Jeffrey Tucker Describes the Bleak State of the World

Jeffrey Tucker has ambitiously taken the temperature of the political, economic and social world with an article titled: "The Coup, the Calamity, and the Conspiracy." I highly recommend a full read.

Tucker begins with this graphic:

Here is an excerpt:

[Y]ou could be more realistic and see that this was not a mistake at all. It was entirely intentional, the unfolding of a dark scheme hatched by an indescribably sadistic ruling class. Indeed, if this had all been an accident, we surely would have heard someone apologize by now.

There is also the planning involved. There was Event 201, the lesser-known Crimson Contagion, and many others. They are usually described in the mainstream press as rehearsals for unplanned contingencies, like resiliency training. Absurd. This was plotted far in advance. We have all the receipts. To realize this and connect the dots does not make you a conspiracy theorist. It makes you a person with the capacity to think.

To deny nefarious motives and schemes makes you impossibly naive to the point of sedation. At best, it makes you ill-read in history.

After five years, what can we say was the plan and purpose of this calamity? We all have our views. Certainly within Brownstone ranks, there are many opinions. We argue among ourselves all the time. Coming up with a clean and clear explanation is not easy because there are so many moving parts and so many industrial opportunists who took advantage of the crisis to cash out.

This is such an expansive article that resonated with me over and over.

I have many of the same concerns, but I won't say much here. I will say (as Tucker mentions in the early paragraphs) that I'm sure how well coordinated all of the powerful players are. Just because they are well-entrenched, monied and politically connected doesn't mean that they necessarily agree with each other day to day, much less year to year. But in my mind, there is definitely a hell of a lot of coordination.

The best solution to this horrific anti-Democratic mess is a vigorous, courageous and free press, but the powers-that-be know this deeply and they've got the formerly half-respectable "journalism" industry 95% locked down.

So in the meantime, it's Jeffrey Tucker, independent media and people like you and me doing what we can. It feels like a David and Goliath battle, especially when you see Trump kowtowing to Pfizer, just like Biden did and harris would have

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About the Dark Triad

Evolutionary biologist Geoffrey Miller explains the concept:

Remember, kids:

The 'Dark Triad' of personality traits (Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism) is hugely over-represented among people who manage to make themselves famous.

And it explains why so many of them, sooner or later, adopt toxic, delusional beliefs that make them infamous.

Rob Henderson adds this:

Dark Triad personality traits correlate with victim-signaling (e.g., "Expressed how people like me are underrepresented in the media and leadership.").

Psychopathy (r = .58), Machiavellianism (r = .43) and narcissism (r = .30)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32614222/

Psychologist Jordan Peterson:

Jordan Peterson:

We're talking about this Machiavellian personality triad, the dark triad, ... Okay, so here's something really interesting. It's the bad boy paradox. They call it that. Young, naive women are attracted to those Machiavellian types, but when they get older and more experienced, they start to be able to see through that. The reason they're attracted to it, as far as I can tell, and I talked about this with bus to see if I was way off on the wrong track, is that those reckless, fearless people mimic real, fearless competence. And young women aren't good at distinguishing between the two, and so they get sucked in by the sort of psychopathic recklessness, because they think it's fearless competence. And of course, the guys who are doing that, they'll prey on that because they're trying to ape competence. But what the women are really after in their heart of hearts, they might be out for an adventure too, because there's that element of it. But they want that fearlessness that does go along with true generosity and competence and also the ability to keep, you know, real darkness away so well.

[Unknown speaker]

A lot of those people who display that kind of, what you call mimicking fearlessness macho, that's they're actually hiding the opposite. They're actually very, very riddled with insecurities. They're not, you know, and they're, they're, they kind of create this sort of bravado and this false front, and they go to an extreme to kind of project this machismo when, in fact, they're riddled with insecurities. And that's their way of dealing with it. With it.

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The Problem with Aluminum in Vaccines

How dangerous is it to have aluminum in our vaccines?  I've never heard it discussed until recently, when President Trump indicated that he would like to have aluminum removed from all vaccines.

Maryanne Demasi has written "A chat with 'Mr Aluminium': Trump’s Tylenol warning stole the headlines, but his vow to strip aluminum from vaccines was the real shock. I asked Dr Chris Exley—Mr Aluminium himself—what it would mean for the vaccine industry."

[Dr Chris Exley] has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers on the subject, showing how aluminium accumulates in the brain, how it is trafficked by immune cells, and how it may be implicated in conditions from Alzheimer’s disease to autism.

His 2018 paper revealed some of the highest levels of aluminium ever recorded in human brain tissue, including in children diagnosed with autism.

In the wake of Trump’s press conference, Exley argued that Tylenol exposure in pregnancy alone cannot explain severe, debilitating autism — and that this kind of brain damage is far more likely linked to infant exposure to aluminium in vaccines.

Exley has also been one of the most outspoken critics of the HPV vaccine Gardasil, warning that Merck’s novel aluminium adjuvant, amorphous aluminium hydroxyphosphate sulfate (AAHS), is unusually potent, biologically reactive and unsafe.

His stance has made him a target, costing him funding and institutional support, but his voice remains central to any honest debate about aluminium and vaccines.

Who is Dr. Chris Exley? This, according to Grok:

Dr. Christopher Exley is an English chemist renowned for his extensive research on the health effects of aluminum exposure in humans. He specializes in bioinorganic chemistry, focusing on how aluminum interacts with biological systems and its potential links to neurological conditions.EducationExley earned his PhD from the University of Stirling in 1989. His doctoral thesis, supervised by J. D. Birchall, examined the amelioration of aluminum toxicity in Atlantic salmon, with a particular emphasis on aluminum-silicon interactions.CareerHe is a Professor of Bioinorganic Chemistry at Keele University, where he serves as the group leader of the Bioinorganic Chemistry Laboratory. In 1994, he received a Royal Society University Research Fellowship, supporting his early career work. As of 2025, he remains affiliated with Keele University and continues to lead research on aluminum through the university's dedicated resources. Exley is also active as a public communicator, maintaining a Substack newsletter ("Dr's Newsletter") where he discusses the bioinorganic chemistry of aluminum, with recent posts as late as July 2025.

For more about Exley's work, see his website.

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