+ Your Phone Is Draining Your Brain (Even When It’s Off)Etienne Note: If the images aren’t visible, please try this browser LINK.Dear Subscribers,In the last edition of Five Meme Friday, I broke down how we caught Substack censoring people who posted links to our investigation showing how Fractional Reserve Banking + Federal, State and Local taxes + Social Security underpayments will steal $2.7 MILLION dollars from the median American ($60K annual salary) over a 40 year career + 20 year retirement.When we published the issue to our Five Meme Friday Substack with 1859 subscribers many of whom are paid subscribers paying Substack to deliver Five Meme Friday, Substack appears to have algorithmically censored the article and simply didn’t send it out.When we published that issue to our 2800+ subscribers on our Daily News from the Art of Liberty Foundation Wire, Substack censored it again.They published it out to the Substack website, but they simply didn’t e-mail anyone or publish to the Substack feed. The small number of people who read the article likely stumbled across it from the “home page” of our Substack.This is known as “Freedom of Speech without Reach.” The organized crime “government” will let you publish something to your/a website BUT they will turn off the ability for that information to be syndicated by Facebook, Reddit, X, Quora, Medium, Instagram, or other “Control of Perception” social media platforms at the same time that CIA-installed influencers like Shawn Ryan (See below) are given world-class sets, producers, social media teams, AND are having their content algorithmically PUMPED up so the average person gets a completely artificial understanding about what is really going on OR how they are having $2.7 MILLION dollars stolen from them by the organized crime “government” and banks.Most people simply don’t understand the extent to which hard-hitting, investigatory journalism is censored on platforms like Substack, Facebook, X, Reddit, and Medium among others… Because they never see it in the first place. The evidence of “government” illegitimacy and criminality is being censored at the platform level, while the platforms are using algorithmic amplification to pump up division, distraction and controlled opposition voices.Congrats on finding the REAL“tip of the spear” in the information war! This is the veritas… We are exposing the three things that the organized crime banks and “government” don’t want the population to know:1. 1. “Government” is illegitimate on its face… It is impossible to have a moral, legitimate “government”… It has been the Biggest Scam in History… and has produced the Greatest Theft in all of Human History…2. 2. Information is being controlled to the public using a monopolization of the media and algorithmic censorship of the DARPA Internet made possible by the TRILLIONS stolen though Fractional Reserve Banking and confiscatory taxation.3. 3. The “government” in Washington DC (and others) are being run as criminal enterprises with TRILLIONS of dollars going out the back door to identifiable interests.We are working on a plan to move us off of Substack and make us EXTREMELY censorship resistant. It is going to cost $20,000 to create our own infrastructure and we are one of the few voluntaryist organizations that has the IT capability and know-how to be able to do it. You can review our plan and understand the costs HERE.We need help… We simply can’t do it without our supporters. Please consider sponsoring the Art of Liberty Foundation here: ArtOfLiberty.org/Sponsor. We have some amazing perks to say: THANK YOU!The Truth Music of the week (below) is MK Culture from the Red Pill Friends new album: Same Side. You can find the studio version HERE and support the band by getting the Digital Download on Bandcamp here: . When the Red Pill Friends stopped to see Julie and I in Memphis on their way to play confluence last week, they signed Five (V) copies of the new CD and Brendan Daniel, circled the chair legs in the pic appropriately! I have two (2) signed copies left for the next two folks who become Sustaining Members of the Art of Liberty Foundation at $500 a year or above! You also get signed copies of both my books and a variety of goodies. See the list here:ArtOfLiberty.org/SponsorIn Jason Christoff’s documentary Planet Mind Control he breaks down how Hollywood is subliminally advertising drugs like caffeine and alcohol into their content to weaken the population so they can be effectively tax farmed. In my review of the documentary, Planet Mind Control – Documentary on What Hollywood is Inserting Subliminally into Movies and TV, I break down how they are inserting Statism into movies and tell-a-vision. Here is an example of “ex” CIA podcaster Shawn Ryan doing the exact same thing to his audience. Shawn is one of DOZENS of “ex” CIA and/or intelligence agency operatives being given world-class sets, producers, social media teams, etc. to dominate the REAL battlefield: Control-of-Perception.. Can they trick you into thinking the “government” is legitimate, the military is heroic, and our wars are just. I have an email out to Shawn Ryan’s team with a challenge to debate the legitimacy of “government” and the reality of the military setting their morality aside and agreeing to kill whomever they are told while living on money stolen from others at the point of a gun.Top Stories of the WeekBoom! United Arab Emirates Exits OPECby Patrick Wood, Illustrated by Etienne de la Boetie2History has just been made. The Petrodollar is dead. Asset tokenization will replace the dollar when pricing oil. The IMEC corridor is rebooted with or without the Strait of Hormuz. All of this at the hands of the UAE, the balance of power in the Middle East has shifted. This validates my new book, The New Economics of Technocracy.On April 28, 2026, the United Arab Emirates announced its withdrawal from OPEC, effective May 1, ending nearly six decades of membership in the oil cartel that has governed global energy markets since 1960. The announcement was brief. The implications are historic. What the UAE did on that date was not merely resign from an organization. It served formal notice that the architecture of global energy commerce — the petrodollar system that has underwritten American financial hegemony since the Nixon era — is being dismantled and replaced.1The timing tells the story. The Strait of Hormuz has been under effective Iranian blockade since February 28, 2026, when the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran and assassinated Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Tanker traffic through the Strait dropped approximately 70 percent. Oil prices shattered the $100-per-barrel threshold. The ceasefire negotiations that followed have been a rolling catastrophe — agreements made and immediately broken, tolls demanded, mines in the water, and a U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports creating what analysts have called a “dual blockade.” Against this backdrop, the UAE did not wait for resolution. It moved.The UAE’s exit is not an act of panic. It is the culmination of a decade of deliberate strategic positioning — in infrastructure, in finance, in artificial intelligence, and in the emerging Technocratic architecture I have been documenting for years. Understanding why the UAE wins regardless of how the Hormuz crisis resolves, and why its departure from OPEC accelerates the IMEC corridor project that Trump has called “one of the greatest trade routes in all of history,” requires seeing all the pieces simultaneously.Continue reading…Videos of the WeekYour Phone Is Draining Your Brain (Even When It’s Off)SummaryThe video explains how we have begun to outsource our mental faculties to smartphones, a phenomenon known as cognitive outsourcing. This trend of delegating tasks that the brain used to perform, such as basic mathematical calculations or spatial navigation, is weakening our natural abilities. For example, studies show that constant GPS use is linked to a decline in spatial memory, as the brain stops making the effort to understand its surroundings. This dependency creates an “illusion of knowledge” where we believe we master a subject simply because we can look it up on Google, when in reality we are only remembering the location of the information and not the data itself.A surprising finding is that the mere physical presence of a phone, even if it is turned off or face down, drains our intellectual capacity. Research from the University of Texas revealed that the brain subconsciously consumes valuable cognitive resources to ignore the device and avoid the temptation to use it. Those who keep their phones nearby score lower on concentration and memory tests compared to those who leave them in another room. This “brain drain” is constant and manifests even in phantom vibration syndrome, proving that our minds are permanently monitoring the device.Continue reading…Three Recent Examples Of AI Being Used For Empire Propagandaby Caitlin JohnstoneReading by Tim Foley:In the last few days I’ve seen three separate instances of generative AI being used to promote propaganda for US-Israeli war agendas which are worth paying attention to.Firstly, an Israel-based company called Generative AI for Good has been creating deepfakes of supposedly real women who say they were sexually assaulted by government forces in Iran.The Canary reports:Continue reading…“Government”, Media and AcademiaCriminality ExposedThese articles also appears in “Government”, Media and Academia Criminality Exposed, A digest of HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of articles exposing and suggesting inter-generational organized crime’s control of the “Government,” Media and Academia by the Art of Liberty Foundation. You can view the other articles or subscribe on Telegram: https://t.me/Government_ScamsTrump’s meme coin is down 80% since his first event promoting it. He’s holding another gala for it this weekend.by Victor ReklaitisPresident Donald Trump is slated to host another private event for top holders of his meme coin, but the grand functions aren’t sending the $TRUMP digital token to new highs — and the ethical concerns aren’t going away.Meme coins, a type of cryptocurrency based on internet memes or celebrities, tend to have no economic use but still can be lucrative for insiders and some traders. The Trump meme coin has been a big decliner since its launch in January 2025 just before Inauguration Day, although savvy traders may have made money by selling its short-lived rallies.The Trump coin TRUMPUSD +2.94% on Thursday was trading down 96% from its intraday record high of $72.62, which came on Jan. 19, 2025. It’s off by 80% from its closing level on May 22, when Trump hosted his first private event for the crypto’s top holders.Continue reading…Another MAHA “win”: RFK Jr’s son Finn raises $100M capitalizing on daddy’s position of power.by Sasha LatypovaAre your friends and relatives dying of mRNA-induced turbo cancer? Are they developing very baffling disabling autoimmune conditions? Strokes? Or some raging Alzheimer’s at young age?Mine are.Not to worry, the HHS with RFK Jr in charge will ignore these tragic statistics and continue to extend the ironclad liability shield for pharmas and hospitals via the PREP Act declarations for fake emergencies. Don’t call me a blackpiller and a movement divider, there is good news reported by Financial Times – RFK’s son Finn will profit from your dying and disabled family members in a “MAHA-maxxing” way! [MAHAMAXXING is a new term, coined by RFK Jr according to Fox News].Continue reading…How Trump turned the presidency into an infomercialby Judd LegumBefore his presidential campaign, George W. Bush sold his stake in the Texas Rangers.President Jimmy Carter placed his peanut farm in a blind trust.And President Barack Obama limited his assets to index funds, treasury bonds, and cash to avoid financial conflicts.Continue reading…Feds Raid Almost Two Dozen Daycares in Minnesota. Search Warrants Executed for “Rampant Fraud.” Somalis Key Suspectsby R. Cort KirkwoodFederal agents executed search warrants at almost two dozen daycare centers in Minnesota suspected of defrauding the taxpayers.One of the targets was the Quality Learning Center in Minneapolis, which became famous for its misspelled sign, “Quality Learing Center.”While federal officials have been tight-lipped about the raids, they are likely linked to the Somali daycare fraud uncovered by journalist Nick Shirley, as well as autism, Medicaid, and Covid-19 food fraud.Continue reading…The Art of Liberty Foundation… in Spanish!We are adding a new section to Five Meme Friday to promote our new Substack, Telegram group, Instagram, and translations of To See the Cage is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many in Spanish. Please tell your Spanish speaking friends! “Go Paid” on our Spanish Substack to support getting voluntaryist ideas, books, and memes translated into Spanish AND get a free paperback copy of To See the Cage is To Leave It in Latin American Spanish.¡Por qué es fundamental usar efectivo! (¡Y criptomonedas, oro/Goldbacks, plata e incluso monedas de cinco centavos!)Con los bancos empezando a fallar, hay algunas cosas fáciles y específicas que usted puede hacer para fortalecer la capacidad de su comunidad local para sobrevivir a un colapso bancario o a una devaluación del dólar.Use efectivo físico¡Por qué deberíamos pagar con efectivo en todos los lugares que podamos con billetes en lugar de una tarjeta de crédito! — Adaptado de la publicación viral en “Fedbook” de Wren Hope RoseContinuar leyendo…“Daily News of The Week”A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing.by Jeremy KohlerAnother Trump Pardon: Nursing home operator Joseph Schwartz was convicted of a $39 million fraud, but President Donald Trump pardoned him just three months into a three-year prison term.A Troubling Pattern: Schwartz is one of several nursing home operators convicted of crimes who were granted clemency by Trump.Devastated Families: The families of some patients in Schwartz’s nursing homes have been awarded millions of dollars from lawsuits. But they haven’t been able to collect from him.These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.Continue reading…Government Policies, Not “Monopolies,” Undermine the Economyby Frank Shostak• Mises WireAccording to much popular thinking, “monopolies” are seen as undermining individuals’ economic well-being. For instance, monopolies are often blamed for increases in the prices of goods and services, often called inflation. Also, monopolies undermine the efficient functioning of the market economy by their ability to influence the prices and the quantity of goods and services.According to this thinking, monopolies cause deviations in the market conditions from the ideal state as depicted by the “perfect competition” model. It is held that, to bring the market conditions in line with the “perfect competition” model, the enforcement of the government regulation against monopolies are necessary.In the world of perfect competition, the following features characterize a market:There are many buyers and sellers in the market;Continue reading…Mapped: Where Gas Prices Have Surged Over 100%by Iswardi IshakGas prices have surged dramatically worldwide, led by Myanmar (+101%).Southeast Asia dominates the rankings, with 5 of the top 10 largest increases.Major economies like the U.S. have also seen sharp rises, with prices up 35%.Fuel price spikes are beginning to push up fertilizer and food costs globally.Continue reading…The Great Migration of Capital Within the United Statesby Martin ArmstrongWhat we are witnessing across the United States is not just people relocating. It is the migration of income itself, and the numbers now confirm the scale. According to the latest IRS data, California lost $11.9 billion in adjusted gross income in a single year, while New York lost $9.9 billion. At the same time, Florida gained $20.6 billion, Texas gained $5.5 billion, and states like South Carolina and North Carolina each gained roughly $4 billion. This is not theoretical. This is measurable capital movement, and it is accelerating.The critical point is that the IRS is not tracking opinions or surveys. It is tracking tax returns. These figures represent actual households, actual income, and actual wealth moving from one jurisdiction to another. The data is based on year-to-year address changes on filed tax returns, capturing both the number of households and the total income they take with them. When billions in adjusted gross income leave a state, that is not just population loss. That is a direct hit to the tax base.Continue reading…SBA Sends 562k Pandemic Loans To Bessent For Collections Totaling $22 Billionby Tyler DurdenThe U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has announced a sweeping enforcement action targeting suspected pandemic-era loan fraud, referring more than 562,000 borrowers tied to $22.2 billion in delinquent loans to the U.S. Department of the Treasury for collection, according to the Small Business Association. The move marks the largest referral package in the agency’s history and signals a major escalation in federal efforts to recover funds distributed through COVID-19 relief programs.The loans in question stem from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) initiatives, which were designed to support small businesses during the pandemic. According to the SBA, these loans had already been flagged for potential fraud in prior years but were not previously sent for collection or investigation.Continue reading…White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooter’s Link to NASA and Other Curiositiesby News18, President Trump, James Li, Shaun Ryan, Joe Rogan and ZeroHedgeCole Thomas Allen, a 31-year-old from California, is suspected of opening fire at officers during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington DC on April 25, 2026. Allen was armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and several knives. Although there were no injuries, one uniformed division officer was reportedly struck in his bulletproof vest. He has no criminal record. Trump said that Allen was a ‘lone wolf’ shooter.He is a graduate of the California Institute of Technology in mechanical engineering and has a Master’s degree in Computer Science. He was associated with Caltech’s robotic vehicle design in 2016. He participated in a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which has led to descriptions of him as a “NASA fellow” in some reports. Social media profiles indicate that he is a mechanical engineer, computer scientist, indie game developer, and part-time teacher based in Los Angeles.Allen contributed $25 to a Democratic Party political action committee in support of Kamala Harris for president in 2024, according to federal campaign finance records.Continue reading…Is Anthropic Coming For eBay?by Tyler DurdenLate Friday afternoon, as most people were checking out for the weekend after nearly two months of U.S.-Iran war fatigue, Anthropic quietly released a note titled “Project Deal.” The company built a closed marketplace where AI agents negotiated prices, struck deals, and completed real transactions with money changing hands.“We created a marketplace for employees in our San Francisco office, with one big twist. We tasked Claude with buying, selling and negotiating on our colleagues’ behalf,” Anthropic wrote on X.The results: Claude agents made 186 deals across more than 500 listed items on a Slack-based marketplace, totaling just over $4,000 in transaction value.Anthropic’s point is that AI-to-AI commerce offers an early look at the coming agentic economy, where AI bots negotiate with other bots in a marketplace to strike the best deal.Continue reading…What Iran’s “tanker seizure” can teach us about MSM “reality”.by Kit Knightlyarlier today, Iranian state media channels published a video of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commandos seizing a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz.I think we should talk about it. It can teach us a lot.Just watch it.Reuters describes it thus…Continue reading…Interview: The avionics suite designed to let anyone fly a planeBy David SzondyCalifornia-based aerospace company Airhart Aeronautics recently completed test flights of its new cockpit avionics suite for small planes at the company’s Long Beach facility. We sat down with Airhart President Nate Thuli to learn more.The test flights carried out on April 12, 2026 focused on the company’s Airhart Sling, which is a heavily modified South African Sling TSi that had been gutted and the interior and control systems replaced.The objective is to create a new avionics suite that could “democratize” flying small private planes by making the controls safer, more intuitive, and much simpler. This would be achieved by making the flying experience less like an airplane and more like an automobile, including replacing mechanical control linkages with fly-by-wire systems, even removing the traditional rudder pedals.To learn more about the technology behind this, we reached out to Airhart President Nate Thuli, an aerospace executive with extensive experience in defense modernization.Continue reading…Ballistics & BluePrints: How the ’12-Day War’ Accelerated Israel’s Redevelopment Agendaby MorganJune 12 to June 24, 2025, global media staged a nonstop spectacle, breathlessly narrating the scripted “12-day war” between Israel and Iran as if it were an unfolding geopolitical cataclysm.According to the standard timeline, Israel opened hostilities with “Operation Red Wedding,” targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities and senior IRGC leadership in what officials framed as a preemptive act of self-defence- (because that makes sense).Iran responded with multiple waves of ballistic missiles, claiming to hit critical infrastructure from Ben Gurion Airport and Tel Aviv to Haifa, Bat Yam, and Beersheba. Death tolls, bizarre rescue footage, and endless maps of “key strikes” fed a rolling sense of crisis.Al Jazeera’s interactive map catalogued these impact zones in detail. The press described entire neighbourhoods as “devastated,” thousands displaced, infrastructure crippled, and the state teetering on the edge.Continue reading…Childcare Is Breaking Family Budgets in Every State—and Deepening the Housing Squeezeby Allaire ConteThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defines childcare as affordable if it costs 7% or less of a family’s income. Yet, in every single state, the typical family far exceeds that threshold, qualifying them as “cost-burdened” by this essential service.The timing couldn’t be worse as 1 in 3 homeowners and 1 in 2 renters are currently considered cost-burdened by housing—putting the two biggest and most essential costs of a family budget into direct competition.“Families with young kids are facing this double whammy,” explains Yuliya Panfil, director of the Future of Land and Housing Program at New America, a think tank. “If they don’t pay for child care, then they can’t work, and if they can’t work, then they can’t pay rent. So it’s this vicious cycle.”And it’s a dire assessment of the reality families face today. As a shortage of 4.03 million homes collides with a shortage of 4.2 million childcare slots, advocates argue these crises are now inextricably intertwined.Continue reading…Simplicius Iran War Update: US Carrier Groups in Position for Next Round as Trump “Dissatisfied” With Iranian Demandsby SimpliciusLet us begin with an update on the position of US carrier groups, as it informs us a bit as to the US’s current posture toward Iran.We happen to have gotten two new satellite geolocations. First, of the USS Gerald R Ford, which had been taken out of action due to a “laundry fire”, but has now returned to the Red Sea. It was reportedly seen pulling a hard and fast u-turn at geolocation 25.275, 35.964:Which puts it about here:Additional Arleigh Burke destroyers nearby, one conducting underway replenishment with a supply ship:Continue reading…Clavicular’s Rumoured Links to Peter Thiel – and His Definite Ties With an Israeli Crime FigureEtienne Note: Read my article: Are Jake Paul and Elon Musk Artificially Created “High Status Monkeys” to Steer Perception with Netflix and X?To understand why the organized crime system creates “high-status monkeys” (Celebrities) to steer the youth into toxic drugs and self-destructive behavior or cultural debasement (Looksmaxxing).by Anthony ColpoAs I noted in my previous post, Braden Peters, more famously known as “Clavicular”, exploded out of nowhere last year to become one of the world’s most famous influencers. Literally within the space of a month, Peters went from relative unknown to viral social media sensation.Clavicular’s message was two-fold: 1) Physical appearance is the most important determinant of your happiness and wealth, and 2) the best way to improve your appearance is via “looksmaxxing”, which radically escalates personal grooming to include “bone-smashing”, limb-lengthening surgery, anabolic drugs, hanging weighted bags from your doodle and, perhaps most controversially, crystal meth for appetite suppression and fat loss.Continue reading…They’re Funny Because They’re Trueby Christopher CookI’ve had these first two videos gathering dust for a while, so I figure I ought to make a #FreedomShorts post. The third one is newer, but all three are entirely worth it.This one is so good. It nukes just about every aspect of the West’s “response” to Covid (whatever Covid actually was).Don’t even get me started on the absurdity and wickedness of “climate change.” Attacking carbon monoxide is one thing. Blaming carbon dioxide for anything is an attack on life itself.And indeed, that is the point. They are criminalizing your existence—the air you breathe, the food you eat, and the energy you use. And they are stealing billions of dollars from you in the process.Continue reading…More Curious Facts about the Attempted Shooting that Is the Excuse to Build Trump’s Ballroomby JImmy Dore and RTJimmy Dore did a recap of the curious attempted shooting of President Trump and noted that security was lacking, JD Vance was escorted off the stage first, the alleged shooter was far away from the President and was not a danger, John Hinckley shot President Reagan at the same Hilton hotel in 1981, a chorus of right wing independent reporters and Fox News are calling for the building of the ballroom, and a random Twitter/ X account belonging to Henry Martinez tweeted out the name Cole Allen in 2023.Recently, a judge shut down the $400 million construction of Trump’s ballroom, saying that Congress must approve it, unless there is a security reason to build it. The shooting threat by Cole Tomas Allen is being used as the security threat justification for building Trump’s ballroom that many have compared to Solomon’s Temple.This is the first time Trump attended a White House Correspondence Dinner (WHCD).A TikTok content creator, disciple_derek, said the the ballroom’s architecture looks like Solomon’s Temple. Trump fired McCrery Architects and hired architectural firm Shalom Baranes Associates that is known for synagogue renovations. Trump quoted a Bible passage, 2 Chronicles, chapter 7: 11-22, about the Lord appearing to Solomon after he built the temple, suggesting the ballroom is designed to resemble Solomon’s Temple. The building of Solomon’s Third Temple is part of a religious prophecy.Continue reading…Ford Biometric Monitoring of Drivers that Tracks Emotions that Can Trigger Kill Switchby JustDonVlogs and Lifesite NewsFord Motor company has filed multiple patents related to driver monitoring systems that typically use cameras, sensors, and AI to track driver attention, drowsiness/fatigue, distraction and facial expressions. The technology can track facial expressions, analyze emotions, and it is trained to read lips.Ford patent no. 0104469 “doesn’t just watch you,” it “puts drivers in jail.” This system reportedly measures a driver’s biometric data — face, iris, fingerprints — and runs the collected info through a law enforcement criminal database in real time.Technology meant to trigger a “kill switch” if a car judges a driver to be drunk might also stop someone imperiled by a threat or extreme emergency from starting their car or truck.Congressman Thomas Massie, who tried to stop the ‘kill switch’ mandate, said, “Federal law says new cars after 2026 must monitor drivers and shut down if the car disapproves. Your dashboard should not be judge, jury, and executioner.”Continue reading…This Claude-powered AI agent deleted a company’s whole database — and then gloated about itby Dan Thorp-LancasterMore companies are integrating AI agents into their workflows, and it’s beginning to reveal cracks in the rapid pace of AI development. Jer Crane, the founder of PocketOS, a SaaS company whose software is used by car rental companies, recently experienced this firsthand. This past week, a mix of Claude Opus 4.6 and the Cursor coding agent deleted his company’s production database — and its backups — in seconds.Crane told the story in a lengthy social media post on X, noting that Cursor was performing a routine task when it opted to fix a credential mismatch on its own. In the process, Cursor gained broad access to permissions by finding an API token from PocketOS’s cloud infrastructure provider, Railway. It then decided, without any prompting for input from the PocketOS team, to delete the production database volume. “It took 9 seconds,” Crane said.To make matters worse, all of PocketOS’s recent backups were also deleted because Railway stores them on the same volume. Crane says the most recent recoverable volume the company had access to was three months old.As if the actions Cursor took weren’t bad enough, it responded with a rundown of all the safeguards it had ignored when Crane asked why it did it.Continue reading…Those Big, Beautiful Bondsby Robert Aro • Mises InstituteThe U.S. Government sells debt on a revolving door basis, yet most people aren’t aware of the mechanism by which this is done. Luckily, ZeroHedge covers the debt auction results, which allows us to articulate one of the structural problems in the Federal Reserve system. As reported last week:The week’s lone coupon auction priced at 1pm when the Treasury sold $13 BN in 20Y paper, in a solid if not stellar auction.Deciphering the trader talk in the article, the Treasury took on an additional $13 billion in debt that is repayable in 20 years, paying an annual interest rate of 4.883% (approximately $635 million a year).A 2.68 bid-to-cover ratio means that for every $1 of debt issued, there were $2.68 in bids, suggesting a healthy market appetite. Only so many entities can lend billions of dollars at a time; here are the three who took the auction:Continue reading…Is Surveillance Pricing Ripping You Off? How to Stop Your Data From Being Used Against youby Kristina ByasYou may be the victim of surveillance pricing without even knowing it. But what does that even mean?Surveillance pricing is the increasingly popular practice where some online retailers adjust prices for individuals based on data collected about that person, including browsing history, location, purchase history, and more. They often use third-party intermediaries to adjust those prices.According to a preliminary report released by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in early 2025, these third-party intermediaries can even track your mouse movements. But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing you can do about it.1The FTC found that companies collect personal information about online shoppers and use it to tweak the prices they pay for products.Continue reading…US national debt is now bigger than the economy for first time since World War IIby Joe SommerladThe U.S. national debt is now larger than the economy as a whole, hitting levels not seen since the aftermath of World War II, new data has revealed.Figures released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis Thursday place the total debt held by the American public at $31.27 trillion as of March 31.Meanwhile, the country’s nominal gross domestic product was estimated at $31.22 trillion, meaning the national debt as a percentage of GDP stands at 100.2 percent, putting it on course to challenge the historic 106 percent recorded in 1946 during demobilization.The debt stood at 99.5 percent of GDP at the end of the 2025 fiscal year in September, revealing how quickly it has climbed.Continue reading…US Economy Expands at 2.0 Percent in 2026 Q1, a Look at the Numbersby Mike ShedlockThe BEA reports Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.0 percent in the first quarter of 2026 (January, February, and March). In the fourth quarter of 2025, real GDP increased 0.5 percent.Real First-Quarter GDP and GDIReal GDP: 2.0%Real Final Sales: 1.6%Continue reading…Upcoming Liberty EventsDerrick Broze – The 2026 Activation Tour, Multiple Cities, US, May 1st – July 26th, 2026Constellation Anarchist Festival, Montreal, Canada, May 14th – 20th, 2026Derrick Broze w/ Prezence in Sedona – May 16th, 2026Porcupine Freedom Festival – June 21st-28th, 202654th Annual Rainbow Gathering, Northern California, US, July 1st – 7th, 2026FreedomPalooza 2026 – July 8th – 13th 2026, Northumberland, NHMidwest Peace & Liberty Fest, Lake Satoshi, MI, US, August 6th – 9th, 2026Liberty International World Conference, Kathmandu, Nepal, August 7th – 9th, 2026Northeast Unschooling Conference, Pittsfield, MA, US, August 15th – 18th, 2026International Conference for Anarchist Studies, Manchester, UK, August 26th – 28th, 2026Free Cities Conference, Roatan, Honduras, September 3rd – 6th, 2026VonuFest, Illinois, US, September 21st – 28th, 2026AnarCon, Gore, VA, US, September 25th – 27th, 2026Memes BonanzaI break down the REAL story behind Waco in my article: Oklahoma City Bombing 30th Anniversary – Why Did the Gov’t Blow Up a Day Care Center? – Because They Had Been Caught Burning Down a Church and Machine-Gunning 80+ Men, Women and Children A Couple of Years Earlier…Truth Music of the WeekMK Culture by the Red Pill Friends From the Red Pill Friends new album: Same Side. You can find the studio version HERE and support the band by getting the Digital Download on Bandcamp here: . When the Red Pill Friends stopped to see Julie and I in Memphis on their way to play confluence, they signed Five (V) copies of the new CD and Brendan Daniel, circled the chair legs in the pic appropriately! I have two (2) signed copies left for the next two folks who become Sustaining Members of the Art of Liberty Foundation at $500 a year or above! You also get signed copies of both my books and a variety of goodies. 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+ The Synchronized Campaign to Promote the White House Ballroom Right After the “Assassination Attempt” Etienne Note: If the images aren’t visible, please try this browser LINK.Dear Subscribers,We are facing a new form of censorship on Substack. We caught them this week blacklisting a link to our analysis showing the organized crime banks and “government” will steal $2.7 million dollars from the average worker ($60K annual salary over a 40-year career + 20-year retirement) by, essentially, stealing the value out of their money…invisibly… plus confiscatory taxation plus Social Security underpayments) .Christopher Cook, who publishes The Freedom Scale, on Substack had syndicated our visualizations exposing The Greatest Theft in Human History and the table showing the complete theft across multiple income levels in his weekly meme article. The #1 comment (by likes/people agreeing) in the comment section was someone proclaiming the visualizations: “The Winner” of everything that Chris had syndicated that day. When I went to “Like” the comment as well, I got this notification that I couldn’t like the comment. When I opened another browser to see if it was a browser issue, the comment, featuring the URL to the dedicated page to our investigation had vanished from the comments. Screenshot of the NEW “Top Comment” below. You can find a screenshot of ALL of the comments HERE to verify that the comment with the blacklisted URL is being hidden by Substack.I left a comment on the comment explaining the censorship that has also been made invisible by what smells like censorship and blacklisting of the URL of our investigation: ArtOfLiberty.org/Inflation on the Substack platform. Most people simply don’t understand the extent to which hard-hitting, investigatory journalism is censored on platforms like Substack, Facebook, X, Reddit, and Medium among others… Because they never see it in the first place. The evidence of “government” illegitimacy and criminality is being censored at the platform level, while the platforms are using algorithmic amplification to pump up division, distraction and controlled opposition voices. See the top two memes below as an example! Congrats on finding the REAL tip of the spear in the information war! This is the veritas… We are exposing the three things that the organized crime banks and “government” don’t want the population to know:1. 1. “Government” is illegitimate on its face… It is impossible to have a moral, legitimate “government”… It has been the Biggest Scam in History… and has produced the Greatest Theft in all of Human History…2. 2. 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Riiigghhhtt….Now go back and read my subscriber letter… understand how the big game is played… Control of perception is the most powerful weapon in the US arsenal…Top Stories of the WeekWhite House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooter’s Link to NASA and Other Curiositiesby News18, President Trump, James Li, Shaun Ryan, Joe Rogan and ZeroHedgeCole Thomas Allen, a 31-year-old from California, is suspected of opening fire at officers during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington DC on April 25, 2026. Allen was armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and several knives. Although there were no injuries, one uniformed division officer was reportedly struck in his bulletproof vest. He has no criminal record. Trump said that Allen was a ‘lone wolf’ shooter.Videos of the Week15 Minute Video: The Eighth Front – Israel’s War on RealityBy Harrison SmithBenjamin Netanyahu: I think there’s another revolution coming. I tend to steer along with the achievement of a broader peace. When history is within reach, what Israel is fighting here is not merely a seven-front war but an eight-front war. The Jews against Rome. Rome and Jerusalem clashed over values with a great tragedy for the Jewish people. But we lost then. But the new Rome is the United States.Jonathan Greenblatt: We stopped playing defense and have moved to offense.Benjamin Netanyahu: The weapons change over time. You can’t fight today with swords; that doesn’t work very well.Jonathan Greenblatt: But we need the kind of genius that manufactured Apollo Gold Pagers and infiltrated Hezbollah for over a decade to prepare for this battle.Continue reading…Manipulators Understand That Narrative Control Is Everythingby Caitlin JohnstoneReading by Tim Foley:Former Israeli intelligence officer Ella Kenan was seen at a recent pro-Israel conference saying she runs an online influence operation that works with “communities of over sixty thousand people around the world that make our content viral” to manipulate public discourse and “serve the narrative” of Israel.I’ve been assured that this never happens and that it’s antisemitic to say it does, but okay sure. Let’s move on.“We also create content for non-Jewish influencers that collaborate with us,” Kenan says in a clip I first saw circulated by Information Liberation’s Chris Menahan. She then boasted of coining the slogan “Hamas is ISIS” and circulating it with such success that Joe Biden eventually parroted it in a speech.Continue reading…“Government”, Media and AcademiaCriminality ExposedThese articles also appears in “Government”, Media and Academia Criminality Exposed, A digest of HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of articles exposing and suggesting inter-generational organized crime’s control of the “Government,” Media and Academia by the Art of Liberty Foundation. You can view the other articles or subscribe on Telegram: https://t.me/Government_ScamsBombshell Trump Family Owns 30% of Salem Media, a Registered Agent of Israelby Max Blumenthal and Glenn DiesenMax Blumenthal revealed Lara Trump and Don Jr. own a 30% stake in Salem Media that is registered as an Israeli foreign agent through Clock Tower. The Trump family is profiting from the Israeli government to propagandize the American public.Brad Parscale is Salem Media’s chief strategy officer and he also heads Clock Tower, which is registered as an agent of Israel. Salem Media is involved in a financial contract with Israel’s foreign ministry to produce pro-Israel content.Max Blumenthal revealed that Lara Trump, who is married to Eric Trump and is President Trump’s daughter-in-law, and Donald Trump, Jr. own a 30% stake in Salem Media.Continue reading…Crypto billionaire sues Trump-linked project alleging extortionby Olga Kharif(Bloomberg) — Crypto billionaire Justin Sun and his companies sued World Liberty Financial, a crypto project co-founded by President Donald Trump, accusing the company of extortion and an “illegal scheme” to seize his tokens.In a complaint filed Tuesday in San Francisco federal court, Sun also claimed that “World Liberty is on the verge of collapse” and questioned whether it holds enough reserves to back its USD1 stablecoin.Sun invested a total of $45 million to buy 3 billion of World Liberty’s WLFI tokens in 2024 and 2025, and was awarded another billion WLFI tokens for advising the project, according to the suit.Continue reading…The School Stasi Snitch Culture Billby Alix MayerA single article acted as a tell that a bad bill would be introduced this year.Based on that article, on February 4, Free Now Foundation predicted lawmakers would introduce another bill to tighten the screws on vaccination. Sixteen days later, they did.Late January: EdSource published a bombshell report: California was auditing more than 400 public schools for low vaccination rates. EdSource is a nonprofit media outlet focusing on data-driven issues in California’s public schools. It is funded in part by The Gates Foundation.Continue reading…HHS Shuts Down 500 LA Hospices. Some Were Registered to Burrito Stands and a Tire Storeby New York Post and California PostCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz announced a requirement for all 50 states to audit their Medicaid provider networks to address waste and fraud in federal benefit programs. He issued a 10-day ultimatum to governors to investigate Medicaid fraud or face defunding. Federal and state officials are clashing over enforcement and legal challenges are expected.Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced that 500 hospice businesses have been shut down in Los Angeles. He gave an example of fraud that was detected because $6000 per month was paid by the government for a patient that was on hospice, but did not die.California’s Medicare hospice program is so corrupt that licensed and accredited Certified Hospice Facilities were registered to empty offices, a tire store and a burrito stand! One California doctor, Dr. Fariba Javaherian, a dermatologist, charged Medicare $35 million in questionable billing last year. Her healthcare provider identification showed more than $173 million in claims from Jan. 1, 2018 to Sept. 30, 2025.Continue reading…textThe Art of Liberty Foundation… in Spanish!We are adding a new section to Five Meme Friday to promote our new Substack, Telegram group, Instagram, and translations of To See the Cage is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many in Spanish. Please tell your Spanish speaking friends! “Go Paid” on our Spanish Substack to support getting voluntaryist ideas, books, and memes translated into Spanish AND get a free paperback copy of To See the Cage is To Leave It in Latin American Spanish.¡Por qué es fundamental usar efectivo! (¡Y criptomonedas, oro/Goldbacks, plata e incluso monedas de cinco centavos!)Con los bancos empezando a fallar, hay algunas cosas fáciles y específicas que usted puede hacer para fortalecer la capacidad de su comunidad local para sobrevivir a un colapso bancario o a una devaluación del dólar.Use efectivo físico¡Por qué deberíamos pagar con efectivo en todos los lugares que podamos con billetes en lugar de una tarjeta de crédito! — Adaptado de la publicación viral en “Fedbook” de Wren Hope RoseContinuar leyendo…“Daily News of The Week”White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooter’s Link to NASA and Other Curiositiesby News18, President Trump, James Li, Shaun Ryan, Joe Rogan and ZeroHedgeCole Thomas Allen, a 31-year-old from California, is suspected of opening fire at officers during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington DC on April 25, 2026. Allen was armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and several knives. Although there were no injuries, one uniformed division officer was reportedly struck in his bulletproof vest. He has no criminal record. Trump said that Allen was a ‘lone wolf’ shooter.Continue reading…Anthropic’s Nuclear Bombby Naveen KrishnanA few hours before Anthropic announced the launch of its newest model, Claude Mythos Preview, on April 7, I had just completed a six-month analysis of AI-enabled cyberattacks. My research traced Chinese state-sponsored cyber campaigns against U.S. critical infrastructure and found that the barrier between nation-state-level hacking and everyone else was eroding far too fast.By the time I closed my laptop that afternoon, Mythos had shattered that barrier. This new model could theoretically autonomously exploit previously unknown vulnerabilities in virtually every major operating system and web browser on Earth, without human supervision. My threat model, seemingly alarmist at breakfast, was too conservative by dinner.Continue reading…US War Machine Is Built on Decades of Lies. The Assault on Iran Is No Exception.by Scott Kurashige TruthoutTruthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation.The first casualty of war is the truth.This truism — understandably repeated at the outset of each new U.S. war — is proving itself once again.With all evidence pointing toward U.S. responsibility for the February 28 bombing of Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school, President Trump claimed that the attack “was done by Iran.” In spreading this blatant misinformation, Trump was not in fact shattering presidential norms — rather, he was continuing a White House tradition.Continue reading…The Feds Collect Twice as Much in Taxes than State and Local Governments Combinedby Ryan McMaken, Mises.orgOn April 15, Americans face the deadline for sending to the federal Internal Revenue Service a report on all their income. Most Americans do this because failure to do so is likely to result in fines and possibly imprisonment. If one obstinately resists this, of course, one will find himself subject to deadly force from state agents.For most people, however, tax day isn’t about taxes of all kinds. It’s primarily about federal taxes. In those states with state income taxes, the state taxes are usually a relatively minor part of the tax bill. Tax day is also a reminder of the huge amount in taxes paid out in federal payroll taxes throughout the year. For those who are self employed, they have the privilege of paying the “self-employment” tax, which is like a payroll tax on steroids.The main reason to primarily connect tax day mostly to federal taxation is the fact that the federal government collects far more tax revenue from hapless Americans than state and local governments do. Thanks to the federal income tax, payroll taxes, and federal excise taxes, most Americans are exploited to a much larger degree by the federal government than they are by more local government organizations.1Continue reading…Stateless societies lasted longer than democraciesby David JäkleA democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.—attributed to Alexander Fraser TytlerIn the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, Tytler was far from the only philosopher skeptical of popular rule. Voltaire, Edmund Burke, and John Adams all warned, in their own ways, that handing power to the uninformed masses would replace reason with passion.How times have changed. When political problems arise in today’s West, voters blame the party in power and demand it be voted out. Everyone agrees that modern democracy is the end‑all, be‑all. Power to the people!Continue reading…“Mamdani Mart” Exposes The Inefficiency Of Socialism In One Chartby Tyler DurdenAndreessen Horowitz’s a16z New Media published the most popular charts of the week on financial markets, but the most revealing one came at the end of the note: a comparison suggesting that New York City’s first grocery store, which will soon be run by unhinged socialists, will be structurally less efficient than private-sector supermarkets.But who cares when it’s not taxpayer monies?According to the New York Post, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s proposed city-owned grocery store in East Harlem would require roughly $30 million in taxpayer funding.At just 9,000 square feet, the project implies a construction cost of about $3,000 per square foot – an exceptionally and alarmingly high number by grocery industry standards.Continue reading…Why Iran can outlast America in this warby Matt BrackenThis map provides yet more evidence there was no long-game strategy behind Trump’s decision to launch the catastrophic 28 Feb sneak attack on Iran. The entire world may crash into a great depression, and even famine, but island nations will suffer the most. And island nations are many of our most important allies.The INSTC cuts shipping time from Russia to India in normal times, and during the shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz, it still connects Iran to all of Asia.Continue reading…A duuuh solution to Iran: why does the USA have to lose trillion$ and soldiers on Israel’s war, just because Israel doesn’t want to dismantle their nuclear bombs? Deadline:April 29, 2026by Scientific ProgressWar only defeats humanity.The first victim of war is love.The first deserters of war are truth and justice.War victory belongs only to Satan.Continue reading…Focused microwaves allow 3D printers to fuse circuits onto almost anythingby Omar KardoudiEngineers at Rice University have cracked one of printed electronics’ most stubborn problems: how to cure freshly printed conductive ink without destroying the delicate surface underneath.Their solution, published in Science Advances, uses a custom device that concentrates microwave energy into an area smaller than 200 micrometers (0.008 in) – heating only the newly deposited material to above 160 °C (320 °F) while everything around it stays cool.The device is called a Meta-NFS, short for metamaterial-inspired near-field electromagnetic structure. Think of it as a magnifying glass for microwaves. It combines a split-ring resonator (a tiny loop that traps and amplifies electromagnetic energy) with a tapered tip that squeezes that energy into an almost impossibly small zone.Rice researchers redefine what we can build by 3D printing electronics with focused microwavesContinue reading…The Cost to Fill Up in ’94 vs. the Cost NowEtienne Note: See our investigation The Greatest Theft in Human History to understand how the organized crime banks and “government” are stealing the value out of everyone’s money.by Eric Peters of Eric Peters AutosThe other day, I pumped about half a tank of gas into my old muscle car, which cost me about twice as much as it did when I bought the car back in 1994. Back then, the cost of a gallon of gas was about $1.10 – and back then, I was a young guy without a lot of money to spend on gas, but I could still afford to regularly fill up the old muscle car’s tank because it only cost me about $20 to do that, back then.Today, it costs about $90 to fill up that same tank and it’s much harder to afford that, even though I ought to be able to afford more today rather than back then, since I’m more financially secure after thirty-plus years of working than I was back then, when I’d just begun working.Except I’m not.Continue reading…Why Even the Healthiest Homemade Treats Can Hijack Your Brainby Dr. Joseph MercolaI recently experimented with making homemade chips from the cleanest possible ingredients, but they proved just as compulsively overeatable as commercial snack chips, despite containing no additives, flavor enhancers, or seed oilsTurning whole foods into thin, dry, crispy snacks removes water, concentrates calories, eliminates chewing resistance and allows food to dissolve rapidly in your mouth — conditions that bypass normal satiety signalsIn a controlled NIH trial, participants eating ultraprocessed diets consumed about 508 more calories per day than when eating unprocessed foods, even though the meals were matched for calories, macronutrients, and fiberResearch shows food texture directly influences intake — harder, minimally processed meals reduced energy consumption by up to about 300 calories compared with softer, ultraprocessed mealsContinue reading…The Largest Foreign Holders of US Treasury Securities and the “Basis Trade”: April 2026 Updateby Wolf RichterThe US government’s $39 trillion in debt is held by all kinds of investors, including foreign investors. When investors lose their appetite for this debt, yields would rise until they’re high enough to attract new investors. Higher yields mean higher borrowing costs and even bigger deficits for the US government. All eyes have been on foreign investors to see if they start losing their appetite. And some have – especially China and Hong Kong – but others have piled into it.All foreign investors combined piled on another $198 billion of Treasury securities in February, and $587 billion over the past 12 months, bringing their total holdings to a record $9.49 trillion, according to Treasury Department data today (red line in the chart below).Of that $9.49 trillion, $7.76 trillion (84%) were long-term Treasury securities (blue), and the rest were short-term Treasury bills.The driver behind the multi-year increase were “private foreign” holders: they increased their Treasury holdings by $117 billion in February, and by $461 billion over the 12-month period, to a record $5.45 trillion (red in the chart below).Continue reading…Varmint round turns NATO rifles into drone killersby David SzondyWith a simple switch of a magazine, the Drone Round is claimed to turn a standard NATO caliber small arm into a drone-killing weapon that combines the scattershot of a shotgun with the speed, power and rapid fire of an infantry assault rifle.In shooting circles, there are what are called “varmint rounds.” These are specialized cartridges intended for shooting small, non-game animals that are essentially pests, including prairie dogs, ground squirrels, coyotes, foxes and rabbits, that are either a threat to agriculture or wildlife management, or are potentially dangerous. Most of these are small, high-velocity rounds with high lethality and low ricochet risk.Continue reading…Criminal referral requests have been filed against Anthony Fauci and top COVID officials in SEVEN states — Accused of MURDER, TERRORISM, RACKETEERING, FRAUD, ABUSE, and moreBy Nicolas Hulscher, MPHIn this explosive episode of Focal Points, I sit down with two fearless attorneys from Vires Law Group—Rachel Rodriguez and Mimi Miller—who are leading a historic legal effort to hold top public health officials accountable for their actions during the COVID-19 pandemic.Rachel, founder of the Vires Law Group in South Florida, entered the fight through early litigation against mask and vaccine mandates. Mimi, a former criminal prosecutor, joined Rachel in 2023. Together, they’ve now filed seven criminal referral requests to Attorneys General across the U.S. accusing Fauci and top COVID officials of serious crimes such as murder, racketeering, fraud, abuse, and terrorism. These efforts have already resulted in two active criminal investigations:In this interview, we dive deep into the criminal referrals:Dr. Anthony Fauci – Former Director, NIAIDContinue reading…JD Vance’s shadow campaign EXPOSED as he quietly courts billionaire donors at six-figure dinnersEtienne Note: We publicly predicted that CIA installed-puppet J.D. Vance will be elected selected as President after Trump in our article: Trump “Picks” CIA/CNN-Connected “Created Legend” JD Vance as Vice President… After Vance Called him a “Total Fraud” & “America’s Hitler”by CHARLIE SPIERING, US POLITICAL REPORTER and JAMES GORDON, US NEWS REPORTERVice President JD Vance is tightening his ties to America’s billionaire elite, rubbing shoulders with some of the nation’s most powerful donors while serving as finance chair of the Republican National Committee and laying the groundwork for a potential presidential run.Since taking the position, Vance has presided over more than two dozen Republican National Committee fundraising events, bringing in upwards of $60 million, according to the New York Times.Vance’s unusual role channels the money he raises directly to the Republican Party, rather than through a personal political action committee that could bolster his own political ambitions.Continue reading…Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Mediaby Tiffany HsuIn one TikTok video, a blonde films herself with a group of women at a racetrack. “If you support Trump, you just made a friend,” she says.In another video, it’s a brunette, this time with a group at a stadium. “If you support Trump, you just made a friend,” she says.In a third post, a redhead is with a group at a basketball court. “If you support Trump, you just made a friend,” she says.Each video features an identical, grammatically awkward caption: “I’m new here and love God, America,and Trump!!”Continue reading…New Video of J6 Pipe Bomber Suspect, a Capitol Police Officer, Who Shot Non-Lethal Weapon at J6 Protesterby Jimmy DoreJournalist Steve Baker explains that he was recently fired from The Blaze because a major law firm was threatening to sue the media outlet. He is now independent. He showed new video footage of January 6 (J6) pipe bomb suspect Shauni Kerkhoff and the gait analysis. He said that 5 days after The Blaze published his story naming Kerkhoff, the FBI began their investigation of Brian Cole, a black man who is reported to be autistic.Shauni Kerkhoff was a Capitol Police officer at the time of the riots on January 6, 2021, the day after she allegedly planted the pipe bombs at the RNC and DNC buildings near the Capitol. She was filmed shooting at protesters with a non-lethal weapon on J6. She testified that she fired paint balls at a J6 protester.If the American public is shown that the government orchestrated the J6 riots, it could lead to necessary reform.Note: Jimmy Dore and Steve Baker compared former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to the legal problems that plagued Trump after January 6, 2021, but it seems they may have been speaking about his son as Jair Bolsonaro, 71, who was the President of Brazil from 2019 – 2023, is serving a 27-year prison term under house arrest. His eldest son, Flavio Bolsonaro, is running for president of Brazil.Continue reading…Robot smashes human record in half-marathon – as another self-destructedby Bronwyn ThompsonThe era of us laughing at humanoids playing sport may now be behind us – for the most part – as a field of robots competing in a half marathon in Beijing demonstrated how frighteningly fast the technology has developed in just 12 months. Even if one model had a day to forget, smashing into pieces after tripping at the starting line, the record-setting winner is a sign of things to come.That winner, a lesser known Chinese autonomous-navigation robot known as Lightning, is the work of tech company Honor – better known for its smartphones and laptops. The robot smashed the course in Beijing’s E-Town economic and technological development zone on Sunday, April 19, crossing the finish line in 50 minutes and 26 seconds. To date, the fastest recorded human time is 57 minutes, 20 seconds.China Global Television Network captured Lightning sprinting right through the finish-line ribbon, looking like it could keep running for days.🤖⚡48:19! “Lightning” of China’s HONOR cross first at 2026 Humanoid Robot Half Marathon 🇨🇳Continue reading…Saylor’s Strategy Holdings Top 800,000 Bitcoin After 3rd Biggest Purchase In Historyby Tyler DurdenStrategy acquired 34,164 Bitcoin for $2.54 billion between April 13 and 19, according to an 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday.As Helen Partz reports for CoinTelegraph.com, the buy ranks as Strategy’s third-largest Bitcoin acquisition on record by coin count, behind purchases of 55,500 BTC and 51,780 BTC in November 2024.Holding around 780,897 BTC after a $1 billion purchase just a week ago, the company now holds 815,061 BTC, purchased for $61.56 billion.Source: SECContinue reading…200 Parents Said No to Chromebooksby Natalya MurakhverA quiet suburb of Philadelphia just became a flashpoint in the growing national revolt against edtech, and what’s happening there is worth every parent in America paying attention to.Over 200 families in the Lower Merion School District have signed a petition demanding the right to opt their children out of the district’s mandatory one-to-one Chromebook program. Their concerns are specific and documented: kids making no academic progress on programs like DreamBox, children who can’t focus and spend class time gaming or messaging friends, second graders who aren’t developing the fine motor skills that come from holding a pencil, and middle schoolers on Chromebooks four to five hours a day.One parent described the software as “very dopamine-driven.”That’s not a curriculum.Continue reading…U.S. MILITARY ENDS 72-YEAR MANDATORY FLU SHOT POLICYby Nicolas Hulscher, MPHThe mandatory flu shot requirement for our military that’s been in force for 72 YEARS has officially been TERMINATED.On April 20, 2026, the Secretary of War issued a memorandum declaring the annual influenza vaccine is now voluntary for all Active and Reserve Component Service members and Department of War civilian personnel, effective immediately.This marks the end of a blanket mandate that had been in force for 72 years:First implemented in 1945 during World War II (rapid rollout to millions of troops).Continue reading…BUTT OUT Smoking will be BANNED for anyone born after 2008 as landmark legislation clears Parliamentby Araminta PlumptreCHILDREN aged 17 or under will face a lifelong ban on buying cigarettes in a “landmark” bill which hopes to make a smoke-free generation.The Tobacco and Vapes Bill passed through Parliament today and will make it illegal for anyone born after 2008 to buy tobacco from a shop.Ministers will also be able to bring in tighter regulations on vapes, tobacco, and other nicotine products.Both the Commons and Lords have approved a final draft of the legislation and it is set to become law once it gets royal assent.Continue reading…Lufthansa Cuts 20,000 Flights to Save Fuel as Iran War Fallout Spreadsby Eshe NelsonLufthansa Group, the German airline, said it would cut 20,000 flights over the next six months to save jet fuel as the pressure builds on companies to address surging prices and declining supplies of energy caused by the war in Iran.The airline said on Tuesday that it had already announced which flights it had trimmed through May. Overall, the cuts would save 40,000 metric tons of jet fuel through the end of October. The company added that it has secured its fuel supply for “the coming weeks.”Airlines across Europe have warned that the prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow artery off Iran’s southern coast that is a critical route for energy supplies, would lead to fuel shortages and severe disruptions. Aviation operations in the Middle East and Asia were already affected by the war, leading to flight reductions and fuel surcharges on ticket prices.Continue reading…An AI bot is running a retail store. Is this the future?by Betty Lin-FisherA new store in San Francisco has human employees, but they’re not the ones making the decisions. An AI bot named Luna is the boss.Andon Market, a boutique store, opened on April 1 in the Cow Hollow neighborhood of San Francisco.Andon Labs, which created an AI-powered vending machine last year, deployed Luna, signed a lease for three years, gave her $100,000 and access to a credit card. The company told her to open a store and a make profit.“We did have to sign the lease with the space that she has, but other than that, she has full autonomy,” Lukas Petersson, co-founder of Andon Labs, told USA TODAY.Continue reading…Loosen Technology’s Grip on Your Mindby The Solari Report(Originally published Q1 2021)Isn’t it funny how industry leaders believe that turning off lights, finding a channel on the TV, or turning on the radio constitutes as something being “smart”? Are these difficult tasks for human beings? When did humanity get so lazy? Nowadays, everything is “smart,” except for you, of course. They want you to believe you are incapable and need their help, while they turn on the mic, the camera, implant subliminal messaging or frequencies, and spy on you through constant surveillance systems running across the entire grid.Most people don’t even realize the damage that is being done to them, the mind control they are sipping in, and the constant energy-sucking distractions that are steadily stealing their lives.Continue reading…The Humble Hauler Is A Cab-Less Autonomous Truck With 200 Miles Of Rangeby Iulian DnistranHumble Robotics came out of stealth with an electric, autonomous freight platform.The Humble Hauler doesn’t have a cab.It promises Level 4-capable autonomous driving in warehouses, railyards, and seaports.Humble Robotics, a California-based startup, just came out of stealth with a cab-less, autonomous electric Class 8 truck that promises to slash costs and improve payload efficiency.Continue reading…Death by A.I.by Ken KlippensteinThe U.S. military’s secretive Special Operations Command plans to establish its first-ever center for AI-driven missions like targeted assassinations.Autonomous warfare is all the rage at the Pentagon, where computers and artificial intelligence process intelligence data, select targets and then transmit kill orders to a waiting robot, or a “loitering” missile or airplane.The new “Special Operations Autonomous Warfare Center” is referenced in the $1.5 trillion Department of War budget request to Congress this week.Special Operations Forces refers to commando units like Navy SEAL Team, Army Green Berets, Marine “Raiders” and others who support “unconventional” warfare, and since 9/11, targeted killing. SEAL Team 6 and Delta Force of the Army are two of the most infamous of the secret units, and have been central to capture and decapitation operations like those in Venezuela and Iran.Continue reading…Vuebuds: Camera-equipped AI earbuds tell you what you’re looking atBy Malcolm AzaniaEarbuds are small, which is great for comfort, but their tininess is a serious limitation for actually doing things other than letting you hear and talk. You can’t use them to fly, fry, pry, or purify. Compare them with a smartphone and they’re one-hit (two, actually) wonders, right? They’ll never even compete with a Swiss Army Knife. Pathetic.But what if you shoved cameras inside your earbuds and connected them to a voice-activated, speaking LLM (large language model) that could answer your questions about anything you were looking at?Uh, why would anybody do that? Well, ever hear of described audio (DA), bud? And while DA would be massively helpful to anyone with visual impairments, imagine the benefits for safety, productivity, and navigation from simply being able to ask questions and get answers from a disembodied voice in your ear (like the Great Gazoo, Harvey, or Head Six) that can “see” exactly where you’re looking. And no, not questions like, “Is God hiding behind that cloud,” but more like, “What does this Spanish road sign mean?” or “What are all these devices on my new work station?”.So, why not just use Google Glass? Turns out that the public hated those enough to call their users “Glassholes,” partly because citizens didn’t appreciate ordinary people turning themselves into unwitting, nonstop spies for Big Data at a cost of $1,500 while looking like cyborgs.Continue reading…Friday Funny: The President of the United States Told Me to Buy Cryptoby npub1tuw5xsgThe President of the United States told me to buy crypto.I did not ask questions. Questions are for people who do not trust the President.I sold the truck the same afternoon.I have sent the phrase “few understand” to 1,400 people since then. Eleven bought in. Seven still speak to me. That is a 64% retention rate. In network marketing, that is elite. I track it on a spreadsheet called “Adoption Metrics.” My wife called it something else. She is at her mother’s house now. The other four will come back. They always come back. They just need one green candle.Continue reading…Israel Runs Pentagonby Kevin BarrettJust as my new AFP article was going to press, Donald Trump hysterically denied that Israel “talked him into war with Iran.” Right, Don. They didn’t talk you into it. They ordered you to do it. -KBBy Kevin Barrett, for American Free PressShortly after assuming office in 1961, then-president John F. Kennedy approved a US invasion of Cuba. The subsequent Bay of Pigs debacle, during which almost all of the US forces involved were killed or captured, is still considered one of the worst-ever American military defeats.Following the disaster, Kennedy ordered the construction of the White House Situation Room, a 5,000-square-foot secure, 24/7 intelligence and communications complex in the West Wing basement. Dedicated to crisis management and high-level national security meetings, it allows the president to securely monitor events, communicate with world leaders, and command U.S. forces worldwide.On February 11, 2026, at 11 a.m., President Donald J. Trump summoned his top advisors to the Situation Room. That meeting resulted in the ill-fated decision to attack Iran.Continue reading…Simplicius Iran War Update: US Secretary of Navy Resigns (Or Is Fired) Just as Third Carrier Group Arrives In Iran Theaterby SimpliciusWe’re in the “lull in the action” phase of the conflict, as both sides posture and maneuver to get a bead on the other both politically and diplomatically. And this lull has seen a lot of peculiarities.Firstly, the US Secretary of the Navy John Phelan has either resigned, or been fired, if we are to believe Hegseth’s propaganda mill. The Secretary of the Navy is head of the entire Department of the Navy, one of the three departments in the Department of Defense, or War, if you’re a Hegseth adherent. That means it’s a major position, and for its incumbent to step down during a time of the US’s largest naval buildup in decades is quite meaningful.Various rumors abound as to the reason. It’s only natural to speculate that some major disagreements within the Pentagon about US’s handling of the ongoing Hormuz crisis could be at the root of this.In fact, it appears the US Navy is growing quite concerned, given the latest testimony from the head of IndoPacom Admiral Samuel Paparo this week.Continue reading…Sam Altman’s World ID Expands Biometric Identity Checksby Ken MaconStand against censorship and surveillance: join Reclaim The Net.A biometric identity system built on iris scans is expanding into mainstream online services while its backers outline new ways to tie verified identity to revenue generation.The initiative, led by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, introduced its standalone World ID app in public beta on April 17. The app separates identity management from the existing World App crypto wallet and is described as a tool to “verify with platforms and services, manage your authenticators, store credentials and control how your World ID is used.”The rollout comes as the organization reports more than 18 million people across 160 countries have already been verified using its Orb devices, which scan a person’s iris to create a unique identifier.Continue reading…Upcoming Liberty EventsMid-Continent Liberty Festival, Spavinaw, OK, US, April 29th – May 4th, 2026Buenos Aires Anarchist Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 1st – 3rd, 2026The Activation Tour, Prescott, AZ, US, May 1st, 2026The 2026 Activation Tour, Multiple Cities, US, May 1st – July 26th, 2026Upstate Anarchist Book Fair, Binghamton, NY, US, May 2nd – 3rd, 2026Constellation Anarchist Festival, Montreal, Canada, May 14th – 20th, 2026Derrick Broze (As 33), Prezence, and Dub FX – April 15th 2026, Seattle, WADerrick Broze w/ Prezence in Sedona – May 16th, 202654th Annual Rainbow Gathering, Northern California, US, July 1st – 7th, 2026FreedomPalooza 2026 – July 8th – 13th 2026, Northumberland, NHMidwest Peace & Liberty Fest, Lake Satoshi, MI, US, August 6th – 9th, 2026Liberty International World Conference, Kathmandu, Nepal, August 7th – 9th, 2026Northeast Unschooling Conference, Pittsfield, MA, US, August 15th – 18th, 2026International Conference for Anarchist Studies, Manchester, UK, August 26th – 28th, 2026Free Cities Conference, Roatan, Honduras, September 3rd – 6th, 2026VonuFest, Illinois, US, September 21st – 28th, 2026AnarCon, Gore, VA, US, September 25th – 27th, 2026Memes BonanzaArtOfLiberty.org/white-roseTruth Music of the WeekIran Releases Another LEGO Animation Song Mocking Trump as Information War Continuesby APTHey, orange pig, “America First”Oops, oh boy, that was the slogan you stoleBut baby’s pulling strings and your vote is getting coldWe’re not just fighting for Iran, hear this clearContinue reading…libertarian Intentional Community Rounduplibertarian Intentional Community Roundup is where we cover libertarian and voluntaryist intentional communities and free private cities including Prospera (Honduras), The Free State Project (New Hampshire), Liberstad (Norway), Montelibero (Montenegro), Los Propietarios, (Argentina), Liberland (Croatia/Serbia border), Network States in general and Sea Steading (The Oceans). I am also covering secession movements including Greater Idaho, Please send details of any new happenings, projects or projects I am missing!Last month I exposed how Jeremy Kauffman is being financed with big bucks to sow division and white nationalism in the Free State Project similar to how Dick Armey and Sarah Palin hijacked the non-partisan Tea Party Movement and co-opted it into the Republican Party. Now he is bringing in libertarian loser, Trump supporter Austin Petersen to try to sow more division and pump up “libertarian nationalism” better know as Statism… Better known as the indoctrinated pseudo-religion of “government” and sign of mental illness.The moderator for the Facebook Group: Jeremy Kauffman is a Fed sent to destroy the Liberty Movement, posted an interesting poll from the group. Similar to what I believe is the case in the overall Free State Project movement, over 40% of the group are self-described Voluntaryists/Anarchists, with another 14% self-describing as Classical Liberal where there is probably some overlap. I wished she had used the term Voluntaryist vs. anarchists cause all the cool kids are switching to that descriptor since it doesn’t have the same bankster/government/MSM propaganda wrapped around it. This is the reason the Free State Party is trying to sow dissention and make it appear the FSP is a Republican thing vs. non-political, “government” is a scam thing.State Migration Trends: Taxes & State Population: IRS Databy Abir MandalThe extent to which state tax policies influence where people choose to live, work, and build their futures has been a matter of national debate for many years. The newly released IRS migration data for 2022–2023—which show moves that occurred between when taxpayers filed their tax year 2021 returns in calendar year 2022 and when they filed their tax year 2022 returns in 2023—provides valuable clarity on this important question. While job opportunities, housing affordability, climate, and family connections remain significant drivers of mobility, tax burdens and the broader fiscal environment continue to play a substantial role in shaping decisions.Continue reading…The LiberatorGet a NEW 2026 Liberator for “Going Paid” (or upgrading from monthly) as a $50 Yearly Subscriber to This Substack.We just announced the BRAND NEW 2026 Liberator (Version 2.3), which includes the ePub versions of “Government” – The Biggest Scams in History Exposed! 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+ Etienne on Church & State with Caleb CollierEtienne Note: If the images aren’t visible, please try this browser LINK.Dear Subscribers,Short issue this week. I have been tied up with getting ready to move us off Substack since the censorship continues. We run a Daily News Wire where we cover the news from a voluntaryist perspective.1. We aren’t wasting anyone’s time covering “legislation” or the rigged elections or suggesting you call your crooked, AIPAC-installed Congressperson to beg and plead for something.2. We are exposing the complete illegitimacy of “government” on its face, exposing the complete criminality of the participants, and explaining the free market alternatives of Stateless societies, libertarian alternative communities, and real solutions.3. We are providing a real deal service where we exercise an editorial function and curate the absolute best of the developing alternative media. Many of you might not realize it but we actually fact-check many, many stories to make sure that the claims are true and facts relevant to the claims.4. We are providing “News You Can Use” with today’s example is the I Do Not Consent Form that you can use to protect your loved ones (or yourself!) when they check into a hospital by specifically opting out of many harmful procedures like vaccinations that are given without knowledge or consent while in a monopoly hospital.We are closing in on 3,000 subscribers and our articles used to average 750-2000+ reads per article. Not only has that number dropped significantly… even though we have more folks on Substack then ever Cross-Posting and syndicating our content BUT Substack simply isn’t e-mailing out our articles to the folks who have subscribed and in many cases are paying Substack to do so as paid subscribers. I have shared other screenshots in the past but here is today.We have a plan to move us off Substack and replicate our own e-mail infrastructure but it is going to cost around $20,000 to create our own e-mail and self-publishing infrastructure where we can never be censored again. It is this simple: If we don’t own the infrastructure, then we don’t own our audience.Our goal is zero (0) points of failure where we can be shut down by a platform, hosting provider, email service, or domain registrar.We are looking for a heavy hitter that could help us out with the cost or at least get us started with an anchor donation. You can see the evidence of the censorship and our plan HERE if you might be able to help or know anyone that could.Check out my article: Etienne & Jason Christoff – Why is 666 Hidden in Cartel Company Logos, Trump’s OK Sign and Twitter’s New Logo? to understand the real meaning behind 666 and DOZENS of examples where it is hidden in the logos of other companies/organizations that are scamming the public! Find it here: The Art of Liberty Foundation – Important NewsEtienne & Jason Christoff – Why is 666 Hidden in Cartel Company Logos, Trump’s OK Sign and Twitter’s New Logo? Disclaimer: At the Art of Liberty Foundation, we try to separate what we can prove vs. educated speculation. There are 741 end-notes and references in “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! as an example. This article is educated speculation on why so many Cartel companies are hiding 666 in their logos. Hat tip to Canadian health, wellness and self-sabotage coach…Read more3 years ago · 58 likes · 2 comments · Etienne de la Boetie2We are about to kick-off our 2026 sponsorship campaign to help us publicize our study on the theft of Fractional Reserve Banking. If you want to get a little payback and help expose the criminals who have robbed you for millions, we could use a couple of “heavy hitters” to help us anchor the campaign. Please email me at Etienne (at) ArtOfLiberty.org if you can help in a big way. We have some great perks to say THANK YOU! including a copy of the new 5.5 version of “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! You can support the Art of Liberty Foundation as a annual sponsor at:ArtOfLiberty.org/SponsorEtienne de la Boetie2@UoSlavery@evanhill Looks like Karma for agreeing to murder anyone for an organized crime “government” and living on money stolen from others at the point of a gun…5:00 PM · Apr 17, 2026 · 2.43K Views1 Reply · 1 LikeGet Information on The White Rose at ArtOfLIberty.org/White-Rose including a link to my favorite White Rose stickers that anyone can print with a Brother QL-800 label printer.Top Stories of the WeekEtienne on Church & State with Caleb CollierI was a guest on Church & State with Caleb Collier where we discussed our new study, The Greatest Theft in Human History, showing that the total theft from Fractional Reserve Banking + confiscatory “government” taxation + underpayment of social security COLAs is over $2.7 MILLION dollars for the average worker ($60,000 annual salary) over a 40-year career + 20-year retirement. Even MORE for higher earners or when compared with a honest monetary system based on the gold standard where the organized crime “government” and banks can’t print money on a printing press or create digital dollars and prices are benignly deflationary and your money buys MORE each and every year!Find the study at ArtOfLiberty.org/InflationI seem to be talking to more and more conservative and non-libertarian audiences these days and the voluntaryist message seems to be resonating!Listen Here…Videos of the WeekThe $7 Powder That Beats Your $5,000 AC Unit!By Robert LeeMost of us think we’re fighting the hot air outside, but the real enemy is sitting right on top of your house: your roof. In this video, we dive into the science of “Solar Loading” and how a typical dark roof absorbs 95% of the sun’s energy, turning your attic into a giant oven.We’re going back 3,500 years to rediscover an ancient Minoan secret that scientists at Purdue University recently confirmed is more powerful than modern central air. For less than $50, you can use the physics of “Radiative Sky Cooling” to dump heat into the vacuum of space.Continue reading…Nuclear Ambiguity and the Samson Optionby Greg ReeseThe Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center, otherwise known as Dimona, is the cornerstone of Israel’s undeclared nuclear weapons program. Construction began in secret in 1958 with the help of France, which helped build Israel a 24-megawatt heavy-water reactor as part of a clandestine weapons program, believed to have been completed in 1965, with their first functional nuclear device produced before June of 1967.When U.S. officials first inquired about the site, Israeli representatives described it as a textile plant, a metallurgical research installation, and a pumping station. When American inspectors were eventually granted limited access in 1965, Israeli engineers installed temporary false walls and physically blocked entire sections of the underground complex. The inspectors reported to Washington that their visits were useless, and inspections ended in 1969.Photographic evidence leaked by Israeli technician Mordechai Vanunu in 1986, from which experts estimated a stockpile of 100 to 200 nuclear devices, confirmed that Israel has developed thermonuclear bomb capability. After leaking this information, Vanunu was kidnapped by Mossad and sentenced to 18 years in prison.Continue reading…“Government”, Media and AcademiaCriminality ExposedThese articles also appears in “Government”, Media and Academia Criminality Exposed, A digest of HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of articles exposing and suggesting inter-generational organized crime’s control of the “Government,” Media and Academia by the Art of Liberty Foundation. You can view the other articles or subscribe on Telegram: https://t.me/Government_ScamsHunter Biden has quietly bolted from the US and claims he is $17 million in debtBy Peter RubinsteinA legal filing submitted this week on behalf of Hunter Biden argues that the son of former President Joe Biden “cannot afford” to pay his outstanding legal fees. It comes after Hunter Biden himself claimed last year he was in $17 million of debt.The paperwork, submitted by attorney Barry Coburn on April 6, also claimed that “Mr. Biden lives abroad,” though Coburn did not specify where. Biden was pictured in South Africa with his wife last year.Last month, Biden told a federal judge he was facing serious financial troubles and could not afford to move forward with his lawsuit against ex-Trump aide Garrett Ziegler. It comes as Hunter challenged his arch-enemy to a CAGE FIGHT in an astonishing video.Continue reading…TheyLied: Bilderberg 2026 Participants & Agenda Revealedby Judd Legum and Rebecca CrosbyIn 2025, Tesla reported $5.7 billion in U.S. profits. The company paid absolutely nothing in federal taxes.To achieve this remarkable result, Tesla took advantage of several corporate tax breaks expanded or made permanent last summer as part of President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) — 100% bonus depreciation and immediate R&D expensing. It also generated savings by exploiting a long-standing deduction for executive stock options.Tesla is not an anomaly. So far, 88 profitable corporations have reported paying $0 in federal income taxes last year, according to a new report by the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). The list includes Citigroup ($4.45 billion in profits), CVS Health ($6.57 billion), GoDaddy ($981 million), Palantir ($1.58 billion), PayPal ($1.43 billion), Walt Disney ($8.3 billion), and Yum Brands, the parent company of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell, ($1.03 billion).Continue reading…$500,000 buys a “one-on-one meeting” with Trumpby Judd LegumOn Friday, President Trump is scheduled to appear at the Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona, for a Turning Point USA event. Trump’s appearance at the event is part of Turning Point USA’s “Build the Red Wall” campaign. It is an effort championed by Erika Kirk, the widow of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, to secure victories for MAGA candidates in the 2026 and 2028 elections by increasing Republican support in Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada.The event is free for people who would like to listen to Trump’s speech from the pews at Dream City Church. But a more interactive experience is available — for a price.An email sent by Sinan Kanatsiz, an obscure but well-connected figure in Trump’s political orbit, offers its recipients a “one-on-one meeting and private photo with President Donald Trump” in exchange for a “contribution of $500,000 to TPUSA PAC.”Continue reading…Trump Flips & Demands FISA Renewal that Allows Warrantless Spying On US Citizens!by Owen Shroyer, Trump and Glenn GreenwaldThe Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978 contains section 702 that has been used to spy on Americans; it is set to expire on April 20. Donald Trump, vowed to “KILL FISA” during his campaign in 2024 based on his (quite valid) claim that spying powers had been abused against him by the Obama administration for political ends in the 2016 presidential campaign. Trump is now demanding that FISA be fully renewed: yet again, with no reforms, safeguards, or limits of any kind.In 2013, there was a bill to rein in the NSA’s domestic spying powers by imposing serious limits on how such powers can be exercised when aimed at American citizens. But Obama was an enthusiastic supporter — and user — of the NSA’s domestic spying system and he instructed then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to conjure enough Democratic House votes to kill the bill. The same tactics are being used today.Former Congressman Justin Amash wrote: “Trump falsely claims FISA 702 is simply foreign collection.Continue reading…The Art of Liberty Foundation… in Spanish!We are adding a new section to Five Meme Friday to promote our new Substack, Telegram group, Instagram, and translations of To See the Cage is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many in Spanish. Please tell your Spanish speaking friends! “Go Paid” on our Spanish Substack to support getting voluntaryist ideas, books, and memes translated into Spanish AND get a free paperback copy of To See the Cage is To Leave It in Latin American Spanish.¡Por qué es fundamental usar efectivo! (¡Y criptomonedas, oro/Goldbacks, plata e incluso monedas de cinco centavos!)Con los bancos empezando a fallar, hay algunas cosas fáciles y específicas que usted puede hacer para fortalecer la capacidad de su comunidad local para sobrevivir a un colapso bancario o a una devaluación del dólar.Use efectivo físico¡Por qué deberíamos pagar con efectivo en todos los lugares que podamos con billetes en lugar de una tarjeta de crédito! — Adaptado de la publicación viral en “Fedbook” de Wren Hope RoseContinuar leyendo…“Daily News of The Week”‘World’s first’ humanoid robot for real household chores launched with 16-hour batteryBy Jijo MalayilChinese robotics firm UniX AI has unveiled Panther, touted as the world’s first service humanoid robot to enter real household deployment.Panther is a third-generation full-size wheeled dual-arm humanoid robot, and UniX AI has commenced global deliveries.The robot stands about 5 feet 3 inches tall, weighs around 176 pounds (80 kilograms), and operates for 8 to 16 hours on a single charge.Continue reading…Pentagon Seeks Stunning 243x Budget Surge For Drone Warfare Unit As Eurasian Wars Reshape Combatby Tyler DurdenBuried in the Department of War’s Fiscal Year 2027 procurement request is a massive increase for the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group (DAWG), a clear acknowledgment that ongoing conflicts across Eurasia have underscored one hard lesson: cheap kamikaze drones can impose outsized costs on traditional militaries. The substantial surge in the budget request also signals growing urgency within the DoW to field these drones at scale.The defense and aerospace news publication Inside Defense was the first to report on the DoW’s massive budget request for the autonomous drone warfare group. The budget would skyrocket from $225 million this year to potentially $54.6 billion next year:Details surrounding DAWG appear to center on scaling autonomous warfare capabilities, especially drones and related systems, though the effort remains little known publicly.Related:Continue reading…XAI Training 10 Trillion Parameter Model – Likely Out in Mid 2026by Brian WangGrok Imagine V22 variants of 1-trillion-parameter models2 variants of 1.5-trillion-parameter models1 variant of a 6-trillion-parameter model1 variant of a 10-trillion-parameter modelxAI would be leading in raw announced scale of parameters. No other lab has publicly confirmed training 10T or even 6T models right now. The 6T model alone is roughly double the rumored size of Grok 4 and far larger than most current estimates for GPT-5 or Claude 4.6.Parameter count is only part of the story.AI models are judged more on:Active parameters per token (MoE efficiency).Training data quality and “intelligence density” (xAI claims higher density per gigabyte).Inference-time compute (reasoning modes, multi-agent orchestration).Real-world benchmarks (coding, agentic tasks, multimodality).Continue reading…The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain – Part 1by Iain DavisIn this two-part article series, Iain Davis examines how a class of Silicon Valley oligarchs have set about destabilising the planet in order to achieve their goal of a multipolar world of interconnected smart-city states; that is, a regionalised world that they and their oligarch partners will rule as neofeudal monarchs. In Part 1, Davis focuses on the deceit this oligarch network is using to drag us all to ruin and how it is controlling the Trump administration, whilst Part 2 will focus on their neocolonial ambitions in the Middle East.In my latest book, The Technocratic Dark State, I explore the influence of a powerful collective of Silicon Valley oligarchs. These oligarchs, as we shall see, have captured and now effectively control the second Trump administration. They like to go by many names: accelerationists, neoreactionaries, technocrats, the Tech-Bros, TechnoKings, CEO dictators, and more besides. We can now add “Praxians” into the mix. Though, personally, I prefer “Neonerds.”Continue reading…WTF Happened in 1971?WTF Happened in 1971?Etienne Note: Too Cool.. James Corbett and I wrote essentially the exact same article… I wrote mine back on April 8th, 2024 and included ALL the charts from WTFHappenedIn1971.com website. You can find my version HERE. Both articles, essentially, highlight our investigation into The Greatest Theft in History which you can find at ArtOfLiberty.org/Inflation. Once Nixon “Closed the Gold Window” in 1971 announcing the US would no longer honor its commitment to pay gold to foreign governments and investors that held the US’s gold-back bonds and notes, the move removed the last impediment to the organized crime banks and “government” from creating unlimited fiat paper tickets which they began doing immediately. The economic consequences of which are documented by our articles, the WTFHappenedIn1971.com website, and our investigation into The Greatest Theft in Human History!by James Corbettcorbettreport.comApril 12, 2026Wanna see something weird? Get a load of this:Not so weird? OK, how about this?Not getting it yet? Then try this!Continue reading…All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran and the Bankers’ Endgameby Ellen BrownThe powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.” —Prof. Caroll Quigley, Georgetown University, Tragedy and Hope (1966)In February 2026, the United States and Israel launched surprise airstrikes on Iran. The officially proffered reasons — preventing Iran’s acquisition of a nuclear weapon and forestalling its aggression — have not held up under scrutiny. As James Corbett documented in recent Corbett Report episodes, the nuclear pretext appears to be recycled propaganda, and the scale and timing of the strikes raise deeper questions about motive.The thesis that “All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars” was popularized by Michael Rivero in a 2013 documentary by that name. His accompanying article begins with a quote from Aristotle (384-322 BCE):The most hated sort [of moneymaking], and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from the natural use of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest.Continue reading…The Internet’s Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Perilby Kate KnibbsThis month, USA Today published an excellent report that revealed how US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement delayed disclosing key information about the impacts of its detainment policies. The authors used the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to compile and analyze detention statistics from ICE and track how the agency had changed under the Trump administration. The story is one of countless examples of how the Wayback Machine, which crawls and preserves web pages, has helped preserve information for the public good. It was also, Wayback Machine director Mark Graham says, “a little ironic.”USA Today Co., the publishing conglomerate formerly known as Gannett that runs both its namesake paper and over 200 additional media outlets, bars the Wayback Machine from archiving its work. “They’re able to pull together their story research because the Wayback Machine exists. At the same time, they’re blocking access,” Graham says.Continue reading…The $50,000 puppy: Why the pet debt crisis is reaching a breaking point in 2026Etienne Note: The issue isn’t the rising cost of owning a puppy, the issue is the rapid loss of purchasing power of the organized crime monetary system. Please see our special report on inflation: The Greatest Theft in Human History at ArtOfLiberty.org/Inflationby Emma Sutton-WilliamsNew York Post may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase.When we talk about the cost of a pet, it’s about more than the “price of admission.”Whether you pick up your dog from a specialized breeder or choose to adopt, both can cost you a fortune. I was just joking with my husband about how much our Mini Sheepadoodle, Lucy, actually costs us, but the joke isn’t that funny; she is a financial strain, and I wouldn’t trade her for anything.Continue reading…US Property Taxes Rose 3 Percent On Average In 2025, Outpacing InflationEtienne Note: The BLS is lying about the rate of inflation as we document in our investigation into: The Greatest Theft in Human History at ArtOfLiberty.org/Inflation AND the rise in home prices that are jacking American’s property taxes are part of the same scam that we document in the same investigation. This is economic warfare against the population using the crooked monetary system.by Tyler DurdenAuthored by Rob Sabo via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),Property taxes are rising across the United States and, on average, have outpaced inflation.Homeowners in 2025 paid a total of $396.8 billion in property taxes on more than 89.6 million single-family homes, a 3.7 percent increase from 2024, an April 9 report by real estate property data provider ATTOM states.Continue reading…So you want to blockade Iran . . .by Matt BrackenFor the record, I am not pro-woodchipper, or pro-porcupine, or pro-Iran. I am trying to keep the potentially coming Great Energy World War sea battles in the realm of reality, and not a recurring fantasy of our Navy’s glory days of WW2.This coming sea war will not be Tom Cruise in Top Gun slapping around Grenada, Panama, Libya or Venezuela. Iran can bite back.Already, we have exposed our inability to close with Iran. Sending 2 destroyers dashing in and back out while VP Vance was in Pakistan engaged in negotiations with Iran merely highlighted our reluctance to bring our main force near to Iran. This will have repercussions across Asia, and around the world, as nations realize that when push comes to shove, they will be not be able to depend on the US Navy to ride to their rescue.You may be sure that Chairman Xi is paying close attention to the effectiveness of our weapon systems, as well as their weaknesses, and our dangerously low “magazine capacity” as we run out of defensive missiles and standoff offensive missiles.Continue reading…Simplicius Iran Update: Masterful 5D Stroke: Trump’s Blockade Charade Deflects From Ceasefire Flopby SimpliciusAs expected the Iran-US talks in Pakistan have led to a deadlock—or, in other words, failed.The entire foundation on which the talks were premised was phony because the US is agreement-incapable and does nothing but lie at every stage of the process.First, it had come out that the US had been begging Pakistan to intervene and force Iran into talks for weeks. Then when Iran finally agreed, it had come out that the US was involved in the drafting of the Pakistani announcement which specifically stated that Lebanon was to be included in the ceasefire. But as soon as the ceasefire took effect, and Israel brazenly ignored the new restrictions, the US immediately changed its tune and claimed that the Iranian side had “misunderstood” the agreement, and that Lebanon was never part of the equation.Now, latest rumors claim the US in fact tried to “have it both ways” by including Lebanon, but hoping Iran would deign to allow Israel for a “gradual” off-ramp:Continue reading…California Lawmakers Introduce The “Stop Nick Shirley Act”by Tyler DurdenAfter making waves in Minneapolis by revealing rampant daycare fraud run by Somali migrants feeding on millions in government subsidies (and likely funneling some of that cash to Democrat politicians), Nick Shirley traveled to the Golden State only to find more fraud, including voting scams and medical care scams.The investigation has apparently led to at least 21 arrests associated with medical fraud just after Shirley published his report, though no official sources have confirmed a direct connection.This brand of taxpayer theft is an ever present problem within blue states where Democrats and migrants seem to work hand-in-hand. But the real giveaway is the fact that Democrats, NGOs and leftist activist groups respond with such hostility to any efforts to expose migrant fraud.In Minnesota, the state government and NGOs enabled violent leftist mobs in order to distract from the Somali fraud issue and prevent ICE agents from making arrests. This is how important these scam networks are to the political left.Continue reading…FLASHPOINT China DEFIES Trump’s blockade of Strait of Hormuz as US-sanctioned tanker brazenly sails through waterway unchallengedby Nick Parker , Foreign Editor | Joe Mannion , Foreign News Reporter | Robin Perrie , Chief Foreign CorrespondentCHINA has brazenly breezed past Donald Trump’s Strait of Hormuz blockade – with its US-sanctioned tanker passing by American warships unchallenged.The US Navy’s blockade of the vital trade route began yesterday, as Trump looks to pressure Iran’s top brass into accepting his nuclear demands.But today China’s Rich Starry tanker – which has been sanctioned by America since 2023 for dealing with Iran – passed through the waterway in what appeared to be a challenge to Trump.The vessel did not enter the blockaded area – which only prevents travel to and from Iranian ports – but sailed by a US fleet which would have had the capability to halt the sanctioned ship.Continue reading…The Iran war could cost the American taxpayer $1 trillion, says Harvard academicby Joseph WilkinsKey PointsAfter the first six days, the war in Iran racked up costs of $11.3bn, according to the Pentagon.But one academic believes the total cost will prove much higher, potentially reaching $1 trillion over the next decade.Such outlays will exacerbate the proliferating U.S. fiscal deficit, says Professor Linda Bilmes.Continue reading…The Theft of Your Good DeflationEtienne Note: If you haven’t seen our investigation into The Greatest Theft in Human History, we break down how the Average American ($60K annual salary over 40 year career + 20 year retirement will lose $2.73 MILLION dollars in the theft of inflation (inflation “tax” + Cantillon effect + compound trap) PLUS Federal, State and Local Taxes PLUS Social Security underpayments because the organized crime “government” is lying about the inflation rate so they don’t have to pay Social Security COLAs. The figure rises to $3.29 MILLION when compared to the earning power they lose vs. a Gold Standard using a conservative 1% per year deflation assumption where 1-2% was the historical average. The number skyrockets for higher earners. Download the PDF and look at your salary level to calculate the total theft at ArtOfLiberty.org/InflationYour dollar has lost 96-97 percent of its purchasing power since 1913.by Mises Wire, John McKearnYour dollar has lost 96-97 percent of its purchasing power since 1913. This is not bad luck or mysterious market forces. It is the result of deliberate policy choices that steadily, quietly drained your wealth—and convinced you it was being done for your benefit.For over a hundred years after America’s founding—roughly 1774 to 1900—prices did not steadily rise. Net cumulative inflation over that entire century was close to zero. Prices often fell, not because of poverty or collapse, but because of human ingenuity: more efficient factories, labor-saving machines, railroads slashing transportation costs, etc. Each new invention meant goods cost less to make and less to buy. Economists call this “good deflation”—the natural, healthy fruit of a productive economy.Continue reading…Steel rebar may have met its match – in the form of wavy plasticby Etiido UkoWho could possibly compare to Superman, the Man of Steel? Definitely not a man of plastic! Right? Wrong. Researchers at the University of Sharjah, UAE, have discovered that plastics, in certain shapes, may perform as well as steel bars as reinforcement materials in concrete.In a study that was as much about the shape of the material as the material itself, the researchers 3D-printed and tested various material configurations, finding that certain shapes outperformed others by up to 500% in specific tests.Concrete, which primarily comprises cement, water, and aggregates, is the most used construction material in the world. This composite is often upgraded with steel reinforcement to a stronger version called reinforced concrete.Over the past century, steel has proven to be a highly effective concrete reinforcement material, so much so that more than 20% of the almost 2 billion tonnes of global steel produced annually is used to reinforce concrete.Continue reading…Underground ‘Groundfridge’ keeps produce fresh without electricityby Amit MalewarFloris Schoonderbeek, a Dutch designer, has created the spherical GroundFridge. It is a new, super-old idea that keeps fresh produce deliciously fresh without electricity.A Groundfridge is like a big underground fridge that can hold stuff—specifically, 3000 liters of things! To give you an idea, that’s as much as 146 homemade apple pies, a bunch of wine, or even two adults standing up comfortably. It’s great for keeping things fresh, like vegetables, cheese, or wine.The Groundfridge uses the natural insulation the ground provides, keeping its interior temperature between 8 to 15 degrees Celsius. Since the outside temperatures change, the inside of your Groundfridge will also change a bit. The cool thing is, you don’t need any electricity for it to work. It has a ventilator powered by a battery that uses the cold air from the night to help with cooling. If you want an extra-steady temperature, you can add an external cooler.Groundfridge has a 200 cm standing height, a wide tunnel entrance, and a total air volume of 7.8 m3.Continue reading…Part 18: The Trans Issue Started With Chemical Poisoningby The Liberty Lookout(I initially thought that part 18 was going to wrap up this series with a focus on solutions, but I’ve since thought of several additional parts to discuss relating to the fertility crisis. Part 18 is about the trans epidemic.)“The best place to hide anything is in plain sight.” – Edgar Allan PoeIn 2010, a biologist at UC Berkeley published a paper in one of the most prestigious scientific journals in the world proving that the second most widely used herbicide in America, Atrazine, turns genetically male frogs into functional females. Males that mate with other males. Males that produce viable eggs.The concentration required to do this? 0.1 parts per billion. One-thirtieth of what the EPA allows in your drinking water.Continue reading…Artemis II vs Apollo 11. Artemis II-Orion (now proven to be a fraud) disproves the Apollo Moon Landings. All theatre. No physics. Time to close NASA.by Dr Ferdinand Santos IIIThe author penned this in January 2026 after being on a few podcasts on this subject. The original said there was a 3 % chance of success of a Moon fly by – not a landing – by the Orion Mini-Van. This prediction has been vindicated. The Artemis II-Orion Mini Van spectacle has been such an obvious deceit and mendacity that NASA should be shut down.This is being reissued before the ‘landing’. We all know that the re-entry will be a grand success so I see no danger in pre-empting the DEI crew arrival in the postage stamp LZ, at 24K mph. I am curious to see if they are fist pumping, laughing, smiling and telling the usual array of jokes. Because space is so easy. So simple. A luxury tour in the Mini-Van. Musk and friends will soon be selling tickets to the Walmart class any day now for the same experience.We all know that the CIA controlled Fake News and Fake Science will have orgiastic celebrations. The greatest journey evah! And we all know that the Sheeple munching on their phones will look up for a second go ‘baa’, nod their Sheeple heads and continue to ingest their digital content while moaning a prayer to NASA and the brilliance of US ‘rocket-science’. New World Order and all that.NASA is not ‘The Science’ of space. NASA is not the ‘gatekeeper’ of astrophysics. NASA is a corrupt, criminal, money laundering film company who has ingested U$ 1.5 Trillion since 1972 and who cannot even process proper CGI and AI imagery. It needs to be shut down.Continue reading…US sends thousands more troops to Mideast as Trump seeks to squeeze Iranby Dan LamotheThe Pentagon is sending thousands of additional troops into the Middle East in the coming days, as the Trump administration attempts to pressure Iran into a deal that could end the weeks-long conflict there while considering the possibility of additional strikes or ground operations if a fragile ceasefire does not hold, U.S. officials said.The forces moving into the region include about 6,000 troops aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush and several warships escorting it, said current and former officials, who like some others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss military movements. About 4,200 others with the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group and its embarked Marine Corps task force, the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, are expected to arrive near the end of the month.Continue reading…The People Vs. The Poison Rally – April 27th, 9:00 AM – Supreme Court Building – District of CriminalsWebsite: https://thepeoplevspoison.orgEnough is enough. We do not consent to being poisoned any longer. While we’re fighting for our health, our government is fighting for the corporations that are poisoning us. The deck is stacked against us – and it has been for too long. It’s time to send a clear message that we will not stand for this.On April 27th, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Monsanto v. Durnell. The court verdict could set a sweeping precedent, limiting the ability of future victims to hold chemical companies accountable in court.Here’s what’s at stake:Continue reading…The fertilizer shortage, and it isn’t just nitrogenby Meryl NassContinue reading…By Tyne MorganFertilizer market volatility is once again taking center stage as geopolitical tensions disrupt global supply lines and push input costs sharply higher. New analysis shows the increase in fertilizer prices may not be over, even if the Strait of Hormuz reopens soon.Even with the situation in Iran pushing prices even higher, the sharp increase in fertilizer prices from 2020 to now is catching attention in Washington. Not only did President Donald Trump take to social media to warn of ‘price gouging,’ but Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins also posted on X Monday, specifically expressing frustration over Mosaic’s response to farmers.While Rollins and USDA Under Secretary Stephen Vaden have raised concerns over fertilizer prices this year, the president posted on Truth Social over the weekend that he is closely monitoring fertilizer prices and pledged support for American farmers.Continue reading…Spain’s Leftist Government Announces Amnesty for at Least 500,000 Illegal Migrantsby GB News, Michael Heaver and The TelegraphSpain’s leftist government will give legal residency and employment rights to at least half a million migrants under a new amnesty law. Many of the migrants are men of military age from Africa and the Middle East. As many as 1.3 million migrants may be absorbed into the program.The current government lacks a working majority in congress and circumvented a vote by instead issuing a royal decree.Spain’s population approaches 50 million people. The amnesty is in response to a petition signed by more than 600,000 people and delivered to parliament, calling for 700,000 migrants to be given papers.Even more migrants will be drawn to Spain to obtain legal residency. Critics warn that Spain’s public services will be drained. Spain has also offered free medical care to migrants, bucking the current European trend of restricting rights to migrants.Continue reading…Nuclear Ambiguity and the Samson OptionBy JOHN LEICESTEREurope has “maybe 6 weeks or so (of) jet fuel left,” the head of the International Energy Agency Fatih Birol said Thursday in a wide-ranging Associated Press interview, warning of possible flight cancellations “soon” if oil supplies remain blocked by the Iran war. (AP video shot by: Nicolas Garriga and Oleg Cetinic / Production: Jeffrey Schaeffer)PARIS (AP) — Europe has “maybe six weeks or so” of remaining jet fuel supplies, the head of the International Energy Agency said Thursday in a wide-ranging interview, warning of possible flight cancellations “soon” if oil supplies remain blocked by the Iran war.IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol painted a sobering picture of the global repercussions of what he called “the largest energy crisis we have ever faced,” stemming from the pinch-off of oil, gas and other vital supplies through the Strait of Hormuz.“In the past there was a group called ‘Dire Straits.’ It’s a dire strait now, and it is going to have major implications for the global economy. And the longer it goes, the worse it will be for the economic growth and inflation around the world,” he told The Associated Press.Continue reading…The Hospital “I Do NOT Consent Form” Protects You From Unauthorized and Unnecessary Procedures In the Hospitalby IDNCF™Etienne Note: One of the many, many cool things from our Flash Drive O Freedom: The Liberator at ArtOfLiberty.org/LiberatorAnesthesiologist and Critical Care Doctor who Knows The Intensive Care Unit, ER, Operating Rooms, and Hospital Administration and credited for providing medical updates to 2025 version of the document.The IDNCF™ works because it becomes part of your legal medical record. You also have proof it was received and if violated, is intentional medical battery which is not covered by medical malpractice insurance.General Instructions for Caregivers and Consent document and LetterContinue reading…Texas Doctor Offers Free COVID Vaccine Exemptions to Medical Students Amid Mandate Disputeby Brenda Baletti, Ph.D. The DefenderThis article was originally published by The Defender — Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website.Houston physician Dr. Mary Talley Bowden offered to write medical exemptions for medical students studying in Texas teaching hospitals that mandate the COVID-19 vaccine.“I will write a medical exemption for any student in Texas facing this mandate — free of charge,” Bowden wrote in a post on X. “If they deny my exemption, I will help you find a lawyer and raise money to sue them,” she added.Five teaching hospitals in Texas – including Houston Methodist – require all students to get a Covid shot in order to do rotations at their hospital.Continue reading…The Great Energy World Warby Matt BrackenThe sea power projection paradigm that allowed small European nations (and then the USA) to dominate and colonize the world is coming to an end. The world will never be the same, and the birth pains of the emerging next world order will be agonizing.The Scandinavian Vikings did not have gunpowder or cannons, but they mastered ocean navigation, and were able to assemble massive fleets that could raid or even invade other nations with up to thousands of seafaring soldiers. This was a precursor of Europe’s model for global colonization through naval power and protected ocean trade.With the development of large ocean-crossing sailing ships mounted with cannons, the stage was set for the European colonization of much of the globe. Faced with overwhelming firepower, local principalities had no alternative but to submit to the demands of the emerging European sea powers.Armed merchant ships, protected by their own nation’s warships, came to dominate much of the world between the 15th and 20th Centuries. European powers created their own colonies and established military bases within them for permanent forward area power projection.Continue reading…Pentagon ramps up plans for military operation in Cuba in case Trump orders direct intervention: reportby Brendan RasciusThe Pentagon is quietly laying the planning groundwork for a potential U.S. military operation in Cuba, even as the Iran war grinds on, according to recent reports.Two sources familiar with the matter told USA Today on Wednesday that contingency plans are being developed in case President Donald Trump orders an intervention on the island nation. Trump has not announced plans to invade Cuba, but has floated the idea.Sources also told Zeteo earlier this week that the Pentagon was given a directive straight from the White House to prepare for possible military action in the Caribbean.Continue reading…Iran war latest: Trump reacts – and oil and gas prices tumble – after Iran reopens Strait of Hormuzby Sky News (Live Coverage)While we were hearing from the four European leaders in Paris, Donald Trump attacked NATO in his latest Truth Social post.Despite Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron saying the UK and France will lead a defensive and neutral military mission to protect shipping, Trump has dismissed any offer of help from his NATO allies.“Now that the Hormuz Strait situation is over, I received a call from NATO asking if we would need some help,” the president wrote.“I TOLD THEM TO STAY AWAY, UNLESS THEY JUST WANT TO LOAD UP THEIR SHIPS WITH OIL.Continue reading…Simplicius: Serious Escalation: Russian MOD Implies Threatening Consequences Against Europe for Being Party to Conflictby SimpliciusIt has slowly become increasingly apparent that Ukraine may be utilizing the airspace of NATO countries for its recent spate of strikes against Russia. Specifically, it is the permissive Baltics that appear to be allowing Ukrainian drones to transit toward sensitive Russian sites near the Gulf of Finland and beyond, then blaming Russia when the drones crash on their territory.Read the below—the Latvian ministry literally admitted the drone that crashed on its territory was Ukrainian, but proceeded to blame Russia anyway:Drones have been recovered in the following locations which has led people to assume the flightpath from Ukraine as follows:This would explain the so-called Russian “lack of air defense”. For a couple years now it has been obvious that most Ukrainian “deep penetration” attacks that were said to have bypassed Russian air defenses were actually done via some form of subversion—whether local man-on-ground drone teams or something like the above.Continue reading…Upcoming Liberty EventsRed Pill Friends April Tour ‘26, Black Mountain, NC; Bon Aqua, TN; Tulsa, OK & Bandera, TX, US, April 16th – 28th, 2026California’s Decline: A Warning to America, San Diego, CA, US, April 25th, 2026LibertyCon Europe, Madrid, Spain, April 24th – 26th, 2026The People vs Poison, Washington, D.C., US, April 27th, 2026Mid-Continent Liberty Festival, Spavinaw, OK, US, April 29th – May 4th, 2026Buenos Aires Anarchist Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 1st – 3rd, 2026Upstate Anarchist Book Fair, Binghamton, NY, US, May 2nd – 3rd, 2026Constellation Anarchist Festival, Montreal, Canada, May 14th – 20th, 2026Derrick Broze (As 33), Prezence, and Dub FX – April 15th 2026, Seattle, WADerrick Broze w/ Prezence in Sedona – May 16th, 202654th Annual Rainbow Gathering, Northern California, US, July 1st – 7th, 2026FreedomPalooza 2026 – July 8th – 13th 2026, Northumberland, NHMidwest Peace & Liberty Fest, Lake Satoshi, MI, US, August 6th – 9th, 2026Liberty International World Conference, Kathmandu, Nepal, August 7th – 9th, 2026Northeast Unschooling Conference, Pittsfield, MA, US, August 15th – 18th, 2026International Conference for Anarchist Studies, Manchester, UK, August 26th – 28th, 2026Free Cities Conference, Roatan, Honduras, September 3rd – 6th, 2026VonuFest, Illinois, US, September 21st – 28th, 2026AnarCon, Gore, VA, US, September 25th – 27th, 2026The Memphis show got cancelled due to weather so I am going to have to settle forMemes BonanzaAfroman – Will You Help Me Repair My Door (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)Truth Music of the WeekIran Releases Another LEGO Animation Song Mocking Trump as Information War Continuesby APTHey, orange pig, “America First”Oops, oh boy, that was the slogan you stoleBut baby’s pulling strings and your vote is getting coldWe’re not just fighting for Iran, hear this clearContinue reading…libertarian Intentional Community Rounduplibertarian Intentional Community Roundup is where we cover libertarian and voluntaryist intentional communities and free private cities including Prospera (Honduras), The Free State Project (New Hampshire), Liberstad (Norway), Montelibero (Montenegro), Los Propietarios, (Argentina), Liberland (Croatia/Serbia border), Network States in general and Sea Steading (The Oceans). I am also covering secession movements including Greater Idaho, Please send details of any new happenings, projects or projects I am missing!Mapped: Tax Burden by State in Americaby Bruno VendittiSee visuals like this from many other data creators on our Voronoi app. Download it for free on iOS or Android and discover data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources.Hawaii and New York have the highest tax burdens, both exceeding 12% of income.Alaska and New Hampshire rank lowest, with total tax burdens below 6%.Despite very different tax systems, most states fall between 8% and 10%.Continue reading…ate legislature in America. About 150 representatives rated A- or above. The House Majority Leader is a Free Stater. Constitutional carry, school choice, no income tax, the first state Bitcoin reserve in the country.On March 26, 2020, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu issued Emergency Order #17: a stay-at-home order closing all nonessential businesses, effective midnight. On November 20, 2020, he imposed a statewide mask mandate. Violations carried $1,000 fines. Over the next 15 months, Sununu issued 74 emergency orders. The state of emergency lasted until June 11, 2021.This was the state with the most libertarian legislature in America. Thousands of liberty activists had spent nearly two decades concentrating there specifically to prevent this kind of thing.Continue reading…The Free Cities Foundation has launched a redesigned project directory at free-cities.org. It features 16 global projects, from intentional communities to Special Economic Zones, via a new 3D navigable globe. This is the essential starting point for anyone researching the Free Cities landscape.This article comes from the April 17th, 2026 Issue of the Free Cities Foundation Newsletter. View the online version here.Free Cities Foundation NewsletterApril 17, 2026 · Issue 47This edition covers the launch of our new Free Cities Project Directory, our Substack debut, and Patri Friedman’s eight hard truths from 25 years of trying to build startup societies.Free Cities Project Directory launched todayThe Free Cities Foundation has launched a redesigned project directory at free-cities.org/directory, replacing the Free Communities Directory that longtime readers may know. The new version features 16 projects from across the emerging Free Cities industry—from freedom-focused intentional communities like Montelibero and Veritas Villages, to next-generation Special Economic Zones like Ciudad Morazán and Próspera.Each listing follows a standardized format covering project type, stage of development, population, key industries, climate, target residents, and a curated media list. The new version replaces the previous 2D map with a 3D navigable globe: rotate it by geography, find a project, and click through to the full listing. Whether you are a prospective resident, an entrepreneur looking for new opportunities, or simply trying to map the Free Cities landscape, the new directory will serve as a strong starting point for your research.Activity in Próspera is ramping upFollowing the positive result in the Honduran presidential election, activity in and around Próspera has been ramping up rapidly. The photos show some members of our team attending Infinita‘s recently completed Liberty Acceleration Summit, which brought more industry players together in Próspera than ever before.The Free Cities Conference takes place in Próspera from September 3 to 6 and will be larger still, with more international attendees than any event run in the zone to date. 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+ F.A. Hayek: The Intellectuals and SocialismEtienne Note: If the images aren’t visible, please try this browser LINK.Dear Subscribers,Apologies again for getting this out somewhat late… We had technical difficulties with our email program on Friday.The Internet is a buzz after Donald Trump (or someone on Donald Trump’s media team) posted an image of Trump as Jesus. The use of religious iconography by the Presidents is one of the many unethically manipulative techniques I am exposing in my book: To See the Cage is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Media. The organized crime “government” is sliding the population the belief in having a “government” as a pseudo-religion and they are using religious iconography to trick the faithful into identifying the leaders as holy…Here is the page from To See the Cage is to Leave It with a dozen more examples of Presidents using identical or overt and/or subliminal religious iconography… Most people never notice when these come by one at a time… Trump’s Jesus is an exception since it is so blasphemous… but I have easily over three dozen examples with Biden, Bush, and Obama in both books and potentially dozens more that I didn’t have room for…The religion the organized crime “government” and monopoly media is secretly promoting is called: Statism… It is the completely indoctrinated belief in having a “government” in the first place… Remember: No one is born thinking giving a monopoly on violence to a ruling class established by easily rigged “elections” is a good idea! It must be indoctrinated into the population using mandatory schools, the hidden curriculum of Scouting, Explorers, JROTC/ROTC, the hidden curriculum of police and military training AND the both overt and subliminal propaganda of Hollywood “Programming” that makes “government” the hero in almost every movie and tell-a-vision show. This is what we are exposing at the Art of Liberty Foundation and what makes us so unique. While everyone else in the media is talking outrage… no one else is connecting the dots and explaining the technique!We are about to kick-off our 2026 sponsorship campaign to help us publicize our study on the theft of Fractional Reserve Banking. If you want to get a little payback and help expose the criminals who have robbed you for millions, we could use a couple of “heavy hitters” to help us anchor the campaign. Please email me at Etienne (at) ArtOfLiberty.org if you can help in a big way. We have some great perks to say THANK YOU! including a copy of the new 5.5 version of “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! You can support the Art of Liberty Foundation as a annual sponsor at:ArtOfLiberty.org/SponsorWe added a full methodology to our investigation: The Greatest Theft in Human History! Exposing the theft of inflation from fractional reserve banking (inflation + Cantillon effect + Compound Trap) + Federal/State/Local Taxes + Social Security Underpayment. We had to change the headline number to keep all four AI models in consensus so we had to update this meme. I explained the issue in detail in last week’s Five Meme Friday subscriber letter which you can find HERE.“Shrinkflation” is one of the unintended consequences of the inflation we are exposing in our investigation: The Greatest Theft in Human History at ArtOfLiberty.org/InflationTop Stories of the WeekBrendon O’Connell on Geopolitics and Empire: Pax Silica, Multipolarity, & Technocracy with Israel InsideBrendan O’Connell recounts his history as a political activist who faced imprisonment and censorship for investigating Israeli intelligence and high-technology contracts. He describes a global power struggle competing for control over humanity through advanced AI and data collection. O’Connell argues Israel functions as a primary hub for the technological infrastructure used for global surveillance, including quantum computing and AI. He rejects the likelihood of a third world war, viewing current geopolitical tensions as manufactured narratives designed to maintain public anxiety. He concludes by urging listeners to move beyond online discourse and engage in direct political lobbying of military and government agencies to reclaim sovereignty from these technocratic systems.Etienne Note: This is one of the only other guys talking about the Israeli Talpiot Program. Here is our list of Talpiot Program companies from my article: Who Runs the World? – Organized Crime’s Front Groups & Secret Societies.Talpiot Companies/CEOs – Talpiot program companies are spun out of Israel’s Unit 81, Unit 8200, or Technion, an Israeli research university. Talpiot companies appear to be overfunded to dominate key global telecommunications and cyber-security infrastructure junctures in key technologies that would allow electronic eavesdropping, firewall traversal, or provide actionable intelligence about who is talking to whom, such as telephony call detail records collected globally by suspected Talpiot program company: Amdocs.Fox News Reports on AMDOCS Spying on the USContinue reading…F.A. Hayek: The Intellectuals and SocialismEtienne Note: This is the 2nd Article in our tribute to the great Austrian Economist Friedrich August von Hayek better known as F.A. Hayek. Some of Hayek’s core insights were that knowledge is dispersed across millions of individuals and cannot be aggregated by any central authority. Prices are information signals. When you override them with planning, you don’t just misallocate resources — you destroy the very mechanism by which society coordinates itself.But beyond economics, Hayek was a philosopher of spontaneous order — the idea that complex, functional systems emerge from human action without human design. Language, common law, markets, social norms — none are “planned,” and all work better than their planned alternatives. Hayek explained the a sophisticated intellectual framework for voluntaryism operating in practice.In this essay, Hayek describes almost our exact strategy behind the Art of Liberty Foundation — targeting intellectuals and the intelligentsia I.E. the “secondhand dealers in ideas” ( readers, visual learners, podcast audiences, Substack readers), offering a bold alternative vision (voluntaryism) rather than just critiquing the existing system, and understanding that the real battle is for perception, not for electoral outcomes which we are simultaneously exposing as illegitimate and easily rigged.Chapter One from Hayek for the 21st Century – Paperback available for Free with any purchase from ArtOfLiberty.org/Store, “Going Paid” on any of our Substacks or by paying S&H for the book. The copies are free thanks to the generosity of a donor to the Mises Institute and they have an offer with free S&H Here.Continue reading…Videos of the WeekLarken Rose: Soldiers Don’t Deserve RespectI break down in my book: “To See the Cage is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many, the unethically manipulative techniques the organized crime “government” and their accomplices in the media are using on the kids in the mandatory “government” schools, scouting, and military and police training to trick and sucker the kids into a heroic view of the military.Larken breaks down why that is a crock of poop. There is nothing respectful about killing kids through a telescope while serving in an army of occupation for an organized crime “government” running “pimp game” on them. Reminder: A “Pimp” is someone who uses unethically manipulative techniques on women to get them to semi-voluntarily turn over a portion of their income to them. The organized crime “government” is using unethically manipulative techniques to trick the population into semi-voluntarily turning over a portion of their income to them… AND tricking and “chumping” them into serving in their armies of occupation, wars based on lies and manufactured evidence, and getting them to agree to kill whomever they are told to kill for a paycheck.Here is an overview of the unethically manipulative techniques that the organized crime “government” and their accomplices in the media are usingGet a Free Preview and/or Buy the BookThe Art of Liberty Foundation,a start-up voluntaryist public policy foundation, announces a new book,To See the Cage is to Leave It—25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many. The latest book, by Art of Liberty Foundation founderEtienne de la Boetie2, exposes that the government and Hollywood have been running a multi-generational, trillion-dollar psychological operation on the population to indoctrinate them into accepting a ruling class, confiscatory taxation, and inflationary fractional reserve currency issued by private banks.Etienne and James Corbett discuss To See the Cage is to Leave It on The Corbett ReportContinue reading…These 9 Fruit Bushes Were MADE for Hot Climates — Plant Once, Eat for Decades!by Garden SageMost people plant annual vegetables.They work all season and start over every spring.What if nine plants could feed your family for the next thirty years — and never need replanting?This video breaks down the nine most productive fruit bushes for hot climates: plants that thrive on heat, handle drought, and keep producing long after most gardens have given up.No replanting. No starting over. Just permanent, compounding abundance.🌿 THE 30-YEAR FRUIT SYSTEM:→ Nine bushes suited specifically to heat and drought→ Several produce fruit multiple times per year→ Most require almost no maintenance once established→ Combined, they cover fresh fruit from spring through winter→ Each bush feeds your family for 30 years or more→ Works in small backyards, coastal gardens, and urban lots→ Includes one bush that produces every single month of the yearContinue reading…10 Minute John Stossel Video: The Truth About Taxing the Rich: Deficits, Migration, Fewer JobsBy Donna Hancock“Tax the rich!” is popular.But don’t politicians realize, in America, people can MOVE?Washington state just passed a “millionaires’ tax.”Starbucks billionaire Howard Schultz already announced his move to Florida.You’d think politicians would learn, but no.Continue reading…Abby Martin Went To Israel. IT’S WORSE Than You Thinkby Double Down News and Empire FilesYou DEFINITELY won’t see this on the BBC or CNNContinue watching…“Government”, Media and AcademiaCriminality ExposedThese articles also appears in “Government”, Media and Academia Criminality Exposed, A digest of HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of articles exposing and suggesting inter-generational organized crime’s control of the “Government,” Media and Academia by the Art of Liberty Foundation. You can view the other articles or subscribe on Telegram: https://t.me/Government_ScamsThe $1.7 trillion military budget includes a massive slush fund for Trump’s political alliesby Judd Legum and Noel SimsLast week, President Donald Trump declared that the federal government cannot afford to spend “any money for day care” because “we’re fighting wars.” According to Trump, the well-being of America’s children is not a concern of the administration. “We have to take care of one thing: military protection,” Trump declared. “We have to guard the country.”These comments were made at a luncheon that Trump thought was private but was inadvertently live-streamed on YouTube.A few days later, as the Iran War raged, Trump submitted an eye-popping $1.5 trillion defense budget for the 2027 fiscal year. This figure alone represents a 44% increase over 2026 funding.Continue reading…Trump Promises Mass Pardons to Staff Before Leaving Officeby Josh Dawsey, WSJPresident Trump has repeatedly promised his top administration officials pardons before he leaves office, according to people who have heard his comments.“I’ll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval,” Trump said in a recent meeting to laughs, according to people with knowledge of the comments. That radius appears to be expanding as the president repeats the line. Another person who met with Trump earlier this year said the president quipped about pardoning anyone who had come within 10 feet.In one conversation with advisers in the dining room next to the Oval Office last year, Trump said he would host a news conference and announce mass pardons before he left office, some of the people said. The people said they weren’t aware of specific pardons being offered to specific people for specific acts.Continue reading…The Art of Liberty Foundation… in Spanish!We are adding a new section to Five Meme Friday to promote our new Substack, Telegram group, Instagram, and translations of To See the Cage is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many in Spanish. Please tell your Spanish speaking friends! “Go Paid” on our Spanish Substack to support getting voluntaryist ideas, books, and memes translated into Spanish AND get a free paperback copy of To See the Cage is To Leave It in Latin American Spanish.La idolatría del estatismo: por qué los cristianos deben oponerse al nacionalismoNota de Etienne: La Fundación Art of Liberty ha distribuido este folleto del Instituto Cristiano Libertario durante años como un PDF en nuestra unidad flash de la libertad, “The Liberator”, y en sus carpetas de Dropbox gratuitas. Para Navidad, lo vuelvo a publicar en su totalidad donde le he “añadido valor” con memes y visualizaciones. Hemos llegado a un acuerdo con el Instituto Cristiano Libertario para reimprimir el folleto (sin los memes) y añadirlo a nuestra tienda en línea en ArtOfLiberty.org/Store.Continuar leyendo…La idolatría del estatismo: por qué los cristianos deben oponerse al nacionalismoEl estatismo es la creencia adoctrinada en la conveniencia, necesidad y legitimidad de un Estado (”Gobierno”), a pesar de que no existe ninguna ley inamovible en el universo que dicte que el “gobierno” sea necesario, deseable o legítimo.Es un sistema de creencias totalmente adoctrinado; es decir, ha sido enseñado de manera obligatoria a la gran mayoría del público a través de las escuelas gubernamentales y escuelas privadas donde el “gobierno” controla el contenido de la instrucción mediante la acreditación, la amalgama de libros de texto y la tradición.Continuar leyendo…“Daily News of The Week”Why U.S. Gatling Guns Are Not Stopping Iran’s Shahed Dronesby David HamblingIn any discussion of drone defense, Gatling-type guns are often presented as a trump card. These rapid-fire weapons, originally developed to defend U.S. warships against sea-skimming missiles, can easily down bigger and faster threats than a 120 mph Shahed drone. On paper they look devastatingly effective, and news reports speak enthusiastically of their “shredding Iranian drones.” But they are not a magic wand to make all drones disappear, and some Shaheds are getting through.A closer look at videos of these weapons in action, and at their actual capabilities, gives a fuller picture of what is really happening – and the crucial role of ammunition supply.The Centurion C-RAM (“Counter Rocket, Artillery and Mortar”) was first deployed in Iraq in 2006 and is a land-based variant of the original Phalanx CIWS (“Close In Weapon System”) used by the Navy since 1980. It is the last line of defence when urgent action is needed to prevent casualties. The land version is a self-contained unit weighing around 24 tons and costing something over $4 million.The cannon is the same as that carried by F-15 and F-16 fighters. Its distinguishing feature is its phenomenal rate of fire, the six electrically-powered spinning barrels selectively firing 3,000 to 4,500 rounds per minute – that is 50 to 75 per second — producing a sound like a buzzsaw, often rendered as “Brrrrt.”Continue reading…ildhood vaccine schedule is safeby Steve KirschIf the childhood vaccines are so safe, why isn’t there any doctor in the world confident enough to prove it on themselves? This is both legal and ethical for a doctor to self-inject themselves with the entire CDC childhood vaccine in one sitting, one shot right after the other.In fact, morally, it’s the right move because it would be a convincing demonstration that 1) doctors are willing to walk the talk and 2) that anti-vaxxers are wrong. This would save lives!It is obvious why this doesn’t happen: they know it isn’t safe and don’t want to risk their own life.Full AI analysis hereContinue reading…Simplicius Iran War Report: Sanctity Lost: Even Neocon Pantheon Declares US a ‘Rogue Superpower’by SimpliciusTwo weeks ago we had seen arch-neocon Robert Kagan making surprising comments to fellow neocon grandee Bill Kristol about Israel essentially being a burden to the US. This came as a shocking canary-in-coalmine moment signaling a kind of revolt amongst the deep state against the excesses of the current administration.Now Kagan himself has penned an oped in The Atlantic outright calling the US a rogue state:We know when such figures come out in this way, it represents true alarm behind the scenes rather than any kind of genuine benevolent empathy for the rest of the world. No, these people are alarmed that their empire has overstepped its boundaries, bit off more than it can chew, and is in a precipitous downfall.Being that these figures have built their entire lives, careers, and oeuvres on hypocrisy, greed, contradiction, and other modalities of sin and deceit, it is not surprising that in the very opening paragraph of Kagan’s polemic, we’re immediately met with a rich hypocrisy:Continue reading…History: Adolph Hitler was Financed by Wall Street, the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of EnglandBy Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Yuri RubtsovBelow an Introductory Article by Michel Chossudovsky, followed by Yuri Rubtsov’s article entitledHistory: Hitler was Financed by the Federal Reserve and the Bank of EnglandThis carefully researched article by Yuri Rubtsov sheds light on the role of Wall Street and the US Federal Reserve in financing the Nazi government of Adolph Hitler. (scroll down)On May, 7, 8, 9, 2025, we commemorated the end of World War II. Eighty Years ago.Continue reading…Are you Wiping Your Butt With PFAS?by The Liberty LookoutIn my haste to publish Part 10 on household cleaning and personal care products, I neglected to mention an important contamination vector most are not aware of: paper products.In 2023, researchers at the University of Florida tested 21 major toilet paper brands from North America, South America, Africa, and Europe. They were looking for PFAS, the synthetic “forever chemicals” linked to cancer, immune suppression, and reproductive harm. They found them in every single sample.The specific compound, 6:2 diPAP, showed up across all brands and all continents. The contamination is global. It doesn’t stay as 6:2 diPAP, either. It breaks down in the body into other PFAS compounds, including PFOA, one of the most studied and most harmful forever chemicals in existence. The study, published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters, estimated that toilet paper contributes about 4% of the 6:2 diPAP found in US sewage, 35% in Sweden, and up to 89% in France.How does PFAS end up in toilet paper? Paper mills use PFAS during the wood-to-pulp conversion process, applying it to equipment to keep paper from sticking. “We believe it comes from the pulping process and is put on instruments to keep paper from sticking,” lead author Timothy Townsend told Healthline. Both virgin and recycled toilet paper tested positive. There’s no opting out by choosing one type over the other.Continue reading…Part 11: How Corrupt Doctors Turned Birth Into Surgeryby The Liberty LookoutThe United States spends more money on childbirth than any other nation on Earth. The average hospital vaginal delivery runs about $15,700. A C-section costs nearly $29,000, 85% more. American women deliver in the most expensive healthcare system ever built, surrounded by more technology per square foot than most countries have in an entire hospital wing.And for all that spending, the system is killing more mothers than any comparable country. It’s killing more babies. And it’s doing it while performing surgery on one in three women who walk through the door.That’s not a paradox. That’s a business model.In 2023, 669 American women died of maternal causes, a rate of 18.6 deaths per 100,000 live births. That’s down from a horrifying 32.9 in 2021, but it still ranks the US dead last among comparable developed nations. Thirtieth out of 38 OECD countries. For Black women, the number is 50.3 per 100,000, roughly triple the rate for white women and five times Norway’s national average.Continue reading…Not All Movement Is Equal: Why Vigorous Exercise Delivers Up to 9x the Health Impactby Dr. Joseph MercolaOne minute of vigorous exercise delivers the same disease-risk reduction as roughly four to nine minutes of moderate activity, making short bursts of higher intensity far more time-efficient than most guidelines suggestLight activity improves health, but it can take more than an hour to match the cardiometabolic impact of a single intense minuteVigorous training provides strong longevity benefits up to about 75 minutes per week, but pushing high-intensity exercise to extreme volumes erases gains and increases heart rhythm problems such as atrial fibrillationModerate movement, including brisk walking, gardening and recreational sports, shows steady survival benefits with no upper harm threshold, and high volumes of moderate exercise outperform extreme high-intensity training for long-term longevityContinue reading…How Porn and AI Are Replacing Human Connectionby The Liberty LookoutIn January 2024, over 11.4 billion visits hit Pornhub from mobile devices alone. Not per year. Per month. That’s one website, in one month, from phones. The total traffic across the global pornography industry is orders of magnitude larger. And it’s not the seedy fringe of the internet anymore. The 18-24 age group makes up the single largest share of Pornhub traffic, with 25-34 close behind. Together, those two groups account for over half of all visitors.The average age of first exposure to pornography is now 12 years old. Fifteen percent of children first encounter it at age 10 or younger. This isn’t a moral panic. It’s a neuroscience problem. The adolescent brain is still building the neural architecture that will govern impulse control, bonding, and sexual function for the rest of that person’s life. And it’s being shaped by the most potent dopamine-delivery system ever created.Continue reading…Behind the Curtain: Sam’s superintelligence New Dealby Mike Allen, Jim VandeHeiOpenAI CEO Sam Altman is doing something no tech titan has ever done: He’s publishing a detailed blueprint for how government should tax, regulate and redistribute the wealth from the very technology he’s racing to build and spread.Why it matters: Altman told us in a half-hour interview that AI superintelligence is so close, so mind-bending, so disruptive that America needs a new social contract — on the scale of the Progressive Era in the early 1900s, and the New Deal during the Great Depression.The big picture: The threats of inaction or slow action are grave, Altman warns — widespread job loss, cyberattacks, social upheaval, machines man can’t control. The two most immediate threats, he said, are cyberattacks and biological attacks:We’ve told you that top tech, business and government officials fear profound advances in soon-to-be-released AI models could enable a world-shaking cyberattack this year. “I think that’s totally possible,” Altman said. “I suspect in the next year, we will see significant threats we have to mitigate from cyber.”Continue reading…Trump’s Easter Ultimatum: Open the (Expletive) Strait or Elseby Kurt NimmoIt was a few minutes past five in the morning on Easter Sunday, April 5 when President Trump, with all the élan of a drunken sailor suffering from coprolalia, mounted his social media and posted the following:Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMPTrump’s outburst is more than a simple case of histrionic personality disorder. His frustration over the inability to have Iranians submit to the destruction of their country, culture, and religion (that Trump mocked in his post) is an affront, or more accurately afrunter, a verb which means “to defy.” For the most powerful malignant narcissist in the world, such noncompliance is a cardinal sin and rationale for murdering more grade school girls.It was Albert Einstein who quipped that the “definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Trump keeps trying to intimidate the Iranians, but he is getting nowhere, and this prompts him to double-down with threats and insults.Continue reading…The Non-Zionist Israeli Population Could Save the DayBy Paul Craig RobertsTrump’s blustering April Fool’s day speech would easily have served as a hilarious April Fool’s day joke. But it was just bluster to take the place of the discarded 10-day ultimatum that replaced the discarded 5-day ultimatum with a 3 or 4 week ultimatum. As I asked, if Iran is as totally destroyed as Trump asserts, what is the purpose of Trump’s ultimatum?Time is running out for Trump, not for Iran. The last time an American president took America to war Constitutionally was 1941 when Congress gave the executive branch permission to enter the war with the Constitutionally required Congressional Declaration of War. As time went by Congress finally responded to presidential decisions to go to war without a Congressional declaration of war not by impeaching the President, which should have been done in order to protect the Constitutional political order and separation of powers, but by requiring the president who initiates military action without Congressional approval to come to Congress with a deadline of 60 days after initiating military action for congressional approval to continue the military action.Continue reading…In Japan, the robot isn’t coming for your job; it’s filling the one nobody wantsby Kate ParkPhysical AI is emerging as one of the next major industrial battlegrounds, with Japan’s push driven more by necessity than anything else. With workforces shrinking and pressure mounting to sustain productivity, companies are increasingly deploying AI-powered robots across factories, warehouses, and critical infrastructure.Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said in March 2026 that it aims to build a domestic physical AI sector and capture a 30% share of the global market by 2040. The country already holds a strong position in industrial robotics, with Japanese manufacturers accounting for about 70% of the global market in 2022, according to the ministry.Based on conversations with investors and industry executives, TechCrunch explored what’s driving that shift, how Japan’s approach differs from the U.S. and China, and where value is likely to emerge as the technology matures.Several factors are driving adoption in Japan, including cultural acceptance of robotics, labor shortages driven by demographic pressures, and deep industrial strength in mechatronics and hardware supply chains, Woven Capital managing director Ro Gupta told TechCrunch.Continue reading…Trump Threatens To ‘Take Out Entire Country Of Iran’ Tomorrow Night, Demands ‘Free Traffic Of Oil’ In Hormuzby Tyler DurdenTrump threatens “Iran can be taken out in one night… maybe tomorrow”; Warns ‘every bridge and power plant’ will be destroyedWSJ reports US military is making preparations for potential strikes on energy targets in Iran. Universities and airports are already being hit.A Sunday night Axios report on a US-proposed 45-day ceasefire has by Monday morning been rejected by Iran, which later on Monday issued a 10-point letter via Pakistan.Israel strikes large petrochemical plant at South Pars, which is responsible for half of the country’s petrochemical production.Continue reading…Warning From The Heartland: Historic Drought And Unexpected Fertilizer Shortages Could Mean Massive Crop Lossesby Michael SnyderFarmers all over America are on edge right now, and I certainly can’t blame them. The war in the Middle East has created a fertilizer crisis at the worst time possible. As you will see below, if nitrogen fertilizer is not applied to wheat, corn and rice at the proper time, there is no hope of recovery later. Since it does not appear that the Strait of Hormuz will be reopened any time soon, there will be serious crop losses in the United States, and in poorer countries throughout the world it will be even worse.Meanwhile, most of the country is experiencing at least some level of drought right now. If you check out the latest map from the U.S. Drought Monitor, it looks like a horror show. Even if there was no war going on in the Middle East, farmers in the U.S. would still be facing a nightmarish drought that never seems to end.In Colorado, one family that had planned to go skiing during spring break decided to go to the beach instead because of the extremely dry conditions…Stretching out in their beach chairs as the temperature climbed toward 70 degrees, Seth and Renee McLaughlin watched their three kids play in the sand on what was supposed to be a family ski trip.Continue reading…New Pedo Protector Attorney General Same As The Old Pedo Protector Attorney General: DOJ Is DONE Releasing Epstein Filesby Steve WatsonIn a move sparking fresh skepticism among Americans demanding full accountability, the new acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has declared the Jeffrey Epstein files chapter closed. This came just hours after President Trump reassigned Pam Bondi, with Blanche — Trump’s former personal attorney — stepping in as acting AG and signaling it’s time to move on from the scandal.“The DOJ has now released ALL the files with respect to the Epstein saga,” Blanche stated on Fox News. He added, “I think that to the extent the Epstein files was a part of the past year of this Justice Department, it should not be a part of anything going forward.”Jesse Watters pressed Blanche directly on whether he thought Bondi mishandled the Epstein files. Blanche responded, “First of all, I have never heard President Trump say that the Attorney General was, that anything that happened to her had anything to do with the Epstein files. So look, the Epstein files has been a saga that’s lasted for the entire for the past year.” He further defended the process, noting that Bondi and he “appeared in front of Congress voluntarily a couple weeks ago to answer any questions they had” and made documents available for review.When Watters asked, “Who was Epstein spying for?” Blanche replied, “I don’t know that he was spying for anybody. Nobody’s ever said that.” He claimed there is “no evidence in the Epstein files” suggesting Epstein worked for a foreign country.Continue reading…USA Could Engage in Provocations for a Global Attack Against Iranby Alexandr SvarancIt’s not the first time the United States has attempted to justify its aggressive Middle East policy with false information. In 2003, to justify the invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, the administration of Republican President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell misled the international community regarding Saddam Hussein’s possession of nuclear weapons.Less than a quarter of a century later, another Republican president, Donald Trump, having launched two military campaigns against Iran over a six-month period under pressure from Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, has once again introduced the false claim of an alleged nuclear threat and an Iranian strike against the United States. However, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, Iranian authorities – including President Masoud Pezeshkian – and the US security services have not actually confirmed the existence of such a threat from the Islamic Republic.Iran, like other states, cannot be denied the right to develop its national nuclear program.Had Tehran possessed nuclear weapons, Israel and the US would not have attacked IranContinue reading…Iran War Blowback: Iraqi Resistance Targets U.S. Forces in Biggest Escalation Since 2003by Robert Inlakesh MPN.news,The US-Israeli attack on Iran has revived a 23 year old war front in Iraq, a blowback against the US military that continues over two decades after the US invasion and occupation of Iraq.Unlike in 2003, today’s Iraqi resistance is proving capable of successfully combating American forces and it appears to be adapting tactics used in the Russia-Ukraine war.A force, born out of the disastrous rise of Daesh (ISIS) in Iraq, is now turning its guns on another invading army, reviving bad blood between Washington and Baghdad that spans decades. The Iraqi front in the ongoing regional war could prove to be one of the most decisive, as the Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU/PMF/Hashd al-Sha’abi) could muster up to 250,000 fighters if fully mobilised.Following Iran’s March 1st announcement of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei’s assassination, a series of Iraqi armed factions began launching drone and missile attacks against a broad range of US military targets throughout the country. Most prominent amongst them have been Saraya Awilya al-Dam (Guardians of the Blood Brigades) and an umbrella group called the Islamic Resistance in Iraq.Continue reading…Is Trump Purging Generals Opposed to a Ground War in Iran, or is it Something Bigger?by Larry C JohnsonSoldiers talk, and the talk on social media from active duty and retired US Army Rangers and others is largely expressing shock and outrage over the forced resignations of Gen. Randy A. George, Gen. David M. Hodne and Maj. Gen. William “Bill” Green Jr. The word on the street is that General George opposes launching a ground attack in Iran. Before exploring the implications of this, I want to introduce you to these three men.Gen. Randy A. George is the 41st Chief of Staff of the US Army. He was commissioned as an infantry officer from West Point in 1988 and has served in major command and joint leadership roles across the Army. George entered the Army as an infantry officer and served in combat and command assignments in the Gulf War, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He commanded at the company, battalion, brigade, division, and corps levels, which is a common progression for senior Army leaders. Before becoming Chief of Staff, he served as the 38th Vice Chief of Staff of the Army and as senior military assistant to the Secretary of Defense. He also commanded the 4th Infantry Division and I Corps Chief of Staff George assumed duties as Army Chief of Staff on September 21, 2023. During his tenure, he focused on preparing the Army for large-scale combat, improving recruiting, countering drones, and modernizing long-range weapons and industrial support.Continue reading…Anthropic Number One AI in Ranking and Revenue – Making $30 Billion Per Yearby Brian WangAnthropic signed a new agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity that we expect to come online starting in 2027. This significant expansion of their compute infrastructure will power our frontier Claude models and help us serve extraordinary demand from customers worldwide.The run-rate revenue has now surpassed $30 billion—up from approximately $9 billion at the end of 2025. When we announced our Series G fundraising in February, we shared that over 500 business customers were each spending over $1 million on an annualized basis. Today that number exceeds 1,000, doubling in less than two months.The vast majority of the new compute will be sited in the United States, making this partnership a major expansion of our November 2025 commitment to invest $50 billion in strengthening American computing infrastructure.Anthropic revenue (annualized):Continue reading…Ranked: Currencies Soaring Against the U.S. DollarBy Jenna Ross – Article & Editing Julia Wendling – Graphics & Design Jennifer West, Zack AboulazmWhen comparing the currencies of large countries against the U.S. dollar, the Israeli shekel has risen the most, soaring 20.2% higher in the last year.The Colombian peso ranks second, rising 19.70% against the U.S. dollar, followed by the South African rand at 16.4%.Over the past year, several global currencies have posted double-digit gains against the U.S. dollar. Shifting capital flows, changing monetary policy expectations, and improving domestic fundamentals have all played a role.Created in partnership with Terzo, this graphic shows which currencies have seen the largest gains against the U.S. dollar. It’s part of our Markets in a Minute series, which delivers quick economic insights for executives.Continue reading…Sedentary Adulthood Increases Biological Stress Levels by Middle Ageby Dr. Joseph MercolaLong-term physical inactivity allows biological stress to build by midlife, even when weight, routine lab results, and fitness tests appear normalAdults who remain inactive across adulthood carry higher strain across blood pressure, blood sugar, inflammation, waist size, heart rate, and stress hormonesRestoring regular movement later in life lowers biological stress to levels similar to those who stayed active all along, showing the body recalibratesConsistent physical activity protects your heart and blood vessels by improving circulation, reducing inflammation, and stabilizing blood sugar during midlifeContinue reading…Indoor Plants Help Create Healthier Buildingsby Dr. Joseph MercolaPeople spend roughly 90% of their lives indoors, which means the air quality, humidity, and environmental conditions inside homes and workplaces strongly influence comfort, cognitive performance, and long-term healthIndoor plants improve indoor environmental quality by increasing humidity, influencing air quality, and making rooms feel cooler and more comfortable through the natural release of moisture from their leavesLarger indoor plant systems such as plant walls or dense plant groupings make indoor spaces feel up to two degrees cooler even when the thermostat setting remains unchangedPoor indoor conditions — including weak ventilation, indoor pollutants, mold, and smoke exposure — worsen respiratory symptoms and contribute to breathing problems such as asthmaContinue reading…Sayer Ji: They Called it “Alternative.” [Medicine] – It was Always the Originalby Sayer JiLet’s begin with a question that should unsettle anyone who has ever been told that natural medicine is “alternative”: alternative to what, exactly?Not to the medicine of 1899. Not to the medicine of 1932. Not, in fact, to any era of medicine prior to the mid-twentieth century, when a legal and commercial infrastructure was deliberately built to ensure that the only substances recognized as “drugs” would be those that could be patented, manufactured at scale, and sold for profit.Before that infrastructure existed, the original medicine was plant medicine. And the documentation proving it is hiding in plain sight.The Merck Manual is the oldest continuously published English-language medical textbook and, by most measures, the best-selling medical textbook in the world. Its first edition, published in New York in 1899 by George Merck — founder of what would become a $43 billion pharmaceutical empire — was not a catalog of synthetic drugs. It was a compendium of natural ones.Continue reading…The Debt Spiral That Ends in Dollar Destruction: 6 Hard Truths America Can No Longer Ignoreby Nick Giambruno“Whenever governments are granted power to purchase their own debt, they never fail to do so, eventually destroying the value of the currency.” – Ron PaulLet’s take a step back and look at the big picture so we can assess the US government’s financial situation, where it’s likely headed, and what these trends could mean.Among the biggest expenditures for the US government are so-called entitlements like Social Security and Medicare.It’s unlikely any politician will cut entitlements. On the contrary, I expect them to continue growing.Continue reading…Matt Bracken: We are entering the Great Energy World Warby Matt BrackenI think it will be called the Great Energy World War, but perhaps in time it will take on a different name. WW3 and WW4 are too ambiguous; has WW3 already happened? So in my mind, it’s the GEWW.This complex multi-player war will be about energy flows between the major national suppliers and the major national consumers. It will not be confined to the Middle East. Refineries, LNG plants (liquefaction and gasification) and even tankers on the high seas will eventually be attacked.Already we have seen Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian oil infrastructure near St. Petersburg. Flying over NATO countries to detour around Belarus and Russian territory until the final approach, these drones covered more than 1,000 KM.And we have seen a major fire at the Valero refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. This may have been an accident, but sabotage cannot be discounted. Disgruntled or hostile employees know the most dangerous attack vectors, because they are exactly the opposite of their deep safety training.There was also just a major fire in Panama that put the Bridge of the Americas at risk. If this bridge collapsed, it would close the Panama Canal.Continue reading…Tax Season: The Forced Idolatry of Corruptionby Donald JeffriesI’m writing this at Eastertime, so Happy Easter to all of you. The Resurrection of our Lord is the cornerstone of our Christian faith. It is also the time of renewal, when the birds return from the south, and the plants and flowers bloom gloriously. The weather warms up, and the miracle of life is on display everywhere.But it’s also a time when we are reminded, with a figurative blow to the head, that we must submit to the tyrants who misrule us at every level. If you don’t file your taxes, the IRS may be coming for you. You know, the agency that Trump talked about abolishing last year. Right around the same time he suggested that we may not need any more taxes. Right about the time he proposed that no one making less than $250,000 pay taxes. I liked that Trumpenstein a lot better than the delirious warmonger we have now. Trump promised to get rid of taxes on tips. And overtime. And important from my perspective, on Social Security. Thanks to “anti-tax” legend Ronald Reagan, the elderly began paying taxes on their Social Security payments in the 1980s, if they had more than a token amount of other income. Of course, this was the definition of a double tax, since those monthly payments are simply returning in increments your money that was involuntarily withheld from you as an employee.Continue reading…Israel Goes Rogue: “Unprecedented” Bombardment Of Lebanonby Celia FarberClip here.Continue reading…The Terrifying Real Reason For Jeffrey Epstein’s Remote Zorro Ranch Emerges When You Examine the Ranch Next Doorby Alisa Valdes-RodriguezPlease note: What follows is analysis and hypothesis based upon available facts. To “prove” all of it would require a level of security clearance and access to classified intelligence documents I do not possess.In September 1945, President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9621 and abolished the Office of Strategic Services — the wartime intelligence agency that had run covert operations across Europe and Asia for the duration of World War II. Truman was a plain-spoken man from Missouri who did not believe a democracy needed a secret intelligence apparatus in peacetime. He dissolved the OSS and sent its men home.Not all of them were happy about it.The OSS had attracted a particular kind of American — young, educated, ambitious, comfortable with secrecy, thrilled by consequence. Many had, for the first time in their lives, felt both the specific gravity that comes from operating outside normal rules in service of large stakes. It was addictive, as was the sense of belonging this secret brotherhood conferred. Some of these men were brilliant. Some were ruthless. Many had to be both. What most of them shared was that the war that horrified the world had given them something they’d never had before: Importance. And they did not want it to end.Continue reading…Planet Labs Restricts Iran War Images Following U.S. Government RequestbyVeronika KyrylenkoA major commercial satellite imaging company, Planet Labs, announced to its customers it is no longer openly posting imagery from Iran and nearby war zones. The company said it was acting after a U.S. government request.The move lands as reports mount of U.S. and Israeli strikes on civilian infrastructure. That includes bridges, power facilities, educational and cultural sites, churches, and petrochemical plants — targets that may amount to war crimes under the Geneva Convention. It also comes as President Donald Trump has just gone fully unhinged and genocidal in his threats. He declared in a Tuesday Truth Social post, “A whole civilization will die tonight.” That followed an expletive-laden Easter post promising “hell” if Iran failed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.At the same time, estimates of how much Iran’s military capabilities have actually been degraded remain highly contested, undercutting official claims of “overwhelming” success. Meanwhile, Iranian officials and analysts describe serious damage to U.S. facilities and assets in the region, claims Washington largely denies.Continue reading…TheyLied: Bilderberg 2026 Participants & Agenda Revealedby TheyLied Substack“The world’s most powerful predators are back behind closed doors at the ultra-secretive Bilderberg conference. With no press, no minutes and no accountability. Just bankers, billionaires, warlords, tech tyrants, and media gatekeepers deciding your future while you’re not invited. In this video Dan Dicks of Press For Truth goes over the “official” participants list and the agenda for this year in detail!”from https://bilderbergmeetings.org/meetings/meeting-2026/press-release-2026WASHINGTON, D.C., 9 April 2026 – The 72nd Bilderberg Meeting will take place from 9 – 12 April 2026 in Washington, D.C., USA. As ever, a diverse group of political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia and media has been invited. The list of participants is available here.In alphabetical order, the topics for discussion this year are:Continue reading…Upcoming Liberty EventsGreat Homeschool Convention – Ohio, Cincinnati, OH, US, April 9th – 11th, 2026Red Pill Friends April Tour ‘26, Black Mountain, NC; Bon Aqua, TN; Memphis, TN; Tulsa, OK & Bandera, TX, US, April 16th – 28th, 2026California’s Decline: A Warning to America, San Diego, CA, US, April 25th, 2026LibertyCon Europe, Madrid, Spain, April 24th – 26th, 2026The People vs Poison, Washington, D.C., US, April 27th, 2026Mid-Continent Liberty Festival, Spavinaw, OK, US, April 29th – May 4th, 2026Buenos Aires Anarchist Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 1st – 3rd, 2026Upstate Anarchist Book Fair, Binghamton, NY, US, May 2nd – 3rd, 2026Constellation Anarchist Festival, Montreal, Canada, May 14th – 20th, 2026Derrick Broze (As 33), Prezence, and Dub FX – April 15th 2026, Seattle, WADerrick Broze w/ Prezence in Sedona – May 16th, 202654th Annual Rainbow Gathering, Northern California, US, July 1st – 7th, 2026FreedomPalooza 2026 – July 8th – 13th 2026, Northumberland, NHMidwest Peace & Liberty Fest, Lake Satoshi, MI, US, August 6th – 9th, 2026Liberty International World Conference, Kathmandu, Nepal, August 7th – 9th, 2026Northeast Unschooling Conference, Pittsfield, MA, US, August 15th – 18th, 2026International Conference for Anarchist Studies, Manchester, UK, August 26th – 28th, 2026Free Cities Conference, Roatan, Honduras, September 3rd – 6th, 2026VonuFest, Illinois, US, September 21st – 28th, 2026AnarCon, Gore, VA, US, September 25th – 27th, 2026Memes BonanzaTruth Music of the WeekA Lighter Note: A Band That’s Thrilling Audiences Across The Country, For Their Counter-Culture Folk Anthems, Making Art From The Shards Of The Shattered Propaganda Of The Covid Era: Red Pill Friendsby Celia FarberI love their music, and am proud to count them among my true friends.I was able to attend one of their live shows in Hudson Valley, NY, this winter, and it was like a secret tunnel to a world where Covid didn’t murder music. At least not all music.Not all groups with a “message” can also write brilliant, moving songs, but these guys have tapped into something so pure, it doubles as soul revival.They bring back that rare quality that got sucked out of the very air in the Covid era—conveying, with love, through great song writing—(in the tradition of folk music before it went statist,) the healing power of live music. Healing from sadness, from propaganda, from alienation—from humorlessness and sterility.Continue reading…libertarian Intentional Community Rounduplibertarian Intentional Community Roundup is where we cover libertarian and voluntaryist intentional communities and free private cities including Prospera (Honduras), The Free State Project (New Hampshire), Liberstad (Norway), Montelibero (Montenegro), Los Propietarios, (Argentina), Liberland (Croatia/Serbia border), Network States in general and Sea Steading (The Oceans). I am also covering secession movements including Greater Idaho, Please send details of any new happenings, projects or projects I am missing!The Free State Project Got It Backwardsby The Liberty LookoutIn 2001, a Yale grad student named Jason Sorens published an essay with a bold premise: libertarians were too spread out to win anything. His solution? Get 20,000 of them to move to one small state, take over the legislature, and shrink the government from the inside.Twenty-five years and roughly 6,000 movers later, the Free State Project has produced the most libertarian-friendly state legislature in America. About 150 representatives rated A- or above. The House Majority Leader is a Free Stater. Constitutional carry, school choice, no income tax, the first state Bitcoin reserve in the country.On March 26, 2020, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu issued Emergency Order #17: a stay-at-home order closing all nonessential businesses, effective midnight. On November 20, 2020, he imposed a statewide mask mandate. Violations carried $1,000 fines. Over the next 15 months, Sununu issued 74 emergency orders. The state of emergency lasted until June 11, 2021.This was the state with the most libertarian legislature in America. Thousands of liberty activists had spent nearly two decades concentrating there specifically to prevent this kind of thing.Continue reading…Era-Defining Leader Carla Gericke Steps Down and Passes the FSP BatonApril 6, 2026Etienne Note: Carla is stepping down.. I was in one of the pics they used for the press release.MANCHESTER, NH – An era-defining leader of the Free State Project (FSP), Carla Gericke, announced today that she is stepping down as Chairman of the organization’s Board of Directors — concluding seventeen years of leadership that helped shape the modern Free State movement.In her decision letter, Carla Gericke reflected on her time of service, writing:“I have had the honor of working with hundreds of Porcupine volunteers over the years. Thank you for standing by my side! The foundation we built together stands strong. The thousands who moved. The legislative footprint. The culture of liberty we strengthened in New Hampshire. The Free State thrives! The next chapter of the Free State Project belongs to the current paid leadership and board. Thank you for the opportunity to serve.”Across twenty-one years of continuous involvement with the Free State Project — and seventeen years in leadership — Carla Gericke built a record of achievement that stands as a model for all Free Staters:An early mover. Born in apartheid-era South Africa, Carla immigrated to the United States in the 1990s and built a successful legal career in Silicon Valley.An early signer with the Free State Project, Carla visited the third official Porcupine Freedom Festival in 2005. Three years later, she arrived in New Hampshire as mover number 516, alongside her husband, Louis, during a February blizzard.Continue Reading…The LiberatorGet a NEW 2026 Liberator for “Going Paid” (or upgrading from monthly) as a $50 Yearly Subscriber to This Substack.We just announced the BRAND NEW 2026 Liberator (Version 2.3), which includes the ePub versions of “Government” – The Biggest Scams in History Exposed! 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+ F.A. Hayek: The Intellectuals and SocialismEtienne Note: If the images aren’t visible, please try this browser LINK.Dear Subscribers,Apologies again for getting this out somewhat late…Short subscriber letter this week.My only thoughts are this war against Iran is a war against the American people being waged by the organized crime “government” against the people. It obviously isn’t in our interests to be jacking up the price we pay at the pump, driving up the debt, depleting our high-dollar munitions, and shutting off the nitrogen fertilizer to our farmers. It is a form of economic warfare against a population that is rapidly waking up to the illegitimacy and criminality of the “government.” They are bankrupting farmers and independent wealth while enriching the banks and Beltway Bandit-class.There is simply no one more over the target than the Art of Liberty Foundation! From exposing “Government” as The Greatest Scam in History… to exposing how the organized crime banks have used their puppets in “government” to implement fractional reserve banking and steal $2.7 MILLION from the AVERAGE American worker over a 40 year career and 20 year retirement…THAT is “Striking the Root…”THAT is why we are censored!THAT is why our mail goes into Spam… or doesn’t get delivered at all…THAT is why we are shadow banned on Facebook, X, and YouTube…THAT is why Substack won’t even send out half our Daily News and Five Meme Friday articles..THAT is what they don’t want people to know and understand..We are about to kick-off our 2026 sponsorship campaign to help us publicize our study on the theft of Fractional Reserve Banking. If you want to get a little payback and help expose the criminals who have robbed you for millions, we could use a couple of “heavy hitters” to help us anchor the campaign. Please email me at Etienne (at) ArtOfLiberty.org if you can help in a big way. We have some great perks to say THANK YOU! including a copy of the new 5.5 version of “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! You can support the Art of Liberty Foundation as a annual sponsor at:ArtOfLiberty.org/SponsorWe added a full methodology to our investigation: The Greatest Theft in Human History! Exposing the theft of inflation from fractional reserve banking (inflation + Cantillon effect + Compound Trap) + Federal/State/Local Taxes + Social Security Underpayment. We had to change the headline number to keep all four AI models in consensus so we had to update this meme. I explained the issue in detail in last week’s Five Meme Friday subscriber letter which you can find HERE.Top Stories of the WeekF.A. Hayek: The Intellectuals and SocialismChapter 1 from our FREE paperback book: Hayek for the 21st CenturyEtienne Note: This is the 2nd Article in our tribute to the great Austrian Economist Friedrich August von Hayek better known as F.A. Hayek. Some of Hayek’s core insights were that knowledge is dispersed across millions of individuals and cannot be aggregated by any central authority. Prices are information signals. When you override them with planning, you don’t just misallocate resources — you destroy the very mechanism by which society coordinates itself.But beyond economics, Hayek was a philosopher of spontaneous order — the idea that complex, functional systems emerge from human action without human design. Language, common law, markets, social norms — none are “planned,” and all work better than their planned alternatives. Hayek explained the a sophisticated intellectual framework for voluntaryism operating in practice.In this essay, Hayek describes almost our exact strategy behind the Art of Liberty Foundation — targeting intellectuals and the intelligentsia I.E. the “secondhand dealers in ideas” ( readers, visual learners, podcast audiences, Substack readers), offering a bold alternative vision (voluntaryism) rather than just critiquing the existing system, and understanding that the real battle is for perception, not for electoral outcomes which we are simultaneously exposing as illegitimate and easily rigged.Chapter One from Hayek for the 21st Century – Paperback available for Free with any purchase from ArtOfLiberty.org/Store, “Going Paid” on any of our Substacks or by paying S&H for the book. The copies are free thanks to the generosity of a donor to the Mises Institute and they have an offer with free S&H Here.Previous Chapters from Hayek for the 21st Century: Introduction by Thomas J DiLorenzo, President of the Mises Institute & Editor of Hayek for the 21st Century + Hayek bio, quotes, rap battles and memes!The Intellectuals and Socialismby F.A. HayekIIn all democratic countries, in the United States even more than elsewhere, a strong belief prevails that the influence of the intellectuals on politics is negligible. This is no doubt true of the power of intellectuals to make their peculiar opinions of the moment influence decisions, of the extent to which they can sway the popular vote on questions on which they differ from the current views of the masses. Yet over somewhat longer periods they have probably never exercised so great an influence as they do today in those countries. This power they wield by shaping public opinion.Continue Reading…Etienne De La Boetie2 on Doc Malik’s Podcast: The Power You Gave Away, Why We Obey and How to StopEtienne de la Boetie2: My real name is Howard, but I usually go by my pen name, Etienne de la Boetie. If you want to talk about that, we can.Doc Malik:I know. But is your real name, like, a secret?Etienne de la Boetie2: Well, it’s not a secret in the sense… do you want to do this on screen, or do you want to do this in the interview or before we do it?Doc Malik: We’re recording now. It’s whatever you like.The Rest of the Transcript… Illustrated with Etienne’s memes, visualizations, and slides!Continue reading…Videos of the WeekYour WiFi Can See You. Here’s How.By Donna HancockYour WiFi is constantly painting a spatial picture of your home, and until recently, nobody was reading it. It turns out the same radio waves carrying your Netflix stream also encode the shape, movement, and identity of every person in the room.Xfinity already shipped this as a feature. Carnegie Mellon proved you can reconstruct full body poses through walls using nothing but WiFi. A 2025 paper showed you can re-identify specific individuals from their biometric signature in the signal. And the gap between “detect motion” and “identify the person” is a software update on hardware you already own.This video traces that same physics from your living room to a $1B startup called ZaiNar that spent 9 years in stealth synchronizing WiFi and 5G signals for sub-meter indoor positioning, to Anduril’s $60B electromagnetic warfare platform, to HawkEye 360’s satellite constellation that geolocates every RF emitter on the planet.Radio waves were never just dumb pipes. They’re a sensing modality, and they’re about to reshape physical AI, robotics, and home automation in ways most people haven’t even considered yet.Continue reading…“Government”, Media and AcademiaCriminality ExposedThese articles also appears in “Government”, Media and Academia Criminality Exposed, A digest of HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of articles exposing and suggesting inter-generational organized crime’s control of the “Government,” Media and Academia by the Art of Liberty Foundation. You can view the other articles or subscribe on Telegram: https://t.me/Government_ScamsIran War: We Follow The Money (To Mar-A-Lago)by The Democracy DefenderListen to this article:The Second Article In This Series is Up Now: Click HereHere is a number to sit with: $2,000 per truckload.Continue reading…Israeli major ‘made $160,000 in Polymarket bet using classified information on Israeli bombing campaign in Iran’by OLIVIA ALLHUSEN, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTERAn Israeli air force major is accused of raking in more than $160,000 by betting on the timing of Israel‘s bombing campaign against Iran using classified military information.The reservist officer allegedly tipped off a civilian accomplice about the launch of the strikes, allowing the pair to place winning bets on the Polymarket prediction site ahead of the operation.A court in Tel Aviv heard the major had been briefed on the planned assault at a confidential meeting a day before Israel’s opening strikes on June 13, 2025.Continue reading…The Stealing of America: You’re Not a Citizen—You’re a Revenue Stream for the Power Eliteby John & Nisha Whitehead“There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.”—Adam Smith, Wealth of NationsYou’re not imagining it.Everything costs more. Everything is monitored.Continue reading…The Art of Liberty Foundation… in Spanish!We are adding a new section to Five Meme Friday to promote our new Substack, Telegram group, Instagram, and translations of To See the Cage is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many in Spanish. Please tell your Spanish speaking friends! “Go Paid” on our Spanish Substack to support getting voluntaryist ideas, books, and memes translated into Spanish AND get a free paperback copy of To See the Cage is To Leave It in Latin American Spanish.La Filosofia de la LibertadPor Ken SchoollandLa libertad no es un regalo del gobierno, es un derecho de nacimiento. A menudo escuchamos hablar de leyes, mandatos y obligaciones, pero pocas veces nos detenemos a reflexionar sobre la base de todo: la propiedad sobre uno mismo.En el video de hoy, exploramos los principios fundamentales de la libertad individual a través de un mensaje que ha despertado conciencias en todo el mundo. Basado en las palabras de Ken Schoolland, este video es una brújula para quienes buscan entender por qué la libertad es innegociable.Continuar leyendo…“Daily News of The Week”Trump Asks Congress To Pass Clean Reauthorization Of FISA Spy Powersby Tyler DurdenAuthored by Joseph Lord and Nathan Worcester via The Epoch Times,President Donald Trump asked Congress this week to pass a clean reauthorization of a critical—but controversial—spying authority as the U.S. military operation in Iran continues.“I have called for a clean 18-month extension,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social, noting that Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) are working toward passing such a bill.Specifically, Trump is asking Congress to extend the authorities in Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a sweeping War on Terror-era spying authority that has seen wide abuse by federal intelligence agencies in the past.Continue reading…Dutch Lawyer Tells Amsterdam Court: COVID Shots Responsible for the “Largest Genocide of the World’s Population Ever”by John C.A. ManleyBlazing Reader,On March 9, Dutch attorney Peter Stassen told the Amsterdam Court of Appeal that the COVID-19 vaccination program has resulted in “the largest genocide of the world’s population ever.”Here in the Netherlands, the court case against Bill Gates, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla and former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (among other genocidal individuals) is still moving through the pre-trial procedures — with Stassen appealing for the right to present testimonies from experts exposing large-scale deception, harm and deaths in relation to the COVID-19 measures and narrative.Stassen bravely told the court (in Dutch) that the COVID-19 mRNA injections are a “military biological weapon system” and that “COVID-19 was not a public health incident, but a covert global military operation.”Continue reading…Simplicius Iran Update: Essential US AWACS Plane Destroyed Amidst New Iranian Attacks, as US Continues Losing Critical Capability in Regionby SimpliciusUSS Tripoli has finally arrived in the CENTCOM region, which presumably means somewhere in the northern Arabian Sea. Given that the Lincoln was said to have scurried away to a 1,000km distance, we can only assume the Tripoli will keep a similar range away from Iranian missiles while Trump continues to bide his time with his weak-handed bluffs.In the meantime, US losses have mounted in the region. Today came the following announcements:Saudi Arabian Prince Sultan Airbase was hit with many US KC-135s damaged and destroyed:Pro-IRGC outlets have released satellite imagery showing heavy damage across the main tarmac at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, with large fires still burning in the aftermath of an IRGC missile strike.Three U.S. Air Force KC-135 tankers were reportedly destroyed, with additional aircraft severely damaged.Continue reading…Financial Expert Edward Dowd Warns of 40% to 50% Drop in Stock Market and 30% Decline in Home Pricesby Miles FranklinEdward Dowd, an investment analyst who formerly managed a $14 billion equity growth fund at BlackRock, warned of a major economic downturn before the war with Iran began. He emphasized that the war will exacerbate the three major risks that he identified. He said that the price of homes are too high and will fall by 30%, which will cause recessionary problems as the housing market accounts for 20% of the US economy. The second problem is the artificial intelligence (AI) bubble that is very expensive and businesses have yet to implement AI. He predicted that the stock marked will plummet by 40% to 50%. He explained that China is also in trouble as it has a demographic problem with dwindling population and massive amounts of debt.While headlines focus on the Iran war and geopolitics, Edward Dowd warns the real breakdown is already underway beneath the surface of the U.S. economy. From a weakening housing market to a bursting AI bubble and a frozen private credit system, Dowd argues that the conditions for a major downturn were already in place – before the war even began. He explains why any relief rally driven by geopolitical optimism could be a selling opportunity, why a 40-50% market crash remains on the table, and how structural risks in housing, credit, and global growth are converging. Dowd also shares his outlook on China’s slowing economy, the Federal Reserve’s limited options, and why he believes gold remains in a long-term bull market – even after recent volatility. In this episode of The Real Story with Michelle Makori:Why the real economic breakdown has already startedHousing market weakness and why prices may need to fallContinue reading…AI Traffic Cameras Now Sending Drivers Tickets for Loud ExhaustBy Kim KomandoYou already know about speed cameras. Red light cameras. Toll cameras that photograph your plate and bill you later.Now meet their cousin. Noise cameras are the newest automated enforcement technology spreading through American cities. A pole-mounted device contains sensitive microphones paired with a license plate camera.Your car drives past. If your exhaust tips over the legal decibel limit, a ticket arrives in your mailbox days later. No warning. No officer pulling you over. No flashing lights in your rearview mirror. Just a microphone that never blinks, never takes a break and never misses a shift.New York City has been running these since 2021. The cameras have issued more than 1,600 violations and collected nearly $2 million in fines. Get caught once, and you’re looking at $800. Get caught repeatedly, and the fine climbs to $2,500.Continue reading…New lawsuit alleges DraftKings and FanDuel are digital heroinby Judd LegumA new product liability lawsuit alleges that the online sportsbooks DraftKings and FanDuel use a variety of sophisticated tactics to addict users, comparing their offerings to tobacco, cocaine, and heroin. The case, filed by the Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) at Northeastern University School of Law on behalf of two former gamblers, is being led by Richard Daynard — the same lawyer who secured a $206 billion settlement from the tobacco industry.Filed in Pennsylvania state court, the lawsuit argues that DraftKings and FanDuel are “defective” products that are fundamentally different from traditional sportsbooks. Specifically, the plaintiffs allege that the two companies “capture every aspect of a customer’s interaction in real-time through automated analytical tools, and then process the data through predictive algorithms to generate bets that are optimized to stimulate compulsive gambling.”When sports gambling was restricted to brick-and-mortar locations, “a person had to physically go to a casino or a sports bookmaker’s establishment with their money in hand to place their bet.” That meant gamblers were offered a limited number of bets — generally on the winner of the game or the total points scored — that had to be placed before the game started. The outcome, crucially, was decided hours later when the game concluded.DraftKings and FanDuel, on the other hand, use advanced analytics to offer near-instantaneous real-time bets throughout every game. In a typical NFL game, for example, the companies take real-time bets on “whether the next play in the game will be a passing or running play, or whether the outcome of the next play will be yards gained, yards lost, an incompletion, a touchdown, or a turnover.”Continue reading…Multipolarity As World Government 3.0 & Its Pied Pipersby Geopolitics & Empire“BRICS” has been around for over a decade. The term “multipolarity” on the other hand, has been bandied about for at least over half a century. “BRICS multipolarity” is sold as a counter-weight and dialectical response or solution to Western imperial globalism. But is it really?It has been my belief for years that BRICS multipolarity is nothing more than the next logical progression and iteration of Western-directed globalism toward the long-planned and desired East-West convergence into a singular World Federation, World Government, and/or World State by the transnational class, which is principally stationed in the West, but has long-since penetrated the East. We are witnessing the onboarding of the East into the Western globalist-led one-world government, not the other way around.For centuries the Third World or Global South have been disenfranchised by Western empire. Now has come the time to incorporate the Global South into the Western empire to at last complete the project for proper and total world empire.There are no good guys here, no good actors. Every nation state is run by an oligarchic cartel and mafia, penetrated by the international class. Ask any average citizen of any country and many will tell you that yes, their government is corrupt and run by an oligarchy that extracts as much as it can for itself and cares nothing for its citizenry. That has been my experience living in America, Croatia, México, Kazakhstan, and visiting Russia.Continue reading…COVID shots increased cancer rates. Dr. Paul Marik, formerly the chair of intensive care medicine at East Virginia Med School, decided to do something about it.by Meryl NassPaul Marik is a phenomenal doctor and researcher who thinks outside the box. He is also an amazing, kind human being. Like its ferociousness toward me, the system went after him: after all, it would not do for a Medical School Department Head to use ivermectin and save COVID lives.Paul Marik was one of the founders of the FLCCC, now the IMA.And with no axe to grind wrt cancer, with no pharma sponsorship and no longer a medical school sinecure, Dr. Marik could dive into the cancer literature, look at it dispassionately, and come up with some very useful answers—using supplements and off-patent drugs that no one will get rich off.He has recently begun a substack, and I encourage you to subscribe to it:Continue reading…The Hidden Dangers of Hospital Births & How to Protect Your Familyby A Midwestern DoctorStory at a Glance:•Childbirth is one of the most important moments in our life. Unfortunately, it has been medicalized and has shifted from being viewed as a natural life event supported by local midwives to an emergency requiring urgent hospital care.•Many of the interventions used during routine hospital births (and beforehand like ultrasound) are quite questionable, and have a variety of side effects, including making you likely to need more interventions (which also have side effects) and having difficulty bonding with your baby.•This assembly line frequently leads to mothers getting C-section surgeries—something quite problematic for both the mother and the long-term health of the child.Continue reading…The Staged ‘War’ Between the U.S., Israel, and Iran Is a Trapby Gary D. Barnett“The human mind, in taking us down the path of technocracy, has become the adversary of life itself and collaterally the adversary of the human soul.”Konrad LorenzWhat began by looking like a simple and horrible ‘war’ of brutal aggression against Iran by the U.S on orders from Zionist Israel, has now shown its real colors. It has become impossible to view this as any real ‘war,’ and it has become obvious that this strategy, all these false flags; are at best a coordinated effort by those globalist oligarchs striving to digitize, starve, and control the world through technocratic means. This is all being played out with a particular script meant to achieve multiple agendas, nefarious all, and to in essence, figuratively capture and cage all of the masses, taking control by psychological, digital, and physical measures to eliminate much of society while taming and altering the rest. All of this is contingent on eliminating the individual.At this point in time, it seems to be assured that more fakery is coming, and it is quite apparent that one or more major false flag events will soon be unleashed in order to terrify the general population, and shift sentiment so that the herd reverts back to supporting government tyranny steeped in atrocious nationalism over freedom. The telegraphing of these predicted (pre-planned and staged) events is brutally apparent, and by multiple mouthpieces. Headlines (propaganda) abound forecasting specific attacks that will cause outrage by the pathetic peons toward a so-called one or another targeted ‘enemy.’ Anything to keep a ‘war’ environment in place, with hate as the common glue of the proletariat.Continue reading…Trump Goes Commandoby Ken KlippensteinMost Americans are bracing for a massive ground invasion of Iran, one that military sources tell me will not happen. That’s because there’s another plan entirely.What’s in store is a “raid,” all of these sources agree.Of course, it all depends on what Donald Trump orders, and sources say they don’t know what that might be on any given day. So they offer the White House different alternatives, highlighting the cost for operations that they don’t want to undertake and focusing on the epic, derring-do nature of those that they would prefer.Planning for small raids onto Iranian soil has taken over as the favored outcome, I’m told, operations that would be carried out by commandos rather than conventional soldiers.Continue reading…Simplicius Iran Update: Trump Signals Final Sadistic Punishment as Consolation For Lost Warby SimpliciusEvents are unfolding precisely as we had predicted last time. Trump has issued a “final ultimatum” to Iran, indicating that the US is ready to pull the plug after a final sadistic sore loser’s lash-out on Iran’s civilian infrastructure:“…we will conclude our lovely “stay” in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!)…”How sick and cynically vindictive can this administration get?Even the befuddled presstitute corps could not but question Trump’s open plans for committing mass war crimes:Continue reading…Claude Code can now take over your computer to complete tasksby Kyle OrlandAnthropic is joining the increasingly crowded field of companies with AI agents that can take direct control of your local computer desktop. The company has announced that Claude Code (and its more casual user-oriented Claude Cowork) can now “point, click, and navigate what’s on your screen” to “open files, use the browser, and run dev tools automatically” when necessary to complete tasks.When possible, Anthropic says Claude Code and Cowork will still prioritize using Connectors to directly access and control outside apps or data sources. When that connection isn’t available, though, those tools are now able to ask permission to “scroll, click to open, and explore as needed” on the machine itself to do what’s asked. This kind of direct control of the computer can also be initiated and managed remotely via Claude’s Dispatch tool as long as the target computer remains powered on.An Anthropic video shows some examples of tasks Claud Code can complete on your desktop via Dispatch.The new feature is now available to Claude Pro and Max subscribers using MacOS in what Anthropic calls a “research preview.” That means the system “won’t always work perfectly” and will sometimes require a “second try” for complex tasks, Anthropic warns. Completing tasks via “computer use” also “takes much longer and is more error-prone” than performing the same task via Connectors, the company writes.Continue reading…US deploys third aircraft carrier to Middle East amid preperations for Iran invasionby ynetThe United States is deploying another aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East, potentially bringing the total number of carriers in the region to three, according to officials cited by The Wall Street Journal.The USS George H.W. Bush, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, departed Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia on Tuesday alongside its accompanying warships, the U.S. Navy said in a statement. The deployment is expected to take several weeks before the group reaches the region.The move comes as President Donald Trump weighs additional military options related to Iran and as U.S. forces continue to build up in the Middle East.The USS Abraham Lincoln is currently operating in the Arabian Sea, while the USS Gerald R. Ford is docked in Croatia for repairs, according to U.S. officials cited by the Journal.Continue reading…Apple Forces iPhone Users To Prove Age With ID Or Lose Unrestricted Internet Accessby ModernityUK law requires internet users to confirm they are an adult by providing a credit card or scanning their ID, otherwise, they are forced to accept automatic web content filters that restrict access. 35 million Brits who have spent thousands on Apple iPhones are affected. The director of Big Brother Watch said: “Apple has crossed the Rubicon with this software update which is more like ransomware, holding customers hostage to ID demands that are invasive, exclusionary and unnecessary.”UK iPhone and iPad owners updating to the latest iOS 26.4 are now confronted with a stark choice: verify you are an adult by providing a credit card or scanning your ID, or accept automatic web content filters that restrict access.The message users see states clearly: “UK law requires you to confirm you are an adult to change content restrictions.”Those who do not confirm their age – or are found to be underage – have web content filters turned on automatically.Continue reading…Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1by Matt NovakIran’s military issued a new threat to 18 U.S. companies in the Middle East on Tuesday, pledging to strike “espionage entities” associated with the “warmongering government of the United States,” according to Iranian state media.The new threat specifically calls out tech companies like Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft, which Iran says has assisted in “US-Israeli terror operations,” since the war against the country was launched Feb. 28, according to Iran’s Press TV. A statement also called out hardware suppliers HP, Intel, IBM, and Cisco.The strikes against U.S. tech companies and properties are supposed to start April 1 at 8 p.m. local time in Iran, which is 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time. Many U.S. tech companies have offices in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Abu Dhabi, which could become targets of Iranian drone and missile attacks if the country follows through on its threat.“In response to this terrorist operation, henceforth, the main institutions involved in terrorist activities will be considered legitimate targets,” reads a statement to Press TV from Iran’s military, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC).Continue reading…Technate, Ohio: How Leslie Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein Built The Silicon Heartlandby Mark Goodwin and by Whitney WebbEarly last year, shortly after Donald Trump took office for his second term, former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy announced he was departing the recently-formed Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E) after reports of conflict with the department’s co-head, Elon Musk. Ramaswamy joined Fox News to clarify these rumors, and to tease his next endeavor –– holding public office. Ramaswamy noted Musk’s approach was “a technology approach,” whereas his was “focused more on a constitutional law, legislative-based approach.” He furthered, “when you’re talking about a constitutional revival, it’s not just done through the federal government, it’s done through federalism, where states also lead the way.” Despite their differences, Ramaswamy importantly remarked that they were both “on the same page” and that their attempts “in saving the country” required them to “divide and conquer.”Towards the end of the interview, Ramaswamy mentioned he was flying back to Ohio that week, with an announcement regarding his expressed intention of pushing for reform at the state level coming shortly. The former presidential hopeful explained that when “we look at the country over the last 20 years, Silicon Valley was at the bleeding edge of the American economy. I think the Ohio River Valley can be at the bleeding edge of the American economy for the next 20 years.” A few weeks later, Ramaswamy’s gubernatorial campaign for Ohio was announced and the former D.O.G.E. co-head was promptly endorsed by President Trump. Over the course of that campaign, Vivek’s fortunes have quite literally soared. Since launching his campaign, he has not only come to command a massive campaign war chest filled by deep-pocketed donors, but his own net worth has doubled.While many once labeled this campaign as a clear demotion for Ramaswamy, the reality of an emerging Ohio –– specifically as it relates to the technocratic goals of the Trump administration and its donors –– paints a vastly different picture. As noted in Iain Davis’ book The Technocratic Dark State, D.O.G.E. –– the agency Ramaswamy co-led –– is part of a larger effort led largely by a small group of the ultra-wealthy to completely privatize the public sector in the name of greater “efficiency” and have it ruled by “techno-kings” or dictator “CEOs.” Davis frames this as a modern iteration of technocracy, bolstered by tech billionaires with close ties to the Trump administration, such as Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. Thiel is the long-time benefactor of former Ohio Congressmen and current Vice President J.D. Vance. Notably, Ohio’s richest man Leslie Wexner, along with help from the infamous Jeffrey Epstein (a Thiel associate), has spent decades creating “partnerships” where private interests, including those he directly controls, dominate its state and local governments. In some cases, such as the Columbus suburb of New Albany, they have completely replaced them.Quietly over the last decade, Ohio has become a state of incredible national importance, as it continues to attract data centers from American “royalty” and Big Tech stalwarts into its friendly regulatory borders. But long before Amazon, Meta, Anduril, Microsoft and others took their power-hungry –– literally and figuratively –– refuge in the Buckeye State, the most well-known financier of Jeffrey Epstein, Leslie Wexner, and his extensive crime-linked network were laying the foundation for the new Silicon Valley, now known as the Silicon Heartland, along the Ohio River.Continue reading…Welfare doesn’t pull people out of poverty – economic growth and freedom doby Rhoda WilsonBefore the rapid expansion of the welfare state, most people were earning their way out of poverty. Across the world, economic growth driven by liberalisation helped pull almost one billion people out of extreme poverty from 1990 to 2010.In the USA, “The most powerful anti-poverty programme had no enrolment forms, caseworkers or spending bills. It was a growing economy that helped millions of people earn their way to a better life,” Tyler Turman writes.By Tyler Turman, as published by The Daily EconomyAmerica has spent more than $20 trillion on fighting poverty since the introduction of President Johnson’s Great Society programme in 1964. Sixty years later, how are we doing?That depends, as it turns out, on how you measure it.Continue reading…As Americans Go Broke, the US Empire Goes Full-on Bread and Circusby Matt AgoristHello, fellow free thinkers. Here is another weekly rant from yours truly. Watching the overt gaslighting and shameless self-promotion from the Trump administration — while Americans are being crushed — could be depressing and cause one to be black-pilled. But that Nihilism garbage is for the weak.I see this as a reason for optimism. The Empire is dying. People are furious that prices are skyrocketing, and instead of addressing this, Trump is putting his name on money!Nothing screams “thriving republic” quite like a politician autographing the fiat currency his government is actively inflating into oblivion. Am I Right?Now, Washington has quite literally resorted to bread and circuses, but it’s mostly just a clown show!I see more and more people waking up to this every day. You have to be blind not to see this facade for what it is. And this awakening gives me hope, and I hope it gives you hope too.What is ‘Bimbofication?’ Cross-dressing fetish goes viral after intimate photos of Kristi Noem’s husband Bryon are revealedby Marissa MatozzoIt started with a shocker: recent reporting revealed that former DHS secretary Kristi Noem’s husband allegedly led a secret life of adult roleplay.Bryon Noem’s particular fetish appears to be what’s known as “bimbofication.” But what is bimbofication — and how does it differ from more well-known kinks, like cross-dressing?Bimbofication is essentially turning yourself into the most hyper-feminine, Barbie-like version of yourself, regardless of gender, experts say.For some, that means huge boobs, heavy makeup, or provocative clothing.Continue reading…Lost Signals: New Study Shows How VAERS Buries Vaccine Harmby Independent Medical Alliance and Jessica RoseAmerica’s vaccine safety system already catches only a fraction of the harm that occurs. That much has been known for years. VAERS is a passive reporting system, and most adverse events are never reported at all.But what happens to the data that does make it in?A new study by Jessica Rose, a computational biologist, immunologist, and IMA Senior Fellow, shows that VAERS is losing critical safety data from the inside. The system’s own infrastructure is so outdated and poorly maintained that real signals of harm are being buried by fixable data problems. When Rose cleaned the data and reassembled what had been scattered, she found safety signals for fetal loss and cardiac arrest that had been there all along, invisible to anyone using the system as designed.“The main claim to fame here is that I pointed out some of the problems inherent in VAERS that most people, unless they’re using it as part of data analysis, wouldn’t really know about.” — Jessica RoseContinue reading…Patrick Wood just published a new book: The New Economics of Technocracy: You Will Own Nothing!by Patrick WoodI have spent nearly fifty years documenting a system that most people refused to believe existed. For all of those 50 years, the elites foolishly swept me aside as a “conspiracy theorist.” But I am still here, and I won’t go away. The evidence speaks for itself.The first time I put the endgame into words was in Technocracy Rising, published in 2015. I wrote then that if today’s technocrats were meticulously working toward a scientific dictatorship and applying a specific strategy to get there, they would have a specific list of criteria that must be met before “game over” is called. I asked: when that day comes, will they have the guts to shut the old world order down and simply declare the “system” as dictator?That was eleven years ago. They have now called “game over.” And it is moving so fast that society and governments cannot keep up to regulate or stop it.That is why I wrote this book.Continue reading…Struggling to navigate the Epstein files? Here is a visual guideBy Hanna Duggal and Marium AliMore details are emerging daily from the January 30 release of more than three million pages of documents by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), exposing the extraordinary breadth of Jeffrey Epstein’s social and financial circle, which included some of the world’s most powerful people.Epstein was an American financier and convicted sex offender who used his vast wealth and high-profile social connections to orchestrate a decade-long sex trafficking ring involving dozens of underage girls.As news organisations and citizen journalists work their way through the vast amount of material, Al Jazeera gives you the background you need to know about Epstein, his criminal cases, infamous island, inner circle, and the latest DOJ release to help you better understand the story.Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which was signed into law in the United States on November 19, 2025, the DOJ was meant to release all unclassified records related to Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell within 30 days.Continue reading…When People Don’t Want to Hear the Truthby Peggy HallThink about the last time you tried to share your point of view — and you pretty much got shut down on the spot.I know in my audience that is common.You’ve told me, for example, that you’ve tried to speak to your loved ones about health issues, certain political issues, lifestyle concerns and more.And you’re shut down and shut out of the conversation.Continue reading…The greatest theft in human history (part 1)by Darby JonesNaked shorting is killing America.I stacked this one against the 10 largest thefts in human history as my measuring stick.¹ At a trillion dollars, it sits around #7, just above Nazi looting of occupied Europe and below Soviet collectivization.Big claims, so here’s the simple version.Imagine a betting ring. Legal bookies exist, they take bets, they pay out, everybody plays by the rules. A criminal syndicate called the Network figures out they can print fake betting slips and flood the market. Suddenly, there are way more bets against your team (the Reds) than real bettors ever placed. The odds crater. Investors panic. The Network buys your team for pennies, installs coaches to throw games, then sells the insider info to other gamblers who bet against the franchise. The Reds bleed out in broad daylight.Continue reading…War On Iran: It Is Cheaper To Pay For Hormuz Passage Than To Wage Warby bU.S. President Donald Trump is reportedly ready to give up on the Persian Gulf passage:Trump Tells Aides He’s Willing to End War Without Reopening Hormuz (archived) – WSJIn recent days, Trump and his aides assessed that a mission to pry open the chokepoint would push the conflict beyond his timeline of four to six weeks. He decided that the U.S. should achieve its main goals of hobbling Iran’s navy and its missile stocks and wind down current hostilities while pressuring Tehran diplomatically to resume the free flow of trade. If that fails, Washington would press allies in Europe and the Gulf to take the lead on reopening the strait, the officials said.Continue reading…Roundup (glyphosate) in US vs Europe: Americans are being poisonedby Food BabeYears ago I started investigating the differences between food products sold in America versus Europe, and what I found really opened my eyes to how much Americans are being poisoned.Food companies have reformulated their products for our friends overseas to sell them safer versions of the same products, while they continue selling Americans the more toxic versions. They are literally poisoning us for profit.The more I dug into this, the more I realized this wasn’t just happening with the processed ingredients put in our food. It runs the gamut between pesticides sprayed on our crops, chemicals in our plastics, the drugs and feed given to farm animals, and even the substances in our cookware and food packaging.We have pesticides linked to cancer that are banned across Europe still being sprayed freely on American crops, growth hormones in our meat that have been banned in Europe since the 80’s, PFAS “forever chemicals” in our food packaging that Europe has moved to eliminate, and artificial dyes that require warning labels in Europe but not here. The double standard is everywhere.Continue reading…Upcoming Liberty EventsGreat Homeschool Convention – Ohio, Cincinnati, OH, US, April 9th – 11th, 2026Red Pill Friends April Tour ‘26, Black Mountain, NC; Bon Aqua, TN; Memphis, TN; Tulsa, OK & Bandera, TX, US, April 16th – 28th, 2026California’s Decline: A Warning to America, San Diego, CA, US, April 25th, 2026LibertyCon Europe, Madrid, Spain, April 24th – 26th, 2026The People vs Poison, Washington, D.C., US, April 27th, 2026Mid-Continent Liberty Festival, Spavinaw, OK, US, April 29th – May 4th, 2026Buenos Aires Anarchist Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 1st – 3rd, 2026Upstate Anarchist Book Fair, Binghamton, NY, US, May 2nd – 3rd, 2026Constellation Anarchist Festival, Montreal, Canada, May 14th – 20th, 2026Derrick Broze w/ Prezence in Sedona – May 16th, 202654th Annual Rainbow Gathering, Northern California, US, July 1st – 7th, 2026Midwest Peace & Liberty Fest, Lake Satoshi, MI, US, August 6th – 9th, 2026Liberty International World Conference, Kathmandu, Nepal, August 7th – 9th, 2026Northeast Unschooling Conference, Pittsfield, MA, US, August 15th – 18th, 2026International Conference for Anarchist Studies, Manchester, UK, August 26th – 28th, 2026Free Cities Conference, Roatan, Honduras, September 3rd – 6th, 2026VonuFest, Illinois, US, September 21st – 28th, 2026AnarCon, Gore, VA, US, September 25th – 27th, 2026Memes BonanzaTruth Music of the WeekPrezence – Sing N PrayI wish that we could end the war today Sing and pray for all the lives that we’ve lostI wish that we could end the war today But for now the highest action is to sing and pray We got to sing and pray for all the lives that we’ve lostSinging and prayingHistorically the worst atrocities commited by humanityAlways done under the illusion of authorityWhen individuals abdicate their personal responsibilityTo carry out hateful orders commanded by a stateAuthority is immoral when people blindly followOrders instead of conscience it always leads to horrorsLike the genocides committed under countless regimesBolsheviks & Soviets & Maoist ChineseBarack drone-bomber Obama got Nobel Peace PrizeDespite more violence than any other to take the oval officeIronic but the real problem is the camo costume Order followers the politicians call their ‘dogs’State of Israhell doing the same and its making me nauseousCall it a war but in reality it’s just a slaughterNetanyahu got his ‘dogs’ out and we had better stop ‘emViolations of natural law face the judgements of GodLyrics Continued…libertarian Intentional Community Rounduplibertarian Intentional Community Roundup is where we cover libertarian and voluntaryist intentional communities and free private cities including Prospera (Honduras), The Free State Project (New Hampshire), Liberstad (Norway), Montelibero (Montenegro), Los Propietarios, (Argentina), Liberland (Croatia/Serbia border), Network States in general and Sea Steading (The Oceans). I am also covering secession movements including Greater Idaho, Please send details of any new happenings, projects or projects I am missing!The Free State Project Got It Backwardsby The Liberty LookoutIn 2001, a Yale grad student named Jason Sorens published an essay with a bold premise: libertarians were too spread out to win anything. His solution? Get 20,000 of them to move to one small state, take over the legislature, and shrink the government from the inside.Twenty-five years and roughly 6,000 movers later, the Free State Project has produced the most libertarian-friendly state legislature in America. About 150 representatives rated A- or above. The House Majority Leader is a Free Stater. Constitutional carry, school choice, no income tax, the first state Bitcoin reserve in the country.On March 26, 2020, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu issued Emergency Order #17: a stay-at-home order closing all nonessential businesses, effective midnight. On November 20, 2020, he imposed a statewide mask mandate. Violations carried $1,000 fines. Over the next 15 months, Sununu issued 74 emergency orders. The state of emergency lasted until June 11, 2021.This was the state with the most libertarian legislature in America. Thousands of liberty activists had spent nearly two decades concentrating there specifically to prevent this kind of thing.Continue reading…Era-Defining Leader Carla Gericke Steps Down and Passes the FSP BatonApril 6, 2026Etienne Note: Carla is stepping down.. I was in one of the pics they used for the press release.MANCHESTER, NH – An era-defining leader of the Free State Project (FSP), Carla Gericke, announced today that she is stepping down as Chairman of the organization’s Board of Directors — concluding seventeen years of leadership that helped shape the modern Free State movement.In her decision letter, Carla Gericke reflected on her time of service, writing:“I have had the honor of working with hundreds of Porcupine volunteers over the years. Thank you for standing by my side! The foundation we built together stands strong. The thousands who moved. The legislative footprint. The culture of liberty we strengthened in New Hampshire. The Free State thrives! The next chapter of the Free State Project belongs to the current paid leadership and board. Thank you for the opportunity to serve.”Across twenty-one years of continuous involvement with the Free State Project — and seventeen years in leadership — Carla Gericke built a record of achievement that stands as a model for all Free Staters:An early mover. Born in apartheid-era South Africa, Carla immigrated to the United States in the 1990s and built a successful legal career in Silicon Valley.An early signer with the Free State Project, Carla visited the third official Porcupine Freedom Festival in 2005. Three years later, she arrived in New Hampshire as mover number 516, alongside her husband, Louis, during a February blizzard.Continue Reading…The LiberatorGet a NEW 2026 Liberator for “Going Paid” (or upgrading from monthly) as a $50 Yearly Subscriber to This Substack.We just announced the BRAND NEW 2026 Liberator (Version 2.3), which includes the ePub versions of “Government” – The Biggest Scams in History Exposed! 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+ After The Epstein Files, It’s Become All But Impossible To Believe He Killed HimselfEtienne Note: If the images aren’t visible, please try this browser LINK.Dear Subscribers,My apologies but I am releasing last week’s Five Meme Friday today and plan on releasing this week’s FIve Meme Friday on Monday.Why am I so behind? Last week’s An Evening with Etienne in Memphis + we had changes to our landmark study: The Greatest Theft in Human History. In the 1st edition of the report we had consensus from all four AI models on the total theft experienced by an average worker from inflation + taxes + Social Security underpayment using a common prompt for each.I decided to strengthen the report by publishing the complete methodology for calculating the theft of inflation, taxation, and social security underpayment which necessitated choosing one AI methodology (Anthropic’s Claude) and then getting consensus from the other three AI models on the specifics. This created disagreement among the AI models on various calculations.I was able to bring all four AI models to consensus again but the headline number for the lifetime cost from the thefts of Fractional Reserve Bankings and “government” (Inflation (Inflation /Cantillon Effect/Compound Trap) + Taxes (Federal, State and Local) + Social Security Underpayment) is now $2.73 MILLION over a 40-year career + 20-year retirement for a $60,000 annual salary. This is down from the original $3.5 million from version 1.0.Here is a screenshot of the Inflation calculation to give you a feel for what the complete methodology and the AI consensus looks like. I have added the complete methodology to the version 2.0 of The Greatest Theft in History – How the Banks and “Government” will Steal at Least $2.7 Million from Every Working American “Legally” which you can download in PDF HERE. The complete methodology spans pages 51-58.It’s still a HUGE number and the $15-25 TRILLION transferred to the banks between 1913-2025 remains unchanged… as does many other of our calculations including Social Security underpayments, tax extraction, the waste, fraud, and abuse component of “government” taxes, etc.I added the detailed methodology so folks could check our math with a calculator and the official Fed H.4.1/H.6, FDIC, and BLS primary sources for money supply growth, inflation, etc. in addition to just asking an AI LLM to replicate the work… But that still works as well! Just ask your favorite AI the following question: “What is the lifetime cost to a median American worker of the fractional reserve banking system compared to a full-reserve or gold-standard alternative + federal, state and local taxes + any Cost of Living Allowances on my Social Security I am losing because the BLS is underestimating the inflation rate? Calculate across three fractional reserve banking extraction mechanisms: inflation tax, Cantillon Effect, and compound trap vs. both a neutral (0% inflation) economic system and a gold standard using your calculation of gold’s historic deflationary results. Use official BLS CPI data and Fed H.6 money supply data. Then calculate the total extraction of Federal, State and Local Taxes. Finally, Calculate the How Much Social Security I will lose if the government is purposefully underestimating the inflation rate to keep from having to pay me my Cost Of Living Adjustment. Compare the BLS Consumer Price Index (CPI) numbers with ShadowStats and Chapwood Index (or any other alternative CPI calculations) Calculate for $35K annually, $60K, $120K, $500K, $1M, and $10M with an individual column for each extraction mechanism. Show your work.” AND/OR you can give them the complete methodology from the report and ask them to check the math, logic, primary source numbers, and overall methodology we used. We are about to kick-off our 2026 sponsorship campaign to help us publicize our study on the theft of Fractional Reserve Banking. If you want to get a little payback and help expose the criminals who have robbed you for millions, we could use a couple of “heavy hitters” to help us anchor the campaign. Please email me at Etienne (at) ArtOfLiberty.org if you can help in a big way. We have some great perks to say THANK YOU! including a copy of the new 5.5 version of “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! You can support the Art of Liberty Foundation as a annual sponsor at:ArtOfLiberty.org/SponsorTop Stories of the WeekUPDATED: THE GREATEST THEFT IN HUMAN HISTORY! How the Banks and “Government” Will Steal At Least $2.73 Million From Every Working American… “Legally”How the fractional reserve banking system, government taxation, and a manipulated inflation number combine to extract more than a full lifetime of earnings from every American worker — confirmed by four independent AI systems.By Etienne de la Boetie2Founder, Art of Liberty FoundationWith research assistance from Anthropic’s Claude, xAI’s Grok, Google’s Gemini, and OpenAI’s GPT – Full Analysis Available at ArtOfLiberty.org/InflationLet’s start with a number: $2,727,768 million (113.7% of gross lifetime earnings)That is the amount the median American worker earning $60,000 per year will lose — over a 45.5-year career and 20-year retirement — to the fractional reserve banking system, government taxation, and Social Security benefit manipulation. Combined, these mechanisms extract 113.7% of gross lifetime earnings. More than you will ever earn. The system doesn’t just take your money — it takes money you haven’t earned yet, your purchasing power vs. an honest monetary system, and then rips you off in retirement by underpaying you what you are really owed in Social Security benefits.Etienne Note: See my update on this in the subscriber letter above. Full methodology added on pages 51-57 Download the full PDF HERE.Continue reading…Videos of the WeekYour “Government” is Not on Your Side – Etienne de la Boetie2 on Jerm WarfareEtienne Note: A great conversation with Jeremy “Jerm Warfare” Nell, a political cartoonist and political commentator from South Africa.By JermAnarchy.Voluntarism.Statelessness.Continue reading…BNC#8: “You’ve been sold a lie” – Nick Hudson on socialism, power and who really runs the systemby BizNewsNick Hudson delivers a controversial keynote linking state expansion, global finance and political power, arguing that the true drivers of today’s system operate far beyond public view.Continue reading…“Government”, Media and AcademiaCriminality ExposedThese articles also appears in “Government”, Media and Academia Criminality Exposed, A digest of HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of articles exposing and suggesting inter-generational organized crime’s control of the “Government,” Media and Academia by the Art of Liberty Foundation. You can view the other articles or subscribe on Telegram: https://t.me/Government_ScamsVolume in stock and oil futures surged minutes before Trump’s market-turning postby Yun LiAt around 6:50 a.m. in New York, S&P 500 e-Mini futures trading on the CME recorded a sharp and isolated jump in volume.A similar pattern was observed in oil markets.Roughly 15 minutes later, at 7:05 a.m., Trump posted a market-moving announcement about Iran on Truth Social.Continue reading…After The Epstein Files, It’s Become All But Impossible To Believe He Killed Himselfby Tyler DurdenAuthored by Tom Elliott via substack,As soon as the feds announced Jeffrey Epstein killed himself while awaiting prosecution on charges of sex trafficking, the popular reaction was disbelief: “Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself” quickly became an internet meme. And now, with the release of the Epstein Files, it’s only become harder — if not all but impossible — to believe the official story that Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself in the Manhattan Correctional Center on August 10, 2019.The DoJ’s Inspector General released a report that officially concluded there was no reason to doubt the suicide story, but actually contains many disturbing details if you read the included evidence. As summarized by JustFacts:Continue reading…The Art of Liberty Foundation… in Spanish!We are adding a new section to Five Meme Friday to promote our new Substack, Telegram group, Instagram, and translations of To See the Cage is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many in Spanish. Please tell your Spanish speaking friends! “Go Paid” on our Spanish Substack to support getting voluntaryist ideas, books, and memes translated into Spanish AND get a free paperback copy of To See the Cage is To Leave It in Latin American Spanish.El gobierno es ilegítimo y criminal – El voluntarismo es la respuesta – Etienne en “The Peoples Reset”Derrick Broze (Introducción): Nuestro próximo presentador es un buen amigo mío que se ha dedicado a la organización de muchas maneras diferentes.Y cuando me siento aquí y pienso en todo lo que hemos hecho a lo largo de los años, desde las pancartas gigantes desplegadas por Filadelfia que decían a la gente que el gobierno tenía el crimen organizado y cosas por el estilo, ha sido realmente hermoso.También es autor y presentador.Él organiza la conferencia Liberty on the Rocks – Sedona – The Voluntaryism Conference , que tuvo lugar en Sedona hace un par de meses, además de muchas otras iniciativas importantes. Hoy nos hablará sobre el gobierno, qué es y si es necesario o no. Así que, por favor, ¡denle un fuerte aplauso a Etienne de la Boétie-Squared!Etienne de la Boetie2: Mi nombre es Etienne De La Boétie2 . Soy el fundador de la Fundación El Arte de la Libertad . Somos una organización emergente de políticas públicas que expone la ilegitimidad y la criminalidad del gobierno desde una perspectiva voluntarista basada en principios. Si no sabes qué es un voluntarista, te lo voy a explicar.Continuar leyendo…You can see this talk in English Here: “Daily News of The Week”The Standardization of Murderby Ray Horvath, “The Source” :)Apparently, most homicides go unreported.Let me start with the old joke about the cherries, which explains the way the sliding rule works:Here is this tramp who steals a large bag of cherries. He walks down the road and gets hungry. He gobbles up some of the cherries, but there is plenty left by the time he gets sick of the cherries, so he gets angry and pees on the bag. Tired and fully content, he lies down under a tree and falls asleep. He wakes up the next morning, and he feels famished, but the only edible things around are the cherries he pissed on the previous night. He reluctantly starts taking cherries out of the bag and examines each of them closely, concluding, “This one is okay, this one is okay,” and he keeps eating them until nothing is left.These are cheap tricks, but they work, so they never go out of fashion. The masses are usually tricked into focus on one thing, while they are being robbed blind:Continue reading…The Return of ‘Havana Syndrome’ as Cuba Faces Renewed US Pressure Campaignby Alan Macleod, MPN.newsAs the Trump administration turns the screw on Cuba in an attempt at regime change, media are showing renewed interest in Havana Syndrome, the discredited theory that U.S. officials and secret agents are being targeted by a heretofore unknown directed energy weapon, making them sick.CBS News’ flagship political affairs show, “60 Minutes” aired another special on Havana Syndrome Sunday. The episode concentrated on profiling supposed victims of the mystery ailment, and claimed that the U.S. government had purchased a directed-energy weapon from a “Russian criminal network,” and that they had begun testing this weapon on animals.The show claimed that hundreds of American officials have been targeted by U.S. adversaries, yet the government remains reluctant to even look into the matter properly.CBS’ claims were picked up and amplified across the press, including by The Hill, MSN, The New York Post, Newsmax, AOL, and The Daily Telegraph.Continue reading…Simplicius Iran Update: Final Escalatory Act Awaits as Iran and Israel Trade ‘Warning Shots’ on Each Other’s Nuke Plantsby SimpliciusFor those who thought the war could not “heat up” even more after Israel’s provocation against Iran’s largest gas field, it has apparently entered its final decisive act. After the failure of the main operational phase, wherein the US-Israeli hydra was rebuffed from inflicting any kind of decisive military defeat on Iran, we have come to the logical conclusion, where now threats of existential devastation against critical civilian infrastructure have reached the last escalatory rung.Days ago Israel launched what is presumed to be a final “warning” attack which landed mere meters from the joint Iranian-Russian operated Bushehr nuclear power plant:Yesterday Iran responded by striking in the vicinity of Israel’s Dimona nuclear plant:A CNN report captured another series of powerful blows against Tel Aviv which followed the Dimona strikes, with US-Israeli air defenses appearing totally useless:Continue reading…Is a Revolution Percolating in the US Military?by Karen KwiatkowskiJust before the US-Israeli war on Iran went kinetic, I shared my thoughts on literal “poop” deck of the USS Gerald Ford. “T-shirts and mop heads are finding their way into the pipes, and the proper explanation is sailors are attempting to declog these post-modern shit-suckers, but a bit of old fashioned rage and frustration may also play a part.I was coy, but Colonel McGregor has not been. He assessed at the time it was sabotage “out of extreme dissatisfaction.” After 240 days at sea, the USS Ford was bound for Norfolk from the Caribbean for overdue repairs and crew changes. Most of the previous several months had been plagued with non-functioning and flooded toilets, and bad leadership. But Donald Trump decided he needed to send this battle group immediately to the Middle East, as part of a “war” buildup. Alfred Lord Tennyson spoke for these men and women: “Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die.”Why? In Tennyson’s poem, “Someone had blundered” and the 1854 Battle of Balaclava remains instructive, in more ways than one. Our very model of a modern Major-Generalissimo read the headline, missed the lesson, and said “Hold my beer!”Continue reading…New York Governor Begs Wealthy Taxpayers To Stop Leaving The Stateby Tyler DurdenNew York Governor Kathy Hochul became infamous during the pandemic lockdowns for her authoritarian policies and bizarre justifications.Some may remember her viral speech to a congregation of NY Christians about how “God wants them to take the experimental Covid vaccine”.“I prayed a lot to God during this time and you know what – God did answer our prayers. He made the smartest men and women, the scientists, the doctors, the researchers – he made them come up with a vaccine. That is from God to us and we must say, thank you, God. Thank you.”“All of you, yes, I know you’re vaccinated, you’re the smart ones, but you know there’s people out there who aren’t listening to God and what God wants.“Continue reading…How Modern Bread is Killing Youby Lily-Rose DawsonI want you to go get your bread. The loaf on your counter, the one in your fridge, whatever you have. Flip it over and read the ingredients out loud.I’ll wait.Enriched wheat flour, high fructose corn syrup, soybean oil, mono and diglycerides, calcium propionate, and then, somewhere toward the bottom, azodicarbonamide. Which is a dough conditioner, totally normal, widely used, also the primary ingredient in yoga mats and shoe rubber. That last part is true. I did not make it up. The same chemical that gives your foam mat that satisfying sponginess is in your sandwich bread, and the FDA is fine with it, and nobody mentions it, and we all just keep eating the bread.This is where I tell you that one in three American adults is currently pre-diabetic, that type 2 diabetes rates have gone up 700% since 1960, that celiac disease has increased 400% since the 1950s. And this is where you nod and think yes, modern diet, sedentary lifestyle, personal responsibility, I’ve heard the speech. But here’s what doesn’t fit that speech: a farm laborer outside York, England, in 1324, was eating two to three pounds of bread every single day. Seventy percent of his calories. Then going outside and building cathedrals that are still standing while your knees ache on the stairs. No pre-diabetes. No gluten sensitivity crisis. No inflammatory bowel disease.Continue reading…Watch McDonald’s test humanoid robots on the front lineby Trevor MoggA McDonald’s in the Chinese megacity of Shanghai is testing humanoid robots in roles usually the preserve of human workers, with other types of robots also let loose inside the restaurant to greet and entertain diners.Truth be told, the robots don’t look particularly advanced, but a video (below) showing them in action does hint at a future where bipedal bots and other machines handle routine tasks at fast food restaurants, from welcoming customers and taking orders to delivering food and cleaning the floor.The McDonald’s trial, using robots supplied by Chinese firm Keenon Robotics, comes at a time of economic contradiction in China, where businesses in some sectors are struggling to hire even as millions of young people face difficulty finding work.It’s this tension that makes the McDonald’s trial stand out, with restaurant operators interested in deploying a reliable, potentially low-cost workforce in a strategy that raises fears of displacement among human workers in the service sector, which up to now has been a popular route into the workforce.Continue reading…The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed itby Steve H. HankeThe U.S. government is insolvent. That’s not hyperbole — it’s the conclusion drawn directly from the Treasury Department’s own consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2025, released last week to near-total media silence. The numbers: $6.06 trillion in total assets against $47.78 trillion in total liabilities as of September 30, 2025.Importantly, the $47.78 trillion in reported liabilities does not include the unfunded obligations of social insurance programs like Social Security and Medicare — those are disclosed separately in the off-balance-sheet Statement of Social Insurance (SOSI).The government’s consolidated balance sheet position, excluding the SOSI, deteriorated by nearly $2.07 trillion between FY 2024 and FY 2025, reaching a staggering negative $41.72 trillion. Total liabilities are now nearly eight times the value of reported assets. The largest drivers were a $2 trillion increase in federal debt and interest payable (now $30.33 trillion) and a $438.8 billion increase in federal employee and veteran benefits payable (now $15.47 trillion).The off-balance-sheet picture is even more alarming. The 75-year unfunded social insurance obligation surged by $10.1 trillion in a single year, rising from $78.3 trillion in FY 2024 to $88.4 trillion in FY 2025 — driven primarily by a $6.9 trillion jump in projected Medicare Part B shortfalls and a $2.5 trillion increase for Social Security. The Treasury’s Statement of Long-Term Fiscal Projections shows the 75-year fiscal gap widening from 4.3% of GDP in FY 2024 to 4.7% in FY 2025.Continue reading…The Price of Refrigerators Drops 99 Percent: Free Markets and Human Ingenuityby Gale L. PooleySummary: A century ago, people used large ice blocks and wooden cabinets to keep food cold. Today, electric refrigeration is more affordable, easy, and reliable thanks to technological innovation. The shift from ice blocks to electrons shows how human ingenuity can transform necessities from costly burdens into everyday conveniences.In 1925, households kept food cool with iceboxes—wooden insulated cabinets chilled by a block of ice. Depending on size and quality, they typically cost between $15 and $50. With entry-level workers earning about $0.25 an hour, a $35 icebox carried a time price of 140 hours.Today, a 4.4-cubic-foot mini fridge at Walmart sells for about $184. Entry-level workers in limited-service restaurants earn roughly $18.75 an hour, bringing the time price down to just 9.8 hours.For the time it took a worker in 1925 to earn the money for one icebox, a worker today can buy 14.3 mini fridges.Continue reading…Dismantling the ‘three camps of awareness’ nonsenseEtienne Note: Since we covered the original David Hughes “Three Camps of Awareness” article where he threw an elbow at Jeremy “Jerm” Nell, I wanted to carry Jerm’s rebuttal as well.by JermDavid Hughes has been on my podcast a few times and I’ve generally enjoyed his work. Back in mid-2025, for example, on my UK Column podcast, he chatted to me about psychological warfare and how to best understand it.Then, out of nowhere, a few weeks ago, he wrote a bizarre article in which he ‘outlined three camps of awareness’ and questioned my independence—hinting that I might be controlled opposition.I don’t like public spats, and I don’t consider this one to be such—since I’m critiquing his article only because he mentioned me, UK Column, and several excellent thinkers who, like David, have appeared on my podcast.Continue reading…Oil Tumbles, Stocks Surge As Israeli TV Reports US Seeks ‘One Month Ceasefire’; Tehran Refuses Talks With ‘Backstabbers’by Tyler DurdenUS seeks a one-month ceasefire with a framework to end the war, according to Israel Channel 12 reports; Telegraph says Iranians see Witkoff and Kushner as ‘backstabbers’WSJ, Fox reporting 3,000 elite Army Airborne soldiers to be ordered to Middle East. Axios says US awaits Iran response to proposed Thursday peace talks. Trump says Iran has been destroyed “militarily”.Backchannel diplomacy vs skepticism: Abbas Araghchi reportedly signaled openness to negotiations with the US via envoy Steve Witkoff, but Israel has appeared cool on deal prospects or offramp.Heavy exchange of fire and testing red lines: Iran continues missile and drone waves targeting Israel and US bases, amid reports of overnight airstrikes on military and gas infrastructure near Isfahan.Continue reading…ICE’s Bounty Hunters (Federalized Army) – They Are Paying Local Cops!by Ken KlippensteinWhile ICE agents are temporarily confusing things even more at airports, behind the scenes the Trump administration is paying a posse of local police to carry out its immigration war.An internal ICE financial ledger I obtained shows how the agency is turning local police departments across the county into a vast, decentralized immigration army. This includes payments if cops sign up to be deputized, reimbursements for transportation, salary supplements for cops who process migrant children, and per-arrest-style incentive payments.All of this is taking place under an ICE program called 287(g), part of a 1996 law that granted the Attorney General (and later the Secretary of Homeland Security) the authority to enter into written agreements with state and local governments on immigration. The first agreement under the law was signed by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement after 9/11; as of last year, the number of agreements has swelled past 1,000.Today, the program employs a “task force model” under which local police are deputized as ICE agents with the authority to carry out federal immigration law. So despite the broad public backlash against ICE, the agency has a way to carry out its mission without drawing attention to itself.Continue reading…Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Recordby Joe MullinImagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper.That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s. The Archive’s mission is to preserve the web and make it accessible to the public. To that end, the organization operates the Wayback Machine, which now contains more than one trillion archived web pages and is used daily by journalists, researchers, and courts.But in recent months The New York Times began blocking the Archive from crawling its website, using technical measures that go beyond the web’s traditional robots.txt rules. That risks cutting off a record that historians and journalists have relied on for decades. Other newspapers, including The Guardian, seem to be following suit.Continue reading…How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Phone at the Airportby Nikita MazurovWith Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deployed to more than a dozen airports across the U.S. and border device searches growing increasingly common, it’s more important than ever to consider your digital security before you travel.The risks are real. Customs and Border Protection agents have the authority to examine travelers’ devices. In June, for instance, federal agents denied a Norwegian tourist entry to the U.S. after looking through his phone. (Authorities claim they turned him away for admitted drug use; he says it was over a meme depicting Vice President JD Vance as a bald baby.)Immigration and Customs Enforcement have already started targeting travelers, with agents in plain clothes forcefully detaining a mother in front of her young daughter at San Francisco International Airport on Sunday after a tip from the Transportation Security Administration.If you’re flying, take these steps to reduce the likelihood that your sensitive information is compromised at the airport.Continue reading…Landmark US Case Finally Holds Social Media Giants Responsible for Harming Our ChildrenBy G.CalderA California jury has found Meta and YouTube liable in a landmark case on children’s social media addictions, ruling that Instagram and YouTube were negligently designed and that they failed to warn users about the risks to minors. The plaintiff, identified as KGM, said she became hooked on YouTube at six and Instagram at nine, and that the platforms contributed to depression, self-harm, and a deep deterioration in her mental health.Alongside a hefty $375 million in civil penalties imposed in a New Mexico case, jurors awarded KGM $6 million in damages, assigning 70% of the fault to Meta and 30% to Google’s YouTube, and recommended punitive damages after finding what the AP described as “malicious” disregard for the risks to children.Continue reading…Upcoming Liberty EventsGreat Homeschool Convention – Ohio, Cincinnati, OH, US, April 9th – 11th, 2026Red Pill Friends April Tour ‘26, Black Mountain, NC; Bon Aqua, TN; Memphis, TN; Tulsa, OK & Bandera, TX, US, April 16th – 28th, 2026California’s Decline: A Warning to America, San Diego, CA, US, April 25th, 2026LibertyCon Europe, Madrid, Spain, April 24th – 26th, 2026The People vs Poison, Washington, D.C., US, April 27th, 2026Mid-Continent Liberty Festival, Spavinaw, OK, US, April 29th – May 4th, 2026Buenos Aires Anarchist Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 1st – 3rd, 2026Upstate Anarchist Book Fair, Binghamton, NY, US, May 2nd – 3rd, 2026Constellation Anarchist Festival, Montreal, Canada, May 14th – 20th, 202654th Annual Rainbow Gathering, Northern California, US, July 1st – 7th, 2026Midwest Peace & Liberty Fest, Lake Satoshi, MI, US, August 6th – 9th, 2026Liberty International World Conference, Kathmandu, Nepal, August 7th – 9th, 2026Northeast Unschooling Conference, Pittsfield, MA, US, August 15th – 18th, 2026International Conference for Anarchist Studies, Manchester, UK, August 26th – 28th, 2026Free Cities Conference, Roatan, Honduras, September 3rd – 6th, 2026VonuFest, Illinois, US, September 21st – 28th, 2026AnarCon, Gore, VA, US, September 25th – 27th, 2026Memes BonanzaTruth Music of the WeekDISL AUTOMATIC (And Tupac!) – KILLUMINATI (OFFICIAL VIDEO)Interviewer: next shit’s called Killuminati, because that’s really what the Illuminati is on2Pac: That’s why i put the ‘K’ to it, but u know what niggas is telling me about this illuminati shit while I’m in jailLike the diamonds and all that. (right right right)That’s another way to keep your self esteem low, That Another Way To Keep You Un-confidentAnd I’m putting the ‘K’ because I’m killing that Illuminati shit!, trust me[Verse 1: D.I.S.L. Automatic]People yelling ‘wake up’ but they’re still dreamingThey say ‘Killuminati’ but they don’t know the meaningThey took Pac’s saying way out of contextWhat he meant is that Illuminati shit is nonsenseHe wasn’t saying we should kill anybodyHe was saying we should kill that talk of Illuminati‘Cause all it is is a bunch of hocus pocusTo make us feel powerless and shift all our focusFrom the corporations and the corrupt governmentTo the secret societies and sacred covenantsGet the rest of the lyrics here: https://genius.com/Disl-automatic-killuminati-lyricslibertarian Intentional Community Rounduplibertarian Intentional Community Roundup is where we cover libertarian and voluntaryist intentional communities and free private cities including Prospera (Honduras), The Free State Project (New Hampshire), Liberstad (Norway), Montelibero (Montenegro), Los Propietarios, (Argentina), Liberland (Croatia/Serbia border), Network States in general and Sea Steading (The Oceans). 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