Every year we do a fundraiser. This pays to keep the site and me running, and the site wouldn’t be viable without it.

If you read the blog readily, I probably don’t have to sing its praises but I’ll do so anyway, as a nod to tradition.. Generally we’re ahead of most of the media by years, often by decades. Everyone’s talking about the dollar losing sovereignty now, I’ve been noting its inevitability for a couple decades, likewise the rise of China. For years I noted that climate change would come in faster than expected, and so it has, with massive wildfires and 1.5 way before the consensus. I said that Russia would win the Ukraine war militarily, and that’s on track. I wrote that semiconductor sanctions would not work, and so it has been. I warned about Rare Earths years ago, and noted that tariffs, as Trump does them, would boomerange.

Of course I’m not perfect, I get things wrong. I didn’t expect the fall of Syria for example, and thought that the Axis of Resistance would be more aggressive, nor did I realize the extent to which Mossad had infiltrated Hezbollah. Sadly, it appears I was probably right about how many Palestinians were killed, though I hope not.

This year readership at the site is way up. I’ve moved to more expensive servers (and we still have some issues with loading due to bot swarms scouring for material to train on.) Ever since Covid especially, more and more of us have been harmed by the terribly run economies of most Western nations: increased rent, lousy jobs, Trump’s moronic trade war and so on.

That said if you read regularly, you find the site useful, and giving won’t cause you distress, I’d appreciate if you subscribe or donate. We’re about $2,600 from our goal of $12,500.

Either way, be well. It’s been a long journey, but it’s been a bit easier, I think, taking it together.