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October 25, 2017

The Sad State of Thyroid Care

Prologue to article SOLVING THE THYROID PUZZLE (Knowledge of Health):  the state of modern thyroid hormone therapy should be an embarrassment to modern medicine. Fraught with thyroid tablets that don’t dissolve, years of T-pills with variable potency and instability during storage, and a requirement that individuals with low thyroid levels (hypothyroid) take their daily tablet at least an hour before their morning meal, it is no wonder most hypothyroid patients’ thyroid levels are abnormal.

A...

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Published on October 25, 2017 21:01

Can the Feds Prosecute Foreigners

I am in Switzerland this week interacting with and lecturing to students and faculty at the University of Zurich. The subject of our work is the U.S. Constitution and its protections of personal liberty.

In most countries, government has begrudgingly granted snippets of personal liberty to keep those who are demanding it at bay. Throughout history, kings and other tyrants have, from time to time, given in to pressures from folks to recognize their natural rights. These instances of “power gra...

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Published on October 25, 2017 21:01

October 24, 2017

The Flat-Pack Tiny Home

A Canadian company, Leckie Studio Architecture + Design, based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada has created a design for an incredible off-grid home that can be assembled, pretty much anywhere by a team of four in less than a week. If you have dreamt of owning a tiny home of your own, this may just be what you need to make your dream a reality.

Created by Backcountry Hut Company, this model is known as the ‘Surf Shack‘ and the prefab models start at $45,000 and range between 191 squ...

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Published on October 24, 2017 21:01

The EU’s Anti-Brussels Dominos Keep Falling

On 25th June 2016, shortly after Britain’s Brexit referendum, I wrote an article for The Duran in which I pointed out that the British vote for Brexit was a symptom of growing disaffection across Europe with an EU project which has evolved into something very different from the community of European nation states which it had initially been.

The problem is less that the EU is evolving into some sort of pan-European superstate – in my opinion the EU is far too dysfunctional for that ever to ha...

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Published on October 24, 2017 21:01

Mainstream Media Brags About US Wiping Syrian City

America’s illegal war in the Syrian city of Raqqa has already killed over 1,800 civilians, according to the monitoring group Airwars. At the time the offensive was launched in June, the U.S. was aware that some 200,000 civilians were trapped. In that first week of operations alone, the U.N. accused the Trump administration of killing 300 civilians in less than seven days’ worth of bombing.

This trend has continued over the course of the last few months, and as one might imagine, Syrian infras...

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Published on October 24, 2017 21:01

Missile Defense

Sometimes it is possible to read or view something that completely changes the way one looks at things. I had that experience last week when I read an article at Lobelog entitled “A Plea for Common Sense on Missile Defense,” written by Joe Cirincione, a former staffer on the House Armed Services Committee who now heads the Ploughshares Fund, which is a Washington DC based global foundation that seeks to stop the spread of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.

The article debunks much of t...

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Published on October 24, 2017 21:01

Bush Lies

The former President of the United States, George W. Bush, made quite a splash recently when he took swipes at President Donald J. Trump.

Some thoughts:

First, the consternation of Deplorables aside, for purposes of clarity, it is actually a very good thing that Bush delivered his speech.  To as great an extent as anyone, the former President signifies the neoconservatism against which traditional conservative and Republican voters rebelled when they catapulted Trump to victory.

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Published on October 24, 2017 21:01

If You’re Autistic, Deaf, Mentally Ill, Disabled, or Old

“Anyone who cares for someone with a developmental disability, as well as for disabled people themselves [lives] every day in fear that their behavior will be misconstrued as suspicious, intoxicated or hostile by law enforcement.”—Steve Silberman, The New York Times

Life in the American police state is an endless series of don’ts delivered at the end of a loaded gun: don’t talk back to police officers, don’t even think about defending yourself against a SWAT team raid (of which there are 80,0...

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Published on October 24, 2017 21:01

Undermining America

Our nation’s leftist progressives have long sought to undermine the American values expressed in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Though typical Democrats and Republicans do not have this leftist hate for our nation, they have been willing accomplices in undermining the most basic value the Founding Fathers sought to promote — limited government. Leftists have had their greatest successes in undermining American values on the nation’s college campuses. Derelict and dishonest...

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Published on October 24, 2017 21:01

US Mideast Wars

“The Kurds have no friends but the mountains,” is an old lament. Last week, it must have been very much on Kurdish minds.

As their U.S. allies watched, the Kurdish peshmerga fighters were run out of Kirkuk and all the territory they had captured fighting ISIS alongside the Americans. The Iraqi army that ran them out was trained and armed by the United States.

The U.S. had warned the Kurds against holding the referendum on independence on Sept. 25, which carried with 92 percent. Iran and Turke...

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Published on October 24, 2017 21:01

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