“A demagogue is someone who proclaims doctrines which he knows to be untrue, to people he knows to be idiots.” ~ HL Mencken Regarding Mencken’s quote: the demagogues are Trump and the rest of the administration, the media and their henchmen, and the population in general are…
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Protesters Tear Down Jared Kushner-Linked Albania Development Site Fences
An Albanian company has been developing a five-star luxury tourist resort on the site and the project was granted ‘special status investor’ by the Albanian government. Some 200 protesters on Saturday tore down metal and razor wire fences surrounding a luxury development site on Albania‘s Adriatic coast,…
Exposing Black Privilege: A Cursory Outline of Racial Prostration in American Life
Author’s note and disclaimer: as with all matters concerning race and intergroup conflict, this essay examines whites and blacks as a collective. As with almost any phenomenon under the sun , there are invariably outliers, exceptions to the rule. Although such outliers obviously exist, they do not negate overwhelming…
The Death of France — The Secret Report Macron is Hiding
It’s a typical afternoon in Saint-Denis, the narrow streets packed with people whose faces you cannot see. The women move in niqab, shapes without features, eyes that do not meet yours. The shop signs are in Arabic, the smell of cumin and lamb fat rises from every doorway,…
AI Data Centers: The Real Reason They’re Going Up Everywhere
Who’s paying for them. Why it’s happening this fast. What the buildout is actually for. Why you should care. I live in Montana but I am from Pennsylvania so I follow a Facebook page called I live In Pa. I kept seeing AI data centers on this channel…
Invasion of the Killer Data Centers
Who controls what data? Wikipedia tells us that a data center is “a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems. Data centers are critical infrastructure for the storage and processing of information, and they support the global financial system….and…
The E. Jean Carroll Saga is Darker Than You Think
E. Jean Carroll, the former advice columnist and media gadabout who accused Donald J. Trump of sexual assault, is in a bigger jam than the media would like you to believe. The New York Times, for instance, insists that the Justice Department is investigating Carroll’s two lawsuits against…
Extorting ‘Vaccination’
Why Did the Public Need to be Threatened to Take the “Vaccine”? In retrospect, it is obvious (as it was to many at the time) that a primary objective of the “Covid-19” military operation was to inject as many people as possible with unlicensed, experimental substances lacking…
The U.S. Empire is Retrenching, Bringing Imperialism Home
The US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding may be signed already. If it is, 60 days of retrenchment, rejuvenation and rest may be on tap. Donald Trump certainly needs it, and so does the world. The latest US war – for Israel, as admitted by Trump, Rubio and Hegseth –…
Greed, Excess and Sacrifice
It’s actually shocking to come across any plain-spoken “stating the obvious” reference to corruption as a corrosive, destabilizing force. The reason I want to discuss Greed, Excess and Sacrifice is that these are the dominant forces shaping everyday life, but they receive near-zero notice: nobody talks about Greed,…