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The UN Releases Plan to Push for Worldwide Internet Censorship
The UN Releases Plan to Push for Worldwide Internet Censorship The United Nations has disgraced itself immeasurably over the past month or so. In case you missed the following stories, I suggest catching up now: The UN’s “Sustainable Development Agenda” is Basically a Giant Corporatist Fraud Not a Joke – Saudi Arabia Chosen to Head […]
Fourth Turning: Crisis of Trust
Fourth Turning: Crisis of Trust “Imagine some national (and probably global) volcanic eruption, initially flowing along channels of distress that were created during the Unraveling era and further widened by the catalyst. Trying to foresee where the eruption will go once it bursts free of the channels is like trying to predict the exact fault […]
Relying on the Government Will Make Climate Change Worse
Relying on the Government Will Make Climate Change Worse Twenty-five years ago, existentialism was a hot piece of intellectual property. A literate public was buying up such books as William Barrett’s Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy and Viktor Frankl’s From Death Camp to Existentialism (later republished under the title Man’s Search for Meaning). American psychologists were being introduced […]
The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space – Part 4
The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space – Part 4 Blind Alleys and Techno-Fantasies The majority of proposals made by those who acknowledge limits fail on at least one of the previous criteria, and often several, if not all of them. Solution space is smaller than we typically think. The most common approach is to […]
Where Do I Store My Wealth?
Where Do I Store My Wealth? International diversification of wealth (no matter how large or small) can save your economic freedom. Although most of our readers thoroughly understand this concept, one of the most oft-heard concerns is that, by offshoring assets, one may not be able to get to them as easily as they […]
Why is it So Hard for the West to See Everything is Connected?
Why is it So Hard for the West to See Everything is Connected? QUESTION: Marty, you have written many times how everything is connected and how in Asian culture that is the foundation of all understanding. Why is it so hard in the West to comprehend this fundamental concept? All the best GD ANSWER: I think it […]
Did The EPA Intentionally Poison Animas River To Secure SuperFund Money?
Did The EPA Intentionally Poison Animas River To Secure SuperFund Money? A week before The EPA disastrously leaked millions of gallons of toxic waste into The Animas River in Colorado, this letter to the editor was published in The Silverton Standard & The Miner local newspaper, authored by a retired geologist detailing verbatim, how EPA would foul […]
What you “Owe to Society”
What you “Owe to Society” The “Club Dues” Theory of Taxation Sadly this is an ancient thesis that’s being revived now in a country that was founded on denying it. The idea is well expressed in a recent book by Professor William E. Hudson, titled, The Libertarian Illusion: Ideology, Public Policy, and the Assault on the […]
Government of Venezuela Forces Farmers to Hand Over Food
Government of Venezuela Forces Farmers to Hand Over Food The government of Venezuela is playing Monopoly, but it isn’t the kind with those little plastic hotels. They’re controlling essential goods like food, and putting the retail establishments of the country out of business. According to a UK Telegraph report, the government is now forcing farmers and […]
Does “Creative Destruction” Include the State?
Does “Creative Destruction” Include the State? When do we get to exercise democracy and fire every factotum, apparatchik, toady and lackey in the state who has abused his/her authority? Everyone lauds “creative destruction” when it shreds monopolies and disrupts private enterprise “business as usual.” If thousands lose their middle-class livelihoods– hey, that’s the price of progress. […]
Germany Replacing Bank Cards and Eliminating Cash Withdrawals
Germany Replacing Bank Cards and Eliminating Cash Withdrawals The game is afoot to eliminate CASH. According to reliable sources, Maestro is seriously under attack. In Germany, Maestro was a multi-national debit card service owned by MasterCard and founded in 1992. Maestro cards obtained from associate banks and can be linked to the cardholder’s current account, or they can be used as prepaid cards. Already we […]
The Individual and His Future
The Individual and His Future “It’s instructive to read what authors wrote about core values a hundred or two hundred years ago, because then you can appreciate what has happened to the culture of a nation. You can grasp the enormous influence of planned propaganda, which changes minds, builds new consensus, and exiles certain disruptive […]
The War On Cash: Officially Sanctioned Theft
The War On Cash: Officially Sanctioned Theft How banks & the government are diminishing your savings You’ve probably read that there is a “war on cash” being waged on various fronts around the world. What exactly does a “war on cash” mean? It means governments are limiting the use of cash and a variety of […]
