What many of us worried would happen and foolishly hoped would not happen, has. Last night, the man who was re-elected in part by people who voted for him because they were tired of this country being dragged into wars that have nothing to do with making America great again launched what might end up being the biggest one we've had in some time.

Maybe the biggest one yet. Possibly the last one.

He did so on his own say-so, which has become the modus operandi of the elected dictators of this country. They decide - in the words of one of his predecessors - and we go along for the ride.

This one may prove to be less abstract than the last one but it has been launched for essentially the same reasons; i.e., on behalf of the state of Israel, which effectively controls the governing apparatus of the United States.

To mention this openly is of course extremely "anti-Semitic." It is sure evidence that one hates people who happen to be Jewish because one is appalled by the elected dictator of the United States deciding - just like that - to launch a bombing campaign against Iran on behalf of the state of Israel which, among other things, requires a monopoly on the possession of nuclear weapons in the region so that it can attack any of its fundamentally defenseless neighbors at will without fear of serious repercussions.

How we taught a generation to live in fear

Everyone's Afraid to Speak

Someone our family has known forever recently told my sister that they've been reading my Substack and that if they wrote the things I write, people would call them crazy. I got a kick out of that — not because it's untrue, but because it reveals something darker about where we've ended up as a society. Most people are terrified of being themselves in public.

My sister's response made me laugh: "People do call him crazy. He simply doesn't care." The funniest part is that I don't even write the craziest stuff I research — just the stuff I can back up with sources and/or my own personal observations. I always try to stay rooted in logic, reason and facts though — I'm clear when I'm speculating and when I'm not.

This same guy has sent me dozens of private messages over the last 4 or 5 years challenging me on stuff I share online. I'll respond with source material or common sense, and then — crickets. He disappears. If I say something he doesn't want to hear, he vanishes like a child covering his ears. Over the last few years, I've been proven right about most of what we've argued about, and he's been wrong. But it doesn't matter — he's got the memory of a gnat and the pattern never changes.

Lizardmen. Yeah, right. David Icke's invention. Is it based on truth? Who knows. It's about as good as any other theory. But it is rather common to come up with something quite outlandish if you can find another way to reconcile certain extremely vile human behaviour.

If you run across a Son of Sam type character — a serial killer named David Berkowitz who murdered six people in New York City during the 1970s — or even a Hitler — and we all know what he did — it is much easier to write them off as some inhuman entity than just a whacked-out human being.

Otherwise, we would have to admit we are all capable of such atrocities. Hitler and the Son of Sam were both possessed by evil spirits, or the Devil himself. How could they have done what they did if not?

So, why not say all these evil oligarchs are lizards? Easier to define them as a race of shape-shifting, extraterrestrial, reptilian humanoids than as actual humans. Icke's lizards are often called "Draconians" or "Anunnaki," originating from the Draco constellation, and they all secretly control Earth. These beings allegedly manipulate human societies by posing as influential figures in politics, royalty, finance, and media.

According to Icke, they maintain their human appearance through holographic distortion or genetic hybridization but can revert to their reptilian form as they wish. He claims they've ruled humanity for millennia, creating and controlling major institutions via a network of secret societies, notably the Illuminati, to maintain global dominance.

Sure, why not? Pretty out there, for sure. I would say Icke is a bona fide fruitcake if I didn't know better. The guy would be very difficult to conventionally diagnose as psychotic or schizophrenic or something worse. He just doesn't fit the diagnosis for a variety of reasons. So then, what's up? Is he right? Well, at this point in this insane nightmare we are all experiencing, it would not take much to convince me these people in question are indeed lizards. Or maybe Satan's minions, or something worse. It becomes more and more difficult to see them as whacked-out humans. Although that is still possible, but man, there would have to be an awful lot of them that were whacked. And that seems even more implausible to me at times than shape-shifting lizards from the Draco constellation.

My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell was found liable last week for defamation by a federal Jury in Colorado in a case brought by Dominion voting machine company former security and product strategy director Eric Coomer. However, the court did not a ward Coomer his expected damages.

Lindell and his online media platform, formerly known as Frankspeech, are ordered to pay Coomer $2.3 million, far less than the $62.7 million Coomer had asked for to help send a message to "discourage attacks on election workers".

The CEO accused Dominion of helping to rig the 2020 elections in favor of Joe Biden and suggested Coomer was a traitor. Lindell said he would appeal the financial award, asserting that Coomer's lawyers did not prove Coomer had been harmed. He also said he would continue to speak out about election security, including criticizing the makers of election equipment like Dominion.

White British people will become a minority in the UK population in less than 40 years, a report has predicted.

The population of white British people will fall from 73 per cent to 57 per cent by 2050, before becoming a minority by 2063, the research suggests.

Professor Matt Goodwin of Buckingham University analysed migration, birth and death rates, and calculated that by the end of the century, the white British share of the population - those who do not have an immigrant parent - could have dropped to a third.

As President Trump reportedly considers issuing an unconstitutional order to commit the US military to Israel's war on Iran, a new poll finds very little public support for an American attack on Iran -- even among those who voted for Trump in 2024.

According to an Economist/YouGov poll taken between June 13 and 16, only 16% of Americans "think the US military should get involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran. In an even more significant finding, only 19% of people who voted for Trump in 2024 support American military involvement. (23% of all self-identified Republicans support going to war.) Similarly, 56% of all Americans say the United States should engage in negotiations with Iran. That avenue has even greater support among Trump supporters -- with 63% advocating negotiations.

The weekend protests called "No Kings" produced crowds of a few thousand in some reliably "blue" cities like Portland, Boston, Seattle, and others, but not much else. Tragically, though, a killer who was once a political appointee of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz shot and killed the former state House speaker and her husband and seriously wounded a state senator and his wife — and killed his dog — in an act of politically motivated violence.

Los Angeles had eight days of violent rioting, 500 arrests, and looting spawned from protests of arrests made by federal immigration authorities. But the violence happened when professional demonstrators got into the mix, and the groups that organized the protest are well funded and have suspicious allegiances.

New York City's mayoral candidate and comptroller Brad Lander was dramatically arrested by ICE agents at an immigration court hearing Tuesday.

Lander, 55, was taken away in handcuffs by several federal agents after he spent the morning observing immigration court hearings.

The elected official, who serves as the city's top finance chief, was also there to 'accompany' some immigrants out of the building, Lander said.

A person he was walking out of the courtroom was also arrested. They have not been identified.

The Department of Homeland Security told Daily Mail Lander was arrested for assaulting or impeding a federal officer.

Juneteenth celebrations have been scaled back this year due to funding shortfalls as companies and municipalities across the country reconsider their support for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

Canceled federal grants and businesses moving away from so-called brand activism have hit the bottom line of parades and other events heading into Thursday's federal holiday, which celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. The shrinking financial support coincides with many companies severing ties with LGBTQ celebrations for Pride this year and President Donald Trump's efforts to squash DEI programs throughout the federal government.

In Denver, for example, more than a dozen companies backed out of supporting the Juneteenth Music Festival, which is one of the city's biggest celebrations of the holiday, according to Norman Harris, executive director of JMF Corporation, which puts on the event.

The assaults came days after the attempted assassination of a presidential candidate in Bogota. Many Colombians are fearful of a return to the violence of the 1980s and 1990s, when cartel attacks, guerrilla violence and political assassinations were commonplace.

Colombia was rocked by a string of coordinated bomb and gun attacks that killed at least seven people across the country's southwest on Tuesday, June 10, as rebel groups detonated bombs near police stations in the city of Cali - the country's third-largest city - and the neighboring Cauca province, hitting police posts, municipal buildings and civilian targets, Colombia's National Police said in a statement.

Military and police spokespeople blamed the attacks on the FARC-EMC, a group led by former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia who broke away from the group after it signed a peace deal with the government in 2016.