"Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.
There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth
even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
- George Orwell, “1984”
So, we rise from the rubble...
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Saturday, November 8, 2025
"It’s Us or Them"
"It’s Us or Them"
by Andrew Torba
"We stood in the rain and the cold for this movement. We drained our bank accounts. We volunteered, organized, and spoke up when it mattered. We lost friends and family members for showing our support. We did it for a promise. The promise was America First. The promise was to drain the swamp. To build the wall. To bring the hammer down on the globalist elite who sold our birthright for money and a pat on the head from Davos. Let’s take a look at the scoreboard a decade later.
There have been some deportations, but not nearly enough. The “woke” poison is finally being called out by name in the highest offices of the land, but it’s certainly not eradicated. We didn’t send a manager to Washington to oversee and slow the decline. We sent a wrecking ball. Right now, it feels like the ball is swinging everywhere except where we live. The country is loaded with tens of millions of people who do not belong here. The swamp wasn’t drained; the alligators were just given new titles. The America we knew is slipping through our fingers, and the men we elected to save it are busy dealing with foreign lands.
Speaking of, let’s talk about Israel. For decades we have watched as our politicians fall over themselves to pledge allegiance to a foreign flag while our own towns decay. Bibi has been to the White House more times this year than most of our own congressional leaders. We just signed over another $13 billion dollars of our money for their defense. Meanwhile, who is defending the American family from the economic onslaught that’s making homeownership a fairy tale for an entire generation? Who is fighting back against the hordes of foreigners invading our hometowns?
We don’t care about ancient religious squabbles thousands of miles away. This is about our money. Our blood. Our priorities. A small clique of Jewish billionaire donors seems to get everything they want from both sides of the political spectrum - bombs dropped on Iran, campus speech policed, Tiktok handed over to them, billions sent to Israel - while the millions of grandmas, parents, and young people who sent what little they had to support these political campaigns are still waiting on the wall we paid for back in 2016. When is our turn?
Let’s talk about some more uncomfortable truths for a moment. The Epstein files were a litmus test of courage, and Washington failed. It was swept into the memory hole. The 2020 election? We all know it was stolen, where is the national crusade for electoral integrity that we were promised? Where is the bill to standardize voting, to make it honest and transparent? Whatever happened to DOGE? How are we making America healthy again by making the toxic Big Pharma sludge Ozempic cheaper?
What about the hundreds of thousands of demonic leftists who openly celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk without any consequences for their actions? In that moment we had the opportunity and the mandate to utterly crush the left and nothing was done. The silence is deafening, and it tells us everything we need to know.
Let me tell you why Mamdani’s message resonated. Don’t be fooled. It’s not the destitute who are listening. It’s the strivers. These are the people who played by the rules. They believed the old promise. Work hard, be loyal, keep your head down. And what did they get? A stock market soaring for the billionaires and a grocery bill that strangles what’s left of a middle-class income.
So when some pearl-clutching talking head on Fox News funded by Jewish money whines that “socialism is a threat,” these people just laugh bitterly. They sweep their arm over the wreckage of their finances, the foreign wars we endlessly fund, the politicians who care more about Tel Aviv than Tulsa, and they ask: “You really think anything could be worse than this?”
They’re not ideologues. They’re hostages. They are starving for anyone - any idea, any leader - with the guts to punch through the rotten status quo that a handful of Jewish donors built to protect themselves while the rest of us crumble. They’re done listening to the complaining of those who’ve already won everything. They want someone who speaks for the ones who are losing it all.
We are at a precipice. 2026 and 2028 will not be fought on left versus right. The battle line is now the Jewish donor class versus the American people. If your campaign whines about antisemitism and pledges fealty to a foreign nation, that is our signal. You are not on our side. We will not just withhold our vote; we will become your most determined opposition.
President Trump has shown he can be a statesman on the world stage. His desire for peace is admirable. But we sent him to be a warrior for our homes. For our borders. For our pocketbooks. We want the promise kept. We want America First. Not Israel first. Not Jewish donors first. America First. The clock is ticking and the patience of the American people is not infinite. We’ve had enough.
We’ve spent decades walking on eggshells. We’ve been lectured, scolded, and branded with scarlet letters for daring to question why a tiny, hostile minority holds such disproportionate sway over our nation’s destiny.
We are done caring about Jewish feelings. We are done prioritizing their anxieties over our survival. If wanting to put the American people first - our families, our future, our nation - makes us “antisemitic” in their eyes, then so be it. Let them call us what they want. We have a country to save.
They are two percent of the population. Two percent. Of that sliver, eight out of ten consistently vote for the very same Democrat politicians who want to dismantle our heritage, open our borders, and erase our history. They fund the media that demonizes us. They bankroll the NGOs that sue our towns to stop us from praying in school or defending our own streets. They are not our allies. They are a hostile elite, a compact minority using our own system against us.
We don’t need them. They, however, desperately need us. They need our silent compliance. They need our politicians to remain slavishly devoted, forever genuflecting before their money and their influence. For too long, their priorities have been our policy. Their definition of “hate” has silenced our dissent. We funded our own cultural demise with taxes they deftly avoid. We sent our best to die in deserts for a border on the other side of the globe while our own was left undefended. We watched our industries ship out and our towns hollow out, all to feed the insatiable maw of a globalist machine they designed and from which they profit. That era is over.
It’s time to put the 98% of the rest of us first. The quiet Americans who call this nation home and want to see it thrive for our children, not for a boardroom in Tel Aviv or a donor in Hollywood. It’s time to say: Our needs come first. Our security comes first. Our prosperity comes first.
This is the new litmus test. Any politician, any leader, any party that places the concerns of this foreign lobby and tiny minority over the needs of the American heartland is not just an enemy of the people, they are a traitor to the nation itself. Their career ends with us. We will not be gaslit. We will not be shamed. Our loyalty is to our own. Our fight is for our own. The choice is finally clear: It’s us, or them. And we choose us."
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KernowDamo, 11/8/25
"Israel Didn’t Think This Footage Would Spread"
"Israel tried to steer what everyone saw, frame by frame, post by post. But the footage spread faster than the narrative could hold. Whoops! Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu called it a Digital Iron Dome. Not the one in the sky, the one in your head. The idea was simple enough: if you can’t stop the bombs being seen, you can at least stop people understanding what they’re looking at. So the Israeli government signed the contracts, moved the money through the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, hired the same US campaign operatives who sell presidents like detergent, and told the public to be “digital soldiers.” Fill the feeds. Drown the footage. Influence the search field so even ChatGPT speaks in their voice. And it might have worked, if Gaza hadn’t had cameras too. If the footage hadn’t moved faster than the messaging. If the audience hadn’t stopped believing the statements. The Digital Iron Dome didn’t fail because someone broke it. It failed because reality got there first and Israel itself still hasn’t cottoned on to that notion.
So Haaretz were the ones who first published the contracts, Israeli media itself, which really does say something. But that is the point of entry for this story. Not a leak, not a whisper, not an accusation circling in commentary. Signed agreements. Ministry of Diaspora Affairs disbursing public money to US strategic communications firms during the bombardment of Gaza. The objective written in the language of public diplomacy, but the targets were American churches, social platforms, and the algorithmic routes that decide which story surfaces first when people search for such things using AI services. The paperwork was not subtle because it did not need to be. The state assumed control of the narrative field as a constant. Their hasbara has delivered for them for years, sure its taken a bit of a knock lately, but surely if we throw enough money at it, we can regain control. Israeli thinking. In their heads, they had no reason to imagine that control could fail. The documents showed a multimillion-dollar campaign. Haaretz reported the scope: the Israeli state seeking to influence US public opinion while the genocide was ongoing."
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"If we get caught they will just replace us with persons of the same cloth. So it does not matter what you do, America is a golden calf and we will suck it dry, chop it up, and sell it off piece by piece until there is nothing left but the world's biggest welfare state that we will create and control. Why? Because it is the will of God, and America is big enough to take the hit so we can do it again and again and again. This is what we do to countries that we hate. We destroy them very slowly and make them suffer for refusing to be our slaves."
- Benjamin Netanyahu, employed at the time as a Soviet agent, in a covert conversation taped in 1990 @ Finks Bar in Jerusalem, a well known Mossad hangout. Taken directly from the transcript of the recording, which was witnessed and has been 100% fully authenticated." - Gordon Duff, Veterans Today.
"We’re Losing The Middle Class"
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Michael Bordenaro, 11/8/25
"We’re Losing The Middle Class"
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World Affairs In Context. 11/8/25
"Massive Layoffs Hit the US -
1 Million Jobs Lost"
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Dan, I Allegedly, "Millions Are Going Hungry - Food Banks Are Collapsing"
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Dan, I Allegedly, 11/8/25
"Millions Are Going Hungry -
Food Banks Are Collapsing"
"Food prices are skyrocketing, and food banks across the country are collapsing under the weight of unprecedented demand. In this eye-opening video, I dive into the shocking truth behind the food bank crisis and how it's affecting families, veterans, and communities nationwide. From longer food bank lines in California to empty shelves in Texas, the struggle is real and heartbreaking. I’m sharing the stories you’ve sent me from all over the country and how we can come together to make a difference during these tough times. We’ll also discuss the role of the government shutdown in worsening the problem, the future of auto loans, financial crimes on the rise, and how private equity is wreaking havoc on businesses we love. Plus, you won't want to miss the latest updates. There’s a lot to unpack, but together, we can stay informed and help those in need."
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Musical Interlude: Mario Frangoulis and Justin Hayward, "Nights in White Satin"
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Mario Frangoulis and Justin Hayward,
"Nights in White Satin"
Friday, November 7, 2025
Judge Napolitano, "INTEL Round Table: w/Johnson & McGovern - Week of 7-NOV"
Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom, 11/7/25
"INTEL Round Table: w/Johnson & McGovern - Week of 7-NOV"
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Prepper News, "This is Very Bad"
Prepper News, 11/7/25
"This is Very Bad"
"Heartbreaking and absolutely disgusting with the Canadian government did with those ostriches. I can’t say I’m surprised though. It looks like Canada is going full UK mode. They just killed the birds to send a message that we are in charge and we can do whatever the hell we want. Just like when they shut down the bank accounts of the Canadian truckers"
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"The Gullible Consumer Has Run Out Of Money And Time, The Economic Bottom Feeders Took The Bait"
Jeremiah Babe, 11/7/25
"The Gullible Consumer Has Run Out Of Money And Time,
The Economic Bottom Feeders Took The Bait"
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Musical Interlude: Mecano, "Hijo de la Luna"
The English lyrics for Mecano's "Hijo de la Luna" describe a tragic gypsy legend where a woman bargains with the moon for a husband, promising her firstborn in exchange. The resulting child is albino, leading her husband to believe he has been cheated, murder her, and abandon the child on a mountain. The chorus, "Moon, you wish to be a mother / And cannot find a lover who wants to make you a woman" is central to the song's theme.
"A Look to the Heavens"
“The southern Milky Way appears spectacular in this composite image taken from Mangaia, the most southerly of the Cook Islands. Few sources of light pollution exist here, home to only 500 people.
The two bright stars at the Milky Way’s center are Alpha (left) and Beta Centauri. They point to Crux the Southern Cross. Near the horizon, two of the satellite galaxies of our Milky Way, the Small (left) and Large Magellanic Clouds are easy to spot.”
"The Molten Pit Of Human Reality..."
"Friedrich Nietzsche in "Beyond Good and Evil" holds that only a few people have the fortitude to look in times of distress into what he calls the molten pit of human reality. Most, studiously, ignore the pit. Artists and philosophers, for Nietzsche, are consumed however by an insatiable curiosity, a quest for truth and a desire for meaning. They venture down into the bowels of the molten pit. They get as close as they can before the flames and heat drive them back. This intellectual and moral honesty, Nietzsche wrote, comes with a cost. Those singed by the fire of reality become ‘burnt children’ he wrote, eternal orphans in empires of illusion."
- Chris Hedges
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"We work in the dark. We do what we can to battle the evil that would otherwise destroy us. But if a man's character is his fate, it's not a choice but a calling. Sometimes the weight of this burden causes us to falter from the fragile fortress of our mind, allowing the monster without to turn within. We are left alone staring into the abyss, into the laughing face of madness."
- Fox Mulder, "X-Files"
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"The Hidden World War"
"The Hidden World War"
by Chris MacIntosh
"World War III is already underway, but most people don’t recognize it because they’re conditioned to expect war to look like traditional physical violence with bombs, guns, and battlefield confrontations. This bias stems from centuries of warfare taking a particular form, similar to how people once couldn’t conceive of light without fire until electricity was invented.
Redefining War: At its core, war is conflict where parties use tools to increase their power and achieve outcomes that oppose others’ interests. Think strategically about modern warfare: what would be the most effective weapons and tactics today? The answer is that physical violence - while still available as a tool - is no longer the smartest or most effective approach.
Modern Warfare Arsenal: Today’s war employs sophisticated, often invisible weapons including. Here is a list to consider. Think about experiences you’ve been having and consider where these have been used against you.
• Information warfare: Cyber attacks, disinformation campaigns, flooding people with conflicting information to create confusion and cognitive dissonance.
• Economic weapons: Sanctions, cryptocurrency manipulation, making populations dependent on controlled resources.
• Political subversion: Election interference, undermining government legitimacy, bribing officials and influencers.
• Psychological operations: Creating crises then positioning as the savior, exploiting social media platforms that control public discourse.
• Biological and resource warfare: Famine, deprivation disguised as natural events.
• Social manipulation: Fueling ideological divides, inflaming nationalism, targeting masculinity to prevent resistance.
Why Silent War? Modern warfare operates covertly because war’s reputation is "ruined." People no longer see it as noble or necessary. Public support has evaporated, in large part because politicians are now seen largely as lying scoundrels. This is making it strategically better to gaslight populations, deny war is happening, and paint a picture that "everything’s okay." Furthermore, leaders no longer need masses of men for physical combat, so there’s no benefit to declaring war openly.
Current War Symptoms: People are experiencing classic wartime symptoms without understanding the cause:
• Loss of hope and inability to plan for the future.
• Widespread dread, numbness, and sense of unreality.
• Increased nationalism and "us vs. them" thinking.
• Fear of government and authority figures.
• Financial stress from inflation.
• Young people avoiding starting families.
• Supply chain disruptions and stockpiling behavior.
• Feeling like danger is everywhere.
• Limiting news consumption due to overwhelming negativity.
• Escalating protests and militarized police.
• People fleeing their countries or considering it.
• Fear of speaking out or losing rights.
• Rapid, "temporary" legal changes justified by public safety.
• Daily exposure to propaganda and radical content.
• Using basic needs (food, energy, money) as weapons.
• Fear that personal identity could make one an "enemy of the state".
• Widespread dread, numbness, and sense of unreality.
• Increased nationalism and "us vs. them" thinking.
• Fear of government and authority figures.
• Financial stress from inflation.
• Young people avoiding starting families.
• Supply chain disruptions and stockpiling behavior.
• Feeling like danger is everywhere.
• Limiting news consumption due to overwhelming negativity.
• Escalating protests and militarized police.
• People fleeing their countries or considering it.
• Fear of speaking out or losing rights.
• Rapid, "temporary" legal changes justified by public safety.
• Daily exposure to propaganda and radical content.
• Using basic needs (food, energy, money) as weapons.
• Fear that personal identity could make one an "enemy of the state".
Interconnected Global Conflict: What appear to be isolated regional conflicts are actually interconnected proxy wars within a larger global struggle. This breaks down boundaries between local and global conflict – a hallmark of world wars. Nations and alliances are being drawn into broader struggles for dominance and survival. People must navigate constantly shifting geopolitical relationships, never knowing which countries or leaders are allies or enemies. This creates exhaustion, overwhelm, and a sense that nothing is safe or trustworthy.
Individual Experiences Vary: Wartime experiences differ dramatically based on location, identity, and circumstances. This has been the case in previous world wars. It is what we are experiencing now.
The Reality Check: The key insight is that people are experiencing genuine wartime symptoms and stress, but because no formal war has been declared and it doesn’t look like traditional warfare, they fail to understand why they feel this way. This leads to self-blame and thinking something is wrong with them personally.
Conclusion: Recognizing this "silent war" is crucial for understanding current global confusion and personal distress. Modern warfare is more sophisticated and potentially more abusive than traditional physical violence. The confusion and decision paralysis people feel is a normal response to an abnormal situation - a world war being fought with psychological, economic, and information weapons rather than conventional military force.
Realize that your feelings and experiences make perfect sense within this context, and it is, I believe, important to remove the self-blame that comes from not understanding why the world feels so chaotic and threatening. Physical violence may still occur, but only as one tool among many in this new form of warfare that prioritizes psychological manipulation and systemic control over traditional battlefield tactics."
The Poet: John Donne, "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
"For Whom the Bell Tolls"
"No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee."
- John Donne
"You Are My Brother..."
“You are my brother, but why are you quarreling with me? Why do you invade my country and try to subjugate me for the sake of pleasing those who are seeking glory and authority? Why do you leave your wife and children and follow Death to the distant land for the sake of those who buy glory with your blood, and high honor with your mother's tears?
Is it an honor for a man to kill his brother man? If you deem it an honor, let it be an act of worship, and erect a temple to Cain who slew his brother Abel.
Is self-preservation the first law of Nature? Why, then, does Greed urge you to self-sacrifice in order only to achieve his aim in hurting your brothers? Beware, my brother, of the leader who says, "Love of existence obliges us to deprive the people of their rights!" I say unto you but this: protecting others' rights is the noblest and most beautiful human act; if my existence requires that I kill others, then death is more honorable to me, and if I cannot find someone to kill me for the protection of my honor, I will not hesitate to take my life by my own hands for the sake of Eternity before Eternity comes.
Selfishness, my brother, is the cause of blind superiority, and superiority creates clanship, and clanship creates authority which leads to discord and subjugation.
The soul believes in the power of knowledge and justice over dark ignorance; it denies the authority that supplies the swords to defend and strengthen ignorance and oppression - that authority which destroyed Babylon and shook the foundation of Jerusalem and left Rome in ruins. It is that which made people call criminals great men; made writers respect their names; made historians relate the stories of their inhumanity in manner of praise.
The only authority I obey is the knowledge of guarding and acquiescing in the Natural Law of Justice.
What justice does authority display when it kills the killer? When it imprisons the robber? When it descends on a neighborhood country and slays its people? What does justice think of the authority under which a killer punishes the one who kills, and a thief sentences the one who steals?
You are my brother, and I love you; and Love is justice with its full intensity and dignity. If justice did not support my love for you, regardless of your tribe and community, I would be a deceiver concealing the ugliness of selfishness behind the outer garment of pure love.”
- Kahlil Gibran
"The Cry Of Their Mothers..."
"Humanity is the spirit of the Supreme Being on earth, and that humanity is standing amidst ruins, hiding its nakedness behind tattered rags, shedding tears upon hollow cheeks, and calling for its children with pitiful voice. But the children are busy singing their clan's anthem; they are busy sharpening the swords and cannot hear the cry of their mothers."
- Kahlil Gibran
U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman HM1 Richard Barnett, assigned to the 1st Marine Division, holds an Iraqi child in central Iraq in this March 29, 2003 file photo. Confused front line crossfire ripped apart an Iraqi family after local soldiers appeared to force civilians towards positions held by U.S. Marines.
“My heart broke on its shame and sorrow. I suddenly knew how much crying there was in me, and how little love. I knew, at last, how lonely I was. But I couldn’t respond. My culture had taught me all the wrong things well. So I lay completely still, and gave no reaction at all. But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no color or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when the heart has its moment of truth and sorrow, the soul can’t be stilled. I clenched my teeth against the stars. I closed my eyes. I surrendered to sleep. One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.”
- Gregory David Roberts, "Shantaram"
"My Internal Exile"
"My Internal Exile"
by Edward Curtin
"Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night: it’s spritely waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mull’d, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war’s a destroyer of men.”
- Shakespeare, "Coriolanus"
"Long ago, but what seems like only yesterday, I didn’t go to the U.S. war against Vietnam but the war came to me. It was when my exile began. I am telling you this to try to shed some light on today’s wars and alarums since my tale is common for a small subset of Americans of my generation. We learned long ago that the USA was run by ruthless killers who reveled in war. Vietnam, the Phoenix Program, Cambodia, Indonesia, etc. Nothing was beyond them. We sensed that they would never stop and they haven’t. The genocide of Palestinians, the proxy war via Ukraine against Russia, the current US/Israel/Turkey bloodbath in Syria and Lebanon led by our ruthless terrorists – it is all nightmarish, malevolent, utterly evil, and conjures up hell on earth. And it will get worse in the future.
The mainstream media is claiming that the new savior of Syria is the terrorist “rebel” leader, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the founding leader of Al Qaeda in Syria, al-Nusra, and a former deputy to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
While there is truth in the view that the world has always been a butcher’s bench with wars, hatred, and strife being a common theme, “always” is meaningless to me. For I have never lived in “always.”
I have lived since birth in the United States during a period of time when it has been the world’s number one butcher, starting with the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, then continuing waging non-stop wars, assassinating foreign and domestic leaders, including President Kennedy, executing coup d’états, supporting and arming ruthless dictators and terrorists, and creating an economy dependent on war.
All this has been sustained by lies and propaganda that most Americans have swallowed. It is a deeply ingrained Yankee doodle dandy ethos joined with American exceptionalism and a self-induced false innocence.
Just this as it did during the Vietnam war, The New York Times spewed out lies about the events in Syria, calling the U.S.-backed jihadist terrorists (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham/Al Qaeda, et al.) “rebels” and the overthrow of the Assad government a “civil war.” In doing so, the paper is just doing what it has always done as an organ for U.S. foreign policy, seemingly forgetting that it was the Obama administration that in 2012 launched Operation Timber Sycamore, a CIA program to, under the guise of a civil war, overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as part of a larger effort to undercut Iran and Russia for U.S./Israel/Turkey/NATO control of the region.
It is propaganda about a much larger war well underway, as the presence of Ukrainian forces in Syria and the usual Israeli bombing attest. Like a mountain ridge wildfire, the winds whip wildly now, and whether the fire spreads next to Iran or somewhere else, it is sure to spread.
To paraphrase Thoreau, there is no need to care for a myriad of instances and applications, the only thing you need is to be acquainted with the principle, which in this case is the long-standing demonic nature of U.S. foreign policy which is synchronous with waging perpetual war. Yet most people don’t want to go past such lying headlines that are repeated by all the mainstream media. They never did, except when the issues concerned them personally, as when there was a military draft.
Yes, government and media propaganda have contributed mightily to it, but so many of the country’s war crimes have been committed out in the open and accompanied by the public’s cheering and flag waving that propaganda is only part of the explanation. The will to believe and self-delusion are a large part of it. And people seem to like war, if it is far away and the cheerleaders are on this side of the water. It lends excitement to life like a real murder mystery, a sex scandal, or an approaching hurricane.
Furthermore, it provides roots for the national myth, the mythic home, the mythic womb, wherein one can root for the home team as one stands with tens of thousands of team people and sing along with the words “bombs bursting in air” while feeling a stirring of patriotic pride. This desire to be patriotically conventional, to support the national team in war and peace, is very powerful. Why else the creation of the mammoth bureaucracy called Homeland Security, the un-American word homeland taken straight from Hitler’s 1934 Nuremberg rally. Root, root, root for the home team.
I know the patriotic feeling. It left me back in 1967 when my exile began. For the most part, it has not been apparent to outside observers, for there are places difficult to reach, and the one within is the most distant. My youthful “normalcy” received its first body blow with JFK’s assassination in 1963. By 1967 I had joined the Marines and then declared myself a conscientious objector as I realized the evil my country was committing in Vietnam. I was on my way away.
In the years that followed, as Malcom X, MLK, Jr. and RFK, were assassinated and Johnson and Nixon lied and brutalized Vietnam, my understanding of history and politics deepened. Families and friends called me a communist for being a C.O. and opposing the war and a lying government. It was laughable but relentless.
Many years have elapsed, and the charges have risen and fallen as the years have gone by. For years now, the name of abuse is a “conspiracy” theorist or Russian sympathizer for daring to say that Russia Gate was a Democratic conspiracy and the war against Russia in Ukraine has been a U.S. project from the start. There is much more.
But my point about internal exile is that I had to adopt the motions of normalcy in everyday life – to create a pleasant persona – to get through the days. My teaching and writing continued as hard-hitting as before, but family, friends, academic colleagues, and acquaintances didn’t take my courses or read my writing, which they made sure to avoid.
These days, many more people have been forced to discover the twofold life where they can’t talk to the people in their lives about many issues – politics, wars, Covid, etc. Something has broken. Almost everything.
To accept the conclusion that the country is run by a bunch of ruthless warmongering imperialists is a step too far for most people. They must mean well or just make mistakes, for their hearts are in the right place, runs through so many minds. At least they assume that about the leaders they support.
A key way the endless wars roll on is the deadly political game of the lesser of two evils. If it is one’s political party waging the foreign wars, there are always many reasons to still find it better than the other party’s wars. “My leader may be a warmonger but he’s better than your warmonger” is the unspoken implication.
This neat trick is supported by a host of mitigating excuses to justify the delusion that one is for peace even as these wars occur non-stop throughout the decades as the Democratic and Republican leaders switch highchairs. Rather than dismiss the lot of them, the desire to feel that patriot heart-pump, however dim, and to reject the “extremist” conclusion that war is the life blood of the country, remains.
Throughout the sixty years of my adult life, the U.S. has been continuously waging wars, hot and cold, small and large, openly and secretly, all across the world, and its economy has increasingly become a military-industrial-national-security complex so vast and intricately linked to daily life that the country would collapse without it. Simply put: Beneath daily life lies a death cult, a river of blood. If that sounds too strong for you, give me another name for it.
It seems to me very clear that most Americans are today suffering from some sort of traumatic mental sickness, trying desperately to deny it in a multitude of ways. Scratch the surface of an everyday conversation or a greeting on the street and there’s the rolling of the eyes and the looks that say, “Let’s not go there, it’s all too crazy!” Something has broken, and people seem like walking desperadoes with the flag planted like a dagger in their hearts.
Even the alternative media, those writers with whom I share wishes for a peaceful world, have for a good while let their hopes trump realty by claiming the American empire is doomed, as is Israel and the neo-liberal, neo-con agenda. For many months now, I have noticed something amiss with these claims. Too much wishful thinking. Too little appreciation for the machinations of the CIA, M-16, Mossad, Turkish conspiracies. To think these devils would accept defeat without bringing the world down is naïve. I don’t relish saying all this. It is depressing. But I think it is true.
Some people who know me call me an extremist and claim I make no room for the middle ground. When it comes to U.S. war-waging, I say there is none. It is endless and integral to U.S. foreign policy no matter which party is in office. And the foreign policy is integral to the domestic policy. Without it, the country would be so different. Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden – to buy their lies is to be a fool.
To realize the difference between power and innocence is to come to understand the demonic nature of America’s Forever Wars. When in 2014 President Obama stood at West Point and said, “I believe in American exceptionalism with every fiber of my being,” he was revealing, consciously or not, a hard truth, just as when he received the Nobel Peace Prize and told the world he believed in war. But he smiled. For war is the lifeblood of this “exceptional” country. But if you keep repeating that, don’t expect smiles to come your way."
"How It Really Is"
Hey! They've got something big for you, too, Good Citizen!
Same as it always was, same as it always will be...
Adventures With Danno, "Items at Aldi Everyone Should Be Buying Right Now!"
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Adventures With Danno, 11/7/25
"Items at Aldi Everyone
Should Be Buying Right Now!"
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Obscure Vintage Records, "Where Them Food Stamps?"
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Clarence Wright, "She Ain’t Got No Groceries"
"Meet Clarence Wright. Virgo. Smooth as velvet. From the small town of Bammel, Texas. Clarence is the kind of brother who will iron his slacks before church, but still burn a grilled cheese because he forgot to buy the cheese. He’s cool as a fan, sharp dresser, and talks slick like your uncle who always has a story about “back in ’72.”
“She Ain’t Got No Groceries” comes from Clarence’s debut album "Stupid Sh*t" - a masterpiece dedicated to all the ridiculous, head-shaking moments we go through in life. Clarence loves women, loves soul music, but hates walking into a house with an empty fridge. This track is a 1970s soul parody with that buttery retro groove - horns, wah guitars, velvet-couch vibes - but the lyrics? Pure comedy. Think Richard Pryor meets Eddie Murphy with a splash of Paul Mooney realness. If you ever walked into someone’s house and opened the fridge to find ONE stick of butter and a bottle of mayo - Clarence wrote this for you."
"Trapped & Broke - Why Millions Say Debt Ruined Their Dreams"
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Dan, I Allegedly, 11/7/25
"Trapped & Broke -
Why Millions Say Debt Ruined Their Dreams"
"Discover the shocking truth about the biggest regret people have in life - it's not what you think! In this video, I break down a fascinating survey revealing how debt and financial struggles impact happiness, retirement plans, and day-to-day life for so many people. We talk about credit card debt, medical bills, car loans, and how inflation and income challenges are crushing joy for millions. Join me as I explore the alarming stats and give practical advice to help you avoid these pitfalls."
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Snyder Reports, 11/7/25
"US Economy Could Go From Bad To Worse Very Soon"
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Michael Bordenaro, 11/7/25
"Theres No Way Out of This Mess"
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EconoSilicon, 11/7/25
"15 Big Fast Food Chains
That Are Falling Apart In 2025"
"America’s favorite fast-food chains are crumbling before our eyes. In this shocking exposé, we uncover 15 Big Fast Food Chains That Are Falling Apart in 2025 - from once-iconic giants losing billions in revenue to beloved names shutting hundreds of locations across the country. As consumers tighten their wallets, rising labor costs, food inflation, and changing eating habits are tearing through the industry like never before.
From McDonald’s struggling with customer fatigue, to Subway’s franchise collapse, and Burger King’s deep financial troubles, this video dives deep into the data behind the downfall. You’ll learn which companies are closing stores, facing lawsuits, or fighting bankruptcy - and why some of the biggest names in American dining may not survive the next recession. We’ll also break down how delivery apps, inflation, and shifting consumer behavior are reshaping the restaurant landscape. The fast-food empire that once symbolized convenience and prosperity is now fighting to stay alive in a market where loyalty is fading and competition is fierce. Watch till the end to see which brand’s collapse will shock you the most."
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Michael Bordenaro, 11/7/25
"High Food Prices Are Crashing Restaurant Sales"
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Bill Bonner, "No Safety, No Surprise"
"No Safety, No Surprise"
by Bill Bonner
Baltimore, Maryland - “And so it begins...” said Donald Trump. What begins? It is the end that begins. The US empire has been in decline for a quarter of a century. Almost everything Mr. Trump has done appears intended to hasten the descent. That is as it should be. He’s fulfilling his historic role.
He’s made friendly countries wary of us...encouraged them to find dollar substitutes...and given them cause to ‘gun up’ to protect themselves. He’s stifled global trade with capricious tariff announcements...invaded US cities with ‘warfighters’ and masked ICE enforcers...set the nation on course for $185 trillion of debt...killed civilians (without trial) who were allegedly running drugs...and enriched his own family by billions of dollars, while most Americans have made little or no financial progress.
What seawall of strength and rectitude stands against this frothy tsunami of bad policy choices? None at all. No serious contender proposes to lower spending and eliminate deficits. None wishes to bring home the troops to defend the Homeland...they prefer making war on hapless countries like Nigeria, Yemen or Venezuela. Neither party dares make substantive cuts to Social Security or Medicare..
Take a careful look through the binoculars. Because here is where ‘the end’ comes into focus. Instead of bracing against the storm, and putting in place the breakwater reforms that might actually avoid the financial flood ahead, the voters turn to Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani is ready to open up the dikes: “There is no problem too big for government to solve. And no matter too small for government to care about...” What is he talking about? The last big problem the US government solved was WWII. Since then, from the war in Vietnam to the war on drugs, it’s been one failure after another.
But Democrats all over the country are getting the message. Want to win an election? Trying to claim the center doesn’t work. What works is bold activism...and more old-fashioned ‘something for nothing.’ It works for Republicans too. It used to be that you could count on the GOP to counter the Democrats’ natural drive for more spending. But Trump has snuffed out ‘conservatism’ in the House and the Senate. Like embers in a dying fire, only Tom Massie and (maybe…sometimes) Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) still flicker and glow.
MTG: "The government has failed all of us and it purely disgusts me. It really does. And I represent a district that is rural, manufacturing district, blue-collar, and people have been crushed by decades of failure in Washington, D.C. Both parties now accept deficits. Both approve of more debt...and of diddling interest rates to make it easier to borrow. Both now offer the voters ‘something for nothing.’ They merely aim to get it from different places. Mamdani proposes to tax rich Americans. Trump claims he can tax foreigners (with tariffs)."
Both promises are frauds. In New York, the top 10% of earners already pay 75% of the city’s budget, more per person than any other major city in America. Squeeze them harder? Every one of them knows how to get on to I-95...turn left and drive all the way down to Florida.
As for taxing foreigners, the idea was silly from the get-go. Any real businessman tries to sell as much product as he can, reducing his margin to an allowable minimum. If his costs are increased, he has no choice; either he raises his sales prices or gives up the market. Whichever way the next election goes - to the rascal Republicans or the scalawag Democrats - the empire is going down.
Says Ray Dalio: "The US is “at the end of its long-term debt cycle, near the end of its empire cycle, deeply divided and entering a period of internal and external conflict.” No safety. No surprise."
Jim Kunstler, "Side of Jihad With That Pastrami on Rye?"
Brothers in Arms: Alex Soros (L), Zohran (R)
"Side of Jihad With That Pastrami on Rye?"
by Jim Kunstler
"Socialism is a wonderful idea.
It's only as a reality that it has been disastrous."
- Thomas Sowell
"Does Zohran’s radiant smile put you in mind of a labradoodle puppy? The guy was just that soft and fluffy during the mayoral election campaign, beaming remorselessly for the cameras, summoning a cushy nirvana of give-aways that would deliver an “affordable” life to the moiling masses of under-employed latte-clutchers doomed by their unpayable college loans and the gender-study diplomas they innocently bought with all that money. Under Zohran, New York City will soon be one colossal student lounge, and even the baristas serving the lattes will get nice one-bedroom river-view apartments, ride to work on free buses, and buy their take-out chili-crisp fried tofu for cheap at the city-run food store.
Look (above): there is Zohran with his billionaire friend and patron Alex Soros. Alex does not seem to realize that Zohran wants to eat him for lunch. Fluffy as they might be, labradoodles are actually carnivores. And Zohran has declared that billionaires should not exist. He says the billionaires of New York are going to pay for those lattes, free buses, river-view apartments, and all the rest of the package. Is he planning to hold them hostage? Staple their John Lobb bespoke alligator leather loafers to the parqueted floor of the penthouse at 15 Central Park West while he loots their accounts?
No! They are going to make like Snake Pliskin and escape from New York with all their assets and chattels. Florida, Nashville, Boise! It’s a big country and, let’s face it, your laptop is your office. Then what? Maybe it will be like the old glory days of Soviet Russia in New York. The people will pretend to work and Zohran will pretend to pay them and everybody will be all happy and equal. That city-run food store will become the city-run free food store, just like the hippies dreamed about in 1967, the summer of love! Jews and Jihadis will march together, arm-in-arm, into a gleaming future...!
Then there was the victory speech. Not so labradoodle smiley. More like Fidel Castro (if anyone remembers that guy) in harangue mode. But know this: Zohran is a talented demagogue. He got game! He can bring it! He exudes charm like the Knicks’ Jalen Brunsen sweats at the three-point line! He can put it over, whip up a crowd, paint dazzling word-panoramas of a democratic-socialist promised land in the offing. He will have a glorious Christmas season awaiting the swearing-in at one minute past midnight, New Years Day.
Waitaminnit! Zohran probably doesn’t do Christmas, and certainly not Hanukkah. But it’s conceivable that he will huddle at Zabar’s with his constituents, the altekakers of the Upper West Side who (perhaps foolishly) voted for him, and together figure out how to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu the next time he comes to the UN - a campaign promise! And he can prepare to ride out of the gate on Jan 1 at warp speed to freeze a million rents, change-out social workers for cops, set up the free child-care, and perform all the other miracles promised.
I hate to break the spell, but here’s what you are really going to get in New York City with Mayor Zohran Mamdani: far and away the most corrupt administration ever in the history of the place, making the Boss Tweed era look like a model of efficiency and rectitude. I will tell you why: Zohran has zero managerial experience. In the decade, roughly, since he graduated from Bowdoin College up in faraway piney Maine, Zohran has worked as a campaign volunteer, a rapper (“Kanda Chap Chap” under the name Young Cardamom), a voter field-operator, a music supervisor for his Mom’s documentary film, and, since 2021, a New York State Assemblyman for District 36 in the Borough of Queens who rarely shows up in the chamber to vote for anything.
The New York City government comprises over a hundred agencies with a budget of $112.4-billion. The opportunities for grift are fantastic beyond comprehension. Now, appoint and hire thousands of Gen Z DEI types to run all those services, young folk who worked for Zohran’s campaign and were promised jobs in the new admin. What will you get? Cosmic level incompetence at best, and more likely wholesale looting of the public till. Now layer-on the omnipresent mob action in the New York City unions and the mafia-associated contractors who do business with the city. Doesn’t look great. And how much will be creamed off for the Zakaat, the obligatory Islamic tithe turned over to the poor, the needy, the homeless, the debtors and the practice of jihad?
So, good luck Big Apple as you await the luscious caramel coating of Woke-socialism to be laid on you. Zohran’s elevation capped an election week of Democratic Party triumph that left the faithful too hungover to even perform the much ballyhooed “Trump Must Go Now” exorcism promised for the day after the vote. Alex Soros & Friends bought plane tickets for a few “furry” Transtifas to fly in from Portland, OR, their training ground, but the event was a bust. Mr. Trump was not squeezed out of the known universe like a watermelon seed, as hoped. The Golden Golem of Greatness lurches on, coping with the Democrat’s never-ending seditious jihad against our country, featuring such new stars as New Jersey’s Mikie Sherrill and Virginia’s next governor, Abigail Spanberger, shown below wearing the winsome regalia of Covid-19 she modeled on the floor of the US House of representatives back in pandemic-time. You go, girl!"
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Jeremiah Babe, "Prepping For Big Trouble, We Are Now In A Critical Situation"
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Jeremiah Babe, 11/6/25
"Prepping For Big Trouble,
We Are Now In A Critical Situation"
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Snyder Reports, 11/6/25
"American Households Collapse -
What Happens Next Is Terrifying"
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Musical Interlude: "This Lost Scottish Melody Will Break Your Heart and Heal Your Soul"
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Highland Spirit,
"This Lost Scottish Melody
Will Break Your Heart and Heal Your Soul"
"Step into the mist of the Highlands, where every note of the bagpipes carries an ancient memory. Here the music is more than sound - it is a legend reborn, a call of the ancestors that awakens forgotten dreams. Let the Celtic spirit guide you through misty mountains, sacred stone circles, and timeless battles of clans. Each melody is a magical journey between the realms of myth and soul. Close your eyes, and the pipes will call you home."
"A Look to the Heavens"
“Massive stars, abrasive winds, mountains of dust, and energetic light sculpt one of the largest and most picturesque regions of star formation in the Local Group of Galaxies. Known as N11, the region is visible on the upper right of many images of its home galaxy, the Milky Way neighbor known as the Large Magellanic Clouds (LMC).
The above image was taken for scientific purposes by the Hubble Space Telescope and reprocessed for artistry by an amateur to win the Hubble’s Hidden Treasures competition. Although the section imaged above is known as NGC 1763, the entire N11 emission nebula is second in LMC size only to 30 Doradus. Studying the stars in N11 has shown that it actually houses three successive generations of star formation. Compact globules of dark dust housing emerging young stars are also visible around the image.”
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