So far, in his second term, Donald Trump’s biggest headaches haven’t come from the Democrats or his fellow Republicans. Nor have they come from the groups that were his biggest enemies in his first term—the media, federal bureaucrats, or the intelligence agencies.
This time around, Trump’s biggest difficulties are coming from the courts.
Donald Trump is helping build a bigger surveillance state, and naturally, he’s using taxpayer dollars to do it. Since beginning his second term, Donald Trump has joined forces with the CIA front company Palantir to build a massive new database on hundreds of millions of Americans. The database can be used in the future to track and search Americans’ tax returns, bank accounts, spending patterns, travel, and much more.
“Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.”
Trump is partnering with CIA-funded surveillance operation Palantir to build a database on all Americans.
The United States, formerly these united colonies, is preparing for its 250th anniversary of its break-up from that era’s “Great Satan” by reminding us of what brought it about, such as the Battle of Lexington and Concord and subsequent battles of 1775, along with issues that preceded them.
Many non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) operating in India receive foreign funds. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) received a majority of seats in India’s Lok Sabha (lower house of parliament) in May 2014 national elections. National elections in 2019 and 2024 have continued the BJP majority in Lok Sabha control.
In his day, Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) marveled at the “prodigious mechanism” by which Paris—a city of one million inhabitants in 1845—was constantly supplied with food without the intervention of any central planner. He attributed this spontaneous order to individual interest, “so active, so vigilant, so far-sighted, when it is free in its action.”
When Constantine the Great carried the seat of empire from Rome to Constantinople he set up in the market-place of the new capital a porphyry pillar which had come from Egypt, and of which a strange tale is told. In a vault beneath he secretly buried the seven sacred emblems of the Roman State, which were guarded by the virgins in the temple of Vesta, with the fire that might never be quenched.
