Ebola Was Identified Nearly 50 Years Ago — Why Are There No Treatments for the Latest Outbreak?
The Ebola virus was first discovered in 1976 near the Ebola River in what is now the DRC. Licensed vaccines such as Merck’s Ervebo have since shown strong protection against the Zaire strain of Ebola. But no approved vaccine or specific antiviral treatment yet exists for the Bundibugyo strain, which […]
Economy
More Evidence Skilled Labor Is Rising in Value
For years, they told an entire generation that the future belonged to people sitting behind computer screens, pushing paper around in climate-controlled offices, while anyone working with their hands was somehow a failure. Schools pushed college degrees endlessly while trade schools were neglected and industrial jobs were treated as relics […]
Empire
Fake Wars & Higher Prices: What a “Multipolar World Order” REALLY Means
The world is changing. The once dominant imperial power of the United States is faltering, hollowed out by corruption, over-extended by hubris, eaten away by the cancers of hatred, nationalism and greed. Even according to its own propaganda outlets, America has “become the villain”, is “Officially an Empire in Decline”, and we […]
Activism
Rampant Kleptocracy Feeds Wealth Inequality In A Crumbling American Empire
Government spending is out of control, robbing the American people blind to fund the endless excess of a ruling class drunk on power. Kleptocracy: [klep-tok-ruh-see] / klɛpˈtɒk rə si / – noun – “A government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.” The […]
Health
Ebola Was Identified Nearly 50 Years Ago — Why Are There No Treatments for the Latest Outbreak?
The Ebola virus was first discovered in 1976 near the Ebola River in what is now the DRC. Licensed vaccines such as Merck’s Ervebo have since shown strong protection against the Zaire strain of Ebola. But no approved vaccine or specific antiviral treatment yet exists for the Bundibugyo strain, which […]
Tech
#TBOT 23: KYC for Your Phone, New ReCAPTCHA, UK Digital ID, Decentralized Social Media – NOSTR
Your weekly tech update! Tonight, the FCC, Google, and the UK Government make big moves against private and free technology. The hits don’t stop — keep ’em coming, and we’ll keep the solutions coming on #TBOT. Watch on Substack Bye Bye Burner Phones?: A new FCC rule threatens to end phone anonyminity by […]
Crypto
Blockchain.com Confidentially Files for U.S. IPO, Joining Wave of Crypto Listings
Blockchain.com, one of the industry’s oldest firms, has confidentially filed a draft Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a planned initial public offering. Blockchain.com Group Holdings Inc., one of the oldest companies in the crypto industry, has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 with the […]
Podcasts
#648: Exit Stage Left
Nobody is interested in sticking around New York City to watch communism destroy what is left of the once-great metropolis. Wealth taxes have been implemented, and billionaires have predictably left for tax-free states that aren’t importing 391,000 people from the Dominican Republic. Washington thought that capital gains taxes were the […]
Solutions
The Overstuffed Freezer Analogy
So we as a nation are waiting for the system to break down so we’re forced to empty the overstuffed freezer and start over. A friend recently made a comment that reflected something larger than he intended. It was an offhand comment along the lines of, “I hate to say it, […]