One of my longest-standing arguments is that we are not living in Orwell’s 1984, where truth is centrally suppressed and censored by force (that’s former communist societies, modern-day China, Russia, North Korea).
We are living in something much closer to Huxley’s Brave New World.
The truth is not hidden - it is almost always readily available. But it is buried beneath an industrial quantity of noise: propaganda, outrage, half-truths, conspiracy theories, influencer theatre, algorithmic rage bait and an endless stream of content designed not to inform us, but to keep us emotionally stimulated.
The modern information system does not need to censor the truth when it can simply drown it in noise.
A fact no longer has to be disproven - it only has to be surrounded by a hundred competing claims, stripped of context and nuance, turned into partisan ammunition and pushed into the same feed as celebrity gossip, memes and 15 second videos engineered to deliver the fastest possible dopamine hit. By the time the truth reaches us, it appears as just another piece of content competing for our attention.
That is the more sophisticated form of control: not preventing people from knowing, but exhausting their capacity to care.
Orwell feared a world in which people would be deprived of information. Huxley feared a world in which they would be given so much distraction, stimulation and triviality that they would lose the desire to seek it.
The defining struggle of our age is therefore not simply between truth and censorship, but between truth and indifference.
La souffrance est extrême pour les végétaux en Méditerranée française avec plusieurs records absolus de température (carte 1, jusqu'à 43°C). Certaines stations relèvent moins de 10% d'humidité (carte 2) avec un vent à 30-60km/h en rafale. Les conditions de l'effet sèche cheveux sont réunies (carte 4) propulsant l'indice des feux de forêts à "très extrême" (carte 3). Bref, c'est l'enfer.
Media, politicians and public are blind to the fact that our overheating planet will upend all political rules before the next election. Nothing like this has happened in human history and the political and social reaction will be like nothing in human history. And not in a good way.
Il y a trois jours, j’avais publié un message que j’ai finalement supprimé. Je le trouvais trop émotionnel, et pas assez solide face aux incertitudes sur l’intensité de cette troisième canicule. J’ai eu tort.
Les modèles convergent désormais clairement vers une nouvelle canicule durable et exceptionnelle.
Le scénario de juin 2026 se reproduit : une goutte froide au large du Maroc, une masse d’air brûlante remontant du sud, et un blocage sous un dôme de chaleur. Des températures supérieures à 40°C pendant plusieurs jours, correspondant à un niveau de vigilance rouge, sont à nouveau très probables sur un large quart sud-ouest. Copier-coller.
Cette fois-ci, je ne veux plus masquer mon inquiétude. Ce qui se profile est une catastrophe pour nos écosystèmes. Dans un contexte de sécheresse déjà extrême, les impacts vont s’accumuler : mortalité, brûlures, avortement floral, arrêt de croissance, défaillance des cultures. On repart sur les mêmes bases qu’en juin. Et, très honnêtement, les bras m’en tombent.
Former HUD Assistant Secretary Catherine Austin Fitts explains the financial controllers' "Master Plan" for us, including depopulation and a "total control" grid📷🤖
This is a mini video-essay I made based on a clip of Fitts pulled from a recent interview
The public are so clueless about climate change, it’s hard to actually comprehend how in the dark they are about what is happening to us.
Prof Will Steffen, Australian National
university:
We are causing #globalwarming 100 times faster than past natural changes
We are taking Earth’s 🌎 climate beyond natural limits, with CO2 & temps levels not seen for 3 million years.
No time to wait. #ActOnClimate#climate#energy
In 1879, JP Morgan paid a man to invent the lie that is the foundation of modern economics.
A billionaire who helped start Amazon just exposed the whole thing on Diary of a CEO, and once you hear it you will never look at paychecks the same way again:
146 years ago, a guy named Henry George wrote a book called Progress and Poverty.
It was the first mainstream book about the rich systematically stealing from the poor, and It literally became the bestselling book in the history of the United States at the time.
The working class was reading it everywhere, and the people at the top of the economy completely lost their minds.
So JP Morgan personally brought a man named John Bates Clark to Columbia University, which was essentially the intellectual headquarters of Wall Street, and told him to fix the problem.
Clark wrote a book called The Distribution of Wealth. In it, he invented something called the "theory of marginal productivity," which claims that because markets are perfectly efficient, the amount of money you earn reflects EXACTLY the value you contribute to the economy.
If you make $15,000 a year, that's because you're providing $15,000 of value. If a hedge fund manager makes $500 million a year moving money around, that's an accurate reflection of the value he creates in the world.
And Clark literally said the quiet part out loud IN HIS OWN BOOK.
He wrote that they had to prove to working people that no matter how much they make, whether it's a little or a lot, it accurately reflects their value, because if workers ever concluded that their labor was worth more than they were being paid, they would revolt and destroy the entire system.
That was the whole point. The theory was built to prevent a revolution.
And it worked so well that it got absorbed into mainstream economics and is STILL taught as a foundational principle to this day.
Every time a CEO tells you "the market decides your salary," they're repeating a framework that was literally commissioned by JP Morgan in the 1800s to convince you not to ask for more.
Nick Hanauer, the billionaire who told this story, also shared the numbers that prove why it matters right now:
The median full-time worker in America earns about $60,000 a year. If that same worker had maintained the same share of GDP they held in 1975, they wouldn't be making $60,000. They'd be making $120,000. That gap goes all the way up to the 90th percentile. If you earn $180,000 today, you'd be earning $250,000 under the old distribution.
The ONLY people who benefited from 50 years of economic growth were the top 10%, and the vast majority of that went to the top 1%. That is trillions of dollars every single year that used to be wages for ordinary working people and now sits in the accounts of the wealthiest people on the planet.
This happened because of policy. Tax cuts for the rich, deregulation for the powerful, and wage suppression for everyone else, all justified by an economic theory that was invented specifically to make you believe you deserve exactly what you're getting.
And the craziest part is that GDP growth rates in America were 4 to 4.5% for decades when workers were included in prosperity. As soon as the neoliberals took over in the mid-1970s and implemented these policies, GDP growth fell to 3% and eventually to 2%.
Including people in the economy doesn't slow growth down. It's literally the thing that CREATES growth. And the theory that convinced the world otherwise was a hit job paid for by one of the richest men in history to keep workers quiet.
What do you think?
Hartenstein has committed 36 three second violations, 47 illegal screens, and 63 holding penalties.
I don’t know what this is but it isn’t basketball.
Tony Brothers should get hit with a beer can.
@NBA what the fuq is this?
There were warnings about the subprime mortgage crisis being a major threat to the global economy. It was ignored by the establishment and media until it became a collapse. We’re still living with the consequences.
We may not be able to life with the consequences of ignoring this.
Colombia University’s Dr James Hansen:
A super El Niño will shift the risks for heat waves, humidity, droughts, floods and tropical storms into 2027.
That will affect agriculture, health outcomes and the economy.
Now is the time to plan and prepare if you live in a region prone to extreme weather from El Niño.
This Wall Street insider just exposed the secret doomsday escape plans of AI billionaires.
1 in 3 billionaires has a fully funded plan to abandon civilization when things collapse.
They meet their pilots at Oakland airport, board a Gulfstream 650, fly to New Zealand, and disappear into a bunker that cost tens of millions to build.
And this isn't some conspiracy theory. There's literally PROOF:
Sam Altman told The New Yorker he stockpiles guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, and gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force. He owns a patch of land in Big Sur he can fly to when society breaks down. His backup plan is flying with Peter Thiel to Thiel's compound in New Zealand.
Peter Thiel became a New Zealand citizen in 2011 after spending only 12 days in the country. He bought a 477-acre estate for $13.5 million and submitted plans for a bunker-style compound embedded into a hillside with a 1,082-foot glass-lined guest lodge for 24 people.
Mark Zuckerberg is building a 5,000 square foot underground shelter beneath his $270 million compound in Hawaii. Blast-resistant doors made of metal and concrete, its own energy and food supplies, and an escape hatch accessible by ladder.
Every construction worker signed an NDA and different crews were forbidden from speaking to each other.
Larry Page, co-founder of Google, quietly disappeared to Fiji during the pandemic. He reportedly bought at least one private island in the Mamanuca archipelago. When local media reported his presence, Fijian authorities ordered the article taken down.
Scott Galloway sat with one of these billionaires who walked him through his entire exit strategy step by step.
His response: "You don't think your pilots are going to kill you and fuck your wife? You don't think the people in New Zealand are going to come take the rich guy's shit?"
But here's the thing that really matters...
These are the SAME people building AI.
The same founders telling Congress that AI will cure cancer have already decided they're leaving when it goes sideways.
Galloway confirmed a secondhand account from someone close to one of these AI CEOs. The CEO admitted he believes there's a 7 to 10% chance AI results in a catastrophic event for humanity. And he doesn't care because being the person who summoned this intelligence is "more consequential than whatever happens."
These billionaires don't use public healthcare. They have concierge medicine delivered to their living room. Their kids attend $75,000 per year academies while public schools spend $10,000.
They fly private. They have private security instead of police.
Galloway's words: "The 0.1% are no longer invested in the well-being of America. They've totally dissociated because they're sequestered from it."
And the incentives to reach that level are so extreme that founders will make ANY decision necessary to get there.
Galloway called it the Darth Vader pipeline. Every tech CEO follows the same arc:
Sam Altman was "the gay son we all wanted." Soft spoken, testifying before Congress about safety.
Now he's subpoenaing nonprofits that criticize OpenAI and telling people to stop complaining about energy costs.
Galloway on all of them: "These guys would sleep with their cousin for a nickel."
The next chosen hero is Dario Amodei at Anthropic. Galloway says he'll follow the exact same path because the system makes it inevitable.
Then he dropped his most dangerous prediction:
He thinks there's a 1 in 3 chance AI ends up like jet transportation, vaccines, or PCs. Technologies that changed civilization but where NO group of companies ever captured serious shareholder value.
The entire airline industry across all of history is at break even. Moderna is down 90%. AI models are converging.
Open weight Chinese models are free and a third of corporations are already using them.
His prediction: Go short the AI ecosystem. The winner of AI might be us, the users. Not the companies.
And if he's right, the domino effect is terrifying...
40% of the S&P is tied to AI. Most GDP growth over the last two years came from AI capex. So if corporations start dropping OpenAI and Anthropic for free Chinese models, the entire market could crash.
This is just like the Chinese steel dumping in the 80s:
Flood America with cheap AI, kneecap the companies propping up the stock market, then trigger a recession without firing a single shot.
The billionaires building AI have escape plans ready. They've detached from society entirely.
They know there's a real chance this ends badly and they're building it anyway.
Every tech hero turns villain on a shorter timeline.
And the financial system is so dependent on AI valuations that one move from China could bring it all down.
And we're still trusting these people to self-regulate.
What do you think?
This is the most OUTRAGEOUS deal I've seen in my 45 years on Wall Street.
SpaceX just disclosed Musk's new compensation package:
He gets up to 200 million super-voting shares if SpaceX hits a $7.5 trillion valuation, establishes a permanent human settlement of at least ONE MILLION people on Mars, and deploys roughly 100 terawatts of space-based computing power.
Let me put the 100 terawatts in perspective:
The entire electricity generation capacity of the United States is around 1.2 terawatts. The comp plan asks Musk to build more than 80x America's entire power grid... in orbit.
This is a science fiction screenplay that somehow landed in front of the SEC.
But here's why it actually matters for your portfolio...
The S-1 reportedly claims a $28.5 trillion total addressable market, with over 90 percent attributed to AI. CapeFearAdvisors flagged this one cleanly: when Palantir went public, it disclosed a $119 billion TAM and the SEC reviewed and accepted it.
SpaceX is claiming a market roughly 240x BIGGER.
Now let's talk about what is actually being sold here:
Reported 2025 revenue is approximately $15.5 billion. Starlink delivers around $11 billion of that with healthy margins, and the launch business is genuinely dominant. The problem is xAI - the AI piece doing all the heavy lifting in the trillion-dollar valuation pitch.
xAI generated just $210 million of revenue in the first 3 quarters of 2025 while burning through $9.5 billion in cash.
Ben Brey and Rupert Mitchell - a former Fidelity portfolio manager and a former head of equity capital markets at Goldman and Citi between them - ran a serious discounted cash flow on the actual operating businesses and arrived at roughly $400 billion. Lawrence Fossi covered their work recently and the math holds up.
The IPO is being marketed at $1.75 TRILLION.
The gap between what these businesses support and what Musk is asking the public to pay is roughly $1.35 trillion of pure narrative.
Then layer on what we just learned last week...
The New York Times investigation revealed Musk personally borrowed $500 million from SpaceX between 2018 and 2020 at rates as low as 1%, while bank prime rates sat around 5%. The same SpaceX has been used to bail out SolarCity, prop up Tesla during cash crunches, and absorb xAI when the AI losses became unmanageable.
This is the same playbook he's run for two decades.
Use a privately controlled entity as a personal piggy bank, and when the bills come due, find new investors to absorb the losses.
The IPO is structured to keep that game going FOREVER.
The Texas reincorporation strips away Delaware's fiduciary protections. Controlled-company status on the Nasdaq eliminates independent board requirements. And retail is being offered up to 30% of the offering (3x the normal allocation) because the institutions who actually do the math are quietly stepping away.
Here is the part that finishes the case for me:
Roughly $40 billion of the IPO proceeds are already spoken for before a single dollar reaches operations. About $23 billion retires SpaceX debt. Another $17 billion retires the high-interest debt sitting on xAI and X.
This raise is not funding the future. It's just plugging existing holes that retail investors will now own.
In my 45 years I've never seen a deal where the comp hurdle is colonizing another planet.
I've never seen a disclosed TAM that exceeds verified comparables by two orders of magnitude.
I've never seen a company asking the public to fund the retirement of debt incurred by separate private entities controlled by the same individual.
Every red flag I've watched precede a major bust over four decades is sitting in this prospectus, in plain sight.
The Tesla mispricing is being repeated on a far larger scale.
And this time the bag is being handed directly to retail.
Don't be the one holding it.