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Germany Wants Its Gold Back!

Today’s Daily Telegraph reported that there is a movement in Germany to get back its gold amounting to 1,200 tonnes, held earmarked at the NY Fed. The Bundesbank denied it, expressing complete confidence in the Americans.

Well, they would, wouldn’t they.

The article quotes two politicians who had been pushing for this and/or audits/inspections before Trump was even elected. At its face, the article is therefore speculative. But it was unlikely to be published unless there was more to it than at ...

In the Shadow of Alfred the Great

See you the windy levels spread
About the gates of Rye?
O that was where the Northmen fled,
When Alfred’s ships came by.

-Rudyard Kipling, from “Puck’s Song”

“The high tide!” King Alfred cried.
“The high tide and the turn!“

-G.K. Chesterton, from The Ballad of the White Horse

The praises of Alfred the Great have been sung by hosts of poets and historians even apart from Rudyard Kipling and G.K. Chesterton, the latter of whom wrote an entire book-length epic poem in veneration of the great warrio...

Our World of Universal Deceit

George Orwell wrote, “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” Our present era is certainly full of deceit, along with corruption, incompetence, and insanity. When you’re lied to often enough, you lose perspective on what the truth really is. We are lied to continuously.

The recent, all too brief congressional hearing chaired by the lovely Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, on the JFK assassination, brought home this point once again. Only a handful of representativ...

MAHA Spreads Its Wings Across America

On March 28, Utah became the first state to ban fluoride from drinking water after Governor Spencer Cox (R) signed legislation to remove the potentially damaging substance from the state’s water supply.

transformative health bills that are quietly making their way through court rooms across the country.

In Utah, the move comes after HHS Secretary Kennedy said that removing fluoride from water is one of his administration’s top priorities. Studies show that fluoride can have dangerous neurotoxic ...

The Truth About Mises and Fascism

You would think it is impossible to call Ludwig von Mises a fascist. He was of course an old fashioned classical liberal, what we would call today a libertarian. Some extreme leftists have even ben stupid enough to claim that Mises was sympathetic to the Nazis. They don’t deny that Mises was a refugee from  Nazism, but they say, when it comes down to it, Mises would take fascism, even Nazism, over a Marxist socialist revolution.

Of course, this is nonsensical. Mises wrote the classical analysis ...

The NYT Prefers Its Own Conspiracy Theories

Here’s what to know,” insisted the New York Times Adam Nagourney in a lead editorial the day the JFK files dropped. “Oswald still did it.” If there was such a thing as a Confirmation Bias Olympics, Nagourney would have earned the right to represent the U.S. Reviewing and dismissing 64,000 pages of National Archives material in fewer than 24 hours is no small accomplishment even by the standards of the New York Times.

As opinion writer David Wallace-Wells reminded his readers a week later, the Ti...

The Revolution of 1525

Once upon a time, in a land far away, lived a man, a man who believed that he, alone among all men, was anointed by God.

In fact, this man believed he was God. This man took it upon himself to organize and lead a great and holy crusade, a vast and powerful movement of the oppressed and victimized. This movement had a powerful symbol – the rainbow.

This man and his select group of followers would redefine everything in the world in which they lived, from the most basic human relationships such a...

How Do You Explain This?

I received the following response to the establishment-busting three-part series, “How Do You Explain This?” It adds a positive personal touch and fits so well I’m calling it “Part IV.” Wish I’d written it. Thanks, Monongahela Wry – – –

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It [Part III] started me on some ruminations. If your goal is to be thought provoking you succeeded with me at least. So here ya go.

David Farragut was ‘prizemaster’of a captured ship during The War of 1812. He was 11. (Yes, as in eleven years old) at the time....

Neocons Attempt To Stall U.S.-Russia Talks

Negotiations between the U.S. and Russia about the war in Ukraine seem to be losing steam.

Russia has long insisted on a solution of the conflict which removes the root causes of it. It can not allow for Ukraine to become a NATO battering ram at its doorstep. It can not allow a fascist government in Ukraine.

Any solution to the conflict must resolve (at least) those two issues.

The Trump administration wants the Ukraine problem out of its way. It wants to implement a ceasefire to be able to turn...

You Wouldn’t Want to Be Him on That Dreadful Day

Do you see the pattern? Populist party leaders all over Western Civ getting undone by the law courts — Călin Georgescu in Romania, election cancelled; Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, de-railed by President Lula’s stooge judges (with CIA help); Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia shot-up with five bullets in May last year (survived miraculously); the Alternative-for-Deutschland Party de-platformed by the Scholz-Merz ruling junta; then, this week, Marine Le Pen, leading candidate (by far) for Preside...