Phebe Novakovic: The American taxpayers want a refund...

Editor's note: ...with General Dynamics ripping off the U.S. Treasury and the American people. Most would call this corporate grift but on this level it is simply relegated to "contract delays" or "cost overruns." A ProPublica investigation revealed that the U.S. Army paid (the U.S. Army didn't pay General Dynamics anything, the American people did) General Dynamics roughly $533 million in taxpayer funds to open and operate a new artillery shell factory near Dallas, Texas, intended to boost production for needs including Ukraine, yet the plant never delivered a single usable shell. Despite repeated deadlines, malfunctioning equipment, production-line shutdowns ordered by the Army, and involvement of a lightly vetted Turkish subcontractor in a rushed process, the facility produced only defective output according to a Defense Department inspector general report, leaving American taxpayers with a costly failure and little accountability so far. Have a listen to this corporate sales bullshit, and as you listen understand that the US manufactures weapons to sell while the Russians manufacture weapons to wage war and there is a vast difference. The top three major shareholders of General Dynamics are Longview Asset Management (about 10%), BlackRock (about 6.9%), and Vanguard (roughly 6–9% across its funds).

The problem isn't "third worldism", it's the Abrahamic...

Editor's note: ...religions especially Islam. The Abrahamic religions represent a foreign spiritual imposition on Europeans and Americans, one that displaced native pagan traditions and continues to cause real harm today. All three Abrahamic faiths share a pattern of using children as a kind of sacrificial offering, whether literally or symbolically, and points to cases of religiously-linked child abuse, including grooming gang scandals tied to Islam in the UK, as evidence of this pattern playing out in the modern world. Yes, there are decent people in all religions, this isn't the point. The entire religious tradition, going back to the conversion of Europe under the Roman Empire, as a kind of cultural and generational religious exploitation, should alert people of European descent to reject these belief systems as not authentically their own. We would be far better off returning to a pre-Christian indigenous spiritual tradition instead. If we don't the obvious is going to happen: Christians set against Islam on American soil despite all the "good" people in both religions. Europeans and Americans have been "neurologically conditioned by Abrahamic black-and-white thinking to seek saviors", whether God or government, instead of confronting hardship with courage and solving problems ourselves.

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The Problem With DSA Democrats Isn't Socialism, It's Third-Worldism

By John Daniel Davidson | August 12, 2026

Decades of immigration from Muslim-majority Third World countries has turned the Democrats into the party of militant anti-Americanism.

The recent electoral success of candidates affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has prompted many Republicans and commentators on the right to attack these Democrats for being "socialists" or "communists" — as if those labels will persuade voters, particularly younger voters, that DSA-backed candidates are just too radical.

As Americans ruled by a managerial class...

Editor's note: ...that despises them (their hubris is now intolerable) and insists on controlling every aspect of their lives, how are we supposed to comprehend or reconcile the prostitution of the U.S. military into fighting for interests fundamentally opposed to America's own? This is the anarcho-tyranny Samuel Francis diagnosed decades ago, a managerial elite (see Anarcho-Tyranny: The Dialectic of Disorder and Control in Western Governance) who governs its own citizens with an iron fist while pointing the nation's actual military power at causes that have nothing to do with defending the country footing the bill. It really comes down to "liars and thieves are constitutionally incapable of recognising the truth of their own work." A recent alleged incident aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, in which reports claim seven sailors were killed, only lays bare the deeper rot within the US military, even as the Pentagon demands a so-called defense budget of $1.5 trillion. The entire spectacle is preposterous and has reached outrageous proportions. In addition to this, Russia is apparently now going on the offensive in the Pacific region. Given Russia's Pacific Fleet posture with its Yasen-M SSGNs, Kalibr/Zircon/Onyx-armed submarines, and stated readiness to target commercial shipping, how is the US military planning to counter Russia's potential threat to navigation in the Pacific?

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Asbestos, mold and crumbling walls: The US military's Pacific bases are falling apart

By Michael Peck | August 12, 2026

Mold, asbestos and crumbling walls are only some of the issues plaguing the U.S. military’s Pacific bases, according to a Pentagon watchdog.

At Camp Courtney and Kadena and Yokota Air Bases in Japan, investigators with the Defense Department Office of Inspector General found "visible corrosion, visible mold, visible fire damage, visible cracks on the building exterior and interior, visible concrete spalling and exposed rebar, water intrusion, lead‑based paint, asbestos‑containing material and inoperable communication connections."

Basketball was invented in 1891 by...

Editor's note: ...James Naismith, a white Canadian of Scottish ancestry, at a YMCA training school in Springfield, Massachusetts, and was first organized as a professional sport by white Americans, Fred Cooper arranged and played in the initial professional game in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1896, while Horace Fogel formed the first professional league in 1898, with early play occurring primarily among white teams and institutions in the Northeast. Black Americans subsequently adopted the game and grafted it onto their own unique experiences and subculture within American life, developing distinctive styles, independent teams, and eventual high levels of excellence. What Black communities might have done in the absence of basketball's invention remains unknowable; in more recent decades becuase of cultural Marxism like some sort of uncontrollable metastasizing cancer, has wormed its way into the sport potentially destroying it for both Blacks and Whites. The overriding concern here is who exactly is it pitting Whites against Blacks in this culture war?

Vance's whole story is blown when...

Editor's note: ...looking through Findagrave records, J.D. Vance's ancestry includes Maxwell, Marrs, Hays, and Erskine lines tracing to Scotland, making him a distant cousin of tennis player Andy Murray and linking him to Scottish royalty. The impoverished Appalachian "hillbilly" background depicted in his memoir Hillbilly Elegy is misleading, pointing to relatives who owned construction and lumber companies rather than working as coal miners or factory laborers, along with middle names such as Tilden and Windsor that suggest more established family roots. The timeline of Vance's book written during his first year at Yale Law School at age 26, his decision to enlist in the Marines at 18 instead of waiting to become an officer after college, and his rapid hiring by Peter Thiel after graduation, indicate his public biography has been carefully crafted and Vance has been vetted. And now we come to UFOs...

The U.S. "manifests" $40 trillion in debt

Editor's note: If you want to run an empire, a US dollar empire, it takes trillions, and trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars...anyone else notice the manifesting industry, the idea you can manifest it is whatever you want? There are more than one-hundred thousand YouTube channels on manifesting with the owners of those channels all hustling a version of their own version or take on manifesting. The most recent version of this are the YouTube manifestation channels using white boards, the white board manifestors. Want a new Mercedes Benz in your garage? No problem, just manifest it. Why is it this bizarre manifestation industry was spawned in America? Must be the pyramid capital of the world attached at the hip to their central bank that can "manifest" fiat currency out of nothing. Look at the U.S.'s vassal state in manifesting crime Japan, where the debt to GDP ratio is well over 200 percent (depending on source). Japan is a big player in manifesting debt, massive debts, a record ¥1,346.6833 trillion (about $8.5 trillion) as of the end of June 2026, and like the U.S. these debts can never be repaid - not ever.
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US debt races toward 40 trillion in 2 weeks after quadrupling since 2008

August 8, 2026 | by Alex Mark

https://www.usdebtclock.org/

National debt is the outstanding financial obligations of a country. The national debt of the United States is what the federal government owes to its creditors.

An algorithm could potentially...

Editor's note: ...get you killed. Once these bureaucracies are activated like in the case of Flock cameras being used by police, you can't call the dogs off. Extrapolate this out a few years when these Flock cameras (and the street lights are next) are all operated using AI platforms with fully autonomous robots instead of police. The Flock camera is activated on a license plate but somewhere in the system an algorithm is tweaked wrong and people get killed by mistake. That would be a genuine Franz Kafka nightmare wouldn't it? This is the problem with human hubris, they think technology will save them "while the authorities forgot to remove an outdated alert."

🚨 FLOCK ERROR = GUNS DRAWN

Police shut down I-94, boxed in a silver SUV, and held two people at gun point after Flock cameras flagged the car as “connected to a homicide.”

Except it wasn’t.

The alert was outdated.
Authorities forgot to remove it.

Trust the algorithm.™ pic.twitter.com/stzXSeyL1w

— Jason Bassler (@JasonBassler1) August 8, 2026

The juxtaposition is genuinely bizarre: one report says...

Editor's note: ...a Turkish company and 15 crew members intend to take Ukraine to the ICC over the deadly attack on the Turkish-flagged Reyhan Sarı, while the U.S. Congress has been notified, by who is anyone's guess, of a proposed Turkish transfer of 70 U.S.-made ATACMS missiles and 12 M270 launchers to Ukraine. The reference to "geopolitical schizophrenia" used below is deliberately sarcastic, not a clinical diagnosis. It describes the bizarre contradiction in policy: Turkey is reportedly preparing legal action against Ukraine over an alleged attack on a Turkish vessel, while at virtually the same time supporting Ukraine with a major shipment of weapons. In other words, Turkey is effectively saying, "Ukraine committed a serious crime against us, so naturally we should give Ukraine more missiles." The absurdity is precisely the point. Every time you see "missiles for Ukraine" in the news, just remember: this segment is brought to you by the United States of Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, because nothing says "peace in Ukraine" quite like a very profitable weapons contract.
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Welcome to Geopolitical Theater: Turkey Takes Ukraine to Court While Sending It Missiles

Sometimes you don't have to make up satire. You simply have to put two consecutive news stories next to each other and allow the adults in the room to explain themselves.

First comes the headline: Turkish interests are preparing to take Ukraine to the International Criminal Court, accusing Kyiv of crimes against humanity following the deadly drone attack on the Turkish-flagged cargo ship Reyhan Sarı. One Turkish crew member was killed and three were injured when the vessel was struck in the Black Sea while carrying coal from Russia to Turkey.

This all started in Black communities after...

Editor's note: ...James Earl Ray was picked up in Montreal, Canada at the Neptune Tavern, at 121 West Commissioners Street by his handler, Raoul (later gave Ray $2,000 to buy the Mustang car), probably some intelligence agency, the FBI, maybe even a US military operative, with Ray being vectored into Memphis and used as the patsy in Martin Luther King's murder on April 4, 1968. The Civil Rights Bill of 1968 lost all of its steam in the US Congress during March, 1968. Knowledgable Black Americans saw right through the bill and both whites and blacks clearly did not want this legislation. Suddenly, King is murdered and six days later the Civil Rights Bill of 1968 is passed through the US House 249 to 171. The merchant warlocks removed King, federal credit expanded exponentially sucking billions into usurious witchcraft contracts, local police became federalized (American flag on their sleeves) while Black communities were chained to perversion and disrespect, drug dependency, domestic bloodshed, economic misery leaving abysmally ignorant Blacks to their own failures. The lying political rulers and wicked psychopaths (see political ponerology) gave America Martin Luther King Day to mock you while Blacks in America's inner cities today are gunning each other down...

Trump: "Si vence el comunismo en EEUU, los barrios se convertirán en guetos, en zonas marginales, será un caos, solo habrá miseria y muerte".

Mientras tanto, en los barrios de Philadelphia, Pensilvania (EEUU), el domingo de madrugada más tranquilo bajo su amado capitalismo: pic.twitter.com/13tJwqsupH

— Daniel Mayakovski (@DaniMayakovski) August 9, 2026

The results are in for the hack writer Karl Marx...

Editor's note: ...and his financier Friedrich Engels and their creation of cultural Marxism: total failure. Engels supported Marx because "they shared a lifelong political and intellectual partnership aimed at developing and promoting revolutionary communism/scientific socialism." Marx's economic theory is a catastrophic intellectual failure because its core claims were falsified by reality at every turn. The labor theory of value is nonsense: prices are set by subjective marginal utility and scarcity, not by hours of toil, which is why diamonds cost (a total marketing scam of "engineered scarcity" set in motion by DeBeers) more than water and why markets allocate resources far better than any planner. His prediction that capitalism would progressively impoverish the working class collapsed as real wages, life expectancy, and living standards exploded under market systems. The supposed iron tendency of the rate of profit to fall never produced the terminal crisis he promised. Worse, every serious attempt to implement his "scientific" vision required the abolition of private property and market prices, instantly destroying the information and incentives needed for rational production, and delivered only shortages, stagnation, mass famines, and police states. Far from liberating humanity, Marxism repeatedly produced the most efficient engines of poverty and tyranny the modern world has seen. And that was the intended consequences out of the City of London as the nexus of central banking all along. America is "reaping the benefits" of cultural Marxism...the US Government was indeed using Marxism as a precursor to fascism.
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WOKE FAILURE: More Than 3,000 University of California Professors Demand Return of SAT After "Equity" Experiment Leaves Incoming Students Unable to Do Basic Math

By Jim Hᴏft | August 8, 2026 | 558 Comments

The University of California's grand experiment with "equity" in college admissions is running headfirst into an inconvenient reality: thousands of professors say incoming students are showing up without the basic academic skills needed to handle university coursework.

Americans have probably up until now...

Editor's note: ...shrugged off the constant tip prompts as just another American quirk until their friends and strangers alike get quietly drained by them week after week. Every time a screen flashes those preset percentages it feels less like generosity and more like a soft demand that we cover someone else's payroll. Tipping has become some kind of religious-like deceptive entitlement act every time you finish a meal at a restaurant. That quiet coercion is exactly how socialist habits take root: shift the cost of wages onto the public, call it kindness, and shame anyone who resists. The essay that follows lays out why this system of tipping in America has gone too far and why Japan's approach exposes the whole racket for what it is.
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America's Tipping Epidemic Is Out of Control — Japan Proves We Don't Need It

August 7, 2026 | AD News Network

Tipping in America has spiraled into an exhausting, guilt-ridden obligation that no longer serves its original purpose of rewarding exceptional service. What began as a voluntary gesture of appreciation has expanded into a near-mandatory surcharge across nearly every transaction, from sit-down restaurants and ride shares to coffee counters, takeout windows, and even self-service kiosks. Surveys consistently show the public has had enough. A 2025 Bankrate survey found that 63 percent of Americans hold at least one negative view of tipping, with 41 percent explicitly stating that tipping culture has gotten out of control. A WalletHub survey from the same period reported that nearly 90 percent of respondents believe tipping has gone haywire, and 83 percent support banning automatic service charges. A 2026 Popmenu survey of 1,000 adults found that 78 percent consider current tipping practices "ridiculous," while 44 percent said they are tipping less than the previous year.

A leaked memo, a cyber attack and 2026 being the WEF's "Year of Water"...

Editor's note: ...should be considered another media-driven campaign. This time over water. The Guardian cannot be trusted as a reliable news source, as its coverage of recent cyber incidents at US water facilities in Minnesota and other states leads with the claim that Iran is behind the attacks based largely on anonymous officials, while downplaying the lack of public attribution from the FBI and highlighting Trump's criticism of Minnesota instead. This framing, which echoes reports from other outlets citing suspected Iranian-linked actors amid ongoing tensions, has the hallmarks of British propaganda aimed at amplifying a narrative of foreign aggression rather than sticking strictly to verified facts. That's right, another "leaked memo" from some anonymous source is pretty standard with these types of propaganda ploys to frighten the public. It is interesting that just before this alleged cyber attack on Minnesota related to the water supply, the World Economic Forum (WEF) proclaimed 2026 the "Year of Water." If anyone wants to conserve water - and lower water utility bills - fix your damn leaking toilets.

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The water Wars Have Begun

August 6, 2026 | By Martin Armstrong

The World Economic Forum has openly proclaimed 2026 the "Year of Water" and has introduced what it calls "Blue Davos," bringing freshwater, ocean policy, food security, investment, and the so-called blue economy together beneath one institutional umbrella. The Forum states that its annual meeting will concentrate on "freshwater access and management, blue food security and ocean protection." Those words may sound harmless to anyone who has never studied how political power actually expands, but management always means that someone will decide who receives a resource, how much they may use, what price they must pay, and under what conditions access may be withdrawn.

This fits a long-standing Russian (and earlier Soviet/Imperial) pattern...

Editor's note: ...rather than an abrupt departure. Russia's history is marked by repeated large-scale wars and invasions, including the Napoleonic invasion, World War I, the catastrophic Great Patriotic War (WWII) with its enormous human cost and victory narrative, Afghanistan ("lured in by Big Z"), the Chechen wars, Georgia 2008, and the ongoing Russian SMO into Ukraine, plus sustained military-patriotic education, cadet systems, Victory Day rituals, and state emphasis on readiness against external threats. Generations have grown up with war as a central national experience and identity marker; military service, veterans' cults, and early exposure to defense themes have been normalized in education and Russian culture for decades. Expanding formal military content for children (including in occupied territories) is therefore a continuation and intensification of that tradition, aimed at ensuring a larger, earlier-prepared pool of personnel and ideological commitment. In that historical light, systematic preparation of youth for defense and potential conflict (see "Russians are the wrong people to fvck with") is presented by Russian authorities as pragmatic continuity rather than anything new. The measures described, doubling instructional time, combat engineering, drone skills, camps, and inclusion of girls, directly serve the stated aim of forming a broader mobilization base for the long term.
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Russia Doubles Military Training for Children Through 2036, Including in Occupied Parts of Ukraine

In brief: Russia is expanding military training for children, including in occupied Ukrainian territories, and raising the share of mandatory instruction to 50% of school time from Sept. 1, 2026. Human right groups warned Wednesday, Aug. 5 that the program, planned through 2036, targets both boys and girls to build a future mobilization reserve.

by Kyiv Post | August 6, 2026

Russia is doubling the share of military training in school curricula, with the program extending to schools in occupied Ukrainian territories.

Look on the bright side, at least AI can...

Editor's note: ..."speed up the kill chain" for military applications (see America's new "manifest destiny"). Apparently, it is worth repeating: artificial intelligence is being driven mostly by marketing hype. That is pretty much standard US corporate policy greasing the wheels of Wall Street. Here is another example of why this is true just in case readers might think AI will take over civilization and kill off human interlopers. Recent headlines about OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta AIs "going rogue" are being sold as genuine threats, yet the pattern of companies eagerly publicizing their own systems' supposed escapes looks far more like coordinated marketing and fear-mongering than accidental disaster. By framing routine test failures as sci-fi-style breakouts, Silicon Valley and the complicit media are inflating the technology's power while priming the public for digital ID schemes, kill-switch laws and tighter surveillance sold as protection against the very systems they built. Call it what it is: a protection racket. The real danger is not runaway code but the predictable push to use manufactured AI panic as cover for expanding control (the surveillance state) over regular people.
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Are You Ready for the "Rogue AI" Psy-Op?

By Kit Knightly | August 5, 2026

The AIs are breaking free, that’s the story.

It started two weeks ago, when OpenAI reported one of their "agents" had escaped its testing area and got loose on the internet to launch an "unprecedented cyber attack".

This was clearly meant to be scarier than the public response indicated, because a few days later OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was on the Invest like the Best podcast, asking why it didn't cause more panic:

Hypothetical Future War Scenario: The Cascade Conflict of 2034

Editor's note: In the mid-2030s, escalating tensions between major rival countries, call them the "Atlantic Alliance" and the "Eurasian Compact", erupt into open conventional conflict after a series of cyber intrusions and proxy clashes. A proxy clash like with what we are seeing with Britain's proxy war on Russia using Ukraine where drone and robotic technology are being experimented on and tested out. Neither side seeks full on kinetic escalation; both instead turn to swarms of AI-driven autonomous systems designed for precision infrastructure warfare.

Within the first 72 hours, each coalition deploys large numbers of long-range, low-observable drones and ground-based robotic platforms guided by real-time AI targeting networks. These systems do not require constant human control. They receive high-level objectives (disable enemy command-and-control capacity, degrade economic resilience, sever digital logistics) and then autonomously select and prosecute targets using satellite feeds, electronic intelligence, and on-board sensors.

Surface data centers become priority targets. They are highly visible, generate distinctive thermal and electromagnetic signatures, and serve as the backbone for everything from financial clearing systems and military logistics software to civilian cloud services and AI model inference. AI planners on both sides rank them alongside power substations, fiber-optic hubs, and water treatment plants.