So much for the US being the ‘Land of the Free’! — Mark
Tuesday, October 07, 2025
Is the US Descending into Fascism? Interview with Professor Jason Stanley | DW News
So much for the US being the ‘Land of the Free’! — Mark
Gold Prices Scale Record Highs as Investors Seek Safe Haven
THE GUARDIAN: US government shutdown and uncertainty about the economy has caused a surge in value of precious metal
Gold futures prices topped $4,000 per ounce for the first time on Tuesday as investors continue to seek safe havens for their money, with the US government essentially shut down and widespread uncertainty around the economy.
As of 9.10am ET, gold futures traded at $4,003 in New York. The going price for New York spot gold rose to $3,960.60 per troy ounce – the standard for measuring precious metals.
Sales of gold can rise sharply when anxious investors seek secure investments amid times of turbulence or uncertainty. » | Guardian staff and agencies | Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Gold futures prices topped $4,000 per ounce for the first time on Tuesday as investors continue to seek safe havens for their money, with the US government essentially shut down and widespread uncertainty around the economy.
As of 9.10am ET, gold futures traded at $4,003 in New York. The going price for New York spot gold rose to $3,960.60 per troy ounce – the standard for measuring precious metals.
Sales of gold can rise sharply when anxious investors seek secure investments amid times of turbulence or uncertainty. » | Guardian staff and agencies | Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Clarence Thomas Says Legal Precedent Isn’t “Gospel” — Emily Galvin-Almanza explains.
Oct 7, 2025 | Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has questioning the very foundation of American legal precedent. Speaking at the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law, Thomas said that settled precedent in the U.S. is not “gospel” — and in some cases, may have been “something somebody dreamt up and others went along with.”
His remarks came just days before the Supreme Court begins its new nine-month term, reigniting debate over how far the conservative supermajority — shaped by Donald Trump’s appointments — might go in overturning long-standing rulings. Emily Galvin-Almanza explains.
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His remarks came just days before the Supreme Court begins its new nine-month term, reigniting debate over how far the conservative supermajority — shaped by Donald Trump’s appointments — might go in overturning long-standing rulings. Emily Galvin-Almanza explains.
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Warum gehen Zivilisationen unter? | 42 - Die Antwort auf fast alles | ARTE
Jun 13, 2025 | Ging das Römische Reich an seiner wachsenden Dekadenz unter? Zerstörten die Einwohner*innen der Osterinsel ihre eigene Lebensgrundlage? Lässt sich daran, wie und warum Zivilisationen zusammenbrechen, ein Muster erkennen? Das sind Fragen, die wir uns stellen, weil wir hoffen, dass wir damit vielleicht den Untergang unserer eigenen Zivilisation abwenden können.
Zivilisationen wie das alte Rom, das mongolische, assyrische oder persische Großreich, die Inka und Maya beherrschten auf den Höhepunkten ihrer Macht oft große Teile der ihnen bekannten Welt, schienen fast unangreifbar. Doch heute ist von vielen dieser einstigen Großmächte nicht viel mehr übrig als Artefakte hinter Museumsglas und Ruinen unter Lianen oder Wüstensand. Wie konnte es so weit kommen?
Über die Jahrhunderte wurden viele unterschiedliche Erklärungen für den Untergang von Zivilisationen gefunden. Doch bei genauerem Hinsehen entpuppen sich viele von ihnen eher als Spiegel der Sorgen der Zeit, in der sie entstanden. Unterstellen wir den Römern moralische Dekadenz, weil wir uns um unsere eigene Gesellschaft sorgen? Erzählen wir deshalb weiterhin von rücksichtsloser Umweltzerstörung durch die Maya oder auf der Osterinsel, obwohl die Forschung das heute in Frage stellt? Dennoch lassen sich in den Geschichten vom Untergang durchaus spannende Muster und wiederkehrende Motive finden. Und gleichzeitig zeigen viele dieser Geschichten, dass der „Untergang“ vielleicht weniger absolut ist, als es das Wort vermuten lässt, und dass Geschichten vom Kollaps gleichzeitig auch oft Geschichten vom Überdauern, Weitermachen, Wiederaufbau sind.
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Zivilisationen wie das alte Rom, das mongolische, assyrische oder persische Großreich, die Inka und Maya beherrschten auf den Höhepunkten ihrer Macht oft große Teile der ihnen bekannten Welt, schienen fast unangreifbar. Doch heute ist von vielen dieser einstigen Großmächte nicht viel mehr übrig als Artefakte hinter Museumsglas und Ruinen unter Lianen oder Wüstensand. Wie konnte es so weit kommen?
Über die Jahrhunderte wurden viele unterschiedliche Erklärungen für den Untergang von Zivilisationen gefunden. Doch bei genauerem Hinsehen entpuppen sich viele von ihnen eher als Spiegel der Sorgen der Zeit, in der sie entstanden. Unterstellen wir den Römern moralische Dekadenz, weil wir uns um unsere eigene Gesellschaft sorgen? Erzählen wir deshalb weiterhin von rücksichtsloser Umweltzerstörung durch die Maya oder auf der Osterinsel, obwohl die Forschung das heute in Frage stellt? Dennoch lassen sich in den Geschichten vom Untergang durchaus spannende Muster und wiederkehrende Motive finden. Und gleichzeitig zeigen viele dieser Geschichten, dass der „Untergang“ vielleicht weniger absolut ist, als es das Wort vermuten lässt, und dass Geschichten vom Kollaps gleichzeitig auch oft Geschichten vom Überdauern, Weitermachen, Wiederaufbau sind.
Dokureihe (D 2025, 30 Min)
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Video verfügbar bis zum 13/07/2026
Ging Rom an seiner Dekadenz zugrunde? | Stimmt es, dass ...? | ARTE
Frank Schaeffer: Duty to Warn: May I Tell You Who JD Vance Really Is? | Reupload
America is well and truly FU! — © Mark Alexander
États-Unis : la Cour suprême réexamine ce vendredi l’interdiction des «thérapies de conversion» pour mineurs
LE FIGARO : Le recours d’une psychologue chrétienne du Colorado contre l’interdiction des thérapies de conversion pour mineurs doit être examiné ce mardi. Une décision qui pourrait transformer la protection des jeunes LGBTQ+ dans plus d’une vingtaine d’États.
Les droits LGBTQ+ sont une nouvelle fois menacés aux États-Unis. La Cour suprême a accepté d’examiner ce mardi 7 octobre un recours contre une loi du Colorado interdisant, depuis 2019, les « thérapies de conversion » . Ces pratiques, plébiscitées par certains courants conservateurs et religieux, visent à «guérir» les mineurs homosexuels en modifiant leur orientation sexuelle et inciter les enfants transgenres à s’identifier au sexe qui leur a été assigné à la naissance. Parfois extrêmement violentes, elles ont été assimilées à «un acte de torture» par le Conseil des droits de l’homme des Nations unies nie en 2020. Les personnes qui y sont soumises peuvent en garder de lourdes séquelles, tomber en dépression, voire se suicider. » | Par Louise Dugast | mardi 7 octobre 2025
Les droits LGBTQ+ sont une nouvelle fois menacés aux États-Unis. La Cour suprême a accepté d’examiner ce mardi 7 octobre un recours contre une loi du Colorado interdisant, depuis 2019, les « thérapies de conversion » . Ces pratiques, plébiscitées par certains courants conservateurs et religieux, visent à «guérir» les mineurs homosexuels en modifiant leur orientation sexuelle et inciter les enfants transgenres à s’identifier au sexe qui leur a été assigné à la naissance. Parfois extrêmement violentes, elles ont été assimilées à «un acte de torture» par le Conseil des droits de l’homme des Nations unies nie en 2020. Les personnes qui y sont soumises peuvent en garder de lourdes séquelles, tomber en dépression, voire se suicider. » | Par Louise Dugast | mardi 7 octobre 2025
Lawrence: Trump Reveals He’s Considering Pardoning Convicted Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell
New Book Unmasks Plot to Turn US into Christian Nationalist Dictatorship w/ Matthew Boedy
Few Americans seem to have much understanding of true Christianity. — © Mark Alexander
Sen. Adam Schiff: Today Chicago, Tomorrow America
Oct 7, 2025 | Los Angeles was the prototype. Chicago and Portland are the next testing grounds.
Donald Trump says he wants to go "city by city", unless we hold the line against this unconstitutional – and un-American – abuse of our troops.
Donald Trump says he wants to go "city by city", unless we hold the line against this unconstitutional – and un-American – abuse of our troops.
Farage, Trump, Musk: Your Boy Javier Milei Just Took One Hell of a Beating. Why So Quiet?
THE GUARDIAN: The wild politics and chainsaw made Argentina’s president an economic hero for the right. And now, with his nation’s finances in chaos: silence
So you really want to know how Prime Minister Farage would pan out? Well, speculate no longer. An excellent test case is unfolding right now, in a country that just so happens to be run by one of Nigel’s heroes. Javier Milei is “amazing”, said the CEO of the private company he calls Reform. “Cutting and slashing … doing all the things he’s done … that’s leadership.”
You may know some of this story, about how a political outsider took power in Argentina. You’ve seen photos of El Loco, the self-styled madman, in a black leather jacket, with sideburns like hedges and wielding a giant red chainsaw – all the better to slash the public sector with.
Taking over Latin America’s second-largest country made Milei the poster boy of the international hard right. Elon Musk: “I love Javier Milei.” Kemi Badenoch: “Javier Milei is the template.” Donald Trump: “My favourite president.” In office, he was lionised by Wall Street and the international commentariat. Milei’s economy was declared by no lesser sage than Niall Ferguson as a “man-made miracle”.
Yet over the past few weeks, Argentina has gone into freefall. Investors have yanked billions out of the country, and the peso has dropped like a stone. A few days ago Trump was forced to pledge $20bn (£15bn) to prop up his friend, in addition to a rescue loan from the IMF. Later this month, Milei faces midterm elections that will serve as a referendum on his presidency and the results are expected to be bad. “We are seeing in real time how a government can melt in front of our eyes,” Alejandro Bercovich, a leading Argentine TV and radio journalist told me this week. “I never thought they would collapse this quickly.” » | Aditya Chakrabortty | Thursday, October 2, 2025
My regular visitors will surely remember that I stated loud and clear from day one that Javier Milei’s stupid experiment with anarcho-capitalism would fail. And my words are coming true very quickly.
You cannot run an economy as you run a business. The skills needed to run a business are totally different from the skills needed to run an economy. Intelligent, well-educated leaders and politicians should know this, but clearly many of them do not.
There is a simple reason why a businessman’s skills and a politician’s skills are very different, and it is simple to understand: the goal for a successful businessman is always profit; the goal of a good political leader should always be a successful economy run for the benefit of ALL the nation’s citizens. A nation’s leader is not doing his job properly if some of the citizens are living in the lap of luxury whilst others are going to bed at night hungry. When that happens, the leader has FAILED, regardless of how well the nation’s economy is doing on the international stage.
We need look no further than America for a lesson in how NOT to run an economy! Trump is trying to run the US using the business skills he boasts of possessing. And we can all see the mess that he has created. He has failed. And in Argentina, Javier Milei will also fail, I’m sorry to say. If I am not greatly mistaken, Milei’s reckless experiment in anarcho-capitalism will end in pain, misery, and tears for the masses. — © Mark Alexander
So you really want to know how Prime Minister Farage would pan out? Well, speculate no longer. An excellent test case is unfolding right now, in a country that just so happens to be run by one of Nigel’s heroes. Javier Milei is “amazing”, said the CEO of the private company he calls Reform. “Cutting and slashing … doing all the things he’s done … that’s leadership.”
You may know some of this story, about how a political outsider took power in Argentina. You’ve seen photos of El Loco, the self-styled madman, in a black leather jacket, with sideburns like hedges and wielding a giant red chainsaw – all the better to slash the public sector with.
Taking over Latin America’s second-largest country made Milei the poster boy of the international hard right. Elon Musk: “I love Javier Milei.” Kemi Badenoch: “Javier Milei is the template.” Donald Trump: “My favourite president.” In office, he was lionised by Wall Street and the international commentariat. Milei’s economy was declared by no lesser sage than Niall Ferguson as a “man-made miracle”.
Yet over the past few weeks, Argentina has gone into freefall. Investors have yanked billions out of the country, and the peso has dropped like a stone. A few days ago Trump was forced to pledge $20bn (£15bn) to prop up his friend, in addition to a rescue loan from the IMF. Later this month, Milei faces midterm elections that will serve as a referendum on his presidency and the results are expected to be bad. “We are seeing in real time how a government can melt in front of our eyes,” Alejandro Bercovich, a leading Argentine TV and radio journalist told me this week. “I never thought they would collapse this quickly.” » | Aditya Chakrabortty | Thursday, October 2, 2025
My regular visitors will surely remember that I stated loud and clear from day one that Javier Milei’s stupid experiment with anarcho-capitalism would fail. And my words are coming true very quickly.
You cannot run an economy as you run a business. The skills needed to run a business are totally different from the skills needed to run an economy. Intelligent, well-educated leaders and politicians should know this, but clearly many of them do not.
There is a simple reason why a businessman’s skills and a politician’s skills are very different, and it is simple to understand: the goal for a successful businessman is always profit; the goal of a good political leader should always be a successful economy run for the benefit of ALL the nation’s citizens. A nation’s leader is not doing his job properly if some of the citizens are living in the lap of luxury whilst others are going to bed at night hungry. When that happens, the leader has FAILED, regardless of how well the nation’s economy is doing on the international stage.
We need look no further than America for a lesson in how NOT to run an economy! Trump is trying to run the US using the business skills he boasts of possessing. And we can all see the mess that he has created. He has failed. And in Argentina, Javier Milei will also fail, I’m sorry to say. If I am not greatly mistaken, Milei’s reckless experiment in anarcho-capitalism will end in pain, misery, and tears for the masses. — © Mark Alexander
Monday, October 06, 2025
IHIP News: “Mike Johnson Visibly Panicking over Shutdown Nightmare and Grindr Rumors”
Strong language alert!
Blue States Strike Back: Illinois, Oregon, and California Stop Trump’s National Guard Deployments.
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Maroc : accusée d’«atteinte à l’islam», une militante féministe condamnée à 2 ans et demi de prison
LE FIGARO : Connue pour son engagement en faveur des libertés individuelles, Ibtissame Lachgar avait été arrêtée cet été après avoir publié sur les réseaux sociaux une photo d’elle vêtue d’un t-shirt où apparaissait le mot «Allah» suivi de la phrase «is lesbian» («est lesbienne»).
Un tribunal de Rabat a confirmé lundi en appel une peine de deux ans et demi de prison prononcée en première instance à l'encontre de la militante féministe marocaine Ibtissame Lachgar pour «atteinte à l'islam».
La militante de 50 ans, connue pour son engagement en faveur des libertés individuelles, avait été arrêtée cet été après avoir publié sur les réseaux sociaux une photo d'elle vêtue d'un t-shirt où apparaissait le mot «Allah» suivi de la phrase «is lesbian» («est lesbienne»). L'image était accompagnée d'un texte qualifiant l'islam, «comme toute idéologie religieuse», de «fasciste, phallocrate et misogyne». » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | lundi 6 octobre 2025
Un tribunal de Rabat a confirmé lundi en appel une peine de deux ans et demi de prison prononcée en première instance à l'encontre de la militante féministe marocaine Ibtissame Lachgar pour «atteinte à l'islam».
La militante de 50 ans, connue pour son engagement en faveur des libertés individuelles, avait été arrêtée cet été après avoir publié sur les réseaux sociaux une photo d'elle vêtue d'un t-shirt où apparaissait le mot «Allah» suivi de la phrase «is lesbian» («est lesbienne»). L'image était accompagnée d'un texte qualifiant l'islam, «comme toute idéologie religieuse», de «fasciste, phallocrate et misogyne». » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | lundi 6 octobre 2025
Judge Killed in Courtroom Shooting in Albania
THE GUARDIAN: Man opens fire in Tirana court, killing judge and injuring two other people, and is arrested after fleeing scene
A man on trial opened fire in a courtroom in the Albanian capital, Tirana, killing the judge and injuring two other people, police have said.
The judge, Astrit Kalaja, was presiding during a hearing at the court of appeal on Monday when the man opened fire, police said, adding that the shooter was promptly arrested. “The judge was rushed to the hospital, but succumbed to his injuries on the way,” a police statement said. » | Guardian staff and agencies | Monday, October 6, 2025
A man on trial opened fire in a courtroom in the Albanian capital, Tirana, killing the judge and injuring two other people, police have said.
The judge, Astrit Kalaja, was presiding during a hearing at the court of appeal on Monday when the man opened fire, police said, adding that the shooter was promptly arrested. “The judge was rushed to the hospital, but succumbed to his injuries on the way,” a police statement said. » | Guardian staff and agencies | Monday, October 6, 2025
Bachar el-Assad hospitalisé à Moscou après une «tentative d’empoisonnement», selon une ONG
LE FIGARO : Exilé en Russie depuis la chute de son régime en décembre dernier, l’ancien président syrien Bachar el-Assad a été admis dans un état critique dans un hôpital près de Moscou. Il aurait été victime d’un empoisonnement selon l’ONG syrienne OSDH.
L’ancien président syrien Bachar el-Assad, exilé en Russie depuis la chute de son régime en décembre dernier, a été admis le 20 septembre dans un hôpital près de Moscou dans un « état critique en soins intensifs », révèle l’Observatoire syrien des droits de l’homme (OSDH) dans un rapport daté du 2 octobre. Selon une source russe à l’ONG, le dirigeant déchu a été victime non pas « d’une simple intoxication alimentaire mais bien d’un empoisonnement ». Après neuf jours de convalescence, il serait sorti de l’établissement, et son état serait désormais stable. » | Par Louise Dugast | lundi 6 octobre 2025
L’ancien président syrien Bachar el-Assad, exilé en Russie depuis la chute de son régime en décembre dernier, a été admis le 20 septembre dans un hôpital près de Moscou dans un « état critique en soins intensifs », révèle l’Observatoire syrien des droits de l’homme (OSDH) dans un rapport daté du 2 octobre. Selon une source russe à l’ONG, le dirigeant déchu a été victime non pas « d’une simple intoxication alimentaire mais bien d’un empoisonnement ». Après neuf jours de convalescence, il serait sorti de l’établissement, et son état serait désormais stable. » | Par Louise Dugast | lundi 6 octobre 2025
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