Author Archives: todd

Just finished a great one! Excellent and often laugh-out-loud satire of the follies of war. Written by Czech Jaroslav Hasek in the aftermath of WWI. He mocks the Monarchy, bureaucracy, military, church and the throngs of their ridiculous adherents. Hasek … Continue reading →

  TED talk. Michael Vlahos, PhD, professor at both the  US Naval War College and Johns Hopkins, consultant for both the Dept of State and the CIA, national security commentator, etc. His predictions for US Empire seem about right. It … Continue reading →

  Additionally, realize that you can never own your property. Even after you pay off the mortgage to the bank, you will continue to rent your property from the government via property taxes that for a median home value of … Continue reading →

(See the Bloomberg article on Fed interest rate manipulation.) The Fed (your totalitarian financial Gov Sponsored Enterprise) forces interest rates artificially low, which means you can make no money by lending your savings to banks and other corporate entities through … Continue reading →

Article by Carmen Elena Dorobăț at Mises Institute today.   In my opinion, economists are politically-motivated behavioral scientists – sociologists that crunch numbers. Their soft science of behavior observation does not give them an ability to plan economies, create monetary … Continue reading →

(Graphic and data from article sourced here from CNS news)   US Gov took over $600B from individuals in the month of February – a record. Regardless, it still cannot meet its obligations without the continual creation of debt: a … Continue reading →

Book recommendation. I’d read Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago years ago, never realizing how much more he’d written. That one work is an incredible revelation of his personal history with Stalin’s political prison system in the 1940s-50s, but he wrote so much … Continue reading →

  “Would you like the $9,400 CT scan or the $450 CT scan?”      We’re not all careful. Some of us ride motorcycles on the highway,… recklessly. A nephew ended up at a Level I trauma center in Houston, Texas, … Continue reading →

  Mr Scheuer is an insider, ex-CIA, an expert for decades on anti-terrorism, even prior to the attack on the Towers in 2001. He says things, and critiques in ways, that the Establishment does not tolerate from others because those … Continue reading →

I’m referencing an enlightening zerohedge article on the topic today: “‘There’s Chaos Everywhere’ – Indians Angry As ATMs Run Dry After Cash Ban” This is Governments’ and Big Banks’ continued war on cash, India version. As powermongers and money-lusters continue … Continue reading →