Bessent Set To Pull The Plug On Federal Benefits For Illegal Aliens
Under President Trump’s direction, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is “working to cut off federal benefits to illegal aliens and preserve them for U.S. citizens.”
“Treasury announced that it will issue proposed regulations clarifying that the refunded portions of certain individual income tax benefits are no longer available to illegal and other non-qualified aliens, covering the Earned Income Tax Credit, the Additional Child Tax Credit, the American Opportunity Tax Credit, and the Saver’s Match Credit,” Bessent wrote late afternoon on Friday.
At @POTUS@realDonaldTrump‘s direction, we are working to cut off federal benefits to illegal aliens and preserve them for U.S. citizens.@USTreasury announced that it will issue proposed regulations clarifying that the refunded portions of certain individual income tax benefits… https://t.co/pn2MXoxDHC
— Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (@SecScottBessent) November 28, 2025
Bessent’s move to cut federal benefits to illegal aliens comes hours after President Trump’s lengthy X post that describes a national crisis driven by nation-killing open borders. Trump claims there are 53 million foreign-born residents, many of whom supposedly rely heavily on welfare and contribute to rising social dysfunction such as crime, school failures, hospital strain, housing shortages, and deficits.
A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our Country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at, along with certain other foolish countries throughout the World,…
“A migrant earning $30,000 with a green card will get roughly $50,000 in yearly benefits for their family. The real migrant population is much higher. This refugee burden is the leading cause of social dysfunction in America, something that did not exist after World War II (Failed schools, high crime, urban decay, overcrowded hospitals, housing shortages, and large deficits, etc.),” the president said.
The failures of the Democratic Party are piling up, and the consequences are growing, spanning fraud, terrorism, and rising public outrage:
Don’t stop at cutting off funding to illegal aliens. It’s time for Bessent’s team to go after the dark-money billionaire-funded NGOs and leftist activist groups that helped facilitate the nation-killing migrant invasion.
Representatives of European Union member states reached an agreement on Wednesday in the Council of the EU to move forward with the controversial “Chat Control” child sexual abuse regulation, which paves the way for new rules targeting abusive child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on messaging apps and other online services.
“Every year, millions of files are shared that depict the sexual abuse of children… This is completely unacceptable. Therefore, I’m glad that the member states have finally agreed on a way forward that includes a number of obligations for providers of communication services,” said Danish Minister for Justice, Peter Hummelgaard.
The deal, which follows years of division and deadlock among member states and privacy groups, allows the legislative file to move into final talks with the European Parliament on when and how platforms can be required to scan user content for suspected child sexual abuse and grooming.
The existing CSAM framework is set to expire on April 3, 2026, and is on track to be replaced by the new legislation, pending detailed negotiations with European Parliament lawmakers.
EU Chat Control laws: What’s in and what’s out
The EU’s efforts to make scanning of private messages compulsory suffered a setback earlier this month, when mandated client-side scanning was removed from the latest proposal draft. Wording was also added to ensure that providers were not unduly burdened with detection obligations:
“Nothing in this Regulation should be understood as imposing any detection obligations on providers.”
In its latest draft, the EU Council keeps the core CSAM framework intact, but service providers would also have to cooperate with a newly established EU Centre on Child Sexual Abuse to support the implementation of the regulation.
While the latest EU Council text removes the explicit obligation of mandatory scanning of all private messages, the legal basis for “voluntary” CSAM detection is extended indefinitely.
A compromise that satisfies neither side
To end the Chat Control stalemate, a team of Danish negotiators in the Council had worked to remove the most contentious element: the blanket mandatory scanning requirement. Under previous provisions, end-to-end encrypted services like Signal and WhatsApp would have been required to systematically search users’ messages for illegal material.
Still, it’s a compromise that leaves both sides feeling shortchanged. Law enforcement officials warn that abusive content will still lurk in the corners of fully encrypted services, while digital rights groups argue that the deal still clears the way for broader monitoring of private communications and for mass surveillance, according to a Thursday Politico report.
Lead negotiator and chair of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs in the European Parliament, Javier Zarzalejos, urged both the Council and the Parliament to enter negotiations immediately. He stressed the importance of establishing a legislative framework to prevent and combat child sexual abuse online, while respecting encryption.
“I am committed to work with all political groups, the Commission, and member states in the Council in the coming months in order to agree on a legally sound and balanced legislative text that contributes to effectively prevent and combating child sexual abuse online,” he said.
The Council celebrated the latest efforts to protect children from sexual abuse online; however, former Dutch Member of Parliament Rob Roos lambasted the Council for acting similarly to the “East German era, stripping 450 million EU citizens of their right to privacy.” He warned that Brussels was acting “behind closed doors,” and that “Europe risks sliding into digital authoritarianism.”
Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov pointed out that EU officials were exempt from having their messages monitored. He commented in a post on X, “The EU weaponizes people’s strong emotions about child protection to push mass surveillance and censorship. Their surveillance law proposals conveniently exempted EU officials from having their own messages scanned.”
Privacy on trial in broader global crackdown
The latest movement on Chat Control lands in the middle of a broader global crackdown on privacy tools. European regulators and law‑enforcement agencies have pushed high‑profile cases against crypto privacy projects like Tornado Cash, while US authorities have targeted developers linked to Samurai Wallet over alleged money‑laundering and sanctions violations, putting privacy‑preserving software into the crosshairs.
Session president Alexander Linton told Cointelegraph that regulatory and technical developments are “threatening the future of private messaging,” while co-founder Chris McCabe said the challenge was now about raising global awareness.
A Ukrainian MP recently made an unsubstantiated claim that there were 400,000 open and ongoing cases of desertion from the Ukrainian military since the invasion by the Russian Federation in 2022. It may have been hyperbole, or they may have had a source in the judiciary.
However, the General Prosecutor’s office wrote to the New Voice of Ukraine in early November that 310,000 criminal cases related to unauthorized absence from a military unit or place of service (AWOL) and desertion are currently registered, 162,000 of which came just this year. There have been over 21,000 desertions in October 2025 alone, claims journalist and former lawmaker Ihor Lutsenko – now commander of a Ukrainian drone unit.
“This is a record. A very bad record. Every two minutes, someone runs away from our army. By the time you finish reading this post, another soldier will have put on skis. Ukraine will be weaker by one defender, and the enemy will become stronger by one,” he wrote, according to the New Voice.He stressed that these are just official figures, and that the real number is only likely to be higher.
Suddenly, the widely dismissed total of 400,000 doesn’t seem impossible, and if a Ukrainian soldier downs his tools every 2 minutes, it leaves quite a lot of time for 400,000 to be reached by the end of the year.
The news comes as a 28-point plan for a lasting peace (later condensed to 19 points) in Ukraine was recently proposed by the Trump Administration in an effort to capitalize on talks with Vladimir Putin held during a summit in Alaska, and to bring the Ukrainians back to the table. Both Putin and his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have admitted that within the proposed plan points lies the framework discussed between the leaders in Anchorage without actually endorsing it. Both also acknowledged the “long pause” between the summit and the completion of this new document.
On the other hand, Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev told Axios, that published a full version of the agreement last Thursday, that he was “optimistic” and that “we feel the Russian position is really being heard”.
Military analysts skeptical of the Ukrainian army’s ability to withstand Russia for much longer have said that Russia will never agree to the US plan; they apparently include existing deal-breakers, and new demands including that Russia and Ukraine must implement tolerance and anti-racism education programs towards other nations and ethnic groups. The plan would give Ukraine a security guarantee akin to NATO membership, while also barring through constitutional amendment an attempt by Ukraine to join NATO.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy could visit Trump at the White House in the next few days “to complete final steps and make a deal,” according to Ukraine’s national security chief. Meanwhile, US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll was recently in talks with Russian officials in Abu Dhabi.
One of the initial 28 points states that the Ukrainian armed forces must be limited to 600,000 soldiers, and Axios claimed the current strength to be 800,000, citing official sources. Ukrainian war correspondent Yuri Butusov put the number of Ukrainian war dead at 70,000 at the end of 2024 based on public notifications to next of kin. Conflicts of a similar nature to this have produced a 1-3 wounded-killed ratio, so it’s reasonable to assume some 300,000 killed and wounded since the start of the war.
If a number greater than 310,000 and lower than 400,000 have already fled, and 300,000 have become casualties, the idea that Ukraine maintains an 800,000-man army beggar’s belief.
France Launches New Military Service Plan To Counter Supposed Russian Menace
Amid persistent confrontationalist rhetoric and determination to prolong the West’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday announced a new avenue of voluntary military service for 18- and 19-year olds with the goal of gradually bolstering both active duty and reserve strength. In a critical sweetener for would-be recruits who are wary of dying in Ukraine, those who enlist under the new program will only serve in the French mainland and French territories abroad.
“A new national service is set to be gradually established, starting from next summer,” said Macron in a speech delivered at the Varces military base in the French Alps. Under the program, the 18- and 19-year-old volunteers will receive a month of training, followed by nine months of service in a unit. After that, they’ll be assigned to a reserve unit with the idea that they’d start a civilian career or take the next step in their education. The scheme will go live next summer with an initial round of 3,000 young volunteers, ramping up to 10,000 by 2030 and 50,000 a year by 2035. France hasn’t drafted soldiers since 1996, and Macron says there’s no intention to restart conscription.
When discussing the new service scheme, Macron has also stressed that he isn’t creating a conveyor belt that will carry French troops into Russia’s Ukraine meat grinder. “We must, in any case, immediately dispel any confusion that we are going to send our young people to Ukraine,” Macron said earlier this week. “That’s not at all what this is about.”
“It’s good, it’s a difficult path,” Retired Gen. Jean-Paul Paloméros, a former head of the French Air Force, told AP, referring to the fact that training and equipping the new troops would require higher spending and create new demands on existing resources. “But nevertheless I think it was needed somewhere to make sure that the young generations understand that freedom and peace are not taken for granted and it doesn’t come as a free lunch.”
The French move is part of rising militarism across NATO’s European member states. Poland has started its own voluntary service program, with a goal of training 100,000 service members a year starting in 2027. Earlier this month, we coveredGermany’s moves toward potentially reinstating military conscription, which the country abandoned in 2011. The initial steps center on mandatory questionnaires and medical exams that will feed a database detailing each young man’s fitness, aptitude and willingness to serve.
Promoting the new French avenue of military service, Macron stoked fears that Russia is keen on marching into Paris. “The day that you send a signal of weakness to Russia — which for 10 years has made a strategic choice to become an imperial power again, that’s to say advance wherever we are weak — well, it will continue to advance,” Macron toldRTL last week. As is the standard for leaders of NATO countries, Macron’s rhetoric is pure gaslighting, as NATO’s own empire-building set the stage for the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Antifa Mob Mobilizes Terror Campaign Against AfD Event
A wave of chaos continues to spread across the Western world by the far-left extremist group Antifa.
In the U.S., this group of unhinged leftists is classified as domestic terrorists for their attacks on federal buildings and personnel. In Europe, these far-left extremists have launched an ongoing campaign of terror against the rising Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
On Saturday, Antifa unleashed chaos near an AfD youth organization event in the western German city of Giessen. AfD aims to engage young voters and elect the first leader of the newly formed youth wing. Antifa rioters attempted to derail the event.
Die Situation in Gießen eskaliert zusehends. Auf der Autobahn kommt es zu Auseinandersetzungen. Linksradikale werfen mit Pyro. Im Ort Heuchelheim sollen Wasserwerfer auffahren. https://t.co/Knh2W63gOv#gi2911pic.twitter.com/zfhxnT0fOX
#Gießen gleicht derzeit in Teilen einem Bürgerkriegsgebiet!
Um wieder Herr der Lage zu werden, muss die Polizei Wasserwerfer einsetzen, um die Massen gewaltsuchender Antifa-Aktivisten von den Zufahrtswegen zu räumen.
Bis zu 40.000 gewaltbereite Mitglieder der terroristischen #AntiFa werden heute in #Giessen erwartet. Gerufen vom Staat und den Medien um Mitglieder, Mitstreiter und Unterstützer der #AfD zu bedrohen und einzuschüchtern! So etwas hat es seit dem NS Regime in Deutschland nicht… pic.twitter.com/4dJvA4e2q5
“Antifa” is not actually anti-fascist. It is a Marxist-leaning, decentralized group of radical people who often display signs of psychological instability and have been weaponized by liberal elites to undermine populist movements across the West ever since Trump’s victory in 2016. Hence, the targeting of AfD.
As AfD rises in popularity, the wave of terror by Antifa increases:
NGO and statecraft expert Mike Benz explains more about the global Antifa network sowing chaos across the West.
Antifa is a global network. From Germany against AfD, to France against Le Pen, to Spain against Vox, to Hungary against Orban, to Belarus against Lukashenko, to Syria against Assad, Antifa’s actions — violent shutdown of speech & events of targeted political groups, ecoterrorism… pic.twitter.com/5x8n9RUOk6
The Left is not defending democracy. The Left has been defending corrupt globalists by weaponizing far-left militant groups against right-wing populist movements ever since Trump was elected in 2016.
Even The Atlantic, a longtime mouthpiece for the Deep State, can no longer hide the surge in left-wing terrorism. And the trajectory is alarming: it’s about to get a lot worse.
The German town of Külsheim is dealing with the soaring costs of terror-proofing German Christmas markets with a very festive solution: anti-tank barriers.
The German public media reporting this news does not even blink about how absurd the situation has become, but instead actually praises the “creative solution” of the anti-tank barriers. For skeptics, the anti-tank barriers may serve as a comical or tragic illustration of German Christmas markets moving beyond a mere police state and right into something resembling a militarized zone.
The Christmas market in Külsheim, which has a population of approximately 5,000 and is located in the southern state of Baden-Württemberg, has announced it is saving money by recycling anti-tank barriers for its Christmas market.
Located in the Main-Tauber district, Tageschau notes that “four disused concrete anti-tank barriers with a diameter of 1.4 meters were converted for the Christmas market.”
The barriers were painted with white and red paint, and were produced at the cost of €1,000 per anti-tank barrier when paint and working time are considered.
The city notes it saved €30,000 by repurposing the anti-tank barriers for its Christmas market.
Notably, across Germany, cities are spending millions on bollards, moveable barriers, and other security measures for Christmas markets, which is why the cost of Christmas markets is becoming more and more expensive.
According to Simone Hickl-Seitz, head of the city of Külsheim, protective bollards used to cost only €800, but he says that manufacturers now charge ten times as much.
“They know exactly that all cities need this. But the coffers are empty,” said Hickl-Seitz. The four anti-tank barriers were acquired from former Bundeswehr barracks, and each weigh several tons.
Their previous purpose was to prevent the movement of tanks, presumably from invading territory in Germany.
🇩🇪🎄 German police are now confiscating pocket knives from elderly women at Christmas markets.
Exploding knife crime in Germany, which the police openly says is tied to mass immigration, has led to a security state at German Christmas markets. pic.twitter.com/nRTQRIOr2d
German public media outlet SWR also included the Külsheim measure as a “cost-effective” and “creative” solution.
Just last year, Saudi national Taleb al-Abdulmohsen allegedly drove a vehicle at high speeds into the Magdeburg Christmas market, killing six people and injuring hundreds. The former doctor, who became a doctor despite years of fraud, abuse, and threats to kill Germans, is standing trial for his crimes. However, his actions, and other Christmas market attacks, have led to a crisis, with spiraling security concerns spread across the country.
🇩🇪🔥 Saudi doctor Taleb al-Abdulmohsen is now on trial for allegedly killing 6 people during a deadly car-ramming terror attack on a German Christmas market last year.
The 51-year-old suspect faces 6 counts of murder and hundreds of counts of attempted murder and bodily harm for… pic.twitter.com/HRsaqF9kE6
In Magdeburg, there were fears that the entire market would be canceled due to the stringent and costly security measures being required of organizers.
In response, Alternative for Germany (AfD) politician Ulrich Siegmund, chairman of the AfD’s parliamentary group in Saxony-Anhalt, visited the market and lamented that countries like Poland and the Czech Republic, that have so far managed to avoid mass immigration, do not have these issues.
“There was a terrible attack here a year ago. That was right here, where I’m standing right now. Of course, you have to learn from these experiences and do better. But the question must be, not how do you protect Christmas markets? But why do we need to protect Christmas markets?” he asked. “Go to the Czech Republic, go to Poland, go to other countries that have not opened their borders, that have not sold their own security for anything here. No, the CDU’s policies at state and federal level have brought us exactly to this point. We are losing our freedom bit by bit. We are giving up our way of life. And for what? That is the question.”
While the left will mock Germans for saying they want their “old” country back, the reality of a police state at swimming pools in the summer and a police state at Christmas markets in the winter, or even anti-tank barriers, is leaving many Germans longing for a previous era.
Pointing to an old picture of the market, Siegmund says, “Have a look at this, I just discovered it here. It used to be a perfect world, that’s exactly how I knew it. That’s exactly how I want it back… I want our old country back. I want every one of you here to be able to walk peacefully through a Christmas market like this and enjoy your lives. We don’t deserve this, our country doesn’t deserve this. Our children do not deserve this.”
🇩🇪🎄The German Christmas market in Magdeburg has been suspended over security concerns, sparking a nationwide debate.
The question: Why are Christmas markets in Germany being canceled while countries like 🇵🇱Poland and the 🇨🇿Czech Republic have no serious terror threats at their… pic.twitter.com/MUW5fofh5w
Although the Magdeburg Christmas market has since announced it will open, the costs for security remain sky-high and worries remain about another deadly terror attack.
Last week, Gerold Leppa, chairman of the German Federal Association for City and City Marketing (BCSD), said that the costs for organizers are exploding, rising a whopping 44 percent in the last three years. Of course, it is not just security but also personnel and even music licensing, but as Remix News noted yesterday, cities are spending millions more to ensure proper security.
While it is true that only a small handful of Christmas markets have been canceled due to security costs, such as in Overath, there is no denying that German cities — already facing major debt crises in large part due to mass immigration — are having to shoulder extremely expensive security solutions at their own Christmas markets.
Anti-Communism Week has been marked for November 2025. Writer-producer Julie Behling’s documentary “Beneath Sheep’s Clothing” warns of communism’s devastation: “Globally, communism claimed the lives of approximately 150 million people in the 20th century.”
The narrator continues, “This history is now suspiciously missing from America’s public school systems.” Therein lies a tale.
This documentary shows how socialism-communism that’s failed somewhere keeps trying to reinvent itself elsewhere, typically prioritizing rights over responsibilities.
For example, yes, source-country citizens have a right to emigrate. But host nations owe their own citizens managed, meaningful immigration. Source countries also have responsibilities to ensure their citizens aren’t compelled to emigrate, just as those emigrating must be bound by host-nation norms, not enforce theirs.
Introspection requires humility and courage; the film mentions two people who showed both. Manning Johnson fell under communism’s spell, then found his Christian upbringing and critical thinking at odds with communism’s self-destructive mass hypnosis. Bella Dodd did likewise.
There’s a misconception, critical race theory critic James Lindsay suggests, that Karl Marx put forth an economic doctrine. In truth, he put forth a totalitarian “religion” that forces people to remake themselves into what they’re not. Fuller treatment of this theme can be found in Lindsay’s podcast.
Communism in the Classroom
In Behling’s film, Lindsay addresses parents. He says the communists are “coming for your kids, your kids are the revolution for them.” They’ll get around to brainwashing children, but they must ensure parents can’t “brainwash them first.” Once a “politics of oppression” has entered the classroom, it’s easier to mobilize students as activists, as they were mobilized for COVID-19 hysteria and lockdowns, Black Lives Matter, pro-Palestine, or anti-Israel protests.
Lindsay, Behling, and educator Cari Bartholomew lament how America’s K-12 school education terms nearly everything “systemic”: racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism. Being “woke,” is being awake to these supposedly self-perpetuating hegemonies and denouncing them.
This requires finding solutions through oppressor-oppressed binaries. And it’s racial minorities, radical feminists, and LGBT figures who get to decide who’s oppressed, who’s oppressing, and what the solutions are.
The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child framework envisages schools caring for all of a child’s needs, relegating parents to redundancy, and undermining moral values and church authority. It schools children to complain, blame, feel entitled, and prioritize their feelings over everything and everyone else.
Education theorist Henry Giroux’s “praxis” in the late 20th century was to get radicals tenured as professors and shape teachers unions around Marxist agenda and conformity. But Lindsay says, it wasn’t until the 21st century that socialism-communism powered ahead, contorting America’s institutions around victimhood and self-loathing.
“Common Core” curriculum, effectively erased (and revised) much of American history, dumbing down academic standards, enforcing a device-led conformity around “content.” Journalist Alex Newman says it’s not education but “behavioral training,” much like the physiologist Ivan Pavlov who trained his lab dogs to develop compulsive responses to stimuli.
Behling explains, “A dumbed-down populace led by emotion and accustomed to the constant, instant reward of dopamine hits for clicking the right boxes? It’s easier to control than a rugged, skeptical, critically thinking populace.” It’s why too many parents took too long to question film, TV, or on-campus shows for preschool children featuring gender-bending characters.
Why is a culture of grievance attractive? Behling admits this is because oppression happened. But the socialist-communist playbook marries truth to a lie. It pretends that Marxist solutions, such as reparations or redistribution of private property, will restore for the oppressed the rights of their past, by absolving them of their responsibilities in the present.
Critic of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Lisa Logan warns of how “Transformative” SEL encourages schoolteachers to teach “power dynamics,” to make white children learn that they’re “privileged,” that supremacy is so ingrained that they have “implicit bias.” Their very skin informs their racism.
Teachers emotionally blackmail children, holding them accountable for things they can barely understand, coercing them into becoming allies (and activists) for sundry causes. Trouble is, cognitive dissonance results when children are schooled on beliefs that destroy familial, religious, and cultural beliefs their parents try to inculcate at home.
Transformative SEL medicalizes schools, pathologizing disagreements, critical thinking, and religious or spiritual traditions. Social workers, psychologists, and curricula from organizations such as Planned Parenthood have introduced Comprehensive Sexuality Education, discussing sexuality, identities, and puberty blockers in classrooms, rather than age-appropriate sex education.
Newman cites a 2023 Boston Middle School Youth Risk Behavior Survey that asks children how many sex partners they’ve had, offering up to six options, the lowest being “never” and the highest being “6 or more people.” Other questions are equally depraved. The point is to normalize deviancy in children whose brains aren’t developed enough to judge for themselves what’s normal and abnormal for a child.
First, democracies must shed complacency. Implied in the film, socialist self-destructiveness shows up in the unlikeliest places; socialist democracies aren’t immune because they’re democracies.
India’s nationalist-Hindutva state and party ideology, for instance, demands conformity as proof of patriotism, labeling lack of it as treason. Ignoring the diversity of India’s nearly 30 states, the federal government floods public life with conformity slogans.
Implied is the notion that, if the prefix “One Nation” announces policy, whatever practice follows must also be “one” and adopted unquestioningly: one religion, one election, civil code, language, curriculum. Or one email server.
Second, democracies must recognize that “equity” from the socialist-communist diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) playbook is a trick. It’s made to sound like more or better equality. It’s neither. It is instead, as Lindsay says, “An administered political economy in which shares are adjusted so citizens are made equal.”
A New Wrapper
It’s socialism in a new wrapper. It undermines diversity, imposing a dull sameness. Behold the tyranny of pronouns. Far from inclusive, it excludes, as Mao’s in-or-out-groups once did, naming those deserving of state and party commendation and shaming, blaming, and punishing those deserving of condemnation.
Third, Lindsay suggests, fights for religious liberty must accompany those for individual liberty. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn once said, “Only moral criteria can help the West against communism’s well-planned world strategy.” Yes, Christ’s call was to be as gentle as doves. But Lindsay wonders, whatever happened to Christ’s other call, to also be as wise as serpents?
Finally, those who care about democracy must speak up, act, and work for family stability and trust as the best antidote to a cult. Ignorance is no longer an excuse. Lindsay admits that fear holds people back; they fear ostracism and losing their jobs, friends, and family.
But he insists, the truth matters more. Love for our children and the world we leave behind matters more. Mom Army founder Seak Smith recalled the savagery of Cambodian communism. She now devotes her energy to supporting (or opposing) bills that protect (or endanger) children, through lobbying and litigation.
When Ronald Reagan railed against similar evils in his 1964 speech, he didn’t use the word “communism” once. But he did use the word “socialism” five times, hinting at a war with “the most dangerous enemy.” Aptly, Behling’s film has his voiceover calling for conviction, courage, clarity, character: “There is a price we will not pay … a point beyond which they must not advance.”
You can read Part 1 of this two-part commentary on “Beneath Sheep’s Clothing” hereand watch the documentary here.
Rockefeller Foundation Partners With MrBeast To Target Youth With “Next-Gen” Propaganda
Dr. Rajiv J. Shah – former USAID administrator and onetime head of agricultural development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, now president of the Rockefeller Foundation – announced a “next-gen storytelling” partnership with the world’s top YouTube creator, MrBeast.
“Proud to announce our partnership with @BeastPhilanthr, bringing together a storied history of improving billions of lives with next-gen storytelling that inspires action. With @MrBeast, we’ll show that when kindness goes viral, big change is possible,” Shah wrote on X, accompanied by a video featuring him and MrBeast founder Jimmy Donaldson.
Proud to announce our partnership with @BeastPhilanthr, bringing together a storied history of advancing billions of lives with next-gen storytelling that ignites action. With @MrBeast we’ll show that when kindness goes viral, big change is possible. https://t.co/fJJGIg3ClKpic.twitter.com/JtC6owICXv
“Next-gen storytelling” is simply another way of saying an influence operation campaign aimed at targeting young audiences with far-left messaging.
📢 We’re launching a new partnership with @BeastPhilanthr to make kindness go viral. Together with @MrBeast, we will inspire young people to take action, and make big things happen.
13–24 years old: ~55–60% (His largest, most engaged cohort.)
25–34 years old: ~22–25%
35–44 years old: ~10%
45+ years old: ~5–7%
Rockefeller Foundation president Dr. Rajiv Shah told AP News that MrBeast can emotionally connect with younger generations in ways that traditional philanthropy has failed to do.
The move signals Donaldson’s sellout to globalists and dark-money-funded NGOs, as investigative researchers Peter Schweizer and Seamus Bruner of the Government Accountability Institute recently noted that the Rockefeller Foundation is one of a handful of major philanthropies bankrolling the anti-Trump permanent protest industrial complex.
📊We traced $294,487,641 to the official No Kings 2.0 partners & organizers…all funneled through the same “Riot Inc.” dark-money networks:
💰 Arabella network $79.7M+
💰 Soros network $72.1M+
💰 Ford network $51.7M+
💰Tides $45.5M+
💰 Rockefeller $28.6M+
💰 Buffett $16.6M+ pic.twitter.com/b6zFla79UP
The left is furious that Joe Rogan and other major podcasters have defected from their woke cult. Now the Rockefeller Foundation appears to be gearing up for a youth-focused propaganda operation ahead of next year’s midterms and the 2028 presidential race.
US President Donald Trump’s inner circle and his wider MAGA (‘Make America Great Again’) movement can at times appear to be tearing themselves apart over the thorny issue of US support for Israel, which some of his supporters think has committed genocide in Gaza since October 2023.
Trump’s unquestioning support for Israel is increasingly causing him political problems, yet those problems are not coming from the progressive or liberal left, as might be expected, but from the heart of the United States’ deep south, home to millions of Christian conservatives, many of whom listen to journalists like Tucker Carlson, an American conservative political commentator and podcaster who hosted his own talk show on Fox News from 2016 to 2023.
For Carlson and others, Israel’s military actions in the Middle East have been problematic for the effect they have had on the Arab Christians, who are seen as a persecuted minority. Slowly, attention to the plight of Christians in places like Syria, Gaza and the West Bank has grown in America. The effect has been to put Arab Christians back on the US political and media map. This has not sat comfortably with Israel’s supporters.
One reason it has hit a chord with Trump’s support base is that American Christians increasingly see the Levant as the heartland of Christianity. This is nothing new. The Levant has held a special place in American Christianity since the 19th-century Ottoman era, when American pilgrims followed the trail from Antioch to Jerusalem via Damascus. At the time, the lands of Palestine, Lebanon and Syria were generally known as Syria.
The languages of Aramaic and Syriac were studied under Syrian monks, and various colleges were set up. Even the famed American University of Beirut was first called the Syrian Protestant College in 1863. Syria was very much associated with the earliest Christians. Jerusalem was even part of southern Syria in textbooks. To some extent, the recent war in Syria has renewed attention on the persecution of Eastern Christianity as a whole, from Iraq to Palestine.
Just as they did 200 years ago, Americans have once again started taking note of the Levant as the heartland of Eastern Christianity, changing the perception and the narrative concerning the importance of Arab Christians, whose lives have been impacted by war there. As in neighboring Iraq and Lebanon, Christians in Syria bore a heavy burden after being targeted by extremist groups because of their faith.
In 2016, the Syrian civil war elicited the first meeting in 1,000 years between the Russian Orthodox Patriarch and a pope, Francis, spurred on by the killings of Christians in Syria and the Middle East. Earlier this year, Carlson put Arab Christians back in the headlines by raising the ire of pro-Israel lobbyists and Christian Zionists by questioning Washington’s support for Israel if it was killing and persecuting Palestinian Christians.
Ep. 91 How does the government of Israel treat Christians? In the West, Christian leaders don’t seem interested in knowing the answer. They should be. Here’s the view of a pastor from Bethlehem. pic.twitter.com/Gvo116ojnf
Last year, Carlson interviewed Rev. Munther Isaac, a pastor from Bethlehem and a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Christian Church, and chronicled a persistent lack of awareness in the US about the treatment of Christians in the Holy Land. In a sense, he was continuing a theme. Back in 2018, at Fox News, he launched a debate in the US about the killing of Syrian Christians and questioned US support for groups targeting Christians in the Middle East.
Earlier this year, Carlson interviewed Ted Cruz, one of the most prominent Christian supporters of Israel, Ted Cruz, asking him where in the Bible it might suggest that America support Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israeli government at the expense of Arab Christians (Cruz could not cite a passage). Yet while the former Fox News man has led the rallying cry for Syrian and Arab Christians among American conservatives, he has not been alone.
Brad Hoff, a former US Marine, and scholar Zachary Wingerd co-authored Syria Crucifiedin 2021, which chronicled the plight of Syrian Christians and the impact on Eastern Christianity, while also detailing how American Christians had begun to take notice. Hoff, who lived in Syria, later commenced a speaking tour of schools and churches about Arab Christians and the importance of American Christian evangelicals questioning the stance of Cruz and others.
Starting over a decade ago, Sen. Cruz began very publicly clashing with Middle East Christians over his problematic policies…
Ted Cruz booed off stage by Christians🇺🇸
Cruz Responds: “if you will not stand with Israel then I will not stand with you” pic.twitter.com/gzpBL5LjPI
Megyn Kelly, another popular conservative talk show host, has questioned how Christian it can be to ignore Arab Christians’ plight. And US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene—a Trump-supporting Republican once labelled ‘Lady MAGA’—broke ranks from mainstream Christian support of Israel, calling Israeli actions in Gaza “genocide” (she was later called a “traitor” by Trump).
Shift in Focus
With Carlson using his prominence to give Arab Christians a platform, Arab Christians have slowly taken a lead in policy, both in the Trump administration and the corridors of Washington D.C. Trump’s lawyer and close confidante Alina Hubba is of Iraqi Chaldean heritage. Julia Nesheiwat, a former soldier and White House aide who is married to former US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, is from a prominent Jordanian Christian family.
I remember the first time I met Randy Fine when he was a candidate before he barely won Florida’s deep red 6th district seat, as we were being told he might actually lose the seat because the strong Trump district couldn’t relate to him and didn’t like him.
He was telling me that… https://t.co/rdGDBNDszl
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) July 29, 2025
Trump’s daughter Tiffany is married to Michael Boulos, son of Massad Boulos, a Lebanese Christian businessman and presidential advisor who helped drum up support for Trump among America’s 3.5 million Arab Americans. Marty Makary, of Egyptian Christian heritage, is the Commissioner of Food and Drugs and a key medical advisor to Trump. Even the actor playing Jesus (Jonathan Roumie) in biblical drama The Chosen is of Egyptian-Syrian heritage.
Conservative commentators have put Arab Christians back on the political map in the United States, changing the way Americans see Christians see the Middle East. The full effects of this are yet to be seen, but journalists like Tucker Carlson will likely carry the story.
Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ZeroHedge.
Katy Perry Gets $2 Million After Suing Dying 85-Year-Old Veteran Over Real Estate Dispute
Pop superstar Katy Perry has won $2 million in a protracted property battle by filing a lawsuit against 85-year-old Army veteran Carl Westcott, who is now bedridden with Huntington’s disease and receiving hospice care.
Perry’s legal action, detailed in court filings reviewed by the New York Post, sought more than $8 million in damages from Westcott, including $3.25 million for lost rental income during the litigation, $2.2 million for property renovations and $3 million in attorney fees. The dispute centers on an eight-bedroom estate in the celebrity enclave of Montecito, where Perry and her then-boyfriend, actor Orlando Bloom, acquired the property in July 2020 for $15 million.
Perry and Bloom penned a personal note to Westcott imploring him to accept their bid.
“We’re expecting a baby next month and think this home is the perfect place to welcome her,” the couple wrote, according to court documents. Days after signing, Westcott, then 81 and recovering from back surgery on pain medication, attempted to rescind the deal, claiming diminished mental capacity. Westcott’s condition has deteriorated sharply since, with the neurodegenerative Huntington’s disease eroding his cognitive functions and confining him to bed.
His son, Court Westcott, blamed the stress of the litigation for accelerating his father’s decline, saying the case has “devastated his health and spirit.” However, a Santa Barbara County Superior Court judge rejected that argument in 2023, ruling that Westcott failed to substantiate his incapacity.
Perry’s legal team further alleged that Westcott had entertained a competing offer from Maria Shriver, the former wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Ruling in her favor, LA County Superior Court Judge Joseph Lipner awarded Perry $2.8 million for lost rental value and $260,000 for repair of water damage and fallen trees – but deducted $1 million from the total award because he said Perry could have invested her money elsewhere, while Westcott lost interest on the same amount.
“The optics of a millionaire pop star demanding hefty damages from a very ill man are terrible,” PR strategist Abesi Manyando told The Telegraph. “This isn’t just a lawsuit, it’s now a David and Goliath narrative – a global superstar with wealth, legal resources and leverage versus an elderly, declining veteran who already lost his home. And that dynamic carries emotional weight.”
It is not the first time Perry has been embroiled in a high-profile legal fight involving real estate. In 2018, Sister Catherine Rose Holzman, an 89-year-old nun, collapsed and died in a Los Angeles courtroom during a hearing tied to Perry’s attempted purchase of a former convent from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The nuns had opposed the sale to the singer, arguing the property belonged to their order; Holzman’s last public words before her fatal collapse were directed at Perry were, “To Katy Perry, please stop.”
Perry, a prominent Democrat supporter who performed at President Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration and campaigned for Vice President and failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris in 2024, has recently been linked romantically to former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
