There was a time, barely a decade ago, when the digital economy sold itself as weightless. Clouds, not coal; code, not combustion. The promise of net zero emissions seemed perfectly compatible with a future of frictionless computation. That illusion is now collapsing under the brute arithmetic of electricity demand. Artificial intelligence and cryp...

The so-called "punter" before the Senate committee emerges not as a casual intervention, but as something far more consequential: a clear, unvarnished diagnosis of a system that has drifted away from those it was designed to serve. It is the voice of an ordinary Australian—once a teacher, now an accidental public advocate-speaking into a chamber th...

Leith van Onselen at Macrobusiness delivers another sharp takedown: Australia's migration program fails at the very first hurdle — delivering genuine, long-term economic and social benefits. Instead of a skills-focused system that builds national capability, we've engineered a high-volume intake that props up GDP headlines while hollowing out produ...

Peter Angelico, Libertarian candidate for Nepean and successful manufacturing entrepreneur, nails a truth too many policymakers have ignored for decades. Australia spent 30 years selling a seductive but flawed message to its young people: University is the only path to success. Go to uni, get the degree, secure the future. Anything less — especiall...

After three years the vaccine injured have one of Sydney's top silks fighting for them and Dr Melissa McCann couldn't be happier Joy, hope, relief. Thousands of covid vaccine-injured Australians have been given new strength today after the Federal Court of Australia discussed dates for their class action to proceed. It has been a long road for the ...

The modern world may be quietly engineering a vision crisis in plain sight. Across continents, rates of myopia, once a relatively ordinary condition, have surged to what researchers now openly describe as epidemic levels. In parts of East Asia, up to 90 percent of young people are now short-sighted, and the trend is accelerating elsewhere. This is ...

Two recent pieces capture a quiet maturation happening in certain corners of the dissident mind. Richard Hanania's UnHerd essay "How I Outgrew Nietzsche" and Arthur Schaper's American Thinker reflection "Leaving Kierkegaard" both confess the same arc: young men drawn to these titans of existential intensity, only to set them aside as life demanded ...

The West isn't dying of old age. It's bleeding out from self-inflicted wounds while pretending the bandages are stylish. Fertility rates have cratered: the EU sits at a record-low 1.34 children per woman, with projections of a 53-million-person shrinkage by 2100. The US fertility rate hit another record low around 1.57 in 2025. Below replacement (2...

Palantir Technologies just dropped a 22-point manifesto distilled from CEO Alex Karp's book The Technological Republic. Posted casually on X as answers to "questions we get asked a lot," it reads like a corporate mission statement crossed with a nationalist technocratic declaration. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to America. Hard power over soft ...

There is a grim arithmetic quietly unfolding beneath the headlines of war and oil prices, one that rarely makes it into political speeches but will shape the lives of hundreds of millions: no fertilizer, no crops; no crops, no food. What we are witnessing is not merely a spike in agricultural inputs, but the early stages of a systemic shock to the ...

Celina101's recent Substack dives deep into one of the most persistent "conspiracy" claims that turns out to have solid historical legs: the CIA's covert promotion of Abstract Expressionism during the Cold War. Jackson Pollock's drips, Mark Rothko's floating rectangles, Willem de Kooning's slashes — these weren't just organic artistic breakthroughs...

The would-be assassin at the White House Correspondents' Dinner didn't emerge from a vacuum. Cole Tomas Allen, the 31-year-old Caltech-educated California engineer turned "Friendly Federal Assassin," laid it all out in his manifesto sent to family minutes before the gunfire. He called President Trump a "pedphile, rapst, and traitor" whose crimes he...

Michael Snyder's latest Substack piece nails the raw absurdity of the April 25, 2026, incident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. A 31-year-old California man, Cole Tomas Allen, checked into the Washington Hilton, roamed freely with a shotgun, handgun, and knives, assembled a long weapon in an unsecured storage room near bar carts, then rus...

The latest buzz around the Durupinar Formation near Mount Ararat in Turkey — highlighted in recent reporting including The Blaze — revives an old question: Could this boat-shaped site, with its intriguing new subsurface scans, be connected to the Noah story? Andrew Jones and the Noah's Ark Scans team report ground-penetrating radar showing corridor...

- Kicking a man when he is down. Last Christmas, one of our major suicide prevention groups had a call from a very distressed, suicidal man. The counsellor did his best to support him and arranged to keep in touch. But there was no answer to the counsellor's follow up calls. Following their organisation's duty of care rules, the counsellor made a c...

Australia sits on the edge of a slow-burning economic hazard that few policymakers seem willing to confront honestly: a prolonged oil shock that does not spike and recede, but lingers — year after year — like the Ukraine war did for Europe. The danger is not a single surge in petrol prices; it is the grinding persistence of high energy costs that s...

Charlotte Gill's recent piece in The Daily Sceptic pulls back the curtain on what she calls the "open-border industrial complex" in Britain. It's not one shadowy cabal in a smoke-filled room, but an interlocking web of taxpayer-funded charities, NGOs, legal aid outfits, housing providers, language services, sympathetic media, corporate interests, a...

In an age of endless leaks, livestreams, and performative openness, one ritual remains stubbornly opaque: the annual Bilderberg Meeting. Powerful politicians, CEOs, military leaders, tech executives, and select journalists gather for days of private talks on AI, warfare, global trade, China, Russia, energy, and "the West." No minutes. No votes reco...

 That line from Ian Fleming's Goldfinger lands heavier with every passing week in 2026. Auric Goldfinger wasn't paranoid; he was pattern-recognizing. One odd event? Life's randomness. Two? Maybe bad luck. Three or more, especially in the same direction, and you start smelling coordinated intent — even if the "enemy" wears no uniform, flies no ...

This Telegraph piece (link below) is pure late-stage decline lit. UK retailers — facing a shoplifting crime wave at 20-year highs — are explicitly telling security guards: do not stop them. Watch, report, film if you must, but hands off! Health and safety. Liability. Knife risks. Unions backing the "watch and report" policy. Same script across swat...