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Hallelujah! President Trump Actually Wants To Give Peace a Chance

Wow! These are the most powerful and consequential 36 words spoken by any US President. Ever.

“One of the first meetings I want to have is with President Xi of China, President Putin of Russia, and I want to say, ‘let’s cut our military budget in half.’ And we can do that.”

Yes, from the Donald’s lips to god’s ear and all that. The practicalities and obstacle-strewn path from here to there may well be insuperable.

But what our twice-baked President has actually done is to blow the Overton Window...

Common Sense, Then and Now

Today, I will sign a series of historic executive orders. With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense. It’s all about common sense. — President Donald Trump’s inaugural address, January 20, 2025 [Emphasis added]

Presidents other than Trump have invoked the appeal of common sense in their inaugural address, though in the case of George W. Bush it carried the message of perpetual war:

We are led, by events and common sense, to one conclu...

US Government Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations” Since WW2

The “U.S. government” is comprised of a wide variety of different people, many of which are good and decent human beings. So this obviously does not represent everyone who works in the government. More importantly, this does not represent U.S. citizens either, so please do not fall into the trap of defending the crimes of your government, because you feel yourself personally under attack. Identify yourself with integrity, humanity and Truth, not a criminal government or group.

After the catastro...

U.S. Questions for European Governments – Another Wake-up Call

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has held up a mirror to Europe’s ‘elite’ which did not like to acknowledge what could be seen in it: Minions, a lot of minions.

“But our common values?” cried Christoph Heusgen, the chairman of the Munich Security Conference.

What values Mr. Heusgen? Those displayed daily, with your applause, by the European colonists in Palestine?

“Like a headless chicken,” is what the German broadsheet Frankfurter Allgemeine called the reaction of Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The descri...

A Hope: Can We Achieve It?

By seizing the initiative Trump and Musk stole a march on corrupt Democrats and their whore media. The whore media has been destroyed by the large amount of information that came out of the government’s own data clearly demonstrating immense theft from taxpayers by Democrats and misuse of approprIated funds by USAID, National Endowment for Democracy, Social Security and Medicare, US Treasury, Department of Health and Human Services, and the use of federal funds for advertising private abortion c...

Can We Really Cut Half of the Military Budget? You Bet!

The wailing sound you heard last Thursday was the chorus of the Beltway warmongers shrieking in despair at President Trump’s suggestion that there was no reason for the United States to be spending one trillion dollars on “defense.”

“…[O]ne of the first meetings I want to have is with President Xi of China and President Putin of Russia, and I want to say let’s cut our military budget in half. And we can do that, and I think we’ll be able to do that,” the President told reporters.

With this state...

RFK Jr. and Our Public Health Disasters

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Silence of Barking Dogs

On Thursday the full Senate voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). This gave Kennedy full authority over one of America’s largest government bureaucracies, including its 90,000 employees and an annual budget of nearly $2 trillion, twice that of the Department of Defense.

Ironies abounded in that narrow 52-48 vote, which was almost exactly along party lines, with every Democrat in opposition and...

In Syria, the Barbarians Aren’t at the Gate, They’re in Power With Western Support

Declan Hayes contends that the new rulers of Syria do not have a firm control over the country where resistance to the reign of terror is growing.

Atrocities are being committed every day in Syria by the new rulers, according to Irish writer and peace activist Declan Hayes.

However, the Western corporate-run media are ignoring or censoring the horrific reality because the Western governments backed the regime-change operation.

He says that Syria – a cradle of civilization – is now being ruled b...

The Hidden Dangers of Hospital Births and How to Protect You and Your Baby

Many traditions throughout history have come to view the prenatal period and childbirth as one of the most important moments in a human’s life as it sets the stage for all that follows. Unfortunately, much in the same way we desecrate the death process by over-medicalizing it (to the point research has found doctors are less likely to seek end of life care at a medical facility), the same issue also exists with childbirth. Many physicians I know who are familiar with the hospital birthing proces...

Osama bin Laden’s Secret Weapon: Economic Literacy

While acknowledging his great evils, future strategists and historians will one day likely recognize Osama bin Laden’s strategic acumen. With minimal resources or technology, Osama bin Laden managed to create immense socioeconomic damage and nearly destroy both of his main enemies—the “godless” Communist Soviet Union and the Zionism-supporting United States. Bin Laden achieved this using only one simple weapon, a basic understanding of economics, and thus, the immense harm that military spending...