Vanessa Beeley in Idlib UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres commemorated the extension of a “humanitarian” border crossing at Bab Al Hawa, on July 10th, as a “lifeline for countless people”– numerous Syrians would rather describe it as a “lifeline” for Al Qaeda. On the 15th July I visited Jurin, a village to the north of […]
Editor’s Note: The 2020s are forming up to be an unpredictable time on multiple fronts. Internationally, the Covid-19 pandemic has ushered in the most severe government controls in history. Censorship is growing rapidly in the West. Economically, the US federal government has shown that the US dollar is no much better than any other fiat […]
“This work was strictly voluntary, however any animal that absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.” George Orwell, Animal Farm Everything is now political. ESG, climate change, racism, gender, vaccines. Ask yourself why is it that all of these things are non-negotiable? Why can’t they be gone over? Why is there […]
The above quote is from William Gouge, discussing the Panic of 1819. The panic had been caused when the First Bank of the United States had actually very first broadened the cash supply significantly by offering loans, then contracted the cash supply by tightening its requirements for brand-new loans, causing a crash. This is a […]
“New Normal Newspeak” is a series of short articles highlighting how our language has come under assault in the past eighteen months. * “Vaccine” is a word a with a simple significance. I’ll quote it to you, from the Oxford dictionary: A substance used to promote the production of antibodies and supply resistance against one […]
Here in the middle of 2021, Americans are usually feeling respectable about things. The COVID pandemic appears to be going away, our sports arenas have lots of fans again, the stock exchange has been skyrocketing, and all over the nation people remain in the mood to celebration. In reality, July fourth celebrations throughout the country […]
[Initially printed in Facts and Comments( 1902)] Were anyone to call me dishonest or untruthful he would touch me to the fast. Were he to say that I am unpatriotic, he would leave me unmoved. “What, then, have you no love of nation?” That is a question not to be answered in a breath. The […]
UPDATE: Trafalgar Square live stream eliminated from YouTube . [ jump] UPDATE: Tweets from protests in dozens of cities all around the world. [#tweet”>jump ] * It’s the last Saturday of the month, which indicates the upset (and growing) crowd of Lockdown sceptics progress major cities to make their voices heard. Protests are prepared for […]
Things were bad in the 1970s and 1980s, however what we are witnessing now is truly frightening. According to the New York Times, homicide rates in big U.S. cities were up by approximately 30 percent in 2020, and they are up another 24 percent up until now in 2021. We have actually never seen this […]
For some time, I’ve been saying that the economy remains in the “eye of the storm” which when it emerged, the weather condition would be far rougher than in 2008. The trillions of currency units developed since 2007, integrated with artificially reduced rates of interest, have papered over the circumstance. But only temporarily. When the […]
