U.S. Has Stopped Minting Pennies
November 13th, 2025Via: USA Today:
America’s last penny was struck at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, the end of a coin production that started in 1793 and ended Nov. 12. We’re already starting to miss them.
Some stores have begun running short of pennies and have had to round cash transactions up or down to the nearest five cents when customers don’t have exact change, USA TODAY reported.
President Donald Trump order the Treasury Department to stop minting pennies as a budget-cutting measure in February. But a resulting shift to nickels, which are more expensive than pennies to produce, could cause other losses in the federal budget.
Google Will Continue to Allow Sideloading Apps on Android
November 13th, 2025Rare good news!
I’m genuinely surprised that Google backtracked on this.
Via: Google – Android Developers Blog:
While security is crucial, we’ve also heard from developers and power users who have a higher risk tolerance and want the ability to download unverified apps.
Based on this feedback and our ongoing conversations with the community, we are building a new advanced flow that allows experienced users to accept the risks of installing software that isn’t verified.
Study 329: One of the Most Infamous Cases of Scientific Fraud in Modern Psychiatry
November 11th, 2025Via: Brownstone Institute:
It began with a lie.
In 2001, the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) published a paper declaring that the antidepressant paroxetine (Paxil) was “generally well tolerated and effective” for adolescent depression.
That conclusion was false.
The manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), knew from its own data that the drug failed to outperform placebo and carried a serious risk of suicidal behaviour.
Instead of telling the truth, GSK hired a public-relations firm to ghostwrite the paper, enlisted academic co-authors who never saw the raw data, and used the publication to promote Paxil to doctors treating children.
It became known as Study 329 — one of the most infamous cases of scientific fraud in modern psychiatry.
For years, the fraud stood unchallenged. Regulators issued warnings but never forced a correction. The journal refused to retract. The paper remained in circulation — cited hundreds of times, shaping prescribing habits, and legitimising a lie that cost young lives.
Make Al Qaeda Great Again
November 11th, 2025The US fought the "war on terror" for more than 20 years — it's ongoing. It not only cost trillions of dollars and more than a million lives, but radically and permanently eroded core civil liberties for Americans.
Now, someone the DOJ called an Al Qaeda terrorist less than a… https://t.co/efxKy1YqJ3
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 11, 2025
Trump: Keep Useless Universities from Going Bankrupt by Importing Hundreds of Thousands Chinese Students
November 11th, 2025Besides the mostly useless grant swindling and fraud, there’s a massive amount of military and other government agency related research that happens at universities.
It’s too hard to try to clean up the mess, so just maintain the status quo with more Chinese money.
NOW – Trump says 600,000 Chinese students coming to the U.S. is a pro-MAGA stance because "you would have half the colleges in the United States go out of business… I know what MAGA wants better than anybody else." pic.twitter.com/uexYM3Xsgw
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) November 11, 2025
Dane Wigington on Tucker Carlson Show
November 11th, 2025Via: Tucker Carlson:
More: GeoEngineering Watch
AI Arms Race: Trump Admin To Lend “Hundreds Of Billions” To Build Nuclear Power Plants
November 11th, 2025
Via: ZeroHedge:
…who will fund the energy buildout that powers these data centers?
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And at a cost of $50-60BN per GW of power, we can quickly add several more trillion dollar that will be needed in the next several years: money, which as this Bloomberg article makes painfully clear, is simply not available right now.
So where will this missing funding come from? Why the US government of course.
Gene Edited Babies?
November 9th, 2025Via: New York Post:
A Silicon Valley startup backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong is pursuing research that some fear could lead to the birth of a genetically engineered baby — a step that’s illegal under US law and banned in most countries, a report said.
The company, Preventive, says its goal is to end hereditary disease by editing human embryos before birth, a claim that has ignited fierce debate over safety, ethics and the specter of designer children, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Preventive, founded earlier this year by gene-editing scientist Lucas Harrington, has raised $30 million and set up headquarters in San Francisco, where it is conducting research on modifying embryos to prevent hereditary disease.
Trump Announces $2,000 ‘Tariff Dividend’ To Be Paid To Most Americans
November 9th, 2025The ship of fools sails on…
Via: ZeroHedge:
President Donald Trump on Sunday announced that most Americans would receive a dividend payment of “at least” $2,000 – paid out of US tariff revenues.
“A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone,” Trump posted on Truth Social, adding that tariffs have brought in “trillions of dollars,” and that 401(k) accounts are the “Highest EVER.” He also claimed that the tariffs had caused “No inflation.”
“People that are against Tariffs are FOOLS!” he continued.
More: Donald Trump Proposing 50-Year Mortgages
YouTube Removes Windows 11 Microsoft Account Bypass Tutorials, Claims ‘Risk of Physical Harm’
November 7th, 2025Via: It’s FOSS News:
Two weeks ago, Rich had posted a video on installing Windows 11 25H2 with a local account. YouTube removed it, saying that it was “encouraging dangerous or illegal activities that risk serious physical harm or death.”
Days later, Rich posted another video showing how to bypass Windows 11’s hardware requirements to install the OS on unsupported systems. YouTube took that down too.
Both videos received community guidelines strikes. Rich appealed both immediately. The first appeal was denied in 45 minutes. The second in just five.
