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Dirt Cheap

This 26-minute film is a classic example of subtle anti-free market propaganda. The Department of Agriculture produced it. It cost $6,000, which today would be the equivalent of $110,000. That was dirt cheap.

Roosevelt liked it so much that he created a federal propaganda film department in 1938.

In 1999, I published a brief account of the film and its background. It appeared in Chapter 33 of my book, Boundaries and Dominion: An Economic Commentary on Leviticus. I did not include it in the 2...

The JFK Cover-Up Continues

While the mainstream media was announcing for the past two weeks that President Trump was going to release the CIA’s long-secret records on the JFK assassination, I took a different position. On Monday of this week, I predicted that Trump would make a deal with the CIA that would enable the CIA to continue its cover-up of the JFK assassination. (See “I Predict Trump Will Continue the CIA’s JFK Assassination Cover-Up” and “No Smoking Guns in the JFK Records?”)

On Thursday, the day of the deadl...

The Cruel Tragedy of the HPV/Gardisil Vaccine

Here is the picture of Chloe Brookes-Holder, who was a happy and healthy pre-teen. She danced almost daily, hoping to make it her career one day; she hiked and led an active lifestyle. That all changed after her second dose of an HPV vaccine. After taking the vaccine she started to notice unusual symptoms, which later transformed into a never-ending cycle of debilitating chronic health issues, like many others before and after her.  You can view her current medical conditions and her story he...

Would You Do This?

Would you feel comfortable giving Jeff Bezos your house keys? Amazon is hoping that the answer is yes.

The e-commerce behemoth and creator of a global deflation impulse on Wednesday introduced a connected door-lock and security-camera system to let package carriers, guests and dog walkers into your home using an app, WSJ reports. The so-called “Amazon Key” will be available for the bargain price of $25. “This is not an experiment for us,” said Peter Larsen, vice president of delivery technolo...

Landlocked Bermuda Triangle

Of all the sites that are unexplained, the Bermuda Triangle is usually the first one that comes to mind. Located in the Caribbean, it is renowned for the ships and radio signals that have disappeared without explanation in recent years. Yet, there is another, perhaps lesser known region in which the inexplicable occurs. This location is referred to quite simply as Mexico’s Zone of Silence.

A Land Were Radio Signals Die

Located in the Chihuahuan Desert (not titled such for an unexplained numbe...

FBI Informant Can Connect Obama

No wonder the Loretta Lynch DOJ locked the FBI informant into an NDA, threatening prosecution should this person speak out about the Uranium One deal.

Washington DC Lawyer Victoria Toensing told Fox News’ Hannity that POTUS Obama received daily briefings on the Uranium One deal.

Time to buy old US gold coins

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Say It Loud, Say It Proud

I find something to admire in the political left – the true left, not the version to be found in the United States.  Mostly I admire the clear vision when it comes to the Anglo-empire and its wars. But I also admire the left that is unafraid of the label socialist or even communist, the left that is unashamed of their truth.  (I hope I don’t need to add that there is much that I do not admire in the political left.)

Say it Loud, Say it Proud

The English-speaking world’s fear of calling commun...

Deceit and Incompetence

President Trump’s firing of FBI chief James Comey on May 9 spurred much of the media and many Democrats to rally around America’s most powerful domestic federal agency. But the FBI has a long record of both deceit and incompetence. Five years ago, Americans learned that the FBI was teaching its agents that “the FBI has the ability to bend or suspend the law to impinge on the freedom of others.” This has practically been the Bureau’s motif since its creation in 1908.

The bureau was small potat...

Classical Liberalism Versus Anarchocapitalism

[Excerpted from Property, Freedom and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe.]

In this first decade of the 21st century, liberal thought, in both its theoretical and political aspects, has reached a historic crossroads. Although the fall of the Berlin Wall and of real socialism beginning in 1989 appeared to herald “the end of history” (to use Francis Fukuyama’s unfortunate and overblown phrase), today, and in many respects more than ever, statism prevails throughout the world, accompa...

Are We Really Talking About Nationalism?

In a speech delivered last week in New York City, former president George W. Bush fiercely attacked American nationalists as narrow-minded nativists. Among the memorable phrases in his oration were these:

“We’ve seen nationalism distorted into nativism, and forgotten the dynamism that immigration has always brought to America,” he lamented. “Bigotry seems emboldened, our politics seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication,” he said. “There are some signs that suppo...