REMINDER… We have a 20% discount at ArtOfLiberty.org/store until midnight on Friday, Dec 12thDear Subscribers,My apologies… again… for being late with last week’s issue BUT… I am one day less late than last week!I think I have mentioned before how over 10% of our book sales are “Friends Bundles” where folks are buying our five and ten copy “Friends Bundles” of either “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! and/or To See the Cage is to Leave It.This week we had our largest “Friends Bundle” order in history!A retired secretary in the Helene District of Western North Carolina has donated $2,000 to send a variety of different voluntaryist publications to Sheriffs, VIPs, and others around Western North Carolina. The Art of Liberty Foundation is helping with the mailing and the initial wave will hit 40+ Sheriffs with copies of:To See the Cage is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the ManyThe book breaks down the illegitimacy of “Government” and exposes that the federal “government” is using a variety of unethically manipulative techniques on the population.Anarchy Exposed – A Former Police Officer Shares His Investigative Journey by Shepard the Voluntaryist and Larken RoseAn extremely eloquent former police officer explains how he came to understand the illogic, immorality and illegitimacy of “government” in a way that other law enforcement professionals can understand.The THICKREDLINE Project Handbook – by Etienne de la Boetie2 & Matt WhiteExplains the immorality and counter-productive nature of the police enforcing victimless crimes and encourages them to say: NO! collectively as a department.When I explained how we lost the THICKREDLINE Project website to dirty tricks and had to put it on the backburner, she volunteered another $2,000 to reboot the project! Stay tuned but soon you will be able to order the same package to your local sheriff, police chief, deputy, or officer!Want to do something similar in your community? Drop me an e-mail at Et*****@**********ty.orgREMINDER – We have an AMAZING Holiday Sales going on over at ArtOfLiberty.org/Store ! Save 20% with the discount code: Liberty20 until midnight on Friday, December 12th where the discount drops to 15% with the code: Liberty15.Top Stories of the WeekEtienne de la Boetie2 on the Higherside Chats with Greg Carlwood Exposes the Statism Psyop & Mind Control Techniques Used by “Gov’t” & Monopoly MediaThe Article is Illustrated with Etienne’s Slides, Memes, and VisualizationsIt’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, people. From the Sunshine State, I’m Greg Carlwood. And though we have it drilled into our heads from an early age that we live in the best nation that ever was, the land of the free, blessed with God-given rights that make the rest of the world envious, with an easy path towards sleepwalking our way through the American dream, you still have to wonder, is any of it really true? And how few even ever ask that question.When you take a look under the hood, what really makes this American hot rod run is a cold, harsh engine of exploitation interlocking gears of cradle-to-grave cogs in a loud, harsh machine spewing toxic sludge and leaving many exhausted, beaten-down individuals choking on fumes as it redlines its way to the scrap heap. What is it all for? And how pervasive is the propaganda in our lives that convinces us all not only to participate, but that we’re actually lucky to be able to? Well, today we’re talking once again to Etienne de la Boetie2.Continue reading…Holiday Sale on our Coolest Books, Liberators, and Shiny Badges That Still Don’t Grant Extra Rights20% Off Until Dec. 12th, 15% off from Dec 13th-16th, and 10% off from Dec 17th-Christmas!Want to give some gifts that will be remembered for years to come and help your friends, family and colleagues better understand the scam of “Government?”Happy Holidays from the Art of Liberty Foundation! Get 20% off until December 12th using the discount code: Liberty20, 15% off from December 13th-16th using the discount code: Liberty15, and 10% off from December 17th until Christmas using the discount code: Liberty10!Continue reading…Videos of the WeekGreg Reese: Rise of the Safety State (Amazon Ring and Flock Cameras Spying On Us)Etienne Note: Greg didn’t cover it but the Ring Security cameras have also been quietly wired into thousands of police departments and Federal “Government” “Fusion Centers” where the organized crime “federal government” sits over the State Police and major city departments in each state. I break it down in our article: Is Amazon A Mason? – Making the Case that AMAZON is Part of Organized Crime´s Control of Perception Programby Greg ReeseAmazon Ring security cameras are now using facial recognition. They are calling it “Familiar Faces.”Whenever a person buys a cloud based Amazon product, they are automatically brought into the Amazon sidewalk network, which includes geospatial data that can track objects in the neighborhood without the need for its own network or GPS module.Amazon Ring security cameras have made a deal with Flock Safety, which will allow the police to more easily gain access to your home security cameras, and your neighborhood Amazon Sidewalk network.Flock Safety’s founder and CEO, Garrett Langley, whose name just coincidentally translates to Watchtower of the CIA, wants to rid the world of crime.Flock was founded by Langley in 2017 and set their cameras up in a few test cities before the 2020 lock-down, during which, setting up Flock cameras all over the nation was considered essential. By 2024, Flock’s cameras have been installed across 42 states, in over 4,000 cities.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_ScamsSteve Bannon Was Epstein’s Comeback Consultant. Where’s the Uproar?Etienne Note: This article 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_Scamsby Mona CharenIF YOU FOLLOWED THE TWISTS AND TURNS of the Jeffrey Epstein saga over the last few weeks, you already know that several prominent names emerged from the tranche of emails that the Epstein estate released. But there is one big name that has so far received very little attention.Let’s set the stage. To be unmasked as an Epstein crony is about the most embarrassing revelation for a public figure one can imagine at this moment, and sure enough, former treasury secretary and Harvard president Larry Summers, who exchanged scores of emails with the convicted pedophile, has seen his reputation shredded. The emails disclosed that Summers consulted Epstein for dating, or rather bedding, advice. Summers apparently thought Epstein was the guy who could help him to “get horizontal” with a woman mentee, though Summers was a married man and remains so. At the same time, he sought financial contributions from Epstein for an online poetry project his wife was launching.Continue readingNew Poll Reveals Strong Majority of Americans Believe Higher Education is a Scam – All Debt and No Job Skillsby Mike LaChanceEtienne Note: The organized crime government’s tax-supported colleges and universities are the worst. Part of the “control of perception” program we outline in “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History! They are price-supporting worthless public colleges where the professors can be counted on to never question the legitimacy or reveal the criminality of “government,” push woke DEI agendas, and provide six figure jobs (Sinecures) for “government” operatives. Ex-Dept of Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano’s annualbase salary as President of the University of California (UC) system was consistently $570,000 from her start date in September 2013 until her resignation in August 2020. Her total compensation package also included other benefits.Key components of her earnings and compensation package included:Continue readingAmerica’s Crime Syndicate Government: Profiteering, Protection Rackets & a Pay-to-Play PresidencyEtienne Note: John Whitehead is so close. If he would just figure out that the Constitution was a scam AND/OR just doesn’t work.. It doesn’t protect rights, doesn’t limit “government” and can’t stop the complete criminality he outlines in the 1st part of the article. REAL Freedom is the answer.. No one gets the ring of power because there isn’t one…Etienne Note: This article 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_Scamsby John & Nisha Whitehead“It’s not personal, Sonny. It’s strictly business.”—Michael Corleone, The GodfatherContinue readingThe REAL Political Spectrum… Around the WorldEtienne Note: I have some folks who have promised me some new countries but they did’t get their homework to me before we went to publication. Please e-mail me at Etienne(at)ArtOfLiberty.org to help create a version for YOUR countryI am adding a new recurring feature to Five Meme Friday: The REAL Political Spectrum… Around the World! A couple of weeks ago I did an article: The Fake Left-Right Paradigm – What is the REAL Political Spectrum the Monopoly Media is Hiding? where I broke down WHY the monopoly media misrepresents the REAL political spectrum and what the actual political spectrum looks like in the US. That meme went viral so now I am duplicating it for other countries.Can you help? Please e-mail me at Etienne(at)ArtOfLiberty.org to help create a version for YOUR country OR suggest changes for a version we already have circulating. Donate to support this project at ArtOfLiberty.org/sponsorship-program/The REAL Political Spectrum in: USA, Australia, Canada, Estonia (English), Estonia (Estonian), United Kingdom, Venezuela (English), Venezuela (Espanol)Shift the Political Spectrum in: USA, Australia, Canada, Estonia (English), Estonia (Estonian), United Kingdom, Venezuela (English), Venezuela (Espanol)“Daily News of The Week”Why Do Christians Kill for Their Government?By Laurence M. Vance via LewRockwell.com, Memes added after by Etienne de la Boetie2.Etienne Note: I break down the unethically manipulative techniques used on kids in the “government” school system, scouts, explorers, JROTC, ROTC, and police and military training to produce immoral “order followers” who will murder for the “government” or use violence on peaceful people to raise revenue off their neighbors or imprison people in for-profit prisons for victimless crimes in my book: To See the Cage is to Leave It – 25 Techniques the Few Use to Control the Many.When I first wrote (“Murderers for Trump”) about President Trump ordering air strikes against “narco-terrorists” on boats in international waters in the Caribbean Sea, there had been three “lethal kinetic strikes.” The last time I checked, there have now been 21 such air strikes in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, with 83 people killed.Continue readingICE Is Detaining Military Spouses at Green Card Interviews — Families Call It a BetrayalBy Sohini Sengupta, By Kanika SainiThe last two weeks in San Diego just shredded the illusion that bureaucracy is slow, thanks to ICE. Military families, the people who have spent their careers saluting the flag and building lives around deployments, are being caught up in ICE enforcement the moment they try to do things “the right way.” The shock is coming from their green card interviews, which are the final checkpoint for spouses seeking legal permanent residency. Instead of leaving with an approval, some are going in handcuffs!And for veterans, it feels personal. “I kind of feel betrayed, to be honest,” retired Marine Staff Sergeant Samuel Shasteen told NBC San Diego. He gave 20 years to the Corps, including two deployments to Afghanistan. The government knows all of that because it’s literally in the application paperwork. Yet during his wife, Chanidaphon Sopimpa’s, final interview with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on November 18, 2025, some ICE agents walked in and cuffed her. They took her away as she cried.Continue reading‘Kill everybody’: Bombshell Pete Hegseth order blasted by lawmakers as ‘blatantly illegal’By Travis GettysDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly delivered an order in the first attack on a suspected drug boat that lawmakers have blasted as excessive and “blatantly illegal.”President Donald Trump’s Pentagon chief ordered a missile attack on the boat Sept. 2 off the Trinidad coast, but intelligence analysts and military leaders watching drone footage of the strike realized after the smoke cleared there were two survivors clinging to the wreckage – and the Washington Post reported that Hegseth gave another verbal directive.“The order was to kill everybody,” said a source with direct knowledge of the situation.The Special Operations commander overseeing the attack ordered another strike at Hegseth’s instruction, and the two men were blown apart in the water – which a former military lawyer said “amounts to murder.”Continue readingFDA Begins Admitting the Covid “Vaccines” Killed People – They Start by Admitting 10 Dead KidsBREAKING As Five Meme Friday Goes to Press: FDA Expands Probe Into COVID Vaccine-Related Deaths to Include AdultsThe FDA is expanding its investigation into reports of deaths following COVID-19 vaccines to include adults, after initially looking into the deaths of children who received the vaccine. The agency did not provide details about the investigation, first reported by Bloomberg.by Sasha Latypova, Nov 30th, 2025Etienne Note: As Sasha notes in the article, there are HUNDREDS of dead kids in the Vaccine Adverse Effects Reporting System (VAERS) database. There is a well-recognized Under Reporting Factor (URF) in VAERS where the that is conservatively between 40-100 (multiply the 10 admitted kids AND/OR the hundreds of kids in VAERS by 40 – 100 to get closer to the actual number. I decided to syndicate this article because she rips Robert Malone, who I think epitomizes a Controlled Opposition shill and organized crime operative that has very obviously been, like many others, been given a media operation and is being circle-jerk interviewed and promoted by other controlled opposition media outlets and organizations.Sasha Latypova’s Article Begins….Breaking news: The FDA, after fake-regulating vaccines for 50 years, and specifically after 5 years of pretending to regulate mRNA shots, “found” 10 dead children ages 7-18. It is now ok to say that they were killed by these poison shots. Robert Malone, a deep state plant and a known liar, penned a celebratory post about this development at the FDA, called it a “revolution” and implied he has secret info he can’t disclose because he is too important. And you are clearly not:Continue readingTesla Just Opened Its Biggest Supercharger Station Ever—And It’s Powered By Solar And BatteriesBy Tim LevinThere’s been a lot of handwringing about the future energy demands of electric vehicles and AI data centers. But if Tesla’s latest charging station is any proof, almost anything is possible with enough solar panels and stationary batteries.On Tuesday, Tesla announced that all Superchargers are now open for business at its largest charging station ever. The 164-stall location in Lost Hills, California, is powered by 11 megawatts of solar panels, which double as a canopy that shades the parking spots. Those panels feed 10 of the automaker’s utility-scale Megapack batteries, for a total of 39 megawatt-hours of energy storage.By comparison, a typical fast-charging location has anywhere from four to 20 stalls, with Tesla leading the pack on larger installations. Previously, a 120-stall Supercharger site in Barstow, California, was the company’s largest.Continue readingThe CIA STILL Ships in the Drugs!by The Corbett ReportSHOW NOTES AND COMMENTS: https://corbettreport.com/the-cia-still-ships-in-the-drugs/After the US left Afghanistan, opium production in the production plummeted off a cliff. And now that Uncle Sam is gunning for Venezuela, guess where the drug problem is? So who’s REALLY running the drugs, anyway? Join James for this overview of the CIA, drugs and black ops on The Corbett Report podcast.ARE YOU LOOKING FOR SHOW NOTES WITH LINKS TO ALL OF THE ARTICLES, VIDEOS AND WEBSITES MENTIONED? HOW ABOUT COMMENTS? THEY’RE AT THE CORBETT REPORT WEBSITE! JUST FOLLOW THE “SHOW NOTES AND COMMENTS” LINK ABOVE TO GO THERE DIRECTLY.Continue readingThe Great Taking Revisited: The Book That Shouldn’t Have Existed (Pt 1)by Parallel MikeIt began in late August 2023. With zero promotion and no publisher behind it, a book suddenly appeared online—for free. The author was known only to a small circle in finance. He’d worked for several successful hedge funds in the late ’90s, eventually branching out on his own, and at one point ranked among the best-performing fund managers during the dot-com crash. But that was decades ago, and aside from a few friends who received the manuscript, its release went almost entirely unnoticed—at first. Yet within its pages was what could be the most disturbing and consequential revelation in financial history: a mechanism meticulously constructed with absolute precision—one that, if triggered, would enable the greatest looting of wealth ever recorded. Period.The book’s first public recognition came a week after its release, on September 1st, 2023, when Matt Smith discussed it with Doug during an episode of Doug Casey’s Take. They had both read it at this point and described it as an extremely disturbing book. The title was The Great Taking and, after outlining its basic premise, both Matt and Doug agreed that the implications—if correct—were terrifying. As a fan of the show, I saw the episode a few days after its release, and their exchange was all it took for me to immediately download the book and read it. Matt and Doug deserve a tonne of credit for being the first to realize the books significance, and discuss it on air.Continue readingA Smartphone Before Age 12 Could Carry Health Risks, Study SaysBy Catherine PearsonWhat is the “right” age to get your child a smartphone? It’s a question that vexes many parents — torn between their pleading tweens and researchers who warn about the potential harms of constant connectivity. But new study findings strengthen the case for holding off.The study, published in the journal Pediatrics on Monday, found that children who had a smartphone by age 12 were at higher risk of depression, obesity and insufficient sleep than those who did not yet have one. Researchers had analyzed data from more than 10,500 children who participated in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study — the largest long-term look at children’s brain development in the United States to date.The younger that children under 12 were when they got their first smartphones, the study found, the greater their risk of obesity and poor sleep. The researchers also focused on a subset of children who hadn’t received a phone by age 12 and found that a year later, those who had acquired one had more harmful mental health symptoms and worse sleep than those who hadn’t.Continue readingSilver is going to far outperform gold, and here’s whyby Matt BrackenGold is going much higher (actually, the dollar is diving much lower), but silver is going to outperform gold by multiples. Why?For several reasons, the gold to silver ratio is going to trend back down toward the historical norms.Gold is going to rise as the dollar falls. That’s a given.But silver is going to rise MUCH faster and higher than gold.Most of the analysts who study precious metals are missing a huge part of the picture, in my humble and inexpert opinion.They correctly note reasons #1 and #2 below, but they totally miss the so-far unseen #3.So what does conventional wisdom say is driving the price of silver upward?1. Silver as the secondary monetary metal, behind gold. As the dollar falls, both will rise, obviously.2. Silver as a metal needed in modern industry. You can’t build a missile, a jet or an EV car without silver. And unlike gold, when silver is used in this way, it’s gone, lowering the world supply. And you can’t just “open up a new silver mine” and start extracting more silver. This takes years, at great cost and effort.Everybody acknowledges #1 and #2 in the current rise of the value of silver. But they are missing the third and forgotten leg of the stool. What is #3?3. Silver as an everyday means of retail exchange. As the dollar collapses in value, more and more people will begin to use silver to make purchases. This will begin at farmers markets and swap meets. It will spread to other retail outlets which will accept silver, with its steady value, in lieu of dollars, as a hedge against inflation.Continue readingNew Poll Reveals Strong Majority of Americans Believe Higher Education is a Scam – All Debt and No Job Skillsby Mike LaChanceEtienne Note: The organized crime government’s tax-supported colleges and universities are the worst. Part of the “control of perception” program we outline in “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History! They are price-supporting worthless public colleges where the professors can be counted on to never question the legitimacy or reveal the criminality of “government,” push woke DEI agendas, and provide six figure jobs (Sinecures) for “government” operatives. Ex-Dept of Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano’s annualbase salary as President of the University of California (UC) system was consistently $570,000 from her start date in September 2013 until her resignation in August 2020. Her total compensation package also included other benefits.Continue readingFluoride Harm: Suppressed Science and Silenced Voicesby fluoridealert.orgA new book has been written and published by close friends of the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) that I’m excited to share with all of you. I consider it a “must read” for anyone who has ever consumed water or come in contact with fluoride…which I assume is everyone. This is the perfect stocking stuffer for your loved ones this holiday season, or a gift for that person–or city councilor–in your life who can’t seem to find the time to educate themselves about fluoride. The format of the book lends itself to learn about the issue one engaging and shocking story at a time.The newly released anthology, Fluoride Harm: Suppressed Science and Silenced Voices includes 36 chapters from internationally recognized scientists, medical professionals, whistleblowers, journalists, and citizen advocates—including several dentists, doctors, water treatments experts, a former EPA Union President, consumer advocate Erin Brockovich, and the co-founders of FAN, Dr. Paul Connett, PhD and his wife Ellen.Continue readingMissouri Locks the Web Behind a “Harmful” Content ID Checkby Ken MaconStand against censorship and surveillance, join Reclaim The Net.Starting November 30, 2025, people in Missouri will find the digital world reshaped: anyone wishing to visit websites containing “harmful” adult material will need to prove they are at least 18 years old by showing ID.This new requirement marks Missouri’s entry into the growing group of US states adopting age verification laws for online content. Yet the move does more than restrict access; it raises serious questions about how much personal data people must surrender just to browse freely.For many, that tradeoff is likely to make privacy tools like VPNs a near necessity rather than a choice.The law defines its targets broadly. Any site or app where over one-third of the material is classified as “harmful to minors” must block entry until users confirm their age.Continue readingVenezuela Invasion: Iraq War Redux?By Kevin BarrettIf you’ve been following Trump’s build-up for war on Venezuela, and are experiencing feelings of déjà vu—specifically, the uncanny premonition that it’s 2003 all over again—your feelings are fully justified. Like George W. Bush in 2003, Trump is amassing forces off foreign shores in preparation for an invasion of an oil rich sovereign nation. And like his predecessor, Trump is working overtime to sell the war under ludicrously false pretenses.Like Bush Jr. in 2003, Trump is mendaciously hyperventilating about a nonexistent but terrifying-sounding threat. For Bush, it was nonexistent Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. For Trump, it’s another kind of alleged “chemical weapon”: fentanyl. In both cases, the link between the planned US invasion and the pretext is purely imaginary.Continue readingGive Us Your Face or Lose Your Account: AI Age Verification Is Here, and Experts Are WorriedBy Zephin LivingstonSince the internet began, there has been debate about how websites can ensure that explicit content is only accessed by consenting adults. Whether it’s explicit songs on Spotify or outright violence on TikTok, much of this content has been accessible to anyone.With recent legislation such as the UK’s Online Safety Act and similar laws in the US, major internet platforms, including Reddit, Spotify, and YouTube, have introduced AI-powered age verification and estimation tools. Pornhub, whose parent company Aylo owns and operates a number of studios and streaming platforms, has also begun reassessing whether to comply with the age verification laws that have seen it banned in over a dozen US states.The processes for both age verification and estimation involve sending sensitive personal information to the platform you’re trying to access. Age estimation requires a photo or photos of your face; your age will be estimated based on those pictures. Age verification is more precise, but it requires submitting a photo of your government-issued ID, one of the most sensitive documents you can provide to anyone, to the platform.Continue readingThe Complete Fraud of the Fake War on Drugs: A Criminal Exercise for Money, Power, and Controlby Gary D. Barnett“Various “wars on drugs” throughout history have killed millions, enslaved millions more, destroyed families, are usually just thin pretenses for mass incarceration, mass surveillance, ethnic cleansing, population control.”~ Kool A.D.There cannot be a war on drugs, a war on terrorism, a war on crime, a war on poverty, a war on racism, a war on guns, a war on obesity, border wars, and on and on. It seems everything in this country is based on the term war, which means that everything is based on force, and in the end, all war is actually violence against people here and everywhere else. This constant psychological propaganda is meant to frame everything as a ‘war’ in order to market the false need of a government solution. The government causes the problem, reacts to it with metaphorical emergency rhetoric, and then claims to have the solution. This is simply Hegelian Dialectic idiocy, wrapped under the fake protective blanket of fear, urgency, and ‘safety.’ In other words, all are lies and total nonsense.Continue readingWhy is Every Newborn Forced to Get A Hepatitis B Vaccine?by A Midwestern DoStory at a Glance:•The hepatitis B vaccine has been marred by controversy since its inception, particularly since it is now given to every newborn child despite less than one in a million children benefitting from this policy.•Remarkably, much of that controversy (e.g., Congressional hearings, mainstream news programs, and HIV vaccine contamination concerns) has been largely forgotten.•The hepatitis B vaccine has long been associated with autoimmune disorders, particularly demyelinating ones. While the medical community has insisted for over 50 years that this link remains unproven and requires “further research”, evidence demonstrates this process indeed occurs.•While the hepatitis B vaccine has reduced acute cases in high-risk demographics (e.g., intravenous drug users), there is no evidence it has done the same in newborns (as applicable circumstances are incredibly rare) or reduced chronic hepatitis cases.Continue readingThe Link Between Transgenderism and Autismby Tyler DurdenAuthored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),Chloe Cole grew up a tomboy, was diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) by age 7, and referred for autism screening by age 17.Cole began identifying as a boy during adolescence and sought physical changes to match.Doctors readily consented to medical intervention. They prescribed puberty blockers and testosterone at age 13. At 15, surgeons performed a double mastectomy, she told The Epoch Times.But doctors didn’t address her neurological issues first. The same gender specialist who referred her for breast surgery later referred her for autism screening. Cole has described herself as being on the autism spectrum, but said she was never formally diagnosed.Cole is now a leading campaigner against interventions to transition children with gender dysphoria.Continue readingFirst child identified in the FDA’s vaccine-death investigationby Maryanne Demasi, PhDLast week, a leaked FDA memo acknowledged that at least ten children died “after and because of” the Covid-19 vaccine in the United States.None of those children had been identified — until now.One of them is now understood to be Ernesto Ramirez Junior, a 16-year-old from Texas who collapsed and died five days after receiving the Pfizer Covid shot.“Junior,” as he is known, is among the cases at the centre of the FDA’s internal investigation into paediatric deaths following Covid vaccination.For his father, Ernest Ramirez, the past four years have been consumed by grief, tireless campaigning, and what he describes as a “living hell.”Now, for the first time, he believes the FDA has acknowledged what he has always known — the vaccine took his child.“That’s the poison that killed my son,” he told me.Continue readingWorld’s Most Tyrannical Government Wants To Free Venezuela From TyrannyBy Caitlin JohnstonePresident Trump has been holding talks with top advisors this week regarding potential US attacks on Venezuela in order to bring about regime change in yet another oil-rich nation.As the western political/media class frames Venezuela’s President Maduro as a “dictator” who must urgently be removed from power, it is worth noting that any US military operation to remove him would be taking place directly against the will of the American public. A recent CBS News poll found that seventy percent of Americans “would oppose” the US taking military action against Venezuela.So here we have the president of a nation which calls itself a democracy, holding meetings to plan military operations which are completely and unambiguously against the wishes of the electorate, in the name of removing a dictator and spreading freedom and democracy.Continue readingACIP votes 8 to 3 to end the universal recommendation for giving Hep B shots at birth to babies of mothers who test negative.by Steve KirschGreat news. ACIP voted 8 to 3 to end the universal HepB vaccine recommendation for infants under two months.The CDC director still has to approve the recommendation.This shows you VERY clearly that the HepB vaccine is unsafe. A safe vaccine would have death reports with the same height over time; you wouldn’t have a massive peak at 1 week after the shot.Here is the actual vote and the reasoning (which is not evidence based) for the 3 members who voted to keep the recommendations as is:Progress!8 of the 11 ACIP members believe in science and data. The other 3 are stuck in the past.Want to give some gifts that will be remembered for years to come and help your friends, family and colleagues better understand the scam of “Government?”Happy Holidays from the Art of Liberty Foundation! Get 20% off until December 12th using the discount code: Liberty20, 15% off from December 13th-16th using the discount code: Liberty15, and 10% off from December 17th until Christmas using the discount code: Liberty10!Continue readingUpcoming Liberty EventsThe People’s Reset – Morelia, Mexico – Jan 28th-Feb 1st 2026Principled Business Summit- Prospera, Roatán, Honduras, February 5–9, 2026MONEROTOPIA 2026-Roma, Mexico City, February 12TH-15TH 2026Entrepreneurship Beyond Politics: Mises Circle in Oklahoma City – Feb 21st, OKC, OKFreedom Under Natural Law Conference – February 21st & 22nd 2026, On-lineMises Institute Libertarian Scholars Conference – March 19, 2026, at our Auburn, ALAustrian Economic Research Conference 2026 – March 19-21, 2026, Auburn, ALRothbard University-May 14-16, 2026, Auburn, ALLibertarian Scholars Conference 2026- March 19, 2026 – March 19, 2026 – Auburn, Alabama.Free Cities Foundation Conference – September 3–6, 2026 – Prospera, Roatan, HondurasEvent Name: Principled Business SummitLocation: Roatán, HondurasDate: February 5–9, 2026Join a 3-day immersive experience in the world’s only startup special economic zone, built on legal autonomy and designed for visionary builders.Memes BonanzaTruth Music of the WeekLove Vigilantes by New Order Including the Iron & Wine CoverA powerful song by New Order on one horrific aspect of sending hundreds of thousands or millions to war… Mistakes are made. I am including an amazing cover by Iron & Wine that is just as powerful.libertarian Intentional Community RoundupEtienne Note: We have rebranded our Free State Project Corner section in Five Meme Friday to: libertarian Intentional Community Roundup to cover other projects 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 honored their amazing volunteers with a dinner last week. Top Photo: Full House! Middle Photo: The Outreach Team that talks with folks interested in moving to New Hampshire, and bottom photo: Volunteer of the Year Jason Spencer with Chris Lopez.The LiberatorThe Liberator– Our archive of “government” and media criminalityImportant Note: New additions are added to the authoritative Liberator Dropboxes regularly but will not appear in the physical credit card-sized flash drive until we launch the next version. Anyone can download the current contents of the Liberator FOR FREE including all the primary sources and evidence from our investigation into “The Covid”.Liberator #1 – Companion media to “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History. Exposed! https://www.dropbox.com/sh/s01ey167cszv1xa/AABwg9HPJMnWw1y1QzZE5LiYa?dl=0Liberator #2 – Evidence of False Flag terror for police state and hoax shootings for gun control: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/f8vwa29bg8wpp0r/AAByoYT8XcVsbgUYFmrVPLxia?dl=0Liberator #3 – Evidence that “The Covid” has been a scam and the vaccines are killing people: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tbdhlxb8z27ktyv/AAB2JDYZGHLrC-YRbC6p8OH2a?dl=0Liberator #4 – Voluntaryism and more evidence of “Government” corruption: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/smh30vmbafpo8dn/AACEpgLV4P8D18AV-9Rtfp3Pa?dl=0Liberator #5 – Prepping and Self-Sufficiency – Hundreds of resources: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ow588jfgvq0y40r/AABXTfrhNaVBN4ZpmxSwliAra?dl=0How to Support the Art of Liberty Foundation1. Become an Art of Liberty Foundation Sponsor at ArtOfLiberty.org/Sponsor – The best way to support us is to become a sponsor of the foundation. 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PLUS…. Chat GPT Logo has hidden Star of David / 666 in it. Dear Subscribers, My apologies again that I am publishing last week’s issue on Thursday of next week but my fiancé and I came to Chicago for Thanksgiving and ended up staying to help a family member that is in the hospital with a health issue. We are waiting on some test results today and might be able to leave tomorrow where I will be back in my office and back on schedule.The big news this week is/was Giving Tuesday and Cyber Monday. THANK YOU to everyone who donated on Giving Tuesday! We are so grateful to be supported by so many amazing people! If you haven’t had the opportunity to donate yet, then we have some amazing perks and gifts to say THANK YOU!With all the algorithmic censorship, deindexing, and shadow banning we face, we simply couldn’t do the work we do without the help of our supporters. Period.We are exposing the biggest secret the “government” and monopoly media keep from the population: “Government” is illogical and illegitimate ON IT’S FACE and is being run as a 100% criminal enterprise.If you think that is the #1 message that our friends, family, and colleagues need to understand then I hope you will consider donating to help us tell the world!The best way is directly: https://artofliberty.org/sponsorship-program/If you follow us on Substack and “Go Paid” then we have holiday deal where you can get a free high-resolution of “Government” or To See the Cage is to Leave It for “Going Paid” at the $50 a year level. Go Paid as a $250 Founding Member and get signed high-resolution hardcovers of BOTH books + everything else in our Everything Bundle. Donate the equivalent amounts at https://artofliberty.org/sponsorship-program/ and get the same perks AND paid access to all four of Substacks.Thanks again to everyone who donated on Giving Tuesday, everyone who has supported us in the past, and everyone working to make this a better planet for our kids and grandkids!Happy Holidays!Top Stories of the WeekGiving Tuesday – Support Art of Liberty and Get Perks for the Folks on Your List!While Others Hack at the Branches of Evil, We are Striking the Root!Dear Friends of the Art of Liberty Foundation,This Giving Tuesday, we’re asking you to join us in striking the root and paving the way for a freer, voluntary world. By becoming a sponsor of the Art of Liberty Foundation, you’re not just donating—you’re partnering with us in our mission to end war, indoctrination, propaganda and tax slavery worldwide.At the Art of Liberty Foundation, we challenge the status quo by exposing the illegitimacy and criminality of “government” and its hidden partnerships with the monopoly media, mandatory schools, and tax-supported government universities.We are unique in achieving a “one-way revolution” by exposing the unethically manipulative techniques and tricks that the inter-generational organized crime system behind “government” is using.Because no one likes to get tricked and “chumped,” once exposed we are freeing minds and educating our friends, neighbors, and relatives on the good karma alternative of REAL Freedom!Continuing Reading & Please Consider Donating… Videos of the WeekEtienne de la Boetie2 on Richard Grove’s Grand Theft World PodcastEtienne Breaks Down Organized Crime Throwing 2020 election to Biden to Keep Borders Open so Populist Strongman Trump Can Normalize Masked Goon Squads & Mass ArrestsEtienne de la Boetie2, founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation, was a guest on Richard Grove’s podcast Grand Theft World with co-host Scott Armstrong of Rebunked. Etienne’s segment begins around an hour into the show (teed up in video above) and lasts around an hour. Etienne breaks down how he believes the organized crime system behind Trump & Biden threw the 2020 election to Biden to keep the borders open so populist strongman Trump could come in and normalize masked goon squads (ICE) normalizing black bagging folks on the street, mass arrests and other OPEN AND OBVIOUS tyranny… among other topics.Continue Reading and to Video..Chat GPT Logo Has Hidden Israeli “Star of David” = 6 Sides, Angles, & Planes (666)When you duplicate, reverse, and overlay the Chat GPT logo over itself you get the Israeli Star of David which is a 6 pointed Star with 6 Sides, Six Angles, and Six planes (666) We explain the 666 symbolism is our article: Etienne & Jason Christoff – Why is 666 Hidden in Cartel Company Logos, Trump’s OK Sign and Twitter’s New Logo? https://artofliberty.org/666Continue reading…Duty to Disobey – Official Trailer for New Documentary Exposing the Criminality of Forcing Harmful “Vaccines” on US TroopsEtienne Note: The organized crime “government” tricked and forced the military into crippling “vaccines” that are only now beginning to show the medium and long term effects. CHD has a new documentary coming out breaking down the illegality of the whole thing and the military’s “Duty to Disobey” if they try it again.Check out our monograph: Solving Covid – The Covid 19 Eugenics, Vaccine/Drug Scam Timeline at and its companion article: The Covid 19 Suspects and Their Ties to Eugenics and Population Control/Reduction to understand who is behind “The Covid”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_ScamsMinnesota: SNAP Payments Skyrocketed by 174% in One Year – Fraud Is SuspectedEtienne Note: This article 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_Scamsby KTTC and Alpha NewsA Minnesota lawmaker, Republican Representative Pam Altendorf, is questioning the state over its past SNAP food stamps payouts and is sounding the alarm as another massive fraud scheme funded by taxpayers. Democrat Tim Walz became the Governor of Minnesota in 2019. That year, SNAP benefits totaled $509,464,759 and increased to the staggering amount of $1,985,656,979 in 2022 – close to $2 billion!According to the Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF), the numbers are inaccurate because they mistakenly included Pandemic EBT [electronic benefit transfer]. The USDA has not published its 2024 state activities report. Gov. Walz is refusing to share the SNAP data. There are 42 million people receiving SNAP benefits; the USDA reported that dead people are receiving benefits and that over 500,000 are double enrolled in SNAP.Continue readingJPMorgan Bank Flagged Over $1 Billion in Suspicious Transactions Tied to Jeffrey EpsteinEtienne Note: This article 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_Scamsby National File, Democracy New and Breaking PointsJPMorgan documents indicate that the bank was repeatedly warned about suspicious financial transactions involving Jeffrey Epstein. The suspicious activity report from 2019, released to the public under judicial order, flagged more than 4,700 transactions totaling over $1 billion. People participating in the transactions included Leon Black of Apollo Global Management, hedge fund heavyweight Glenn Dubin, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, and retailer mogul Leslie Wexner.Continue readingJeffries Misleads on AIPAC PAC MoneyEtienne Note: This article 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_ScamsBy David Moore, Donald ShawThough Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said that AIPAC PAC gives him only the per-cycle maximum, the group has flooded his campaign with more than a million dollars in earmarked donations.Yesterday on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) was asked about accepting PAC donations from the lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).His answer was an attempt to obfuscate how AIPAC’s PAC has become, by a huge margin, the largest source of earmarked PAC contributions to members of Congress.Continue readingThe REAL Political Spectrum… Around the WorldEtienne Note: I have some folks who have promised me some new countries but they did’t get their homework to me before we went to publication. Please e-mail me at Etienne(at)ArtOfLiberty.org to help create a version for YOUR countryI am adding a new recurring feature to Five Meme Friday: The REAL Political Spectrum… Around the World! A couple of weeks ago I did an article: The Fake Left-Right Paradigm – What is the REAL Political Spectrum the Monopoly Media is Hiding? where I broke down WHY the monopoly media misrepresents the REAL political spectrum and what the actual political spectrum looks like in the US. That meme went viral so now I am duplicating it for other countries.Can you help? Please e-mail me at Etienne(at)ArtOfLiberty.org to help create a version for YOUR country OR suggest changes for a version we already have circulating. Donate to support this project at ArtOfLiberty.org/sponsorship-program/The REAL Political Spectrum in: USA, Australia, Canada, Estonia (English), Estonia (Estonian), United Kingdom, Venezuela (English), Venezuela (Espanol)Shift the Political Spectrum in: USA, Australia, Canada, Estonia (English), Estonia (Estonian), United Kingdom, Venezuela (English), Venezuela (Espanol)“Daily News of The Week”The Blue-Blood Families That Made Fortunes in the Opium Tradeby Amitav GhoshThrough most of human history, opium circulated in very small quantities and was used primarily as a medicine. Anatolia was probably the region in which farmers first began to cultivate poppies as an important commercial crop, and the practice is thought to have spread outwards from there. The armies of Alexander the Great are believed to have carried opium into Iran, hence the derivation of the Persian and Arabic words for opium, “afyun,” from the Greek “opion.” The Perso-Arabic terms, in turn, engendered the word “afeem,” widely used across the Indian subcontinent, and Chinese terms “afyon” and “yapian.”A useful analogy in thinking of the social history of opium is that of an opportunistic pathogen, one that goes through long periods of dormancy, affecting very small numbers of people. But when social processes and historical events provide the pathogen with an opportunity, it bursts out to rapidly expand its circulation. With opium this happened in several phases, over centuries, usually in connection with empires. The Mongol Empire, for instance, along with its successor states, played an important role in propagating opium in many parts of Asia in the 15th and 16th centuries. This came about because opium was adopted as a recreational drug by imperial courts and ruling elites; it was not used as an instrument of state policy. The pioneer in that regard was the Dutch East India Company, which made extensive use of opium in its quest for commercial and territorial expansion in Southeast Asia. Yet while the Dutch led the way in enmeshing opium with European colonialism, it was the British in India who perfected the model of the colonial narco-state, when they began to use opium to pay for their imports of Chinese tea, a commodity that produced enormous revenues for Britain in the colonies as well as the metropolis.Continue readingThe Technocratic Trump Administration: The Zionist Infiltration Expandsby Derrick BrozeIn the first two parts of this series, we examined how Donald Trump’s second administration has expanded the use of public-private partnerships and tightened relationships with the Big Technocrats. We also looked at how Trump’s administration is working to force compliance from journalists even as his allies work to consolidate the media, particularly as it relates to the popular app TikTok. The aim of this piece is to outline how these moves serve to further the goals of Trump’s long-term allies in the Zionist movement.As noted in Part 2 of this series, Trump ally Larry Ellison is reportedly involved in an effort to purchase TikTok. Ellison is the founder and CTO of Oracle and one of the world’s richest individuals. In mid-September, The Wall Street Journal reported that Oracle was working with Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz to purchase TikTok as part of Trump’s effort to put the app under US control.Continue readingWhat’s Our Plan for COMMUNICATIONS?by Christopher CookWe are building out plans for our distributed nation: sovereign people in their sovereign spaces, united by shared principles and a desire to be free. A nation within nations, gradually growing in size and independence.Instead of wallowing in the muck of the old world, we are building a new world. Our own world. That means creating alternative institutions and distinct approaches to our pursuit of freedom and happiness. In some cases, these approaches will be novel and unique; in others, we will reclaim lost knowledge.Freedom and independence will not come quickly. We will need to be patient and play it smart. We will need to think short-term, long-term, and really long-term.A nation such as ours will not have any central authority or planned economy. God forbid! But that does not mean that we cannot work together. Swarm intelligence and shared national consciousness will be powerful tools for us.Continue readingWhat’s Our Plan for COMMUNICATIONS?by Christopher CookWe are building out plans for our distributed nation: sovereign people in their sovereign spaces, united by shared principles and a desire to be free. A nation within nations, gradually growing in size and independence.Instead of wallowing in the muck of the old world, we are building a new world. Our own world. That means creating alternative institutions and distinct approaches to our pursuit of freedom and happiness. In some cases, these approaches will be novel and unique; in others, we will reclaim lost knowledge.Freedom and independence will not come quickly. We will need to be patient and play it smart. We will need to think short-term, long-term, and really long-term.A nation such as ours will not have any central authority or planned economy. God forbid! But that does not mean that we cannot work together. Swarm intelligence and shared national consciousness will be powerful tools for us.Continue readingCracking the Myth — How Eating Eggs Helps Lower Bad Cholesterolby Dr. Joseph MercolaA study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that eating two eggs daily lowered LDL cholesterol, while high saturated fat diets raised itResearchers found cholesterol from eggs did not raise LDL, but saturated fat from foods like bacon and sausage did, showing food context makes a major differenceEggs provide cholesterol without overloading the liver, allowing it to clear LDL efficiently and preventing artery buildup that increases heart disease and stroke riskWeekly egg intake reduced heart disease deaths by 29% and all-cause mortality by 17% in older adults, highlighting the importance of moderation for protective benefitsChoosing pastured eggs, avoiding vegetable oils, and pairing eggs with nutrient-rich whole foods further boost benefits while minimizing harmful omega-6 linoleic acid (LA) intakeContinue readingThe chip made for the AI inference era – the Google TPUby UncoverAlphaHey everyone,As I find the topic of Google TPUs extremely important, I am publishing a comprehensive deep dive, not just a technical overview, but also strategic and financial coverage of the Google TPU.Topics covered:The history of the TPU and why it all even started?The difference between a TPU and a GPU?Performance numbers TPU vs GPU?Where are the problems for the wider adoption of TPUsGoogle’s TPU is the biggest competitive advantage of its cloud business for the next 10 yearsHow many TPUs does Google produce today, and how big can that get?Gemini 3 and the aftermath of Gemini 3 on the whole chip industryLet’s dive into it.The history of the TPU and why it all even started?The story of the Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) begins not with a breakthrough in chip manufacturing, but with a realization about math and logistics. Around 2013, Google’s leadership—specifically Jeff Dean, Jonathan Ross (the CEO of Groq), and the Google Brain team—ran a projection that alarmed them. They calculated that if every Android user utilized Google’s new voice search feature for just three minutes a day, the company would need to double its global data center capacity just to handle the compute load.Continue readingAnthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 is here: Cheaper AI, infinite chats, and coding skills that beat humansby Michael NuñezAnthropic released its most capable artificial intelligence model yet on Monday, slashing prices by roughly two-thirds while claiming state-of-the-art performance on software engineering tasks — a strategic move that intensifies the AI startup’s competition with deep-pocketed rivals OpenAI and Google.The new model, Claude Opus 4.5, scored higher on Anthropic’s most challenging internal engineering assessment than any human job candidate in the company’s history, according to materials reviewed by VentureBeat. The result underscores both the rapidly advancing capabilities of AI systems and growing questions about how the technology will reshape white-collar professions.The Amazon-backed company is pricing Claude Opus 4.5 at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens — a dramatic reduction from the $15 and $75 rates for its predecessor, Claude Opus 4.1, released earlier this year. The move makes frontier AI capabilities accessible to a broader swath of developers and enterprises while putting pressure on competitors to match both performance and pricing.Continue readingThe ‘But Aluminum in Tea’ Vaxx Industry Lie, Debunkedby Benjamin BarteeBioterror Propaganda Roundup: The latest updates on the “new normal” — chronicling the lies, distortions, and abuses by the ruling class.Whatever abomination Elon’s engineers visited upon the X algorithm, they really screwed the pooch.My timeline, among other disturbing developments, is now packed with #ZeroCOVID and pro-vaxx pseudoscience peddled by assholes with acronyms in their bio, like this one from Andrea C. Love, PhD:“The amount of aluminum in select vaccines is up to 72 TIMES LESS aluminum than you ingest daily from foods and up to 400 TIMES LESS aluminum than is in your body at any time. Oh and it’s ALL filtered and excreted by your kidneys in the SAME EXACT WAY.”Sure, aluminum is filtered out of circulation in “the exact same way” by the kidneys, but that’s on the way out.Continue reading1 in 10 Adults Seriously Injured by a COVID Vaccine, New Survey Saysby The Vigilant FoxThis article originally appeared on The Defender and was republished with permission.Guest post by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.Roughly 10% of all U.S adults who received the COVID-19 vaccine experienced “major” side effects, and over a third (36%) had “minor” side effects, according to a national survey conducted this month. Kristi Dobbs, who was seriously injured by Pfizer’s COVID-19 shot, told The Defender that the vaccine-injured are “still hurting, dying and being discarded as trash.”One in every 10 U.S adults who received the COVID-19 vaccine experienced “major” side effects, and over a third (36%) suffered “minor” side effects, according to a national survey conducted this month.Based on a U.S. adult population of 258 million in 2020, the results mean that about 17 million adults who got the COVID-19 vaccine experienced major health effects, and roughly 63 million had minor side effects, said Rasmussen Reports, which conducted the survey.Continue readingThey relied on marijuana to get through the day. But then days felt impossible without itBy Leah WillinghamBROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — For the past several years, 75-year-old Miguel Laboy has smoked a joint with his coffee every morning. He tells himself he won’t start tomorrow the same way, but he usually does.“You know what bothers me? To have cannabis on my mind the first thing in the morning,” he said, sparking a blunt in his Brookline, Massachusetts, apartment. “I’d like to get up one day and not smoke. But you see how that’s going.”Since legalization and commercialization, daily cannabis use has become a defining — and often invisible — part of many people’s lives. High-potency vapes and concentrates now dominate the market, and doctors say they can blur the line between relief and dependence over time so that users don’t notice the shift. Across the country, people who turned to cannabis for help are finding it harder to put down.Continue readingSoft Censorship on Free-Speech Twitter?by off-guardian.orgWe don’t get much engagement on Twitter (X, whatever). At ~63,000 followers we’re hardly a huge account, but an engagement rate of around 0.07% is incredibly low.Our content generally gets low-double digit “likes”.For what it’s worth, checkers that claim to able to detect these things say we aren’t shadowbanned.We’ve accepted that we’re in the soundproof free speech booth, allowed to say whatever we want as long as no one hears us.But, every so often, we get something to pierce the shield (at least a little bit). That happened on the 21st of November when the Covid Inquiry report was published, and this tweet got far more engagement than usual:Having been viewed close to 50,000 times in roughly 24 hours, the tweet seems to have disappeared from our profile and all engagement with it halted immediately.Continue readingCan You Catch A Cold? – Untold History & Human Experimentsby UnbekomingThe question seems absurd at first. Can you catch a cold? Everyone knows you can. Parents warn children to bundle up in winter. Office workers eye sniffling colleagues with suspicion. Entire industries exist to prevent, treat, and contain the spread of respiratory illness. The experience feels self-evident: someone sneezes near you, and a few days later you’re reaching for tissues yourself. But what happens when you move past everyday observation and examine the actual scientific evidence—the controlled experiments, the documented attempts to transmit disease from sick people to healthy people under laboratory conditions? What emerges is not the airtight case for contagion that most people assume exists. Instead, you find a century of failed experiments, unexplained contradictions, and foundational studies whose control groups produced the same results as the experiments themselves. The question stops seeming absurd and starts seeming urgent.Continue readingOver 1,100 Studies Reveal 12 Natural Compounds With Potent Anti-Cancer Effects Across All Major Tumor Pathwaysby Nicolas Hulscher, MPHA landmark 2025 review titled, Natural anti-cancer products: insights from herbal medicine, published in Chinese Medicine, pulled together more than 1,100 scientific studies and uncovered something extraordinary: across cell, animal, and multi-omics research, 12 natural compounds repeatedly showed potent anti-cancer activity—triggering cancer cell death, blocking metastasis, cutting off tumor blood supply, disrupting tumor metabolism, and reversing drug resistance. Notably, the vast majority of this evidence comes from studies published since 2019, reflecting a rapid surge of new research in this field.To build this analysis, they examined results from in vitro experiments (cancer cell lines), in vivo tumor models (mouse xenografts, orthotopic tumors, chemically induced cancers, zebrafish models), ex vivo mechanistic assays, and modern omics platforms including transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolic profiling.Continue reading‘Settlement’ Carnival Reaches Fever Pitch as Antsy Euros Jockey for Relevancyby SimpliciusThe ‘peace settlement’ shenanigans continue their descent into kabuki farce. The back and forth tug between “28 point” plans and “19 point” plans and everything in between is nearing the slapstick absurdity of a Monty Python skit.Russia—yesterday through Lavrov and Peskov—continues to maintain that no real plan has been presented to the Russian side yet, and that all military objectives of the SMO must be achieved. So what is the point, exactly, of this loony back-and-forth, which is crescendoing to hysterical levels?Each side has its own axe to grind: for the Europeans it’s not only to save Ukraine and the cabal’s war against Russia, but to save their own hides, political careers, etc. The entire EU is now riding on Ukraine as the sole predominant issue—if a catastrophic failure here takes place, a firestorm could sweep away virtually every hated sock-puppet like Macron, Merz, Starmer, et al.Continue readingFALSE FLAG? Thanksgiving Eve DC Shooting Highly Suspicious—Here’s WhyBy Kevin BarrettMainstream media are reporting that an Afghan asylum-seeker, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, shot two National Guard members near the White House on Thanksgiving Eve. The event featured many classic signs of a fabricated false flag event. Here are a few:*CUI BONO? Trump called the attack “terrorism,” meaning it was a strategically-conceived violent act against civilians (?) designed to accrue political gain for the perpetrators. (That’s the definition of terrorism, which has been an all-too-common military tactic throughout thousands of years of history.) But since all terrorism is strategic, what, specifically, was the strategic purpose of whoever was behind this shooting? The question answers itself: Trump and his agenda were the primary beneficiaries. The President got to bloviate on Thanksgiving Eve, calling the shooter an “animal,” while posing as the protector of the nation in general and its capital in particular. His order to send the National Guard to Washington DC seems vindicated by the purported “radical Afghan Muslim terror attack.” (Hegseth used the attack as an excuse to send 500 more guardsmen into DC.) And Trump’s anti-immigration agenda got a huge boost as Trump was handed an excuse to issue an order: “Processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals is stopped indefinitely pending further review of security and vetting protocols.”Continue readingUpcoming Liberty EventsThe People’s Reset – Morelia, Mexico – Jan 28th-Feb 1st 2026Principled Business Summit- Prospera, Roatán, Honduras, February 5–9, 2026MONEROTOPIA 2026-Roma, Mexico City, February 12TH-15TH 2026Entrepreneurship Beyond Politics: Mises Circle in Oklahoma City – Feb 21st, OKC, OKFreedom Under Natural Law Conference – February 21st & 22nd 2026, On-lineMises Institute Libertarian Scholars Conference – March 19, 2026, at our Auburn, ALAustrian Economic Research Conference 2026 – March 19-21, 2026, Auburn, ALRothbard University-May 14-16, 2026, Auburn, ALLibertarian Scholars Conference 2026- March 19, 2026 – March 19, 2026 – Auburn, Alabama.Free Cities Foundation Conference – September 3–6, 2026 – Prospera, Roatan, HondurasEvent Name: Principled Business SummitLocation: Roatán, HondurasDate: February 5–9, 2026Join a 3-day immersive experience in the world’s only startup special economic zone, built on legal autonomy and designed for visionary builders.Memes BonanzaTruth Music of the WeekTom Waits – “Step Right Up”Hat tip to Warren W. for the the ultimate Black Friday song!libertarian Intentional Community RoundupEtienne Note: We have rebranded our Free State Project Corner section in Five Meme Friday to: libertarian Intentional Community Roundup to cover other projects including Prospera (Honduras), The Free State Project (New Hampshire), Liberstad (Norway), Montelibero (Montenegro), Los Propietarios, (Argentina), Liberland (Croatia/Serbia border), Network States in general and Sea Steading (The Oceans). I am also covering secession movements including Greater Idaho,Please send details of any new happenings, projects or projects I am missing!Mapped: America’s Most (and Least) Affordable Cities in 2025By Dorothy Neufeld, Graphics/Design: Amy RealeySee visuals like this from many other data creators on our Voronoi app. Download it for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources.In Tupelo, MS living costs are more than a fifth cheaper than the national average as of Q2 2025.Manhattan, NY is the most unaffordable, while Brooklyn and Queens also rank in the top 10.Today, Tupelo, MS is the nation’s most affordable city, where your dollar can stretch 21% further than the U.S. average.Similarly, several Southern cities have the lowest cost of living in the country, typically seeing smaller populations and more affordable housing. In contrast, New York and California continue to rank among the most expensive places to live.This graphic shows the U.S. cities with the lowest and highest cost of living, based on data from the Council for Community and Economic Research.Continue readingFree Staters are Good Neighbors…And the Statists Hate ThatIn a recently obtained video of a county-level NH Democrat messaging conference, a local activist has a lot to say about Free Staters.Apparently, she was frustrated that families in our community are not the anti-social boogeymen they’d like us to be.She complains that Free Staters have the audacity to be productive citizens who get jobs and volunteer in their communities!Even worse, people in those communities actually think Free Staters are “nice families” and “good neighbors” without even first interrogating them about their pro-liberty politics.Click here to watch the video for yourself.TRANSCRIPT FROM NH DEMS MESSAGING MEETING:As one commenter put it, “I bet their kids are polite too!”The LiberatorThe Liberator– Our archive of “government” and media criminalityImportant Note: New additions are added to the authoritative Liberator Dropboxes regularly but will not appear in the physical credit card-sized flash drive until we launch the next version. 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The agency is seeking information on drones with AI facial recognition abilities and more…by Pleasure to BurnIn yet another escalation of the march toward technocratic dystopia, the FBI is seeking to acquire AI surveillance drones with facial recognition capabilities. The Intercept reported that last week, the agency published a “Request for Information” regarding “artificial intelligence solutions for UAS,” or unmanned aerial systems.The document announces that “The Government would like to know which firms can provide” artificial intelligence and machine learning “solutions” for UAS platforms. The document lists desired features of such technology, including “Object detection: Vehicles, Vessels, People, Animals, Firearms,” “License plate recognition,” and “facial recognition,” among other capabilities.Federal law enforcement agencies have conducted aerial surveillance on the domestic population before, especially during protests. Local law enforcement agencies are adopting drones, as well. However, the FBI’s new request for information on UAS capabilities aligns with a broader effort to integrate artificial intelligence and biometrics into government tools and operations.Constructing the AI digital prisonThe Trump administration has accelerated previous efforts to expand the use of AI from the Pentagon and CIA to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). These developments often go hand in hand with surveillance. A contract inked during Trump’s first administration launched the construction of AI surveillance towers along the border during Biden’s administration. Earlier this year, Palantir earned a contract with ICE to build an “Immigration OS” AI surveillance system. The CIA-backed company has extensive reach in the halls of power—for example, it partnered with the CDC to build a data collection system during COVID.The news of the FBI’s interest in AI surveillance drones came around the same time as a recent announcement from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who touted a billion-dollar expansion of TSA “screening technology.” DHS is also currently pushing to advance the congressionally required biometric entry/exit system for foreign visitors that Trump sought to complete in his first term. In another advancement of biometrics, the TSA may soon offer biometric scanning for those who still don’t have a REAL ID— identification that meets federal security standards.Five Meme Friday is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Some Americans seem comfortable with such tools being used against “illegals” (citing the flimsy logic that people don’t have rights unless the government deems them worthy via citizenship status). But surveillance tools are unsurprisingly used beyond immigration enforcement as federal agencies expand their reach.TSA “screening” efforts will undoubtedly affect Americans traveling through airports. One recent report detailed CBP tracking US drivers and investigating people with ‘unusual’ driving patterns, regardless of citizenship status. Flock Safety cameras have been compiling vast stores of license plate information for thousands of law enforcement agencies across the country, gobbling up data that is often shared between government entities. This data collection is not limited to “illegal immigrants.” Police have also used Flock data to monitor protests, which lines up with the federal government’s use of drones and planes to surveil demonstrations.This is only a small sampling of the widespread adoption of spying infrastructure and practices across government organizations.Fed fallibilityFurther, such surveillance efforts fail to achieve their intended outcomes. The TSA has a longstanding reputation not only for harassment and abuse but also for incompetence. A 2015 DHS investigation found TSA agents failed “breach tests” 95% of the time. There was no significant evidence to prove the NSA’s bulk data collection program foiled terror attacks, at least according to a member of a White House review panel regarding NSA spying in 2013 (NSA workers have abused surveillance tools, too). Facial recognition tools also frequently fail.A similar pattern applies to AI technologies. One project that aimed to harness AI to detect weapons in schools has grossly underperformed. In another concerning example, a leaked Pentagon memo expressed security concerns over the hackability of a new, AI-heavy army communications system built by Anduril, Palantir, and other contractors. According to the memo from Gabriele Chiulli, an Army technology officer on the project, “We cannot control who sees what, we cannot see what users are doing, and we cannot verify that the software itself is secure.” Anduril, Palantir, and Chiulli’s supervisor downplayed the memo, claiming the issues were being resolved.Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is seeking to expedite the weapons development and acquisition process, which adds concern to a move he made earlier this year: he gutted a Pentagon office that tests the safety of weapons and AI systems.The more things change…Despite the threats to privacy and liberty these developments pose, they are often appealing to the public because of politicians’ appeals to fear: fears of immigration, crime, terrorism, and election fraud create a climate of compliance (similarly, fears of COVID and right-wing extremism have arguably created tolerance for surveillance on the left). President Trump continues to push for a national voter ID system, though it is unclear whether such a system would require digital ID or biometric data.Regardless, the writing is on the wall: government agencies and politicians are increasingly working to establish a permanent tracking and surveillance state using evolving technology for maximum control.Unsurprisingly, many companies are willing to satisfy these goals, aligning with the technocratic trend. Apple recently introduced its own digital ID, and countless other firms contract with intelligence agencies. Meanwhile, the Sam Altman-backed venture “Tools for Humanity” is aggressively seeking to expand adoption of its biometric iris-scanning digital ID. Considering the company has said it is open to governments using their technology—and that some countries are adopting their own forms of digital ID—it does not appear that this trend will abate.It’s worth noting that these issues did not originate with the exponential acceleration of modern technology. The FBI was spying on Americans under J. Edgar Hoover, the CIA spied on Americans under Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, and the Patriot Act and FISA Section 702 surveillance predate the rise of AI. Surveillance strategies are merely evolving with technology.Developments like these can be discouraging for those who recognize them for what they are: one facet of the ever-tightening grip of authoritarianism and technocracy. However, as with all encroachments, solutions lie in opting out, decentralizing, creating self-sufficiency, and breaking free of the conditioning that leads so many to welcome more chains. 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