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/ 

Why Conservatives are Irrelevant - Vox Popoli

 Conservatives, liberals, and Jews alike are all loudly lamenting the election of Mayor Mamdani and wringing their hands about how it was possible. Of course, the answer is both a) obvious and b) beyond their intellectual integrity to admit.

The result of the mayoral election was not only inevitable, it was one of the primary objectives of the architects of the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act. This is exactly what those who hate America, hate Christianity, and hate Western Civilization have sought to accomplish since the turn of the 20th Century. Note the steep 25 percent decline in a decade after 1965......

https://voxday.net/2025/11/06/why-conservatives-are-irrelevant/ 

.....Conservatives conserve nothing. They couldn’t conserve America. They couldn’t even conserve the definition of “American”. Which is why conservatism is not, and cannot be, part of the solution.

Vox's Razor - Vox Popoli

 The wider the variety of arguments against a specific assertion, the more likely the assertion is to be false.

When something is false, there are always going to be multiple angles and perspectives from which the falsehood can be perceived and exposed. So, a false claim is always going to have more observable flaws than a true claim, and many of the arguments against it, however weak or relatively unconvincing they may be, will be correct.

Compare the vast panoply of arguments against evolution to the relatively narrow range of arguments against the existence of God. While I personally don’t find some of the Intelligent Design arguments against the theory of evolution by natural selection to be particularly convincing, they are logical and they are also, in the end, absolutely correct. I happen to find appeals to conclusive mathematical analyses considerably more convincing myself, but it’s important to keep in mind that these various arguments are all ultimately correct because they point to the truth: what could not happen did not happen.

Read it all:

https://voxday.net/2025/11/06/voxs-razor/ 

Mayor Mamdani - Vox Popoli

 Actions have consequences. History does not repeat, but it rhymes. Insanity consists of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.....

https://voxday.net/2025/11/05/mayor-mamdani/ 

....Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, carried 50.4% of votes to independent candidate Andrew Cuomo’s 42% at midnight, with nearly 98% of precincts reporting, the city Board of Elections said. GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa came in third with a rock-bottom 7.1%. The Uganda-born Mamdani will be the Big Apple’s first Muslim, first South Asian and first socialist mayor, as well as one of the youngest.

In the spring of 711, a Muslim army invaded Iberia led by Tariq ibn Ziyad, serving the Arab governor Musa ibn Nusayr, at Guadalete they swiftly defeated Roderick the Visigoth King and then marched northward to the Visigoth capital of Toledo. Both Latin and Arabic chroniclers record that the Jews of the city “opened the gates of Toledo” to Tariq, who conquered the city.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. In 1965, Emanuel Celler finally achieved his lifelong goal of opening America’s gates with the passage of the Immigration and Naturalization Act that ended 44 years of a restrictive immigration policy that made the USA the greatest and most powerful country in the world. And now, as a direct result, both the Big Apple and the Mini-Apple are governed by foreign Muslim mayors whose interests are absolutely antithetical to the American “Posterity” for whom the Constitution was written and whose rights it was intended to defend.

None of this is a secret or a surprise to anyone with even a modest grasp of history. Mass immigration marks the end of every society and every empire, even on those occasions when it doesn’t directly cause it. I certainly welcome the new regimes in New York City and Minneapolis, and will watch with interest, if not amusement, to see how they take advantage of the wretched retards who actively encouraged these foreigners to come and rule over them.

I only hope the beleaguered residents of New York City and Minneapolis and other cities blessed with vibrant rule will remember that all the bad things they are complaining about, all the terrible things that they will be complaining about in the future, are things that they were warned about, but dismissed as impossible because they decided those who warned them were bad people.

25 years ago I compared riding the subway in New York City to riding a train in Beirut. Tonight, the city, in great disgrace, elected a muslim socialist to be the next mayor. NEW YORK HAS OFFICIALLY FALLEN.
— John Rocker

Almost a Republican sweep last night—if only men voted

 (The bad news - women rule; and that is also DaGoodNews - it speeds the collapse of the whole kittinkabootle! - CL)

I’ll lastly cite one other example. In the 2018 midterms, men broke Republican 51-47; women went Democrat 59-40. The latter enabled the Democrats to retake the House of Representatives and impeach Trump twice.

Oh, and here’s the kicker: This political sex gap is widening, with young men becoming more conservative (by today’s standards, anyway) and young women veering hard left.

(And this is another reason why many young fellows aren’t marrying. Can you blame them?)

As for why women have this affinity for leftism, it’s a deep issue beyond this blog’s scope. But I did examine it in the following articles, among others:

• “The Security Sex.”
• “‘Woke’ Culture Is Just Feminine Culture, Says Writer—and It’s Killing America.”

Full text:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/11/almost_a_republican_sweep_last_night_if_only_men_voted.html 

Blame Government for Businesses Hiring Illegal Aliens - (This perfectly confirms what Denninger has been railing about for ages - the NON-ENFORCEMENT of EXISTING FEDERAL LAW by Trump and every president before. - CL)

 (And of course the complete ignorance of WeDaPeople in holding our elected officials accountable. -  CL)

Full text:

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/11/blame_government_for_businesses_hiring_illegal_aliens.html 

And if you are an owner or manager in any of these industries, what are you to do if the government quite clearly doesn’t mind hiring illegal aliens -- and paying them far less than their American counterparts -- as long as payroll taxes are paid?

Sooner or later, you end up going along with the charade, all thanks to government knowingly looking the other way. And over the decades this has been a bipartisan effort -- both Republicans and Democrats are to blame.

So, if you want anyone to blame for these things, blame government. By allowing the first unscrupulous players to take hold, market forces drive all the rest.

Want it to end? Only government can do this. Blaming employers is just a useful distraction for government and politicians alike. The government has the power to greatly reduce this but they simply don’t try. They like all those extra dollars flowing into their tax coffers -- regardless where it comes from or the damage it does to the very fabric of America.

Once government truly enforces sanctions against hiring illegal aliens, then you can go after the handful of bad actors who try to scam the system.

This is a relatively easy problem to solve. Why hasn’t it been? Because they don’t want to.

5GW: The Extension of the Battlefield - Vox Popoli

 As I previously wrote in The Fifth Generation of Modern War: Drones, Attrition, and the Collapse of the Logistics Sanctuary, the advent of drone warfare, combined with the digital elements that make it uniquely lethal, genuinely represents a new generation of modern war. It is clear that the Russians understand this much more clearly, and are able to describe it and articulate the issues much better than Western military historians and strategists, because they are actively engaged in it.

Simplicius quotes the retired General Yuri Baluyevsky, Russia’s Chief of General Staff from 2004-2008, from his recent article on the current revolution in military affairs, as well as a Russian source working in logistics on the Pokrovsk front, that explain and underline how this really is a new generation of war, the chief aspect of which is the massive extension of the battlespace well beyond the traditional battlefield.

The piece urges for Russia to adapt to this ‘new reality’ as soon as possible. The urgency stems from the stated thesis that drone tech capabilities will increase faster than the effective means of countering them:.....

https://voxday.net/2025/11/05/5gw-the-extension-of-the-battlefield/ 

......As per the description above, the 25km-from-LoC zone has already become extremely dicey, where dispersion is necessary for survival. Then from 5-7km onward, it essentially becomes the ‘death zone’, to borrow mountaineering terminology.

Baluyevsky and his co-author state that the chief development of the modern battlefield is the total doing-away with the ‘fog of war’, initiating an era of complete battlefield transparency.

War has fundamentally changed and these changes don’t just change and expand the tactical battlefield, it indicates tremendous changes to the logistical art, the operational art, the strategic art, and even the geostrategic balance of power.

Five Generations of Modern War - by Vox Day - AI Central

 A lecture examining how unmanned systems fundamentally transform the nature of warfare by eliminating the distinction between the front lines and the logistics space.

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Introduction: Standing Outside the System

Ladies and gentlemen, what I'm going to present to you today builds directly on the intellectual framework that William Lind laid out in his groundbreaking lecture entitled the Four Generations of Modern War. As Lind emphasized, we cannot determine the consistency of a system from inside itself—we must stand outside it to see clearly. Today, we must step outside not just our current military thinking, but outside the entire framework of the first four generations to understand what is happening in conflicts from Nagorno-Karabakh to Ukraine to the skies over Israel and Iran.

We are witnessing the emergence of the Fifth Generation of Modern War, and like each previous generational shift, it represents what the Hegelians would call a dialectically qualitative change—not merely an evolution in tactics or technology, but a fundamental transformation in the nature of warfare itself. This transformation is driven by the proliferation of unmanned systems—drones—which have done something unprecedented since the Peace of Westphalia: they have eliminated the sanctuary of the logistics space.......

Full text: https://aicentral.substack.com/p/five-generations-of-modern-war