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I’m sure there will be some shocking events in 2026, but I could only guess what they will be.  There are too many wildcards in the mix, with one big one taking center stage: States.  Check any problem and if you dig deep enough you’ll find one or more of these indispensable organizations at the root.

The civilized world, such as it was, took a nosedive after the Sarajevo assassinations in 1914 ignited the political tinderbox in Europe. To pay for the massive slaughter that followed, states abandoned gold and turned to inflationary finance and borrowing, in addition to heavy taxation. Very importantly, as Rothbard notes, World War I also served as the excuse for

a “war collectivism,” a totally planned economy run largely by big-business interests through the instrumentality of the central government, which served as the model, the precedent, and the inspiration for state-corporate capitalism for the remainder of the 20th century.

For the big shots running things, the war required issuing outrageous lies, suppressing dissent, and everything else except leading the troops in actual combat.  The nightmare of trench fighting they forced upon American men.  “You die over there while we get richer over here,” Wilson and his gang were in effect saying to the conscripts, while peddling “Liberty” Bonds.   Yet, as humanitarian episodes throughout the war made eminently clear, especially the Christmas Truce of 1914, the soldiers were mostly eager to fraternize not kill one another.  Ironically, they might’ve written war’s last chapter had they refused orders to continue the killing, thereby fulfilling the prophecy of H. G. Wells that it would be “the war that will end war.”

If only more people had adopted Einstein’s view: “I should unconditionally refuse every direct or indirect war service and try to induce my friends to adopt the same attitude, irrespective of the general opinion of the causes of war.”

But when peace stands in the way of big profits, the banker/state alliance usually wins.  Quoting Ferdinand Lundberg from America’s Sixty Families, G. Edward Griffin writes in his masterpiece, The Creature from Jekyll Island, that

the total wartime expenditure of the United States government from April 6, 1917, to October 31, 1919, when the last contingent of troops returned from Europe, was $35,413,000,000. Net corporation profits for the period January 1, 1916, to July, 1921, when wartime industrial activity was finally liquidated, were $38,000,000,000, or approximately the amount of the war expenditures. More than two-thirds of these corporation profits were taken by precisely those enterprises which the Pujo Committee had found to be under the control of the “Money Trust.” [ A handful of Wall Street banks, primarily those in the Morgan ambit]

The point of bringing all this up is that states are powerful organizations that sell their services (various forms of coercion) to the highest bidders.  If the price is right laws will be passed, relaxed, or ignored.  If a war is needed to get the public behind some scheme, a Lusitania will sink, a Twin Tower will collapse, with some targeted enemy taking the blame.

Rothbard had it right — states are criminal gangs writ large.

There are times when I picture the state as analogous to the loose cannon that broke free from its fastenings and menaced the lives of the warship crew in Victor Hugo’s novel, Ninety-three.  The crew at least recognized the threat of a ten thousand pound cannon on the loose that “leaps like a panther, has the weight of an elephant, the agility of a mouse,” whose “terrible vitality is fed by the ship, the waves, the wind. . .”  I can’t imagine a crew feeling reverence for such a monster.

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International Man: Trump is pitching a “tariff dividend” that would take revenue from new import tariffs and recycle it into $2,000 checks for Americans—framed not as welfare, but as a patriotic return on America’s trade strength.

What do you make of this?

Doug Casey: Frankly, it’s ridiculous. Whenever Trump talks, it’s clear that he knows nothing about either economics or history. Of course, knowledge isn’t entirely necessary to steer the Ship of State. It’s possible to get by with only luck, bluster, and coercion—but the results tend to be bad. Trump doesn’t have any consistent thinking or philosophy, either; it’s all seat-of-the-pants feelings.

That’s a characteristic of populists. They try to get ahead of popular whims, and they’ll say or do almost anything that they think the mob wants to hear.

So far, the big reason for Trump’s popularity is that he’s a cultural conservative. Let’s count ourselves lucky in that regard. He doesn’t want to overturn the basis of America itself, as many of the Democrats clearly want to do.

When it comes to economics, Trump is very comfortable with arbitrarily printing wild amounts of money. I suspect he rationalizes it by thinking it will forestall deflationary collapse in the short run and inflate away the otherwise unrepayable national debt in the long run.

He’s mostly in favor of mild deregulation, which is good, of course. But most of what he does is flattery-driven. If he likes somebody and they want to suck up to him, he’ll do what it takes to make himself more popular with that person and their constituency.

His tariffs are a tax on Americans who import things. Part of his philosophy with the tariffs is to encourage manufacturing in the US. But since over half of the imports are for further value-added manufacturing in the US, it turns out he’s really hurting domestic manufacturing. And he’s hurting exports too, because when you don’t buy things from people, they’re less likely to buy things from you.

Apart from generating revenue to distribute to the capita censi, his objective is to encourage domestic manufacturing by making imports expensive and forcing people to make things domestically. Very much like Argentina under the Peronists, whose similar hopes of self-sufficiency wound up destroying the Argentine economy. Building up domestic manufacturing can take many years, sometimes decades. But along the way, a closed, protectionist America will produce uncompetitive products. This results in a lower standard of living for Americans.

The only way to bring manufacturing back to the US—the only way—is to free the US economy: get rid of taxes, institute a sound currency so that capital can build, get rid of regulation so that producers aren’t hamstrung, and remove government from all aspects of the economy. But Trump is doing the opposite. So not only is he not going to get the result that he’s looking for, he’s going to create a disaster.

It’s amusing to see him bragging about cultivating foreign investment. For instance, he expects a trillion dollars from the Saudis, which is almost 100% of the Saudi GNP. Trump’s hyperbole on almost everything he talks about is indistinguishable from lying. How can a sensible person take anything he says seriously? When he says something, it’s just off the top of his head.

International Man: Do the so-called tariff dividends amount to a new form of money printing—QE without the Fed?

Doug Casey: You mean the $2000 he says he’ll distribute to various Americans, with money gained from tariffs? As a giveaway, it’s corrupting. But it won’t add to the money supply because putting on tariffs doesn’t create more money. How many will get this $2000 bonus? Who knows. If it goes to 100 million people, that’s $200 billion. Where’s the money going to come from? Not from the tariffs, which will greatly reduce trade and income, and be counterproductive in every way.

Trump loves spending. But how will Trump finance his spending? Taxes aren’t popular, and Trump wants to be popular. Borrowing in the market is out; it would put upward pressure on interest rates. So essentially, more government debt will be sold to the Fed. They’ll buy it with newly created dollars.

International Man: Do you see these tariff checks as a kind of Universal Basic Income for the Right?

Doug Casey: The concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI) is being widely discussed. It’s a disaster on every level possible. Elon Musk and others are saying that it’s inevitable. When robots and AI do everything, they think mass unemployment is unavoidable. They seem to think that the plebs will have to be maintained like pets, to keep them from rioting.

Others think that once UBI frees the plebs from the drudgery of work, they’ll become thinkers, artists, and poets. That’s a pipe dream.

More likely, UBI will create a population of dissipated layabouts, junkies, and neurotic consumers. Healthy humans have to feel productive. Apart from the fact that it’s psychologically destructive, UBI is unnecessary.

That’s because it doesn’t matter how much the AI and robots create, it won’t be “free”; there are costs to everything. Besides, people have infinite desires. A person can work 24/7, catering to the unlimited amount of goods and services people want. The idea should be to totally eliminate welfare, aka UBI, not to put everyone on it.

Of course, ultimately, the elite would like to see AI and robotics reduce the population of the world by, they say, 90%. If only to save Mother Earth from hordes of useless eaters. I’m sure they’re working in that direction.

International Man: Are these tariff dividends a sign of fiscal dominance—where government financing needs begin to dictate monetary policy—and what would the implications be?

Doug Casey: Trump thinks he’s a genius. And as a world-changing genius, he wants to reform the world the way he thinks is best. So, for instance, he’s actively replacing members of the Federal Reserve Board who share his ideas on money; no doubt he’s very favorably inclined toward what’s known as Modern Monetary Theory—the same for the Supreme Court and Congress. Basically, Trump doesn’t believe in anything; he just has feelings and instincts.

The bottom line is that we’re sure to see a lot more government involvement in the economy. Trump tries to make deals with every person and every group possible; he’s opportunistic and very transactional. I think he sees himself as Louis XIV. But I’ll wager that before his term is over, he winds up more like Louis XVI.

International Man: The last time the government handed out checks to the average person was during the Covid mass psychosis, and it triggered the worst inflation in 40 years. What are the implications for gold, the US dollar, and other investments if these tariff dividends continue?

Doug Casey: It’s not just the proposed tariff dividends, it’s his whole economic approach. Trump isn’t a free-market believer; he’s a narcissist, he thinks he’s a genius, and he’ll impose his will whenever he can. This adds a thick layer of uncertainty to a very shaky economy.

I don’t, therefore, think there’s any way around higher gold prices—despite its all-time highs. Since gold is the only financial asset that’s not somebody else’s liability, more and more people will move to gold. But also to commodities in general; relative to their production costs and historical prices, they are very cheap.

Pay attention to the government starting to invest in mining companies—including MP Materials (one of our picks), Lithium Americas, and Trilogy Metals. Not to mention Intel and US Steel. This is in the worst “state capitalist” tradition of picking favorites. Right now, Rare Earths are the flavor of the month. The result will be corruption and massive distortions. Speaking as an economist, I find it stupid and deplorable. But speaking as a speculator, this foolishness is likely to spark interest in mining companies, which makes me happy.

How about real estate? Commercial real estate prices are said to be off about 25% across the country. Even condominium prices are dropping, off 10 to 15%. Houses aren’t selling because so many people locked in low-interest, 3% or 3.5% 30-year mortgages a few years ago. If they sell, they’ll have to refinance at twice those levels, which many can’t afford. With mortgages at 6.5%, a lot fewer people who want to buy can’t buy—the property market’s in trouble across the board.

In the stock market, all the gains have basically been in high-tech. We’re in a multi-trillion-dollar AI super bubble. The financial world is very unstable. The only places that make sense are commodities, resources, and the companies that produce them. The good news is that though they’ve been moving up, they’re still very cheap. And have a lot of upside from here. I remain very concentrated in the resource markets.

Reprinted with permission from International Man.

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Having a ruling from a panel of three judges is a desperate attempt to create a veneer of judicial authority in support of the actions of Keir Starmer’s outlaw government

The High Court judge who granted a legal challenge to the government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action – the first time in British history a civil-disobedience organisation has been declared a terrorist group, one now treated as on a par with al-Qaeda – has been removed at the last minute.

The judicial review hearing is due to start tomorrow without Justice Martin Chamberlain. He will be replaced with a panel of three judges.

Justice Chamberlain did not suffer any timetabling conflicts. The Justice Ministry declined to offer any explanation for such a highly irregular change.

The outcome of the case will affect thousands of ordinary British citizens who have opposed the government’s anti-democratic proscription decision. They currently face jail sentences, and terrorism convictions, for holding placards saying: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”

Some oppose proscription because they believe civil disobedience of the kind used by Palestine Action, which targets arms factories supplying Israel with weapons used to slaughter Palestinian children, is the only effective way to put pressure on the government to stop colluding in the Gaza genocide.

Starmer’s government redefines “terrorism” to include for the first time civil disobedience and protest.

Then it declares it’s scrapping the ancient right to trial by jury (because juries too often acquit protesters).

In a rigged justice system, injustice is assured.

— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) November 25, 2025

Others hope to make the proscription unenforceable through mass defiance and thereby salvage one of the most fundamental democratic rights – the right to protest – from government assault.

Notably, this is not the first time Justice Chamberlain, who is noted for his independence, has been removed unexpectedly from a judicial review hearing in an Israel-related case. Earlier this year, he was replaced by two other judges after he granted a legal challenge to the government’s continuing sale of parts for F-35 jets to Israel, despite the fighter plane’s use in the killing of many tens of thousands of civilians and the destruction of more than 80 per cent of all buildings in Gaza.

A panel of three judges will now sit in place of Justice Chamberlain.

Dame Victoria Sharp is a from a family with extensive and close ties to the Conservative party. She is the twin sister of Richard Sharp, who was appointed chair of the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, after Sharp had helped secured the Tory prime minister a £800,000 loan. Sharp was later forced to resign. Victoria Sharp is best known for jailing climate activists involved in peaceful protest and for forcing journalist Carole Cadwalladr to pay Brexit donor Aaron Banks £1 million in legal fees after he sued for libel.

Dame Karen Steyn was one of two judges who replaced Justice Chamberlain in the F-35 hearing. She and Justice Males ruled in Israel’s favour, even while accepting that Israel could use F-35s in Gaza in violation of international law.

Sir Jonathan Swift, meanwhile, has a long history of siding with the British state – for eight years he was the government’s top lawyer. In 2023 Swift rejected the appeal of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange against the British government’s approval of his extradition to the US for exposing US and UK war crimes. The US wanted to lock him up indefinitely in a super-max prison.

Through class affiliation, upbringing, education and selection for temperament, senior judges invariably have a bias towards the interests of the British establishment. But some have a stronger bias than others.

It is not hard to understand why Chamberlain has been removed. His earlier rulings on Palestine Action’s proscription indicated that it might be difficult for him to rule in favour of the government.

It is also clear why he is being replaced by three new judges. Backing the government’s redefinition of terrorism – leading almost certainly to the jailing of former senior military personnel, barristers, doctors, priests, Holocaust survivors, and a former adviser to King Charles, all of whom who have publicly supported Palestine Action – risks looking like precisely what it is: a political decision in favour of lawlessness by the British state.

Having a ruling from a panel of three judges is a desperate attempt to create a veneer of judicial authority in support of the actions of an outlaw government.

It won’t work. This already looks like a self-evident stitch-up to extricate Sir Keir Starmer and his ministers from the mess they have made of British terrorism laws – all so they can continue conspiring in Israel’s genocide.

This article was originally published on JonathanCook.net.

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Don’t let the empire gaslight you into believing you are powerless and helpless. There are always things you can do to fight the bastards, and there are always things you can do to improve your own life.

It’s so easy to fall into the trap of believing there’s nothing we can do. Nothing we can do to fight the machine because it’s too large and entrenched, and nothing we can do to change our own personal circumstances because the deck is stacked so unfairly against ordinary people.

It’s a strong illusion because at a surface glance it appears to be true. Our political systems are locked down by the rich and powerful to ensure that our votes don’t inconvenience them in any way, and any new political movement which challenges establishment power structures will find itself facing sabotage from the outside and from within. Our voices are kept marginalized and our countrymen have been turned into mindless empire automatons by a lifetime of propaganda indoctrination.

And at first glance we appear to be just as powerless in our personal lives as well. Unless you’re lucky enough to have obtained some capital which you can use to extract labor from the working class or to possess some special aptitude that our system happens to value, you can spend your whole life struggling in poverty. The life of a worker is getting harder and harder, and it’s easy to feel like there’s nothing you can do about your own unhappiness and psychological dysfunction because you’re laboring under a system that’s so abusive and unfair.

So while it is true that there are many doors that are closed to a denizen of our dystopia, that doesn’t mean you are powerless to change things. Believing that you are powerless serves no one but the powerful.

We are never truly powerless because we always have the ability to help foment a revolutionary zeitgeist, and because we always have the ability to heal ourselves. As a collective we have the power to inform and educate the public to help them understand that they’ve been deceived their whole lives about our society, and that a better world is both needed and possible. As individuals we have the ability to do inner work to heal our trauma and liberate ourselves from the delusion of ego, which will have radically transformative effects on our quality of life in a whole host of ways.

There is nothing our rulers can do to take these abilities away from us. We will always have the ability to do something to help awaken the people to the need for revolution, and we will always have the ability to heal our inner wounds. Every single day there are concrete actions we can take toward both of these ends.

It serves nobody but the powerful to believe there’s nothing we can do to change things. Too many socialists are content to just sit around smugly knowing better than everyone else and having all the correct opinions about things while expressing distain for everyone who tries to expand awareness or make the world a better place. Get active in your community. Produce dissident media. Make revolutionary art. Have conversations. Change minds. Open some eyes. Wake people up so that one day there will be enough of us to force real change.

It serves nobody but the powerful to believe you are doomed to a life of misery. Too many socialists are content to blame all their internal dysfunction on the abuses of capitalism and just spend their days masturbating their inner wounds in meetings and online without doing the rigorous inner work necessary to come to inner peace. Get curious about your internal processes. Research the many modalities for inner healing that are available online. Listen to the brilliant minds who’ve been sharing groundbreaking new insights about trauma and inner work lately. Investigate the possibility that spiritual enlightenment is a real phenomenon that is entirely achievable in this life. Take responsibility for your own inner wellbeing, and start doing something about it.

We don’t need to sit around paralyzed by power-serving learned helplessness. We don’t need to sit idly by waiting for some deus ex machina resolution to our plight. We don’t need to resign ourselves to a life of suffering and making the same mistakes over and over again because we’re being whipped about by unconscious forces within us that we’ve never taken the time to investigate.

There is always something we can do. We can never do everything, but we can always do something. There’s no good reason not to do that something we can do, every single day of our lives.

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James O’Keefe and his team of undercover journalists have caught a senior government official on camera boasting of his efforts to undermine the efforts of the Trump administration.

In the video, Steven Putansu, a 16-year veteran of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and current assistant director, spoke about a covert effort by the GAO to unlawfully access vaccine research data deleted by Health and Human Services, under the direction of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.)

CAUGHT ON HIDDEN CAMERA: U.S. Government Accountability Office Director Admits GAO Staff “Stole & Backed Up” Vaccine Data Allegedly Deleted by RFK Jr.’s HHS – Possible Violations of Federal Records, Theft, & CFAA Laws.

Steven Putansu, a 16-year veteran of the U.S. Government… pic.twitter.com/OaGR6ME248

— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) November 25, 2025

The GAO’s purpose “is to oversee and have oversight over government spending, very similar to what DOGE was recently supposed to be doing,” explained O’Keefe at the outset of his presentation.

And yet the video clearly shows that there are forces within the GAO and other government agencies acting on their own behalf in order to preserve themselves apart from the will of the American people.

Putansu called RFK Jr. “the vaccine-denying head of HHS who’s going to ruin healthcare in this country even more than it already is.”

He asserted that he and others within the government are trying to stymie RFK Jr.’s directives and indicated that “there’s resistance everywhere” to the Trump administration.

“The Trump administration has gone through and they’ve destroyed statistical agencies and data sources and they’ve deleted important data,” said Putansu. “And we have stolen and backed those things up so that someday they can come back to government.”

In the video, O’Keefe consults with Will Chamberlain, senior counsel at the Article III Project and the Internet Accountability Project, about the possible violation of federal statutes by Putansu and his colleagues at the GAO.

“This strikes me as very seriously and very clearly a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which prohibits intentionally accessing a computer without authorization, or exceeding authorized access to obtain information from a U.S. government department or agency,” said Chamberlain. “That’s precisely what he did.”

“[Putansu] doesn’t have the right to purloin that information from HHS,” said Chamberlain.

“That could also easily be a theft of government property, which would be a violation of 18 U.S.C. 641. And also the unauthorized removal of public records under 18 U.S.C. 2071,” he added.

This article was originally published on Lifesite News.

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This year there have been more news articles than ever about “how to survive Thanksgiving”.  If you have not noticed this, I will provide some examples for you in this article.  Personally, the idea that Thanksgiving is an ordeal that must be endured is deeply offensive to me.  If eating a feast while surrounded by people that love you is too much of a burden, please stay home.  Thanksgiving is a day when we our not supposed to be focused on ourselves.  Instead, it is a day when we are supposed to give thanks.  In fact, according to the original Thanksgiving declaration that George Washington issued in 1789, there is someone in particular that we are supposed to give thanks to on this day.  But in our “me-centered” society, that has been completely forgotten.

I love Thanksgiving.  When I was a child, we would stop for one day to eat some turkey and give thanks for our blessings.  But today the Thanksgiving holiday has become an entire season.  The weekend before Thanksgiving is a travel weekend, many take the entire week off, and the weekend after Thanksgiving is the time when people travel home.

I kind of like that.  The more time that we can take to spend with the people that love us the better.

But many media outlets seem to think that spending time with family and friends is a problem.  For example, here is one article about Thanksgiving that discusses “the stresses that a family get-together can create”…

Thanksgiving is an interesting holiday. Some celebrate it as an American tradition. Others look at it as simply an excuse to get together with family to watch some football. And still others just enjoy getting an extra day off from work or try to ignore it altogether. But however you regard it, there are often two areas in which many of us can use help: preparing the traditional Thanksgiving meal and dealing with the stresses that a family get-together can create — especially these days, when conversations around the dinner table may be even more fraught than usual.

Yes, human relationships are complicated.

But that doesn’t mean that we should just isolate ourselves.

A big part of life is learning how to love imperfect people.

Because if you can’t love imperfect people, you aren’t going to love anyone, because nobody is perfect.

Many of the articles about “how to survive Thanksgiving” are focused on how to deal with family members.  The following comes from an article entitled “How to Survive Thanksgiving with a Crazy Family”…

Every Thanksgiving, millions of Americans prepare for what just might be the most family time they’ve had in a while. For some this is great. It is a reunion full of hugs and catching up. For most, it’s a politically charged, possibly drunken, exchange of fighting words, news stories, and my favorite, family drama. While my family is, admittedly, crazy, we normally shy away from such emotionally charged topics. But there is always an instigator in each family who enjoys sparring with family, watching the flames come up from the ground and engulf their family until it’s time to eat so much they enter a comatose state, lie on the couch, and forget the pain they’ve inflicted.

Many of these articles suggest that we should just avoid talking about anything important during Thanksgiving.

Really?

What are we supposed to do?

Talk about the weather for three hours?

Political talk at Thanksgiving is something that mainstream news outlets seem to particularly dislike.  I found an ABC News article entitled “How to survive political talk at Thanksgiving dinner” to be particularly amusing…

It’s Thanksgiving, you’re enjoying your favorite foods at the dinner table, when a family member brings up who they voted for in the 2024 presidential election.

Arguments ensue.

The food doesn’t taste as good.

And now everyone’s a politician.

People have political opinions.

And that is okay.

If we can’t learn how to peacefully interact with those that we disagree with, we are going to be in big trouble.

If we had a society that actually valued the marketplace of ideas, we would relish the opportunity to chat with those that hold opposing views.

But instead we are trained to cringe at the thought of having to do that.  Here is an excerpt from a Vogue article entitled “How to Survive Politics-Talk at Thanksgiving (Without Losing Your Mind)”…

Thanksgiving is almost upon us, and given that we’re fresh off one of the most contentious and politically charged seasons of our time, it’s probably not realistic to expect a holiday to be totally free of drama.

If you’re one of the lucky few whose family is united around political issues, treasure those peaceful conversations at the Thanksgiving table; for the rest of us, it can be challenging to know how best to talk to loved ones (or, to be real, tolerated-out-of-necessity ones) about anything substantive. Besides, for many of us, these issues aren’t “just politics;” they directly affect the way we live our lives and the safety and happiness of our families and friends.

If you disagree with me, that is okay.

And if I disagree with you, that is okay too.

Today, many people are actually completely cutting themselves off from their families due to political differences.

That is so wrong, but it is happening on a widespread basis.

Recently, Oprah Winfrey committed an entire podcast to people that have chosen to go “no contact” with their relatives…

When is it OK to go “no contact” with a family member? And what even is “no contact,” really?

Oprah Winfrey explored these questions on “The Oprah Podcast,” in an episode released Tuesday, Nov. 25, ahead of Thanksgiving. In the episode, audience members opened up about cutting off all contact with close relatives − even their parents.

“I know this is a tender, hot-button topic,” Winfrey said in the episode. “My hope is that we can open up the heart space and really listen. I’m not on anybody’s side. I just want to hear what everyone has to say.”

A USA Today article about that podcast explained precisely what it means to go “no contact” with someone…

“No contact” is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: You cut off all communication with someone. This means no meet-ups, no phone calls, no texting and no interaction on social media. If you happen to run into each other, you either avoid them or keep the interactions short and emotionally neutral.

I know so many children that no longer have contact with their parents, and I know so many parents that no longer have contact with their children.

It is a nationwide epidemic, and it is a great tragedy.

But this is what our society has become.

We have been trained to hate anyone that disagrees with us, and that even includes our own family members.

One of these days so many people are going to look back and wish that they could have done things differently.

If you find yourself wishing that you had done things differently, this Thanksgiving is a great opportunity to change direction.

In 1789, President George Washington issued the very first Thanksgiving proclamation.

He designated the 26th day of November to be a day when Americans were to humble themselves and give thanks to God for the blessings that He had bestowed upon our young nation…

By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation.

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor– and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be– That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks–for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation–for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war–for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed–for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted–for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.

and also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions– to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually–to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed–to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord–To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and us–and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.

Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.

The vast majority of the population has totally forgotten what Thanksgiving is supposed to be all about.

But it is not too late to reverse course.

I would encourage everyone to humble themselves and give thanks at some point over the next few days.

You will be amazed at how your perspective changes once you have done that.

Reprinted with permission from The Economic Collapse.

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There’s been a lot of hubbub about a working peace deal to end the war in Ukraine. The plan is reportedly gaining traction. Recent statements by officials suggest Ukraine has agreed to the “core terms” of the plan, which many say favors the Russians. But those core terms include territorial concessions and post-war military limitations that some of the most powerful voices in the Ukrainian military and politics have indicated are non-negotiable.

U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll held discussions with Ukrainian officials in Geneva over the weekend. And on Monday, he held talks with a Russian delegation in Abu Dhabi, according to reports. By Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt issued a statement saying “tremendous progress towards a peace deal” had been made.

Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council Secretary Rustem Umerov published a statement hours earlier saying American and Ukrainian delegations have “reached a common understanding on the core terms of the agreement.” However, he added, “We now count on the support of our European partners in our further steps.”

We appreciate the productive and constructive meetings held in Geneva between the Ukrainian and U.S. delegations, as well as President Trump’s steadfast efforts to end the war.

Our delegations reached a common understanding on the core terms of the agreement discussed in…

— Rustem Umerov (@rustem_umerov) November 25, 2025

Europe’s Plan

The Council of the European Union said in a statement on Saturday, a few days after news of the plan had been leaked, that the proposal was “a basis which will require additional work.” It also suggested the Europeans were not OK with at least one of the core tenets of the plan. “We are clear on the principle that borders must not be changed by force,” according to the statement.

Throughout the entire war, the Europeans have consistently discouraged peace and pushed the Ukrainians to keep fighting. When President Donald Trump cut off the blank checks and stopped the free weapons from flowing, the Europeans stepped in to buy American weapons for the Ukrainians (the United States, however, is still providing intelligence to the Ukrainians). But they’ve stopped short of sending official boots on the ground. They’ll let Ukraine’s pregnant women fight before they step in.

Russian Skepticism

Russian state media organ RT published a report Tuesday implying that optimism toward an agreement is unwarranted. “After a tense weekend of talks in Geneva, that plan has been cut down and rebranded as an ‘updated and refined peace framework,’ but the core reality hasn’t changed: Washington, key EU capitals, Kiev and Moscow are all reading from different scripts,” the Russians said. Moreover, core Russian demands have apparently been removed from the working draft. According to the Russians, “The key issues — territorial concessions, Ukraine’s NATO status and some of the military restrictions — have reportedly been taken out of the main text and parked in separate ‘follow-up‘ documents for talks at presidential level.”

The Europeans are reportedly scrambling to rewrite the plan more to their liking, which will likely turn off the Russians, who have no intention of walking away from territory they have spent three years and piles of bodies to capture.

American Realism

Of all the outside parties at the table, it looks as if the Americans are the only ones who have a sober understanding of the situation. Unlike Ukraine and the Europeans, the United States understands why the terms favor the winning side. This is the way it works with peace treaties. Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff knows this. According to a Wall Street Journal report on how the plan came about, “Witkoff, through conversations with U.S. and foreign officials and reading intelligence assessments, concluded that Ukraine was in the weaker position militarily.” More from the Journal:

Despite absorbing Russia’s all-out invasion in February 2022 and forcing it to fight at great cost for small territorial gains, Ukraine is still at a disadvantage, the officials said. It would need to concede more than Moscow in a peace deal to have any hope of getting the Kremlin to halt the war.

In addition to restricting the size of Ukraine’s post-war army and barring any chances of NATO membership, the plan requires that all other countries but Ukraine recognize Crimea as Russian territory, that Ukraine give up the entire Donbas region, 14 percent of which is still controlled by Ukraine, as well as most of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions. The deal also includes the lifting of sanctions off Russia and the creation of U.S.-Russia business ties. Read our previous report for more on the plan here.

Russia has few incentives to capitulate. Aside from incurring more sanctions, which are certainly not helping its economy, it holds the rest of the cards. Its army continues to advance against a Ukrainian military operating at a fraction of full capacity. Moreover, Ukraine’s political leadership is imploding, thanks to recent revelations of a massive war-profiteering kickback scandal involving people close to Zelensky. Ukraine is falling apart on every important front.

Interventionist Blowback

It’s also important to remember that the United States almost certainly played a role in triggering this war. This isn’t Russian propaganda. Several informed figures have provided evidence, some of which we’ve relayed in previous reports. Former Texas congressman Ron Paul summarized America’s role in this fiasco on Tuesday. Paul pointed out:

From the Orange Revolution in the early 2000s to the Maidan revolution in 2014, the US and its NATO partners have been interfering in Ukraine’s internal affairs in attempt to manipulate the country into a hostile position toward its much larger and more powerful neighbor, Russia.

We must remember how directly coordinated the 2014 coup was by the United States. US Senators, including John McCain and Lindsey Graham, were on the main square of a foreign capital demanding that the people overthrow their duly elected government. Victoria Nuland was caught on a telephone call planning who would run the post-coup government. For the entirety of this conflict politicians and the media have been unwavering in blaming Russia entirely for what has occurred. I agree that they’re no angels.

Paul added another sobering tidbit:

But the real villains here are the US neocons and their European counterparts who knew it was suicidal for Ukraine to take on Russia but pushed Ukraine to keep fighting anyway. Early in the conflict a deal was on the table and nearly signed that would end the war, but the neocon former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson demanded that Ukraine keep fighting.

Witkoff and his team were right to keep the Europeans out of the negotiations for as long as they could. If only Zelensky would do the same.

Just End It

Whatever side Americans take in this war, if they take any at all, it is in the best interest of all Americans that this war ends, and that it ends soon. The longer it continues, the chances of escalation remain. If the Europeans get embroiled, it will only be a matter of time before they convince our foolish leaders to send American soldiers into Ukraine. The United States is a NATO member, meaning the pressure to support the Europeans will be insurmountable.

Meanwhile, as for how our leaders can truly bring an end to the fighting, we refer back to the wisdom of Ron Paul:

President Trump promised he would end the war 24 hours after he was elected. It was an unrealistic boast, but he actually could have ended it rather quickly. The antidote to intervention is non-intervention. Biden drug us into the war, that is true. But Trump could have pulled us out by quite simply ending all US involvement. No weapons, no intelligence, no coordination. No need for sanctions or the threat of sanctions, no need for elaborate peace plans. It is unimaginably cruel to demand that Ukraine keep fighting our proxy war down to the last Ukrainian. No 28-point plans can fix this. The real fix is much simpler: walk away.

This article was originally published on The New American.

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A  reserve money is used by the world’s people to buy from and sell to one another.

If a reserve money is produced by a nation’s politicians, this is both good and bad.  It helps the nation’s people buy more products from other nations’ people.  But it also helps the nation’s politicians borrow and spend more.

When the nation’s politicians borrow and spend more, that forces the nation’s people to invest less and produce less.  At the same time, that also forces the nation’s people to pay interest and pay back principal.  (Although constitutionally they are required to push back against repaying any debts incurred to finance Progressive politicians’ rebellion, by repudiating those debts.)

The people and the government people each do their part

The people of the USA make the dollar desirable as a reserve money because they create a wide array of products that people everywhere want.  These products include assets, skilled labor, materials and energy products, intermediate products, and final products.  Some of these products can’t be found anywhere else at a comparable quality and price.  A few of these products can’t be found anywhere else at all.

USA government people make the dollar desirable as a reserve money if they make people’s life, liberty, and property secure.

But USA government people are doing worse at this, and that is making the dollar less desirable as a reserve currency, due to a couple of key actions.  First, they have long granted bankers license to steal interest they haven’t earned by collecting deposits, by instead simply creating dollars and loaning them out.  Lately, they are pushing bankers to lower interest rates even more than in the past by creating even more dollars.  Both actions dilute the value of the existing dollars that the world’s people have been using to buy from and sell to one another.

Predictably, USA politicians keep spending more, and they keep making us pay for it by borrowing more, and this is making the dollar worth less over time.  USA politicians have kept this up throughout the Progressives’ century-plus since 1894.

The long-term historical purchasing power of the dollar is approximated in the figure.

Figure: The dollar’s purchasing power, 1800–2024.  Semilog plot using CPI data, scaled so purchasing power was 100% in 1894.

The figure’s vertical axis has a log scale.  On such a semilog graph, a sloped straight line indicates that there has been a constant rate of exponential growth or decay.

At first, the USA government people held to a fractional-reserve gold standard.  In general, people’s productivity increased exponentially, and as a result, the dollar’s purchasing power also increased exponentially.

But since the government people allowed bankers to lend out more money than people had saved, this practice’s intrinsic instability periodically caused sensible runs on banks that have been called panics, across which the dollar’s purchasing power decreased exponentially.  Also, government people periodically caused wars, across which the dollar’s purchasing power also decreased exponentially, at even faster rates.

Later, across the Progressives’ century-plus, politicians started decreasing the dollar’s purchasing power at exponential rates.

Even the one period of seeming respite — the Roaring Twenties followed by the Great Depression — brought its own deprivations.  These included WWII, which was brought on by the new Fed’s 1920s boom and 1930s bust.

Progressive politicians’ debasement of the dollar’s purchasing power proceeded at faster exponential rates across sustained periods around WWI, WWII, the 1970s Great Inflation, and government people’s COVID responses.

This latest time is different.  USA gross public debt as a percentage of GDP is now a historically high 139% and is still growing without limits.

If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

Eventually, creditors will stop buying depreciating bonds at affordable interest rates, or the people will stop keeping up with interest payments.

In the more inflationary 2000s, people’s usual capital-preserving shift away from underperforming stocks and depreciating moneys and toward hard assets has begun already and is increasing.

Since 2010, gold has been increasingly bought by various nations’ central bankers.  Since January 2025, gold has been increasingly bought by various other institutions and individuals.  If current central bank holdings would simply stay the same but the price of gold would rise from $4,000 per ounce to just $5,600 per ounce, the world’s largest reserve asset would no longer be dollars.  It would be gold.

The USA people already produce much of what the world wants.

Also, with only few exceptions, all in smaller nations, USA government people beat other nations’ even worse government people, making property more secure here than elsewhere.

But that’s not as good as things could be.  The USA people will be freed to create far more value once our governments become less able to borrow on the backs of all of us.

So it’s great news for the USA people that the choices of myriad people in other governments, other groups of people, and individuals are converging to transition the world’s reserve money from the dollar to gold.

The way things work in practice in the real world, things could hardly be better for freedom and for everybody’s future.

This article was originally published on American Thinker and was reprinted with the author’s permission.

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Writes Bill Madden:

Rising prices are the result of inflation which is caused by increasing the money supply in excess of the goods and services available in the marketplace.  Surplus budgets cause the economy to contract while deficit budgets stimulate economic expansion.  Since we are controlled by very wealthy families owning most of Corporate America’s stock, we have enjoyed mostly deficit budgets since the end of WW II and, as a consequence, the wealthy families have enjoyed healthy quarterly profit distributions.

When we have an economic contraction, many assets like homes, automobiles, etc. are lost to the lenders via bankruptcy on loans created from nothing like our $38 trillion national debt.  It has been alleged that the Great Depression was engineered by the wealthy owners of our country by flooding the economy with easy money during the “roaring twenties” and then tightening the money supply too much too soon resulting in the economy tightening too much.  Whether engineered or not, many people lost many assets on loans created from thin air.

Our Constitution is clear as to whom should control our money (our fiat currency, actually).  Whenever an institution like the Fed owned by people with an interest in free asset accumulation is provided an opportunity to manage anything where mismanagement is far more profitable than good management, the institution will most likely engage in mismanagement.  No matter the true cause of our many problems, the people always pay like in 2008 when we bailed out the gigantic gambling losses incurred by the banking industry.

Please visit: www.shadowstats.com and, under Alternate Data, learn the actual rate of inflation.

See here.

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La traduzione in italiano dell'opera scritta da Wendy McElroy esplora Bitcoin a 360°, un compendio della sua storia fino ad adesso e la direzione che molto probabilmente prenderà la sua evoluzione nel futuro prossimo. Si parte dalla teoria, soprattutto quella libertaria e Austriaca, e si sonda come essa interagisce con la realtà. Niente utopie, solo la logica esposizione di una tecnologia che si sviluppa insieme alle azioni degli esseri umani. Per questo motivo vengono inserite nell'analisi diversi punti di vista: sociologico, economico, giudiziario, filosofico, politico, psicologico e altri. Una visione e trattazione di Bitcoin come non l'avete mai vista finora, per un asset che non solo promette di rinnovare l'ambito monetario ma che, soprattutto, apre alla possibilità concreta di avere, per la prima volta nella storia umana, una società profondamente e completamente modificabile dal basso verso l'alto.

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(Versione audio della traduzione disponibile qui: https://open.substack.com/pub/fsimoncelli/p/perche-bitcoin-ha-valore?)

L'ascesa delle crittovalute ha generato una serie di opinioni contrastanti sull'argomento. Mentre alcuni hanno una visione positiva, altri le vedono come un'innovazione pericolosa e instabile. Le opinioni di questi scettici sono in gran parte influenzate da idee sbagliate. Non riescono ad apprezzare la loro vera natura, in particolare di Bitcoin, e il cambiamento positivo che apporterà.

Thomas Jeegers, esperto di crittovalute, ha affrontato questi preconcetti attraverso un'analisi approfondita dei fondamentali di Bitcoin, la crittovaluta più popolare e di valore. Autore di Understanding Crypto Fundamentals, ha conseguito due master in economia, un MBA presso l'INSEAD e diverse certificazioni finanziarie avanzate, tra cui Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Financial Risk Manager (FRM) e certificazioni in tecnologie blockchain.

Bitcoin: una valuta decentralizzata 

Alla luce dell'incredibile crescita di Bitcoin, Jeegers ha suggerito di fare un passo indietro e di considerare il motivo per cui ha valore. Oltre a fungere da investimento, Bitcoin ha un grande valore come moneta. Possiede molte caratteristiche positive che lo distinguono dalle valute fiat. Ad esempio, Bitcoin consente “transazioni peer-to-peer”, in cui il valore si muove “digitalmente senza richiedere una terza parte di fiducia”, come una banca o uno stato. Questa decentralizzazione libera Bitcoin da vari interessi politici e dalla censura.

La natura decentralizzata di Bitcoin gli consente di fungere da “asset ESG” che può essere utilizzato per apportare benefici positivi all'ambiente, alla società e alle strutture di governance. Ad esempio, Jeegers ha citato l'uso di Bitcoin nell'Afghanistan occupato dai talebani per indebolire i tentativi del governo di sopprimere l'istruzione per le ragazze. Nel finanziare iniziative a sostegno dell'istruzione femminile, gli attivisti non possono effettuare transazioni utilizzando valute tradizionali, poiché esse sono tracciate e censurate. Bitcoin consente agli attivisti di finanziare programmi positivi senza le restrizioni dei talebani. Bitcoin libera “le mani dello stato dalla sua presa sul denaro”, incentivando transazioni volontarie libere da coercizioni centrali.

Scarsità dura e stabile

Jeegers ha identificato Bitcoin sia come una rete che come un asset. Come rete Bitcoin è “disponibile a tutti senza barriere all'ingresso”. È una “infrastruttura di pagamento pubblica” che consente a chiunque nel mondo di effettuare transazioni di valore, indipendentemente da ricchezza o status. Come asset monetario “senza una banca centrale a supporto”, offre una scarsità unica e assoluta. Le valute fiat, come il dollaro e l'euro, possiedono solo una scarsità artificiale, poiché una potenza centrale mantiene la loro relativa scarsità. Quest'ultima può essere ridotta da una potenza centrale che ne aumenta l'offerta. Bitcoin, invece, ha una scarsità naturale poiché nessuna potenza può manipolarne l'offerta. Come l'oro, fare mining di bitcoin richiede molto tempo ed energia da parte degli imprenditori privati, pertanto esso ha un'offerta più stabile e prevedibile rispetto a qualsiasi valuta fiat, la cui offerta può variare a seconda del capriccio delle banche centrali o dei governi.

Per valutare Bitcoin, Jeegers ha proposto il modello Stock-to-Flow (S2F), il quale valuta la scarsità di una commodity. Dividendo la quantità totale attuale di una commodity per la quantità introdotta ogni anno, il modello S2F calcola il numero di anni necessari affinché l'offerta raddoppi, supponendo che il tasso di creazione rimanga costante. L'oro ha un tasso S2F di circa 60 anni, il che implica un elevato livello di scarsità. Nel corso della storia l'oro è sempre stato di gran lunga l'asset con il più alto livello di scarsità (secondo il modello S2F). Jeegers ha dimostrato che il rapporto S2F di Bitcoin negli ultimi 12 mesi è quasi identico a quello del metallo giallo, a “59,93”. Inoltre il flusso in entrata di nuovi bitcoin è stato dimezzato dal cosiddetto halving, portando a oggi il rapporto S2F a “120,86”. Questo rende Bitcoin due volte più scarso dell'oro. Per la prima volta nella storia dell'umanità, l'oro non è più la merce più rara esistente al mondo.

Efficienza energetica 

Bitcoin è noto per essere “ad alto consumo energetico”, poiché richiede molta energia per il mining. Sebbene questo possa a prima vista preoccupare molti scettici, la realtà del consumo energetico di Bitcoin dovrebbe essere analizzata più nel dettaglio. Infatti l'energia utilizzata per il mining di Bitcoin è eccezionalmente economica, ovvero energia che non può essere utilizzata per altri scopi, energia inutilizzata che altrimenti andrebbe persa. Solo un'energia così economica ha senso per il mining di Bitcoin, perché un miner farebbe meglio a trovare un uso alternativo per quell'energia (vendendola a un prezzo più alto), se fosse possibile. Pertanto per il mining di Bitcoin viene utilizzata solo energia altrimenti inutilizzabile. Tale energia si trova, ad esempio, nelle rinnovabili (es. centrali idroelettriche o eoliche) di notte, quando non c'è domanda sulla rete elettrica, ma l'impianto continua a produrre elettricità. Di notte queste centrali continuano a produrre elettricità, il che significa che i proprietari devono pagare per smaltire tale energia. Facendo mining quando non c'è domanda sulla rete elettrica, esse diventano redditizie 24 ore su 24, 7 giorni su 7. L'esistenza del mining di Bitcoin offre quindi un'opportunità unica per monetizzare l'energia inutilizzata. Questa opportunità rappresenta un forte incentivo per la produzione di più centrali elettriche rinnovabili e, di conseguenza, per il miglioramento del mix elettrico utilizzato in tutto il mondo. Spiega perché la stragrande maggioranza dell'energia utilizzata per il mining di Bitcoin proviene da fonti rinnovabili (molto più che in qualsiasi altro grande Paese al mondo) e perché questa tendenza continua a migliorare. In conclusione, non solo Bitcoin NON spreca energia, ma è in realtà la migliore tecnologia disponibile oggi per incentivare lo sviluppo e l'utilizzo di infrastrutture rinnovabili. Chiunque abbia a cuore l'ambiente dovrebbe quindi essere un convinto sostenitore del mining di Bitcoin.

I trend storici indicano il futuro successo di Bitcoin?

Attraverso una curva a S, Jeegers ha dimostrato che tutte le innovazioni, come il cellulare o Internet, impiegano all'incirca lo stesso tempo per passare dallo 0% al 10% di adozione rispetto a quelle che impiegano dal 10% al 90%. Bitcoin ha impiegato 13 anni, dal suo lancio nel 2009 al 2022, per raggiungere il 10% di adozione, pertanto questo modello suggerisce che Bitcoin raggiungerà il 90% di adozione entro il 2035!

Perché Bitcoin dovrebbe crescere tanto quanto altre innovazioni di successo, come i social media o Uber? Jeegers ha sostenuto che la Legge di Metcalfe aiuta a spiegare la crescita di queste piattaforme di successo, così come la futura crescita di Bitcoin. Questa Legge afferma che una rete, come un servizio telefonico, aumenta di valore man mano che più utenti si iscrivono. Il primo telefono in assoluto non aveva alcun valore perché non c'erano altri telefoni da chiamare. Con l'avvento di nuovi telefoni il servizio telefonico è cresciuto di valore perché c'erano più persone da chiamare. Lo stesso concetto si applica a Bitcoin: ha poco valore come valuta se poche persone lo accettano, tuttavia l'utilità di cui godono gli utenti esistenti e nuovi cresce esponenzialmente man mano che più persone lo accettano. Con l'aumentare del valore della rete Bitcoin, aumenta anche l'incentivo per i non utenti ad aderire.

Metodi di valutazione

Oltre alla presentazione di Jeegers, Hubertus Hofkirchner di Bitcredit ha ricavato una stima del valore di Bitcoin come mezzo di scambio dal rapporto base-to-credit riportato da Mises durante il periodo del gold standard, pari a uno a dieci.

Nel 2021 gli attivi delle banche centrali del mondo ammontavano a $44.000 miliardi. Applicando il rapporto di Mises a quel totale, Hofkirchner ha calcolato un fabbisogno totale di base monetaria di $4.400 miliardi, ovvero il 10% del valore precedente. Ipotizzando che Bitcoin possa diventare il mezzo di scambio globale a tale rapporto, Hofkirchner calcola che Bitcoin debba essere valutato approssimativamente a $210.000 per unità, più di tre volte il prezzo al momento della stesura di questo articolo, ma ben al di sotto di alcune delle valutazioni più esorbitanti nella comunità. Ciò si traduce in una probabilità del 33% che Bitcoin raggiunga questa impresa.

Hofkirchner ha poi confrontato questo dato con il valore delle riserve auree delle banche centrali, pari al 17% del valore totale di $17.500 miliardi a maggio 2024, che si tradurrebbe in un prezzo di Bitcoin di circa $150.000 per unità. Ciò implica una probabilità del 50% che Bitcoin diventi la futura moneta globale. Le riserve auree private potrebbero aumentare questa cifra, ma potrebbero essere detenute solo a causa di dubbi sulla stabilità del sistema monetario fiat e quindi non essere più rilevanti in un sistema Bitcoin. Tutte queste valutazioni riflettono la probabilità prevista che quest'ultimo diventi un mezzo di scambio globale.

Cosa succederà adesso?

Le caratteristiche positive e uniche di Bitcoin hanno indubbiamente accresciuto il suo potenziale come mezzo di scambio. Aziende come Coinbase e Crypto.com, che consentono agli utenti di pagare in crittovalute, stanno aprendo la strada al futuro di Bitcoin. Mentre le politiche governative continuano a indebolire il valore e la stabilità delle valute fiat, Bitcoin crescerà come una copertura contro queste inefficienze monetarie.

La crescita di Bitcoin come moneta porterà a un mercato più libero e stabile, ponendo l'economia nelle mani di produttori e consumatori piuttosto che in quelle dello stato. Non sorprende che governi e sistemi bancari centrali inizialmente temessero le crittovalute, poiché le privano del loro potere di manipolazione. Di fronte all'incapacità di fermare la crescita di Bitcoin, gli stati di tutto il mondo lo stanno progressivamente abbracciando (ad esempio, negli Stati Uniti) per trarre beneficio da questa innovazione trasformativa.

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Writes Ginny Garner:

Lew,

Speculation about why Rep. Margaret Taylor Greene (R-Ga) has announced her resignation from Congress extends from her concerns about the death threats she has received to her  plans to run for governor of Georgia. MTG gave a clue when she responded to Mike Cernovich’s order to her on X: “You need to serve out your full term.” MTG responded: “Do I have to stay until I’m assassinated like our friend Charlie Kirk?”

Oh I haven’t suffered enough for you while you post all day behind a screen?

Do I have to stay until I’m assassinated like our friend Charlie Kirk.

Will that be good enough for you then?

Shit posting on the internet all day isn’t fighting.

Get off YOUR ass and run for… https://t.co/jhbqxHi3Vt

— Marjorie Taylor Greene (@mtgreenee) November 26, 2025

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Stephen Mack  wrote:

Karen & Lew,

Reposted by Karen:

Hegseth files CRIMINAL probe for ‘$48 BILLION PILFERED by ZELENSKY’ — CIA insider cites whistleblower pic.twitter.com/qyvGHmkLFk

— RT (@RT_com) November 22, 2025

It didn’t start with Zelensky. The per-capita GDP of Ukraine was only 1/3 that of Russia and Poland BEFORE the Maidan Coup.  In fact, it was only ½ the per-capita GDP of Belarus.  So in other words, the notional Breadbasket of Europe could not even approximate the economic outputs of neighboring European states.  That was a huge corruption tax put in place by the Ukrainian Crony-Elites even before the installation of the Zelensky regime.

Russia most probably did, but actually did not have to game the plebiscites for the decoupling of Crimea and the Donbas regions.  On top of the harassment the ethnic Russians in Ukraine were experiencing from the Ukro-Nazi cadres, the country itself was / is an economic basket case.  The residents in those Eastern regions had that reason alone to seek autonomy.

As I have noted before, Trump’s empty gas-bag promise of ending the conflict in Ukraine in 24 hours is made worse by the fact that during the Trump 1.0 administration, Trump and the Europeans completely ignored the Minsk 2 Accord to end the hostilities that Ukraine had signed in 2015.  The perverse irony is that any deal that Ukraine agrees to now will probably be worse for Ukraine than that codified in Minsk 2.

Once again:

If we remain one people under an efficient government. the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.

Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?  President Washington, Farewell Address

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David Martin wrote:

Stew Peters and I are definitely on the same page.  Here’s a reminder of the email I sent around yesterday:

Listening to the talking heads on “conservative” WMAL in DC this morning on the Marjorie Taylor Greene resignation statement and her beef with Trump. To hear their interpretation, it was all about the Epstein matter. 

The big “I” word was never raised, but it could hardly be clearer that that’s what it’s all about, that and the “J” word.

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By now everyone is aware that six Democrats in Congress created videos in which they openly encourage members of the U.S. military and Intelligence Community to mutiny against the commander in chief.  They couched their seditious statements in the pretense that they are interested only in protecting the Constitution, but their message is unmistakable: Resist President Trump’s lawful orders, and we’ll have your backs.

Americans whose minds have not been pickled by leftism are not impressed.  The Democrat instigators have been called “TikTok Traitors,” the “Seditious Six,” the “Idiot Six,” and worse.  President Trump immediately accused the lawmakers of sedition and demanded that they be arrested and stand trial for their potentially deadly provocations.  In response, the Democrat provocateurs have pretended to be outraged that the commander in chief would correctly describe their seditious actions as seditious.

Democrat word games have become so exhausting over the last thirty years.  Remember when Bill Clinton lied about his affair with twenty-two-year-old White House intern Monica Lewinsky by telling a grand jury, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is”?  No matter how corrupt American politicians were before Clinton’s galling equivocation, it has seemed as if rhetorical obfuscation began exponentially accelerating after that moment.

Fast-forward to 2025, and former CIA director John Brennan is entirely comfortable going on national news shows and telling the world that he and fifty other “intelligence professionals” never lied about Hunter Biden’s “laptop from Hell” being Russian disinformation because the spies clearly stated in their 2020 pre-election op-ed defending the Bidens that the laptop’s treasure trove of criminality had merely “the hallmarks” of a Russian operation.  If Americans were confused about their attempt to blame Hunter’s crimes on the Russians, that’s because Americans are poor readers!

Senator Elissa Slotkin — one of the “Seditious Six,” a former CIA analyst, and a protégée of John Brennan — is busy playing the same sick word games as Slick Willy and commie Brennan.  She claims that her seditious video is meant only to draw attention to President Trump’s “illegal orders,” but when she is pressed to name one such “illegal order,” she admits that she is “not aware” of any.

If Slotkin can’t identify any of President Trump’s orders as illegal, why is she making videos encouraging rank insubordination among America’s military and intelligence personnel?  The Democrats are executing the exact same playbook that they have been using against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.  For months, Democrat governors and lawmakers have threatened federal agents with future prosecution for doing nothing more than enforcing existing immigration law and arresting criminal illegal aliens in their states.  In order to protect millions of foreign nationals from deportation, Democrats have been obstructing law enforcement operations by promising to punish officers who do their jobs.

Threatening ICE agents with unlawful and malicious prosecutions will inevitably get people killed, because in the real world, hesitation invites disaster.  When prominent Democrats encourage military and intelligence personnel to resist orders, the consequences are potentially catastrophic.  As one astute commenter notes, “the threat of weaponized lawfare against U.S. troops is seditious psychological warfare.  It’s seditious sabotage aimed at breaking the chain of command.  It’s a seditious plot to erode trust in leaders and it undermines the oath that keeps the military united and effective.”  The Democrat strategy is nefarious and straightforward: Induce service members to question the orders of their commanding officers.  Hesitation and delay during combat will not only get Americans killed, but also directly serve enemy interests.

Democrats’ attempts to confuse American service members also encourage our geopolitical adversaries to be more aggressive.  As Glenn Beck argues, “if a video like this were aimed at Putin’s military, we’d assume Russia was unstable or nearing a coup.”  Therefore, Democrats have severely “weakened America — signaling doubt to allies and opportunity to enemies.”  If you were a general in China’s military, would you be less or more willing to invade Taiwan after prominent Democrat officials encouraged division and subversion among America’s rank-and-file troops?  Public calls for insubordination make America appear destined for civil war at home and ill-prepared to defend its own interests or those of its allies abroad.

In describing his disgust with Democrats’ efforts to instigate a military rebellion against the Trump administration, Congressman Byron Donalds pulled no punches: “Donald Trump is the commander in chief, not Mr. Crow, not Senator Slotkin.  They are not the commander in chief!  And like I said before, they would not tolerate any Republican launching any video like that!”

Can you imagine?  After patriotic grandparents and Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans protested the fraudulent 2020 election by walking through the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, Democrats (and useful RINO idiots Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger) spent tens of millions of dollars producing a theatrical congressional hearing meant to demonize all MAGA voters as “domestic terrorists” and “insurrectionists.”  If prominent Republicans in Congress had subsequently encouraged members of the military and Intelligence Community to disobey orders coming from installed-president Biden, the backlash against them would have been swift and brutal.  Not only would they have been expelled from Congress, but they also would have been arrested in the most publicly humiliating fashion.  In contrast, the “Seditious Six” sit for ego-stroking interviews during which they play victim.

This is what Republicans mean when they denounce “Democrat privilege” in the United States.  Time and again, Democrats do things with impunity that would land a normal Republican in prison for decades.

Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, and their fellow Russia Collusion Hoax co-conspirators will never be held accountable for manipulating intelligence to frame President Trump as a Russian spy.  Kamala Harris and other prominent Democrats who bailed out arsonists during the most destructive riots in American history will never be held accountable for putting violent repeat offenders back on the street.  Alexander Vindman will never be held accountable for undermining the Trump White House and triggering a farcical impeachment.  None of the conspirators who violated state election laws and used fraudulent mail-in ballots to pretend that Sleepy Joe Biden was the most popular presidential candidate in our nation’s history will ever be held accountable for stealing the 2020 election.  Anthony Fauci won’t be held accountable for covering up the laboratory origin of COVID or hiding the worst side-effects of the mRNA “vaccines.”  Social media companies won’t be held accountable for censoring Americans who protested the stolen 2020 election or the unconstitutional “vaccine” mandates imposed by installed-president Biden’s administration.  It appears that neither Jim Comey nor Letitia James will be held accountable for respectively committing perjury and mortgage fraud.  Democrat prosecutors and judges will never be held accountable for abusing the criminal justice system to railroad President Trump, his friends, and his voters.

In the United States, two-tiered “justice” protects Democrats and renders Republicans defenseless.

Now we will see whether six Democrats can actually get away with encouraging a military mutiny.  If past is prologue, the answer is surely “yes.”

There’s a popular social media meme that succinctly describes our situation: When leftists say “our democracy,” what they mean is “our regime.”  Democrats have taken over so much of the permanent bureaucracy that even when they are out of power, they still command much of the American government.  They are emboldened to commit sedition and treason because they know that no left-leaning prosecutor, judge, or jury will hold them accountable.  This kind of in-your-face double-standard will eventually end the Union.

Let’s hope, for the sake of our country’s future, that guilty Democrats begin to pay a price.  Forgive me for not holding my breath.

This article was originally published on American Thinker.

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The Trump posts about Rand Paul and Thomas Massie just keep coming, including one saying the Republican Party is more unified than ever before with the exception of these terrible dissidents.

J.D. Vance evidently doesn’t feel the same, lashing out today at the “beltway GOP”:

After four years of house prices doubling (and in some areas, tripling) many young people feel priced out of the American Dream of homeownership. A welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota reveals that large numbers of new arrivals aren’t assimilating and are funneling our tax dollars to literal terrorist groups. An innocent woman was set on fire in Chicago as the mayor resists federal law enforcement resources to bring peace to one of our great cities. The Obamacare insurance system is buckling under its own weight. And the country is $38 trillion in debt.

Our administration is working hard on addressing all of these problems.

But you know what really fires up the beltway GOP? Not any of the above. Instead, the political class is really angry that the Trump administration may finally bring a four-year conflict in Eastern Europe to a close.

I’m not even talking about the substance of their views. Much of what these people have said about the Ukraine war has been proven wrong, but whatever. We can agree to disagree.

But the level of passion over this one issue when your own country has serious problems is bonkers.

It disgusts me. Show some passion for your own country.

We all know that is how Trump himself should be speaking, as opposed to denouncing his friends and praising his enemies, which has been his preference for some time now.

Meanwhile, it has come to light that Mike Huckabee, U.S. ambassador to Israel (honestly, try to imagine a more unserious appointment than that one), met with convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, who proceeded to call the U.S. president a “madman.”

We have not heard a single word from the President about that, but we have heard that Marjorie Taylor Greene — not Mike Huckabee, who met with a literal and unrepentant spy, but Marjorie Taylor Greene — is a “traitor.”

Pollard told the Jerusalem Post in 2021, “Just as certain members of the Trump administration profess an ‘America first’ doctrine, I wholeheartedly embrace an ‘Israel first’ doctrine — and I went to jail for that for 30 years.”

Pollard has repeatedly indicated that he does not regret what he did, and has gone so far as to urge other young American Jews working in security to consider spying for Israel should they consider it necessary.

And not a single word about Huckabee’s meeting with this man?

Now had I written something critical like this six months ago, I would have received a pile of feedback accusing me of having “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” etc.

That’s long gone now. There’s just no defending any of this, and everyone knows it.

I want to like the guy! He has better instincts on a great many things than anyone who’s ever been in the White House. But his faults, including his failure to acknowledge loyalty and to humiliate friends while at the same time promoting people who hate his guts (Mark Levin, Lindsey Graham, et al.), are destructive.

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This video production was first released in February 2021. It was almost immediately the object of censorship by Vimeo, which closed down our account in March 2021.

Thanks to Vaccine Choice Canada it was published on Rumble.

Global Research remains indebted to our producer Ariel Noyala Rodriguez. The Rumble version is now in excess of a quarter of a million views. Bitchute version: 100,000. 

As a means to reaching out to humanity Worldwide, with the support of Lux Media, the video is now accessible with subtitles in 13 languages.

The video focusses on the first stage of Covid Crisis leading up to the Lockdown imposed on more than 190 countries.

The so-called Lockdown –which consisted in confining people in their homes while “freezing the work-place” was conducive to a Worldwide process of economic and social collapse, coupled with a  carefully engineered Fear Campaign at the level of the entire planet. 

The Global Research video confirms unequivocally that there Never Was a “New Corona Virus”, There Never Was a Pandemic. 

At the foot of this article, we invite our readers to download Michel Chossudovsky’s E-Book entitled The Worldwide Corona Crisis, Global Coup d’Etat Against Humanity, published in August 2022, following its print publication in Japanese, in April 2022.

Our objective is to reach out to people worldwide: In the Middle East, Africa,  The Americas, Western Europe, Russia, China, India, East and South East Asia, The Pacific.

The original source of this article is Global Research.

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Danger danger!,… the sky is falling.  It’s sooo easy to get sucked into scare-pieces about nuclear war, pandemics, school shootings, climate collapse,..they get clicks and reads.

Having felt uneasy about “The End is Near” prognostications and seeing mad dashes to religion, I noticed the pattern and how weak and helpless this made me feel.  When I ignored these constant warnings I was happy, fearless and felt bold and strong.

Hard-wired Neuro

It was many years later, tipped off by the placebo/nocebo effect that I looked back at our autonomic nervous system.

Being happy and carefree in a positive state of mind results in parasympathetic healing benefits.

Conversely worry, anxiety and depression activate sympathetic fight/flight hormones like adrenaline and cortisol which prevent healing, restful sleep, correct breathing and trash the IQ. Energy is shunted from vital organs to provide muscular strength to meet imminent danger.

Primitive superstitious peoples have been known to drop-dead from fear of spells, demons and night monsters.  Their tribal beliefs are that powerful!

Once sympathetic activation takes hold, endorphins fade and we become nervous as rabbits, minds squirm and decision making stinks.

According to Dr. Bruce Lipton’s “Biology of Belief,” (Sympathetic/Parasympathetic balance) determines one’s DNA EXPRESSION, leading to disease or wellness; psychosomatic conditions like cancer and heart disease,..or “miracle” healings.  This the crux of the mostly forgotten “Mind/Body” connection.

In my research I have found that negative states of consciousness reduce spiritual connectedness to the universal energy field, stifle intuition & judgement and spread like wildfire among others as seen with covid fear mongering and “mass formation psychosis.”

The News

News once travelled at the speed of a donkey cart,.. not now.  Instant communications rely on the sensational, prurient and spread terrifying reports that grab eyeballs..Those hooked on commercial journalism can’t help but experience low-level anxiety at the very least,… or like Orson Welles’ “War Of The World” broadcast are driven to all-out paranoia, grab shotguns and go out to meet the Martians.

We once were on high alert to spot Arab Terrorists after 9/11, the country went into full security, shoes were removed at airports and nobody trusted anybody.

Twenty years later, another major scare was created by medical officials and complicit media over covid19, the nation was shut-down and locked-up.  I personally was denied entrance to restaurants without a silly paper mask and rudely accosted several times by scared old ladies in stores.

Communications from vaxxination naysayers were censored.  We became a “vaxxed-nation.”

I remain convinced the covid scare alone was deadly, not only due to sympathetic nervous domination, but people’s poor decisions to accept a sketchy fast-tracked warp-speed mRNA shot.

Government intelligence operatives, big money from pharma corps, defense contractors, political tricksters and foreign malign states currently control congress, network narratives, absurd disinformation and your reality.

Anyone with the cash can now run a troll farm, buy dishonest podcasters or fund demonstrations and pay provocateurs.

A.I.?

We have been under an artificial reality for decades, programmed with vicarious life experiences by every TV news report, drama and movie replete with subliminal musical scores.

This is the backdrop of our society.  Portrayals of patriotism, war heroes, gun violence, police gallantry and romantic situations make us think we live in a Hollywood movie!

“Jeopardy” geniuses win on the basis of how much popular entertainment they consume and remember, but fail miserably when it comes to practical real-world experience known to every farm kid.

TV broadcasts are so dangerous to human health that Dr. Andrew Weil once recommended news fasting! 

As I just described; Sympathetic Anxiety and Parasympathetic Healing are the reasons why.

After radio and television came screens and phones and hypnotic social media.  Kids stayed in their rooms thinking “Zuckberg World” was better than face to face relationshipping.

Turns out they don’t date, marry, reproduce or own homes, eventually to become miserable physically-diseased bots, victims of the artificial world their lazy asses became addicted to.

CLUE;  Computer generated “friends” are not real!  Get a dog and go outside!

Don’t Fear the Reaper;

I can remember the exact moment my life changed forever.  I was 5. We were headed to the grocery on 8th Ave.  As we passed NE 128th street a shocking realization hit me.  “Mom, why do we die?”

I don’t recall a reply.  My world was too broken to cry.  Like animals, I had been immortal.  Now death consciousness would haunt my days,… but only if I let it.

It’s only the construct of the ego, the person we molded ourselves into as children. 

And death consciousness keeps us vulnerable to fear and external control.

Rational thought and logic as an adult can break the grip of the mold and earn domination over a juvenile ego so we can reinvent ourselves.    

Selfishness and greed nixx integrity and morality where money is involved because a sense of scarcity becomes a threat to their crippled confidence and shaky survival.

Doubt filled minds of low self esteem and poor situational awareness lack rational thinking.  They simply follow the herd and are easily peer-shamed and controlled.

( Eckhart Tolle wrote masterfully on spirituality and the ego )

Synchronicity

Once the ego is brought to heel, higher consciousness takes over.

One might think of acquaintances who appear shortly, or he may dally, finding only later he had just “missed” an accident on the highway.

These occurrences have been common to me and no longer surprising.

Maybe I just tuned in, but I have observed trends in nature and people for many years.

Hunters and fishermen rely on solunar tables to improve their timing and chances afield.  These astronomical tables pinpoint major and minor times of activity in fish, game and even,…people. When the moon is overhead or under the earth these are major times. Minor times occur at moon rise or moon set.  Sunrise and sunset also signal increased activity.

Ever notice an increase in energy a few days before a full or new moon?  Rescue personnel, police and ER personnel see things get crazy busy, while I notice we tackle more hard farm chores then.

Astrological Sun and Moon positions also reveal trends.

Ever notice how smooth or challenging days are around moon locations in your Birth Sign?  I never bet the ranch on astrology, but the trends are clear.

Things just go better when we are in tune with the cosmos.

“The Old Farmer’s Almanac” gives the best times for various activities like planting, starting/ending projects, setting posts or slaughtering animals…One develops a sense of timing over the years and I find after the fact that the chores I just performed fit their predictions.

Timing is EVERYTHING!

Remember this tune? 

Through long-term experience, these astronomical and astrological observations have gone beyond belief into certainty.

After all, the gravitational and electromagnetic effects of moons and planets on ocean tides and water-based life forms is scientifically defensible.

Stars seem too distant to influence tides, yet today we see photons emanating from them from billions of years ago and those photons are energy.  Called pseudoscience similar to the widely dismissed idea of the human body as an electromagnetic organism, I find them real and practically applicable.

Hunting and fishing every year have proven the value of solunar timing.  

Deep-dropping with electric reels for golden tilefish with my Dad, way down into the pitch-darkness 100 fathoms below, proved they would bite like crazy around the noon hour with a full moon under. How could they know?

 An hour before or an hour after the high noon bite yielded zero fish while hitting the solunar sweet-spot always filled the cooler, year after year after year. 

Being sensitive to intuitions, following calendars, almanacs, seasons, sun&moon positions, astrological signs and sun/moon solunar geometry made my life better than just plodding along into another day.

The “6th sense” is common to animals,… and humans who can quiet their mental monkey-chatter and hear that little voice inside their head.

Humans are burdened by a complex brain and particularly a left hemisphere concerned with words and numbers and we think too much.  The right hemisphere is more concerned with shapes, pictures and imagination.  We still contain a primitive “animal brain” which operates in the present moment,… animals are highly intuitive, knowing when danger is near and even sensing mal-intent from predators and humans.  When our lower centers are in charge; we are unconcerned with time, memories of the past, projections of the future,… and intuitions become more prominent.

I’m more sensitive to celestial occurrences and intuitive prompts, and usually ignore the daily mainstream media,… if only to save my sanity!

Mind you; Astronomical and astrological alignments, and flashes of intuition are only statistically significant trends.

Anything can happen at any time, but coincidences to me are no longer random.

Un-doom/Un-gloom

I cannot dwell on the paranoid verbal diarrhea of doomsayers or the shocking political news of the day.  Though it follows us like chewing gum on a shoe; I take their fear messaging with a grain of salt.

To be aware of world events is a prudent thing, but a neurotic life of constant worry is no life at all.  

Neurotic people are best avoided; they’ll make ya crazy!

Many are seduced by political peace and prosperity lies like dumb kids with the promise of candy.

These may be your peers, not mine, but look at what we have become collectively under a nefarious mass delusion.  

I travel to the beat of my inner drummer and the electromagnetic pulses of the heavens.

I communicate with my dog telepathically as many can relate.

Intuition tops-off logical thought.

I need no verification of a truer reality I have come to know.

Censorship, taboos and culturally-correct language are the tools of governments, religions and embedded billionaires to control our minds.

Falsehoods become truth and those speaking truth are stigmatized, cancelled or killed.

It’s a long con, and once programmed; most believers will believe forever.

So controversial stuff like astrology, Pauling/Vitamin C, Ivermectin, UFOs and psychic phenomena are relegated to the dust-bin of pseudoscience, quackery and superstition.

You decide what is real.

Claim your intellectual freedom!

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In 1842, when Fr. Edward Sorin stepped onto the cold Indiana prairie, he set out to build a Catholic university that would shape saints, sharpen minds, and send out citizens anchored in faith. The place was small, the winters brutal, and the resources thin. But Sorin insisted that Notre Dame would shine as a “powerful means for good,” a clear expression of Catholic identity in a country that often misunderstood the Church.

For generations, that promise held. Parents sent their children there expecting more than lectures and degrees. They expected a formation, a moral compass, and an encounter with something higher than ambition.

Walk the campus today and that founding spirit feels more like a memory guarded by the Golden Dome than a mission alive in the classrooms. Notre Dame still looks Catholic. The crosses shine and the basilica stands tall. Meanwhile, “Touchdown Jesus” surveys the stadium with a look that, after recent events, seems less triumphant than quietly exasperated.

And that exasperation feels justified. The most telling sign came this autumn, slipped into an administrative update with the subtlety of a company announcing layoffs on a Friday afternoon. The university dropped “acceptance and support for the Catholic mission” from its core staff values. For two decades, that line reminded everyone why Notre Dame existed in the first place. Then it vanished. No explanation, no discussion, just gone.

In its place came four corporate-scented virtues—community, collaboration, excellence, innovation—the kind of language you expect from a tech firm trying to boost morale not a university founded under the mantle of Our Lady. If the FBI removed “uphold the law” from its mission, people would scream. A Catholic university removing its mission should spark the same reaction.

The administration insists the mission has not changed. Removing it from the list, they say, was meant to broaden the mission, not bury it. One can almost imagine Fr. Sorin hearing this explanation and instinctively reaching for holy water. A mission strengthened by being removed is the kind of logic that thrives only in conference rooms where the coffee is endless and the convictions are on life support.

It would be comical if it weren’t so serious. Notre Dame eventually returned the Catholic mission to its core values, but only after enormous pressure. The reversal was forced, not heartfelt, and it doesn’t diminish the severity of the original sin.

And the seriousness becomes even clearer when you look at what was happening well before the Catholic-mission debacle. In recent years, Notre Dame has swollen its diversity, equity, and inclusion machinery with the eagerness of a school chasing applause from people who want nothing to do with its faith.

In September, when the Indiana attorney general requested records on the university’s DEI practices, the response wasn’t transparency but silence. When scrutiny increased, the DEI center simply changed its name, swapping one label for another while keeping the same work humming beneath it. The move was less a reform than a costume change, as if repainting a sign could disguise the ideological engine running behind it.

DEI programs, by design, demand the sorting of students and staff by categories the Church has always viewed with caution: race, sex, and identity. Catholic teaching insists on the unity of the human person. DEI insists on the primacy of demographic boxes. One speaks to dignity. The other speaks to data points. Notre Dame’s attempt to blend these without conflict has produced the same result seen at many once-faithful institutions: a slow substitution of Catholic truth with secular fashion, wrapped in the reassuring language of progress.

The Sycamore Trust, a group of alumni devoted to preserving the university’s Catholic character, notes that the shift is already visible in hiring. The proportion of Catholic faculty members, once proudly disclosed, is now hidden with a level of discretion usually reserved for scandals. The administration talks about the importance of diversity. It talks less about the importance of Catholics teaching at a Catholic university. The school now treats the Faith as an optional flavor, a little seasoning for show rather than the substance that once shaped souls.

Notre Dame still wants the appearance of being unmistakably Catholic, but it no longer wants the demands that come with it. The statues are kept spotless. The faith beneath them is treated with a cautious arm’s length, the way one handles a valuable heirloom that clashes with the new décor. The university still hosts Mass, still speaks of tradition, still sells rosaries in the bookstore. Yet in its highest decisions, the school behaves more like a religion-averse research institution that happens to own a chapel.

There is a dark humor in watching a university founded in the name of Our Lady try to reassure critics that, despite its new policies, the mission is “all-encompassing.” The mission has indeed grown all-encompassing, but not in the way Fr. Sorin imagined. It now encompasses everything except the very thing that made it Catholic in the first place.

Notre Dame is not lost yet. Its students still pray. Its alumni still hope. Its chapel still fills with families who believe the university can recover its purpose. But recovery begins with radical honesty.

The founders built Notre Dame with courage and clarity. They knew what they stood for, and they said it clearly. If today’s leaders wish to honor that heritage, they must reclaim the same spirit. Keep the buildings. Keep the beauty. But restore the backbone the founders assumed would never be lost. Restoring the Catholic mission on paper is not enough; the conviction has to return with it.

A university that forgets why it exists will soon forget whom it serves. And once that happens, the Golden Dome becomes just another decoration on a campus slowly forgetting the name it carries.

This article was originally published on Crisis Magazine.

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