember once being accosted by radical right-wing antisemitic (future white trash MAGA) republicans - as we were visiting Congress in support of George W Bush - who told me (assuming I was a member of a certain ethnic group) that the New York Times should be more appropriately called "The Jew York Times". Granted that the New York Times has often adopted a dubious objectivity on such issues as the Mideast and Israel. At times, it seemed to follow official US administration's misguided policies and stances, although it offered a platform to opposing viewpoints.

But Israel's ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine has taken its toll on American public opinion now slowly but inexorably becoming pro-Palestine (rather than being necessarily anti-Israel). What made it worse is Trump's idiotic and pedestrian support of Israel, which makes adhering to official US policy very difficult (not to mention the lawsuits and threats with which Trump regularly attacks the press). With shifting public opinion, struggling newspapers and media have had to adjust.

The New York Times for the first time ever is calling the Israeli Zionist lobby in the US, the America-Israel Political Action Committee or AIPAC, as a 'hard-right' group. Wikipedia itself has also designated the other Zionist American lobby group, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) led by Jonathan Goldblatt, as a biased and unreliable source of information regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the intersection of antisemitism with that conflict. In 2024, ADL consistently conflated criticism of the Israeli government with antisemitism.

Just these two developments indicate a shifting ground for Israel support in the US. The ready availability of information on the Internet and the fast-paced dissemination of such information, including long occulted archives hidden from the public, has lifted the veil of silence on the truth and the facts of the existence of Israel as a colonial rapist of Palestine. Entities like AIPAC and ADL are now struggling to continue convincing US public opinion of the actual worth of Israel to the US.

As a result, for example, the House of Representatives voted on a bill to cut military and humanitarian aid funding to Israel, which failed to pass but earned majority support among Democratic lawmakers. The bill was brought by outgoing Republican Rep. Thomas Massie from Kentucky who dared break through the Zionist omerta and aimed to cut military and humanitarian aid funding to Israel.

As the New York Times (NYT) reported on the vote, it highlighted how Democrats have increasingly vowed not to accept donations from AIPAC. Now the Zionist lobby curries favors from both sides of the aisle, giving money to both Democrats and Republicans to guarantee an unflinching blind support to the Zionist colony in Palestime.

Among those who have committed not to accept AIPAC money is Rep. Seth Moulton, Democrat from Massachusetts. The NYT wrote, "Mr. Moulton, who is running for Senate, has also said he would no longer accept donations from AIPAC, the hard-right pro-Israel lobbying group that has recently become a toxic brand among Democrats".

Founded in 1954, AIPAC says its mission is to "encourage and persuade the U.S. government to enact specific policies that create a strong, enduring and mutually beneficial relationship with our ally Israel," and that it helps "elect Democrats and Republicans who support the alliance."

Prominent Democrats are increasingly comfortable publicly criticizing the stranglehold the Zionist lobbies have had over decades. For example, former Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California has voted in favor of the anti-Israel funding bill, yet was not long ago still a featured speaker at AIPAC's annual policy conference in 2019.

In the post-Oct. 7 political climate, support for Israel has dropped dramatically among Democrats while maintaining a significant swath among Republicans, although it has been losing ground among extremist radical right groups and prominent "repentant" figures in the GOP-MAGA world like Tucker Carlson and others. AIPAC has long been known as the sacred cow of the anti-Palestine lobby in the US since it supports Israel's genocide in Palestine, opposes an independent state of Palestine as a solution to the festering canker that Israel has been ever since its artificial creation with the rape of historic Palestine, and has been forever buying influence by giving money to both Democrats and Republicans. AIPAC is largely credited for making the US the only country around the world to support Israel's barbarity in Palestine and to block any international effort to find a suitable solution for both peoples.

Standing for a free and independent Palestine has become a standard platform of the Democratic Party (repeatedly adopting the two-state solution since the 1990s), and now has gained more momentum with the rise of the progressive base of the Democrats. Continued blind - and AIPAC-purchased - support for Israel against the will of the majority of the American people will be a significant liability for GOP-MAGA candidates in the 2026 and 2028 elections.

[See: https://www.vox.com/2015/4/13/8390387/israel-dark-future]

Calls to Impeach Trump for Threat he Poses to Free Elections

The senator Ed Markey from Massachusetts is calling on Congress to impeach Donald Trump after the fraudster criminal felon president claimed that those who "stole" the 2020 presidential election are still at work and plan to commit fraud in the 2026 midterm elections. 

Trump is thus preparing the ground to cheat in the elections and, if he loses (which is very likely), to claim they were rigged like he did in 2020-2021. This is standard criminal mafioso Trump deception he learned from his mentor Roy Cohn: Say that your own victims are the criminals, and claim you are their victim. Roy Cohn was a close friend and mentor to Donald Trump who represented him in a federal housing discrimination lawsuit. Cohn served as Trump's primary legal strategist and confidante until Cohn's death in August 1986. Just before his death, Cohn who was formally disbarred for fraud, along with dishonesty, deceit, and misrepresentation in June 1986, when a New York appellate panel revoked his law license after finding he had defrauded a dying client by tricking him into signing a document that named Cohn a co-executor of his estate.
Trump has been using words such as "rigged and stolen," "corrupt" and "cover-up" and cited some recently declassified documents to support his false claims. Critics in both parties say he has never substantiated his central contention that U.S. elections are marred by widespread fraud.

Markey posted: "And when [Trump] sends ICE agents to the polls, then we must turn civic action into civil disobedience and take to the streets. Sit in. Protest. Withhold our labor. Everything must be on the table," Markey urged.

Trump has lately declared that newly released documents prove that during a period of five years starting during the 2020 election cycle, the Chinese government acquired 220 million U.S. voter files. He is thus pointing the finger at a new "enemy", China, to fool his followers into believing another one of his hoaxes. The fact is that information on U.S. voters is publicly available or can be purchased from states.

Trump said the Chinese government wanted him to lose the 2020 presidential election and that "raw intelligence" obtained by the FBI in 2020 stated that Beijing even attempted to manufacture illegal ballots for former President Biden, who beat Trump in the election.

Markey has previously called for Trump to be removed from office in April when Trump threatened to wipe out the civilization of Iran if its leaders did not reopen the Strait of Hormuz. "With each passing day, it becomes increasingly apparent that Donald Trump is unstable and a clear and present danger, not just to the American people but to the world. He must be removed from office before he causes incalculable and unfathomable harm," Markey said at the time.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) on Sunday said President Trump's primetime speech shows that he's not serious about securing elections, pointing to the recent firings of the remaining Democratic members at an independent election administration agency earlier this month.

"There was something called the Elections Assistance Commission. Nobody knows about it, but it works with local registrars, state registrars, making sure we vet voting machines," Warner said during a Sunday appearance on ABC News's "This Week." "Recently, Trump fired all the senior leadership, made the Republican quit, fired the Democrats. You know, this guy is not looking for a secure election because if we have a free and fair election, he and his allies are gonna get beat historically this fall," he added.

Warner has spent months casting doubt on the security of midterm elections, noting the possibility of White House interference. During a Sunday appearance on CBS News's "Face the Nation," the Virginia senator said Trump's Thursday address provided further evidence of a potential obstruction after the president cast doubt on the outcome of campaign races in 2018 and 2020.

"I think that what we just saw was this was the opening shot, the opening shot of trying to undermine Americans' confidence that their vote will be actually counted and mean something," Warner said of Trump's Thursday address.

"I fear as well that if he tries to pull something … he's not ruled out bringing ICE to the polls," he continued, referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). "He's not even ruled out the idea of trying to bar certain voting machines."

Warner said another point of concern lies in the president's efforts to "dismantle" the Electronic Registration Information Center, which is a nonprofit, bipartisan data-sharing program used by states to securely cross-reference and clean voter registration lists of those who are deceased or who have moved away.

"There are so many absurdities and falsehoods in Trump's Thursday night speech, and I'm glad that most media treated it not as serious news," Warner told CBS News host Margaret Brennan.

Trump has attempted to double down on election security by urging lawmakers to accept the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act, which has been met with some objection from Republicans coupled with unmatched support.

Meanwhile, The Guardian has published a report about the multiple crises that Trump has deliberately caused, backed by a defunct republican party that has all but become Trump's own personal party.


A man holds a sign at a rally near the White House against US military action in Iran in April 2026.Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

The Guardian cites widespread cuts to vital government agencies and shrinking of the federal workforce, various disease and illness outbreaks left unattended (nationwide outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a parasitic illness that can cause "explosive" diarrhea), and new environmental disaster vulnerabilities by rolling back environmental protections and refusing to acknowledge climate crisis. Trump has also slashed funding for scientific research and is seeking to advance legislation that would impose new voting restrictions.

From The Guardian:

Election security

Trump's zeal to downsize the federal government has spared few corners. Despite his professed concerns with election security – articulated on Thursday night in a conspiracy-laden attack on US democracy – his administration has dramatically weakened the offices intended to safeguard US elections.

His administration began its time in power by downplaying the significance of Russia's threat of election meddling. His staffing cuts cost the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, which is tasked with countering cyber threats, a third of its workforce, according to Mark Warner, a Democratic senator. The administration has also proposed slashing the agency's budget by $707m in order to address "weaponization and waste".

Earlier this month, Trump ousted the only three commissioners left serving on an independent federal commission that assists states with election administration.

Other agencies that play a role in tracking and countering foreign election meddling have faced cuts too. The FBI has lost as many as 2,800 agents since January 2025, and when the federal housing official Bill Pulte took over as acting director of national intelligence, he fired dozens of staff members, according to CNN.

On his first day back in office, Trump pardoned about 1,500 people convicted or facing charges for the January 6 insurrection, and has also spread conspiracy theories sympathetic to Tina Peters, a Colorado election clerk convicted of charges related to breaking security after the 2020 election. The state's Democratic governor, Jared Polis, shortened her sentence earlier this year.

Public health

Trump administration funding cuts have led to a spectrum of worsening outbreaks.

Public health officials in five states, including hard-hit Michigan, were faced with one of the nation's largest outbreaks of the parasite cyclospora this summer, which causes "explosive" and watery diarrhea for weeks. Public health officials said their tracking of the disease was slowed because of a lack of resources. The administration cut $11.4bn in funding from state and local health departments just a year prior, and reduced the remit of a program dedicated to coordinating information on foodborne illnesses, including cyclospora.

Although the source of a five-state outbreak was linked to iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell on Friday, public health officials warned the outbreak could continue through August.

The US is also on course for another record year of measles cases in 2026, surpassing last year, which was itself the worst year for cases in three decades. Some public health officials worry the US is on course to lose its measles elimination status, gained in 2000.

And the outbreak of new world screwworm has caused concern across the ranching and conservation worlds, as the parasitic fly can be a major burden to ranchers and wildlife alike. While some entomologists argue the northern march of the flesh-eating fly was in the making for decades, several former officials told Politico last month that Trump's federal spending reviews slowed efforts to contain the issue. USDA reviews held up funding for the construction of one facility that was crucial in slowing screwworm's impact on the US cattle supply, the officials said, adding that a $100m research initiative meant to create new tools to slow the insect's advance was also delayed.

"We've already seen what happens when Donald Trump's political appointees are put in charge of health and science funding – disaster ensues," said Shaughnessy Naughton, president of 314 Action, which works to elect scientists to public office. "Screwworm monitoring, food safety surveillance and vaccine programs have been arbitrarily cut and less than a year later, we're facing multiple infectious disease outbreaks. All of this was preventable – but it's no surprise that Americans are getting sicker as Republicans continue to halt research and cut billions in funding for critical programs."

Environmental upheaval

Since re-entering the White House last year, the Trump administration has embarked on a far-reaching assault on environmental protections, rolling back clean air and water standards and promoting fossil fuels. Even as much of the country struggles to breathe as Canadian wildfire smoke spreads over swaths of the US, experts warn of an even grimmer future in which the US grows ever more vulnerable to environmental disasters and toxic exposure.

The administration's efforts to exempt polluting companies from emissions controls – in some cases by simply sending an email – could expose Americans to more unhealthy air. So may its attempts to undercut renewable energy expansion and support the buildout of coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel.

Research shows Trump's pro-fossil fuel agenda has already helped push up the nation's greenhouse gas emissions, which are warming the planet and increasing the severity and frequency of wildfires, hurricanes and other environmental disasters. In one particularly audacious move this year, the agency repealed the 2009 endangerment finding, which serves as the legal foundation for all federal climate regulations. The president has also pulled the US from the United Nations' main climate treaty and top climate science body, while slashing funding for climate science.

As they have unmade environmental protections, officials have also shuttered climate and weather research offices, terminated climate science projects and scaled back environmental monitoring. Taken together, the administration's actions could leave Americans facing greater risks while weakening the nation's ability to anticipate and understand them.

Anna Betts contributed reporting

Trump is so Desperate he's Taking Huge Risks

Trump is showing signs that he is throwing a suicidal gauntlet. He signed an American capitulation in his Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Iran because, as he himself declared, he didn't want to be another Herbert Hoover with the legacy of a major economic depression. He also more recently said he didn't want to be another Jimmy Carter with a failed military venture against Iran.

Both of these statements reflect Trump's despair at having no visibility on what to do as he faces the competing trajectories of a failed war in Iran and a looming disaster in the November midterms. The American population is against the war, but more dangerously for Trump, it is very unpopular with his herd-of-moron base.

The more Trump escalates the war with Iran, the more risks he takes on the economy and on the elections. He also risks losing the support of his Arab Gulf Girls who are increasingly targets of Iranian retaliations. A sense of panic has now seized these "allies" because Iran is not only targeting the US bases there (from which US strikes are launched against Iran), it is beginning to target key infrastructure facilities (e.g. desalination plants).

But if Trumps backs down on Iran to rescue the economy (which he attempted with the MoU), he would be admitting defeat which is also nefarious for the Republican chances at the midterms and for his legacy.

Cornered between two negative options, it appears Trump is leaning to risk it all, which explains his resumption of strikes against Iran which has taken control of the war via its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. At the very least, and absent any direct attempt at toppling an Iranian regime that Netanyahu falsely told him would be a low hanging fruit, Trump is no longer thinking about ensuring a Republican victory in November and is more focused on saving his own legacy as a "strong" president who doesn't back down.

Someone said yesterday that Trump is like a 2-year old who lost his toy. His tantrum indicates he is willing to consider an election disaster as a foregone liability out of the impasse, since a continuation of the war closer to Election Day will reignite the war's inflationary impact on fuel and living costs and will meet with disgruntled MAGA voters whom he promised not to get into "forever wars overseas".

Many experts blame Trump's cowardice for signing a rushed MoU in a reflexive move to avoid economic recession and possibly depression, another sign that the war was launched without any plausible strategy to ensuring some success.

No one in the administration seems to be considering the "nuclear" option of a land invasion of Iran (for example, Kharg Island) as way out of the impasse, because the risks there are even greater of more escalation and loss of life.

Meanwhile, the Iranians themselves seem to have also reached their penultimate level of despair. Their increasingly menacing threats against the US Arab Gulf allies (and other Arab countries like Jordan) could unravel decades of cementing western (and American in particular) influence over the region. At some point, the shimmer and glimmer of the small emirates might begin to fade as the thousands of foreign expatriates who actually make the Gulf economies tick are beginning to leave, fearing for their lives and their livelihoods.

Trump's Own Words: I am Corrupt and I don't Care

I really believe that Donald Dumb ran for, and became, President not for politics, perhaps a bit for a streety racist ideology, but more importantly he became president to make money and to enrich himself. This whole Trump presidency was yet another of his money-making enterprises that failed and went bankrupt (Trump University, Atlantic City casinos....).

Donald Dumb's business entities have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection six times between 1991 and 2014. Will he cause the American State to file for bankruptcy? 
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How one day put conflicts of interest around Trump in stark relief
Analysis by Aaron Blake, CNN
Fri, July 17, 2026

Whether President Donald Trump and those around him are corruptly enriching themselves during his second term is a matter of personal judgment. Many Americans seem to think the president at least is.

But what is incontrovertible is that he and his team are doing almost nothing to disabuse people of that notion. Indeed, they seem to be increasingly leaning in on the idea that Trump can do whatever he wants — and that apparent conflicts of interest just don't matter.

Thursday was a case in point for how in-your-face this dynamic has become, with several stories about potentially profiting from the presidency, or proximity to it.

The first was a CNN investigation finding Trump has used his Truth Social account to promote more than 20 companies just days after buying stock in those same companies. He sometimes even announced government action that would benefit the companies.

The second was that, for the first time, we got details on a White House aide potentially engaging in insider trading using prediction markets. Trump's teleprompter operator made more than $90,000 by betting on what Trump would say in speeches and at events, according to a source. The news follows months of suspiciously well-timed trades making big money ahead of major Trump moves.

And the third — the pièce de resistance, which effectively combines the above bits of potential corruption — is that Trump's business is now going to let Wall Street firms pay to get quicker access to his Truth Social posts and try to make more money trading on them.

If that last one sounds like an uncharitable summary, it's not.

Trump, through his revocable trust, is the largest shareholder in the Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns Truth Social. And Trump Media just announced that a new data feed, known as an API, will be for sale next month.

The API gives firms real-time data from the 10 most popular Truth Social accounts — the most popular of which is, of course, Trump's. Such firms use these feeds to scan for signals and execute trades automatically, before other investors can catch up.

Trump routinely uses his Truth Social account to make major announcements and send signals about his intentions.

Often, those signals actually seem intended to move markets. Witness just how much his posts about the Iran war were timed as markets were opening or closing for the weekend.

[See: https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2026/07/trump-opens-another-boutique-at-white.html

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https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2026/07/how-trump-tribe-is-cashing-in-big-time.html]

And in announcing the new API, Trump Media actually played up how much Truth Social impacts the markets.

"Markets already move on Truth Social posts," said Kevin McGurn, its interim CEO.

He added that the API would provide a more instantaneous feed of the platforms "most market-moving Truths," adding that it was part of a strategy to "monetize proprietary assets."

Other social networks sell access to their APIs. But Truth Social is different. It is not only largely owned by Trump, but its platform, which has struggled mightily financially, has one asset that is far and away its most valuable: the president's own posts. This new initiative is, in large part, "monetize[ing]" those posts, specifically. And the beneficiary, financially, could be Trump himself.

There is a major apparent conflict of interest here. The more Trump moves markets with what he says on Truth Social, the more incentive there could be to buy this API, and the more money could go to Trump. CNN has reached out to the White House.

It was certainly ironic that the announcement about Truth Social came on the same day we learned someone at the White House may already have been profiting off early access to information from Trump — his words. Longtime teleprompter operator Gabriel Perez is being investigated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for potential insider trading on a prediction site. (CNN has reached out to Perez, who has cooperated with the investigation, one source said.)

There's no evidence that Trump knew what Perez was doing ahead of Thursday. After the story came out, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters the president was aware of the reports and "he believes it's deeply unfortunate and frankly a disgrace." The White House has previously warned staffers against insider trading, and Leavitt said Perez had been placed on unpaid administrative leave.

On Trump's stocks, White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly emphasized that they are managed by third parties, not Trump. But he can still be aware of which stocks are being bought and sold. "President Trump only acts in the best interests of the American public," Kelly said, adding: "There are no conflicts of interest."

Of course, Trump has made little secret that he doesn't much mind how all of this looks.

As this May piece from Tangle's Isaac Saul lays out, there are myriad potential conflicts of interest between Trump's and his family's businesses, and Trump's official actions as president. Favors for foreign countries have repeatedly overlapped with them doing business with Trump's family. And that doesn't even get to the more than $1 billion Trump made on cryptocurrency last year.

And when asked in January by The New York Times why he's been so cavalier about mixing politics and business, Trump gave some telling responses.

"I found out that nobody cared; I'm allowed to," Trump said. He added that he declined to have his companies stop doing business abroad, as he did last time he was president, "because I got no credit in the first term."

It's as if he's daring people and Americans to start to care. Thursday reinforces how these questions might start getting harder and harder to ignore.

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Trump Opens Another Boutique at White House: Access to Security Info Impacting Stocks

Trump media firm plans to sell high speed access to Truth Social posts

Trump's media company is planning to charge for special high-speed access to Truth Social posts, including possibly his own affecting national security and financial markets.

The move announced Thursday would allow Wall Street trading firms and other institutions to get news from Truth Social contributors in milliseconds so they could profit off subsequent moves in stocks, bonds and interest rates. The most popular Truth Social poster is the president himself and, as the biggest shareholder of the public traded parent company, he would directly benefit.

"He's selling expedited, privileged access to information about what he is doing as president," said Kathleen Clark of Washington University School of Law and an expert in government conflicts of interest rules. "It's yet more brazen corruption, an improper exploitation of government power to enrich himself."

The Trump family company declined to comment about whether the new feature is profiting off the presidency.

Pete Hegseth's Nazi Methods to Improve Combativity of US Troops

The manly man, Pete Hegseth, a drunkard womanizer who was personally saved by Jesus (hahahahaaaa) gets his inspirations for policies from the Nazi playbook. Nazi scientists did test testosterone and other anabolic steroids on German soldiers during World War II to increase aggressiveness and physical strength. You might read some literature from Nazi apologists that that "theory" was debunked (you never learn how and by whom) as if merely saying so makes it a truth. Propagandists always inject into the news stream fake stories debunking historical facts as a way to cast a shadow of doubt on them. Zionists are the quintessential performers of this sort of revisionism of history on the Question of Palestine and its rape by foreign Zionist settlers from Europe.

After the synthesis of testosterone in 1935 by Nazi chemist Adolf Butenandt, steroids became one more tool in the eugenics programs the Nazis excelled at to improve the white Aryan race and prove its superiority over other races. They tested steroids on concentration camp prisoners first, then on their own soldiers to improve their combativeness and aggressivity. For example, the Nazis had a large-scale program of giving their soldiers pills of methamphetamine (Pervitin) to keep them alert and aggressive.

And now, the neo-Nazi-in-disguise, the drunkard womanizing white supremacist "Department of War" secretary Pete Hegseth, has been inspired by all the Nazi achievements - despite their brutality and inhumanity and their ultimate crushing defeat. He wants, like the Nazis did, to test US soldiers for their testosterone levels and find a "remedy" to this deficiency by, say, injecting soldiers with the male hormone to raise their level of aggressivity up to his standards of manliness and warmongering. Alternatively, he will demote those with low testosterone and perhaps even fire them.

Then again, as soldiers are increasingly fighting away from the battlefield, using joy sticks instead of rifles, and working from behind screens, all thanks to the same science and technology that Hegseth and his imbecile boss (and also the voodoo shaman RFK Jr.) have been undermining, one wonders what is the point of such a primitive method. Wonder no more: The Nazis did it, therefore I, the neo-Nazi moron Pete Hegseth, must copy it.

One wonders too what his scintillating policy will do with female soldiers who are naturally deficient in testosterone!

In one of his songs, Bob Dylan says "Join the army if you fail". Now many, though not all, soldiers become soldiers to serve. But many do so because they're poor, uneducated, or for a salary or because they don't know what to do with their lives. In fact thousands of foreign immigrants join the army in order to obtain a green card and become US citizens. So, before you decide whether to join the army, read below about what Pete Hegseth will do to you if you fail the testosterone test. Of course you could cheat by pre-injecting yourself before the test and pass. 

Here is what AI says about testosterone injections:

Testosterone injections can be harmful, particularly due to an increased short-term risk of cardiovascular events, stroke, heart attack, and death compared to topical forms like gels or patches.

Key risks associated with testosterone injections include:

Cardiovascular Issues: Injections cause "spikes" of super-normal testosterone levels, which research links to higher risks of heart problems, blood clots, and pulmonary embolism compared to sustained-release methods.

Serious Side Effects: Misuse or high doses can lead to liver disease, seizures, hypertension, and infertility (shrunken testicles, reduced sperm production).

Mental Health Effects: Users may experience aggression, mania, depression, hallucinations, or suicidal thoughts, alongside withdrawal symptoms like irritability and extreme tiredness if stopped suddenly.

Allergic & Respiratory Reactions: Specific formulations like testosterone undecanoate (Aveed) carry a risk of pulmonary oil microembolism (POME) and life-threatening anaphylaxis, requiring post-injection medical monitoring.

Prostate & Growth Risks: Therapy may stimulate benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), accelerate existing prostate cancer, or cause premature bone maturation in children, leading to stunted adult height.

Here's an after-thought, though, typical of the endemic corruption in MAGA's upper ranks. What if Hegseth and Trump and associates have stakes in testosterone-making companies? Compelling hundreds of thousands of young Americans to subject themselves to chemical mutilation could be a source of immense profits. 

Far-Fetched? Think again. Trump uses that tactic with warmongering. Why do you think Trump is one day a hawk on Iran (stocks tumble, he buys) then becomes a dove two days later (stocks rally, he sells)?

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Pete Hegseth says soldiers over age 30 to be screened for testosterone deficiency
Marina Dunbar
Wed, July 15, 2026


Defense secretary Pete Hegseth unveiled plans for a new screening program for testosterone deficiency among troops that will work to ensure service members have the 'right testosterone levels' to perform at their optimal condition. Photograph: Ümit Bektaş/Reuters

Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that the Department of Defense will offer testosterone deficiency screening for soldiers 30 and older.

The US defense secretary unveiled plans for a new screening program for testosterone deficiency among troops that will work to ensure service members have the "right testosterone levels" to perform at their optimal condition in a video posted to X.

"I'm authorizing a new screening program for testosterone deficiency for our service members, ensuring you have the right testosterone levels to operate at your absolute best," Hegseth said in the video.

"As we know, the modern battlefield is brutal and unrelenting," he added. "It requires and demands maximum psychological and mental readiness, and by addressing these health markers early, we're keeping you on the leading edge of lethality, and giving you the same level of support that you give this nation – the absolute best."


"Warfighters" aged 30 and above will undergo annual tests as part of their health assessments, while those under 30 can choose to opt in, Hegseth said. Treatment, including testosterone replacement therapy, is voluntary and aimed at "restoring and optimizing" natural capabilities.

The initiative will prioritize long-term health, aimed at making sure troops remain "strong and resilient" for their entire lives. Hegseth also said that this program is part of the department's commitment to providing "elite medical care" and maintaining the physical and mental readiness required for modern combat.

Hegseth is not the first member of the Trump administration to address the so-called "crisis" of low testosterone, or "low T". Robert F Kennedy Jr, the 72-year-old health secretary, has spoken about injecting testosterone as part of his personal "anti-ageing regimen". In October, he warned, without evidence, that today's American teenagers have "50% of the testosterone of a 65-year-old man".

Testosterone, and concerns about a shortage thereof, has become a political fixation on the right. Alternative media commentators such as Tucker Carlson have decried a crisis of masculinity in films such as The End of Men, while influencers promote "T-maxxing" and direct-to-consumer testosterone injections.

In a statement, the American Urological Association said it "appreciates the Administration's understanding of the importance of screening men for testosterone deficiency", although "the diagnosis of testosterone deficiency should not be based on a single blood test alone."

Rather, the association said such a test could serve as a "baseline value" for individuals "who warrant further evaluation". The association also cautioned that a diagnosis of low-testosterone should not be made on one test alone, but rather based on symptoms and two separate tests.

The Trump administration has decried the use of hormones in gender affirming care, including both testosterone and estrogen, as "chemical and surgical mutilation". Hegseth's announcement did not address the more than 231,000 women who serve as active duty service members in the US military.

According to research published in the journal Social Science & Medicine, young men are being aggressively targeted online by influencers and wellness companies promoting hormone tests and treatments as essential to being a "real man", despite screening for low testosterone being medically unwarranted in most people in this age group.

Jessica Glenza contributed reporting

Ready for more Trump Onanism on Six-Year-Old MAGA Stolen Election Hoax?

Not only will the senile old imbecile masturbate publicly tonight on his "stolen election" hoax and denial of his utter defeat in the 2020 elections, but he will invite more MAGA morons to join him as he prepares to unveil his new plan to lie and cheat, again, in order to deny his upcoming defeat in the November midterms and in 2028.

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After six years, Trump brings his election obsession to primetime at the White House
NICHOLAS RICCARDI
Thu, July 16, 2026 


President Donald Trump speaks at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., during the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit, Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

In the weeks after Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden in 2020, the people that Trump appointed to run the Department of Justice, cybersecurity agencies and intelligence departments all said the same thing — the election was fair, legitimate and free of major fraud or foreign interference.

In his second term, Trump has tried to use the levers of power to rewrite that well-settled history, something that he's expected to try again on Thursday night with an address to the nation.

He has already appointed loyalists who have echoed his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen and made clear he expects everyone to follow his lead.

In an indication of how fealty to Trump's lies has become a litmus test for his administration, many of his nominees have steadfastly refused to directly answer the question of who won in 2020, preferring to tersely note that Biden became president. Jay Clayton, Trump's nominee to become the next national intelligence director, was the latest to repeat that formula in his confirmation hearing on Wednesday.

"He had the most electoral votes," Clayton said of Biden. "He was declared the winner."

"And who has the most electoral votes? Is it the person who wins or the person who loses?" asked Sen. Mark Kelly, an Arizona Democrat.

"That's your characterization," Clayton responded. "I'm not going to continue to do this."

The president has embraced baroque conspiracy theories about an international cabal that penetrated U.S. voting machines that have led to libel suits against his allies when they've repeated the claims.

Ahead of his speech, Trump has teased "really big news" and said "it doesn't get bigger, because without free and fair elections, you don't have a country."

Election experts fear another round of falsehoods.

"There has been six-plus years of consistent findings from the intelligence community and from everyone who's looked at it that there was no foreign interference in 2020, and our voting systems were secure and accurate," said Victoria Bassetti of States United, a nonpartisan group supporting the state officials who run elections. "I suppose the president could come up with some new assertion or new conclusion. It would fly in the face of all the evidence."
Huge range of reviews find same thing: No major fraud

There's been an enormous amount of reviews of the 2020 election. Trump and his allies lost dozens of court cases challenging the results, sometimes before judges the president appointed himself. Numerous audits, recounts and investigations, including several by Republicans, found no major problems with the vote or count.

Trump's own attorney general at the time, William Barr, said there were no signs of significant fraud, a statement that earned him Trump's ire. Trump's appointee to run the agency that watches for cyberattacks on American election infrastructure, Chris Krebs, declared that the 2020 election was secure and there were no signs of tampering — which led Trump to fire Krebs and demand an investigation of him upon returning to power in 2025.

An intelligence assessment released in the early days of the Biden administration but completed on Jan. 7, 2021, in Trump's last days in office, found no foreign tampering with vote totals or election equipment in 2020. And, last year, Trump signed a federal document as part of a regular review of possible foreign influence in elections that declared "there has been no evidence of a foreign power altering the outcome or vote tabulation in any United States election."
'Untold taxpayer resources' re-investigating the election

Since returning to office, Trump has launched a review of the 2020 vote. Federal agents have seized voting records in Democratic-run Fulton County, Georgia, and Republican-run Maricopa County, Arizona — two major metropolitan swing state counties that figured prominently in 2020 conspiracy theories.

Trump tapped Kurt Olsen, a prominent lawyer in the world of election conspiracy theorists, to head the probe. Olsen was previously sanctioned by the Arizona Supreme Court for false statements in a lawsuit he brought to challenge the 2022 loss of an Arizona governor's race by one of Trump's allies.

"He has committed untold taxpayer resources," said David Becker, a former Department of Justice lawyer who now leads the Center for Election Integrity & Research. "They've found nothing."

A search warrant affidavit filed in the Fulton County case was full of old, debunked conspiracy theories about the vote in the county. The FBI reassigned hundreds of analysts to go through the material.

Conspiracy theories have led to libel cases

Still, election conspiracy theorists have been buzzing — as they have ever since Election Day in 2020 — that Trump is about to reveal irrefutable evidence of massive election fraud.

One version alleges that Venezuela and possibly other countries manipulated U.S. voting machines to deprive Trump of a victory. Venezuela's former president, Nicolas Maduro, is currently awaiting trial in Manhattan on federal charges of drug trafficking after the U.S. military took him from that country's capital.

Those theories have led to massive payouts in libel lawsuits brought by voting machine companies and others. Fox News paid $787.5 million to settle one lawsuit over it airing those claims and others on the air in late 2020. Conservative networks Newsmax and One America News have also reached settlements with voting companies over airing those allegations.

A Denver jury found that Mike Lindell, a prominent election conspiracy theorist who Trump this week endorsed as a Republican candidate for governor in Minnesota, defamed an employee with a voting machine company by calling him a traitor.

Becker noted there has been a clear pattern over the six years of election conspiracy theories surrounding Trump's loss. Conspiracy theorists, including Trump himself, make sweeping allegations in public, sometimes with what seems to be massive reams of documentation from elaborate election databases. But they've lost regularly in court, where the threshold is whether there's any factual basis to the claims.

He suggested that anything new from Trump on elections be subjected to that same scrutiny.

"If someone's alleging a crime that occurred six years ago, we shouldn't be responding to their claims," Becker said. "We should be demanding they meet the burden of proof."

Trump's Message to ICE: Please Kill More Innocent Dark-skinned People in the Streets

Trump says ICE won't halt traffic stops after recent fatal shootings
Reuters
Updated Wed, July 15, 2026



WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said federal immigration agents won't end vehicle stops, one day after officials announced a ‌temporary pause in such stops after agents fatally shot two men in ‌Texas and Maine.

"We must be strong, tough, and smart, and we CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.'s most ​important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!" Trump wrote in a social media post.

On Tuesday, Trump administration officials said the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency had ordered its officers to suspend most vehicle stops around the country after two men were ‌shot and killed by ICE ⁠agents during such stops six days apart.

An ICE agent on Monday killed a driver from Colombia in the coastal Maine town of ⁠Biddeford, about 15 miles (24 km) south of Portland. An ICE officer in Houston on July 7 fatally shot a Mexican national while trying to stop his vehicle.

"It's not a policy ​change, ​it's a temporary pause," Trump's border czar Tom ​Homan told Fox News Channel ‌in an interview on Tuesday referring to the vehicle stop suspension.

"This is going to be a short-term review to make sure ICE agents are safe and doing the right thing," Homan told the television network, adding that officers will use other options to make arrests.

The back-to-back shootings sparked protests in Maine, Houston and Boston and raised questions ‌over ICE agents' lack of body cameras.

The U.S. ​Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, has ​characterized both men as "illegal aliens" but ​acknowledged neither was the intended target of deportation operations that led ‌to their deaths.

Federal authorities have offered no ​evidence to support ​contentions that either man posed a threat to ICE agents or the public at large justifying the use of lethal force to stop them.

At least seven ​people have been shot dead ‌during federal immigration enforcement operations since January 2025, when Trump launched mass ​deportations after returning to office following campaign promises of an immigration crackdown.

(Reporting ​by Susan Heavey; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama )