Don’t Panic; We’re In the Midst of Another Globalist Psy-op.

And on the verge of the Second Industrial Revolution.

When I was sick and delirious I took on a digital subscription to Conde Nast’s flagship magazines — the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Architectural Digest. This was my world, sortof, when I began to write and publish. The company paid very well, and everyone wanted to be them. I wrote for Vogue, and God help me, Tatler, and one of my friends was the Managing Editor of British Vogue, the sanity in the newsroom.

After an hour of reading, I felt poisoned. And frankly, realized I always had. Conde Nasty has fallen on hard times, their readership plummeted so far so fast, American Vogue, their big cash cow, only publishes sporadically. No one really cares now, fashion has fled to TikTok and wearable clothes worn by not-grotesque people, leaving the grisly spectacle of starved girls and broken feet for the left behinds and the hellscape of the culture they have created. As to culture and the arts, Eve Barlow said it best earlier this week. The combination of socialism and globalism creates a wasteland.

“I’m so fucking bored of all of you.

There were incredible bands, and actors, and storytellers, and writers, and comedians, and painters, and fashion designers, and architects, and marketers, and fucking brilliant ideas people, and they were all pitchfork-chased out of the room for being brilliant and NOT boring, by all you boring puritanical talentless wankers, so you can sit around “taking up space” at all the places where amazing art used to happen just opining for hours on end about things that have already been decided.

Things like: “there are many types of lesbians”. NO. There aren’t “many types of lesbians”. There is ONE type of lesbian. A woman who wants to get it on with another woman. We decided this eons ago. Get over it. Move on. It’s done. It’s decided.

“Black lives matter”. Alright, nobody ever said that wasn’t the case. We know already. Let’s get on with it now thanks. Get back to business.

“Rape is a spectrum”. No it’s fucking not. Rape is rape, and it’s illegal. Fuck you. Move on. Let’s stop debating it.

“From the river to the sea”. You don’t even know which river and which sea, you dolts. Stop endlessly bleating on about things you don’t understand. Never gonna happen. Move on.

All this time and fucking oxygen you’ve all stolen from people who were using it for the betterment of the world and culture at large, and we’re all bored out of our brains because all that’s left is to try and shut you lot up for giving us all brain damage.”

New jobs with AI being nurtured:

Where did all that creativity come from? Largely from physical suburbs, neighborhoods of the middle and working classes, and nuclear families - all seen as contemptible by globalist/Marxists - where the father had a good job. Who have almost all been reduced to desperation. Why? Because globalism effectively shipped tens of millions of jobs overseas, and the environmental movement, backed by globalists, cleared tens of millions rural dwellers into the mega-cities, where they languish in matchbox apartments beside super highways. A manufacturing job has a multiplier of five and a resource job a multiplier of 7. Where, I ask you, do people think money comes from? Production? The Fed? To globalists the Central Banks print money to pay their mounting liabilities, thank you very much.

Texas is the place to be:

The real damage was done to the young. While boomers made bank on global warming and globalism, kids are in despair. In the real world, the physical, nothing has happened for 35 years. Every middle and working class person has been cheated of life. Slow growth, no growth, over-regulation to stop enterprise because ‘carbon’, has nearly choked the life out of us. The Climate Change/Net Zero junta was supposed to shut us up, the science so convoluted and unreadable, we were supposed to be silent in awe of our superiors. And the corporations were about to make big big bank off the carbon tax subsidies of truck drivers and waitresses.

You know who swallowed the fiction whole? Teachers.

In a Lancet Planetary Health study of 10,000 young people across ten countries, 75 percent said the future is frightening, and 56 percent said they believe humanity is doomed. A 2025 PNAS study found one in five Americans aged 16 to 24 is afraid to have children because of the climate. That gloom has deepened over time. In Yale’s long-running survey, the share of Americans 18 to 34 who say global warming is already harming this country rose from 40 percent in 2012 to 64 percent in 2022. - American Greatness, August 22, 2026

That’s why those generations are looking hard at Democratic Socialism. The world of their parents was gutted by globalists, slow growth and the scare story of climate change. They don’t see a future.

But in the real world, even the IPCC has downgraded their warnings to moderate, unknown, not catastrophic, and the scam is almost over. Once the digital elites realized they needed more energy they stopped virtue signalling and funding the NGO’s, and that was that. Canada and Europe are still trying to save face and pay off investors in “carbon capture”, as are the media, but that will fade too. The pension losses alone……draw a veil.

But then of course, a new panic is confected. Bill Gates issued a warning about AI two days ago, which means AI panic is a globalist psy-op which has picked up just about everyone. If Bill Gates is opining, it’s a psy-op; nothing that man says is honest.

The things that physical AI, agentic Ai will do, is transform the workplace. When BMW and Sieman’s integrated AI into their factories, no jobs were lost. New jobs, with new training were integrated.

Nevertheless, this week, the inimitable and inevitable Whitney Webb joined the AI hunt with a report on data centers moving into Central Ohio, run by the skeezy pedophile Lex Wexner, who ought to be in jail, and if Webb is right about his machinations, hung, in public, on television. Sorting out Webb’s conclusions from fact indicate that while there are bad actors in this, the White House is forcing data centers to build their own power plants, and water in some builds is recycled. Her charges of tax credits and low employment are addressed by what the data centers are for.

From Chat:

If we assess data centers only at the county balance-sheet level, Webb's critique can look overwhelming: huge power and water requirements, tax concessions, relatively few permanent jobs, and infrastructure burdens”.

The employment and tax issues, well, those are rolled into the following. Look, I am not saying that some of these people are not evil and extractive, but we are looking at the revitalization of cities and towns across the U.S. The fight has to be titanic, and across the country, citizens are standing up to the data centers and demanding accountability. This will not work if they stay in a globalist coma. Bad actors like Wexner will run right over them. But they have to recognize what’s coming and what’s coming is so big, so huge, it will sweep everything before it. And frankly, I am unsure about Webb’s accusations about privatizing towns. How the hell does she think towns were actually built in the 17th and 18th centuries? Socialist teenagers?

Oh, and by the way, you know what happens to middle class white birth rates during an industrial revolution which requires high IQ players? Yeah, that’s right, they hockey stick up.

We are going to Mars.

Now both Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal, who put all their eggs into globalism, are sneering, but this is what is happening in the real world, the physical world, where actual people make actual things.

The report from which these are sourced can be found here

Steel and Aluminum Nippon Steel/U.S. Steel Partnership—Japan’s Nippon Steel acquired U.S. Steel with the U.S. government holding a controlling “golden share.” Nippon has pledged $11 billion in upgrades, including a $4 billion new steel mill. Upgrades are ongoing at the Mon Valley Works near Pittsburgh, as well as in Gary, IN, and Birmingham, AL.

Hyundai Ultra-Low Carbon Steel Mill—South Korean Hyundai Motor Group is investing $5.8 billion in a new steel plant as part of its $26 billion U.S. commitment. Located at RiverPlex MegaPark in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, the facility will produce 2.7 million metric tons of steel annually for Hyundai’s U.S. auto plants.

Oklahoma Primary Aluminum Smelter—A joint venture between U.S.-based Century Aluminum (40%) and UAE’s Emirates Global Aluminium (60%) to build the first new primary aluminum smelter in the U.S. since 1980. Located in Inola, OK, near Tulsa, the $4+ billion project will produce 750,000 metric tons annually—doubling U.S. capacity—with construction planned to start late 2026 and production by 2030, creating 1,000 permanent jobs plus 4,000 during construction.

Century Aluminum South Carolina Revival— Century Aluminum is investing $50 million to restart its Mt. Holly smelter, idle since 2015. Located in Berkeley County, SC, the project returns production to 2015 peak levels—over 200,000 tons per year.

Mining and Materials Processing America is reclaiming control of the critical minerals that underpin every modern industry.

MP Materials, Mountain Pass, CA—Formerly operated as Molycorp, this was the world’s leading mine and processor of rare earth minerals from the 1950s to the 1980s. But it shut down in 2002, unable to compete with China under the WTO regime. It is now back in operation with a $400 million Department of War investment.

Korea Zinc Tennessee Refinery—This $7.4 billion project includes a large modern smelter in Clarksville, TN, combined with a mine and processing facility in Gordonsville, TN. The new facilities will produce zinc, lead, copper, and rare earths. The U.S. Department of War holds a 40% stake.

Michigan Potash and Agriculture Mine—A $1.26 billion DOE loan guarantee and $80 million USDA grant, secured in 2025, set this project in motion to produce 10% of the country’s requirement for potash fertilizer. Located in Osceola County, MI, permitting is nearly complete, with operations expected by 2029.

Coal—New mine leases have been issued for mines on federal land in 2025—the first in four years—in MT, ND, AL, TN, and UT, with more in the planning stages.

All this was made possible by trashing the endangerment finding of the EPA (climate) and standing up to the globalist climate cartel.

You know what happens to culture and the arts during an industrial revolution? They soar.

Do you know what happens to family formation during an industrial revolution? That’s right. Soaring.

Oil, Natural Gas and Power

President Trump’s January 20, 2025, “Declaring a National Energy Emergency” unleashed investment across the grid. Ten major LNG terminals are in the process of being built or permitted along the Gulf Coast and in Alaska. Combined, they are set to more than double U.S. LNG export capacity by 2030.

Woodside Louisiana LNG—$17.5 billion secured, construction started September 2025, first operations expected late 2029.

Pikka Phase 1 Oil Project—About to be completed, this will be the first new Alaskan North Slope oil increase since 2002, accelerated by Trump’s Executive Orders, with first oil expected spring 2026.

Homer City Redevelopment—Indiana County, PA. A $10 billion project featuring a 4.4 GW natural gas power plant—the largest in the country—and a data center.

Transformers—One of the critical vulnerabilities of our electrical grid is being addressed. Six major new plant expansions were announced in 2025 or early 2026, including Hitachi Energy South Boston in Virginia, which will become the largest U.S. manufacturing site for large power transformers upon completion in 2028.

Nuclear Power

Trump has called for quadrupling nuclear capacity from 100 GW to 400 GW by 2050. Among the projects now in motion:

Westinghouse AP1000 Nuclear Reactors—U.S. government partnership with Westinghouse to build 10 advanced Gen III reactors of 1,100 MW each, with locations including Jenkinsville, SC, and Amarillo, TX.

Constellation Crane Clean Energy Center (Restart of Three Mile Island Unit 1)—Londonderry, PA. Targeted restart: summer 2027.

Small Modular Reactors—Half a dozen companies are in the process of building or in advanced stages of planning and permitting for SMRs. Two companies (NuScale Power and TerraPower) are the most advanced and are heading for commercial power in the early 2030s.

Fusion Power—No longer “30 years away.” Three companies have a fighting chance to put power on the grid within five years: Commonwealth Fusion (Chesterfield County, VA), TAE (Foothill Ranch, CA and Helion (Everett, WA)

Auto, Ships, and Heavy Equipment

The manufacturing backbone of American communities is coming back.

Stellantis announced $13 billion over four years to expand U.S. manufacturing by 50%: reopening its Belvidere, IL, assembly plant and upgrading facilities in Toledo, OH, Warren, MI, Detroit, MI, and Kokomo, IN—creating over 5,000 jobs in four states.

General Motors pledged $4 billion over two years, shifting production from Mexico, with upgrades in Orion Township, MI, Kansas City, KS, Spring Hill, TN, and Tonawanda, NY.

Ford, Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen, Nissan, and Rolls-Royce all have expansions underway or in planning stages.

Hanwha Philly Shipyard—South Korea’s Hanwha Group is putting $5 billion into a major upgrade of the Philadelphia shipyard as part of South Korea’s $150 billion commitment to U.S. shipbuilding. It will train American workers in advanced shipbuilding, produce next-generation military submarines for both countries, and fill orders for LNG carriers and commercial tankers.

John Deere pledged $20 billion over 10 years for multiple projects, including a new excavator.

None of these depend on green energy. Why? Because green enery is a boutique operation for rich globalist virtue signallers meant to steal subsidy from the taxpayer.

The investments from the private sector into the physical economy are equally huge, as the big houses diversify away from globalism and carbon capture and alternative energy as profit. Trillions are moving into the marketplace.

Oh, and Trump just CRUSHED the trade deficit, slashing it from $136B to $29.4B, the lowest in 20 years. America has been subsidizing the rest of the world long enough. Time all those broken countries stood on their own two feet.

Time to grow.

I want to stand on Mars.

So, if you’re honest, do you.

Research for this piece was drawn from many places, some above cited, but I suggest the reading of the essential Promethean Action’s The American System is Back; Bye Bye Globalism, which you can find here, and Science, A New Golden Age, A Report to the President by Michael Kratsios, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology. July 2026, here.

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Elizabeth Nickson was trained as a reporter at the London bureau of Time Magazine. She became European Bureau Chief of LIFE magazine in its last years of monthly publication, and during that time, acquired the rights to Nelson Mandela’s memoir before he was released from Robben Island. She went on to write for Harper’s Magazine, the Guardian, the Observer, the Independent, the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times Magazine, the Telegraph, the Globe and Mail and the National Post. Her first book The Monkey Puzzle Tree was an investigation of the CIA MKULTRA mind control program and was published by Bloomsbury and Knopf Canada. Her next book, Eco-Fascists,,How Radical Environmentalists Are Destroying Our Natural Heritage, was a look at how environmentalism, badly practiced, is destroying the rural economy and rural culture in the U.S. and all over the world. It was published by Adam Bellow at Harper Collins US. She is a Senior Fellow at the Frontier Center for Public Policy, fcpp.org. You can read in depth policy papers about various elements of the environmental junta here: https://independent.academia.edu/ElizabethNickson.

Her essay on the catastrophic failings of Canada’s CBC is included in Michael Walsh’s Against the Corporate Media, 42 Ways the Press Hates You, published in September 2024