The CDC has released its numbers for age-adjusted COVID mortality.These are the CDC's own numbers, I repeat, so you and I can't be accused of using obscure sources, or whatever other excuse the crazies normally use.The results: completely random. If you can see a...
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How the Bolsheviks Took Russia – Sean McMeekin, Ph.D. & Matthew Raphael Johnson, Ph.D.
by Keith Knight | Feb 28, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/wNLqZZApV0A For impressive evidence of Western participation in the early phase of Soviet economic growth, see Antony C. Sutton's Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development, 19171930 (Stanford, Calif., 1968), which argues that "Soviet...
US, South Korea Plan to Expand ‘Silent Shark’ Drills
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Nov 28, 2022 | News
Washington and Seoul are reportedly discussing plans to ramp up anti-submarine military exercises set to begin next year. The talks came amid soaring tensions in the region, days before North Korea pledged to further develop its nuclear arsenal.
US Air Force To Deploy Six Nuclear-Capable B-52 Bombers to Australia in Move Aimed at China
by Dave DeCamp | Nov 4, 2022 | News
Australia’s ABC News has reported that the US is preparing to deploy up to six nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to Australia in a provocative move aimed at China.
The Carl Sagan Case Against Democracy
by Keith Knight | Oct 6, 2022 | Blog
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan, BrainyQuote How has science and technology advanced when "we the people" never "voted" for such a thing to...
Russia Will No Longer Depend on West, Deepen Trade Ties with China – Lavrov
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | May 23, 2022 | News Roundup
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said his country would pivot its economic relationships away from the West and towards China, suggesting Moscow could even rebuff an offer to reopen trade with the US and its allies. Speaking with reporters in Moscow on Monday,...
The Lab Leak Hypothesis, Evolution, Innovation, & Rational Optimism. Matt Ridley & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | May 16, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/DPEP1TGyqqQ The cumulative acceleration of knowledge by specialists that allows us each to consume more and more different things by each producing fewer and fewer, is I submit, the central story of humanity. - Matt Ridley, The Rational Optimist, p....
New Report Reveals ICE Spent Billions Spying on Americans
by Kyle Anzalone | May 10, 2022 | News Roundup
Immigration and Customs Enforcement spent $2.8 billion to surveil Americans from 2008 to 2021. The report titled “American Dragnet: Data-Driven Deportation in the 21st Century” from the Georgetown Law Center for Privacy and Technology details how ICE used warrantless,...
US Abandoned Billions in Military Gear Meant for Afghan Army, Some Sent to Ukraine
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Apr 27, 2022 | News Roundup
When the last American soldier left Kabul in August, the US left behind $7 billion in military equipment it had given to the Afghan Army, more than one-third of all the gear donated over 16 years.
9/24/21 Barbara Grant on What Really Happened on the Final Day of the Waco Siege
by Scott Horton | Sep 28, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott is joined by Barbara Grant to discuss her new documentary which gives an experts perspective on the infrared footage capture on the final day of the Waco siege. Grant was busy working on a satellite when it happened in 1993, but she later became interested in...
Five Myths About Drone Warfare
by Steven Woskow | Sep 17, 2021 | Blog
Myth 1. It's "precision bombing" Myth 2. Drone warfare is ethical Myth 3. If the war is legal so is the weapon Myth 4. Drones are a triumph of technology Myth 5. Drones are effective Aerial bombardment has not created peaceful states, nor defeated IS, nor stopped the...
Episode 628: Post-Ideology And Embracing The ‘Creator Economy’ w/ Justin Murphy
by Peter R. Quiñones | Sep 9, 2021 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
64 Minutes PG-13 Justin Murphy is a social scientist, who writes about philosophy, science, and technology. Pete invited Justin to come on the show to talk about a few subjects including ideology, Christianity arranged marriages, but especially about what he calls the...
Forever Soldiers To Fight Forever Wars
by Steven Woskow | Jul 13, 2021 | Blog
The U.S. military says it is months away from launching clinical trials of a pill designed to block or reduce many degenerative effects of aging—an oral treatment that a leading researcher in the field says is better than nothing while questioning how effective it...
Capitalist Realism w/Cotton
by Tommy Salmons | Jun 15, 2021 | Year Zero
I asked Cotton of The Slurp Gang Podcast to join me for a deep conversation into a topic he brought to my attention, Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher. I crammed for the exam and may have sent the conversation spiraling a few times, but this topic is so in depth and...
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The Non-Existent Difference Between National Socialism and Democratic Socialism
Summary: National Socialism and Democratic Socialism both advocate institutionalized violence by the state against peaceful people only differing in rhetoric. The most popular self described Democratic Socialists in America today are Senator Bernie Sanders and...
A Response to My Memorial Day Critics
My article against Memorial Day drew a lot of ire and attention. This should not have been surprising; I was making a controversial statement. What did surprise me, however, was that many critics were self-described libertarians or former libertarians. There were many...
Ignoring Political Gossip & Sticking to Principle
https://youtu.be/ZwWHjYVY4tg In the private sector, firms must attract voluntary customers or they fail; and if they fail, investors lose their money, and managers and employees lose their jobs. The possibility of failure, therefore, is a powerful incentive to find...
The Myth of “Hyper-Rugged-Isolationist-Individualism”
Myth #1: Libertarians believe that each individual is an isolated, hermetically sealed atom, acting in a vacuum without influencing each other. This is a common charge, but a highly puzzling one. In a lifetime of reading libertarian and classical-liberal...
The Lesson From Germany and Korea
Institutions are, of course, in some sense the products of culture. But, because they formalize a set of norms, institutions are often the things that keep a culture honest, determining how far it is conducive to good behaviour rather than bad. To illustrate the...
Occupational Licensing Increases Prices and Deprives People of Options
When you shop online, vendors usually give you a bunch of different ways to sort your options. Take Amazon: One popular sorting option – especially for customers with low income – is “Price: Low to High.” You’ve probably used it yourself many times. This...
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