EU’s Undemocratic Roots: How Power Is Pushed From the Shadows

The EU Calls Orbán A Dictator, But Its Own President Was Installed In A Soviet-Style Backroom Deal

The EU Calls Orbán A Dictator, But Its Own President Was Installed In A Soviet-Style Backroom Deal
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (AFP Photo / Georges Gobet)

Alexander Muse – There is a word that Brussels invokes with extraordinary frequency, and that word is democracy. EU officials deploy it against Viktor Orbán of Hungary, against the governments of Poland and Slovakia, against the elected leaders of Romania, and lately against Donald Trump and the United States itself.

The accusation carries a familiar structure: the targeted government is authoritarian, its leader is a threat to liberal norms, and the European Union stands as the righteous guardian of democratic principles. The argument has a surface plausibility that makes it easy to repeat. It has one fatal defect. The institution making it is itself the product of one of the most brazenly undemocratic leadership selections in the modern Western world.

Begin with the basics. In 2019, European citizens went to the polls in EU parliamentary elections. Those elections were supposed to mean something. The mechanism that was supposed to give them meaning was called the Spitzenkandidat process, a system under which each major political group in the European Parliament would nominate a lead candidate, those candidates would campaign openly across Europe, and the one whose coalition won the most seats would be installed as president of the European Commission. Continue reading

Feel, Heal, Evolve: Connecting with Your Soul

St. Germain Welcomes You

Daniel Scranton – “I am Saint Germain, keeper of the violet flame.

I’m here to welcome you home to your own souls, to encourage you to have the remembrance of who and what you really are. You are, in fact, coming to terms with the fact that you are not who you thought you were, but you are so much more than just a hybrid, a starseed, or someone who has had many fantastical past lives.

You are an aspect of Source Energy and you are meant to remember that in this lifetime. You are not just supposed to take my word for it, however. You are there to experience it, and that means you are there to have experiences that guide you home to the truth of who you really are.

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The Endgame Is Near: Protect Yourself with Gold and Silver [Video]

This is the Rally You Do Not Sell

This is the Rally You Do Not SellGreg Hunter – Financial writer and precious metals expert Bill Holter (aka Mr. Gold) says even though silver did not have a physical delivery failure (yet), nothing has changed for the better.

Derivatives are still counted in the quadrillions, and debt is still enormous and unpayable for just about every country on Earth. Mr. Gold says, “I can’t tell you from day to day what is going to come. All I can do is tell you what the end game is going to be.

The endgame is gold and silver can’t bankrupt in a world that is in the process of bankrupting. Gold and silver are God’s money. They are physical assets. Fiat currencies are debt outstanding, and those are manmade and they will collapse under their own weight.” Continue reading

NGOs vs. Power: How $14 Trillion Shapes American Society

Questions Mount Over $14 Trillion Flowing Through NGOs

Alexander Muse – The Federal Reserve recently disclosed a figure that should stop any serious observer of American public life in his tracks. As of Q2 2025, U.S. NGOs hold $14.12T in assets. That balance sheet is larger than the combined 2025 GDP of Japan, Germany, and India by roughly 5%.

This is not a slogan or a talking point. It is a fact drawn from the Federal Reserve’s own Financial Accounts. One can dispute how the assets are distributed or how actively they are deployed, but the magnitude itself is no longer debatable. A sector of formally private, tax-exempt institutions now commands wealth on a scale normally associated with great powers.

At first glance, this may seem unremarkable or even reassuring. NGOs are, after all, associated in the public imagination with soup kitchens, disaster relief, medical missions, and conservation. Many Americans have given to such causes in good faith. The legal framework that grants nonprofits tax exemption emerged from precisely this moral intuition. The state steps back, refrains from taxing donations and endowments, and civil society steps forward to meet human needs that markets or governments address poorly. For much of the 20th century, this bargain worked tolerably well. Continue reading

Shedding Illusions: How Cosmic Fire Clears the Path Forward

The Refiner’s Fire

The Refiner’s FireKate Spreckley – The energy of this week brings us to a high pressure transition point, a critical transition between emotional reflection and urgent action. The heavy, introspective period of recent months is ending, giving way to a breakthrough energy that will finally shatter long-standing delays. As we move out of the fog, we can expect a significant increase in both clarity and pace.

The world has felt stagnant, but this week serves as the release point where pressure turns into visible progress. As illusions dissolve and hidden truths surface, it becomes impossible to maintain the status quo. You may feel a restless, burning urge for what is next and a total intolerance for comfortable lies.. While the urge to act impulsively is high, you are urged to remain disciplined and steady as you move forward. Continue reading