Epstein Illustrates The Point: It's MATH - Denninger

 So let us****ume that 10% of said thing is fraud in some form.  It doesn't really matter the form; it might kill people (e.g. deliberately-hidden drug trial data showing adverse effects that the manufacturer hides rather than killing development of said drug) or simply steals from someone by some means (e.g. collusion between insurance companies, physicians and hospitals, continued demands for more money in a public school despite inability to produce competent students, roofs put on without the mandated and paid for secondary barriers, etc.)

10% is not such a horrid thing all things considered, right?  After all nobody's perfect we hear repeatedly, right?  And that's true, when its a mistake because that doesn't become part of the base upon which future expectations are set.  But theft and scam always do; that is, if you "increase" your revenue by 10% then the next year must be 10% on top of the previous base amount including the ten percent which was stolen in the previous year.

So what happens to that "10%" over ten years?

The whole becomes 2.59x what the start was and all of that growth is in fact not real; it is all stolen****uming the actual base never expands!  You've now gone from $1m (for example) of honest paid output to $2.59 million and $1.59 million of that was stolen because that 10% compounds!  In other words more than 60% of the whole is theft and that occurs without a single cent of actual and productive growth.

How about over 30 years?

It becomes 17.45x what the start was and of the $17.45 million all but $1m is stolen!  Again, that growth occurs without any actual expansion of real output!  Now basically none of the whole is actually productive; essentially all of it is theft.

This is the nature of exponents and it is why the penalty for any such activity in any business context must be far more-severe and brutal -- in fact, so brutal that nobody who sees or is told of it will risk having that done to them -- each and every time it is found without exception and without regard to who it is or where it started.

Nearly the entirety of our health care system, for example, is stolen.  It didn't start that way; it was a relatively small amount of theft but today nearly all of it -- more than four trillion dollars a year which amounts to roughly $12,000 per American per year, yes, each and every person -- is stolen! 

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https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=254973 

.....If we locked up those people immediately today once again the dislocation would be huge but then it would be over.  Had we done it before the dislocation would have been tiny but that we didn't do it before doesn't mean we can evade doing it now because it literally has consumed virtually all of the money generated in and by these entities and will continue to exponentially expand!

Now do "chameleon carriers" in the trucking business.  It is dirt trivial to run those down and put a stop to it.  It hasn't been done nor has the Medicaid fraud been stomped on now visible in the public data set, which is equally-trivial to run down.  Why not?  Because the government at all levels is a willful and intentional part of it.  Anything this easy to find where there is an existing criminal law that deals with it, and isn't being found, is not just being ignored -- it is being promoted.

Those hospitals, medical centers, hotels and all other manner of businesses that have engaged in these felonious acts would all go under as their owners would be imprisoned and the firm and their owners****et-stripped to their literal underwear.  The stock market would crash.

But house prices and apartment rents would crash as well and the businesses that go under would be auctioned off for pennies to others who would then open new firms with a cost basis that is a tiny fraction of those who were there before.

The price of goods and services would fall like a stone while your labor would increase in value and thus so would the wages of American citizens and lawful permanent residents.  Legitimate businesses (like trucking companies) would prosper.

Yes, there would be a crash -- but like 1920/21 it would be extremely short-lived and on the other side would be an enormous benefit for every actual American citizen never mind huge opportunities for Americans to start and operate profitable businesses.  Cutting the cost of employment per-person by removing these scams would drive business back to America and wildly improve our standard of living.

We must do this and we must do it now because math says that if we don't the compounding will continue until the only remaining option available to stop you from being rendered penniless and in the street will be to use violence against those who have and are cheating, whether sanctioned by the state (likely after we vote in a funny-looking guy reminiscent of an infamous Austrian Painter) or unsanctioned, private and insanely-chaotic violence (otherwise known as "a dirty Civil War".)

You want neither of those to happen and thus you must insist and enforce, even if you must enforce it via unpleasant acts and means, that the existing laws be applied, be enforced and all those who have "grown" and taken these acts over the last three decades be ruined and the scams, which consume virtually everything today, be stopped.

TRUMP AND HIS SO-CALLED DOJ AND OTHERS UNDER THE EXECUTIVE MUST DO THIS RIGHT NOW.

If they do not those who are vested in stealing as a way of life will simply gain more power in November, steal more, do it again in two more years and eventually the only remaining option will be the disorderly and violent one.

And then, after we force Trump and his DOJ to do this in the present tense on a forward basis we must maintain diligence and if that has to mean changing the law so that any of these acts by a business-like entity, including an element of the government, that occurs in the future results in summary and brutal execution on the National Mall at high noon for each and every person so-involved -- so be it.

Extended Air War on Iran - Vox Popoli

 It increasingly appears that the tail is in firm control of the dog, and that Netanyahu is going to get his Round 2 with Iran for which he has been working to enlist the US military.

A large wave of American airpower is heading toward the Middle East to bolster forces already there as U.S......

https://voxday.net/2026/02/18/extended-air-war-on-iran/ 

.. ...A demonstration of unprecedented military might or the US Sicilian Expedition? I tend to assume the latter, as does Col. Douglas Macgregor. But the Russian and Chinese navies would appear to be a deterrent, only it’s very hard to deter irrational minds without the actual use of force.

And contra what the Christian Zionists are saying, if Israel fails, that doesn’t mean Jesus isn’t real. It means that Christian Zionism is false and has always been a satanic charade. The mere fact that they would even express such a thought tends to indicate the source of the concept.

Has Trump Lost Control to Netanyahu? - Paul Craig Roberts

 https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/02/paul-craig-roberts/has-trump-lost-control-to-netanyahu/ 

The question boils down to how capable American, Iranian, Russian and Chinese leaders are in recognizing reality. So far, none have shown capability at recognizing reality. When Iran had the strategic advantage, it backed off, leaving itself in its currently exposed position. The Russians, Chinese and Iranians never halted the escalation toward war by forming a mutual defense agreement that would have ended the problem before it could begin. Now that Netanyahu has brought the problem close to the wire, neither Russia nor China have done anything to deter an attack on Iran.

It would be simple to do so. Russian S-500 air defense systems manned by Russian troops could be set up in Iran. Squadrons of the latest Russian jet fighters could be stationed in Iran along with Chinese squadrons. Russian submarines could be deployed to the area. Russia could shut down Ukraine, something that should have been done four years ago, signaling Russia’s attention to a much more serious conflict. These measures would prevent war, not cause war. War will result from their absence.

A show of force would help those in the American military, who realize that the risks to the US and humanity are far greater than Israel warrants, to help American skeptics of Israel’s influence over US policy to find their voice and to speak out. But Russia and China have taken no actions that would provide evidence for those American military officers who see the danger of the situation to break ranks with the totally unrealistic consensus.

It is an extraordinary thing that the advent of nuclear weapons has been accompanied with a growing inability of western leaders to understand reality and the unintended consequences of their actions and inactions.

Goodbye and Good Riddance to the Endangerment Finding - David Stockman

 Trump’s cancellation of the so-called “endangerment finding” with respect to CO2 made by the Obama White House back in 2009 is so profoundly important as to make up for a legion of Trump’s spending, borrowing, easy money, and tariffing sins. Among countless others.

The entire notion that fossil-fuel-based industrial civilization threatens to boil the planet alive is sheer crackpottery. Actually, as we reprise below, the geologic and climatic history of the planet so clearly refutes the Climate Crisis nonsense as to point to an even more malefic force at work than just an egregious policy mistake.

In fact, the entire Climate Crisis Hoax was a deliberately Manufactured Lie, which emanated from the permanent political class and career nomenklatura domiciled in Washington, the UN, London, and Brussels. Their purpose was transparent: Namely, the propagation of an entire gestalt centered on an existential threat to the very life of the planet, thereby implicating sweeping emergency expansion of state power to override and supplant the very rudiments and rhythms of our fossil-fuel-based industrial society and the free market-rooted lifestyles and prosperity it enables.

Full text:

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/02/david-stockman/goodbye-and-good-riddance-to-the-endangerment-finding/ 

Stated more bluntly, the Climate Change Hoax was the most blatant grab for state power in human history to date (possibly exceeded only by the Covid-era attempt to control the microbial kingdom). And, now, perhaps with no more intentionality than that of the proverbial blind squirrel which stumbles upon an acorn, Trump has struck decisively at the entire prosperity-endangering predicate of this great lie. Not only will the cantilevered green energy regulatory and subsidy structure predicated on the Obama endangerment finding now rapidly fall by the wayside, but the whole absurd religion of mankind’s alleged sinful stewardship of the planet will be up for honest refutation for the first time in three decades.

Perhaps it will take a year or two, or even a decade or more, but the phony “science” and risible economics on which the climate scam was based will now unravel into a heap of discredited propaganda and modern-day witchcraftery. With some luck and leadership from now emboldened dissenters in government, industry, science, and the public conversation alike, we may even benefit from a “never again” syndrome in our national politics capable of keeping the statists at bay for at least a few decades longer.

Perforce, therefore, the foundation myths of the Climate Crisis scam needs to be eviscerated limb-for-limb in order to document that the entire story was and is bogus. The truth is, the equipoise of the planet is not remotely in danger from burning fossil fuels or other human endeavors that make modern life more pleasant and tolerable.

In the first place, there never has been planetary equipoise!.......

.....The only problem is that Mann’s graph was as phony as the Piltdown Man itself—the latter famously being confected in England in 1912 and conveniently “discovered” by an amateur anthropologist who claimed it was the missing link in human evolution. At length, it was shown that the fossil was a forgery; it consisted of a modern human cranium and an orangutan jaw with filed-down teeth.

In this case, professor Mann and his accomplices at the IPCC doctored the evidence, used misleading data from Southwestern US tree rings in lieu of abundant alternative data showing the contrary, and jiggered their computer models to generate pre-specified results.

That is, the models were goal-seeked by Mann and his associates to prove the man-made warming thesis. In essence, it was accomplished by simply pasting modern temperature records showing steady increases on top of a pre-industrial baseline that never happened.

The phony pre-industrial baseline is depicted by the yellow area in the graph for the period 1400-1900. The hockey stick-like eruption of the yellow space after 1900, of course, allegedly depicts the man-made temperature rise since the onset of the hydrocarbon age.

By contrast, the corrected version is in the blue area. In this version—which comports with the history of climate oscillations cited above—there is no hockey stick because the shaft never happened; it was invented by computer model manipulations, not extracted from the abundant scientific data on which the Mann study was allegedly based.

So the question is answered. The mid-19th century is exactly the wrong baseline from which to measure global temperature change during modern times.

The blue area of the chart, in fact, is the smoking gun which obliterates the whole predicate on which the Climate Crisis Hoax is being foisted upon the everyday people of the world.

So, yes, a blind squirrel sometimes makes a life-saving find, and Donald Trump has just made one that will help sustain industrial civilization itself for a long time to come.

Veriphysics: The Treatise 017 - Vox Popoli

 

VIII. The Shape of Renewal

The path forward is not a return to pure dialectic, as though the lessons of the Enlightenment’s victory over the last three centuries could simply be unlearned. Nor is it an embrace of pure rhetoric, which would make a neoclassical tradition no better and no more viable than its opponents. It is the synthesis that the Enlightenment pretended to offer but never delivered, the combination of genuine logical rigor, with genuine mathematical abstraction connected to genuine empirical grounding, all deployed with rhetorical effectiveness, that is the optimal philosophical path.

This requires several things.

First, it requires calling all the bluffs. Every Enlightenment claim that invokes reason, mathematics, or evidence must be challenged to produce the reasoning, the equations, and the evidence. These challenges must be pressed relentlessly, and publicly, until the bankruptcy is fully exposed. The tradition has been too polite and too willing to assume good faith on the part of opponents who relentlessly operate in bad faith. That philosophical courtesy must end.

Second, it requires actually doing the intellectual labor. It is not enough to assert that the tradition has logic, mathematics, and evidence on its side. The logic must be articulated clearly. The mathematics must be calculated accurately and presented accessibly. The evidence must be gathered and displayed. The tradition must mint real philosophical currency and spend it lavishly.

Third, it requires addressing the public. The specialized vocabulary that served the tradition well in the seminar room is a liability in the public square. The arguments must be translated, popularized, and even dumbed down where necessary in order to make them accessible to the laymen who lacks specialist training. Clarity is not the enemy of rigor; it is its completion.

Fourth, it requires going on offense.......

https://voxday.net/2026/02/18/veriphysics-the-treatise-017/ 

The Spoils of War: Afghanistan’s Multibillion Dollar Heroin Trade - (Is Uncle Sam DaLord of DaDrug Trade? - CL)

 https://michelchossudovsky.substack.com/p/spoils-war-afghanistans-multibillion-dollar-heroin-trade?publication_id=1910355&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=y7h5a&utm_medium=email 

Concluding Remarks: Criminalization of US Foreign Policy

US foreign policy supports the workings of a thriving criminal economy in which the demarcation between organized capital and organized crime has become increasingly blurred.

The heroin business is not “filling the coffers of the Taliban” as claimed by US government and the international community: quite the opposite. The proceeds of this illegal trade are the source of wealth formation, largely reaped by powerful business/criminal interests within the Western countries. These interests are sustained by US foreign policy.

Decision-making in the US State Department, the CIA and the Pentagon is instrumental in supporting this highly profitable multibillion dollar trade, third in commodity value after oil and the arms trade.

The Afghan drug economy is “protected.”

The heroin trade was part of the war agenda. What this war has achieved is to restore a compliant narco-state, headed by a US-appointed puppet.

The powerful financial interests behind narcotics are supported by the militarisation of the world’s major drug triangles (and transshipment routes), including the Golden Crescent and the Andean region of South America (under the so-called Andean Initiative).

Veriphysics: The Treatise 016 - Vox Popoli

 

VII. The Counterfeit and the Real

The deepest irony of the Enlightenment’s triumph is that its self-proclaimed weapons of reason, mathematics, and empirical evidence were all counterfeits, while the tradition possessed the genuine articles but failed to deploy them effectively.

The Enlightenment claimed reason but practiced rhetoric. Its arguments were not demonstrations but performances, designed to persuade rather than prove. When the arguments were examined carefully, as Hume examined causation, as Kant examined pure reason, and as the positivists examined verification, they dissolved under it. The Enlightenment’s elevation of human reason was a promise that could never be fulfilled.

The Enlightenment claimed to be mathematically sound but refrained from actually doing the calculations. When the calculations were finally done, whether it be Gorman on demand curves, the Wistar mathematicians on mutation rates, or the various genomic analyses of the twenty-first century, they uniformly refuted the Enlightenment’s claims. The mathematics was available all along but the Enlightenment simply never submitted to its discipline despite the public posturing of the empiricists.......

https://voxday.net/2026/02/17/veriphysics-the-treatise-016/ 

....The tradition’s arguments were always sound. What was lacking was the empirical anchor that would make them irrefutable and the rhetorical strategy that would make them heard. The empirical anchor now exists. The rhetorical landscape has shifted. The opportunity is real and the time is now.