Migrant households are siphoning almost £1 billion in welfare benefits every month in Britain, a report has claimed.
The Telegraph highlights government figures from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) which reveal that registered households with at least one foreign national in March received £941 million in universal credit.
The welfare scheme allows low-income or unemployed people in Britain to claim government subsidies.
The figure just three years ago was £461 million, meaning it’s on course to double in just half a decade.
It’s hardly surprising given the massive increase in mass migration to the country under the so called Conservative government.
2023 saw migration climb to a record of 906,000. The latest data shows that 948,000 people came to Britain in 2024.
Migrants are eligible to apply for universal credit as soon as they acquire residential or refugee status in the Britain.
The report notes, however, that the total cost to the taxpayer of foreigners is way higher, when healthcare, education, and housing are factored in.
A recent study conducted by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) discovered that housing asylum seekers, a great deal of whom are in the country illegally, has increased to approximately £4.7 billion a year.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage commented that leftist Prime Minister Kier “Starmer is choosing migrant benefits over winter fuel for pensioners.”
Starmer is choosing migrant benefits over winter fuel for pensioners.https://t.co/9PGWX0CxpH
“On the day that we learn migrant benefits cost us £1bn a month, many hundreds are currently crossing the English Channel. Labour are ruining our country,” Farage urged.
On the day that we learn migrant benefits cost us £1bn a month, many hundreds are currently crossing the English Channel.
😱£0.5bn more per month than March 2022. This is an astonishing rise. Perhaps we need to be more like Denmark. There residents with less than 9 years residence or under 2.5years full time employment to qualify. Else, families receive a sufficiency payment of €800 (50% reduction…
The migrant problem in Britain has gotten so advanced that even Starmer himself has had to pivot, admitting this month that mass migration has failed and undermined social cohesion to such an extent that Britain risks becoming an “island of strangers”.
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Dutch Parliament Says ‘Nyet’ To NATO Defense Spending Plan Amid Chaos Of Geert Wilders Pullout
NATO aims for its members to spend at least 3.5% of their GDP on defense, but those dreams of NATO expansion – at a moment the proxy war in Ukraine is becoming dangerously close to entering hot war between the West and nuclear-armed Russia – are dying.
Dutch parliament on Tuesday slapped down a proposal to increase defense spending to 3.5% of gross domestic product (GDP), key to NATO’s capability targets, in a non-binding motion.
While it doesn’t have legal force at this point, this makes clear parliament’s opinion, unleashing deeper tensions among NATO allies, and as the Trump White House exerts pressure to rapidly raise collective defense.
This comes at an ultra-sensitive political moment, given that as we reported earlier Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders pulled his Party for Freedom (PVV) out of the coalition that governs the Netherlands.
This sets up the likelihood of new elections after the man dubbed the “Dutch Donald Trump”, withdrew the PVV, related to immigration policy failure.
According to the latest developments, Prime Minister Dick Schoof has just announced that he would offer his resignationfrom the Netherlands’ ruling coalition while continuing in a caretaker government, setting the stage for a likely snap election:
“Wilders has plunged the Netherlands into another round of political chaos,” said Mujtaba Rahman, managing director for Europe at the Eurasia Group.
“The Dutch parliament can try to find a new majority or else there will be early elections. But the immediate outlook is one of chaos and uncertainty.”
The country has been in turmoil since Rutte resigned in 2023 after his coalition failed to pass comprehensive immigration legislation.
Critically, the air war over Ukraine and Russia is heating up, also in the wake of Ukraine’s ‘Operation Spider’s Web’. Funding for air defenses, particularly among ‘eastern flank’ NATO members is seen as paramount, from Brussels’ perspective.
“NATO is asking European member states to expand ground-based air-defense capabilities fivefold as the alliance races to fill a key gap in response to the threat of Russian aggression, people familiar with the matter said,” Bloomberg reports separately on Teusday.
“The ramp-up will be discussed at a gathering of North Atlantic Treaty Organization defense ministers in Brussels on Thursday, the people said on condition of anonymity as deliberations take place,” the report underscores.
And who will magically step forward to fill this massive funding gap?
Dutch Lawmakers Oppose 3.5% NATO Spending Target (Dutch need to spend up to €19 Billion more to meet NATO target)
And just like that Europe’s defense budget dreams go up in flames.
Certainly, the United Sates under the Trump administration, which has called for the bar to be raised to a whopping 5% of GDP, won’t.
In the background is the fact that Western populations are ‘war weary’ and don’t want to see escalation of NATO force strength in Ukraine. Trump himself is facing a revolt among conservative pundits on the American domestic front, as some European leaders, particularly Hungary’s Orban, are warning of a protracted conflict in Eastern Europe if the West and warring parties don’t climb down the escalation ladder soon.
The Swedish Social Democratic Party has approved a new integration strategy that aims to forcibly diversify the country’s residential areas, pushing for what party officials call a “socio-economic mix” of Swedes and migrants in housing developments.
The policy, adopted at the party congress ahead of the 2026 general election, includes proposals to limit immigration to vulnerable areas and to use housing construction to engineer a more integrated society.
“We are serious about the fact that we intend to break segregation and use housing policy as an engine in that work,” said Lawen Redar, the party official responsible for designing the new platform, as cited by Aftonbladet.
Redar described the shift as a “U-turn” in the party’s approach, acknowledging that past strategies had failed.
The new policy includes scrapping the right of asylum seekers to choose their own accommodation and banning municipalities from placing new arrivals in already struggling districts. Instead, migrants will be relocated to wealthier areas in an effort to engineer demographic diversity and “repay the integration debt,” as the party put it.
Jonas Attenius, a senior party official newly elected to the executive committee and chairman of the municipal board in Gothenburg, emphasized the long-term nature of the project. “Yes, we need to mix the population in the long run. I usually say ‘in a generation’. This is long-term,” he said. He argued that integrating migrant families into more prosperous neighborhoods would be key to breaking entrenched segregation.
But critics have described the plan as ideological social engineering. Richard Jomshof, a member of parliament for the right-wing Sweden Democrats, responded sharply:
“No, we don’t need your forced mixing. What we need are closed borders and a return migration (policy) worth the name. But sure, you socialists can mix as much as you want, just pack your bags.”
On the contrary, the Sweden Democrats announced last month they will campaign in the 2026 general election on a pledge to stop migration to the country.
The plan comes amid growing concern over crime and integration failures in Sweden’s suburbs, many of which are dominated by immigrant populations. In recent years, the country has faced a wave of gang-related violence, including record numbers of explosions and shootings, often tied to second-generation migrant youth. Some suburbs now rank among the most dangerous areas in Europe.
Despite the backlash, Social Democrat officials are confident the new approach will not alienate the party’s newer, affluent urban supporters — voters it began attracting after the 2022 election, in part due to the collapse of the traditional center-right Moderates.
“I’m convinced of that,” said Attenius. “But again, this requires a strict migration policy.”
Attenius also issued an apology to migrants who had been concentrated in struggling districts. “I’m sorry,” he said. “Sorry for doing that. Now it is time for the whole of society to take over.”
By now, the apocalyptic whispers that once belonged solely to science fiction are starting to sound more like realistic forecasts. Artificial intelligence, once hailed as the great liberator of human productivity and ingenuity, is now moonlighting as a con artist, data thief, and spy.
The machines are rising, yes—but they’re not doing it alone. As we embrace AI with reckless abandon, it’s not the code that’s dooming us. It’s the carbon-based lifeforms behind the keyboard making forehead-slapping mistakes. If civilization does collapse under the weight of digital warfare, it’ll be a joint project between rogue AI and good old-fashioned human idiocy.
Let’s talk about the Rise of the Machines, 2025 edition—not in the form of Terminators with glowing eyes, but as lines of sophisticated code hell-bent on manipulation, infiltration, and destruction. Whether we are willing to accept it or not, AI-powered cyberattacks are becoming disturbingly common and alarmingly sophisticated.
We’re seeing the proliferation of deepfake scams, hyper-personalized phishing attacks, and AI-assisted password cracking that make traditional defenses look as flimsy as a paper umbrella in a hurricane.
Take the case of deepfake fraud, where criminals now impersonate CEOs and executives with astonishing accuracy. These aren’t your cousin’s sloppy Photoshop jobs. These are full-motion, pitch-perfect, AI-generated replicas of real people, used in schemes to authorize fraudulent wire transfers, manipulate employees, or simply throw entire organizations into chaos. It’s not just unsettling. It’s an outright weaponization of trust—an erosion of reality itself.
And don’t forget AI-generated phishing emails. These aren’t the hilariously broken English scams from 2006. AI now writes flawless prose, mirroring the tone and style of your boss, your bank, or your kid’s school, tricking you into clicking that one wrong link that detonates ransomware across your organization like a digital IED. The machines aren’t playing chess anymore—they’re playing you.
But even as AI’s capabilities soar into dystopian territory, the greatest cybersecurity threat isn’t machine intelligence. It’s human incompetence. You could hand someone the most secure system in the world, and they’ll still manage to set it on fire with a reused password or a click on an “urgent invoice” from a Nigerian prince.
A report by NinjaOne drives this point home with a sledgehammer: nearly 95% of cybersecurity breaches are caused by human error. Think about that. Not Skynet, not Chinese cyber commandos or North Korean hackers in basements—but Steve in Accounting, who uses “123456” as his password and clicks on pop-ups promising free iPhones.
The attack vectors are depressingly mundane: downloading unsafe software, failing to update systems, weak passwords, falling for phishing scams, and misconfigured security settings.
It’s like locking your house with a deadbolt and then leaving the window wide open with a neon sign that says, “Come on in!” And yet, these mistakes are committed daily in both small businesses and Fortune 500 firms alike.
Compounding this mess is the cyber climate we find ourselves in. While the Biden administration made a lot of noise about cybersecurity (including a 2021 executive order that read like a cyber-fantasy novel), the reality has been more bark than bite. The cyber talent shortage identified during his term is still here. In fact, it’s worse.
Across the board, we are woefully understaffed. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), for example, is running with fewer hands. Meanwhile, budget cuts threaten to kneecap already stretched-thin federal cyber teams. But here’s the catch: this isn’t a dig at DOGE. Frankly, it’s not the government’s fight alone.
In an era where the bureaucracy is clearly not nimble or robust enough to be the cyber bodyguard of every business, school district, and hospital, it’s time for individuals and private entities to shoulder the digital shield. The idea that Uncle Sam can magically protect every database, email server, and Wi-Fi-enabled lightbulb from hostile AI is, quite frankly, a joke—and not a funny one.
So, where does that leave us?
It means that responsibility, like it or not, is decentralized. Your small business, your city council, your local school, and yes, your grandma’s Wi-Fi router all play a role in national cyber resilience. Everyone from the CEO to the intern must realize that the click of a mouse can ignite a digital inferno.
This isn’t paranoia. This is math. The AI-fueled cybercriminals don’t sleep, don’t blink, and don’t need to take lunch breaks. They can run cyber threats around the clock, generating thousands of enticing money-related phishing schemes per second or trying billions of password combinations while sipping binary lattes. The only thing stopping them is us—and right now, “us” is losing.
The solution isn’t some magical new firewall or sexy blockchain band-aid. It’s basic digital hygiene. It’s updating software. It’s using multi-factor authentication. It’s protecting social media accounts and credentials. It’s training staff not to download every sketchy app they’re offered, like over-caffeinated lab rats. It’s investing in AI-powered defense tools to fight fire with fire—automated threat detection, behavioral analysis, and predictive breach detection. In other words, if the machines are evolving, so must we.
But none of this works without awareness. The greatest virus we face isn’t malware. It’s apathy. Too many Americans still treat cybersecurity like flossing—important, sure, but something they’ll get around to eventually. Meanwhile, AI doesn’t wait. It doesn’t procrastinate. It hunts.
So yes, the rise of the machines may well usher in the end of civilization—but only if we stand by and let it happen. The antidote isn’t panic. It’s preparation. It’s competence. It’s proper AI oversight. And it’s waking up to the fact that we are all soldiers in a quiet war where the front lines are firewalls, not foxholes.
Because at the end of the day, the machines aren’t coming to destroy us.
We’re just really, really good at destroying ourselves.
Beijing Furious After Europe Uses “International Procurement Instrument” For First Time In Escalating Trade War With China
When it comes to its trade war with the US, Brussels is quick to parade just how anti-Trump it is, how unfair US trade practices are (just ignore the fact that Europe was far more protectionist for decades) and how much it loves free trade, honest. But in Europe’s growing trade war with China (you don’t really hear much about it because the media would rather public attention be soaked up by the far less important transatlantic feud, and away from the far more important Chinese trade war) thing are rapidly disintegrating.
As Rabobank’s Michael Every points out, the “We Love Free Trade” EU just used its International Procurement Instrument for the first time to freeze Chinese medical devices out of its public procurement markets for five years unless China opens its market to EU equivalents. As Every notes, “that’s economic statecraft with muscle, underlining that there are lots of tools in the mercantilist toolkit besides tariffs.”
In response, Beijing took some time away from its constant criticism of US trade policy to also criticize as protectionist the European Union’s plan to curb Chinese medical device manufacturers’ access to public procurement contracts, and vowed to take action to protect the country’s interests, Bloomberg reports.
China urged the EU to handle any differences through dialog and cooperation to safeguard trade relations, the Commerce Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. “China will closely monitor the EU’s follow-up actions” and will take measures to protect the rights and interests of Chinese enterprises, the ministry said.
Beijing’s comments come after EU member states overwhelmingly agreed to the curb, which would represent the first use of its International Procurement Instrument, a 2022 law that’s meant to promote reciprocity in access to public procurement markets, and represents a unique slant on how creative mercantilists can and will get when their markets are threatened. It allows the EU’s executive arm to impose various restrictions on firms seeking to participate in procurements, ranging from score adjustments in tenders to an outright ban from public contracts above €5 million ($5.7 million).
The dispute adds another irritant to relations and comes just as Beijing seeks to shore up ties with the EU, positioning itself as a more reliable partner as Donald Trump alienates the bloc over issues from tariffs to defense. In reality, when it comes to capturing market share, the only thing mercantilists are “reliable” in doing is slashing prices to boost exports.
Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao is due to meet with EU trade officials early this month in Paris, where he may address the bloc’s trade grievances including a lack of fair access to China’s own procurement market. European leaders will travel to Beijing for a summit next month with their Chinese counterparts.
“At first glance recent EU moves relating to China seem a bit contradictory, reviving senior level interaction while taking measures against unfair imports,” said Wendy Cutler, a former senior US trade negotiator now at the Asia Society Policy Institute.
“But, in light of different types of pressures from member states, Brussels needs to navigate carefully when it comes to China,” she said. “It has no choice but to look for avenues of cooperation while sending a clear signal that the EU will stand up for European companies that are facing unfair competition.”
Only problem is that from China’s point of view, the competition is completely fair, and it will retaliate accordingly.
Indeed, a Chinese business lobby group warned earlier that EU’s plans would hurt trade ties and the China Chamber of Commerce to the EU expressed “profound disappointment” over the move, according to a statement on Monday.
“Its targeted application against Chinese enterprises sends a troubling signal—not only adding new complexity to China-EU economic and trade relations, but also contradicting the EU’s stated principles of openness, fairness, and non-discrimination in market access,” said the organization, whose members include the Bank of China, Cosco Shipping Holdings Co. and BYD Co.
“Beijing appears to be sending a warning to all advanced economies that actions against China will have consequences,” said Gerard DiPippo, associate director of the RAND China Research Center. “The odds of an EU-China rapprochement are lower than some speculated after the trade war with the US started.”
Which, of course, will be music to Trump’s ears, even if it will be difficult for the mainstream media to explain to its naive audience how the global trade war which it had repeatedly portrayed as “Trump against everyone”, was really “everyone against everyone.”
In response to a question on the EU’s move, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian on Tuesday called on the bloc to stand by its commitment to market rules.
The EU launched an investigation into China’s procurement of medical devices last April, with the probe finding in January that Beijing discriminated against foreign firms. Consultations failed to find alternative solutions, Bloomberg previously reported.
The Chinese commerce chamber argued that market reciprocity must be based on “an accurate understanding of historical and practical realities.”
“For years, European medical device companies have enjoyed significant access to the Chinese market, playing a key role in supporting the modernization of China’s healthcare system and achieving substantial growth,” it said. “The EU’s current decision fails to acknowledge this context and undermines the spirit of balanced engagement and mutual benefit.”
Authorities at the Port of Long Beach on Friday seized 55 tons of dicumyl peroxide, a chemical used to make methamphetamine.
The shipment originated in China and was destined for the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico, according to a news release from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The dicumyl peroxide was identified as a result of an initiative launched by ICE in 2019 to identify suspicious shipments of chemical precursors from China, India and other source countries that are destined for drug cartels in Mexico.
Since the initiative was launched, it has led to the interdiction of almost 1,900 tons of chemicals used to manufacture methamphetamines and fentanyl.
In March, it led to the seizure of about 44 tons of glacial acetic acid at Port Houston, which was also destined for the Sinaloa cartel, ICE said.
“This initiative provides Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) with a game-changing method to stay one step ahead of the cartels by disrupting the flow of chemicals that they depend on to produce illicit narcotics,” Chad Plantz, ICE HSI-Houston special agent in charge, said in a statement.
The world’s a screaming match—doctors, economists, influencers, all clawing for their slice of truth. Nobody’s listening, and nobody’s seeing the whole damn picture. We have more information than ever, but we’re dumber where it counts, stuck in a loop of shouting past each other. This isn’t just politics or algorithm nonsense; it’s the cult of specialization—our worship of experts who know everything about nothing. Doctors pushing Covid shots didn’t see the fraud. Economists missed the heist. Engineers built surveillance without blinking. Each turned their screw, blind to the machine they were feeding—a Moral Assembly Line where systemic evil thrives. The system’s not broken; it’s built to break us, and we’re all complicit until we start connecting the dots. As I explored in The Illusion of Expertise, we’ve confused credentials with wisdom, compliance with intelligence. Now we see the deadly consequences: we’re not failing because of bad experts—we’re failing because specialization itself has become the operating system of institutional evil.
A Society Talking Past Itself
Step into any barroom debate, X thread, or YouTube comments section, and it’s chaos—facts flying, no one landing. We’ve outsourced our brains to specialists who slice reality into bits too small to mean anything. A cardiologist can’t talk vaccines. An economist reduces geopolitics to models, blind to the real forces at play. Everyone’s got their PhD in one inch of the world, and we’re dumber for it. Specialization doesn’t just fracture understanding; it’s the architecture of control, ensuring no one sees the crimes—medical fraud, wealth theft, digital chains—unfolding in plain sight. We’re not arguing because we’re stupid; we’re arguing because the system keeps us siloed, complicit, and clueless.
Medical Blindness: Expertise Without Vision
In my medical freedom work, I’ve seen doctors—smart, caring people—trapped in their own expertise. One, a family physician friend of mine, said VAERS was the “gold standard” for vaccine safety but when I asked about Covid shots, he admitted he never looked even though he was recommending them to patients. He assured me that if it was a problem, the FDA would do something. He didn’t know it reported over 30,000 Covid shot deaths by 2023, or that underreporting was rampant. Meanwhile, journalists mocked “half the country eating horse paste,” dismissing a drug that had been administered to billions of humans, whose inventor won the Nobel Prize, that’s on the World Health Organization’s list of most essential medicines, and is known to have very few side effects. People who had never heard of ivermectin were parroting the notion that it was horse paste. These weren’t idiots; they were cogs in a machine built by the Rockefeller model of medicine, which, since the 1900s, turned healers into assembly-line technicians—prescribe, cut, bill, repeat.
During Covid, this enabled a fraud of historic scale. This isn’t just about doctors being wrong—it’s about a system that rewards institutional obedience over critical thinking. The shots got Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) on rotten data: trials rigged to show symptom relief, not transmission prevention; myocarditis risks buried; long-term safety ignored. Most people don’t realize that if there were effective treatments for Covid, these experimental drugs couldn’t have been approved under emergency authorization—but that’s exactly what happened. Whistleblower Brook Jackson, a Pfizer trial manager and modern-day Erin Brockovich, exposed unblinding and falsified records in 2021. Her story revealed massive crimes that should be criminally prosecuted, but instead it’s languishing in the courts while doctors didn’t read her BMJ report and media publications never told her story—they trusted the FDA’s “safe and effective” stamp. A restaurant owner I know enforced mandates even after it became clear the shots didn’t stop transmission, still trusting the authorities despite rules that made no sense—customers had to mask walking to their table but could remove them while sitting, as if the virus respected dining etiquette. She wasn’t malicious; she was compartmentalized, her role so narrow she couldn’t see the crime—a coerced, harmful rollout sold as salvation.
Covid: A Masterclass in Fragmented Fraud
Covid was a crime scene where every expert played their part, blind to the whole.
Medical Compartmentalization
The fraud started with PCR tests. Kary Mullis, PCR’s inventor, said in the 1990s it’s not a diagnostic tool—it amplifies anything, not just active virus. His voice would have been important during the pandemic since the whole thing was based on his invention. Sadly, he died in August 2019.
Yet it was used to inflate cases, driving fear and lockdowns. Public health ignored immunologists warning of weakened immunity from isolation. Doctors, trusting the CDC, didn’t question flawed tests or mandates. The shots were the centerpiece: trials manipulated (Naomi Wolf’s team at Daily Clout documented this), adverse events like myocarditis suppressed, and EUAs granted only because alternatives like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) were demonized. A 2020 Henry Ford Health System study showed HCQ cut mortality when used early, but the FDA smeared it as ‘dangerous.’ A hospital administrator I’m friendly with enforced deadly protocols—Remdesivir and ventilators—that harmed patients. Overwhelmingly, people died in hospitals, not at home. Curious. He followed “protocols,” not committing a crime—or so he thought.
No one read the data; no one minded the store. In fact, FDA advisor Dr. Eric Rubin, editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, openly admitted: “We’re never going to learn about how safe this vaccine is unless we start giving it. That’s just the way it goes.” They were experimenting on children in real time, and saying it out loud.
Economic Compartmentalization
Lockdowns crushed small businesses while Amazon and Pfizer raked in billions—a $4 trillion heist disguised as relief. Economists, buried in GDP models, missed the human toll. Gold bugs and bitcoiners warned of inflation and a widening wealth chasm, but they weren’t credentialed economists, so no one listened. Even many libertarians abandoned their framework, supporting medical tyranny over individual liberty. Stimulus checks, sold as aid, prepped the ground for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), but economists didn’t study monetary control. They enabled theft, oblivious to their role.
Psychological Compartmentalization
Lockdowns spiked depression, addiction, and child developmental delays, yet behavioral scientists were absent from task forces. Public health dismissed mental health as “non-essential.” A school counselor I know saw teen suicides soar but had no policy voice. She saw the damage but still enforced closures, believing she was following “expert” guidance. The trauma wasn’t her department.
Technological Compartmentalization
Engineers built vaccine passports and contact-tracing apps, sold as “public health.” They didn’t ask how these fed The World Economic Forum’s digital ID plans or CBDCs’ programmable money. A tech developer I met saw his app as “innovation,” not surveillance infrastructure. His job was to code, not question geopolitics. Each layer deferred upward, building a control grid no one claimed. Innovation divorced from consequence is how surveillance states are born in beta.
“Just Doing My Job”: The Moral Assembly Line
Specialization doesn’t just split knowledge—it splits guilt. This is the Moral Assembly Line: everyone turns a screw, no one owns the machine, and when it crushes lives, they say, “It wasn’t me.” In the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann scheduled trains, not murders. During the MKULTRA experiments, psychologists dosed subjects with LSD, just following CIA orders. During Covid, doctors pushed shots, HR fired the unvaccinated, and journalists parroted identical phrases across every network—’safe and effective,’ ‘no one is safe until everyone’s safe.’
Friends enforced vaccine requirements at parties, thinking they were protecting people, not coercing choice. No one felt like a criminal, but the outcome was fraud, harm, and eroded freedom. Evil hides by breaking itself into pieces too small to feel.
The Design of Disintegration
This is by design. Universities churn out specialists, not synthesizers—papers, not questions. The corruption runs deeper than most realize. Universities don’t just churn out specialists—they create a credentialed class psychologically invested in defending the system that elevated them, even when that system causes harm. Medical boards punish doctors who stray, like those who prescribed ivermectin. Funding rewards obedience, not curiosity. Peer review is peer pressure, silencing dissent. Algorithms on X, Instagram, and TikTok feed you your niche, not the truth. This creates epistemic capture: experts know only what their field allows. A virologist might doubt a shot’s efficacy but not its funding. A journalist might report mandates but not trial fraud. They’re cogs in a machine they can’t see, ensuring we stay complicit and clueless.
Blind Spots of the Highly Educated
Specialization blinds even the sharpest to the big picture. Doctors enforcing passports didn’t see their connection to Agenda 21’s population tracking framework from 1992. They didn’t connect apps to CBDCs, which the Bank for International Settlements piloted to control spending. Local health officials in my area justified apps as “stopping the spread,” unaware they fed systems that could lock accounts for non-compliance. Why? Geopolitics isn’t their field. The World Economic Forum’s Great Reset is public, yet most doctors never read it. Intelligence without context isn’t just useless—it’s a weapon for power.
The most educated became the most complicit. While PhD epidemiologists enforced lockdowns and cardiologists pushed shots, plumbers and mechanics saw through it immediately. They didn’t need peer review to recognize bullshit—they fix things that actually work. The people who make stuff understood: if the solution doesn’t match the problem, something’s wrong. Meanwhile, the credentialed class defended every policy failure because their status depended on institutional trust.
The Mockingbird Media: Silencing the Truth
Media seals the trap. Operation Mockingbird, a CIA program to shape narratives, never died—it’s alive in today’s censorship. Vaccine injury stories, like those in Anecdotals, a documentary I produced with talented filmmaker Jennifer Sharp, were banned from YouTube. She poured her soul into showing real people—mothers, teachers, children—harmed by shots, but algorithms erased it.
The silence runs deeper. My friend Pamela lost her stepson, Benjamin, to the shot. He worked for Stephen Colbert, who mandated it for his staff. Pamela begged her stepson not to get it, but he needed to keep his job. A young man, dead from something sold as “safe and effective”—killed by a mandate from the same man who turned vaccines into dancing entertainment. While Colbert’s show produced the cringe-worthy “Vax-Scene” skit with dancing syringes, real people were dying from his workplace requirements.
Pamela screamed from the rooftops, but no reporter would touch her story. Yet you can be sure—if her stepson had died from Covid, they’d have been fighting for the exclusive. Instead, we got montages of “safe and effective” while they buried the bodies. The people trying to warn us sounded crazy because the media made them invisible.
Pamela’s story, as tragic as it is, isn’t rare. I personally know dozens. We all have stories. The true number is totally unknown. What makes it worse? It’s accelerating. As more shots get pushed on the vulnerable, as boosters become routine, the Pamelas will multiply, their stories will remain untold, and the machine will keep grinding forward.
Journalists didn’t cover these stories—not their beat. The public stays clueless, fed a media diet of propaganda. This isn’t incompetence; it’s control, ensuring we only see what the system allows, keeping us talking past each other.
Covid wasn’t an exception—it was a perfect example of how compartmentalized systems commit coordinated harm. But the same pattern repeats everywhere: in finance, education, climate policy, and tech. Everyone plays their role. No one owns the outcome. Let’s widen the lens.
Beyond Medicine: Complicity Everywhere
This pattern is universal, enabling harm while absolving guilt.
Finance (2008): Traders chased derivatives, missing the housing bubble. Contrarians warned, but they weren’t “in the room.” They weren’t stealing—they were working, blind to the crash.
Education: School boards implemented Common Core without consulting child development experts, or administrators pushed digital learning without understanding its psychological impact on students.
Climate: Climatologists model emissions while ignoring weather modification. Policy experts implement Davos agenda while ignoring that those pushing green policies don’t live by them. No one owns the dysfunction.
AI/Tech: Engineers build addictive algorithms, ignoring polarization. CEOs chase profit, not sociology. They fracture society, feeling nothing.
Military: Analysts tout drones, ignoring cultural fallout. Bureaucrats plan wars without local knowledge. No one’s a war criminal—just a professional.
The Generalist: Breaking Free from Spectator Culture
We need generalists—people who refuse to be watchers in their own lives. Before industrialization, healers and polymaths wove together physical, spiritual, and social knowledge. Today, we’re consumers of expertise, not creators of understanding. We’ve become a spectator culture, watching life happen while trusting someone smarter has it handled. But the price of convenience is competence. We can’t change a tire, grow food, read a study, or think without calling an expert. The more educated we are, the more we defer to credentials over judgment.
E.O. Wilson’s consilience—uniting knowledge—isn’t academic; it’s survival. Nassim Taleb saw fragility (though he was tragically wrong about Covid); Ivan Illich saw institutional harm. They knew outsourcing thinking is outsourcing agency. We must become intellectual sovereigns, thinking across fields, seeing patterns specialists miss. A doctor should understand pharmaceutical economics. An economist should grasp human psychology. Pattern recognition is what separates participants from observers, thinkers from consumers of thought. It’s how you stop being a cog and start becoming a sovereign.
Escaping the Machine: From Cogs to Sovereign
This isn’t politics—it’s cognition. We’ve become passive observers, outsourcing not just tasks but basic thinking. We can’t fix a car, preserve food, or question a medical mandate without feeling unqualified. A generation ago, people solved problems themselves. Now, we call authorities, and the smarter we think we are, the more we defer. But what happens when the system leads us astray—not through the malice of its participants, but through the malice of its designers? The doctors recommending drugs, the engineers building apps, the journalists reporting stories—they’re not evil. But the system they serve was designed by those who are.
Specialization has made us passive, watching life happen while trusting the credentialed. But they’re cogs too, trapped in a machine they don’t see. Understanding this reveals the deeper architecture: specialization connects to other systems of manufactured dependency—fiat currency that separates us from real value, digital convenience that erodes our capabilities, spectator culture that makes us passive consumers. Each system reinforces the others, creating a web that requires seeing the whole picture to break free.
The way out is radical responsibility. Stop outsourcing your thinking. The path forward begins with recognizing that what we’ve been taught to value as ‘expertise’ has been weaponized against us. Questioning institutional narratives isn’t a sign of ignorance but a necessary act of intellectual sovereignty. When an expert tells you something, ask: Who benefits? What’s hidden? What would another field say? Read outside your lane—doctors, study economics; economists, learn biology. Check primary sources yourself—read Brook Jackson’s BMJ report, examine VAERS data, trace the funding. Follow researchers like Catherine Austin Fitts, who documented how the government has misplaced $21 trillion—not million, trillion—with no accountability. This isn’t normal corruption; this is systemic looting that makes you wonder what they’re really building with our money. Connect with those who think differently. The goal isn’t to master everything, but to see the spaces between experts—where truth hides—and to know who to trust.
The Incalculable Cost: Generational Harm and the Illusion of Reform
The damage is generational, hiding in plain sight. MAHA celebrates that the White House quietly removed Covid shots from healthy people’s schedules, but critics rightfully point out the deeper problem: there’s lots more coming on the vaccine schedule. Yes, the trend line may be in the right direction, but how many more unsuspecting people are going to suffer between now and then? Those who don’t understand this system is rotten to the core will still listen and get injected. More immunocompromised people getting jabbed, more unhealthy kids having their genetic code rearranged and their immune systems weakened. I appreciate that maybe there’s a political game going on, but I don’t understand what we’re talking about—we’re talking about people’s lives. The system worked perfectly—create the illusion of reform while continuing the harm to the most vulnerable. It’s in VAERS, with over 30,000 deaths reported; in insurance data showing rising claims; in stories like Pamela’s that never make the news. The system distributed the harm so widely no one can see it whole.
Nobody’s minding the store. So we have to.
Be the generalist. See the system. The truth depends on it. The future won’t be saved by the most credentialed. It’ll be saved by those who can see clearly—and refuse to look away.
On World Bike Day, Cars Still Dominate The American Commute
June 3 marks World Bicycle Day, an official UN observance celebrated to draw attention to the benefits of using a bike, a healthy, affordable and environmentally friendly way of getting from A to B.
On this day, people are encouraged to leave their cars behind and hop on their bikes for their daily commute to work.
After all, cycling to work is still relatively rare in the United States, despite the many benefits it offers in terms of personal health, reduced traffic and emissions savings.
Meanwhile, only 14 percent of the 7,447 respondents use public transportation while just 9 percent ride their bike.
As the chart shows, alternatives to the car have become more popular since 2019, but none comes close to challenging the car’s status as the king of the American commute.
There are several factors contributing to the low adoption of bicycles as a means of everyday transportation: for one, Americans are used to commuting longer distances than people in most European nations, automatically ruling out the bike for many. And secondly, many major cities in the U.S. aren’t exactly bike-friendly. According to a recent study, just two American cities made it into the 50 most bicycle-friendly cities in the world, when taking into account factors such as bicycle infrastructure, safety and usage as well as things as mundane as the weather.
Iran’s 2024 attacks on Israel delivered a masterclass in modern air defense—and a preview of threats heading our way. When Tehran launched hundreds of drones and cruise missiles, it was primarily fighters—Israeli F-35Is supported by American and Jordanian aircraft—that decimated them over Iraq and Syria before they could reach ground-based defenses. The lesson was unmistakable: fighters are the indispensable first line of any modern air defense system.
The threat to the American homeland from these cheap, hard-to-detect weapons is now enduring, not episodic. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, the potential for attacks on American soil is higher than at any point since the late Cold War. Ground-based defenses like Patriot, THAAD, and Aegis BMD are essential but can’t do it all on their own. The nature of their equipment makes them relatively immobile and limited by terrain and curvature of the earth.
Fighters, by contrast, are highly mobile. They can visually confirm targets, ensuring that no civilian aircraft is accidentally attacked. Fighters can reposition quickly, cover vast areas heedless of terrain, and be aerially refueled to extend their range. A single F-35A can carry over 22,000 lbs of ordnance using its external hardpoints—providing a flying magazine capable of confronting dozens of threats in a single sortie. Future technologies promise even greater effectiveness. Directed-energy weapons could provide a virtually unlimited magazine to counter drone swarms at minimal cost per shot.
With the rise of small and cheap drones the need for fighter-based defense at home is more urgent than ever. These weapons can be launched from mobile platforms, fly low and evade radar, and slip past static systems with their small radar cross-section.
America’s Shrinking Air Superiority
Yet just as this threat materializes, the Air Force finds itself with the smallest fighter fleet in its history. Only one-third of our fighters are 5th generation aircraft—F-22s and F-35s—with the stealth and advanced sensor suites essential for detecting and engaging modern threats. The remaining two-thirds are aging 4th generation platforms.
The math becomes alarming when we consider new homeland defense requirements. Maintaining continuous combat air patrols around critical infrastructure and population centers would strain our already overtaxed fighter squadrons. The Air Force needs to produce 72 new fighters annually just to maintain its current inadequate numbers. Yet actual procurement is barely half of that, with the Air Force only receiving 42 new F-35As in its 2025 budget request.
Building Capacity for the Long War
This production shortfall isn’t just a procurement hiccup. It’s a strategic vulnerability that adversaries are watching closely. In any high-intensity conflict, combat losses would quickly deplete our limited inventory. America lost 3,744 fixed-wing aircraft in nine years during the Vietnam War. The Air Force currently has around 1,300 fighters. Against peer competitors with advanced air defenses, loss rates would likely be higher, and—with no industrial surge capacity to replace downed aircraft—disastrous.
The solution requires a fundamental shift in how America approaches fighter procurement. Just as we’re revitalizing missile and shipbuilding capacity through multi-year procurements, we need similar stability for aircraft production. Long-term contracts would enable manufacturers to invest in expanded production lines, automation, and workforce development. American industrial capacity isn’t just about peacetime fleet size; it’s about wartime resilience.
A Multi-Domain Dome
Golden Dome will be multi-domain, integrating ground, sea, air, and space-based assets into a seamless web. The ground layer—Patriot, THAAD, and GBI—provides point and area defense. The sea layer extends this umbrella with Aegis destroyers and cruisers. The space layer, with new infrared sensor satellites already in development, provides crucial early warning and targeting data.
But it’s the air layer—fighters on combat air patrol—that gives the system its flexibility and forward reach. Fifth generation fighters, with their advanced sensors and stealth characteristics, can operate in contested environments where fourth generation aircraft cannot survive. They can serve as flying command posts, data fusion centers, and interceptors, extending the defensive perimeter hundreds of miles beyond American shores.
Investing in Peace
Lawmakers face the choice to invest in proven capabilities or to continue in our current vulnerability. The failed Iranian attacks have demonstrated that we need more fighters and the industrial capacity to sustain them through conflict. This is not extravagance but strategic necessity.
The ongoing modernization of our ground- and sea-based defenses is essential but insufficient. Only 5th generation fighters—and their eventual 6th generation successors—can meet this requirement. Without such a robust fighter force, our air superiority on offense and defense will be able to be exploited by adversaries.
Securing American skies demands industrial commitment and technological innovation. Multi-year procurement contracts for fighter aircraft, similar to those revitalizing our missile and shipbuilding industries, would provide the stability needed to expand production capacity.
Golden Dome’s success will ultimately be measured not by the sophistication of its technology but by its ability to prevent attacks. Without a recommitment to America’s air fleet and the industrial capacity to sustain it, that mission remains in jeopardy. When it comes to building America’s future, the cost of not investing in our air fleet could be catastrophic.
US Still Prosecuting Former ISIS Members After Officially Embracing One In Damascus
This week a 49-year-old naturalized American citizen has been sentenced to a decade in federal prison, after confessing to traveling to Syria to join the Islamic State.
Lirim Sylejmani pled guilty to terrorism charges in December, and was sentenced by a federal court on Monday. Sylejmani had attended an ISIS training camp beginning in November 2015, after moving from Kosovo to Syria with an intent to joint the terror group. “The defendant will spend a decade in prison thinking about the betrayal to this country,” US Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro said in a statement.
UPI writes that “Prosecutors said he changed his name to Abu Sulayman al-Kosovi and trained alongside other recruits to be an ISIS soldier following his arrival in the Middle Eastern country. His training included instruction on using AK-47 rifles, PK machine guns, M-16 rifles and grenades.”
When the Kosovo-native was 23, he found refuge in the United States after fleeing a genocidal regime. Sixteen years later, he decided to join one.
Sulejmani is one of hundreds of American citizens believed to have joined Islamic State in Iraq and Syria since 2014. But as the Trump administration transfersdozens of high-priority ISIS suspects from makeshift prisons across northeast Syria as U.S. troops levels draw down…
But the unspoken irony and contraction here is that he had joined the Syrian battlefield at a time the West was “looking the other way” as thousands of international jihadists joined the fight to topple Assad (a fight that the CIA and Pentagon were supporting covertly). NATO member Turkey had essentially opened the border, a ‘jihadi highway’ into Syria as part of the covert effort to overthrow the Syrian government.
The other irony is that the US has just embraced Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa (Jolani), who himself was at one point early in the Syrian proxy war a personal emissary of ISIS terror chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Apparently some kinds of terrorism are OK, according to Washington’s regime change playbook…
Jolani is also well-known for being the founder of Syria’s initial al-Qaeda branch, Jabhat al Nusrah, which has since morphed into Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which rules from Damascus in the wake of Assad’s overthrow in December. HTS has even spent a long time on the US terrorism list, though the $10 million bounty which had been on Jolani’s head has recently been removed by the FBI and US Treasury.
As for Sulejmani, he had long been held in an prison near Hasakah run by the Pentagon-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Thousands of suspected ISIS fighters were held there for years, amid efforts to send foreign fighters to their respective home countries for prosecution.
Sulejmani had actually asked to be deported to Kosovo, due to it being largely Islamic and a small country, but that didn’t happen. Kosovo was recognized as a nation by the Bush administration, after it was forcibly peeled away from Serbian control following years of war as well as NATO military intervention.
Meanwhile, Syrian AQ founder al-Sharaa is planning to travel to New York in December to address the United Nations…
“Moderated” Al Qaeda leader to address UN General Assembly in New York in September.
