The Shocking Truth about Trump’s “Trade Deal” with China
The Chinese got just what they wanted, but here in the United States it will be spun as a big win for Trump by the White House.
14 October 2019
Who Owns Your Favorite News Media Outlet?
For various reasons — from tech disruption to changing media consumption habits — the U.S. has seen a net loss of 1,800 local newspapers over the past 15 years. As regional newspapers are bundled together, and venture-backed digital media brands expand their portfolios, the end result is a trend towards increased consolidation.
13 October 2019
‘The Doctor Will Not See You Now’
A fourth year medical student was admitted to Cardiff University Medical School who is almost totally deaf and blind.
12 October 2019
The World’s Most Powerful Reserve Currencies
Today, the U.S. dollar is the world’s most powerful reserve currency, making up over 61% of foreign reserves. The dollar gets an extensive network effect from its use abroad, and this translates into several advantages for the multi-trillion dollar U.S. economy.
11 October 2019
Counter-Extremism Tsar Says Government’s Definition Restricts Free Speech
Labelling people we disagree with as extremists simply in order to silence them is intellectually lazy and damaging to debate.
11 October 2019
Hillary Clinton Just Said This: “Maybe There Does Need To Be a Rematch – I Mean Obviously I Can Beat Him Again”
In this PBS interview Hillary Clinton definitely looks and sounds very much like a candidate. Could it be possible that she will be making some sort of an announcement very soon?
11 October 2019
Italian Court’s Assisted Suicide Decision ‘a Step towards Culture of Death’
Doctors exist to care for lives, not to interrupt them. We are creating the preconditions for a culture of death in which society loses the light of reason.
11 October 2019
China’s Sanctions against American Farmers Are Likely Permanent
China’s decision to stop buying commodities like soybeans from U.S. farmers has already done irreversible damage to the agricultural industry. Soybeans are rotting in silos and farmers have no one to buy their goods – meaning they will likely begin missing payments if they haven’t already.
10 October 2019
Hundreds of Young Trans People Now Regretting ‘Gender Switch’
Ruby also criticised what she sees as a trend of affirming everyone’s feelings of gender confusion, and called for alternative treatments.
10 October 2019
Parents’ Anger over Scottish Sex Education Lessons
When the father gave a graphic description of what he claimed was being taught, he was asked by the Chair of the event to tone down his language. He responded by saying if it’s not suitable to talk about with adults, “how can it possibly be suitable to talk about in schools?”
10 October 2019
An “All-Out Blizzard” that Is “Unheard of for October” Is about to Hit Farms in the Midwest with up to Two Feet of Snow
Many farmers continue to wait on the sidelines to get into the fields. With freezing temperatures, heavy snowfall, and high winds set to hit the northern Plains this week, the corn in North Dakota is only 22% mature vs. a 75% five-year average, according to Monday’s USDA Crop Progress Report.
10 October 2019
Business Economists Predict a Sharp Slowdown This Year and Next Year
The bad news is that a recession is likely in the next year or so, but the good news is that one year is a long time to prepare. There is little, if anything, you can do on your own to stop any kind of global economic meltdown. But you can get yourself prepared for what’s coming.
10 October 2019
Indian Mine Reopens after Major River Inundation
In recent years, Indian coal mines have suffered from several flood water inundations affecting production and causing considerable harm to water quality.
9 October 2019
Standard Religious, Conservative and Feminist Positions on Transgenderism Ruled not “Worthy of Respect in a Democratic Society”
We are compelled now to use language in a way which has been prescribed for us by other parties with which we disagree.
9 October 2019
High Impact Conventionals: A Realist Approach to Nuclear Disarmament
Serious consideration should be given to laying the framework of a multilateral treaty in which the world's great powers commit to replacing their store of nuclear weapons with high-impact conventionals within a timeframe of, at most, twenty years.
9 October 2019
America’s Political Implosion
America’s democracy and constitution is being trashed by unelected shadowy forces, aided and abetted by prestigious media outlets like the New York Times. These forces presume to know better or have more privilege than their fellow Americans who “voted the wrong way”.
9 October 2019
Even More Problems with the Benn Act
The ambiguity in the Act may be a deliberate attempt to wriggle through our constitutional conventions and please two sets of lawyers and two legal requirements.
9 October 2019
What is a Commodity Super Cycle?
The evidence suggests that human industrialization drives commodity prices into cycles. However, past growth was asymmetric around the world with different countries taking the lion’s share of commodities at different times.
9 October 2019
Does Criticism of the Press Represent an Attack on Press Freedom?
Regrettably, in our time, there's now a movement to shut down the freedom of speech on the internet, which contains many news outlets which counterbalance the power of a united press.
9 October 2019
Trade Expert: “Unintended Costs of a Trade War Are Far More Significant than Most Americans Realize”
The subsidies that the U.S. government is providing to farmers to make up for lost sales to China are not making up dollar for dollar for the loss ... There’s still a difference between what the farmers could earn and did earn when there weren’t tariffs on their products going into China and what the U.S. government is paying them.”
9 October 2019
General Electric Freezes Pension Plans for 20,000 Employees in an Effort to Cut Liabilities
The company said it will also freeze supplementary pension benefits for about 700 U.S. employees who became executives before 2011. GE’s pension plan has been closed to new entrants since 2012.
9 October 2019
Food Is Freedom: How Washington’s Food Subsidies Have Helped Make Americans Fat and Sick
Beyond the simple fact that a tax on meat would be yet another example of government overreach, there are other problems with a meat tax. It is also based on a subjective and dubious interpretation of the effects of meat on both the environment and on personal health. Such a tax would, like existing taxes on sugar and tobacco products, disproportionately impact the poorest Americans.
8 October 2019
America’s Financial Suicide: The Budget Deficit Rises 26% in One Year as Federal Spending Spirals Wildly out of Control
We are in the process of committing national financial suicide, and most Americans don’t seem to care. As you will see below, the federal budget deficit for the fiscal year that ended on September 30th was the largest in 7 years. In fact, it was actually 26 percent larger than last year. Federal spending is wildly out of control, and “non-discretionary spending” is projected to go through the roof in the years ahead. Under our current system, it is literally going to be impossible to turn things around. As the Baby Boomers continue to retire, the amount of resources demanded…
8 October 2019
The Book Is about to Close on the Late Great United States of America
Our story could have ended very differently. If America had embraced the truth, that would have put us on a far different road than the one we are on today.
8 October 2019