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The question serious analysts must ask is not “why do governments expand?” That is self-evident, a structural feature of any bureaucracy. The appropriate question is “why do populations permit it?” The answer requires understanding the propaganda apparatus that Western states have built, refined, and now operate at industrial scale. The modern architecture of consent management dates to the First World War. Woodrow Wilson’s Committee on Public Information, run by George Creel, demonstrated that a population could be mobilised for any purpose — including a war most Americans had no interest in fighting — through systematic control of information, the manufacture…

The House voted 417-3 this week to pass the Ratepayer Protection Act, the first major bill on how data centers behind the AI boom affect utility customers’ bills to make it through Congress. Squad member Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) was one of only three Democrats to oppose the bill. Politico reports that the bill, co-sponsored by Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO) and Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL), now heads to the Senate. House Republicans have made it their signature piece of legislation heading into the midterms. Only three Democrats voted against the measure, including Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Summer Lee (D-PA), and Delia…

Divers recently discovered “a massive 55-pound copper ingot” used in the production of cannons as part of a 400-year-old shipwreck off the Florida Keys, triggering hopes of more discoveries in the debris. Divers with Mel Fisher’s Shipwreck Expeditions were exploring the wreck site of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha, the Spanish treasure galleon that sank off the coast of Florida in 1622 during a hurricane. They discovered the massive 55-pound copper ingot, which could be valued up to $25,000. They say the copper was used in the “production of bronze cannons.” In a social media post, Mel Fisher’s Shipwreck Expeditions detailed…

The poverty rate for children and Hispanics just hit record lows, while median household incomes have hit a record high. Listen, I know everyone’s bummed over gas prices, and for good reason. Yesterday, I paid $4.19 per gallon. Ouch. Driving past a gas station sign is like looking at a weather barometer for our national economy. Worse, it’s also a barometer for the likely outcome of the midterm elections. And that’s a shame for any number of reasons. The first is that as much as it sucks, we are all paying a necessary price to ensure that the theocratic death…

On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) responded to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) pushing bans on types of AI by saying that “no society has actually ever been able to ban technology. The only time that happened was in Japan, for a period of some years, they were able to stop guns from coming in. But, as we all know, eventually, the Japanese also relented.” Co-host Boris Sanchez asked, “[W]hy not go further, even to what Sen. Bernie Sanders has suggested, which is a total ban, a not permanent ban, a semi-permanent ban on superintelligence?” Lieu…

Forty-six members of the Senate Democratic caucus are demanding that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth provide a detailed accounting of the Iran war’s costs, arguing that the Pentagon has failed to explain how it has spent, and plans to spend, tens of billions of taxpayer dollars.The letter, led by Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin, was signed by every member of the Senate Democratic caucus except Sen. John Fetterman. Independent Sens. Bernie Sanders and Angus King, who caucus with Democrats, were also included.The senators asked the Pentagon to provide a breakdown by Sept. 30 of all direct and indirect costs incurred to date…

No US or European leader has ever been indicted by the tribunal, an ex-aide to the former Philippines president told RT The Western powers have used the International Criminal Court (ICC) to keep former colonies “in line” while shielding their own nationals from its justice, Harry Roque, former spokesman for Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, told RT on Wednesday.His comments came after Duterte made his first public appearance since his arrest in March 2025 and transfer to The Hague on an ICC warrant alleging crimes against humanity during his war on drugs.“At the time Duterte was charged, only African individuals have…

Former U.S. Senator Jon Kyl/Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license/ Author: Gage Skidmore Former U.S. Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) has passed away at age 84. According to his family, the cause was complications from a neurological disease that manifested as dementia. In December 2025, he announced the diagnosis and withdrew from public life. “My family and I now head down a path filled with moments of joy and increasing difficulties,” Kyl said. “I am grateful beyond expression for their love and support, in these coming days as in all the days of my life. Despite this diagnosis, I remain…

Breitbart News social media director and CODE RED author Wynton Hall unmasked the goals of Anthropic and the Effective Altruism (EA) movement that counts many AI leaders as adherents. According to Hall, their goal is to take over artificial intelligence through an enforced governance. Hall explains, “Think of it like a World Health Organization or a UN for AI — something that we all know where that story is going to end.” “They have, as part of their culture inside of Anthropic, something called ‘Effective Altruism,’ the EA movement,” Hall explained during a Thursday interview with host Mike Slater on Sirius…

Mustafa Suleyman, head of Microsoft AI, has warned that uncontrolled AI development risks creating what he called “a new silicon species” which would “no doubt compete with us for resources, no matter how much it cares about humanity and loves us.” BBC News reports that speaking to BBC’s Today program in an interview on Thursday, Suleyman said tech firms building increasingly autonomous AI systems are “essentially seeding a new silicon species.” Asked whether the public was right to be concerned about the direction of AI development, he replied simply, “right,” before adding that there are “very practical things that we…