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Bernie Sanders’ Plan Shows Democrats Have No Intention of Addressing Affordability

Spend, spend spend.

Tax, tax, tax.

That’s what the next two years are going to look like for a lot of Americans who voted for Democrats after believing their affordability argument. Sen. Bernie Sanders proves this, with his litany of agenda items that include Medicare for All, an inflationary minimum wage of $20, and more.

And 70 percent support voter ID, yet Democrats don’t want that.

All that means more taxes, more inflation. If you like paying $10 for a gallon of milk or a dozen eggs, this is your jam.

Sanders also wants to expand Social Security benefits by at least $2,400 a year by taxing the “wealthy” even more.

He also wants to expand Medicare by lowering the eligibility age and adding coverage for dental, vision, and hearing. Your taxes will cover that, of course. And imagine all the fraudsters just itching to start fake Medicare dental offices and vision clinics.

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Here’s What Democratic Socialism Would Really Cost Americans

here is a powerful appeal to the promise of government-provided health care and other social programs without premiums, deductibles, or copays. But there are questions that politicians promoting Democratic socialism rarely answer, specifically, what will it actually cost and how will we pay for it? If we want to understand what these promises mean for middle-income families, we need to look beyond the sales pitch and examine the numbers.

Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan senator-elect, recently said of universal health care: “it is guaranteed health insurance from cradle to the moment you pass away. It comes without premiums or co-pay for deductions. It guarantees you care when you need it. This is a level of security we have never known in the United States.”

Any country that has adopted some version of national health care proves it does not work as the advocates promise. In fact, it is paid for through substantial taxes, requires some fees and co-pays, and means long waits for many of the medical procedures.

What would Democratic socialists’ programs cost and how would they be paid for? Advocates will argue that taxing the rich can pay for these programs. However, studies have repeatedly shown that the additional revenue from taxing high-income earners would fall far short of covering the costs. Even substantially higher taxes on the wealthy cannot close a funding gap of this magnitude, leaving middle- and lower-income taxpayers to shoulder much of the burden.

The U.S. is not paying for the programs it already has. For fiscal year 2026, federal spending was $7.4 trillion and revenue was $5.4 trillion, leaving a deficit of $2 trillion. To pay for our current expenses solely through increased revenue would require an increase of approximately 37 percent in taxes; doing so solely through spending cuts would require roughly a 27 percent decrease in spending. Adding the Democratic socialist programs would add a minimum of $8 trillion annually to spending, according to a Cato Institute study, and require a 166 percent increase in overall taxes to pay for all of the current and new programs.

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California Law Requires ID to Buy Muscle-Building Supplements in January

California will bar retailers from selling weight-loss and muscle-building supplements to anyone under 18 beginning Jan. 1, 2027, and will require them to card any shopper they cannot plainly tell is an adult.

The restrictions were created by Assembly Bill 2030, authored by Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal (D-Long Beach) and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sept. 28. The New York Post reported Monday that the law reaches creatine products marketed for building muscle.

Any supplement marketed or represented as a way to lose weight or build muscle is covered. A legal analysis of the statute lists what a court can weigh in a close case. Creatine is named, along with green tea extract, raspberry ketone, garcinia cambogia, and green coffee bean extract. Label promises about appetite, metabolism, or strength also count. So does the shelf a store puts the product on.

Creatine itself is not banned outright.

Lowenthal tied the measure to social media marketing aimed at teenagers. He argued that children are being “pushed to buy untested supplements promising dramatic effects on their bodies,” pointing to what he described as dangerous “looksmaxxing” trends.

Supplement trade groups pushed back on how far the bill reaches. The Consumer Healthcare Products Association and the Council for Responsible Nutrition both objected to how far its criteria reach. Steve Mister of the nutrition council said its position was to “identify the actual risk and address it directly,” and the group warned in its veto request that the standard could capture fiber, protein, multivitamins, and general wellness products.

The American Herbal Products Association argued that protein, vitamin D, and creatine all touch muscle development or metabolism, meaning products nobody considers diet pills could be swept in on ingredients alone.

Newsom has approved other measures narrowing what minors can buy or use in California, including a 2024 law restricting smartphone use in public schools.

Dean Riley, a fitness enthusiast in Bakersfield, told Eyewitness News that teenagers are not overdosing on the products. “Ain’t no teenage kids coming to the vitamin store or GNC,” he said. Lucia Clevenger, who owns a supplement shop in the city, said the question comes down to parents.

Each violation can cost a retailer $500. The state attorney general can sue over it. So can a county counsel or a city attorney, and any of them can ask a court to order the sales stopped. Online sellers have their own set of rules. Before shipping into California, they must check a buyer’s name, birthdate, and address against government-sourced data, or use a delivery that requires an adult signature.

In 2024, the governor barred local governments from requiring photo identification to vote.

New York enacted the first such supplement restriction in 2023, and its version took effect in April 2024. The nutrition council has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review that law on First Amendment grounds.

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China dismisses as a smear campaign claims of a spy plot involving Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

China denied on Monday it engaged in an attempt to ensnare Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, saying the spying allegations were unsubstantiated and a smear campaign against Beijing.

Huang has acknowledged he had been intimate with a business executive, issuing an apology to his wife and to the company in an open letter posted on Nvidia’s website. He did not name the woman.

Nvidia announced Sunday it was conducting an independent investigation into reports that Huang was the “target of a foreign intelligence effort.”

The New York Times reported that U.S. intelligence determined that the woman was gathering information for Beijing.

“I support the investigation and will cooperate fully. I love our country and our company. I am committed to protecting NVIDIA and supporting America’s national security,” Huang said in his letter.

In a routine news briefing Monday, a Chinese spokesperson rejected claims it used the woman as a spy.

“The so-called Chinese spy allegation is unsubstantiated. It is nothing but smears against China,” Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Monday.

Beijing earlier had dismissed The New York Times report saying Huang had developed a close relationship with a Chinese citizen named Alice Huang, who ran a company that last year faced claims it was illicitly shipping advanced Nvidia computer chips into China.

Nvidia shares dropped roughly 5% in pre-market trading early Monday.

The New York Times said Alice Huang was a former executive of a Singapore-based data center company called Megaspeed International, whose website prominently touts its partnership with Nvidia.

Many offices in Singapore were closed on Monday for a holiday. Megaspeed and the Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs did not immediately reply to requests for comment.

Nvidia is one of the world’s most valuable publicly traded companies, alongside Apple and Microsoft. Its sales of computer chips to China have at times been targeted by U.S. regulators seeking to limit Beijing’s access to such technology.

“The key questions are whether he was aware of any espionage activities and whether any confidential or strategically sensitive information was compromised,” said George Chen, a partner and chair of digital practice at The Asia Group, a Washington-based consultancy.

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Israel Is ‘Rich Enough’ To Buy US Weapons Without Financial Aid, Rubio Says

The White House is much too late in belateldy ‘discovering’ this talking point, but admin officials continue to say that it’s time for Israel to stand on its own and begin purchasing weapons without relying on US financial assistance.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday stated, “Israel is now prosperous and rich enough to be able to be a sales country. They can buy weapons from us, but we no longer have to provide the financing.“

Coming off Republicans getting clobbered in the midterms, and with Israel being increasinly unpopular among the American electorate, Rubio followed by adding that “it’s something the Israelis themselves have offered us.”

When asked whether this could be something to take effect in 2027, Israel replied, “Well, that’s what the president said we’re going to do. So, ultimately, I think they could if they wanted to, yeah, absolutely.”

“On the question of financing, I think Israel has clearly graduated beyond that,” he said, alluding to Israel being a wealthy enough nation.

Just before last week’s midterm elections, President Trump had abruptly proposed ending nearly $4 billion in annual American assistance to Israel.

He floated this in acknowledgement that the Iran war angered most Americans, and that public opinion on Washington’s historic and ongoing support to Israel has fallen precipitously.

But obviously it’s all too little, too late – as Republicans have been punished at the polls. Many pundits who were once strong MAGA supporters have complained that Trump had effectively abandoned ‘America First’ principles.

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AI’s 2026 Influence Pushed Democrats on Voters – Like Far-Left Google Before It

Although many AI models were released in 2023-04, it could be argued that this recent election is the first one where the American electorate was fully aware of AI…..and surrounded by it.

People have been seeking AI’s help for voting decisions. Heavy candidate bias is injected, incorrect instructions are given, races are invented, and even misleading candidate information has been provided.

Not long ago, Dr. Robert Epstein’s election-monitoring research proved Google’s Search bar results were manipulating users on a massive scale to favor Democratic candidates. Those list-based search results were rigged regarding elections, and he proved it.

Now, AI’s human-like answers and authoritative wording are infinitely more convincing than a list of links. AI chatbots give low-information voters a quick answer to a real question. This requires less thinking and less work than using search rankings.

A Pew survey of 5,273 U.S. adults found that 8% were using AI for election information. Among that group, 40% said they sought “suggestions on how to make voting choices.” As expected, people are using AI to help with political and candidate choices.

As the election got closer, more and more people used AI for election answers. In early October, the SSRS Carter Center survey found 11% of adults used AI to learn about House, Senate, and Governor candidates to decide how to vote. By the end of October, this was 25%.

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Needle-Free mRNA Vaccine With Aluminum Protects Mice Against COVID and Flu — But Study Lacks Safety Data

Scientists have developed a needle-free mRNA vaccine that protects mice against COVID-19 and flu and causes less inflammation than conventional formulations, according to a new study published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.

The vaccines use a high-pressure liquid jet to deliver genetic material directly through the skin, unlike the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 shots, which use lipid nanoparticles as the delivery system.

The authors — researchers from Rutgers University and Japanese institutions — reported that the technology generated strong immune responses and reduced viral replication in vaccinated mice.

The vaccine hasn’t been tested in humans, and researchers haven’t established whether it could reduce serious adverse reactions.

“Showing that a carrier-free, needle-free vaccine can be made protective opens a different design space than the one the field has been working in,” said study co-author Renata Pasqualini, Ph.D., a Rutgers researcher, in a university announcement.

COVID vaccines linked to serious adverse events

The study comes amid continuing concerns about COVID-19 vaccine injuries, and a study released this week comparing Pfizer and Moderna vaccine mortality rates.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recognized a causal link between mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and myocarditis and pericarditis, particularly among adolescent and young adult males.

A 2022 study published in JAMA identified 1,626 reports meeting the CDC’s case definition for myocarditis following mRNA vaccination during the study period.

Reporting rates were highest among adolescent boys after their second dose, reaching approximately 106 cases per million Pfizer doses among males ages 16 and 17.

Symptoms of myocarditis can include chest pain, shortness of breath and an irregular heartbeat. Although many patients recover, some require hospitalization, and others have reported being permanently disabled.

Other documented serious adverse reactions include anaphylaxis following vaccination and a rare blood-clotting disorder associated with Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine.

The federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) collects reports of suspected vaccine injuries and deaths. The latest figures show 1,678,901 adverse event reports following COVID-19 vaccination submitted to VAERS as of Sept. 25, 2026, including 39,260 reported fatalities and 29,299 reports of myocarditis or pericarditis.

The Rutgers study did not investigate whether its mRNA needle-free vaccine could prevent serious injuries.

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Moscow’s Statistics Agency Was Wiped Out By Hackers – Who Posted ‘Official’ Death Toll From War

Two hacker groups say death records stolen from Russia’s federal statistics agency show between 393,881 and 450,100 people killed in the war in Ukraine, a total well above anything Moscow has acknowledged since it stopped publishing military losses in September 2022. The Belarusian Cyber Partisans put the figure at 393,881 as of Aug. 27, while the pro-Ukrainian group Silent Crow says 450,100.

According to Euronews, the Cyber Partisans counted only deaths where military action or its consequences was the recorded cause, while Silent Crow also added non-combat military deaths, deaths logged as terrorist acts, and people registered in Russia who died in occupied territory or in Ukraine with no cause established. Silent Crow’s data, as relayed by Kyiv Post, has annual deaths climbing from about 19,000 in 2022 to more than 182,000 in 2025, mostly among people aged 30 to 49.

The Cyber Partisans describe a break-in that took months to set up and ended in destruction. They say they got into the agency’s network about six months ago, then “wiped out Rosstat’s IT infrastructure” overnight between Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, destroying databases, servers and a 1,800 TB storage system. In their account, the haul included more than 1 TB of classified mortality statistics with causes of death, and “the total volume of document management systems and databases downloaded exceeds 10 TB.” Bloomberg reported that the groups claimed access to about 25,000 computers and 23 TB of data.

Acording to Rosstat, it detected targeted attacks between Oct. 29 and Nov. 1 and is still restoring systems, but found no evidence that its databases were compromised or that confidential information leaked. “To ensure data security, some parts of the infrastructure remain isolated,” the agency said. Its major economic reports are expected to be late through at least Nov. 13.

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Creative Destruction: 9/11, Enron, and American Bitcoin

“The process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event — like a new Pearl Harbor.”
— REBUILDING AMERICA’S DEFENSES: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century by The Project For The New American Century, September 2000

Controlled demolition is a phrase often used in some circles when discussing the events of September 11, 2001. However, this is usually reserved for theories regarding the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, and is less often applied to the political, economic, and technological pillars that upheld the world before these attacks. As this piece will attempt to outline, both the physical and “creative destruction” that occurred on that day have had cascading and compounding effects on society as we knew it then, and especially as we know it today.

While the term creative destruction is typically associated with the Marxist school of thought, specifically based on analyses of Karl Marx’s work via Joseph Schumpeter and Werner Sombart, in the context of conspiracy, the phrase refers to the intentional demolition of markets, technological structures and regulations due to a deliberately triggered event. The goal of that event is to intentionally and purposefully bring about a specific, wanted change to the aforementioned pillars of the status quo — leading to an advantaged consolidation by the very conspirators of the event.

The players in this act of creative destruction that occurred at the onset of the new millennia are hardly limited to the usual cast of characters often brought up when discussing September 11, 2001 (9/11). They include members of the various businesses affected and crucially involved in the events surrounding the terrorist attacks; notably, security broker giant Cantor Fitzgerald, led by Howard Lutnick; the infamous American energy pioneer Enron, led by Ken Lay; investment bank and underwriter Alexander Brown & Sons, led by Alvin “Buzzy” Krongard and his deputy Mayo Shattuck III; and stalwarts of the public-private “revolving door” such as Dick Cheney and James Baker, as well as the lesser known Thomas Barnett.

Thomas Barnett, a former strategist, professor and researcher at the Warfare Analysis & Research Department at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, RI, was selected to join members of the government, Cantor Fitzgerald, and various other public, private and intelligence sector partners atop the World Trade Center to “war game” in the years that preceded the 9/11 attacks. Specifically, these war games were part of the “New Rule Sets Project,” which “explore[d] how the spread of globalization alters the basic ‘rules of the road’ in the international security environment” with a focus on “how these changes redefine the US Military’s historic role as ‘security enabler’ of America’s commercial network ties with the world.”

The aforementioned concept of creative destruction is immaculately laid out by Barnett in his post-“war game” book, The Pentagon’s New Map. Barnett posits that the American national security state properly understood that there was a very real and looming danger downstream from the 1990’s Clinton-era, which saw a booming economy due to the “Information Revolution.” The country could not simply rest on its laurels, despite their immense success in distributing their state-funded technological developments across the globe. As Barnett and his national security state benefactors saw it, both globalization and digitalization must be achieved on their geopolitical terms, not just on their technology stacks.

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Kraków Gunman Appears to Have Been an LGBT Leftist, According to His Social Media

Poland’s left-leaning Tusk government and international media labeled Kraków gunman Michał Oksiński far-right, but prosecutors found no evidence of a right-wing affiliation, while images circulating on X from deleted Facebook accounts attributed to him appear to show him posing with an LGBT Pride flag and mocking the pope.

On Nov. 7, Michał Oksiński, 24, drove a Subaru onto Kraków’s Main Market Square and opened fire at random, killing six people and wounding 15. Police officers Jakub Kulik and Artur Morański chased him from the square, and both were shot in the exchange of fire. Kulik, hit three times, approached the gunman, fired, and stopped him, then applied a tourniquet to his own arm. The dead included an Austrian woman and a British man. It was Poland’s deadliest shooting since the fall of communism in 1989.

Before driving to Kraków, Oksiński shot his father Janusz, 53, his mother Renata, 52, and his sister Magdalena, 21, a painting student at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, in the family flat in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, according to investigators. Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek said Oksiński faced a separate murder charge over those killings, bringing the total number killed to nine. Investigators found two AR-15 rifles, two pistols and several hundred rounds of ammunition in his car and on his person. In all, they seized 11 firearms. Oksiński died in hospital on Nov. 9 after three operations.

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