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The Middle East will never be the same after tonight.
US-Israel coalition drops heavy payloads deep inside Iran.
Are we watching the start of a global war ?
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 TWITCH STREAMER AND PHILANTHROPIST @AnniePants02_ REPORTEDLY HAS BEEN SHOT OUTSIDE A NEW YORK BODEGA
A FAN RECORDED THIS GRAPHIC SCENE FILMING HER LAST MOMENTS
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Families & kids going hungry: Nearly 2.2 million visits to food banks in March 2025 alone — the highest in history, doubled since 2019
Food Banks Canada HungerCount 2025 → foodbankscanada.ca/hunger-in-cana…
Full PDF → content.foodbankscanada.ca/wordpress/2025…
Skyrocketing food prices: Grocery prices have risen over 27–30% since 2019 (far outpacing general inflation). Canada’s Food Price Report 2026 forecasts families of four will spend up to $994 more on food in 2026 alone, with overall food prices up another 4–6%. Food inflation repeatedly hit the highest in the G7.
Canada’s Food Price Report 2026 → dal.ca/sites/agri-foo…
Bank of Canada / StatsCan analyses → bankofcanada.ca/2026/02/sparks…
Government silencing dissent & jailing protesters: Freedom Convoy arrests under the Emergencies Act were ruled unreasonable and a Charter rights violation by the Federal Court (upheld on appeal in 2026)
Federal Court of Appeal decision summary → theccf.ca/federal-court-…
Bill C-9 (Combatting Hate Act) passed the House March 25, 2026 (now in Senate)—removes the Criminal Code’s longstanding religious exemption that protected good-faith opinions based on religious texts
Parliament status → parl.ca/legisinfo/en/b…
Bill text → parl.ca/documentviewer…
Bill C-22 (Lawful Access Act, 2026)—gives police/CSIS easier access to telecom subscriber info and new production-order tools
Parliament → parl.ca/legisinfo/en/b…
Spring 2026 fiscal update proposes changes to allow police to search/seize Canada Post mail with warrants more easily
Toronto Star → thestar.com/politics/feder…
Taxed into poverty + unaffordable housing: Immigration-driven population surge outpaced housing construction, contributing to the crisis in major cities
Fraser Institute 2025 report on housing affordability & population growth → fraserinstitute.org/studies/crisis…
The average Canadian family now pays 42.3% of income in taxes—more than they spend on food, shelter, and clothing combined
Fraser Institute 2025 Consumer Tax Index → fraserinstitute.org/studies/taxes-…
Temporary Foreign Worker Program expansions (2026): Government raised the cap on low-wage TFWs to 15% of workforce in rural areas, effectively incentivizing foreign hires with taxpayer support while Canadian-first hiring remains on paper only.
Official ESDC page → canada.ca/en/employment-…
Homelessness & kids in the streets: Homelessness has surged nationally—unsheltered numbers up over 100% in recent counts. In Ontario alone, 85,000 people experienced homelessness in 2025 (up 8% in one year)
Housing & Infrastructure Canada Point-in-Time Counts + AMO Report → amo.on.ca/events-trainin…
Blocked natural resources & trillions lost: Over $670 billion in oil, gas, LNG, and pipeline projects cancelled or stalled since 2015. Alberta produces ~84% of Canada’s crude oil.
Canada Action report → canadaaction.ca/canada-has-670…
CER oil production data → cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analys…
Trillions in capital flight: RBC reports Canada suffered a net loss of over $1 trillion in investment (2015–2024). Unlocking resource projects could bring $705 billion in oil & gas investment alone as part of a $1.8 trillion opportunity.
RBC Report → rbc.com/en/thought-lea…
Financial Post → financialpost.com/news/canada-ne…
Record immigration surge & economy wrecked: Total new arrivals exceeded around 1.1 million in peak years. Rapid pace strains housing, healthcare, and services. 2024–2025 growth was 97.3% from international migration.
IRCC 2025 Annual Report → canada.ca/en/immigration…
Fraser Institute “Canada’s Changing Immigration Patterns 2000–2024” → fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/…
Healthcare utterly crippled: Median wait time from GP referral to treatment hit 28.6 weeks in 2025 (second-longest on record). Millions lack a family doctor. Rapid population growth outpaced capacity.
Fraser Institute 2025 Wait Times Report → fraserinstitute.org/studies/waitin…
Best and brightest leaving in droves: Net emigration hit 50-year highs (65k+ in 2024-25), with young, university-educated professionals exiting at record rates.
The Hub (April 2026) → thehub.ca/2026/04/03/can…
Even proposals to punish those who leave: At the April 2026 Liberal convention, ex-Google CFO Patrick Pichette proposed a $500,000 “exit tax”.
National Post → nationalpost.com/opinion/terry-…
Fast-tracked foreigners into military + eased citizenship: Bill C-3 loosened citizenship-by-descent rules. 2026 Express Entry now prioritizes foreign military recruits. In FY 2025–26, ~19–20% of new CAF recruits (1,400) were non-citizen permanent residents — highest ever.
IRCC Bill C-3 announcement → canada.ca/en/immigration…
2026 Express Entry categories → canada.ca/en/immigration…
DND official announcement (April 2026) → canada.ca/en/department-…
Official CAF enlistment rules (PRs eligible) → forces.ca/en/how-to-join/
Preferential hiring (“won’t hire you if you’re White”): Federal and provincial equity mandates legally allow and require targets/preferences for racialized and Indigenous candidates in hiring.
Federal Employment Equity Action Plan 2025–2028 → publications.gc.ca/collections/co…
BC Human Rights Code EDI Q&A (allows preference statements) → bchumanrights.ca/resources/edi-…
Floor-crossing & courting MPs: Multiple Conservative MPs crossed the floor to join the Liberals in 2025–2026.
CTV News → ctvnews.ca/politics/artic…
Conservative MP rejecting “bribe” offers → halifax.citynews.ca/2026/01/05/b-c…
Mandatory telecom data retention: Bill C-22 includes powers to require telecom providers to retain metadata on all users for up to one year.
Michael Geist analysis → michaelgeist.ca/2026/03/the-la…
MAiD & social systems breaking: 16,499 MAiD deaths in 2024 alone. 95.6% of those who disclosed race/ethnicity were White/Caucasian. Cumulative total since 2016 now over 76,000 and projected to surpass 100,000 by mid-2026.
Health Canada 2024 Annual Report → canada.ca/en/health-cana…
Yahoo News projection (Feb 2026) → ca.news.yahoo.com/first-reading-…
Sacred sites and churches burning: Since May 2021, at least 123 churches vandalized/torched/desecrated, with 44+ fully burned to the ground. Arsons remain nearly double the pre-2021 baseline.
Macdonald-Laurier Institute (Dec 2025) → macdonaldlaurier.ca/residential-sc…
Assault-style firearms ban + buyback program: canada.ca/en/public-safe…
All of this is public data from government agencies, court rulings, and independent reports. The numbers are real. The policies are real. Calling it out isn’t fearmongering—it’s just stating facts while we still can
BREAKING NEWS: The Hail Mary ship included UNEXPECTED equipment! Was the project just an excuse to have a big ORGY in space?? Did Stratt planned to try and make Mpreg real?? Was Ryland Grace always the target???
More at 5pm
@Keitu4H 😭😭😭 them thinking they really got it but it’s a whole nothing burger😭 I left that gc I wasn’t even active in except for one day lmao like yes this huge breaking news. They just want crocodile tears for their white toddler
is this what qualifies as journalism nowadays? Breaking news, man eats dinner. Regardless of politics, it's a nothingburger of a story... there are actually plenty of newsworthy things happening right now publications could be writing about
WORLD CRISIS RADIO PODCAST APRIL 4 2026 tarpley.net/world-crisis-r…
IN AN ACT OF INCALCULABLE FOLLY, TRUMP TELLS LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH THAT US EXIT FROM NATO IS “BEYOND RECONSIDERATION”; RUBIO PARROTS SAME LINE OF ABJECT BETRAYAL; TRUMP HAS NO LEGAL AUTHORITY TO TERMINATE A TREATY RATIFIED BY THE US SENATE, SO THIS WOULD BE GROUNDS FOR IMPEACHMENT AND REMOVAL, REPRESENTING A FRONTAL ATTACK ON US NATIONAL SURVIVAL, WHICH MUST BE BLOCKED IMMEDIATELY, NOT IN NOVEMBER, AND NOT NEXT YEAR!
THE HOUR OF MAXIMUM STRATEGIC DANGER FOR US IS UPON US: TRUMP HAS LOST INTEREST IN THE LONG OVERDUE DAY OF RECKONING FOR THE WARMONGER AYATOLLAH REGIME, PREFERRING TO FOCUS INSTEAD ON BETRAYING NATO, EUROPE, AND UKRAINE IN ALLIANCE WITH PUTIN; THE INFAMY OF LEAVING THE HORMUZ OIL CHOKE POINT UNDER CONTROL OF TEHRAN ISLAMISTS WOULD QUICKLY REDUCE THE US TO A REVILED SECOND-CLASS PARIAH POWER OR WELTMACHTRUINE; SHORT RUN BY-PRODUCTS WOULD LIKELY INCLUDE CRUSHING AUSTERITY AND IMMISERATION ON THE HOME FRONT, GENOCIDE BY AYATOLLAHS AGAINST THE IRANIAN DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT, CHINESE ATTACK ON TAIWAN, RUSSIAN AGGRESSION AGAINST THE BALTIC STATES, AND A SECOND KOREAN WAR UNLEASHED BY KIM;
BREAKING: F-15 LOSS OVER IRAN MAY BE A RESULT OF RUSSIAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT EQUIPMENT SENT TO THE AYATOLLAHS BY TRUMP’S PAL PUTIN; REPORTS SAY ANTI-AYATOLLAH INSURRECTION HAS SEIZED CONTROL OF THE KURDISH MAJORITY WESTERN IRANIAN CITY OF ABDANAN, POPULATION ABOUT 25,000;
TO OPEN HORMUZ, RESUME ALL OIL SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA AND IRAN; ARM, EQUIP, AND SUPPLY THE KURDISH, AZERI, ARAB, TURKMEN, AND BALOCH OPPRESSED MINORITIES IN IRAN AND THE IRANIAN DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT; SET UP A TRADITIONAL OFFSHORE NAVAL BLOCKADE OUTSIDE HORMUZ IN THE ARABIAN SEA AND GULF OF ADEN; INFORM IRAN’S BIGGEST OIL CUSTOMERS IN BEIJING THAT IRAN AND ITS HOUTHI SATELLITES MUST RESTORE FREEDOM OF NAVIGATION FOR ALL NATIONS THROUGH HORMUZ AND THE RED SEA GATEWAY OF BAB EL MANDEB, OR ELSE NO IRANIAN OIL WILL BE ALLOWED BY THE US NAVY TO REACH CHINA; TELL MOSCOW AND BEIJING TO CUT OFF ALL AID TO IRAN, OR THE US WILL RESUME A LARGE SCALE LEND-LEASE PROGRAM TO RE-ARM TAIWAN AND UKRAINE; KEEP UP CONTINUOUS AIR ATTACKS ON REGIME BIGWIGS, IRGC, QUDS FORCE, BASIJ, POLICE, NUCLEAR PROGRAM, MISSILE PRODUCTION, DRONE FACTORIES, AND OTHER MILITARY TARGETS; AS ULTIMA RATIO, AND IN VIEW OF FREQUENT IRANIAN ATTACKS ON OIL AND NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION AND TANKER TERMINALS OF THE GULF ARAB STATES, DISABLE THE KHARG ISLAND TANKER TERMINAL TO CLOSE THE MONEY SPIGOT OF THE AYATOLLAHS AND BANKRUPT THIS SAVAGE REGIME;
URGENT IMPEACHMENT AND/OR ACTIVATION OF XXV AMENDMENT ARE NOW MANDATORY TO SAVE NATO, DEFEAT IRAN, AND RESTORE DOMESTIC LEGALITY; DEMOCRATIC PLANS TO SLOW WALK IMPEACHMENT WITH MONTHS OF HEARINGS STARTING NEXT JANUARY ARE NOW UNREALISTIC AND MUST BE JUNKED IN FAVOR OF SWIFT AND DECISIVE ACTION;
TRUMP’S ANTICS ARE NEITHER STRATEGY NOR PSYWAR, BUT THE PERSONAL MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM OF A TROUBLED MIND: MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS SHOULD AGITATE AROUND UPDATED DIAGNOSES AS A VITAL PUBLIC SERVICE; TRUMP’S MAGICAL THINKING: SAY REGIME CHANGE HAS HAPPENED AND THAT BECOMES TRUE; SAY “OPEN SESAME” AND HORMUZ IS AUTOMATICALLY UNBLOCKED;
CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS WILL HAVE NO TIME FOR CAUTIOUS GLACIALLY-PACED SLOW WALKING OF HOUSE TAKEOVER; FLIP SOME SEATS NOW AND IMPEACH TRUMP THIS MONTH! NO NEED FOR LONG MONTHS OF LABORIOUS HEARINGS STARTING NEXT JANUARY; MOST AMERICANS HAVE TRUMP’S NUMBER; TAKE SERIOUSLY THE IMPERATIVE OF FLIPPING THE HOUSE TO VOTE IMPEACHMENT WITHIN 100 DAYS; MAKE GOP DISSIDENTS ATTRACTIVE OFFERS THEY CAN’T REFUSE; BE AGGRESSIVE, UNPREDICTABLE, AND NEVER SIT STILL WHILE AN OLIGARCH ATTACKS YOU ACCORDING TO HIS PRECONCEIVED PLAN!
BUT SPEAKING ON DC’S WAMU-FM POLITICS HOUR WITH KOJO NAMDI THIS WEEK, PROSPECTIVE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE CHAIR REP. JAMIE RASKIN DESCRIBED THE TIME FROM NOW TO NOVEMBER AS DEVOTED TO CAMPAIGNING, FOLLOWED BY LIMITED ACTIONS PENDING A DEMOCRATIC WHITE HOUSE IN JANUARY 2029; NOT A WORD ABOUT IMPEACHMENT, WHICH HIS COMMITTEE WOULD HANDLE! THIS SCHEDULE IS OBSOLETE!
REGIME IMPLODES IN SEARCH FOR SCAPEGOATS: FIRST NOEM, THEN BONDI; ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF GEN. RANDY GEORGE FORCED OUT DESPITE ONGOING WAR ALONG WITH CHIEF MILITARY CHAPLAIN AND TRADOC COMMANDER; WILL WHISKEY PETE BE NEXT?
IN FIT OF RAGE, TRUMP ATTACKS BRITISH PRIME MINISTER, SLANDERS FRANCE, AND VILIFIES EUROPE IN THE PUTIN MANNER; NATO CHIEF RUTTE WILL ATTEMPT MISSION IMPOSSIBLE OF PACIFYING BENEDICT DONALD NEXT WEEK;
TRUMP MUST BE IMPEACHED, CONVICTED, AND REMOVED FROM POWER WITHIN MONTHS, NOT YEARS, BEFORE HE WRECKS THE US ALLIANCE SYSTEM AND WITH IT THE NATION’S WORLD STRATEGIC POSITION, POTENTIALLY COSTING US MILLIONS OF LIVES; HIS CLAIM THAT IRAN REGIME HAS ALREADY HAPPENED IS RAVING DELIRIUM, WORTHY OF XXV AMENDMENT SANCTIONS;
RUSSIAN IS SENDING IRAN PRECIOUS INTELLIGENCE AND ADVANCED WEAPONS TO KILL AMERICANS WHILE SENDING OIL TO CUBA; TRUMP DROPS ECONOMIC SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA AND BREAKS HIS OWN CUBA OIL BLOCKADE; MANY WONDER: WHOSE SIDE IS HE ON ANYWAY?
FOR MAY 1 GENERAL STRIKE: MAKE THE TOP DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE IMPEACHMENT AND REMOVAL OF TRUMP, NOT JUST A GENERIC “NO KINGS” REPLAY!
YET ANOTHER SELF-INFLICTED CATASTROPHE FOR MAGA: TRUMP WANTS TO INCREASE DEFENSE SPENDING IN FY 2027 WHILE AXING $72 BILLION IN DOMESTIC OUTLAYS IN HEALTH, HOUSING, AND EDUCATION FOR LOWER INCOMES; TIME TO STOP THE KILLER CUTS AND REVIVE BIDEN’S 25% ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAX ON BILLIONAIRES; AT THE CURRENT RATE, MAGA/GOP COLLAPSE AND PARTY EXTINCTION BECOME DISTINCT POSSIBILITIES;
PASSING COMMENTS BY MEDIA FIGURES SHOW DEFEATISM: “WHATEVER YOU THINK OF HIM, HE’S STLL GOT HIS HANDS ON THE STEERING WHEEL FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS,” OPINES NICOLLE WALLACE, BUT HOPES OF SAVING THE COUNTRY FROM TRUMP MAY RUN OUT LONG BEFORE THAT;
PROLOGUE TO ANY FUTURE FASCISM: MAGA DEMAGOGUES ARE BREAKING WITH TRUMP TO AVOID BEING DRAGGED DOWN INTO THE VORTEX OF THE ONGOING MAGA SHIPWRECK; THEY ARE JUMPING SHIP TO PRESERVE THE CHANCE OF A POST-MAGA REBIRTH OF NEOFASCISM HEAVILY TINGED WITH ANTI-SEMITISM;
ACTUAL CONSERVATIVES VALUE PRECEDENTS, CUSTOMS, TRADITIONS, NORMS, AND CONVENTIONS, WHILE RESPECTING THE STATUS QUO; THE BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP CLAUSE OF THE XIV AMENDMENT IS UNASSAILABLE ON ALL THESE POINTS; SUPREME COURT JUSTICES VOTING TO OVERTURN IT WILL BE REACTIONARIES, RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS, OR OUTRIGHT FASCISTS, BUT CERTAINLY NOT CONSERVATIVES;
TRUMP IS TOO WEAK EVEN TO MAINTAIN HIS OWN CUBA POLICY; TENANT OF WHITE HOUSE LACKS THE MENTAL AND MORAL EQUIPMENT NEEDED TO FUNCTION AS A WAR PRESIDENT; THIS IS HIS WORST PROLONGED MENTAL HEALTH EPISODE YET;
THE PENTAGON NEEDS THE $200 BILLION SUPPLEMENTAL FOR RESTOCKING TOMAHAWKS, PATRIOTS, HIMARS, ATACMS, DRONES, AIRCRAFT, AMMUNITION, LASERS, LEONIDAS, AND OTHER DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS; TRUMP MUST BE FOUGHT, BUT WITHOUT FORGETTING THAT THE TOTALITARIAN AGGRESSOR BLOC OF ENEMY STATES RUSSIA, CHINA, IRAN, AND DPRK ARE A REAL EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO THE UNITED STATES;
WORST FEARS FULFILLED: AMERICA FIRST AS PRACTICED BY MAGA REPROBATES DOES INDEED MEAN AMERICA ALONE AND IMPOTENT; FRANCE, ITALY, SPAIN MOVE AWAY FROM WASHINGTON; TIME FOR TRUMP TO SHUT UP; ARAB GULF STATES DEMAND END TO AYATOLLAH REGIME;
WITH JUST 33% JOB APPROVAL IN THE LATEST U-MASS AMHERST POLL, VACILLATOR TRUMP HAS LOST THE CONFIDENCE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, WHO DO NOT TRUST HIM ALONE WITH XI ON MAY 14-15; CANCEL THIS DANGEROUS FOOL’S ERRAND NOW!
CORRUPT CORPORATE NEWS MEDIA REACH NEW LOWS OF DEFEATISM AND APPEASEMENT: MADDOW THINKS RETALIATING AGAINST IRAN IS “INEXPLICABLE” DESPITE DIRE WARNINGS ABOUT THE TEHRAN THREAT FROM ALL PRESIDENTS OF BOTH PARTIES SINCE JIMMY CARTER AND IRAN’S UNCONTESTABLE CURRENT STATUS AS WORLD’S LEADING NUCLEAR AND BALLISTIC MISSILE PROLIFERATOR AND INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST POWER THROUGH ITS OWNERSHIP OF HEZBOLLAH, HAMAS, HOUTHIS, IRAQ’S KATAIB HEZBOLLAH, AND OTHER TERROR GROUPS;
NOT LETHALITY PER SE BUT VICTORY UNDERSTOOD AS THE END OF ARMED RESISTANCE IS THE GOAL OF MILITARY OPERATIONS; AS THE GERMAN MILITARY THEORETICIAN VON CLAUSEWITZ EMPHASIZED IN HIS BOOK ON WAR (1832), WAR IS THE CONTINUATION OF POLITICS BY OTHER (VIOLENT) MEANS.
Concerning the indispensable goal of victory, General Douglas MacArthur had this to say to a joint session of Congress in April, 1951, after he was fired by Truman over differences in strategy in the Korean War after the Communist Chinese sneak attack: “...once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision.
In war, there is no substitute for victory.
There are some who for varying reasons would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war. It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement had led to more than a sham peace.
Fourteenth Amendment and Birthright Citizenship
TRUMP MOUTHPIECE SAUER CITES BYZANTINE EMPEROR JUSTINIAN (ruled 527-565 AD) IN SUPREME COURT ATTACK ON XIV AMENDMENT BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP! Justinian was a cruel tyrant who ordered his generals to brutally suppress the Nika riots of 532 AD (initially a quarrel between the Blue and Green chariot racing teams in the hippodrome of Constantinople). The generals suppressed the riots, killing some 30,000 unarmed protesters-like the ayatollahs today. And like Putin today, Justinian was trying to rebuild his shattered empire by war. After 250 years of US independence, this tyrant's dead hand from the Dark Ages is supposed to influence jurisprudence in the United States against the heritage of the Union dead, Lincoln's new birth of freedom, and the second founding of our country? This is the absurd intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the textualists and originalists of the legal positivist school who dominate this wayward court today. And why stop with Justinian? What were the views of the monsters Nero and Caligula? And what about Justinian's wife, the vindictive actress who was Empress Theodora? What did she think? The Preamble of the Constitution requires the US government to "establish Justice." This is not the language of legal positivism, which explicitly excludes justice as an "irrational ideal" beyond cognition (Kelsen 1957). Justice and morality, and not just dubious precedents, are the language of natural law, which this court needs to learn. We are NOT all originalists now.
Here is the relevant text:
XIV Amendment, Section 1
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
WHY THE US WAITED FIFTY-FOUR YEARS TO RETURN TO THE MOON AFTER THE END OF THE APOLLO PROGRAM IN 1972: THE SCIENTIFIC OPTIMISM OF LEIBNIZ VS. THE STUPEFIED AGE OF ACQUARIUS
During the mid-1960s, elements of the US ruling class were preparing to impose a cultural paradigm shift away from traditional optimistic American outlooks and in the direction of Malthusianism, de-industrialization, obscurantism, historical pessimism, zero growth, hedonism, narcotics, austerity, anti-intellectualism, debauchery, and what was generally known as the rock-drug counterculture -- all understood as a counterinsurgency strategy to maintain the domination of finance capital, and of Wall Street in particular. These elements constituted an action program, sometimes known as the Aquarian Conspiracy, among ruling class think tanks and elite associations. The overarching goal was the continuation and intensification of oligarchical domination in US society.
But in the course of the decade, it became obvious that the space program of manned exploration of the nearby celestial objects launched by President Kennedy with his promise of landing a human on the moon, followed by a safe return to earth, constituted a serious challenge to this sinister counterinsurgency plan. This situation was described in a confidential document known as the Rapoport Report to the Tavistock Institute in London. Anatole Rapoport, a Soviet émigré academic specialized in mathematical psychology built this report around his finding that the popular enthusiasm and intellectual curiosity stimulated by the United States space program was dangerously increasing the authority of reason, science, technology, progress, and cultural/historical optimism in the American population. Rapoport, who saw himself as an ideological and psychological manipulator of the American masses in the service of the financier elite, was alarmed by this phenomenon. He feared that the increased hegemony of rationality, science, and optimism would make Americans less and less tolerant of oligarchical domination and manipulation, as for example by the likes of the intellectually challenged David Rockefeller of Chase Manhattan Bank and his forces then assembling to form the Trilateral Commission a few years later.
Oligarchical domination, after all, is in no way a meritocracy, but rather an irrational principle of domination, giving power to those who in no way had earned it, and who were among the most likely to produce disastrous results by trying to use it. Charles Elliott, the president of Harvard from 1869 to 1909, had complained about the stultifying presence on his campus of the “stupid sons of rich men,” and had attempted to institute an admissions policy based on intellectual talent.
But Anatol Rapoport and his co-thinkers were determined to assert irrationality and the dumbing down of the masses, as we have seen it over all these decades. The result was that, even before Apollo 11 had put astronauts on the moon in 1969, the defunding of the space program had been established as policy, soon helped along by economic decline exacerbated by the collapse of the Bretton Woods international monetary system in August, 1971. The Vietnam War, Watergate, and the chaotic Carter presidency were also strong negative factors. The existence of Skylab, the space shuttle, and other projects could change little in this picture, and things were made worse by the rise systems analysis. As we are seeing today, it is the visible participation of real people of diverse races, gender, and national origins in this epic scientific and technological enterprise that excites the imagination and influences the career choices of people all over the world. We must do everything possible to advance the cause of historical and cultural optimism, and the rule of reason, as part of the necessary efforts to overcome the present acute world crisis. So it is on to the moon, then Mars, and then – who knows?