Law Enforced
A person close to me got stopped the other day by a law enforcer. Note that the sentence says nothing about anyone having caused harm or even threatened harm to anyone. Well, except for the law enforcer – who caused financial harm to the person he forced to stop (italics to emphasize the point) by handing her […]
Economy
Doug Casey on the Coming Monetary Reset and Trump’s Impact on Gold and the Dollar
International Man: At $1.1 trillion, annualized interest on the US federal debt is now the second-largest budget item—and is on track to become the largest. Meanwhile, long-term interest rates are climbing, even as the Fed lowers short-term rates. Can the US government keep kicking the can down the road? Or will Trump have to reset the […]
Empire
The Global Trade Game: Jokers Are Wild
There may be no winners of the game of Global Domination ™, and that is likely the best outcome. Okay, players: jokers are wild, but with a twist: the entire deck is jokers. Since everyone at the table will have five Aces, nobody wins. Welcome to the Trade War Poker Table: nobody wins, as everyone has the […]
Activism
Uncivil Education
Too many government-run schools are getting bad Marx. There has been increasing discussion around Marxist Education in recent years, especially in relation to public schooling. While Donald Trump’s effort to end the Department of Education is admirable, much else must be done to right the country’s wayward K-12 ship. One glaring issue that needs to […]
Health
Do We All Have PTSD?
Just how much mental and psychological trauma exists in the country and world today cannot be quantified, and I would not trust any studies that tried. But this much is clear. We have lost our footing in knowing something that scientists long believed we could know: whether and to what extent an economy is growing […]
Tech
Elon Musk and The Return of Technocracy
President Trump’s focus on South Africa is evidently linked to his prominent adviser Elon Musk and a group of affluent U.S. oligarchs, all of whom share a childhood connection to South Africa. This group, often referred to as the “PayPal Mafia” due to their roles in establishing the financial technology firm ‘PayPal’, is discussed by […]
Crypto
Bitcoin’s Role in DeFi Is ‘Untapped Opportunity,’ Binance Research Says
The Bitcoin network is evolving into a wider DeFi ecosystem, the report said. What to know: Bitcoin’s (BTC) role in decentralized finance (DeFi) is growing as the world’s largest cryptocurrency evolves from more than just a store of value, Binance Research said in a report Thursday. The Bitcoin network is “evolving into a broader decentralized […]
Podcasts
Vanessa Beeley Interview – Ethnic Cleansing In Syria Carried Out By US/Israeli-backed Extremists
Vanessa Beeley Interview – Ethnic Cleansing In Syria Carried Out By US/Israeli-backed Extremists by vanessa beeley Recent conversation with Ryan Cristian of The Last American Vagabond Read on Substack Apologies for the internet issues which were probably from my side – the video, sound synch is not great but hope you can still get something […]
Solutions
Low-tech / No-tech – #SolutionsWatch
As we have seen on previous editions of #SolutionsWatch, there are high-tech, cutting-edge solutions to the problems that face us. But what about good old-fashioned low-tech or no-tech solutions? From the humble fax machine to call-to-listen podcasts and shortwave broadcasts to the dependable old printed word, today James explores ways to spread information that don’t require digital […]