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The Wrong Assumption About Iran’s Nuclear Program

Former Republican senator and presidential candidate John McCain (1936-2018) would be thrilled to know that the United States bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities last month. President Trump claimed that the strikes “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities, but this has been questioned.

Although I am opposed to the United States bombing Iran (or any other country), I don’t want Iran to have nuclear weapons. But this is not because I hate the government of Iran, hate ...

How Survive in a Gang-controlled Neighborhood

Gang violence is a problem in every major city in the United States and membership is on the rise.

Be confident and make brief eye contact. Don’t look like a victim but check your ego and show respect.Maintain situational awareness. Scan waists and hands for weapons.Learn what gangs are active in your area, how to identify members.Learn what kinds of crimes they commit and how it goes down. Understanding that, you can reduce both your risk and your exposure to it.Caches give you the ability...

Blame Covid: America’s Economy Hits a Wall

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the seeds of this economic crisis were sown the moment we let COVID panic override common sense.

We injected trillions into the system under the guise of “relief,” inflated asset bubbles, distorted labor incentives, and trained both Wall Street and Main Street to expect free money forever. We turned off the economy, paid people not to work, and then acted shocked when inflation spiked, supply chains broke, and productivity cratered.

And when the bill ca...

Rebel Capitalist Interview With Robert Barnes – Real EPSTEIN COVER UP Story Too Dangerous For The Public To Hear

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FDA Asks Sarepta To Halt Gene Therapy After Three Deaths

Sarepta Therapeutics is in hot water with the FDA and its stock has been hammered after three deaths were reportedly linked to its Elevidys muscular dystrophy gene therapy. As reported by Bloomberg:

Two teenage boys died of acute liver failure in recent months after taking Elevidys. They were being treated for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and weren’t able to walk because of the muscle-wasting disease. Separately, the company said Friday that a 51-year-old patient died of acute liver failure last ...

CELAM and the Alienation of the Church in Latin America: An Ex-Liberationist Speaks Out

Clodovis Boff, the brother of the famous liberation theologian Leonardo Boff, recently wrote an open letter to the Latin American Bishops’ Conference (known as CELAM) in which he criticized what he called the same old music: “social, social, social.” He said the bishops neglected the basic religious message of Jesus. His words were very pointed: “Can’t you see that people are tired of the same old story?”

His message was a real example of pastoral theology, of how to preach the true Gospel. He a...

Did Trump Expose the D.C. Sham on Waste and Fraud?

On January 24, President Trump fired 17 inspector generals working for a wide array of federal agencies. Trump’s action jolted Washington because most of those officials could supposedly only be removed for cause — specific misconduct or other abuses. Trump also scorned the federal law requiring giving Congress 30-days notice before terminating such officials.

Some of the inspector generals that Trump axed had done good work exposing government abuses while others had defaulted to the lap dog mo...

Do Trump, Netanyahu, and Their Ilk Believe They Are Virtuous?

That the United States of America is controlled by a criminally perverse, two party ruling class should be obvious to any reasonable (not rational, for the above-named people are very rational) person not living in what Jean-Paul Sartre, the French existential writer, called bad faith (mauvaise foi).

Bad faith is based on Sartre’s premise that people are radically free despite social and biological constraints; in each person’s consciousness they sense this but choose to play games, to perform f...

Fascism & Wars Blamed on Deflation Gap Are Not Inevitable, But…

“We’re going to win so much, you’re going to get tired of winning…I’ve always won, and I’m going to continue to win. And that’s the way it is.” – Pres. Donald J. Trump (note: fiat money-created inflation makes super billionaire winners at the expense of everyone else)

“Deflation creates a great number of losers…but also many winners…and (especially) punishes political entrepreneurs who thrived on their intimate connections and those who control the production of fiat money” – Jorg Guido Hulsmann...

So Long, American Dream, It Was Good To Know You

George Carlin once cleverly noted, “That’s why they call it the American Dream- because you have to be asleep to believe it.” By the time he said that, it was a bleak but mostly true observation. But from the end of World War II, until the early 2000s, the American Dream was at least possible for most people to achieve.

I came from a lower middle-class family. No one graduated from college, and a few didn’t finish high school. I was born with bold fantasies, but little practical ambition. Clearl...