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With JD Vance and Elon Musk, Suddenly Ideas Are Back in This Campaign

This presidential campaign season may be one of those turning points in history for reasons good and bad. Anyone watching the one debate between the Republican and Democratic Party candidates would not have come away with the view that this was a great battle of competing principles and visions for the future. It was a campaign of name-calling and bullets, where one candidate avoided discussing ideas at all costs – and even avoided the media at all costs. Where the other candidate dodged two att...

NY Times Announces Ukraine Narrative Change

Below are a number of New York Times headlines which represent the propaganda narrative about Ukraine as it has changed over time.

‘Ukraine is winning’ was the direction of stories issued from April 2022 up to August 2023.

Can Ukraine Keep Winning? – Apr 20, 2022
As a new phase of the war begins, we look at Russia’s advantages — and Ukraine’s.For Ukraine, So Much Unexpected Success, and Yet So Far to Go – Nov 22, 2022
Ukraine is on the offensive along most of the 600-mile front line, and the...

Actually, The Democratic Party Is Hitler

Along about now, you’re probably wondering what sort of mayhem the Party of Chaos is set to unleash on our democracy after their mighty ballot fraud operation fails to overcome the yet more powerful instinct of the voters to expel them from the seats of power they seized by fraud in 2020 and 2022. You can be sure they’ve gamed-out a playbook aimed at paralyzing the nation one way or another if the effort to install Kamala Harris in the White House face-plants, as it appears to be doing in these ...

First Signs You’re Being Tracked by 3-Letter Agencies

The CIA. The DIA. The NSA. The FBI. The DHS. Even the IRS. Our government employs a whole alphabet of agencies that go by TLAs (Three Letter Abbreviations) and those agencies spend a disturbing amount of time watching what we’re doing. Are they watching you?

It’s a sad fact that people who value preparedness and self-reliance don’t always have the best relationship with the federal government, which often resents the fact we don’t trust it to look after us. The government likes people to depend ...

Ode To GeezerMedia

The most-viewed live event of all time was the 2008 Beijing Olymics Opening Ceremony. It pulled roughly 2 billion viewers worldwide, though to be fair, roughly half of that was in China alone. Live Aid in 1985 pulled 1.9 billion, and the FIFA World Cup routinely pulls about 1.5 billion for live telecasts. Note that none of these has any long-term historic value.

By contrast, the most viewed podcast episode of all time was the 2018 Rogan/Musk interview, which pulled in 69 million views over all p...

Can a Tsunami of Trump Votes Give Power Back to the American People?

The Democrats are set to steal the election.  They have everything in place except enough votes to hide their theft.

Watch the video of the Trump Grand Finale, listen to the speeches by Robert Kennedy and Tucker Carlson.  Marvel at the massive audience. It appears that Americans have cast off their insouciance and are going to take back their country from the two corrupt political parties, both of which have unleashed evil on America and the world. See this.

The American ruling elite, which is e...

How DMSO Cures Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat and Dental Disease

DMSO is a phenomenally effective medicine that can treat a wide variety of common, debilitating, or incurable conditions, which allowed it to rapidly take the country by storm (as both the public and the medical community saw its results and rapidly embraced it). Unfortunately, the widespread enthusiasm behind something that completely changed medicine and allowed people to care for themselves independently was unacceptable to the FDA. For the next two decades, the agency went to incredible leng...

Stranger in my Own Strange Land

During the past week, a very close loved one was hospitalized with a nasty illness. The crisis seems past now, and for that I am supremely grateful. These scary moments do serve the purpose of placing things in the proper perspective. We realize all that we take for granted, and how quickly it might disappear.

There were two main ways to get to the hospital, which was located a good distance away, and was a place I’d fortunately never visited before. Both involved main roadways that were at the ...

Lessons from Reconstruction

In “The Terror of Reconstruction,” Lew Rockwell highlights the dangers of governments seeking to suppress their political opponents by an assault on citizens’ liberties. He draws upon the experience of the South under military dictatorship during the Reconstruction years as an example of what happens when governments embark on social revolution. One tactic described by Rockwell is denying the vote to those who supported their opponents:

In the Reconstruction era, practically the entire white pop...

The Fifth of November

When the Saturday Night Live’s Maya Rudolph is more “electable” than the actual candidate she portrays, we have reason to be curious about what will happen, and which electoral path serves up our next US President.

To understand our upcoming future, we can look at what four categories of “players.”  Voters, parties, the state, and “the people.”

First, the voters.  They think they are the most important part of the election.  Many of them now have met and gotten to know a bit about the “other” si...