Quote:Sir Keir Starmer has explained he hired an agency to spy on journalists and fabricate stories about them because it is the only way to keep children safe online.

The prime minister has taken many steps to keep children safe, such as making you scan your face to watch porn, upload your passport to use social media, and scan your entire email account to watch a movie. The fact that your data can be collected so we know what you are doing at all times is beside the point. The point is these measures have saved zero children. Zero! If you are opposed to these measures, you clearly hate children, unlike the politicians who were tied to Epstein, such as the lovely people at Labour Together.

In one of his most impressive child-saving measures to date, Starmer has explained that he hired a PR Firm called APCO Worldwide back in 2023. Their job was to spy on journalists who had been delving into the finances of Labour Together.

These pesky journalists had noticed Labour Together’s dark money and decided to report on it. This increased the risk that children would realise their government is a bunch of cunts.

Thanks to TikTok, kids are too politically aware, and while TikTok has been dealt with, it’s nowhere enough. We would much rather go back to the days when we whined that young people weren’t interested in politics. Now you understand why we must make every do-gooder out there shut the fuck up!

Starmer decided he needed to know everything about the rogue journalists that were worryingly interested in the truth. APCO put together a dossier on their backgrounds, family lives, and religious beliefs, presumably to see if it could find any blackmail material.

I can only assume APCO could not find any blackmail material because the journalists had never visited Epstein Island or invited Ukrainian rent boys around for a sleepover or anything like that. Therefore, APCO made up a story that the journalists had been working with Russia to destabilise the British state and bring down the royal family! Sadly, the smear didn’t work because it had zero evidence and everyone knows the royal family is doing a brilliant job of bringing itself down.

Gone are the good ol’ days of Corbyn when we could scream that someone is an antisemite until half the public believes it’s true. These days everyone is seeing through that shit.

The know-it-all public refused to believe APCO’s Russia smear and this has left our children in great peril. Without smears to confuse them, they will continue to notice that we do genocides and traffic kids to rape islands. Things are so out of control that Starmer was forced to sack the greatest Little St James ambassador we’ve ever had — Peter Mandelson.

There is only one solution to this problem and that is the panopticon that Shabana Mahmoud was gushing about to Tony Blair. Mahmoud is one of the Labour Together alumni and presumably eager to protect the Epstein class. She wants the state to have eyes everywhere and digital ID is the best way to achieve that.

While we have been struggling to get digital ID through the front door. We are are pushing it through the backdoor by extending age verification. What else would you want the government to do? Address the cost of living?

Excitingly, Age verification will soon be extended to your last bastion of online privacy: VPNs! You probably didn’t know most VPNs are owned by Israel. When the new rules are pushed through, not only will Shabana know everything you post online, Netanyahu will too! This means no more whining about genocide or paedophilia without getting a friendly message to your inbox, reminding you that we know your embarrassing secrets and are not afraid to use them against you.

If this unsettles you, just blame those nosey journalists who decided to tell the truth. If they’d been good journalists like me, none of this would be happening, would it?

Quote:You may recall that last year, I wrote an entire book about modern society's descent into hell. It rang a bell with a lot of people, who see a deterioration of the world that seems more or less inevitable now. I see more and more people reacting to our current state of being with something close to despair: some of their fears are, I think, greatly exaggerated or misplaced, but others seem to hit a little too close to home for comfort.

Perhaps you've wondered, during these times, what the end will be like, and if you'll be around to experience it. The thought raises a great many questions, both theological and philosophical. But let's face it: we're here to talk about television, and for our purposes, the major question is this: how will television cover the end times?

When Ted Turner started CNN, way back in 1980, it was with the promise that the network "would stay on until the end of the world." Now, based on the network's increasingly dwindling viewership, you might wonder if the end of the world is a little closer than you'd like to think; personally, I think it's less an indication of an approaching doomsday and more an issue of the network's mismanagement. It seems to me as if CNN lost its way some time ago, and given the uncertainties about its future ownership, it's not wrong to wonder if CNN, as we knew it, remains a viable concern.

Regardless of how one might feel about it, you can't help but note the irony of it all, especially when considering the video below: the infamous, oft-rumored and apparently confirmed, “Doomsday Video” that Turner had prepared for broadcast at the end of the world.



You may well have seen the video since it first surfaced about a decade ago. The premise is just bizarre—it sounds like something you’d see on The Simpsons, doesn’t it? In fact, it's more than a little unsettling to watch. (Having the band play "Nearer My God to Thee" is a nice touch, though.) It’s also somewhat problematic theologically, whatever your beliefs. My own thought is that the Second Coming probably won't need breaking news to announce it. But who knows? It’s not as if there's any precedent to go by.

Now, CNN is not the only network to have thought about the potential of this story; the late Roger Ailes once mentioned that Fox would be there to provide live coverage when the end comes ("God to World: It’s OVER"), and I suspect MSNow, or whatever the hell it's called nowadays, would be of the same mind ("World to End: Women, minorities affected the most"). No word if they have a similar video locked away in a secret vault.

Whatever—but if CNN still plans to air this tape when the world ends, it would first behoove them to make sure that the network doesn’t end before the world does.

Quote:DIVOC transcribed as ‫ק‬ ‫ו‬ ‫ב‬ ‫י‬ ‫ד‬ in Hebrew and it actually means something – it means possession by an evil spirit. (The word is transcribed into English as dybbuk, b and v being represented through the same Hebrew character, Bet – ‫)ב‬. To better understand what a dybbuk is we will refer to no less of an authority as professor Yoram Bilu, professor of sociology and anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and recipient of the prestigious Israel Award in 2013. According to Bilu:

“The term dybbuk (dibbuq) was used in Jewish mystical circles to designate a spirit of a dead person, a notorious sinner in his lifetime, that took temporary possession of a human being (…) dybbuk possession was always conceived as an affliction or an illness and the possessing agent a foreign, dangerous intruder that had to be expelled. (…) The exorcist was always a revered rabbi who confronted the spirit with various religiously informed measures used in a fixed, graded order.”

Quoting renowned kabbalist Gershom Sholem’s works, Bilu points out that “dybbuks, demons or evil souls possessed some unhappy or mentally sick creature”. Dybbuks seem to target mostly women and children and “emotional intensification or arousal” are prerequisites for such demonic possession. Bilu concludes:

“Dybbuk possession left the victim as a passive object, temporarily bereft of self-awareness and without self-control vis-à-vis two external authorities: the possessing spirit who deprived the possessed of her individual identity and the rabbi-exorcist who compelled the spirit to leave”

The Occult Meaning Of The Term COVID

Quote:Slodov’s ambitions, however, were far bigger than starting a company. At the beginning of 2024, Slodov published a tract online titled “A Techno-Industrialist Manifesto.” “We need to make manufacturing better, cheaper, and faster through technology,” he wrote. “It should be as easy to make physical things as it is to make software. The end.” The main premise of “techno-industrialism” was that Silicon Valley might help solve the riddle that had stumped policymakers for more than forty years: how to reverse the tide of deindustrialization in a globalized economy in which companies can find cheaper labor abroad than they can in Detroit, Youngstown, or Peoria. “Techno-industrialists are finding their moment,” wrote Slodov. “The next wave of trillion-dollar companies in the coming decades will be in hard tech and/or manufacturing adjacent.” He called on “the most talented people in tech” to join the movement. “Go bang your head against the wall trying to figure out unsolved, insane, real-world problems.”

Soon, an ad hoc group—including Slodov’s college friend Austin Bishop; Chris Power, the CEO of Hadrian, a startup whose factories use AI software to automate weapons-parts production; and Julius Krein, editor of the conservative journal American Affairs—came together to form what they called the “vanguard of America’s techno-industrialist revival” and founded a nonprofit called the New American Industrial Alliance. That same year, a like-minded group of venture capitalists and technologists started an investment group, the New Industrial Corporation, with the goal of “build[ing] infrastructure for the most promising New Industrial companies.” They were tired of foreign powers—mainly China and Russia—“stealing” all the United States’ intellectual property; tired of the slow decline of the country’s defense-industrial base, which left it unable to effectively build ships or drones; tired of America losing its competitive edge; tired of the disappearance of manual-labor jobs and the decimation of local economies; and tired of politicians making empty promises to fix the problem.

Every American president blames the woes of deindustrialization on the previous administration and vows to be the one to stanch the bleeding. The specific framing of this issue changes over time, but the focus on industrial flight remains a point of bipartisan obsession. “Folks, where is it written that America can’t once again be the manufacturing capital of the world?” Joe Biden mused in 2023 while on a factory tour in Minneapolis. His 2022 Inflation Reduction Act had invested hundreds of billions of dollars in domestic clean-energy companies that produced electric vehicles, semiconductors, and batteries. When Trump assumed office for the second time, many of Biden’s policies that might actually have resulted in the creation of a meaningful number of manufacturing jobs were abandoned or scaled back, even as Trump promised a “manufacturing renaissance.” Instead, he opted to punish America’s trading partners with a blitzkrieg of tariffs.

“Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country, and you see it happening already,” he declared last April. That same month, the number of manufacturing jobs in America declined by about one thousand. And despite the millions of manufacturing jobs that will soon open up as baby boomers retire, few Americans are willing or able to perform the work. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, some four hundred thousand manufacturing jobs are currently unfilled. The jobs and factories have yet to come “roaring back.”

The techno-industrialists have a different plan to save America. As they see it, what we need is advanced manufacturing. For too long, they say, tech engineers have been fooling around with intangible things: software, blockchain, crypto, AI. Meanwhile, China, the world’s manufacturing powerhouse, is churning out roughly eighty-five thousand cars a day; the United States can scarcely produce a third of that number. Silicon Valley is bloated with startups, but too few of their products are concrete. The techno-industrialists believe that America needs to apply modern computing capabilities to industrial production. They believe that technology has drifted too far into the invisible realm of bits or into the digital cloud. They are tired of the coastal ethos of “tech for tech’s sake.” And they’ve attracted some very powerful backers in the newly allied worlds of tech and American politics, among them the vice president and the secretary of defense. “The West once held its own destiny in a firm grip,” reads the New Industrial Corporation’s mission statement. “We can all feel it. A supercycle is groaning to a halt. . . . The known world order is becoming disordered. The ‘end of history’ is ending.”

Two years ago, in June 2024, a group of techno-industrialist leaders organized a conference in Detroit that they called Reindustrialize. It was low-profile, with around seven hundred attendees, and held in a former book depository. When I heard from Slodov that there would be a second iteration this past July, dubbed Reindustrialize 2.0, I decided to attend. Like Slodov, I grew up in the Midwest and spent my youth wondering what had happened to postindustrial towns like Gary or Milwaukee, where the American dream had given way to bail-bond stores and foreclosure notices. The techno-industrialists, it seemed, were at the front lines, offering a concrete vision of a vibrant industrial base that would give rise to a Jetsonian future with automated machines and flying cars. At the same time, there were a number of things about the movement that hinted at something more complicated. For one, while it was easy to see how shiny new hardware might lead to increased productivity, it was harder to imagine how technology that leaned so heavily on automation would do anything to improve the plight of the Midwest’s working class. In addition, the movement’s roster of high-profile corporate partners such as Palantir, Lockheed Martin, and Honeywell suggested that “reindustrialization,” just like the midcentury manufacturing boom it was constantly calling back to, would depend principally on its connection with one sector of the economy: the defense industry.

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Here was the factory of the future. The software cut in half the time it took to make molds, which reduced the number of workers needed, at least according to Slodov, by half. “Ultimately, we need to grow our industrial base so much so there isn’t going to be any sort of job reduction, even if you make a human mold twenty times more efficient,” Young explained. “We need to increase it by so much that there’s not going to be any AI taking jobs. It’ll be creating jobs.” We continued walking through the factory. “I mean, this might be a loaded question,” he said, “but would you rather have a million jobs back, paying ten dollars an hour, or two hundred thousand jobs back, making two hundred grand a year?”

More than a loaded question, it was a hypothetical one. Atomic had yet to show that it could sustain itself as a business: it had closed its first round of seed funding in 2023 and was in the process of raising more VC money. And I struggled to understand how a factory that was supposed to bring jobs and life back to America could do so when it employed so few people. But after two days at Reindustrialize 2.0, Young’s optimism was hardly a surprise to me, nor did it strike me as inauthentic. On the way out, we passed a young man dressed in black, tending carefully to a million-dollar 3D printer. Every so often, he’d press a button on a screen that would direct a high-powered laser to weld powdered metal together, creating a mold component that Atomic software had designed. He motioned for me to peer into a circular glass window where a flash of aquatic colors vibrated in conic patterns. Little lasers danced beneath the light. “It’s kind of mesmerizing,” he said, as we stared, transfixed, into the portal.

Quote:Neros Technologies

Neros was founded in 2023 with a mission to build the West’s drone industrial base.

In 2025, Neros became the highest-output American drone manufacturer within a 15,000-square-foot facility in El Segundo. But faced with the reality of modern warfare as seen in Ukraine, we were still just a drop in the bucket.

In 2026, we’re scaling our productive capacity by 100x.

Today, Neros is proud to announce our expansion into Millennium One, a 250,000-square-foot flagship facility in Torrance, CA. This factory is the cornerstone of Project Millennium, our initiative to build a drone industrial base that is truly competitive with China. We will build world-class systems, at a scale in the millions, and at internationally competitive cost right here on domestic soil.

Millennium One is a decisive step towards bridging the critical production gap to our adversaries. Beyond final assembly, we are also verticalizing components across the entire drone value chain, onshoring high-risk subsystems to ensure our domestic manufacturing capabilities are insulated from external supply shocks. Neros will provide the ultimate deterrent and the asymmetric advantage the West requires. We cannot afford to fail.
Project Millennium

Quote:Ryan Cohen / @ryancohen Feb 18, 2026

The Hollow Men

American capitalism is rotting from the head down. We have replaced the "Owner-Operator"—the risk-taker-with a new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider.

By "Insider," I am not referring to a specific title. I am referring to the entire administrative state that has captured the modern corporation. This includes the Directors who exist solely to collect fees, the Executives who exist solely to collect bonuses, and the Managers who exist solely to hire consultants.

These are the hollow men of the boardroom. They are masters of PowerPoint. They wear the right suits. They say the right buzzwords about "governance" and "ESG." But they are mercenaries fighting a war with someone else’s ammunition.

In a functioning economy, authority is tied to liability. If you make a bad decision, you lose your own money. That fear of loss is the only thing that keeps a business honest. It forces you to cut waste, obsess over the customer, and stay late to fix what is broken.

Today, we have severed that link.

We have rigged the game so that heads, the Insider wins; tails, the shareholder loses.

If the stock goes up, the Insider collects a massive performance bonus. If the stock crashes due to their own incompetence, they are fired with a "Golden Parachute" worth tens of millions. They are gambling with the house’s money, and they never leave the table poorer than they arrived.

This looting starts in the boardroom.

We have normalized a "Country Club" culture where directors are selected based on social profiling rather than their ability to build a business. The modern board member is often a professional tourist—paid an average of $350,000 a year.

Let’s be brutally honest about what that number represents. The average director is paid nearly five times the GDP per capita of the United States. They earn more for attending four quarterly lunches than the vast majority of Americans earn in five years of hard labor.

And for what?

Most of these directors are "over-boarded," sitting on three or four boards simultaneously. They treat directorships as a gig economy for the elite. They fly in, rubber-stamp a compensation package they didn't read, and fly out. They collect checks from companies they do not understand, do not use, and certainly do not love.

They are not there to ask hard questions. They are there to be collegial. They are there to protect the other Insiders.

And what happens when these boards hire executives who also have no personal capital at risk?

We get the Delegation Economy.

When a Risk-Free Insider faces a crisis—bloated expenses, a broken supply chain, or a stale product—they do not roll up their sleeves. They hire a consultant. They pay a strategy firm millions of shareholder dollars to produce a 100-page deck telling them what they already know.

This is not management. It is intellectual money laundering.

They use shareholder capital to buy an insurance policy for their own careers. If the plan fails, they can blame the consultants. They delegate the work because they are terrified of the responsibility. They would rather preside over a slow, comfortable decline than risk a bold mistake.

While American Insiders are busy optimizing their severance packages, our global competitors are optimizing their products. They are not slowed down by bureaucracy. They are not waiting for a slide deck. They are outworking us.

If we continue to fill our C-suites with administrators instead of operators, we will lose our edge. We will see iconic American franchises hollowed out by fees, managed for the benefit of the Insiders, while the true owners—the shareholders—are left holding the bag.

The time for polite governance is over.

If we want to save the American economy from mediocrity, we must demand a return to the "Owner’s Mentality." We need leaders who treat shareholder capital with the same reverence they treat their own savings. The era of the Risk-Free Insider must end.

(02-16-2026, 03:49 AM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: Russia made their own Marvel universe and it's actually not bad at all.

Guardians (2017)

Full movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=125uPdooTzc