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My horror novella, THE FORMERLY LIVING, is available on Amazon for Kindle and Apple Books for all you iPhone types.
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A. K. Rushing
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A. K. Rushing
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Follower of Christ ✝️ Author - Horror novella - THE FORMERLY LIVING - Available on Amazon & Apple Books - Drummer - Woodworker - Ole Miss Rebels
Tennessee, USA Katılım Ağustos 2024
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Sweden's socialist experiment collapsed spectacularly in the early 1990s, forcing politicians to abandon decades of central planning and embrace free markets. The results speak louder than any economic textbook ever could.
By 1990, Sweden's government consumed 67% of GDP. The marginal tax rate hit 87%. Capital flight accelerated as entrepreneurs fled to countries that didn't punish success. The krona crashed. Banks failed. Unemployment spiked to 9.9% by 1997. Sweden's welfare state had priced itself out of reality, just as free market economists predicted it would.
Then came the great reversal. Sweden privatized telecommunications, postal services, railways, and electricity. Politicians slashed the corporate tax rate from 57% to 22%. They introduced school vouchers, allowing parents to choose private schools with taxpayer funding. They partially privatized pensions, letting workers invest in individual accounts instead of relying solely on government promises. Most importantly, they eliminated wealth taxes and inheritance taxes that had driven capital overseas.
The recovery was swift and decisive. GDP growth accelerated. Unemployment plummeted to 6.1% by 2007. Sweden became a tech powerhouse, producing global companies like Spotify and Skype. The Stockholm stock exchange outperformed most European markets. Foreign investment flowed back as Sweden transformed from socialist cautionary tale to Nordic success story.
Today's American progressives love citing "Scandinavian socialism" while ignoring that Sweden's prosperity stems from abandoning socialism when it failed. They want the Sweden of 2023 while implementing the policies of 1975.
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Yes!
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You did not receive a real education. Today, we think of education as a litany of scattered disciplines that you study for careerism and social mobility. But a classical education was different. It taught you the seven liberal arts to liberate your soul... First, you learned the Trivium: • Grammar • Logic • Rhetoric Once you could think, speak, and articulate yourself clearly, you moved to the Quadrivium: • Arithmetic • Music • Geometry • Astronomy The Quadrivium is about training you to see order in reality itself. Nature has an intelligent design and you are connected to it: you belong in the cosmos. The difference with a true liberal arts education is not simply what you study, but *why* you study it. A classical liberal arts education taught you how to find God — the Transcendent Good was the end point of all education. Instead of a set of independent disciplines, education was a deeply interconnected moral pursuit, teaching you to be attuned with truth, beauty, and goodness. This interconnectedness is why the 7 liberal arts are presented as a wheel. And have you noticed that the symbol of the 7 liberal arts is strikingly similar to the rose windows of Gothic cathedrals? That's no coincidence. Rose windows symbolize Heaven, suggesting that reality itself is patterned after them — and this same circular pattern is the symbol of classical education in the liberal arts. The implication is that the liberal arts liberate your soul by forming you according to the pattern of Heaven itself. Education is preparation for eternity. athenaeumbooks.com/welcome This is from a longer essay published in our newsletter — join us!
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This is horrifying and every American needs to hear this
California resident exposes what’s really going on with Flock Cameras in America
“I want to be clear what these cameras actually are, and I say that with somebody with 20 years of experience in IT. I've served as the chief network architect for Fortune 500 companies, I've designed data centers, and today I work on cloud infrastructure for one of the largest loan origination companies in the country. I'm not speculating on how this technology works. I've read their patents and I know how it works.
Flock advertises these cameras as simple license plate readers. But their own patents tell a different story.
They're AI-powered surveillance machines that capture every passing vehicle and person and transmit that data to a private corporate cloud, making it queryable by a multitude of state and federal agencies. The city of Corona does not control that database, and Corona residents have no public record rights against a private company's servers. Our daily movements are being harvested by a $7.5 billion corporation, that only answers to venture capital investors, not to us. Flock did not reach that valuation on their per-camera subscription fees. That math doesn't add up
The city council should also understand who they're doing business with. Flock CEO was asked whether the company had any federal contracts. He said no. That was a lie.
Public records revealed that Flock had been secretly running a pilot program giving the US Border Patrol access to local police camera data without the knowledge of the cities that paid for the cameras.
Now consider who's behind the company and where your data flows. Flock integrates directly with Palantir, a data fusion platform, with a $30 million contract with ICE. Peter Thiel, the founder of Palantir, is also one of Flock's primary investors. These are not separate companies with separate agendas. They are connected actors that are building a connected infrastructure.
Palantir's own CEO stated publicly just this month that his technology is being used as a political instrument, designed to reduce the political power of certain voters. And that's the ecosystem that our Corona cameras are feeding into.
We're not anti-police at all. We're against mass surveillance of innocent residents by a company with a documented record of deception, built by investors with a stated political agenda. We're asking the City Council to start auditing the queries made against Flock's database, to disclose any data sharing agreements, and to take a vote to cancel the Flock safety contract”
I looked more into this and he is 100% right
Patents describe broader object detection, including tracking people and pedestrians, patents like US11416545B1. The system uses a centralized cloud database for nationwide queries
Data goes to Flock’s private cloud, AWS-based, encrypted. Nationwide lookup is common, 75%+ of customers are enrolled enabling cross-jurisdictional searches. Residents have no direct public records access to the corporate servers.
This creates a mass surveillance network feeding a private company’s infrastructure
If you ask me this is laying the infrastructure for a mass surveillance network in America. We are being lied to. Cancel all contracts nationwide
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Imagine a silence so profound it swallows entire galaxies.
There exists a void in space so incomprehensibly vast that a traveler moving at the speed of light — the fastest anything can go — would plunge through unbroken, starless darkness for 752,536,988 years before encountering even a single speck of matter.This is the Boötes Void (also known as the Great Nothing), one of the most staggering empty regions ever mapped in our observable universe. Spanning roughly 330 million light-years across, it contains almost nothing — just a lonely handful of galaxies where thousands should exist. It is a cosmic abyss so empty it defies our intuition about what “space” even means.Using deep-sky maps from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and other powerful observatories, astronomers have revealed these enormous voids as dark, yawning gaps between the glowing filaments of galaxies that form the large-scale structure of the cosmos. In the early universe, gravity acted like a sculptor, pulling matter into vast cosmic webs and threads, leaving behind these immense, hollow pockets — nature’s ultimate voids.Even more strangely, galaxies seem to crowd nervously along the edges of these empty zones, as if shunning the desolation at their cores. The universe, it turns out, is not a uniformly filled expanse. It resembles a delicate cosmic spiderweb: shimmering strands of galaxies and clusters connected by thin filaments, with cavernous voids making up the majority of its volume.In a cosmos teeming with billions of galaxies, these voids stand as humbling reminders that much of existence is defined not by presence, but by absence. They challenge everything we think we know about “empty” and “full,” whispering of a universe far stranger, far lonelier, and far more mysterious than we ever dared imagine.A quiet kind of infinity — not shouting, simply being.
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Fascinating!
Black Hole@konstructivizm
Saturn doesn’t just have rings — it rules an entire miniature solar system.As of 2026, the ringed giant boasts 292 confirmed moons, far more than any other planet, with the number still climbing as astronomers keep spotting tiny new ones. Dominating them all is Titan, a colossal world larger than the planet Mercury. With a thick nitrogen atmosphere, rivers and lakes of liquid methane, and a diameter of 5,150 km, Titan feels more like a planet that got captured than a mere moon.Titan orbits Saturn at a safe distance of about 1.2 million kilometres — well beyond the outer edge of the famous ring system. Those dazzling rings, made of countless icy particles and moonlets, are confined much closer to the planet, while Titan sails majestically around the entire sprawling family of satellites. The sheer crowd of moons — from planet-sized Titan down to kilometer-scale irregular rocks — reveals just how gravitationally chaotic and crowded Saturn’s neighborhood truly is. It’s a dynamic, ever-evolving system where collisions, captures, and gravitational dances continue to shape one of the most spectacular regions in our Solar System.
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“Social Security” is straight up theft and wealth redistribution.
mike bski@BskiMike22802
You want to know what a ponzi scheme is. Look at social security!
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After 9 years… and 3 BILLION miles… we finally met Pluto For decades, Pluto was nothing more than a faint, blurry speck in our telescopes — a lonely mystery at the frozen edge of our Solar System.Then, in July 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft screamed past at 30,000 mph… and completely changed everything. What we saw blew our minds: Towering ice mountains rising 11,000 feet high — as tall as the Rockies, but made of frozen nitrogen and methane
Heart-shaped plains of smooth, young ice that look eerily like Earth’s polar regions
A hazy blue atmosphere with drifting hazes and possible snow
Active geology, possible subsurface ocean, and even dunes made of methane iceThis isn’t a dead, cratered rock.
Pluto is a dynamic, colorful, living world — one that still surprises scientists years later. The wildest part?
Every single pixel of these jaw-dropping images had to travel 3 billion miles back to Earth… taking over 4 hours just to arrive.From a distant dot in the sky to one of the most fascinating worlds we’ve ever explored.That’s the absolute magic of space exploration. What surprised you most about Pluto?
by 1994
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In 1977, Sylvester Stallone explained why he wrote Rocky and how he convinced Hollywood to let an unknown actor play the lead.
When asked why he wrote the script, Stallone described what he saw as a problem with the films of that era:
"I felt at the time that cinema, at least the movies I had been seeing were at an all-time low. It was everything was anti-society, anti-Christ, anti-government, anti-everything. And there was no one to root for."
He believed films move in cycles, and he wanted to bring back something that had been lost:
"I wanted to get back into the cycle of the films of the 40s and the 50s where people say, 'Hey, gee, I missed the good old films.' Yet Hollywood hasn't taken heed and hasn't made any good old-fashioned type films where morality was at the forefront."
Up to that point, Stallone's career had been built on tiny roles, what he called "atmosphere":
"I was mostly what is known as atmosphere, always in the background or the guy that was being the drunk that was being stepped over in the gutter and other lame roles."
Writing Rocky was his way of giving himself one real shot before disappearing:
"I felt that gee, if I was going to go down at least into professional obscurity, I wanted to at least have the opportunity to say to myself, well, you tried. You put your best foot forward and you didn't make it."
He knew the character had to match what he could authentically play:
"I surely couldn't pass myself off at least as a lawyer in a three-piece suit. I just don't think I have that kind of appeal or whatever it is. So I wanted to take it much more basic. A man from the street. All right. What kind of a man? An underdog. And that being a professional fighter I think has that connotation to it."
When the script reached studio executives, they wanted a star.
They floated James Caan, Burt Reynolds, Ryan O'Neal, Gene Hackman, and Robert Redford. Stallone's pitch for himself came down to persistence and economics:
"Usually it's the old syndrome of knocking on the windows, pestering them, pressing my face in the door, honking their horn in the driveway. In other words, making a real pain in the neck out of myself."
"I kept saying I work a lot cheaper and a lot harder and for a lot longer."
The film was eventually made for $960,000, which Stallone described as roughly the cost of "a good toothpaste commercial."
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Milton Friedman: “I am not a conservative. I’ve never been a conservative. Hayek was not a conservative.”
“We are liberals in the true meaning of that term: concerned with freedom. We are not liberals in the current distorted sense—those liberal with other people’s money.”
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Further proof, if needed, that truth is stranger than fiction.
The irony of it all…
mike bski@BskiMike22802
Yesterday, the party of "No Kings" gave an actual, hereditary, crown-wearing KING multiple standing ovations on the floor of Congress. These are the same people who wore "No Kings live here" shirts. In that same building. A child who beat brain cancer? They sat. Affirming Americans come first? They sat. A LITERAL MONARCH? Standing ovation. I cannot make this up. Full breakdown👇 #MAGA #Veterans #Trump
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@RepKeithSelf @4_0GTS This shouldn’t even be a discussion: it is blatant government overreach.
We, the American people, MUST band together to vote out the”lawmakers” that treat us like sheep.
These elite, arrogant, mini-tyrants work for us.
It’s time - long PAST time - to remind them of that!
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Imagine a woman fleeing an attacker—and her car won’t start because it thinks she’s impaired.
Imagine a farmer injured on the job—his truck won’t start because it thinks he’s drunk.
These are the unintended consequences of the Kill Switch mandate.
Kill the Kill Switch.
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🚨 MUST WATCH:
Johnny Carson (a Democrat) opens the 1981 Oscars, a day after the assassination attempt on President Reagan, with genuine class and respect.
The entire liberal Hollywood crowd erupts in applause.
Today? Jimmy Kimmel jokes about Melania Trump becoming a widow.
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Milton Friedman on 4 ways to spend money:
1) Your money on yourself (you’re careful about both cost and quality)
2) Your money on others (you care about cost, less about quality)
3) Someone else’s money on yourself (you care about quality, not cost)
4) Someone else’s money on others (you care about neither)
The last one is how government spending works.
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This STAR WARS teaser trailer was screened before ‘King Kong’ in December of 1976.
The special effects weren’t finished, the music is NOT John Williams, and all in all it gives off a very different much darker vibe.
Interesting.
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Murray Rothbard demolished every economic justification for government intervention in his 1970 masterpiece "Power and Market," and the state's apologists still haven't recovered from the intellectual beatdown. Rothbard took apart price controls, antitrust laws, regulation, taxation, and public goods theory with surgical precision, showing how each intervention creates more problems than it solves while transferring wealth from producers to political parasites.
Take minimum wage laws. Politicians claim they help workers, but Rothbard showed how artificial wage floors create unemployment by pricing low-skilled workers out of jobs entirely. You force employers to pay $15/hour for $10/hour productivity, and guess what happens? The worker gets zero dollars instead of ten. Meanwhile, politicians get votes from unions whose higher-skilled members face less competition.
Rothbard exposed the public goods fallacy that still dominates economics textbooks today. Governments monopolize roads, schools, and defense to create dependency and justify their existence, not because markets fail to supply them. Private roads existed throughout American history. Private schools outperform government schools. Private security protects property better than police (who have no legal duty to protect you, according to the Supreme Court).
The most devastating insight: every government intervention creates a constituency that benefits from the intervention, making reversal politically difficult even when the policy fails spectacularly. Tariffs create protected industries that lobby for more protection. Welfare creates bureaucracies that demand bigger budgets. Regulations create compliance costs that large corporations can handle but small competitors cannot.
Government intervention expands state power while enriching connected elites at your expense.
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