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Six Ways From Sunday

Sab, 01/02/2025 - 05:01

Was it the miasma of cognitive dissonance blackening the air-space over the DC swamp that caused the deadly collision of AA Flight 5342 and a Blackhawk Helicopter this week — an impenetrable fog arising from the fetid exhalations of so many hyperventilating swamp creatures brooding between the urges of fight-or-flight as Mr. Trump deploys his chosen pest-controllers across the Potomac Basin?

Altogether, these many parasitical swamp creatures make up the greater DC blob, and the blob convulsing and fibrillating is what you witness in these committee hearings with Bobby, Tulsi, and Kash. For instance, fake “progressive” Bernie Sanders (D-VT) faced with the reveal that he leads his colleagues in pharma “contributions” (just under $2-million) . . . or fake Cherokee Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in a fugue state over the perceived threat of Mr. Kennedy to pharma profits . . . or presidential pardon recipient Adam Schiff (D-CA) lecturing Mr. Patel on ethical behavior. . . or Ms. Gabbard enduring the meltdown of Senate Intel Committee tool Michael Bennet (D-CO).

Behind these histrionics by the big gators and peccaries of the collapsing Democratic Party is pure scintillating fear. They are afraid that all of their hoaxes and lies of recent years will be exposed in the months ahead. And they fear that such exposure might lead eventually to legal complications for them. All of that implies loss-of-power, the single element that demonically drives their careers.

The fact is they have already lost their grip on the levers of power and, for the moment, that is all that matters. They especially no longer control the Department of Justice, its subsidiary, the FBI, the many public health agencies under Health and Human Services, and the many-footed intel “community,” as it styles itself. These agencies are where the truth about our national affairs has been locked up. Now, the citizens will either see what’s there, or find out what has been deliberately destroyed — such as the internal agency email correspondence over RussiaGate, the Covid-19 operation (and the deadly vaxx campaign), the J-6 affair (and the pipe-bomb sideshow), the weird, documented irregularities of the 2020 election, the Ukraine War money-laundering shenanigans, the manifold janky DOJ prosecutions of Mr. Trump, and much more.

Every day now since January 20, heads explode all over DC as the executive orders roll out and the insanity of whatever lurked behind “Joe Biden” gets systematically expunged from the order of things. And as this happens, the more plainly deranged the past four years looks. Did they really believe that men dressing-up as women would improve the US military? Or was it a traitorous effort to weaken and demoralize our armed forces? Was DEI a public ethics exercise or a massive jobs program for incompetents?

In what way did “Joe Biden’s” Department of Homeland Security imagine that funneling known criminals, certified lunatics, and saboteurs across the border squared with their duty to protect and defend the country? And how did it happen that US taxpayers’ money got shelled out to fake “religious” NGOs in Mexico minting debit cards for border-jumpers, handing them wads of cash, cell phones, airplane tickets, fully-equipped backpacks, and apps for evading arrest? In effect these NGOs took over the exact job description of “coyote” formerly performed by the criminal cartels — leaving the cartels free for the more lucrative rackets of dealing fentanyl and trafficking women and children.

The corruption in all this has been supernatural, and the fact that, until late 2024, seventy-million Democratic Party American voters thought this was all okay is extra-supernatural. What happened to their minds? The cliché of “Trump derangement” doesn’t really answer that. What it probably comes down to was the stunningly successful mind-fucking operation run by the blob (the CIA and the darker elements of the DOD in particular), in league with captured news media, to bend and distort the consensual perception of reality — all of which leads to the question: why?

The two main answers to that seem to be 1) Some organized entity seeking to destroy the country for instance, the Chinese Communist Party, or the World Economic Forum, or 2) that the blob had evolved into such an overt criminal racketeering operation that it increasingly and desperately needed to keep covering its mighty ass. Thus, the Democratic Party became the blob’s enforcer and the news media became its propaganda arm. And the “thinking class” of America especially got ignominiously hosed by all that.

There’s a pretty good chance that blob agents in the Senate will successfully block the confirmations of Bobby, Tulsi, and Kash. They are all superlative candidates for the particular jobs at HHS, ODNI, and the FBI. But know this: excellent as they are, there are a great many other worthy, dedicated, and stalwart warriors in this land who can take their places if necessary. The blob has already lost in the political battle-space. All they can manage at this point is some rearguard action.

Reprinted with permission from JamesHowardKunstler.com.

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Now Is a Great Time for California To Secede

Sab, 01/02/2025 - 05:01

The issue of California secession isn’t going away.

Last week, the California secretary of state approved a new ballot measure on secession for the signature gathering phase of the initiative process. If activists are able to collect enough signatures by late July, voters in 2028 will be able to vote yes or no to the question “Should California leave the United States and become a free and independent country?”

A majority vote for this measure wouldn’t sever ties with the United States government, of course. It would merely create a commission to study the option of political independence.

Even if the measure managed to get a majority vote, it would do little, legally speaking. On the other hand, it certainly would continue a political and ideological process that is a necessaryalbeit insufficient—condition for eventual separation.

The issue of redrawing California’s borders has arisen repeatedly over the past twenty years., Whether we’re talking the “Six Californias” attempt to break the state up into smaller pieces, or the 2017 “Calexit” campaign, talk of radical change to California’s status quo isn’t going away. This repetition of calls for change is essential to laying the ground work for eventual secession. Each new campaign in itself has few implications for the short term, but in longer term, pushing the option over and over does make secession more likely. After all, as we’ve seen in the dozens of successful cases of secession since 1945, an important first step is thinking in terms of separateness and independence.

California Secession Would Be Great for “Rump America”

Unfortunately, we are only at the beginning of a long process, but most of us who presently reside in the tax farm called “the United States” would be much better off if California were to secede as soon as possible.

Now, I know that many of my readers are not big fans of California—or at least the politicians elected by the people there—and are not inclined to cheer on the state’s political activists. Nonetheless, for those of us who actually want to improve prospects for greater freedom and less state power in North America, we ought to wholeheartedly support secession for California.

The immediate benefits should be clear. In a recent article on Trump’s call for annexing Canada, I noted that adding Canada to the US would be like adding a second California. Such an annexation would greatly shift American political ideology to the left and import millions of new voters who favor policies like government-controlled healthcare and draconian gun-control measures.

California secession would work in the opposite direction. By placing California outside the borders of the United States, the US would free itself from millions of voters who, like Canadians, generally favor high taxation, runaway government spending, stringent gun control, and harsh government regulations of nearly every kind. American politics would shift much more in favor of free markets, relative fiscal restraint, and public safety. California’s 52 members of the House of Representatives would be eliminated from the US Congress, as would be the state’s two senators. Most of these, of course, are dedicated social democrats of the Kamala Harris variety. The political and ideological status quo among America’s elected officials would be transformed overnight.

This would by no means change the US into a laissez-faire paradise, but the positive change would be immense.

Moreover, California residents would cease to be US citizens, and thus would no longer be eligible to vote in US elections. No longer would residents of nearby regions like Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, and Texas have to suffer waves of Californian migrants who are free to recreate the disastrous political realities of California in new locations.

The damage done by these migrant Californians is magnified by the fact that, so long as California is part of the United States, a Californian’s citizenship seamlessly transfers to the new state. That is, Californian migrants are able to almost immediately participate in the political system in their adopted homes—to the disadvantage of longtime residents. After California secedes, this unfortunate situation would come to an end, and Californians would become foreign nationals when living in the “Old United States.” No longer would the corporatist Silicon Valley “elites”—most of whom are dedicated servants of the surveillance state—and the retired civil “servants” of California, living on fat pensions, be able to so easily hijack the political institutions of non-Californians.

Nor would these foreign nationals from California be eligible for the welfare state of Rump America. After all, without California policymakers present to block every attempt at reforming the US’s broken system of naturalization, Americans would be free to ensure that foreign nationals no longer receive free money from the taxpayers. Rather, only migrants who are able to support themselves would find it feasible to relocate to the Old United States.

This isn’t to say that no one from California would be welcome. Without the opportunity to live on the dole, and without immediate access to the benefits of citizenship, it is likely only the most motivated and industrious Californians would seek to emigrate to Rump America. The minority of Californians who actually value freedom and fiscal sanity, and who are capable of leaving other people alone, should be welcomed with open arms in Rump America.

Secession Is the Future

Admittedly, this is all unlikely to happen in the short term. A response one often hears from those who reflexively defend the status quo is “it will never happen.” But in the world of politics, “never” is an absurdly long time. One can consult any political map of the world as it was 100 years ago to see just how non-permanent political institutions are. Rather, political disintegration of the United States is inevitable. It happens to every large state eventually, with the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s as only one recent example. In the late 1980s, most of these prophets of what will “never happen” also told us that the USSR would last for many generations more.

The United States is already well down this road. Culturally, the US is heavily splintered and divided. The average resident of, say, Massachusetts or New York views the average resident of Texas or Alabama with contempt and fear. Similar feelings likely run in the opposite direction. Donald Trump, being hailed as having won a “landslide” victory, couldn’t even eke out more than 50 percent of the vote. 48 percent of American voters liked Kamala Harris enough to actually cast a ballot for her. This is not a country that is united in any sense of the word.

Rather, the United States is today held together only by an intricate system of federal patronage. The federal government, using taxpayer money, essentially pays people to make sure they remain attached to, and dependent on, the central government. For example, the federal welfare state has been fabulously successful at making a large portion of the population hooked on the government’s social benefits. As we saw in the failed secession vote in Scotland in 2014, pensioners will reliably support the central government so long as it continues to dole out cash to these elderly wards of the state. American recipients of Social Security are no different. Few of these will support secession if it disrupts access to their precious government checks.  Meanwhile, an enormous system of farm subsidies, military spending, federal contracts, and NGOS ensures that millions of Americans owe their livelihoods to the central governments. Movements toward secession threaten to disrupt these gravy trains.

On the other hand, disintegration will come when the patronage system begins to falter. As the US rushes toward a federal debt of forty trillion dollars—soon to be followed by fifty trillion—the US government will find it harder and hard to balance its growing debt payments with the usual “generosity” of the state. Americans will then have to look to other institutions for their livelihoods, their pensions, and their “free stuff.” That is when secession starts to become a far more attractive option. After all, why stay attached to a political system that takes so much, and offers so little in return?

Until then, the best we can do is agitate for disunion, independence, and an orderly dismantling of the American leviathan state. It’s good preparation for the inevitable future.

Note: The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute.

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AI Is a Digital Parrot: Word-Traps, False Logic and the Illusion of Intelligence

Sab, 01/02/2025 - 05:01

Word traps and false logic don’t lead to dominance of the future or monopolistic grips on limitless profits.

The heart of the current euphoric expectations for AI is a simple but problematic proposition: the equivalence of function equals intelligence. If using natural language requires intelligence, and a computer can use natural language, then it’s intelligent. If it takes intelligence to compose an essay on Charles Darwin, and an AI program can compose an essay on Charles Darwin, then the AI program is intelligent.

The problem here is this “equivalence is proof of intelligence” is a function of word-traps and false logic, not actual equivalence; what is claimed to be be equivalent isn’t equivalent at all. In other words, the source of confusion is how we choose to define “intelligence,” which is itself a word-trap of the sort that philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein attempted to resolve using koan-like propositions and logic.

Imagine for a moment we had twenty words to describe all the characteristics of what we lump into “intelligence.” We would then be parsing the characteristics and output of AI programs by a much larger set of comparisons.

The notion of equivalence goes back a long way. As science developed models for how Nature functioned, the idea that Nature was akin to a mechanism like a clock gained mindshare.

The discoveries of relativity and quantum effects blew this model to pieces, as Nature turned out to be a very strange clock, to the point that the “Nature as a mechanism” model was abandoned as inadequate.

We have yet to reach the limits of the “equivalence is proof of intelligence” model, which is as outdated and nonsensical as “the universe is a mechanism” model. We keep finding new examples of equivalence to support the idea that a computer program running instructions is “intelligent” because it can perform tasks we associate with “intelligence” because we’re embedded in a mechanistic conceptualization of the entirety of Nature–including ourselves.

So there is much excitement when an AI program exhibits “emergent properties,” meaning that it develops behaviors / processes that weren’t explicitly programmed. This is then touted as an “equivalence proving intelligence:” this “ability to create something new” is proof of intelligence.

But Nature is chockful of emergent properties that no one hypes as “proof of intelligence.” Ant colonies generate all sorts of emergent properties, but nobody is claiming that ant colonies have human-level intelligence are are poised to take over the world.

AI programs parrot content and techniques generated by humans. Since they use natural language, we’re fooled by equivalence into thinking, “hey, the program is as smart as we are, because only we use natural language.”

The same conceptual trap opens in every purported equivalence. If an AI program can find the answer to a complex problem such as “how do proteins fold?”, and do so far faster than we can, we immediately project this supposed equivalence into “super-intelligence.”

The problem is the AI program is simply parroting techniques generated by humans and extrapolating them at scale. The program doesn’t “understand” proteins, their functions in Nature or in our bodies, or anything else about proteins that humans understand.

Defining anything by equivalence is false logic, a false logic we fall into so easily because words are traps that we don’t even recognize as traps.

Wittgenstein concluded that all problems such as “is AI intelligent?” were based in language, not the real world. Once we become ensnared in language and its implicit byways and restrictions, we lose our way. This truth is revealed by words that have no direct equivalent in other languages.

One example of this is the Japanese word aware (a-waar-re), which has a range of nuanced meanings with no equivalent in English: a sweet sadness at the passage of time, a specific flavor of poignant nostalgia and awareness of time. This word is key to understanding Japanese culture, and yet there is no equivalent word in English, either in meaning or cultural centrality.

In other words–what if there is no equivalent, and the supposed equivalence is nothing more than a confusion caused by word-traps and false logic? The entire supposition that we can model human intelligence with mechanistic equivalences (intelligence is a mechanism) collapses, along with projections of “super-intelligence.”

The temptation to keep trying to equate “intelligence” and programs with mechanistic equivalence is compelling because we’re so embedded in the mechanistic model we don’t even realize it’s a black hole of false logic that has only one possible output: nonsensical claims of “intelligence” based on some absurdly reductionist equivalence.

The temptation in this mechanistic conceptual trap is to reckon that if we only define our words more carefully, then we’ll be able to “prove equivalence is real.” This too is false. Wittgenstein eventually moved away from the model of the imprecision of language is the source of all our intellectual problems. It isn’t that simple: more precise definitions only generate more convoluted claims of false equivalences.

The book The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do (via B.J.) lays out the false conceptual assumptions holding up the entire edifice of AI.

Michael Polanyi’s classic Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy explains that knowing is an art, a reality explored by Donald Schon in The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think In Action.

Read the Whole Article

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How I Write a Book in a Weekend (Without Using AI)

Sab, 01/02/2025 - 05:01

There are programs out there for writing books quickly using AI. I am not talking about that. I am talking about using your own mind. It is possible to write a book in a weekend. I talk more about all the steps that I use and that anyone can use to write, publish, and market a book in a year free here.

But I’m going to go into more detail in a different area, an area that I would like more people who share my mindset about the world to understand, in hopes that you, too, can be more effective in promoting your ideas in the world.

Beware of the Know-It-Alls

Before the Four-Minute Mile was run, it was considered a physiological impossibility by many. After the Four Minute Mile was run, it soon became a plausible goal that many attained and achieved. The psychological breakthrough was achieved, which meant that the artificially imposed limits no longer existed.

There are many know-it-alls in life. One should watch out for them. When someone tells you how to do something, a good next question is, “Have you had personal experience with this topic?” and “How you had success in this area?”

There are millions of know-it-alls who do little more than walk through the world squelching human potential with no regard for the fidelity of their words. I despise such behavior. There are other more sickening behaviors, but I put this behavior on my list as one of the sickest things that exist in the world around us.

I am a bestselling writer. I have done hundreds of media interviews. I have published thousands of pieces. I have written and published scores of books. In a weekend, a person can write a book. In fact, a weekend is a perfect time to write a book, because you are giving yourself a compact amount of time to get the work done.

Honor Inspiration

Since I was 15 years old, I have carried a little spiral notebook and pen with me. When an idea came to me, I wrote it down. Sometimes when I wrote it down, the next idea came to me. I wrote that down. You guessed it, sometimes the next idea then came to me. Sometimes it would stop there; sometimes a complete outline would come; sometimes a complete essay would come.

By simply following this process diligently, I have found the ability to write 5, 6, even 7 one-thousand word essays in a day. It all begins with me diligently writing down the idea in my head — no matter what the idea is. I know I just need to get it out of my head and onto paper. That is the first step.

I have no idea how people walk around with ideas in their head all day long that they do not commit to paper and expect to make them actionable. That is not within my skillset. But, at the same time, based on my discussions with others, I do not think it is in most people’s skillsets. They seldom get anything done with those ideas.

Depending on the person, any of these things can totally clear out the mind and cut off prior thoughts that a person had established on the topic: A difficult day, a tragic incident, a thought provoking movie, a heavy night of drinking, a relaxing weekend away.

Your mind is only so linear. If you do not use the tool of pen and paper, you will miss out on important opportunities. If you honor the tool of pen and paper and honor the gift of inspiration, I know from personal experience and from discussions with others that this is a pathway to prolific writing. There are many conversations I have had on the topic of writing, many books I’ve read (mostly filled with nonsense), many courses I’ve taken (mostly filled with nonsense). How to better write, and publish, and otherwise share my ideas with others, is a topic I have dedicated a vast part of my life to. That has required sorting through a lot of nonsense from know-it-alls.

A lot of people are not willing to take the step of carrying a notebook and pen with them. A lot of people are not willing to jump into action as soon as the moment of inspiration arrives. Often, I have 30 seconds or less to get an idea out of my head before the flow of inspiration is broken. I might be able to hang onto that single idea, but the second, third, and fourth idea will not come if I do not act quickly and commit the idea to paper. It is not the single idea that means so much; it is the complete collection of ideas that makes an essay, that makes a plan, that makes a consistent argument. The complete set of ideas must be the real goal that needs pursuing and the tool of pen and paper, diligently used, is a powerful way to arrive at that goal.

Editing Is A Separate Process From Writing

Get your idea on paper. Step away. Look at it in the morning. If you are anything like me, you will see that 80% of it is garbage. You will have zero interest in sharing it with anyone. You will not waste your time editing it. You will perhaps even be embarrassed that you wrote such nonsense. What were you thinking? That’s okay. Accept it.

Don’t Worry About Making Mistakes

Just get your idea out on paper. Come back later, and worry about mistakes, or offensive words, or stupid ideas. Just get it out of you. Evaluate later. These are two different steps.

Be Ready To Drop What You Are Doing

Anyone in my daily life knows that I will periodically withdraw from what is happening and step to the side for 20 minutes. When inspiration hits, I start writing, and I expect others to respect that when they are with me, allowing me space to go for a walk or find a quiet corner. That’s how much I respect that inspiration when it comes. I’ve seen too many lives changed by it to not have that respect. At the same time, when I am with people (and there is no inspiration), they have my full attention. I reject the toxic trend that today exists — I am not on my cell phone when I am conversing with other humans.

Develop A Habit

I think it is good to have a daily expectation that you will write something. I usually have a several times daily expectation to both write and publish. Some people have a less frequent expectation. That is okay too. That’s up to you. More frequent iterations help to develop more effective, expert-level skills, and more quickly. I believe you should place some expectation on yourself and develop a habit around it.

Honor Deadlines

Parkinson’s Law says that work will expand to fill the amount of time you allot for it. Those who recognize that push themselves into tight deadlines and work hard to develop themselves in a way that understands how to set and honor tight deadlines. I may not expect most people to be able to snap their fingers and write a book this weekend, but I know that all people serious about doing so can build the skills to do that. I put together a free step-by-step for writing a book in a year for you here. Have a look at it, and try it. before you know it, you will have developed the same skills to eventually do it a shorter time. You likely understand the importance of just starting and then improving upon it with experience, and you likely see how this resource can be helpful to you.

Encapsulate Yourself

Just like the idea of deadlines is a way to encapsulate yourself, you may find your daily environment to be too distracting. Go to a place for two days and be focussed on walking away with a book. Turn off the cell phone. Turn off wifi. Part with your daily routine. Make your days decisively about accomplishing your goal.

When There Is More Work, Get A Team Together

I had an intellectual curiosity that I wanted to develop. I wanted to know more personally. I knew that the book writing process was a good way to get this done. It was going to be exactly the kind of book I wanted to read. My table fits ten or so people, so it became the perfect place to do the work that weekend. I went on Craigslist Monday and posted a few ads. I got people I hired together and all day Friday and Saturday we worked until we had a several-hundred page finished book, chock full of the highest quality research, and a new website, complete with an online sales page.

Take A Pledge Not To Use AI

AI is a neat tool. AI is terribly overrated in its current state. AI can be used for some cool things. Until you have the process above figured out, and know your limits, I ask that you not use AI for your writing. It would actually be my preference that you use AI not at all for your writing. Any of us can make a book this weekend using AI. Something tells me that whatever you produce with AI is going to be far inferior to the thing that you create with your mind.

AI in its current iteration could possibly be a useful research tool, but only as a first step, to find some useful legitimate resources to work from, just like Wikipedia is a good place to find some useful legitimate resources to work from. AI is incredibly limited for anyone who honors fidelity of their views. For me, that’s a big deal. For me it is important that the views that come out of my mouth are true to me, the same with the words that I publish alongside my name.

There could be reasons that I might want to publish books under a pseudonym using AI, but I do not ever intend to publish a book in my own name using AI. AI, by its nature, is not a mark of quality, but a system likely to produce the lowest common denominator outcome.

The value of a poet and a writer is not to regurgitate pablum. It is to produce for his reader, fresh ideas that will inject vitality to their lives. In fact, I consider this role so important that I seek to spend part of my life at the little traveled fringes of society, so that I can identify truth from there and bring it back to my readers.

Since the introduction of Page Rank, developed by Google co-founder Larry Page in the late 1990s, internet search is a lowest common denominator concept. Quality has been a challenge, and one that internet search has largely ignored. Thankfully, from that time, until approximately 2015, Google was excellent at providing users with what they wanted. Since approximately 2015, when Google was finally co-opted by those with a specific political objective, Google has provided users with what Google wanted them to see, rather than what the user wanted to see.

Internet search has been past its heyday since that time. All that is required to return it there is for a serious company to come along and use the original Google algorithm that Larry Page developed. It will be good for internet search, but it will remain a tool, like AI, that is only able to provide a lowest common denominator experience.

Your mind, your judgement, your wisdom, is able to produce better for your reader. Using AI for your writing should be considered below you.

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Tulsi Slams Deep State At Confirmation Hearing: “I Refuse To Be Their Puppet”

Ven, 31/01/2025 - 23:03
Tulsi Slams Deep State At Confirmation Hearing: “I Refuse To Be Their Puppet”

During her confirmation hearing to become President Trump’s head of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard hit back at Democrats and RINO ‘conservatives’ who have spent months smearing her as a Russian asset or a threat to national security.

During opening remarks, Gabbard cited examples of how the intelligence community agencies have been politicised against Trump and his supporters, asserting “this must end.”

Tulsi Slams Deep State At Confirmation Hearing: “I Refuse To Be Their Puppet” – modernity

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Jatras on Ron Paul Liberty Report with Daniel McAdams

Ven, 31/01/2025 - 20:36

Thanks, Jim Jatras:

How Can Trump End The Russia/Ukraine War?

As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump promised to end the Russia/Ukraine war on day one. Then, as President, we were told that he had given his special envoy Keith Kellog 100 days to wind the war down. Former State Department and US Senate official Jim Jatras joins today’s Liberty Report to discuss where Trump is getting it wrong…and how to fix it. Also today: Tulsi exposes one of the greatest national security scandals of all time.

 

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New neocon manifesto: Keep US troops in the Middle East forever

Ven, 31/01/2025 - 20:26

Thanks, John Smith. 

New neocon manifesto: Keep US troops in the Middle East forever

Responsible Statecraft

 

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America’s Untold Stories: Plane Crash, Confirmations & Trump’s Crackdown – Big Week in DC!

Ven, 31/01/2025 - 19:55

Welcome to another Free-form Friday on America’s Untold Stories with Mark Groubert and Eric Hunley! This week, we dive into the latest D.C. plane crash, Trump’s fiery criticism of Biden and the FAA, and the intense confirmation hearings for RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and Kash Patel. Plus, what’s really going on with the mysterious drones over New Jersey, and why did a Tesla Roadster get mistaken for an asteroid?

Trump slams FAA for hiring unqualified workers – did policy cost lives?
RFK Jr. and Tulsi grilled in the Senate – what did we learn?
NJ drone mystery deepens – why didn’t the FAA admit authorization?
Trump’s NYC immigration raids begin – who’s being deported?

All this and more on America’s Untold Stories – Free-form Friday! Stay tuned for breaking news, deep analysis, and untold truths.

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Justin Trudeau 2.0

Ven, 31/01/2025 - 18:19

Writes Wayne Goodfellow:

Should be an interesting election running on a Justin Trudeau 2.0 platform. High inflation, food banks, carbon taxes, weak Canadian dollar, unaffordable housing, declining standard of living, growing lines waiting for health care, affirmative action and other assaults on the merit principle, open borders costing Canadians >$50 billion per year, and many more progressive economic and social policies of national suicide. Vote Liberal/NDP and destroy what remains of this once great nation called Canada. And I didn’t even mention the onerous Trump tariffs. 

See here.

 

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“Operation Wrath of Zion” Aims to Dox and Deport Pro-Palestinian Protestors in New York City

Ven, 31/01/2025 - 18:18

Thanks, John Smith. 

“Operation Wrath of Zion” Aims to Dox and Deport Pro-Palestinian Protestors in New York City.

 

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UN chief demands evacuation of 2,500 Gaza children at ‘imminent risk’ of death

Ven, 31/01/2025 - 18:17

Thanks, John Smith.

UN chief demands evacuation of 2,500 Gaza children at ‘imminent risk’ of death | Reuters 

 

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Radar Images and Radio Communications from Aircraft Collision in Washington, D.C.

Ven, 31/01/2025 - 17:57

Writes Tim McGraw:

Start the Video at 2:00. The control tower contacts PAT25 (the Blackhawk helicopter) three times, telling PAT25 to pass aft of the incoming CRJ (Canadian Airliner) and maintain separation.

The Blackhawk helicopter, PAT25, never replies to the tower’s commands. That’s not right. Something is going on here. If it was a training flight, the instructor or the pilot of the helicopter would have replied to the tower and acknowledged the order to fly aft of the CRJ flight.

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DC Plane Crash, Two Bit Da Vinci

Ven, 31/01/2025 - 16:43

Writes Tim McGraw:

I think Da Vinci is right. Reagan Airport (DCA) should be a military airport. Dulles Airport should be upgraded (I can’t believe that Dulles doesn’t have underground trains to the gates) and renamed (the Dulles brothers were murdering thieves). The aircraft accident came from a flawed and dangerous system. If some politicians had died on the CRJ flight, changes would occur.

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Did I Just Get an Email from Donald Trump writing under a Pseudonym?

Ven, 31/01/2025 - 15:53

In response to my article on the creepy crony capitalist imperialist William McKinley a Robert King emailed to inform me that protectionist tariffs are “the single most valuable tool a nation possesses.”

Who is this person known as “the nation” and where can I find him?  Is he kind of like that entertainer who calls himself “the weekend”?  I am a part of the American nation and I don’t believe this.  Can “a nation” make decisions like this regarding “the single most valuable tool?” Or do only individuals make decisions?

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The Mises Institute’s New Documentary on the Fed . . .

Ven, 31/01/2025 - 15:44

. . . now has more than 141,000 views in just the first three months since the premier, and we’re just getting started on our marketing plan.

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“The High Priestess of Reason”

Ven, 31/01/2025 - 15:37

Rainer Zitelmann on “The Ayn Rand Contradiction” in the Wall Street Journal.

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Two Outstanding Men of Common-Sense Principles and Integrity Courageously Speaking Truth to Power

Ven, 31/01/2025 - 12:56

Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin Calls Out Hypocrisy on Science & RFK Jr.’s HHS Nomination | Senate HELP Committee.

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