Infamous vaccine pusher Dr. Peter Hotez recently had an uncomfortable moment during what started as a softball radio interview on Hello Houston.
Everything was going his way. The hosts praised Hotez for battling “disinformation” and hung on to his every word as if it were gospel.
But then, things went off the rails when a possibly vaccine-injured woman called into the show.
Carol, who says she keeps up with her boosters, asked Hotez over the phone why she suffered the “worst experience [she] ever had” just two days after her last COVID shot.
The moment felt like watching a train wreck in real time.
She described how she was so exhausted she was sleeping 16 hours a day, and had a “really bad cough with deep phlegm.”
At first, Hotez assumed she’d had a severe case of COVID. But to his shock, Carol told him she had NEVER had COVID.
Hotez scrambled for an explanation:
“So, what possibly could have happened is in between the time you got the booster and the immune response kicks in, you could have gotten some intercurrent viral infection, such as Covid or flu or a gazillion other things. So sometimes it’s hard to know what’s ascribed to a SIDE EFFECT of the vaccine versus some other intercurrent illness.”
Notice that in the last line, Hotez says the quiet part out loud: “side effect.”
He realizes: “Oh, sh*t, this could be a vaccine-injured person.”
But instead of acknowledging that possibility, he spins an explanation to confuse her into thinking the symptoms could have come from something else—just two days after the shot.
Just watch the clip. It’s never the jab with these people.
OMG: A heavily-vaxxed woman calls Peter Hotez asking why she suffered the “worst experience [she] ever had” two days after her last COVID booster.
This is like watching a train wreck in real time.
The woman was so tired she was sleeping 16 hours a day, and she had a “really bad… pic.twitter.com/6558g8ESh5
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard just released a trove of apparently once-classified documents – with promises of much more to follow.
The new material describes the role of the Obama administration’s intelligence and investigatory directors — purportedly along with former President Barack Obama himself — in undermining the 2016 Trump presidential campaign. In addition, their efforts extended to sabotaging the 2016-2017 presidential transition and, by extension, the first three years of the Trump presidency.
The released documents add some new details to what over the last decade has become accepted knowledge.
Congressional committees, special prosecutors, and the inspectors general had all previously issued reports that largely confirmed the general outlines of the skullduggery that began in 2015-16.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign, later aided by the top echelon of the FBI, CIA, and the Director of National Intelligence, sought — falsely — to seed a narrative that Trump had colluded directly with Russia to win unfairly the 2016 election.
When that campaign gambit failed to alter the 2016 results, the Obama administration doubled down during the transition to undermine the incoming Trump presidency.
Next, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s “all-star” legal team found no evidence of direct Trump-Putin collusion to hijack the election. But his investigation did sabotage 22 months of Trump’s first term, marked by constant leaks and hysterical rumors that Trump was soon to be convicted and jailed as a “Russian asset.”
By 2020, the frustrated intelligence agencies and former “authorities” now absurdly further lied that Hunter Biden’s incriminating laptop had “all the earmarks” — once again — of Russian interference.
So, what could be new about Gabbard’s latest release?
One, after the 2016 election of Donald Trump but before his inauguration, Obama convened a strange meeting with his outgoing intelligence and investigatory heads — CIA Director John Brennan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, National Security Advisor Susan Rice, and a few others.
Contrary to a four-year Democratic Party narrative that “18 intelligence agencies” had long claimed Russian collusion, the top directors apprised Obama that their expert colleagues had found no such evidence of Trump-Putin collusion.
Yet outgoing President Obama allegedly directed them to ignore such an assessment. Instead, they began spreading narratives that President-elect Trump had been colluding with the Russians.
Leaks followed. Media hysteria crested. And soon Mueller and his left-wing “dream team” of lawyers targeted President Trump.
Further new information may confirm that Brennan’s CIA — and those he briefed in the Oval Office — had known for some time that the Russians themselves were confused about why they were falsely being accused of colluding with Trump to rig the election.
Of course, Russian operatives, like their Chinese counterparts, often seek to cause havoc in American institutions, such as hacking emails or spreading online disinformation. But they may have been nevertheless curious why Hillary Clinton was making such false accusations that they were working directly with Trump, and why the Obama administration was acting upon them.
Obama has now claimed these new charges are outrageous and beneath the dignity of the presidency.
He did not, however, flatly contradict the new information. He should have issued an unambiguous denial that he had never ordered his intelligence chiefs in December 2016 to ignore their associates’ assessments and instead to assume Trump’s collusion with Putin.
These sustained efforts of the Clinton campaign, Obama appointees, and ex-intelligence chiefs and their media counterparts between 2015 and 2020 severely undermined the 2016 Trump campaign.
They bushwhacked the 2017 presidential transition.
They hamstrung the Trump presidency.
And they may well have hurt Trump’s 2020 election bid.
Summed up, here is the damage caused by the Trump-Putin collusion lies:
1. They emboldened “experts” in 2020 to again lie blatantly and shamelessly to the American people that the incriminating Hunter Biden laptop was yet another fake product of Russian interference to help reelect Trump.
2. The media were equally guilty. Journalists partnered with current and ex-Obama appointees by disseminating fake documents like the Steele dossier and working with giants like Twitter and Facebook. During the 2020 campaign, the FBI and social media sought to censor accurate news stories that the laptop was indeed authentic and already verified as such by the FBI.
3. These operations may have had serious consequences for U.S. foreign policy. Dictatorial Russia is an adversary of the U.S.
But by needlessly and falsely claiming that Russia had intervened in two elections directly to partner with Trump, Obama-era officials and Clinton-campaign activists destroyed President Trump’s own credibility to sustain a workable relationship with a nuclear Russia.
In addition, the lying and extra-legal operations of the FBI and CIA only further convinced the paranoid Russians that they could not trust the U.S. government — given it had been engaging in the very conspiracy lies that were more akin to its own than America’s.
Obama, Brennan, Clapper, Comey, and others will likely never face legal consequences for the damage they’ve done to our institutions and foreign policy.
But that does not mean they should be exempt from an ongoing and disinterested effort to find and finally expose the whole truth.
TIME’s “100 Best Podcasts” List Is A Masterclass Of Clueless Liberal Elitism
How did Salesforce founder Marc Benioff’s TIME Magazine manage to so epically fumble something as basic as populating a relevant “Top Podcasts” list?
Perhaps it’s because the list was actually curated by an MSM journalist wearing progressive blinders, ignoring reality, and selectively choosing cringe-worthy podcasts while dismissing both Spotify’s “The Podcast Charts” and Edison’s list of the top 50 podcasts in the U.S., which placed The Joe Rogan Experience at number one.
Meet TIME’s Eliana Dockterman, the author of the magazine’s “100 Best Podcasts of All Time” list, a compilation filled with cringe-worthy picks that cater to the increasingly out-of-touch Democratic Party base.
Media analyst Sasha Stone of Awards Daily (formerly known as Oscarwatch) commented on the list. She noted, “Okay, so this list isn’t anything official or well-thought-out. It’s a list for people who listen to Kara Swisher and The Daily. It’s the target demo for NPR’s Serial and Dax Shepard, but what it isn’t is a list that, in any way, reflects the greatest podcasts of all time. Nowhere near.”
Stone continued, “She also left off the podcasts that were truly influential, like the Free Press series the Witch Trials of JK Rowling.”
“If it’s a personal list, fine. But some authority comes with TIME Magazine naming the best 100 shows and getting it so very very wrong,” Stone emphasized.
Dockterman’s top picks for news and politics podcasts include The New York Times and NPR News. There’s really nothing more to say … readers can already profile this journalist who lost the narrative years ago. She needs some serious soul-searching.
Dockterman didn’t just leave out Joe Rogan. She completely ignored Theo Von, whose podcast ranks number three on Spotify.
Again, she left out Rogan’s podcast. This is Edison’s list.
TIME’s post on X was heavily ratioed, with many users calling the list “crap,” “trash,” and even saying “this can’t be real” …
Many others said they had never even heard of some of the podcasts on Dockterman’s list. This is a telling sign of the massive shift in where people now get their news. Increasingly, they’re turning away from the corporate propaganda machine that serves the deep state and globalist corporations and instead turning to alternative voices like Rogan and independent media outlets.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based rights group that tracks violence in Syria, has released a statement criticizing US Ambassador Tom Barrack for claiming Syrian government forces were not involved in the mass executions of civilians in Suwayda, southern Syria.
Seven days of clashes between Druze militias and Bedouin who were backed by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) government forces left 1,399 people dead, including 196 civilians executed by gunmen affiliated with the Syrian defense and interior ministries, according to the SOHR.
Barrack, who serves as the ambassador to Turkey and as a special envoy to Syria, claimed Syrian government troops didn’t enter Suwayda during the violence. “The Syrian troops haven’t gone into the city. These atrocities that are happening are not happening by the Syrian regime troops. They’re not even in the city because they agreed with Israel that they would not go in,” he told Reuters.
Barrack also claimed that the fighters who entered the city may have been ISIS members disguised as government troops, though HTS and ISIS share a similar ideology. In response, the SOHR said that it “strongly rejects and condemns” Barrack’s comments.
“SOHR considers these statements to lack even the minimum standards of objectivity and neutrality. They not only represent a serious deviation from the envoy’s expected role as a mediator working toward peace and stability among Syrians, but also open the door for further massacres to be committed against other Syrian communities, similar to what has happened to the Druze and Alawites in Suwayda and other regions,” the SOHR said.
“SOHR affirms that it possesses documented evidence, including video footage and credible field testimonies, confirming that the horrific violations, including the execution of civilians, the throwing of young men from upper floors and the killing of a Syrian-American citizen on sectarian grounds, took place on the day Syrian Ministry of Defense personnel entered Suwayda city,” the group added.
The SOHR said that Barrack should not act as a “defense attorney” for “an interim authority that has failed to protect Syrians and whose media and key figures have contributed to fueling sectarian and regional conflict.”
The SOHR has detailed many of the executions in Suwayda, including one where Hosam Saraya, a 35-year-old Syrian American, was shot to death along with seven of his relatives, a massacre that was filmed and posted online.
The SOHR also detailed the killing of Pastor Khaled Maher Mazhar, a Christian convert from the Druze religion who was massacred along with 11 members of his family, including six women. The group said the family was killed by members of the Syrian Defense Ministry. “The perpetrators opened fire directly on everyone inside the house, even extending the killing to include the family’s dog, an act that reflects the extreme brutality of the massacre,” the SOHR said.
First they killed the Alawites, now they kill the Druze. The entire population of Syria will be killed by ISIS. A HTS (ISIS) fighter telling he will kill all the Druze, he has the patch of ISIS on his shoulder. In the background you can hear the shooting going on…West is quilty pic.twitter.com/DWlubyblC3
Barrack and other US officials have embraced the new Syrian government and its leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, despite his al-Qaeda past. HTS formed in 2017 as an offshoot of the al-Nusra Front, which was al-Qaeda’s official affiliate in Syria until Sharaa rebranded to gain international support.
HTS took power in Damascus following a lightning offensive that ended with the ouster of former President Bashar al-Assad. The US had foreknowledge of the offensive and helped a US-backed militia take part in the assault from its base at al-Tanf in southern Syria.
Drones Hit Key Russian Electronic Warfare Plant; Moscow Forces Gain More Villages In Central Ukraine
As part of the latest in the war, overnight Ukrainian drones targeted a facility producing radio and electronic warfare equipment in Russia’s Stavropol region, according to a Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) official speaking to Reuters.
The official said the strike damaged two sections of the Signal plant in Stavropol, which lies roughly 335 miles from the Ukrainian border. Short video clips showing an explosion and thick, dark smoke rising into the air were subsequently released in order to confirm there was serious damage.
The Signal plant is considered one of Russia’s prime producers of electronic warfare systems, manufacturing items such as radar, radio navigation devices, and remote-control communication systems.
“Last night, long-range drones operated by the SBU struck the production facilities of the Signal Radio Plant in Stavropol,” the official said.
“Each such strike disrupts production and weakens the enemy’s military capabilities. These operations will continue,” he added.
For Russia’s part, it announced on Saturday that its forces had taken control of two villages in Ukraine, including one in the central Dnipropetrovsk region. This marks a key advance given the longtime static nature of the front lines in Dnipropetrovsk.
The Russian military stated that its troops had “liberated the settlement of Maliyevka” in Dnipropetrovsk, which is a second such capture in the region recently, despite this area not being among the Ukrainian territories formally annexed by Russia.
Ukraine increasingly uses faster jet-engine drones in addition to turboprop drones for attacks on Russian defense industries. This morning’s target was the Signal plant in Stavropol, which makes jammers and other radio electronic warfare equipment. pic.twitter.com/KWkmo8OcY8
In a separate statement, the Kremling also claimed the capture of Zeleny Gai in the Donetsk region, near the Dnipropetrovsk border. The Russian military described it as a key Ukrainian defensive position used to protect the area.
Meanwhile, officials from both countries confirmed that overnight attacks killed six people, including four in central Ukraine and two in western Russia.
Ukrainian and Russian delegations just met days ago in Istanbul for their third round of talks, but nothing came of it except for firming up the next major prisoner swap, as well as to agree to keep talking.
Pro Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan passed away yesterday, and while most paid tribute to a flamboyant larger than life role model for a generation, twisted leftists actually celebrated his passing with glee.
We didn’t want to write this.
Upon hearing the news, we wanted to share a good memory and see what memories others had of Hogan, but when attempting to do that there came a deluge of vile hatred and a wave of disgusting sickness that can’t be ignored.
As briefly explained in this post, for a British kid in the late 80s and early 90s, Hulk Hogan WAS America.
As a young kid growing up in Britain in the 1980s, you first became aware of American pride and greatness and what that meant via Hulk Hogan. A true icon. RIP. pic.twitter.com/TcJZOWCCWC
He was our introduction to what America stands for at its core. Hogan wasn’t just a wrestler or an entertainer; he was a global ambassador for strength, faith, patriotism, freedom and unyielding optimism, ideals that transcend borders.
He was also a man with a family, and in the wake of his passing, a disturbing chorus of celebration from the usual crowd of degenerates once again highlights a deep moral erosion, one that is deliberately engineered by forces intent on undermining human goodness and ensuring societal failure.
At the core of Hogan’s appeal were ideals that resonated deeply with America’s self-image. He preached a gospel of “training, saying your prayers, and taking your vitamins”—a simple mantra promoting discipline, faith, and health.
This wasn’t empty rhetoric; it encapsulated the ethic, the belief that hard work and moral living lead to success.
Hogan’s character arc in the ring mirrored the American narrative of redemption. He would absorb brutal punishment, then just when it seemed he was down and out, he would “Hulk up” with superhuman strength, and deliver justice with his big leg drop finisher.
It was a metaphor for perseverance, a lesson that no matter how beaten down you are, no matter how dark things become, you can get back up on your feet, you can channel the energy and light around you, you can fight back and you CAN win.
Hogan was an antidote to cynicism, a reminder that goodness and strength prevail.
When Hogan appeared at the RNC last year, he cited the attempted assassination of President Trump as a moment that inspired him to stand up and speak out.
When a bloodied, floored Trump stood up and punched the air screaming “FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT” it was a moment we all recognised. Trump was Hulking up.
.@POTUS on the passing of Hulk Hogan: “He was a physical specimen… I’ve watched him lift 350 lb. men over his head and throw them out of the ring.”
“He was a great man, he was an incredible showman, and he was really a great friend — and he was a great friend to MAGA!” ❤️💛🙏 pic.twitter.com/We1gu8rBtp
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 25, 2025
Because he endorsed Trump, and because he encompasses the ideals of America, the modern leftist death cult hated him.
No. Only leftists did. Because they’re full of hate for anyone who doesn’t worship their cult. pic.twitter.com/FEolIe0PgP
Make no mistake, the one flippant thing he said in private years ago isn’t why they hated Hogan, it was merely an opportunity that they’d been waiting for to try to take him down.
This isn’t mere disagreement; it’s a gleeful embrace of hatred that signals profound moral erosion. Celebrating the death of a 71-year-old man over political differences reveals a loss of basic human decency.
These sorts don’t even have the grace to appreciate the suffering caused by loss.
This reaction isn’t organic; it’s the fruit of decades of cultural engineering by ideological forces—media outlets, academia, and activist groups—that amplify division and demonise traditional values.
Anytime you’re celebrating someone’s death over political differences, it’s evidence that you’re a horrible person. There literally are no good human beings that do that. None. It’s something losers and evil people do.
This evil includes so called ‘progressive’ ideologies that prioritize grievance over forgiveness and respect, labeling anyone who refuses to think the same way as deplorable or irredeemable.
Leftism is based upon Hate. Leftists require an enemy. A “them” to blame for all of “our” problems. Every Leftist is driven by Hate. Hatred of Capitalism. Hatred of Inequality. Hatred of those Better Off than Them. Leftists pretend motivation is benevolent. It is pure Hate.
The vast majority do not want to live in a society where death is cheered if the deceased doesn’t align politically.
If this becomes the norm, we face a generation desensitised to goodness and primed for humanity’s failure through endless tribalism. If we can’t mourn a cultural icon without partisan poison, what hope is there for any form of congruence?
I try to have empathy for those people – can you imagine how miserable someone would have to be like that?
But that being said, they should hope they never have to feel the pain they would wish on others.
In the pantheon of American cultural exports, few figures loom as large as Hulk Hogan. His death marks the end of an era, but it also shines a harsh light on the fractured state of modern society.
To reclaim morality, we must reject this engineered decay and remember the ideals Hogan stood for: strength in adversity, faith in better days, and brotherhood across mortal divides.
Every day is a gift. Be grateful, say your prayers, and enjoy the ride.
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Popular “Tea” App For Women Posting Dirt On Former Boyfriends Hacked
Imagine if it were an app for men to stalk and collect negative information on former girlfriends? The media would be cheering if they were hacked.
Women are in an uproar over the recent breach of a “women’s safety app” called Tea, which is currently the most downloaded app on the Apple Store and is used primarily as a hub for posting “red flag” information on specific men. Tea promotes itself as an place that allows women to anonymously review men and spill “the tea” on those they’ve dated.
About 1 million women have started using the app in the past week and is reminiscent of the Facebook “Are We Dating the Same Guy?” groups available in many cities. Tea, though, uses AI and private information to verify that people making profiles are real women. Users can run background checks, search for criminal histories and reverse-search photos to check whether a man is catfishing.
It was founded in 2023 by Sean Cook, who cites his mother getting catfished online as the motivation for the app. According to a social media post from Tea, the app has about 4 million users.
Critics argue that the app is a tool for digital stalking and defamation, allowing jilted women to anonymously spread misinformation about their former dates, boyfriends and husbands in order to ruin their future relationship chances and avoid legal repercussions. It acts essentially as a Yelp for men in which anyone can claim anything. Men cannot join the app or respond to accusations.
The underlying danger of the app, beyond the potential for slander, is that it is yet another mechanism that pretends as if men are the problem when it comes to modern dating. Women users say they need the app to filter out poor candidates for meet-ups and relationships, but the use of a digital stalking tool would also be treated by any man as an immediate red flag for a woman.
It would seem that some female users of Tea are about to have their gossip corner blow back on them. The hacking breach of the app exposed tens of thousands of women and their details, which allows men to identify and avoid them. Furthermore, pictures of Tea members are circulating widely on social media as a source of meme comedy (a number of the users are less than attractive).
🚨 LMAO! The Tea app, which is meant for women to dox and “rate” men who they go on dates with, has been HACKED
And the women using the app look EXACTLY as you’d expect them to look 🤣
This is an evil app meant to destroy men’s lives. These women are all co-conspirators. pic.twitter.com/u8iLRbyySa
Women commenters assert that the hack is more proof that women’s “safe spaces” are under attack.
The incident was likely inspired by a thread on 4Chan discussing Tea, with some members creating a call to action to expose it. A 4Chan user posted a link Friday morning, allegedly allowing people to download the database of stolen images, and troves of alleged victims’ identification photos have been posted on 4Chan and X.
While the data leak is small compared to the number of total users, it does create doubts as to the security of personal information in the future. Whether or not this affects Tea’s user activity is another matter. In all likelihood, the company will be shut down by litigation (websites with similar women’s whisper networks have been crushed by lawsuits over the years).
In the past, dating was relegated to limited environments; neighborhoods and towns in which bad behavior would eventually be exposed (if real) by word of mouth, and accusations could be addressed and debunked (if false). With the advent of online dating and social media, the gossip mill has gone global and an average person’s reputation can be destroyed on an epic scale. Everyone is in everyone else’s business and there is no privacy or escape.
The fact that online stalking by women is treated as acceptable while a similar project by men would be treated as a national emergency clarifies the greater problem at hand. Feminism has led to male demonization and a crippling double standard in social interactions where bad behavior by women is excusable. Is it any wonder that dating in the US is imploding and over 63% of men today are opting out of relationships?
Once upon a time, the Federal Reserve operated like a priesthood—cloaked in mystery, speaking in riddles, and quietly pulling the levers of the most powerful monetary system on Earth. Nobody cared. Nobody needed to care.
Monetary policy was the domain of bespectacled economists in windowless offices, not something the average American could explain—let alone mock with a meme.
But that era is over.
Today, thanks to the rise of Bitcoin, meme culture, Reddit’s degenerate-finance underworld (this Bud’s for you, r/WallStreetBets), and good old-fashioned inflation punching people in the face, the Fed’s once-inscrutable policies have now been forced into being internet punchlines.
Everyone, from your Uber driver to your grandma, knows something about “money printer go brrr.” Coinbase is running ads calling out the dollar debasement.
And Neel Kashkari’s infamous “infinite money” comment? Immortalized as a meme and passed around by hapless degenerates on the web so much it should be called the “Bonnie Blue” meme. One day the whole world woke up and realized what I’ve been saying for years: this bullshit simply doesn’t make any sense.
Yes, the Fed used to operate in the shadows. Now it’s a clown show on center stage.
For all the things I love and hate about Bitcoin, one thing is for sure. As I noted in my 2 hour long chat about the digital asset, it didn’t just introduce people to a new asset—it forced them to learn why it exists. You want to understand Bitcoin? You have to understand fiat money. And to understand fiat, you’re eventually dragged—kicking and screaming—into the insane world of central banking, open market operations, CPI manipulation, and why the “2% inflation target” is just a polite way of saying “we’re slowly robbing you.”
And so, now in 2025, regular people get it. They understand the Fed’s tools are blunt, its logic circular, and its credibility paper-thin. They’ve watched as inflation ravaged their savings while Jerome Powell told them it was “transitory.” They watched old crow Janet Yellen’s medicine show run up the debt in a way so routinely incompetent that it’s tough to keep track of what years she was Treasury Secretary and what years she was Fed Chair. People watched interest rates jerked around like marionette strings and bond markets twisted into grotesque shapes by $9 trillion on the Fed’s balance sheet.
The public now knows what a balance sheet is. That should terrify the Fed.
First it was ZIRP for a decade when it wasn’t necessary. Now it’s holding rates higher than the rest of the world to make a political point, it seems (even though I do believe we need higher rates and the bond market agrees).
The point is that interest rates aren’t a political football or device for playing a guessing game. They’re the global price of money that — even when not changing — can send quadrillion dollar shocks (didn’t fact check this number, just sounded good) through the monetary system any time a Fed governor uses an incorrect syllable talking about them during some 8AM summit about the soybean market in Belgium.
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In the past, the Fed didn’t need to be credible—it just needed to be confusing. Today, the veil is gone. Everyone knows the Fed will eventually cave and restart QE. They know the system is addicted to low rates, that every tightening cycle ends with a bailout, and that every bailout comes with another wave of fresh dollars. That’s why gold has basically said “fuck it” and torched higher while rates remain relatively high.
And crucially, people now know that when that next wave comes, it’s going to be a lot more than a bailout. It could be the final shove off the credibility cliff.
This isn’t just monetary policy losing credibility with economists or foreign creditors—it’s losing credibility with the people. And once that happens, the game changes.
When given the choice between fiat and sound money, people are now increasingly informed enough to choose the latter. You don’t need a PhD to understand that if the government prints trillions of dollars, the dollars in your wallet are going to buy less. People will respond in the only rational way: pulling forward demand (buy now before it costs more later) and shifting capital out of the dollar and into anything that might hold its value—Bitcoin, gold, land, cans of beans, Hunter Biden’s latest art project…it doesn’t matter.
The Fed thinks it’s still steering the ship. But the passengers have read the manual and are bailing out in lifeboats.
The next round of QE and bond buying will be historic—not because it’s new, but because everyone will see it for what it is: the Fed admitting it can’t stop printing without imploding the system. That’s when the floodgates open. Sound money assets—Bitcoin especially—will go vertical. Not because of hype, but because the farce of fiat will be naked for the world to see.
It’ll be Powell’s FAFO moment—F*ck around with the largest print in history with a well informed public for the first time and find out what happens when you lie for decades, and suddenly everyone understands how your tricks work.
The Fed can’t put the genie back in the bottle. The credibility crisis isn’t coming from a rogue economist or a foreign bondholder—it’s coming from Reddit. From Twitter. From Coinbase ads. From every TikTok explainer on inflation that ends with “buy Bitcoin.”
The monetary regime that’s ruled the world since the 1970s is dying. Slowly. Then all at once.
We’ve been saying big changes are coming. The next money print won’t just confirm it—it’ll prove it. And when it does, people won’t just meme the Fed.
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Day Three: Fighting Spreads Along Thai-Cambodian Border, Mass Civilian Exodus
The escalating conflict along the highly disputed 500-mile Thai-Cambodian land border entered its third day on Saturday, leaving at least 33 people dead and displacing more than 168,000.
Here are the latest military actions:
Thai navy and army repelled Cambodian attacks in Trat province.
Thailand deployed F-16 and Gripen jets to strike Cambodian rocket sites.
Cambodia accused Thailand of hitting civilian targets—claims Bangkok denies.
Moscow-based American political analyst Andrew Korybko posed a critical question on Friday: What is Thailand’s endgame if its border conflict with Cambodia spirals into full-scale war?
Korybko’s first take: “Demilitarization and regime change might be in the cards…” Read the note here.
#Cambodia / #Thailand 🇰🇭🇹🇭: “Royal Thai Army” soldiers opening fire on Cambodian positions on the border.
Thai soldiers are using #USA-made 🇺🇸 M16A4 assault rifles; 40mm M203 under-barrel grenade launcher and M433 HEDP grenades. pic.twitter.com/UaDqWY69hB
The latest diplomatic efforts to defuse the tense border crisis:
Thailand insists that Cambodia cease hostilities before any ceasefire.
Cambodia accepted an ASEAN-brokered peace plan by Malaysia, which Thailand rejected at the last minute.
A UN Security Council meeting urged de-escalation and regional mediation.
The military balance is tilted heavily in Thailand’s favor (at the moment). Second, Thailand has four times the population and a GDP more than ten times larger than that of neighboring Cambodia.
The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) wrote in its Military Balance 2025 report that “Thailand has a large, well-funded military, and its air force is one of the best equipped and trained in Southeast Asia.”
Thailand, a U.S. treaty ally, has F-16 fighter jets and modern weapons, while Cambodia relies heavily on Chinese military aid. Thailand has warned about possible Chinese-made missile strikes by Cambodia.
Yet another conflict is emerging in a world fracturing into a bipolar state. The war cycle rages on as major powers rush to build military arms, with threats of further conflicts looming (more here on the investing theme).
JOHANNESBURG—African governments are using Chinese artificial intelligence to find, jail, torture, and even kill political opponents and pro-democracy activists, according to several investigations.
Researchers say Beijing is exporting its “surveillance state” model to African countries and rapidly positioning itself to control the critical infrastructure, data, and energy that will power the continent’s AI systems in the future.
This could mean that China will have immense influence over politics and public life in Africa, potentially influencing election outcomes and swaying public opinion in favor of Beijing and its allies, according to the studies.
Some academics say it’s happening already.
One investigation by a nonprofit studying the use of social media and other technology to target dissident groups worldwide concluded that a “largely invisible pattern” is transforming conflicts across Africa.
The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) stated that using technology such as spyware to hunt political activists and employing facial recognition to track protesters represents “a new kind of mercenary force” in Africa, one that’s largely shaped by companies controlled from Beijing.
Adio-Adet Dinika, researcher and affiliate fellow at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Science in Germany, headed DAIR’s Data Workers Inquiry project. It investigated incidents in countries including Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe.
Dinika’s research revealed the existence of “digital sweatshops” in African cities and towns, including in Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; and Gulu, Uganda, where workers are paid as little as $1.50 per hour to teach AI systems to recognize faces, moderate content, and analyze behavior patterns.
The Chinese regime is perpetrating what Dinika called “digital colonialism at its most insidious.”
“I call this surveillance colonialism, the process by which foreign powers extract data and labor from African populations to build AI systems that ultimately police, repress, and destabilise those very populations,” he wrote.
Among the new additions was CloudWalk, with which “the Zimbabwean government agreed to the installment of a mass surveillance network in Zimbabwe,” the Treasury stated at the time.
“The agreement included a requirement that the Zimbabwean government send images it acquires from the surveillance network back to Cloudwalk’s offices in China, so that Cloudwalk could improve the ability of its facial recognition software to recognize individuals based on skin pigmentation,” the Treasury stated.
The technology that emerged, according to Dinika, is now used by China across Africa and the world, including in public spaces in Zimbabwe frequented by anti-government demonstrators.
Zimbabwe counts itself as one of Beijing’s closest partners.
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson, Nick Mangwana, told The Epoch Times that Zimbabwe’s “excellent cooperation ties” with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its leader, Xi Jinping, “means Zimbabwe now has one of Africa’s most sophisticated crime-fighting tools.”
An extensive study into Zimbabwe’s use of AI surveillance systems by Germany’s Humboldt University in 2024 concluded that the use of the technology has not resulted in a single public conviction of a criminal.
Zimbabwean pro-democracy activist, Evan Mawarire, told The Epoch Times: “When you are arrested and locked up by the police, they boast how they use their AI technology to identify us at protests. The Chinese tech gear is being used as a form of political control. The police say they can watch us anytime, anywhere, because they have also bought devices from the Chinese to monitor internet and phones.”
In response, Mangwana said he would not comment on the “nature of our security apparatus and how it is employed, because that would make it ineffective.”
He emphasized that Zimbabwe’s security forces use technology “in line with Zimbabwean law.”
CloudWalk and the Chinese Embassy in Zimbabwe declined to comment.
In Ethiopia, the pro-Beijing government is using Chinese “sentiment analysis tools” against the country’s Tigray population, Dinika said.
He said those tools allow the authorities to monitor social media and online posts in real time, while even providing information regarding the tone of communications.
Dinika explained that one of the key AI tools used by the Ethiopian authorities is an AI application called Natural Language Processing.
“By means of this, the system is trained to understand the context and nuances of the Tigray language. It can interpret verbal cues such as sarcasm, and Tigray people have disappeared just on the basis of this,” he said.
When Ethiopian authorities relied on Chinese AI during the 2020–2022 Tigray conflict, they weren’t just buying technology, Dinika said. They were “outsourcing critical governance functions to foreign entities with their own strategic interests.”
During the conflict, the algorithms that determined which social media posts amounted to “ethnic incitement” were trained by data workers in Kenya, his investigation found.
During Kenya’s 2024 Gen Z protests against a proposed tax increase, the country’s top telecom company, Safaricom, “unlawfully” shared customers’ location data with security forces, Dinika’s report alleged.
This allowed the police to track and detain protestors, he said.
Safaricom has denied any level of cooperation with Kenyan authorities.
Dinika said Kenya President William Ruto’s government used “data interception” in combination with facial recognition tools and footage from hundreds of Chinese-supplied CCTV systems to create what he termed a “digital dragnet” that resulted in the “enforced disappearances” of 82 people, with 29 still missing.
Professor Willem Gravett, a senior lecturer in law at the University of Pretoria, has also documented the increased use of Chinese technology in Africa.
