Monday, May 5, 2025

Taxation as a Weapon against Prosperity

by Mac Slavo, SHTF Plan:

This article was originally published by Lipton Matthews at The Mises Institute. 

The Economist magazine in a recent editorial painted a rather positive image of the American economy. After encountering setbacks, the American economy often registers a buoyant recovery. Despite competition from rivals, America has retained her position as the world’s top economy. Some are bewildered by America’s enduring prosperity, but is it reasonable to expect less from a country designed to do business?

The Check For Vote-Buying Is On The Table

by Karl Denninger, Market Ticker:

As they say…. oops.

Democrat politicians have been buying votes for the last two decades with two policies:

  • Sanctuary cities.  That is, come here, legal or not, access services which cost taxpayers money, and its fine.  Whether that’s education, medical care, housing, whatever.
  • Reparations.  The premise that black people today are owed something due to the legacy of slavery.

I’ve dealt with the absurdity of the latter several times in my column and see no particular reason to go back through all of it here.  It is simply sufficient to note that when it comes to both over-allocation of resources (e.g. dollars-per-pupil on education) and per-capita spend on welfare black people have gotten more and paid less for the last 50+ years to the tune of trillions of dollars.  Anyone who wishes to argue for such has to deduct all of that out first and its entirely possible you might find that if you do black people owe everyone else, not the other way around.

IF YOU TOOK THE SHOT YOU HAVE GENETICALLY CHANGED YOU BODY FOREVER – DR SUCHARIT BHAKDI

from Jim Crenshaw:

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Purging the Media

by Lew Rockwell, Lew Rockwell:

If you say something that brain-dead Biden and his gang of neocon controllers don’t want you to hear, you will find yourself canceled by the mainstream media. No matter how popular you were before, you will become a non-person. We all know this, but we need to grasp how pervasive this phenomenon is. Content that the forces of evil don’t want you to hear is banned.

Taiwan Says It’s in Talks on Being Brought Under US Nuclear Umbrella

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by Dave DeCamp, Activist Post:

Taiwan’s foreign minister said last week that the US and Taiwan are in talks on the possibility of the island being brought under Washington’s nuclear umbrella, a step that would make a catastrophic war between the US and China much more likely.

Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu made the comments before Taiwan’s parliament, the Legislative Yuan. Wu declined to detail the talks when pressed if Taiwan had asked the US to bring the island its nuclear umbrella.

“Regarding the discussion of this issue with the United States, it is not suitable for me to make it public here,” Wu said, according to The South China Morning Post.

THE SHADOWY SECRET GROUP COVERUP IS COLLAPSING!

from We Are Change:

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Invisibility: Increasing OPSEC – Part 4

by St. Funogas, Survival Blog:

(Continued from Part 3. This concludes the article.)

COMPUTER OPSEC

I’ll let the reader research computer, email privacy, and encryption on their own but I do have two things I’ll pass on.

When I hover the mouse pointer over a file in one of my computer folders, a box opens above it showing the author, title (which is actually my LibreOffice template name), computer owner, and date among other things. There are two ways to prevent this from exposing personal information about me than I’d prefer when I share documents or photographs.

Parasites: The Administrative State and the WEF

by Robert Malone MD MS, Who Is Robert Malone:

I am a biologist, if nothing else. One of the many blessings of being a biologist is the wide range of metaphors for human group behavior which flow from this field. And of these, pondering the various adaptive strategies which species interacting with other species employ can be particularly productive.

I like to use metaphors as an insight engine. A sort of mental bridge from one field of knowledge to another. Reasoning by analogy, insights and knowledge from one discipline can often be used to break open new ways of thinking about another.

Planned Parenthood is laying off up to 20% of its workforce. What a darn shame.

by Jesse James, Not The Bee:

I tell you, this hurts the heart.

It couldn’t have happened to a nicer industrial-scale abortion corporation:

Planned Parenthood is laying off its national office staff and restructuring its organization, nearly one year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

The abortion giant announced that it would be cutting up to 20% of its national workforce citing “difficult economic conditions”, saying “reproductive freedom is in jeopardy”.

Such a shame!

Died Suddenly – COVID-19 vaccine injured swimmers: 37 yo Italian swimming champion Claudio Rais was driven to suicide by his Moderna COVID-19 booster Injuries, plus 9 other swimmers collapsing & dying

by Dr. William Makis, Global Research:

When it comes to COVID-19 vaccines, Big Pharma isn’t very concerned about the vaccine injured. They are collateral damage in a multi $100 billion profit scheme and their plight can always be blamed on Long COVID or Climate Change.

But they fear suicides. A COVID-19 vaccine injured person driven to suicide can do tremendous damage to the fraudulent COVID-19 vaccine narrative about “safe and effective”. Especially if they document their nightmare. Such is the case of Italian swimming champion Claudio Rais.

And he is not the only swimmer to suffer COVID-19 vaccine injuries, in fact, swimmers are dying suddenly in very high numbers now.

CROP CIRCLES AND THE CIA COVERUP BY THE WHY FILES

from EarthNewspaper:

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‘Surveillance over every citizen on Earth’: Devious group looks to rule entire world

from WND:

‘The likes of which we’ve never seen before’

The World Health Organization has set its sights on establishing “a platform for global governance through health care.”

So warns former GOP presidential candidate and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, who was in attendance at the ten-day annual assembly in Geneva of the World Health Assembly, considered the “decision-making body of the WHO.” Bachmann, according to a report in the Washington Stand, says the international body is poised to expand the influence of WHO’s mandate over health-care decisions worldwide.

Hillary Emails Reveal NATO Killed Gaddafi to Stop Libyan Creation of Gold-Backed Currency

by Dave Hodges, The Common Sense Show:

While France led the proponents of the UN Security Council Resolution that would create a no-fly zone in Libya, it claimed that its primary concern was the protection of Libyan civilians (considering the current state of affairs alone, one must rethink the authenticity of this concern). As many “conspiracy theorists” will claim, one of the real reasons to go to Libya was Gaddafi’s planned gold dinar.

One of the 3,000 Hillary Clinton emails released by the State Department on New Year’s Eve (where real news is sent to die quietly) has revealed evidence that NATO’s plot to overthrow Gaddafi was fueled by first their desire to quash the gold-backed African currency, and second the Libyan oil reserves.

FROM PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE TO THE PLAN TO OWN NOTHING

from Truthstream Media:

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Home sales in China PLUMMET drastically, putting world’s largest real estate market on the brink of COLLAPSE

by Arsenio Toledo, Natural News:

The real estate market of China, the largest in the world, is on the brink of collapse as enthusiasm from Chinese home buyers plummets drastically.

China’s real estate market was already in a state of decline in early 2023, but it experienced a short-lived rebound as the Chinese Communist Party ordered local government units to issue policies bailing out real estate companies. By the end of April, the mortgage rate for first-time home buyers in more than 40 major cities had dropped to below four percent, thanks to government intervention. However, this optimistic outlook failed to live up to analysts’ expectations by April. (Related: Home prices DECLINE in 31% of the US, mostly in Democrat-controlled cities where crime and high taxation are rampant.)