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The Fed Embraces Its Inner Zimbabwean Authored by Doug French via The Mises Institute, May is on its way, and the old investment saw, “Sell in May and go away,” will be tested once again. Jared Blikre, writing for Yahoo Finance, provides the history behind what may or may not be good advice. “The full axiom was originally, […]
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What is a remarkable common link between the overwhelming majority of mass shootings in America? Is male privilege really to blame for so much of society’s ills? And why is it a mistake for society to focus so much on the issues women face, while ignoring or not prioritizing challenges men might encounter? To understand […]
Via History.com At Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois, a bomb is thrown at a squad of policemen attempting to break up what had begun as a peaceful labor rally. The police responded with wild gunfire, killing several people in the crowd and injuring dozens more. The demonstration, which drew some 1,500 Chicago workers, was organized […]
Another ‘Mystery Explosion’ Has Hit An Oil Tanker Off Syria’s Coast An oil tanker off Syria’s Mediterranean port of Banias has been hit with an explosion Sunday, resulting in a fire on board which was reportedly extinguished soon after. There were reportedly no casualties, but subsequent photographs showed large plumes of black smoke rising above the […]
(Natural News) On Friday, April 30, China launched a new nuclear submarine that can slip past America’s first line of defense and hit the American mainland. Most U.S. cities are out of range of submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) because of the “first island chain” – a series of bases dotted across the Pacific Ocean equipped with sophisticated submarine detection… […]
I hope he has room for all the booster tattoos he’s gonna need. I can’t put my finger on it, but his tattoo reminds me of something. My understanding is there may be an adverse reaction to the tattoo after awhile. I hope he has room for all the booster tattoos he’s gonna need. I […]
As the Pentagon declares a pullout from Afghanistan, the US corporate press is voicing concerns about an imminent terrorist resurgence, with CNN all but acting as an Al Qaeda mouthpiece, amplifying threats from nameless militants. In a much-touted “exclusive interview” published on Friday, CNN spoke with two purported “Al Qaeda operatives,” playing up their threats […]
Karl Marx’s Road To Hell Is Paved With Fake Money Authored by MN Gordon via EconomicPrism.com, “The way to Hell is paved with good intentions,” remarked Karl Marx in Das Kapital. The devious fellow was bemoaning evil capitalists for having the gall to use their own money for the express purpose of making more money. Marx, a […]
US, UK, French, German and Italian foreign ministers have denounced the upcoming election in Syria because displaced Syrians couldn’t vote – having themselves blocked that from happening by closing Syrian embassies and consulates. The five foreign ministers “wish to make clear that Syria’s May 26 presidential election will neither be free nor fair,” said US […]
MOSCOW—Russia’s top diplomat said Wednesday that relations with the United States are now even worse than during Cold War times because of a lack of mutual respect. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow stands ready to normalize ties with Washington but that the United States should stop posturing like a “sovereign” while rallying its […]
So, we’re almost a year into the “New Normal” (a/k/a “pathologized totalitarianism”) and things are still looking … well, pretty totalitarian. Most of Western Europe is still in “lockdown,” or “under curfew,” or in some other state of “health emergency.” Police are fining and arresting people for “being outdoors without a valid reason.” Protest is […]
An armed suspect who tried to gain access to the CIA’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia was shot and wounded by FBI agents after a lengthy faceoff with the man, who reportedly claimed to have a bomb. The FBI’s Washington Field Office said Monday evening that agents opened fire on an intruder sometime after 6 pm […]
Did you react calmly when you learned that a cyberattack against one of our most important pipelines was causing thousands of gas stations to run out of gasoline? Sadly, lots of Americans didn’t. There was yelling, there was screaming, there was lots of hoarding, vehicles were waiting in line for hours at stations that still […]
In violation of international law, the US is seeking to extradite and imprison foreign businesspeople for circumventing its unilateral sanctions. Washington’s targets include Venezuelan national Alex Saab, North Korean Mun Chol Myong, and Chinese Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. (Aquí se puede leer este artículo en español.) The United States uses economic sanctions as a weapon […]
Damascus And Moscow Prepare For Spring Cleaning In Central Syria Submitted by South Front, At the beginning of May, the time of spring cleaning in central Syria may have arrived. The Russian Aerospace Forces carried out a series of airstrikes on ISIS hideouts in the region, and specifically the Jebel Bishri region located along the […]
The United States nonprofit Digital Dollar Project said on Monday it will launch five pilot programs over the next 12 months to test the potential uses of a U.S. central bank digital currency. This is a huge part of their plan: a fully centralized digital currency where freedom and privacy are nonexistent. This is the […]
China “Indefinitely” Suspends Economic Dialogue With Australia As Relations Continue To Deteriorate China on Thursday announced the “indefinite” suspension of all activity under a China-Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue amid strained relations between the two countries, its state economic planner said on Thursday. The news caused the Aussie Dollar to fall sharply, dropping as low as […]
Back on November 30, 2020, Maricopa County elections witness Jan Bryant testified before the Arizona legislature. Jan has a strong project management background. She could not believe what she witnessed during the 2020 election in Maricopa County, Arizona. Jan said back on November 30, 2020, that Maricopa County officials DID NOT RUN THE ELECTION! Dominion… […]
You probably don’t need me to tell you that society is coming apart at the seams all around us. If you live in a major city, you can just walk outside and watch it happen right in front of you. Prior to 2020, social decay was steadily eating away at our society, but once the […]
‘The History Makers’, a 784-page book about famous historians from the past 2,500 years, has reportedly been canceled in the United States by publisher Random House for not featuring enough black academics. According to the Guardian, which cited unnamed sources in New York, publisher Random House canceled the book written by celebrated British author Richard […]
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Inflation and shortages are the two big stories for the U.S. economy this week. In recent days I have done multiple articles about inflation, and so today I want to focus on the widespread shortages that we are currently witnessing. At this moment, the U.S. economy is experiencing more shortages than it did at any […]
Artur Pawlowski, the Pastor of the Cave of Adullam Church in Calgary, Alberta, Canada was swarmed by police and arrested after holding an “illegal” church service on Saturday. You may remember Pawlowski as the brave pastor who shouted down police officers who interrupted his church service during Holy Week. “Out of this property you Nazis!… […]
Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer The number of errors in this report exceeds the number of facts. She’s not talking about farms, but CAFO’s- which is like condemning Amazon practices by calling them a Mom & Pop store. The reason they use the words farms and farmers is because that’s what they are targeting, not the […]
The recent raid on Rudy Giuliani’s home by the FBI is nothing more than a new chapter in the witch-hunt against anyone who ever worked with or defended Trump. We saw it with Roger Stone, and with Michael Flynn. This is just more of the same. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz says that the Giuliani… […]
Via GenZConservative Beowulf: A Must Read for Every Red-Blooded Man While I normally like to review books I read, the hubris involved in “reviewing” Beowulf would be so immense and detestable that I decided against attempting to do so I finished reading it. It’s been a classic for over a millennium, and for good reason. […]
Luongo: Cryptos “Are The Right Tool To Call Bull$hit On Central Banks” Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, Bitcoin: It’s Not A “Real” Truck I just bought a new truck. My 2013 Ford Focus (with requisite 5 speed Millennial Anti-Theft Device) couldn’t keep up with the rigors of my 3/4 mile […]
Via GenZConservative I’ve done my best, with this admittedly small platform, to warn people about the darkening clouds on the horizon. I’ve warned that the government is treading on your rights, discussed the anti-freedom ideology of the left, and launched broadside after broadside against the gathering socialist menace that is headed by that doddering old […]
Via ZeroHedge Texas Gov. Greg Abbott elicited criticism from Dr. Fauci and a host of Democrats when he decided to drop all COVID-19-linked restrictions in the Lone Star State back in March. Now, as states across the country are falling in line with President Biden’s aggressive new mask guidance (clearly intended to encourage more holdouts […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced he will stop taking Bitcoin for vehicle purchases or selling the cryptocurrency until mining procedures transition to “more sustainable energy” than coal or fossil fuels. “We are concerned about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any […]
Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev told Sputnik earlier this week that the US is secretly developing biological weapons in some of the biolabs that it funds all across the world, building upon previous accusations that he made in the past regarding the danger that such facilities in former Soviet states pose to […]
Two LA area colleges, UCLA and USC, have a famous rivalry. Imagine that local law firms took sides, preferring to hire graduates from one or the other law school. Imagine further that some USC lawyers at a UCLA-favoring firm complained about this, calling it bias, pure and simple; UCLA grads coordinate to prefer other ULCA […]
In a move likened to the way governments have assumed emergency powers in response to the COVID pandemic, Facebook has removed 16 million pieces of its content and added warnings to around 167 million. YouTube has removed more than 850 000 videos related to “dangerous or misleading COVID-19 medical information.” While a portion of that content […]
NATO’s southeastern spearhead: Turkey’s military aggression in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Caucasus signals proxy conflict with Iran By Rick ROZOFF The past week has witnessed reports of increased Turkish military activity in Iraq and Syria as well as its intruding itself deeper into the war in Yemen. In all three cases Ankara has pitted itself […]
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“Enough Looting My People”: Peru’s Marxist Presidential Frontrunner Pledges To Seize Offshore Company Profits US corporations are facing an increasingly tough run over the next few years: on one hand all their domestic profits are about to be taxed at much higher rates thanks to Bidenomics, on the other, they are facing an increasingly hostile […]
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Blain: Failing Global Politics And Inflation Will Be A Nasty Shock Authored by Bill Blain via MorningPorridge.com, “A great civilisation is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within… ” Across the Occidental Economy there seems a trend towards political failure as polarization, sleaze and opportunism takes hold, even as electorates suffer […]
I entered on duty with the CIA in September 1985. I spent a year in the Career Trainee Program and then, in September 1986, took up my work as the lone Honduran analyst in the Central American Branch. That was a hot position that put me in the frontline of one of the top foreign… […]
Commentary In his latest piece, the estimable Victor Davis Hanson asks the rhetorical question “Are Americans Becoming Sovietized?” Without a doubt. And a key reason behind this, I have been thinking for a long time, is that the left and the semi-left, progressives and liberals, masses of them in our country from the corporate world […]
(Natural News) Abdulhakim Idris, an Islam scholar and inspector general of the World Uighur Congress, has a simple explanation of why Muslim countries turn a blind eye on issues surrounding China’s abuses of Muslim minorities. “China has taken over most Islamic countries,” he said. Speaking on Monday, April 19, at a virtual panel hosted by the… […]
Many Americans and Brits will face de facto vaccine mandates, as a new poll shows that 56% of businesses will require at least some employees to be inoculated against Covid-19, in many cases under threat of losing their jobs. The poll, which was conducted by Arizona State University and released on Thursday, showed that 40% […]
Arizona’s Maricopa County is refusing to turn over routers or router images to election auditors, defying a judge’s ruling. The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office informed former Republican Secretary of State Ken Bennett of the decision this week. Bennett is the Arizona Senate’s liaison for the audit. The county was told late last month, while delivering […]
Facing harsh economic measures imposed by Washington and its allies in Europe, Russia is working to cut Western influence out of its economy, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in an exclusive interview with RT. In April, US President Joe Biden unveiled a new package of sanctions against Russian businesses and officials, while, at the […]
Guest Post by Freed Radical You probably know somebody who has legitimately died of covid. Trouble breathing, a trip to the ER in an ambulance, transfer to ICU. Then the most ominous word of 2020, ventilator. They may as well name it the terminal ventilator because that’s generally the last stop before the bright white […]
When Murray Rothbard Predicted The Menthol Ban Murray Rothbard wrote the following article in August 1994… Quick: Which is America’s Most Persecuted Minority? No, you’re wrong. (And it’s not Big Business either: one of Ayn Rand’s more ludicrous pronouncements.) All right, consider this: Which group has been increasingly illegalized, shamed and denigrated first by the […]
Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court has rejected urgent appeals to temporarily suspend the country’s night-time Covid-19 curfews, although it has stressed that its ruling does not mean the measures are legally sound. The First Senate of the Karlsruhe-based court said in a statement on Wednesday that the curfews serve a “fundamentally legitimate purpose.” However, it also […]
What is the government doing to your money? And how can you protect yourself? These are key questions facing every American today. In this interview, Friday Gold Wrap Podcast host Mike Maharrey tries to dig out some answers with investment veteran and author E.B. Tucker. Tucker is the author of Why Gold? Why Now? The […]
(Natural News) A respected health expert in Idaho said, “it is an absolute insanity to wear a mask outside” during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. “The virus is fragile. It doesn’t live outside. UV light fractionates it, kills it, blows it apart. Ventilation and wind blow it away,” said Dr. Ryan Cole, CEO of Cole Diagnostics –… […]
Is The US Economy A Virtual Reality? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The American Institute for Economic Research, An owner of the bar explained to me that he has been closed for a full year and yet miraculously still survives, thanks to vast infusions of government money to cover his rent and upkeep and sustain […]
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Who Pays $24 Million to Protect Mark Zuckerberg? Bloomberg reported: Shareholders do. And that’s just one example of how COVID-19 hasn’t stopped the corporate-perk parade … The bigger boon to the security industry … were Facebook executives Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, whose safety cost the company $24 million and $7.6 million in 2020, respectively. […]
Saudi Arabia Poised To Mend Relations With Assad In Major First Since War Began Multiple international reports on Tuesday revealed that Saudi Arabia’s powerful intelligence chief traveled to Damascus Monday to meet with his Syrian counterpart in what’s being seen as a major step toward detente. The two broke off relations since near the start […]
If we constantly borrowed and spent more than we earn while debts piled up; our house of cards will eventually collapse. Over a decade ago, P.J. O’Rourke warned: “Alarm bells should be ringing very loudly as the United States contemplates a deficit for 2010 of more than $1.5 trillion – about 11% of GDP…. …. […]
Fake Lobster Meat Grown In Labs Could One Day End Up In Supermarkets A Wisconsin-based startup is developing lobster and other seafood meat in a lab for a more sustainable approach for future food. Cultured Decadence is creating cell-cultured seafood products that are nutritious, animal-friendly, and, most importantly, eco-friendly, according to Wisconsin State Journal. A quick overview […]
Environmentalists and Florida residents voiced concern and outrage last week as state government officials and the biotechnology giant Oxitec moved ahead with a pilot project that involves releasing up to a billion genetically engineered mosquitoes in Monroe County over a two-year period. Presented by local authorities as an effort to control the population of Aedes […]
French Secretary of State for European Affairs Clement Beaune has hit out at the UK once again over the ongoing fishing dispute, warning that Paris will not sit idly by if Britain fails to grant licences to French fishermen. In an interview published by the Journal du Dimanche on Sunday, the official said that some […]
Conrad Black: A Turning In The American Political Road Is Almost At Hand Authored by Conrad Black, op-ed via The Epoch Times, The only way to make any sense of the fierce crosscurrents sweeping over American political life now is to watch two trends that are only slightly connected. First is the continuing great national […]
Florida is expected to become the first state to penalize social media companies for banning politicians from their platforms. Proponents have hailed the bill as a victory for free speech, while critics call it a political ploy. Under SB 7072, tech giants like Facebook and Twitter will be prohibited from “permanently” blacklisting a candidate running […]
The deleted database files noted by the Arizona Senate in their letter to Maricopa County’s Board of Supervisors may have been recovered by the audit team. This past week we reported the bombshell that there were files that were erased from the machines requested to audit in Maricopa County only days before providing the machines… […]
Guest Post by Martin Armstrong There is a massive campaign unfolding against Facebook. The biggest and most stupid mistake they made was to take sides in politics by banning and canceling anyone with who they disagree. Besides all of that, Facebook has invaded people’s privacy like no other platform. They track everything you do and […]
White House Says “We Support” Ukraine’s Ambitions To Join NATO While traveling aboard Air Force One for President Joe Biden’s visit to Louisiana on Thursday, White House deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre bluntly stated that “we support” Ukraine’s ambition to join NATO. When she was asked by a press pool reporter if the White House “supports […]
Students Protest Mandatory COVID Vaccinations at Colleges CNBC reported: Across the country, a growing number of colleges and universities have said vaccinations will be mandatory for the fall of 2021. Now, hundreds of thousands of students will be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine, whether they want to or not. For the most part, students […]
Guest Post by Ron Paul April’s 4.2 percent past year increase in the Consumer Price Index is not likely to dissuade the Federal Reserve from continuing its policy of near-zero interest rates. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell believes the rising prices are just a temporary phenomenon caused by the ending of lockdowns releasing pent-up consumer demand. […]
World’s Most-Vaccinated Nation Activates Curbs as Cases Rise Bloomberg reported: Seychelles, which has fully vaccinated more of its population against the coronavirus than any other country, has closed schools and canceled sporting activities for two weeks as infections surge. The measures, which include bans on the intermingling of households and the early closure of bars, […]
MARICOPA BOMBSHELL REPORT: An Emergency Senate Session Called! Ava Garcia 2 mins ago To say that the Maricopa Country audit would go without any resistance, pressure, or interference by the Democratic Party – we would be mistaken. The most shocking revelation this far is this bombshell: THE ELECTION OFFICIALS DON’T EVEN HAVE PASSWORDS FOR THE VOTING […]
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Commentary The America poet Delmore Schwartz (1913-1968) had a number of good one-liners. His mot about existentialism, for example, is hard to beat: “Existentialism,” he said, means no one else can take a bath for you. Given the level of pretension that surrounded the French-German import, and given its dour currency in the academic stock […]
America has come to the point where baby animals are treated with more dignity and respect than baby humans. In Colorado, for example, a five-week-old bald eaglet died last week after the tree it was living in split down the middle, according to CBS Denver. Local news outlets noted the baby bird’s death and mentioned plans […]
Would the US go to war with Russia over Ukraine? As tensions escalate between Moscow and Kiev, some have warned that the latter’s ‘alliance’ with Washington could spiral into a conflict between the two main nuclear superpowers. Except, of course, there is no alliance between the US and Ukraine. This week, US Secretary of State […]
Critical Race Theory’s Anti-American Agenda is all coming out thanks to lawmakers like Republican Lt. Governor of North Carolina, Mark Robinson and his education task force. “Right now we have a lot of people on the left, on the hard left, who are using our education system basically as their own personal playground to push… […]
(Natural News) The engineered mass famine in America is now under way, with the deep state sabotage of the Colonial Pipeline already causing trucking to suffer fuel shortages across Southeast states, impairing some food deliveries. If this pipeline is not fully restored in the next 72 hours or so, food shelves in some areas will… […]
An official tally of suspected side effects resulting from Covid vaccination in Sweden has surpassed 30,000, with the majority of cases occurring in people inoculated with AstraZeneca’s shot. According to the Swedish Medical Products Agency, as of last week, the Scandinavian nation had received 31,844 reports of adverse reactions linked to the rollout of Covid-19 […]
(Natural News) Joe Biden’s handlers continue to demonstrate their anti-Americanism by the day, attacking the remaining vestiges of our founding institutions. The military, especially, has come under assault by these Marxists because it really is the last bastion of pro-American patriotism. Republicans are finally pulling their heads out of some dark, smelly places and getting… […]
A short time ago, climate activists were claiming that the world had just a year left to exist if climate change was not properly addressed. As those dire predictions fall by the wayside, some eco-warriors are hopping on a new bandwagon. According to The Guardian, a new report from Nature Climate Change suggests that the […]
The EU’s top court ruled May 6 in favor of the European Commission’s partial ban on three pesticides hazardous to bees, much to the chagrin of Bayer — the German pharmaceutical and biotech company that merged with agrochemical giant Monsanto in 2018. Bayer attempted to overturn the ban and undermine the EU’s “precautionary principle” for […]
With Victory Day here again, World War II historical revisionism kicks back into gear. The reason this is becoming such a hot issue once again is that the debate over the past has serious implications for today’s geopolitics. It has apparently become a yearly tradition for some bad actors to try and force us to […]
The terms “nationalism” and “patriotism” are often used interchangeably. This is understandable, as they have somewhat overlapping meanings, both of which suffer from a certain amount of vagueness. However, there are a number of key differences between the two that are worth shedding light on. In the final analysis, we believe that the term “nationalism,” […]
(Natural News) The mass murder of Americans through the experimental COVID injections continues, as the CDC is now reporting that 3,848 people have died and 118,902 adverse reactions have now been logged into their Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). (Article by Brian Shilhavy republished from HealthImpactNews.com) Many believe there is solid evidence that the CDC is holding back much of the data,… […]
(Natural News) Dr. Lee Merritt, an orthopedic spinal surgeon, was interviewed by Mike Adams on a recent episode of Brighteon Conversations. Dr. Merritt joins a growing list of medical professionals who see forced vaccines as a holocaust-level crime against humanity. Medical systems are threatening doctors and nurses with termination if they do not comply with… […]
Watch: Elon Musk Calls Crypto “Speculation”, Says People “Should Not Invest Their Life Savings” In It With Elon Musk slated to host Saturday Night Live this weekend, the whole world’s focus has been on whether or not Musk is going to use the platform to pump either Tesla stock or any number cryptocurrencies, which have rallied […]
President Joe Biden walks with Vice President Kamala Harris across the West Executive Avenue at the White House Monday, March 29, 2021, following the president’s remarks in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. (Official White House photo by Lawrence Jackson) [Editor’s note: This story originally was published by Real Clear […]
A coalition of more than three dozen social justice, labor and digital rights organizations launched a campaign May 3 aimed at stopping Facebook from further rolling back privacy protections on WhatsApp, a messaging service that billions of people worldwide use to send encrypted messages to family members, friends and colleagues. After purchasing WhatsApp for $19 […]
Genetically modified mosquitoes have been released for the first time in the United States, as part of an experiment to combat insect-borne diseases such as Dengue fever, yellow fever and the Zika virus. Genetically modified mosquitoes have been released for the first time in the United States, as part of an experiment to combat insect-borne […]