Here's an interesting article worth...

Editor's note: ...republishing, and worth thinking about what it means when powerful financial and political figures make consequential decisions behind closed doors that have a direct impact on your lives. As the American novelist Ishmael Reed wrote in his 1972 satirical novel Mumbo Jumbo, "history is the story of warfare between secret societies." Peter Andreas Thiel himself, was born in what some consider the most occulted city in the world: Frankfurt, Germany. Frankfurt is Germany's financial capital and home to both the European Central Bank and the Deutsche Bundesbank, making it a genuine center of concentrated monetary power in Europe. According to an opinion newsletter (not an investigative report), Deutsche Bank's CEO attended a recent Bilderberg conference that Peter Thiel has reportedly funded and helped steer since around 2008. The Deutsche Bundesbank and European Central Bank, both based in Frankfurt, are closely linked to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel through standard central bank coordination, while Deutsche Bank, a private commercial bank, has no ownership or governance role in the BIS at all. According to Wired, the exposed registry for its upcoming August 2026 retreat lists 222 individuals. The "leaked" materials detail an unorthodox agenda for the upcoming retreat near Dublin, Ireland (possibly being held at the elite K Club resort in County Kildare, the adjacent golf-course hosted the 2006 Ryder Cup).

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Bessent, Cruz, Musk, Kushner Among Leaked Member List of Secret Society

A massive data leak has exposed Dialog, a secretive society for over 200 global elites. The breach revealed an exclusive matchmaking app, as well as off-the-record retreat agendas covering global conflict, artificial intelligence, and controversial political strategies.

June 17, 2026 | By Ahmet Koçak

A massive data breach has exposed the internal operations of Dialog, a secretive, invitation-only society for more than 200 global political, financial, and technology elites.

Good morning, fellow taxpayers: This is a public service report for...

Editor's note: ...every American taxpayer who has ever wondered where their money (it's actually not your money) actually goes. Lockheed Martin (the epitome of the deep state), the largest defense contractor in the US, which is not America, received billions of dollars in new federal contracts in July 2026 alone, part of a defense budget that crossed $1 trillion dollars (if you stacked $1 trillion in $100 bills into a cube, it would only be about the size of a seven-story building, practically pocket change) for the first time even as the Pentagon failed its financial audit for an eighth consecutive year. Few of the American people funding this system, through payroll taxes withheld from every paycheck, ever see how the money moves: which offices approve it, why the contracts keep growing even when programs run late and over budget, and why the benefits rarely reach anyone outside the company's shareholders, executives, and workforce. This report lays out that process in plain terms, using the government's own contract announcements, its own watchdog's findings, and its own disclosure records, so taxpayers can judge for themselves whether "the system serves the public that pays for it." Don't expect any US senate or congressional member to seriously reflect on this public service report.
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The Money Machine: How Lockheed Martin Draws Billions From the Federal Treasury, and Why Ordinary Taxpayers Rarely See It

July 30, 2026 | AD News Network 

A System Built on Public Money, Not Private Capital

Every dollar Lockheed Martin receives through a Department of War contract begins as money appropriated by Congress and drawn from the U.S. Treasury. The company does not access a line of credit or borrow against future earnings to build F-35 fighters or THAAD interceptors. It receives obligated federal funds, authorized first through the National Defense Authorization Act and then through annual appropriations bills, and disbursed contract by contract as work is performed.

Social media influencers often come across...

Editor's note: ...as obnoxious because their content often prioritizes self-promotion and performative lifestyles over genuine meaningful substance, which breeds several specific irritations: constant humble-bragging and manufactured "relatability," aggressive product plugs disguised as personal recommendations, engagement-bait tactics (clickbait titles, manufactured drama, or fake controversies), a tendency to speak with unearned authority on topics outside their expertise, and an overall sense that every moment of their life has been staged for an audience rather than lived authentically. In Japan, a foreign influencer traveling in Japan wearing a large hat and colorful clothing was filming himself on a train when an elderly Japanese man asked him to stop recording. The influencer responded rudely, telling the man to get away from him. He then stood up from his seat and shoved the elderly man from behind. Although Japan has no specific criminal law banning filming strangers in public, its well-established legal concept of "portrait rights" (along with strong cultural norms around personal privacy) meant the influencer's disregard for the elderly Japanese man's request reflected a clear ignorance of, and disrespect for, the customs and legal sensitivities of Japan where he was visiting. 
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ASU Just Made INFLUENCING A College Major

By Steve Watson | July 25, 2026

As universities churn out debt-loaded leftists who hate America

Arizona State University has decided the path to success runs straight through TikTok dances, personal branding, and “strategic storytelling."

The U.S. Department of Defense is the largest institutional...

Editor's note: ...consumer of petroleum on Earth, and the numbers back that up in almost any direction you look. Estimates place annual military fuel consumption somewhere between 80 and 100 million barrels a year, translating to roughly 4.6 billion gallons and over $20 billion in annual fuel spending, according to Air and Space Forces Magazine. Since 2021, the Pentagon has burned through about 227 million gallons of diesel and 2.2 billion gallons of jet fuel annually. The Air Force alone accounts for roughly half of that total, largely due to fighter jets, bombers, and transport aircraft. Individual assets illustrate the scale involved: an aircraft carrier can burn about 100,000 gallons of fuel a day at full speed, and an armored division on the move can consume 600,000 gallons in a single day. Beyond fuel, the military's electricity footprint is just as significant. The DoD uses more than 30 terawatt hours of electricity annually to power over 500 installations worldwide, from forward operating bases to domestic facilities. Costs have also been climbing sharply. The average price the Pentagon paid per barrel of fuel rose from about $154 in October to nearly $196 in April, a jump of almost 27 percent in six months, driven largely by fuel market volatility tied to the conflict with Iran. That price surge alone could add more than a billion dollars in unplanned costs this year. Taken together, these figures underscore why the DoD is often described as consuming more energy than most individual countries, even before accounting for the broader logistics network that supports its global operations.
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America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve – More Fragile Than Headlines Suggest!

By Henry Kamens | July 25, 2026

America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is more fragile than headlines suggest: aging salt-cavern infrastructure, questionable actual deliverability versus reported inventories, and a growing gap between official figures and physical reality.

Technology has gone too far when companies...

Editor's note: ...like Flock Safety, Axon, and Cognyte supply local police with automated license plate networks, streetlight-mounted cameras, and mobile cell-tower simulators that record the movements and device data of ordinary people under the permanent pretext of "public safety." Let's get real: the pretext of "public safety" is bullshit. Somebody is putting the contracts together and somebody is profitting at our expense. The companies selling the sensors are the same ones writing the reports that prove the sensors are working, so the technology's failures become invisible by design. These systems are sold as "solutions to crime", yet they expand in lockstep with government bureaucracies (Franz Kafka's nightmare) that manufacture ever more justifications for spending more money (bonds) and for collecting data on citizens who have committed no offense. A free people cannot accept continuous, warrantless monitoring of streets and vehicles as the price of order, and history shows that surveillance infrastructures built on such premises eventually collapse under their own weight of distrust and resistance. Governments chase surveillance technology as a substitute for the harder, slower work of building trust and addressing root causes, mistaking the illusion of control, more cameras, more microphones, more data, for the substance of safety, while quietly normalizing a level of scrutiny that no elected body ever explicitly approved.

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and [nanny-state techno-twinks]." - Thomas Jefferson 

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The Surveillance Grid: How Flock, Axon, and Cognyte Are Turning American Streets Into a Permanent Watchlist

July 28, 2026 | By AD News Network

The expanding network of automated surveillance systems sold by companies such as Flock Safety, Axon, and Cognyte represents a fundamental shift in American policing. These firms market their products as tools for public safety. In practice they are creating persistent, warrantless records of ordinary movement and communication. Americans have begun to reject them, and history suggests that any society built on continuous monitoring of its own citizens eventually undermines the legitimacy it claims to protect. Flock Safety has blanketed thousands of communities with automatic license plate readers. These cameras capture every vehicle that passes, store the data in searchable databases, and share it across agencies.

Local police have no business buying...

Editor's note: ...intelligence-grade spy vans. Texas just spent $4.5 million on four Chevy Tahoes loaded with Israeli Cognyte FalcoNet technology that impersonates cell towers, forces nearby phones to connect, and harvests location and device data from anyone in range, including people never accused of a crime. This is not crime-fighting equipment; it is the quiet conversion of neighborhood policing into a mobile surveillance apparatus. Once departments sink millions into these systems, the pressure to use them constantly is inevitable. The line between intelligence agencies and local cops is collapsing one contract at a time, and it must be stopped. A free society does not normalize the idea that local police can deploy foreign-developed intelligence platforms to monitor the communications infrastructure of ordinary people. This is not progress. It is the steady dismantling of the line that once protected ordinary Americans from being treated as permanent subjects of intelligence collection. It is wrong, and it must not stand.
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America's Local Police Are Becoming Intelligence Agencies

July 27, 2026 | By Martin Armstrong

One of the most revealing investigations this week did not come from Washington. It came from Forbes, which uncovered how an Israeli surveillance company is quietly marketing intelligence-grade technology directly to American police departments. The story is not about another patrol vehicle or upgraded communications equipment. It is about bringing tools originally developed for intelligence and national security operations onto the streets of the United States.

Oracle has emerged as one of the most aggressive...

Editor's note: ...builders of AI infrastructure in the technology industry, channeling tens of billions of dollars into vast data center facilities packed with Nvidia GPUs to supply the raw computing power demanded by leading AI labs and companies. Through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure the company is constructing multi-gigawatt facilities across the US and abroad, securing landmark multi-year contracts including a reported $300 billion agreement with OpenAI that anchors the Stargate initiative (a $500 billion project to build out large scale data centers), while simultaneously embedding advanced AI capabilities directly into its flagship databases and enterprise applications. This dual strategy of hyper-scale capacity and software intelligence has transformed Oracle from a traditional database giant into a critical enabler of the current AI boom, even as the scale of its capital spending tests investor confidence in the race to meet insatiable demand for training and inference power.
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The Rise of the Ellison Empire

July 24, 2026 | By Martin Armstrong

There was a time when America's industrial titans built railroads, steel mills, and oil companies. Today, influence is measured in data, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, media, and information. Few families illustrate that transformation better than the Ellisons.

Larry Ellison built Oracle from a small software company into one of the world’s largest technology firms. His background and rags-to-riches story are quite interesting. Today Oracle is one of the dominant providers of enterprise databases and cloud infrastructure, serving governments, financial institutions, healthcare providers, defense contractors, and many of the world’s largest corporations. Oracle’s software touches enormous portions of the global economy. When governments collect taxes, hospitals manage patient records, banks process transactions, or corporations analyze data, Oracle systems are often operating behind the scenes. [Editor's note: Oracle's first contract was with the CIA for $50,000.]

The last dying gasp from Hollywood...

Editor's note: ...and the cultural Marxist woke psychotics who have demonstrated they are brain diseased and insanely envious of white culture. As has been correctly stated elsewhere, when Americans go through this expected economic and financial collapse that is being anticipated related to energy and the Straight of Hormuz, are they really going to give a damn about Hollywood movies and woke culture? Another interpretation of this movie Odyssey can be looked at as a "defining cultural moment", where future observers will divide history into the periods before and after its release. The ensuing intense debates surrounding this movie, including questions of casting, fidelity to Homer, and artistic interpretation, are going to become a rallying point that will force Americans to clarify their positions and prepare for subsequent cultural conflicts. The US Army motto "This we'll defend," frames the film and the broader defense of classical Western stories as something worth protecting in an ongoing culture war.

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Matt Damon as Odysseus? You cannot be serious!

by Miles Mathis

July 19, 2026

Not that I think it matters much, but I remind you going in I know quite a bit about this subject. I was the best student in the nation for two years in highschool in classics, having the high score on the Nation Junior Classical League pentathlon test, which includes questions of both Latin and Greek history and literature. I first read the Iliad and Odyssey at age 16, along with the Theogony, Aeneid, and the major Greek plays. I scored fifth in the nation in classic literature. I then double majored in Philosophy and Classics (mostly Latin) at the University of Texas, graduating in 1984 at the age of 20 Phi Beta Kappa and Summa cum Laude. I have kept up my studies since then and still read my Horace. So for those already saying "what the eff do I know about it?" that's what. Unlike all the people on Youtube, I actually know how to pronounce all these names.

The Gods of war

Editor's note: The manipulation should be apparent: Christian Abrahamic zealots to marshal them against Islamic Abrahamic zealots in a clash over a male God. Is this what your sons and daughters enlisted in the US military to do? This is truly terrifying:

Mientras Trump bombardea los puentes y las centrales eléctricas de Irán, tras matar a 168 niños en Minab, los soldados estadounidenses rezan masivamente pidiendo a "dios" que los proteja en la batalla.

Dicen que el comunismo es la mayor amenaza mientras crean sectas religiosas… pic.twitter.com/OWZGPBb6B0

— Daniel Mayakovski (@DaniMayakovski) July 25, 2026

The U.S. House of Representatives passed...

Editor's note: ...the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2027 on July 22 in a 216-212 vote, largely along party lines. The bill includes Section 219, which expands intelligence sharing with Israel, promotes joint military exercises and weapons co-production, and integrates Israeli weapons into US systems. And if you disagree? Israel has a sophisticated war going against resistance. Critics, including some lawmakers and human rights groups (there are no "human rights", there are only individual rights but then you need to be prepared to fight for them), argue this effectively integrates the two countries' militaries and could give Israel greater influence over US policy (Israel already controls US foreign policy towards Israel) and supply chains. An amendment to remove the provision was blocked from debate. The bill now moves to the Senate, where opponents are seeking to strip out the section which they are unlikely to do; because the Middle East is going to erupt into a larger war. People want cheap oil right? Well, somebody has to die to get it.
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"A Bridge Too Far": Middle East Set For A Massive Escalation

By Tyler Durden | July, 24, 2026

By Michael Every of Rabobank

Unless things change dramatically, the Middle East seems set for massive escalation.

President Trump yesterday warned every missile, rocket, or drone Iran fires at ships in Hormuz will be met with the destruction of an Iranian bridge or power plant.

The following quote is relevant...

Editor's note: ...to our circumstances and what are depicted in the following X posts. A white Minnesota woman was convicted of disorderly conduct for using a racial slur toward a Somali man filming her at a park (while acquitted on the related charge involving a child), which critics cite as evidence of selective enforcement and weakened free-speech protections in the state. The Communist Agenda:

"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster."

 

American mother Shiloh Hendrix faced criminal charges in Rochester, Minnesota for using a racial slur during a confrontation at a park.

She was looking at up to 90 days in jail over the incident involving a child of Somali descent and the adult who filmed her.

BREAKING – Jury… pic.twitter.com/SGar2KCofC

— American Nightmare 🇺🇸 (@thewakeninq) July 24, 2026

A former Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) operative...

Editor's note: ...Mohamad Faridi, now a Christian leader, discusses below the Islamo-communism alliance between far-left communists and Islamists. In an interview with Alex Newman of The New American, Faridi traces the partnership back to early Soviet leaders like Lenin and Stalin, who allegedly used Muslim jihadis to intimidate opponents and consolidate control. He points to modern examples including Iran's close ties with China's communist regime and the election of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, whom the piece labels an Islamic-socialist figure, as evidence of this "Red-Green" (the Islamo-Marxists) axis operating in the West. Faridi argues that Islamists and communists view each other as temporary tools in a shared fight against Christianity, liberty, and Western values, while warning of jihadist sleeper cells already present in the United States and stressing that the Iranian regime must be confronted to stop the spread of international terror.
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Islamo-communism: Former IRGC soldier explains why communists and Islamists are working together

By Rhoda Wilson | July 24, 2026

The Islamo-communism phenomenon, a toxic mixture of the political hard/far left and Islamism, has raised its ugly head in many Western countries in recent years. In America, for example, the Democratic Party has been taken over by Islamists, a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (“IRGC”) operative told Alex Newman.

The US military's direct complicity in Ukrainian...

Editor's note: ...strikes on Russian civilian targets exposes its true nature as a force of terrorism and war crimes rather than any noble defender. According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Washington is not merely assisting but actively guiding attacks that deliberately hit civilians, a desperate act by a declining empire gripped by inferiority, spite, and racism after losing the arms race. Far from protecting American interests, this Israeli-style Pentagon apparatus has devolved into a spiteful machine that targets innocents when confronted with its own mediocrity, confirming its role as the weak's weapon of choice in a decomposing imperial project. This makes a lot of observers starting to question who is actually running Russia after a Russian soldier was asked, "Why do Ukrainian soldiers fight so hard?" The Russian soldier said, "They fight hard because they are Russians."
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U.S. Military Flag Officer Reveals Highly Classified Iran War Secrets

July 21, 2026 | by State of the Nation

Submitted by A Veteran Intelligence Analyst & Former U.S. Military Officer

SOTN Exclusive

"Whenever treason is perpetrated at the highest levels of government in the conduct of war, senior military officers have been known to leak extremely sensitive information via various back channels in order to terminate those egregious crimes against the Republic."

The following information is as radioactive as it gets because of the ultimate source of this extremely sensitive military intelligence. Each of the main data points has been put into a lengthy bullet point format, which will then be further elaborated as our ex-military intelligence network receives more details.

"Start spreadin' the news"

Editor's note: New York is losing billions in tax revenue as its share of U.S. millionaires dropped sharply from 12.7 percent in 2010 to 8.7 percent in 2022, the largest decline of any state. According to a Citizens Budget Commission report cited in Jonathan Turley's New York Post column, the exodus of wealthy residents has cost the state about $10.7 billion. High taxes, aggressive policies targeting the rich, and promises of expansive social programs are driving many to relocate to lower-tax states like Florida and Texas, where remote work reduces the need to stay in the high-cost Big Apple. Turley warns that rather than reforming to retain residents, some Democrats are pushing national wealth taxes to limit such mobility.

Bitcoin as the Open-System Antidote to Debt Slavery

Editor's note: In Joseph P. Farrell's Financial Vipers of Venice, the Venetian oligarchs perfected a closed financial system of scarcity, debt, manipulation, and elite control that evolved into today's central banking, fiat money, and perpetual debt bondage, suppressing open visions of abundance like Giordano Bruno's Hermetic cosmology. Jeff Booth offers a compelling escape in The Price of Tomorrow: exponential technology drives natural deflation and prosperity, but the debt-based fiat system fights it through endless money printing and credit expansion, trapping humanity in scarcity and instability. Bitcoin breaks this cycle as the first true decentralized, fixed-supply (21 million cap) global money, permissionless, energy-secured, and immune to manipulation. It aligns incentives with abundance, reprices the world on real productivity, and provides a transition to sound money, individual sovereignty, and creative flourishing, offering a practical, opt-in revolution against the centuries-old viper's ledger of financial tyranny.
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Dangerous Intellectuals: The Book Review--"Financial Vipers of Venice" Joseph P Farrell

By Brigadier General (ret) Blaine D. Holt | July 22, 2026

"And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." — Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Taylor, 1816

What is it about the ledger? Is there a viper's nest effect that results when ambitious merchants, secretcouncils, bullion brokers, and the alchemy of debt come together? The Venetian oligarchs launched a financial empire from the lagoons that would light a fuse leading to modern central banking, national debts, fiat money, and the soft financial despotism we endure today. One such establishment in the fuse was the Rialto, where the methods of control were perfected.