Jan 04

Venezuela went from the richest place in South America to the poorest in 20 years. Eight million people fled.

Caracus. Jan. 4, 2026. Venezuela was once one of the richest countries in Latin America. Then its people voted for socialism, “free healthcare,” and redistribution. The Venezuelan government seized oil companies, mines, newspapers, and businesses of every kind.

Today 82 percent of Venezuelans live in poverty according to recognized standards, including 53 percent in extreme poverty. More than 94 percent of the population lacks sufficient income to purchase basic goods and services. The Gini inequality coefficient has reached 0.603, making Venezuela one of the most unequal societies in the world.

Eighty-two percent of Venezuelans suffer from food insecurity, and 17 percent of children under five were malnourished as of 2018. Food production fell by 60 percent between 2014 and 2018. While the country cannot produce enough food domestically, most people also lack the income to purchase imported food. As a result, 84 percent of basic food basket items are unavailable in supermarkets.

The healthcare system has collapsed, with both maternal and infant mortality increasing by more than 30 percent since 2015. The maternal mortality rate stands at 98.87 deaths per 100,000 live births.

Roughly half of the country’s doctors have fled Venezuela. An estimated 70 percent of medical and nursing staff have abandoned their positions.

Venezuela ranked 156th out of 180 countries in Reporters Without Borders’ 2024 World Press Freedom Index. The government blocked websites, social media platforms, and foreign news outlets, and shut down at least 115 media organizations across print, radio, and television. So-called anti-hate laws, carrying prison sentences of up to 20 years, have been used to silence journalists and activists. Additional anti-fascism, anti-terrorism, cybercrime, and NGO surveillance laws created a rapid and comprehensive legal machinery for repression.

State-directed disinformation campaigns use paid troll accounts and fake websites to smear journalists and activists. Venezuelans have been detained simply for filming events on the street or for comments made in WhatsApp groups, creating widespread fear of discussing political or social issues online.

As of September 2024, Venezuela held 1,793 political prisoners, the highest number recorded in the 21st century. Following the July 2024 election, approximately 1,400 people were detained for protesting or expressing dissent, bringing the post-election total to 1,659 detainees, including children. Most were charged with terrorism and remain imprisoned without sentencing.

These figures are thanks to Antonio Graceffo of The Gateway Pundit.

Dec 17

40% of Germans say they can’t speak freely. Britain now prosecutes and imprisons more people for speaking than China.

The light of liberty is going out across the western world.

Berlin. December 17, 2025. On this anniversary of the signing of the Bill of Rights in America, the right of free speech and press are practically extinguished in Europe and the UK.

Recently, the ‘X’ platform was hit with a $150 million fine by the EU (unelected) “parliament” for failing to censor out anti-government content.

SWAT-style police raids now descend on thousands of Europeans annually who speak words which government masters dislike.

Now a new German poll shows that 40 percent of Germans believe they can’t speak freely.

Dec 07

Venezuela’s Nobel Peace Prize Winner May be Arrested Back Home for Accepting the Prize.

December 6, 2025. New York Times reports that Venezuelan officials say María Corina Machado will be considered a fugitive if she goes to Oslo, Norway to accept the Nobel Peace Prize.

Just 30 years ago Venezuela was one of the wealthiest and freest countries in South America.  Then its people voted for socialism.  Today’s Venezuelans are among the poorest and most oppressed people in all of Latin America.  The Venezuelan government has seized and stolen countless businesses. Former doctors and lawyers now walk the streets as prostitutes. Starving people break into the national zoo to cook and eat zebras and other zoo animals. Men die in the streets fighting over dollar bills. Censorship is almost absolute. Meanwhile heirs of Hugo Chavez (the corrupt founder of Venezuelan socialism back in 1998) live in Europe as billionaires.

María Corina Machado has courageously forged an opposition movement, openly accusing the socialist government of stealing elections and robbing the Venezuelan people of their liberty and prosperity. Machado has been living in hiding in her country.  She indicates she will travel to Norway next week to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, according to a Norwegian official.

Venezuela’s government has said she would be considered a fugitive if she left the country and subject to arrest if she returns.

Machado is a member of a prominent Venezuelan family whose company, Sivensa, was a large steel producer; Venezuela’s government has stolen most of the company. Venezuelan authorities blocked her from running for president in 2024. She shifted her strategy to backing Edmundo González, who trounced President Maduro last year. Nevertheless, Venezuelan officials declared Mr. Maduro the winner. Mr. Maduro’s government then arrested more than 2,000 people for taking part in protests over the stolen election.

Dec 05

Vast majority of Americans now view college as an overpriced scam.

A strong majority of Americans now believe that higher education is a scam, according to new polling from NBC News.

A new NBC News poll finds that a full 63% of voters believe a four-year college degree now isn’t worth it, since many students graduate with “a large amount of debt” but no “specific job skills.”

Tuition costs have skyrocketed, doubling over the last 20 years (a redoubling from two decades earlier), as universities jacked up prices to match increased “help” such as federal aid and ever-larger government-facilitated student loans.

Americans become less free the instant they walk upon a government funded college campus. Debate on every issue is controlled by government political correctness.

Dec 04

New study debunks notion of current mass extinction.

Arizona. December 2025. It is such an article of faith among most university professors that it passes as settled science: the notion that the earth is currently experiencing a mass extinction. Some government-supported (and supporting) “scientists” even claim that the world is currently in a “fourth,” “fifth,” or “sixth” “mass extinction. Of course, these self-identified scientists invariably claim the cause of this alleged mass extinction is capitalism, overpopulation by humans, or the burning of fossil fuels.

Now a new study by Kristen Saban and John Wiens of the University of Arizona Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology shatters these notions. The study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, revealed that over the last 500 years extinctions in plants, arthropods and land vertebrates peaked about 100 years ago and have declined since then.

Oct 14

UK now arrests 30 people a day for social media posts

London. October 2025. Britain was once one of the freest places on earth. But now the United Kingdom arrests 30 people a day for expressing their opinions on Facebook, TikTok, X, or Instagram.

“This July, the Home Office announced it was assembling an elite force of special agents drawn from across the country to monitor speech on social media,” the New York Post reports.

The UK government has also updated its definition of terrorist ideologies to include “cultural nationalism,” singling out Westerners who express concern over mass migration. 

But the UK authorities are also exhibiting a two-tiered justice system. “Leftists” (who support more government) get to say things that “conservatives” get imprisoned for. A judge recently “acquitted Labor councillor Ricky Jones after he was caught on video calling for the murder of anti-mass migration protestors, telling a crowd: “We need to cut all their throats and get rid of them all.”

The British government is now imprisoning 12,000 Brits per year for expressing their ideas. Britain is also descending into socialism generally, and its former prosperity is fading. Today each of the American states (including even Mississippi, the poorest state) have a higher per-capita GDP than the UK.

Oct 07

Larry Fink of BlackRock seeks digital “tokenization” of all assets on earth.

The world is currently witnessing a massive push by governments toward forced digitalization of identities and assets.  Switzerland and the UK government are trying to mandate that all subjects submit to digital ID in order to work or participate in society. Government officials in the United States are pushing for every subject to obtain “Real ID” in order to fly commercially or even enter government buildings.

Recently, Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock (the world’s most powerful investment corporation) gave an interview in which Fink said BlackRock is trying to “tokenize” all the world’s “financial assets”—and, ultimately, all the world’s physical assets.  This forbodes a future in which all “assets” will be placed on a “general ledger” as “ETFs.”

ETFs (Exchange-Traded Funds) are investment assets which appear on blockchain ledgers for trading. Obvious examples include cryptocurrencies.

Ultimately, BlackRock and World Economic Forum seek a world in which all people and objects will be identified on government-approved digital ledgers.  Governments will monitor (and, ultimately, control) all transactions.

“The logic is that everything can be transformed into a digital token, fractionalized, easily transferable, and recorded on a single global «ledger.»”

“The mechanism is always the same: it involves converting something physical and tangible into a series of fractionalizable digital records. That allows large investment funds to buy pieces of everything, from hectares of land to portions of the Amazon jungle, from water reserves to bonds of peripheral countries’ debt.”

See here.

Oct 07

Trust in the Mainstream News Media Hits New Low at 28%. Republican trust in media is at 8%

Jim Hoft of The Gateway Pundit analyzes the most recent Gallup polling regarding Americans’ trust in mainstream “news.”

Gallup has been asking questions about trust in the news media since the 1970s. Back then, between 68% and 72% of Americans expressed confidence in reporting. However, by the next reading in 1997, public confidence had fallen to 53%. Media trust remained just above 50% until it dropped to 44% in 2004, and it has not risen to the majority level since.

Most Americans now understand that government intelligence agencies such as CIA now pay for and control much “mainstream news.”

The latest Gallup poll found that American’s trust in the media is at an all-time low.

Just 20% of Americans say they have trust in newspapers, television or radio to report the truth. This number was twice as high at 40% just 5 years ago. Republican’s trust in mass media is at 8% today. Only Democrats express any trust in the mass media (at 51% today, barely a majority).

Jul 23

Virginia “animal welfare police” seized giraffes from private zoo. But without facilities to care for giraffes, Virginia ‘held’ the giraffes at the same zoo for 18 MONTHS. Then one giraffe died while being transported.

Natural Bridge, Virginia. June 2025. You can’t make this stuff up. Way back in December 2023, the Virginia State animal police descended on a private tourist zoo (“the Natural Bridge Zoo”) with a heavily armed SWAT team. The government had received complaints (apparently from pro-government-extremist “animal rights” type advocates) that the private facility was neglecting or abusing the zoo’s various animals.

The Commonwealth of Virginia “seized” and claimed ownership of dozens of rare and exotic animals, including four giraffes. But few facilities in the United States are equipped to house, feed and care for giraffes; so the State police decided to CONTINUE HOUSING the giraffes (which were now claimed to be the Commonwealth of Virginia’s giraffes) at the Natural Bridge Zoo (yes, THE VERY ZOO that the government claimed was abusive and neglectful of the giraffes) for some eighteen months.

Now 1 of 4 giraffes is dead after being transported by the government.

According to Cardinal News, one of the four giraffes (named Valentine) recently died during transport from the Virginia zoo to the giraffes’ new facility. Government officials are denying that the transportation of the giraffe caused the death–and even insinuating that the giraffe died from a drug injection by the private zoo owners before the transport. But videos of the government’s transport operation show clearly that the giraffe was trembling from fear during the ordeal and was handled roughly by transporters. In fact, the government transporters crushed the giraffe’s neck between heavy equipment and a cargo container.

STAY TUNED!!

Jun 28

German government arrests almost a thousand a month for posting criticism of government.

According to Zero Hedge, on the morning of June 25, 2025, a large-scale police operation was launched across Germany, targeting hundreds of individuals suspected of insulting politicians or spreading “hate and incitement” online.

The massive crackdown saw police launch morning raids against 170 individuals, which saw police seize computers, cell phones, and tablets, and conduct searches in multiple locations across the country.

These house raids are conducted with the support of various reporting centers run by left-leaning organizations. Essentially, a center reports a post, which then forwards this to the federal police for action.

Last year, there were 10,732 such cases recorded, which is quadruple the number of 2021.

As an example of the type of raids going on, last year, a 14-year-old German boy had his house raided for posting a banned hashtag on TikTok, which translated to “Everything for Germany.”

See here.