Can Rubio Beat The Blob?
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Greater Israel
Thanks, David Martin.
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Trump Rolls Out AI Bio-Medical Control Grid Backed by Israel
Writes, Ginny Garner:
Lew,
Ryan Cristian of the Last American Vagabond does a thorough job reporting on President Trump’s AI bio-medical control grid – Project Stargate – backed by Israel and the deep state. Is Trump doing some great things? Yes. Is he also doing something really, really bad? Yes.
See here.
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“Another name for ethnic cleansing” Why Egypt and Jordan are likely to reject Trump’s proposal to take in Palestinians from Gaza
Thanks. John Smith.
Why Egypt and Jordan are likely to reject Trump’s proposal to take in Palestinians from Gaza |
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Trump sending Israel thousands of 2,000-pound bombs despite cease-fire
Thanks, Saleh Abdullah.
We already knew that Israel would still get what they needed despite Donald Trump’s order to suspend foreign aid. Israeli lobbying groups are just too powerful and Trump has aligned himself with numerous Zionists.
With that said, the jury is still out on if Trump will support doing a war against Iran on their behalf. I hope such a thing will not materialize. Much of this is probably going to depend on if Bibi is able to maintain his grip on power or not.
https://x.com/realstewpeters/status/1880816680932446497
Andy Biggs was the only person in the video who definitively said that he cared more about the American people than Israel.
This is just more proof that Congress is bought and paid for by Israel. It shouldn’t be difficult for these people to simply answer that they care more about the American people than a foreign Zionist entity that is committing a genocide. The fact that this was a difficult thing for pretty much every person in this video says all you need to know about who owns Congress.
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The Limits of Our Anti-Woke Allies
British evolutionary biologist and prominent atheist Richard Dawkins has regrets about describing himself as a “cultural Christian” last year in an interview. “I imprudently said I was a ‘cultural Christian,’ and I haven’t heard the end of it,” wrote Dawkins in a recent piece for The Spectator.
Though standing by his earlier comments—in which he expressed appreciation for certain cultural elements of the Christian tradition—he quickly added: “but none of that undermines my conviction that what they believe about the nature of reality is nonsense.” Moreover, Dawkins labels the “God-shaped hole” thesis—which posits that absent organized religion, society will descend into moral chaos—“patronizing” and “insulting” to humanity.
In recent years, Dawkins has joined a cadre of other public intellectuals who are causes célèbres for their repudiation of various ideological expressions of the Left. Dawkins, for example, has called trans ideologies “a form of quasi-religious cult, based on faith, not evidence,” which “denies scientific reality,” “mercilessly persecutes heretics,” and “abuses vulnerable children too young to know their own mind.” Jordan Peterson made a name (and a career) for himself by criticizing a Canadian law that prohibited discrimination against gender identity and expression. Evolutionary biologists Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying gained notoriety for resisting woke policies at Evergreen State College. Brown University economist Glenn Loury returned to the Right after decades away, attacking Black Lives Matter and other racial grievance movements.
Yet as much as conservatives (and Christians) may enjoy common cause with such prominent figures, Dawkins’ recent comments are a sobering reminder of the limits of making political alliances with those subscribing to worldviews antithetical to the Faith. Brilliant of a scientist as Dawkins may be, he is no friend to Christianity, calling religious faith “one of the world’s great evils.” And as such Christian thinkers as Ed Feser and David Hart have observed, his criticisms of Christianity are typically little more than puerile, bad-faith caricatures.
Dawkins is perhaps in a class of his own when it comes to his relationship with Christianity. Peterson, in contrast, though not exactly a person of faith, is at least sympathetic to the Bible and Christianity, as evidenced by his recent book applying his now-famous psychoanalytic approach to interpreting the Old Testament. Though his wife recently entered the Church, Peterson told EWTN he was “unlikely” to convert. And having read and reviewed Peterson’s book, I confess I’m not sure he even believes in God, at least not in the theistic sense.
Don’t misunderstand me. I’m very grateful for Peterson leveraging his incredible rhetorical gifts to counter the madness of sexual and racial ideologues who, in their seemingly limitless desire to foster victim narratives and grievances, would remake the world into a dystopian nightmare far worse than the “white supremacist” and “patriarchal” Western civilization they aim to supplant. And as much as Dawkins desires to attack the trans movement for its errant attempts to refashion the very idea of male and female, irreparably damaging thousands if not millions of people in the process, more power to him.
But we should remember that many of our allies originating from the secular, liberal academy embrace principles and premises demonstrably wrong and irreconcilable with our Catholic Faith. Anyone subscribing to materialism (the rejection of any transcendent reality) or promoting freedom of speech or personal self-realization as the highest goods is inhabiting the same philosophical worldview as our shared political enemies. Thus, whatever assistance they may offer in the battle against the evils of transgenderism or racial grievance are of little help in the broader war to re-foreground the highest, most important natural goods (e.g., virtue, friendship) and supernatural goods (e.g., grace, communion with God).
For many such secular personalities, their alliance with us is ad hoc: for them, woke sexual and racial ideologies are bad not because they inhibit man from achieving his telos as one enjoying the imago Dei but because they obstruct the false individualistic and materialist promises of modernity. This is why we hear far less from many of them regarding other issues just as degrading or damaging to the human person, such as abortion, surrogacy, in vitro fertilization, or contraception. All of these, even anti-woke secular intellectuals believe, are integral to the protection and promotion of individual rights and the freedom to live as we best see fit.
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A New President Takes Office
As Donald Trumps begin his second term in office, we naturally wonder what to expect. Certainly, we can be glad that the Marxist Kamala Harris did not succeed brain-dead “President” Joe Biden, but how much of an improvement over that sorry wreck will he be? In this week’s column, I’m going to examine his inaugural address to get some clues.
Trump begins on a very optimistic note: “The golden age of America begins right now. From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world. We will be the envy of every nation, and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer. Our sovereignty will be reclaimed. Our safety will be restored. The scales of justice will be rebalanced. The vicious, violent, and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and our government will end. And our top priority will be to create a nation that is proud, prosperous, and free. America will soon be greater, stronger, and far more exceptional than ever before. I return to the presidency confident and optimistic that we are at the start of a thrilling new era of national success. A tide of change is sweeping the country, sunlight is pouring over the entire world, and America has the chance to seize this opportunity like never before.”
The dominant theme here is strength. America must be respected and envied by others, and to achieve this goal we must be stronger than we have ever been before. For Rothbardians, this is wrong. We shouldn’t be in a struggle with other countries to see who is stronger. We should instead mind our own business and have peaceful relations with them. On the other hand, there are some good things in this opening, especially about fighting the “vicious, violent, and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department.” Here is where our real struggle should be—with the woke left.
Trump makes another comment that should give us pause. He has unlimited belief in himself, claiming that God has called him to restore America to “greatness.” “Just a few months ago, in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin’s bullet ripped through my ear. But I felt then and believe even more so now that my life was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to make America great again.” Rothbardians don’t want a Leader: the whole point is to reduce the power of the government, not increase it. Ron Paul would never say anything like that.
One of the best things in the speech is that Trump does realize that we need to battle the woke Left. He will eliminate federal job requirements that give preference to minorities and end government support for transgender policies that aim to destroy the traditional family. “This week, I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life. As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female. And I will sign an order to stop our warriors from being subjected to radical political theories and social experiments while on duty. It’s going to end immediately.”
We are also heartened by Trump’s statement that he wants to stay out of foreign wars. “We will measure our success not only by the battles we win but also by the wars that we end — and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into. My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier. That’s what I want to be: a peacemaker and a unifier.” But it isn’t our job to impose peace settlements on other countries. It’s not good news that Trump has sent a message to Putin telling him to end the Ukraine war “or else.”
Trump rightly says that we need to combat inflation, reduce government spending and end the Green New Deal. Once more, we should be glad that Trump defeated Kamala Harris. “The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices. With my actions today, we will end the Green New Deal. In other words, you’ll be able to buy the car of your choice.” But the way to end inflation is to stop printing more money, end the Fed, and restore the gold standard.
The way to end inflation is not to impose tariffs and trade restrictions that hurt American consumers. Tariffs raise prices: they aren’t a magic formula that enables America to make other countries pay our taxes. We should allow the free market to operate unhindered and not impose an industrial policy that tries to increase the number of American manufacturing jobs. Trump doesn’t realize this. He says: “We will build automobiles in America again at a rate that nobody could have dreamt possible just a few years ago. I will immediately begin the overhaul of our trade system to protect American workers and families. Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens. President McKinley made our country very rich through tariffs.” To give him credit, though, Trump is right that many so-called “trade agreements” are just government-controlled trade, not genuine free trade, and we should get out of them.
If we want peace, as Trump says he does, we should not try to expand American territory, take over the Panama Canal, and get into a war with China about it. “The United States — I mean, think of this — spent more money than ever spent on a project before and lost 38,000 lives in the building of the Panama Canal. We have been treated very badly from this foolish gift that should have never been made, and Panama’s promise to us has been broken. The purpose of our deal and the spirit of our treaty has been totally violated. American ships are being severely overcharged and not treated fairly in any way, shape or form, and that includes the United States Navy. And above all, China is operating the Panama Canal. And we didn’t give it to China. We gave it to Panama, and we’re taking it back.” The principle that we financed a project a century ago and therefore now own it is not valid.
We are also dismayed by Trump’s statement that “today is Martin Luther King Day. In his honor, we will strive together to make his dream a reality. We will make his dream come true.” King was a pro-Communist agitator, and his “dream” was to turn America into a socialist country.
Despite its problems, Trump’s speech has many good points. We should do everything we can to encourage him to act on these and to urge him to support the free market and a non-interventionist foreign policy.
Ambition is the lifeblood of a great nation, and, right now, our nation is more ambitious than any other. There’s no nation like our nation.
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The Constitution Has Gone AWOL: From Presidential Power Grabs to Martial Law
“Rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil liberties just as hollow.”—Justice Neil Gorsuch
That didn’t take long.
Within days of Donald Trump’s second term, the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights disappeared from the White House’s website.
While the Trump Administration insists the removal of these foundational documents will eventually be restored to the site, the timing and symbolism of their removal is hard to ignore. Especially in light of the flurry of executive orders issued by President Trump as a means of bypassing the very rule of law those documents were intended to ensure.
Already, Trump has unilaterally declared two national states of emergency, announced his intention to disregard the 14th Amendment’s assurance of birthright citizenship, established two new government agencies, and pushed for an expansion of the death penalty.
So much for the Founders’ efforts to guard against this kind of concentrated, absolute power by establishing a system of checks of balances that separate and shares power between three co-equal branches to ensure that no single authority is entrusted with all the powers of government.
Mind you, Trump is not unique in his use of executive orders to bypass Congress and unilaterally impose his will upon the nation, but it is indicative of the fact that he, like his predecessors, will continue to serve as an imperial president, using executive orders, decrees, memorandums, proclamations, national security directives and legislative signing statements to operate above the law and beyond the reach of the Constitution.
America, meet your latest dictator-in-chief.
Be warned: what is happening right now is political theater. Allow yourself to be distracted by it, and you will miss the real power play afoot: the expansion of unaccountable presidential power that exposes us to constitutional peril.
The Deep State is counting on us to be distracted.
Don’t fall for it.
We must be particularly leery when political promises to fix everything that is wrong with the nation are dependent on presidential power grabs and manufactured crises.
That’s the oldest trick in the book.
Whether the ends justify the means is never the point.
It is especially when the ends seem to justify the means that one must tread with particular caution.
That’s how we landed in this mess in the first place.
Power-hungry and lawless, the government has weaponized one national crisis after another in order to expand its powers and justify all manner of government tyranny in the so-called name of national security.
As a result, we have become a nation in a permanent state of emergency.
That indefinite state of crisis has remained constant, no matter which party has controlled Congress and the White House.
The seeds of this present madness were sown almost two decades ago when George W. Bush stealthily issued two presidential directives that granted the president the power to unilaterally declare a national emergency, which is loosely defined as “any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions.”
Comprising the country’s Continuity of Government (COG) plan, these directives (National Security Presidential Directive 51 and Homeland Security Presidential Directive 20) provide a skeletal outline of the actions the president will take in the event of a “national emergency.”
Just what sort of actions the president will take once he declares a national emergency can barely be discerned from the barebones directives. However, one thing is clear: in the event of a national emergency, the COG directives give unchecked executive, legislative and judicial power to the president.
It doesn’t even matter what the nature of the crisis might be: civil unrest, the national emergencies, “unforeseen economic collapse, loss of functioning political and legal order, purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters.”
They have all become fair game to a government that continues to quietly assemble, test and deploy emergency powers a long laundry list of terrifying powers that override the Constitution and can be activated at a moment’s notice.
We’re talking about lockdown powers (at both the federal and state level): the ability to suspend the Constitution, indefinitely detain American citizens, bypass the courts, quarantine whole communities or segments of the population, override the First Amendment by outlawing religious gatherings and assemblies of more than a few people, shut down entire industries and manipulate the economy, muzzle dissidents, “stop and seize any plane, train or automobile to stymie the spread of contagious disease,” reshape financial markets, create a digital currency (and thus further restrict the use of cash), determine who should live or die.
While these are powers the police state has been working to make permanent, they barely scratch the surface of the far-reaching powers the government has unilaterally claimed for itself without any pretense of being reined in or restricted in its power grabs by Congress, the courts or the citizenry.
As David C. Unger, observes in The Emergency State: America’s Pursuit of Absolute Security at All Costs:
“For seven decades we have been yielding our most basic liberties to a secretive, unaccountable emergency state – a vast but increasingly misdirected complex of national security institutions, reflexes, and beliefs that so define our present world that we forget that there was ever a different America. … Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have given way to permanent crisis management: to policing the planet and fighting preventative wars of ideological containment, usually on terrain chosen by, and favorable to, our enemies. Limited government and constitutional accountability have been shouldered aside by the kind of imperial presidency our constitutional system was explicitly designed to prevent.”
This is all happening according to schedule.
The civil unrest, the national emergencies, “unforeseen economic collapse, loss of functioning political and legal order, purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters,” the government’s reliance on the armed forces to solve domestic political and social problems, the implicit declaration of martial law packaged as a well-meaning and overriding concern for the nation’s security: the powers-that-be have been planning and preparing for such a crisis for years now.
As we have witnessed in recent years, that national emergency can take any form, can be manipulated for any purpose and can be used to justify any end goal—all on the say so of the president.
The emergency powers that we know about which presidents might claim during such states of emergency are vast, ranging from imposing martial law and suspending habeas corpus to shutting down all forms of communications, including implementing an internet kill switch, and restricting travel.
Yet according to documents obtained by the Brennan Center, there may be many more secret powers that presidents may institute in times of so-called crisis without oversight from Congress, the courts, or the public.
Remember, these powers do not expire at the end of a president’s term. They remain on the books, just waiting to be used or abused by the next political demagogue.
So, too, every action taken by the current occupant of the White House and his predecessors to weaken the system of checks and balances, sidestep the rule of law, and expand the power of the executive branch of government makes us that much more vulnerable to those who would abuse those powers in the future.
Although the Constitution invests the President with very specific, limited powers, in recent years, American presidents (Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton, etc.) have claimed the power to completely and almost unilaterally alter the landscape of this country for good or for ill.
The Executive Branch’s willingness to circumvent the Constitution by leaning heavily on the president’s so-called emergency powers constitutes a gross perversion of what limited power the Constitution affords the president.
As law professor William P. Marshall explains, “every extraordinary use of power by one President expands the availability of executive branch power for use by future Presidents.” Moreover, it doesn’t even matter whether other presidents have chosen not to take advantage of any particular power, because “it is a President’s action in using power, rather than forsaking its use, that has the precedential significance.”
In other words, each successive president continues to add to his office’s list of extraordinary orders and directives, expanding the reach and power of the presidency and granting him- or herself near dictatorial powers.
All of the imperial powers amassed by Obama, Bush, Trump, Biden and now Trump again—to kill American citizens without due process, to detain suspects (including American citizens) indefinitely, to strip Americans of their citizenship rights, to carry out mass surveillance on Americans without probable cause, to wage wars without congressional authorization, to suspend laws during wartime, to disregard laws with which he might disagree, to conduct secret wars and convene secret courts, to sanction torture, to sidestep the legislatures and courts with executive orders and signing statements, to direct the military to operate beyond the reach of the law, to establish a standing army on American soil, to operate a shadow government, to declare national emergencies for any manipulated reason, and to act as a dictator and a tyrant, above the law and beyond any real accountability—have become a permanent part of the president’s toolbox of terror.
This is what you might call a stealthy, creeping, silent, slow-motion coup d’état.
As an investigative report by the Brennan Center explains:
“There are currently 41 declared national emergencies, most of which have been in place for more than a decade… Some of the emergency powers Congress has made available to the president are so breathtaking in their vastness that they would make an autocrat do a spit take. Presidents can use emergency declarations to shut down communications infrastructure, freeze private assets without judicial process, control domestic transportation, or even suspend the prohibition on government testing of chemical and biological agents on unwitting human subjects.”
We must recalibrate the balance of power.
For starters, Congress should put an end to the use of presidential executive orders, decrees, memorandums, proclamations, national security directives and legislative signing statements as a means of getting around Congress and the courts.
At a minimum, as The Washington Post suggests, “all emergency declarations [s]hould expire automatically after three or six months, whereupon Congress would need to vote upon any proposed extension. It is time for both parties to recognize that governing via endless crises — even when they are employed to implement broadly popular policies that win plaudits from key political constituencies — subverts our system of constitutional government.”
We’ve got to start making both the president and the police state play by the rules of the Constitution.
As Justice Gorsuch recognized:
“Fear and the desire for safety are powerful forces. They can lead to a clamor for action—almost any action—as long as someone does something to address a perceived threat. A leader or an expert who claims he can fix everything, if only we do exactly as he says, can prove an irresistible force. We do not need to confront a bayonet, we need only a nudge, before we willingly abandon the nicety of requiring laws to be adopted by our legislative representatives and accept rule by decree. Along the way, we will accede to the loss of many cherished civil liberties—the right to worship freely, to debate public policy without censorship, to gather with friends and family, or simply to leave our homes. We may even cheer on those who ask us to disregard our normal lawmaking processes and forfeit our personal freedoms. Of course, this is no new story. Even the ancients warned that democracies can degenerate toward autocracy in the face of fear.”
If we continue down this road, there can be no surprise about what awaits us at the end.
After all, it is a tale that has been told time and again throughout history.
For example, over 90 years ago, the citizens of another democratic world power elected a leader who promised to protect them from all dangers. In return for this protection, and under the auspice of fighting terrorism, he was given absolute power.
This leader went to great lengths to make his rise to power appear both legal and necessary, masterfully manipulating much of the citizenry and their government leaders.
Unnerved by threats of domestic terrorism and foreign invaders, the people had little idea that the domestic turmoil of the times—such as street rioting and the fear of Communism taking over the country—was staged by the leader in an effort to create fear and later capitalize on it. In the ensuing months, this charismatic leader ushered in a series of legislative measures that suspended civil liberties and habeas corpus rights and empowered him as a dictator.
On March 23, 1933, the nation’s legislative body passed the Enabling Act, formally referred to as the “Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and the Nation,” which appeared benign and allowed the leader to pass laws by decree in times of emergency.
What it succeeded in doing, however, was ensuring that the leader became a law unto himself.
The leader’s name was Adolf Hitler.
The rest, as they say, is history. Yet as I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, history has a way of repeating itself.
Hitler’s rise to power should serve as a stark lesson to always be leery of granting any government leader sweeping powers.
This originally appeared on The Rutherford Institute.
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Government Means Perpetual Crisis
If we look around, then, at the crucial problem areas of our society—the areas of crisis and failure—we find in each and every case a “red thread” marking and uniting them all: the thread of government. In every one of these cases, government either has totally run or heavily influenced the activity. — Murray N. Rothbard, For a New Liberty [emphasis mine]
As I write this wildfires are still burning around Los Angeles, and social media posts are aflame about the $770 payments government is offering to victims of the disaster. Further igniting their rage is the fact that billions of their former dollars continue to flow into contractors pockets to fight wars almost anywhere except here. Adding to this was the discovery that fire hydrants had no water, the LA fire department had ignored “extraordinary warnings of life-threatening winds,” and the reservoir in Pacific Palisades was dry.
And where was LA mayor Karen Bass? Attending a cocktail party in Ghana when the Palisades fire erupted.
Since government collects its revenue coercively, either through direct taxation or monetary inflation, citizens have little recourse for protest beyond what they are already doing. The standard practice of marching with protest signs or disruptive sit-ins might offer some psychological relief but not much else. Government doesn’t take orders from citizens unless they’re closely connected in some nefarious way, such as through blackmail, cronyism, or lucrative campaign donations.
Anger often drives people to the polls periodically but government controls those as well. Not by coincidence is “none of the above” ever found on the ballot.
The good news is government, as it exists, with its Ponzi scheme fiscal gap of some $200 trillion in unfunded liabilities and its insatiable appetite for meddling where the public can’t see it, will likely spend itself into oblivion, while exponentially-rising technology will be available to create a better life for the rest of us.
The lust for intervention
“God is power,” wrote George Orwell in 1984, and to interventionists of all persuasions for whom economic law is flexible and uncaring, “God” finds its realization in the State. As Mises wrote in Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis,
In order to promote their plans [interventionists] flatly denied that there is any such thing as economic law. In their opinion governments are free to achieve all they aim at without being restrained by an inexorable regularity in the sequence of economic phenomena. Like the German socialist Ferdinand Lassalle, they maintain that the State is God.
Capitalism, socialism’s opposite, is a socio-economic system based on an individual’s right to life, including property rights, characterized by private ownership of the means of production, voluntary exchange, and unhampered markets governed by profit and loss. It is a system that allows people to dispose of what they earn in a manner of their choosing. It also forbids any legal claim on the public for one’s losses, since that would violate their rights.
Capitalism rightly understood is laissez-faire capitalism, a hands-off approach of government to the market. There are no government bailouts of too-big-to-fails under laissez-faire. Charity would replace welfare, and government ideally would be non-coercive, admittedly still a novel concept for most, but one deserving close attention. (See Robert P. Murphy’s Chaos Theory for starters.)
But for those who oppose it capitalism means profit-seeking by any means necessary, and to help ensure a profit firms partner with government and media allies to curtail competition and censor, ridicule or attack criticism. Recall the hysterical reaction of legacy media and government authorities to ivermectin for treating Covid-19 when numerous clinical trials demonstrated its safety and effectiveness. Whose interests were being protected then?
More government, less capitalism
A recent Joe Rogan interview with Mel Gibson on X, in which three of Gibson’s friends found ivermectin, fenbendazole, and methylene blue apparently helpful for treating cancer, ends with them wondering why this finding is not well-known. They blame the profit motive, apparently forgetting that biotech firms have close ties with government.
We hear “climate change” imposed as the reason for almost any crisis or problem, but capitalism, because renewable energy is not yet profitable, is blamed for climate change. Never mind that climate science, as with any science, is never settled, and that what is called “climate change” is a political narrative that stands for more government and less CO2, and that the name it replaced, “global warming,” was an open invitation for any high schooler to refute.
Since humans exhale, globalists and others who claim to be benefactors of humanity have made it clear that prosperity for all requires that “all” be reduced significantly first. Thus, a 2023 Scientific American article argues that Population Decline Will Change the World for the Better. The World Economic Forum, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the United Nations Population Fund, and The Club of Rome — all well-funded and all want fewer people around.
The UN’s 2030 agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which seeks to “to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all,” originally lacked any strategy about population control. But according to a Population Matters 2019 report, “if this vision is to have any chance of materializing governments must now add an 18th goal: ‘Dampen population growth.’”
Rather than speculate about how a government might “dampen” some portion of its citizens in an undisclosed manner, the report insists it’s referring to “voluntary, rights-based family planning,” which proved successful in Bangladesh from 1977-1996 when married women of reproductive age were given free contraceptives. Cynics who say anyone advocating for population reduction should be the first to volunteer, clearly are not on-board with this glorious crusade.
A cynic might also say the Pfizer Covid vaccine has done a notable job of reducing population numbers, especially among the elderly and young.
Conclusion
In his popular The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith agreed with Rothbard that government was “the focus of our social failure” — but advocated instead for more government spending. I suggest we try a different approach: Protect ourselves as best we can until government enters irrelevance then let the free market breathe.
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They Put Stink on Real Cures,… We Found Out!
The pardon of Dr. Fauci says it all! As perpetrator of bioweapon research and psychological warfare, his 50 years of medical fraud and the extermination of millions may never be exposed in a court of law. The diminutive doctor of death promoted lockdowns, ventilators and remdesivir and said, “Wait for the vaxxxine.” Meanwhile, alternative opinions saved lives with ivermectin, HCQ, iodine, nebulized H2O2 and NAC, Vitamin C and even nicotine patches which block spike proteins from attaching to ACE 2 receptors. Once the mRNA vaxxx became widely available, deaths really skyrocketed!
Saving Fauci’s rotten hide was not even the point! Protecting the other bad actors and a most evil government plot IS!
Whether or not the covid19 “can of worms” has been sealed-shut,… remains to be seen.
“Doubt is the devil!”
Doubt destroys confidence and the ability to act.
Doubt confers weakness on captive minds as it compromises immune systems.
Authoritative pronouncements from the likes of our “Modern Mengeles” and their fake medical “The-Science” have deceived the world by creating false causation and profitable medications for symptomatic effects.
First causes are found in nutrition, toxicity, emotional states and lifestyle choices, not in the lack of some downstream drug as deceptive marketeers would have you believe.
Their main tools are sowing doubt on the competition,…err common sense, inexpensive natural treatments and actually established basic Science,…along with TeeVee doctors, repetitive ads featuring happy pharmaceutical users and small-print admissions of horrible but “rare” side effects.
Real cause-oriented cures have only one “side effect”; healing!
“They know better”
They dismiss natural immunity and tell you you need vaxxxines.
They say steak and butter will give ya a heart attack.
They push testing to look for things just to scare ya.
They disperse disinformation to steal your minds.
They created the darkness of your captivity.
You built their mansions, but never caught-on to the game.
Vitamin C
AKA; ascorbic acid and its ascorbates like sodium ascorbate used in IV applications and in rapidly available oral/liquid megadose-forms is an electron boost to a biological system that runs on electricity. As such, Vitamin C is an antioxidant, anti inflammatory, anti biotic, antiviral, antitoxin; antiscorbutic ( “anti-scurvy”). See here.
Dosages are purely individual depending on one’s level of inflammation/oxidative stress,…the quantity needed to restore a deficit in systemic body voltage.
1 gram/day may be sufficient for the young and healthy, buuut dosages for older adults and chronically afflicted may be in the range of 3-10 GRAMS up to four times a day,…and in acute situations like pneumonia, sepsis or encephalitis; IV infusions of 50-150 GRAMS per session!!!
Megadose Vitamin C was successfully used at Chernobyl and Fukushima, and should be employed in super toxic Los Angeles.
Linus Pauling and Vitamin C were “skunked” over 50 yrs ago. Medical standards still do not permit its use in hospitals, though many independent clinics rely on Vitamin C infusions.
Appropriate doses can prevent/treat gingivitis, arthritis and heart/artery disease, address colds/flu and help remove root-cause heavy metal burdens.
The truth about Vitamin C alone would cost the medical system billions/yr!
Depression, PTSD, Concussive Brain injury and At Least 130,000 Veteran Suicides.
Thanks for your service; Now Die!
Military personnel returning from making a mess of Mesopotamia find themselves depressed, homeless and unable to return to normal life..unlike Post WW2 veterans who found jobs, bought houses, attended college and started families. Though many were horribly injured in both wars, those complaining of “psychological” problems were routinely given SSRI antidepressants. With brains overloaded with serotonin, depressions worsened and stated suicidal side effects began claiming a Vet every hour, 24-7-365 for over 20 yrs…do the math. I’d call that extreme medical malpractice!
They suffered from mandatory vaccinations, performance enhancing drugs, burn pits, depleted uranium munitions and cumulative concussion due to constant explosions. A million more equally-exposed war veterans should take note.
They were not detoxed, given nutritional supplements or hyperbaric oxygen therapies/HBOT.
Many also needed a return from destructive behaviors to “nurturing activities” like gardening and dog training as well as group recreation and talk therapies.
Is that any way to treat our heroes, so damaged by an elective invasion based on false propaganda?
My many attempts to inform Veteran-Aid groups fell on deaf ears?
Cancer?
Cancers can be defined as “Acidic Hypoxia”; a metabolic disease. So they try to kill ’em with radiation, poison and surgery,… instead of neutralizing acidity ( a low voltage/low energy condition ) by restoring robust circulation and oxygen penetration.
Cancers arise from any number of mitochondrial insults where normal cells’ mitochondrial ATP-electron production falters, HIF1 /Hypoxic Induction Factor kicks in causing down-regulation of aerobic e- energy production into low output anaerobic fermentation as a survival strategy,…HIF1 also generates capillary formation to increase blood supply to the tumor, protected by the formation of an acid mantle surrounding it to wall-out oxygen and confer immortality.
Contributing causes are many; Vitamin C deficiency promotes HIF1, toxins/metals/bacterial endotoxins/yeast infections/parasites, radiation, poor circulation, hormone imbalance, sedentary lifestyles, high sugar and high polyunsaturated fat diets of processed foods,… All of which hinder metabolic output and steal electron energy, increase acidity, reduce oxygen delivery and feed fermentative metabolism.
How do I know? I reversed breast cancer in my 6yr old dog, twice! The first time I noticed her breast turn black, I started giving her MMS/sodium chlorite for several days; the breast returned to a healthy pink as the chlorite blasted oxygen into the area and oxidized the acidic mantle.
A few months later the next breast in line turned black. This time I injected a saturated baking soda solution into and around the blackened gland. Within a week it turned pink and the dog lived another healthy 7 years! It worked!
The baking soda idea came from Dr. Tulio Simoncini, an Italian physician who advocated the use of baking soda to treat cancers, he blamed on fungi. Though fungus and yeasts thrive in low oxygen/acidic environs, simply alkalizing the area would allow oxygen and normal aerobic metabolism to return. Since a pH of 7.45 is indicative of .45 volts, raising alkalinity also raises ORP/Oxidation-Reduction Potential; system voltage. ( Bicarbonate, magnesium and potassium are pH buffers in the bloodstream. )
Though breast cancer is common in intact unbred female dogs, there is likely a hormonal cause. Other cancers may be attributed to systemic parasites where anti-parasitics like “forbidden” ivermectin and fenbendazole have proven effective.
I can only conclude that healthy metabolic production, detoxification of metals/organics, high intake of Vitamin C and other electron-donating antioxidants.
sulfur compounds like MSM and NAC which promote Vitamin D and glutathione production speed circulation in general and oppose angiogenesis/capillary formation,…all tend to eliminate susceptibility to cancerous formation.
Though cancers are the apex expression of acidic hypoxia, this cellular suffocation promotes many “lesser” diseases. Another app for HBOT, fasting and time restricted eating.
*** My Shotgun Pantry;
I prefer a comprehensive “shotgun” approach to healing, a “personal protocol” bringing every voltage-raising trick into play,…rather than relying on a “silver-bullet” substance or drug.
Results can be expected in a few days for conditions like depression and a positive healing attitude kick in…Detoxification and restoration of skin, joints and vessels can take weeks or months megadosing Vitamin C and collagen sources.
Along with ABCDEK Vitamins I keep kilos of pure Vitamin C crystals and pounds of Arm&Hammer baking soda on hand.
I have food grade hydrogen peroxide in the freezer, ready to be diluted to 3% for use in a nebulizer and NAC capsules to be dissolved in water for nebulization or to be taken orally.
I have veterinary ivermectin for my dog, and I can use it too, transdermally on belly skin.
Pure oregano oil ( oreganoworld.com ) to be used for infections and clearing the gut of bad bacteria and yeast buildup.
Magnesium, manganese, multi-purpose Lugol’s iodine and of course seasalt for all trace minerals as well as Chlorella, charcoal and clays to chelate heavy metals from the gut.
Proteolytic enzymes clear fibrin scars and spike proteins so I consume pineapple/papaya and nattokinase/lumbrokinase.
I built a sauna from local cedar and raise grassfed beef, keep bee hives, grow dozens of varieties of citrus, berries, grapes, persimmons, chestnuts, pecans, gather wild mushrooms and grow organic vegetables. Hunting and fishing provide the cleanest fats & proteins,… when lucky.
4 Common Denominators;
All the chronic, infectious and communicable diseases are the result of “Low System Voltage!” One should be able to maintain vigorous health if he investigates and addresses a short list of root causes;
1) Nutrition; A varied mix of meats/fish/fowl/eggs/raw dairy,… bone broths and stews,….low(er) glycemic carbs; potatoes/rice/organic wheat/corn grits..all scratch-cooked, plus vegetables, fruits, berries and mushrooms.
Avoid liquid vegetable/seed oils in favor of saturated animal fats,… avoid high fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners/ replace with honey, maple syrup and raw sugar.
2) Toxins; Have a hair metal/mineral analysis and know your body’s content of metals in order to focus detoxification efforts and balance mineral levels. These burdens and deficiencies will steal body charge! Address oral infections, water purity, moldy/chemically polluted air.
3) Lifestyle Habits; Seek sunshine, fresh air, recreation and physical activity. Sedentary living, artificial light, screens and indoor air are negatory. Rest is also important and deep sleep essential.
4) Emotional States; Fear/anger/anxiety are acidic voltage bandits and cripple normal bio-function. These are the bitter fruits of ego. Learn to recognize defensive, selfish and lazy behaviors. Once one is aware of ego-related psychological hazards and turns to an attitude of unconditional love, compassion for all life and states of gratitude and happiness,….. his life, immune health, recognition of his spirit-essence and higher consciousness can evolve unhindered.
See here.
Preventive Maintenance vs. Catastrophic Breakdown
Isn’t it careless not to change oil, check tire pressure or coolant levels in a car? Get stuck a few times and one learns to pay attention to the owner’s manual.
Yet we have no conclusive maintenance manual for the preservation of personal health?
Mechanics and doctors make their living off breakdowns, not oil changes or inexpensive preventive measures. What if Ford printed inaccurate maintenance schedules? What if common sense disease prevention was confused and hidden by the healthcare monopoly? Ford couldn’t, but our legally protected medical mafia has and continues to wreck the health of Americans!
You do not want to see your car towed-off behind a wrecker,…just like you never want to be hauled off in an ambulance.
Don’t be a victim! I can only provide a limited outline for savvy individuals to protect their health. It is up to you to study the nutritional value of foods, begin to understand the invisible nature of bio-electricity and pH and cut through all the Latinesque synonyms that put the confusion in unnecessary medical complexity.
I can’t stress this enough; Create your own Health Maintenance Manual! Take charge of your own biological vehicle!
All disease begins with inflammation, synonymous with oxidative theft of e-/ATP electron energy and the degradation of cell function.
Drugs generally attack only symptoms of this tap-root by obstructing downstream enzyme and hormonal influences.
Invisible “germs” are usually opportunistic, proliferating where conditions are favorable and immune defenses conflicted.
Billions Served!
With our huge death tolls from heart disease, cancers, pneumonia, sepsis, laboratory created covid 19 and mRNA vaxxxines, and enormous numbers of Veteran suicides; one might become suspicious of our medical death cult!
Is it a population control reset agenda or sheer greed or both that drive this homicidal mania?
Some doctors may realize the faults of their profession.
Trained by pharma-supported universities into an ultra expensive healthcare system; their hands are tied by hospitals, medical boards and insurers…unless they are bold enough to hang-out their own shingles on their own (uninsured) alternative clinics.
The government admits it censors contrary opinion on vaxxxines and harmful drugs “so as to dampen suspicion and reduce non-compliance with self-serving “standards of practice.”
We have been trapped and virtually made dependent on screens and profitable short-cut technologies to the point that one’s health and longevity can only be insured by DIY prevention and living “off-tech” through contrarian thought and action.
AI is being touted as a tool to “cure cancer.” Oracle’s artificial “idiot” Larry Ellison wants to create a genetic test for cancers and an mRNA vaxxxine?
Sorry Larry, cancers are not genetic! Cancers are a metabolic disease!
Note; Please print and forward this post to family members, friends and physicians you may know…and refer them to my substack archive, “Forbidden Healing.”
Internet information evaporates quickly so grab these compilations of actionable facts I have distilled over the decades through study of basic sciences, cell function, personal observation, objective studies, successful experimentation and intuitive synthesis.
Self-healing is doable. Search natural cures for any condition and a range of ideas. Orthomolecular.org and Earthclinic are solid resources. Also search alternative/holistic clinics and ACAM.org physician finder for more information, lists of available treatments and proximity should the need arise.
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The Return of Trump- This Time it’s Personal
I was fully prepared to write a snide and scathing attack on Trumpenstein’s return to the White House. On his failure to do anything on “day one.” On his delay in pardoning the January 6 defendants. But I can’t do that. At least not yet. He shut me up. He produced an unprecedented flurry of executive orders, most of them very good.
Trump signed an order banning birth-right citizenship. This was eight years overdue, but better late than never. He signed one to reinstate members of the military who were discharged because they wouldn’t get vaccinated. With his warp speed vaccine, which he’s still bragging about, but still. And with back pay. He withdrew from the World Health Organization. Ordered all government DEI programs closed, and officially recognized the only two biological genders. Perhaps most importantly, he declared a national emergency at the southern border, and seemingly approved the use of U.S. troops to enforce it. Some of these were suggestions of mine, which I claimed Trump would act on, if he wasn’t an orange crisis actor. Maybe Trump does read my Substack. Regardless, these are commendable moves any way you look at it. Executive orders are no guarantee, but at least he signed a bunch of them.
Now, I am a bit concerned about the mass deportations. Which didn’t happen on “day one,” supposedly because of something going on in Chicago, where the deportations are supposed to start. In the last comment from Trump’s hard ass border czar Tom Homan, he was proclaiming that “mass deportations begin today.” That was January 21. I could find no updates on this. This appears to be more in line with what we saw in Trump’s first White House. “Mass deportations begin in two weeks.” Yes, “two more weeks” has become a meme to represent QAnon-style faith. Will we be saying “two more weeks” in perpetuity regarding the mass deportations? It’s perplexing, but all too familiar, to find no one questioning this anywhere online. Maybe Trump will shut me up again, and deport millions by the end of the month. Color me skeptical. But Trump has apparently already declassified the JFK files. So there’s that.
Trump’s inaugural address was fine, although not up to his first one, which in my view was the best since JFK’s. One odd aspect of the ceremony was the fact that Trump didn’t put his left hand on the Bible while taking the oath of office. What, did he watch my friend Bart Sibrel’s Astronauts Gone Wild video, where Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and the boys refused to swear on the Bible that they’d been to the moon? Seriously, that was very bizarre, and to my knowledge no one has asked Trump about this. Was this a sign that Trump doesn’t believe in God? Was he just trying to court more controversy, and get the likes of me to talk about it? Adding to the moment was First Lady Melania Trump, who was dressed in what resembled an art deco undertaker’s outfit, with a Clint Eastwood “Hang ‘em High” hat concealing most of her face. It was an unbecoming look for a woman who usually is elegant.
All the living ex-presidents were there, along with their wives. Except for Michelle Obama. Now, missing Trump’s inaugural might be passed off as attributable to her intense Trump Derangement Syndrome, but then why wasn’t she at Jimmy Carter’s funeral? Surely, she didn’t have anything against the man who was the face of Habitat for Humanity. Speculation is high that the Obamas’ marriage may be on the rocks. There is even a ridiculous rumor that Barack has been dating Jennifer Aniston. Maybe she doesn’t know about Larry Sinclair. Or the preposterous, over the top, scurrilous allegations about Big Mike. Started by Joan Rivers, right before she died suddenly during her ten billionth plastic surgery. Jennifer Aniston would scoff at such “conspiracy theories.” She’s from Hollywood. I wouldn’t get her upset by mentioning the woman who approved Obama’s birth certificate as legitimate being the only casualty in a plane crash. She could ask Trump- he knows all about that.
I don’t want to be a downer until I need to be, but there are some disturbing elements associated with the “Tech Bros” Trump now surrounds himself with. What is all this talk about promoting MRNA? A cancer vaccine? To stop a disease they created? Will they throw us some crumbs, finally give us a little “winning” to distract us from the real agenda? That’s what my friend John Brisson tossed out as a possibility months ago on our weekly “America Unplugged” show. Now Jon Rappaport is alleging that Trump ordered a “blackout” of external communications from HHS, FDA, NIH, and the CDC. HHS is where RFK, Jr. is supposed to be. If he miraculously gets approved that, is. It’s not like his nomination hearing is going to go as smoothly as “Little” Marco Rubio’s did. Where is RFK, Jr., anyway? I don’t remember seeing him at the inauguration. Maybe he was standing behind the giant Barron Trump.
Okay, I located RFK, Jr. in a photo. It was almost like playing “Where’s Waldo?” He was stuck in the second row of the “Tech Bros” section, right behind the Saul-like free speech convert Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos’ Latino fiancee. I think his gaze appears to be a bit lower than the fiancee’s cleavage, but she reportedly was receiving a lot of attention from the other “Tech Bros.” You have to figure that group has some former lonely nerds in it. Incels until they started making lots of money. Elon Musk has a penchant for goofy looks. And thrusting his arm out, almost like a Nazi. He acts way too exuberantly for the world’s richest man. But I guess that’s what you’d expect from someone who told some poor sap with the same number of followers on Twitter as me, to fuck himself in the face. And where was Vivek? Trump himself has lost weight, and his slightly altered hairstyle doesn’t look quite as fake.
I know what you’re saying; okay, Mr. I haven’t tucked my shirt in since 1979, what do you want the guy to do? You said he wouldn’t do anything on “day one,” and you’re still complaining. And I get it from the other side as well; stop throwing your lack of formal education in our face, bragging like you’re Jethro Bodine with a twelfth grade education, and pretending that Trump isn’t one of them. That comes with the territory when you’re a Trump Agnostic. I always treat Trump fairly. When he says something good, as he often does, I support him. When he does something good, which is rare, then I give him credit. I think I’ve done that in this Substack. If Trump lives up to his rhetoric, I’ll admit that I was wrong in coming up with the whole Trumpenstein Project thing. But if he governs like Trumpenstein again, then perhaps some of you will give me a little credit.
While Trump was rushing towards the Oval Office again, like the bull in a china shop he often resembles, outgoing President Joe Biden exited with class and dignity. Just kidding. It was about as undignified and classless as it gets. I thought that the rumors about him giving preemptive pardons to Deep State villains, in case Trump actually tried to prosecute some this time, were just racist hate concocted by the White Supremacists who really rule this land. But no, Biden actually did all that and more. He also pardoned his family members. Hunter isn’t the only criminal in that bunch. Among those pardoned were the honorable Dr. Anthony Fauci, who was the front man for the Greatest Psyop in the History of the World, and Liz Cheney and all the other members of the unconstitutional January 6 Committee, who tried in vain to get even the dumbed down American sheeple excited about their fake “insurrection.”
I’m not sure who Trump is going to prosecute, if he still intends to “drain the swamp.” He’s already said that Bill and Hillary are “good people.” The way he was carrying on with Barack Obama at Jimmy Carter’s funeral, you know he’s not about to look into his history. No, I think whatever else he actually does, Trump will not be prosecuting any member of the Deep State. And the built in excuse will be, “Hey, what could he do? That damn Biden pardoned them all!” That may be the excuse for none of his important executive orders being implemented as well. “Hey, it’s not Trump’s fault that an Obama appointed judge overruled his executive order!” Except that it could easily be a Trump appointed judge as well. But the excuse will be the same. The problem is Judicial Review, which only Thomas Jefferson and I seem to care about. Interestingly, some people have started telling me that I look like Jefferson. I think I’m more flattered than when they used to say I looked like Michael J. Fox.
By pardoning people who haven’t been charged with any crimes, the beloved Joe Biden advertised the fact that he thinks they might be guilty of something. The same people who are applauding Biden’s blanket pardons became apoplectic at the suggestion that Trump should have pardoned all the J6ers before he left office. “You can’t pardon someone who hasn’t been charged!” They screeched at the time. And yet now, four years later, their hero Biden has done just that. It’s a phony paradigm thing, you wouldn’t understand. Some pardons are apparently more equal than others. I’m sure Fauci won’t feel any remorse, as he collects the largest federal pension in history. It won’t stop Liz Cheney from pontificating from a position of moral authority. It’s amazing that she hasn’t been turned into a pillar of salt.
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Did Trump Halt Aid to Ukraine?
Yesterday, there were a number of “headlines” in the US media claiming all foreign aid was stopped—except for Israel and Egypt. But the Pentagon weighed in today denying that it affects Ukraine:
“A Pentagon official confirmed that Trump’s executive order freezing foreign aid applies only to development programs, not security assistance to Ukraine.” -VOA
When I spoke with Judge Napolitano and Nima today, I had not seen these reports. However, while Trump’s order does not curtail security assistance (i.e., weapons, vehicles and ammunition) already in the pipeline, it does freeze the assistance funds that flow through State Department channels:
The Trump administration has reportedly frozen USAID projects as part of its foreign assistance audit
The Trump administration has frozen projects in Ukraine that were funded through the US Agency for International Development, Reuter reported on Friday, citing a USAID official.
The official told the news agency that USAID officers responsible for projects in Ukraine were told to stop all work. The projects that were frozen reportedly include support for schools and healthcare, including maternal care and the vaccination of children.
So part of the Ukrainian grift machine is shut down for the next three months. That is a start in the right direction.
Even if the US under the Trump administration continues to funnel weapons to Ukraine, this does not solve Ukraine’s fundamental weakness — i.e., the lack of trained soldiers. The New York Times published a bizarre piece of illogical nonsense today under the title, Ukraine Is Losing Fewer Soldiers Than Russia — but It’s Still Losing the War. This is simply a pile of fetid horse manure. I am not even going to waste time deconstructing the lies the permeate this piece of propaganda. Let’s deal with facts:
- Russia has at least an 8:1 advantage in artillery shells since 2022.
- Russia has air supremacy and is able to drop massive glide bombs on Ukrainian positions, while Ukraine has not comparable capability.
- Russia has more drones and has deployed drones guided by fiber optic cable and artificial intelligence. Ukraine has no such capability.
- Russia has more tanks and armored personnel carriers.
But we also have hard numbers from Ukrainian sources about a Ukrainian / Russian exchange of dead soldiers. Check out this graphic:
Yes, you are reading that correctly. Russia received the bodies of 49 soldiers and, in turn, delivered the remains of 757 Ukrainian troops. In other words, for every dead Russian soldier there were 15 dead Ukrainians. That data tells you everything you need to know about the true extent of Ukrainian losses and exposes the prevarication of the New York Times reporters.
However, the Times makes one damning admission:
Western intelligence agencies have been reluctant to disclose their internal calculations of Ukrainian casualties for fear of undermining an ally. American officials have previously said that Kyiv withholds this information from even the closest allies.
Yes, the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency are not reporting the real Ukrainian losses because of politics. Just one more example of the politicization of intelligence.
Turning to prospects for negotiations, President Putin spoke clearly and pointedly today about what to expect and blamed Trump’s actions in his first term, which created more tension with Russia:
This originally appeared on Sonar21.
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China’s DeepSeek AI Moves the Capital of Tech from Palo Alto to Hangzhou
In a matter of days, the news of China’s AI sensation, DeepSeek R1, has gone from a gentle breeze to a Force 5 hurricane. It’s clear now that no one in Silicon Valley or Washington DC had the slightest idea that their world was about to be turned upside-down by an innovative new product that would shift the geopolitical plates further eastward. But that, in fact, is what has happened. And it’s not simply because DeepSeek’s latest version matches or exceeds the performance of America’s best model, OpenAI; but because it is cheaper, more accessible and more transparent. This is AI for everyone regardless of their station or income. And its sudden emergence from ‘out of the blue’ has cast doubts on the ability of western tech giants to anticipate the capability of their competitors or to lead an industry that is essential for Washington to preserve its ever-loosening grip on global power. Here’s a brief recap from Venture Beat:
….thanks to the release of DeepSeek R1, a new large language model that performs “reasoning” similar to OpenAI’s current best-available model o1 — taking multiple seconds or minutes to answer hard questions and solve complex problems as it reflects on its own analysis in a step-by-step, or “chain of thought” fashion.
Not only that, but DeepSeek R1 scored as high or higher than OpenAI’s o1 on a variety of third-party benchmarks…, and was reportedly trained at a fraction of the cost…, with far fewer graphics processing units (GPU) under a strict embargo imposed by the U.S., OpenAI’s home turf.
But unlike o1, which is available only to paying ChatGPT subscribers of the Plus tier ($20 per month) and more expensive tiers (such as Pro at $200 per month), DeepSeek R1 was released as a fully open source model, which also explains why it has quickly rocketed up the charts of AI code sharing community Hugging Face’s most downloaded and active models. Why everyone in AI is freaking out about DeepSeek, Venture Beat
“Freaking out” is probably the understatement of the century. Silicon Valley is in a full-blown emotional meltdown and the path forward is far from certain. As we will see further along, western tech mandarins are going to have to return to Square 1 and modify their approach to the new reality. In short, the agenda is being set by people with different priorities, values and beliefs who live 10,000 miles away. They do not ascribe to the idea that advances in technology should reinforce police-state surveillance or other repressive forms of social control.(as they do in the West) Their vision of the future is altogether different, but invariably optimistic.
Did you notice that “DeepSeek R1 scored as high or higher than OpenAI’s o1 (while) under a strict embargo imposed by the US”?
In other words, these Chinese whiz-kids created their cutting-edge version with one hand tied behind their back. They shrugged off Washington’s onerous sanctions and beat Uncle Sam at his own game, which is quite an accomplishment. (Forbes: “U.S. export controls on advanced semiconductors were intended to slow China’s AI progress, but they may have inadvertently spurred innovation.”) Here’s more:
thanks to the fact that it is fully open source, people have already fine-tuned and trained many multiple variations of the model for different task-specific purposes such as making it small enough to run on a mobile device or combining it with other open-source models. Even if you want to use it for development purposes, DeepSeek’s API costs are more than 90% cheaper than the equivalent o1 model from OpenAI. Why everyone in AI is freaking out about DeepSeek, Venture Beat
Cheaper, more adaptable and more transparent. Is there more? There is:
Most impressively of all, you don’t even need to be a software engineer to use it: DeepSeek has a free website and mobile app even for U.S. users with an R1-powered chatbot interface very similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Except, once again, DeepSeek undercut or “mogged” OpenAI by connecting this powerful reasoning model to web search — something OpenAI hasn’t yet done…Why everyone in AI is freaking out about DeepSeek, Venture Beat
Is the author right; are the tech-honchos and their moneybags allies “freaking out” over DeepSeek or do they see it as a minor glitch on the road to AI supremacy? Here’s how he answers that question:
A message posted to Blind… has been making the rounds suggesting Meta is in crisis over the success of DeepSeek because of how quickly it surpassed Meta’s own efforts to be the king of open source AI with its Llama models.
It sounds like a lot of people are very concerned, and for good reason. DeepSeek is a nuclear bomb detonated in the heart of Silicon Valley. It is a straight-up challenge to America’s de facto Royal Family of tech Brahmins who thought their reign would last forever. Now they find themselves playing ‘catch-up’ with an upstart cadre of bluestocking brainiacs who are bringing their world crashing down around them. More importantly, the future of AI is being decided in Hangzhou not Palo Alto which means we might see a lull in the warmaking as Uncle Sam finds it harder to finance his endless bloodletting. What a welcome reprieve that would be.
The author of the above piece even quotes one of my favorite analysts on X, Arnaud Bertrand, an invaluable source of unbiased information about developments in China. Here’s what he said:
“There’s no overstating how profoundly this changes the whole game. And not only with regards to AI, it’s also a massive indictment of the US’s misguided attempt to stop China’s technological development, without which Deepseek may not have been possible…”
Yep, the whole semiconductor embargo-thing backfired spectacularly illustrating once again that we are ruled by incompetent lamebrains who love to punish people for violations to rules they make up on-the-fly. Just look at the mess these ‘geniuses’ have made.
We’ll end with Bertrand’s insightful critique of Trump’s $500 billion Stargate boondoggle which will be obsolete before they even break ground:
Stargate, if it goes forward, is likely to become one of the biggest wastages of capital in history:
1) It hinges on outdated assumptions about the importance of computing scale in AI (the ‘bigger compute = better AI’ dogma), which DeepSeek just proved is wrong.
2) It assumes that the future of AI is with closed and controlled models despite the market’s clear preference for democratized, open-source alternatives
3) It clings to a Cold War playbook, framing AI dominance as a zero-sum hardware arms race, which is really at odds with the direction AI is taking (again, open-source software, global developer communities, and collaborative ecosystems)
4) It bets the farm on OpenAI—a company plagued by governance issues and a business model that’s seriously challenged DeepSeek’s 30x cost advantage.
In short it’s like building a half a trillion dollars digital Maginot line: a very expensive monument to obsolete and misguided assumptions. This is OpenAI and by extension the US fighting the last war.
Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
Or, as Jim Fan said: the … future of AI is democratization…. It’s the tide of history that we should surf on, not swim against.…Jim Fan @DrJimFan
Indeed, it is.
Reprinted with permission from The Unz Review.
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Are Trump and His Supporters Ready for a Fight to the Death?
In recent articles I have emphasized that President Trump and his supporters are in a life and death fight with cultural marxists who are dedicated to America’s destruction and who are institutionalized in every American institution—media, universities, law schools, Democrat Party, feminists, DEI contractors and corporations, Wall Street as epitomized by Blackrock, and the bureaucracies of every cabinet department and every federal agency. Essentially, it is President Trump and a few appointees at war with the entirety of the US government and educational and media establishments. Trump has arrived at the fight late in the game when the long march through the institutions is essentially complete.
In an article in the current issue of the City Journal, “Counterrevolution Blueprint,” Christopher F. Rufo, describes the extent to which the US government is in the hands of the enemy. In the 2020 presidential election employees of the Justice (sic) Department, gave 86 percent of their political contributions to Democrats. Labor Department employees gave 88 percent to Democrats. Health and Human Services 92 percent, and Education Department employees gave 97 percent. Rufo reports that these one-sided political donations are mirrored by tech companies and universities, bastions of left-wing ideologies and activism.
To give you an idea of just how bad the situation is, the Treasury Department, the task of which is economic policy, financing the debt and raising revenue, during the Obama regime added a new bureaucracy, “The office for Minority and Women Inclusion,” that is totally outside the Treasury’s responsibilities. This office continued under Trump’s first term, Rufo reports, and proselytized “critical race theory as an operating ideology, hiring consultants to conduct training programs teaching Treasury employees that America is a nation of systemic racism with a 400-year history of racial terrorism” that continues today.
During the Biden regime another activist left-wing bureaucracy was created in the Treasury, an Equity Hub with a Counselor for Racial Equity. Janet Yellen, the Jewish Secretary of the Treasury, and Kamala Harris, the black Vice President, quickly announced a $8.7 billion fund for lending only to minority-owned businesses, a blatantly discriminatory policy in violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 14th Amendment. You can imagine how many “minority-owned” firms were quickly created so that “deserving” people could be made millionaires by the US taxpayers. And you can rest assured that neither Yellen nor Harris were held accountable for violating law and the Constitution.
Not even this was enough. The Treasury forced federal contractors to implement DEI and monitored tax returns to make sure that tax-exempt donations to charities were racially balanced.
Rufo describes the efforts of Nixon, Reagan, and Trump 1 to get the bureaucracy in compliance with the President’s policy. All failed. Nevertheless, Rufo has hope for Trump 2, and he sets out the necessary elements for taking back the President’s and the people’s power from a hostile civil service that is united against American values and are substituting the values of cultural marxism in their place.
Rufo makes it clear that if Trump 2 fails, “the American experiment will come to an end: bureaucratic rule will devour the constitutional order.”
I certainly agree, having made many of these points myself. The question is: How realistic is it that Trump and a few appointees can subdue millions of people whose far-left ideology is guiding the US government and who not only despise Trump’s view of America but also hate Trump personally. It is impossible for Trump to achieve unity with ideologues supported by the Democrat Party who are totally opposed to his view of America.
The competence and objectivity of the civil service, long under liberal attack, was finished off when the Clinton regime pushed the white male senior civil service into early retirement in order to “make room” for blacks and females. It was part of “affirmative action.” The DEI legions have been growing for decades. They are firm in their belief that white heterosexuals are racist, and they intend to finish the process started with discriminatory “affirmative action” to make normal white Americans second class citizens in law and position. Insouciant whites have enabled their own suppression by turning over positions of power to their enemies. It remains to be seen whether this was a fatal mistake that has doomed a merit-based color-blind society.
Where among critical race theorists and denouncers of Western–which means white–Civilization is there good will to which Trump can appeal? Democrat judges and a number of insouciant Republican ones will act to block Trump’s efforts. Trump has to be prepared to ride roughshod over them, their rulings be damned, just as they have ridden roughshod over the American people for decades. Trump cannot accept the rulings as anything but weaponized judicial statements no different than the weaponized law used against him, the January 6 protesters, and the right-to-life protesters.
Karl Marx said that good will was not an operative principle because each class acted only in its own interest. So what mediates between classes? Marx said that violence was the only effective force in history. Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot relied on violence. Formerly I disputed this view of the efficacy of violence, but just as we did not deal with Hitler based on good will, we cannot rely on goodwill when dealing with internal enemies who intend to destroy America with open borders and legal privileges based on race, gender, and sexual preference. As I am convinced that good will has played a role in effecting reforms, today perhaps I would modify Marx’s claim. I would substitute “effective” in place of “only.” Violence is an effective force in history. It seems that real change is impossible without it as the American Revolution exemplifies.
Today the clash is no longer between economic classes based on material interest. The clash is ideological. The America-is-evil forces are intent on replacing a color-blind merit-based society with a society based on race, gender, and sexual preference privilege. It is an ideological struggle like the one Lenin and Mao launched on Russian and Chinese societies.
It is truly a fight to the death. If Trump loses, America loses as Rufo said.
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Don’t Forget Maugham
How do we recognize artistic merit today? What relation does it have with popularity? How important is fame in measuring the artist? Why is merit often unmatched by success, whereas the latter and mediocrity are almost one and the same? All one has to do is look at Hollywood and its products of nonstop horror films, but I’m not going there, the place is a burned-out case, pun intended.
The vexing question implicit in my quest is how do we recognize artistic merit? Everyone knew that Mozart was a miracle and that Beethoven, Bach, Schubert, and countless others were geniuses. Their merit stuck out; just think of poor old very talented Salieri. Among poets Keats is the greatest, but you couldn’t get Byron to agree. He badmouthed the dirt-poor and dying Keats because deep down inside he must have known his Byronic verses to be inferior. (Not many will agree with me, but unlike the Brits who adore the mad, bad and dangerous-to-know philhellene, I’m a romantic, and Keats is number one.) Music, painting—the greatest of all is Edward Hopper, the worst the late Picasso—and poetry aside, writing is the art that most intrigues me, an art that can easily be faked, or so it seems at times when I read modern fiction. (Which I admit I never do past a page or two at most.)
“Like all great writers his passion had chosen him, not the other way round.”
Regular readers of yours truly know all about Hemingway and Fitzgerald and how they are the two writers I can never get enough of. The third one is an Englishman, almost unknown today, but he was the richest and most famous of his time, Somerset Maugham. The Bloomsbury literary elite put him down, as they would, their experimental crap being unreadable, they being mostly homosexual, frustrated, and pretty ugly to look at. But Of Human Bondage, Cakes and Ale, The Moon and Sixpence, “Rain,” The Letter, The Razor’s Edge, and countless other stories are superb, psychologically deep, imaginative, technically superior, and precise.
Maugham called himself three-quarters homosexual, but he had fathered a daughter, Lisa—whose beautiful daughter is a friend of mine and is now Countess Chandon—with Syrie Maugham, who by all accounts was a ballbuster. Somerset had at one time four plays running simultaneously in London, and his books were all bestsellers. He was rich and famous and generous, but the English and the critics never went overboard, and I think I know why. Envy is the English disease, and Maugham chose to live in the grand style and visit places most Brits had never heard of.
Is genius originality? I’m not so sure because there are too many con men and con women out there faking the original. Maugham created the perfect human being in Larry Darrell, which is quite a feat for a novelist. Max Kelada, hero of “Mister Know-All,” is annoying, a braggart, a drunk, and a womanizer, but as it turns out more of a gentleman than anyone else on board. Once you’ve read Maugham the mostly feminine auto-fiction of today becomes unreadable. Critics of the time had reservations about him, most likely due to envy and the fact the writer examined pure artistic desire unmotivated by outside influences. Maugham was always extremely humble about his talent, always putting his writing down, but it was not a pose. Like all great writers his passion had chosen him, not the other way round. His books became bestsellers from day one, yet another reason for the envious critics to find fault.
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For Those of You Waiting on Massive Collapse… Get Ready for a Rocky Financial Road
Ever since the 2008/2009 housing crash, I’ve been hearing one financial guru after another talk about how the United States was heading into another financial collapse. Each had their reasons, all of which sounded plausible. But that didn’t necessarily make them true. There’s something different going on today though… this is, they’re all talking about the impending financial collapse; not just one or two of them.
It’s a question that many of us are afraid to ask but can’t ignore any longer. Is the United States on the verge of a massive collapse? Signs are all around us, whispering — or even shouting — that something is about to give. The nation that once prided itself on being a beacon of stability and prosperity is now teetering on the edge of an uncertain future. From economic instability and political turmoil to resource shortages, all signs point to a coming crisis. But are these just fleeting storms, or is this a signal of a larger, inevitable collapse?
Let’s take a look at the indicators that suggest America may be headed for a breakdown. Strap in, because this ride may get a little bumpy.
Economic Instability: The Ticking Time Bomb
One of the clearest signs that the United States is on shaky ground is economic instability. The American economy has often been compared to a house of cards—each card being another fragile piece of a system that could collapse if just one card falls.
Massive national debt, rising inflation, a stagnant job market, and an over-reliance on printed money have all combined to create a perfect storm.
Consider the rising national debt, which currently stands at over $36 trillion. That’s $36,000,000,000,000 — a number so large that it’s almost meaningless to the average person. The problem? It’s not meaningless to the people and nations holding that debt. As interest rates rise, the cost of servicing this debt increases, leaving less money for essential services. Essentially, we’re paying off our credit cards with another credit card, and eventually, the lenders are going to want their money back.
Add to that the skyrocketing cost of living. Inflation has been chipping away at the average person’s buying power, and it’s no surprise that Americans are finding it harder and harder to afford basic necessities. Rent, food, gas—you name it—everything costs more, while wages aren’t keeping pace. The gap between the wealthy and the poor has grown so vast that it’s almost as if they’re living in two different countries. The best thing you can do right now is to be as self-sufficient as possible.
Political Turmoil: The Divide Widens
You don’t need to be a political analyst to see that the United States is deeply divided. Red versus blue, left versus right—it feels like we’re living in an era where people are less interested in finding common ground and more interested in proving that the “other side” is the enemy. This is more than just typical political banter; it’s reaching a boiling point.
The recent re-election of Donald Trump in 2024 has only deepened these divisions. While some celebrate his return, others see it as a catalyst for further instability. Trump’s victory was not without drama—he survived two assassination attempts during the presidential campaign, which has only added fuel to the fire. The fact that these attempts occurred speaks to just how fragile the political climate is, and how far people are willing to go when they feel unheard or threatened.
The constant political gridlock in Washington D.C. means that important decisions are either delayed or never made at all. Congress seems unable to agree on anything, even when the stakes are at their highest. The two-party system—once a proud staple of American democracy—has become more about maintaining power than serving the people. Leaders are more focused on short-term wins for their party than the long-term health of the nation.
Resource Shortages: The Looming Scarcity
When we think of collapse, many of us picture empty grocery store shelves, long gas lines, or electricity blackouts.
The reality is, we’re already seeing signs of resource shortages that point toward a much larger crisis.
Water, for instance, is becoming a scarce resource in many parts of the country. States like California and Arizona have been battling droughts for years, and the overuse of the Colorado River has led to critical shortages. Many Americans still live under the illusion that clean water will always be available—but as shortages spread, it’s becoming increasingly clear that this is a dangerous assumption.
Food shortages are also becoming more frequent. Whether it’s supply chain disruptions, extreme weather, or poor agricultural yields, the reality is that our food system is vulnerable. Global instability only adds to the problem—if we’re reliant on imported goods, then any disruption outside the U.S. affects our supply here at home. The ‘just-in-time’ delivery model, where supplies arrive exactly when needed, leaves no room for errors or delays. The shelves may be stocked today, but one significant crisis could change that overnight.
The Real Estate Market: Another Domino?
The housing market, which was a central player in the 2008 financial crisis, looks unstable again. While some areas have seen home values soar, others are seeing stagnant or dropping prices—a sign that demand is inconsistent and the market is losing its balance.
Mortgage rates are rising, making homes unaffordable for many first-time buyers. We could be on the brink of another housing bubble burst, which would have disastrous consequences for the entire economy.
Homelessness is also becoming an increasingly visible issue. Cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle have seen tent encampments become a permanent part of the landscape. When more and more people are unable to afford a roof over their head, you can be sure that societal collapse is inching closer.
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