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Photo by Dillon Groves A Universal Basic Income (UBI) has long been proposed as a way to cushion the blow of jobs lost to automation. Under that model, everyone receives a modest monthly payment – enough to cover basic needs and prevent extreme poverty. But Elon Musk has gone further. On April 16, he posted on X: “Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. “AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the moneysupply, so there will not be inflation.” Rather than…
The head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Marty Makary, resigned Tuesday after leading the agency for just 13 months. Makary’s tenure at the FDA was marked by significant controversy, as he angered a number of political constituencies. Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox Makary was elevated to head the FDA by President Donald Trump as part of the administration’s embrace of the Make America Healthy Again movement, represented by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. His time at the FDA saw a significant exodus of agency officials and employees, which created turmoil in the…
China’s strongest cards remain its rare earth and pharmaceutical monopolies. But Trump’s policies are already beginning to erode Beijing’s dominance. Source link
Not questioning Zionism has long been the entry ticket to the British political and media Establishment, but although public belief in the Zionist narrative is fatally damaged, prosecutions of pro-Palestinian activists continue. Demonstration protesting Gaza genocide in Edinburgh outside the Scottish first minister’s office, July 19, 2025. (Photo from author’s website) By Craig MurrayCraigMurray.org.uk Unquestioning Zionism has for decades been the entry ticket to the British political and media Establishment. Anybody who was not a fully certified and compliant Zionist would find their career limited – as Jeremy Corbyn, Alan Duncan, Robin Cook and David Mellor all found. Most others, of…
Sure capitalism is driving us toward collapse on multiple fronts while everyone gets sicker, poorer, dumber, crazier, and more miserable, but hey look, McDonald’s is bringing back the McRib. Reading by Tim Foley: Sure plutocrats are killing our biosphere, but hey, at least they’re creating technology that lets you avoid the cognitive discomfort of writing your own words and thinking your own thoughts. Sure the empire is butchering human beings at horrifying scale around the world, but on the bright side it’s creating refugees who will move to your country and bring you treats that you can order from an…
Tuesday, May 12th on RealClearPolitics – Joined by RCP Senior Elections Analyst Sean Trende and Rachel Campos-Duffy, author of All American Patriotism:00:00 … Source link
Was 1935 the worst year in history? Why 1935? What happened that year? Very little of significance. And that is precisely why it was such a bad year. Not for what was done – but for what was not done that could have been done. 1935 was the year that Hitler began in earnest to try to conquer the world. He quietly reintroduced the draft and began to build up the German arms industry, both in clear violation of the Versailles Treaty that ended World War I. The other signatories to that treaty, which included Great Britain and France, did absolutely nothing. Moreover,…
In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. By Lauren Hepler and Marisa Kendall, CalMatters The Quality Inn & Suites building along Conejo Boulevard stands vacant in Thousand Oaks on Feb. 26, 2026. Photo by Julie Leopo-Bermudez for CalMatters This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. As COVID-19 tore through California, Jennifer Hark Dietz had a decision to make. The state was…
Map of Cuba from 1639 – Public Domain He has blockaded Cuba, and now he’s expanded the sanctions. Donald “Uber-Capitalist” Trump is relentless in his war on this tiny nation of 11 million people, whose courage, solidarity and grit has inspired all ends of the global political spectrum, from Claudia Scheinbaum’s left-leaning Mexico to Vladimir Putin’s traditional-values-championing Russia. Fortunately, some of these onlookers have even been inspired to act. Moscow already broke the blockade by dispatching one enormous oil tanker to Havana and is sending another, while other nations have donated various necessities. Beijing has been especially generous with everything…
When Ronald Reagan sat across from Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik in 1986, the stakes could not have been higher. The future of nuclear arms control – and with it, the safety of the American people – hung in the balance. Reagan negotiated from a position of strength, refused to blink, and ultimately helped bring the Cold War to a close on America’s terms. As President Trump prepares to travel to Beijing, he faces a moment with similar historical weight. The technology in question is not nuclear warheads. It is artificial intelligence – and the risks are just as real. Advanced…