Tariffs Don't Address Compliance - EPautos - (Another example of 'Ignorance Rules' - CL)

Trump – were he not so preoccupied with Putting Israel First and bombing speedboats full of drugs (supposedly) that no one is forced to take (unlike the drugs he helped to push during the “pandemic” panic he abetted) – could at least address the compliance costs issue by explaining it to people. Or assign someone who does understand them to explain it to people. That would be the first step in the right direction. Then he might be able to reduce them, which would result in lower manufacturing costs. That, in turn, would reduce the incentive to manufacture things in places such as China, where manufacturing costs are so much lower, it not only costs less to manufacture things there – it costs so much less that it’s worth shipping stuff from there to here. Even with those costs folded into the mix, the Chinese-made stuff can be sold here for less than American-made stuff because it costs that much more to make stuff right here in America

Because of the compliance costs.

Full text:

https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2025/11/05/tariffs-dont-address-compliance/ 

Instead, Trump levies tariffs as a kind of catch-all solution to a problem he does not understand – and like so many things Trump does, it will not end well for Americans. The latter already sense this. The gubernatorial and mayoral elections just concluded are a kind of referendum about this.

The Red Hats, of course, will never acknowledge this and that will seal their doom – as well as ours.

DEATH AND THE DARWINIAN - Vox Popoli

 You know a book is good if your wife keeps asking what you’re laughing at. The answer was this book. It is funny, it is really funny. And the ending will leave a tear in your eye.

“What’s so funny there?”
she whispers through the lamplight
as he grins and reads

You’ll understand the haiku if you read the book.

A review of DEATH AND THE DEVIL.

DEATH AND THE DARWINIAN

It is a well-established fact across most of the known multiverse that death is, generally speaking, the end of life. This is the sort of obvious statement that most beings understand intuitively, in the same way they understand that water is wet or that the likelihood of autocorrect humiliating you increases exponentially with the importance of the message being sent.

What is rather less well-established is what happens immediately after death, in that awkward period between the cessation of biological functions and whatever comes next. This is primarily because most beings who experience death are, by definition, no longer in a position to write detailed reports about it, and those who claim to have had “near-death experiences” typically experience something more akin to “near-near-death” or “death-adjacent” moments, which is rather like claiming to be an expert on the history of Paris because your plane once flew over the south of France.

Dr. Mortimer Finch, professor of evolutionary biology at the prestigious University of West Anglia, had spent his entire fifty-seven-year academic career insisting that death was merely the natural conclusion of a biological process, a physical event no more spiritually significant than the shedding of a snake skin or the molting of an upwardly mobile crab. The universe, Dr. Finch maintained, was a magnificent accident—an unplanned, undirected series of chemical and physical processes that, through billions of years of trial and error, had produced everything from slime molds to symphony orchestras.

This conviction had served him well throughout his distinguished career, earning him numerous academic accolades, a comfortable tenure, and the quiet disdain of the university’s theology department, whose offices were, perhaps not coincidentally, located in the building on the opposite side of the campus.

It was therefore somewhat disconcerting for Dr. Finch to one day find himself face-to-face with Death.

Full text:

https://voxday.net/2025/11/07/death-and-the-darwinian/ 

I Did Warn People 14 Years Ago (Energy) - (Proving again - ignorance and stupidity are not cheap! - CL)

 So you want a "no-carbon" electrical energy source?

Well, that's really not very smart on-balance simply because petroleum is much more than just fuel.  Its literally in everything that makes for modern civilization and whether you like it or not the refining process produces a lot of usable fuel you have to do something with.  Rather obviously throwing it on the ground is both polluting and dumb, as are all the other alternatives than burning it to produce usable work.  This, incidentally, is the flaw in all of the people arguing that "we must" or "we should" in that regard; unless you'd like to live in a world with no IV bags, no syringes in hospitals, no other plastics (look around you for what that means you don't have; you'll rapidly discover this means even the simplest things, like weatherstripping on your windows, no longer exist) and more.

In other words civilization in the modern sense depends on petroleum so the "no more oil" position means no civilization.  You might not like this fact but it is a fact......

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=254370 

....Well now the Chinese have gone and built exactly this and have the now only working example in current operation.  The amusing quote from that article, however, is found here:

It is the first time in the world that scientists have been able to acquire experimental data on thorium operations from inside a molten salt reactor, according to a report by Science and Technology Daily.

Nonsense; we proved it works and is feasible at Oak Ridge (ORNL) sixty years ago.

And then we walked away from it without following up and completing the engineering required to put it into civilian power production.

But if you read the link found above from 2011 that I wrote, or Leverage, you'll find that exploitation of this technology if pursued in combination with CTL not only produces electrical energy without consumption of carbon-based fuels at the same time it produces 500 years worth of diesel and gasoline making us entirely energy-independent even assuming reasonable continual population growth.

In other words it solves the entire problem, and even better it gives us a place to dispose of high level nuclear waste because the safest place for such material is inside an operating reactor where neutron bombardment will cause the heavy and highly-dangerous (e.g. actinide-series) waste products to be broken down into much lighter ones with much shorter half-lives.

In fact if the engineering is completed for online reprocessing transport risk is eliminated at the same time and the final waste stream would be roughly one percent of what we currently produce using fission energy production.

We can do this without any "pie in the sky" things that are at best dubious; this is all known technology that we have simply refused to exploit and now the Chinese are well down the road to doing so.

We must reverse this error on an expedient basis.

Adam Had the Authority, Not Eve - Rev Matt

 Hierarchy was built into the created order as Paul says explicitly in 1 Corinthians, “3 But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God” (1 Cor. 11:3). Not just hierarchy either, more specifically patriarchy; that is leadership and therefore the responsibility of the man. Nowhere in scripture, not on any page, is this order rescinded. It is in fact reiterated again and again in both covenants and is central to our understanding of sin. The Scriptures are adamant: The first Adam let sin into the world, the second Adam, Christ, defeated it.

It’s no wonder people cannot submit or handle this order in large measure, the first man and woman inverted it. But it is there none the less.

It’s not an accident that our egalitarian world is less Christian. 

Full text:

https://revmatthewlittlefield.substack.com/p/adam-had-the-authority-not-eve 

Why Isn't There a Cure for Alzheimer's Disease? - midwestern doctor

 Story at a Glance:

• Alzheimer’s disease is commonly thought to result from abnormal plaque buildup in the brain that gradually destroys brain tissue.

•Almost all Alzheimer’s research for decades has been directed toward eliminating amyloid, even after the basis for much of this work was shown to stem from fraudulent research.

•The billions spent on amyloid Alzheimer’s research have only produced three drugs, all of which offer minuscule benefits and severe side effects.

•In contrast, affordable and straightforward treatments that reduce dementia or the preceding cognitive impairment have been maligned and buried by the medical industry.

•DMSO for example, has incredible neuroprotective qualities that have spared many stroke and spinal cord injury victims from a life of “incurable” disability. Decades of forgotten research also show it treats cognitive impairment and dementia.

•This article will review the great amyloid scam and the simple therapies for cognitive decline we’re never told about.

Full text:

https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/why-isnt-there-a-cure-for-alzheimers-d9d?publication_id=748806&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=y7h5a&utm_medium=email 

Bust the Public School Monopoly - By J.B. Shurk

 I am an enthusiastic supporter of homeschooling.  When parents are in a position to prioritize their children’s education, young minds learn more information more quickly.  A young person who excels in mathematics, for instance, is not forced to follow the regimented schedule of the state’s curricula, in which geometry belongs to a certain grade level, an introduction to calculus must be kept secret until the final years of high school, and summer vacations interrupt the accumulation and application of new knowledge.  Those who show promise in mathematics — especially those who enjoy working with numbers — should not have their educations slowed down merely because a state education board has decided that everyone should learn the same things at the same age......

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/11/no_author/bust-the-public-school-monopoly/ 

....We may not be able to save public schools from themselves.  Until the whole monstrosity is demolished and rebuilt from the ground up, I will continue to support all opportunities for young students to discover their true potential.  If schools exist to indoctrinate, rather than to educate, then they betray their purpose.  If they insist on teaching students what to think instead of how to think, then they are just brainwashing camps.  If they prioritize narratives over knowledge, then they are simply surgical wards for amputating critical thinking.  American students need to be rescued from the intellectual barbarism and moral vacuums now posing as public school education.......

Taming the Sound and Fury of the Empire of Chaos - By Pepe Escobar

 Emmanuel Todd has summed it all up, succinctly. What to do when “this is indeed the first American strategic defeat on a global scale, in a context of massive deindustrialisation in the United States and difficult reindustrialisation”, while “it is already too late to compete [with China] industrially.”

Hence the vociferous, bullying Circus Ringmaster, without saying a word (a miracle, in his particular case) progressively hitting TACO-on-steroids territory when it comes to Russia-China.

That’s our cue to the new Netflix series: the Empire of Rage lashing out, irrationally, against anyone, any nation, it deems weaker, a graphic demonstration of its massive resentment. Those fishing boats are full of narco-terrorists because I say so. Kill them all.

An extra danger is that the EUro-chihuahuas take a cue from this irrational drive to increase their Russophobic provocations inter-galactically. The only rational way to deal with it would be by Oreshniking them.

Full text:

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/11/no_author/taming-the-sound-and-fury-of-the-empire-of-chaos/