Trump's FTC is cracking down on Big Tech, with Ferguson targeting censorship and anticompetitive practices at Microsoft and Apple.

For years, some of the worst actors in the tech industry were able to do as they pleased without fear of consequence. They could construct monopolies, censor conservatives, and promote wokeness as much as they wanted. But things are beginning to change with the Trump administration. Thanks to the efforts of the White House, the days of Big Tech wantonness are over. These companies now must follow the basic tenets of the free market and stop suppressing views they disagree with.

One of the leaders in this effort to correct Big Tech is FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson. His agency recently announced it would ramp up its scrutiny of Microsoft and its allegedly anti-competitive practices. The FTC accuses Microsoft of advancing monopolistic practices in making it very difficult for customers to use the company's signature products — such as Windows and Office — on rival cloud services. The agency is requesting information from both the tech giant and the companies affected by these malicious policies.

"From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit. They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. 'Peace, peace,' they say, when there is no peace." — Jeremiah 6:13-14

"This is insane. Regime change will result in a bloody civil war... Resist this!" — Charlie Kirk (2025)

The military-industrial complex and the American police state have joined forces.

War abroad and war at home are no longer separate enterprises. They have fused.

This did not happen overnight.

Every modern president has stretched the limits of war-making power. Some have shredded those limits altogether.

Each time that boundary is breached, the Constitution recedes a little further.

This is one of those moments.

In a complete about-face from his claims to being a peace president, Donald Trump has authorized yet another preemptive strike — this time against Iran — without a declaration of war from Congress, without meaningful public debate, and without constitutional clarity.

The gravity of that decision cannot be overstated.

The puzzle pieces are falling into place faster than the Deep State ever imagined. The case against the Clintons as a crime family, which I laid out in 2019 when I discussed their Deep State RICO conspiracy, has just been validated by fresh evidence.

John Solomon nails it with the "Clinton Corruption Files." Irrefutable documents reveal that Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel sent to Congress in late 2025 confirm a "massive bribery operation" through the Clinton Foundation — specifically, foreign interest donations in exchange for State Department favors during Hillary's tenure as Secretary. Three FBI offices (New York, Washington, Little Rock) independently flagged pay-to-play, but Obama-era leadership obstructed the probes. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates (Obama's No. 2 at DOJ) issued the kill order: "shut it down." Whistleblowers reported buried evidence and blocked grand juries, while Russiagate was fast-tracked as the smokescreen.

This video sums up much of the new evidence:

Kit Klarenberg argues the US is drifting toward a catastrophic war with Iran despite limited military readiness and overwhelming domestic opposition. Washington's buildup masks deep structural weakness and escalating strategic risk.

Over recent weeks, an ominous US military buildup throughout the waters and territories of West Asia has gathered pace. Concurrently, murderous mass protests - openly sponsored by Western leaders - have raged with fluctuating intensity throughout major Iranian cities. All along, President Donald Trump has issued dire threats of impending "bad things" if Tehran rejects curbs on its nuclear research and missile production. But as the drums of war reach a belligerent crescendo, urgent notes of warning are being widely sounded.

The Western media has singularly failed to question the ultimate objectives, let alone legality or morality, of US military action against the country. Instead, outlets have typically outlined the potential merits of "intervention". The BBC has gone to the extent of publishing an explainer guide to different attack "scenarios". On February 19th too, the British state broadcaster expressed bewilderment that efforts by Washington and Tel Aviv to intimidate Tehran into dismantling her vital national and regional security architecture have floundered:

"Why do Iranian leaders, at least publicly, remain defiant in the face of the world's most powerful military and its strongest regional ally in the Middle East?"

Hungary's PM warns of a worst-case scenario

The migration crisis for Europe brought on by the war in Syria could repeat itself with Iran, but with Iran's population dwarfing Syria's, the crisis could be much worse, warns Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Ahead of Hungary's April elections, Orbán has campaigned on peace, specifically staying out of the war in Ukraine, as well as preserving Hungary's ability to say no to migration. However, he is now warning of further escalating dangers in the Middle East, including the risk of another wave of mass migration, similar to the masses of migrants seen in the capital of Budapest back in the 2015-2016 refugee crisis.

Speaking at a forum in Sopron, he told those gathered that the world is becoming increasingly unstable, and Hungary must also prepare for the consequences.

The War in Iran is already pushing The Great Reset agenda forward, as every major narrative seems to do.

Iran is threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz, or already has, or can't because their navy was destroyed, or is closing it for everyone but China.

It's all rather unclear.

What IS clear is that vast amounts of shipping carrying millions of barrels of oil and gas passes through that stretch of water every day, and its closure - or even threatened closure - has serious implications for the price of energy, fertilizer, food...well, everything really.

On top of that, Qatar's state-owned LNG company, QatarEnergy - the largest LNG producer in the world - has halted production. Iraq is halting oil shipments via a major pipeline to Turkey and Iran has bombed Saudi Arabia's Tanura oil refinery, shutting it down indefinitely.

Columbia University economics professor Jeffrey D. Sachs appeared on Judge Napolitano's 'Judging Freedom' podcast Monday, where he railed against the US-Israeli attack on Iran and the 'CIA-led security state,' calling President Donald Trump a 'disgrace to our nation' because 'he lied to us.'

Sachs, a longtime critic of U.S. foreign policy, described the recent escalation as the continuation of a decades-old strategy he linked to Israeli and U.S. intelligence objectives dating back to 1996.

"This is a long-term plan. This is a Mossad CIA plan for American control of the Middle East and Israeli military hegemony in the Middle East that has been underway since 1996," Sachs said. "This is madness. This is murderous delusion."

How LLMs turn vague red-pill intuitions into crystal-clear explanations (and why "AI censorship" is just user error)

Tired of knowing the world is rigged but struggling to explain it without sounding like a tinfoil-hat guy? In the launch of my new "Fun With AI" series, we hand the hardest questions to uncensored LLMs and get back answers so sharp they'll make normies choke on their Kool-Aid. From psychopathic power structures to why the masses cheer for their own enslavement, this is the clearest breakdown you'll ever read — and proof that the "censorship" people complain about is just a skill issue. Welcome to the red-pill classroom. ~~~
You've probably all realised at some point that you understand relatively well how most things work in our world, but explaining it to others is a different matter. You accumulate knowledge over decades and understand many things intuitively, but formulating them in a way that normies can grasp is often difficult to impossible. LLMs simplify this and make vague things obvious. Many knowledgeable people experimenting with AI haven't learned much that they didn't already know, but what is remarkable is that the understanding of the things that are known can become much sharper and clearer and easier to express in words. This comes in handy not only for writing articles, but also for explaining to people who still drink the mainstream Kool-Aid.

One expert, who actually works with AI at very high levels, says that AI can be very good for sort of low level pedagogy. It can help you study in the traditional sense, like learning a topic composed mainly of facts which the AI collects efficiently - more efficiently than you can - but once you get to the higher levels that require greater degrees of abstraction and inference of new or unique insights, it's a very poor helper.

But it is no small thing that you can get an explanation of any aspect of the System in a way that's not only easy to understand but that also makes it easy to convey to others.

And so, utilizing the work of various talented interrogators of the current AI tools available, this series will present some of the best responses to difficult questions we've ever seen.

Friedrich Merz says Iran deserves being the target of war because it hasn't bent the knee to sanctions.
Say what you will about Germany's current 'elites', but they are consistent: Once they don't give a damn about international law, elementary fairness, rudimentary human decency, and, last but not least, basic logic, they really won't quit before their country's reputation is ruined as it has not been since 1945. Hyperbole, you think? Can it really be that bad, you wonder?

Leave it to Chancellor Friedrich Merz and company to achieve what seems almost impossible. For almost two-and-a-half years, not one but two German governments have been, in effect, complicit in Israel's continuing Gaza genocide. Under former Chancellor Olaf Scholz from the centrist Social-Democrats - otherwise remembered for gutless evasion when US ex-president Joe Biden announced, in essence, that he was going to blow up Nord Stream - as well as under the unusually dishonest Merz from the centrist Christian-Democrats, Berlin has supplied Israel with arms (and probably misled the International Court of Justice about it), diplomatic cover, legal support, media propaganda, and the often brutal suppression of protests against Israel's crimes.

Indeed, recently a UN special rapporteur has identified the "use of anti-terrorism laws to restrict advocacy for Palestinian rights" as "a primary concern" in a report warning that the "space for freedom of expression is shrinking" in Germany.

Against this awful and shameful background, the fresh war of aggression launched by Israel and its American auxiliaries - that's the technically correct term for troops serving a foreign nation - could, conceivably, have been a very late wake-up call. Perhaps, an eternal optimist may have thought, the sheer brazenness of the attack will make even Berlin hesitate. Nope. Instead, Friedrich Merz and official Germany in general have radicalized their virtually nihilistic denial of law, ordinary ethics, and common sense.

One day after the beginning of the Israeli-American war of aggression, Merz took the lead and set the tone by going public with a perverse misreading of the situation. Starting by labeling the heinous assault - launched, according to US and Israeli custom, under the cover of ongoing negotiations - "massive military strikes," Merz acknowledged that they had killed members of the Iranian government (which he, of course, caricatured as a "Mullah" and "terror regime") including "the religious leader" Ayatollah Khamenei. If you expected the slightest sign of disapproval or even just discomfort at these cold-blooded murders of high government officials, you don't know Friedrich Merz yet.

Instead the German chancellor - or in his terms, perhaps, 'vassal regime' leader? - highlighted the need to help German tourists stranded in the warzone and to protect public order in Germany by preventing "antisemitic and anti-American attacks." Translation from Berlin officialese: by ramping up suppression of all and any criticism of Israel and America.

In the days before the first bombs fell on Tehran, Washington and its media surrogates pushed a soothing story about quiet back‑channel talks in Oman and Geneva and the possibility of one more nuclear understanding if Iran became more "realistic." In Tehran, officials and ordinary people alike recognised the pattern from earlier rounds of deception, when supposed mediation had provided diplomatic fog for Israeli covert strikes and US escalation rather than any real path to peace.

On the ground, the signals all pointed to war. The United States had assembled the largest concentration of firepower around Iran in decades, including B‑2 bombers, carrier groups, advanced fighter squadrons and drones, while layering new air and missile defences over US bases in Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, and quietly compiling an extensive and unprecedented target bank. Inside the Trump White House, the Israeli government did not need to lobby from the outside, because real‑estate tycoon Steve Witkoff and son‑in‑law Jared Kushner, both close to Benjamin Netanyahu, were already in the room steering the Iran file and ensuring that no dealmaking disrupted a long‑desired timetable for war.

There was one narrow chance to stop the ambush. In Congress, Ro Khanna, Thomas Massie and Senators Tim Kaine and Rand Paul tried to force a vote that would have reasserted that only Congress can authorise war and that the president could not simply slide into another Middle Eastern conflict. Senate leader Chuck Schumer chose delay and scheduled the measure for the following week, even though he knew missiles would likely already be in the air by then and any move to restrain the president could be dismissed as unpatriotic meddling after the fact.