Hearty thanks to all the great Conspirators for Freedom who joined us tonight as we dug into big breaking stories, from Zionist war criminals visiting the US, to French piracy of Russian Oil, to the US-Iran-Mid-East crisis and nukes, based on excellent reporting we got to discuss. - Join us, m-f 6 pm on Rumble, or on X, and get the audio pod, free, via Spotify and here at Substack! Here are some of the major issues we explored tonight!

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The Pentagon, under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has designated its own press office as a classified space. This bans journalists from entering unescorted and requires controlled access (escorts from public affairs staff), effectively treating the area with security clearance-level restrictions to protect sensitive information handled by speechwriters and officials.

There have been court orders directly addressing (and blocking) this kind of Pentagon press restriction under Hegseth. In October, 2025, Hegseth’s Pentagon rolled out new press credentialing rules that required journalists to pledge not to “solicit” or report on unclassified/unauthorized information (or risk losing access), while treating independent reporting as a potential security risk. Most major outlets refused and walked out. The New York Times sued the Defense Department and Hegseth in December, arguing the rules violated the First Amendment (free speech/press) and Fifth Amendment (due process).

On March 20, 2026, U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman ruled key parts of the policy unconstitutional, blocked enforcement, and ordered the Pentagon to reinstate credentials for NYT reporters (and said the ruling applied broadly). He found it was viewpoint discrimination aimed at punishing reporters who seek information beyond official statements.

The Pentagon responded with revised “interim” rules (requiring escorts for reporters inside the building, closing the traditional media corridor, and moving press workspaces to an annex outside). The NYT immediately accused the department of defying the order. On April 9, 2026, Judge Friedman ruled again that the Pentagon was violating his earlier order and continuing to obstruct reporter access. The department has appealed and received some temporary relief (e.g., an appeals panel in late April 2026 allowed escorts while litigation continues), but the core restrictions keep getting struck down or challenged. The latest development (as of today) is that the Pentagon has now classified its own press office as a secure/classified area because speechwriters and officials there handle sensitive material. This blocks unescorted journalists from direct access to spokespeople — effectively imposing a security-clearance-style restriction on routine press interactions. This is exactly the kind of workaround the courts have already criticized as evading the March/April rulings.

It looks like the Iranian government has had enough of the fake US “negotiations”.

Ben-Gvir wants the “suburbs” of Lebanon “flattened” (more on this in the section on Lebanon, below)

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) yesterday launched a retaliatory strike with ballistic missiles and/or drones targeting a U.S. air base in Kuwait — specifically Ali Al Salem Air Base.

• Iran stated this was in direct response to recent U.S. strikes on Iranian sites (including radar/drone facilities at places like Goruk, Qeshm, and earlier actions around Sirik Island/Bandar Abbas/Hormuz).

• Kuwait’s air defenses intercepted the majority of the incoming projectiles; there were reports of minor debris-related injuries to U.S. personnel but no major damage or casualties reported at the base.

• Kuwaiti “officials” immediately condemned the attack as a violation of its sovereignty, but they have no problem w the US launching from Kuwait attacks on the sovereign nation of Iran. Curious hypocrisy, there…

This Kuwait-based strike is exactly what the Iranian Foreign Ministry was citing today as the “example” of their immediate response to any perceived U.S. ceasefire violation. Of course, Iran struck US bases in Qatar (Al Udeid) in March, so the Iranians repeatedly have pointed out the US presence on the soil of these nations, and they would be wise to stop facilitating the US aggression…

FM Aragchi just released this statement, in case people in the US still accepted the repeated nonsense from the US that Lebanon somehow doesn’t exist and Israel can act with impunity.

And Iran continues to stress that Israeli attacks on Lebanon must stop, emphasizing that the new attacks on Beirut are going to trigger united fighting from Iran and Yemeni forces…

This, this appears to be the latest - As of 4:40 PM eastern US time, Israel is carrying out further strikes against Lebanon and…

This, from Netanyahu

Jeffrey Sachs offers key thoughts on the overall situation

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Oil prices are skyrocketing.

Strange, that Israel is tied to all of those PLUS IRAN. That’s gotta be mere coincidence, surely. Here is some of the deceptive nonsense that Trump posted earlier today, likely to manipulate oil markets. It makes no reference to ground troops in southern Lebanon or to air-based attacks on Beirut. Duh.

As we know, Israeli forces have not stopped their immoral ground invasion in southern Lebanon, moving north of the Litani River (including new positional advances and captures) and conducted airstrikes, drone activity, and other airborne arms in that area since Saturday. LINK

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The Israeli Offense Force took illegal control of the Beaufort Ridge outpost (a strategic Crusader-era castle site) and the Wadi al-Saluki area north of the river—the deepest land theft into Lebanon in 26 years. As of June 1, IDF forces were actively operating north of the river. Reports from May 31–June 1 confirm ongoing Israeli airstrikes pounding targets in the region amid the expanded ground ops. The Israelis over the weekend killed dozens of civilians, targeting schools and medical workers, dropping white phosphorus, and making a continuing mockery of the term “ceasefire”. Here is Daniel Davis on it, with an excellent reference to the map of Lebanon.

BUUUT, thank goodness! The EU just issued a smokescreen “statement” telling Israeli forces to lay off Lebanon. This comes at a time when Israel is finishing its latest phase of immoral expansion, moving up to and beyond the Litani River, and taking nearly 3,000 lives. Oddly, the EU was silent the whole time. Oh, and, by the way, 17 EU member states actively allow and encourage arms makers to sell to Israel, and that his not stopping. How strange… One wonders how much stock of these arms makers the mucky-mucks in each EU nation, or reps from those nations who are in the EU body, own.

Let’s lay out some of the current corporate-state-Israeli ties these Euro governments have. A large majority continued to do so in 2024 (the most recent year with detailed EU-wide data). The EU approved roughly €820 million in arms export licenses to Israel despite the Gaza conflict, with 17 member states issuing permits. These are typically commercial sales (not free government aid), subject to national export controls and EU Common Position rules. Top approvers (2024 data):

• France (~€362–368 million) — largest EU exporter that year.

• Germany (~€164–169 million) — historically the second-largest overall supplier to Israel after the U.S. (including air defense and submarine tech); some temporary pauses occurred in 2024–2025 but resumed post-ceasefire.

• Greece (~€114–115 million).

• Romania (~€103 million).

• Czech Republic (~€35 million).

• Finland (~€17 million).

Smaller approvals came from Hungary (~€5–6 million), Latvia, Croatia, and minimal amounts (€1 million or less) from Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Poland. Some countries (e.g., Italy, Spain, parts of Belgium, Netherlands) announced restrictions, suspensions, or case-by-case reviews for new exports (especially post-ICJ rulings or for Gaza-specific use), but pre-existing contracts, components, or non-lethal items often continued. Data for 2025–2026 is less granular but shows the pattern largely persisted for many states

Take a look at this. As a former writer for MRCTV, which watches media bias, this kind of thing stands out to me. How about you?

Oh, and look!

BTW, Smotrich has an international warrant out for his arrest for War Crimes - per the ICJ. LINK

The Zionist mentality

And what day would be complete without the poison of Mark Levin?

Yep. The French are pirating. Headline “Kremlin slams France over ‘borderline piracy’ — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union” LINK

Pope Leo XIV on May 15 issued a lengthy and very interesting encyclical on AI, but it only was made public on May 25. Called “Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence”, you can read the full English text here: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html.

From a libertarian, free-market, Natural Rights, perspective, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical offers a thoughtful but ultimately flawed intervention into the AI debate. AI simply is a tool—like the lever, the steam engine, or the personal computer—and tools endure precisely because they reduce human toil. Markets test and retain them only when they deliver net value to people. The encyclical rightly senses AI’s promise, yet strays by treating labor displacement as a moral crisis requiring top-down solidarity and regulation rather than the creative destruction that has always propelled human progress. Where it aligns with libertarian concerns—especially on consent, data exploitation, and state overreach—it does so inconsistently, subordinating individual rights and voluntary exchange to a collectivist “common good.”

Libertarians long have celebrated technological progress. In fact, the term “progress” is, and always is, subjectively defined, based on each of us being free to determine our wants, needs, expectations, satisfaction, and opportunity costs (trade-offs). When aggregated, human behavior operating in free market competition generally adopts tools and rewards their creators/dealers because the tools liberate time and energy. A lever multiplies force so one person moves what ten could not; AI multiplies cognition so one mind accomplishes what armies of clerks once did. As long as consumers willingly pay for these gains—cheaper goods, faster services, novel products—AI stays in use. The resulting reduction in necessary toil sees labor needs on a time/jewel/per-person level drop, which not tragedy but triumph.

Freed labor resources then can flow, via market signals, into higher-value projects: new inventions, art, caregiving, entrepreneurship. It simply makes sense. MOst of us, one can guess, don’t want to toil HARDER for our wants, but to toil less, and have time and resources freed to do more, improve in new realms.

And history confirms this. The Industrial Revolution did not leave masses idle; it created unimaginable wealth and leisure while shifting workers into roles unimaginable to their grandparents. Markets, not papal edicts, performed this reallocation through voluntary contracts and price signals.

Pope Leo’s encyclical acknowledges AI’s productivity potential (Chapter 3) in

paragraph 152:

“It is certainly desirable for technology to relieve humans of arduous, repetitive or dangerous tasks and to provide intelligent support for human activity.”

But Leo, overall, frames job displacement in neo-Marxist terminology, as “anthropological regression” demanding statist retraining mandates and implying the need for tax-funded social protections (par. 150–156). His embrace of the widespread, multi-generational, error of fearing technological progress as a “stealer of jobs”, even as he benefits from the productivity gains that tech progress (of any peacefully adopted form) provide, is a repeat of the anti-industrial concerns of the 19th Century. This might best be seen in three of his most pointed paragraphs, found in the section he has termed, “The Dignity of Work at a Time of Digital Transition”:

Paragraph 154:

“A society that guarantees employment to only a small fraction of the population, despite having a high level of technical development, risks exposing many to forced inactivity, a lack of responsibility and the absence of daily tasks and stimuli, resulting in human and cultural impoverishment. This creates a paradox of material progress and anthropological regression that undermines the foundations of a just and stable social peace. […] the Church’s Social Doctrine insists that access to work for all must be a high priority for public policies and economic processes, serving as a criterion for evaluating the human quality of any development model.”

Paragraph 155:

“Today, however, these instruments are no longer sufficient by themselves in the face of the transformations driven by AI […] New collaborative efforts are needed among political leaders, labor organizations, the business world and the scientific community in order to develop rapidly adequate shared regulations and protections, including at the international level.”

Paragraph 156:

“One viable path is, first of all, to establish social criteria for innovation. Here, every introduction of automation and AI should be accompanied by verifiable measures to protect the employment, retraining and participation of workers. […] Second, we need proactive policies that make continuous training and professional transitions accessible to all, ensuring that the cost of adaptation does not fall solely on individuals.”

This inverts reality. Unemployment from AI that respects property rights is like unemployment through the use of any other labor-saving tool. It is based on increasing productivity, allowing us to get more output for less input. It is transitional, not terminal; the market’s “invisible hand” reallocates labor more efficiently than any central planner because it is the reflection of our own free wills, our preferences, as transmitted through market price signals and responsive resource allocation. Insisting otherwise echoes the Luddite fallacy the Catholic Church itself once navigated during earlier industrial upheavals.

To put it in a way I might relate to higher-level students in a lecture hall: Leo, himself, uses tools such as a keyboard, electronics, even the alphabet and language, to allow his ideas to propagate in a more efficient way than, say, speaking aloud to a large crowd, then repeating the speech, or speaking to “verbal curriers” who might memorize his words, then travel far and wide to communicate through spoken word, over many months. These tools allow Leo to publish infinite copies of what might have taken scribes years to copy and circulate.

Leo now can communicate to millions in milliseconds, thanks to multiple layers of developed and adopted tools. Each of those tools displaced the “verbal curriers” and scribes, but, just as a lever freed up multiple people when the tool allowed one person to do the physical work of more than one, so, too, have all of the writing/publishing tools Leo employed to publish his thoughts.

The real trouble with AI is not that it replaces toil—the lever did that centuries ago—but that it risks violating property rights and enabling coercion. Training models on copyrighted material or personal data without genuine consent constitutes theft of ideas. Creators and individuals own their intellectual output and release it on their own terms; aggregating it without permission or compensation is plunder, no different from pirating a novel or hacking a diary.

The Pope’s encyclical gestures toward this concern when he insists data “is the product of many contributors and should not be treated as something to be sold off or entrusted to a select few” and must be managed “as a common or shared good, in a spirit of participation” (par. 108). Here the Pope approaches agreement: unauthorized extraction disrespects dignity and consent. Yet he strays by dissolving private ownership into collective claims rather than enforcing strict property rights and voluntary licensing—the Natural Rights solution.

Clear title, enforceable contracts, private adjudication markets, insurance, and opt-in data markets would solve exploitation without bureaucratic oversight.

Even more dangerous is government weaponization of AI. The encyclical warns powerfully against AI-fueled surveillance, profiling, and manipulation:

“When every action… leaves a trace, a new form of power emerges, namely the power to profile, predict and influence behavior” (par. 171).

Leo condemns algorithmic control that fosters self-censorship and exclusion. This echoes libertarian alarms about the surveillance state. AI in the hands of governments can violate the Bill of Rights—warrantless data sweeps contradicting the Fourth Amendment, predictive policing that chills speech, or social-credit systems that punish dissent. The document also decries military AI: autonomous weapons lower moral thresholds, depersonalize killing, and accelerate conflict by turning enemies into statistics (par. 183, 197–200). It calls for human control and ethical restraints. On these points the Pope stands closer to libertarians than many realize—state monopoly on force must never be augmented by unaccountable algorithmic power. Yet he ultimately prescribes more regulation, international oversight, and “active political involvement” (par. 107) rather than the radical limits on government that alone can prevent abuse. Subsidiarity is invoked (Chapter 2), but it is quickly harnessed to demand transparency mandates, equitable-access rules, and global cooperation—tools that expand rather than constrain state power.

The encyclical’s deepest divergence lies in its economic anthropology. It subordinates private initiative and profit to the “common good,” solidarity, and universal destination of goods (par. 60–61, 67). Markets are not trusted to orient AI toward human flourishing; instead, technocratic paradigms and profit motives are portrayed as threats requiring guardrails. Libertarians counter that the common good emerges precisely from individuals pursuing their own ends through voluntary exchange. Profit is the signal that value is being created. When AI companies deliver tools that reduce toil and expand choices, they serve the common good far more effectively than any Vatican-orchestrated discernment process.

In sum, Leo’s “Magnifica Humanitas” (approximately 42,000 words) rightly elevates human dignity and flags genuine perils—consent violations and state surveillance—that libertarians have warned about for years. Yet it strays by pathologizing the very market dynamism that turns AI from curiosity into widespread liberator, preferring regulation and solidarity over property rights and limited government. The encyclical fears a future of concentrated power; the libertarian answer is not more power in different hands but strict constitutional limits, ironclad property law, and the unfettered market that has always turned tools into servants of human liberty. AI will reduce toil and spawn new frontiers—if we let freedom, not fear, guide its deployment.

The gents from Author Update have some interesting thoughts on the Encyclical.

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Ro Khanna is teaming up with Thomas Massie to try to strip this US-Israeli military-industrial merger from the NDAA. This set of combinations not only will spur direct US DoD investment in Israeli companies and prompt backdoor deals with a lot of M-I cronies, it will plunk down US-Israeli connected projects in numerous states, creating perpetual-motion machines of pork and graft that will be very difficult to end, because local and state politicians will serve up the same tired song of “these bring jobs to our area and people.” LINK

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US EXTRAJUDICIAL MURDER, PIRACY, IN CARIBBEAN, EASTERN PACIFIC

Antiwar has the story. Trump’s mass murder in the regions now is over 200 victims. Headline “Trump’s Boat Strikes Kill More Than 200 People, Fail To Curb the Flow of Cocaine to the US - News From Antiwar.com” LINK

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And Thomas Massie has seen the provisions of Sec 224, and will try to stop it.

For an excellent analysis of the contents of the Section 224 provisions, this X post stands out… Open up the direct post, then, of course, read the article attached, from the excellent folks at Responsible Statecraft.

And, though it is good to see Bret Weinstein on our side (he often is), the key philosophical point about the nature of statism rises from what he neglected to mention…

This, another piece from Responsible Statecraft and the Intercept, is important, and you can see some of the MAGA-media recipients of the influence-cash. Here is an extended portion of the article. I hope you will click over and read the entire report.
’A company run by former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, hired by the Israeli government to push pro-Israel views on a major conservative media network, has directed $13 million from Israel to several Republican digital strategy firms and allies, according to a previously unreported document filed under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Parscale was hired in part to influence major right-wing Christian media company Salem Media Group, where he is also an executive. His firm spent hundreds of thousands on ads with a Salem subsidiary. As part of the contract, Parscale’s firm also sent millions to other firms run by some of his closest political allies.
The new filing sheds light on a more detailed web of interconnected companies and political operatives capitalizing on Parscale’s contract with the Israeli government. Many of the companies getting work as part of Parscale’s Israel contract are being reported here for the first time.
Among those that received millions of dollars’ worth of payments related to the contract are ventures like SparkFire, an AI chatbot company leading a mass texting campaign, and a shadowy firm run by longtime mainstream Republican strategist Mike Shields. (None of the figures or firms in this story responded to requests for comment.)
Israel initially directly hired Parscale’s firm, Clock Tower X, last September with a contract worth $6 million. The new filing reveals that his firm has received over $15 million through an intermediary, Havas Media Network, an international media company working on behalf of the Israeli state.
The document shows that Parscale directed over $500,000 for ads to Salem Media Representatives, a subsidiary of Salem Media. Although Parscale was hired to integrate pro-Israel messaging into Salem Media shows — which feature conservative commentators such as Hugh Hewitt, Larry Elder, and Scott Jennings — these payments to the conservative media conglomerate on behalf of Israel were not previously known.’
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As we noted, Trump’s “Board of Peace” has not seen the “donations” he boasted would be raining down like manna. And the “bored” has done nothing to stop the Israeli Occupation Force from expanding beyond the already insulting and criminal “yellow line” in Gaza. Here is something to remember…

This day (Sat, May 30) marks the sixth anniversary of the IDF hunting down and shooting an autistic Palestinian man in Gaza.

This is crazed war crime generator Ben-Gvir mocking his mother after the IDF goon were acquitted.

And, leave it to the Egyptian government to cower and not acknowledge the reality that Israel never CEASED FIRING or TAKING LAND. Headline: “Egypt warns Israeli Gaza expansion risks collapse of ceasefire” LINK
-More testimony of Israeli crimes

This, tied to the Israeli aggression, murder, in another nation, as family is hit by the slaughter, then, cops attack the relatives of the victims

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Al Jazeera confirms that Israel has driven north and is occupying 20% of Lebanon.

Itimar Ben-Gvir is one of the easiest go-to goons to reveal the true intent of most in the Israeli government - The Greater Israel Project. In this case, he rejoices over the war crimes of Israel “flattening” suburbs in southern Lebanon

And… More Israeli use of banned White Phosphorus.

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The US Saturday attacked a ship near the Strait of Hormuz. They claim they fired a Hellfire missile at the boat because it was headed to Iran. Never forget the aggressor is the US, the Americans will be sure to remind you.

Treasury Sec Bessent continues his strange Odessey as an international pirate - after pridefully claiming he helped harm the Iranian economy in January. Now, he brags about stealing Iranian-held crypto. A warning to crypto speculators, of course, but also a warning about dealing with this maniac.

Ben-Gvir has stated the obvious. Here is the headline: “Ben-Gvir Says Israel ‘Will Not Allow’ Trump to Make a Peace Deal With Iran as IDF Kills Dozens in Lebanon | Common Dreams” LINK
-And why would Iranian officials accept Trump’s thuggish demands? Headline “Iran rejects Trump's terms of deal to lift Hormuz blockade | Middle East Eye” LINK
Here is an example of what the depletion of oil-based fuel is doing to third world populations — already Headline “Dying in Diesel protests: Africa slammed by Iran war energy crisis | Responsible Statecraft” LINK
Pompeo continues to “dance” for Israel

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Ukraine just hit he Zaporozyhe nuclear plant, using a drone.
Headline “Ukraine ‘deliberately’ struck Europe’s largest nuclear plant – Rosatom — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union” LINK
And, a week after the terrible attack, Vladimir Putin makes an excellent point about the unbalanced western media coverage of the Russian response, while those pop media figurines avoid the predicate Ukrainian attack that inspired the response - Headline “Western media coverage of Starobelsk is ‘making fools’ of audience – Putin (FULL VIDEO) — RT World News” Link

The Bessents and Hassets of the Trump Admin continue to dismiss the obvious increases in prices, shortages, and declining strength of the Dollar (indicating declining productivity, as well) Headline: “Trump’s econ chief brags that Americans 'spending more on everything'“ LINK

This is a good piece on how he British “Conservatives” are, like Trump, increasing their disastrous calls for central planning, i.e. “industrial policy”. In the article, the author spells out the major practical drawbacks to this unethical usurpation of consumer choice and market functionality. Check it out; it’s a very good article to show to students! Headline “Dear conservatives, industrial policy is a dead end - CapX” LINK

Auberon Herbert (1838-1906), the Victorian-Era Classical Liberal, might be most famous for his essay, “(On) The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State”. Here, Sheldon Richman writes about Herbert’s logical destruction of claims that “majority” can override individual volition, practically, or ethically, and more. Here is a sample from Sheldon’s piece.
’In Herbert’s day, as in ours, people took for granted that the state (“the people”) may properly exercise power over peaceful others (through, say, a parliament) for a variety of purposes. So he asked, “Have men any right to this power?” And again, “If they have it, do they possess it for all matters? If not for all matters, for what matters? and in this last case how are we to tell what these matters are?”

Now I do not hesitate to say that this question stands in importance far before all other questions which the human race has to answer. Indeed if we could see clearly, we should see that the decision of all these other questions is wrapped up in this one great decision; for I know of no question that would not be settled in one fashion by a free race and in another by a state-regulated race. But apart from this influence on character, which freedom and state-regulation must respectively exercise, the answer which every man finds it in his soul to make to this great question, “By what title do men exercise power over each other?” must decide for him the general course of his own life.

No one can avoid choosing between the two great options: liberty and coercion.’

James Bovard nails its “We Must End the TSA 'License to Loot' | The Libertarian Institute” LINK

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This is a major new lawsuit. Headline: “'Dire' conditions at ICE facility severely violate human rights, lawsuit claims” LINK

Bari Weiss is making her Zionist moves. She Thursday fired “60 Minutes” executive producer Tanya Simon (replaced by tech journalist Nick Bilton), along with executive editor Draggan Mihailovich, senior producer Matthew Polevoy, and correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega. LINK

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CONSORTIUM is chatting with Ray McGovern and Scott Ritter about the US aggression against Iran and the Ukraine-Russia fight - still rolling as we work on this on Saturday night!

The Author Update guys offer some great information on YouTube users taking text books, putting them into AI to create audio books, and getting ad money from them. Fascinating IP issue. That, and the Pope commenting on AI!

This is a nice interview with Michael Graves, formerly of Misfits (after numerous changes in lineups), who left the band and has found great fulfillment creating Christian-oriented music. Check it out!

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We erred last night and released the Thursday audio in the same slot, repeating the previous night in the pod! Now, we have the right file, ready, and want to apologize for the mistake!
Big thanks to all the good folks who joined us as we got to dive into the fine work of journalists. - We also got to enjoy a live reading of Arthur Conan Doyle's 1892 chiller "De Profundis" for Fiction Friday! Join us, m-f 6 PM on Rumble or on X, and get the audio pod shortly after each show, via Spotify or here at Substack! - Here are the breaking stories we got to investigate last night on the program!!

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This entire conversation between Judge Andrew Napolitano and Prof Jeffrey Sachs is essential viewing. I want to reserve a large portion of today’s publication (and tonight’s Liberty Conspiracy Live) to it, as the two men discuss the bellicosity of the Europeans towards Russia, the unethical expansion of NATO through the years, and the insane Greater Israel concept that Christian Zionists such as Mike Huckabee support, and which has seen ceaseless expansion of the immoral polis of Israel since 1947, and genocide in Gaza.

The integral axis there is US-ISRAEL. The others would be able to leave in peace if it were not for the US-Israeli aggression.

Re the Israeli Offensive Force in GAZA, here is more from a very important Tucker Carlson interview.

And a reminder, from yesterday, thanks to Antiwar: “Netanyahu Says He Directed Israeli Military To Take More Territory in Gaza - News From Antiwar.com” LINK

And look at this:

***HEADLINE “Congress quietly moves to integrate US and Israeli militaries | Responsible Statecraft” LINK

-Let’s remember Jonathan Pollard’s utter mental insulation from the immorality of nuclear weapons…

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As AntiWar notes: “Report: Israel Pressing the US To Assassinate Iran’s Lead Negotiator - News From Antiwar.com” LINK
And Trump juuuuust issued his new demands, claiming that the US and Iran have a Memorandum of Understanding. But the Iranian presentation of what is in the MoU and what Trump claims on social media are completely different. Iran is not going to leave out peace for Lebanon; Iran is not going to give up the power over its portion of the Strait. Iran is not going to give up some form of compensation for damages or the return of the money stolen from the Iranian govt in 1979. Iran is not going to give up nuclear refining for power.
Already, one can see that Trump is presenting impossible conditions and claiming that the Trumpers are working out “final details” in the “situation room” - which is utterly meaningless puffery.

The Iranians are not allowing Trump to lie without calling him out

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Nima spells it out. And this, as well as Prof Sach’s comments, serves to be a very good wrap on where thing stand at the end of the week.

Iran continues to export Oil and Nat-gas

And Trump’s threats against Oman are not shaking them from recognizing the reality that their economic well being is tied to Iran and the Strait.

And this - to reiterate from above-

The Europeans are claiming this was Russian-controlled and intentional. None of that is proven. It appears to be a false flag attempt to provoke wider war btwn NATO and Russia Headline: “Drone strikes residential building in Romania (VIDEO) — RT World News” LINK
Not cool “Zelensky names commando unit after WWII Nazi collaborators — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union” LINK
The Russians are going to finish this in the next few months, and Mr. Zelinskyy will not be there to name military units. He likely will flee.

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Headline: “Protests intensify after report reveals ICE targeting Latinos” LINK
-Gotta hand it to Joe S here when it comes to MarkWayne Mullen trying to disrupt international travel in states that try to allow for migrants to be protected from ICE (ie states that claim sanctuary for immigrants - which is totally within their constitutional purview to do) Headline: “The stupidity hurts your teeth: Joe slams DHS chief over Newark Airport threat” Link
Remember, ICE denied the GOV OF NJ to ENTER a NJ-BSED ICE CAGE CAMP… More: “Federal agents in New Jersey beat back anti-ICE agitators in chaos outside Delaney Hall detention facility” LINK
-Sick Headline: “DHS chief tells hunger strikers in ICE jail ‘this isn’t a Holiday Inn’“ LINK
-Headline: “ICE holds Arizona great-grandma for months as her ex-bosses remain free” LINK
-These Sheriffs want to work with the feds. They should read the US Constitution and realize that the decision is up to their state legislature. Beyond that, no human being has a right to interfere in the peaceful association of others. Headline: “Sheriffs in Maryland fight back against new immigration legislation | Watch” LINK

A judge has told him to stop his plans to disburse the funds to his pals. Headline “Judge halts Trump ‘anti-weaponization’ fund after Jan. 6 prosecutor files suit” LINK

Just a reminder… “Trump eases refrigerant rule in a bid to address surging grocery costs” LINK

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Headline “Multiple stars quit Trump-linked Freedom 250 festival” LINK

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Welcome, fellow Conspirators!

Big thanks to all the good folks who joined us tonight as we got to dive into the fine work of journalists. - We also got to enjoy a live reading of Arthur Conan Doyle's 1892 chiller "De Profundis" for Fiction Friday! Join us, m-f 6 PM on Rumble or on X, and get the audio pod shortly after each show, via Spotify or here at Substack! - Here are the breaking stories we got to investigate tonight!

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This entire conversation between Judge Andrew Napolitano and Prof Jeffrey Sachs is essential viewing. I want to reserve a large portion of today’s publication (and tonight’s Liberty Conspiracy Live) to it, as the two men discuss the bellicosity of the Europeans towards Russia, the unethical expansion of NATO through the years, and the insane Greater Israel concept that Christian Zionists such as Mike Huckabee support, and which has seen ceaseless expansion of the immoral polis of Israel since 1947, and genocide in Gaza.

ISRAEL-US-IRAN-LEBANON-GAZA-WEST BANK

The integral axis there is US-ISRAEL. The others would be able to leave in peace if it were not for the US-Israeli aggression.

Re the Israeli Offensive Force in GAZA, here is more from a very important Tucker Carlson interview.

And a reminder, from yesterday, thanks to Antiwar: “Netanyahu Says He Directed Israeli Military To Take More Territory in Gaza - News From Antiwar.com” LINK

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And look at this:

***HEADLINE “Congress quietly moves to integrate US and Israeli militaries | Responsible Statecraft” LINK

-Let’s remember Jonathan Pollard’s utter mental insulation from the immorality of nuclear weapons…

As AntiWar notes: “Report: Israel Pressing the US To Assassinate Iran’s Lead Negotiator - News From Antiwar.com” LINK

And Trump juuuuust issued his new demands, claiming that the US and Iran have a Memorandum of Understanding. But the Iranian presentation of what is in the MoU and what Trump claims on social media are completely different. Iran is not going to leave out peace for Lebanon; Iran is not going to give up the power over its portion of the Strait. Iran is not going to give up some form of compensation for damages or the return of the money stolen from the Iranian govt in 1979. Iran is not going to give up nuclear refining for power.

Already, one can see that Trump is presenting impossible conditions and claiming that the Trumpers are working out “final details” in the “situation room” - which is utterly meaningless puffery.

The Iranians are not allowing Trump to lie without calling him out

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Nima spells it out. And this, as well as Prof Sach’s comments, serves to be a very good wrap on where thing stand at the end of the week.

Iran continues to export Oil and Nat-gas

And Trump’s threats against Oman are not shaking them from recognizing the reality that their economic well being is tied to Iran and the Strait.

And this - to reiterate from above-

The Europeans are claiming this was Russian-controlled and intentional. None of that is proven. It appears to be a false flag attempt to provoke wider war btwn NATO and Russia Headline: “Drone strikes residential building in Romania (VIDEO) — RT World News” LINK

Not cool “Zelensky names commando unit after WWII Nazi collaborators — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union” LINK

The Russians are going to finish this in the next few months, and Mr. Zelinskyy will not be there to name military units. He likely will flee.

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Headline: “Protests intensify after report reveals ICE targeting Latinos” LINK

-Gott hand it to Joe S here when it comes to MarkWayne Mullen trying to disrupt international travel in states that try to allow for migrants to be protected from ICE (ie states that claim sanctuary for immigrants - which is totally within their constitutional purview to do) Headline: “The stupidity hurts your teeth: Joe slams DHS chief over Newark Airport threat” Link

Remember, ICE denied the GOV OF NJ to ENTER a NJ-BSED ICE CAGE CAMP… More: “Federal agents in New Jersey beat back anti-ICE agitators in chaos outside Delaney Hall detention facility” LINK

-Sick Headline: “DHS chief tells hunger strikers in ICE jail ‘this isn’t a Holiday Inn’“ LINK

-Headline: “ICE holds Arizona great-grandma for months as her ex-bosses remain free” LINK

-These Sheriffs want to work with the feds. They should read the US Constitution and realize that the decision is up to their state legislature. Beyond that, no human being has a right to interfere in the peaceful association of others. Headline: “Sheriffs in Maryland fight back against new immigration legislation | Watch” LINK

A judge has told him to stop his plans to disburse the funds to his pals. Headline “Judge halts Trump ‘anti-weaponization’ fund after Jan. 6 prosecutor files suit” LINK

Just a reminder… “Trump eases refrigerant rule in a bid to address surging grocery costs” LINK

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Headline “Multiple stars quit Trump-linked Freedom 250 festival” LINK

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This entire conversation between Judge Andrew Napolitano and Prof Jeffrey Sachs is essential viewing. I want to reserve a large portion of today’s publication (and tonight’s Liberty Conspiracy Live) to it, as the two men discuss the bellicosity of the Europeans towards Russia, the unethical expansion of NATO thro…

Big thanks to Furb, of Smooves Foods, for joining us from Utah tonight to discuss the big Data Center conflict, the risk to private property rights, and more. And big thanks to the audience, and to all the excellent journalists whose work we got to discuss. Join us, m-f 6 PM (eastern) on Rumble and here on X, and get the audio pod shortly after each program, via Spotify or here at Substack! Here are some of the big stories we got to discuss tonight…

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The mentality of many in Israel, as reflected by US spy (released by Trump and flown to Israel on the Adelson jet) Jonathan Pollard

And the Lindsey Graham mentality fits

Israeli aggression, manifesting in myriad ways…

Here is Wyatt Reed, of the GrayZone, talking to a Hezbollah leader about their attempt to defend Lebanon against Israeli and American attacks.

And here is Patrick Henningsen, of 21 Wire, following up on what we last night got to show Aaron Mate explaining about the origin of Hezbollah, as a defense for the Palestinians and Lebanese, defending against Israeli aggression.

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More Israeli mass murder. Women and children burned to death in a residential building, last night.

The UN has weighed in.

And Israeli barking dogs are “insulted” by this reality of being called out. The “brave face” of the wicked…

Perhaps the Israeli barkers (no slight to Jason Barker, of KNIGHTS OF THE STORM!!) will hear from people like this man, again, some day…

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While Netanyahu promises “slow and steady” annexation and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, beyond 60%, to 70%, then 100% of the area.

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Israel just claimed the power to steal archeological items beyond the already bogus Israeli “border”

Despite Trump threatening Oman’s world-legal claim (along with Iran) over its territorial waters, Scott Bessent has the gall to claim Trump was talking about freedom of navigation. Seriously. The magnitude of this hubristic claim of power cannot be fully described.

The AP just reported on a “study” by a pro-military-contractor “think tank” that tells us the US involvement in aggression against Iran has depleted LOTs of weapons systems. No duh. But, in this segment from the Ron Paul Liberty Report, you will see not only Dr. Paul pointing out the arrogance of Trump telling the Oman government to “behave” or Trump will attack them, you will see Daniel McAdams spell out how this “study” serves to be used as a “call sheet” as they would say in Hollywood, for the rhetoric to push for more military spending, more and more LINK

Yep. April 2026 PCE inflation accelerated to 3.8% year‑over‑year, up from 3.5% in March, marking the highest reading since May 2023. Core PCE rose to 3.3% year‑over‑year, up from 3.2%, reaching its highest level since late 2023. Both measures remain well above the Federal Reserve’s dumb and destructive “2% inflation target” (i.e. watering down the buying value of the Dollar by at least 2% per year, functionally equated/calculated), underscoring persistent price pressures due to fiat currency, fractional reserve banking, tariffs, energy locks, and heavy US taxes and diktats on businesses.

Headline PCE (3.8% YoY): LINK

Fueled in part by higher energy costs and broader services inflation. Monthly PCE rose 0.4%.

• Core PCE (3.3% YoY):
  
  Excluding food and energy, core prices rose 0.2% month‑over‑month. Food and energy prices (the volatile components excluded from core PCE) are reported separately.

  April 2026 (data released May 28, 2026):

  • Month-over-month (MoM) changes (April vs. March 2026):

    • Food prices (including food and beverages purchased for off-premises consumption + food services/accommodations) rose +0.5%.

    • Energy goods and services (including gasoline and other energy goods) rose +3.9% (with gasoline specifically surging +5.5%).
      
      This contributed to overall goods prices +0.7% MoM and helped push headline PCE to +0.4% MoM (vs. core PCE at +0.2% MoM).

      cnbc.com

  • Year-over-year (YoY) changes (April 2026 vs. April 2025):
    
    These are not highlighted as a single “food + energy” figure in the BEA release or major summaries (core PCE isolates them to focus on underlying trends). However:

    • Energy goods and services rose sharply, around +18.3% YoY

    • Food ~+3% YoY range.

      bls.gov

Foreigners are decreasing their US bond buys (WHAT A SHOCK!)

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The Russians have warned all foreign diplomats and tourists to leave Kyiv. THIS IS A BIG MOVE. The Russians then began hitting Ukrainian govt-military-corporate-tied sites in and around Kiev. The Russians are only starting. Soooo, what have Sen Jim Himes and Senator Richard (Danang Dick) Blumenthal (D-CT), Sen Chris Coons (D-DE), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI - recently cited for being a member of what is, essentially, a “Whites Only” yacht club) and Sen Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) done? They have traveled to Kiev (again) to grandstand in performative “defiance” of the Russian moves. Yep…

Senator Blumenthal has made multiple trips to Ukraine (at least 7–9 by his own count in recent statements). They met with Pseudo-President Zelenskyy, and publicly reaffirmed strong U.S. Congressional support, pushed for more weapons/air defense, and stated that Ukraine can prevail with adequate backing (and that Russia is failing) — all of which is false. Key articles/press releases:

• U.S. Senate press release on a February 2026 delegation trip to Odesa/Kyiv (Blumenthal + Coons, Shaheen, Whitehouse): https://www.coons.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senators-coons-shaheen-whitehouse-blumenthal-travel-to-ukraine/

• Here is Blumenthal, listing the financial bennies his M-I handlers will reap if he has his way and gets more weapons purchases for Ukraine. This, of course, already is happening as the US funds most of NATO, then NATO buys US arms to send to Ukraine.

Then, Zelinskyy hopped to Sweden to get weapons

Eliminate the collective control, allow for private ownership, and see what people set as their preferences and priorities.

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Economic law cannot be avoided. Demand finds supply, and when supply cannot be increased at a rapid rate, consumers bid up prices, as they do, they have to curtail purchases on other things or dip into savings, which effects investment into new ventures. Here are refutations of the fatuous Trump Admin claims, from the world of REAL economics instruction. Join us, m-f 6 PM on Rumble or X “AT” gardgoldsmith - Subscribe on the supporter-side to our Substack for Daily News and Research, and visit the “Former Star Trek Writing Fellow” ch on YT or Rumble for great book suggestions and insights into TV and film production! Be Seeing You!

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