Those who give to the government as if offering alms forget that a mighty house does not need charity. True wisdom lies not in filling the coffers, but in guiding leaders to curb waste and govern with restraint.

Singapore: the West’s poster child in Asia, now embracing all the Keynesian follies that have doomed its developed-world cousins—60% of workers living paycheck to paycheck, outpacing Japan, China, and South Korea, and up from 53% just a few years ago.

https://www.adpresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/PAW2025-Final.pdf

Singaporeans are working harder than ever, yet still struggling: 60% of those juggling two or more jobs live paycheck to paycheck. Underemployment drives many to take extra work—35% of two-job holders and 31% of three-job holders cite the lack of full-time opportunities—while others chase long-term goals, savings, or education. Rising living costs amplify the pressure: Singapore tops the Asia-Pacific Cost of Living Index, with HDB resale prices soaring nearly 10% in 2024 and real median incomes declining slightly over the past five years. Side jobs increasingly serve as both financial lifelines and skill-building ventures, highlighting a society where effort multiplies but financial security barely budges.

Canada, under the iron whim of WEF mascot “Marx Carney,” now leads the world in Keynesian excess and green fanaticism—proudly pioneering the first-ever “climate lockdown.” In Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, the comrades have sealed off public forests to save the people from the great wildfire menace (naturally blamed on the climate gods’ wrath), banning hiking, camping, fishing, and trail use.
Break the rules, and you’ll donate up to $28,872.50 to the People’s Treasury. Liberation postponed until October 15—or whenever the weather obeys.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-provincial-forest-bans-miss-the-point/

When rulers see man as the root of calamity, they blind themselves to the balance of Heaven and Earth. To punish the people for the wind, the sun, and the turning of the seasons is to sow resentment, not harmony. The dry years and the fires they bring have long cycled through the ages; they heed neither decree nor tax. Yet those in high office, urged on by distant councils, lay a heavy levy upon the people—beginning with twenty coins for each measure of smoke, rising like a tide until it drowns households in burdens.

By the year of the next cycle, the cost will press upon families in the thousands, while the great merchants of industry bear little. Such laws are not born of the Way, for they seek control, not stewardship, and mistake governance for mastery over Nature itself.

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2018/10/canadas-trudeau-vows-to-impose-carbon-tax-opponents-push-back/

When a ruler cloaks his will in the name of “security,” the freedom of the people withers like grass in drought. First came the lockdowns in the time of the great ‘plandemic’; now, the same hand may seal the forests and fields, forbidding the commoner to walk upon the earth of his own land.

A single step into nature may cost a man more than gold, even his liberty. Power, once granted to a government in the name of virtue, grows like bamboo—unceasing unless cut back. Thus it is with the carbon tax; thus it shall be with the authority of climate decree, if the people do not guard their rights.

According to a Canadian non-profit and a Quebec university, the real reaper wasn’t COVID—it was the mRNA “miracle shots.” Turns out the so-called deadly pandemic didn’t rack up excess deaths at all, but the “cure” marched in and did the killing.

https://slaynews.com/news/global-study-mrna-shots-caused-millions-excess-deaths-covid-caused-zero/

While the MAGA faithful teamed up with the MAHA faithful to crown the Manipulator-in-Chief, let’s not forget he’s the same conjurer who, back in 2020, rolled out Operation Warp Speed—a public-private magic trick to rush COVID jabs, pills, and tests to market.

https://news-pravda.com/usa/2025/08/07/1573408.html

The “Antivax-in-Chief” keeps speaking out of both sides of his mouth—slamming mRNA shots for the cameras while quietly pushing the Stargate Initiative, a slick AI-powered gateway for even more mRNA development. And in the same breath, he champions the MMR jab to stop measles—now making a comeback thanks to the open-border parade waved through by Sleepy Joe.

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/07/nx-s1-5354900/hhs-rfk-endorses-mmr-measles-vaccine-stoking-supporters-fury

Tucked deep inside the “big, beautiful” spending bill is a $45 billion golden ticket for the prison-industrial complex—enough to bankroll four years of megaprisons and supercharge ICE’s detention machine with up to 100,000 new beds. That’s not just an expansion; it’s a staggering 265% to 365% jump in ICE’s detention budget compared to fiscal year 2024.

https://theintercept.com/2025/07/10/corecivic-trump-big-beautiful-bill/

All this rolls out as the Manipulator-in-Chief summons his Praetorian Guard to Washington and orders the Pentagon to stand up a shiny new “Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force”—600 National Guard troops split into two 300-man hit squads, primed to crush dissent before you can spit out “First Amendment.” Arizona and Alabama host the bases, commercial airlines ferry the muscle, and taxpayers foot hundreds of millions—conveniently peaking right before the 2028 political circus.

https://t.me/TheMacroButlerSubstack/337

In the name of “security for all,” Donald Copperfield pulled off a quiet regulatory magic trick—making disappear NOAA’s long-standing ban on satellites sharp enough to spot objects smaller than 30 centimeters, a safeguard that once kept individual people unidentifiable from orbit. Under his 2018 reforms to the U.S. Orbital Debris Mitigation Standard Practices, that limit shrank to 10 centimeters—enough to track a coffee cup from space—ushering in an era where the all-seeing eye can follow not just your car or your house, but you.

https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/48890/20240224/low-orbit-satellite-albedo-space-privacy.htm

Albedo, the leader in such new generation of satellites, has drawn a diverse mix of backers, from venture capital and corporate venture arms to individual investors. Notable names include Breakthrough Energy Ventures (Bill Gates’ fund), Shield Capital, Initialized Capital, Y Combinator, Booz Allen Ventures, Giant Step Capital, Republic Capital, Cubit Capital, and Bill Perkins—many with ties, near or far, to the infamous PayPal Mafia.


https://www.businessinsider.com/albedo-satellite-space-funding-round-2025-4

The aliens were let by the blue in to sow chaos, giving the red Manipulator In Chief an excuse to tighten the reins.

Elected on a banner of freedom, less than a year back in the Oval Office he’s pushing stablecoins and digital IDs—sold as convenience and public safety, but really paving the way for global surveillance and a creeping tyranny as the U.S. Republic edges toward its final chapter.

American shoppers went on a summer spree in July, splurging on cars, gadgets, and anything Amazon, Walmart, or Target could slap a “deal” tag on. Retail sales rose 0.5% (before inflation rained on the parade), with nine of 13 categories climbing. Cars had their best month since March, and online sales soared thanks to an arms race of discount days. Of course, some of that “extra spending” might just be paying more for the same stuff—but hey, who’s counting when it feels like a bargain?

Retail sales look sturdy on paper but strip out inflation and they’re more limp handshake than firm grip—still stuck below the April 2022 high and below last December level. History shows that real retail peaks often line up with highs in the S&P 500-to-oil ratio, which usually dips under its 7-year average before recessions. The signals are blinking red, but Wall Street’s still whistling past the graveyard.

In a nutshell, shoppers are splurging like it’s a boom, but behind the discounts and headlines, inflation’s turned the retail rally into a recession warning in disguise

Washington’s cheerleaders can keep parroting “all is well,” but Americans aren’t buying it—literally. Consumer sentiment just tanked to 58.6, inflation fears are back on the rise, and more people say high prices are shredding their living standards. Shoppers are cutting back, unemployment worries have doubled since 2022, and tariff chatter is creeping into kitchen-table talk.

The partisan gap widened further: Republicans stayed oddly upbeat, with nearly two-thirds betting on rate cuts, while independents were lukewarm and Democrats mostly braced for higher-for-longer—proof that even inflation expectations now wear party colors.

In short, Main Street feels a lot more like the Great Recession than the glossy picture painted by elites who’ve never wrestled with a grocery bill.