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I Wish It Were True

Tulsi Gabbard, the U.S. national intelligence director, said that America’s strategy of “regime change or nation building” had ended under President Donald Trump. I wish it were true. Trump himself said the same thing earlier this year–and has targeted Venezuela for regime change ever since. The U.S. still has its tentacles wrapped around the world via the CIA, the State Department, the U.S. military, and God knows what else.

5:52 pm on November 1, 2025

Present Day Apocalyptic Events Require Rigorous Observers to Adopt Investigative Attitudes and Objective Tools of Deep Cosmology, Biblical Theology, and Systematic Geopolitics

“Crisscross billions of years of time and space to see how everyone, and everything, is linked in one universal story, and how an epic series of improbable events connected in order to make life possible.”

Present day apocalyptic events require rigorous observers to adopt investigative attitudes and objective tools of deep cosmology, biblical theology, and systematic geopolitics.

Let’s begin with the primary fact: The universe is all of space and time and their contents. It comprises all of existence, any fundamental interaction, physical process and physical constant, and therefore all forms of matter and energy, and the structures they form, from sub-atomic particles to entire galactic filaments.

Since the early 20th century, the field of cosmology establishes that space and time emerged together when a transcendent force we describe as “God,” created the universe at the Big Bang 13.787±0.020 billion years ago, and that the universe has been expanding since then. The portion of the universe that can be seen by humans is approximately 93 billion light-years in diameter at present, but the total size of the universe is not known.

Here are six extremely helpful source references which will guide and assist you in helping to grasp this significance.

Big History — The Big History of Everything

The True Face of the Left Revealed

Gnosticism: The Enduring Heresy and Menace to Western Civilization

Karl Marx: Communist as Religious Eschatologist

Cold War on Five Continents: The Geopolitics of Empire and Espionage

Is Atheism Dead? by Eric Metaxas

6:39 am on November 1, 2025

The Origins of America’s Untold Stories: Mark Groubert Interview Before It All Began…

The Origins of America’s Untold Stories — this is the very first-ever interview with Mark Groubert, recorded before the iconic YouTube series even existed. Also included is the first interview with Mark and constitutional attorney Robert Barnes, these raw conversations lay the foundation for everything that would follow: deep state psy-ops, MKUltra revelations, forgotten American history, and the secrets the media won’t touch.

This unearthed footage gives fans a rare glimpse into Mark’s research process, personality, and passion for truth-telling long before the birth of America’s Untold Stories.

Buckle up for jaw-dropping confessions, suppressed history, and the birth of a movement.  ************************************************ Thank you for watching!

9:30 am on October 31, 2025

Finally! Senate Pushed Back On Trump Tariffs

12:36 pm on October 30, 2025

The ‘War On Narco-Terrorism’ Is The New ‘War On Terrorism’…And Will End Just As Badly

12:40 pm on October 29, 2025

Trump Administration Planning Panama-Style Attack On Venezuela?

12:38 pm on October 28, 2025

The Leaked Playbook for Silencing America | Mike Benz Impact Theory w/ Tom Bilyeu

Mike Benz’s use of “the blob” specifically targets the U.S. foreign policy establishment, while “the deep state” is a broader, more conspiratorial term used by some to describe a hidden government structure manipulating policy across many domains.

The Blob (Mike Benz’s usage)

As framed by Benz, the term “the blob” refers to the network of foreign policy elites in Washington, D.C., that is committed to an interventionist, internationalist agenda.

Focus: Narrowly focused on the U.S. foreign policy and national security establishment. The term was popularized by former Obama aide Ben Rhodes, who used it to criticize the bipartisan consensus for interventionism that he felt was resistant to change.

Composition: Composed of diplomats, government officials, military leaders, think tank analysts, and journalists who share a similar worldview. These individuals often rotate between government and private sector jobs, creating a self-perpetuating network.

Motivation: Driven by a set of shared beliefs, including a commitment to American global leadership and the use of military force to manage world affairs. Critics of the blob argue this mindset persists regardless of political affiliation.

The Deep State

“The deep state” is a more expansive and often conspiratorial term that suggests a hidden or unaccountable government exists, which manipulates the public and obstructs the policies of elected officials.

Focus: Broad in scope, encompassing various government agencies, intelligence services, and career civil servants. Those who use the term often claim this network operates outside of democratic oversight.

Composition: Implies a clandestine network of actors manipulating power for their own purposes, often portrayed as being hostile to populist or anti-establishment figures.

Motivation: Said to be motivated by self-preservation, a specific political ideology, or a desire for power. Unlike the blob’s focus on foreign policy, deep state allegations can apply to domestic issues as well, including technology and censorship.

Key differences summarized

Feature: The Blob (Mike Benz) The Deep State

Scope: U.S. foreign policy and national security establishment. Broader, encompassing various parts of the government bureaucracy.

Origin of Term: Popularized by Ben Rhodes in 2016 to criticize the bipartisan foreign policy consensus. Has historical roots but gained significant traction in contemporary U.S. politics.

Nature: A shared mindset or worldview among a specific professional class. Often framed as a secret, malicious, or conspiratorial network.

Primary Arena: International relations and military intervention. Can include both foreign policy and domestic affairs, such as censorship and intelligence.

Learn about the origins and operations of the National Security State (the deep state) established in 1947 during the Truman regime.

The deep state is beyond the Constitution. It is separate from the American government which we all learned about in school, composed of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. The deep state has no restrictions on its extra-constitutional actions, no separation of powers, no checks and balances, no transparency or open accounting for its egregious and invasive behavior.

The deep state is made up of the military-industrial complex comprised of pentagon profiteers, the intelligence community and corporate surveillance contractors of the imperial National Security State it sustains, with seemingly endless no win wars which have murdered millions of hapless victims across the planet, generating terrorism as blowback from its decades of unconstitutional covert actions and preemptive wars of aggression.

The American Deep State
Along with the multinational petroleum and weapons/intelligence industries of the military-industrial complex, the global narcotics trade is one the biggest businesses in the world. It is fueled and enabled by the intersection of drug money, intelligence and money laundering on a vast scale by banks and financial institutions. Researchers have connected the dots linking the underworld of organized crime (narcotics) to the upperworld of the Establishment (Wall Street banks and CFR-connected corporations/foundations/media). Interwoven within the nexus are the covert intelligence agencies.

For well over one hundred years U. S. government authorities have imported draconian police state techniques and technology developed overseas back to the American homeland, whether involving torture, surveillance, and suspension of human rights and liberties, using the overseas country as a laboratory for counterinsurgency and rearming local security forces for repression.

I witnessed Professor Alfred W. McCoy deliver these same illuminating remarks below at the University of Tulsa and afterwards had an opportunity to briefly discuss aspects of his internationally recognized research on CIA covert operations, the global narcotics trade, and the origins of the National Security State with him.

From suppressing the Filipino Insurrection following the Spanish-American War to the destructive counterinsurgency campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, these martial exercises in unlawful, extra-constitutional behavior have continued unabated. And like the prodigal son of New Testament scriptures, they have come home.

11:29 am on October 28, 2025

America’s Untold Stories: JFK Files: Why They’re STILL Hiding the Truth ?

In this explosive episode of America’s Untold Stories, Mark Groubert and Eric Hunley are joined by attorneys Andrew Iler and Mark Adamczyk—co-authors of “The JFK Assassination Chokeholds”—to uncover how legal manipulation and government obstruction have buried the truth behind the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Discover the shocking breakdown of the JFK Records Act, the misuse of power by congressional task forces, and why over 30,000 assassination records remain unreleased.

With newly uncovered documents and firsthand legal insights, this interview sheds light on the deep bureaucratic failure behind the JFK file cover-up.

️‍️ Learn how the National Archives (NARA) failed to follow its legal mandate

Find out what Trump’s executive order actually did

Hear why Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna is under fire

Why JFK researchers believe this is the final chokehold

Don’t miss this one.

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8:26 am on October 28, 2025

No Vacation For You!

12:34 pm on October 27, 2025

The Progressive Era, by Murray N. Rothbard

The Progressive Era, by Murray N. Rothbard

EDITED BY
PATRICK NEWMAN

FOREWORD BY
JUDGE ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO

In the last decades of Murray Rothbard’s life, he developed an important interpretative framework in understanding American history. This was prodded on by his careful study of the emerging “new political history” which was reinterpreting the dynamics of the ebb and flow of ethnocultural and ethnoreligious groups. This bold synthesis became the central focus of some of his greatest scholarly endeavors, particularly when it came to understanding progressivism as a secularized version of this postmillennial religious zeal.

In his brilliant book, The Progressive Era, (which I believe to be his greatest work) Rothbard provided the Rosetta Stone to understanding the origins of the welfare/warfare state in America: the role of postmillennial Protestant pietistic intellectuals and activists born in the crucial decade surrounding the Civil War who, because of the seductive allure and influence of the evolutionary naturalism of Darwinism, came of age increasingly secularized, but who did not forsake their faith in statism and elitist social control.

In particular, read the wonderful foreword to this book by Judge Andrew Napolitano. His experience studying the Progressive Era at Princeton amazingly mirrors that of myself at the University of Tulsa.

Each week, Future of Freedom Foundation president Jacob Hornberger and Misean economist Richard M. Ebeling discuss the hot topics of the day.

In the video below Jacob and Richard discussed the disaster of progressivism. I cannot stress enough the importance of this dialog. This concise 30 minute conversation encapsulates the most brilliant and enlightening synthesis of ideas and history concerning the origins and roots of this pernicious intellectual movement, both at home and abroad.

Ebeling concisely traces these concepts from their 19th century Marxian notions of the dynamic class struggle of history, that history, according to Karl Marx, inevitably moved in a “progressive” direction from primitive pre-industrial societies, to a feudal order, to industrial capitalism, will move onward towards socialism (and the dictatorship of the proletariat), finally to the ultimate stage of history, communism. Any movement away from this cyclical direction was “reactionary” or regressive.

In perhaps the highlight of his remarks, he builds upon the pioneering insights of Murray Rothbard and others in focusing upon the crucial development of the welfare-warfare state in Germany under chancellor Otto von Bismarck, and Bismarck’s co-opting of the collectivist program of the Marxian Social Democrats into a Bismarxian hybrid to enhance state power and control.

Again, as Rothbard elucidated, generations of key American graduate students attended German universities during this period, returning to the US transformed by these statist ideas they had absorbed. These persons, such as Richard T. Ely of the University of Wisconsin, became the first generation of progressive intellectuals and cogs within the state apparatus that moved America away from a classical liberal (libertarian) direction towards this collectivist hybrid known as progressivism.

Hornberger cogently points out the key role of the judiciary in the erosion of the constitutional safeguards against interventionism, and the pivotal model of Woodrow Wilson in establishing the matrix for all that followed. Wilson was a student of Richard Ely at Johns Hopkins.

Later Ebeling composed two of the finest articles on this subject: American Progressives are Bismarck’s Grandchildren, and Progressivism Is an Imposter.

You will never hear any of the inconvenient history related below by today’s “progressives” or their mirror images, the neocons, who dominate the American elite political landscape, court intellectual academia, and the mainstream news media. Thomas C. Leonard of Princeton University has compiled a terrific power point presentation on the Progressive Era.

The presentation is very comprehensive yet explains in very easy to understand terms why understanding this crucial period is important. This is definitely NOT Glenn Beck at his blackboard superficial stuff. This is the real deal. Many of Leonard’s explorations and insights are very compatible with the synthesis of analysis developed by economist/historian Murray N. Rothbard.

Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era, by Thomas C. Leonard

Until the 1890s, American history was essentially presented as the development of the Eastern seaboard states, seen as an extension overseas of English history or an episode in European overseas expansion. The origins of American ethnopolitical culture were Teutonic (or Germanic) in nature. This type of analysis focused upon the original thirteen colonies of the United States, and explained the evolution of America westward through the development of these political communities. This racist Teutonic Germ Theory of History was dominant among the academic and governing elites at the close of the Nineteenth Century in the United States and Great Britain. Senator Albert J. Beveridge spoke for this generation when he stated in support of an American Empire:

“Mr. President, this question is deeper than any question of party politics; deeper than any question of the isolated policy of our country even; deeper even than any question of constitutional power. It is elemental. It is racial. God has not been preparing the English-speaking and Teutonic peoples for a thousand years for nothing but vain and idle self-contemplation and self-admiration. No! He has made us the master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns. He has given us the spirit of progress to overwhelm the forces of reaction throughout the earth. He has made us adepts in government that we may administer government among savage and senile peoples. Were it not for such a force as this the world would relapse into barbarism and night. And of all our race He has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This is the divine mission of America, and it holds for us all the profit, all the glory, all the happiness possible to man. We are trustees of the world’s progress, guardians of its righteous peace. The judgment of the Master is upon us: “Ye have been faithful over a few things; I will make you ruler over many things.”

Historians have subsequently long recognized that this Progressive Era, 1900 to 1920, was a critical watershed in American political-economic and intellectual history.

It was the gestation period of the modern welfare-warfare state.

So many crucial events and legislative enactments occurred in the period such as the birth of the Federal Reserve banking cartel, the Harrison Narcotics Act, the Pure Food and Drug Act, the ascendancy of the Eugenics movement and “scientific racism,” the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment and the progressive income tax, the Seventeenth Amendment and the popular election of U. S. senators, the Eighteenth Amendment and Prohibition, the Nineteenth Amendment and women’s suffrage, and the abandonment of America’s traditional non-interventionist foreign policy, first following the Spanish-American War (Cuba and the Philippine Insurrection) in Latin America and Mexico, and more decisively in the First World War in Europe.

It was a time when a new ideological rationalization of state power was being shaped.

The Progressive Era saw the birth of the cult of efficiency, with the new administrative state’s apolitical credentialed experts gingerly guiding public-policy instead of the archaic rule of political bosses and their ethnic urban political machines. Or at least that was what was supposed to happen according to Progressives such as Herbert Croly, Walter Lippmann, Robert LaFollette, Jane Addams, Richard T. Ely, Lincoln Steffens, Theodore Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson.

Richard T. Ely: Paladin of the Welfare-Warfare State, by Murray N. Rothbard

Once upon a time there existed a scholarly consensus concerning the Progressive Era among liberal “court historians” of academia and popular history. These historians such as Richard Hofstadter, Arthur Link, George Mowry, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., held the uniform and unshakable belief that the “progressive reforms” enacted during this era were popular efforts by the people against the elite business interests dominating American political life.

Then in the early 1960s, all Hell broke loose.

The provocative historian tossing the stick of dynamite into the staid liberal consensus was Gabriel Kolko. That incendiary was The Triumph of Conservatism: A Reinterpretation of American History, 1900-1916.

Kolko was soon joined by other New Left colleagues under the tutelage of William Appleman Williams in challenging the reigning “corporate liberal” orthodoxy. Rather than “the people” being behind these “progressive reforms,” it was the very elite business interests themselves responsible, in an attempt to cartelize, centralize and control what was impossible due to the dynamics of a competitive and decentralized economy.

One of the first historians and economists to see the importance of Kolko’s revolutionary interpretation was Murray N. Rothbard.

In the academic jargon of a Hegelian dialectical triad, here is what happened:

First there was the reigning liberal orthodoxy (thesis), challenged by the New Left revisionist interpretation (antithesis). Rothbard, using the insights of Austrian free market economics and Libertarian class analysis, built upon the New Left critique and created a new Libertarian historiography (synthesis) that has been carried on by scholars such as Roy A. Childs, Joseph R. Stromberg, and Robert Higgs.

Rothbard also discovered the “missing link” in this whole story, the role of statist postmillennial evangelical Protestants, born around the time of the Civil War, in fomenting the Progressive Era.

These ideological change agents, many of whom became increasingly secularized, abandoned their religious faith but not their evangelical belief in statism.

They were the key to the rise of the welfare–warfare state in America.

The history of the Progressive Era has never been the same since.

Progressives, it seems, have always been obsessed with racial biological collectivism. Whether it was Progressives in the early 20th Century during the so-called Progressive Era (1900-1920) and their mania for eugenics, scientific racism, and race suicide; or today’s Progressives, equally obsessed with identity politics; race, class, gender and queer studies; and intersectionality.

The Progressive Era was a crucial time in American intellectual history. Scholars as divergent as Murray N. Rothbard and G. William Domhoff have documented the impact of thousands of key academics such as Richard T. Ely, Herbert Baxter Adams, and John W. Burgess who received their graduate training in Germany during this period, dominated by the rise of Bismarck’s welfare-warfare state. They returned home imbued with these ideas, which their apt pupils such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson transformed into hard reality. This worship of the newly-discovered wonders of statism, combined with the influx of Darwinian evolutionary naturalism, ”social imperialism,” Fabian socialism imported from Great Britain, the increasing secularization of postmillennial evangelical pietism, all provided the satanic breeding ground for the incubus that emerged as progressivism – complete with its elite notions of centralized political/economic planning, aggressive nationalism, eugenics and the idea of “race suicide. It is a seminal focus of their skewed, maniacal totalitarian world view.

Rothbard Shatters the Court Historian Consensus on the Progressive Era, by Charles Burris

Progressives have always insisted upon rule by an elitist professional managerial class of credentialed experts removed from the populist majority of everyday Americans, who they regarded as “deplorables,” “white trash,” or “the unwashed masses.”

They still do.

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10:10 am on October 26, 2025

How The World Works: Examining the Historical Dynamic of Power Elite Analysis

Trump The Keynesian: Bails Out Argentina While U.S. Farmers Suffer

President Trump has decided that it’s “Empire First” rather than “America First.” The two are not the same at all. “Empire First” means continuing the endless wars that have nothing to do with America. It means bailing out Argentina at the expense of American farmers and taxpayers. It means, trying to keep the idea alive that every inch of the planet must be under the thumb of the U.S. federal government. That ideology has been running on fumes for decades. The question was Can we pivot back to “America First” before total bankruptcy hits? That was the promise and hope of electing Trump. He has broken that promise.

12:37 pm on October 24, 2025

Thomas Massie’s America First : A Documentary by Tom Woods & Dan Smotz

Excellent, concise and on-target.

Thomas Massie is a serious principled constitutionalist and devoted true populist, devoted to the people he serves who he sees him and regards him as their neighbor.

The Uni-Party establishment regards him as an iconoclast, troublemaker and hopeless romantic Don Quixote, hopelessly following his Impossible Dream of honesty, integrity, and public service to his fellow citizens.

He doesn’t have that lean hungry look of a craven pol grasping for power or pelf. He is the polar opposite of an egomaniacal poseur like Donald Trump in every possible way.

9:38 am on October 24, 2025

Can This Possibly Be True?

Trump claims that an anonymous donor sent the federal government a $130 million check to cover the shortfall in military troop pay during the ongoing shutdown because he loves the military. “He called us the other day.”

Update: It is now being reported that billionaire political mega donor Timothy Mellon wrote the check. I wonder what he will be expecting from Trump in return?

8:09 am on October 24, 2025

It’s Trump’s War Now – President Flip-Flops (Again); Sanctions Russian Oil

12:44 pm on October 23, 2025

Trump’s Lies Get Bigger

Regarding his boat bombings, Trump said: “Every boat that we knock out we save 25,000 American lives so every time you see a boat and you feel badly you say, ‘Wow, that’s rough’…It is rough, but if you lose three people and save 25,000 people.”

9:45 am on October 23, 2025

Is Trump About To Pull The Trigger On Venezuela?

12:31 pm on October 22, 2025

Is The Gaza Ceasefire Falling Apart?

12:34 pm on October 21, 2025

How Much Do You Think We Know… About Medicine & How The Body Works?

Please watch this 90 second clip BELOW: 

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MM Comment: Let me propose one thing: The Medical System is NOT a Health System.

Please consider what other doctors have said for many years, as reported by Dr Sam Bailey – who tells how she and her husband, Mark, left the Allopathic Medical System to pursue better health:

Please watch her video, HERE above, before you next have to enter their Healthcare … er… their Drug-Cut-Burn System.

This video will help you chose…and then please read Drs Sam and Mark’s book, Terrain Therapy, HERE.

Highly Recommended.

5:09 pm on October 20, 2025

Trump Declares WAR On Massie and Rand!

12:31 pm on October 20, 2025

Milei Bailout

While American businesses and consumers are bearing the burden of higher costs from tariffs and inflation, the United States is providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina’s Milei regime.  This bailout is separate from the $20 billion bailout given by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to Argentina earlier this year. Argentina is by far the largest debtor to the IMF.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US has reached a $20 billion currency swap agreement with Argentina’s central bank, allowing it to exchange Argentine pesos for the US dollar. CNN reported that the US also bought, “an undisclosed amount of Argentine pesos.”

The bailout would greatly benefit Rob Citrone, a billionaire hedge fund manager with substantial investments in Argentina. “Bessent’s personal and professional relationship with Citrone has spanned decades,” according to journalist Judd Legum.

“It’s unclear why the Trump administration is providing a de facto bailout of the Argentinian peso when there is no significant financial or economic relationship between the two economies,” said Joseph Brusuelas, chief economist at the audit and consulting firm, RSM.

Furthermore, we should question whether the US bailout of Argentina is motivated by the Milei regime’s enthusiastic support of the US and Israel’s genocide in Gaza. We should acknowledge that President Trump is a puppet of political donor Miriam Adelson and Israeli Prime Minister (and de-facto US President) Benjamin Netanyahu.

Ordinary people suffer the consequences of the reckless economic policies of their politicians. The Argentinian people should demand the immediate removal of the incompetent Milei regime and the American people should demand the immediate removal of the treasonous Netanyahu-Trump regime.

 

 

 

 

 

5:28 pm on October 19, 2025

Roots of the Welfare-Warfare State

We are all familiar with the wonderful descriptive term, “the welfare-warfare state.” Ron Paul frequently uses it, as does Lew Rockwell, the late Justin Raimondo, Tom Woods, Thomas DiLorenzo, and myself. Murray Rothbard coined it in his brilliant essay, “The Great Society: A Libertarian Critique,” in Marvin E. Gettleman & David Mermelstein, ed., The Great Society Reader: The Failure of American Liberalism, 1967. This is one of three crucial articles by Rothbard which defines and outlines this important concept describing our society today and how it became that way. The other two articles are: “Origins of the Welfare State in America,” and “World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals.” 

The concept has its origin with Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who united Germany under his doctrine of “Blood and Iron,” at the same time his American counterpart was waging his own war of coercive national unification. Bismarck, in creating the ideological justification for what became “the welfare-warfare state,” gave birth to the paradigm which continues to invigorate and mold the American political landscape of today.

Because of the tremendous number of key American intellectuals who studied in Germany during the time of Bismarck in preparation for their doctorate degrees (or in post-doctoral studies), and who returned emboldened and willing to use the state to transform society, the Progressive Movement was born. Although not household names today, these highly influential men included Richard Ely, Albion Woodbury Small, W. E. B. DuBois, Franz Boas, Walter Weyl, Nicholas Murray Butler, Edmund J. James, Walter Rauschenbusch, E. R. A. Seligman, Henry C. Adams, John W. Burgess, William James, George Santayana, Henry Farnam, George Herbert Mead, Frank Taussig, Simon Patten, John Bates Clark, Herbert Baxter Adams, Arthur T. Hadley. Each of them has had a long lasting impact on American society through their ideas and the subsequent generations these ideas shaped.

Ideas do not exist in a sterile vacuum but are often intertwined and serendipitously related to each other. Such is the case of various statist doctrines that came to fruition in the 19th century, and which still dramatically affect our world today. “Scientific racism,” “social Darwinism,” eugenics, Comtean positivism, imperialism, and “social imperialism,” were pseudoscientific rationales for the expansionary and invasive welfare-warfare state at home and abroad.

As Princeton’s Thomas C. Leonard noted in his seminal article, “Eugenics and Economics in the Progressive Era:”

Progressive opposition to laissez faire was motivated by a set of deep intellectual commitments regarding the relationship between social science, social scientific expertise and right governance. The progressives were committed to 1) the explanatory power of scientific (especially statistical) social inquiry to get at the root causes of social and economic problems; 2) the legitimacy of social control, which derives from a holist conception of society as prior to and greater than the sum of its constituent individuals; 3) the efficacy of social control via expert management of public administration; where 4) expertise is both sufficient and necessary for the task of wise public administration.

8:27 am on October 18, 2025

Meet Drs Sam & Mark Bailey

Earlier this week my wife Dawn and I had the joyous opportunity to meet up with Drs Sam and Mark Bailey in Salt Lake City, Utah where they’d come to be the Keynote Speakers at the Weston A Price Foundation’s Wise Traditions Conference.

And now you can attend their Live-Stream Presentations, October 18, 19 & 20th, 2025 – along with many other amazing presenters.

Plus, you can get a CD or USB record of the entire conference, HERE.

Here’s the schedule:

Friday, October 18, 7.30-9.30pm (MDT)

Dr Samantha Bailey: SECRETS OF A STAGED PANDEMIC

Saturday, October 19

11.00am-12.15pm (MDT)

Dr Samantha Bailey: THE TRUTH ABOUT LYME DISEASE

6:30–9:30pm (MDT)

Dr Mark Bailey: AWARDS BANQUET AND KEYNOTE: VIROLOGY’S FINAL DAYS

Sunday, October 20

10.45am-12pm Dr Mark Bailey: A LOGICAL END TO VIROLOGY

1:30–2:45pm (MDT)

Drs Mark Bailey, Samantha Bailey, Tom Cowan, Andrew Kaufman “Virus Deniers Unite Panel”

Don’t miss this rare event!

IMPORTANT!

If you miss this event please go to their website where you can watch their MANY videos and read their Paradigm Changing papers, HERE.

Highly Recommended

7:49 am on October 18, 2025

The Damn Yankees and Their War

The Yankee Problem in America, by Clyde Wilson

Fanatical Yankee Utopians, by Thomas DiLorenzo

Blame the Beechers and That Fanatic Finney, by Charles Burris

Just War, by Murray N. Rothbard

The Damn Yankees and Their War, by Charles Burris

Causes of the American Civil War, by Charles Burris

In the midst of the vicious and violent assault by willfully ignorant street mobs on American historical memory prior to Year Zero (formerly known as 2009 when Obama took office), here is vital authoritative, factual, historical information you need to know.

There are two seminal issues to consider when examining the War of 1861-1865: They are the defense of revolutionary Southern self-determination or secession, and abolitionism.

Why did the Southern states want to leave the Union?

Why did the Northern states refuse to let them go?

The War was both the culmination and repudiation of the American Revolution.

The War marked the decisive turning point in the inexorable growth of government and coercive authority, and most accurately should be described as the War for Coercive National Unification. The same situation was going on in Europe at the same time under Otto von Bismarck and his wars to unify and create the nation-state of Germany.

Slavery and secession are two separate issues.

Secession was a revolutionary right of free peoples to determine their destiny.

Slavery was a gross violation of inalienable human rights.

Even if slavery explains why the Southern states left the Union, it does not necessarily explain or justify the general government under Lincoln refusal to recognize their independence and launch an unconstitutional invasion of the South.

Slavery still fails to explain why the Northern states resorted to force or coercion; letting the lower South go in peace was a viable, antislavery option refused by Lincoln.

Most militant abolitionists believed there was no contradiction between condemning slavery and advocating secession (in particular, see the essays by the Boston abolitionist Lysander Spooner below).

The War was a tragic, needless conflict. It was all about power and control, the imposition upon or domination of one geographic section of people by another without their consent.

The Real History of Slavery, by Thomas Sowell

Why The War Was Not About Slavery, by Clyde Wilson

Lysander Spooner was a Boston abolitionist who wrote The Unconstitutionality of Slavery (a favorite, much cited book by Robert Barnes). He also authored the three powerful articles below in his No Treason series:

No Treason #1

No Treason #2: The Constitution

No Treason #6: The Constitution of No Authority

Northern Opposition to Mr. Lincoln’s War

“Northern Opposition to Mr. Lincoln’s War” is a book, edited by D. Jonathan White, that challenges the common narrative that Northerners were united against secession from the start. The book argues that there was significant and enduring opposition to the war in the North, which is often overlooked in favor of the story of a unified, righteous effort to suppress the rebellion. Opposition groups, such as the Copperheads, favored immediate peace and resisted the draft, while other opponents argued the war was unnecessary and costly, prompting Lincoln to take measures like suspending habeas corpus.

1:56 am on October 18, 2025

Trump “Trade War” Chaos with China — Who Benefits?

One day we’re in a “trade war with China,” and the next day we’re not. One day, there are threats of “100% tariffs,” on Chinese goods and the next day there aren’t. World leaders need to do nothing but sit back and watch. Meanwhile, the American people are taken on an emotional roller-coaster of threats that (ironically) would harm the American people more than anyone else. What’s going on here?

12:42 pm on October 17, 2025

Why Does Trump Always Talk about Killing People?

President Trump said today that if Hamas doesn’t stop killing people in the Gaza Strip, then the United States would have no other choice but to “go in and kill them.” Trump is always talking about killing people, and apparently likes ordering Americans to kill for him. Is any boat in the Atlantic safe?

6:03 pm on October 16, 2025

JFK Assassination Soviet Files From Russia Released

JFK Russia Files From Russia Released
https://x.com/MJTruthUltra/status/1978859062637764717

One wonders how the information in this new Russian document provided to Congresswoman Luna (when translated) compares to that reported in the classic account below:

Regicide: The Official Assassination of John F. Kennedy, by Gregory Douglas
https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Gregory-Douglas-ebook/dp/B00K9QVQGW

https://ia903108.us.archive.org/11/items/jfkmovies/The%20Kennedy%20Asassination%20-%2011%20books/Regicide-The%20Official%20Assassination%20of%20John%20F.%20Kennedy-Gregory%20Douglas.pdf

“Thirty Nine years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the truth finally comes to light: In 1996, Robert Trumbull Crowley, former head of Clandestine Operations of the CIA, gave documents of his own top secret operations to his friend, historian Gregory Douglas.

“After Robert Crowley died in late 2000, Gregory Douglas now begins publishing important sections of the Crowley Papers. This is the first of a series of shocking revelations of the secret plots of top officials of the US government.

“Operation ZIPPER” was the code name for the forced removal of John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America. This operation was implemented with the help, approval, and/or knowledge of the FBI, the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Army, and the Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, under the aegis of the CIA.

“Backed up with documents reproduced in the book, Douglas proves, which individuals plotted to kill John F. Kennedy, why they thought that this assassination was justified, how it was done, who else was involved, and how the cover up of this major clandestine operation was mounted.

“However one may respond to the horrific contents of this book, one has to be impressed by its internal coherence; and it also brings some welcome clarity to the prolix and entangled drama of the JFK assassination. It should trigger a fresh Congressional inquiry into this national tragedy.”
Fredrick J. Norris,

Robert Trumbull Crowley
https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKcrowleyR.htm

 

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