Sunday, October 25, 2026

This Admission Shows Why Trump Was Right to End TPS for Haiti

 Since the status ended in mid-July, only a few hundred Haitians have been remanded back to Haitian soil. As of this time last month, the Haitian Times reported that just 530 individuals had arrived on American deportation flights. Human Rights Watch reported similar figures, stating that “authorities have deported hundreds of Haitians back to their country.”

The startling admission from Haitian officials regarding a handful of deportees has left many wondering why so many RINO Republicans in Ohio were fighting President Donald Trump to keep their 30,000 TPS-designated Haitian residents in their state.

“We’re deporting from this country a large number of people who are working, a large number of people who are raising families, a large number of people who are really contributing to their local community,” Governor Mike DeWine said at the time.

John Kasich likewise came out to condemn Trump for ending the long-standing “temporary” protected status for Haitians.

The Supreme Court has allowed TPS for Haitians to end, putting families in Springfield and communities across the country at risk of being sent back to a country in chaos. Congress can and should extend these protections. https://t.co/cXoeacoIZ9— John Kasich (@JohnKasich) June 28, 2026

Since the Trump administration moved to crack down on TPS, only four countries remain with active TPS designations: El Salvador, Lebanon, Sudan, and Ukraine.

Here Are All the Documented Ties Between Abdul El-Sayed and the Muslim Brotherhood

 Abdul El-Sayed's connections to the Muslim Brotherhood and ties to other terrorist organizations have become a central focus of the Michigan Senate race just days ahead of the midterms. El-Sayed has denied ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, and in a recent interview with Fox News' host Bret Baier, got visibly upset about being asked the question yet again.

Baier: “Rogers has really been hitting this Muslim Brotherhood thing. I know you don’t want to talk about your family and the history there—”

Abdul: “Bret, Bret, Bret, let me just, let me just—Bret,… pic.twitter.com/T1I0Au55MB— Kyle Martinsen (@KyleMartinsen_) October 23, 2026

But we have well-documented links between Abdul El-Sayed, his family, and ties to not only the Muslim Brotherhood, but to other related organizations, including al-Qaeda and Hamas.

El-Sayed's sister, Eman Abdelhadi, a far-left radical professor at the University of Chicago, described their mother's college-era activism in the Muslim Brotherhood and said the family has "long been MB" in Egypt. "Had an amazing talk with my mom about her activism in the Muslim Brotherhood during the early 70s while she was in college," Abdelhadi wrote on social media.


Breaking via @ChuckRossDC: Eman Abdelhadi, the sister of Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, previously wrote that “my family has long been Muslim Brotherhood.”

El-Sayed recently stated that his family harbored no connections to the transnational Islamist terror movement pic.twitter.com/58wFbOQSJg— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) October 11, 2026

In addition, El-Sayed has expressed support for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. In a 2012 open letter that he signed as "Dr. Abdul Rahman El-Sayed, New York," 46 Egyptian-American academics supported President Mohamed Morsi and called for a "purge [of] the media and police" as well as a purge of "rejecting voices that are courting America and Europe to take a position against the Egyptian regime." Morsi led the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and chaired the Freedom and Justice Party, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Fatten Fathy Elkomy, El-Sayde's birth mother, was employed by the Islamic African Relief Agency (IARA). In October 2004, the U.S. Treasuring designated the U.S. branch of IARA as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist for financial ties to Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and Hamas-affiliated entities.

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s biological mother worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA), an organization whose global network was later designated by the U.S. Treasury Department for supporting Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, Hamas and other… pic.twitter.com/lbqXqi6h0d— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) August 23, 2026

El-Sayed also served as the Vice President of the University of Michigan's chapter of the Muslim Students Association (MSA). The National MSA was founded in 1963 by foreign students with documented ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Researchers widely describe MSA as a feeder network.

Dr. Tayeb Jukaku, a neurologist, is El-Sayed's father-in-law. He has reported service on standing committees of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and prior board membership of CAIR-Michigan. He contributed approximately $300,000 to the Fighting for Michigan PAC, supporting El-Sayed. The Islamic Society of North America is the parent organization of the Muslim Students Association.

El-Sayed has made several statements that can also be understood as being pro-Hamas. In 2018, during an appearance at a Detroit synagogue, El-Sayed said he would condemn Hamas and its actions in the same manner as certain IDF human rights abuses, equating a known terrorist organization with the Israeli military. In a 2025 statement about the October 7 Hamas-led terrorist attacks, El-Sayed called it a "heinous attack" before sending out a fundraising email that omitted all mentions of Hamas and any mention of the hostages. His campaign later said the email's timing was a mistake. In April of this year, El-Sayed told CNN that both Hamas and the Israeli government are "evil." 

"Hamas: Evil. Israeli government: Evil. We can say both," El-Sayed said. And in August, El-Sayed paid lip-service to condemning Hamas before accusing Israel of committing war crimes and genocide.

There are also numerous donors to the El-Sayed campaign who have ties to terrorists. This includes Amani Barakat, who is the chair of Al-Awda, an organization that celebrated the October 7, 2023 terrorist attacks in Israel and shared video of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. Barakat donated $7,000 to the campaign. Abdul Dardery is a former member of the Freedom and Justice Party, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, and foreign affairs spokesperson under Mohamed Morsi. He donated hundreds of dollars to El-Sayed. This also includes Hany Saqr, who was active in the early North American Islamic institutions and named repeatedly in Muslim Brotherhood documents, and Hasan Piker, the social media influencer who said America deserved 9/11 and campaigned with El-Sayed.

Speaking of Hasan Piker, he said on August 24, 2026, that El-Sayed is not moderating on these issues. "Questioning Abdul's sincerity on these issues ... moderating on Israel ... don't think he is, and I'm literally the person being dangled ... and he's not moderating on anything like that."

And former El-Sayed campaign staffer Abdoul Beckwith said, "He can't just say, you know, no. I don't support Hamas, you know, I reject all of them, because he's going to lose the people that brought him up in the first place."

These ties matter, as does El-Sayed's refusal to directly answer questions on them. He wants a seat in the Senate, and wants to be on the Committee on Foreign Relations, and Michigan voters deserve to know where he stands on Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the other problematic ties he has to terrorist organizations

The Amount of Evidence Against Ilhan Omar Could Scale Everest. Here's the List.

 

[T]he three years of verified evidence published by Scott Johnson, Preya Samsundar, and myself (…) appear to give probable cause to investigate Omar for eight instances of perjury, immigration fraud, marriage fraud, up to eight years of state and federal tax fraud, two years of federal student loan fraud, and even bigamy. To be clear: The facts describe perhaps the most extensive spree of illegal misconduct committed by a House member in American history.”

At the time, Ilhan Omar’s potential involvement in the $240M Feeding Our Future fraud (which resulted in the 2025 conviction of her close relative/campaign worker, and U.S. taxpayer money being sent to Al-Shabaab terrorists in Somalia) had not yet occurred.

Also, her $30 million “accounting error” had not yet occurred.

Reports of her campaign’s links to the Cedar Riverside neighborhood’s “open secret” of widespread vote-buying among Somalis (linked below) were still few.

And the assertion did not include my January 24, 2019 article (linked below) on the remarkable national security risk of her sister Sahra Noor’s husband.

If you are an American voter: Before voting, please make the time to read the 25 articles below in chronological order. I believe you will find it to have been a worthwhile decision.

I expect you will find the following conclusion to be unavoidable: For a decade, each Democratic Party figure and media figure who denigrated these articles lied to you.

Either they lied about the quality and scale of evidence, or they lied about having performed due diligence, choosing to cause national division without knowing if they were the bad guys.

By October 2020, perhaps a hundred items of evidence with only one rational reason to exist were already public. As of October 2026, zero pieces of public evidence support Omar’s side of the story.

  1. 2016-08-12 · Scott Johnson · Power Line — Ilhan Omar: Her Back Pages
  2. 2016-08-17 · Preya Samsundar · Alpha News — Evidence Confirms Rumors of Candidate's Marriages
  3. 2016-08-18 · Scott Johnson · Power Line — A Few Questions for Ilhan Omar
  4. 2016-08-22 · Preya Samsundar · Alpha News — Investigation Suggests Omar Married Brother
  5. 2016-08-26 · Preya Samsundar · Alpha News — The Brother Ilhan Omar Legally Married Sends Alpha News an Email
  6. 2016-09-02 · Preya Samsundar · Alpha News — A Community Forced Into Silence
  7. 2016-09-09 · Scott Johnson · City Journal — The Curious Case of Ilhan Omar
  8. 2016-10-27 · Preya Samsundar · Alpha News — City Pages Expose: Omar Family Secrets
  9. 2018-08-08 · David Steinberg · PJ Media — State Rep. Ilhan Omar Swore to Apparent Falsehoods in Court While Divorcing Her Alleged Brother
  10. 2018-08-12 · David Steinberg · PJ Media — Rep. Ilhan Omar Perjury Evidence Blacked Out by Minnesota Media
  11. 2018-10-23 · David Steinberg · PJ Media — Official School Records Support Claims That Rep. Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother
  12. 2018-10-23 · Scott Johnson · Power Line — Ilhan Omar's Disgusting Lies
  13. 2018-10-30 · David Steinberg · PJ Media — Address Records Show Rep. Ilhan Omar Still Lived With Her First Husband Throughout Her Second Marriage
  14. 2018-10-30 · Scott Johnson · Power Line — Ilhan Omar: The Family That Stays Together
  15. 2018-11-05 · David Steinberg · PJ Media — New Photos Corroborate Perjury Claims Against Rep. Ilhan Omar as She Deletes Social Media Evidence
  16. 2018-11-08 · David Steinberg · PJ Media — 105 Articles Cover Ilhan Omar's Win; Zero Cover Her Anti-Semitism, Finance Investigations, or Perjury Evidence
  17. 2019-01-24 · David Steinberg · PJ Media — Ilhan Omar Endorsed Somalia's New President; Four Days Later, Omar's Brother-in-Law Had a Powerful Job in His Administration
  18. 2019-07-18 · David Steinberg · Power Line (KEY ARTICLE) — Tying Up Loose Threads in the Curious Case
  19. 2019-07-18 · David Steinberg · PJ Media — Ilhan Omar Happened Because Media Chose to Lie to You
  20. 2019-09-18 · David Steinberg · PJ Media — Ilhan Omar's Husband No Longer Works for Minneapolis Councilwoman; Sources Say Omar Asked for Him to Be Fired
  21. 2020-01-16 · David Steinberg · The Blaze — Finally. The Feds — Including ICE — Appear to Be Investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar
  22. 2020-04-22 · David Steinberg · The Blaze — 2018 Ilhan Omar Documentary Prints Her Father's Name as 'Nur Said' — Three Times
  23. 2020-05-19 · David Steinberg · The Blaze — Minnesota Imam: Ilhan Omar Fraudulently Raised Cash
  24. 2020-08-10 · David Steinberg · The Blaze — Ilhan Omar Must Resign: New Evidence From Nearly Three Dozen Somalis Reveals a Probable Spree of Felonies
  25. 2020-10-15 · David Steinberg · The Blaze — Exclusive: Minnesota Democratic Candidate Alleges Outright Vote Buying by Minnesota Democrats: 'Worse Than Somalia', 'The Truth Will Come Out’

Some Democrats Hook Up With Family Members. All Want to Screw You.

 I know a lot of people, all of whom dated around before finding the person they eventually married. Every single one of them, to a person, knows for certain whether or not the people they dated were related to them. No ambiguity, no open question, no qualifiers on their answer – they knew whether or not they’d been fishing off the family pier.

That question, however, gets murky for some… apparently. Where most people could definitively say they’d never picked anyone up at Thanksgiving dinner, many Democrats have to think about it, and some still do not know.

Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar, representing Mogadishu, is one such person. Questions persist about whether or not she married her brother, or maybe her cousin, to commit immigration fraud and get him citizenship.

Let me just say that, if they are related, I hope it was to commit immigration fraud. Because consummating that marriage would…well, require her to move to Maine, I think. I might be wrong about that.

The questions of Ilhan’s first legal marriage are interesting beyond the potential criminal implications. She’d been in a “religious” marriage with a man who would become her second “legal” husband for years already, even having kids with him, but they never took it outside the “religious” realm.

Despite having lived for six years in Dearborn, Michigan, I am not an Islamic scholar. I did not, for example, know that some Islamic women were so “sexually liberated” as to be able to sleep with men they weren’t legally married to, then marry someone else legally and have another kid with their “religious” other husband, only divorcing number 1 legal after almost a decade to marry “religious” number 1, making him number 2.

Like I said, I’m no religious scholar, so I had no idea women in the Muslim faith could live like a Penthouse letter or party at Cornell. I have been wildly misinformed, apparently.

As an aside, it is a bit odd that women in Muslim countries are whipped or executed for showing their hair or singing or dancing online, but Ilhan Omar can live life like a 1970s key party and be considered a pillar in the community.

Oh, and her first “legal” husband is gay. Did I mention that? Again, maybe I was wildly misinformed about the treatment of homosexuals in Islamic countries because, at least in the Middle East, gravity is not too kind to them, yet in Ilhan’s world it’s no big deal.

Everything about Ilhan Omar seems to defy the norms of life.

Her third husband was a very successful businessman… or a loser who helped run businesses into the ground. We don’t know.

Omar (or is it Ilhan Nur Said Elmi) told Rachel Hayes or Chris Maddow (I can’t tell them apart) that she and her husband are basically broke, living paycheck to paycheck. That struck me as odd since, in 2020, her campaign paid his consulting firm almost $2.8 million. Where did that money go?

More interesting: what was the money for? Omar represents a very gerrymandered district that will always elect a Democrat, whether they run a campaign or not. She doesn’t need millions to win; she routinely pulls in over 70 percent of the vote – over 74 percent in her last two elections.

Ironically, when “legal” husband number 3 was raking in millions, it was the worst she’d done in all her elections – 64.3 percent. Whatever “consulting” she paid her husband for, he must’ve sucked at it.

What was he paid for? Who knows? But I will say that if she’d taken that campaign money and put it in her account, it would have been a crime. Giving her husband’s firm that money and him putting it in their joint bank account is what I like to call “perfectly legal corruption.” Just saying.

Was that money the basis for their $30 million financial disclosure filing? Where did the money go? How are they basically broke now? She says the filing was “an accounting error,” but she signed it. Wouldn’t you think someone broke might question why they were signing a document swearing they had a net worth of $30 million? She didn’t. She then refiled, once people noticed, saying they only had a net worth of under $100,000. Is that left over from the $2.8 million?

It's a mystery for the ages.

Everything around Ilhan Omar is a mystery. She’s been skating by with the protection of a Democrat establishment full of Members who engage in much of the same financial “curiosities” and moral shadiness, and the help of a media that slavishly adheres to identity politics over everything else. She’s only facing questions now because the Trump administration doesn’t play any of those disgusting games.

Putting aside the potential incest, bigger questions need answering, like: is Ilhan Omar a criminal? Is she a citizen? How can someone win an election or swear an oath to the Constitution under a fake name? Where did all the money come from and where did it go? These are all questions Americans are owed answers to, and Democrats hope remain hidden.

Given their awful, damaging policies, only one thing can be said about Democrats for certain: If they’re not trying to screw you, they’re trying to screw you over.

Why Western Civilization Is Fighting Back

 

We’re watching Western civilization and Western countries worldwide under assault, sometimes militarily, sometimes economically, but recently, socially and culturally, from within and without.

I’ll give you a few examples.

There’s an iconic video going around the internet of the riots in Paris, and a young woman whose family owns a store. She’s blocking the entrance to looters who seem to be first- and second-generation immigrants from Africa and Asia in France, and she says, “Stop. Don’t do this,” meaning, don’t loot our entire livelihood. And they push her away. And then she says something to the effect of, “But I’m on your side. I voted for open borders.” I’m paraphrasing. And then they sort of manhandle her.

And then we’re forgetting what Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, said a few years ago when she opened the borders, not just of Germany but of Europe, because people came through Germany into Europe.

She said, “Yes, we can do this.” Meaning, I think, we’re so guilt-ridden—Germany in particular, for obvious reasons—but we Westerners are so guilt-ridden about the success of our civilization and its global reach historically that we owe other people our largesse. So come on in, and we’ll give you a social welfare net.

In fact, 40% of the budgets of these European countries now, unsustainably, are for social welfare, a large percentage of which goes to unassimilated immigrants.

And in England, the U.K., Britain, there’s an epidemic of violence among Pakistani men against women: sexual harassment and sexual violence. And they are not accorded the full extent of the law as an indigenous population in Britain.

In Britain today, if you openly complain about unassimilated immigrants and the need for closed borders, and you fly the flag of St. George or any type of British nationalist emblem, you’re more likely to go to jail than someone who sexually harasses a young girl, if you’re an immigrant.

In the Somali community, we have 80,000 to 100,000 people, many of whom, inordinately, demographically inordinately, have been engaged in what may be a $9 billion fraud.

And we were told that these were refugee people who came here for a better life and would assimilate, integrate and acculturate. In fact, they’re doing what the Dearborn Muslim community is doing. They’re self-isolating. They resent the country that they’re living in.

No better emblem of that is the quote by Ilhan Omar that the United States is the worst country in the world.

My friend Christopher Hitchens, the late Christopher Hitchens, came to this farm right where I’m speaking, and we had a long talk. He was a colleague of mine for three years at Hoover. We disagreed politically, but we agreed socially and culturally on a number of issues, not about lifestyle but the threat of radical Islam.

And he often said, and he wrote a book, and he’s now being quoted widely post facto, that the Muslim radical community, both in the Middle East and in the United States, wants to destroy Western civilization.

They’re like a moth to a flame. They’re attracted to it. They’re attracted to the prosperity, the freedom, the security, the personal bounty and leisure, but they resent that attraction within them, and they hate the narcotic that they’re addicted to.

They have to get to the West, but once they get to the West, they feel they’re not as purely Islamic as they were before, and they blame the West for their growing appetites for the West.

Sounds a little complicated, but Christopher and others had articulated that paradox quite well. Will the West respond?

Will the West finally wake up and say, “We have nothing to apologize for. We gave the world classical civilization. We gave the world consensual government. We gave the world rationalism. We gave the world equality between the sexes. We gave the world scientific methods. We gave the world technology. We gave the world the Renaissance. We gave the world the Enlightenment. We gave the world the Judeo-Christian alternative. We gave the world … ”

The modern world, as it is, is not globalized; it’s Westernized. If you have a cellphone in Sudan, or you’re working on a laptop in Bolivia, or you’re posting on social media in China, where did all that come from originally?

It came from Western civilization. It’s worth defending. It’s not worth surrendering and just agreeing with your critics.

So the question we have today is: Is the West going to react? If you don’t have confidence in your own border, as Joe Biden did not, and you let in 10 million to 12 million people, 10,000-plus a day, who have no audit—you don’t know anything about their background—500,000 of whom were criminals, and then you say, “We cannot deport them. We’re not capable psychologically, legally, materially,” then you’ve given up.

Donald Trump and others said, “We can do this. We’ve done it in the past. We’ll try to do it as humanely as possible. But if you’re in the country illegally and we catch you, you’re going to have to go back and start all over again in legal fashion.

“Now, if you’re here criminally, we’re going to apply the full weight of the law. No more, no less, but the full weight of the law.”

In Europe, you’re starting to see that there is a reaction, and it’s a demonized reaction because the technocratic class, the aristocratic class, the elite class of Europe that created this mess in its fashionable flirtation with postmodernism—Foucault, Derrida, Sartre, Gramsci—who created this mess, are now under assault by their own citizens, who say, “You did this. You did this.”

We haven’t got there in California yet. We don’t say to Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom and people, “You did this to our state,” but it’s coming.

And they’re saying it in Germany with the Alternative for Germany, and they’re saying it with Ms. Giorgia Meloni in Italy, Mr. Nigel Farage in the U.K., and others. The only way you’re going to silence us in popular opinion is either to censor us, contrary to your belief in free speech and the Western tradition of dissent, or you’re going to have to cancel the election because you’re going to lose.

And we see that in the United States. We saw that with the lawfare committed against Donald Trump. He basically said to the Left, “I’m going to wage a counter-revolution and restore norms and traditions.”

And they said, “Not over my dead body. We’re going to get five criminal and legal suits. We’re going to try to get you off the ballot. We’re going to raid your home. We’re going to impeach you twice. We’re going to try you as a private citizen when you’re out of office. We’re going to debank you so you can’t write a check. We’re going to strip you of social media so you cannot communicate.”

And it all backfired.

Israel had believed that the answer to Palestinian terrorism and radicalism was to sort of agree that maybe they should just get out of Gaza, and they did. And maybe they should allow them food, water, electricity, and fuel, and welcome the international community, which gave over $40 billion.

Supposedly, we were told in 2005 that the newly elected government, once there was no more Hamas government, would turn this beautiful 34-mile, 24-mile, whatever it is, beach frontage into Dubai or something like that, or maybe the French coast.

Nothing happened like that. In other words, it was a terror haven.

And the Israelis said, “Maybe if we invite 20,000 Gazan citizens into our own country every day and pay them $12 an hour and work beside them in the kibbutzim, they will see a different paradigm, and our magnanimity will be reciprocated.

“They’ll say, ‘How did you bloom the desert?’ And we will do the … ”

It didn’t work that way. Human nature being what it is, and radical Islam being what it is, basically, they said, “You have things that we don’t, and you’re not as pure religiously as we are, and you don’t deserve it, and we’re going to kill you.”

And everybody said, “There’s no antidote to that.”

They killed 1,200 people. People were celebrating in the streets, not lamenting. They were celebrating what Hamas had done to the Israelis.

And they waited 20 days, and they said, “Please give back the hostages.” “No.” “Please give back the architects of this terror.” “No.” “Please come out of the tunnels and let your citizens go into the tunnels while we go in so we don’t have collateral … ”

“No.”

And the Israelis unloaded on them.

And now there is not really a Hamas to speak of. Hezbollah were the stormtroopers of the terrorist Middle East. Everybody said you can deal maybe with Hamas, but not Hezbollah, and it’s pretty much decimated.

And Iran was the bully of the Middle East, 93 million people. Whatever you do, do not cross the Iranians. They have a 50-year history of terror. They’ve killed more Americans after 9/11 than any other terrorist organization.

Now look at them. They’re basically denuclearized, deindustrialized and demilitarized, and we have done that at the loss of about 22 Americans and $45 billion halfway across the world.

So what I’m getting at is, if you arouse the West and you keep pushing it, and you keep saying it’s the worst country in the world, and you hate the United States, and you think Sharia law is superior, or that you don’t want to criticize radical Islam, if you keep doing that enough, or you say this is a trashy country, or it’s the worst country in the world, or I hate the United States, as some of the left-wing candidates who self-identify as Islamists do, then there’s going to be a reaction.

Because I don’t think the American people, I don’t even think the European people, as problematic as Europe is, are simply going to say, after 2,500 years of civilization, “You’re right. We’re guilty. We feel guilty. We apologize. We apologize, and we’ll hand it over, and you’ll be nice, and we’ll be nice.”

Because they know now it doesn’t work.

The more immigrants you let in illegally, the less they assimilate and integrate, the more they feel that they have disrespect, and they hate you.

When you look at the faces and the voices of the demonstrators in Europe, it’s not, “I’m so glad to be out of Nigeria, Chad, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan and enjoying the largesse of the French people.”

It is, “You are stupid to let us in because we’re going to change your civilization because we come from a superior religion, and you’re decadent, and you’ve lost your own faith. And it’s just a matter of fertility and demography, and we’re going to take over this West, and we’re going to turn it into the hellhole that we left.

“And you may think that’s crazy, but at least we’ll be pure in the religious sense. And you’re decadent, and we want to destroy you.”

I think now, for the first time, Europe is starting to see the Frankensteinian monster they created, and the United States is starting to see it as well, and there’s going to be a counter-revolution. It’s happening.

Watch for the cries of racism, nativism, hatred from the Left. The Left created this problem. They’re the doctors who created the Frankensteinian monster. They don’t know how to deal with it, and the people who deal with it, they will criticize.

And in the end, it won’t matter. It’s either … It’s a struggle for civilization.