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What Exactly Is ‘Racism’  |
| I want to look at two words that the State and its hangers-on have employed with much success on behalf of increases in government power. One is racism. The other is equality.
What exactly is “racism”? We almost never hear a definition. I doubt anyone really knows what it is. If you’re inclined to dispute this, ask yourself why, if racism truly is something clear and determinate, there is such ceaseless disagreement over which thoughts and behaviors are “racist” and which are not?
If put on theThursday, February 4, 2021 |
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| Lew Rockwell |
 Our Enemy, the Executive State |
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The modern
institution of the presidency is the primary political evil Americans
face, and the cause of nearly all our woes. It squanders the nationalMonday, January 25, 2021 |
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| Lew Rockwell |
 Can Anarcho-Capitalism Work  |
| The term “anarcho-capitalism” has, we might say, rather an arresting quality. But while the term itself may jolt the newcomer, the ideas it embodies are compelling and attractive, and represent the culmination of a long development of thought.
If I had to boil it down to a handful of insights, they would be these: (1) each human being, to use John Locke’s formulation, “has a property in his ownWednesday, December 9, 2020 |
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 | Charleston voice |
| The Real Bunker Hunt Silver Story |
| "I'm doing the same thing you are, Bill, only buying more of it"- Bunker Hunt, Waldorf, 1981 There had been an FBI file on the Armand & Julius Hammers on theFBI FOIA site, but has since been removed. As many will recall it was Julius who financed (with gold)Lenin's rise to power in Russia. Julius was a founder of the American communist Party (CPUSA).Sunday, June 28, 2020 |
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 | James Howard Kunstler |
| He Did What ! ! |
| The only trouble with the conspiracy theory that hundreds of prominent and powerful people wanted Jeffrey Epstein dead is that Jeffrey Epstein might have wanted Jeffrey Epstein dead even more than they did. But that’s mere conjecture. His mind is beyond being read. Of course, the evidence of his alleged crimes didn’t die — the “meticulous” records he kept live on, along with the names of Mr. Epstein’s patrons, clients, marks, however you might clasMonday, August 12, 2019 |
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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Trump’s Absurd Claim that Americans Are Free from Government Coercion |
| In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Trump received rapturous applause from Republicans for his declaration: “America was founded on liberty and independence — not government coercion, domination, and control. We are born free, and we will stay free.” But this uplifting sentiment cannot survive even a brief glance at the federal statute book or the heavy-handed enforcement tactics by federal, staSaturday, February 9, 2019 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
| Hunting for Golem |
| As another president once remarked in a different context — LBJ speaking to a hanger full of grunts in Vietnam — “go on out there, boys, and nail that coonskin to the wall!” That was around the time the war was looking like a lost cause, with 1000 soldiers a month coming home in a box and even the Rotarians of Keokuk, Iowa, starting to doubt the official story of what exactly we thought we were doing over there. It was also, arguaMonday, January 14, 2019 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
| If You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It |
| Various readers, fans, blog commenters, Facebook trolls, and auditors twanged on me all last week about my continuing interest in the RussiaRussiaRussia hysteria, though there is no particular consensus of complaint among them — except for a general “shut up, already” motif. For the record, I’m far more interested in the hysteria itself than the Russia-meddled-in the-election case, which I consider to be hardly any case at all beyond 13 Russian Facebook trolls.
The hysteria, on the other hand, oMonday, March 19, 2018 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
 And Now the Schiff Memo |
| The excruciating quandary President Trump presents to the nation is dragging the sad remnant of the thinking class ever-deeper into a netherworld of desperation, paranoia, and mendacity that may exceed even their own official fantasies about the enemy in the White House.
Everything about the lumbering, blundering occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue drives his Dem/Prog opponents — or #Resistance, if you will — plumb batshit: his previous incarnations as a shady NYC real estate schmeikler, as a TMonday, February 26, 2018 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
| Resist That |
| Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page
Perhaps because a weary public was underwhelmed by his indictment last week of thirteen ham sandwiches with Russian dressing, Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller has returned to an old baloney sandwich with American cheese named Paul Manafort, and slathered on some extra mayonnaise to lubricate his journey to federal prison.
The additional charges specify tax evasion and money-laundering shenanigans around Manfort’s activities in Ukraine between 20Friday, February 23, 2018 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
| Thirteen Russians ands a Ham Sandwich |
| Remember that one from 1996? Funny, that was the American mainstream media bragging, after the fact, about our own meddling in another nation’s election.
WASHINGTON — A team of American political strategists who helped [California] Gov. Pete Wilson with his abortive presidential bid earlier this year said this week that they served as Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin’s secret campaign weapon in his comeback win over a Communist challenge.
—The Los Angeles Times, July 9, 1996
The beauty in RobMonday, February 19, 2018 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
| Agitprop Is Not News |
| Forget about sharks. In their Valentine’s Day editorial: Why Does Trump Ignore Top Officials’ Warnings on Russia?, The New York Times jumped several blue whales (all the ones left on earth), a cruise ship, a subtropical archipelago, a giant vortex of plastic bottles, and the Sport’s Illustrated swimsuit shoot. The lede said:
The phalanx of intelligence chiefs who testified on Capitol Hill delivered a chilling message: Not only did Russia interfere in the 2016 election, it is already meddling in Friday, February 16, 2018 |
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 | Bob Hoye - Institutional Advisors |
| Signs of the Times |
| Perspective
We have been watching for credit conditions to deteriorate - enough to prompt the establishment to claim that there are no problems. It took a jump in long-dated rates and a hit to the stock markets to prompt some such defensive claims. The advice to ignore the break and focus on the economy seems naïve. In ordinary conditions the top of the stock market leads the peak in the economy by some 12 months. That is why the S&P is included in the formal list of "Leading Indicators" (numberFriday, February 16, 2018 |
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| Bob Hoye - Institutional Advisors |
| Pivotal Events |
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"Rational Exuberance".
We started using the phrase in December 2016, because of the new Pro-Business Administration. On the big technical surges, we dropped the "Rational".
The DJIA zoom has reached a Weekly RSI of 92. As noted last week, the highest reached for the Nasdaq in the Dot-Com mania was 84.
Also, the Fibonacci has reached a possible target, built upon the major swings since the panic ended in March 2009.
Clearly, "Irrational Exuberance".
The NYXBT (NYSE Bitcoin Index) soarFriday, February 9, 2018 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
| A Quandary |
| It is the super-duper quandary of the moment: choose between the oafish, charmless, and possibly not-so-stable-genius Leader-of-the-Free-World… and a security state that will do whatever it takes to get rid of him, for instance, engineering a nationwide hysteria over Russia.
Has anyone else noticed how odd it is that the so-called “Resistance” has all along included the state security apparatus in its every sordid iteration — the CIA, the NSA, the FBI, and God knows how many others among the touMonday, February 5, 2018 |
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 | Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| When truth matters …confidence will break. |
| With the four page Congressional memo slated to come out today, our topic will be “confidence”. Confidence and all that goes with it stands to sustain a huge body blow! But first, we need to discuss a topic I have written about several times in the past that took a very strange turn yesterday …Harry Dent.
For years he has scared (tried) hard money advocates by forecasting a collapse in gold to $700 and possibly even $250. I have written several times breaking his “Dented logic”, most recently heFriday, February 2, 2018 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
| Sotu Klaatu Barada Nikto |
| It’s beginning to look a little like The Day the Earth Stood Still out there, with Devin Nunes in the Klaatu role, roiling the Earthlings into a frothy hysteria as they attempt to defend their puny empire of errand boys, grocery clerks, and elected buffoons. At dawn’s early light, we await The Memo.
The New York Times was running veritable Chinese fire drills on its front page this morning denouncing The Memo in advance, shrieking about the end of the Republic, with the laughable caveat that… “NFriday, February 2, 2018 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Gold Bullion Price Suppression To End Bullion Bank Traders Arrested For Manipulating Market |
| – CFTC fines UBS, HSBC and Deutsche Bank millions of dollars each for gold price manipulation – Deutsche Bank ‘engaged in a scheme to manipulate the price of precious metals futures contracts’– UBS ‘attempted to manipulate the price of precious metals futures contracts’– HSBC engaged ‘in numerous acts of spoofing with respect to certain futures products in gold and other precious metals’– Gold ‘experts’ continue to deny legal rulings, evidence amassed by GATA, admissions by banks and central banThursday, February 1, 2018 |
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 | Theodore Butler - Butler Research |
Unfinished Business  |
| The big news this week was the filing of charges and settlements for price manipulation and “spoofing” brought by the CFTC, in conjunction with the DOJ and FBI, against three banks and a half dozen individual traders; mostly involving illegal trading activities in COMEX gold and silver futures. The announcement set off a debate about whether the filing proved the allegations that gold and silver prices were manipulated as many, certainly including me, have maintained.http://www.cftc.gov/PressRooThursday, February 1, 2018 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Trump Says He Will ‘100’ Release The FISA Memo In ‘Hot Mic’ Moment |
| As president Donald Trump left last night’s State of the Union address, he was caught on a hot mic moment that should send shivers down the spines of leftists and the deep state. The president said he would 100% release the FISA memo.
Representative Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) approached Trump as he exited the House chamber following the State the Union address, and asked him to “release the memo.” Trump responded. “Don’t worry, 100 percent,” the president said with a wave of his hand.
The exchange waThursday, February 1, 2018 |
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