New York Times Technology writer David Streitfeld recently examined the role the Federal Reserve’s easy money policies played in the rise and, if not fall then at least slippage, of many technology companies. Immediately after the bursting of the housing bubble (which...
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3/17/23 Kit Klarenberg on the Georgia Uprisings and the National Endowment for Democracy
by Scott Horton | Mar 21, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Kit Klarenberg is back to provide some important context for the uprisings in Georgia. They start with the Eastern European country’s transition after the fall of the Soviet Union and the influence that the U.S. has enjoyed there since. That brings...
Ep 012 “Sisyphus is God: Government Incompetence and Martial Failure”
by Bill Buppert | Mar 20, 2023 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
Episode Notes Government, for a variety of reasons, is manifestly incompetent in everything it does and this lends parts of the explanatory framework in why systemic failure is the feature not a bug in Western martial efforts. The critiques of the government...
Ep 011 “Three Strikes of the March: American Divorce 1775”
by Bill Buppert | Mar 6, 2023 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
Episode Notes As a former Appleseed instructor and Shoot Boss, I had the opportunity to teach a marksmanship/history project that had me master the origins and details of the first month of the First American Revolution. I cover the "Three Strikes of the Match" that...
The United States Is in Conflict with Countries for Doing Things We Know They’re Not Doing
by Ted Snider | Mar 6, 2023 | Featured Articles
China, Balloons, and Spying On February 4, the U.S. military shot down a Chinese balloon they claim was a surveillance device spying on U.S. territory. The unprecedented “kinetic action against an airborne object...within United States or American airspace” was...
A Second Trump Presidency Promise No Improvements on Trade
by Trenton Hale | Mar 6, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Politics
Over the past few weeks, former President Donald Trump has been releasing some of his proposals if he were to return to the White House in 2024. While many of his positions pose great danger to personal liberty, such as his plan to “end crime and keep Americans safe,”...
30th Anniversary of the FBI’s Biggest ‘Bomb’
by Jim Bovard | Mar 1, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Thirty years ago this past Sunday, the largest terrorist attack in American history up to that point occurred when a 1200-pound bomb exploded beneath the World Trade Center in New York City. It was sheer luck that the explosion did not topple the entire skyscraper and...
2/17/23 Bill Buppert: A Deep Dive into Irregular Warfare
by Scott Horton | Feb 23, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott brings Bill Buppert on the show for a long discussion centering around U.S. attempts at utilizing irregular warfare since 1945. The two touch on the Afghan surge, the battle of Tora Bora, the Vietnam War, Color Revolutions, Suicide Bombings,...
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Mr Jarfart
Just think about this, whatever your child or your niece, nephew and some strangers kids are feeding their eyes with is likely attached to a clown or maybe a cynical conglomerate that knows social media and children fed algorithms will make them rich. Those little...
Free Trade Facts Don’t Matter to Democrats or Republicans
Both parties tend to ignore facts about the benefits of free trade because both parties oppose free trade.
The Government Had to Bankrupt Spirit Airlines to Save It
The US government is very good at destroying things on the pretense that its actions are required to save the things destroyed.
Paul Krugman: The Dollar Can’t Collapse! Unless…
The scenarios under which Krugman says the dollar could collapse are not hypothetical. They are already here.
Taking It for Granted
"Capitalism, says Marx, unthinkingly repeating the fables of the eulogists of the Middle Ages, has an inevitable tendency to impoverish the workers more and more. The truth is that capitalism has poured a horn of plenty upon the masses of wage earners who frequently...
Taliban is Still on the Western Dole
However, the Taliban is the group handing out NGO licenses in Afghanistan. If a Taliban sympathizer asks for an NGO license, they get it. So, many of these groups send money directly to the Taliban or to support the families of suicide bombers. Legend also said...
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