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Germany: Second talk by top UN official canceled

A major Berlin university canceled a public lecture by Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian territories, following pressure from the Berlin mayor. Many academics are outraged.

The criticism in Berlin included statements from the Israeli ambassador to Germany and the city’s conservative Mayor Kai Wegner, who told the Bild tabloid newspaper earlier this month: “I expect the FU [Free University] t...

‘Greater’ Israel

Oh dear—shock horror, rather—the first man to think about displacing a whole populace was one Adolf Hitler, although he never went through with it. He decided to kill them instead. I am talking about plans to deracinate the Gaza population to faraway places, 2 million souls in all, give or take 100,000, depending on the death toll of innocent old men, women, and children following the Israeli bombardment of the place. Yes, it was the Führer who wanted to move all of Germany’s Jews to Madagascar,...

Paper Money and the Fed Have Destroyed the Penny and the Rest of Our Money

President Trump has ordered the U.S. Mint to stop producing pennies. The reason is that it’s too costly to produce them. It costs the Mint nearly four cents to produce one penny.

The penny phenomenon is good example of what the federal government — and, specifically, the Federal Reserve — has done to our money. Ever since the Fed and a paper-money system were established in 1913 and the 1930s, the Fed has destroyed the value and stability of American money.

For more than 100 years, the official ...

Hot CPI Sends Gold Higher

On Wednesday evening, Peter took to his podcast to cover the week’s big economic headline: inflation is still running hot. In this episode he covers this week’s alarming CPI figures and the political fallout they caused. These metrics highlight just how unprepared Powell and the Fed are for coming stagflation.

To kick off the podcast, Peter reminds us of his long-held warnings about rising inflation and the Fed’s mismanagement:

I don’t often say, I told you so, but sometimes I just got to say, ...

There Is No Antisemitism Crisis In Australia. It’s A Carefully Constructed Lie.

The Murdoch-owned Daily Telegraph has been caught trying to orchestrate what can only be described as a mass media psyop to inflame public hysteria about antisemitism in Australia.

In a project internally titled “UNDERCOVERJEW” supposedly designed to show “what it’s like being Jewish in Sydney”, a man wearing a Star of David hat and video glasses went around targeting Muslim and Arab businesses trying to instigate hostility from staff members trailed by a video producer and a Telegraph reporter....

Krakatoa Blows

You’ve got to wonder who at CBS-News thinks it’s a good idea to quadruple down on mendacious grandstanding when the network faces a $20-billion lawsuit from Donald Trump — for assisting Kamala Harris’s campaign (aka election interference) — while the FCC under new Commissioner Brendan Carr questions the network’s license to operate on the grounds of “news distortion” and violation of the broadcast news fairness doctrine.

So, on Sunday night February 16, CBS’s flagship news show, 60-Minutes, pitc...

Three Strikes—You’re Out!

In the nineteenth century, the Americans invented a new sport—baseball. At one time thought of by us Britons as a sort of “poor man’s cricket,” baseball eventually became an international sport and, at this point in time, in virtually any country in the world, the exclamation “Three strikes—you’re out” means to all and sundry that the individual in question is finished for the time being.

And the phrase is sometimes used in investment circles. One investor can be heard advising another, “Don’t b...

Are the Dead Nostalgic?

I was asking this question recently when the nightmare of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians greatly disturbed my reflections and took me in another writerly direction. Now I wish to return to this matter that seems perpetually pertinent, a pertinence, of course, not unconnected to the dead in Gaza, Ukraine, and everywhere else. There are so many ways of getting dead – and living – that complicate my question.

I am certain of this, however, that there is much to be said for talking to the dead...

Social Security Has More Active Social Security Numbers than the United States Has Population

If you are puzzled why Democrats and the US Civil Service are begging judges to prevent the Trump administration from having access to official US government data, the Social Security data alone explains it.

The US population according to the CensusBureau is 334 million, but according to current Social Security records, there are 398 million people with active Social Security numbers.  In other words, 64 million more people have US Social Security numbers than exist.

According to the Social Secu...

Bishops Burning Bridges

When I was in Catholic graduate studies, our instructors would alert us to incoming papal encyclicals. Excitement would build, delectatory anticipation of what Pope John Paul might say. When it was finally promulgated, it would be all the buzz during class breaks, as we sieved out insights about suffering, women, the elderly, and always, always Jesus Christ.

Now I look back on that innocent spiritual intoxication the way I remember long-ago family Christmas celebrations when the parents and gran...