In the morning of September 11, 2001, four commercial airplanes crashed into the northeastern American landscape. At 8:46 am, the North Twin Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City was struck; at 9:03 am, the World Trade Center’s South Twin Tower was struck; at 9:37 am, the western side of the Pentagon, the headquarter building of the United States (US) Department of Defense, was struck; at approximately 10:03 am, an airplane estimated to have targeted either the White House or the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. crashed into a parcel of land near Shanksville, Virginia. These times are all in Eastern Standard Time.

There is one thing all those familiar with the basics of science will agree on: all matter moves, even when it appears stationary. Energy in motion through space and time is the composition of our universe utterly, completely, and in absolute. All existence exists, no matter its form, whether it dwells within or without the human mind. The intangible should not be mistaken for the nonexistent. The impalpable should not be mistaken for the supernatural. The incomprehensible should not be mistaken for the divine. Whatever being confronts you with its reality, know first and foremost that it has a material composition, and is both bound and driven by the material conditions which govern its being.

If you’ve heard about data centers, and all the fuss that’s been generated in response to their widespread construction everywhere in the United States, you may have asked this question.

A data center is a building, or secured section of a building, designed to house large numbers of computers and keep them operating continuously. These places house websites, cloud data storage, online music and video streaming services, artificial intelligence (AI) systems, social media, and email. The website you are looking at right now is housed in a data center. These buildings are incredibly demanding on energy resources, especially after the AI boom.

Money, in essence, is value in the form of a standard exchangeable commodity. The purpose of money is to aid in the mutual exchange of value to facilitate the transfer of use-values between exchanging parties. Historically, money has taken the form of precious metals such as gold and silver, weighed and molded into uniform shapes to expediate the value appraisal of its lump sums. This would evolve into bank-notes which symbolized precious metals presumed to actually be in bank storage, and this, in turn, would evolve into the fiat currencies we are all familiar with. From ancient times where precious metals, themselves, served as money; to those where paper bills and common metal coins were assigned value according to the value of precious metals; to nowadays, where a money’s value is tied entirely to a nation’s credit; the purpose of money has been to represent real value in readily exchangeable form.

ICE is formally called the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. With their current budget at $8 billion, their stated purpose is to enforce federal laws concerning immigration and customs, including illegal imports such as narcotics, laundered money, and sex exploitation materials. At the time of this writing, ICE has more than 20,000 agents in more than 400 offices in the United States and elsewhere. Although agencies and legislation predating ICE performed many of its current functions, the period succeeding the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon marked the beginning of a more centralized approach to immigration control. Its authority comes principally from the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and later amendments enacted from the 1980s onward. The history of ICE is therefore best understood as the history of U.S. immigration enforcement gradually moving from a relatively centralized immigration bureaucracy into a large national-security and law-enforcement system involving federal, state, and local governments.

Donald Trump is a man who has remained an infant all his life. Born with a silver spoon in his flapping maw to a white-collar racist named Fred Trump and a snake named Mary MacLeod who married for money, Donald Trump was considered a childhood delinquent and a mediocre student. As a young jock more interested in playing with his baseball bat than learning in school, he was a poor fit for life as a contributing member of the upper crust society in which he “grew up”. His grades were not impressive, as he only made half-hearted attempts at studying the topics he personally found interesting.

Mass media burns corporate brands into people’s brains like hot iron symbols on livestock. Commercial broadcasts beat the drum of consumerism into the public’s ears over and over again until basic life necessities bear deep and intimate connections with abstract forms and contrasting colors. In 2025, the United States alone spent $422 billion on paid advertisements. The international figure is $1.14 trillion. This figure does not take into account the support staff who aid in circulating corporate products, only the broadcasting itself. Sponsored search engine results confront the masses using keywords they type into their computers, with the recorded search history used to tailor advertisements to every individual often spanning years. Products and services are drilled into their heads until whenever the need to buy something arises, the question is not the qualities of their needed commodity, but which brand they should trust.

In the United States, from the beginning of the conflict with Iran until now, the price of gasoline, as a national average, has risen from $2.98 per gallon to $4.06 per gallon. This is a $1.08 per gallon, approximately 36%, increase. Approximately one fifth of gasoline was shipped through the Strait of Hormuz, which now remains disputed territory between the imperialist United States forces and the Republic of Iran. The conflict has resulted in higher rates of insurance for freight carriers and slower maritime traffic as concern for the safety of the equipment and labor rise in response to violent retaliation from Iran for the unsolicited attacks on their military and economic infrastructure.

The Donald Trump administration has long claimed that the Iranian military capacity has been crippled, its leadership has been destroyed under the brutal firepower of the United States Air Force and Navy, and unconditional Iranian surrender is just around the corner. The actual course of events has proven this not to be the case. Despite numerous peace talks, the Strait of Hormuz continues to be disputed territory, American military power continues to be challenged to lethal effect, and the United States continues to make threats against the Iranian people and state that have not yet been substantiated.