The Abundance Mirage Meaning Sold Separately The future arrives. Kicks down doors. AI rides shotgun. High on code. Promises poured. Like cheap bourbon. Everything free. Nothing cheap... knosjk.substack.com/p/the-abunda...

Cradles and Cash Gen Z’s twisted scoreboard of success Dark NBC poll. Cold stats. Boys want babies. Girls just cash. Trump guy’s grin. Demo ladies snarl. Lines drawn deep. Culture war trench... knosjk.substack.com/p/cradles-an...

Account Suspended Freeze First, Ask Later Thailand acts. Banks panic. Lock doors. Freeze accounts. Funds vanish. Blame fraud. Paper shields. Broken vaults... knosjk.substack.com/p/account-su...

Tariff Refunds Bankers Smell Profit Here’s the angle. Cold and straight. Just rumors. Tariffs as lotto tickets. Importers need cash. Like yesterday. Banker’s scent profit. Ready to move... knosjk.substack.com/p/tariff-ref...

The Budget Guillotine Fifth Republic Blues France cracks. IOUs and mold. Debt stacked. Piled like crepes. No syrup. Dripping blood. Macron winces. Bayrou gone. Lecornu rises... knosjk.substack.com/p/the-budget...

Silicon Shrinks Feelings triaged by code Metal therapists talk. Silicon nods. Cheap comfort. Feelings triaged. Waitlists on widgets. Bots whisper CBT. Wellness is booming... knosjk.substack.com/p/silicon-sh...

The Thin Conspiracy GLP-1 in the Shadows Small jab. Fat hope stirs. Quick fix. Big dreams burn. Empty fridge. Colas evaporate. Tiny plate. Stomach satisfied... knosjk.substack.com/p/the-thin-c...

BRICS Rusted Gears Grinding Toward De-Dollar Dreams Black ink. Money bleeds slow. Markets cough. Dusty, old bones. Leaders trade nods. Sparkling bright eyes. Deals burn fast. Always after midnight... knosjk.substack.com/p/brics-rust...

The Crying Alpha Toxic Masculinity Gets a Makeover He lit the candle. Camera on. Shirt off. Healing. Start with breathing. Then… blames his mother. And his ex... knosjk.substack.com/p/the-crying...

Pay-per-Truth Indie Journalism Goes Corporate Citizen journalism So it is called. Truth for hire. Microphones cash stuffed. Journalism by algorithm. Ghost funded. Sponsors in suits... knosjk.substack.com/p/pay-per-tr...

The Quiet Before the Purge Power Games in Wartime Kyiv Whispers slither. Shadows in armored halls. Zelensky shudders. The floor tilts. Loyalty. Counts for less and less... knosjk.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...

Nine Seconds to Nowhere One Tap Past Redemption Glitzy name. Take9. Wait nine seconds. Don’t click that link. New testament for itchy fingers. Just do not click. Pause, goddamn it... knosjk.substack.com/p/nine-secon...

Southern Syria’s Thin Ceasefire Quiet holds—but only just Sweida burns. Smoke wafts across silent moons. Revenge sparked. Bloodlusts consume tribal pride. Bedouin and Druze clash violently. Government troops join fray. Pure chaos... knosjk.substack.com/p/southern-s...

The Rate Whisperer The Fed Chair Who Wouldn’t Kneel He stands quiet. Stone-faced. Blinking nervously. Rate cuts on hold. DT fury on the rise. Jay sips camomile. Not a flinch... knosjk.substack.com/p/the-rate-w...

Norman Invasion: The Encore A Thousand Years Later. They’re Back (with Brochures) Irish cabinet broadcast. Fully lit the fuse. Year of the Normans. A total blowout. Helmets and heritage. Banners and beef... knosjk.substack.com/p/norman-inv...

The Cold Knock When ICE Comes Calling Announced as big! Very lovely. The USA BEAUTIFUL Act, sure. Bursting with pork. Stuffed like a holiday turkey. ICE won the gravy train. Huge funding increase... knosjk.substack.com/p/the-cold-k...

Xi Who Must Not Be Named How China’s Strongman Went Soft Focus Xi disappeared. Several weeks invisible. Not a speech. No forced smile. Evening news. Not a sign... knosjk.substack.com/p/xi-who-mus...

The Kroner Delusion Caper Norway’s Lotto Faceplant Friday hit hard. Screams in fjords. Fantastic lotto riches! Phones chirped: “You’re a millionaire!” Fishermen danced. Husbands quit jobs. Bankers wept. Plans made. Saabs ordered. Yachts imagined... knosjk.substack.com/p/the-kroner...

System Override When Geeks Crown a King Seems Democracy being doxxed. System chock-full of bugs. Too much emotion. Democracy only malware... knosjk.substack.com/p/system-ove...

The Grindstone Gospel Where Leisure Went to Die All started with diaries. Color-coded. Almost as bruises. Blue for grind. Red as shame. Sleep? Weakness. Only optional. Sinful actually... knosjk.substack.com/p/the-grinds...

Where Rebels Rest and Wait Congo’s War Is Never Over Jungles don’t initial treaties. Congo beseeches. Kigali rejects. Rwanda grins. "Only observers. Really." We all know. Nobody says... knosjk.substack.com/p/where-rebe...

The State of Prerogative Where the Laws Don't Live Announce it as legal. Describe it as tidy. Whisper, “Just trust us.” So we do. Nitwits, all... knosjk.substack.com/p/the-state-...

Arctic Hustle Welcome to the Coldest War The ice cracks. NATO awakes. Hidden below. A Russian sub gurgles. Meanwhile, China flicks a polar cigar... knosjk.substack.com/p/arctic-hus...

Flashbacks in Khaki Same Script, Different City Shiny boots gleam. Strapped helmets shimmer. Orders growled. Tear gas swirls. Flashbangs caress the tarmac... knosjk.substack.com/p/flashbacks...

Shot to the Gut The War Between Juice and Chew Sold in tiny glass. Miniature bullets for health. Cold-pressed. Deceit in mini vials... knosjk.substack.com/p/shot-to-th...

The Peg and the Pendulum Stablecoins Swing Between Genius and Scam It started quietly. A whisper in the dusk. A dollar, only digital. Unaccountable. Unregulated. Undeniably cool. Bros termed them stablecoins... knosjk.substack.com/p/the-peg-an...

International Drift Welcome to the Kindleberger Gap It began with a shrug. Brussels yawned. Wall Street flickered. Beijing squinted at the beckoning frontier. And DC—God bless her—busy tweeting celebrity wars... knosjk.substack.com/p/internatio...

The Therapist Is Not In AI burnout and the loneliness of digital empathy Started with a tremor in the code. Just a flicker in the matrix. Suddenly the screen blinked. Damn thing asked him how it should cope. He blinked. Thought it cute. Clever. Machine empathy knosjk.substack.com/p/the-therap...

Bingo and Badges Bozeman PD Plays for Keeps Happened first of the year. Just a little fun. Morale building. A laugh between arrests. Wasn’t jokes being counted. It was perps... knosjk.substack.com/p/bingo-and-...

The Bill That Ate the Republic One Vote, No Mercy Came wrapped with a bow in stars and stripes. “Beautiful. Big. Believe us,” they said. Thousand pages of legislative gristle, steak, and sawdust... knosjk.substack.com/p/the-bill-t...

Jet Lagged Ethics High Flyers, Low Standards The plane sleek, long. Sinfully plush. High overhead costs. Silk headrests. Gold trim. Room enough to stage a coup. Parked waiting. Glowing on a runway in the desert sun... knosjk.substack.com/p/jet-lagged...

Short Supply Notes From a Country that Misplaced its Staple The rice vanished. Just was gone. The suits shuffled. Farmers glared into the sun. Very hot. Brain-scorching hot. Crops croke. As well the mood... open.substack.com/pub/knosjk/p...

Borderlines and Barbed Wire Dreams Many Years. Stained Maps. One Shaky Handshake The sun crept over the Pamirs. Hangover glow. A rickety peace squinted in the dust. Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan shaking hands. Finally... open.substack.com/pub/knosjk/p...

New Myths Rising The Future Doesn’t Ask Permission Started with a bang. Not a crash—rising bad debt and tawdry suits. 2008 fractured the dam. And the water never stopped mounting... open.substack.com/pub/knosjk/p...

Refugee Exception Clause American Dreams Served Daily Bulletin dropped like a dead mule on the windshield. State Department announced: Afrikaners. Refugees immediately... knosjk.substack.com/p/refugee-ex...

Debt, Dread and Delusion At least the charts are honest… Spring of 2025. The crash murmured. Now it shrieks along the avenues. Jobs disappear. Store lights dim. People grimace. Credit cards wail... knosjk.substack.com/p/debt-dread...

The Gilded Lie When fiat fails, the metal speaks Listen now · 2:55 Bankers meet in silence. Beijing. Basel. Dubai. Fog drifts as vault dust. Nix on press. Nay to tweets. Only gold... knosjk.substack.com/p/the-gilded...

Totalförsvar Total Defense KNO-SJK Brussels spit out the memo at dawn. EU citizens to be ready. Three days. 72 hours. No help. For what? “Resilience,” the man said. “Self-reliance.” Meanwhile. Stockholm. Grey sky. Dry mouths... knosjk.substack.com/p/totalforsvar

The Break The DOGE coin topples. Splits in half. Likely coming sooner or later… Chainsaw entered late. No knock. Not a nod. The Boss waited. Stock-still. Like a loaded gun... knosjk.substack.com/p/the-break

The Great Daylight Heist One Hour Gone. Without Suspects. Justice Denied Two hours past midnight. The hour whisked away. Pre-warning? None. No arrest or trial. Just gone. Called it Daylight Saving Time. What’s saved? Time. Energy. Perhaps sanity? No way... knosjk.substack.com/p/the-great-...

Cash Burn After Midnight Time to Buy the Dip? The market dived. Like a swan off a skyscraper. Tickers blood-red everywhere. Panic in cashmere vests. Someone yowled, “Buy the dip!”. A true gospel. The wankers listened... knosjk.substack.com/p/cash-burn-...

They murdered USAID on a Friday eve. Quietly. Like it owed them money. No press release. A shrug from the Hill. A smirk from the Valley. knosjk.substack.com/p/aid-is-dea...

It started as all bad ideas. A man and his iPhone. The man was Cpt. Deadbolt—Security Advisor, ex-Green Beret. Operator who thinks a Signal chat is secure. A great place to chew over war plans. The phone? A modern tool in the apparatus of self-destruction... knosjk.substack.com/p/accidental...

The Irish Dáil was like a dingy coliseum. Brighter lights. Touts gorging on freshly distilled poitín. The crowd gathered above the ring for the headline match. A scent filled the hall. Oozing vexation. Enraged anticipation. Sweaty benches. The simmering ... knosjk.substack.com/p/schrodinge...