If there’s one artist who’s written some of the most painful love songs in classic rock history, it’s Stevie Nicks. Since we all first discovered her in the mid-70s, when she and Lindsey joined Fleetwood Mac, and throughout her solo career, we have been bathed in mystical, enchanting love songs written and performed by an artist unlike any other. Calling them love songs just seems too simple. These are more than just love songs. They are works of art, cinematic adventures filtering through many rivers of emotions. If there was one word we had to pick to describe the love The post Top 10 Stevie Nicks Love Songs appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Is it Comrade President now? Some conservatives are up in arms about President Donald Trump’s decision to have the government buy a stake in Intel. That’s state ownership of the means of production, isn’t it? Classic, textbook socialism. “If there is anyone who was a halfway prominent mainstream conservative … 10 years ago who now tells me they wouldn’t have screamed about incipient ‘socialism!’ or ‘fascism!’ about Trump’s Intel ‘investment,’” writes Jonah Goldberg on X, “I presumptively assume they are lying … .” In fact, a whole school of thought on the Right, going back decades, has championed industrial policies as bold as Trump’s, if not bolder. The public face of that school was Pat Buchanan, who was way ahead of the national debate on industrial policy—just as he was on immigration. Trump is not a socialist, and America has a long history of government getting involved in owning companies—Amtrak is a familiar example. The for-profit but government-owned passenger-rail company was created under Republican President Richard Nixon. What Trump is doing with Intel is different from earlier precedents, however. Trump sees the Intel deal as a first step toward creating an American “sovereign wealth fund,” with many more investments to follow. The president isn’t looking to the past: This is about keeping America competitive with other nations in the 21st century, including communist China, which controls the world’s second- and third-largest sovereign wealth funds. A sovereign wealth fund is much like private investment funds, consisting of stocks, bonds, and other assets expected to appreciate in value. Traditionally, countries rich in national resources, particularly oil, have used sovereign wealth funds to diversify and grow their economies. Instead of being at the mercy of oil prices, petroleum-rich nations such as Norway and Saudi Arabia channel some of their oil revenue into sovereign wealth funds, which then—much like, say, multibillion-dollar university endowments in America—can produce enormous returns. Norway pays for about 20% to 25% of its national budget with the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, the Government Pension Fund, which holds more than $1.7 trillion in assets. Is it a bad thing to pay for government with market profits, rather than by raising taxes on citizens or selling debt that eventually has to be repaid with interest? A nation pays interest on its national debt but earns interest from a sovereign wealth fund. Mainstream conservatives more than 10 years ago were already behind a plan with many of the same advantages and disadvantages of a sovereign wealth fund; namely, “privatizing” Social Security. The idea was to let Americans put their compulsory Social Security payments into government-approved funds of their own choosing, which would generate higher returns from market investments than the Social Security Trust Fund could reap from investing exclusively in U.S. Treasury securities. Conservatives embraced that as a good free-market idea. Is a sovereign wealth fund any different? They both carry the same risks, above all what economists call “moral hazard.” The country got a taste of it in the Great Recession, when financial institutions that bankrupted themselves with bad investments were declared “too big to fail” and had to be bailed out by Washington and the Federal Reserve. The government can’t allow Social Security to go bust, and if the retirement system’s money is invested in private funds, how many of those could Washington allow to fail, even if they made lousy investments? Trump is actually taking a double risk—most sovereign wealth funds only aim to maximize returns, producing revenue for the government. The president, however, also wants to conduct industrial policy with a sovereign wealth fund, by buying into strategically important but economically troubled companies like Intel. Yet the question isn’t just whether America can run a sovereign wealth fund right. It’s also what happens if we do nothing and rivals perfect the strategy. Beijing has the $1.3 trillion China Investment Corporation, Hong Kong’s $1 trillion SAFE Investment Company, as well as smaller funds with billions in assets. During the Cold War, when America faced an international communist threat sponsored by Moscow, conservatives knew absolute devotion to free markets was self-defeating. William F. Buckley Jr., just coming into his own as a conservative leader in 1952, was staunchly committed to capitalism and small government. Nevertheless, he wrote: “Conservatives, and many Republicans, have got to think this problem through. And if they deem Soviet power a menace to our freedom (as I happen to), they will have to support large armies and air forces, atomic energy, central intelligence, war production boards and the attendant centralization of power in Washington … .” Trump is thinking through the problem of our time and how a sovereign wealth fund can tackle it. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Intel Deal: Trump’s Industrial Policy Is Realism, Not Socialism appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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[Updated on: August 26, 2025] Ancient astronaut evidence is often linked to images of “flying gods” carved across the ancient world. Different cultures—from Mesoamerica to Egypt to the Pacific—show deities seated, framed by serpents or birds, or descending from the sky. Do these scenes hint at craft and cockpits, or are we projecting modern tech onto sacred art? Shared Motifs, Distant Worlds Ancient myths repeatedly describe sky-beings who arrive with knowledge. Serpents with feathers, world trees, and divine messengers appear in many traditions. These overlaps fuel the idea that cultures far apart recorded the same visitors. However, new summaries by archaeologists and indigenous scholars stress that similar symbols can arise independently to express power, fertility, sky, or cosmos. Olmec: La Venta’s Monument 19 and the Feathered Serpent At La Venta (Tabasco, Mexico), Monument 19 shows a seated figure interacting with a great feathered serpent—one of the earliest known depictions of this being in Mesoamerica. Later cultures would call the deity Quetzalcoatl or Kukulkan. Some see a “low-ceiling cockpit.” Most scholars read it as a ruler or shaman engaged with a sky-serpent symbol of authority and the heavens, not a machine. Maya: Pakal’s Sarcophagus Lid at Palenque The famous lid in Palenque shows King Pakal in an intricate cosmic scene. Ancient-astronaut books popularized the “rocket” interpretation. Current Maya art history explains the carving as Pakal positioned at the cosmic world tree, framed by a funerary serpent and celestial symbols—an image of death, rebirth and rulership, not a spacecraft. Māori: Purangahua and “Hawaiki” New Zealand traditions tell of Purangahua, who journeys for prized kūmara (sweet potato). Retellings online sometimes say he “rode a silver craft.” In Māori sources, Hawaiki is the homeland of origin and afterlife—not a vehicle—and Purangahua travels with the aid of birds or divine messengers, consistent with Polynesian voyaging symbolism. Egypt: Hapi and the “Serpent Seat” Motif Egyptian art also shows deities seated within serpentine frames. The Nile god Hapi is typically androgynous, blue or green, and associated with lotus and papyrus, symbolically binding Upper and Lower Egypt. What look like “levers” in some reliefs are usually flora or ritual emblems tied to flood, fertility, and political unity—again, religious iconography rather than controls. So…Ancient Flying Vehicles—or Powerful Symbols? Fans of paleocontact point to crouched figures, helmet-like headgear and “panels” under the hands. They argue these are pilots in tight cabins. Updated museum guides and peer-reviewed work, however, explain these scenes as cosmic narratives: rulers communing with serpent deities, kings reborn on the world tree, voyagers aided by birds, and river gods securing abundance. The similarities across cultures likely reflect universal themes—sky, underworld, life, death, rebirth—expressed with animals, trees and serpents, rather than shared technology. What Keeps the Mystery Alive Ambiguous poses: Crouched, profile figures can look “mechanical” to modern eyes. Tech-shaped expectations: We notice “helmets” and “dials” because we live with helmets and dials. Cross-cultural echoes: Serpents, birds and world trees are global symbols tied to the sky and the soul. Bottom Line These carvings remain stunning and mysterious. They speak to ancient people looking upward for meaning, power and origin. Whether you see craft or cosmos, the best step forward is to compare the art closely, read indigenous accounts, and weigh both the adventurous and the scholarly readings. Sources: Ancient Americas—Schele Drawing: La Venta Monument 19 (earliest Feathered Serpent). Smarthistory—Palenque and Pakal: world-tree, funerary serpent interpretation. Mesoweb—The Tomb of K’inich Janaab’ Pakal (iconography details). Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand—Hawaiki as homeland and afterlife. Encyclopedia Mythica—Purangahua travels aided by birds. Khan Academy—Hapi’s attributes (lotus, papyrus, fertility). ThoughtCo—La Venta overview (Monument 19 description). Ancient Aliens Debunked—context on the “rocket” claim. The post Ancient Astronaut Evidence: Flying Gods Across Cultures appeared first on Anomalien.com.

My buddy Jack Hibbs is warning Californians that it may be time to flee before Democrat cultists literally steal their children.So what will the right do besides post memes? When a pastor as conservative and evangelistic as Calvary Chapel’s Hibbs — a man who has ministered in California for four decades — starts talking about exile, will you finally admit how dire America’s cultural situation has become?If we don't wake up, we won’t have any nation at all.The bell tolls when the nation’s largest state can contemplate a crime of this scale.And do you know what time it is? The same CEOs who ruined Cracker Barrel still stand ready to take red-state children, too, if given the chance. Conservatives laugh at how foolish the woke Cracker Barrel priestess was for tanking her own company’s stock. What should really trouble them is the church itself — bullied, manipulated, and lulled into endless equivocation instead of awakening.We must be a Christian nationConsider the case of Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn, who recently argued that it is not possible to have a Christian nation in the United States. While I have a vast amount of respect for Arnn’s past work and the institution he presides over, what are we to make of it when one of the right’s bastions of conservative thought can’t even find the clarity to meet the clear truth of the current moment?We’ve barely been a nation at all since 2020. Yet Arnn wants to muse from the comfort class while the re-election of nearly 80-year-old President Donald Trump is arguably the only thing holding back the barbarians.Why is Trump to the right of and more vigorous than the church on so many issues of the day? Who will replace him? Who will identify the equivocators in our midst and hold them accountable before all of us are in Jack Hibbs’ shoes?Those are the questions before us, and lots of pagan countries throughout history have known the importance of at least answering them. Yet somehow, a great many of our Christian elders are stuck in “how many angels can dance on the head of a pin” mode.The fight is far from overFor all the successes since the 2024 election, we still have many battles to fight. The demonic side of the American equation isn’t even batting an eye at seizing California children like Mola Ram in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.” That’s insane and cowardly — but that’s also a regular Tuesday.Our responses to the duties of citizenship almost never match those of the woke left, a point made recently on my show by Kirk Cameron. He poignantly remarked that the pagan left currently understands Deuteronomy’s commands to actively live out one’s faith through community far better than the church does.Yikes.RELATED: No country for angry young men Nuthawut Somsuk via iStock/Getty ImagesIf we don't truly wake up and understand that unless we reward our heroes and punish our enemies in the name of the good, the true, and the beautiful, then we won’t have any nation at all, and Larry Arnn will need to find a studio in Hungary from which to spread the good news about the late, lamented American founding.The mere thought of such a weak destiny should be revolting to us — and inexcusable. Men should be doing anything and everything short of that which God Almighty says we cannot do to stop it from happening.We need more men like Jack Hibbs. Many, many more.

The Paris Public Prosecutor's Office told Le Parisien that early Tuesday morning, a Libyan teen allegedly raped a Ukrainian woman in front of the Eiffel Tower.A 17-year-old Dutch girl was hunted down, then butchered as she tried calling the police last week near Amsterdam. The girl's suspected killer is a 22-year-old asylum-seeker who was arrested at a migrant center on Friday for an unrelated Aug. 15 rape and is believed to have also sexually assaulted another woman.Earlier this month, Pakistani asylum-seeker Kamran Khan, 43, appeared in a British court, where he denied having repeatedly raped an 8-year-old girl between September 2024 and July 2025.Confronted with these stories and other insights into the fallout of mass migration into Europe and the failed assimilation of migrant populations, Tesla CEO Elon Musk — who has long criticized British and European officials for failing to adequately prevent or address the rape of their girls and women by migrant men — posed the question on Monday, "Why are they allowing the rape of Europe?"On the continentMigrants helped drive the spike of rapes across Europe, cases of which European Union data indicates increased by 141% between 2013 and 2023.A Lund University study published earlier this year in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence found that migrants or second-generation migrants accounted for 63% of convictions for rape or attempted rape in Sweden — a nation of 10.5 million that the Telegraph noted opened its doors to roughly 160,000 asylum seekers in 2015 alone.RELATED: Why the English flag now terrifies the regime Photo by Martin Pope/Getty ImagesMarie-Thérèse Kaiser, an Alternative for Germany politician, was convicted of a hate crime last year for pointing out that in her homeland — which opened its doors to over 670,000 refugees and 680,000 non-refugee immigrants between 2010 and 2016 — Afghan and African asylum-seekers "are proportionally 40x and 70x more involved in gang rapes than Germans," citing government statistics.Of the suspects identified in the rape and sexual assault cases in Germany last year, Deutsche Welle reported that over a third were foreigners.Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni acknowledged in a 2024 interview that in her nation, "there is a higher incidence, unfortunately, in cases of sexual violence, by immigrants, especially illegal ones."In the islesIn the case of Britain, which has similarly imported a rape crisis, Musk appears ready to fund the legal backlash."I would like to help fund legal actions against corrupt officials who aided and abetted the rape of Britain, per the official government inquiry," Musk wrote on Tuesday.Thousands of British girls were systematically raped, tortured, and trafficked by Pakistani grooming gangs from the late 1980s well into the new millennium.Authorities long failed to help the victims and hold the pedophilic rapists accountable in part because of "nervousness about race."Earlier this year, British Member of Parliament Rupert Lowe, formerly of the Reform U.K. Party and now the leader of Restore Britain, launched a crowdfunded independent inquiry into the grooming gangs and into the government officials who failed to act.'The government simply needs to enforce the law.'On Tuesday, Lowe's team of inquisitors revealed that they have "identified eighty-five local authorities in which the gang-based sexual exploitation of children is taking place, or has historically done so" and noted that "patterns of targeted exploitation by predominantly Pakistani males, combined with gross negligence from public bodies, are identifiable."RELATED: Austria’s struggle with mass migration holds a lesson for America Illegal aliens crossing the English Channel to the UK from France. Photo by Carl Court/Getty ImagesLowe's team further indicated that "ongoing cases have been referred to relevant authorities, and the Rape Gang Inquiry will shortly be writing to all local authorities where these heinous crimes have been identified to request full transparency and cooperation." — (@) Among the areas highlighted on the map shared to X by Lowe that indicates where the grooming gangs were allegedly active was the county of West Yorkshire, where police responding to a freedom of information request recently revealed that over 21% of suspects arrested for sexual offenses last year were foreign nationals. Pakistani nationals accounted for a plurality of the arrestees."Existing law is clear that anyone who was an accessory to aggravated rape or murder, especially of children, is guilty of serious crime and must either serve time in prison if a citizen or be deported if not," wrote Musk. "The government simply needs to enforce the law."Lowe noted, "Elon deserves huge credit for what he has done to uncover this scandal."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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