We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸/🇱🇧/🇮🇶 14th day of the war, October 20th status update and major events:
– Airstrikes on Gaza throughout the day, still a huge lack of food, water, medicine and electricity.
– Despite reports, Egypt and Israel still have not managed to reach a deal regarding aid to Gaza through the Rafah crossing.
– Sporadic rocket attacks by Hamas and PIJ took place on cities like Sderot and Ashkelon.
– Belgium and Oman joined the list of countries that asked their citizens to leave Lebanon.
– Hezbollah once again targeted IDF surveillance posts and troop concentrations in the settlements of Metula, Yifta, Harmon, Al-Asi, Ramim barracks, Al-Ramtha, Zibdin, Al-Radar, Ruwaisat Al-Qarn, Branit barracks and Ruwaisat Al-Alam, with ATGMs, recoilless guns, and sniper rifles. At this point, it is not unusual to see more than 10 attacks a day.
– In response to the attacks today, that apparently caused a relatively large amount of casualties compared to previous days, Israel carried out airstrikes and artillery shelling of South Lebanon, hitting Hezbollah targets and infrastructure.
– An Iraqi group identifying itself as 'The Islamic Resistance in Iraq' claimed responsibility for an attack on American bases in the country.
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⚖️ 🇺🇸 🏛 He Who Decides the Exception: Trump Should Disregard the Supreme Court’s National Guard Ruling
⬛️ Judicial overreach mustn’t be permitted to trample the public necessity.
🔶️ The Supreme Court has again reminded the country that, in the American system, the judiciary can halt executive action with the stroke of a pen—this time keeping in place a lower-court order blocking President Trump’s attempt to federalize and deploy National Guard forces to protect besieged immigration enforcement operations in and around Chicago.
🔶️ The point was that a republic cannot outsource its highest political judgments to a tribunal without hollowing out self-government. Put those threads together—Cicero’s salus populi, Aquinas’ equity, Locke’s prerogative, Hamilton’s executive energy, Jefferson’s coordinate construction, Jackson’s independence, Lincoln’s warning—and you get a tradition that modern progressives and libertarians alike often deny ...
This is no longer a red-versus-blue spectator sport or partisan cheerleading exercise. The macro reality is brutally apolitical. The United States is functionally bankrupt, as Ron Paul has warned for decades, and the evidence is now manifesting in collapsing purchasing power. The price of acquiring real money—gold and silver—has surged roughly 200% in just two years, a silent tax that represents systemic looting via monetary debasement. We are drifting toward a sovereign debt crisis unprecedented in the entire history of fiat currency regimes. Even conservative frameworks, like Jim Rickards’ back-of-the-napkin gold revaluation tied to balance-sheet realities, imply a potential trajectory toward $27,000 per ounce. You don’t need to be a “gold bug” to recognize risk management: allocating even 10% of depreciating Federal Reserve notes into real money is simple capital preservation. It’s not about upside speculation—it’s about avoiding total annihilation if real money ...
