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The absurdity of the Hunter Biden defamation case

Jonathan Turley
jonathanturley.org
Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:12 UTC
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© ABC NewsHunter Biden attempts the reputational comeback trail
I have taught torts, including defamation for over 30 years, but I have never seen the like of the Hunter Biden defamation case. The defendant made defamatory statements and then just refused to appear. That led to an equally bizarre $1.7 million award by U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson of the Central District of California to Biden, consisting of just $1 in nominal damages and the rest in punitive damages.

Here is the most interesting line of the opinion: "the damage to Plaintiff's reputation is difficult to calculate." It may be the single greatest understatement in the history of judicial opinions.

However, the court also noted "Plaintiff does not seek actual damages above a nominal amount."

That means that Hunter Biden's counsel, in a default case, elected not to argue for compensatory damages due to loss of reputation. Why would he do that?
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Alarm Clock

British MP Rupert Lowe exposes secret society behind UK's lurch toward socialism

Ben Sellers
Headline USA
Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:11 UTC
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Fabian Society
'Their emblem is a wolf in sheep's clothing, as if that doesn't tell you what they're doing...'

The stunning transformation of Great Britain in recent years — from a beacon of decorum and stiff upper lips to a cautionary tale of wokeness run amok — has been blamed on everything from socialism to satanism.

However, Rupert Lowe, a member of the British Parliament and founder of the organization Restore Britain, said the reality may be even more sinister.

In a recent appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast, he said a shadowy group of elites known as the Fabian Society was deliberately trying to wreck the country.

"I don't know if you've ever heard of the Fabian Society, but if you go and have a look at it, it was basically most of the Labour Party for many, many years," Lowe said, referring to England's leading left-wing party, the equivalent of U.S. Democrats.

Comment: Given more than a century of activity, the Fabians have acquired an alarming reach in Western society:

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Attention

Europe is teetering on the brink

Peter Hanseler
Forum Geopolitica
Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:51 UTC
The NATO summit sent a message that no one wants to hear. Europe is openly declaring war on Russia — and it's doing so with President Trump's full support.
EU Road Runners
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Two Fires That Could Escalate Into a Storm

World War I began on July 28, 1914 — 112 years later, the scene looks much the same, because it wouldn't take much for the situation to escalate fully. Today, there are two centers of conflict that have the potential to plunge the entire world into a global conflict.

When it comes to Iran, "peacemaker" Trump is breaking the MOU, just as we expected, and is attacking Iran once again — nota bene — during the largest funeral the world has ever seen. Iran has responded militarily, but with restraint. Some link this to the funeral ceremonies. More likely, however, is the implementation of a strategy to bring the West to its knees economically by blockading the Strait of Hormuz. The Middle East and Europe are in a state of limbo — but for how much longer?

The Collective West claims that it wants to — and is capable of — forcing Russia to make peace through war. To the surprise of many observers — including those in Russia — the Russian army has not (yet) struck back against Europe.

In this article, we discuss the situation in Europe.

Trump Is More Aggressive Than Biden

President Biden was considered a warmonger and a puppet of the deep state. Consequently, the US and Europe have been supplying Ukraine with weapons since the start of Russia's special military operation, even though Joe Biden himself initially expressed concerns that this behavior by the West could lead to World War III.
"The idea that we're going to send in offensive equipment and have planes and tanks and trains going in with American pilots and American crews... that's called 'World War III.'"

President Joe Biden, 11 March 2022
This led many commentators — including us — to favor Donald Trump: a man who promised peace and pledged not to start any new wars, and who boasted he would end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours. Yet now, at the NATO summit in Ankara, Trump has endorsed Ukrainian attacks deep inside Russia.
"Trump said he supported Ukraine striking targets deep inside Russian territory, calling it an escalation that could help end the war."

The Wallstreet Journal, 8 July 2026
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Black Magic

Watching Western Europe sleepwalk toward civilizational suicide

Ladislav Zemánek
RT
Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:54 UTC
Migrants EU
© Bulent Doruk / Anadolu Agency / Gettyimages.ru
The continent is running out of time to decide what kind of place it wants to be

Western Europe is not being conquered by foreign armies. It is being dismantled by its own political elites. While millions of Europeans watch their countries change beyond recognition, the ruling class continues to celebrate the very policies driving that transformation.

The numbers alone should set off alarm bells across every EU capital.

According to demographic data compiled by Berlin's Rockwool Foundation, the European Union's foreign-born population has surged from around 40 million people in 2010 to approximately 64 million in 2025. Out of the EU's total population of roughly 451 million, around 15% are now of non-EU origin. Even more astonishing, 7.3 million immigrants were added between 2023 and 2025 alone.

It is one of the fastest demographic transformations ever experienced.
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Bad Guys

Lindsey Graham was a monster, but not exceptional

Tarik Cyril Amar
RT
Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:28 UTC
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Lindsay Graham
Normal people would be ashamed to be seen with him, dead or alive; Western elites are boasting of how close to him they were.

Lindsey Graham is dead. And if we were to apply the old Spartan and then Roman adage "about the dead, nothing but the good," then this is where this text would have to end.

Some readers may find this shocking or unkind. But it is a fact that there is no way to write about the intriguingly sudden end of the long-term US senator from South Carolina in a 'balanced' manner and stay honest.

Graham was an almost cartoonishly evil man and since he was also very powerful, his moral depravity made a big difference to the lives of all too many. Downplaying that fact out of misplaced piety would be perverse; it would mean to disrespect the many victims of perfidious and brutal US and, in fact, Israeli policies of vicious violence and outrageous injustice that Graham promoted with every fiber of his being for his whole political life.

During the Gaza genocide, when challenged specifically about the Israeli mass killings of civilians, including women and children, Graham launched into what can only be called a psychopathic rant comparing the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians with American warfare against Germany in [and] Japan in World War II (an intriguing comparison in and of itself, but that is another matter) and drawing the conclusion that Gaza should be flattened, including with nuclear weapons. Gaza has been flattened, and to his dying day, Graham never showed an ounce of compassion for those slaughtered by his Israeli friends and did everything he could to support that slaughter.

Comment: Well said, Mr Amar!

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Warning

NATO's last stand?

Matthew G. Anderson
American Thinker
Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00 UTC
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Critics may be misreading the recent NATO summit.

It looks to them as if the U.S. is unilaterally siding with Europe against Russia.

President Trump is smarter: he knows who has the winning hand, and his direct communications with his peers, Xi and Putin, are not always public.

President Trump's earliest critical instincts toward the EU and NATO still hold. While the U.S. is currently extending them some diplomatic courtesy and limited support, Europe is ultimately surrounded on all sides by powers that make it irrelevant in global influence terms. Europe has put itself into this predicament, due to its own domestic economic decline from bad policy choices. It is using war as a way to revive its fortunes. Its odds are long.

The EU is surrounded economically by the U.S. to the west; by Russia and China to the east, by a vast Arctic territory to the north that it cannot control, and by India and a rising Middle East power, Israel, to the south. Europe has no strategic maneuvering room. It has limited prospects to reemerge as a serious power, and NATO is long past relevancy, and solvency.
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Take 2

Flashback Scenario

James Howard Kunstler
kunstler.com
Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00 UTC
Seth Rich
© UnknownSeth Rich, when he was alive at his leisure
"Witness list expanding in multi-conspiracy probe out of Fort Pierce. . . ."
- Paul Sperry, Real Clear investigations
The scene: February of 2027, a federal courtroom in Fort Pierce (St. Lucie County), Florida, the third day of trial in the RussiaGate matter. Defendants seated on the right (from the judge's vantage) are so numerous they require two tables, including John Brennan, James Comey, James Clapper, Andrew McCabe, Rod Rosenstein, Strzok & Page, Bruce Ohr, Lisa Monaco, Mary McCord, Christopher Wray, Marc Elias, and seven other former federal officials.

Former President Barack Obama and former Sec'y of State Hillary Clinton, named as "unindicted co-conspirators," are not present in the courtroom for the sake of decorum. Former MI6 agent, the slippery Christopher Steele, purveyor of the infamous "dossier," is on-the-lam, whereabouts unknown. The charges against the bunch are Seditious Conspiracy (18 U.S. Code § 2384), Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice (18 U.S.C. §§ 1503, 1512, 1519), Conspiracy Against Rights / Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law (18 U.S.C. §§ 241, 242), Perjury (18 U.S.C. § 1621), Concealment (18 U.S.C. § 1001).

At 10:00 a.m., a "surprise" witness is ushered into the room. Gasps erupt from all angles. The witness is immediately identified by his snow-white hair and beard. Everybody sees it is Julian Assange. He is a surprise witness for security reasons. He has been flown from Sydney to New Delhi to Frankfurt, and finally to Miami in a US government airplane, the lone passenger.
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Sheriff

DOJ Warns State Election Officials Can Be Charged Over Noncitizen Voting

Zachary Stieber
The Epoch Times
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:31 UTC
Harmeet Dhillon
© Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesAssistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington on Sept. 29, 2025.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has sent letters to election officials across the country, warning them that they could be charged if they let noncitizens receive ballots or vote in elections.

"Any election officer, including the chief election officer of the state, who knowingly retains noncitizens on the state's [voter list] or facilitates noncitizens in receiving and casting ballots could be subject to criminal liability," Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, said in the letters, which were sent on July 7.

It is also a crime to prevent people who try to vote from voting, the officials were also told.
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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Horns of a Dilemma: Why Trump is Damned if he Does, Damned if he Doesn't ('Take Out Iran')


Sott.net
Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:43 UTC
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Two high-profile deaths of politicians in three days - one in the US and one in the UK - has the internet guessing as to what happened to US Senator Lindsey Graham, along with former Tory and British Reform party member Ann Widdecombe. Graham dropped dead 'after returning from his 10th visit to Ukraine', and Widdecombe was brutally murdered in her home and the suspect(s) is at large. The latter was a rare voice of reason in British politics, but the former most certainly will not be missed (by normal people).

Meanwhile the US-Iran 'ceasefire' is definitely 'off again' and, while it remains to be seen if hostilities will explode to the levels they reached in March, the pressure Trump is under from the Israel First crowd means he's left with this choice: do nothing, get assassinated 'by Iran', then your successors 'finish the job anyway' while your legacy is left in tatters. Or, 'finish the job', tank the global economy, and your legacy will still be left in tatters.

A horrible 'trap', and one the deep state - with Iran as unwitting participants - laid for him, with no 'off ramp' available.


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USA

America's Doctrine of Unpredictability

Phil Butler
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00 UTC
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© UnknownOut of time!
Great powers rarely decline because they lack military strength; they falter when the world loses confidence in their judgment. America's increasingly erratic approach to Iran suggests that unpredictability has evolved from a diplomatic tool into a dangerous doctrine with consequences extending far beyond the Middle East.

Washington's Shifting Signals

For decades, American foreign policy rested upon a foundation that transcended individual presidents, political parties, and election cycles. Allies occasionally disagreed with Washington, while adversaries frequently challenged its objectives, but few questioned the existence of a coherent strategic framework. American commitments were generally understood to extend beyond the latest headline, allowing governments, military planners, and global markets to anticipate Washington's likely course of action even amid periods of international crisis. That assumption has been crushed by an administration that seems intent on alienating the whole world.

The second Trump administration has transformed unpredictability from an occasional negotiating tactic into the defining feature of American diplomacy. What was once presented as calculated strategic ambiguity has descended into policymaking by impulse, leaving allies and adversaries alike struggling to distinguish deliberate signaling from political improvisation. Yet ambiguity and contradiction are not synonymous. Effective ambiguity leaves opponents uncertain about the timing or scale of a response while leaving little doubt about underlying strategic objectives. Contradiction, by contrast, creates uncertainty about the objectives themselves. It is this distinction that increasingly defines American foreign policy and raises difficult questions about its long-term consequences.
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