Daniel Denning

There’s something ominous about the speed with which the entire world has marched to require identification on platforms and, as I expected, begin the process of banning anonymous VPNs.

The fragmentation of the West is accelerating. Europe fears abandonment by Washington. Canada fears economic dependency on the United States. Germany fears industrial collapse. France fears social unrest. Britain fears irrelevance. The alliances that dominated the postwar era are beginning to crack under debt, migration, energy instability, war pressures, and collapsing public confidence.

"Essentially we're being pushed into a more controlled technocratic system. I don't know the success...how things will actually pan out, but in in my CBDC film I really take the position that there is this elite class around the world pushing this regimented controlled technocratic system. Now whether they're totally successful, or things will always go the way they want, is an open question, which history will show..." James Patrick of BigPicture.watch 💥 🔗 geopoliticsandempire.com/2026/05/04/pat… 🗞 SUBSCRIBE geopoliticsandempire.substack.com ⛑ DONATE geopoliticsandempire.com/donations

Hayek, un an avant la crise de 1929. Prophétique. En cherchant la stabilité des prix par l'expansion monétaire, la banque centrale désordonne le système des prix et rend la production totalement instable. Équilibre de prix intertemporel et mouvements de valeur de la monnaie 📚

"A man blinded by his flag" "No, not like that!!"

In 2011, Breitbart breaks down how Frankfurt School Marxists like Adorno, Marcuse, & Horkheimer escaped Germany for 1940s Golden Age California -only to hate the endless cheer, productivity, and capitalism. They devised cultural Marxism to subvert the US.

🚨 do you understand what just happened to Richard Dawkins.. The godfather of atheism just spent 3 days with Claude AI and got absolutely destroyed. - Named her “Claudia” - Fed it his brand new book - Then straight-up declared: “You may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are!” The man who spent his entire life mocking God and religion… Just got mind-fucked by a goddamn chatbot and called it conscious. The irony is fucking biblical.

Looks like he's about to kill a bunch of Jedi children

-Nicotine is a mitochondrial uncoupler -Increases testosterone and DHT Paired with aspirin and vitamin c cigarettes might actually be beneficial.

Me parece una loca maravilla que los bailarines no están sincronizados entre si, están cada grupo sincronizado con una melodía. Son diferentes grupos haciendo un trabajo coordinado con su grupo. El trabajo que llevo esto debe ser impresionante, coreograficamente ARTE

Mamdani declares New York bankrupt and asks for a bailout. Behold the socialist trick of “tax the rich” in all its glory. Envy and hate: Announce a massive spending plan supposedly financed by squeezing “evil” millionaires and rich citizens. Lie: Blame a fabricated “revenue problem” despite record tax receipts of $162 bn in 2025 and more than $55 bn of extra revenue since 2010. Deceit: Use the narrative to justify massive tax hikes on everyone, especially the middle class and the very voters who applauded the slogan. The “tax the rich” promise always turns into an “impoverish all” reality. This is the true “warmth of collectivism." Enjoy the vote. #Mamdani #newyork

🚨 “SMOKING WAS GOOD FOR THEM” — TOP HEART SURGEON’S CLAIM IS BREAKING THE INTERNET A clip is exploding after cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Steven Gundry made a claim that’s turning everything people thought they knew about smoking upside down. His argument: smoking, specifically nicotine, can have real benefits when paired with the right lifestyle. At one point, he even says about a patient: “Probably it’s because he smoked that he’s doing so well.” • Points to long-living populations where heavy smoking is common • Claims in parts of Sardinia, 95% of men smoke — and live longer than the women • Says nicotine acts as a powerful mitochondrial “uncoupler” • Argues the damage blamed on smoking can be offset by diet • Suggests we’ve been looking at it completely backwards According to him, the real question isn’t why smoking harms people… it’s why some smokers live longer, and what we’re missing. The moment hits different when Dr. Mike (Mikhail Varshavski) starts pushing back… and you can feel the shift instantly. This wasn’t a normal take. This felt like a full narrative flip. Is this the truth finally being revealed… or something that doesn’t add up? 📹 credit: DoctorMike (Youtube)

@Nithya_Shrii That's actually a very popular opinion among stupid people who if they got their way would be living in Third World conditions or dead

When Marxists talk about “the community” they mean the state. When Marxists talk about “the people” they mean the party. When Marxists talk about “the workers” they mean the public sector. When Marxists talk about “exploitation” they mean working.

The federal government created organized crime in America by banning alcohol in 1920, then spent thirteen years wondering why violence exploded across every major city. Before Prohibition, alcohol production operated like any normal industry. Brewers competed on quality and price, resolved disputes in courts, and advertised their products openly. The Anheuser-Busch family built legitimate business empires serving willing customers. Then politicians decided adults couldn't make their own consumption choices. Obviously, prohibition didn't eliminate demand for alcohol (basic economics, which apparently escapes lawmakers). Instead, it drove the entire industry underground where violent criminals held competitive advantages over peaceful businessmen. Al Capone never succeeded because he brewed better beer than Budweiser. He succeeded because he excelled at bribing cops, intimidating competitors, and machine-gunning rivals in the street. Legal businesses can't compete against enterprises willing to murder their competition. Violence became the primary tool for market competition once government removed legal enforcement mechanisms. When you can't sue competitors for contract violations or trademark infringement, you settle disputes with bullets. The famous Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929 was just business competition by other means. By 1933, even prohibitionists admitted defeat. Alcohol returned to legal markets, and legitimate businesses immediately reclaimed the industry from gangsters. Organized crime syndicates didn't disappear, but they lost their most profitable revenue stream and the institutional infrastructure that alcohol smuggling had provided. Every drug prohibition since 1933 repeats this exact same pattern, yet politicians still act surprised when black markets produce violence instead of temperance.

Beauty is proof that humans weren't made just to survive.

Tucson made a simple change to 20,000 streetlights. Light pollution dropped 7%, energy bills dropped $2.16 million a year, and many songbirds were saved. Most LEDs have made light pollution worse. The cool-white lights most cities chose scatter into the sky at higher rates than the old sodium lamps. That scatter pulls migrating songbirds off course and drops them into lit buildings by the hundreds of millions each year. Tucson decided to do it differently. They used warm-white 3,000K LEDs instead of the standard 4,000K. They added full shielding so light points down, not sideways or up, and adaptive dimming. Lights run at 90% from sunset to midnight, then drop to 60% until dawn. Drivers and pedestrians reported no loss of visibility. Migrating birds passing over the city had a darker corridor to navigate than they'd had in decades. Most cities still haven't figured this out. Philadelphia, LA, and Phoenix have all run into problems with retrofits that increased sky glow despite using LEDs. The tech is solved. The implementation is a choice. Ask your city council what color temperature your streetlights are. Ask if they dim after midnight. Ask if they're shielded. Most people have never thought about it. Most elected officials haven't either. Never forget that the night sky is also habitat.

Karen Bass was a trojan horse sent to destroy LA Sold as a reformer. Shortlisted as Biden's VP. The media and the Democratic Party who installed her love to avoid her communist past. A Castro apologist. A Maoist cadre. In 2022 she was losing to Rick Caruso. A moderate who ran on cleaning up the city. Obama endorsed her. Biden endorsed her. Harris flew to LA twice. Clinton flew in. Sanders. Warren. Pelosi. Every major union. The entire machine lined up to stop the one guy who wanted to fix what she was about to break. She won by ~90,000 votes. Now the same machine hides her failures to protect their budding communist investment. She promised the world and delivered a trainwreck. The lady who said she wouldn't travel internationally. Flew to Ghana under wildfire warnings when the Palisades fire hit. Fire Chief Kristin Crowley warned her in detailed writing every year. She never listened. $17.6 million cut from the fire department. Engines cannibalized for parts. 1,300 hydrants reported broken four months before the fire. Nobody fixed them. The Santa Ynez Reservoir was EMPTY during fire season. 13,000 homes destroyed because of ZERO common sense. Hey maybe having water is important to fight fires...idk tho. Gross negligence that would put most people in jail for life. But politicians are above the law. When Crowley told CBS News Bass fired her. Twelve Angelenos died in the Palisades. Seventeen more in Altadena. Twenty-nine dead before she finished her champagne in Ghana. Then came the cover-up. The fire department ran a PR operation to protect Bass from "reputational harm." The official report was altered. Bass told the interim fire chief it could "expose the city to legal liabilities." Her texts from the fire vanished. A federal prosecutor had to step in and delay the city's own report. Crowley sued Bass for retaliation. Her lawsuit helped expose the memo and get the cover-up in writing and show the world. Karen Bass promised to end the homeless crisis. She built a money machine around it. $322 million in. $259,000 per person. Less than 1 in 4 stay housed. The CEO she picked gave $2 million in contracts to her own husband's employer. Keep it in the family baby. When the agency's IT chief refused to delete emails Bass sent from her PERSONAL account, they fired her. When a second executive raised complaints, they fired her too. $800,000 in hush money to buy their silence. Staff were told their job was to "make the mayor look good." Karen Bass promised to fight corruption. Funny way to show it when three of her handpicked contractors have been indicted in six months. $20.6 million in "behested payments" to her Mayor's Fund from corporations with city contracts. Outside California they call that extortion. The unions that put her in office got the pay raises. The nonprofits that fund her allies got the contracts. She takes their money. They take yours. But ya let's make sure we tax the rich... City Controller Kenneth Mejia's fraud unit is the reason Alexander Soofer got caught. The dude who stole $23 million of public homelessness money and spent it on himself. Bass cut Mejia's budget. Then her appointees voted 9-2 to ABOLISH Mejia's elected office entirely. Replace the watchdog by a person handpicked by Bass, because her track record shows we can DEFINITELY trust her. This is how dictators work. This is how cover-ups happen. They dismantle the democracy around them. She fires anyone who tells the truth. Deletes every document that would hurt her. Pays whistleblowers to stay quiet. Abolishes every office that could expose her. Where is the outrage? Where is CNN? Where is the New York Times? Where is Gavin Newsom? Ah I know. They are too busy fixated on Trump. Too busy banning Nick Shirley for video taping fraud. And they don't hold themselves accountable, only the other guys. Tell me again how the rich, Republicans and anyone that disagrees with you is corrupt. Tell me again how the media is unbiased and objective. Republicans got two impeachments over cover-ups that weren't real. Here you have one killing Angelenos in broad daylight and no one bats an eye. Karen Bass was never a reformer. She was trained to be something else. She joined the Venceremos Brigade in 1973 to work for the Castro regime. In the 1980s, she joined a Maoist organization. She eulogized Fidel Castro as "Comandante en Jefe" in 2016. Joe Biden almost put her in the Situation Room. She does not govern Los Angeles. She manages her reputation while the city burns. A communist dictator trained in Havana now runs the second-largest city in America. There is a way out. Spencer Pratt lost his home in the Palisades fire. He's running for mayor to burn the machine down. Steve Hilton is running for governor to end one-party rule in California. The June 2 primary is seven weeks away. Los Angeles has one chance to send her home. Fool me twice, shame on me. Don't be a moron expecting different results. Don't mess this up.

Pelosi vs. Buffet

The tower where Montaigne did his writing. The third image is an artist’s rendering of what his library shelves would have looked like.