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Gladiator II isn't better than the original. It's darker. Paul Mescal channels Maximus energy while Denzel Washington steals the entire Colosseum. Ridley Scott said 'hold my wine' and delivered pure chaos. This sequel eats. 🎬🎥 Gladiator II ❤️🔥

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🚨THE KARDASHEV LEAP: WHY CIVILIZATION'S NEXT STAGE REQUIRES LEAVING EARTH Here's a terrifying thought: by 2040, computers will need more electricity than Earth can generate. Not some computers. All of them. The math is simple and brutal - computing demand is growing exponentially while planetary energy has hard limits. We're about to hit a wall that no amount of nuclear plants or solar farms can fix. This is what Elon means by needing a "Kardashev II civilization." The Kardashev Scale measures civilizations by energy use. Type I uses all planetary energy. Type II harnesses its star. We're currently at 0.73 - not even Type I yet - but AI is pushing us toward Type II energy needs with Type I infrastructure. It's like needing a firehose but being stuck with a garden hose. Space changes everything. Solar panels up there get 10 times more energy than Earth's surface - no clouds, no night, just pure stellar power 24/7. One orbital data center could match facilities that would blackout entire countries if built here. Plus, cooling becomes trivial in the vacuum of space, eliminating the massive infrastructure that eats 40% of ground-based data center energy. The real game-changer? The Moon. Its gravity is so weak you could literally shoot materials into space with an electromagnetic cannon. No rockets needed. Building from lunar materials would cost a fraction of Earth launches, making massive space computing actually affordable. This isn't sci-fi anymore. It's a race. China's spending $560 billion on energy infrastructure while advancing their space program. They get it. The first nation to establish orbital computing infrastructure gets unlimited energy for AI while everyone else fights over Earth's scraps. We're not choosing between ground and space data centers. We're choosing between infinite computing or watching progress stop when we hit Earth's power ceiling. That's not aspiration - it's survival.

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Alien Isolation 2 hands-on previews are out and it's looking just as tense as the first one - my favorite horror game of all time. ▫️ Story is set a few months after the first game ▫️ New protagonist named Blake ▫️ The Xenomorph is fully unscripted once again, dynamically hunting the player based on sound and movement ▫️ Amanda Ripley isn't playable, but she does narrate some scenes ▫️ Game features both exterior and interior environments. Explore the surface of the planet this time as well as the new Kurasaki Station. ▫️ Most of the 30 minute demo took place in the same lab that ejected from the Sevastopol in the first game (with a present inside) ▫️ Sequel has the same director as the original and many of the same people ▫️ Core gameplay and tension will feel familiar to fans of the original ▫️ Visuals are a generational leap over the first game ▫️ Custom lighting and audio system designed to tailor the experience and atmosphere exactly ▫️ Interior spaces feel claustrophobic, while exterior spaces make you feel exposed ▫️ You'll have different tools and gadgets you can use to 'divert, distract, and disrupt' ▫️ The team is specifically designing gameplay to take advantage of these tools and opportunities, rather than just 'hiding in lockers' ▫️ The game primarily takes inspiration from the original 1979 Ridley Scott film Alien: Isolation 2 #AlienIsolation2

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Peter Schiff: Trump didn't win the Iran war; he handed Tehran the cards, then called it a strategy. Most people are asking whether America destroyed enough targets, whether Iran's nuclear programme was set back, or whether the ceasefire will hold. Schiff's question is much simpler: Who needs a deal more? And in his view, the answer isn't Iran, it's Trump. He argues Trump started a war he now has to end before the political cost catches up with him, because oil prices, the economy, and the midterms matter. And Iran knows it. That's why Schiff believes Tehran is negotiating from a position of strength, not weakness, and could actually emerge from this conflict in a better economic position than it was before the first bombs fell. Sanctions could be lifted, oil exports could surge, and a richer Iran eventually becomes a stronger Iran. Then we got onto JD Vance's comments about the MOU. Schiff thinks Vance accidentally revealed far more than he should have. If the MOU is really just about calming energy markets, rebuilding reserves, and buying political breathing room before deciding whether to strike again later, why would Iran trust any of it? And if Tehran believes another round of bombing is simply being delayed until conditions are more favourable for Washington, why would it make life easier for Trump in the meantime? While Washington is trying to convince the world it negotiated from strength, Schiff thinks the opposite happened. He believes the war exposed how dependent America still is on stable energy markets, and how much leverage that gives Iran once the shooting stops. Peter Schiff

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🎶🎶 Karmageddon 🎶🎶 By: Iyah May iyah may The Australian singer refused to acquiesce and change the lyrics to this song which resulted in being dropped by her manager and leaving her record label (Island Records Australia a division of Universal Music AU), since becoming an independent artist. She boldly called out cancel culture, corporate deceit, big pharma profiteering, division/duality, endless wars, fake news legacy media, pedophilia and political corruption. Lyrics: I open up my phone on a Monday morning Staring at my screen I'm tired and a little lonely Mr Musk (Elon Musk) he said some shit the lefts are angry Twitter wars and Gaza man it's overwhelming Maybe that's how life becomes when People less important than a profit line No one cares about your dreams just pay Your tax on time Keep scrolling Hold me near to you now Gender, guns, religion and abortion rights You better pick a tribe and hate the other side Keep scrolling But did you see Taylor (Taylor Swift) live? Man made virus watch the millions die Biggest profit of their lives Here's inflation that's your prize This is Karmageddon Turn on the news and eat their lies Kim (Kim Kardashian) or Kanye (ye) pick a side Cancel culture what a vibe This is Karmageddon Corporations swear they never lie Politicians bribed for life More than war it's genocide This is Karmageddon Welcome to the chaos of the times If you go left and I go right Pray we make it out alive This is Karmageddon It's fashion week celebs lose ribs Balenciaga how's the kids Just ask Drizzy he's losing beef Kendrick (Kendrick Lamar) killed him in his sleep Diss tracks about beating up your queen While women dying doesn't cause a scene While we're fed all these distractions Kids are killed from Israel's actions I'mma speak my mind Sick to death of all these crazy lies A circus for humanity's decline We just want a peaceful life give the people back their rights And I've still got a beef Cause Fauci's laughing and we've been asleep And World Health Organization (WHO)'s a liar and it's running deep Big pharma finna eat they a devil make them weak Man made virus watch the millions die Biggest profit of their lives Here's inflation that's your prize This is Karmageddon Turn on the news and eat their lies Kim or Kanye pick a side Cancel culture what a vibe This is Karmageddon Corporations swear they never lie Politicians bribed for life More than war it's genocide This is Karmageddon Welcome to the chaos of the times If you go left and I go right Pray we make it out alive This is Karmageddon Stream Options: 🎶 YouTube Link: 📺 💊

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David Lynch: "You're operating with a limited mind and don't realize it" "If you have a golf ball-size consciousness, when you read a book, you'll have a golf ball-size understanding. When you look out, a golf ball-size awareness. When you wake up in the morning, a golf ball-size wakefulness. But if you could expand that consciousness, you read the book with more understanding. You look out with more awareness. You wake up with more wakefulness." Lynch explains what lies beneath: "There's an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us. It's right at the source and base of mind, right at the source of thought. It's also at the source of all matter. Modern physics calls it the unified field. All matter, everything that is a thing emerges from this field." He describes what the field contains: "This field has qualities like bliss, intelligence, creativity, universal love, energy, peace. It's not the intellectual understanding of this field, but the experiencing of it that does everything. You dive within, transcend, experience this field of pure consciousness, and you unfold it. It grows. The final outcome of this growth of consciousness is called enlightenment. And a side effect of enlivening this consciousness is that negativity starts to recede." Lynch shares what happened when he started meditating: "When I started, I was filled with anxieties. Filled with fears. Kind of a depression. And anger. I took this anger out on my first wife. After two weeks of meditation, she comes to me and says, 'What's going on?' I was quiet for a moment because it could have been any number of things she might have been referring to. I said, 'What do you mean?' She said, 'This anger, where did it go?' I didn't even realize it had lifted." He explains why negativity kills creativity: "Anger, depression, sorrow, these are beautiful things in a story. But they're like poison to the filmmaker. Poison to the painter. Poison to creativity. They're like a vice grip. If you're super depressed, you can hardly get out of bed, let alone think of ideas or have creativity flowing." Lynch describes what grows when you expand consciousness: "It's money in the bank to get that beautiful consciousness growing. Creativity flows. The ability to catch ideas at a deeper level. Intuition grows. This field is a field of pure knowing. You dive in there, and you just know how to go. You know how to solve problems. It's like an ocean of solutions." He shares the ultimate benefit: "The ultimate thing for me is the enjoyment of the doing. The enjoyment of life grows huge. I love making films now more than ever before. Ideas flow more. Everybody has more fun on the set. People look like friends, not like enemies. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing." Lynch addresses the myth that you need anger to create: "People say, 'You gotta have anger. You gotta have an edge to create.' No, you gotta have energy. You gotta have clarity to create. You gotta be able to catch ideas. You gotta be strong enough to fight unbelievable pressure and stress. And this gives you more and more ability. It just looks beautiful. It's way, way, way better." On the nature of true happiness: "They say true happiness isn't out there. True happiness lies within. I always wondered, where is this 'within'? And they don't say where it is. They don't even say how to get to it. But it's there. And when you're in it, you know you're in it. It's familiar. It's you. Right away, a happiness, but it's not a goofball happiness. It's a thick beauty. A thick beauty to appreciate life and living. And suffering starts to go."

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Warren Buffett just warned that the US dollar could collapse and admitted he doesn't understand most of the stock market anymore. 95 years old, sitting on $380 billion in cash, and the first time watching from the sidelines instead of actively investing. And what he revealed at this weekend's Berkshire shareholder meeting is genuinely concerning: On the market, Buffett didn't hold back. He compared it to "a church with a casino attached" and said the casino has never been more packed. On one-day options: "That is not investing. It's not speculating. It's gambling. Totally." He pointed to the Avis short squeeze THIS WEEK. A rental car company that's been around for 50 years getting meme-squeezed in 2026. The same behavior that blew up retail traders with GameStop is back, except now it's hitting boring legacy companies with zero business being volatile. "We have lots more regulation now, but people spend their time figuring out how to get around the rules rather than follow the rules." That one sentence explains more about the current market than every CNBC segment combined. When asked why he's hoarding $380 billion instead of investing it, Buffett said something no one expected: "I understand fewer of the businesses as a percentage of the whole than I did 10 years ago. I have not learned new industries for some years. I'm not going to have an edge on a whole bunch of younger people that have actually grown up with it." Think about what he's actually saying... This is a man who made $140 billion by understanding businesses better than anyone alive. And he's telling you the current market is so detached from reality that even HE can't make sense of what's being valued and why. He quoted IBM's Tom Watson Sr.: "I'm smart in spots and I stay around those spots." In 60 years of managing money, he said MAYBE five were "really juicy." Five out of sixty. That means 92% of his career was spent WAITING while everyone else gambled. And he still ended up richer than all of them. Then the conversation turned to inflation and that's where it gets really interesting: Buffett said America is "not immune" from runaway inflation. He brought up countries that went bankrupt "six or seven times" in his lifetime. Compared today to right before Volcker had to rescue the dollar, when Americans were borrowing at 12% to buy farmland earning 6% because they believed the dollar would disappear. "Cash is trash" was the mentality. Nebraska farmers collapsed because of it. Entire communities wiped out not by a recession but by a BELIEF that the currency was dying. And Buffett sees that same energy building again. Then someone asked the question everyone wanted answered: Do you see a crash coming? "If you saw it coming, it wouldn't happen. The things people are talking about and thinking about? It's not going to happen. But there are things that can come out of the blue." He compared it to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 that triggered World War I. Nobody was discussing or anticipating it. But it changed the world overnight. "That's particularly true now because of the things that can come out of the sky." A 95yo man who has survived every crash, every war, every crisis of the last six decades just told you the market is a casino, the dollar isn't safe, and the real collapse will be something nobody sees coming. $380 billion in cash is his answer because he believes things are about to get much worse.

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☢️WESTSIDE TYLER DOXES ME LIVE ON HIS STREAM☢️ Here is Red For An AMAZING Reason desperately trying to shoehorn himself into a drama that has nothing to do with him in order to desperately climb out of his clout hole that he has dug himself (after betraying, backstabbing and losing beefs with practically every group on the internet). I'm posting this because I want people to see and know how much of an absolute clown this "political actor" is because he makes the assumption I even get paid by Destiny | Steven Bonnell II (not at all) or Digital Ground Game (nope), and that I actively canvas within his organization (never did). Another great educational moment for my viewers is that Tyler correctly demonstrates in real time how you can dox information that isn't necessarily private since I've said my full name on stream at some point. As long as there is malicious intent (there absolutely is), it would be considered doxxing. He would go on to try and justify doxxing peoples' addresses by comparing himself to news media organizations (he has less integrity than project veritas), and then sheepishly walk back his original stronger claim (like a total loser) when somebody brings up if all voters can be doxxed. I'm only posting this because Tyler is such a clown (got destroyed by WhickTV - Bane of Christian Nationalists AND North 🇺🇸🇺🇦) that his existence as one of my ops is a boon to me that makes me look better to everyone else who is actually sane. (FYI he also dodged me calling into Whick's show to confront him because he would rather prefer to fight Darius (Lord Of War) IN REAL LIFE than it is to confront me virtually over VOICE CALL..) Tyler, you are not just a clown, you are the entire circus.

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In his continuing “Pool Monologues,” Trump hits a record ELEVEN AND A HALF MINUTES sitting with the NATO Secretary. I cannot emphasize enough… Try and read it. I dare you. 1/3 “The pool? Yes. It's in great shape. No. Ready? Thugs. They just told me a little while ago. Six have been arrested and like six or seven are under arrest. They have pictures and everything else. They went to the bottom and it's not a paint job. It's very expensive. It's not rubber but it's like rubber. And they went down with probably a box cutter or a very sharp razor of some kind of a knife. They cut and then they started ripping it up. You know why? Because there's sick people. And then the side of the pool, right at the water level, they took razors and they started cutting this very expensive stuff. It's incredible stuff. It's beautiful. And it's still beautiful. We have one area where they cut it. It's still holding. It's not leaking. But they hurt it so probably maybe after July 4th or maybe before. I don't know. Well, let a little water out because it's at the edge. They'll cut it. They'll replace it and it'll be as good as new. But these people should go to jail for a long time. You know, there's a statue that I saw when I had my first here that if you do anything to hurt statues or monuments, fountains in Washington, D.C. or federal fountain, it's actually federal all over the country. But you go to jail for 10 years and there's no shortcuts. In other words, it's not five years for good behavior. It's a very tough statue. And so tough that it really hasn't been used very much over the years. But I used it when they had a problem in Washington where they were trying to hurt the sickos, would try to hurt things, and I announced it. As soon as I announced it, read it, announced it. And I said, 10 years for anybody, everybody dropped what they had, including ropes. They had ropes. They were tying ropes around Thomas Jefferson's head, Andrew Jackson right up there, that a rope around his head on that incredible statue. I said, as soon as I invoked it, everybody left, that's still in play. They could go to jail for 10 years. They better be careful. They have a gash on that beautiful pool. It's a reflecting point. This is a very expensive material. Then on top of it, we did a much bigger job than we said we were going to do because we did all the outer areas. We did a beautiful job. It's like a piece of glass. And for some reason, this disturbed the radical left lunatics. You know, the guy that one of the guys, he's a member or a big pair to act blue. He's a big Hillary supporter. He's a big supporter of Sleepy Joe Biden. No, this is a very political thing. But as I understand it, six are under arrest. This was pure vandalism. It's an amazing thing that we did. Don't forget, it hasn't worked properly since it was built because it always leaked in 1922. So it was built in 1922. So that's 100 years more ago. It's never worked properly. I always said, had great potential. And I said in my first term, I'm going to do something. So Biden and Obama, between the two of them, spent over $100 million. It was a disaster. Obama, because of the environment, took the water from the Potomac, and it was horrible. It was bad. I don't want to have to tell you what happened, but it was really bad. You can read about it. Biden, he didn't have any idea what the hell they were doing because he didn't know what anything was happening. But they spent over $100 million. We spent 14 or 15 in a lot less than that because a lot of these people worked for the Parks Department anyway. So they're going to work. So I would say a lot less. And we put a great surface on it. This is a world-class surface. It looked beautiful. But they came in and they cut it. And then they grabbed it and they pulled it up. That's why it's all ripped. And who would even think of it? They're sick people. So I think they're in big trouble. But here's the bottom line.”

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OpenAI just paid hundreds of millions of dollars for a podcast with 70,000 viewers. At first glance, it makes zero sense. Until you realize what they're actually buying: Control over what gets said about AI before regulators figure out what to regulate. This is literally one of the most aggressive power grabs in tech history... OpenAI just acquired TBPN, the Silicon Valley talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays. The show has a tiny audience - 70,000 viewers per episode. But it's the most influential room in tech. It's where Zuckerberg, Satya Nadella, Marc Benioff, and Altman himself go to "chop it up" with friendly hosts who treat executive moves like sports trades. The New York Times called it "Silicon Valley's newest obsession." OpenAI didn't buy it for the revenue. They bought it to control the narrative. And then they put it under Chris Lehane. Lehane isn't a media executive. He's a political assassin. He coined the phrase "vast right-wing conspiracy" to deflect press scrutiny of the Clinton White House. He ran Fairshake, the crypto super PAC that spent hundreds of millions in 2024 to destroy anti-crypto candidates and rewrote the composition of Congress. He joined OpenAI in 2024 and has been whispering in Trump's ear ever since, pushing policies to BLOCK states from regulating AI and ease environmental rules slowing data center construction. That's the man now running OpenAI's new media company. They're promising "editorial independence." But do you think TBPN is going to run a hard-hitting investigation into OpenAI's circular financing? Or the Amazon AWS deal that blew up Microsoft's partnership? Or the $35 billion Amazon payment contingent on OpenAI achieving AGI? Of course not. That's not the point. The point is CONTROL of the room where the conversation happens. Now zoom out: Same week, Anthropic filed paperwork to form AnthroPAC while fighting a lawsuit against the Pentagon after being labeled a "supply chain risk." AI companies have now committed over $300 MILLION to the 2026 midterms. That's more than the entire crypto industry spent in 2024. Leading the Future, backed by Greg Brockman and Andreessen Horowitz: $125M raised. Anthropic: $20M to Public First Action. OpenAI: owns a media company AND has Lehane coordinating with the White House. This isn't about AI safety. It isn't about better products. It isn't about winning benchmarks... It's about who controls the narrative BEFORE the regulation gets written. Every tech mogul is now building their own "propaganda stack." Bezos bought The Washington Post. Benioff bought Time. Patrick Soon-Shiong bought the LA Times. Laurene Powell Jobs took The Atlantic. Elon took Twitter. Now it's AI's turn. But here's the thing: When you combine $300M in political donations, friendly podcasts owned by the companies being discussed, and operatives whispering in a President's ear who ALREADY signed an executive order blocking state AI regulation... You don't have a tech industry anymore. You have a political machine with AI products attached. OpenAI isn't worth $852 billion because of GPT-5.4. It's worth $852 billion because they're buying the referees before the game even starts. The next months aren't going to be about which model is smarter. They're going to be about which AI company captured more politicians, more media outlets, and more of the regulatory apparatus before the public figured out what was happening. And by the time you realize the game is rigged, the rules will already be written.

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🇺🇸 Bombing to liberate: the great strategic illusion By Brainless Partisans 🏴‍☠️☢️☣️🪆 Sometimes a dissenting voice cuts through the noise of Washington's war propaganda. This time, it was Rand Paul, the libertarian senator from Kentucky, who had the audacity to point out something that has become almost subversive: there is no evidence that Iran is currently building a nuclear weapon. This statement is nothing revolutionary. In March 2023, US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told Congress that Iran had not made a political decision to build a nuclear bomb. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has made the same observation, with its reports repeating for years that Iran's uranium enrichment is a cause for concern but does not constitute evidence of an active nuclear weapons program. In other words, the war is based on an assumption. Rand Paul also recalls a detail that the hawks in Washington prefer to forget: negotiations were underway in Oman. The Sultanate of Oman has long served as a discreet intermediary between Iran and the United States. Exploratory talks had even resumed around a framework similar to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA). But in Washington's current mindset, negotiation has become suspect. The only respectable policy seems to be one that begins with bombing and ends with conferences on democracy. This is where Rand Paul's argument becomes almost ironic in spite of himself. The senator is concerned that there is now talk of "unconditional surrender," a concept borrowed from the end of World War II against Japan. He points out that this surrender was only achieved after two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He implicitly asks an uncomfortable question: are Americans prepared to raze one or two Iranian cities to achieve the same thing? But the most spectacular contradiction comes right after that. Rand Paul rightly explains that freedom cannot be imposed from outside and that peoples must liberate themselves. Translation: there is no question of sending American soldiers to die in Iran. Very well. But then someone should explain the following strategic logic: how is a people supposed to rise up... while being bombed by the world's leading military power? Recent history should serve as a cautionary manual. In Iraq, American bombing reinforced nationalism and prolonged chaos for twenty years. In Libya, the intervention that was supposed to "liberate the people" produced a failed state. As for Afghanistan, twenty years of Western occupation ended with the return of the very regime that Washington claimed to have overthrown. Bombing a country almost never triggers a revolution. It triggers something much more predictable: national unity against the external enemy. It is the old political law that even Pentagon strategists know: when a country is attacked, the population rallies behind its government, whatever it may be. This sums up the great inconsistency of the current doctrine: Washington says it wants to provoke a popular uprising... while bombing the cities of that same people. It's a strategy that has more to do with magical thinking than geopolitics. But then again, in the US capital, war has often been a strange experiment: we destroy a country in the name of liberation, then act surprised when its inhabitants don't thank their liberators.

Brainless Partisans 🏴‍☠️☢️☣️🪆

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Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut... and you have to hear about this guy because it's one of the most incredible, most brazen, most dishonest examples of hypocrisy you'll ever see in American politics. Maybe ever. And there's a lot of competition, believe me. Back in 2014, Murphy is on the Senate floor, he's giving speeches, he's writing resolutions, and he's telling every Republican in Washington... don't you dare undermine these Iran negotiations. Don't do it. He said if Congress shows it doesn't take the talks seriously, it'll destroy our credibility with allies, scare off our negotiating partners, give Russia and China an excuse to walk, and leave us with nothing but a military option. His words. Not anyone else's. His words. And by the way, Trump rebuilt the military, made it the strongest, the most powerful, the most technologically advanced fighting force the world has ever seen... nobody's even close... so the military option isn't quite the disaster it would've been under the previous administration, but that's a separate story. So what happens? Trump gets back into office, and he starts serious indirect talks with Iran. April 2025. Oman-mediated. Very tough, very sophisticated negotiations. Steve Witkoff, incredible guy, working the back channels. Trump gave them a real deadline... sixty days... because he doesn't do endless process. He does deals. Zero enrichment, ship out the uranium, dismantle the key sites, open the doors to inspectors. Clear demands. Generous terms, frankly, very generous, because he didn't have to offer them anything. He could've just hit them. But Trump wanted to give diplomacy a chance because that's what a strong leader does. And what does Murphy do? The same Chris Murphy who said you must not undermine negotiations while they're happening? He goes on television. He goes to Iran International, which the Iranians are watching, and he calls Trump a liar. Says he has no idea what Trump is trying to achieve. Says most of what Trump says isn't real. He pushes war powers resolutions to tie the President's hands. He's out there broadcasting American division to the entire world... to Iran, to our allies, to everybody... while the United States is sitting at the table trying to close a deal that could've avoided all of this. All of it. And it gets worse. Murphy secretly met with Iran's foreign minister, Javad Zarif, back in 2020. Secretly. Behind everyone's back. During Trump's first term. So he'll freelance with the Mullahs, but he won't support his own country's negotiating position when it matters. Think about that. Iran watched all of this. They watched Murphy trash America's leverage in real time. They saw the division. They stalled. They rejected every core demand. Zero enrichment? No. Ship out the uranium? No. Dismantle the facilities? Absolutely not. And the talks collapsed. They collapsed because Iran believed... correctly, unfortunately... that they didn't have to make a deal because half of Washington was working against the other half. And Murphy was leading the charge. So the only card left was the military card. The very thing Murphy warned about in 2014. The very thing he said would happen if politicians undermined negotiations. He predicted the mess. Then he spent a year engineering the mess. Then the military option becomes necessary, and now he's on NPR calling the war "incoherent." Now he's calling Trump senile. Now he wants to block all Senate business and defund the operation. The man who helped make the war inevitable is now complaining about the war. Incredible. And by the way... this is the same guy they're floating for 2028. That's their big idea. A senator from Connecticut who sabotaged his own country's diplomacy, sided with Iran's talking points, and now wants to be President. Good luck with that, Chris. Good luck. You have to ask the question. At what point does undermining your own country's foreign policy in the middle of the most sensitive, most high-stakes, most consequential negotiations in decades... at what point does that stop being opposition and start being something else? Because the people of Connecticut deserve better, the people of this country deserve better, and our incredible warriors now in harm’s way... including the 13 who lost their lives because diplomacy failed... they sure as hell deserve better than Chris Murphy.

Apple Lamps

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Rolled credits on Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties: Review: A massive visual and technical overhaul that brings the sunny beaches of Okinawa to life. The new combat system and Morning Glory minigame are the stars of the show, the latter of which has been transformed into a surprisingly addictive farming sim. Kiwami 3 starts out with Kiryu and Haruka leaving Kamurocho to take over the Morning Glory orphanage in Okinawa. Kiryu grew up in an orphanage, so it's only right that he gives back. The early hours of the game are spent introducing you to the new characters, and building bonds with them through the expansive new minigame. Morning Glory is a crucial location to Kiryu's story, and the new storyline gives it impact, rather than just being a backdrop. The pacing is kind of slow in the beginning, but the payoff is a high-stakes thriller that puts both the orphanage and the Tojo Clan at risk. It quickly goes from a slice of life to a CIA thriller. If you've played the original, then some of the character redesigns lack the same charm IMO. Rikiya is supposed to be clumsy and a bit of a goofball, but extremely loyal, and eager for Kiryu's approval. The new character model (although he was great in Tokyo Vice) feels more 'serious' and loses some of the original's energy. Similar can be said about old man Nakahara. Combat has been overhauled however. Dragon of Dojima Style feels refined and heavy, and is probably the best implementation of the classic 'Dragon Style' combat system yet, ideal for taking down bosses 1v1. The new Ryukyu Style is built for taking down mobs. It lets you cycle through an arsenal of weapons, each with unique special effects, and large AoE attacks that can take out entire groups in seconds. In addition to Morning Glory, The "Haisai Girls" minigame is a surprisingly deep minigame that essentially turns this into Dynasty Warriors! You manage a biker gang, recruit members, and fight massive real-time battles against dozens of enemies at once. It has an entire storyline, and I'm surprised it wasn't marketed more! As for Dark Ties, it's a roughly 3 hour playthrough that's a must play for Yakuza fans. It dives deeper into Mine’s backstory and explains some of the... plot twists that were featured in the base game. The soundtrack is also excellent (better than the main game), and the faster pace is a refreshing break from the base game’s slower burn. Final Verdict: Kiwami 3 is the logical next step for those coming off Kiwami 2, one of my favorites in the series. Fans of the original may be disappointed with some of the changes, but the expanded Morning Glory and the refined combat system makes this the definitive way to experience Kiryu's Okinawa chapter. Returning to the streets of Kamurocho always feels like home and Dark Ties was a nice bonus that leaves questions for the future of the series. Kagawa should have been recast, and I'm still not sure why they changed up such key characters to the game, but it's a solid remake that ushers in a new era for the franchise. 🟢 Combat is at an all time high 🟢 Morning Glory content steals the show 🟢 Dark Ties is an added bonus that's mandatory for fans 🟢 Character models look excellent 🔴 Kagawa should have been recast 🔴 New character redesigns lack the charm of the original Final Score: 7.5/10 (Good) Playtime: 30 hours Platform: Steam Thank you to SEGA and RGG Studio for providing review code. #YakuzaKiwami3 #LikeADragon

KAMI

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United States government officials have for decades reassured the public that they are releasing all they have, save for the most sensitive information, on the origin of Covid, the CIA mind control program known as MKUltra, the JFK assassination, and the Church Committee investigation into the intelligence community (IC) abuses in 1975. In 2023, then-Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines delivered a five-page summary of Covid origins in response to a unanimously passed law requiring the declassification of files. MKUltra involved drugging individuals without their knowledge in an effort to control their thoughts and behaviors. The CIA stated in 2022 that it had released 95% of its JFK collection, and the Trump administration released roughly 80,000 pages of JFK records on March 18, 2025. But an active-duty CIA official testified to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today that the CIA and the Intelligence Community (IC) are still hiding information. James Erdman III, a senior CIA operations officer who led the Director’s Initiatives Group investigation into Covid origins under DNI Tulsi Gabbard, appeared under subpoena from committee Chairman Rand Paul. Erdman told senators that the CIA “did not comply with lawful oversight” during his investigation, and said, “CIA managers retaliated against [analysts] for their refusal to agree with management’s middle-of-the-night anonymous review.” Erdman testifie,d “The CIA illegally monitored the computer and phone usage of DIG [Director’s Initiative Group] personnel, their investigations, and contact with whistleblowers…One CIA contractor assisting with the DIG’s investigation into the events that transpired between 2022 and 2023 was fired by the CIA one day after meeting with the DIG.” Erdman said the CIA had not cleared his testimony or written statement before the hearing. The CIA denounced the hearing as “dishonest political theater,” and not a single Democratic Senator showed up for it. A CIA spokesperson, Liz Lyons, said in a statement that “the Committee acted in bad faith by subpoenaing an Agency officer for testimony today without notifying CIA.” She added that “the witness testifying today is not appearing as a whistleblower in pursuit of the truth, but instead in response to the subpoena issued by Chairman Paul.” And she implied the hearing was not needed since “the CIA has already assessed Covid-19 most likely originated from a lab leak, and efforts to undermine that conclusion are disingenuous.” But the public CIA statement quoted at the hearing did not address Erdman’s specific claims about DIG monitoring, the contractor firing, or the 40 boxes of JFK and MKUltra files. Sen. Paul, who noted that “closed-door testimony doesn’t provide oversight” and “public testimony provides oversight.” The CIA made public in January 2025 a low-confidence assessment that COVID-19 likely had a research-related origin, while saying both lab and natural-origin scenarios remained plausible, which Paul called “a cleanup operation.” Nor did she address Erdman’s claim that, “When the DIG ceased operations, the CIA also took back 40 boxes of JFK files and MKUltra files being processed for declassification by DNI.” Public reached out to the CIA for comment on Erdman’s specific allegations and will update this article if it replies. Support for Erdman’s claims came from former CBS News investigative reporter Catherine Herridge. “As early as February,” she wrote on X, “I began receiving credible reporting that DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s investigative team was being tracked and communications collected because their work was revealing ‘uncomfortable facts.’” Paul opened the hearing by describing the Biological Sciences Experts Group (BESG), an ODNI advisory body that he said included Dr. Ralph Baric and Dr. Peter Daszak, both of whom collaborated with Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers on coronavirus gain-of-function studies. Daszak, Paul noted, received “hundreds of millions of dollars from the US government and worked with Dr. Zhengli Shi in Wuhan to create gain-of-function coronaviruses,” and that Baric “was also part of BSEG and an active consultant to intelligence agencies on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.” Paul noted that “Dozens of times, [former NIAID Director Anthony Fauci] referred to the idea that the pandemic originating in the lab was a conspiracy theory.” Erdman said that as of August 12, 2021, the CIA was considering calling Covid a lab leak, but that the conclusion “changed on August 17th of 2021.” Erdman told the panel that “the CIA would not provide us documentation that we asked for” and “we have no idea why that changed.” Erdman also testified that “Director Gabbard is working through, I believe, 2,000 pages” of Covid origins records the CIA had been resisting releasing. That figure contrasts with the five-page summary the ODNI delivered to Congress in 2023. Senator Josh Hawley asked Erdman whether the five-page report was “all the information the United States government had,” and Erdman replied, “that is not all the information.” Erdman described a 2022 CIA “re-look” in which eight of 10 analysts and six of seven technical experts leaned toward a lab leak. He said management overruled the team and changed the analytic line to read that “we may never precisely know the origin of SARS-CoV-2.” Paul noted that there have been over 1,500 major lab leaks. Sen. Paul revealed that the CIA is still denying him information that Senators are entitled to see under the Constitution, which requires Congressional oversight of the executive branch. Paul said the CIA had resisted releasing to him the underlying Covid origins analyses by its own scientists, even in classified form. Paul also said, “I’ve been trying to get the classified version of the [1975] Church Committee [files] for over two years,” he said, “but I’m being blocked by the [Intelligence] Committee, including someone from our own party who is blocking me. They’ve shown me a room with 400 boxes. I can go look in all the boxes to see if I can find it. My staff’s not allowed to go in the room.” The CIA told Senate investigators in 1977 that, after the Church inquiry, it had discovered seven additional boxes of MKUltra files in its retired records center that prior searches had missed. The 1977 hearing identified 149 MKUltra subprojects involving human testing and 33 additional subprojects whose subject matter remained undisclosed. Reuters reported that in early April 2025, an ODNI team led by Defense Intelligence Agency official Paul Allen McDonald II arrived unannounced at a CIA archival facility in the Washington area to seize Kennedy assassination files. The team included Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, a former CIA officer and daughter-in-law of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The standoff stretched into the early morning hours and ended only after the CIA agreed to transfer a “massive trove” of documents to the National Archives for digitization. Why did these cover-ups occur and why are some of them still ongoing? And why didn’t any Democratic senators participate in the hearing?... Please subscribe now to support Public's award-winning investigative journalism, read the rest of the article, and watch the full video!

Michael Shellenberger

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Sipping Coffee with America’s Internet Dad: Scott Adams | Paul Leslie, Write Revolution News You never can tell. Unless you’re Scott Adams. He knew what he would be early on. He put it this way in an interview we did in November 2024: “And so at the age of six, I decided to be a famous cartoonist. Now, so what surprised me was when it didn’t work out right away,” Scott Adams said. Dilbert is a hero But it was his previous jobs at Crocker National Bank and the Pacific Bell phone company that shaped him. The grind and absurdities of corporate life inspired Dilbert, a comic strip where the mundane became brilliantly relatable — and humorous. As Edward M. Eveld wrote in the Kansas City Star, “Dilbert is a hero to thousands.” The mind behind Dilbert Cultural commentator and fitness advocate Wyatt Torosian captures the essence of Scott Adams’ influence: “The mind behind Dilbert has lampooned office life for over three decades with the foresight — like Trump — that the culture of the business world would become synonymous with American life, in all of its absurdities and opportunities. It’s difficult to imagine having coffee in the morning with anyone else.” Countless people got a morning dopamine hit by pairing their morning mug with the funny papers. People saw themselves in Dilbert and coped with their own Pointy-Haired Boss. They still do. New ways of looking at things Scott Adams valued the art of sharing ideas and started connecting with audiences through Periscope. This evolved into Real Coffee with Scott Adams, a daily livestream and podcast going out consistently every day of the year. The topics addressed are numerous and limitless. Along with interesting takes on current events, Adams shows those in the audience that there may be new ways of looking at things. It’s not just about his take, but also how you may ponder things in new ways. Scott challenges us to think differently Rapper, author, and podcaster Zuby told me: “Scott Adams challenges people to question their own beliefs and to see life from different angles. That’s a great thing because we can never have too many critical thinkers in an increasingly complicated and polarized world.” I concur. Scott Adams is a man who looks at the human mind as an incredible tool that is frequently not used to full potential. He understands how human beings can flourish, but also inherent weaknesses and traps. He presents information and ideas unlike other speakers. A classroom in independent thinking As a broadcaster, there’s almost nobody I can compare him to. Well, except for one radio legend. I’ll let Muumuu House author and walking proponent Robert McCready give his take: “Scott Adams fills the gap left by Rush Limbaugh because he tells the audience how the media is manipulating viewers/readers. Adams talks off-mic to his audience of live streamers who send him chats, the way Limbaugh talked off-mic to Snerdly. The show feels like Limbaugh’s. Both shows began in northern California. They predict what a politician will do based on cues, subtle signals, scoops that regular people don’t get. It feels like a miracle that we’ve had either of them in the world.” I happen to feel the same way as Robert. The shows feel related, and both are a classroom in independent thought and legacy media abandonment. ‘This is a man who is willing to share what he thinks and take the heat‘ Most people don’t think of cartoonists as having a big impact on politics and the culture at large. When I think of Scott Adams’ influence, it seems unbelievable. Mark Twain’s “truth is stranger than fiction” quote comes to mind. I was able to ask ghostwriter and Scott Adams collaborator Joshua Lisec about Adams. Listen to what he had to say: “In addition to his one-of-a-kind cultural contributions in the form of entertainment, satire, humor for 40 years, he also is the most influential personal development author of all time, and it’s not even close. Every single self-help book samples, sources, or otherwise steals Scott Adams’ original content from his various books going back into the 1990s, both business, career, and personal life, self-help. There has been no other voice as impactful as his across the generations. And that’s not even to mention the fact that he was the first celebrity to say anything positive about Donald Trump back in 2015. And it cost him, likely, multiple fortunes upon fortunes. This is a man who is willing to share what he thinks and take the heat regardless as he’s done multiple times being ‘canceled’ for it.He’s a legend in his time. We all know him as ‘the internet dad’ and so that makes all of us as his fans sort of internet siblings. He created a global family — not just a set of followers or community — but a global family.He made it okay for good, smart people to say positive things about Donald Trump in public. Donald Trump is not president without Scott Adams. Not the 45th president — not the 47th president. The first person, in my opinion, that the MAGA movement has to thank for MAGA having power is Scott Adams.” Scott ‘changed how America views politics‘ As you may be realizing, Scott Adams didn’t just create Dilbert or master live-streaming—he reshaped how people think about politics, culture, and everything else. He’s resonated with thinkers like Owen Gregorian, a dedicated follower and cohort who posts articles and opinion pieces aligning with Adams’ ideas on persuasion and politics. As Owen Gregorian observes: “Scott changed how America views politics, and even the nature of reality. Time and again, he has framed people and events with messaging that ends up spreading everywhere. His article ‘Clown Genius’ very well may have springboarded Trump into winning his first term as President. His books and livestreams have helped countless people change their lives for the better. America will never fully realize how much Scott Adams influenced and improved our country.” Scott Adams helps make our country great Like so many of his daily listeners, news of Scott’s cancer diagnosis came as a shock. Although it made me sad, my primary feelings quickly shifted to admiration. Scott keeps the show going and as normally as possible. He has that fighting spirit embodied by so many Americans. Getting a personal phone call from President Trump undoubtedly did his heart good — it certainly did mine and so many others. Adams didn’t share all of the conversation. He has too much class for that. I join President Trump, so many Americans and people around the world in my appreciation of Scott Adams. As the smart people in this article expressed, Scott Adams is an American original. How you can fix your own mood — the Scott Adams way People like Megyn Kelly have called Scott Adams a “Trump whisperer,” and applauded him for for being “a frank communicator.” He’s been praised by the very best of them, from Ann Coulter to Monica Crowley. It’s no surprise to his fans when someone like President Trump expresses his clear respect and veneration, because so many people have been personally affected by something that Scott Adams said. For that person who loses weight, or decides to talk to an attractive stranger, or persuades their boss to give them a raise, or even just to stand a bit taller, Scott is somehow more than a star. He’s a friend. He never lectures his viewers and listeners. As he once told Carmine Gallo for “Don’t take my advice, I’m offering information.” Scott Adams has created an incredible body of useful work and entertainment that he continues to add to. Americans, and people around the world, have been changed for the better. Scott Adams finds purpose in making a difference in other’s lives. One moment from our interview sticks with me: “If you’re having a bad day that’s just unfixable, there’s nothing you can do about your own situation, at least today, tomorrow maybe is a new day, but right now you’re just in a funk. I’ll just sit there and say, ‘all right, who can I delight?’ It works every time. If you make somebody’s day and you’re useful and they simply appreciate you, you’re good all day. It’ll turn any day around and that’s just being selfish. That’s just fixing your own mood being useful.” The Presidential Medal of Freedom — an honor befitting Scott Adams With such a legacy that includes humor, self-help, and political influence, it’s no stretch to envision Scott Adams as a candidate for the Presidential Medal of Freedom, an honor befitting a man who continues to redefine how we think, communicate and accomplish. I think it’s possible. But either way, so many of us will get up in the morning and have our mug of coffee. We’ll sip to Scott.

Owen Gregorian

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