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Except for Nuclear Weapons the Digital Revolution Was the Most Stupid Mistake Humans Ever Made

26. September 2025 - 13:47

Except for Nuclear Weapons the Digital Revolution Was the Most Stupid Mistake Humans Ever Made

https://apnews.com/article/europe-airports-cyberattack-29b6d890baf7ac3a22f0f2b2f169b890 

In analogue times, these types of events were impossible.  The digital revolution has brought total insecurity into our lives, constant disruption, constant waste of time.  The digital revolution is the product of fools who are incapable of thinking beyond the tip of their nose.

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Trump officially designates Antifa as ‘Terrorist Organization’

26. September 2025 - 13:44

Trump officially designates Antifa as ‘Terrorist Organization’

https://www.rt.com/news/625086-trump-antifa-terrorist-organization/ 

Antifa is the anti-American organization that despicable Democrats allowed to freely loot and burn down business districts in many American cities.  

At the time it was obvious that Antifa and BLM were terrorist organizations, but Democrats treated them as if they were the salt of the earth and blamed, of course, white people for being racist white supremacists.  And white people vote for Democrats.  

If truth be known the Democrat Party is a Terrorist Organization.

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Trump calls China and India ‘primary funders’ of Ukraine conflict

26. September 2025 - 13:43

Trump calls China and India ‘primary funders’ of Ukraine conflict

Trump’s handlers expand the conflict to China and India.

https://www.rt.com/india/625160-trump-china-india-ukraine/

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White Liberal Woman Threatens the Lives of all MAGA-Americans

26. September 2025 - 13:43

White Liberal Woman Threatens the Lives of all MAGA-Americans

This is the kind of hate white traditional Americans face from Democrats.  The Democrats are the party of violence which they are using to resurrect on America’s ashes a Sodom and Gomorrah Tower of Babel.

Do normal white Americans understand that the Democrats are importing an army of immigrant-invaders to help Democrats replace normal white Americans?

Have you seen the many videos of white Democrats interfering with ICE in order to block any deportations of their immigrant-invader army?  The Democrats’ Open Border policy has a reason.

Are normal white Americans capable of defending themselves?

Or does their turn the other cheek policy guarantee their destruction?

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1968886081790570506 

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About time–if it is true

26. September 2025 - 13:42

 About time–if it is true

But India will see it as more punishment from Washington.

US employers are facing a $14 billion annual increase in labor cost for hiring foreign workers instead of Americans after Trump slapped a $100,000 fee on the cost of securing a visa to bring foreign employees into America.  Indians are the main holders of H-1b work visas.

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The Ever-Widening War

26. September 2025 - 13:40

The Ever-Widening War

The Kremlin turns a blind eye and a deaf ear.

https://www.rt.com/news/625202-politico-germany-to-spend-billions-weapons-plan/ 

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Is the Kremlin Deluding Itself Into WW III?

25. September 2025 - 13:22

Is the Kremlin Deluding Itself Into WW III?

Paul Craig Roberts

John Helmer and I agree that President Trump has lost control over foreign policy to his advisors.  https://johnhelmer.net/trump-the-retroactive-how-the-ante-is-upped-before-trump-announces-his-decisions/ 

That Trump has lost control is clear from Trump’s reference to Russia as a “paper tiger” and his statement that he believes that Kiev is “in a position to fight and win all of Ukraine back and might be able “to go further,”  suggesting invasion of Russia, if the EU and NATO continue to support Ukraine.  Russia, Trump says, is in “BIG economic trouble” and that “this is the time for Ukraine to act.”  

This is the neoconservative line, and Trump’s advisers have used it to  lasso Trump.  The peaceful solution seems to be off the table.

Kremlin spokesman Peskov indicates that Russia continues to prefer delusion to reality by announcing that Moscow remains open to seeking a peaceful resolution to the hostilities.  While Trump mocks Russia, Peskov stresses that Putin “highly values” Trump’s efforts to mediate the Ukraine conflict and describes the Trump-Putin relationship as “warm.”  

If Trump’s advice to Ukraine that it is time to win all of Ukraine back from  paper tiger Russia, and perhaps invade Russia as well,  is evidence of a warm relationship with Putin, what would be the words that describe a cold or hostile relationship?

https://www.rt.com/russia/625171-russia-responds-trump-paper-tiger/

President Trump echos my expressed opinion since early 2022 of the thoughtless, indeed, mindless–Trump calls it “aimless”– way Putin has mismanaged the conflict with Ukraine.  By refusing to see the obvious–that the conflict was a real war that Russia needed to quickly win before the West got deeply involved and widened the war–Putin created the impression in the West that Russia was either unwilling or unable to fight.  One consequence is that President Trump dismisses Russia as a military power:

“With time, patience, and the financial support of Europe and, in particular, NATO, [recovering] the original Borders from where this War started, is very much an option. Why not? Russia has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years a War that should have taken a Real Military Power less than a week to win.”

Trump’s comments reflect the opinion of his special envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, who recently claimed the US could “kick Russia’s ass” and insisted Ukraine could win the war despite Russia’s continued gains in eastern Ukraine and its clear manpower advantage.

Some analysts suspect that Putin has been bamboozled by his pro-Western central bank director who convinced him that the Russian economy is not capable of fighting a real war.  Regardless, it is clear from Trump and Kellogg’s attitudes and the plots of the neoconservatives that Washington does not take Russia seriously as a military power. The strategic blunder Putin has made most likely leads to nuclear war.

https://headlineusa.com/trump-claims-ukraine-can-retake-all-territory-captured-by-russia-may-be-able-to-go-further/?utm_source=HUSA_EMAIL_NSP_NOON&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HUSAemail 

Trump again showed that the US military/security complex has already taken over US foreign policy.  There is no more  Trump talk of  normalizing relations with Russia.  Instead, there is Trump talk of shooting down Russian aircraft.

Estonia, little doubt bribed by the Zionist neoconservatives, falsely claims that Russian aircraft entered their air space.  Asked about this at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York City on September 23,  President Trump said that NATO countries should shoot down Russian aircraft that enter their airspace. https://headlineusa.com/trump-says-nato-should-shoot-down-russian-aircraft-that-enter-their-airspace/?utm_source=HUSA_EMAIL_NSP_PM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HUSAemail 

So, here is the “peace president” urging two-bit countries that cannot fight their way out of a wet paperbag to, in effect, declare war on Russia.  Of course, Putin being averse to war, might pretend it didn’t happen, as is his wont. There seems to be no end that Putin won’t go to in order to avoid the fact that he is at war with the Western world.  He has said that the West is at war with Russia a time or two, but he has never acted as if he believed it.

There is no evidence that Putin does.  Putin allowed Israel to trick Syrian air defenses repelling an Israeli attack to  shoot down a Russian aircraft without doing anything about it, so Estonia and the West can expect likewise. They can shoot down all the Russian aircraft they wish, and Putin will say it didn’t happen, just as he said the US/Ukrainian attack on Russia’s strategic bombing forces was merely an act of  terrorism, not an act of war.

In 2015 Turkey shot down a Russian aircraft without consequences.  Putin almost never holds any attack on Russia accountable.  He even allowed his incompetent central bank director to hand over $300 billion to the West without firing her.  Putin and his foreign minister, Lavrov, keep relying on Western good will which simply does not exist.  Countries that stand aside of Israel’s genocide of Palestine, as Russia also does, have no concept of good will.

Russia dispute’s Estonia’s claim, but facts don’t matter in the West.  What matters are agendas and their success.  The agenda is to do in Russia, and everything Putin does helps to do in Russia.

My concern is that at some point even Putin will fight, and that is when we get nuclear war.

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Official Charlie Kirk Assassination Narrative Is Completely and Totally False

25. September 2025 - 13:16

Official Charlie Kirk Assassination Narrative Is Completely and Totally False

Whoever made up this narrative regards the American population as completely stupid.

I doubt the whore American media will put it together for us, but the Russians have:

https://www.rt.com/news/625179-americans-question-more-about-kirk/ 

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Try to Imagine Someone Doing This with an Israeli Flag.  They would be Arrested.

25. September 2025 - 13:15

Try to Imagine Someone Doing This to an Israeli Flag.  They would be Arrested.

America only protects the Israeli flag.

What you are seeing are the products of an American education.

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1969109891194216916 

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Ex-FBI Director James Comey to be Indicted for Perjury

25. September 2025 - 13:15

Ex-FBI Director James Comey to be Indicted for Perjury

According to American news reports, if they can be believed, former FBI Director James Comey, the excrement that orchestrated the Russiagate plot against Trump, is being indicted for perjury.

If so, this is how the Ruling Establishment protects its henchmen.  Perjury is a small crime compared to treason.  Why isn’t Comey indicted for treason, and also Biden’s Attorney General, the Jew Garland Merrick, and Biden’s CIA director John Brennan?

It seems they have drawn straws, and Comey will be the straw man. If convicted it will be a short term.  The next Democrat president will pardon him and make him richer with reparations for his false conviction at the hands of a racist white supremacist administration.

https://headlineusa.com/report-ex-fbi-director-james-comey-to-be-indicted-for-perjury/?utm_source=HUSA_EMAIL_NSP_PM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HUSAemail 

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How the military/security complex gets rich

25. September 2025 - 13:13

How the military/security complex gets rich

Not counting the cost of the F-35s, NATO fires US AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles that cost $470,000 each to bring done a drone costing $2,000 or $3,000 each.

https://www.rt.com/news/625180-million-dollar-fiasco-nato/ 

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White House rehires hundreds of employees fired by Musk’s DOGE 

25. September 2025 - 13:12

White House rehires hundreds of employees fired by Musk’s DOGE 

The “Trump Revolution” Is Being Rolled Back

Anything that remains at the end of his term will be repealed by the Democrats.

https://www.rt.com/news/625190-musk-fired-employees-rehired/ 

 

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In a few words Elon Musk sums up Charlie Kirk’s murder

25. September 2025 - 13:12

In a few words Elon Musk sums up Charlie Kirk’s murder

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1969908677139419318 

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America: A Lost Nation

24. September 2025 - 13:20

America: A Lost Nation

Paul Craig Roberts

I have explained on many occasions in writing, interviews, and podcasts that an American president has little more than nominal control over the policies of his administration.  

Partly this is due to the vast size of the US government that the liberals have created, far different from what the Founders intended.  The government is far too large for anyone to keep up with no matter the AI tools in his possession.

But the main reason the President has no effective control is the incentive faced by his political appointees. 

The government is in the hands of several hundred presidential appointees–Assistant Secretaries, Undersecretaries, and Secretaries–who must be confirmed in office by the Senate and, thereby, are knighted for life with the title of “Honorable.”  We are properly addresses as “Mr. Secretary.”

An Assistant Secretary is not an assistant to the Secretary.  Assistant Secretaries are presidential appointees.  They are the most powerful members of an administration because the federal departments report to them.  Thus, Assistant Secretaries control the flow of information in the government.

The US government is involved in everything–health care, education, justice, pensions, retirement, work conditions, emissions, transportation, communication, broadcasting, agriculture, you name it.  Laws are passed and regulations written that benefit some at the expense of others. Some industries and corporations are bailed out of their difficulties, and others are not. 

The incentive of a presidential appointee is to serve the interest group that can best serve his career.  The administration might have a foreign policy, a health policy, and so forth, but the real policies will be the ones preferred by the lobbies that the presidential appointees decide to support. The lobby and the presidential appointee then push that policy in the media, and it becomes the administration’s policy.

It does happen that on occassion–I haven’t studied how often–a president is elected to office who has ambition beyond being elected president.  He might want to reform something or to introduce something new.  If his agenda is not threatening to powerful interests, he might succeed with his agenda.  However, avoiding war is not an agenda that knows much success, and even less so today.  President Eisenhower warned Americans in 1961 that the US military/industrial complex had become sufficiently powerful and entrenched as to pose a threat to American democracy.  He did not mean a military coup.  He meant that American foreign policy was moving out of the hands of the voters and their representatives.

In the Reagan administration I was President Reagan’s choice as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.  Reagan had adopted the Supply-side policy as a cure to stagflation, a policy that I had developed for Rep. Kemp and Senator Roth–the Kemp-Roth Bill–and had taught the Republicans how to offer the Supply-side approach as an alternative fiscal policy while serving in the Congressional staff.  Reagan figured that as it was my policy, I would be less likely to sell it out than some campaign contributor from Wall Street.

The pressures to sell out Reagan’s economic policy were intense. If I had not served with distinction in the Congressional staff and had not come into the administration from the Wall Street Journal from which I could fire back at my opponents who were using other media against me, Reagan’s tax bill never would have gotten out of his administration. 

The way presidential appointees accommodate private interests without appearing to sell out the president’s policy is to adjust the president’s policy to the lobby’s policy as a successful compromise that serves both interests.  The media helps by dressing the sell-out as a compromise that benefits all, even though it fails to correct the policy problem.  

President Reagan’s chief-of-staff, Jim Baker, Vice-president George H. W. Bush’s main operative, explained how easy it was for all of us to be successful if we accommodated the fear of the economically ignorant imbeciles on Wall Street that Reagan’s tax cut would widen the deficit, cause inflation, send up interest rates, and destroy the values of their bond and stock portfolios.  All we had to do, Baker said, was to reduce the 30% cut in marginal tax rates to a 5% cut.  That would give us a “victory” without upsetting Wall Street.  Baker made it clear that the last thing an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury should do is to upset Wall Street, or there goes his career and multi-million dollar income. I explained that a 5% reduction in tax rates would be wiped out by inflation and have no policy effect.  Jim Baker did not see the importance of my comment as he was interested in appearance, not result.  Framing the issue as tax cut vs. no tax cut, a 5% cut would be a victory.

In meetings I would explain that our job was to cure stagflation, not to appease the ignorant on Wall Street.  But it didn’t go over well with those who saw “saving Wall Street from voodoo economics” as their path to riches.  I didn’t give in.  I described the resulting fight here:  https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/03/23/my-time-in-the-reagan-administration/ 

Reagan’s plan was that once the economy was fixed, which was the reason he begin his first term with getting his economic policy passed, the second of his two agenda items–the end of the Cold War–could be undertaken by challenging the broken Soviet economy with an arms race.  Reagan did not really intend an arms race any more than Trump seems to intend his threatened high tariffs.  It was a threat to achieve a result. Reagan reasoned that as the Soviets lacked the economic ability to compete in an arms race, the threat would bring them to the bargaining table and the Cold War could be ended.

This time the problem was the US military/security complex which did not want to lose its highly profitable Soviet enemy.  The CIA told President Reagan that it would be a mistake to start an arms race with the Soviets, because they would win.  Reagan asked how a smaller broken economy could win over a larger well-functioning one.  The CIA said that the Soviet Union had a planned economy and could put all the resources of the economy into the military, whereas Reagan would have trouble increasing military spending beyond 6% of GDP. 

Generally speaking, presidents cannot ignore the CIA’s positions when those positions serve the military/security complex.  If the president does, the military/security complex has a Congressional committee chairman flush with military/security complex campaign funds to call a hearing.  In the hearing the CIA, pressed by Congress,  “admits” that the president’s policy would endanger the US, exposing us to nuclear attack and all that.

Reagan, allegedly senile according to the whore liberal media, understood all this.  He created a secret presidential committee with the authority and power to interrogate the CIA as to how it had come to its conclusion.  Having read my book on the Soviet economy and remembering my service to him in the Treasury, he put me on the committee.

It became apparent even to the anti-Reagan members of the committee that the Soviet economy was in serious trouble.  Indeed, it was apparent to Soviet economists themselves who were beginning to write about it. As the anti-Reagan members  (from the elite universities, of course), were not in favor of nuclear war, they agreed that the CIA was protecting its budget and power by opposing the end of the Cold War.  Reagan said when he received the report: “I knew this, but I had to have a report.”

What I am telling you is how things really are.  The real story is not the official narrative that you read in the whore media or in the histories written by court historians who pander to advance their careers.

What I am telling you is that Americans do not know anything about how and what really happens, what the truth really is.  They sit lazily in front of the indoctrination machine and are brainwashed about reality.  The total incomprehensibility of the insouciant American public is why they have lost their country.

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Zionist Trump Is No ‘Peace President’

24. September 2025 - 13:19

Zionist Trump Is No ‘Peace President’

Paul Craig Roberts

Robert Kagan, the Jewish Zionist Neoconservative Husband of another Jewish Zionist Neoconservative, Victoria Nuland, has written an article in the Jewish Publication, formerly the WASP magazine, The Atlantic, that blames Washington for assisting Ukraine in Washington’s war against Russia while avoiding direct confrontation with Russia when the real target was Russia.  Kagan says that insufficient Russian forces made it possible for America to dispense with the alleged Russian threat.

Do you remember Kagan’s “Project for a New American Century?” It wasn’t a project for America.  It was a project for Israel.  All American neoconservatives serve Israel, not America.  It is a reasonable conclusion that the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2021 was an inside job arranged by the highly placed neoconservatives in the US government led by vice president Dick Cheney.  The purpose of the attack was to produce the “New Pearl Harbor” that the Zionist neoconservatives said was necessary to deceive the American people into a quarter century of war destroying the Arab countries in the way of Greater Israel.

The Americans fell for the orchestrated deceit of “the war on terror,” and sacrificed their money and their soldiers for the sake of Israel.  Five of the “seven countries in five years” whose destruction the neconservatives called for have been destroyed.  Norman Podhoretz proposed the project in the Jewish magazine, Commentary. Whether or not Podhoretz used the specific quote, “seven countries in five years,” he called for the overthrow of seven countries ending with Saudi Arabia.  I read the article and most likely wrote about it. General Wesley Clark, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, told us about it in a speech to the Commonwealth Club of California in 2007. Neoconservatives talked about it openly. 

9/11 created America’s “war on terror,” which was used to destroy Muslin countries opposed to Greater Israel.

In 2014 the neoconservatives used their high positions in the US government to overthrow the Ukraine government in the “Maidan Revolution,” appointed an anti-Russian president, and began the Ukrainian neo-nazi campaign against the Russian residents in Donbas, formerly part of Russia.  This forced Russia’s intervention.  Russia’s forced intervention was called “the Russian invasion of Ukraine.”

The escalations of the conflict in Ukraine have been caused by the US which has supplied ever longer range weapons to Ukraine and the targeting information that permits their use.

Recently the whore media reported a nonexistent “drone attack” by Russia on Poland and the Baltics, an obvious hoax.  But it served for the neoconservatives to elicit from Trump that if “Russia keeps escalating” the US will defend Poland and the Baltic States from Russia.  

In other words, the neoconservatives’ agenda is to expand the war from Ukraine to Poland and the Baltic States.  By expanding the conflict, the neoconservatives hope to gradually wear down Russia.  Putin handed this opportunity to the Russophobic neoconservatives with his never-ending, ever-widening war in Donbas.  Putin’s failure to quickly win the conflict is proving to be a strategic blunder. Putin was too afraid of alarming the West to tend to Russia’s interest.

In the meantime, the US military/security complex and the neoconservatives have wrested foreign and military policy out of Trump’s hands and catapulted the nuclear arms race into space with the Golden Dome escalation of deploying nuclear weapons in space, a project that will produce never-ending profits and cost overruns.   Putin has offered to extend the expiring START treaty one year, if Trump will agree, in order to avoid an even less predictable and more destabilizing nuclear situation.

Trump, totally failing to comprehend the increased danger that accompanies Golden Dome, describes it as completing President Reagan’s work to “end the missile threat to the American homeland.”

No, President Trump. Reagan worked to end, not escalate, the cold war that the Zionist neoconservatives have restarted and to normalize relations with Russia. Reagan’s “Star Wars” was a threat intended to bring the Soviet Union to the negotiating table, like your tariff threats are used to bring foreign investment to the US.

John Helmer explains how the ignorance and stupidity of our leaders are moving the world closer to destruction:

https://johnhelmer.net/putin-declares-its-war-or-peace-in-space-trump-given-until-february-2027-to-make-up-his-mind/ 

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Strange Isn’t It That the FBI’s Investigation Is Running Away from the Obvious Candidate

24. September 2025 - 13:18

Strange Isn’t It That the FBI’s Investigation Is Running Away from the Obvious Candidate

The Palm Pistol Video:

Below is the video that Gary Heavin speaks of in the program on Coffee and a Mike about Charlie Kirk’s assassination with a palm gun. It was an up close professional assassination, or so it looks like.  It is obvious from the official narrative that we are not getting a truthful account.  Watch this video and decide for yourself:

https://x.com/valvenisent/status/1967372799645012036?s=61  

There remains no explanation of the announcement that an alleged 30-06 bullet that allegedly killed Charlie Kirk could not exit his neck because of Kirk’s superman bone mass.

The surgeon reports he found the bullet in Kirks’s neck.  What is its caliber? It most certainly is not 30-06.  Do tests confirm the bullet was fired from the rifle allegedly found in the woods?

What is the evidence that supports the arrest of Tyler Robinson?

Why do they focus us on online Discord chats and a transgendered room mate?

Something is very wrong about this.

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US college students increasingly favoring socialism

23. September 2025 - 14:00

US college students increasingly favoring socialism

Paul Craig Roberts

Nearly half of respondents to a survey said they prefer the economic model of Cuba and the USSR over capitalism. https://www.rt.com/news/625069-us-college-students-socialism/ 

This development is not only due to the fact that freedom is no longer a value taught in American education but also to the fact that university graduates have poor employment and career prospects.  This is the result of the short-sighted corporate practice of offshoring US jobs and importing H1-B foreign workers on work visas.  

I have for years documented that the short-term Wall Street and corporate view that the only relevant concern is for the business to meet the quarterly profits expectations is the main cause of US economic decline.

Thanks to the mindlessness of the American liberal-left, years ago Congress passed a law that renumeration of executives in excess of one million dollars annually is not deductible as a corporate business expense unless it is performance related.  That measure is profits.  Consequently, today executive pay is dependent on bonuses based on profits.  As labor cost savings are a sure fire way of boosting profits, American labor is displaced by foreign labor.  

The result is a declining economy in which high value-added, high-productivity jobs are not present for Americans. A recent report said that Boeing’s software engineers are foreigners paid $9 an hour, below the pay of fast food servers.

If you wish to understand the self-destruction of the American economy, read my book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism.  Read the reviews on Amazon.

 

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