[News With Views] In 2017, I read about Beijing’s 600-year-old Temple of Heaven. To my amusement, facial recognition technology restricted tourist toilet users from dispensing more than one 60-centimeter (two-foot) section of paper every nine minutes. At first, I snickered at the notion of clandestine TP Police hovering in the shadows but, truth told, this was no laughing matter.
The Technocrat Magazine (1937) defines Technocracy as the science of social engineering to produce and distribute goods and services to the global population. As showcased with toilet paper conservation in China, "experts" who claim to know best dominate.
DOMINATION IN AN AGE OF EXPERTS
The concept of human domination in an age of would-be experts is by no means new. Plato introduced the art of steering and governing people, and Capitalist critic Thorstein Veblen called for "a Soviet of Engineers" to provide needed momentum. French economist and socialist theorist Henri St.-Simon fingered scientists as superior to all other men. Add Darwinian-Marxist ideals and voilà: Totalitarian fantasies of so-called "experts" take center stage.
While the Technotronic Era integrates technology into everyday life, the Technocratic Era occasions governance by experts whose data-driven decisions eclipse popular vote in a Constitutional Republic.
Conceived at Columbia University (1932), Technocracy boasts dramatic plans that were never legislated, debated or publicly discussed. Bypassing ethical considerations, societal issues are managed by technical expertise. This is called scientism. Its mate (called positivism) requires citizen-elected officials to kowtow to technical experts (e.g., Dr. Anthony Fauci during the pandemic).
Mirroring the Marxist/Leninist maxim of "earning one’s keep on earth," Technocrats implement the socialist principle of State-managed development. Working to abolish private property, a self-serving scientific dictatorship seeks to control all resources (including people), worldwide.
Reborn in the 1970s when Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote Between Two Ages, Technocracy spread globally. Brzezinski’s hand-picked choice for President, Jimmy Carter, unleashed a cadre of global-elite Trilateralists to dominate engines of global economic transformation and thereby threaten our nation’s sovereignty and financial security. Once the Trilateral Commission made a clean sweep of the Cabinet and Executive Branch, Technocracy co-opted our entire political system; and creation of a New International Economic Order captured the world.
[Alt-Market.US] When I think of the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk I see the event as symbolic of the death of civil discourse in the west. The timeline split at that moment leaving two distinct groups: The conservatives and centrists who cling to the fantasy that progress through traditional politics is still possible, and the patriots who now realize that a peaceful resolution is unattainable.
I also see it as symbolic of a deeper element of the culture war — Specifically, the war on young white western men. Kirk was 31 at the time of his death. Not "young", but almost 15 years younger than I am, and it has left me thinking about the future for the next generation of western males at a time when the system is obviously hellbent on destroying them. Genocide
They have been the subject of economic warfare through DEI: Corporations and colleges give first shot to any identity group other than white males regardless of merit. Prejudiced
They have been targeted by social warfare: Demonized as irredeemable monsters by woke cancel culture and labeled the cause of all the world’s ills. Their ancestors built a civilization of unprecedented prosperity and so much material bounty even the poorest people are fat. They created the middle class, a concept which had never existed before in history. In 1890 the average global life expectancy was 42 years; by 1990 the average life expectancy was 73 years, all because of western civilization and the technology it created. And now, white guys are being punished for it. See South Africa
They have been selected for extermination: They’re the key demographic that leftist governments want to use as cannon fodder for a mindless geopolitical mess in Ukraine. Culling the herd Eric Arthur Blair foto here please.
Not many appear willing to participate, which should translate into interesting votes in the next elections.
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They have been the subject of economic warfare through DEI: Corporations and colleges give first shot to any identity group other than white males regardless of merit.
Now there's an opportunity for the demand of reparations by white male GenZs, not for something that ended over 150 years ago, but the very living people who's basic civil rights were denied.
Not IF ... there will be a created massive population reduction... It is WHEN! WILL IT HAPPEN?
Its seem that short cycle (2-4 years) BIO-Weapons may be the latest process. With the instigators somehow already prepared and safe.
Which raises the question...
looking at the reported COVID-19 deaths by country. It could be argued that the USA was the main target. Given India reported about 1/2 the deaths and infections that the USA had, and it is 3'x's population size and the USA has a better Medical system. So did the CCP lie about their numbers, or were they prepared in advance prior to the staged release?
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Fresh air and sunshine are efficient Covid virus killers. India has lots of both. Also, I suspect India didn’t lock their infected elders in with their uninfected elders to encourage spread through the air vents and hallways.
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I no longer disparage parents who have adult offspring living in their basements.
Just saw a number of younglings go off and "fail" first semester of college because they weren't ready for current year.
One of those "failures" who even didn't go, write a check, and I made the same surprise face as when I count change back. Even cursived his signature. Think, secondary education home school, "how the world really works."
To the subject, it is wild watching the KC Chiefs go from potential 3-peat champions into Taylor Swift fans, media wise, is a parable. Not a compliment.
[Liberty Nation News] Boxing Day is a holiday all about charity that is celebrated on December 26 in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and other British Commonwealth nations, though the holiday’s odd name has led to many confused observers. While its exact origins are unknown, the Oxford English Dictionary notes its earliest mention in print was in 1833. For centuries, the day after Christmas was a time for giving gifts in boxes to servants, tradespeople, and the poor. Some theories suggest that’s where the holiday gets its name.
Each year, the historical holiday brings one political question into sharp focus: Should assistance for the poor come from voluntary charity or the state?
BOXING DAY THROUGH HISTORY
For centuries, before Boxing Day was given an official name, it was a day on which the upper class would box up gifts for the less fortunate. During the Victorian era from 1837 to 1901, the gifts often contained leftover food, goods, and money.
One of the earliest known observances of Boxing Day was in 1663: English parliamentarian Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary about sending "a coach and messenger to his shoemaker" to deliver "something to the boys’ box against Christmas," according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac.
The tradition began because servants were often given December 26 off after working for their masters on Christmas Day.
PRIVATE CHARITY VS THE STATE
Boxing Day has always been about the wealthy voluntarily helping the poor. Assistance was given by individuals, families, churches, and local communities to those in need. Charity was personal and compassionate. But where charity emphasizes compassion and support, welfare promotes entitlement and policy.
Today, that divide is more pronounced than ever. Supporters of expansive welfare systems argue that government programs ensure fairness and universal coverage.
[PJMedia] On Dec. 22, 2025, an Inspector General report on the Social Security Administration, triggered by demands from Sen. Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren ...The Great White Squaw, Lizzie is the Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts. She traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. She has high cheekbones that stretch all the way to the top of her head. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless... (D-Mass.), documented a sharp turnaround in the agency’s phone service during Fiscal Year 2025. Average wait times fell from roughly thirty minutes earlier in the year to single digits by September. The agency handled 65% more calls than in the prior fiscal year, serving 68 million callers in total. Claims backlogs declined by 35%.
This is an amazing improvement for an entrenched bureaucracy, and in less than a year. Much of this can be ascribed to reforms suggested by the Department of Government Efficiency.
Those results cut directly against months of media coverage portraying DOGE as being disruptive without delivering measurable gains. Whatever one thinks of DOGE's style or politics, it demanded the system respond to pressure. Performance improved, demonstrably and at scale.
That outcome matters because it clarifies what DOGE actually represents, and what it does not.
DOGE'S STATED MISSION
Publicly, DOGE was framed as a government efficiency initiative. Its stated goals were straightforward and broadly popular: reduce waste, speed up services, modernize systems, and bring private-sector discipline to federal agencies long criticized for inertia. It even promised a dollar amount of savings, as much as $2 trillion.
Supporters emphasized outcomes. Critics focused on tone and optics. But nearly everyone evaluated DOGE as if it were meant to be a conventional reform program, something designed to embed quietly, win buy-in, and slowly reshape bureaucratic behavior from the inside.
But if DOGE were merely an efficiency drive, much of its behavior would be difficult to explain.
It operated on compressed timelines. It tolerated public controversy. It pushed against entrenched systems without first securing institutional comfort. It accepted backlash as a cost rather than treating it as a failure condition.
That is not how traditional reform bodies behave. Bureaucratic reform, when it aims at permanence, is cautious by necessity. It prioritizes process harmony, avoids provoking internal resistance, and works patiently within existing norms.
DOGE did none of that, which suggests its purpose was not limited to efficiency alone.
DOGE AS A STRESS TEST OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE
A better explanation is that DOGE is functioning as a stress test of the federal bureaucracy.
Stress tests are not designed to produce immediate, permanent fixes. They are designed to apply pressure and observe outcomes: where systems bend, where they break, where they resist, and where supposed constraints turn out to be optional once incentives change. It is a drive to gather data, not repair issues.
Under this model, efficiency gains are not the primary goal. They are signal, evidence of latent capacity revealed under load. Resistance®, delay, panic, and narrative hostility are also signal. They show where authority actually resides and which processes exist because they are necessary, versus merely habitual.
The Social Security Administration results fit this model precisely. When pressure was applied, performance improved quickly and measurably. That does not prove the system is now permanently fixed. It shows something more revealing: The capacity was there all along.
WHY THE MUSK LENS MATTERS
This interpretation aligns closely with how Elon Musk has repeatedly operated across very different domains.
Musk does not treat institutions as abstract ideals. Thinking like an engineer, he treats them as systems that must be tested under real conditions. His approach favors empirical stress over theoretical reassurance and exposure over simulation.
One of the clearest expressions of this philosophy is SpaceX’s use of the acronym RUD, "rapid unscheduled disassembly," referred to by most people as a big old explosion. Rockets are pushed until they fail. Failure is not an embarrassment, but rather a valuable data collection moment. Each breakdown reveals load-bearing assumptions that no white paper can surface.
The goal is not to avoid failure at all costs. The goal is to fail fast enough, visibly enough, to learn where the system’s true limits are, and to learn it quickly.
Viewed through this lens, DOGE’s behavior becomes coherent.
It applied load to bureaucratic systems that have not been seriously stressed in decades. It compressed timelines. It disrupted established workflows. It removed procedural slack. It made inefficiencies visible rather than politely tolerable. Some systems adapted. Some resisted. Some leaked. Some appealed to norms rather than outcomes. All of that is information.
From a stress-test perspective, controversy is not proof of failure. It is proof that pressure reached something structural.
DOGE'S VALUE
If DOGE were evaluated solely as a permanent reform vehicle, critics might plausibly call it incomplete or unfinished. But stress tests are not judged by permanence. They are judged by diagnostic yield.
By that standard, DOGE is generating high-value information:
Which agencies can improve rapidly under pressure
Which bottlenecks are technical versus managerial
Where authority actually resides, regardless of organization charts
How quickly performance changes when incentives shift
The SSA audit is not an isolated anecdote. Rather, it is a data point that supports the broader claim: much of what is presented as unavoidable bureaucratic limitation is, in fact, a choice maintained by lack of pressure.
DOGE DIDN'T FAIL
The insistence that DOGE has "failed" says more about expectations than outcomes.
Many critics assumed DOGE would behave like a traditional reform body: slow, quiet, consensus-driven. When it did not, they concluded it was unserious. Others expected instant, permanent transformation and dismissed anything short of that as insufficient. Both expectations misunderstand the function of a stress test.
Stress tests do not fix systems. They map them. Most importantly, stress tests are not one-off events. They are iterative. Early results inform later action. Reconnaissance precedes restructuring.
Seen this way, DOGE is not a concluded experiment but an ongoing diagnostic phase. Its value lies not only in the efficiencies already observed, but in the clarity it brings to future reform efforts, which will likely be quieter, more targeted, and more surgical precisely because this information now exists.
DOGE did not collapse the system. It forced parts of it to move. We see that today in this IG report. Once you accept that as the goal, the claim that DOGE "failed" becomes difficult to sustain.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] Hunter Biden suddenly woke up and declared that all of Ukraine is mired in corruption, and he is mired in it too, but only because he "knew nothing."
What, then, were they paying him and his buddies so much money for?
Some notable statements:
1. Ukraine is a snake pit of corruption and a breeding ground for evil.
2. Obama allegedly forced him to join Burisma,
Why?
and Hunter Biden allegedly didn't want to go. Yet, he earned $1 million a year there. Now he calls it "an absolute mistake."
3. While working for Burisma, Hunter Biden encountered an incredible level of corruption that persists to this day. Hunter Biden claims he "was naive."
Naive and drugged? Oh dear.
4. Hunter Biden indirectly admits that there were "questionable deals," but they are smaller in scale than what Trump is doing now.
5. Hunter Biden also claimed that his father failed the US immigration policy and lost the war in Afghanistan by withdrawing troops from there.
The reason for Hunter Biden's public activity is quite simple. Not long ago, Trump rescinded the thousands of phony pardons issued by Biden's entourage, exploiting his incapacitation. Among these phony pardons for known and unknown crimes was Hunter Biden's pardon, which included his work in Ukraine for Burisma.
So now that Hunter Biden has no legal defense, he's trying to publicly justify himself—saying he knew nothing, that corruption was already there, that he was naive, that he fell into a hotbed of evil, that Obama is to blame, and so on. He understands that the Biden family case could become a trump card for the Republicans before the midterm elections (in the fall of 2026), especially if they can imprison Hunter Biden for corruption. Hence the ridiculous excuses, like, "Under Trump, corruption has only worsened." He understands that it will be difficult to evade corruption charges.
More from regnum.ru Hunter Biden said the level of corruption in Ukraine is staggering. He would know.
Hunter Biden, entrepreneur and son of former US President Joe Biden, called Ukraine a hotbed of evil with rampant corruption. His statement, made on the "Sean Ryan Show" podcast
Who?
on December 25, was cited by the New York Post.
"I was very naive about what a hotbed of evil Ukraine is. The sheer, unbelievable level of corruption that still boggles the mind," Biden Jr. said.
It does, yes.
The businessman
…not so much a “businessman” as a deal maker, it seems to me…
admitted he made a mistake by accepting a position at the Ukrainian gas production company Burisma Holding. He claimed this decision jeopardized the reputation of the entire Biden family.
[IsraelAlma] Hezbollah’s recovery process depends not only on military capabilities but, to a large extent, on its economic and financial infrastructure. At the center of this system is the “Al-Qard al-Hasan” institution, which serves as a key pillar of the organization’s economic activity and its ties with the Shiite support base in Lebanon. The institution has approximately 300,000 clients, and the scope of its activity is estimated at more than $3 billion, figures that underscore its strategic importance to Hezbollah.
Subsequently, it was reported on December 8 that a delegation from the U.S. Treasury Department visited Lebanon and delivered an unequivocal demand to the Lebanese government to shut down “Al-Qard al-Hasan.” According to the reports, the Americans urged the Governor of the Banque du Liban, Karim Saeed, to begin taking initial steps to implement the move, including setting a timetable for gradual implementation. It was further reported that Saeed approached Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces with a request to begin entering the institution’s branches and closing them gradually. However, officials within the Lebanese government clarified that the governor lacks the legal authority to act unilaterally, as “Al-Qard al-Hasan” is formally registered as an association rather than as a licensed bank.
In this context, it was also reported that additional alternatives are being examined in Lebanon, including significantly curtailing Al-Qard al-Hasan’s ability to conduct banking activities through the imposition of strict oversight and monitoring, ongoing supervision, and restrictions on the use of gold as a mechanism for loans and collateral. These steps reflect an attempt to meet U.S. demands without being drawn into a broad political and social confrontation.
At the same time, a meeting took place between Governor Saeed and Hezbollah-affiliated Member of Parliament Ali Fayyad, who warned against steps that could, in his words, lead to harm to private property. Fayyad argued that the exclusion of Hezbollah’s institutions from the formal banking system is what pushed the organization and its supporters toward a cash-based economy.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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