Chumped: The Unfortunate Truth About the 2017 Women’s March on Washington
By Etienne de la Boetie2
Wednesday, February 01, 2017 – Flashback – To the Last Time the Organized Crime Government Tricked Everyone into Wearing Something dumb. You know what goes great with a Covid Mask? A Pussy Hat!
www.government-scam.comChumped! – The Unfortunate Truth about the Women’s March on Washington
By Etienne de la Boetie2, Author of “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! and the investigation into: Plandemic – Covid 19 is a Scam, A Multi-Trillion Dollar Bank Robbery and Economic Warfare Against the Population by Organized Crime Interests in “Government” on Wall Street, and in the Media
Former WSJ reporter Asra Q. Nomani writing in the New York Times has identified at least 56 organizations that receive funding from George Soros. Since the publication of the article and the open source investigation triggered by the publication of Ms. Nomani’s spreadsheet of Women’s March partners, the number of groups linked to Soros has climbed to 62 as of this writing. George Soros is a billionaire off-shore hedge fund operator and currency speculator and convicted felon (insider trading) who, as a 14 year old, was a Nazi collaborator in World War 2 where he helped confiscate the property of fellow Jews. He has personally confirmed his time as a Nazi collaborator in an 60 Minutes interview with Steve Kroft in 1998 and referred to his time helping the Nazis as the “the happiest year of his life” .
Soros is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Bilderberg Group, which are two of the key components of the shadow government. For at least 7 decades it has not mattered which side of the fake left-right paradigm is in power, Republican or Democrat, a CFR member, a Bilderberg member or member of the Trilateral Commission has held the majority of key cabinet positions, intelligence agency positions, Federal Reserve, and virtually every other important position of political, banking, or media power in the US.
George Soros’s Open Society Institute and the dozens of other Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) that he funds have been implicated in financing a number of “Color Revolutions” in countries ranging from Serbia to Croatia to Egypt. A color revolution is a destabilization and overthrow of a country where the “revolutionaries”, funded and controlled from outside, get some percentage of the targeted countries population to unite behind a specific color or flower. The “Rose Revolution” of November 2003 in Georgia forced Edouard Shevardnadze from power and installed the then 36 year old US university graduate Mikhail Saakashvili as President was run and financed by the US State Department, the Soros Foundations, and agencies tied to the Pentagon and US intelligence community. Soros funded groups also participated in the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine pouring more than $100 million into financing opposition groups and the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution stoking violence that saw more than 100 killed in 2014’s Euromaidan clashes.
Soros Working to Divide and Conquer the US as Well
Soros’ tactics are to “divide and conquer” a nation by investing in groups that create and/or stoke opposition forces in the target country to divide the population. He has been using the same tactics here in the United States where he has poured at least $650,000 into Black Lives Matter to agitate and stoke black-white hatred and violence. Other Soros-funded groups made it their job to remotely monitor and exploit anything related to the incident that they could portray as a conservative misstep, and to develop academic research and editorials to disseminate to the news media to keep the story alive.
Soros’ Connections to Donald Trump
Soros is also friends and a former business partner with Donald Trump. The pair’s relationship goes back more than a decade. In 2004, Soros lent Trump $160 million to help with the construction of Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago, the Chicago Tribune reported. The two were also named in a lawsuit over the sale of the General Motors building which alleged that the two (and others) were working together alleging a widespread racketeering and fraud conspiracy by the defendant group, which also includes Deutsche Bank, Cerberus Capital Management LP, Lazard Ltd., Freres and Co. Inc. and Kirkland and Ellis LLP.
The New York Post reported in 2009 noted that Trump spent Christmas Eve that year at a private party with George Soros, Steve Schwartzman, a billionaire, fellow Bilderberg Group member, and member of Skull and Bones, who is partnered with Pete Peterson, the former Secretary of Commerce in the Nixon administration and Chairman Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, and liberal Hollywood director Oliver Stone, among others.
What other People and Groups Were Behind the March OR were March Participants Steered/Introduced to?
The short answer is: CIA operatives, socialists/communists, identity-politics agitators, felons and abortionists. A group of depraved scum guaranteed to alienate intelligent people who understand their background and politics while potentially corrupting those who don’t. Since I assume an overwhelming majority of march participants didn’t have any idea who the speakers or sponsoring groups were let’s just examine the background of a few of the speakers:
Gloria Steinhem
One of the honorary co-chairs of the event has admitted herself, on-camera, that she was a CIA operative and is self-described Marxist. Steinhem was part of the CIA front group the “Congress for Cultural Freedom,” which created magazines like “Encounter” and “Partisan Review” to promote a left-liberal chic to oppose/control/steer the Marxist movement. Steinem, attended Communist-sponsored youth festivals in Europe, published a newspaper, reported on other participants, and helped to provoke riots.
In 1970 she launched Ms. Magazine, a CIA Operation Mockingbird publication, that helped create the “feminist revolution” which promoted “divide and conquer” between men and women and contributed to the rise and acceptance of divorce which produced two tax slaves instead of one and splits up families which makes the population easier to manage. She also heavily promoted and continues to promote abortion which is part of the slave master’s eugenics and population reduction agenda.
Women’s March Co-Chair Gloria Steinhem making the Illuminati/Masonic “Triangle” symbol and wearing a t-shirt celebrating the killing of her unborn child.
Donna Hylton – Speaker – Convicted felon who participated in the 20 day kidnapping and torture of a man where his testicles were crushed with pliers, where he was beaten, burned, and held for ransom. They shoved a 3 foot metal rod up his rectum.
Angela Davis – Speaker and Honorary Co-chair of the March – In 1980 and 1984, Davis ran for vice-president of the United States on the Communist Party ticket together with Gus Hall. In 1979, Davis was awarded the International Lenin Peace Prize (formerly the International Stalin Peace Prize) by then-communist East Germany. Was on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list for buying a shotgun used in a armed takeover of a courtroom where 4 people where killed and 2 injured. Angela Davis had bought a shotgun used in the kidnapping 2 days prior. She was also a vocal supporter of the Jim Jones cult in Guyana which, to many scholars of the incident, appears to be a CIA-backed mind control experiment which resulted in the deaths of 900+ people where hundreds appear to have been hunted down and killed to cover up the crimes.
Cecile Richards – Speaker – President of Planned Parenthood of America – Abortionist – Planned Parenthood kills over 320,000 babies a year while taking over half a billion dollars from the taxpayers even though a majority of Americans, 58% in a recent Harvard/Politico poll, oppose having tax money go to abortion. Planned Parenthood was exposed in 2016 through a series of undercover videos to be selling body parts from dead babies in violation of federal law. Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret Sanger, a racist and eugencist who wrote that blacks, immigrants, and indigents were “…human weeds,’ ‘reckless breeders,’ ‘spawning… human beings who never should have been born.” Ms. Richards is also a trustee of the Ford Foundation, a multi-billion dollar “philanthropic” foundation that has served as a front organization and funding mechanism for the CIA since the 1950s. Barack Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, worked at the Ford Foundation along with Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner’s father.
Linda Sarsour – March Organizer and Speaker – Muslim terrorist supporter Linda Sarsour, president of the Arab American Association of New York, was deeply involved in planning march-related events. Sarsour has familial ties to HAMAS and works with the terrorist front group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Madonna – Speaker and Performer at the March – As an added “present” to those women who brought their children and teens to the march the organizers elevated Madonna to the role of spokesperson. Not exactly the role model you want for young, impressionable kids.
How the Scam Worked
2. Promote Identity Politics and Divide and Conquer – If you look at the speakers and the groups that promoted the march they were ideologically similar to white separatists: La Raza, LGBT pressure groups, communists, and dozens of other groups chosen to divide and alienate good people.
3. Focus on Non-violence and “Acceptance of Suffering – If you read the published Mission Statement of the March you will see that it specifically advocates non-violence and “acceptance of suffering” which is exactly the message you would expect promoted from the organized crime syndicate that funded the march. Even though women are forced into tax-slavery, have mercury and aluminum-laced vaccines that cause autism pushed on their kids, are having the money they earn and save devalued through the bankster’s fractional reserve banking swindle and the inflation it causes, and are having their husbands, fathers, and brothers killed in wars based on lies and manufactured intelligence the March’s message is: Just roll over and take it…Don’t fight back.. stay non-violent… accept your suffering.
Idiotic Meme/Slogan #1 – Pussy Grabs Back – The most popular meme/slogan at the rally. Neither a cohesive demand or an intelligent expose of the core problem, this meme/slogan spawned idiot women dressing themselves as vaginas.
Idiotic Meme/Slogan #2 – I’m a Nasty Woman – Probably the 2nd most popular slogan/meme at the march and the 2nd dumbest slogan/meme in the history of political protest. Again, demeaning and ineffective by design.
Idiotic Meme #3 – Dressing the Crowd (including men) as Fucking Pussies! – Supposedly the “Pussyhat Project” was a grassroots effort by a yarn store owner that saw women knitting “Pussy Hats” for marchers. The idea was either: A. one of the dumbest political protest ideas in history B. she just wanted to sell a bunch of yarn or, most likely, C. there are a bunch of folks at the CIA who are rolling on the floor laughing like crazy that they were able to get the protestors to dress up like a bunch of fucking pussies! And… For the piece de resistance.. They tricked the women into knitting the hats themselves!! Triple Chumped!
Good People Chumped into Dressing Up as Fucking Pussies…
5. Focus on Government Solutions – Write your Congressman… March in the street… waste your time in the completely mafia-controlled government system. During the debate on the “bailout” the semi-honest Congressmen that were releasing the ratio of calls to their offices showed that over 90% of their constituents opposed the “bailout”. Congress went ahead and did it anyway… What makes these women think that Congress is going to support policies supported by around 50% especially when they know that the whiners and complainers are a bunch of pussies?
Why? Because he looked good on tell-a-vision doing it and American society has been desensitized to the realities of the violence that organized crime’s military is committing all over the world.
We passed out a few copies of my upcoming book: Understanding Our Slavery comparing the techniques used to control the American tax slaves demonstrating that they are the exact same techniques used to control the tax slaves in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and East Germany.
About the Lead Investigator
Etienne de la Boetie2 isthe author of the article Plandemic – Covid 19 is a Scam, A Multi-Trillion Dollar Bank Robbery and
Economic Warfare Against the Population by Organized Crime Interests in “Government” on Wall Street, and in the Media
and the new book “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! which exposesinter-generational organized crime’s
control of the government and media. Mr. Boetie2 isthe co-founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation, a start-up public policy
organization promoting voluntary solutionsto socio-economic issuesfrom a principled voluntaryist perspective. The book is
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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. 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How the Banks & “Gov’t” will Steal $3.5 million “Legally” through inflation, taxes, and Social Security shenanigans – Who is Behind the Theft? We will be Streaming LIVE tonight at 5:00 PM PST / 8:00 PM EST.Tickets: $25 Tickets and Event Info: https://artofliberty.org/an-evening-with-etienne/OR Get a Ticket Included with any Art of Liberty Foundation Sponsorship + a Copy of the NEW 5.5 version of “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History.. Exposed! + Perks! at ArtOfLiberty.org/SponsorThe Greatest Theft in Human History! The Banks and Government Are Stealing $3.5 Million From the Average Worker.Article: Here and BelowPress Release: Here.Full Analysis in PDF: Here & ArtOfLiberty.org/InflationFull Analysis in HTML: ArtOfLiberty.org/InflationHow 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: $3,520,000.That is the amount the median American worker earning $60,000 per year will lose — over a 40-year career and 20-year retirement — to the fractional reserve banking system, government taxation, and Social Security benefit manipulation. Combined, these mechanisms extract 147% 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.This is not a political opinion. It is not a conspiracy theory. It is an accounting — calculated independently by four separate AI systems using audited primary-source data from the FDIC, the Federal Reserve, the BLS, and the GAO. When Claude, Grok, Gemini, and GPT-5.2 all produce the same order of magnitude without coordination, the pattern is not noise. It’s signal.Today, the Art of Liberty Foundation is releasing The Greatest Theft in Human History — the most comprehensive public accounting of monetary extraction ever attempted. Here’s what we found.The Number That Should End the ConversationThe dollar has lost 97% of its purchasing power since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913. That’s not an estimate. That’s from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ own CPI Calculator.During that same period, the M2 money supply expanded approximately 1,380 times— from roughly $25 billion to $21.5 trillion. Real GDP grew approximately 100 times. The gap — 43 times more money than economic output — represents purchasing power transferred from everyone who holds dollars to those who created the new ones.Those new dollars were not created democratically. They were created by banks — private institutions that generate money by typing numbers into computers when making loans — and injected into the economy through a network of 24 “Primary Dealers” who get access to newly created money first, before prices adjust. By the time that money reaches your paycheck, prices have already risen.This is the Cantillon Effect: a 300-year-old observation that new money doesn’t enter the economy neutrally. It enriches those closest to its creation and impoverishes those furthest from it. In 2024, U.S. banks earned $268 billion in net income — confirmed by FDIC audited data. Over the full period since 1913, cumulative bank profits run to an estimated $15–25 trillion in today’s dollars.“Every dollar the banking system extracts is a dollar that, under honest money, would have gone to the person who earned it.”Your Missing MillionsHere is what the extraction looks like, by income level, over a 40-year career using the Fed’s own conservative 2% inflation target:Understanding the Cantillon Effect & The Compound TrapThe purchasing power that evaporates under inflation is only one aspect of the theft of fractional reserve banking. The system also extracts using the aforementioned Cantillon Effect where the banks (Primary Dealers) who receive the new money created out of thin air are able to capture the maximum purchasing power of that money which is reduced considerably once it reaches the average worker.Banks and their borrowers receive new money FIRST, before prices adjust. They buy at pre-inflation prices; workers receive wages last, at post-inflation prices. This is a directional wealth transfer, not neutral dilution. Think about the 500,000+ single-family homes that private equity has bought since 2012, driving up costs for everyone. The institutional single-family rental (SFR) industry is the Cantillon Effect made flesh — in the one asset class workers historically used to escape inflation.The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 produced roughly 3.8 million foreclosures by 2010, with 7+ million eventual foreclosures by 2014. Median home prices dropped 33%. The people losing those homes couldn’t get credit to buy them back because mortgage standards had tightened. The institutions that received the Fed’s QE money could.The key government catalyst: Fannie Mae’s REO-to-Rental Initiative (2012) allowed pre-qualified investors to bid on large portfolios of foreclosed properties at bulk auction — an arrangement that individual families physically could not participate in. The government sold foreclosed American homes in bulk to the exact institutions that had just received the Fed’s newly created money.By 2024, institutional investors owned approximately 450,000 single-family rental units (GAO-24-106643). The Philadelphia Fed documented that institutional investors raise rents 60% faster than individual landlords.The same cheap money that erodes your wages also inflates the assets you can’t afford to own — and the institutions that received that money first are now your landlord.The Compound TrapThe Compound Trap is the mechanism by which the inflation created by fractional reserve banking forces workers to borrow at interest — from the very institutions that created the inflation — to afford assets whose prices have been inflated by the money creation process itself.Examples:Housing: A home that cost $25,000 in 1971 costs $400,000+ today — not because the home is 16x better, but because the money supply expanded 1,380x while GDP grew only ~100x. The worker must borrow $320,000 at interest from a bank that created the money out of thin air. Over 30 years at 7%, they pay $446,000 in interest alone — more than the house. The bank risked nothing.Education: College tuition has risen 1,200% since 1980, far outpacing general inflation. Students borrow $37,000 on average (and often much more) to purchase credentials in a labor market that has not kept pace with credential inflation. The loans are made in bank-created money; the interest is real.Healthcare and Consumer Debt: Medical costs, auto loans, and credit card balances all compound the trap. Each dollar borrowed is a dollar that was created by the banking system, and each dollar of interest is a transfer from the worker to the bank that created the principal from nothing.The median worker at $60,000/year pays approximately $173,000 in compound trap costs over a 40-year career — in mortgage interest, student loan interest, and consumer debt interest — all on money that was created out of thin air.Under alternative inflation indexes (ShadowStats/Chapwood 7–10%), these figures multiply 3–5x.The Monopoly Government’s Confiscatory Taxes: $818,000 from the Median Worker Adds to the ExtractionFederal, state, and local governments extract approximately $818,000 from the median worker earning $60,000 over a 40-year career: $240,000 in federal income taxes, $367,000 in payroll taxes (the full economic burden, including the employer share that would otherwise be wages), and $211,000 in state and local taxes. For the $250K earner, the figure reaches $4.46 million. For the $1M earner, $19.7 million.The Honest Acknowledgment: You Received Some ServicesUnlike the fractional reserve banking extraction — where the wealth transfer produces no benefit whatsoever for the worker — government taxation does fund services that people use. Roads, courts, national defense, law enforcement, fire protection, public schools, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are real services delivered to real people. Our analysis does not pretend otherwise.But acknowledging that services exist is not the same as accepting that the price was fair, the delivery was efficient, or the arrangement was voluntary.Three structural problems make the tax extraction far more damaging than it appears:Problem 1: The Waste Is StaggeringThe GAO’s own auditors — not libertarian critics, but the government’s internal watchdog — estimated that the federal government loses between $233 billion and $521 billion annually to fraud alone (U.S. GAO, based on fiscal years 2018–2022). In FY 2024, agencies reported $162 billion in improper payments across 68 programs, with 84% being overpayments (U.S. GAO). Since FY 2003, cumulative improper payment estimates have totaled approximately $2.8 trillion (U.S. GAO) — and the GAO acknowledges this is a substantial undercount because many susceptible programs don’t report at all.In a scandal that came to be known as the Pentagon’s Bishops Fund scandal, the Department of Defense was caught buying fuel in bulk and then reselling it to the individual armed services at a cost significantly higher than if they services just bought fuel on the open market. They took the “profits” and put them into a slush fund.That means the federal government admits to losing roughly $162–$521 billion per year to waste, fraud, and improper payments. The median worker’s $240,000 in lifetime federal income taxes includes their proportional share of this waste: approximately $30,000–$80,000 over a career that went to payments the government itself says should never have been made.Problem 2: Monopoly PricingGovernment services operate as coercive monopolies — you pay whether you use them or not, and you cannot choose a competing provider. Economic theory and empirical evidence consistently show that monopoly providers charge more and deliver less than competitive alternatives.Private sector administrative overhead runs 5–17% depending on the industry; the federal government’s effective overhead — including compliance costs imposed on citizens and businesses — has been estimated at 20–35% when hidden regulatory burdens are included.A conservative estimate: if the services currently provided by government were delivered through competitive markets at private-sector efficiency levels, the cost savings would be 30–50% on the service-delivery components — representing roughly $250,000–$400,000 of the median worker’s lifetime tax burden that purchased bureaucratic overhead, waste, and monopoly pricing rather than actual services.Problem 3: The Seen and the UnseenThe most devastating cost of taxation is not what the government spent badly — it’s what the economy never produced. Every dollar extracted in taxes is a dollar that was not saved, invested, or spent by the person who earned it. The cumulative effect of removing $818,000 from the median worker’s lifetime economic activity — and trillions from the economy as a whole — is reduced capital formation, less entrepreneurship, fewer innovations, and slower productivity growth.Economists call this the “deadweight loss” of taxation — the economic activity that is destroyed, not merely transferred. Estimates of the deadweight loss range from $0.20 to $0.50 per dollar of tax revenue raised, meaning that for every dollar the government collects, an additional $0.20–$0.50 in economic value is destroyed in the process. Applied to the median worker’s $818,000 lifetime tax burden, this represents an additional $164,000–$409,000 in economic value that simply ceased to exist — jobs not created, businesses not started, innovations not pursued, and compounding growth never realized.Under a voluntaryist free-market alternative, the services people actually want — roads, dispute resolution, security, education, healthcare, retirement savings — would be provided by competing firms, mutual aid societies, and voluntary associations at market prices, with the discipline of consumer choice replacing the inertia of monopoly.Fraternal societies and mutual aid associations provided healthcare insurance, disability insurance, pensions, and other safety net services before they were crowded out by the monopoly “free” services mandated by “government.” The various organizations competed vigorously with each other to see who could provide better benefits at the most cost-effective prices.Historical examples are not hypothetical: private roads, private courts (arbitration handles more commercial disputes than government courts today), private schools (which educate at roughly 50–70% of the per-pupil cost of public schools), and fraternal societies that provided healthcare and life insurance to working-class Americans before government programs crowded them out in the mid-20th century.The $818,000 is not the price of civilization. It is the price of monopoly — and the monopolist has $2.8 trillion in admitted payment errors to show for it.The Government’s $190 Billion Incentive to Lie About the Actual Rate of Inflation to Steal Grandma’s Social SecurityThe BLS’s “official” inflation number drives Social Security COLAs, federal pension adjustments, military retirement, TIPS bond yields, and more. If that number is systematically low, the government saves money — at the direct expense of retirees and veterans.Our analysis — confirmed independently by all four AI models — finds that using real inflation rates (as measured by the ShadowStats SGS-Alternate or the Chapwood Index, both of which show 9–11%/yr versus the BLS’s 2–3%) would increase federal CPI-linked obligations by approximately $182–198 billion per year. Social Security alone accounts for roughly $112–115 billion of that gap.The mechanism is elegant in its dishonesty. The Social Security Act requires COLAs to be based on the CPI-W “as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.” The law doesn’t specify how the BLS calculates it. So when the BLS introduced Owner’s Equivalent Rent (1983), geometric mean weighting (1999), hedonic adjustments, and substitution bias — each of which independently lowers measured inflation — it automatically reduced every COLA payment in the federal budget without a single Congressional vote.The compounding effect is devastating. A retiree who began collecting Social Security in 2004 receives approximately $2,032/month today under BLS-based COLAs. Under ShadowStats-level adjustments applied to the same starting benefit, they would receive approximately $4,500–5,000/month. The cumulative lifetime underpayment for a single retiree exceeds $200,000 — and the median worker retiring today will have a 20-year retirement COLA shortfall of approximately $810,000.The two numbers aren’t contradictory — they’re the same mechanism at two different scales. The $200,000 is a historical example anchored to a real retiree who started collecting in 2004 at the then-average benefit of $922/month. The $810,000 is a forward projection for today’s median worker retiring at roughly $2,100/month — more than double that baseline.Since the annual COLA shortfall is a percentage gap applied to the monthly benefit, a higher starting benefit produces a proportionally larger dollar shortfall every year. That shortfall then compounds geometrically over 20 years because each year’s understated COLA reduces the base from which the next year’s adjustment is calculated. Same theft, two different scales.How Many Years Did You Work For Free?Here is the clearest way to see the scale of the extraction. After a 40-year career and 20-year retirement, how many of those 60 years did you work just to cover the wealth transferred to the banking system, the government, and the CPI manipulation that reduces your retirement benefits?For the median worker at $60K, the combined extraction represents 42.8 years of labor — more than the entire 40-year career. The worker keeps only 27% of lifetime earnings.Every income level from $35K to $1M exceeds 40 years of extraction because of two dynamics:1. Under an honest monetary system like the historical gold standard where dollars can’t be created digitally or on a printing press, prices are benignly deflationary. The costs of the luxuries and necessities of life go DOWN each and every year 1-2% reflecting the innovations in better manufacturing, cheaper materials and more effective distribution. The average worker would be getting richer, the Cantillon Effect would be eliminated, and workers wouldn’t have to borrow (Or would borrow much LESS for houses, education, and healthcare)2. The SS COLA underpayment continues extracting value during retirement. The system doesn’t stop taking when you stop working. The government continues stealing from you by underpaying you what you are due from mandatory Cost-Of-Living-Adjustments by lying about what the REAL rate of inflation is.The extraction is most devastating for those who can least afford it. The $35K earner loses 17.7 years to SS COLA underpayment alone — 44% of lifetime earnings — while the $1M earner loses only 1.5 years to the same mechanism. The system is regressive by design.This Is Not AccidentalThe report documents five hallmarks of organized crime that sustain this extraction:Regulatory Capture: 304 revolving-door hires between the 20 largest U.S. banks and regulatory agencies, representing 2,256 cumulative years of public office (Cambridge University Press / Journal of Institutional Economics, 2019).Capture of the Economics Profession: The Federal Reserve spends hundreds of millions annually funding economists at universities, journals, and conferences. 84 of 190 editorial board members across top economics journals have Fed ties. The field cannot produce independent criticism of the institution funding it.Capture of Government: The FIRE sector has been the largest or second-largest source of federal campaign contributions in nearly every election cycle since 1990, totaling over $20 billion since tracking began — producing a 180:1 return on political investment. Industry executives cycle in and out of government at the highest levels.Capture of Academia: Compulsory schooling systems presents “government” as legitimate, desirable and necessary before kids are old enough to evaluate the logic and morality of the claim. The schools present the Federal Reserve as a neutral public institution, never teach that banks create money through lending, and never question or debate the legitimacy of the system.Monopolization of Media: Six corporations now control approximately 90% of what Americans see, hear, and read. The consolidation was financed with cheap debt from the very banking system being normalized. No major network has produced a serious investigative piece on fractional reserve banking as a mechanism of wealth transfer.What You Can Do Right NowFirst: verify it yourself. Open any AI model — Claude, Grok, Gemini, or ChatGPT — and ask it to calculate the lifetime cost of the fractional reserve banking system to a median worker at your income level. We have specific prompts in the report. You will get a number in the same range documented in this report. The directional transfer from wage-earners to money-creators is a consensus finding across every model tested.Second: share this report. It is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 — reproduce and distribute freely with attribution. You can download the full PDF with hyperlinks at ArtOfLiberty.org/Inflation. You can buy printed copies at ArtOfLiberty.org/Store.Third: support the Art of Liberty Foundation! We are an independent organization with no government funding, no banking-sector advertising revenue, and no institutional dependencies. The work described in this report — and the investigative journalism that will follow — depends entirely on voluntary support. Become a sponsor at ArtOfLiberty.org/Sponsor.“The magicians can only fool the audience until the audience understands the trick.That moment is now.”— Etienne de la Boetie², Art of Liberty FoundationArtOfLiberty.org · ArtOfLiberty.org/InflationReleased under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 — reproduce and distributeAbout The AuthorsEtienne de la Boetie² is the founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation and an internationally recognized expert and speaker on voluntaryism and government illegitimacy, criminality, and corruption. He is the author of “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! – How Inter-Generational Organized Crime Runs the “Government,”Media and Academiaand To See the Cage Is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many, and the editor of the Art of Liberty Daily News and Five Meme Friday, which delivers hard-hitting voluntaryist memes and the best of the alternative media. His original writing and research can be found at ArtOfLiberty.Foundation and, in Spanish, at ArteDeLaLibertad.org.About The Ai Co-Authors/ResearchersThis analysis was conducted with four independent AI models: Anthropic’s Claude (Sonnet), xAI’s Grok, Google’s Gemini, and OpenAI’s GPT. Each was prompted independently with identical data and methodology parameters. Their convergent results strengthen the findings by demonstrating that the extraction pattern is visible to any sufficiently capable analytical system, regardless of corporate ownership or training bias.Thursday Night, March 26th – Live Event in Memphis – Global Live StreamOn Thursday night Etienne will be breaking down The Greatest Theft in Human History. Who is behind it? How do they get away with it? What can we do about it?Get tickets at https://artofliberty.org/an-evening-with-etienne/ORGet Tickets with a Sponsorship of the Art of Liberty Foundation + the New Version 5.5 of Etienne’s book: “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! + PerksArtOfLiberty.org/Sponsor“Government” is and has been “The Biggest Scam in History” and it has enabled The Greatest Theft in Human History… There wouldn’t be fractional reserve banking, the Federal Reserve, the 1933 theft of the people’s gold, legal tender laws, or fiat currency without “government”
The Greatest Theft in Human History! The Banks and Government Are Stealing $3.5 Million From the Average Worker.
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 workerHow 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: $3,520,000.That is the amount the median American worker earning $60,000 per year will lose — over a 40-year career and 20-year retirement — to the fractional reserve banking system, government taxation, and Social Security benefit manipulation. Combined, these mechanisms extract 147% 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.This is not a political opinion. It is not a conspiracy theory. It is an accounting — calculated independently by four separate AI systems using audited primary-source data from the FDIC, the Federal Reserve, the BLS, and the GAO. When Claude, Grok, Gemini, and GPT-5.2 all produce the same order of magnitude without coordination, the pattern is not noise. It’s signal.Today, the Art of Liberty Foundation is releasing The Greatest Theft in Human History — the most comprehensive public accounting of monetary extraction ever attempted. Here’s what we found.The Number That Should End the ConversationThe dollar has lost 97% of its purchasing power since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913. That’s not an estimate. That’s from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ own CPI Calculator.During that same period, the M2 money supply expanded approximately 1,380 times— from roughly $25 billion to $21.5 trillion. Real GDP grew approximately 100 times. The gap — 43 times more money than economic output — represents purchasing power transferred from everyone who holds dollars to those who created the new ones.Those new dollars were not created democratically. They were created by banks — private institutions that generate money by typing numbers into computers when making loans — and injected into the economy through a network of 24 “Primary Dealers” who get access to newly created money first, before prices adjust. By the time that money reaches your paycheck, prices have already risen.This is the Cantillon Effect: a 300-year-old observation that new money doesn’t enter the economy neutrally. It enriches those closest to its creation and impoverishes those furthest from it. In 2024, U.S. banks earned $268 billion in net income — confirmed by FDIC audited data. Over the full period since 1913, cumulative bank profits run to an estimated $15–25 trillion in today’s dollars.“Every dollar the banking system extracts is a dollar that, under honest money, would have gone to the person who earned it.”Your Missing MillionsHere is what the extraction looks like, by income level, over a 40-year career using the Fed’s own conservative 2% inflation target:Understanding the Cantillon Effect & The Compound TrapThe purchasing power that evaporates under inflation is only one aspect of the theft of fractional reserve banking. The system also extracts using the aforementioned Cantillon Effect where the banks (Primary Dealers) who receive the new money created out of thin air are able to capture the maximum purchasing power of that money which is reduced considerably once it reaches the average worker.Banks and their borrowers receive new money FIRST, before prices adjust. They buy at pre-inflation prices; workers receive wages last, at post-inflation prices. This is a directional wealth transfer, not neutral dilution. Think about the 500,000+ single-family homes that private equity has bought since 2012, driving up costs for everyone. The institutional single-family rental (SFR) industry is the Cantillon Effect made flesh — in the one asset class workers historically used to escape inflation.The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 produced roughly 3.8 million foreclosures by 2010, with 7+ million eventual foreclosures by 2014. Median home prices dropped 33%. The people losing those homes couldn’t get credit to buy them back because mortgage standards had tightened. The institutions that received the Fed’s QE money could.The key government catalyst: Fannie Mae’s REO-to-Rental Initiative (2012) allowed pre-qualified investors to bid on large portfolios of foreclosed properties at bulk auction — an arrangement that individual families physically could not participate in. The government sold foreclosed American homes in bulk to the exact institutions that had just received the Fed’s newly created money.By 2024, institutional investors owned approximately 450,000 single-family rental units (GAO-24-106643). The Philadelphia Fed documented that institutional investors raise rents 60% faster than individual landlords.The same cheap money that erodes your wages also inflates the assets you can’t afford to own — and the institutions that received that money first are now your landlord.The Compound TrapThe Compound Trap is the mechanism by which the inflation created by fractional reserve banking forces workers to borrow at interest — from the very institutions that created the inflation — to afford assets whose prices have been inflated by the money creation process itself. Examples:Housing: A home that cost $25,000 in 1971 costs $400,000+ today — not because the home is 16x better, but because the money supply expanded 1,380x while GDP grew only ~100x. The worker must borrow $320,000 at interest from a bank that created the money out of thin air. Over 30 years at 7%, they pay $446,000 in interest alone — more than the house. The bank risked nothing.Education: College tuition has risen 1,200% since 1980, far outpacing general inflation. Students borrow $37,000 on average (and often much more) to purchase credentials in a labor market that has not kept pace with credential inflation. The loans are made in bank-created money; the interest is real.Healthcare and Consumer Debt: Medical costs, auto loans, and credit card balances all compound the trap. Each dollar borrowed is a dollar that was created by the banking system, and each dollar of interest is a transfer from the worker to the bank that created the principal from nothing.The median worker at $60,000/year pays approximately $173,000 in compound trap costs over a 40-year career — in mortgage interest, student loan interest, and consumer debt interest — all on money that was created out of thin air. Under alternative inflation indexes (ShadowStats/Chapwood 7–10%), these figures multiply 3–5x.The Monopoly Government’s Confiscatory Taxes: $818,000 from the Median Worker Adds to the ExtractionFederal, state, and local governments extract approximately $818,000 from the median worker earning $60,000 over a 40-year career: $240,000 in federal income taxes, $367,000 in payroll taxes (the full economic burden, including the employer share that would otherwise be wages), and $211,000 in state and local taxes. For the $250K earner, the figure reaches $4.46 million. For the $1M earner, $19.7 million.The Honest Acknowledgment: You Received Some ServicesUnlike the fractional reserve banking extraction — where the wealth transfer produces no benefit whatsoever for the worker — government taxation does fund services that people use. Roads, courts, national defense, law enforcement, fire protection, public schools, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are real services delivered to real people. Our analysis does not pretend otherwise.But acknowledging that services exist is not the same as accepting that the price was fair, the delivery was efficient, or the arrangement was voluntary. Three structural problems make the tax extraction far more damaging than it appears:Problem 1: The Waste Is StaggeringThe GAO’s own auditors — not libertarian critics, but the government’s internal watchdog — estimated that the federal government loses between $233 billion and $521 billion annually to fraud alone (U.S. GAO, based on fiscal years 2018–2022). In FY 2024, agencies reported $162 billion in improper payments across 68 programs, with 84% being overpayments (U.S. GAO). Since FY 2003, cumulative improper payment estimates have totaled approximately $2.8 trillion (U.S. GAO) — and the GAO acknowledges this is a substantial undercount because many susceptible programs don’t report at all.In a scandal that came to be known as the Pentagon’s Bishops Fund scandal, the Department of Defense was caught buying fuel in bulk and then reselling it to the individual armed services at a cost significantly higher than if they services just bought fuel on the open market. They took the “profits” and put them into a slush fund. That means the federal government admits to losing roughly $162–$521 billion per year to waste, fraud, and improper payments. The median worker’s $240,000 in lifetime federal income taxes includes their proportional share of this waste: approximately $30,000–$80,000 over a career that went to payments the government itself says should never have been made.Problem 2: Monopoly PricingGovernment services operate as coercive monopolies — you pay whether you use them or not, and you cannot choose a competing provider. Economic theory and empirical evidence consistently show that monopoly providers charge more and deliver less than competitive alternatives.Private sector administrative overhead runs 5–17% depending on the industry; the federal government’s effective overhead — including compliance costs imposed on citizens and businesses — has been estimated at 20–35% when hidden regulatory burdens are included.A conservative estimate: if the services currently provided by government were delivered through competitive markets at private-sector efficiency levels, the cost savings would be 30–50% on the service-delivery components — representing roughly $250,000–$400,000 of the median worker’s lifetime tax burden that purchased bureaucratic overhead, waste, and monopoly pricing rather than actual services.Problem 3: The Seen and the UnseenThe most devastating cost of taxation is not what the government spent badly — it’s what the economy never produced. Every dollar extracted in taxes is a dollar that was not saved, invested, or spent by the person who earned it. The cumulative effect of removing $818,000 from the median worker’s lifetime economic activity — and trillions from the economy as a whole — is reduced capital formation, less entrepreneurship, fewer innovations, and slower productivity growth.Economists call this the “deadweight loss” of taxation — the economic activity that is destroyed, not merely transferred. Estimates of the deadweight loss range from $0.20 to $0.50 per dollar of tax revenue raised, meaning that for every dollar the government collects, an additional $0.20–$0.50 in economic value is destroyed in the process. Applied to the median worker’s $818,000 lifetime tax burden, this represents an additional $164,000–$409,000 in economic value that simply ceased to exist — jobs not created, businesses not started, innovations not pursued, and compounding growth never realized.Under a voluntaryist free-market alternative, the services people actually want — roads, dispute resolution, security, education, healthcare, retirement savings — would be provided by competing firms, mutual aid societies, and voluntary associations at market prices, with the discipline of consumer choice replacing the inertia of monopoly. Fraternal societies and mutual aid associations provided healthcare insurance, disability insurance, pensions, and other safety net services before they were crowded out by the monopoly “free” services mandated by “government.” The various organizations competed vigorously with each other to see who could provide better benefits at the most cost-effective prices. Historical examples are not hypothetical: private roads, private courts (arbitration handles more commercial disputes than government courts today), private schools (which educate at roughly 50–70% of the per-pupil cost of public schools), and fraternal societies that provided healthcare and life insurance to working-class Americans before government programs crowded them out in the mid-20th century.The $818,000 is not the price of civilization. It is the price of monopoly — and the monopolist has $2.8 trillion in admitted payment errors to show for it.The Government’s $190 Billion Incentive to Lie About the Actual Rate of Inflation to Steal Grandma’s Social SecurityThe BLS’s “official” inflation number drives Social Security COLAs, federal pension adjustments, military retirement, TIPS bond yields, and more. If that number is systematically low, the government saves money — at the direct expense of retirees and veterans.Our analysis — confirmed independently by all four AI models — finds that using real inflation rates (as measured by the ShadowStats SGS-Alternate or the Chapwood Index, both of which show 9–11%/yr versus the BLS’s 2–3%) would increase federal CPI-linked obligations by approximately $182–198 billion per year. Social Security alone accounts for roughly $112–115 billion of that gap.The mechanism is elegant in its dishonesty. The Social Security Act requires COLAs to be based on the CPI-W “as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.” The law doesn’t specify how the BLS calculates it. So when the BLS introduced Owner’s Equivalent Rent (1983), geometric mean weighting (1999), hedonic adjustments, and substitution bias — each of which independently lowers measured inflation — it automatically reduced every COLA payment in the federal budget without a single Congressional vote.The compounding effect is devastating. A retiree who began collecting Social Security in 2004 receives approximately $2,032/month today under BLS-based COLAs. Under ShadowStats-level adjustments applied to the same starting benefit, they would receive approximately $4,500–5,000/month. The cumulative lifetime underpayment for a single retiree exceeds $200,000 — and the median worker retiring today will have a 20-year retirement COLA shortfall of approximately $810,000.The two numbers aren’t contradictory — they’re the same mechanism at two different scales. The $200,000 is a historical example anchored to a real retiree who started collecting in 2004 at the then-average benefit of $922/month. The $810,000 is a forward projection for today’s median worker retiring at roughly $2,100/month — more than double that baseline.Since the annual COLA shortfall is a percentage gap applied to the monthly benefit, a higher starting benefit produces a proportionally larger dollar shortfall every year. That shortfall then compounds geometrically over 20 years because each year’s understated COLA reduces the base from which the next year’s adjustment is calculated. Same theft, two different scales.How Many Years Did You Work For Free?Here is the clearest way to see the scale of the extraction. After a 40-year career and 20-year retirement, how many of those 60 years did you work just to cover the wealth transferred to the banking system, the government, and the CPI manipulation that reduces your retirement benefits?For the median worker at $60K, the combined extraction represents 42.8 years of labor — more than the entire 40-year career. The worker keeps only 27% of lifetime earnings.Every income level from $35K to $1M exceeds 40 years of extraction because of two dynamics:1. Under an honest monetary system like the historical gold standard where dollars can’t be created digitally or on a printing press, prices are benignly deflationary. The costs of the luxuries and necessities of life go DOWN each and every year 1-2% reflecting the innovations in better manufacturing, cheaper materials and more effective distribution. The average worker would be getting richer, the Cantillon Effect would be eliminated, and workers wouldn’t have to borrow (Or would borrow much LESS for houses, education, and healthcare)2. The SS COLA underpayment continues extracting value during retirement. The system doesn’t stop taking when you stop working. The government continues stealing from you by underpaying you what you are due from mandatory Cost-Of-Living-Adjustments by lying about what the REAL rate of inflation is.The extraction is most devastating for those who can least afford it. The $35K earner loses 17.7 years to SS COLA underpayment alone — 44% of lifetime earnings — while the $1M earner loses only 1.5 years to the same mechanism. The system is regressive by design.This Is Not AccidentalThe report documents five hallmarks of organized crime that sustain this extraction:Regulatory Capture: 304 revolving-door hires between the 20 largest U.S. banks and regulatory agencies, representing 2,256 cumulative years of public office (Cambridge University Press / Journal of Institutional Economics, 2019).Capture of the Economics Profession: The Federal Reserve spends hundreds of millions annually funding economists at universities, journals, and conferences. 84 of 190 editorial board members across top economics journals have Fed ties. The field cannot produce independent criticism of the institution funding it.Capture of Government: The FIRE sector has been the largest or second-largest source of federal campaign contributions in nearly every election cycle since 1990, totaling over $20 billion since tracking began — producing a 180:1 return on political investment. Industry executives cycle in and out of government at the highest levels.Capture of Academia: Compulsory schooling systems presents “government” as legitimate, desirable and necessary before kids are old enough to evaluate the logic and morality of the claim. The schools present the Federal Reserve as a neutral public institution, never teach that banks create money through lending, and never question or debate the legitimacy of the system.Monopolization of Media: Six corporations now control approximately 90% of what Americans see, hear, and read. The consolidation was financed with cheap debt from the very banking system being normalized. No major network has produced a serious investigative piece on fractional reserve banking as a mechanism of wealth transfer.What You Can Do Right NowFirst: verify it yourself. Open any AI model — Claude, Grok, Gemini, or ChatGPT — and ask it to calculate the lifetime cost of the fractional reserve banking system to a median worker at your income level. We have specific prompts in the report. You will get a number in the same range documented in this report. The directional transfer from wage-earners to money-creators is a consensus finding across every model tested.Second: share this report. It is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 — reproduce and distribute freely with attribution. You can download the full PDF with hyperlinks at ArtOfLiberty.org/Inflation. You can buy printed copies at ArtOfLiberty.org/Store.Third: support the Art of Liberty Foundation! We are an independent organization with no government funding, no banking-sector advertising revenue, and no institutional dependencies. The work described in this report — and the investigative journalism that will follow — depends entirely on voluntary support. Become a sponsor at ArtOfLiberty.org/Sponsor.“The magicians can only fool the audience until the audience understands the trick. That moment is now.”— Etienne de la Boetie², Art of Liberty FoundationArtOfLiberty.org · ArtOfLiberty.org/InflationReleased under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 — reproduce and distributeAbout The AuthorsEtienne de la Boetie² is the founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation and an internationally recognized expert and speaker on voluntaryism and government illegitimacy, criminality, and corruption. He is the author of “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! – How Inter-Generational Organized Crime Runs the “Government,”Media and Academiaand To See the Cage Is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many, and the editor of the Art of Liberty Daily News and Five Meme Friday, which delivers hard-hitting voluntaryist memes and the best of the alternative media. His original writing and research can be found at ArtOfLiberty.Foundation and, in Spanish, at ArteDeLaLibertad.org.About The Ai Co-Authors/ResearchersThis analysis was conducted with four independent AI models: Anthropic’s Claude (Sonnet), xAI’s Grok, Google’s Gemini, and OpenAI’s GPT. Each was prompted independently with identical data and methodology parameters. Their convergent results strengthen the findings by demonstrating that the extraction pattern is visible to any sufficiently capable analytical system, regardless of corporate ownership or training bias.Thursday Night, March 26th – Live Event in Memphis – Global Live StreamOn Thursday night Etienne will be breaking down The Greatest Theft in Human History. Who is behind it? How do they get away with it? What can we do about it?Get tickets at https://artofliberty.org/an-evening-with-etienne/ OR Get Tickets with a Sponsorship of the Art of Liberty Foundation + the New Version 5.5 of Etienne’s book: “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! + PerksArtOfLiberty.org/Sponsor“Government” is and has been “The Biggest Scam in History” and it has enabled The Greatest Theft in Human History… There wouldn’t be fractional reserve banking, the Federal Reserve, the 1933 theft of the people’s gold, legal tender laws, or fiat currency without “government”
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+ Etienne is Streaming Globally on Thursday Night on The Greatest Theft in History! Etienne Note: If the images aren’t visible, please try this browser LINK.Dear Subscribers,This big story this week was our release of the NEW 5.5 Edition of my book: “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! The new version has updated content, memes, visualizations, and a new cover design. I am attaching a teaser copy of the 5th edition to this email for you to share with your family and friends.We released the new addition alongside a teaser for a new study that we are officially announcing and releasing this upcoming week. “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… has produced the greatest theft in history. A couple of weeks ago we released our research showing the unbelievable cost of fractional reserve banking on the average worker. We dug deeper and calculated the additional cost of confiscatory federal, state & local taxes AND the theft of Social Security (and pension!) benefits due to the organized crime “government” lying to retirees about the inflation rate, so they don’t have to pay mandated Cost-Of-Living-Adjustments (COLAs). I don’t want to steal our thunder from the announcement which we are making on Tuesday, but it has been the greatest theft in all of human history… by far! Stay Tuned!Finally, I am going to be giving a presentation on the findings of the report in Memphis, TN that will be streamed globally this Thursday, March 26th at 7:00 PM CST. If you have ever wanted to visit Memphis, the home of Elvis Presley, Beale Street/The Blues, FedEx and Grok, this is the week to come! You can get a copy of the new “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History.. Exposed! 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You can support the Art of Liberty Foundation as a annual sponsor at:ArtOfLiberty.org/SponsorTop Stories of the Week“Government” – The Biggest Scam in History – Version 5.5 Launches – 8,000 Hard Copies. 25 Countries. 40,000 Downloads.By Etienne de la Boetie² | Art of Liberty Foundation | March 2026There is a book that has been quietly doing something unusual in the liberty movement.It has sold over 8,000 hard copies to readers in 25+ countries.More than 40,000 ePubs and digital copies have been downloaded.It has been the best-selling book at over two dozen liberty-oriented conferences and events — outselling titles by authors with far larger platforms.Continue reading…Videos of the WeekNeighborhood Survival Strategy in Collapse/Depression: TimebankingEtienne Note: I have added this to the HUNDREDS of Prepping and Self-Sufficiency Resources we have in: The Liberator!by Reinette SenumEverything you need to start your own Time Bank, today, offline, with nothing but a notebook and your neighbors. Download the Time Bank Accounting Notebook PDF and print it out, along with this article, now. File it away in case the electrical grid or internet goes down.My webinar two nights ago, webinar blew the roof off, we hit our Zoom limit inside the first ten minutes, upgraded on the fly, and kept going for two full hours with people joining from across the country and as far as Australia. It was exactly the kind of evening that reminds me why I do this work.For everyone who was there: thank you. You are the early adopters, the Johnny Appleseeds. You are going to be the ones your neighbors come knocking on when things get tight. And they will.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_ScamsThe 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”Condition 1984: Flock AI Cameras Surveilling U.S.by Andrew MullerFrom Los Angeles to New York, from the deep South to Midwest suburbs, more than 80,000 AI-powered cameras are actively surveilling nearly every American as they commute to work, walk their dogs, and drive to church. The company behind it, Flock Safety, is claiming to fight — and even prevent — crime, but the reality is more sinister.Flock and companies like it are building the foundation for a surveillance state that would make George Orwell blush. They are accomplishing this by installing high-tech AI cameras on every street corner, positioning them in every neighborhood, and even launching AI eyes in the sky through a drone network.The company, founded in 2017 with an evaluated value of $7.5 billion, exists to aid law enforcement and “stay ahead” of any threat “big or small.” More than 5,000 law-enforcement agencies use the tech in 49 states (Alaska being the outlier), according to Flock’s website, which it boasts represents the “largest public-private” surveillance network.Garret Langley, Flock CEO and co-founder, says the company’s objective is to eliminate crime — all crime. In an interview with Forbes, Langley explained that Flock’s “full mission is that we genuinely don’t think that crime should exist…. We think that with technology, with people, with policy, crime can be a thing of the past.” In other words, with enough spyware and surveillance, every movement can be monitored.Continue reading…BREAKING STUDY: COVID-19 “Vaccination” Linked to 6,800% Higher Odds of Debilitating Autoimmune Muscle Diseaseby Nicolas Hulscher, MPHA new study titled “Association Between COVID-19 Vaccination and Polymyalgia Rheumatica: A Review and Case Series Report” reports a powerful safety signal linking COVID-19 vaccination to polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR)—a debilitating autoimmune inflammatory disorder characterized by severe muscle pain and systemic inflammation.The paper was authored by Dr. Erik Nilssen, Dr. James Thorp, Claire Rogers, Kirstin Cosgrove, Dr. Steven Hatfill, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Dr. Kelly Victory, Dr. Alejandro Diaz-Villalobos, Nicolas Hulscher (myself), and Dr. Peter A. McCullough.In our analysis, we examined reports from the CDC/FDA Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and detected a striking disproportionate increase in PMR cases following COVID-19 vaccination compared with other vaccines. We also report three clinical cases of polymyalgia rheumatica observed in recent medical practice following COVID-19 vaccination or spike protein exposure.Polymyalgia rheumatica primarily affects adults over age 50 and can leave patients with crippling shoulder, neck, and hip pain, profound morning stiffness, fatigue, and elevated inflammatory markers. Many patients require long-term corticosteroid therapy to control symptoms.Continue reading…A surprising percentage of produce from the nation’s largest supplier contains ‘forever’ pesticidesby Sandee LaMotteNearly 40% of nonorganic fruits and vegetables grown in California contain traces of pesticides that are also PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” according to a new investigation.California supplies nearly half of the vegetables and more than three-quarters of the fruits and nuts eaten in the United States.Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are called “forever chemicals” because their strong carbon to fluoride molecular bonds can take years to decades — even centuries— to completely break down in the environment. It’s estimated there are nearly 15,000 types of fluorinated chemicals, or PFAS, in existence today.“The PFAS pesticide is the active ingredient in these products because it’s effective at killing things — which is the very reason why it’s so concerning to public health and the environment at large,” said Bernadette Del Chiaro, senior vice president for California operations for the Environmental Working Group, or EWG, a health advocacy organization that produced the report published Wednesday.Continue reading…Inside the Bohemian Grove’s Alleged Member List of Elite Men Exposed in New Searchable Databaseby NY Post and More Perfect UnionBohemian Grove is a fraternity of Northern California elites that only allows men as members. A roster purporting to show the Bohemian Grove’s shadowy membership list, uncovered by investigative journalist Dan Boguslaw, reveals more than 2,000 business executives, entertainers, government officials and wealthy individuals separated into “camps” with cryptic names like “Rough ‘n Ready,” “Pink Onion,” and “Lost Angels.”In the short documentary, the researcher from the liberal More Perfect Union said that Trump tried to become a member, but was shut out. He explained how the connected elites took power over the Trump administration despite rejecting him.LINK FOR THE FULL LIST HEREFrom Grok: “The leaked 2023 Bohemian Grove attendee list includes Paul Pelosi (venture capitalist, husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi) and Michael Bloomberg (former NYC mayor with Democratic roots). Historically, the club has leaned heavily Republican (e.g., Reagan, Nixon regulars), but it’s never been strictly one-party—Democrat-linked figures like Chris Matthews have also spoken there. It’s an elite networking spot open to influential men across affiliations.”Continue reading…56% Of Americans Now Suspect COVID-19 ‘Vaccines’ Caused Mass-Deathsby Nicholas Hulscher and Lindell TVRasmussen Reports performed a credible, nationally representative poll that confirms most Americans [56%] believe COVID-19 shots have killed many people, and they want accountability from the CDC and government health leaders. This shows that what was once called a “conspiracy theory” has become the mainstream view. The majority of Americans now believe vaccine harms are real and widespread.Partisan divides remain—70% of Republicans, 46% of Democrats, and 54% of independents think the vaccines likely caused deaths—but the skepticism crosses party lines and racial groups.“OVER HALF OF AMERICANS NOW BELIEVE THE COVID VACCINES CAUSED MASS DEATHS.”Nicholas Hulscher, an epidemiologist with the McCullough Fundm was interviewed about what he calls a growing global crisis of vaccine injuries. “The tide is turning,” Hulscher said.Continue reading…‘A Giant Problem’: Experts Address ‘Massive Epidemic of Vaccine Injury’by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.The DefenderThis article was originally published by The Defender — Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website.The U.S. must address the “massive epidemic of vaccine injury,” according to scientists, doctors, lawyers and medical freedom activists who spoke today in Washington, D.C., at a roundtable hosted by the MAHA Institute.MAHA Institute President Mark Gorton told The Defender that the massive epidemic of vaccine injury — MEVI, for short — is a “giant problem.”“I want people to understand that vaccine injuries are common and they’re all around, and vaccine injuries dwarf the benefits of vaccines,” Gorton said.Continue reading…Historic heat dome to roast 14 US states with triple-digit temperatures months ahead of scheduleby CHRIS MELORE, US ASSISTANT SCIENCE EDITORA record-shattering heatwave is set to scorch millions across the Southwest, sending temperatures over 100 degrees three months before the US reaches summer.The shocking forecast has been triggered by a massive ‘heat dome’ forming over 14 states, including California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming.Parts of Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas will also be affected, with meteorologists from AccuWeather warning that temperatures throughout the week will be 15 to 30 degrees above average for mid-March.A heat dome works like a lid of high pressure. It builds overhead, trapping hot air at the surface level, suppressing clouds and intensifying sunlight.Continue reading…Switzerland Enshrines Cash in Federal Constitution, but Critics Say It Doesn’t Go Far Enoughby Peter RykowskiIn a nationwide referendum on Sunday, Swiss voters enshrined cash in the country’s federal constitution — but critics, who supported a more extensive proposal, argue that the constitutional amendment does not go far enough in preventing a central bank digital currency.Voters on Sunday decided on multiple national referendums, as well as elections and referendums at the cantonal and local levels. Among these were two competing proposals to enshrine cash in the Swiss Federal Constitution. The original proposal, a popular initiative spearheaded by the Swiss Freedom Movement (FBS) titled “Yes to an independent, free Swiss currency with coins or banknotes (cash is freedom),” would have amended the Constitution to declare:The Federal Government shall ensure that coins or banknotes are always available in sufficient quantities.The replacement of the Swiss franc with another currency must be submitted to a vote by the people and the cantons.Continue reading…Trump Says He Can Do ‘Anything I Want’ With Cubaby Daniel TrottaU.S. President Donald Trump escalated his rhetoric against Cuba on Monday, saying he expected to have the “honor” of “taking Cuba in some form” and that “I can do anything I want” with the neighboring country.The threatening statements come even as Cuba and the United States have opened talks aimed at improving their largely adverse relations, which have reached one of their most contentious moments in the 67 years since Fidel Castro overthrew what had been a close U.S. ally.“I do believe I’ll be … having the honor of taking Cuba. That’s a big honor. Taking Cuba in some form,” Trump told reporters as the island faces an unprecedented economic crisis, exacerbated by an oil blockade the U.S. imposed after capturing former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.“I mean, whether I free it, take it. Think I can do anything I want with it. You want to know the truth,” Trump told reporters at a signing event in the Oval Office.After Trump spoke, the New York Times reported that removing Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel from office is a key U.S. objective in the bilateral talks. Citing four people familiar with the talks, the Times said the Americans have signaled to Cuban negotiators that Diaz-Canel must go but are leaving the next steps up to the Cubans.Continue reading…Breaking: Federal Court Blocks ACIP Meeting, Changes to Childhood Vaccine Scheduleby Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.The DefenderThis article was originally published by The Defender — Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website.A federal court in Boston today blocked a key government vaccine advisory committee from holding its scheduled meeting this week, and paused changes the committee made to vaccine recommendations under U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy.In a win for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and several other medical organizations, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccine policy, will not meet as planned this week.HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon told The Defender in a statement that it “looks forward to this judge’s decision being overturned just like his other attempts to keep the Trump administration from governing.”Continue reading…Counterterrorism Director Joe Kent Resignsby John LeakeJoe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, just resigned, stating his reasons in the following letterAs part of the Art of Liberty Foundation’s Tribute to Nobel Laureate F.A. Hayek, in cooperation with the Mises Institute and the US Justice Charitable Foundation who provided free copies, the Art of Liberty Foundation is helping promote and distribute the book to anyone who “Goes Paid” as an annual member on Substack OR makes a purchase at ArtOfLiberty.org/Store.Go paid at the $5 a month level, and we will send you both the PDF and e-Pub versions of Etienne’s new book: To See the Cage Is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many, the PDF of Hayek for the 21st Century and a coupon code for 10% off anything in the https://artofliberty.org/store/.Continue reading…Amazon overtakes US Postal Service as largest parcel carrierby Eric KulischAmazon passed the U.S. Postal Service as the largest domestic parcel carrier in 2025, anchoring a broader market shift away from traditional couriers, as it in-sourced a large amount of last-mile delivery work previously handled by UPS, according to data published Monday by ShipMatrix Inc.Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) handled 6.7 billion parcels last year, up 9.8% year over year, compared to an 8.3% decline for the U.S. Postal Service to 6.6 billion pieces. UPS (NYSE: UPS) also experienced an 8.3% volume decline at 4.4 billion deliveries. FedEx (NYSE: FDX) delivered 3.6 billion parcels in 2025, up 5.9%. Amazon’s parcel growth isn’t just fueled by its own online orders, but new contracts from third parties that don’t sell on the retailer’s platform.Overall, industry volume was essentially flat (+0.4%) at 23.9 billion packages. Volumes for alternative carriers grew 13% to 2.6 billion units, highlighting a continued market shift to logistics services from online retailers like Walmart and Target, and low-cost start-ups and other independent carriers such as UniUni, Veho, Gofo, Jitsu, SpeedX, OnTrac and Better Trucks, said ShipMatrix, a provider of carrier benchmarking software for parcel shippers.UPS and FedEx are making a strategic retreat from commodity last-mile delivery — short-distance transport of lightweight merchandise from e-commerce fulfillment centers to residential addresses — to focus on B2B logistics and high-value e-commerce shipments where they can command a premium for complex services. The companies have made clear that low rewards from local courier service don’t cover the high-cost structure associated with operating global integrated express delivery networks. Instead, they are consolidating ground shipping centers and reducing capital investments to focus on shipments that are heavier, cross multiple shipping zones, and in high-density routes that generate higher revenue per parcel.Continue reading…Details Of Fire On US Navy’s Largest Carrier Much Worse Than Previously Knownby Tyler DurdenThere was chaos aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford after a major onboard fire knocked out a big swathe of living quarters, leaving hundreds of US sailors without beds in the middle of a live war deployment, in what marks a much bigger incident than what the Pentagon previously disclosedThe fire occurred last week, raising immediate questions of whether it was hit by an Iranian drone or missile attack, as Tehran has claimed, amid Pentagon insistence that it was none of these – but just an accidental fire.Already the crew and ship are strained to their limits, given the carrier is on its way to achieving a record deployment, entering ten months. The crew has reportedly been informed that they will be deployed into May, which would make an entire year at sea, after the prior Caribbean deployment focused on the Venezuela anti-Maduro operation.The NY Times says this marks twice the length of a normal carrier deployment – one wrought with extreme difficulties and a major emergency, as the report details:Continue reading…Things Go Haywire as Israeli Escalation Throws Iran Conflict into Dangerous New Phaseby SimpliciusThings really hit the fan earlier today after Iran’s largest natural gas field, the South Pars, was struck by Israel. This field reportedly accounts for 75% of Iran’s natural gas production and 80-85% of its electric grid.This of course came directly after Israel had assassinated Iran’s Secretary of the Supreme National Council Ali Larijani in a strike that was said to have also killed upwards of 100+ civilians in the vicinity, as it leveled the apartment block he was in, and possibly even surrounding buildings.This led to Iran immediately escalating with strikes against energy targets in both Israel and the Gulf, particularly hitting Qatar’s Ras Laffan gas hub said to be the world’s largest:The strike was successful and was said to have done massive damage to the facility, which some experts are writing is irreparable.Continue reading…Qatar Expels Iranian Diplomats After Strike On LNG Hub; Israel Attacks Iran’s Navy In Caspian Seaby Tyler DurdenIsrael strikes Iran Navy in Caspian Sea. Iran FM Discusses Strait of Hormuz with EU’s Kallas, oil dumps, amid reports of Iran launches on KSA. Largest Qatar LNG export hub hit by Iranian missiles. Doha expels diplomats.Some Gulf states want to ensure Iran’s missile arsenal destroyed for good, as EU, Russia, China demand ceasefire; Beijing ignores Trump’s Hormuz pleaIsrael says Iran’s intelligence chief Esmail Khatib was eliminated overnight as pace of top leadership killings accelerates.Iran says upstream oil and gas assets are under attack for first time since war began, readies retaliatory action against oil/gas assets in Gulf area, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, & UAE; Iraq reroutes some flows through Ceyhan Pipeline to TurkeyContinue reading…The Hormuz Humiliation: Iran’s Mine Warfare vs Washington’s ‘NO PLAN’ Disasterby 21st Century WireFreddie Ponton“We have lost control of the seas to a nation without a navy, using pre-World War I weapons, laid by vessels that were utilized at the time of the birth of Christ.”Rear Admiral Allan E. Smith, who wrote these words, learned this the hard way at Wonsan Harbour in 1950, when he realised the US Navy could lose control of the seas not to enemy fleets, but to thousands of cheap mines scattered from wooden fishing boats. Seventy-six years later, the same trap is snapping shut in the Strait of Hormuz.The Islamic Republic of Iran Navy (IRIN), the blue-water force built for conventional combat, has been pummeled by American and Israeli strikes, although its submarine fleet remains viable. But that was never the force that mattered. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN), the asymmetric warfare specialists, remain intact, lethal, and purpose-built for exactly this confrontation. They do not seek to control the sea. They seek to deny it through swarming fast boats, drones, mini-submarines, coastal defenses, and the weapon that could easily neutralise the trillion-dollar carrier groups for the price of a used sedan: the naval mine.What follows is an anatomy of strategic failure which disects how the United States launched an illegal war against Iran without a coherent objective, how the Pentagon’s $800 billion annual budget produced “NO PLAN” for the scenario its own intelligence warned was “100% foreseeable,” and how a few thousand naval mines, descendants of the same devices that bled the British Navy at Gallipoli and stalled MacArthur’s landing craft at Wonsan, have brought twenty percent of global oil shipments to the edge of paralysis.Continue reading…Decentralizing Defense: A $96 Guided Rocket Just Put Precision Warfare into the Hands of the Peopleby Matt AgoristIn a world where the State spends trillions of dollars on bloated defense contracts to build “smart” weapons that often end up incinerating wedding parties or schools in the Middle East, a single individual with a 3D printer and $96 just shattered the monopoly on high-tech violence. A video, along with the plans, has recently surfaced showcasing “Project Canard,” an open-source, 3D-printed guided rocket system that recalculates its trajectory mid-air using a $5 sensor and some piano wire. The creator, operating under the GitHub handle novatic14, has essentially handed the keys to advanced surface-to-air defense to anyone with an internet connection and a spool of plastic filament.Continue reading…People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans “Pervert Glasses”by Al Jazeera StaffThe United States-Israeli war on Iran is estimated to have cost Washington $3.7bn so far in its first 100 hours alone, or nearly $900m a day, driven largely by the huge expenditure of munitions, according to new research.An analysis by Washington-based think tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) underlined the colossal cost of the war, which entered its seventh day on Friday, as the US attacks Iran with stealth bombers and advanced weapons systems.list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4US says Iran missile attacks down 90% after strikes from B-2 bombersContinue reading…Greg Reese: An End of Empire (5 Minute Video)by Greg ReeseDespite having the world’s most powerful navy, the United States cannot force the Strait of Hormuz open, which every US military expert knew would be closed if Iran was attacked. This is why the US Navy is miles away. And it is why America’s NATO Allies are refusing to participate.The Iranians may have suffered the brutal Shock & Awe of the United States military, but they have been preparing for decades, and as the US is already running low on weapons, Iran has plans for a long term asymmetrical war, a defensive fight for their very existence. Iran has the moral high ground and they are holding practically all the cards.By his own admission, Trump expected a quick, decisive victory. He ignored warnings from experts, and instead, listened to his son-in-law Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes.Continue reading…US national debt breaches $39 trillion milestone for first time amid spending surgeBy Eric RevellRep. Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, explains how Fed Chair pick Kevin Warsh will restore integrity in the Federal Reserve on The Bottom Line.The U.S. national debt reached another historic milestone on Wednesday as it surpassed $39 trillion for the first time as the federal government’s persistent budget deficits send the debt soaring higher.New data from the Treasury Department released on Wednesday showed that the gross national debt reached $39,016,762,910,245.14 as of March 17.The $39 trillion milestone comes about five months after the national debt reached $38 trillion for the first time in late October 2025, which closely followed the $37 trillion milestone being surpassed just two months earlier in mid-August.Continue reading…How Musk is using Starlink to reshape the worldEtienne Note: Starlink is obviously a US Military communications system being used to help favored regimes and US-sponsored opposition groups in targeted countries while being sold to the public to subsidize the cost and privatize the profits to defense industry insiders who knew and understood the plan beforehand.by Ed Cumming. Eric WilliamsThe volatile, fast-moving US-Israeli attack on Iran has a very different character from the grinding war in Ukraine. From both conflicts, however, one development is increasingly clear: Starlink, Elon Musk’s satellite internet system, has become the most important strategic business on Earth.And Musk, who owns approximately 40 per cent of Starlink’s parent company, SpaceX, and controls 80 per cent of the voting rights, holds a level of geopolitical influence unprecedented for a corporate figure.“There is no real parallel [to Starlink],” says Alp Toker, director of NetBlocks, an independent global internet monitor. “There is probably no equivalent in modern history. You could argue people are equally dependent on AWS [Amazon Web Services, a cloud computing company] but it doesn’t have the same political aspect.”After months of slow Russian advances, Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, announced on Sunday that Ukraine had regained 168 square miles and thwarted a planned Russian offensive. “The spring campaign, as it had been planned, drowned in this spring for the Russians; they were unable to advance,” Zelensky told reporters.Continue reading…Damning study of over a million kids finds myocarditis only in the vaccinatedby Joseph MacKinnoniden administration officials and so-called experts characterized COVID-19 vaccines as “safe and effective” during the pandemic. In the face of an avalanche of tragic evidence to the contrary, the powers that be waged costly and unsuccessful propaganda and censorship campaigns to cure Americans’ skepticism.Although the Trump administration has alternatively acknowledged the risks and fallout associated with the vaccines — the Food and Drug Administration admitting, for instance, that the vaccines killed numerous children — a coalition of medical organizations is fighting to legally force the government to keep recommending the COVID jabs to healthy kids and pregnant women.That legal effort appears especially questionable given the finding in a recent study that children spared from the vaccine also appear to have been spared from an unfortunate health complication.Pericarditis and myocarditis appear to have been problems visited solely upon vaccinated kids.Continue reading…Kent Tells Tucker: ‘Imminent Threat’ Was From Israel, Not Iran; Ordered To Halt Charlie Kirk Investigationby Tyler DurdenJoe Kent, former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center who was President Trump’s principal counterterrorism advisor, appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show to explain his side of the story after stepping down from the administration.Kent announced his resignation Tuesday, citing his opposition to the ongoing U.S. war with Iran, and his belief that Iran posed “no imminent threat” to America – while asserting in his resignation letter that his wife died in “a war manufactured by Israel” in a 2019 suicide bombing in Manjbi, Syria.In this first public interview since resigning, Kent elaborated on his reasons amid reports emerging Wednesday that the FBI is investigating him for allegedly leaking or improperly sharing classified information (a probe that sources say predates his resignation and is being handled by the FBI’s Criminal Division, per several outlets).Early on in the interview, Carlson referenced Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s justification for the strikes – that Iran posed an imminent threat because Israel was preparing to attack Iranian targets, likely prompting Iranian retaliation against U.S. forces. 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“Government” — The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! is releasing its 5.5 Edition alongside a companion investigative report that finally puts a dollar figure on the scam: $3.5 million stolen from YOUBy Etienne de la Boetie² | Art of Liberty Foundation | March 2026There is a book that has been quietly doing something unusual in the liberty movement.It has sold over 8,000 hard copies to readers in 25+ countries. More than 40,000 ePubs and digital copies have been downloaded. It has been the best-selling book at over two dozen liberty-oriented conferences and events — outselling titles by authors with far larger platforms.But here’s the number that tells you what this book actually does to people’s minds: over 10% of all copies are sold as 5-packs and 10-packs — what we call “Friends Bundles.” People don’t just read this book. They buy it in bulk and hand it to the people they love. Donate them to libraries… Put them in mini-libraries in neighborhoods… Make them coffee table books in AirBNBs…That doesn’t happen with books that confirm what you already believe. That happens with books that show you something you can’t unsee.Today, the 5.5 Edition arrives — and alongside it, we are releasing a free companion investigative report that does something no one has ever done before: a complete, AI-verified accounting of exactly how much the banking system and “government” steal from every working American over a lifetime. The answer is $3.5 million for the median worker over the course of a 40 year career and 20 years of retirement. The book exposes the scam. The report proves the cost.Read the full investigative report: ArtOfLiberty.org/InflationGet the book: ArtOfLiberty.org/Store OR… Better yet… Become an Art of Liberty Foundation Sponsor and get the book and Perks at ArtOfLiberty.org/SponsorWhy This Book Works Where Others Don’tMost books about government corruption, monetary policy, or political philosophy are written for people who already read books about government corruption, monetary policy, or political philosophy.This book was designed — from the first page — for the person who has never questioned the system. Your brother-in-law. Your coworker. Your neighbor who votes in every election and thinks the government is basically fine.The secret is in the design.The Science of Visual Persuasion: Why an Image-Rich Book Changes More MindsHere’s what most authors in the liberty space get wrong: they write for readers. But the majority of humans are visual learners. Research consistently shows that approximately 65% of the population processes information primarily through images, not text. When you hand someone a 300-page text-dense book about the Federal Reserve, you’ve already lost most of your potential audience before they open the cover.“Government” — The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! was engineered differently. It is a landscape-format, full-color, image-rich book that functions more like a visual briefing than a traditional book. Every two-page spread is designed to deliver a single concept with enough visual evidence that the reader reaches their own conclusion — without being told what to think.This is not an accident. It is a deliberate application of three principles from cognitive science:1. The Picture Superiority EffectHumans remember images 6× better than text alone. When you read that “six corporations control 90% of American media,” you process it as an abstract fact. When you see the chart showing the consolidation from 50 companies in 1983 to 6 companies today — with the logos, the subsidiary brands, the ownership lines — the information moves from your analytical mind to your pattern-recognition system. It becomes something you know, not something you were told.A White Rose MUCHO GRANDE Poster with the Full Size, High-Resolution Media Ownership Chart from “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History…Exposed! 5.52. Making the Invisible VisibleThe most powerful technique in the book is visualization of patterns that are hidden in plain sight. Consider the presidential “halo effect”: dozens of photographs of presidents and government leaders are collected showing them photographed with the presidential seal positioned directly behind their heads — creating a subliminal halo effect identical to the religious iconography used for centuries to signal divine authority.Once you see the pattern on a single page with a dozen examples side by side, you cannot watch a presidential press conference the same way again. The artificiality of the staging becomes obvious. The spell breaks. That is the moment of insight this book is designed to produce — over and over, across dozens of topics.3. Comparative RevelationThe book’s signature format — four-column comparison tables showing Nazi Germany, the current US government, the Soviet Union, and East Germany side by side — is devastating precisely because it requires no editorial commentary. The reader sees the comparison and draws their own conclusion. Spying on citizens? Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes. Pledges and oaths forced on children? Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes. Control of money supply? Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes.The reader isn’t told “the US government is like Nazi Germany.” The reader sees the evidence laid out in parallel and reaches that conclusion independently — which is far more powerful than any argument could be, because it’s their insight, not yours.The Companion Report: Proving the Cost of the Scam — $3.5 Million Per WorkerThe book has always exposed how the scam works. What it never had was a precise dollar figure for how much it costs you personally. That changes now.Alongside the new 5.5 Edition, the Art of Liberty Foundation is releasing: THE GREATEST THEFT IN HUMAN HISTORY!How the Banks and “Government” Will Steal At Least $3.5 Million From Every Working American… “Legally”The Summary Chart from: The Greatest Theft in Human History – How the Banks and “Government” Will Steal At Least $3.5 Million From Every Working American… “Legally” showing how much the banks and “government” will steal from each worker over a 40 year career + 20 years of retirement through FRB Inflation + Taxes + Social Security Cost-of-Living-Adjustment Underpayment at annual salaries of $35K, $60K, $120K, $250K, $500K, $1M, $5M, and $10M— a companion investigative report that takes the mechanisms the book exposes and calculates their exact lifetime cost to workers at every income level.The report was produced using four independent AI systems — Claude, Grok, Gemini, and GPT — each prompted separately with the same methodology. Their convergence on the same order of magnitude is itself significant: when four AI models with different training data and different corporate owners independently produce the same conclusion, the underlying pattern is robust.The headline findings:The median American worker earning $60,000 per year loses approximately $3.52 million over a 40-year career plus 20-year retirement — 147% of their gross lifetime earnings — to the combined mechanisms of:• Fractional reserve banking extraction: $938,000 (the inflation tax, Cantillon Effect, and compound trap)• Federal, state, and local taxes: $818,000 (including the full payroll tax burden)• Gold standard foregone gains: $951,000 (purchasing power workers would have received under honest money)• Social Security COLA underpayment: $810,000 (benefits promised but never delivered because the government uses manipulated CPI)The book shows you how they do it. The report shows you how much they take. Together, they are the most comprehensive public accounting of the “government” and banking scam ever assembled.Read the full investigative report: ArtOfLiberty.org/InflationHow Many Years Did You Work for Free?One of the most powerful visualizations in the companion report reframes the extraction as time rather than money: how many years of your 40-year career were consumed by the combined extraction?The answer, for every income level, exceeds 40 years. The system claims more than a full career from every American worker — then continues extracting through manipulated retirement benefits.The median worker: 42.8 years extracted from a 40-year career. The worker keeps only 27% of lifetime earnings.The book explains why this happens — the fractional reserve money creation, the Cantillon Effect that gives first access to newly created money to banks and their borrowers, the compound trap that forces workers to borrow at interest to afford assets inflated by the very money creation process. The report puts the numbers to it.Why People Buy This Book in BulkI get emails every week from readers who tell me some version of the same story: “I read the book. Then I bought five more copies and gave them to my family.”This is the phenomenon that the “Over 10% of our sales are Friends Bundles” statistic captures — but the number doesn’t capture why it happens.It happens because this book does something that conversations cannot do. You can talk to your family about fractional reserve banking for an hour and watch their eyes glaze over. But when you hand them a visual, full-color book that shows them — in images they can process in seconds — how 6 corporations control everything they see and hear, how the presidential seal creates subliminal halos, how the banking system creates money from nothing and charges interest on the creation, how the comparison between the US government and historical authoritarian regimes is point-for-point identical…They don’t need you to convince them. The book does the work. And because it’s visual, it works on people who would never sit down and read a 400-page treatise on Austrian economics.That is the design principle: make the book so visually compelling that people who would never read a “political” book pick it up, flip through it, and can’t put it down.The Book the System Doesn’t Want You to Read — or ShareIn October 2018, Facebook and Twitter executed a coordinated purge of over 800 pages and accounts dedicated to government accountability and independent journalism — including The Free Thought Project (3.1 million followers) and Anti-Media (2.1 million followers). The purge was linked to Facebook’s partnership with the Atlantic Council, a NATO-affiliated think tank funded by defense contractors and the US government.This book documents that censorship — and dozens of other mechanisms the system uses to keep you from seeing the pattern. The media monopolization. The capture of academia. The revolving door between Wall Street and Washington. The $20 billion in campaign contributions that buy $268 billion in annual banking profits.They can delete pages. They can’t delete a book that’s already in 25 countries and in the hands of 48,000+ readers.The system survives on ignorance. Every copy you share makes it harder to maintain.Get the 5.5 Edition + the Companion ReportHard copy: ArtOfLiberty.org/Store OR… Better yet… Become an Art of Liberty Foundation Sponsor and get the book and Perks at ArtOfLiberty.org/SponsorFriends Bundle (5 copies): Perfect for waking up your family and friends. Over 10% of all copies are sold this way — because people who read this book immediately want to share it.Friends Bundle (10 copies): For the person who is serious about spreading the message. Hand them out at work, at your church, at your gym. Leave them in waiting rooms. The book does the work — you just have to get it into hands.The companion investigative report — “How the Banks and ‘Government’ Will Steal $3.5 Million From Every Working American… ‘Legally’”: ArtOfLiberty.org/InflationThe book exposes the scam. The report proves the cost. Together, they are the case.Become a Sponsor of the Art of Liberty Foundation at ArtOfLiberty.org/Sponsor and get the new 5.5 Version og “Government” + a live or virtual ticket to next week’s An Evening with Etienne de la Boetie2 event in Memphis + Perks! Memphis Event Details & Tickets: ArtOfLiberty.org/An-Evening-With-EtienneSponsorship Details + Perk List: ArtOfLiberty.org/Sponsor
FiveMemeFri-An Inconvenient Study… For the Organized Crime Federal Reserve
+ Planet Mind Control – New Jason Christoff Documentary Exposes Subliminal Messages Hollywood Injects into Movies & TVEtienne Note: If the images aren’t visible, please try this browser LINK.Dear Subscribers,Big issue this week! Two important stories and a new documentary.This week we announced a new study showing the lifetime cost of fractional reserve banking on the average American and it is EXPLOSIVE! The backstory is that I collaborated with a friend of mine who is a quant on Wall Street. A former Managing Director and portfolio manager at one of the “Big Six” investment banking houses. We figured out how to structure a study and then let the Claude and Grok AI models do all the research and math using the Federal Reserve and Bureau of Labor Statistics own numbers. The results are ASTONISHING. The Fed’s crooked monetary system costs the average worker ($60K a year) around $938,000 over the course of a 40-year career not counting the confiscatory taxes stolen through “government” OR the death and estate taxes that will be stolen at the end of their life. At $120,000 the theft rises to over $2,000,000 over the 40 years. For High-Earners making over $250,000 it rises to over $4,400,000!But it is actually much worse than that… The initial analysis was done vs. a neutral monetary system using the Fed’s laughable 2% inflation target. When compared to our historical gold standard that was benignly deflationary… I.E. costs were falling around 1% per year… the theft essentially doubles! It becomes $1.89 Million for the average worker, $3.9M if you are making $120K a year, and $8.4 M at $250K a year. BUT wait… It’s actually worse… Because, again, both analysis are using the Bureau of Labor Statistics 2% inflation target which they routinely miss AND appear to be purposely understating using a variety of statistical sleight-of-hand tricks that we break down in the study. If you use popular alternative CPI calculations from Shadow Stats and/or the Chapwood Index the theft balloons by 3-5X!Where is this money going? It is accruing to the money center banks and their private “Federal Reserve” which backstops and enables the widespread fractional reserve banking, the “Primary Dealers” that we believe have been puppeting the “government” from behind the scenes to “legalize” the theft and force the public through legal tender laws to accept the fiat paper tickets and digital dollars the banks create out of thin air. The study estimates the banks have received over $21 TRILLION dollars since 1913 when the Federal Reserve Act was passed. That buys a lot of politicians, newspapers, radio stations, and movie studios to institutionalize and censor the theft.Similar to the CDC’s refusal to test vaccinated vs. unvaccinated populations if they were really concerned concerned about protecting kids, this is the study the Fed and Treasury should have done if “government” was really about helping and protecting the population vs. robbing and enslaving them.Just in time for Sunday night movie night, we are syndicating Jason Christoff’s new documentary Planet Mind Control which breaks down the hidden content that Hollywood in subliminally injecting into movies and tell-a-vision programming. While Jason covers the “Big Three” of Coffee, Alcohol and Beta-Male programming…I make the case in my article that the product placement of statism and nationalism might be tied. I include a short 8 minute video in the article showing an astonishing 469 product placements” of the American flag in just 12 Michael Bay movies as an example of one of the unethically manipulative techniques I break down in my book: To See the Cage is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many. Jason breaks down the science and behavioral psychology of how the repetitive product placement of toxic alcohol, coffee, beta-male programming, and statism influence the average person’s desire to fit into the (artificially created!) “tribe.”Finally, in libertarian Intentional Community Roundup, I am launching a crowd-sourced investigation into the Free State PARTY… A well-funded “Pro-Right Wing, Pro-Nationalist, and Pro-Patriot” effort that looks to divide and conquer the Free State PROJECT the same way that Dick Armey and Sarah Palin co-opted the small (l) libertarian Tea Party movement into the Republican Party.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! which we are about to announce this week… but are secretly shipping now… Shhh… Along with a ticket (in-person OR virtual) to our March 26th Memphis, TN event: An Evening with Etienne de la Boetie2 (also to be officially announced this week…shhh). All this can be yours… IF… You support the Art of Liberty Foundation as a annual sponsor at:ArtOfLiberty.org/SponsorTop Stories of the WeekHow the Bank Stole $2 Million From Every Working American — LegallyBy Etienne de la Boetie2, Founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation, Anthropic’s Claude, and XAI’s Grok (Bitch-ass CIA Google Gemini refused to even speculate on our premise that fractional reserve banking was a criminal enterprise… I didn’t trust Open AI’s ChatGPT enough to even ask)Grok Vs Claude – How much has fractional reserve banking extracted from societyin the US and globally from 1913 – 2025and how much have the organized crime banks stolen through the process.Executive Summary – The organized crime banks appeared to have lobbied and bribed the “government” (and potentially installed and propagandized/indoctrinated/normalized a federal “government” in the United States) to allow them to engage in a financial scheme known as fractional reserve banking where they are allowed to create money out of thin air and loan it at interest even though the process is inflationary and steals the value of the money earned and saved by everyone else.Continue reading…Videos of the WeekPlanet Mind Control – Documentary on What Hollywood is Inserting Subliminally into Movies and TVJason Christoff Exposes How Organized Crime Hollywood Runs Mind Control on the PopulationJason Christoff’s new documentary Planet Mind Control exposes how modern society is submerged in a mind control system designed by ruling groups to undermine human sovereignty. Utilizing the “monkey see, monkey do” psychology, mainstream media and film act as vehicles for subconscious imprints or repetitive suggestions that shape behavior without conscious detection. The documentary breaks down how the subconscious processes millions of pieces of data per second and does not distinguish between reality and fiction, allowing media content to function as a direct download program into our psyche.A primary pillar of this manipulation is the normalization of toxic substances, specifically alcohol and toxic coffee. Alcohol is presented as an accepted ritual of self-destruction, while coffee is identified as the number one media programming tool in Hollywood. Christoff argues that coffee acts as the modern-day “Soma”—the social control drug described by Aldous Huxley—causing a reduction in blood flow and oxygen to the brain by up to 40%. This state of “slow-drip brain starvation” makes the population more docile, anxious, and easier to govern.Continue Reading and Watch the Documentary HereThe Death of Durability: Why Everything is Built to Rotby Industrial DecayLook at the skyline of New York City in 1930. You see steel beams. You see stone. You see rivets the size of your fist. Now look at the house being built down the street from you todayYou see glued sawdust. You see plastic pipes. And you see vinyl siding that will crack in ten years. You are not crazy. The physical world around you really is getting flimsierIn 1960, when you bought a house, a truck, or a tool, you were buying an asset. In 2026, you were buying a subscription to a landfill. In this investigation, we are going to expose the material treason that has hollowed out the American economy. We are going to show you exactly how steel was replaced by plastic, how old growth timber was replaced by fast food lumber, and why the concept of heirloom quality has been erased from the dictionary. This is the forensic anatomy of the disposable era.Continue reading…How Iran Plans to Bankrupt America – Prof. Jiang Xueqinby Prof Jiang MediaA new era of warfare is quietly reshaping global power—and it is being driven not by billion-dollar weapons systems, but by cheap drones and structural vulnerabilities. In this lecture, Prof. Jiang Xueqin examines how low-cost technologies like Iran’s Shahed drones are exposing the economic and strategic weaknesses of traditional military doctrine. When a $50,000 drone can force a defender to fire multiple $1 million missiles, the economics of war itself becomes inverted. According to Jiang, this asymmetry reveals deeper problems inside modern defense bureaucracies, where legacy Cold War thinking, expensive weapons platforms, and institutional incentives often produce systems designed more for prestige and spending than for resilience or adaptability on the battlefield.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_ScamsThe 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…“Daily News of The Week”Radical winter tires automatically deploy retractable studs for traction on icy roadsby Abhimanyu GhoshalOver a decade ago, Finnish tire brand Nokian showed off a radical concept for a winter tire that could deploy studs for better grip on snow- and ice-covered roads at the push of a button – but it didn’t actually make the thing, or even describe how this tech would ever work.For the last 12 years, the company has been working on tech that goes a step further. The first product to showcase this, the Hakkapeliitta 01 tire, has embedded studs that automatically engage with the road at low temperatures to improve traction, and retract into the compound when it’s warmer out. The brand says this is the first tire on the market with a feature like this.That means you don’t have to change tires according to the seasons or bother with tire chains. Plus, your tire studs won’t needlessly damage road surfaces when there’s no ice to bite into. In fact, Nokian says this tech makes for up to 30% less road wear and 10% greater ice grip compared to the company’s own flagship Hakkapeliitta 10 tires.Nokian Tyres Hakkapeliitta 01: This is how we did itContinue reading…High schools are losing the struggle to block pot—even during classby Andrea PetersenBRENTWOOD, Calif.—It was 10:09 and 22 seconds on a Friday morning at Liberty High School when an alert dinged on James Geis’s phone: “High Vape Index.”He dashed out of the administrative building and jumped into a golf cart, racing across the school’s sprawling campus to the location identified in the alert, the “E” girls’ bathroom. Within minutes he was outside the door.A girl walked out. “Can I talk to you? Was there anyone else in there with you?” said Geis, one of the school’s campus supervisors tasked with combating marijuana use—or what many Liberty students call “narcs.”Two more girls walked out. Geis told the students that a vape sensor went off. “What would happen if I ran?” one said.Continue reading…Understanding Blood Pressure in a Healthy Wayby A Midwestern DoctorStory at a Glance:•Blood pressure diagnoses have exploded as guidelines repeatedly lower thresholds, resulting in half of American adults now being “hypertensive” despite minimal evidence justifying this, and erroneous diagnoses frequently occurring.•Despite aggressively treating it, medicine still does not know what causes high blood pressure. As a result, it overlooks that impaired circulation elevates blood pressure and attributes the ensuing damage to “high” blood pressure rather than to insufficient blood flow to the tissues.•Excessively low BP from over-treatment is dangerous, increasing risks of fainting, falls (especially in the elderly), kidney injury, cognitive decline, ischemic strokes, and mortality.Continue reading…Ubermensch: Eight Years of Jeffrey Epstein’s Human Cloning Program, Documentedby Sayer JiPart 14 of The Epstein Files SeriesView and share the X thread dedicated to this story.In July 2019, weeks before his death, the New York Times published an account that stunned the scientific community. Jeffrey Epstein, the paper reported, had for years confided to scientists and associates his desire to seed the human race with his own DNA. The Times documented his aspirations as dinner party conversation and found no evidence they had ever come to fruition.Twenty-four federal exhibits from the January 2026 DOJ EFTA release tell a more complete story. They document not a sudden obsession but a sustained, eight-year private pursuit: active correspondence with George Church — one of the world’s most prominent geneticists — as early as November 2011; a 2014 exchange with a major healthcare executive who asked casually for “cloning updates”; the circulation of Church’s transhumanist writings under the subject line “my friend george” in 2015; and then, beginning in July 2018, a fully operational investment relationship with a biohacker running an overseas surgical laboratory, toward a company whose stated objectives included the first live birth of a human designer baby or human clone within five years.Continue reading…Build Strength Using the 3-by-5 Protocolby Dr. Joseph MercolaStrength loss, not poor cardio fitness, is often why everyday tasks feel exhausting and stressful as you age, even if you stay activeStrength training supports far more than muscle, helping stabilize mood, sharpen thinking, protect bones, and improve how your body handles daily physical demandsThe 3-by-5 protocol simplifies strength training by focusing on a small number of exercises, short sessions and adequate rest so you can build strength without burnoutLong rest periods between sets are essential for maintaining strength and coordination, allowing your nervous system to recover and making each set more effectiveContinue reading…Corporate Media Go All Out To Support The US-Israeli War on Iranby Alan Macleod MPN.news“Corporate media of all stripes have rushed to support the U.S./Israeli attack on Iran, throwing objectivity and accuracy by the wayside in order to manufacture consent for regime change.On February 28, the U.S. and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran, bombing cities across the country, assassinating its supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, and openly stating their goal was overthrowing the government.Despite this, media have gone out of their way to present the actions as the U.S. protecting itself, describing them as “defensive strikes,” and to frame Iran as the aggressor. “Iran chooses chaos” ran the headline of the New York Times’ newsletter, portraying the Islamic Republic as the primary actor.The Free Press used similarly Orwellian concepts. “War is Iranians’ best chance at peace,” presenting U.S./Israeli crimes as an act of mercy on its long-suffering population.Continue reading…Conscientious Objector Group: Phone ‘Ringing Off Hook’ As Huge Mobilization Underwayby Tyler DurdenAn 80-year-old nonprofit that advises conscientious objectors says its phone is “ringing off the hook” as American service members who object to the US-and-Israel-initiated war on Iran are seeking guidance on how to avoid being a part of it. Ominously, the group’s executive director says the breadth of force mobilization is much like the run-up to the ground invasion of Iraq.“Phone has been ringing off the hook,” wrote Center on Conscience & War executive director Mike Prysner on X. “A LOT more units have just been activated for deployment than the public knows about.” Founded in 1940, the Center on Conscience and War provides guidance to military service members pursuing a conscientious objector (CO) status or a discharge. The group also opposes military conscription.In a post on the group’s account, the Center said it received a call from someone who is on deployment orders and who “reports widespread opposition to Iran War within their unit…In particular, they conveyed disgust at the US massacre of the girls’ school as well as the attack on the Iranian frigate in international waters.”The US military is reportedly responsible for killing some 150 schoolgirls in Minab, Iran during the opening of the war. In another incident, a US Navy submarine torpedoed an Iranian ship that was departing a largely ceremonial naval event in India that involved 18 countries. Compounding the controversy over sinking a lightly-armed vessel 2,000 miles from the war theater, the Americans apparently left surviving sailors to drown in a violation of the Geneva Convention — that is, a war crime. At least 87 died.Continue reading…The Humble Fruit That Delivers 10 Powerful Health Benefits — and Most People Aren’t Eating Enough of Itby Dr. Joseph MercolaEating 2.5 to 3 pounds of watermelon daily provides 51 to 80 mg of lycopene — well above the 10 to 30 mg therapeutic threshold linked to reduced cancer risk, cardiovascular protection, and skin defense against UV damageWatermelon is 92% water, delivering roughly 1 liter of slow-absorbing, electrolyte-accompanied hydration that your body retains more efficiently than plain drinking waterThe citrulline in watermelon converts to arginine, boosting nitric oxide production for improved blood flow, lower blood pressure, and enhanced exercise performanceFruit is one of the most important ways to get potassium into your body, and watermelon is one of the easiest and most practical vehicles for doing so consistentlyContinue reading…BREAKING STUDY: COVID-19 “Vaccine” mRNA and Spike Protein Invade the Human Placenta and Fetal Cells—Even in Mothers Vaccinated Before Pregnancyby Nicolas Hulscher, MPHA newly published peer-reviewed study in PLOS One has identified spike protein and vaccine-derived mRNA within human placental tissues following COVID-19 vaccination and/or infection.Researchers analyzed placentas from 106 pregnancies using immunohistochemistry and RNAscope molecular assays to detect spike protein, nucleocapsid protein, and vaccine-specific mRNA sequences. The findings revealed that spike protein was present in 29% of all placentas studied, including 37% of placentas from vaccinated mothers who had no documented COVID-19 infection during pregnancy.In many cases, spike protein was detected within Hofbauer cells—fetal immune macrophages inside the placenta—as well as trophoblast cells and endothelial cells lining fetal capillaries, demonstrating uptake of spike protein within fetal-side placental structures.Importantly, the dataset also includes cases in which spike protein and vaccine mRNA was detected in placentas from mothers vaccinated before pregnancy and without documented infection.Continue reading…Trump Signed a Directive to Accelerate 6G Deployment to Operate “Implantable Technologies”Nicolas Hulscher, MPHA few months ago, President Trump signed a directive to accelerate 6G deployment, with a stated goal to operate “implantable technologies.”Nokia’s CEO said that by 2030 “smartphones will be implanted directly into our bodies” as 6G becomes fully operational:This will likely involve a newly developed AI brain implant known as the Biological Interface System to Cortex (BISC) developed by teams at Columbia University, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Stanford University, and the University of Pennsylvania:Continue reading…Lights, Camera, Iranby MorganWars have always depended on two things: an enemy and an audience. The Iran situation has both in abundance and very little else that withstands serious scrutiny.On February 28, 2026, U.S. and Israeli forces launched Operation Epic Fury — coordinated strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites, military infrastructure, and senior IRGC leadership, culminating in the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Within days, it was suggested that Iran had effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz — not through a formal naval blockade, but through drone strikes and radio warnings severe enough that insurers stopped covering the passage and commercial transits collapsed from 120 vessels per day to 26.Global energy markets lurched.21,000 flights were cancelled.Continue reading…Keir Starmer apologises to Israel for noticing Israel carried out a false flag on RAF Akrotiriby Normal Island NewsBritish Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been forced into a grovelling apology after mistakenly noticing that Israel had carried out a false flag operation against the UK. The drone incident at RAF Akrotiri followed a series of explosions on oil facilities from Saudi Arabia to the UAE that could not be traced back to Iran.Blasts on sites like Saudi Aramco’s Ras Tanura refinery and Qatar’s LNG operations had sent global energy prices soaring. Naturally, we blamed Iran for the looming recession, but when officials denied attacks they should be gloating about, it was clear our propaganda wasn’t adding up. What do you mean—and not for the first time?The problems worsened when UAE investigators uncovered a Mossad cell operating in the shadows of Dubai’s glittering skyline. In a shocking outburst of antisemitism, Dubai announced it had caught Israelis red-handed with “blueprints” for further bombings. Their aim was to trick Gulf nations into attacking Iran, who would then send rockets their way instead of towards Israel. These allegations echoed claims from Tucker Carlson, regarding Saudi Arabia and Qatar.Israel was so incensed by the foiling of its latest plot that it has vowed to assassinate several Western influencers as punishment—a threat that has warmed many Brits to the Zionist cause, but may finish Dubai’s tourism industry. What do you mean—every cloud has a silver lining?Continue reading…A History in 4 Psy-Ops: Has Iran ALWAYS Been a Member of the Club?by Kit Knightlyhen the war with Iran officially began on Saturday, I annoyed quite a few people by replying to James Delingpole on twtter with this comment:I stand by it. In fact I can amplify it.There’s ample evidence to show we’re already living in the post-nation age, and this was made explicitly clear by the Covid “pandemic”. Iran’s vital, early role in the Covid operation is one of the facts that most strongly requires us to be cautious about the current war narrative , but it’s a development that likely predates that era-defining psy-op.In fact, I would argue that an examination of the recent history of Iran shows that they have consistently taken part in psy-ops and media narratives, and that this demonstrates collusion with Western governments and indeed the globalist factions therein.Continue reading…The Great Poisoningby Lionel Mandrake, WorldlyturningsI had a bad dream that our POTUS decided to help along our genocide by passing a law that required every farm in America to apply massive doses of Glyphosate to increase crop yields. Incredibly, this would be justified as yet another “National Security Issue.” I woke up in a cold sweat, and slowly recovered. Then, back in the real world, I turned on the news from the Trump White House. Donald Trump just did an Executive Order to boost worldwide usage of Glyphosate, otherwise known as Round Up.When I grew up in the 1960s, we had food safety organizations like the USDA and FDA that were the envy of the Western World. I sat through “assemblies” in elementary school where the entire student body gathered in the Lunch Room/Auditorium to watch 16mm movies about living in America and the jobs we could dream about. As I was more interested in space and technology than chemistry, sitting through a Government sponsored film on how food goes from the farm to the table was a task. But anything to keep me from the classroom was good, even a film paid for by Uncle Sam.Even as a precocious kid whose attention span would today make me a candidate for a cornucopia of drugs, I did take away through some sort of osmosis that America was not only the “breadbasket” of the world, but had the safest foods in the world. And, throughout most of the 20th century we arguably had the highest food safety standards.Promoting love of country (and our great American “Know How”) was what those government sponsored films were all about. But things changed in the 1980s when a company started a crop revolution to increase yields, first with soybeans and then corn.Continue reading…Don’t Even Get Me Started on ‘Climate Change’by Christopher CookIt’s #MemeMonday, but we’re going to mix things up today. Instead of memes (pictures with important messages), we will post some charts with another important message:It’s a hoax. A scam. A grift. A racket.It is designed to criminalize your very existence.It is designed to warm us up (get it?) to being crammed into 15-minute cities. Ultimately, it will be used to justify reducing the human population.Continue reading…The Butyrate-GLP-1 Connection: Unlocking Satiety, Energy, and Inflammation Controlby Dr. Joseph MercolaButyrate fuels the gut cells (L-cells) that produce GLP-1, a natural hormone that helps regulate appetite, blood sugar, and metabolismYour gut can’t make butyrate without fiber, and modern diets contain far too little — just 16 grams a day compared to 100+ grams in traditional cultures. Low butyrate disrupts the body’s natural hunger regulation system, leading to inflammation, weight gain, mood issues, and metabolic breakdownRestoring butyrate is a natural way to activate GLP-1 — no injections or drugs required — by working with your body instead of bypassing it. My new book, “Weight Loss Cure; Melt Fat Naturally With Your Own GLP-1,” provides a step-by-step plan to rebuild butyrate production, restore natural GLP-1 signaling, and correct the root drivers of weight gainPharmaceutical GLP-1 agonists are marketed as breakthroughs, but they’re merely stand-ins for a system your body already perfected: GLP-1 secretion driven by butyrateContinue reading…Insiders Admit What Your Doctor Never Will: Modern Medicine Is a Fraudby Dr. Wojak, M.D.In a sane world, widespread fraud, rampant conflicts of interest, the corrupt peer review system, and the replication crisis would be enough to convince anyone that medical science is fundamentally untrustworthy. I break these issues down in detail in this article.But most people aren’t persuaded by evidence or logic. They’d rather let perceived experts dictate their beliefs for them—especially in medicine, where appeals to authority routinely crowd out independent judgment.This article is for them.What follows is a compilation of damning admissions from some of the most authoritative figures in medical science—top editors of the world’s most influential medical journals: The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, The BMJ, JAMA, and more.Continue reading…Cost to US for war on Iran is $3.7bn in first 100 hours, says think tankby Al Jazeera StaffThe United States-Israeli war on Iran is estimated to have cost Washington $3.7bn so far in its first 100 hours alone, or nearly $900m a day, driven largely by the huge expenditure of munitions, according to new research.An analysis by Washington-based think tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) underlined the colossal cost of the war, which entered its seventh day on Friday, as the US attacks Iran with stealth bombers and advanced weapons systems.list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4US says Iran missile attacks down 90% after strikes from B-2 bombersContinue reading…Incinerated Children and Decimated Liberty: How the US War Machine Slaughters Foreigners to Build a Domestic Panopticonby Matt AgoristRandolph Bourne famously penned that war is the health of the State, a grim reality that has haunted the American populace for over eight decades. We are taught in state-funded schools that the military goes abroad to fight for our freedoms, yet every single conflict since the end of the Second World War has been explicitly used as a mechanism to systematically dismantle the liberties of the domestic population. Iran is no different, and in fact, may be much worse.Foreign emergencies are consistently the Trojan horses used by the ruling class to bypass constitutional constraints, normalize mass surveillance, and entirely erode the principles of liberty right here at home.The blueprint for the modern imperial presidency was drafted during the Korean conflict, a war that permanently altered the relationship between the executive branch and the limits of power. When Harry Truman decided to intervene in Korea, he completely bypassed Congress and Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, setting a dangerous precedent that the president could unilaterally commit the nation to bloodshed without a formal declaration of war. By framing it merely as a “police action” for the United Nations, Truman fundamentally shifted the war-making power into the hands of a single, unaccountable individual.Continue reading…AI Can Now Unmask Anonymous Internet Users, New Study Findsby Tyler DurdenIt looks like AI can now unmask any anonymous account on the internet. That’s according to a new study by Simon Lermen (MATS), Daniel Paleka (ETH Zurich), Joshua Swanson (ETH Zurich), Michael Aerni (ETH Zurich), Nicholas Carlini (Anthropic), and Florian Tramèr (ETH Zurich), published on arXiv.In the paper, “Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs,” the researchers show that modern large language models (LLMs) can re-identify people behind pseudonymous online accounts at a scale and accuracy that far surpass previous techniques.The core contribution is an automated deanonymization pipeline powered by LLMs, according to the new study. Instead of relying on structured datasets or hand-engineered features—like earlier attacks on the Netflix Prize dataset—the system works directly on raw, unstructured text.Given posts, comments, or interview transcripts written under a pseudonym, the pipeline extracts identity-relevant signals, searches for likely matches using semantic embeddings, and then uses higher-level reasoning to verify the most promising candidates while filtering out false positives. The result is a scalable attack that mirrors—and in some cases exceeds—the effectiveness of a dedicated human investigator.Continue reading…Vitamin B12 Deficiency is probably the commonest cause of dementia and probably the easiest to cureby Rhoda WilsonVitamin B12 deficiency is estimated to affect 3-5% of the population, with some suggesting it could be as high as 10%.Vitamin B12 deficiency is a condition that can cause physical and mental symptoms. Symptoms that are common with and are often misdiagnosed as Alzheimer’s disease or multiple sclerosis (“MS”).Many patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or MS could be cured with vitamin B12 injections, Dr. Vernon Coleman writes, but doctors often fail to test for vitamin B12 deficiency. Another factor in missing a vitamin B12 deficiency diagnosis is the pharmaceutical industry’s influence on the medical establishment. Vitamins are unpatented. Vitamins are not profitable to the pharmaceutical industry.Continue reading…‘Forever Chemicals’ Linked to Threefold Higher Liver Disease Risk in Adolescentsby Dr. Joseph MercolaPer- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also called “forever chemicals,” are found in drinking water, food packaging, cookware, and household products. They persist in the environment and build up in the bodyAn Environmental Research study found that higher blood levels of certain forever chemicals were linked to almost three times greater likelihood of fatty liver disease among adolescents in high-risk familiesThese findings show that adolescence is a sensitive window, as the liver is still adapting to growth and metabolic changes, allowing chemical exposures to influence liver fat storage and long-term disease riskMicroplastics serve as carriers for PFAS, transporting them deep into tissues. Research shows that combined exposure to microplastics and PFAS causes greater damage than either pollutant aloneContinue reading…Why Mercury Dental Fillings Persist in Public Health Systemsby Dr. Joseph MercolaMercury-based dental fillings have largely disappeared from private dental offices but remain common in public systems where patients have the least ability to refuse themThese fillings persist not because they’re safer or more effective, but because insurance coverage and institutional defaults still favor mercury as the cheapest optionChildren, pregnant women, low-income families, incarcerated individuals, and military populations receive a disproportionate share of mercury fillings due to limited choiceMercury from dental fillings releases vapor over time, leading to ongoing exposure that places developing brains and sensitive tissues at higher riskContinue reading…How Will We Protect Children in a Free Society?by Christopher CookWon’t someone please think of the children?—Helen LovejoyThis quote from the somewhat judgmental wife of The Simpsons character Reverend Lovejoy is broadly recognizable and has even become, for some, culturally iconic. It lampoons the spirit of demagoguery and moral preening that so often accompanies political discourse, and is thus an entirely justifiable piece of social commentary.There is, however, an area of political discourse in which raising the question of children makes sense and poses an important challenge: self-government.When discussing how a free society—that is, a society without involuntary governance and forcibly imposed ‘social contracts’—might work, children are always a complicating factor. Those who advocate for such a society believe that the freedom and consent of individuals should be respected. Yet difficulties arise when applying this principle to children.Continue reading…Canadian Government Begins Euthanizing Public with ‘Same-Day’ Lethal Injectionsby Frank BergmanThe Canadian government has begun ramping up the nation’s disturbing “assisted suicide” program after official data revealed that thousands of citizens have been euthanized with state-sanctioned lethal injections within 24 hours.Canada’s taxpayer-funded euthanasia program is drawing renewed scrutiny after a new report found that the government has already been quietly performing thousands of same-day “assisted suicides.”The revelations come as Canada continues expanding its Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) system, a program critics warn is rapidly transforming the country’s approach to healthcare, disability, and end-of-life care.A new report found that the MAiD program has already carried out thousands of same-day euthanasia procedures.Continue reading…New AI Model Lets Farm Robots Identify Weeds – Then Kill Them With Lasersby ZOHAIB AHMEDYou’ve probably heard about large language models, those sophisticated AI systems that power all chatbots today. Get ready for Large Plant Models (LPMs). Developed by Carbon Robotics, a Seattle-based agricultural technology company, it’s essentially an AI model trained on over 150 million labeled plants for the goal of recognizing basically any weed in any field of the planet. Computer vision is fast emerging as a transformative tech in farming — another startup company recently used the tech in mushroom-picking robots.The LPMs will power LaserWeeders, the company’s fleet of four-wheeled, autonomous robots that literally laser weeds to death. It’s a novel technique that’s being touted as more efficient than the traditional method of spraying herbicides, which can disturb the soil and damage crops. You can say the lasers are spiritually similar to Harbor Freight’s weed burner tool, except they work a lot faster.While LaserWeeders have been around for over three years now, the new software is set to significantly upgrade their capabilities. Previously, every time a new type of weed showed up on a farm, or even the same weed looked slightly different because of the soil or weather, Carbon Robotics had to create fresh data labels and retrain its machines. That took around 24 hours each time, according to CEO Paul Mikesell. Of course, the problem is now a thing of the past.Continue reading…Simplicius: Iran Cows US Navy into Submission in Hormuz Standoffby SimpliciusThe biggest story of the day is that Iran has muscled its way into both cowing and overpowering the US Navy into submission in the Strait of Hormuz.But first, let’s back up a little bit and acknowledge that the IRGC appears to have went fully “to the mattresses” in this war. They are no longer playing games, and no longer willing to compromise. They have gained momentum and achieved military, political, and propaganda initiative and are now pushing their advantage.All day there have been various reports that it is now the US side secretly attempting to sway Iran—via intermediaries—toward coming back to the negotiations table, now that the US has recognized the disaster of its own making that is unfolding across the region.According to these reports, Iran has brusquely blown off all such attempts to negotiate and has doubled down into all out conflict. Iran’s leaders appear to have recognized much the same thing as the Russians did during the course of the Ukraine war: that a ‘temporary’ ceasefire is a useless exercise for giving your enemy breathing room to restock and reload for Round 2 against you.Continue reading…Iranian oil is getting through the strait, while no one else is able to traverse it.by Meryl NassContinue reading…26 Reasons You Should Start a Garden in 2026by Gavin MounseyI want to remind you that you are capable of co-creating wonderful things on this Earth when you choose to learn from the Creator’s design and use your gifts in service of life and Creation. You did not arrive here by accident, your life is a gift from God, it is intentional, it is brimming with potential and it has meaning. When you hold a handful of heirloom seeds in your hand and look upon the fertile living earth, what you are witnessing is the invitation from the Creator to put your human gifts to good use for the benefit of all beings.Planting a seed in the living earth is a prayer and an act of faith in hope for tomorrow. It says “Thank You God for this opportunity to know your work and thank you to the Living Earth for providing all we need to live. I want to give back in gratitude for these gifts”.Some of the most beautiful gifts that embody the spirit of hope, kindness, joy and good will are those gifts that you arrived with when you chose to come to this world and live the human life you are living now. These gifts are inside you, they are unique to you and you possess them so that you can engage in the sacred task of sharing those gifts with this world.When you take time to look inward, discover your unique gifts and then imagine a way you can use your gifts to nurture other beings to achieve their highest potential, give back to the living planet that gives to much to us and create things that express the essence of your spirit manifested in physical form and/or poetry for the senses, you are giving the most valuable gifts in this universe. No one else can share the same gifts that you can (in the same way you have the potential to share them with).Continue reading…Rise of the AI Soldiersby Charlie CampbellSAN FRANCISCO — The Phantom MK-1 looks the part of an AI soldier. Encased in jet black steel with a tinted glass visor, it conjures a visceral dread far beyond what may be evoked by your typical humanoid robot. And on this late February morning, it brandishes assorted high-powered weaponry: a revolver, pistol, shotgun, and replica of an M-16 rifle.“We think there’s a moral imperative to put these robots into war instead of soldiers,” says Mike LeBlanc, a 14-year Marine Corps veteran with multiple tours of Iraq and Afghanistan, who is a co-founder of Foundation, the company that makes Phantom. He says the aim is for the robot to wield “any kind of weapon that a human can.”Today, Phantom is being tested in factories and dockyards from Atlanta to Singapore. But its headline claim is to be the world’s first humanoid robot specifically developed for defense applications. Foundation already has research contracts worth a combined $24 million with the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force, including what’s known as an SBIR Phase 3, effectively making it an approved military vendor. It’s also due to begin tests with the Marine Corps “methods of entry” course, training Phantoms to put explosives on doors to help troops breach sites more safely.In February, two Phantoms were sent to Ukraine—initially for frontline-reconnaissance support. But Foundation is also preparing Phantoms for potential deployment in combat scenarios for the Pentagon, which “continues to explore the development of militarized humanoid prototypes designed to operate alongside war fighters in complex, high-risk environments,” says a spokesman. LeBlanc says the company is also in “very close contact” with the Department of Homeland Security about possible patrol functions for Phantom along the U.S. southern border.Continue reading…Consumers paid for Trump’s illegal tariffs. These companies may profit.by Rebecca Crosby and Noel SimsPresident Trump imposed sweeping global tariffs during his first year as president. To justify many of the tariffs, Trump relied on a novel interpretation of a 1977 law, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which did not mention tariffs at all. But in February, the Supreme Court struck down the majority of Trump’s tariffs, ruling 6-3 that Trump had exceeded his authority. The court found that Trump’s tariffs were unconstitutional, as “taxation power clearly belongs to Congress.”In recent months, thousands of companies have sued the Trump administration over its tariff policies, seeking refunds for tariff-related costs.The Supreme Court did not discuss refunds in its ruling. But at the beginning of March, Judge Richard Eaton of the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled that companies that paid tariffs were “entitled to benefit” from the Supreme Court ruling. The order directed U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to begin the refund process and to stop collecting the tariffs that were struck down. (The judge later “temporarily suspended his order to give the government time to prepare” after CBP said in an affidavit that “immediate compliance was not logistically possible,” Bloomberg reported. CBP estimated that it could start offering refunds by late April.)The federal government could now be responsible for issuing “refunds worth $175 billion,” according to the Penn Wharton Budget Model.Continue reading…X Users Find Their Real Names Are Being Googled in Israel After Using X Verification Software “Au10tix”by Alan Macleod MPN.newsAwide range of anonymous X (Twitter) users have reported that their real names are suddenly being Googled in Israel shortly after they began criticizing the country for its actions in Palestine. Some connected the phenomenon to Au10tix, the software X requires users (even anonymous ones) to use in order to verify their real identities.Au10tix is an Israeli company founded and staffed by former Israeli spies from the elite Israeli military intelligence group Unit 8200. MintPress News investigates this disturbing phenomenon.“I’m not even kidding when I say my full legal name, including my middle name, has been searched up in Israel 11 times in the past day,” wrote TransFemPOTUS, an anonymous X user who has been highly critical of Israel’s actions.This was not an isolated incident. “So apparently my full legal name got searched for in Israel the other day,” revealed TheAtlantean9, an anonymous far-left user with a Palestinian flag in their bio.Continue reading…Giant 10-person ‘flying taxi’ passes first flight test in China | Live ScienceBy Alan BradleyA Chinese company successfully flew a 5-ton (4,536-kilogram) electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOL) in a new feat for electric aircraft. Its makers at Fengfei Aviation claim it’s the largest eVTOL to ever complete a test flight.During the test flight, the V5000 aircraft lifted off in VTOL mode, switched to fixed-wing mode for a short flight, and then transitioned back to VTOL mode to safely land. VTOL vehicles mimic helicopters, enabling them to lift off and land on helipads or in other smaller spaces without requiring supporting infrastructure, such as the runways used by fixed-wing aircraft.The test took place Feb. 5 at Kunshan Civil Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Test Flight Operation Base in Jiangsu Province, a site Fengfei Aviation uses for public demos and AP press flights.There are several variants of the aircraft — a purely electric version can reach 155 miles (250 kilometers), and a hybrid-power alternative can fly for 932 miles (1,500 km), company representatives said in a statement posted to LinkedIn.Continue reading…Upcoming Liberty EventsVancouver West Anarchist Book Fair, Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 19th – 20th, 2026Great Homeschool Convention – South Carolina, Greenville, SC, US, March 19th – 21st, 2026Austrian Economics Research Conference, Auburn, AL, US, March 19th – 21st, 2026Austin Anarchist Book Fair, Austin, TX, US, March 21, 2026An Evening with Etienne de la Boetie2 – Memphis, TN & Online – Get either a live or streaming ticket with sponsorship of the Art of Liberty Foundation at ArtOfLiberty.org/Sponsor OR ala carte tickets at ArtOfLiberty.org/StoreGreat Homeschool Convention – Ohio, Cincinnati, OH, US, April 9th – 11th, 2026LibertyCon Europe, Madrid, Spain, April 24th – 26th, 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, 2026An Evening with Etienne de la Boetie2 – Memphis, TN & Online – Get either a live or streaming ticket with sponsorship of the Art of Liberty Foundation at ArtOfLiberty.org/Sponsor OR ala carte tickets at ArtOfLiberty.org/StoreMemes BonanzaTruth Music of the WeekTruth Music Video: Dub FX & Woodnote: Come Again Feat. PrezenceBuy the Track, Support the Artists:PrezenceMusic.comCameos: Derrick Broze, Alais Clay, Jim Lehnert, Bruce Bauman, and Jen!Put your lighters up and let me hear you sing along bust up a riddim oh ya know we’re coming strong now we’re connecting in the right way we are projecting love as we pray no matter who you are i’m telling you that you belong this community could never ever do you wrong we are one tribe and one family pushing light all night and all day come again come come again i will light it up let the fire transcend come again come come again speaking my truth i could never let it bend come again come come again i will disrupt babylon till the end come again come come again revving up the youth once again i can see you moving i can see you activate no time to slow yo we don’t procrastinate picking up the pace as the bass rolls through jump up higher if you want a better view tune up a frequency that we can all create cos this is our power now we all collaborate pushing love and light is what we do this is how we get through cuz inna bonfil we rock it at the casa blanca from acapulco to morelia we spit palabras because we know the music is our dharma we spreading a right morality through melody it make us sharper making mistake next time we trying harder i’m praying up to the holy mother and the holy father and all of the people are awakening up to their power consciousness is quickening it’s getting louder and now we living today tomorrow not guaranteed we gotta choose to be free until our souls are complete it’s how we gonna succeed we never need to compete we playing respectfully a vibe of integrity we take them chains off and let the place rock cookin’ up a up a fire like a crock pot and when the beat bouncin’ like a pogo stick that bass smoke so thick can i get a toast to this a boomah (chorus)Continue reading…libertarian Intentional Community RoundupWhat is the Deal with the Free State PARTY being introduced into the Free State Project?After my investigations into how, I believe, the intelligence agencies tried to crowd-gather and then “smear and steer” the developing voluntaryist and peaceful anarchist movements with Anarchapulco… or my breakdown into how the 2017 Woman’s March on Washington, hijacked the opposition to Trump, made it a woman thing (divide and conquer), and then brought the women to Washington using 60+ George Soros front groups and steered the women into ineffective slogans, scumbag speakers, and then dressed the crowd in “pussy hats” to mock them…I am, somewhat, frequently asked to look into if the Free State Project is being steered.. and if so… by who…Continue Reading HereThe 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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Planet Mind Control – Documentary on What Hollywood is Inserting Subliminally into Movies and TV
Jason Christoff Exposes How Organized Crime Hollywood Runs Mind Control on the PopulationJason Christoff’s new documentary Planet Mind Control exposes how modern society is submerged in a mind control system designed by ruling groups to undermine human sovereignty. Utilizing the “monkey see, monkey do” psychology, mainstream media and film act as vehicles for subconscious imprints or repetitive suggestions that shape behavior without conscious detection. The documentary breaks down how the subconscious processes millions of pieces of data per second and does not distinguish between reality and fiction, allowing media content to function as a direct download program into our psyche.A primary pillar of this manipulation is the normalization of toxic substances, specifically alcohol and toxic coffee. Alcohol is presented as an accepted ritual of self-destruction, while coffee is identified as the number one media programming tool in Hollywood. Christoff argues that coffee acts as the modern-day “Soma”—the social control drug described by Aldous Huxley—causing a reduction in blood flow and oxygen to the brain by up to 40%. This state of “slow-drip brain starvation” makes the population more docile, anxious, and easier to govern.The documentary redefines the term government from its Latin etymology (gubernate and mens) as the act of “controlling the mind.” It posits that educational institutions and low-cost or free media exist because the user is the product, designed to be kept in a state of mediocrity and infantilization.What the Documentary Left Out – The Brute Force Manufactured Consensus of Statism & Nationalism.. The Artificial Tribe.While the documentary, breaks down the “Big Three” subliminal “product placements” of coffee, alcohol and beta male patterning, the “Brute Force Manufactured Consensus” of the indoctrinated pseudo-religions of Statism and Nationalism might be a close runner up or even tied.Everyone born in the United States isn’t a free and independent human being… they are an “American” and “It’s Been Decided for You.” I break down the unethically manipulative techniques that the organized crime “government” and media use to create this artificially, indoctrinated religion of Statism in my book: To See the Cage is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many, but Jason Christoff does an amazing job at explaining the specific science about how and why the organized crime monopoly media product places the specific toxic substances and ideas into our psyche. Take a look below at the specific explanation from the movie on the science and then think about the dozens and dozens of “product placements” of the American flag into movies and tell-a-vision shows. The short 8 minute video below documents 469 product placements of the American flag in just 12 Michael Bay movies.Short 8 minute video revealing 469 “Product Placements” of the American flag in Just 12 Michael Bay movies to trick the audience into personally identifying with the “country” the artificially created “tribe” so the public can be controlled and tax farmed by the acceptance of that 100% completely indoctrinated system.Jason Christoff describing the “Brute Force Manufactured Consensus” Process That Tricks You into Accepting the American “Tribe”As Howie Mandel picked 04:00 on the watch and as Howie Mandel drew the sun, all because the number four and the sun symbol were repetitive in his environment, his body was only doing what it was designed to do, which is to keep him safe and bonded with the bigger herd. This may sound odd, but with the five repetitive fours in play, Howie Mandel’s nervous system was tricked into believing that he had now come into contact with something you could refer to as a “four tribe.” If your body believes you’re in a four tribe and you’re asked to pick a number between one and twelve, picking the four means you’re most likely to bond and find favor with the new four tribe you’re sitting in and hopefully the tribal elders as well.Whatever environment you’re in, it’s just best to blend in the most efficient way possible in order to increase your chances of survival. If you flash the gang signs of the tribe you’re hanging out with, it’s no guarantee that they’ll accept you, but it does tip the odds in your favor. The same exact thing happened within Howie Mandel’s nervous system when he was asked to draw a picture directly after being exposed to six consecutive sun symbols. His body believed he was sitting in the middle of what you can describe as a “sun tribe” and that flashing tribal gang signs would help him bond and find safety with the bigger group. We all do it. It’s not a malfunction, and that’s why the studio audience on America’s Got Talent all drew the same sun symbol when exposed to the same environment as Howie.“Sometimes a mind control program can be so effective at changing people’s perceptions regarding what is normal, it can feel like there is no way back. Once the repetitive content of any environment hits a very particular repetition threshold, that manufactured belief or behavior can reach what I refer to as “Kevlar-level strength” mind control. At that point, it becomes “just the way things are” and “just the way we do things around here,” and people generally can’t comprehend a life without that particular belief or behavior being constant in their lives.”What Is the Behind the Paywall Today?The Complete TranscriptAnother short 9 minute film showing Hollywood’s persistent, demonization of the Arab people. Out of 1000 films that have Arab & Muslim characters (from the year 1896 to 2000) 12 were positive depictions, 52 were even handed and the rest of the 900+ were negative. Why would the Central Bankster-owned media relentlessly demonize the Arabs for decades? Islamic Banking forbids Usury and the charging of interest for loans and to set us up for the wars we are in today.The Link to the Folder in The Liberator with even more examples of Hollywood propaganda and programming used against the public.The Best “Go Paid” Deal on Substack! 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Weaponized Confiscatory Inflation – The Crooked Monetary System Costs Average Workers $500K-$2 Million+ Over Lifetime
Using AI to Calculate the Cost to Society of Our Crooked Fractional Reserve Banking & Primary Dealer-Centric Monetary SystemBy Etienne de la Boetie2, Founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation, Anthropic’s Claude, and XAI’s Grok (Bitch-ass CIA Google Gemini refused to even speculate on our premise that fractional reserve banking was a criminal enterprise… I didn’t trust Open AI’s ChatGPT enough to even ask) Grok Vs Claude – How much has fractional reserve banking extracted from society in the US and globally from 1913 – 2025 and how much have the organized crime banks stolen through the process. Executive Summary – The organized crime banks appeared to have lobbied and bribed the “government” (and potentially installed and propagandized/indoctrinated/normalized a federal “government” in the United States) to allow them to engage in a financial scheme known as fractional reserve banking where they are allowed to create money out of thin air and loan it at interest even though the process is inflationary and steals the value of the money earned and saved by everyone else.This process has dramatically impoverished the average worker costing them, according to analysis done by the Grok and Claude AI models, between $500K-$1.2 million dollars over their lifetime vs. what they would have received through an honest non-inflationary monetary system. Under a gold standard system, workers could have done even better as the gold standard has been proven to be deflationary, reducing the costs of the luxuries and necessities of life year-over-year more fully transmitting the savings from innovations and productivity Improvements. The AI model predicts a lifetime delta across wages, savings erosion, inflated asset costs (housing, healthcare, education), and foregone compound purchasing power plausibly exceeds $2 million for a median worker.These losses includes the inflation/loss of purchasing power from excess money creation, the well recognized Cantillon effect of new dollars created being worth more to those who receive the funds first then losing value, and the compounding trap where worker must now borrow/borrow more to purchase assets and services driven up by inflation including housing, education, and healthcare.The system has simultaneously made the banks over $20 TRILLION dollars between 1913-2025 in 2025 dollars. It is an exorbitant privilege only afforded a favored few who are granted a “government” banking license. There is a 90-97% rejection rate in the US and European Union even after you meet the minimum reserve requirements of $10-100M dollars depending on your business plan/bank type.The System Has Many of the Hallmarks of an Organized Crime Partnership with the Federal Government and Monopoly Media/Academia.We believe these organized crime banks have used these “profits” in a variety of additionally criminal ways to both cement their exorbitant privilege and their hold on power including:Regulatory capture – On January 18, 2019 the Cambridge University Press published a stunning research paper from the Journal of Institutional Economics showing an amazing revolving door between regulators and the financial industry: The authors write: “Looking at the revolving door in the 20 biggest US diversified banks, we identified 304 revolvers, among which 155 are considered as prominent. These revolvers have undertaken 384 revolving door movements between public and private positions and vice versa, mostly undertaken between 1960 and 2015, corresponding to a total of 2,256 years of experience in public office.” This pattern is structural, not incidental. Consider the architecture of the capture: Timothy Geithner went from President of the New York Federal Reserve Bank directly to Treasury Secretary, then to Warburg Pincus private equity. Robert Rubin spent 26 years at Goldman Sachs, became Treasury Secretary under Clinton (where he repealed Glass-Steagall separating commercial and investment banking), then joined Citigroup’s board — a bank that immediately benefited from deregulation he championed. Hank Paulson was CEO of Goldman Sachs before becoming Treasury Secretary and administering the 2008 bailout that saved Goldman from its own bad bets. These are not anomalies; they are the system operating as designed. The revolving door is not corruption of the regulatory process — it is the regulatory process.Capture of the Economics Profession – 2015 EPI Report: ~30% top academics consulted for Federal Reserve. 2021 Stanford Hoover (Foote et al.): 42% of top 50 macro PhDs (1980s-2010s) held Fed research/staff roles. AEA 2023 Survey: ~25% of AEA members report Fed experience (consulting/visiting > full-time). The implications are profound: when virtually every prominent macroeconomist has either worked for the Federal Reserve, received Fed research grants, or depends on Fed data access for publication, the field cannot produce independent criticism of central banking. This dynamic was documented starkly in the 2010 documentary “Inside Job,” in which Columbia economist Frederic Mishkin — a former Fed governor — was shown to have been paid $124,000 by the Icelandic Chamber of Commerce to write a paper praising Iceland’s financial system shortly before its collapse. Mishkin had listed the paper on his CV as “Financial Stability in Iceland” but changed the title to “Financial Instability in Iceland” after the crash. The economics profession’s dependency on central bank funding is the primary reason mainstream economics has never seriously challenged the legitimacy of money creation ex nihilo.









