Paul Lafreniere

RFK Jr. lists the Jewish populations that existed across the Middle East in 1948—hundreds of thousands—and the fact that almost none remain today. “That is the real genocide in the Mideast.” RKF: "Forty-eight. There were 950,000 Jews. How many of them are there today? Maybe a couple hundred. There are no Jews in Egypt. There were 250,000 in 1948. There are no Jews in Iraq. There was a hundred thousand. There are no Jews in Syria. There's four Jews in Syria. There are no Jews in Jordan. There are no Jews in Saudi Arabia. There are no Jews in Tunisia, Libya, or Algeria. They've all been exterminated. That is the real genocide in the Mideast. And what happened to the Christians? There were millions and millions of Christians. Those were all Christian countries. Egypt was a Christian country. Libya was a Christian country. Algeria was a Christian country. Iraq was a Christian country. Syria, Lebanon was a Christian country in 1948. The Christians have been expelled. They've gone from 20% of the population to 4% of the population. These are genocides, and they are the genocide that is envisioned. It's in the charter documents, it's in the lectures of the imams, it's in the sermons, it's in the teaching at Al-Aqsa University, which is their epicenter."

Recently I was talking with a friend about universal geniuses. And something struck me. Florence, 1480–1510. Same city, same moment: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Botticelli, Pico della Mirandola. Raphael right behind them. They walked the same streets. Europe, 1600–1700. Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Pascal, Huygens, Newton, Leibniz. In two generations, we got calculus, modern mechanics, probability theory, and the scientific method. Athens, 470–320 BC. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Phidias, Thucydides. One century, one city, and the foundations of Western thought were laid. Europe, 1890–1930. Poincaré, Hilbert, Einstein, Marie Curie, Tesla, Planck, Bohr, then von Neumann. Always the same pattern. In every great era, the West had 15 to 20 minds of this caliber alive at the same time. People who could touch everything and push the frontier of several fields at once. Today we have one. Just one. Elon Musk. And Elon is an anomaly. Not in the sense that he shouldn't exist. In the sense that the world we built is designed so that someone like him never emerges. Statistically, he shouldn't be here. Because what forged Elon was an absolutely insane move. October 2002. eBay buys PayPal. Elon walks away with roughly $180M. Anyone else buys an island and never works another day. He puts $100M into SpaceX, $70M into Tesla, $10M into SolarCity. Almost everything. On rockets and electric cars, two industries no sane person wanted to touch. 2006–2008. The first three Falcon 1 launches fail. Tesla is burning cash, the financial crisis hits, investors run. He has enough left for one last launch. Just one. He borrows money from friends to pay his rent. September 28, 2008. The fourth launch reaches orbit. December 23, 2008. NASA awards SpaceX a $1.6B contract. December 24, 2008. The Tesla round closes at the last possible hour. A few more days and everything collapses. That's what a genius is. Not just IQ. The ability to put everything on the table when the entire world tells you it's impossible, and be right. Now the real question: why do we only have one? Because a genius needs three things. The freedom to try. The right to get massively rich if it works. The right to fail without being destroyed. And that's exactly what the collectivist left and the technocrats have torn down across the West for the past 50 years. They turned success into suspicion. Making a lot of money became a moral failing. Taking risks became irresponsible. Rising above the crowd became an insult to equality. They stacked up norms, committees, permits, regulations written in Brussels by people who have never built anything in their lives. In Europe, Elon would never have been allowed to blow up three rockets. He'd have been stopped at the first form. They want to tax capital before it even exists, cap fortunes, redistribute what others created by risking everything. They replaced excellence with conformity. Our schools produce docile people, not dangerous ones. And a genius, by definition, is someone who disrupts. Their entire system is built to neutralize the people who disrupt. The result: where we should have 15 to 20 universal geniuses alive at the same time, we have one. Just one. And you want to put him in prison. You summon him before judges, you raid his offices, you insult him morning, noon and night, you dream of breaking up his companies. The man who lands rockets vertically and wants to take humanity to Mars. You're disgusting. History won't remember your names. It remembers Galileo, not the inquisitors who tried to silence him.

The biggest, and stupidest, myth in European politics, particularly popular in France, is that Europe suffers the consequences of "austerity" and "neoliberalism". In the biggest 5 countries in Europe, more than half of the population makes its income from the state, less than half from the private sector. This is what makes the problem of reducing the welfare state so impossible: more than half of the voters are net recipients. No surprise that Italy's budget has not been balanced in 100 years, France's in 50 years (ooh la la, l'austérité!!): -France: 30 million from the state versus 21m private sector workers. State spending is 57% of GDP, taxes more than half the economy. The budget hasn't been balanced in the lifetime of most French (since 1974). - Germany: 35 million adults from the state, versus 34 million from the private sector. 10% of the population is registered as severely disabled. Public spending is over half of GDP. Germany has had a continuous budget deficit since 2019. -Italy: 23 million from the state, versus 20.5 million private-sector workers. Public spending is 51% of GDP. Italy has had a budget deficit every year since 1925, for 100 years. - Spain more people get their income from the state since 2024: 18.21 million from the public sector versus 17.9 million people working in the private sector. Since 2025, Spain also had more government employees than self-employed workers (autónomos) for the first time in history. State spending is at 45%, budget has not been balanced since 2007. - UK: 54% of households now receive more in state benefits than they pay in taxes. State spending is 44.5% of GDP, taxes (40%) are at their highest since 1950, the budget hasn't been balanced since 2001, and 1 in 5 new cars is paid by the government through a bizarre state disability scheme (Motability).

Well, that was wild. I'm at the Australian Parliament and just left a meeting with two staffers for the governing party. They told us that the government needed more power to censor things like the upcoming US execution of Nidal Hasan. When I asked why they needed to censor that video, one said it was to prevent copycat killings. Copycat killings by governments? I asked. Er, no, they said. Copycat killings like of a backpacker, several decades ago. So, under that logic, I pointed out, the government should censor things like last year's Bondi massacre, where two Muslims killed 15 people, no? Well, that was news, they said. Didn't they realize their bill would allow the government to censor news? They didn't seem to know, or care. They also admitted that they did not know that the bill would allow the government to create and operate an unlimited number of fake social media accounts to attack its political enemies and spread disinformation. Having presented them with information they had never heard about a bill they had clearly not read, they emphasized to us, strenuously, that they were moving forward with the bill. So there you have it. The government wants the power to arbitrarily censor scenes of violent crime, or violence, for any reason. And it wants the power to use an unlimited number of fake accounts to wage offensive disinformational warfare against the Australian people. Given that the Bondi massacre last year increased public opposition to mass migration, and support for the populist One Nation Party, it seems obvious that the government wants to censor such events in order to protect its political power. It's quite telling how obediently governing party members insist such a law is needed without even knowing what's in it.

Tragic scenes in France. Israel condemns the violence from BOTH SIDES, and calls for immediately starting negotiations for a two-state solution in France, which is the only way to end the conflict.

Awad Darawshe was 25 years old on October 7. An Arab-Israeli paramedic who dreamed of becoming a doctor, Awad was working at the Nova festival when Hamas attacked. As the massacre unfolded, he carried the wounded to the medical tent and treated patient after patient. When the gunfire became overwhelming, the medical team fled. Awad helped others escape—but refused to leave. There were wounded people who couldn’t run. Awad stayed and continued treating them. Hamas terrorists eventually murdered him inside the medical tent. When his body was recovered, bandages were still in his hands. Some of the people he treated survived. Thousands, Muslims, Jews, Christians, Druze and Circassians, came to mourn him. His father called Awad “our light.” On one of Israel’s darkest mornings, Awad had the chance to run. He stayed because wounded people needed him. May the light and courage of Awad Darawshe never be forgotten.

Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman confirms that Barack Obama is the world’s number one sponsor of terror. He gave Iran $150B in cash, and the IRGC didn’t even build a single street with that money. Instead, Iran used the money to make missiles and drones, finance proxies, and arm terror organizations like Hamas, Ansar Allah, and Hezbollah. With these funds, Iran offers safe harbor to the leaders of al-Qaeda, including one of Osama bin Laden’s sons who was indoctrinated into jihadism. ——— Barack Obama was responsible for the Arab Spring in 2010—which deliberately created ISIS—toppling the Libyan government in 2011 and creating a nuclear Iran. The Obama syndicate, including his chief of staff John Brennan, Hillary Clinton, Valerie Jarrett, Victoria Nuland, Susan Rice, and Samantha Power, did so deliberately in order to keep the region destabilized and to use Iran as a buffer to prevent the Gulf states and Israel from amassing too much power. Now President Trump is undoing everything Barack Obama touched, foreign and domestic. One man has managed to do all of that while orchestrating the single largest conspiracy in U.S. history to overthrow the United States government—and not a single investigation.

Apparently Iranians cannot understand why the slaughter of 30,000+ went unnoticed in the West. But we do. Iransplained by western “influencers” and so called journalists & news outlets downplaying a human catastrophe for political reasons - we know who you are - will go down as one of the most disgraceful episodes in history. So for all those who aggressively questioned me and other Iranians speaking out - calling us liars and the massacre “Mossad propaganda” - here is your evidence: Lorry loads of dead bodies after the brutal murders by the regime in January. This videos is of one place at one time but the scenes of slaughter, hospitals and makeshift morgues were replicated all across the country as seen in the new documentary “This Is Our Story” on YouTube now. As of now 11,500 bodies are still missing (as mentioned at the end of the ITV doc film “Inside Iran”) with many feared held in cold storage by the regime, or disposed of in unspeakably inhumane ways. When the people rise up again imminently, the only relevant question for everyone is this: will you support the people trying to rid themselves of this evil regime? Or will you stand with tyrannical murderers? It is that binary of a question now.

University debate. Motion: the ice age giants died of the climate, not of us. A climate activist against an evolutionary anthropologist. Activist: "The mammoth. The giant sloth. The woolly rhino. All gone at the end of the last ice age, when the world warmed. The habitat went, the animals went with it. And we're warming faster now." Anthropologist: "Then explain Africa." Activist: "Africa?" Anthropologist: "Same planet. Same warming. Africa kept its elephants, its rhinos, its hippos, its giraffes. Why?" Activist: "Different ecosystems." Anthropologist: "Different neighbours. African animals grew up alongside us for two million years and learned what we were. Everywhere else, the giants met us fully formed, walking in over the horizon with spears. A face they'd never seen." Activist: "That's a story, not evidence." Anthropologist: "Then take the dates. Australia loses its giants around 45,000 years ago, after people arrive. The Americas lose theirs around 13,000 years ago, after people spread across them. Thirty thousand years apart, on opposite sides of the earth, and one thing in common." Activist: "The climate was changing in both." Anthropologist: "The climate turned dozens of times in two million years. Warm, cold, warm, cold. The mammoth walked through every one of them. It died in the one with a man in it." Activist: "You can't pin that on people." Anthropologist: "New Zealand. Nine species of moa. The biggest stood twelve feet with its neck up. People land around 1300. Inside two hundred years there isn't one left, and the cooking pits are full of them. What was the climate doing in 1350?" Activist: "..." Anthropologist: "Roughly nothing." Activist: "The mammoth went because the tundra vanished." Anthropologist: "Mammoths were alive on Wrangel Island while the Great Pyramid was going up. Six thousand years after the mainland herds were gone. Still eating, on a rock in the Arctic, because nobody had reached it. Then people did." Activist: "So your position is that humans are a catastrophe." Anthropologist: "My position is that humans are a predator. A very good one. On every continent we walked onto, the biggest, fattest, slowest meat in the landscape was gone within a few thousand years of the first footprint. A species that lived on roots and berries does not leave that pattern behind it." Activist: "It's an uncomfortable thing to say." Anthropologist: "It's a butcher's bill. You're welcome not to read it. What you can't do is blame the weather for what's in the cooking pits."

Yesterday there was a plane full of ZIONISTS flying to Israel. Yeah, ZIONISTS. That word that people spit out like it’s a slur now. That word that’s been twisted, bastardized and used as a socially acceptable substitute for JEW. A plane full of Israelis heading home to the Jewish State people who believe Israel has the right to EXIST, the right to defend itself and the right to live as a sovereign nation. And when that plane was suddenly dropping out of the sky and their lives were on the line, passengers didn’t sit around waiting to die. They FOUGHT. They forced their way into that cockpit. They helped subdue the man accused of stabbing the captain and trying to bring that plane down. A plane full of people heading to Israel literally FOUGHT FOR THEIR LIVES and survived. That is the beautiful, unbelievable irony of it all. Call them Israelis. Call them Jews. Call them ZIONISTS. AM YISRAEL CHAI 🇮🇱

Gaza Ministry of Health has now released mortality numbers for 2025. For the first time since the war, they give numbers for all deaths, including natural deaths. In 2025 there were a total of 24,650 deaths in Gaza. 18,870 (76.6%) of these were violent, of which 17,286 (70.1%) were due to "war operations" and 1,584 (6.4%) were classified as accidents. There were a total of 5,780 (23.4%) non-violent deaths, including disease, old age, and all other causes. 5,780 deaths is about the same as the annual non-violent mortality in Gaza before the war, and the age distribution is similar to 2022. There is no significant excess of non-violent deaths. In other words, despite frequent and loud claims to the contrary, there seems to be very few indirect deaths due to the war in Gaza in 2025. As there were 50,227 births in 2025, this gives a natural population growth of 25,577 or 1.2% in Gaza in 2025, which is higher population growth than most countries in the world and more than the world average. There are currently ~6,000 births/month in Gaza, per GMH. Assuming a similar number of non-violent deaths in Gaza in 2026 as in 2025, that means there are currently 12x more births than deaths in Gaza, and that Gaza is now experiencing one of the highest population growths in the world.