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As the United States and Russia are engaging in talks to avoid the possibility of an uncontrollable escalation, the European Union and NATO keep doing the exact opposite. Brussels wants the war to continue, including by pushing for the deployment of its troops in Ukraine. Worse yet, as the diverging interests of the new Trump administration and the EU/NATO become more evident, the latter is now trying to appease Washington DC by portraying this as a “peace initiative”.

On the other hand, Trump and his team understand that the world is drastically different to what it was in the aftermath of the (First) Cold War. This is precisely why they’re far less belligerent toward Moscow (at least in terms of rhetoric) than was the case with the previous administration.

The EU/NATO is terrified of the prospect of being left to face Russian military power in Ukraine (and possibly beyond) on its own. To prevent that, Western European powers are now looking to escalate tensions in hopes of drawing the US back into a crawling confrontation with the Kremlin. However, as the Trump administration is still showing no interest to get involved, the EU/NATO is now pushing for a strategic escalation.

This is particularly true for French President Emmanuel Macron who is now talking about placing the “old continent” under the French nuclear umbrella. On March 5, he tried to justify this by claiming that “[President Vladimir] Putin is now threatening all of Europe” and declared that “Russian aggression knows no borders”.

“We are entering a new era. If a country can invade its neighbour in Europe and go unpunished, nobody can be sure of anything. Beyond Ukraine, the Russian threat is real – it affects the European countries,” Macron stated in a televized address, adding: “President Putin is violating our borders to assassinate opponents, manipulate elections.”

For decades, “evil dictator and bloodthirsty tyrant Putin” has been the political West’s go-to bogeyman for both foreign and domestic policy issues. Whether it’s elections, political instability, price hikes or even personal problems, look no further than Vladimir Putin. The “evil, bear-riding Russians” are coming for you and “the only way” to prevent it is to go to war with them, preferably thermonuclear.

According to the mainstream propaganda machine, if you think this sounds like total madness, you must be a “Putin troll”. Unfortunately, this is how the EU/NATO is trying to portray the ongoing crisis, which is why it’s effectively impossible for Russia to find anyone remotely reasonable to talk to in Europe. And they keep proving this each passing day.

Macron insists that the EU/NATO “need to prepare”. It would seem he’s trying to fill the power vacuum as the US is looking to shift its strategic focus to the Asia-Pacific. The endemically and pathologically Russophobic United Kingdom seems to be supporting this initiative, as it falls perfectly in line with its strategy of pushing continental powers against each other.

This is why there have been numerous meetings and conferences in support of not only continuing but also escalating the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict. However, conventional capabilities of Western European powers are nowhere near enough to match that of Russia (not even in Ukraine, let alone when the entire Russian military is taken into account).

“I want to believe that the US will stand by our side, but we have to be ready for that not to be the case,” Macron complained, adding: “France has to recognize its special status – we have the most efficient, effective army in Europe.”

He then stressed that his country “has nuclear weapons to provide to the broader Western alliance if called upon”. Macron went on to explain that he’s considering the possibility of expanding the French nuclear umbrella to all of Europe. He also cited the words of Germany’s (most likely) upcoming chancellor, Friedrich Merz, who recently stated that he wanted to discuss the possibility of extending French and British nuclear umbrellas to also include Germany.

It should be noted that Berlin already has American nuclear weapons stationed on its territory as part of NATO’s nuclear sharing policy. However, with the recent shift initiated by the new US administration, European member states still loyal to the anti-Trump Deep State seem to be looking for viable alternatives.

“We need reforms, we need to make choices, and we need to be brave,” Macron stated, adding: “[Merz] has called for a strategic debate on providing that same protection to our European allies… whatever happens the decision will be in the hands of the president of the Republic and the heads of the army.”

He also said there will be a meeting of the EU/NATO army chiefs in Paris next week, hinting this could be one of the matters they will be discussing. Besides the US, the UK and France are the only member states who have their own nuclear weapons. It should be noted that this initiative also means that the EU/NATO is fully aware that nuclear weapons are the only way to “even the playing field” with Russia’s conventional military power.

However, what this also means is that Moscow would be forced to respond with its own nuclear arsenal – by far the largest and most powerful in the world. In fact, the difference between the number of thermonuclear warheads in Russia and the US is larger than the combined arsenal of the UK and France (around 500).

London and Paris both have SLBMs (submarine-launched ballistic missiles), with the latter also operating nuclear-capable aircraft. This is a lower level of deterrence than in countries like Russia, China, India and the US who have nuclear triads (aircraft, submarines and land-based missiles), without even considering the size of Moscow’s strategic arsenal which is upwards of a dozen times larger than the combined Franco-British stockpile.

It’s still unclear what exactly Macron has in mind when talking about extending this arsenal to the rest of the EU/NATO. If he’s talking about replicating (or even replacing) the US nuclear sharing policy, the Kremlin might not react immediately, as this would change little in terms of the strategic balance of power.

However, if Macron wants to deploy these weapons close to Russian borders, this changes the calculus entirely, as it would force Moscow to either reactivate some of the non-deployed warheads or make new ones (if not both, depending on how far the EU/NATO would go). What’s more, the Russian military also operates non-nuclear strategic weapons, specifically hypersonic missiles such as the new “Oreshnik”.

The entire political West lacks remotely similar systems, including the US (which, as previously mentioned, is slowly shifting its strategic focus away from Europe). In other words, the EU/NATO cannot match Russia even on a tactical or operational level, let alone strategic. However, it keeps poking the Bear and pushing for escalation on all three fronts.

This article was originally published on InfoBrics.

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Mention a dystopia to most people and they’ll probably think of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Thought Police and Big Brother. That’s understandable, because there are worrying hints of it in our own society – are ideas like no-platforming, safe spaces and misgendering really so different from wrong-thinking and thought-crime? – but there’s a different kind of dystopia that’s a lot more common. Unfortunately it’s just as scary.

The word dystopia itself just means a society that’s unpleasant or frightening. That can mean a brutal, highly centralized authoritarian state like the one ruled by Big Brother’s Party (Orwell modeled it on the Soviet Union under Stalin) – but it can also mean a society where the rule of law has broken down (WROL – without the rule of law), and that’s a lot more common in the world today. For every North Korea there are half a dozen collapsed societies like Somalia or Pakistan. And, while it’s difficult to impose a one-party state and organize things to the point where you have absolute control over what people do and even think, it’s easy for a society to collapse. A natural disaster can do it – think New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

Of course, that didn’t last; New Orleans is one city in a big, advanced country and the rule of law was quickly restored. But what if the government was weaker, or society was less stable to begin with? Or what if it isn’t one single event that causes the collapse, but years of neglect? Many countries are a disputed election or an economic crisis away from collapse – and there are even parts of the USA where the rule of law is too fragile to be taken for granted.

First Things First: Social Breakdown

If there’s one thing guaranteed to reduce a society to chaos, more or less instantly, it’s a sudden absence of cops. It doesn’t matter what kind of society it was to start with. For example, Canada is famously peaceful and friendly. What happened when the cops walked out? Nothing good:

“As a young teenager in proudly peaceable Canada during the romantic 1960s, I was a true believer in Bakunin’s anarchism. I laughed off my parents’ argument that if the government ever laid down its arms all hell would break loose. Our competing predictions were put to the test at 8:00 A.M. on October 17, 1969, when the Montreal police went on strike. By 11:20 A.M. the first bank was robbed. By noon most downtown stores had closed because of looting. Within a few more hours, taxi drivers burned down the garage of a limousine service that competed with them for airport customers, a rooftop sniper killed a provincial police officer, rioters broke into several hotels and restaurants, and a doctor slew a burglar in his suburban home. By the end of the day, six banks had been robbed, a hundred shops had been looted, twelve fires had been set, forty carloads of storefront glass had been broken, and three million dollars in property damage had been inflicted, before city authorities had to call in the army and, of course, the Mounties to restore order.”

Unfortunately, police strikes are more likely than they’ve ever been, especially in the USA. Cops are under a lot of strain, and the media are against them right now. What happens if there’s an officer involved shooting, and under pressure from the media and far-left activists like BLM the officer is arrested? Is it that hard to believe the police could snap and walk out? And as soon as criminals realize the cops have gone home all hell would break loose.

In Montreal in 1969, the main problem was simple crime. Now there are political extremists to worry about, too. “Anti-fascist” protesters like Black Bloc are saying it’s acceptable to use violence against Nazis, and their definition of “Nazi” includes pretty much anyone right of Bernie Sanders. If you have a Trump 2016 bumper sticker, and suddenly the law isn’t being enforced, there are people out there who’ll take the chance to have a go at you – and your car, and your home, and maybe your family too. They’ll see this as the perfect chance to get revenge for all the imaginary wrongs you’ve done them, and maybe “redistribute” your property to “the people” – meaning themselves.

So, what can you do if law and order suddenly disappears and your area becomes a free for all?

What you can’t do is tool up and go on a mission to clear the streets of crime. There’s a good chance the law will be re-imposed at some point and people will be called to account for what they’ve done – and, as a law-abiding citizen, you’re more likely to get caught up in that net than someone from a gang or a far-left group.

What you need to do is take steps to protect yourself and everything that matters to you, but make sure that you can justify them later. That means your aim is to avoid confronting the lawless elements, but be ready to defend yourself if a confrontation is forced on you.

#1 Blend In

The first thing is try to blend in. If you and your home don’t stand out you’ll attract a lot less attention, and that can be all it takes to avoid being attacked. If there are leftist mobs rioting in the streets they’re going to focus on any home that looks like conservatives live there, so at the first hints of trouble you should do an outside check to make sure you aren’t being conspicuous. It might be tempting to make a visible show of support for the cops, president or whatever, but is that worth the risk of attracting attacks?

#2 Bug In

Another good way to avoid confrontations is to just stay at home as much as possible while the crisis is going on. This is one of the best arguments for being a prepper – you should already have the food supplies and other resources you need for this. If you don’t, now is a good time to start. There’s no point leaving it until a crisis is developing, because the stores will be full of people panic buying. Joining the last-minute shopping frenzy is actually a good way to get into trouble, because tempers will be flaring and you can expect outbreaks of violence as people fight over the last stocks of food. You’re much better off sitting that out in a well-stocked home.

The same applies to all the other essentials of life. If you already have medical supplies and plenty of ammo at home, you can fall back on those reserves and avoid the disintegrating outside world. If you have a generator and a water source you won’t need to worry about failing utilities (but keep the generator inconspicuous).

#3 Self-defense

In the worst case, though, you’re going to have to defend yourself. Don’t trust to luck on this; be prepared. Firstly, plan things out. Decide on a safe room for your family in the event of a home invasion or a riot outside. The best option for this is a room with solid walls and only one way in – a room at the end of a corridor is ideal, because you can cover the approaches. Clear the corridor of any heavy furniture that attackers can use as cover. Also try to choose a room that has one way in but an extra way out – for example a second-floor room with a rope ladder fixed below the window. If attackers set fire to your home that gives you a quick escape route.

Stay aware of what’s happening in your home. Keep the family together as much as you can, and do regular security checks to make sure windows and doors are secure – especially if you have kids.

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Recently, Crisis Magazine Editor in Chief Eric Sammons published an article outlining the dire state of the Catholic Church in America. He showed that for every 100 new Catholics, more than 800 people leave the Church. In addition, he proved that it is even worse than the numbers suggest when we do a deep dive into sacramental participation and the like.

Simply put, the Church in America—and abroad because these trends are universal—is barely on life support and fading fast. To say that it is a crisis is an understatement; it is a super crisis, and Sammons is correct in saying that radical changes are needed. Now, my only criticism of his article is that he didn’t publish it while I was writing my forthcoming book on the crisis of Modernism, which would have made my research a little easier because he would have done much of it for me.

In any event, Sammons is correct that radical changes are needed. And he is correct to suggest a host of changes in practice, like reinstating Friday abstinence, returning to the Baltimore Catechism, and so forth. But I am going to go one step further than Sammons and say that if we want to avoid annihilation, we must return to Tradition.

This means a full return to the old ways in everything from liturgy to catechesis to public morals and even modesty in dress. We are on the edge of a cliff looking at a perilous fall, so perhaps it is time we turn around and walk back to regroup.

C.S. Lewis wrote:

We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.

We are utterly lost at sea, yet our leaders keep telling us to paddle forward, which they apparently would rather do than simply turn around and go back to shore. It is like they prefer the idea of being caught in storms and being swallowed up by sharks over the security of the civilization we left on dry land.

Now, I foresee a few objections which I ought to deal with right away. Yes, I know, everything wasn’t perfect before Vatican II and the changes to the Mass. Yes, I also know that going back to old ways doesn’t mean that everyone becomes a saint. I am also fully aware that it would be extremely difficult to put a return to Tradition into practice, which would include a lot of construction and realignment, and so on.

However, this way of thinking misses the point: we are facing a 700 percent negative ratio between new Catholics and former Catholics, so whatever we have been doing isn’t working and must be stopped.

Granted, the time before Vatican II wasn’t a golden age; if it was, we wouldn’t have had the revolution and aftermath of Vatican II. But, you know, wasn’t that the case before Vatican II? A 700 percent difference in Church membership.

One of the most annoying platitudes is the statement, “correlation doesn’t equal causation.” Well, actually, it often effectively does. Think about it; if you surround your children with drug dealers and put them in a bad school, wouldn’t this be a cause of their becoming a drug addict? No one would say, “Well, sure, you put them in a school where everyone did drugs and they were around lots of drug dealers, but you can’t say this had anything to do with their new drug habit because correlation doesn’t equal causation.”

This way of thinking is stupid.

Whatever you may think about what has happened since Vatican II, and whatever your hopes may have been about New Springtimes and New Pentecosts, it is time to embrace reality, and the reality is that we are in a Nuclear Winter, and it is self-inflicted. We are in this mess because we rejected Tradition in all its forms and embraced novelty. The embrace of novelty has created an environment where we are told everything is new and everything is renewal and everything is restoration, yet in reality everything is decay, and rot, and destruction. The only parts of the Church that are truly healthy are the places where Traditional liturgy and catechesis thrive.

Whenever I talk to Catholics who don’t attend an ancient liturgy but who say their parish is thriving, they invariably tell me that their parish either offers the Old Rite as well as the New Rite or that the New Rite is celebrated like it is the Old Rite in some way. In addition, their parish does processions, and they use old catechisms and perform other such traditional things. In other words, they do things the old way, and when they do certain new things, they do them like they do the old things.

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Rough times, friends – the censorship is going to get more severe before it gets better.

I am not the only one being subjected to this.

Please bear with me as I work to get my work seen by everyone.

RISKING WORLD WAR III FOR A WOKE AGENDA?

Without being a fear monger I have tried for five years to warn the world as to the globalist takeover of all democratic nation states and institutions by globalist forces.

But it is such a large and pervasive scheme it is difficult for we – as average citizens – to even begin to grasp – and even harder for me as a writer to communicate.

Nevertheless it is a reality and has led to us as constitutional republics to be enslaved by nefarious forces without our knowledge.

I share material from other sources freely when I feel a source can encapsulate and describe what is happening in an understandable way which I cannot provide in essay format.

And because we live in a world where much of our communication is fed through the internet in the form of video this is going to involve the sharing of educational and informative videos.

Those who do not watch may consider that they are not fully informed as to the content of this essay.

Unless however the inmates have broken free and now run us and our institutions – this is presumably precisely why we have enforceable constitutions and the laws based upon them.

If an act is constitutional then it is allowed – if is is not constitutional then it is simply not allowed by anyone who is not a slave.

Time to put the inmates who have broken out of the asylum back where they belong.

The GLOBALISTS WOKE AGENDA had put the entire planet at risk – and the only rational and logical response is to put the escaped inmates under protective custody – under lock and key which serves to protect self and other.

The USA managed a last minute fail safe – by electing, in just the nick of time – the sane rational and intelligent and sensible approach being exhibited by the Trump administration – who have implemented immediate actions to reverse the deadly effects of the WOKE agenda on America.

But because sane and rational and logical individuals echo what I have been describing for five years – that this globalist takeover by the terminally WOKE – represents the reality of having all constitutional republics destroyed forever – with no accountability – and with no hope at all for preventing the collapse of our civilizations into anarchy and chaos.

The fact the globalist regime got as far as it did indicates vast foundational cracks in the system which underwrites our civilized societies.

These cracks indicate basic incompetence – and a basic failure of the social contract – the glue which allows us to live together on this earth.

They indicate that we must change – change now – and change with all the seriousness and wisdom and integrity we can possibly muster.

The Trump administration represents a major break with the illogical and irrational and irresponsible policies which led to this disastrous breakdown in the social order.

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What does the title of this article—not to mention each unusual word in it — even mean? This is not a rhetorical question. We urgently need to understand each term. A precise political philosophy underpins each. A combination of these interrelated philosophies has been embraced — either in part or in their entirety — by some of the most powerful people on the planet. If we misapprehend how these controllers and influencers think, we risk blindly accepting whatever world order they wish to impose — and end up wondering how and why we find ourselves subjected to it.

What did Elon Musk mean when he said he was “dark MAGA?” Exploring this question will certainly take us to a very dark conclusion. Yet, ironically, it is this very conclusion that, once seen in the right light, can liberate us.

This two-part series examines the genuine but misplaced hopes of the millions of US citizens who elected Donald Trump to his second non-consecutive term. Unbeknownst to them, they have voted to live in a Technate administered by what is called “gov-corp.” In so doing, they have taken another step toward a multipolar world order, or “New World Order,” as some have long called it.

Shortly before the November 2024 election, Elon Musk, speaking at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, announced, “I’m not just MAGA, I’m dark MAGA.” Only a couple of months earlier Trump had survived an alleged assassination attempt at the same Butler show grounds. Sharing the stage with “bullet-proof” populist hero Trump, an absolute shoe-in for the presidency, Musk seized his moment.

The Make America Great Again (MAGA) acronym is broadly understood. But Musk’s added adjective “dark” is little understood — and implies much more.

Explanations for his “dark MAGA” declaration have ranged from Musk pushing the Dark MAGA meme coin to Musk casting himself as a super-antihero or even an advocate of a violent fascist takeover of the US. None of these claims have addressed his more obvious reference. Musk is one of a cadre of technocrats behind the Trump presidency who promote the ideas encapsulated by the Dark Enlightenment.

Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal along with Musk, is probably the best-known proponent of the Dark Enlightenment while Musk is the best-known proponent of Technocracy. But, as we shall see in this article, these sociopolitical theories have considerable overlap and are mutually reinforcing.

Elon Musk’s Technocratic Heritage

In a 2021 SEC filing, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Tesla’s then-Chief Financial Officer Zach Kirkhorn officially changed their respective working titles to become the “TechnoKings” of Tesla. This might seem like nothing but irreverent fun—consider that Kirkhorn was also known by the Game of Thrones title of “Master of Coin”—but Musk certainly understands the gravity of Technocracy and the associated term “technocrat.”

Their careful choice of words is an important point emphasized throughout this article. While oligarchs like Musk and Thiel often express ideas in a seemingly flippant manner—or as if the ideas sprang from out of nowhere—these apparent offhand remarks are not meaningless. It is Aesopian language indicative of the core beliefs held by people like Musk, Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, and other members of what Council on Foreign Relations think tank member David Rothkopf generously characterizes, in his book on the subject, as the “Superclass“: people who can “influence the lives of millions across borders on a regular basis.”

The “joke” is on us. Or, rather, on those of us who assume it’s all just a joke.

Both Musk and Thiel are members of the “superclass,” though “parasite class” might be a more fitting description for the oligarchy Rothkopf describes. “Insider” Rothkopf’s estimate of around 6,000 individual oligarchs, whose decisions impact the lives of the remaining eight billion of us, seems feasible.

Musk and Thiel are just two among the 6,000 by virtue of being welcomed into the “superclass” by behind-the-scenes oligarchs who do not feature on the published lists of the world’s wealthiest men and women. Musk and Thiel are made men. We are focusing on them because they are prominent accelerationist technocrat supporters of the Trump/Vance administration.

Elon Musk’s maternal grandfather was Joshua N. Haldeman (1902–1974), who hailed from Pequot, Minnesota. In 1906, when Joshua was four, his parents took the family north and settled in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. In 1936, after 34 years of life on the western plains of the US and Canada, Joshua Haldeman moved to Saskatchewan’s provincial capital, Regina, where he established a successful chiropractic business.

Between 1936 and 1941, Haldeman did more than realign spines. He was also the research director and leader of the Regina branch of an up-and-coming entity known as Technocracy Incorporated, shortened to Technocracy Inc. In 1940, while serving in that post, he was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for violating Defence of Canada regulations, under which Technocracy Inc. was deemed an “illegal organisation.” As a result, Haldeman was denied entry into the US, where he had intended to deliver a speech promoting Technocracy. He was then fined and given a suspended sentence for heading up the controversial Technocracy Inc.

Following his 1941 conviction, Haldeman joined the Canadian Social Credit Party (Socred), which had been formed in 1932 by evangelist William Aberhart. Socred sought to implement the “social credit” economic theory of British engineer and economist C. H. Douglas. Like Socred, Technocracy was based upon the “industrial efficiency” ideas of engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor (Taylorism). It also dovetailed with the “conspicuous consumption” economic theories of Thorstein Veblen.

C. H. Douglas presented his theory of social credit to tackle what he saw as the inequality of opportunity created by the centralised control and hoarding of resources and wealth. He identified the “macro-economic gap” between retail price inflation and wage growth. He suggested filling that gap by creating the “National Credit Office”—which would be independent of state control—to issue “debt-free” credit to consumers. Part of this National Credit would be used to lower retail prices. The remainder would be distributed to all citizens, irrespective of their personal financial situation, as a way of creating consumer demand for goods. Douglas’ suggestion was an early model of Universal Basic Income (UBI).

Joshua Haldeman’s family of seven, which included a daughter, Maye Haldeman, left Canada in 1950 to set up base in Pretoria, South Africa. As entrepreneurs and adventurers, they travelled extensively. By her own account, Maye Haldeman was close to her parents and adopted their entrepreneurial spirit, sense of adventure and work ethic. Unavoidably, she was also familiar with her parents’ political ideas. Maye recalled that, as a child, she and her siblings would do their “monthly bulletins and photocopy newsletters, and then put the stamps on the envelopes.”

Maye Haldeman married Errol Musk in 1970. Their son, Elon, was born in Pretoria a year later. He was an infant when his grandfather died in a plane crash. Nonetheless, as he was growing up, Elon learned about and became intimately familiar with his grandfather’s political philosophy.

Though Musk was evidently close to his mother, he elected to stay with his father in Pretoria when his parents divorced in 1979. After Elon’s relationship with his father soured, he encouraged his mother to claim her Canadian passport, according to Maye. Her doing so enabled Elon to quickly secure his own Canadian passport, emigrate from South Africa—which he did at age 17—and thereby avoid compulsory military service in that country.

Elon’s ultimate goal was to live and work in the US. But before that, he decided to head from Montreal to Waldeck, Saskatchewan, where, upon returning to his roots, he worked as a farm hand on his second cousin’s farm. There, he awaited his mother Maye’s arrival from Pretoria. She was followed by Elon’s two siblings, Kimbal and Tosca, who also wanted to be closer to the Haldeman side of the family in Canada.

Musk studied at Queen’s College in Kingston, Ontario, for two years before acting upon his aim of settling in America. He transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in physics and economics. Subsequently, he interned in Silicon Valley tech companies before abandoning education to pursue his entrepreneurial ambitions.

Fast Forward to Today

In October 2024, Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos posted on Musk’s “X” platform an alluring statement: “The Network State for Mars is being formed before our eyes.” Musk enthusiastically replied, “The Mars Technocracy.” To which Bezos responded, “Count me in.”

As he continues to dream about colonising Mars, Musk has made it abundantly clear which political system he prefers. In 2019, he wrote: “Accelerating Starship development to build the Martian Technocracy.” Note his use of the word “accelerating.” For Musk “accelerating” doesn’t simply mean an increase in velocity.

Musk has long advocated Universal Basic Income. Here’s one instance of his embrace of UBI: At the World Government Summit in 2017, Musk said, “We will have to have some kind of universal basic income.” Another example: In June 2024, speaking with then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the UK-convened first global “AI Safety Summit,” Musk painted a Utopian vision of an artificial intelligence-dominated society and “an age of abundance” before adding, “We won’t have universal basic income, we’ll have universal high income.” In other words, he was suggesting that the masses would have perfect “lives of abundance” enabled by the ultimate AI-controlled distribution of UBI.

Musk desires Technocracy—and a social credit system—just as his grandfather Joshua Haldeman did. This is evident beyond his personal history and his words. Everything Musk does is completely congruent with these dual pursuits. But when we are invited to discuss Technocracy in reference to Mars, we are of course asked to ignore all the evidence that exposes Musk’s and his fellow oligarchs’ attempts to establish a “Technate”—a system of technocratic, totalitarian continental control—here on Earth.

As is the case with many of his oligarch brethren, Musk’s business acumen and his ethics are highly questionable. It appears he has survived and thereafter thrived in business solely because of his network connections, his considerable state backing, and the largess of his investors. As George Carlin wisely observed, “It’s a big club.”

Musk invested more than a quarter-billion dollars to install Trump in the Oval Office. Naturally, he anticipates a return on his investment. In fact, that ROI is a done deal: Musk already makes billions from US taxpayers through a web of government contracts. For tycoons like Musk, money is simply a means to an end: obtaining power. His wealth has positioned him to start seriously implementing his grand vision of Technocracy.

Musk’s dive into Technocracy is underway through the newly established temporary agency in Washington, D.C., he now chairs. Announced last November by Trump, created on his first day in office, and supposedly set to complete its mission by the summer of 2026, the US Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, appears to be a nascent Technocracy.

Venture capitalist Musk and biotech billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy were handpicked to run DOGE with the help of Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick. Vivik has since departed to run for Governor of Ohio. Lutnick was Trump’s choice to become the US Secretary of Commerce and was recently confirmed. His appointment raises many concerns. Not least of them is his link to Satellogic, a strategic partner of Peter Thiel’s Palantir Technologies. This link reveals Lutnick’s personal investment in the public-private surveillance state that is governed by US and Israeli intelligence agencies.

Yet Lutnick has an even more significant conflict of interest. He is steering Cantor Fitzgerald to back Tether (USDT), a stablecoin that is increasingly purchasing US Treasurys. As we move toward the era of digital currencies, the US government project to save its debt-laden dollar and its fragile economy is closely tied to stablecoins. Thus, as Secretary of Commerce, Lutnick will be in a position to guide the development of markets toward the new US digital economy. We’ll expand on this angle in Part 2.

Perhaps it’s just a coincidence that “the Doge” was the formal title of the chief administrator (magistrate) of the mercantile Venetian Republic. As we shall also discuss in Part 2, there are many reasons to suspect that today’s DOGE acronym is not a mere coincidence.

The departure of Ramaswamy and Lutnick from the DOGE project appears to leave Musk as its sole “CEO.” A corporate monarchy, led by a CEO “king,” (TechnoKing) is in keeping with the theories underpinning the Dark Enlightenment.

The stated purpose of the DOGE is to restructure the federal government to reduce expenditures and maximise efficiency. That goal is in keeping with Taylorism, a foundation of Technocracy.

One of the leading neoreactionaries (we’ll explain this term shortly), Curtis Yarvin, coined the catchy acronym RAGE. It stands for Retire All Government Employees. The parallels between the stated ambitions of the DOGE and the intention of Yarvin’s RAGE are marked.

Apparently, the DOGE will not be an official executive department but will instead operate as a Federal Presidential Advisory Committee, supposedly outside of government. But make no mistake: The DOGE will be inextricably tied to the political process. Its employees will be housed in the former offices of its predecessor, the United States Digital Service. And its helmsman, Musk, will reportedly have a personal office in the West Wing of the White House.

The efficiency ideas of certain nominated experts, starting with Musk, will be given political clout via a new “DOGE” subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. This subpanel is chaired by controversial congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)—often referred to as MTG. On the surface, it may look like an oversight subcommittee with authority over the science, engineering, and technology “experts,” but in practice the “experts” will be effectively controlling the related political policy decisions. This concept of policy designed by technical “experts” is central to Technocracy.

J.P. Morgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon is among those who have welcomed the DOGE plan. Certainly, the proposal to radically reduce or even eradicate US government’s financial regulators appeals to bankers like Dimon. The Trump administration is seeking to seize and centralise control of financial regulators such as the Security and Exchange Commssion (SEC) and the antitrust regulator the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Consequently, the banks are anticipating a much lighter regulatory touch. Speaking at Davos, J.P. Morgan asset wealth fund manager Mary Erdoes—tipped to succeed Dimon as CEO—said the moves had freed US bankers’ “animal spirits” and set investment banks in “go-mode.”

Given that Elon Musk was neither elected by Americans nor authorized by their representatives in Congress, the DOGE represents a formal shift in political power from the public to the private sector. It is fundamentally a private sector-dominated think tank openly empowered to “restructure federal agencies.” If the DOGE proceeds as suggested, it is clear that, as we pointed out above, elected US representatives—MTG among them—and US senators will not have the upper hand. Indeed, we might question if they are even capable of grasping the ulterior motives of those driving the DOGE concept.

Also, given that Musk and other DOGE supporters—Bezos, for example—have long profited from huge government contracts, and given that the likes of Dimon will doubtlessly be asked to “advise” the DOGE, we see a massive conflict of interest at the heart of the DOGE project. That conflict, like everything else about the DOGE, is aligned with Technocracy, for it affords pecking-order privileges to the very technocrats who seek to control a Technate.

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President Trump announced on January 19 his administration would release the JFK assassination records. The next day Judicial Watch sent a FOIA request to the National Archives for these records. AG Pam Bondi has claimed she is going to release the records but where are they? The National Archives has not responded to the FOIA request, so Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against the agency on February 27. 

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The Syrian slaughterhouse that nobody’s talking about.

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President Donald Trump’s address to Congress and the nation on Tuesday night was remarkably devoid of any mention of why the United States continues to both enable and be complicit in the Ukrainian conflict with Russia as well as with the war crimes that are being committed by the state of Israel against nearly all its neighbors on a daily basis. The most recent abomination committed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his band of thugs is the cutting off of food, medicine and temporary housing to the Gazans who were bold enough to return to their ruined homes due to a ceasefire negotiated successfully by US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff in January. Now that Netanyahu has decided to come up with some false assertions to break the agreement, allowing him to continue his extermination of the Palestinian people, Trump as peace maker seems to have disappeared without a trace even though the US was in a sense a guarantor of the phased disengagement. Instead, Trump has doubled down on the side of Israel, issuing a “last warning” to Hamas during direct negotiations with the group to release all of the hostages in Gaza immediately. Per Trump in a posting on Truth Social on Wednesday: “Release all of the hostages now, not later, and immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people you murdered, or it is OVER for you.” Trump wrote that he would send Israel “everything it needs to finish the job,” and warned that “Not a single Hamas member will be safe if you don’t do as I say.” It should also be noted that Israel holds thousands of Palestinian prisoners whose fate is evidently of no concern to Donald Trump while the Israeli “world’s most moral army” has continued to kill numerous Palestinians even while the ceasefire was allegedly in place without a squeak coming out of Washington just as it has also been killing Lebanese and Syrians.

I still recall with some fondness the Monty Python movie entitled “The Meaning of Life,” in part because the United States has, since 9/11, been on a berserker course to teach the rest of the world about the “meaning of death.” Some observers maintain that the imperative to deliver millions of dead has been necessary to maintain US dominance in an unstable world, which is a “good thing” for everyone who survives the carnage as they will live by the “rule of international law” as laid down by Washington. But I have something like a different theory, i.e. that much of that kind of thinking derives from the neoconservatives, largely a Jewish-led and funded movement which has come to dominate the foreign policy and national security thinking of both major American political parties. Going back to the first Gulf War, the neocons have believed that US dominance has been good for Israel, particularly as they subsequently perceived that 9/11 was a gift from Jehovah that enabled the full might of the United States military to be used against Israel’s enemies starting with Iraq. Indeed, the Baathist regime was attacked and destroyed based on a series of lies and false intelligence concocted by monsters like Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Doug Feith at the Pentagon plus Scooter Libby in the office of Vice President Dick Cheney. Israeli intelligence officers from the Embassy in Washington had full and free access to the Wolfowitz Pentagon office while the process was playing out. President George W. Bush was clearly too stupid to realize that he was being conned.

But getting back to President Trump’s evident reluctance to discuss the one remaining war that he could stop in a heartbeat by cutting off all aid and political support, there is the question that is unanswered about why the US should become an accomplice to mass murder in a slaughter where there is no conceivable American national interest. Indeed, one might reasonably argue that the involvement with Israel and its human rights disaster has already done considerable damage to both the reputation and the economy of the United States. Some observers oddly continue to believe that it is the United States that exploits Israel to further its own imperial ambitions but nothing could be further from the truth as even a cursory examination of the one sidedness of the relationship reveals that it is Israel often acting through its US domestic lobby that is actually running the show.

So if the negatives about Israel are even partly true why is the leadership of the US from both principal parties reluctant to cut the tie that binds Washington to the criminal apartheid enterprise that has illegally occupied and now hides in a place once called Palestine? I personally have long believed that the history of Jewish perfidy directed at corrupting and gaining influence over the United States goes back more than a hundred years with the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank in 1913 and the gaining control of many major newspapers at around the same time. As Nathan Mayer Rothschild put it in 1815, “Give me control of a nation’s money supply, and I care not who makes its laws.” And then there are the descendants of Adolph Ochs, who have exercised majority control over the New York Times since Ochs bought the paper in 1896. The Times self-describes as America’s “newspaper of record” with its lies and distortions, particularly when it is Israel that is under discussion.

Not surprisingly, much of the corruption of American institutions by Israel has to do with Jewish money which has influenced the shift of foreign policy views of both major US political parties. In the recent election, Jewish casino billionaire Mirian Adelson reportedly gave Trump $100 million and in exchange he promised to permit Israeli annexation of the Palestinian West Bank, which is currently proceeding. Beyond that buying of favors and the accompanying semi-overt takeover of the United States, there should be serious suspicions about possible hidden “covert actions” undertaken by Israel and its agents. One might cite the assassination of John F. Kennedy just as he was about to force the Israel lobby groups to register while also shutting down Israel’s secret and illegal nuclear weapons program. And then there is 9/11 itself’s possible ties to Israel’s massive spying program in the US at that time to include the “dancing Shlomos” on the day of the attack, and the systematic corruption of congress and the American political system through the “buying of politicians” by Jewish billionaire oligarchs acting on behalf of Israel.

I was pleased last Tuesday when my favorite foreign policy analyst Professor John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, my alma mater, responded to a question from Judge Andrew Napolitano, who had asked why Israel is able to get away with so much that does damage to the United States, to include manipulation of a run of presidents including both Joe Biden and now Donald Trump who dare not challenge a vicious creature like Benjamin Netanyahu. Even Barack Obama, who disliked Netanyahu intensely, knew he had to play the game to placate the Democratic Party’s Jewish donors.

Mearsheimer explained that there are potentially and actually very severe consequences for any politician who steps out of line as the Israeli Lobby in the United States wields immense largely extralegal power. Bingo, Professor Mearsheimer! It is what many of us have long believed and are even beginning to speak about and it is perhaps time for the country as a whole to begin to take notice before the government moves definitively to ban all criticism of the Jewish state. For starters, the Attorney General might just begin to enforce the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (FARA) legislation that President Kennedy was trying to enforce vis-à-vis one of the first Israel lobbying groups in the US, the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs, which is today renamed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Unfortunately, the current Attorney General Pam Bondi has gone the other way, making it harder for prosecutors to initiate action based on FARA, a deliberate move to protect the Israel Lobby.

The JFK attempted US crackdown headed by Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who also was subsequently assassinated, coincided with development of investigative evidence demonstrating that Israel had stolen both enriched uranium and nuclear triggers to develop its own secret nuke arsenal. That development, plus the significant evidence that Israel has committed a host of humanitarian crimes, has since made it illegal for the US provide aid to the offending country under the Leahy Law and associated legislation, but Israel has never been held accountable for anything due to the strength of its Lobby and the accommodating media. Israel’s immunity from US laws and regulations is referred to by cognoscenti as the “Israeli Exemption.”

Congress and the White House run in fear of the wrath of Zion, so it would appear, and no one is willing to do anything about it even when the depth and intensity of Israeli spying against the United States becomes evident, as has taken place with Jonathan Pollard in the 1980s and Jeffrey Epstein more recently, with the Epstein papers still being covered up! Pollard, who now lives in Israel where he is idolized, was the most damaging spy in US history. And then when one considers US government cover-ups, the ultimate has to also be all about Israel, when its warplanes and torpedo boats attacked the USS Liberty intelligence ship in international waters in the Mediterranean on June 8, 1967, killing 34 crewmen and wounding 170 more. The White House of Lyndon B. Johnson called back fighter planes launched from a US aircraft carrier to assist the Liberty and later engaged in a massive cover-up to absolve Israel from any blame as a case of “mistaken identity.” There exist, however, recordings that indicate that the Israeli pilots knew exactly whom they were attacking.

In my humble opinion Israel should be treated as an enemy or at a minimum as a state that is dangerous to have any association with. That is because it uses its immense power inside the United States establishment as well as with many other nations in Europe, Oceania and North America to incite for wars that bring no benefit to any country that allows them to influence or distort policy. The ongoing attempts by Israel to entice the United States into a war with Iran is only one example of what goes on and there are reports that US bombers have been taking up position in the Persian Gulf for a possible attack. And there are always the unspeakable things about Israel and how it does things. The Palestinian extermination is based on a perception among many Israeli Jews that both Christian and Muslim neighbors are not only “terrorists”, they are subhuman and fit only to work as slaves of Jews or to flee the country or die. Prominent St. Louis rabbi Jeffrey Abraham recently wrote that there are “no ‘innocent civilians’ in Gaza,” and endorsed the belief that Palestinians are “animals.” The lack of any discomfort in the local Jewish community demonstrates how widely accepted these views are. And, one might add, even American presidents are little more that ignorant goyim to be used and discarded or even subtly threatened. On Netanyahu’s recent visit to the White House, he presented Trump with a mounted Golden Pager, reminiscent perhaps of the exploding pagers used recently by Israel in Lebanon to kill and maim at random Lebanese civilians. It was a sick joke or perhaps even intended as a warning and it clearly was the product of the twisted mind of Netanyahu.

Far from being anyone’s “best friend” or “greatest ally” or being a democracy as the US media and congress constantly claim, Israel’s government does not even appear to value the lives of some Jews. The recent admission by the former Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant that he had ordered the army to use the Hannibal Directive to kill Israeli civilians and soldiers during and after the Hamas attack on 7 October 7th 2023 confirms eye witness accounts of events that day. Israeli security policy includes the option of killing potential Jewish hostages so they do not become a need-to-use-negotiations obstacle hindering the options available in Israel’s use of force against whomever it is attacking. And don’t forget the Samson Option, the Armageddon-esque plan to use Israel’s secret nuclear weapons to take down both enemies and friends if the Jewish state is ever seriously threatened with destruction. There should be no doubt that the plan, like the Hannibal Directive, is for real and representative of Israeli government thinking and there is no reason to presume that the United States would not be included among those targeted. It is something to think about for every American who valued our country and the freedoms it provided before our politicians surrendered to Zion and allowed an “immensely powerful” largely domestic “fifth column” to obtain significant control for a foreign country over the national security policy of the United States of America.

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These are difficult realities without Hollywood cliche answers.

Caregivers and the costs of caregiving don’t get much attention. They’re not part of the news flow, and the day-to-day grind of caregiving doesn’t lend itself to the self-promotional zeitgeist of social media. Look at me, helping Mom on her walker is not going to score big numbers online.

The burdens in human and financial terms are often crushing. These realities are generally obscured by taboos and Hollywood cliches: it’s considered bad form to describe the burdens of caregiving, and anyone who dares to do so is quickly chided: “You’re lucky your parent is still alive so you can spend quality time together.”

Meanwhile, back in the real world, 4 in 10 family caregivers rarely or never feel relaxed, according to a 2023 AARP survey, as an integral part of caregiving is being on constant alert for something untoward happening to the elderly person in one’s care.

The demographics are sobering: we’re living longer, often much longer, than previous generations, and in greater numbers. This means 65-year olds are caring for 85-year olds and 70-year olds are caring for 90+-year olds. I’ve logged 8+ years of caregiving (5+ years here at home) from age 63 to 70 caring for my mom-in-law, so I have personal experience of being old enough to “retire” but retirement is a fantasy for caregivers. Our neighbors are 80+ years of age and they’re caring for her 102-year old Mom. What’s this retirement thing people talk about so cheerily?

All these realities are abstractions until they happen to you.

These burdens are seeping down to Gen X and the Millennial generation. ‘It’s a job, and a tough one’: the pain and privilege of being a millennial caregiver.

The financial costs of care are staggering. A bed in private assisted living is around $75,000 and up a year, a private room in a nursing home is around $150,000 a year, and round-the-clock care at home costs from $150,000 to $250,000+ annually.

The Crushing Financial Burden of Aging at Home (WSJ.com)

“Christine Salhany spends about $240,000 a year for 24-hour in-home care for her husband who has Alzheimer’s. In Illinois, Carolyn Brugioni’s dad exhausted his savings and took out a home-equity line-of-credit to pay for home healthcare.”

More than 11,000 people in the U.S. are turning 65 every day and the vast majority–77% of Americans age 50 and older according to an AARP survey–want to live as long as possible in their current home. At some point, many will need help. About one-fourth of those 65 and older will eventually require significant support and services for more than three years, according to the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.

About one-third of retirees don’t have resources to afford even a year of minimal care, according to the Boston College center.

“The new inheritance is not having enough money to give to kids but to have enough money to cover long-term care costs, says Liz O’Donnell, the Boston-based founder of Working Daughter, an online community of caregivers.

The costs of home care are so high that not just inheritances are exhausted; the home equity is also drained. $350,000 sounds like a lot of money but that might cover two years in a nursing home but not be enough to cover two years of round-the-clock care at home.

The cost of maintaining the home doesn’t go away: property taxes, insurance and maintenance expenses must be paid, too.

Those without monumental financial resources make do by doing everything themselves. Depending on the resources available in the community, there may be some minimal assistance such as weekly visits by a nurse, meals delivered, and adult day-care facilities, but there are no guarantees any of these are available or that the family qualifies.

In other words, the idea that the retired generation will leave ample inheritances is increasingly detached from reality. As noted, the new inheritance is to get through the years of caregiving without acquiring debt.

The human costs are high, too. In the Hollywood cliche, everyone adapts and makes the best of it, and there’s plenty of Hallmark moments that make it all worthwhile. Yes, there are Hallmark moments, but the elderly person misses their independence and may feel resentment that they no longer control how things are done. The caregivers are often exhausted–especially if they’re 65 or older–and despite their best efforts may feel resentment at ending their careers early and sacrificing their own last best years caring for a decidedly unstellar parent who doesn’t seem to appreciate the immense sacrifices being made on their behalf.

The indignities of extreme old age weigh on the elderly, and the 65+ caregivers worry that they can’t pick Mom or Dad up now that they’re so old that they have their own infirmities.

The responsible parent frets at the expense and feels bad they won’t be able to pass on much to their grandkids. They may express guilt at being a burden, though that is beyond their control. The responsible adult child is burning out trying to juggle three generations and keep themselves glued together enough to keep functioning. They can’t help but want their own life back, but to say this out loud is taboo because if life gives you lemons, make lemonade. In other words, tell us a happy story, repeat an acceptable cliche or say nothing.

Nobody wants to hear any of this, and so the caregiver develops a self-contained stoicism. Everyone with no experience of caregiving wants to hear the Hollywood version, and so conversations with other caregivers are the only moments where the truth can be expressed and heard. In the rest of “normal life,” the caregiver quickly learns to say what’s expected: “We’re managing. Life’s good.”

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