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Nixon’s Gold Treachery Made Me A Cynic Authored by James Bovard via The American Institute for Economic Research, Fifty years ago, on August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon announced that the U.S. government would cease honoring its pledge to pay gold to redeem the dollars held by foreign central banks. Nixon declared he was taking…

Biden To Address Crisis In Afghanistan “In Next Few Days” With both Americans, and the world, seeking some guidance – if not leadership – from the US during the chaos unfolding in Afghanistan which has seen both the capital Kabul and the US embassy fall to the Taliban in several frenetic hours… Quite the comment…

Deep Diving For Metals: Visualizing Ocean Mining The mining sector has been one of the biggest beneficiaries in the COVID-19 recovery. Several countries’ recovery packages have ignited demand for commodities like copper, iron ore and lithium. Given that more metals are necessary for electrification and the clean energy transition, many companies are looking at an unexplored…

Eviction Moratorium: A Postmortem On Private Property Authored by Michael Milano via The Libertarian Institute,  At the beseeching of congressional Democrats and the fanatical urgings of Nancy Pelosi, who called the extension of the federal eviction moratorium a “moral imperative,” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a new nationwide ban on evictions…

These Are The World’s Fastest Growing Cities By 2025, the world’s population will reach over 8.1 billion people. Most of that population growth will be concentrated in cities across Africa and Asia. To help paint a detailed picture, Visual Caitalist’s Avery Koop uses data from the United Nations to rank the top 20 fastest growing cities in the world…

Politicians Who Claim To Be Serious About Stopping Covid Better Get Serious About The Border Submitted by Mark Glennon for Wirepoints “We know exactly how to shut it down. We need to make illegal entry illegal.” -Border patrol agent speaking to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. If you think it’s exaggeration to call the situation…

Goldman: This Is The Biggest Equity (BTD) Dynamic Of 2021 Just three weeks ago in the middle of a blockbuster Q2 earnings season when stocks were surprisingly unable to break out to new all time highs despite the strongest earnings on record, sentiment shifted among some of the biggest banks with Goldman leading the charge…

In Lieu Of Ethics: Democratic Assistant Whip Accused Of Giving Campaign Funds To Stanford Before Admission Of His Son Authored by Jonathan Turley, After the recent admissions scandal at top California schools (including Stanford), the gifts of Rep. Ted Lieu (D., Cal.) would immediately raise concerns over the same type of academic pay-to-play pattern. However, the $51,046…

As Main Street Confidence Crashes, Wall Street Is The Most Bullish In 20 Years If you blinked you missed it Friday as most mainstream media simply brushed it off, but Americans’ consumer sentiment suddenly crashed to 10 year lows… Source: Bloomberg As the casedemic and fearmongering of the government grew about the Delta variant (or…

Study Finds Children Born During Lockdown Have Lost IQ Points, Impaired Cognitive Functioning Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, A new study has found that mean IQ scores of young children born during the pandemic have tumbled by as much as 22 points while verbal, motor and cognitive performance have all suffered as…

Airbnb Removes Sexual Assault Arbitration Clause, Allowing Hosts And Guests To Sue The Company Heading into 2021 with the tailwind of lockdowns and travel restrictions finally loosening (at least for now), Airbnb is signaling to hosts and guests that it can now be sued for sexual assault and harassment, replacing an arbitration clause that’s been…

Unlike The Fed, Brazil Central Bank Vows To Do Whatever It Takes To Tame Soaring Inflation Just days after Brazil’s central bank hiked rates last Wednesday by a whopping 100bps, to 5.25% and up 325bps since March, with market consensus for much more tightening to come, Brazilian policy markets vowed to do what the Fed…

The Propaganda Multiplier Via swprs.org, It is one of the most important aspects of our media system, and yet hardly known to the public: most of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by only three global news agencies based in New York, London and Paris. The key role played by these agencies…

Biden Administration Wants Airlines Off Fossil Fuels By 2050 As if we weren’t throwing enough trillions of dollars away (or, should we say, printing enough trillions away) incentivizing ill conceived “green energy” subsidies, the Biden administration is now set to be targeting weaning all airlines off of fossil fuels by 2050.  The idea, which is likely going to…

From PsyOp To MindWar Authored by Cynthia Chung “MindWar must be strategic in emphasis, with tactical applications playing a reinforcing, supplementary role. In its strategic context, MindWar must reach out to friends, enemies, and neutrals alike across the globe…through the media possessed by the United States which have the capabilities to reach virtually all people…

Mercator Misconceptions: Clever Map Shows The True Size Of Countries Maps are hugely important tools in our everyday life, whether it’s guiding our journeys from point A to B, or shaping our big picture perceptions about geopolitics and the environment. For many people though, as Visual Capitalist’s Nick Routley shows below, the Earth as they…

Study Links Excess COVID-19 Cases And Deaths To Wildfire Smoke Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, New research indicates that exposure to pollutants in wildfire smoke may have led to thousands more COVID-19 cases and deaths. The new study, published in the journal Science Advances, links fine particle pollution known as PM2.5, which measures 2.5 micrometers across and…

Rabobank: The World’s Biggest Oil Consumer Showed Its Political Vulnerability To Higher Oil Prices And Skyrocketing Inflation By Ryan Fitzmaurice of Rabobank Summary The White House released a statement on Wednesday pleading with OPEC+ to increase oil production to stem off inflationary pressures from higher domestic gasoline prices The world’s biggest oil consumer showed its…

‘Named & Shamed’ – IRS Lists The Record Number Of Wealthy Americans Becoming Ex-Americans In 2020 The number of wealthy Americans with assets over $2 million who renounced their citizenship has surged amid socioeconomic despair, political firestorms, and an unrelenting virus pandemic sparking increasingly freedom-destroying mandates from the ‘petty tyrants’ – as Rand Paul described…

Judge Orders Biden Administration To Resume “Remain In Mexico” Policy Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The stoppage of the policy has contributed to the border crisis, ruling says… A federal judge on Friday said the Biden administration must resume a policy that sees asylum seekers wait in Mexico for their claims to…

The Great Parent Revolt Authored by Katharina Gorka via RealClearPolitics.com, As overreach in classrooms by progressive school administrators, nonprofits and the federal government has reached new heights, parents are stepping up to fight back.  Moms for Liberty, Informed Parents of California, EdFirstNC, NJ Parental Rights, No Left Turn in Education and Parents Against Critical Theory…