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Recently, there has been a veritable epidemic of statues suddenly popping up all over the globe, depicting overweight Black females. This is decidedly odd, as the figures don’t represent a particular person of historical significance, but rather a modern “Woke” phenomenon of a brand of human being; the loud and proud Black woman.

One of these statues, incredibly enough, was erected in Italy. If anyone can tell me what significance any Black woman has had on Italian history, I’m willing to listen. Maybe the Italians covered up how the Black females in their society- cleverly hidden away from the eyes of the world- have manipulated things behind the scenes for eons. Kind of like an Illuminati of Color. I’m sure Michelangelo and Da Vinci would be proud. Maybe a fat Black woman invented spaghetti. Pizza. Lasagna. Why not? Any African American Studies course worth its salt will tell you how suppressed Black inventors came up with everything from the toaster to the stop light. Lemonade. And most cleverly of all, one magnificent genius invented the comb in the late 1800s. Or centuries after they were depicted in paintings from all over the world. I remember seeing Pocahantas’s comb at the Smithsonian. What a racist to be using a Black man’s invention without giving him credit. Somebody call Elizabeth Warren.

The Italian statue depicts the unknown Person of Color staring down at her cell phone. Surely, this was considered a unique, historical posture. Apparently, there were no available native born Italian girls- overweight or not- who stare robotically down at their cell phones. Not to be left out, the Netherlands put up a statue of a different, but just as insignificant overweight Black woman a few years back in Rotterdam. I guess it’s taken those of us still paying attention a few years to notice. Again, what exactly has any Black woman done to deserve a statue in the Netherlands? Sure, plenty of nonwhites have raped native born residents of the Netherlands, but they were all male and mostly Muslim migrants. They probably have a disproportionate number of Blacks on the Netherlands World Cup soccer team, but I’m not sure what Black women specifically have ever contributed to their society.

In New York City, there is now a twelve foot statue of an obese Black woman- sporting the distinctive hands on hip stance that has made them so beloved in America 2.0. The statue is nonsensically called “Grounded in the Stars.” As someone once said, if you want to gauge the health of a nation, look at its art. The statue provides a startling dose of “diversity,” in contrast to the statues of boring dead White guys Father Francis Duffy and songwriter George M. Cohan. This is the same New York City, of course, who over the past few years took down statues of Teddy Roosevelt and Thomas Jefferson. The message is; an anonymous Black woman is more culturally and historically significant to this country than the most brilliant of our Founding Fathers, who wrote the Declaration of Independence. If that isn’t a slap in the face to the millions who are still asleep, I don’t know what would be.

The first question that should be asked is; why this curious campaign to install statues of fictional Black women? Who started it? Who is behind it? I seriously doubt that leaders in Italy and the Netherlands abruptly determined, independent of each other, that homage should be paid to a demographic group that has zero historical ties to either country. Now, the motivation is obvious. To further promote Black people. Well, any Black people who aren’t questioning the disproportionate power of a certain ethnic/religious group, that is. And to further diminish the historical greatness of formerly hallowed White leaders. And what about the White women? Why doesn’t Pakistan erect a statue of a fictional girl in a bikini? You could have her staring at her cell phone if you want. Nonwhite countries need cultural “diversity,” too, don’t they? Where are the statues of antiwar icon Jeanette Rankin, our greatest historical figure who identified as female?

It’s hard to tell how many Black female statues there are. A few years back, there were reports of them springing up in Roanoke, Virginia, and South Boston. There were already at least six statues of Harriet Tubman scattered across this country. I doubt that there are six statues of White women collectively in America. The most featured female on U.S. statues is the Indian squaw (yeah, I know- that’s probably “hate speech”) Sacagawea, who has an impressive sixteen of them. I guess statues are kind of like presidential candidates; only nonwhite women need apply. And yet White women can’t stop applauding. They may well like fat Black statues even more than transgender athletes. Roanoke, Virginia, which featured Virginia Dare, the first child born in America, vanished without a trace. The city still exists, and despite being on the edge of nearly all-White Appalachia, its only two statues are of Black figures.

The statue of Robert E. Lee that stood in the U.S. Capitol was scheduled to be replaced by a 2021 decree, in favor of a sixteen year old girl named Barbara Johns, who led a student walkout in Prince Edward County in 1951. It was something to do with racism, which they tell us was all the rage back then. One thing you know for sure is that Johns was Black. Virginia has a statue of Mary Todd Lincoln’s Black dressmaker Elizabeth Keckly, but not of Honest Abe’s overly emotional wife. So this explosion of Black female statues is not really new. They were already overrepresented. As one typically absurd “Woke” spokesperson put it, this is an effort to “confront preconceived notions of identity and representation.” It’s inevitable that one or more statues of Black women with suitably fat asses will pop up somewhere, to memorialize the fine art of twerking. We would not want future generations to forget that.

This well organized campaign comes on the heels of laughable propaganda that “Black women built this country.” What? I can’t think of any group that had less to do with building this country. Well, maybe Hispanics. After all, they weren’t here then. The very term had yet to be invented. Or Muslims. No, it was almost exclusively White males who built this country, backed by hearty and supportive frontier wives, mothers, and daughters. But it’s “racist” to even say that. And on top of that, there is the even more head shaking “Shut up! A Black woman is speaking!” This ridiculous expression is parroted most enthusiastically by self-loathing White women. This kind of insidious programming goes well beyond conventional Stockholm Syndrome. White women are not literally being held captive by Black women. This is just one of the reasons why I maintain at least 1/3 of White women today are clinically insane.

If they expand their horizons, there are plenty of worthy flesh and blood candidates to consider. Queen Latifah is certainly fat enough, and at least has displayed her lack of acting skills in a good number of IMDB credits. Stacy Abrams? She lost an election and is still complaining about it. And I don’t have to tell you that they don’t come any obesier in the Black community than her. Oprah? Imagine how excited the White women would be! Their “girlfriend,” who manipulated them to high ratings, and then dropped their racial and sexual comrade Hillary like a hot potato when Barack Obama declared for the presidency. It would take some skill to get the majesty and scope of Oprah’s giant behind just right, kind of like the Venus de Milo from a dark universe. And if you want to be inclusive of non-obese Black women, there’s Kamala. Perhaps Jasmine Crockett. And Michelle Obama can represent….well, you know.

If this isn’t some kind of fractured, black humor (no pun intended), then what is it? No one can seriously suggest that we should be putting up statues of random unknown figures, who have accomplished nothing to be remembered for. I don’t want statues of hot naked fictional women showing up everywhere, either, with or without cell phones. This is Identity Politics writ large, on the world stage. Black men are promoted incessantly by the same usual suspects, but it is the Black woman who reigns supreme in America 2.0. Who gets to rake in millions with little or no qualifications, while skewering the English language. I’m not sure which is worse; not being recognized for great accomplishments, or being credited undeservedly for imaginary achievements. Obviously, too many Black women fall into the later category. I can hear them screaming “Excuse me!” as they read this.

Why not honor a strong Black woman who has done noteworthy things? I’m talking about my friend, ex-congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. She wrote blurbs for me, and honored me by asking me to write a blurb for her provocatively titled book How the US Creates Sh*thole Countries. McKinney had the courage no one else in Congress did, grilling Donald Rumsfeld about the $2.3 trillion missing from the Pentagon. Oh well, DOGE will probably find that and much more. They are still planning to audit the Pentagon, right? McKinney also stated that members of Congress are asked to sign an oath of loyalty to Israel, which she refused to do. McKinney suddenly started looking a lot less Black, and was quickly ousted from Congress. She’s a truly open minded, insightful individual, my favorite politician. Imagine being relegated from serving in Congress to communicating with the likes of Thought Criminals like me.

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After a year and a half of genocidal atrocities, the editorial boards of numerous British press outlets have suddenly come out hard against Israel’s genocidal onslaught in Gaza.

The first drop of rain came last week from The Financial Times in a piece by the editorial board titled “The west’s shameful silence on Gaza,” which denounces the US and Europe for having “issued barely a word of condemnation” of their ally’s criminality, saying they “should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.”

Then came The Economist with a piece titled “The war in Gaza must end,” which argues that Trump should pressure the Netanyahu regime for a ceasefire, saying that “The only people who benefit from continuing the war are Mr Netanyahu, who keeps his coalition intact, and his far-right allies, who dream of emptying Gaza and rebuilding Jewish settlements there.”

On Saturday came an editorial from The Independent titled “End the deafening silence on Gaza — it is time to speak up,” arguing that British PM Keir Starmer “should be ashamed that he said nothing, especially since Mr Netanyahu has now announced new plans to expand the already devastating bombardment of Gaza,” and saying that “It is time for the world to wake up to what is happening and to demand an end to the suffering of the Palestinians trapped in the enclave.”

On Sunday The Guardian editorial board joined in with a write-up titled “The Guardian view on Israel and Gaza: Trump can stop this horror. The alternative is unthinkable,” saying “The US president has the leverage to force through a ceasefire. If he does not, he will implicitly signal approval of what looks like a plan of total destruction.”

“What is this, if not genocidal?” The Guardian asks. “When will the US and its allies act to stop the horror, if not now?”

To be clear, these are editorials, not op-eds. This means that they are not the expression of one person’s opinion but the stated position of each outlet as a whole. We’ve been seeing the occasional op-ed which is critical of Israel’s actions throughout the Gaza holocaust in the mainstream western press, but to see the actual outlets come out aggressively denouncing Israel and its western backers all at once is a very new development.

Some longtime Israel supporters have unexpectedly begun changing their tune as individuals as well.

Conservative MP Mark Pritchard said at the House of Commons last week that he had supported Israel “at all costs” for decades, but said “I got it wrong” and publicly withdrew that support over Israel’s actions in Gaza.

“For many years — I’ve been in this House twenty years — I have supported Israel pretty much at all costs, quite frankly,” Pritchard said. “But today, I want to say that I got it wrong and I condemn Israel for what it is doing to the Palestinian people in Gaza and indeed in the West Bank, and I’d like to withdraw my support right now for the actions of Israel, what they are doing right now in Gaza.”

“I’m really concerned that this is a moment in history when people look back, where we’ve got it wrong as a country,” Pritchard added.

Pro-Israel pundit Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, who had been aggressively denouncing campus protesters and accusing Israel’s critics of “blood libel” throughout the Gaza holocaust, has now come out and publicly admitted that Israel is committing a genocide which must be opposed.

“It took me a long time to get to this point, but it’s time to face it. Israel is committing genocide in Gaza,” Ephraim tweeted recently. “Between the indiscriminate bombing of hospitals, starvation of the population, plans for ethnic cleansing, slaughter of aid workers and cover ups, there is no escaping it. Israel is trying to eradicate the Palestinian people. We can’t stop it unless we admit it.”

It is odd that it has taken all these people a year and a half to get to this point. I myself have a much lower tolerance for genocide and the mass murder of children. If you’ve been riding the genocide train for nineteen months, it looks a bit weird to suddenly start screaming about how terrible it is and demanding to hit the brakes all of a sudden.

These people have not suddenly evolved a conscience, they’re just smelling what’s in the wind. Once the consensus shifts past a certain point there’s naturally going to be a mad rush to avoid being among the last to stand against it, because you know you’ll be wearing that mark for the rest of your life in public after history has had a clear look at what you did.

This is after all coming at a time when the Trump administration is beginning to rub Netanyahu’s fur the wrong way, recently prompting the Israeli prime minister to say “I think we’ll have to detox from US security assistance” when Washington went over Tel Aviv’s head and negotiated directly with Hamas to secure the release of an American hostage. The US is reportedly leaving Israel out of more and more of its negotiations on international affairs in places like Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. Something is changing.

So if you’re still supporting Israel after all this time, my advice to you is to make a change while you still can. There’s still time to be the first among scoundrels in the mad rat race to avoid being the last to start acting like you always opposed the Gaza holocaust.

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Prominent academic and author Dr Michel Chossudovsky warned that the so-called war on terrorism is a front to propagate America’s global hegemony and create a New World Order.

Dr Chossudovsky said terrorism is made in the US and that terrorists are not the product of the Muslim world.

According to him, the US global war on terrorism was used to enact anti-terrorism laws that demonised Muslims in the Western world and created Islamophobia.

Elaborating on his argument, Dr Chossudovsky said that NATO was responsible for recruiting members of the Islamic state while Israel is funding “global jihad elements inside Syria”.

Dr Chossudovsky, who is also the founder of the Centre for Research and Globalisation, further emphasised that the global war on terrorism is a fabrication, a big lie and a crime against humanity.

Echoing Dr Chossudovsky’s arguments, Malaysia’s prominent political scientist, Islamic reformist and activist Dr Chandra Muzaffar said that the US has always manipulated religion to further its global hegemony on sovereign states.

The original source of this article is Perdana Global Peace Foundation and Global Research.

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Trump is about to be placed into a dilemma due to his unwillingness or inability to coerce Ukraine into Russia’s demanded concessions.

The US’ mediation between Russia and Ukraine captivated the world due to the hopes that many observers had of it leading to a breakthrough, but expectations have since been tempered, including on the American side as evidenced by the toughening of its negotiating stance towards Russia. The latest developments saw Ukraine and the West demand Russia’s compliance with an unconditional ceasefire, to which Putin reacted by offering the unconditional resumption of bilateral talks with Ukraine instead.

Zelensky’s response was to declare that he’ll visit Istanbul on Thursday, the place and day that Putin suggested for resuming bilateral talks, though it’s unclear whether the Russian leader will go. The spring 2022 peace process that Putin mentioned in his video address early Sunday morning only involved their delegations, not direct talks between their presidents, plus Putin considers Zelensky to be illegitimate now. He’s also unlikely to meet him unless Zelensky agrees to significant concessions ahead of time.

Therein lies the problem because Zelensky refuses to budge on Putin’s demands that Ukraine restore its constitutional neutrality, demilitarize, denazify, and cede the disputed territories, and Trump won’t coerce him into doing so either. The only outcome from the US’ mediation efforts thus far has been talk of a strategic partnership with Russia, likely built upon energy and rare earth cooperation, that’s it. From Russia’s perspective, it looks like the US wants to buy it off, not resolve the core issues of this conflict.

The US is the only country with leverage over Russia and Ukraine that could be wielded to influence them into compromising as part of a grand deal, something that other potential mediators like China and Turkiye lack, yet its approach has been uneven. The US is threatening Russia with more sanctions and possibly even more military aid to Ukraine, while all that Ukraine is threatened with is the US walking away from the conflict, but it just greenlit a new missile package so that might just be a bluff.

If the US doesn’t soon correct its approach to evenly pressure Russia and Ukraine, and seeing as how no other country is capable of wielding leverage over both to influence them into compromising, then third-party mediation will have reached its limits. In that event, an escalation might be inevitable, either due to Russia initiating it through the potential expansion of its ground campaign into new regions and/or the US defiantly doubling down in support of Ukraine if Trump blames Putin for the peace talks’ collapse.

Putin hasn’t signaled that he’s willing to freeze the conflict and thus tacitly drop all his other demands, which could also create space for the Europeans to possibly deploy uniformed troops to Ukraine during an unconditional ceasefire, so he’s bound to get on Trump’s bad side unless something changes. If Trump “escalates to de-escalate” on these terms, then he risks a hot war with Russia, while walking away could make him responsible for one of the West’s worst geopolitical defeats if Russia then steamrolls Ukraine.

Trump is about to be placed into this dilemma due to his unwillingness or inability to coerce Ukraine into Russia’s demanded concessions. It would be better for him to make a clean break from this conflict in that case than to escalate US involvement, but the minerals deal and subsequent weapons packages suggest that he’s more likely to double down. He’d then ruin his desired legacy as a peacemaker, however, and undermine his planned “Pivot (back) to Asia” for more muscularly containing China.

This article was originally published on Andrew Korybko’s Newsletter.

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It might be all over except the shouting. We are talking about the last chance to meaningfully curtail the nation’s headlong plunge into fiscal disaster. Since the Dems are hideously obtuse and feckless on the fiscal front, the only remaining hope was that the GOP would finally screw-up the courage to take sweeping bites out of Federal spending and borrowing in the process of enacting the Donald’s “one big beautiful” reconciliation bill.

But it’s now clear that won’t happen, either. Not even remotely.

That’s because over the weekend the House GOP even threw in the towel on serious Medicaid cuts. Yet Medicaid was the site of the last entitlement stand, so to speak, given that Social Security, Veterans and Medicare had already been given a hall pass by the Donald and the GOP congressional leadership.

So now a real red line has been crossed. That is to say, if the GOP is unwilling to rollback Medicaid to even its 2008 pre-ObamaCare level, then the white flag of fiscal surrender might as well be hoisted.

Indeed, the fiscal math is definitive. When you add defense and net interest to the entitlements exempted from the budgetary knife by the Trumpified GOP the result is that nearly three-fourths of the Federal budget has been ring-fenced as “sacred cows”.

Moreover, in the case of the defense budget Trump is actually seeking a 13% increase to the already vastly bloated level of baseline spending in order to achieve the first ever $1.0 trillion annual DOD budget for FY 2026. That’s twice or $500 billion more than would be needed for a true America First national security policy—based on $75 billion per year for an invincible strategic nuclear deterrent and a couple hundred billion more for an impenetrable conventional defense of the America’s shorelines and airspace. All the rest of that great swamp of waste known as the Pentagon budget goes for standing up a Global

Empire and propping up dozens of so-called allies abroad, which we do not need in order to defend the homeland in this day and age of high tech weaponry.

In any event, if you examine baseline spending for the first five columns in the table below—defense, the big entitlements and net interest—-which we have summed as “Sacred Cows” in the sixth column, the total off-limits budget components amount to $65.4 trillion over the next decade. That’s fully 73% projected baseline spending of $89.3 trillion during the next 10 years.

Moreover, if you move over to the next two columns in the table for Medicaid and Food Stamps/Nutrition programs, respectively, they add another $10 trillion to baseline spending. At this point in the Congressional proceedings, however, we can see honest cuts of no more than $300 billion for Medicaid (see below) and $200 billion for Food Stamps/Nutrition.

Such stingy savings figures would amount to only a 5% cut in these two giant welfare programs. Yet, as a political matter, slashing these programs by five times more—say $2.5 trillion over the next decade—should be a piece of cake for the GOP. After all, precious few food stamp/Medicaid recipients even vote, to saying nothing of voting for Republicans.

So when we said it’s all over except the shouting, we were not indulging in hyperbole. It’s hard core fiscal math: When you get over to the “N’aid” (nutrition programs) column of the table (8th column) you have encompassed 84% of the entire Federal budget and $75 trillion of spending over the next decade. Yet if the GOP manages to come up with even the aforementioned $500 billion of Medicaid/Foods Stamps savings in their current Reconciliation bill mark-up process we’d be pleasantly surprised.

That is to say, the so-called conservative party—the only hope left—can apparently manage to come up with savings of just 0.6% of built-in spending for the big components of the Federal budget. Looking $75 trillion of spending square in the face as they craft the Trump economic plan, the GOP is whiffing entirely, and pathetically so.

Never mind, of course, that these cats never stop giving speeches about runaway Federal spending and decrying the the soaring public debt. These ills they are pleased to blame on the “Joe Biden” entity and the Big Spending Dems.

So what a joke. After all, the built-in baseline deficit for the next decade is nearly $22 trillion, given that baseline spending will total $89.3 trillion, whereas revenues are estimated by CBO at just $67.5 billion.

Accordingly, if the GOP majorities blow on defense, veterans and border control increases the pitiful $500 billion savings from entitlements for poor people now pending, the public debt will hit nearly $58 trillion by 2035 or 135% of GDP.

In turn, even at today’s blended average yield on the public debt of 4.3%, annual interest expense at the end of the 10-year window would be a staggering $2.5 trillion per year!

Baseline Federal Budget Outlays, FY 2026–2035 ($Billions)

And yet and yet. The CBO revenue baseline assumes all of the 2017 Trump tax cuts are allowed to expire, thereby adding upwards of $5 trillion relative to the tax code in effect during FY 2025. In fact, however, the Trumpified GOP is determined come hell or high war to extend the 2017 tax cuts for another decade. So here is the latest estimates of the revenue cost of the tax bill pending in the House Ways and Means Committee. It would actually reduce the CBO revenue baseline by in excess of $5 trillion over FY 2026-2035 or to barely $62 trillion—resulting in Uncle Sam borrowing 30 centson every dollar spent.

The crucial point to note based on the most recent estimates by the good folks the Committee for a Responsible Budget (sic) is that a pure mechanical extension of the 2017 tax act (TCJA) would cost a net of $3.45 trillion over the decade. So the GOP tax writers have already added more than $1.5 trillion to the revenue cost—and that’s before a single dime of revenue loss from cutting taxes on tips, overtime and Social Security, as the Donald promised during the campaign.

Still, there is no mystery as to the difference between the first column and the second column of the table below. Aside from some slightly more generous rate cuts and other personal income tax items, the big change is on the so-called “payfor” line, which is dominated by the current SALT cap (deductibility of state and local taxes) of $10,000 for joint filers. Extending the current SALT caps would generate a revenue offset of $1.26 trillion over the 10-year period, thereby reducing the net cost of extending the tax rate cuts (37.0% top rate versus 39.6%), child credit increases from $1,000 to $2,000 and the 22% business income pass-thru deduction.

Again, the GOP delegations in the high tax states like New York and California have threatened to fall on the sword if the SALT cap is not raised dramatically. The current working target, therefore, is $62,000 for single filers and $124,000 for joint filers. Alas, that would make it easier for Blue State legislatures to keep income taxes sky high, but would also reduce the revenue offset by nearly $750 billion to just $500 billion over the decade. That retreat, in turn, accounts for the preponderant share of the shrinkage in the “line itemized and other deductions” line of the chart below.

So, there is no surprise that the Blue State Republicans are getting their way. An initial proposal to raise the cap on joint filers to $30,000 was shot down in no uncertain terms. And with a one-vote margin the House, every caucus of squeaky wheels is getting to name the price of their votes.

“It’s not just insulting—it risks derailing President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill,” Reps. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.), Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.) and Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) wrote in a statement.

Indeed, the squeaky wheel factions and caucuses are the reason there are no meaningful spending cut, either, and most especially with respect to the hideously bloated, out-of-control Medicaid program. Or as the GOP chairman of the House committee handling the bill admitted,

“I think that the people who will have the most difficult time with it would be that it doesn’t go far enough,” Guthrie said in an office boardroom lined with the committee’s policy staffers. “We’re going to go as far as we can go to get 218 votes.”

To be sure, House Republicans are largely on board with imposing work requirements on able-bodied Medicaid recipients, but that would only save $190 billion over 10-years because the GOP work requirements are loophole ridden. Likewise, there is broad support for barring those who entered the country without authorization, but it will be a stretch and then some to save another $100 billion from this restriction because Medicaid expenditures for illegal aliens are not nearly what the hype suggests.

By the same token, what would save material Medicaid dollars is going back to the lower Federal matching rates (see below) which prevailed before ObamaCare and the Trump-COVID bailouts of 2020. But as Speaker Johnson told reporters recently a proposal to directly reduce the enhanced federal match for states that expanded Medicaid, known as the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP), was off the table.

Likewise, a common sense proposal to include per capita caps on Medicaid expansion enrollees (i.e. ObamaCare) is another hard “no” among GOP RINOs. So the Speaker told reporters this week “I think we’re ruling that out.”

If this sound like the squeaky wheels are ruling the roost, that’s exactly the case. In fact, Congressman Mike Lawler is the very poster boy. When he is not carrying water for Netanyahu he is running for governor of New York State. And as it happens, New York state gets $45 billion per year of matching payments for Medicaid from Uncle Sam, but only $27 billion of this is from the traditional Federal matching rate. The balance is owing to the above mentioned FMAP expansions from ObamaCare and the pandemic add-ons.

“I’ve said very clearly, I do not support any change to FMAP, I don’t support per capita caps,” Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) said this week, even as he was also insisting that any revenue offsets from a meaningful SALT cap be eliminated from the tax portion of the bill, as described above.

For want of doubt, however, here is what Lawler and the RINO faction of the House GOP are defending. That is to say, an explosive growth of Medicaid spending per poor person in the US that has doubled in constant dollars—from $11,329 per capita in 2000 to $24,837 per capita in 2024.

Medicaid Spending and Poverty Population (2000–2024)

As shown above, total medicaid spending has increased by 340% since the year 2ooo— from $207 billion per year to $914 billion in 2024. However, during the same 24-year interval the poverty population grew by only 16%, rising from 31.6 million at the turn of the century to 36.8 million in 2024.

Accordingly, Medicaid spending per poor person has soared. The $6,547 per capita figure in 2000 was actually $24,837 in 2024. And as indicated above, even when you adjust for inflation, constant dollar Medicaid spending per poor person (2024$) has risen by nearly 120% since 2000.

There is no mystery as to why we have 18% more poor people in the US over the last quarter century, even though real Medicaid spending per poor person has more than doubled. To wit, the UniParty spenders in Washington has simply opened the Medicaid flood-gates to a larger and larger share of the US population, reaching far beyond the poverty population.

Thus, in the year 2000 there were 39.6 million Medicaid recipients and constant dollar Medicaid spending (2024$) was $358 billion. Fast forward to FY 2024, however, after the huge ObamaCare expansion and then the Trump-expansion during the 2020 pandemic free-stuff blow-out, and constant dollar spending was 2.6X higher at $914 billion.

As is evident from the table, however, a good share of that enormous real dollar gain was owing to the soaring Medicaid enrollments, which reached 79 million in 2024. That is to say, whereas 14% of the US population was on Medicaid in the year 2000 that figure now stands at nearly 24%.

So the question recurs: Why is the Congressional GOP in the year 2025 hesitant to sharply rollback Medicaid eligibility and spending when as recently as the turn of the century Medicaid coverage level of about 40 million was barely half of today’s nearly 80 million. Yet the Bill Clinton Dems then in power were not screaming to high heaven that needy people were being left out in the cold.

In fact, when you combine the Medicaid population with Medicare and the ObamaCare insurance subsidy population and eliminate the dual and triple eligibles, the combined enrollment in government-funded medical insurance programs is 141 million. That’s 41% of the entire US population.

So the fact is, the House reconciliation bill cut of maybe $300 billion in Medicaid is occurring in a context in which nearly half of the US population is already in a socialist medical care pool. If the GOP can’t find its way clear to even a tiny $300 billion 10-year cut in that context, they should literally throw-in the towel on fiscal restraint. They would be tantamount to useless.

Total Federal/State Medicaid Spending and Recipients, 2000–2024

For want of doubt, here is a table showing the impact of merely capping Federal reimbursement at the 57% rate that prevailed under Bill Clinton’s auspices as recent as the year 2000. It shows that the Federal share of Medicaid spending could be cut by $900 billion over the period or three times more than is likely to happen—just by going back to the Clinton standard for Medicaid cost-sharing with the states.

Unfortunately, the RINO’s in the GOP House and Senate caucuses have already ixnayed any material roll-back in the above documented explosion of Medicaid enrollments and spending.

Table: Medicaid Spending Projections (FY2026–2035)

Needless to say, even as the GOP slouches toward adding $5 trillion to the $22 trillion of baseline deficits already built-in for the next decade, the Washington spending machine rolls on—the DOGE boys to the contrary not withstanding. In fact, spending during FY 2025 through the first six months of the fiscal year is already running 10% above last year’s Biden level.

As a result, the 12-month rolling deficit total is back above the $2 trillion level, and will be headed sharply higher if the GOP Congressional majorities can manage to confect a big beautiful reconciliation bill that buries the nation in upwards of $30 trillion of additional public debt over the decade ahead.

The Donald, of course, has promised a new Golden Age of Prosperity. But based on what the Trumpified GOP is now cooking up we are more likely to get a Fiscal Armageddon like never before.

Reprinted with permission from David Stockton’s Contra Corner.

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From the Tom Woods Letter:

We actually had some very good news at the federal level the other day, but it’s been almost completely buried.

You may be familiar with a book called Three Felonies a Day, by Harvey Silverglate. The author’s point: federal criminal law, extending into the Code of Federal Regulations, has become so extensive, abstruse, and serpentine that we essentially violate some aspect of it on a regular basis without even knowing it.

This, in turn, affords the feds broad scope to harass ordinary people, since we’re all guilty of something.

It’s the classic case of anarcho-tyranny: actual criminals are treated with kid gloves, but normal people have the book thrown at them.

Well, an executive order was just issued called “Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations.”

(For anyone fearful of the very words “executive order,” I remind you that an order directing federal agencies to do certain things is within the president’s constitutional authority.)

Here’s how Alexandria Brown described it on X:

What does this do? The most important part is that every agency has 365 days to list out all the regulations that have a criminal penalty and then that report has to be made public. Right now, there is literally no one on this planet that knows this information. No one.

That report must be made public and must be updated annually.

All future regulations have to state criminal offenses clearly. Mens rea is back on the menu! The default will be to require mens rea. What that means in English is that you have to know you are committing a crime; strict liability is highly disfavored.

Each agency has 45 days to publish guidance on how criminally liable regulatory offenses will be handled. Then clarification that this doesn’t apply to immigration regulations and generic catch-all language.

This is everything I have ever wanted on this topic. Everything. I never ever ever, not in the history of ever, thought that there would be a requirement for a report from each agency mandating that the regulations with criminal liability be listed, let alone that it would be public.

The shift to pursue civil over criminal first is, obviously, significant. See re: the issue of people fighting over property lines with the US government who all of a sudden were being charged with major federal felonies.

And then there are the mens rea requirements. Mens rea means guilty mind. It is the doctrine that you have to have criminal intent to be charged with a crime. Let’s say you grab a coat off a rack. If you thought it was your coat, that’s not theft, that’s a mistake.

Strict liability means if you take the coat, you’re guilty no matter what. Substantial portions of regulations with criminal penalties attached are strict liability. Did you do the action? You are criminally liable, even if you did not know the regulation existed and you had no criminal intent.

This EO is tremendously important and will have direct, and hopefully immediate, effect on more or less everyone in America. And did you hear anything about it? Anything at all?

This is one of my areas of keen interest and I missed this. This should be being shouted from the mountaintops as to how it is restoring the rights of Americans to know when they will be criminally charged, for what, and that you can’t be held criminally liable for a mistake.

This is unambiguously good news, and to be welcomed.

Because, as I think you know, we are dealing with people who do not exactly have your welfare at heart.

So it makes sense to me why people might be very particular about protecting their privacy against such people, and against the corporate lackeys who do their bidding.

As I mentioned yesterday, it may sound crazy, but we’ve learned that it isn’t a “conspiracy theory” to say the NSA has a way it can spy on you in your own home.

Thankfully, good technology is getting ahead of the bad technology that makes all  the invasiveness possible, and my old friend Glenn Meder, who’s spoken at two of my conferences on this very topic, is going to walk you through how to use the good to shut out the bad.

He’s doing a live presentation today that people love, in which he shares five secrets to outsmart surveillance (including the solution to that creepy NSA thing) to shield your online life from prying eyes.

https://www.tomwoods.com/privacy

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. . . for interviewing on his podcast an Israeli historian who voiced disapproval of the genocide being perpetrated by the Israeli and U.S. governments in Gaza.

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Tim McGraw wrote:

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Louis Conte

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Writes Steven Wallace:

Hi Lew,

Thank you for the article titled, The War Against Religious Freedom. Very thought provoking!

All individuals, here in Idaho, are statutorily required to report child abuse to the prevailing authority or jurisdiction in which the abuse is taking place with a very narrow exception for certain clergy. Obviously, there is a moral imperative to do something positive to alleviate a bad situation of which we become aware, but the statutory requirement presents a moral dilemma for us all. Often is the case when an abused child is removed from parental control the child then becomes abused by the state agency charged with the child’s care and placement. Child Protective Service is notorious for losing track of these children and many of them wind up being trafficked or placed with people who’ve not been carefully vetted. What is a person to do in such a dilemma? Even with stupid laws there are practical considerations in weighing what course of action to take in the context of there being a higher law than man’s law in which we may be held to account for.

The state, as an institution, isn’t the only abuser of children. Religious institutions, protestant or catholic, all have a sordid history of abusing children under the veil of authority. I can’t help but think that an abuser of children going to confession knows the confidential and incriminating nature of the information he is giving a priest during confession could be used by that priest, if they are so inclined, to satisfy their own deviant inclinations and setting up a co-dependent relationship with the one doing the confessing. In my view the question is this, does absolution related to confession contribute positively or negatively to the child abuse dilemma? If the law requiring priests to report child abuse discourages confessions and the wannabe confessor can’t obtain absolution through the confessional process, might that inspire one, with a genuine conscience, to quit the behavior that was driving the need for confession in the first place?

I’m not Catholic so the sacrament issue associated with this law, from my perspective, is minuscule in comparison to the unchecked abuse of children by the church or the state. Priests and other individuals statutorily required to make this report have a moral dilemma as the cure could be as bad as the dis-ease. The upside, however, is those not trusting the priests or clergy because of this law may have to put on their big boy pants and become more personally responsible for their behavior to maintain a clear conscience. This would be a form of spiritual decentralization in the removal of earthbound intermediaries (men of the cloth, whether church or state) that have proved themselves to be less than trustworthy in many cases. Fewer children of parents, with a conscience, would be abused. I would submit that confessions by those seeking absolution, without a repentant heart, are null and void in the spiritual realm and represents an attitude and dogma not flattering to any religious institution. When dogma becomes superior to morality, it’s game over in the spiritual realm.

Thanks again,

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Cpcondon wrote:

Stunning moment Pope Leo XIV caught on camera at 2005 World Series game in Chicago

The new pope was born in Chicago in 1955 and half a decade later he was among the crowd at the then-US Cellular Field for Game 1 of the World Series against the Houston Astros.

See here.

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Ginny Garner wrote:

Lew,

Come and sing a simple song of freedom
Sing it like you’ve never sung before
Let it fill the air
Tell the people everywhere
We, the people here, don’t want a war

Bobby Darin is back in the news. The new Broadway musical “Just in Time” is based on his life and his son Dodd is promoting it. Darin wrote, recorded and performed an antiwar song in 1969 called “Simple Song of Freedom” that was a hit for Tim Hardin. Darin became very political, supporting RFK for president due to his stance against the Vietnam War. 

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Il manoscritto fornisce un grimaldello al lettore, una chiave di lettura semplificata, del mondo finanziario e non che sembra essere andato "fuori controllo" negli ultimi quattro anni in particolare. Questa è una storia di cartelli, a livello sovrastatale e sovranazionale, la cui pianificazione centrale ha raggiunto un punto in cui deve essere riformata radicalmente e questa riforma radicale non può avvenire senza una dose di dolore economico che potrebbe mettere a repentaglio la loro autorità. Da qui la risposta al Grande Default attraverso il Grande Reset. Questa è la storia di un coyote, che quando non riesce a sfamarsi all'esterno ricorre all'autofagocitazione. Lo stesso è accaduto ai membri del G7, dove i sei membri restanti hanno iniziato a fagocitare il settimo: gli Stati Uniti.

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Durante tutta la mia vita la Groenlandia era fuori dai radar della maggior parte degli americani.

Se gli americani sapevano qualcosa della Groenlandia, era che si trattava della risposta alla domanda banale: “Qual è l'isola più grande del mondo?”

Negli ultimi decenni i fanatici del clima hanno ripetutamente lanciato allarmi su allarmi riguardo il fatto che i livelli globali del mare sarebbero aumentati pericolosamente a causa dello scioglimento dei ghiacciai della Groenlandia e della vasta copertura del ghiaccio artico.

Purtroppo per gli allarmisti, il famoso ghiacciaio Petermann della Groenlandia ha continuato ad accumulare ghiaccio negli ultimi dodici anni, crescendo di quasi 16 chilometri in lunghezza dal 2012 al 2024. Infatti, negli ultimi dodici anni, la perdita di ghiaccio in Groenlandia si è ridotta complessivamente di due terzi, pari allo 0,0005% della copertura glaciale totale, una quantità non sufficiente a modificare la tendenza a lungo termine dell'innalzamento del livello globale del mare a un tasso di 3 centimetri ogni decennio.

Nel 2025 la Groenlandia diventa improvvisamente una notizia di grande attualità. Il presidente Donald Trump, citando la posizione strategica dell'isola come vitale per la sicurezza statunitense e internazionale, insieme alle ricchezze minerarie in gran parte inutilizzate, ha parlato apertamente dell'annessione dell'isola agli Stati Uniti, suggerendo persino la possibilità di ricorrere alla forza.

Anche se potremmo rabbrividire di fronte all'indelicata proposta di Trump di un'occupazione forzata di un protettorato danese con una popolazione di soli 57.000 abitanti, ha perfettamente ragione nel dire che la Groenlandia è strategicamente importante, e lo è da molto tempo. Lo so sin dalla metà degli anni '50.

Qui devo addentrarmi in un capitolo ampiamente dimenticato della storia della Guerra Fredda. Negli anni '50, con lo sviluppo dei missili balistici intercontinentali (ICBM) dotati di testata nucleare, gli Stati Uniti cercarono di escogitare modi per difendersi dalla minaccia sovietica. Le tattiche difensive spaziavano dalle esercitazioni nelle scuole elementari, che ci costringevano a ripiegarci in patetiche palline di carne nascoste sotto i banchi, alla costruzione della Linea di Allarme Precoce a Distanza (DEW), una serie di decine di installazioni radar all'estremità settentrionale del continente nordamericano che si estendeva verso est fino alla Groenlandia.

Sebbene potesse sembrare controintuitivo per chi pensasse che i sovietici ci avrebbero lanciato i loro missili balistici intercontinentali attraverso l'Atlantico, la realtà geografica del nostro globo è che la distanza più breve tra le rampe di lancio nucleari russe e gli obiettivi negli Stati Uniti era ed è ancora sopra la regione polare e l'Oceano Artico. I radar DEW dovevano darci tempo sufficiente per lanciare un contrattacco e (si sperava) intercettare almeno alcuni dei missili in arrivo.

Ho avuto modo di dare un'occhiata dall'interno alla Linea DEW. “Pop”, lo zio che ha dato una casa a me e a mia madre vedova, aveva eccellenti capacità ingegneristiche e costruttive. Lavorava per la Michigan Bell, parte del Bell System, il principale appaltatore che collaborava con il Dipartimento della Difesa per la costruzione della Linea DEW.

Per farla breve su “Pop”: nonostante avesse servito il suo Paese per tre anni nella Marina degli Stati Uniti a metà degli anni '20, rimanendo nella riserva da allora fino alla Seconda guerra mondiale e prestando servizio attivo per cinque anni in essa (quattro dei quali sulla portaerei Essex nel Pacifico), all'età di cinquant'anni non aveva ancora finito di servire il suo Paese. Si offrì volontario (cosa che fece davvero infuriare mia zia!) per servire nell'Artico e fu nominato sovrintendente assistente responsabile della costruzione dei radar. Il suo superiore diretto si occupò della contabilità in patria, mentre “Pop” visse nell'Artico per due anni (1955-1957) e supervisionò personalmente la costruzione di ognuna di quelle installazioni radar.

Lavorare alla Linea DEW non era per i deboli di cuore. “Pop” copriva spesso due turni da 10 ore nello stesso giorno. C'erano bagni con secchi a temperature di -30 gradi sotto zero; c'erano le lunghe ore di buio in inverno. In più di un'occasione le squadre spalarono la neve per una settimana per preparare una pista di fortuna per gli aerei in arrivo che trasportavano attrezzature e rifornimenti necessari, solo per vedere poi scatenarsi una tempesta di vento il giorno della consegna prevista, vanificando l'intera settimana di lavoro e vanificando così la consegna sperata. Ho ancora una scatola piena di diapositive fotografiche che mostrano oltre una dozzina di aerei gravemente danneggiati durante l'atterraggio sul ghiaccio irregolare, alcuni dei quali erano aerei su cui “Pop” era stato passeggero. Ricordo di aver sentito parlare di una vittima: un uomo caduto in un crepaccio. Costruire la Linea DEW, quindi, era tutt'altro che un compito facile, con il solo vantaggio principale di vedersi raddoppiare lo stipendio.

Come accennato in precedenza, la Groenlandia, come l'Alaska e il Canada, era un sito di installazioni della Linea DEW. Infatti, uno dei regali che “Pop” portò dall'Artico fu un gagliardetto dalla “Base Aerea di Narsarsuak” in Groenlandia. Sono sicuro di essere stato l'unico bambino della mia scuola ad aver mai sentito parlare di Narsarsuak (oggi si scrive “Narsarsuaq”). Curiosità: la pista di Narsarsuaq è in salita verso est, quindi invece di decollare controvento, gli aerei decollano tutti in discesa verso ovest.

La Linea DEW è stata chiusa nel 1993. I satelliti possono rilevare i lanci di missili molto prima dei radar terrestri, con linee di vista limitate dalla curvatura terrestre. Ciononostante la Groenlandia rimane strategicamente importante. Rappresenta un terreno fertile per le malefatte russe e cinesi. E, dato il potenziale economico dei giacimenti minerari sull'isola, è comprensibile che Trump la voglia avvicinare all'orbita statunitense. Spero solo che le sue dichiarazioni schiette non facciano naufragare un buon accordo con i groenlandesi.

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Ginny Garner wrote:

Lew,

For those of us who have opposed every war since Vietnam, or all wars, and whose hearts are broken and our sensibilities sickened by US foreign policy funding the bombs and weapons in Gaza, Ukraine and elsewhere, we need to be reminded sometimes that there will be peace in the valley when we are reunited with the Lord. Pat Boone was a guest on The Johnny Cash Show in 1969, and the two of them performed the beautiful gospel song, “Peace in the Valley.”

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Polls prove just one thing; the effectiveness of propaganda.
Approve/disapprove “statistics” only determine how many dumbasses bought the story.
I just have to laugh!

As a recent example; Tariffs and stock market gyrations so-spun as earth shattering news for weeks are finally proven “unpopular” by the very networks that fear mongered and spun the idea in the first place!  Smug “news” anchors gloat over the fulfillment of their prophecy “proven by opinion polls”,…opinions they just implanted!  You can easily see those views regurgitated by network believers.  You can also see them reflected in public behaviors demonstrating the power of words and scurrilous lies.

How many young men sacrificed their lives “to do their patriotic duty” believing 9/11 was legit?

The power of media is not to be underestimated!

“In the beginning were WORDS!”  People will “jump off bridges” on account of a few discouraging words.

Doesn’t that disprove the old saying, “Sticks and stones can break my bones, but WORDS will never hurt me?”

Words are seeds; watch them grow into beautiful flowers,…or deadly poisons.

Lies Live On;

The thing is; once these lies are disseminated, people cop a position and refuse to ever admit they were fooled.

Need I list “official” explanations for JFK/RFK/MLK murders, Vietnam, Waco, Kansas City, 9/11, Iraq/Afghanistan/Libya, Covid 19, Ukraine or 10/7 that will not die???  Highly paid network shills perpetuate these historical fictions as “givens.”

How ’bout the enemization of Russia, China, Iran?  Neocon “wet dreams?”

After Russia’s “unprovoked” invasion of Ukraine, yellow and white flags showed massive support for a phony proxy war.

Israel was brutally “attacked” on 10/7 and proceeded to genocide Gaza.  Opposition to zionist Israel’s rampage morphed into “antisemitism” and we were shown the limits to “free speech.”

Or the phony food and drug ads, and bogus medical findings?  First you are made to wonder if you have a particular “disease” and are then handed a pill,…all presented by happy actors dancing through fields of glory.

Or CIA/Mossad/MI-6 ops nixxed as “conspiracy theories”, Epstein’s certain “suicide”, covid came from “China”, “tinfoil-hat” chemtrails and “weather balloon” UFOs?

People are still getting flu shots and Pfizer is still promoting covid boosters for kids?  WTF, don’t they know the jig is up?

And yet big-lies seem to have a half life. Soon after Bush neocons invaded Iraq (again), approval ratings for the war were at least 70%.  The country was still in the grips of a patriotic reaction to false-flag 9/11 after being stunned by “video evidence” of an Arab Terrorist attack on the Twin Towers.  A few years went by and approval fell below 50%.  Some began to realize that Israel was the sole beneficiary of a “Mideast Cleansing” by a “coalition of the willing.” The endless war went on for another 20 years, spreading through Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and Yemen flooding western Europe with millions of refugees.

The sick-ass networks even “proved” Ofc. Derek Chauvin guilty of murder by running a video of George Floyd’s fentanyl suicide in a loop!  That fueled the BLM race thumpers and gave a green light for looting and burning.

A divisive distraction that artificially created racism and white-cop hate where none existed could have only benefited the left over a supposedly white supremacist right and even brought a bogus court conviction against Chauvin.

Color TeeVee became black and white; mainly black!

Demographics were baked-into a chocolate upside-down cake.

Years later, those who saw the infamous video are still 100% convinced of black death by white cop.

Trump should pardon Chauvin who survived a brutal knife attack and remains in the can to this day!

Ditto Jan 6, the infamous “insurrection” that halted all question of election fraud.  It sure seemed FBI assets provoked the invasion of the capitol, everyone in the area was marched off to prison Gestapo style, and a phony “1/6 Committee” doubled-down on the setup.

THE Existential Enigma

Maybe the worst sin of the “system” is much celebrated university-designed agriculture.

Decades of “progress” have only yielded nutrient-deficient produce, a chronic disease epidemic and the unsustainable destruction of rivers/lakes/oceans?

Chemical farming, GMO crops and confined animal feedlots provided production shortcuts at great cost to human health and the environment.

They treated mother-soil like dirt and contaminated the planet with chemical fertilizers and our bodies with pesticides/herbicides and made genetically modified monocrops dominant in all opposition to diversified farming and the laws of ecology!

Soil is the living organism our food once depended on,… until chemical methods became little more than toxic dry-land hydroponics; seed/fertilize/irrigate.

The idiocy behind modern agronomics defies common sense, but unfortunately replaced natural diversified farming the way pharmaceutical medicine replaced simple therapies and natural immunity.

Why?

Whether from envy, lack of self esteem, IQ or originality, most folks succumb to peer pressure and follow the crowd…errr fake narratives imposed by media tricksters.  Weren’t they warned against other kids as bad influences by their parents?  TV news, entertainment programming, radio and Hollywood movies, and now social media is packed with queer peers and bad influencers.

Everybody needs a friend, but the media is really no friend of Jack’s.

Heroic gun violence is the meat and potatoes of prime-time programming, adding to the prevalence of mass shootings as much as chemically-whacked suicidal serotonin-overloaded kids under “mental healthcare.”

Network tradecraft relies on generating fear, shame, envy and a primal  sense of being left-out if one does not join an imaginary bandwagon.

At this point it is probably too late to awaken the masses to the sly perpetrators of endless wars, corporate scams and their abject serfdom.

They have been hoodwinked, hosed, boned and bullshitted, yet bristle at any reference of reality….a sad commentary on human gullibility.

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