Since the first assault on Turkey’s finances in 2018, which I wrote about multiple times (here, here, and here), I’ve been the lone voice telling everyone that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a lunatic but he’s a lunatic with a plan. That plan is to de-dollarize the economy of a valuable member of NATO geostrategically. Since the first shots across the bow by the Trump administration at Erdogan’s toying with those powers east of the Bosporus (Russia, China and Iran) the Turkish lira has been the primary mode of attack against Erdogan. Erdogan has pursued what has been deemed unorthodox...
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Is Virtue Signaling Vicious?
Virtue signaling—the practice of highlighting what one takes to be one’s own moral superiority, often by loudly denouncing the character and comportment, including the speech, of other people—has become a dominant mode of rhetoric throughout social media and network television. Virtue theory, in contrast, is a teleological approach to normative morality concerned with how actions affect one’s soul or character. Historians of philosophy usually trace virtue theory to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, the first extant articulation of ideas such as that habits build character, and virtues...
Episode 428: Japan Succumbs To The Hysteria w/ Graham Smith
50 Minutes PG-13 Graham Smith is an American ex-pat living in Japan who describes himself as an Agorist. Pete asked Graham to come on to talk about Japan's reversal of their CV-19 policy where they have fallen in line with the W.H.O. Graham also talks about using Agorism to mitigate the financial damage done by shutdowns, and he comments on the black market in the Soviet Union, and its role in delegitimizing the State in the people's eyes. Graham's Articles at Agorist Nexus VoluntaryJapan.com Link to Richard Grove's Autonomy Course Donate at the Libertarian Institute Pete's Patreon Pete's...
Event 201
This is some scary, fascist stuff... Remember that time when some of the biggest companies and international government agencies got together to discuss how the coronavirus would lead to a global pandemic, and then systematically decided what the global response should be? Yeah, me neither. Event 201: Pandemic Exercise Thanks to Peter Quinones and Richard Grove for bringing this to my attention.
Q&A Show
I talked with an expert about the Coronavirus, and then I talked with Pete about that.
Feds Keep Stealing PPE From Local Hospitals
FEMA Accused Of Hijacking Protective Gear For First Responders In Massachusetts Town And tests too: Feds seize coronavirus test kit materials bound for Bellingham hospital and Northwest...
Medicining While Black
Watch a cop jack up a doctor for preparing to go out testing homeless people for the Coronavirus. Well, to the cop, he was just another n-- out there causing trouble. Here's a profile of the only hero in this story. Since the cop has full immunity for any crime he commits while on the clock, it is a foregone conclusion that there will be no accountability for him whatsoever.
Florida ER Doctor Loses Custody of Daughter Due to Coronavirus
What the hell is this, England? “I was just shocked that the judge would take this stance without talking to medical experts and knowing the facts and take it so lightly, take my child from me and not think of the effect on her, her mental and psychological well-being,” she said. Judge Bernard Shapiro is a criminal. May equivalent harm come to him.
Full Text of Peter Navarro’s Memos on Coronavirus
They had all the prior knowledge and advice about how to handle it that they needed way back in January. And did nothing. And here Scott Sumner has a great summary of the government's failings in this crisis.
Plasma From Coronavirus Survivors Helps Severely Ill Patients
The Guardian: "Doctors have found tentative evidence that seriously ill coronavirus patients can benefit from infusions of blood plasma collected from people who have recovered from the disease."
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