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August 13, 2026
Originally posted by Charles Hugh Smith at Oftwominds.com: Most of AI isn’t productive, it’s just another form of consumption. Like GDP (Gross Domestic Product), economic Productivity is an unquenchable spring of delusions, delusions being pu ...
August 13, 2026
Originally posted by Joe Wilkins at Futurism: “There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this.” What’s the point of having a superyacht if you’re forced to share it with some unwashed poors? That’s the calculatio ...
August 13, 2026
Summary The guest argues the West is dangerously naive about the reality of evil, wrongly presuming everyone shares its values, and that groups like Hamas and Hezbollah are “death cults” that deliberately target Israel because doing so theologically ...
August 12, 2026
Summary Emma recommends eight books for understanding what she frames as the already-begun collapse of industrial civilization, spanning economics, inequality, and ecological overshoot. She argues mainstream economics ignores the biosphere and basic needs while ...
August 11, 2026
Summary The panel treats AOC’s “woke one was kind of crazy” admission as a self-serving repositioning ahead of a Senate or presidential run, arguing the DSA left (Mamdani, Francesca Hong, Abdul El-Sayed) has swapped pandemic-era identity polit ...
August 11, 2026
Originally posted by JD Hall at Insight to Incite: What they call “capitalism” increasingly isn’t capitalism at all. It is a bastardized system of privatized profits and socialized losses, where multinational corporations demand free markets when t ...
August 11, 2026
Originally posted by Wanjiru Njoya at the Mises Institute: In a recent controversy over ideological indoctrination at the Smithsonian museum, one member of staff mockingly said, “I didn’t realize all my colleagues were Marxists.” The implication i ...
August 11, 2026
Written by Matt Morgan, Editor at The Daily Bell: Ask a defender of the current “democratic” structure of governance where its authority comes from and the answer arrives on schedule: The consent of the governed – votes! It is the phras ...
August 07, 2026
Originally posted by Connor O’Keeffe at Mises.org: Six years after the covid pandemic and nearly two years after he was pardoned for any and all crimes he may have committed since 2014 relating to his role at HHS, Anthony Fauci was back in the news last w ...
August 06, 2026
Originally posted by David Gilmour at Mediate: Capital One revealed that it closed hundreds of accounts tied to the Trump Organization following an internal anti-money laundering review, directly challenging claims by President Donald Trump’s family ...
August 06, 2026
Originally posted by Charles Hugh Smith at Oftwominds.com: The joyless pantomime of optimizing our alienation is not a substitute for authentic fulfillment. We all know that geopolitics, the stock market, AI, the unemployment rate and all the rest of what’ ...
August 06, 2026
Originally posted on SchiffSovereign.com: In the year 711, a Berber commander named Tar-iq ibn Ziyad crossed from North Africa with a reported 7,000 men and landed at the base of the mountain that still carries his name: Jabal Tar-iq (Tar-iq’s ...
August 06, 2026
Originally posted on RT.com: European factories, NATO software, and defense companies are now built into Kiev’s war effort. Throughout the conflict, Western governments have described their role in Ukraine in relatively simple terms: supplying weapons, provid ...
August 04, 2026
Originally posted by Stephan Anderson: US farms and ranches face rising debt in 2026. New York based Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) released an article on February 25, 2026, entitled, “Farm Debt on the Rise as Federal Aid Counters Rising Expenses” The ar ...
August 04, 2026
Originally posted on Dollarcollapse.com by Shan N.: Warsh has spoken extensively in the last 2 months about his intent to control “Price Inflation”. And he was very specific about his goal as being below 2.0%. If talking could have controlled consume ...
August 04, 2026
Summary Currie argues markets are dangerously complacent about the greatest supply disruption of his three-decade career — the Red Sea, Black Sea, and Strait of Hormuz simultaneously blocked, half of Russia’s refining capacity destroyed — with the 3-2 ...
August 04, 2026
By Matt Morgan, The Daily Bell: You would never bow to a king. The whole idea, that one man is born with a right to rule everyone else, sounds like a fairy tale we outgrew. And we did outgrow the crown. We just kept the trick. The magic did not die, it g ...
August 04, 2026
Summary Casey and Smith discuss what they characterize as an organized “invasion” of Ceuta, the Spanish enclave in North Africa, by an estimated 49,000 Moroccan migrants in a single day — which they speculate may be retaliation for Spain’s o ...
August 03, 2026
Summary Salatin argues US row-crop agriculture is structurally broken — soybean farmers lost $100 an acre in 2025 (prompting a $12 billion Trump administration bailout), corn farmers are projected to lose $50–100 an acre, and half of US soybeans are exporte ...
August 03, 2026
Originally posted by Victor Tangermann at Futurism.org: Late last year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon that raising a child was now impossible without constantly turning to AI for advice — despite humans managing just ...
August 03, 2026
Originally posted by Dr.Norman Fenton at The Daily Sceptic: The viral story surrounding Cambridge sociology professor Jason Arday has dominated discussion about the failings of Britain’s elite universities. It has become a symbol of allegations of plagiarism, ...
August 03, 2026
Originally posted by Aaron Brown at Reason.com: California Rep. Ro Khanna (D) said last month that Elon Musk had “possibly sentenced to death” 4.5 million children by dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Musk called h ...
August 01, 2026
Summary Bishop argues that neoliberalism is a real and coherent bipartisan ideology rather than a meaningless slur, defining it as belief in a regulated free market economy paired with technocratically managed socialized money, and tracing it from the Mont Pele ...
August 01, 2026
Originally posted by Carlos Daria at Mises.org: The year was 2016. I was deputy commander of a Military Police battalion in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods of the capital of Pará—one of the poorest and most violent states in Brazil. At 3:40 in the mo ...
July 31, 2026
Summary De Santos argues that legacy media — specifically the BBC, where he worked from 2009 until leaving in 2022 across BBC Persian and BBC World — is structurally geared toward a single “lefty, woke, globalist” narrative, and that his attempt ...
July 31, 2026
Summary Francis argues that the “simp economy” is not harmless charity to lonely men but an industrial-scale financial extraction machine built to commodify male isolation, citing $7.2 billion in annual OnlyFans user spending — roughly Fiji’ ...
July 31, 2026
Originally posted by Thomas Karat at the Libertarian Institute: The state has discovered that the most efficient way to manage what you believe is to reach you before you know you are being reached. Consider a man walking into a church in Prescott, Arizo ...
July 30, 2026
Originally posted by Valentin Boboc at EconLib: Can a private company be worth more than Canada’s entire economy? Some people seem to think so. Every so often, a superstar company, usually in the tech sector, hits a record valuation, prompting comparis ...
July 29, 2026
Summary The guest argues that Trump can no longer walk away from the Iran conflict because the offramp — the MOU that was written and then abandoned out of pride — is gone, and because Houthi strikes on Saudi oil production and Ukrainian strikes on Russian ...
July 28, 2026
Written by Matt Morgan at The Daily Bell: You already trust order without a ruler in the highest-stakes relationships on Earth. You do it every day without noticing, and… You only lose your nerve when the missing ruler is the one over your own street. No ...
July 28, 2026
Summary Mike explains that he entered the Go One More Ultra backyard-style race with deliberately no mileage goal, arguing that setting a number like 100 miles becomes a mental limiter that causes athletes to quit the moment they reach it — his only aim was t ...
July 28, 2026
Summary Newman argues that Austrians embrace equilibrium as an instrumental tool of analysis in the causal-realist tradition of Carl Menger and Ludwig von Mises, rather than as an ideal against which real markets are diagnosed as failures — the trap mainstrea ...
July 28, 2026
Originally posted by Wendy Williamson on her substack: “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” — John Adams A few weeks ago, I ...
July 28, 2026
Originally posted by JP Cortez at the Sound Money Defense League: How do you turn a sound money bill into a big-government bill? Florida has just shown us. When Florida lawmakers approved so-called ‘transactional gold’ legislation, supporters clai ...
July 24, 2026
Summary Chase argues that cult recruitment does not target the desperate or weak but rather functional, intelligent, socially curious people who quietly feel something is missing and believe they alone notice it, and that believing you are immune is itself the ...
July 24, 2026
Summary The guest argues the West is in its most dangerous moment of confrontation with Russia ever, and presents a scenario — explicitly not a forecast — in which the E3 (Germany, Britain, France) enabling deep strikes into Russia with 250kg-warhead, long- ...
July 23, 2026
Summary John argues that our current sense of living in “unprecedented” end times is an illusion, and that history should be understood as an ever-turning wheel where collapse is really transformation, citing the late Bronze Age collapse (~1200 BC, ...
July 23, 2026
Originally posted by Jenn Baker at The Gateway Pundit: The Orange traffic barrel on the side of Arizona State Route 60 looked like any other piece of construction equipment. It had the same yellow-and-white striping, the same tapered shape. It also had a ...
July 21, 2026
Summary The narrator argues that “dark psychology” — selfishness, vanity, envy, deception, and manipulation — drives far more of human social life than people are willing to admit, and that we are largely “strangers to ourselves,” co ...
July 21, 2026
Summary Berser argues the Declaration of Independence is the most important document in human history outside of religious texts, and that its claim that “all men are created equal” is the greatest statement of human dignity ever given outside relig ...
July 21, 2026
Originally posted by Ben Pile at The Daily Sceptic: As the heatwave hysteria somewhat subsided, the Telegraph revealed that in the future, use of heat pumps might be rationed at times of energy shortages. The Guardian, meanwhile, reported that the ...
July 21, 2026
Originally posted by Patrick Pillow at The Libertarian Institute: In a moment when global attention remains fixed on conflicts in the Middle East, political turmoil in Venezuela, Sudan’s ongoing war, and Cuba’s deepening humanitarian crisis, the unfolding s ...
July 21, 2026
Written by Matt Morgan at The Daily Bell: Before governments took over the job of caring for people, ordinary working families did it themselves. Not through charity, and not alone, but through societies they built, paid for, and ran. The state did not come alo ...
July 20, 2026
Originally posted by Victor Tangermann at Futurism: Last week, a Chinese-made large language model called Kimi K3, developed by Beijing-based firm Moonshot AI, burst onto the scene. The open-weight model impressed with early benchmark results, trading blows wi ...
July 17, 2026
Summary Ghate and Bullay analyze Jeff Bezos’s CNBC interview with Andrew Sorkin, praising Bezos as a genuinely admirable pro-freedom, pro-entrepreneurship business mind while arguing he fails to grasp why billionaires are actually villainized, treating it ...
July 17, 2026
Originally posted by Connor O’Keeffe on Mises.org: Senator Lindsey Graham died seemingly out of the blue over the weekend after a tear in his aorta. He was 71 years old. The news was shocking, in part because Graham was a very active senator—he was ju ...
July 17, 2026
Originally posted by Daisy Luther on The Organic Prepper.com: I have a lot of old school items that I consider preps. From manual kitchen items and tools to old-fashioned containers for organizing, many of my preps were acquired second-hand or inherited. Whenev ...
July 17, 2026
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July 16, 2026
Summary Zeihan argues that Canada’s energy sector is trapped because most production is Alberta heavy sour crude sold via pipeline into a closed US market, forcing Albertans into price-taker status with discounts sometimes as steep as $25 a barrel, now wo ...
July 16, 2026
Originally posted by Mark Keenan on Lew Rockwell.com: When politicians announce new climate targets, most people assume these policies emerge through the normal democratic process. Governments consult experts, scientists publish research, legislators debate pro ...
