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The SNAP Mandate and Section 32: How Laws, Tariffs, and Silence Converge to Starve a Nation
ToreSays - Nov 7th 2025 1:23pm ESTThis report is not a prediction born of speculation; it is a projection grounded in statute, precedent, and fiscal arithmetic. What follows is an assessment of how a single judicial act—though morally driven and legally defensible in isolation—could intersect with a dormant trade conflict and a stalled Congress to trigger a systemic failure of the […]
Caught in the Code: Israel, China, and the Price of Playing Both Sides
ToreSays - Nov 3rd 2025 10:50am ESTThe United States and China are locked in a multifront contest for technological dominance, divided broadly into hard control and soft control. Hard control refers to the tangible instruments of power—manufacturing capacity, export restrictions, raw materials, energy supply, and physical infrastructure like chips, satellites, and drones. It’s about who owns, builds, or blocks the critical […]
Shutdown: The Audit of America
ToreSays - Oct 30th 2025 12:04pm EDTWhen the money stops, the truth starts. When the federal government shuts down, it doesn’t crash — it collapses inward. It’s a slow suffocation of the systems that hold this country together, a deliberate pause that exposes just how fragile the structure really is. Offices go dark, paychecks vanish, and the quiet machinery that keeps […]
The Cartels Are at War with Us — and the UN Is on Their Side
ToreSays - Oct 27th 2025 1:35pm EDTAllow me to begin to with this statement: The United Nations’ so-called “experts” are wrong. Their recent claim that U.S. strikes on drug-running vessels in the Caribbean amount to “extrajudicial executions” betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of both law and reality. America is not waging war on fishermen; it is defending its people from a foreign […]
The Gordian Knot of Governance: How Transparency Centralized Power
ToreSays - Oct 14th 2025 3:41pm EDTFrom the 2009 stimulus to the open-data era, the Obama administration’s continuity-of-government vehicle transformed a policy of democratic visibility into an infrastructure of control—linking government, academia, philanthropy, and global capital into a single lattice of power. The 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) inaugurated a new era of governance through data. What began as […]
The Fall of Silence Series PART III: The Red October Doctrine — The Guatemala Files Manufactured Heroes
ToreSays - Oct 4th 2025 7:52pm EDTMore Tea. Censorship doesn’t always come dressed as a blackout. In the field, it rarely does. The most effective censorship is not the shutting down of speech but the stage-managing of perception. From an operational perspective, it’s a play in three acts. First, you let someone else do the dangerous, messy, verifiable work. They gather […]
The Fall of Silence Series PART II: The Red October Doctrine — The Tech Project and the USAID/USA Spending Tool
ToreSays - Oct 4th 2025 5:25pm EDTTea Time. Censorship no longer announces itself with bans or blackouts. It doesn’t need to. That kind of censorship is purposeful and works only in authoritarian regimes, which is what we are trying to avoid. Today, it’s quieter, smoother — it hides in the distribution chain. The modern censor doesn’t destroy information; it possesses it. […]
The Fall of Silence Series PART I: The Red October Doctrine — How Censoring the Source Became the New War for Truth.
ToreSays - Oct 4th 2025 4:06pm EDTThe Red October Doctrine describes the silent conversion of censorship from suppression into substitution — the replacement of genuine sources with state-approved replicas. In the spirit of its namesake, it’s not about open conflict but about stealth — an invisible coup beneath the surface of public discourse. Under this doctrine, truth is not destroyed; it’s […]
Behind the Shutdown Curtain: How Public Broadcasting Serves Private Power
ToreSays - Sep 29th 2025 11:37am EDTThe shutdown showdown isn’t about keeping the government open—it’s about cashing in the earmarked placements they already sold to their donors during campaign season. Tore Maras The Framing of Public Media Funding The dispute over restoring roughly $500 million annually for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and its affiliates, such as PBS, NPR, and […]
Behind the Shutdown Curtain: Subsidies, Donors, and the Fake ACA Fight
ToreSays - Sep 29th 2025 10:58am EDTEXCLUSIVE SNEAK PEEK: Cruz and Cornyn are positioning themselves as fiscal hawks in public while quietly aligning with the same insurance interests that Schumer and Jeffries defend. The fight over extending the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced premium subsidies is often presented as a clash of values—Democrats insisting they are defending working families from punishing premium […]
The Tina Peters Case: Proof of the Paradox of Knowledge in an Age of Engineered Apathy
ToreSays - Sep 23rd 2025 8:41am EDTFoucault warned us: Power disguises itself as truth. Institutions don’t just manage, they manufacture realities that keep people compliant. Today, it’s fact-check labels, expert panels, and algorithms deciding what counts as “credible.” The control isn’t in banning ideas; it’s in determining which ideas are allowed to exist before you ever see them. Orwell foresaw the […]
Media Matters Backed Deadly Chicago Riots as a Congressional Campaign
ToreSays - Sep 19th 2025 7:24pm EDTBeyond Soros: The Syndicate Funding Violence and Candidates Affinity cells may appear spontaneous, but their capacity for disruption is multiplied through institutional sponsorship. Unions, foundations, and donor consortia supply the resources, legitimacy, and cover that transform isolated groups into coordinated campaigns capable of national impact. These sponsors do not buy participants outright; they build the […]
The Fourth Unelected Branch: Unmasking Chaos| PART I Beyond Linear Explanations
ToreSays - Sep 19th 2025 11:33am EDTBeneath the surface of America’s political battles, a hidden war rages—not just against President Trump and the will of the people, but against the truth itself. Self-proclaimed allies, waving the banner of patriotism, claim to fight for “the people” and the president. Yet our years of monitoring reveal a darker reality: many of these figures […]
DOGE Under Siege: How the Hatch Act Became a Tool to Stall Reform
ToreSays - Aug 15th 2025 11:37am EDTThere’s an unsettling undercurrent running through the federal corridors right now—shadow discussions happening behind closed doors, carefully timed leaks seeded to friendly reporters, and a slow, deliberate effort to reframe the Department of Government Efficiency as something it is not. Why would a department that saved taxpayers $1.2 billion in under a year face accusations […]
IC SERIES: The Great Masquerade: When Loyalty is a Costume and Betrayal is a Role
ToreSays - Aug 2nd 2025 5:48pm EDTIn intelligence operations, roles are not about performance or personality—they are tactical instruments. When someone plays a role in this domain, they are executing a cover identity, an operational mask designed not for theatrics but for access, concealment, and influence. In the field, an operative may assume what’s known as an official cover, such as […]
NATSEC SERIES| From Innovation to Infiltration: The Quiet Handoff of America’s Digital Infrastructure
ToreSays - Jul 29th 2025 12:46pm EDTThe Real McCoy. You’re about to get an overview of what the “rollout” (under Obama) truly meant—not a glitch or reform, but a coordinated blueprint that quietly rewired America’s foundation. From immigration pipelines and DEI mandates to digital governance infrastructure, it didn’t evolve—it was deployed. And now, the curtain lifts. The United States Digital Service […]
The Optics War: How Media Trains You to Trust the Wrong People
ToreSays - Jul 25th 2025 1:33pm EDTTrust is earned. Consistency is key. Discernment is a virtue. Judge them by their fruit. In today’s political and media environment—where disinformation, gatekeeping, and manufactured narratives are standard—discernment isn’t just a virtue. It’s a weapon of survival. Most people mistake cynicism for discernment. But discernment doesn’t reject everything—it weighs it. Discernment is not skepticism.Discernment is […]
A Wray of Light Through the Memory Hole: Lisa Monaco from FISA Files to Epstein
ToreSays - Jul 18th 2025 10:45am EDTLisa Monaco isn’t just a legal official—she’s an institutional architect of the post-9/11 surveillance state. Her fingerprints are etched into some of the most consequential decisions in U.S. national security: the legal architecture of FISA abuse, the suppression of classified information, the criminalization of journalism, and the unprecedented synchronization of health crises and executive power. […]
The American Robes: Rehearsing Poland’s Playbook at the Perfect Time
ToreSays - Jul 18th 2025 1:41am EDTHow a Leaked Memo, Marching Judges, and Manufactured Outrage Signal the Last Stand of the Guilty A newly revealed memo confirms that at least some federal judges had already formed their opinions about the Trump administration before ever stepping into a courtroom. Let that register: the very people sworn to uphold the Constitution, to act […]
IC SERIES| TRIFECTA WAR STRATEGY OF CHINA: PART II CULTURAL WARFARE
ToreSays - Jul 8th 2025 12:11pm EDT…no loyal ally would ever run … domestic influence campaigns to manipulate public sentiment in their favor….while our adversaries are using those very same tools to destabilize us. China’s approach to warfare extends far beyond traditional battlefields. Through calculated cultural infiltration, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) aims to reshape the ideological and social landscape of […]
IC SERIES| TRIFECTA WAR STRATEGY OF CHINA: PART I FENTANYL
ToreSays - Jul 8th 2025 10:28am EDTChina has orchestrated a multifaceted campaign against the West, employing a triad of strategies: advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems like MIMIC, the proliferation of synthetic drugs, and cultural subversion. These efforts are facilitated through strategic infrastructure investments, particularly in ports and railways, enabling China to infiltrate and influence critical nodes of Western societies. Synthetic Drugs and Strategic Docks: […]
IC SERIES| Red Sea Red Line: Gray Zone Warfare and the Unspoken War on the West
ToreSays - Jul 8th 2025 9:48am EDTChina’s conduct in the Red Sea and surrounding maritime corridors reveals a deliberate pattern of gray zone warfare, increasingly characterized by the use of military-grade lasers against Western reconnaissance aircraft. In early July 2025, a German surveillance plane operating under the EU’s Aspides mission was forced to abort its flight after a Chinese warship targeted […]
One Big Beautiful Bill: The Pre-Crime Firewall Against the Next Patriot Act
ToreSays - Jul 7th 2025 11:55am EDTImagine if your hat could read your mind—like really read it—and then beam those thoughts straight to an ad company that decides you need three air fryers, a dating app for introverts, and socks that tell jokes. That’s kind of where we’re headed with brainwave-reading gadgets that tap into something called LFOs—those low-frequency brain signals […]
The Clean Slate Doctrine: Reclaiming the American Economy
ToreSays - Jul 4th 2025 1:13pm EDTAn Open Letter to President Trump on Behalf of the American People & Analysis of The Urgent Case for a Clean Slate and Citizen-Centered Financial Renewal As someone who deeply believes in freedom and the sovereignty of the American people, I can think of no more fitting moment than July 4th to bring this forward. […]
Fannie, Freddie, and the Future: Crypto’s Institutional Breakthrough
ToreSays - Jun 27th 2025 1:18pm EDTOn June 25, 2025, the U.S. government’s top housing regulator—the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)—announced a significant policy shift that could transform how Americans qualify for home loans. Under the leadership of Director William Pulte, the FHFA issued a formal directive to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) that back the […]