1+ hour, 16+ min ago (49+ words) Writes Bill Madden: We didn't threaten Nigeria because they are killing Christians, we threatened them because they are killing the dollar. " The post Nigeria appeared first on LewRockwell. We didn't threaten Nigeria because they are killing Christians, we threatened them because they are killing the dollar....

1+ hour, 19+ min ago (473+ words) Writes Bill Madden This lady provides a comprehensive analysis of how our wealthiest families allow us to pay most of the taxes considering gross income.She didn't mention the very obvious fact that our wealthiest families have the ability to "influence" our politicians and bureaucrats so that laws are written to accommodate their desire to continually increase their wealth. Our wealthiest families are major stockholders of Corporate America who use corporate money to "influence" everybody and everything posing as an obstacle to their pursuit of more wealth. We subsidize the large corporations with our purchasing and their gifts of corporate welfare. " Continue reading " The post The Super-Rich & Income Taxes appeared first on LewRockwell. This lady provides a comprehensive analysis of how our wealthiest families allow us to pay most of the taxes considering gross income. She didn't mention the very…...

6+ hour, 42+ min ago (235+ words) I passed by a bunch of little kids recently, chasing after bubbles emitted by a bubblicious toy. What a delightful time they were having. That's all very well, but right now experts are worrying about an AI Bubble, as the stock market retreats some 8-10 percent from a peak at the end of October. Here's'one take'from Niall Ferguson worrying about the crazy plans of the AI promoters: Sam Altman "recently told employees that OpenAI wanted to build 250 gigawatts of new computing capacity by 2033" a plan that would cost over $10 trillion by today's standards." That would be equivalent to a third of current U.S. peak energy usage. Then there is David Dayen at'American Prospect.'He's worried that'Silicon Valley and Wall Street are in sync: conjuring up sketchy credit deals that are pointing us toward another financial crash." Last month, the big focus was…...

6+ hour, 42+ min ago (757+ words) In this endeavor to destroy the family, the state has been increasingly successful in recent centuries. Although the family still exists today, it does so in a greatly weakened state. In other words, family demographics have been a critical factor. As marriage rates and birth rates have declined, civil society has declined and state power has grown. Families Are More Active in Building Civil Society" For many years, some social scientists"pushed the theory"that members of stable families are less social and less inclined toward civic engagement. Evidence to the contrary continues to pile up, however, and popular books like Robert Putnam's"Bowling Alone"shows what has long been obvious to many: that the abandonment of earlier marriage and childrearing patterns has led to more social isolation. Married parents are often the key group that is essential to maintaining…...

6+ hour, 42+ min ago (943+ words) In previous writings, I exposed the machinery of technocratic control " climate orthodoxy, debt economics, CBDCs, and centralized data governance. But those were only the outer mechanisms. Now the frontier is shifting inward. The question is no longer merely "How will they govern us?" " but "Will we still govern ourselves?" The danger is not that AI will become human " but that humans will become machine-like. And this danger is not hypothetical. AI is already shaping what may be spoken on social media, what may be researched in medicine, and " through digital currency " what may even be purchased. It is not innovation " it is the automation of control, becoming the interface between citizens and reality. If the human spirit is filtered through an algorithm " what becomes of discernment? As I wrote in Staying Human in the Age of AI, outsourcing expression leads…...

6+ hour, 42+ min ago (542+ words) It should be against the law to use generative AI to deceive the public. I've got absolutely no problem with outright government censorship in this case, and I say this as an aggressive and outspoken proponent of free speech. AI products which deceive people should be illegal in the same way fraud is illegal. I want it to be illegal to knowingly circulate AI video footage and pass it off as real. I want AI companies to be severely penalized if they don't prevent people from using their products to generate fake videos that get passed off as real. " Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) November 17, 2025 I want generative AI companies to be forced to place highly visible warnings across all AI-generated videos with wording that explicitly says they are AI-generated'not just a little watermark in the corner that can be cropped out....

6+ hour, 42+ min ago (321+ words) Today, Americans know how the Great Depression ended. It ended with the onset of war in Europe. FDR truly believed that, if Britain and France went to war with Germany,the quagmire would make the British and French Governmentsheavily dependent on access to U.S. credit markets and resources, thereby ending America's economic Depression. FDR welcomed the stimulus that war provided. Ultimately, both FDR and Stalin miscalculated just how costly and risky the new conflict in Europe would be. War broke out in 1939, and in 1940 German military power rapidly defeated Western allies, though Britain fought on. The next year Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Today, the Trump administration faces some conditions that FDR would recognize. Scott Bessent, President Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary, confronts a national sovereign debt of approximately $38 trillion.Liquidity strains also persistin parts of the financial system, and the dollar's…...

6+ hour, 42+ min ago (370+ words) By Jacob G. Hornberger The Future of Freedom Foundation Thus, I can totally understand why many Americans still do not cross the line and conclude that the assassination was, in fact, a national-security-state regime-change operation. I'm with them there. Given such, how then have I concluded that JFK was assassinated by the Pentagon and the CIA as part of a regime-change operation intended to protect "national security? The answer lies in the Pentagon's and CIA's actions'after'the assassination. It is their post-assassination actions that unequivocally establish guilt on the part of the national-security establishment. I won't go into all the aspects of the fraudulent autopsy in this article. That's what I do in my relatively short, easy-to-read book'The Kennedy Autopsy, which is actually just a synopsis of Horne's five-volume book. But anyone who takes the time to read and study Horne's five-volume…...

6+ hour, 42+ min ago (542+ words) It should be against the law to use generative AI to deceive the public. I've got absolutely no problem with outright government censorship in this case, and I say this as an aggressive and outspoken proponent of free speech. AI products which deceive people should be illegal in the same way fraud is illegal. I want it to be illegal to knowingly circulate AI video footage and pass it off as real. I want AI companies to be severely penalized if they don't prevent people from using their products to generate fake videos that get passed off as real. " Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) November 17, 2025 I want generative AI companies to be forced to place highly visible warnings across all AI-generated videos with wording that explicitly says they are AI-generated'not just a little watermark in the corner that can be cropped out....

6+ hour, 42+ min ago (841+ words) The 28-point so-called "peace plan" " written as a putative legal treaty " will strike any experienced reader as an amateur production. So, now we have the'details'of the 28-point so-called "peace plan" which Ukrainian Parliamentarian Goncharenko has provided claiming it to be a translation from the original. The text " written as a putative legal treaty " will strike any experienced reader as an amateur production, hinging, in several parts, on "subsequent discussions" and on "expectations". The Europeans and Britain want Russian capitulation, pure and simple. The point here, which Moscow makes clear, is that Kirill Dmitriev " Steve Witkoff"s interlocutor in the drafting " does not represent President Putin, nor Russia. He has no official mandate whatsoever. Putin spokesman Dmitri Peskov curtly states: "There are no formal consultations between Russia and the U.S. on the settlement in Ukraine; but contacts exist. Maria Zakharova stated that…...