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Central Planning Is the Problem

It seems damn obvious that neither Jay Powell, Donald Trump, the 12 geniuses on the FOMC, nor any other set of Washington apparatchiks should be setting interest rates. That’s a job tailor-made for millions of players on the free market without any help, nudges, guidance, or big fat thumb on the supply/demand scale by the central bank.

It also seems equally obvious that under the current post-1987 regime of Keynesian activism at the Fed that interest rates have been way too low for most of the p...

Everything Democrats Do Forces Us To Live in Fear and Poverty Without Families or Freedom

The leadership of the so-called Democrat party are Communist, along with most of inner-city followers;  the balance of the supporters are Communists, and don’t even know what a communist is.

Everything Democrats do is to follow the Communist Manifesto to impoverish and enslave the people. People need to know the actual specifics defining the Communist Manifesto that follow in outline format:

1…Abolish private property: Land, Home, Autos and Everything.

2…Progressive Income Tax: We have it.

3…No ...

Did the United States Have Only One Founder?

I know not whether any man in the world has had more influence on its inhabitants or affairs for the last thirty years than Thomas Paine. There can be no severer satyr on the age. For such a mongrel between pig and puppy, begotten by a wild boar on a bitch wolf, never before in any age of the world was suffered by the poltroonery of mankind, to run through such a career of mischief. Call it then the Age of Paine. — John Adams

If 37-year-old Thomas Paine had died when he was carried off the ship ...

Symbols of Disruption: The Demonic in an Age of Uncertainty

From the Minneapolis shooter drawing a picture of himself staring into a mirror with his reflection not human but a beast with horns, to the recently resigned senior physician at the Centers for Disease Control proudly displaying photos of himself on social media dressed in full sadomasochistic leather regalia with the same horned demonic image tattooed on his chest—affirms the point that Satan is having a cultural moment.

Baphomet, the horned goat-like figure that evokes centuries of occultism ...

RFK Will Kill You, Say Losers

Earlier this week the New York Times published an op-ed by a number of former directors of the Centers for Disease Control called, “We Ran the CDC: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health.”

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!

Were I a former CDC director, out of shame and embarrassment I would avoid the spotlight for the rest of my life, given how sick Americans are after years and years of the leadership of people like my friends and me. I think pretty much any normal person wou...

Only When We Know What Propaganda Is, And How It Works, Will We Be Free to Live Our Lives and Rule Ourselves

This article was first posted in 2022 but recently updated.

For those of us who study propaganda critically, and seek to do this all-important work as public intellectuals, these last two years have been uniquely challenging, and even dangerous, forcing us into a painful double bind.

On the one hand, we have never had so much to work with, nor has there ever been a greater need for our peculiar expertise. Whereas in the “democratic” West, propaganda used to be most evident as an intensive episod...

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The Art of Invisibility: The World’s Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Bi...

Gaza’s Looming Cancer Epidemic

A week after the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, a large explosion incinerated a parking lot near the busy Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, killing more than 470 people. It was a horrifying, chaotic scene. Burnt clothing was strewn about, scorched vehicles piled atop one another, and charred buildings surrounded the impact zone. Israel claimed the blast was caused by an errant rocket fired by Palestinian extremists, but an investigation by Forensic Architecture later indicated that the miss...

The West Just Watched the World Shift in Tianjin

At   the   recent   Shanghai   Cooperation   Organization   summit   in   Tianjin,   leaders representing over half of humanity signaled the rise of a multipolar world order. As China, Russia, India, and Central Asia push new financial and trade systems, the West risks being left on the sidelines.

When the leaders of China, Russia, India, and several Central Asian states gathered in Tianjin last week for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit, the world should have paid far closer attention. Collectiv...

Court of Public Opinion

Here we go again. Going against the grain is right up my alley, especially when every single person who has ever heard of the word “tennis” disagrees. It happened last week at the US Open, and it had everyone agreeing that Taylor Townsend, a black female American tennis player, had been the victim of a racist attack by a Latvian white female player by the name of Ostapenko. Gee whiz, if everyone in the media and among the players says so, it must be right, n’est-ce pas, as they say in the land o...