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DieselGate II

Here we go – again.

Cummins, the maker of diesel engines, has just “agreed” to pay the federal government $1.6 billion as penance for “cheating” federal emissions control requirements. It’s VW all over again – and probably for the same reasons.

Per the catcall media:

“The Justice Department accuses Cummins of installing defeat devices — which can bypass or defeat emissions controls — on 630,000 2013-2019 Ram 2500 and 3500 pickup truck engines, as well as undisclosed auxiliary emission control de...

What If There Are No Analogs for 2024?

Maybe we’ll get 1893, 1929, 1968 and 2008 analogs mixed into a heady cocktail of surprises.

One of the favorite parlor games of financial analysts and seers is to make predictions about what will happen in the coming year based on past analogs such as the presidential election cycle, bond yield inversions, the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates and so on.

Part of the parlor game is to dig up obscure metrics and parse the percentage of the time that the analog worked in the past, a classic co...

John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3

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Blame Woke Authoritarians Covid for Learning Los

The Program for International Assessment (PSA) recently released its 2022 assessment of the math and reading skills of students from over 200 countries. This is the first assessment since 2018 and it provides more evidence that schoolchildren were damaged by the COVID hysteria. American students’ math scores were lower than 27 of the 38 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The other OECD countries do not have any reason to celebrate, as the average math sc...

WHO Classifies Covid Mutation JN.1 As “Variant of Interest”

The World Health Organization has now classified the COVID-19 Pirola mutation JN.1 as a “variant of interest.” This comes not long after the rules have warned COVID could still upset people’s travel plans this holiday season. 

JN.1 is now a variant of interest “due to its rapidly increasing spread,” reported The Washington Post.  It made up about 3 percent of all coronavirus cases in early November, but 27.1 percent a month later globally, the WHO said. It anticipates JN.1’s emergence may cause ...

Three Prerequisites for Peace

Please consider Our Three Prerequisites for Peace

Hamas must be destroyed, Gaza must be demilitarized, and Palestinian society must be deradicalized. These are the three prerequisites for peace between Israel and its Palestinian neighbors in Gaza.

First, Hamas, a key Iranian proxy, must be destroyed. The U.S., U.K., France, Germany and many other countries support Israel’s intention to demolish the terror group. To achieve that goal, its military capabilities must be dismantled and its political...

General Washington’s Christmas Message for Those Complying with the Great Reset

This was supposed to go out day before yesterday…ooops. I have to send out my annual Christmas message to our WEF friends…originally published Dec. 23, 2022. Hope you had a Merry Christmas! Wishing you and your family the best over the holidays. Thank you for being a subscriber or a reader! Upcoming live stream Symposium on December 29th 12 pm EST on Clouthub on the topic of exiting the UN/WHO with many fantastic speakers like Dr Rima Laibow, Todd Callender Esq, James Roguski, the Costa Rica Int...

Self-Reliance: The Foundation of Freedom

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The first waves of European settlers to Northern America were collections of religious nonconformists, entrepreneurs, ethnic minorities (such as the Scotch-Irish), and restless adventure seekers. One thing they had in common, though, was they wanted to be left alone to live life as they saw fit. And in order to forge a life out of a land with no governments, courts, schools, or po...

Did Argentina Just Get Its Own Trump As President? Well … Not Exactly

With the swearing-in on Sunday of Javier Millei as president of Argentina, many people are confused as to political economic categories. All sorts of terms are being tossed around: liberal, classical-liberal, monarchist, anarcho-capitalist. It is difficult to tell the ball players apart from one another without a scorecard. So, pay attention: here’s who’s who.

First, a quote on this matter from the man of the hour himself, President Milei:

“The best example was given by [Milton] Friedman, a clas...

The Doctrine That Doesn’t Matter Remains Unchanged

When the first rites of blessing for same-sex couples came out in the Anglican church, they were accompanied by a lot of bluster about how they were not to be equated with marriage rites and that they did not constitute a change in doctrine. In 2003, the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster in Canada published a form of blessing for same-sex couples. Then-Bishop Ingham made a point to distinguish these blessings from the sacrament of marriage. “This is not a marriage ceremony,” he said, “but a bl...