Digital Currency and the End of Financial Privacy
The push toward digital currency is being framed as innovation and efficiency, but when you strip away the marketing language, what is unfolding is a structural transformation of the financial system that shifts control away from individuals and concentrates it within governments and central banks. The Bank for International Settlements has confirmed that more […]
Economy
Hormuz Blockade, Fertilizer Shock, Food Crisis — What Most People Don’t See Coming
Kind of scary, isn’t it? But wait, there is more, as they say in cheap commercials selling steak knives. Have you ever heard of super phosphate? Oh, the mere mention of it reminds me of the good old days on the farm in New Zealand all those years ago. Spreading […]
Empire
The Raskin Bill: When Presidential Capacity Becomes a Constitutional Emergency
Jamie Raskin has now done what Congress avoided for nearly six decades. With Trump’s Iran war spiraling and public trust collapsing, he has finally tabled a bill to build the “other body” the 25th Amendment quietly promised back in 1967. On paper, it is a nonpartisan commission,but in reality, it […]
Activism
College Graduates Are Losing the Clone War
College grads, it may be time for different approach, not just in getting a job but in life. If we scrape away the hype and the humbug, this is the corporate economy in a nutshell. Sorry about the bluntness, but alas, there’s no way to sugarcoat calling Ultra-Processed Life what it really is. […]
Health
Marty Makary: The FDA’s Quiet Blockade on Safer Nicotine
There are moments in public health when the path forward is unusually clear, when the evidence aligns with behavior, when risks are well understood, and when policy has a genuine opportunity to reduce harm at scale. This should be one of those moments. Non-combustible nicotine products—vapes, heated tobacco, and especially […]
Tech
Loss of privacy could be loss of life
Physically AND metaphorically… WhatsApp promises end-to-end encryption. Signal promises it. iMessage promises it. And you know what? They’re telling the truth. What you say is private. The actual content of your messages – scrambled into mathematical gibberish that only you and your recipient can decode. Military-grade encryption. Unbreakable. No one can read your words. […]
Crypto
Digital Currency and the End of Financial Privacy
The push toward digital currency is being framed as innovation and efficiency, but when you strip away the marketing language, what is unfolding is a structural transformation of the financial system that shifts control away from individuals and concentrates it within governments and central banks. The Bank for International Settlements has confirmed that more […]
Podcasts
Interview 2011 – The Great Iran Reset on The Last American Vagabond
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed RECORDED APRIL 13, 2026 via TheLastAmericanVagabond.com: Joining me once again today is James Corbett, here to discuss Trump’s actions around the Strait of Hormuz, how they have affected the global economy, and whether all of this is just another step in the the bipartisan Great Reset agenda or just […]
Solutions
Preparing Future Generations for an Uncertain Future
(Continued from Part 6. This concludes the article.) Evaluating Families to Find Like-Minded People Daily, I am reminded of how bad it is out there, based on the information that I am analyzing. People often ask me “How long do we have?” If you understand history, economics, threat analysis, and have […]