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Navalny’s Death – A Western-Instigated ‘False Flag’?

It is no secret that the West is hellbent to destroy President Putin, to force a Western friendly regime-change, so that finally after how many failed attempts (?) the West can take over this vast Russia, largest country in the world, by far the richest in natural resources which the West covets.

This too will be a failure.

Killing Aleksei A. Navalny, a lawyer and President Putin’s strongest adversary, would not be beyond Western secret services, just to strike at Vladimir Putin. Mr. Navalny’s d...

‘Emergent’ AI Behavior and Human Destiny

Yes, it’s already time to be worried — very worried. As the wars in Ukraine and Gaza have shown, the earliest drone equivalents of “killer robots” have made it onto the battlefield and proved to be devastating weapons. But at least they remain largely under human control. Imagine, for a moment, a world of war in which those aerial drones (or their ground and sea equivalents) controlled us, rather than vice-versa. Then we would be on a destructively different planet in a fashion that might seem a...

The Resistance Has a Plan for Israel. But on the Other Side, Fantastical U.S. Stratagems Ensure a Cascading Failure

We have entered a period of breakdown and violence, as the forces pulling apart the old status quo cascade and mutually reinforce one another.

In a speech on Tuesday, Hizbullah leader Seyed Nasrallah said that the Party will continue the border offensive until at least the Gaza massacre stops. The war in Gaza however, is far from over. And Nasrallah warned that even were a ceasefire to be reached in Gaza, “should the enemy perform any action, we will return to operating according to the rules an...

The Ever Expanding War

As I previously wrote, the Israeli/American intention is to expand the war against Hamas to Lebanon, Syria, and Iran.  The expansion has begun.  The latest news is that Israel has struck deep into Lebanon:  “War Expands With Massive Israeli Airstrikes 60km Deep Into Lebanon,” See here.

The Arabs, likely restrained by Putin, have once again sat on their butts while Israel picks them off one by one.  Only the Houthis but not a single Arab or Muslim country came to Hamas’ help.  Consequently, the A...

Federalism Fixes This

The genius of the free market lies in harnessing the power of consumer sovereignty. free people make free choices and these choices provide the information, distilled into simple salients like “demand level” and “price,” that informs every producer in the world what to make and how to make it. this emergent data determines the trade offs faced in production and consumption and perhaps more importantly, it makes these trade offs visible and measurable so that those seeking to serve the market can...

Ukraine Spending ‘Creates Jobs’

From the Tom Woods Letter:

Last week on Twitter someone had the audacity to post the amount of U.S. aid that has been sent to Ukraine: $113,313,000,000.

A “Community Note” thought it was making a good point by replying:

“Most US aid to Ukraine is, in fact, benefiting America by providing jobs and bringing much-needed improvements to US military infrastructure.”

Dumb-guy Keynesianism, in other words.

These fake “jobs” are “provided” by looting some Americans and paying others to do things nobody ...

Axis of Resistance: from Donbass to Gaza

During my recent vertiginous journey in Donbass tracking Orthodox Christian battalions defending their land, Novorossiya, it became starkly evident that the resistance in these newly liberated Russian republics is fighting much the same battle as their counterparts in West Asia.

Nearly 10 years after Maidan in Kiev, and two years after the start of Russia’s Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine, the resolve of the resistance has only deepened.

It’s impossible to do full justice to the stre...

Faith Leaders Have a Lack of Faith

The Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers weren’t the only winners and losers on Super Bowl Sunday. According to online gaming industry news site Legal Sports Report, Americans were expected to bet $1.3 billion on the Super Bowl.

Thanks to a Supreme Court ruling in 2018 that struck down a federal law prohibiting sports gambling in most states, betting on sports is now legal in thirty-eight states. The states where sports betting remains illegal are Alabama, Alaska, California, Georgia, Hawa...

You Only Need To Cage A Bird If It Knows That It Can Fly

One point I keep trying to drive home here in as many ways as I can is that this is the dystopia we were warned about. The main difference between this mind-controlled dystopia and the fictional dystopias in novels like 1984 is that in 1984 people knew they weren’t living in a free society, whereas in this dystopia the people believe they are free.

In Orwell’s dystopia people knew they weren’t free and had to use doublethink to stay out of trouble with their rulers. In this dystopia people have ...

Why War Bonds Are Returning in Europe

After a mostly peaceful Security Conference in Munich over the weekend, Estonian Prime Minister Katja Kallas let the real purpose of all the recent hysteria over Ukraine funding out of the proverbial bag — Eurobonds.

Kallas was handed the bully pulpit to make the argument for $110 billion in Eurobonds be issued by the EU Commission to spend on arming Europe for the future and supporting Ukraine. It just sounds like more of the same that we’ve heard for two years now. More money for Ukraine. More...