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The Artful Dilettante is a native of Pittsburgh, PA, and a graduate of Penn State University. He is a lover of liberty and a lifelong and passionate student of the same. He is voracious reader of books on the Enlightenment and the American colonial and revolutionary periods. He is a student of libertarian and Objectivist philosophies. He collects revolutionary war and period currency, books, and newspapers. He is married and the father of one teenage son. He is kind, witty, generous to a fault, and unjustifiably proud of himself. He is the life of the party and an unparalleled raconteur.

Bitcoin and the End of Money

Mr. Armstrong, I just had to write in to say thank you for explaining that Bitcoin was just a trading asset, not some new currency that would replace the dollar. I understand that money must be elastic to grow with society in economic booms and population. I just read a quote reported by Bloomberg: “After four years of political purgatory, Bitcoin and the entire digital-asset ecosystem are on the brink of entering the financial mainstream.”

I know a programmer who said you were correct that the Deep State created blockchain. Has this recent rise been orchestrated to get us to surrender paper money and rejoice so they can track us all?

ANSWER: I participated in a documentary that will be released soon. There is no question that the blockchain code was developed in the intelligence community. We all know that in the programming world. In 1996, the US government released a white paper entitled “How to make a mint: the cryptography of anonymous electronic cash.” Released by the National Security Agency Office of Information Security Research and Technology, this document basically explains how a government agency could create something like Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency. (SEE BELOW).

Has Bitcoin been manipulated more to make people think digital currencies are better than paper? There is a strong probability of that. This is clearly a dream of tyrants. If I give you $100 bill they do not know where I got it from. If I pay you in Bitcoin, they can trace it to everyone who has ever handled it. This is a control system. This is the END OF MONEY! A new documentary film will be coming out soon on this topic.

Here is Lagarde on digital currency. She states this object is “control” everything you do. Europe is a Marxist Paradise. Everyone is an economic slave and whatever they earn belongs to the state – not them. The state will decide how much you are allowed to keep. I really do not understand these Bitcoin people if they deliberately try to convince us to surrender all liberty. With digital currency, they can block even a donation to a political opponent like Trump.

Even when creating the Euro, the commission took the entire back row of our conference held in London in 1997. I do not understand why it is so hard to comprehend what a currency is – but then again, some have trouble defining a woman. They were selling the Euro, which would defeat the dollar. That, too, never took place. They were preaching that everyone would pay the same interest rate as in the USA. I warned them that would only take place if they consolidated all the debts as Hamilton did following the American Revolution.

Kohl took Germany into the Euro as a dictator because if the German people were allowed to vote, he admitted he would have lost 7 to 3. We do not live in a democracy. That is sheer propaganda. They make the decisions, and when they know the people will not accept that, even like war, they do it anyway. We mean nothing at the end of the day.

They sold Bitcoin as it would be free of central banks, a store of wealth, and eliminate inflation, all absolute total BS that was impossible in the real world. I have warned that this has been a fantastic sales job, and pushing the price up creates the image that it is somehow worth more than paper money, so surrender everything and go digital.

People have been braindead when it comes to comprehending what money is and love to cling to stupid theories that will only lead to a major depression. They do not even understand that because the Fed was fearful of inflation during the Great Depression, to support the dollar, they failed to expand the money supply, fearing that the dollar would crash.

Over 200 cities issued their own money because there was such a shortage of cash that businesses could not function. It was impossible to pay employees, and people had no cash to spend. This was called depression script…..

……. Bitcoin is a trading vehicle as people buy into the propaganda. In the end, the truth always prevails.

Just do not expect it to become the reserve currency or stop inflation singlehandedly.

It’s a trading vehicle because people will buy because of the propaganda – just keep it real.

In 1996, the US government released a white paper entitled, “How to make a mint: the cryptography of anonymous electronic cash.” Released by the National Security Agency Office of Information Security Research and Technology, this document basically explains how a government agency could create something like Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency.

I encourage those interested to read the contents of the link above. This document was released during the dawn of the dot.com bubble before the technology existed to create such a currency. The NSA quickly realized that it could weaponize this technology to create a cashless society.

As explained in the introduction:…..

……. The US government released this document in 1996, 27 years ago. Bitcoin was allegedly anonymously created in 2009, and numerous other blockchain-based payment coins have followed. This, paired with the push for CBDC, where the government simply does not need to pretend payments are anonymous, should make one question the security and longevity of cryptocurrencies.

Martin Armstrong


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JFK’s Grandson Blasts Documents Release; mystery far from over

The national mystery that surrounds the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy is far from over, especially with the release of thousands of files by the National Archives as ordered by President Donald Trump.

Americans are discovering things about their relatives they never knew from the newly released files. The Washington Post reported that for some people, an entirely new window to their ancestry has opened up, including a part of their family history that until now was very well hidden.

Just one of many intriguing stories reported the Post, surrounds John Smith, who did not know his grandfather was involved in pursuing information from Russian operatives about Lee Harvey Oswald, Kennedy’s accused assassin. Smith’s grandfather was a Fulbright professor at Moscow State University in the 70s. He pursued the information during a return trip to Russia in the 90s. What little he did learn about Oswald’s time spent in Russia he then offered to a U.S. intelligence officer which was documented, and among the files just released.

The Post reported a noteworthy piece of information that was relayed to the intelligence officer by Smith’s grandfather, which was that “The file also reflected that Oswald was a poor shot when he tried target firing in the U.S.S.R.”

At least report that something happened. I love you, Harry Enten, you’re really smart. Why are you guys covering this? I love you, Erin Burnett, you’re really smart, why are you covering this?”

In other posts, Schlossberg, the son of JFK’s daughter Caroline Kennedy, a former U.S. ambassador, followed up with several other posts on X, berating the media, Trump, and the files themselves.

“WHAT THE JFK FILES SAY ABOUT ME IS NOT TRUE,” he wrote in one post. “IM STRAIGHT.”

While raging against the Trump administration, he claimed nobody in his family was given a “heads up” about the release of the documents, even though in January, he blasted Trump for his plans to release the remaining documents.

“Declassification is using JFK as a political prop, when he’s not here to punch back,” he wrote on X at the time. “There’s nothing heroic about it.”

But he said Tuesday’s release came as “A total surprise, and not a shocker!! But @RobertKennedyJr definitely knew.”

In other comments about Trump, Schlossberg said on X: “President Trump is obsessed with my grandfather — but not in his life or what he achieved in it. No, just like @robertfkennedyjr @realdonaldtrump is only interested in JFK’s carcass.”

He added: “JFK drafted the Civil Rights Act — Trump made DEI illegal. JFK stared down Russia and did not blink — Trump is Russia’s closest ally. JFK sent a man to the moon — Trump gave Elon the keys to Air Force One. JFK created USAID — Trump eliminated it.” 

Meanwhile, Schlossberg challenged Rogan, who has often said he is skeptical about the narrative surrounding the Kennedy assassination, Newsweek reported.

“Hey Joe Rogan what’s up you short [censored],” Schlossberg posted on Instagram. “You gonna go through all the JFK assassination files tomorrow with your little b*tch buddy Bobby? You better after you spread all those lies? You’re not gonna go make sure that they’re true? How’s the weather down there?”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is now Secretary of Health and Human Services, appeared on Rogan’s podcast in 2023 to talk about his uncle’s assassination. He and Schlossberg are cousins.

Rogan also discussed the JFK files during an interview with Trump in October 2024, during the past election.

Sandy Fitzgerald 

Sandy Fitzgerald has more than three decades in journalism and serves as a general assignment writer for Newsmax covering news, media, and politics. 

Quotes of Walter E. Williams

The recognition of the fact that Congress has no resources of its own forces us to acknowledge that the only way Congress can give one American one dollar is to first, through intimidation, threats, and coercion, confiscate that dollar from some other American. If a private citizen did the same thing that Congress does, we would call it an immoral act—namely theft. Acts such as theft that are immoral when done privately do not become moral when done collectively. The moral tragedy that has befallen Americans is our belief that it is okay for government to forcibly use one American to serve the purposes of another”
― Walter E. Williams, American Contempt for Liberty

“French economist/philosopher Frederic Bastiat (1801–50) gave a test for immoral government acts: “See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.”
― Walter E. Williams, American Contempt for Liberty

“There are many farm handouts; but let’s call them what they really are: a form of legalized theft. Essentially, a congressman tells his farm constituency, “Vote for me. I’ll use my office to take another American’s money and give it to you.”
― Walter E. Williams

“Philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe explained that “no one is as hopelessly enslaved as the person who thinks he’s free.” That’s becoming an apt description for Americans who are oblivious to—or ignorant of—the liberties we’ve lost.”
― Walter E. Williams, American Contempt for Liberty

Is Party-Switcher Lindi Lin Working Undercover for the Deep-State, DNC ?

I really want to trust Lindy Li, the high profile 34-tear-old Democratic influencer and fundraiser who switched to Team Trump while votes were still being counted in California.

But I have reservations. And I have one very specific reason why.

In the last two months, Li has been all over the internet. Her breakout interview on the Shawn Ryan show a month ago has garnered more than 3.5 million views and over 30,000 comments. A subsequent interview with Patrick Bet-David netted 2.5 million. As Bet-David noted, “A lot of people want to know, is she straight up, is she real?”

Maybe, maybe not. Li is smart, sweet, charming, and so seemingly vulnerable I feel the urge to adopt her. In the month or so since she has gone rogue, she has revealed more inside dope on the Biden presidency and the Harris campaign than the major media did in the past four years.

As a case in point, Li answered one question that I had asked in these pages a few months ago, one that the major media showed no interest in knowing, namely who persuaded Joe Biden to endorse Kamala Harris.

That endorsement came 27 minutes after Biden announced his withdrawal from the race. As Li casually revealed to Patrick Bet-David, the answer should have been obvious: Rep. Jim Clyburn, the South Carolina kingmaker whose endorsement enabled Biden to win the Democratic nomination in 2020.

Now, here’s what troubles me. In her interviews, Li freely shares the story of her political evolution. She came to the United States from China by way of England when she was five. she interned with Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak when she was 13. She served as class president all four years she was at Princeton. She was moved to run for Congress by the Sandy Hook school shooting on her 22nd birthday. She ran unsuccessfully for Congress at

There is one element of this story that caught my attention, her claim to have interned for Sestak at 13. I covered this race real time. Sestak began his tenure in Congress in 2007 when Li was 16. She made a point of stressing her age. The discrepancy was not casual. Does Li, I wonder, want to distance herself from the way Sestak won that race? He ran against ten-term Republican incumbent Curt Weldon. No one had burrowed more deeply into the intelligence failures and cover-ups of the Clinton administration than Weldon.

In June 2005 Weldon revealed that Clinton attorneys had intervened to stop the “Able Danger” group in the Defense Intelligence Agency from initiating preventive actions against two of the 9/11 terrorists. He had also written the book Countdown to Terror, an exposé of the government’s performance prior to September 11, which won him few friends in the CIA or in the FBI.

When I met with Weldon in late July 2006 to discuss TWA Flight 800, he expressed interest in going deeper still, but he conceded too that the Deep State was working hard to bring him down.

Deep staters had handpicked Sestak, a retired admiral and member of the National Security Council in the Clinton administration, to run against Weldon. The goal was assuredly to prevent him from digging any deeper into the Clinton record.

That record included clues to former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger’s motive for stealing and destroying documents from the National Archives. Weldon was hot on this story as well he should have been.

Indeed, every reporter in Washington should have been wondering how damaging a secret this must have been if a former National Security Advisor were willing to risk his career — and his very freedom — to conceal it.

In 2006, as principal of the lobbying and consulting firm Stonebridge International, the dubious Berger hosted a serious fundraiser for the admiral in Washington. The Sestak donor list read like a who’s who of international skullduggery.

There was, of course, the disgraced Berger. Then there was the disgraced former CIA director, John Deutch, who had signed a criminal plea agreement in connection with his mishandling of national secrets a day before being pardoned by the outgoing President Clinton. One interesting contribution came in from the disgraced Mary O. McCarthy, recently fired from the CIA after failing a polygraph on leaked classified information in regards to CIA prisons overseas.

In addition to the disgraced, there were the dubious and disreputable. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright gave her fair share, as did Hillary Clinton, Clinton terrorism czar Richard Clarke, former NSA Director Anthony Lake, and former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, whose leaked emails launched “Pizzagate” and helped sink Hillary in 2016.

In late September 2006, former president Clinton mentioned only one Republican other than George Bush by name in a FOX News rant. “A three-star admiral,” Clinton said unprompted, “who was on my National Security Council staff, who also fought terror, by the way, is running for the seat of Curt Weldon in Pennsylvania.”

In early October 2006 former president Clinton spoke at a rally for Sestak in his suburban Philadelphia district. “I will not make a single stop in this campaign season that means more to me than this one — not one,” former President Bill Clinton told the crowd.

Clinton meant it. “A Sestak victory,” accurately observed the local Delco Times, “would muzzle a Republican congressman who blames Clinton for doing irreparable harm to America’s national security during the 1990s.”

The Deep State played hardball. A week after the Clinton visit, the McClatchy Newspapers’ Washington Bureau broke a story based on two anonymous sources who insisted that Weldon had “traded his political influence for lucrative lobbying and consulting contracts for his daughter.”

On Monday morning October 16, the FBI raided the homes of Weldon’s daughter and a friend, allegedly for fear that documents would be destroyed if they did not do so sooner. By noon of that same day, a group of 20 or so Democrat protesters were protesting outside Weldon’s district office in Upper Darby, carrying matching signs that read, “Caught Red-Handed.”

After raiding the office of Weldon’s daughter, the FBI never spoke to her again. They had accomplished what they needed to, namely sullying the reputation of her father. Some 23 points behind in June, Sestak rolled over Weldon on November 7 and sent the popular 10-term incumbent packing.

Had Li cited any other member of Congress, I would not have raised an eyebrow, but to admit working for Sestak and lying about her age at the time makes me suspicious. The Deep State created Joe Sestak. Could they have groomed Li at an early age to jump ship when the ship needed jumping?

If a double agent, Li is a damned good one.

Jack Cashill’s book, TWA Flight 800: The Crash, The Cover-Up, The Conspiracy, is available in all formats.

College-educated, White Women are Going Insane Politically

Let me start by telling all the white women who are about to read this post that they can yell at me via joe.kinsey@outkick.com

Really let me have it. 

Now, let’s get into this startling data as to what’s happening with American white women who step foot on college campuses and then stay on those campuses for multiple years and then leave with a degree. 

In a major shocker, it turns out a staggering number of those white women have an overwhelmingly positive view of Ukraine’s welfare recipient President Zelensky & corporate DEI initiatives. 

As OutKick founder Clay Travis put it succinctly, college-educated white women have “gone insane politically.” Zelenskiy ranks at 53% approval among college-educated, white women.

Yes, you’re reading that right, Zelensky is the most popular political person on the planet right now, according to college-educated white women. Depending on who you believe, Ukraine has been given somewhere between $175 BILLION (Congressional record) to $350 BILLION, according to Trump, the Wall Street Journal reports

To white women, this Zelensky guy is the new Stanley drink cup. Remember when white women would take a bullet at a Target to get some stupid pink Stanley? Now these same women would take a bullet for this Ukrainian twerp and send him their life insurance while stiffing their blue collar husbands. 

While the white women are lusting after Zelensky in record numbers, back home, the guy’s approval rating was hovering around 57% with Ukrainians before the early March summit at the White House where Trump destroyed the guy for not wearing a suit. 

By the end of that week, Vlody’s approval rating shot up to 67% and turned him into a sympathetic figure among degree-holding American women. 

As Patriot Dad pointed out on Twitter, “And they wonder why they can’t find a good man to [marry].” 

Throw in white women rooting for DEI and you have all the ingredients for women to stay single and for men to bang away at sex dolls

The Chinese sex doll makers are even starting to integrate AI to make the dolls interactive. Give it time. It won’t be long until you can program your sex doll to hate Zelensky and DEI initiatives. 

Buckle up! 

Written by Joe Kinsey

Joe Kinsey is the Senior Director of Content of OutKick and the editor of the Morning Screencaps column that examines a variety of stories taking place in real America. Kinsey is also the founder of OutKick’s Thursday Night Mowing League, America’s largest virtual mowing league. Kinsey graduated from University of Toledo.

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Special Envoy Witkoff Explains Key Issues in Ukraine-Russia Conflict

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“I think the largest issue in that conflict are these so-called four regions – Donbass, Crimea, you know the name Lugansk, and there are two others. They’re Russian-speaking. Yep, there have been referendums where the overwhelming majority of the people have indicated that they want to be under Russian rule. Yes, I think that’s the key issue in the conflict. So, that’s the first thing, that when that gets settled, and we’re having very, very positive conversation,” Witkoff told US reporter Tucker Carlson in an interview.

According to Witkoff, “no one wants to talk about it.”

“That’s the elephant in the room. There are constitutional issues within Ukraine as to what they can concede to with regard to giving up territory. The Russians are de facto in control of these territories. The question is, will the world acknowledge that those are Russian territories? Will it end up? Can [Vladimir] Zelensky survive politically, if he acknowledges this, this is the central issue in the conflict,” the special envoy added.

The Donetsk People’s Republic, the Lugansk People’s Republic, the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions became part of Russia following referendums held there on September 23-27, 2022. Crimea and Sevastopol became part of the country after a referendum held in March 2014.

Good ol’ Boy Judge Boasberg

Ever wonder what drives a federal judge to order planes full of illegal immigrants, whom are gang members such as MS13 and Tren De Aragua, to turn back? Maybe it’s because his wife runs a NGO funded by USAID, and his daughter Katherine works for Partners for Justice — a group that serves legal support to those very same criminals, thanks to 76% of their cash flow coming from Uncle Sam! This organization is like an anti-deportation cheer squad and even boasts about having knocked off 5,000 years of prison time since 2018. So, when investigative journalist Laura Loomer started connecting these dots, the judges wife Katherine suddenly ghosted her social media accounts like linked in, faster than a bad Tinder date! This raises a big, blinking ethical alarm. According to the U.S. Judges’ Code of Conduct, judges should recuse themselves if a close relative might benefit from their decisions. Yet here we are, with a judge whose rulings are practically aligned with his daughter’s paycheck. National security? MY arse