Five Dynamics That Make Sense of an Increasingly Chaotic World
These dynamics and the incentives they generate lead to systemic crisis and collapse. As I noted in What Once Explained Everything Now Explains Nothing, the simplicity of either-or ideologies appeal to us. Identifying with an ideology is like having a favorite sports team: yea for our team! Our team good, other team […]
Economy
The Coming Return of Commodity-Backed Money
This piece is as much a mental exploration as a fact-gathering exercise. Let’s begin with the problem. Bank failures come together with economic failures. So trusting banks is a problem, but furthermore, trusting fiat currency is also a problem. This is on top of the issue that moving capital from […]
Empire
India’s Russian Oil Imports Expose the Failure of Western Sanctions
India’s imports of Russian crude oil have surged to a record high, with Moscow now supplying more than half of the country’s crude oil requirements. According to recent reports, Russian oil accounted for over 50% of India’s imports in June after a temporary US sanctions waiver expired. This development is far more […]
Activism
UFC America: More Ass and Less Class
Our Prideful Idiocracy This country wasn’t exactly classy in 2015, when Donald Trump came down the escalator to announce his candidacy for president. Casual Fridays had already taken the culture by storm. People of Walmart was already a website. I think twerking was already popular, and Kim Kardashian’s huge ass […]
Health
New Study Strongly Links Merck’s Gardasil HPV Vaccine to POTS, but Authors Downplay Signal
A new analysis of adverse events reported to the federal vaccine safety surveillance database after the HPV vaccine detected a strong safety signal for POTS, an autonomic nervous system disorder, in some people who received the shots. Critics said the authors ignored their own findings to discourage “vaccine hesitancy” and […]
Tech
You Are A Terrorist If You Resist Data Centers & Israel’s Infiltration Of Flock and AI Surveillance
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, an in-depth investigatory show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (6/24/26). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and […]
Crypto
Polymarket hit by $2.9M theft, users to be refunded
Polymarket said it contained the compromise and removed the affected dependency after attackers injected a malicious script into its frontend. A third-party vendor compromise discovered Thursday allowed attackers to inject a malicious script into Polymarket’s frontend, affecting multiple users. Blockchain analyst Specter said the malicious script appeared to facilitate a phishing attack […]
Podcasts
“The Book That Saved My Life After $240 Million Went to Zero”. Jeff Berwick Sits Down With Icon G. Edward Griffin
We all have moments that divide our lives into a distinct before and after. For me, that moment arrived wrapped in a massive, 600-page book handed to me by a friend who had just barely survived a horrific tragedy. I was sitting in my apartment, watching my tech empire disintegrate […]
Solutions
Five Dynamics That Make Sense of an Increasingly Chaotic World
These dynamics and the incentives they generate lead to systemic crisis and collapse. As I noted in What Once Explained Everything Now Explains Nothing, the simplicity of either-or ideologies appeal to us. Identifying with an ideology is like having a favorite sports team: yea for our team! Our team good, other team […]