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Cathy Smith
Fifty Years of Bickering at the Lip of the Anthropocene Volcano
They who have perceived the red-blue mirage on the horizon are done cheering on clowns promising water. They have watched the thermometers, looked at the pages of debt, and measured the ash. They have watched the world tilting towards populace doom as its two “great camps” bickered over who sported the moral halo the most convincingly. The general public looks at partisan mirages and salivates for the water that is only vapors on the horizon. The planet, the last one we will ever have, teeters on Anthropocene whist we argue over bathroom genders. The Earth dies as we argue over where to poop. Which color of politician “deserves” assassination. What we all deserve, in 2025, is a dead planet, devoid of all humans.
For five decades, the globe has slept in a circus tent pitched at the foot of Vesuvius. The volcano is there — carbon, nitrogen runoff, melting ice, dying ecosystems, antibiotic-resistant flesh-eating bacteria — but the crowd prefers the show. Every election season another routine: red clown, blue clown, pie in the face. Behind the guffaws, the ground shakes. The slogans grow thick with wildfire ash. Even the swamps are burning.
by Fred Gransville
The United States Constitution is not genius because it has a vision of human beings as angels, but because it subjects fallible men and women to law instead of to passion. The republic endures only as long as disputes are resolved by ballots, by arguments, by amendments - and not by bullets, bombs, and mobs.
But history discloses a more profound thread of blacker violence in our nation's history: the consistent use of political violence to repress, terrify, and disrupt. From Dealey Plaza in 1963 to Orum, Utah in 2025, violence has haunted our political life like a ghost, ironizing the promise of nonviolent self-government.
By Ned Lud
Children of Our Depraved New Millennium
"They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind." - Hosea 8:7
The coming of the new millennium was greeted with fanfare as one of progress, prosperity, and peace. But for its children, it has been none of these. They were promised illumination and brought flash screens that glare with violence. They were promised safety and offered guns in war zones and blood sport La’merica. They were promised abundance, but millions go hungry with empty bellies while oligarchs’ tables groan with feasts. We have begun a thousand years of bloodshed of starving of children as sex toys for oligarchs as “prophet.” “Earned.”
Across continents, the children of this Brave New Millennium are betrayed. They are not raised by the mother's song but by the hum drone lullabies under the heavens. They are not sent to school but smuggled along borders, sold into slavery, or starved like pawns in sovereigns' games who see human life as disposable. Their innocence is stolen in power bedrooms, in mines in which their own fingers dig out the cobalt, in sweatshops in which their own backs bend to fuel the engines of wealth.
Chris Spencer
1. WTC 7 / Building 7 Collapse
World Trade Center 7 (WTC 7) collapsed on September 11, 2001, in a manner that ordinary fire-only explanations cannot account for (Wikipedia, 2025). It collapsed symmetrically and essentially straight down, into a period of free-fall acceleration that was about 2.25 seconds, as openly acknowledged by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, 2008; Wikipedia, 2025). This is a very rare occurrence; in the whole history of steel-framed, high-rise fires, no building has ever collapsed totally because of unrestrained fires (NIST, 2008).
NIST attributes the start of collapse to buckling at Column 79, where structural failure due to fires allegedly started a domino collapse of the whole structure (NIST, NCSTAR 1-9, 2008). Critics argue that this very improbable mechanism considering the redundant steel building structure and multiple layers of fireproofing is unlikely (AE911Truth, 2019). The multi-year University of Alaska Fairbanks study (Hulsey et al., 2015) concluded that fires alone could not have caused the collapse of WTC 7, providing a strenuously sourced academic alternative narrative summarily rejected in the mainstream.
© 2025 Fred Gransville
Turn On, Tune In, Log Out
From Leary's astral trips to the Pentagon's biometric grids, the war on consciousness is not metaphysical anymore. Rather, new research tells us it is war on the flesh we wear, the senses we have been taught to ignore. The visceral urge they try to hold in check.
The golden calf was the idol of idolatrous worship-crafted by artisans but demanded by the masses, a symbol of worshiping metal instead of the transcendent.
Rick Foster
How chemicals, profit, and fallout made the cancer century
Introduction: Cancer Was Not Inevitable
Cancer has been discussed as if it's destiny, the grim shadow trailing the parade of human advancement to more life. But this is a myth. The data proves that cancer is not the backward-magical price of aging but the product of industrial choices-centuries of radiation experiments, chemical saturation, and the calculated trade of profit over prevention. Instead of unavoidable, cancer is the accidental legacy of a profitable industrialized world.
Western media often blames the diseased person for the sins of red meat and alcohol; it is dismissed as “cancer as fate/aging” via narrow narratives.
Globally, the numbers are staggering. In 2022 alone, more than 20 million people were newly diagnosed with cancer and nearly 10 million died (World Cancer Research Fund, 2022; American Cancer Society, 2024). The highest incidence rates no longer map neatly onto poverty or inadequate sanitation but onto the coordinates of industrial wealth: Western Europe, North America, and enclaves of Oceania lead the lists (World Cancer Research Fund, 2022). The disease is now a grim ledger of industrial advancement-recording where fallout scattered, where chemicals were sold, and where lifestyles shifted most extreme beneath the weight of processed foods, tainted air, and synthetic commerce.
Fred Gransville
I. A Pill Nation: The New Face of an Old Experiment
Imagine a mother at the pharmacy counter with prescription in hand, wavering under the pharmacist's gaze. Her seven-year-old has been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and the physician insists that Adderall is required to facilitate normal functioning in school. Across town, a thirty-something professional is microdosing LSD in order to get through a twelve-hour workday, praying for increased focus and creativity. Retirees are prescribed daily selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), their emotions dulled, their compliance assured. There is no one coercing these patients. There are no white coats pinning them down. But they are, all the same, subjects of what constitutes a grand experiment-voluntary, corporate, and all but invisible.
Experiments like MKUltra once employed far more primitive methodology. LSD was given surreptitiously, electroshock resulted in psychological damage, and patients' autonomy was taken away in the name of medical therapy. Dr. Ewen Cameron's psychic driving tests at McGill University were the worst of the worst: human beings turned into cognitive tabula rasa, reconstructed to do the experimenter's bidding. People believed those horrors would never be repeated. But MKUltra did not disappear. It evolved. Its processes were legalized, industrialized, and normalized through the medium of pharmaceuticals.
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War
Have you read “The Case for Military Intervention to Stop the Gaza Genocide“? I don’t mind promoting it to you, since I agree with most of it (and also consider most of it to do absolutely nothing to advance any case for military intervention to stop the Gaza genocide).
The enormous problem we face is not the people who care enough and are desperate enough to make this misguided proposal. The enormous problem is the usual one: corrupt, evil, malfunctioning, and sadistic governments abetted by great masses of people too busy, distracted, ignorant, or uncaring to try anything at all.
By Sally Dugman
...give up conforming to “group-think”...
From my angle, a not entirely true assessment exists and here is excerpted from it, from Martin Armstrong’s article: The Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force
The people have lost all confidence in government. The people no longer trust the government to handle the cost of living, nor do they trust the data issues on inflation, unemployment, or GDP growth. Americans see their tax dollars spent overseas on issues that do not benefit them in any way, their economic concerns have not been addressed, and they are unable to vote on how public funds are spent—let alone how the US responds to foreign conflicts.
armstrongeconomics.com
In fact, he may think that he speaks for and represents all of us Americans, but he absolutely does not do so. In fact, I, myself , stand in a definite solitary opposition to his conclusion.
© 2025 Tracy Turner
America in 2025 is Orwellian, Huxleyean, Bradburyan and Atwoodian.
America’s Early Whispers of Dystopia
The hybrid dystopia we inhabit did not begin with Reagan’s Colgate Hollywood smile in 1981, nor with Orwell’s storyline year of 1984. Its roots stretch back decades, hydroseeded in paranoia, surveillance, and quiet mental pressure.
Long before mass E-surveillance became a Silicon Valley avocation, it was Hoover’s FBI files. Long before Huxley’s soma came bottled as Adderall, it was prescription Phenobarbital lining suburban medicine cabinets. Long before Atwood’s handmaids, women were fighting for autonomy over wombs legislated by men in gray suits. The parabolic arc of America’s slow erosion of freedom and liberty is not sudden-it is quasi-legal mission creep, and often disguised as protection, progress, ease, safety or entertainment.
Orwellian Foreplay: America’s Dystopian Dry Dock, 1945-1980