June 24, 2026

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The AML-90: The Little Truck That Could, Soldiers On

 

 

Since the earliest days of people hanging armor plates and machine guns onto motor vehicles, “armored cars” have formed an essential component of military’s around the world. The better versions are small(-ish), cheap, fast, reasonably dependable and armed enough to defend themselves, as their crews sent recon reports via their radios.

But sometimes, something special appears.

Introduced in 1959, the AML- series (Auto Mitrailleuse Légère, or “Light Machine Gun Car”), manufactured until 1987 by the French company Panhard (who have been making automobiles since 1890), is small, even by armored car standards, at 16’9″x12’5″x6’6″, and weights in right at six tons.

AML-60, armed with the 60mm Brandt gun-mortar.

Initially, it was armed as a light, fast, highly-mobile mortar carrier, carrying a 60mm Brandt gun-mortar and a pair of the uniquely French MAS AA-52 NF-1 machine guns. However, although the little armored car was an immediate hit with French troops in Algeria, as that conflict wound down, there was less of a need for a mobile mortar carrier. As foreign buyers began looking at the design, it was the Apartheid-era South African Army who asked if Panhard could give the little truck a heavier punch.

And thus, the AML-90 was born.

Mounting a DEFA D921 90mm/3.54in rifled cannon, this new vehicle was fully capable of engaging and destroying the main battle tanks of the 1960’s. As the years wore on, even though its 90mm cannon could not keep pace with developments in tank armor, its high-explosive (HE) projectiles remain fully capable to destroying most vehicles smaller than a tank or modern IFV. Even the US Army’s the United States Army Research Laboratory acknowledged in 1979 (PDF link) that the AML “operated effectively in Beirut” and noted that “the ease with which the Panhard is driven and repaired, and the absence of tracks, provide the mobility desirable in an urban environment.

An AML-90 (R) of the Lebanese Army, Beirut, Lebanon, 1982

And it was simple, in the extreme – AML hulls were assembled from only 13 welded pieces. Thirteen. In the early 1980’s, an upgrade to the AML-90 Lynx became available, offering a new turret loaded with a modified D921 main gun and up-rated range-finding equipment and night-vision gear.

Bottom: Original H-90 turret.
Top: Lynx 90 turret incorporating a new commander’s cupola, sights, searchlight, and a laser rangefinder.

The AML-90 and its somewhat lesser known variants were sold all over the world, albeit mostly in Africa, where they proved very effective when used for their intended roles. As just one example, when France conducted a series of operations during the Chadian-Libyan Conflict, only three vehicles were reportedly lost in action, apparently to RPG fire, despite several engagements versus Libyan tanks. While not completely immune to land mines, the AML’s were not known to fall prey to them very often.

Although withdrawn from French service in 1991 (replaced by the Panhard ERC and AMX-10RC vehicles), the AML – in most of its forms – continues to soldier on, around the world, with the last foreign sales being completed in 1999.

An Iraqi AML-90 light armored car, captured during Operation Desert Storm. USMC photo.

Are there better vehicles, today? Absolutely. The AML, by modern standards, is cramped, has neither NBC protection, nor any real “comfort” items modern forces take for granted, and has poor armor. But still…until it comes against those better vehicles, the AML remains cheap and effective — even sixty-odd years later.

“Old” does not necessarily mean “useless”…A thing that more military’s in the world would do well to learn.

Our Core Niche Audience Are Social Conservative Freedom Builders

Social conservatives who love freedom and pluralism, because good ideas don’t require coercion, are the best Americans and should therefore have the most powerful voice in this land. But, sadly, they are the least favored and also they are the least served niche within the body politic.

In this vain, consider the notion that those who serve a niche must seek to become among the top providers. It is argued one must pick a niche and dominate the marketplace of its demands. If you are not willing to even try to dominate a niche, such that you are at or near the top within a few years, then you should understand that the long-term only holds failure for your efforts.

We believe the social conservative base who are either Christian in devotion or who are at least culturally of a Judeo-Christian tradition are grossly under-served and this niche represents as many as 30-40 million Americans who have no political home and no online home.

For too long social conservatives, who believe without faith and moral/civic virtue freedom is impossible, have been part of a grand coalition whose topmost leaders are not social conservatives. Also, for too long we have been told our faith and philosophy should not inform public policy, but libertine and agnostic ideas are fine.

Through Freedomist we aim to gather, inform, and rally a social conservative base of freedom builders and through Upadaria we aim to provide such people with a new nationality and virtual homeland they can truly feel accepts and embraces them and seeks their good above all else.

Social conservatives who are also committed to a free and pluralistic society are the true salt of the earth and the most noble kinds of souls which any country, society, or civilization can be blessed both to count among its number and to lead them into a glorious future of wholeness and happiness.

We (social conservatives) alone understand the way society must be governed, from the standpoint of God’s laws and ways, albeit not through coercion and violence as is the wont of our opponents on the left: these alt-gendered immoral and mentally backwards totalitarian loons whose craven lusts for power are almost like a sexual deviancy.

Social conservatives need a voice and the Freedomist is that voice, the only forthright and intelligent news and information resource that deeply caters to this base of freedom builders whose love for God and Country is praiseworthy.

How To Nip A Totalitarian Agenda In The Bud Before It Is Too Late

If your political foe calls you a great Satan, understand that unless you match or exceed their rhetoric, the public will tend to think the more sensationalist claims are true. Moreover, if your foe calls you a great Satan and this is patently false, then take this both as projection and equate this to murderous intent.

(Note: some measure of this is always evident at almost all times, but what is at issue here is the pervasiveness, loudness, and sensationalism of such claims and rheorical assaults aimed at delegitimization and even criminalization of any substantial part of your movement.)

The public gravitate toward epic batttles between implacable foes, not tame debates in response to vicious attacks by the other side.

Lopsided battles in which one side tries to be polite to one who is being violent and beyond the pale hold little interest. The assumption is that the louder and more violent must necessarily be right because average people would never make such outlandish claims and act so reprehensible without cause.

Hence to perhaps over-quoted bit about “the big lie”, telling it loudly and repeatedly until it is believed.

If the Ukes had not been so vicious and violent in their response to the Orc invasion out of Russia and Byelorus, for instance, the general public would have lost interest. Nobody adores a weakling. But notice, the Ukes have only done limited attacks on the Russian homeland itself for fears of escalating this into a nuclear war.

In politics, of course, the term “violent” is not literal. It is a spirit and energy. Like where it says it the Sacred text: the Kingdom of God suffers violence and the violent take it by force. When one side demonizes over the top, the only response is to return the favor in spades, assuming all their demonizations are projection and represent intent.

To drive this point home: it is ALWAYS reasonable to assume that whatever lies are used to defame your side are a projection of the true character and intent of the other side. When the other party openly deems any part of your movement traitors or something like that, then dialog must end and peaceful street actions must begin in a visible way that forces the public to choose a side.

Abandon any notion that any attack on perhaps a less seemly element of your movement is not actually a precursor to a general attack on the totality of your movement.

Once matters go to a stage where “legal” devices, abuses of power, are targeting individuals and using sensationalist claims and hyperbolic exaggeration to actually raid homes and arrest people, the response must be to assume all of your side are in the crosshairs. This is the kind of dangerous measures that actually lead to real violence when the organs of power come with guns to harrass or even imprison their opponents.

The political party or movement that cannot mass people for protests and civil disobedience to protect its own members, even those it may not heartily embrace, will soon face extinction. Illegal abuses of power targeting a few people who may be skirting the edge of propriety but who have not substantively broken the law, must be deemed an illegal persecution of the whole movement.

The only response would include protests, mass demonstrations, and even crippling work stoppages aimed at causing as much of a OR nightmare and and as much economic pain as possible on the oppressive party. But a peaceful albeit overwhelming response is needed with the aim of deescalation: using violence can tip things over the edge and lead to a lose-lose scenario for your entire country.

Essentially, match and exceed their rhetoric, or accusations, understanding that it is reasonable to assume the worst lying smears are actual projection and represent serious mal intent. But do not escalate with physical violence when peaceful demonstrations and/or work stoppages can be availed.

For cheap titanium they prolong the war in Ukraine

Our Publisher, Bill Collier, was “printed” in The American Thinker, an interesting issue few are thinking of. As we consider the war in Ukraine, it is sad that some companies prefer to compromise with Moscow for profit.

American Thinker

Regardless of how one might feel, Moscow chose to wage war on its neighbor to satisfy the imperial ambitions of one man. The result is terrible but by skirting sanctions we prolong the war and add to everyone’s misery and to the loss of life.

Bannon Faces DNC DA Activist Charges in NY Court

The DNC Activist willing to use an American political office to lawfare opposition to the anti-American agenda of his party over country is now re-prosecuting Steve Bannon for alleged crimes he’s already been pardoned by Former President Trump for.  Using sophistry instead of law, the DNC political hitman, Alvin Bragg, is hoping to use Bannon as a stepping stone to higher, more powerful levels of political office.

NEWSWATCH BLURB:

Steve Bannon surrenders in NY court www.ctvnews.ca
Excerpt:

Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime ally Steve Bannon surrendered Thursday to face fresh charges that he duped donors who gave money to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Bannon’s state-level charges in New York are expected to closely resemble an attempted federal prosecution that ended abruptly, before trial, when Trump pardoned Bannon on his last day in office. Presidential pardons apply only to federal crimes, not state offenses. In Bannon’s case, any double jeopardy argument would likely fall flat because his federal case didn’t involve an acquittal or conviction.

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Here’s more on the anti-American ideology of the Manhanttan DA prosecuting Steven Bannon:

Well, Alvin Bragg’s progressive prosecutor colleagues in Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco feel they have the answers. And yet, “defund the police,” bail reform, and de …
Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan DA whose election was funded by George Soros, and doesn’t charge actual criminals, charged a bodega owner with murder for a self-defense killing. Bodega owner Jose Alba was forced to kill a career criminal who was trying to kill him. Jose Alba, a 51-year-old clerk in a Bronx bodega, is incarcerated in the infamous …

The Curious Case of Alvin Bragg — Reconsidering the DA’s Trump …

This past week the only person charged to date in the DA’s Trump investigation pleaded guilty in advance of an October 24, 2022 trial date — a trial in which the two remaining defendants are Trump companies controlled by the former president. Allen Weisselberg, the longtime CFO of the Trump Organization, pleaded to all 15 charges against him.
A disturbing allegation against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg during the primary led a George Soros-backed political action committee, Color Of Change, to pull a half million dollars in …
Alvin Bragg has taken his policies directly from the rogue prosecutor movement’s required playbook.
Queen Elizabeth is Dead, Long Live King Charles

The end of the second Elizabethan age has come with the death of the 96-year-old Queen Elizabeth II.  Her son, Charles, will become the new monarch.  He will be called Charles III, the first Charles since Charles II, who was the son of Charles I, the King executed by Oliver Cromwell’s Levelers.  Charles II was the restored monarchy after the death of Cromwell.  Will Charles be the symbolic rebirth of the first or the second eponym predecessor?

NEWSWATCH BLURB:

Queen Elizabeth II Dead at 96 after 70 Years on the Throne www.cbn.com
Excerpt:

Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and a rock of stability across much of a turbulent century, died Thursday after 70 years on the throne. She was 96.

The palace announced she died at Balmoral Castle, her summer residence in Scotland, where members of the royal family had rushed to her side after her health took a turn for the worse.

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NEWSWATCH BLURB:

Prince Charles Becomes King At Age 73 Following Queen Elizabeth’s Death www.huffpost.com
Excerpt:

 

Prince Charles is king at last.

The British heir apparent, who is 73, ascended to the throne following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.

“The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon,” the palace said Thursday. “The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.”

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The Borders Have Fallen

The Cloward-Piven’ing of America’s border and immigration institutions is complete, as Team Biden continues to treat America’s borders as if they were saboteurs sent by our enemies to destroy us.

NEWSWATCH BLURB:

The Border Crisis Is Overwhelming The US Asylum System dailycaller.com
Excerpt:

The record number of illegal migrants that have entered the United States since President Joe Biden took office are burdening the country’s immigration system, The New York Times reported.

Since the start of the Biden administration, migrants have flowed into the U.S. in record numbers, with 3,463,430 migrants encountered at the southern border between January 2021 and August 2022, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).  The high number of migrants entering the country are taxing the U.S. asylum system by increasing wait times and forcing cities and states to take on the burden of supporting them.

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Vote Republican Or Watch America Die

I urge everyone to vote Republican even though I fully know thay they won’t save us and merely voting won’t save us from the wokatarians and their unhinged authoritarianism and corpostate corruption.

Building community together based on the goals of restoring family, faith, and marriage to their sacredness and purity as God intended, in our own lives and in a kinship of trust with fellow travelers, will ultimately turn this around.

And if it doesn’t turn this around for the whole country (because most refuse to return to truth), at least for those who embrace this it will shield them and their loved ones from the hellish storm the anticulture will result in. Eventually, for all these vile sins and crimes against God’s laws and Creation, a recompense will come to this land. We know not when, but it WILL happen because this country’s rulers and many of its people do not walk upright before God.

So why vote Republican?

First and foremost, because the Republican Platform favors policies and an agenda that, at the very least, won’t make things worse. It may give us breathing room and time in which we can urge our fellow countrymen, men and women who love America, to turn back toward our manifest destiny as a land of freedom.

Freedom is a balance of virtue, liberty, and independence.

Civic and moral virtue is based on the sociocultural and ethical orthodoxy of the historic Christian faith embraced from the heart, even by those who are not Christians. This is voluntary and cannot be imposed, but our very system of government is built for and around a people of virtue. Where “freedom” is vice this comes apart, as we can see happening before us. Where virtue is a type of decency, morality, and common sense ethics that become a consensus through freewill participation, the corrupt cannot rise and the righteous rein.

We must embrace liberty which we defines as best expressed in the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights, and best represented in practice through the Declaration of Independence. We recognize that this didn’t always apply to every person in this land, but we also know that the arc of America’s manifest destiny bends toward liberty for every single human being on this planet. Liberty is not license to be behave like over-sexed perverted animals defined by primitive cravings best left with our savage ancestors in caves!

In a practical sense, independence is material self-sufficiency at the personal and local level with families, free associations, local communities, and national peoples having their own sociocultural and socioeconomic autonomy and self-determination. With material self-sufficiency, instead of dependency upon massive scale governments and near-monopoly corporations, we can experience independence. When sociocultural and socioeconomic matters are mostly left to private groups, organizations, and communities no ruling class can dictate these things from the center.

Understand that ALL of this is VOLUNTARY. If we think we can or should outlaw those who refuse to walk the path of virtue, liberty, and independence as God has defined it for this country and the nations of people within it, then we do not understand what God desires. God desires obedience from the heart and nothing else counts. Even if we forced others to live as we choose to live, if their hearts are not in it, it doesn’t help them or us.

Why did Jesus say to let the wheat and the tares grow together? We cannot force a tare to be wheat. That takes a miracle from God, not an edict. Likewise, our unrighteous rulers over corporations and the state are trying by edict to turn us all into tares. They too will fail, not only because this is impossible but because God protects and nurtures the wheat!

So what will voting Republican do?

It is simple: when the Democrats have a majority their Platform, whose very ideology is based on doctrines of devils, they always go after the wheat and try to force everyone to run in their wonton and perverted riotousness. As the sacred text says, “they think it strange that you run not with them in the same excess of riot and they speak evil of you.”

Democrats calling us insurrectionists, bigots, racists, near fascists, and the like is an example of morally reprobate tares trying to destroy the wheat if the wheat refuse to become tares. Basically, the Democratic Party has become the chief vehicle for morally corrupted rulers who not only wish to run in excess of riot but who also want to force you to do the same, even though this is actually impossible.

They certainly want to groom and corrupt your children through their demonic hold over education from k-12 through the highest universities!

When Republicans have a majority it’s not all good, and even if they do win this doesn’t guarantee smooth sailing for the cause of freedom. In fact, Republicans have wilted under pressure and let us down. But one thing they haven’t done is deliberately and with malice waged a relentless war on everything this country was founded by God to become: an empire of freedom, a free and pluralistic society, and the cradle of a new civilization founded upon Christian ideals.

The time and place to vote against false Republicans, quislings who collaborate with the Democratic Party’s  totalitarian machine, is during the primary.

The Republican Platform represents ideas and values far more in harmony with God’s intended manifest destiny for America (though it’s not nearly perfect) than the vile perverted excess of riot represented by the Democratic Party platform and that Party’s true rulers, a cabal of perverse and corrupt corpostate shot-callers.

As stated, neither voting Republican nor a Republican win will save us. What it will do is simply allow for time and space wherein we can more or less speak and act freely and it will swing the odds more toward us than against us. If you vote Republican and they lose at least your conscience is clean insofar as you supported, as best you could, an attempt to stem the violent, authoritarian tide represented by the Democratic Party machine. Not voting Republican at this time is surrendering the political sphere to abject, cruel, psychopaths who desire to destroy the witness and influence of the historic Christian faith from this land.

If you love God and hate evil, and if you want this country to return to the path of pursuing God’s manifest destiny, then voting Republican swings the odds more for us than against us and may give us the time and space we need to truly win over our fellow Americans to the cause of truth, justice, and the American way.

Whoever votes for Democrats in light of their actions, agenda, and Platform is hammering a nail into America’s coffin and voting against God’s will and plan for this land. The alt-gendered anticulture lunacy and totalitarianism of that Party is like a fire from hell being stoked to destroy our country once and for all. It is that stark and the hour is late. If you are a Christian and do this, you are essentially voting to begin the persecution of the Church within this land!

Another Democratic Party win may not result in the final destruction of America as a freedom empire, but it MAY do so and at the least it will make a return to our true God-given manifest destiny less likely. If Democrats have their way, our country will be ruled by corrupt leaders whose god is in their loins and whose ideology is based on doctrines of devils.

The Democratic Party are the modern Midianites seeking to suppress the the voice and presence of the Elect and their influence from every institution in this country. They desire to elevate the abominable and perverse and to decimate the righteous and the good.

Voting Republican is saying no to this, even though we realize that a return to the morals and precepts of righteousness in our own private lives, associations, organizations, and communities is the only way we will turn this around.

God has given you the power to vote. This is an historic opportunity not available in the first century to Christians who were citizens of the Roman Empire. We are the government and to withhold your hand from using that power, even though it is not enough and it isn’t even a guarantee, is folly.

Note: this is a conviction and not a doctrine! I am not suggesting you aren’t a Christian unless you do this! I am saying I feeel strongly it is a moral duty at this late hour to vote Republican as a holding measure so we can take a path that will either protect us from the deluge or possibly prevent it.

If we fail to show up and vote Republican, we are, in my opinion, voting for the rein of wicked people whose Party is ruled by the powers of darkness and whose aims are a godless tyranny aimed at the physical oppression of the Elect.

You may say this is hyperbole, but consider everything that Party represents: rainbow alt-gendered facism, grooming kids, killing the unborn, suppression of free speech, disarming the people, foreign wars, socialism, and the list goes on! If this isn’t vile darkness, then you may not understand what vile darkness is or you are already a convert to its doctrines.

This election may secure another win for Democrats and yet it may not result in their final triumph, making it the last semi-free election before the deluge comes. It may be we get a another chance. But every time Democrats win a majority, we risk the final death of everything this country was meant to become and has yet to truly fulfill.

Vote Republican and give our constitutional union of free and sovereign peoples and republics a chance at turning around and getting on the right path toward destiny and freedom.

 

Judge Gives Special Master to Trump, Halts DOJ Investigation

The Federal Judge overseeing the proceedings against President Donald Trump by the FBI after the Mar-a-Lago raid has awarded the Trump team with the special master they wanted to review the evidence the FBI gathered .

“The Court hereby authorizes the appointment of a special master to review the seized property for personal items and documents and potentially privileged material subject to claims of attorneyclient and/or executive privilege…. [and] also temporarily enjoins the Government from reviewing and using the seized materials for investigative purposes pending completion of the special master’s review or further Court order.” Federal Judge Aileen M. Cannon

The Judge gave Team Trump almost everything they asked for, including providing a check list for the items they allege the FBI took, including personal medial records.

This judge is one appointed by Trump, which means we have reason to hope this man might yet receive due process in keeping with our American constitutional tradition.

The raid itself reeked of lawfare, a tactic the DNC has been utilizing for years, but one that has been ramped up by a thousand since Trump’s ascent.

Here is a little more on the DNC and lawfare

Aug 17, 2022BUCK: It’s looking like the Democrat plan for the election is what some would call lawfare — as in they’re just using the legal apparatus as a weapon of politics in every way they possibly can. Obviously, first and foremost with the Mar-a-Lago raid, but let’s also keep in mind that you just had Rudy Giuliani announce yesterday …
This is very interesting… and it appears the professional Democrat machine is increasingly apoplectic at the Maricopa, Arizona, ballot audit approved by the state senate and affirmed by the state courts. The Arizona legislature authorized a full and comprehensive audit of Maricopa County’s 2020 election ballots.

Democrats Unleash ‘Lawfare’ Harassment Tactics Against Ordinary MAGA …

Biden bus democrats destruction lawfare MAGA. Wes Walker
OPINION:
With Trump, the Democrats were willing to reduce impeachment to a mere political publicity stunt.  With the DNC in general, the RNC finds itself facing an opponent that has no care for the house they’re engaging in political competition with.
The Republicans hope to at least preserve our American Republic, so their response to the DNC is tepid because responding in kind knocks out more support beams for the whole project, the American Republic.
Efforts to imprison a former sitting President over semantic games with “Classified” laws make it very clear the DNC has no fear of the American people or our Republican standards.
One can only hope that more Americans who still believe the DNC is an American party will wake up and abandon the anti-Americanist party, whose only mission is to control all power in all ways, from the church to the school, from the market to the state, one party, one people, one mind, or else.
Chairman Xi Gets Mao’s “Great Leader” Title From 20th Party Congress

 It looks like Chairman Xi is no longer shy about the comparisons between himself and Chairman Mao being made.  He has “accepted” the title of “Great Leader” from the 20th Party Congress, where he expects to be confirmed for a third term as the de facto one-man government of China. 

The 20th Party Congress will start October 16th of this year at Beijing.  There are conflicting reports of Xi consolidating power, as well as of reports that the Covid lockdown disaster and the property scheme collapse have made Xi vulnerable to rivals.

We don’t predict a Xi cancellation or reduction after the 20th Party congress.  If anything, we expect his power to be even more consolidated than it already is.  The congress seems already to be telegraphing his victory by confering the “Great Leader” title on him.

This is not to say Xi should feel secure going forward.  His problems aren’t going away, from without and from within.  His long-term prognosis is not great.

MORE ON CHINA XI 20TH PARTY CONGRESS

China’s Xi pushes forward to third term despite mounting crises

China’s ruling Communist Party will hold its 20th National Congress, at which Xi is widely expected to extend his hold on power for another five years — a move that would cement his status as the country’s most powerful leader in decades.

 

For China’s Top Leaders — Other Than Xi — Age Is More Than Just a Number

Unspoken rule ages out members of the Chinese Communist Party’s most influential policy-making body at 68; experts say that helps the party leader eliminate opposition
Communist Party of China (CPC) General Secretary Xi Jinping’s internal civil war against his party rivals in the build-up to the XXth CPC National Congress — now likely to occur in November …

CCP Cadres Write Open Letter To Target Xi Jinping’s Personality Cult; Suggest Reforms

Communist Party of China’s leading cadres has shot a letter asking for reforms and greater responsibility in the existing workings of the party.
The countdown to Xi Jinping’s expected coronation has officially started. In 47 days,
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