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Financing Dies in Darkness? The Impact of Newspaper Closures on Public Finance.
Financing Dies in Darkness? The Impact of Newspaper Closures on Public Finance. This study, published in May, shows what happens to local politics when local newspapers close their doors. In short, it’s not good. But that doesn’t mean we need to preserve the relics of a bygone era. When a changing market unearths negative results, that […]
Self-Governance in an Unreasonable Age
Self-Governance in an Unreasonable Age Part IV: A Conclave of Reptiles Once again, the country descends into the fetid morass of double-talk, obfuscation, and contemptible cacophony known as election season. Right on cue, every slithering incumbent and mucilaginous political rookie is crisscrossing his/her/its respective area of operations in the hope of bamboozling the required number […]
The Government WILL Take Your Supplies: Venezuela is Seizing Cattle and Inventory
The Government WILL Take Your Supplies: Venezuela is Seizing Cattle and Inventory Something has been happening in Venezuela these last few days: the seizing of cattle, food, and staples from the production sites, by the so-called “authorities” that are not such. In the past years, factories such as GM and Kimberly Clark were seized by […]
Bilderberg Meetings – Just An “Occasional Supper Club”?
Bilderberg Meetings – Just An “Occasional Supper Club”? The European online “news” service, Independent, published an article about this years annual Bilderberg meeting being held in Italy. Why is it wherever Bilderberg goes economic chaos follows? Remember Greece? Greece was tagged on both sides of their economic problems first in 2008 at the beginning of […]
The Transition Towns Movement … going where?
The Transition Towns Movement … going where? The global predicament cannot be solved other than through a Transition Towns movement, and the emergence of such a movement has been of immense importance. But I fear that the present movement is not going to do what’s needed. Four years ago I circulated reasons for this view. […]
The Myth That Central Banks Assure Economic Stability
THE MYTH THAT CENTRAL BANKS ASSURE ECONOMIC STABILITY The world has been plagued with periodic bouts of the economic rollercoaster of booms and busts, inflations and recessions, especially during the last one hundred years. The main culprits responsible for these destabilizing and disruptive episodes have been governments and their central banks. They have monopolized the […]
Ron Paul: “A Cashless Society Is Very, Very Dangerous”
Ron Paul: “A Cashless Society Is Very, Very Dangerous” As the global war on cash continues to accelerate, outspoken libertarian Ron Paul summarizes the effort to eliminate cash perfectly – as an “attack on individual freedom.” Restricting and discouraging the use of cash, suggests Paul, has always been a goal of statists as a means […]
May You Live in Stupid, Corrupt and yet Fascinating Times
May You Live in Stupid, Corrupt and yet Fascinating Times In the old days, America’s top spies would complete their tenures at the CIA or one of the other Washington puzzle palaces and segue to more ordinary pursuits. Some wrote their memoirs. One ran for president. Another died a few months after surrendering his post. But today’s national-security establishment retiree has […]
Deep State 101: A Primer and Prescription
Deep State 101: A Primer and Prescription Every nation worth its salt has a deep state, a loose network of rich and powerful players who ratify, veto or formulate state social, economic and military policies. Whether monarchy, dictatorship, or constitutional republic, no government worthy of the name lacks for a shadowy unelected elite with hands […]
2018: When Orwell’s 1984 stopped being fiction
2018: When Orwell’s 1984 stopped being fiction This is the moment when a newspaper claiming to uphold that most essential function in a liberal democracy – acting as a watchdog on power – formally abandons the task. This is the moment when it positively embraces the role of serving as a mouthpiece for the government. […]
From the Skripals to Douma, the Globalist Pravda Network Reveals its True Face
From the Skripals to Douma, the Globalist Pravda Network Reveals its True Face People living in the Soviet Union had a wonderful phrase to describe the two biggest circulation state-controlled newspapers, Pravda (meaning “truth”) and Izvestia (meaning “news”). There’s no truth in Pravda and no news in Izvestia, was the oft-repeated expression. It is unfortunate […]
The Road to 2025 (Part 4) – A Very Bright Future If We Demand It
The Road to 2025 (Part 4) – A Very Bright Future If We Demand It Whenever all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and […]
