This Restaurant Stopped Charging for Food. And Profits Are Up.
At Post Modern Times cafe in Minneapolis, a tax protest has turned into a social experiment and a critique of the hospitality industry.
Etienne Note: In a free society you can have pockets of socialism but it is impossible to have pockets of REAL Freedom in a socialist society.
Dylan Alverson changed his restaurant’s business model early this year, frustrated by Operation Metro Surge but also the dire state of the restaurant business. “There is something wrong in our economy,” he said.Credit...Caroline Yang for The New York Times
Dylan Alverson stood amid tear gas and flash-bang grenades, on the frozen street where Alex Pretti was shot and killed by ICE agents in January, when he got the idea for what he later called an “absurd business move.” He decided to stop charging for food at Modern Times, the south Minneapolis cafe he’s run for 15 years.
“For the remainder of the government occupation, we will function as a free and donation-based restaurant,” he wrote on social media, two days after the shooting. The original intent of the change was to stop paying sales taxes to a government he said was “actively inflicting daily harm on its citizens.” The pay-what-you-wish restaurant would also have a new name: Post Modern Times.
Mr. Alverson’s decision came in a moment of forceful, widely publicized local resistance to Operation Metro Surge, which brought 3,000 federal immigration agents, along with widespread unrest, to Minnesota last winter.
Faking “Water Bankruptcy” Part 1: Data Centres
We are currently witnessing the birth of a new psy-op targeting our most vital natural resource – water.
By Kit Knightly
We are currently witnessing the birth of a new psy-op targeting our most vital natural resource – water. And in the coming series of articles we’ll be breaking down every aspect of this emerging agenda.
The chosen label for this new fear-as-control exercise is “water bankruptcy” . It’s a name originating in a UN report published earlier this year.
The decades old grumbling rumours of a “water crisis” just weren’t scary enough you see, so just as global warming became “climate change”, and then “global heating”, and now “global boiling” – so this “crisis” is rebooted as something irresistibly alarming.
The language alone is the first indicator of what we really have here.
The broad stroke of the “water bankruptcy” narrative is:
1. The planet is running out of clean, safe drinking water
2. Climate change and the rise of AI are causing this problem,
…and – of course –
Right To Repair Is Meaningless
Why a legal right to repair means little when software, remote updates, and manufacturer control decide who really owns your car.
By Eric Peters
You have probably heard about what are styled right to repair laws – or efforts to get such laws passed. They are a response to the encoding of cars; more finely, to the denial of access to the coding that runs the computer-controlled modern car. Not just the engine but everything, down to the power windows (which are controlled by mini-computers called body control modules). Your name may be on the title and you’re the one who paid for the vehicle – but ownership is effectively claimed by the vehicle’s manufacturer, who claims perpetual ownership over the code (the software) that runs the vehicle and its systems.
It is the Bill Gates model applied to vehicles.
You may remember when you bought a box that contained a CD that had the software in it. Once you bought what was in the box, you owned what was on the disc that came in the box. You could install it on multiple computers. You could give the CD (and so the software) to your kid or a friend and they could use it, much as you could hand-me-down your old car to your kid. That changed – as regards software – when Gates decided to sell you a license to use the software rather than the software itself. This license was limited. You could not make a copy or hand it down to your kid. You also had to pay again at some point to continue to be allowed to continue to use the software.
This same business model – a polite term for it – is being applied to vehicles, piece-by-piece, in the manner of getting the frog used to the warming water. You have probably heard about how Tesla and BMW want people to buy subscriptions to features such as heated seats. You’re allowed to use these features so long as you continue to pay for them. But you never stop paying for them (assuming you want to continue using them). Even if the car is paid off.
“Device-Level” Nudity Detection: UK Gov’t Blackmailing Public into Digital ID
British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced plans, in a speech earlier today, to introduce “device-level controls” that will prevent children from viewing, sending or taking naked photographs.
By Kit Knightly
British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced plans, in a speech earlier today, to introduce “device-level controls” that will prevent children from viewing, sending or taking naked photographs:
This government will not stand by while children are put at risk online.
Today I am calling on the tech companies to introduce device-level controls to prevent children from taking, sharing or viewing nude images.
And if they don’t act, we will.
— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) June 8, 2026
According to Justice Minister Catherine Atkinson, the UK will become “the first country where it will be impossible for children to take, share or view naked pictures”
Simplicius Iran War Update: Iran Establishes Escalation Dominance with First-Ever Non-Retaliatory Strike on Israel
Yesterday Iran struck Israel with ballistic missiles after Israel’s bombing of a Beirut neighborhood which had been a red line for Iran.
The attack was in some ways unprecedented, as it represented Iran preemptively striking Israel for the first time without Israel having struck Iran first.
For the first time on the back foot, it was Israel and the US that were forced to “defensively” retaliate in kind:
Iran has shifted the entire calculus and achieved something long thought impossible. For years it was considered unthinkable that Iran would ever strike Israel directly, even after Iran was hit first. Then Iran began responding to Israeli attacks, first with ‘demonstrative’ strikes, then increasingly crippling ones.
Now Iran has established total strategic dominance of the escalation ladder to the point where it can treat Israel as Israel has treated other regional countries since its founding, punitively hitting it at will for violations that no longer necessarily include direct attacks on Iran’s home territory.
Hospitals Took Bribes to Kill You and Blame It on COVID
And they were given legal immunity to do it.
Etienne Note: Check out our monograph: Solving Covid - The Covid 19 Eugenics, Vaccine/Drug Scam Timeline at and its companion article: The Covid 19 Suspects and Their Ties to Eugenics and Population Control/Reduction to understand who is behind “The Covid”
The medical system is the leading cause of death in the United States, killing well over half a million people every year. But the COVID-19 era that began in 2020 marked a distinct chapter in its history: COVID protocols in hospitals killed massive numbers of people on top of the medical system’s usual death toll. Another half a million Americans were likely killed this way.
To be clear, the COVID protocols discussed here are separate from the COVID vaccine that became widely available in 2021. I am referring to the treatment protocols—the testing, the drugs, and the mechanical ventilation of people’s lungs—that defined the 2020 hospital experience.
This article examines the financial incentives the medical system had to kill patients and blame those deaths on “COVID.” What follows is an analysis of the money, the hospital protocols, and the death toll—regardless of one’s view on COVID itself.
Apollo And Blackstone Raise $35 Billion For Anthropic In One Of The Biggest Ever Private Credit SPV Deals
Back in January, when we profiled Meta’s landmark $27.3 billion SPV deal named “Beignet” for the Hyperion data center located in Louisiana, in which Blue Owl provided the private credit
Jun 09, 2026
by Tyler Durden
Back in January, when we profiled Meta’s landmark $27.3 billion SPV deal named “Beignet” for the Hyperion data center located in Louisiana, in which Blue Owl provided the private credit, we said to “expect hundreds of billions of these in 2026.”
As a reminder, META is already neck deep in off-balance sheet debt. Here is a schematic of its $27.3 billion SPV with Blue Owl “Project Beignet” for the Hyperion data center. None of this touches META’s balance sheet.
Expect hundreds of billions of these in 2026 https://t.co/794EgSiiZ9 pic.twitter.com/7hMyVW6Lno— zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 29, 2026
Fast forward five months when we now read that Apollo and Blackstone have finalized a $35BN private credit deal that will help finance Anthropic’s growth plans, even as traditional “banks are choking“ on the amount of AI debt they have to issue.
LIVE EVENT — From Isolation to Action: Finding (or Creating!) the Freedom Movement in Your Community
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