Don’t you know that to be a liberated woman, you need to have the sex life of a chimpanzee?That’s the latest propaganda to come out of the New York Times.The Soviet Union may have had its pitfalls–you know, like the murder and starvation of tens of millions of people. But women had great sex lives!A comparative sociological study of East and West Germans conducted after reunifica...Read More
“Facebook is for old people,” I was told by a 17-year-old last week in San Francisco at the Startup Societies Summit.He doesn’t use the social media platform. He’s right too. About half a million fewer teens aged 12-17 will use Facebook this year compared to last year.Facebook depends on older people for its advertising revenue. But it needs to get users while they are youn...Read More
“Facebook is for old people,” I was told by a 17-year-old last week in San Francisco at the Startup Societies Summit.He doesn’t use the social media platform. He’s right too. About half a million fewer teens aged 12-17 will use Facebook this year compared to last year.Facebook depends on older people for its advertising revenue. But it needs to get users while they are youn...Read More
It is amazing the amount of “crimes” one broken taillight precipitated.A recent court case in Massachusetts highlights the insanity of statute law, versus common law. That is, relying on laws made by politicians, rather than assessing a claim brought by a victim.Time, money, and freedom are all poured down the drain in favor of arbitrary statutes.It started with a guy being pulled over...Read More
It is amazing the amount of “crimes” one broken taillight precipitated.A recent court case in Massachusetts highlights the insanity of statute law, versus common law. That is, relying on laws made by politicians, rather than assessing a claim brought by a victim.Time, money, and freedom are all poured down the drain in favor of arbitrary statutes.It started with a guy being pulled over...Read More
Mining stocks and oil and gas stocks have compelling valuations right now which makes a specialty fund such as RBC Global Resources attractive. If you'd rather track a broad index, then exchange-traded funds or index mutual funds may be better for you. TD Bank's e-Series offerings remain our favourite index mutual funds.There's a case to made for investing in resource stocks right now. Oil and gas...Read More
Can you believe that there are at least three statues of Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington DC? There is one in South Dakota too, another in Virginia, and even more in London.It appears all these places are overrun by racists and fascist sympathizers. How can people put up with revering a man who:1. Literally Rounded Up 120,000 Japanese Americans, and Put them in Concentration Camps!That was auth...Read More
Can you believe that there are at least three statues of Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington DC? There is one in South Dakota too, another in Virginia, and even more in London.It appears all these places are overrun by racists and fascist sympathizers. How can people put up with revering a man who:1. Literally Rounded Up 120,000 Japanese Americans, and Put them in Concentration Camps!That was auth...Read More
Man Kind is leading the way in modern education. No, that isn’t some lofty but empty phrase about humanity. This guy’s name is actually Man Kind. He runs a program in Cambodia that does more than educate.The schooling instills the drive to do something meaningful. The education empowers youth to take ownership of their life circumstances. If they don’t like the situation into whi...Read More
Man Kind is leading the way in modern education. No, that isn’t some lofty but empty phrase about humanity. This guy’s name is actually Man Kind. He runs a program in Cambodia that does more than educate.The schooling instills the drive to do something meaningful. The education empowers youth to take ownership of their life circumstances. If they don’t like the situation into whi...Read More
Via Sovereignman.comSovereign Valley Farm, Chile A few weeks ago the Board of Trustees of Social Security sent a formal letter to the United States Senate and House of Representatives to issue a dire warning: Social Security is running out of money. Given that tens of millions of Americans depend on this public pension program as their sole source of retirement income, you'd think this would have...Read More
Via Sovereignman.comSovereign Valley Farm, Chile A few weeks ago the Board of Trustees of Social Security sent a formal letter to the United States Senate and House of Representatives to issue a dire warning: Social Security is running out of money. Given that tens of millions of Americans depend on this public pension program as their sole source of retirement income, you'd think this would have...Read More
His neighbor, a woman who had lived in the same community with him all his life, shouted out to the Nazi soldiers. Hersch Altman was 11 years old, hiding with his older sister. His Polish neighbor pointed them out. He got away. His sister did not. Hersch never saw her again.There are tens of millions of stories just like that one. You can change the names, the places, the regimes, and the ethnicit...Read More
His neighbor, a woman who had lived in the same community with him all his life, shouted out to the Nazi soldiers. Hersch Altman was 11 years old, hiding with his older sister. His Polish neighbor pointed them out. He got away. His sister did not. Hersch never saw her again.There are tens of millions of stories just like that one. You can change the names, the places, the regimes, and the ethnicit...Read More
If you get government wrong, you get everything wrong.New York City has a lot of wealth. There is infrastructure, skyscrapers, smart people, transportation, and so on.But what would happen if North Korea took over the city tomorrow? Would all that wealth simply remain in place? Would everyone just go on with their lives?Of course not. People would flee in droves, the city would crumble.Tom W. Bell...Read More
If you get government wrong, you get everything wrong.New York City has a lot of wealth. There is infrastructure, skyscrapers, smart people, transportation, and so on.But what would happen if North Korea took over the city tomorrow? Would all that wealth simply remain in place? Would everyone just go on with their lives?Of course not. People would flee in droves, the city would crumble.Tom W. Bell...Read More
Dale Brown realized decades ago that if he wanted to help secure the most dangerous neighborhoods in Detroit, he had to appeal to building owners’ wallets, not their humanity. They can make more money when people don’t get murdered in their neighborhoods. Dale’s company makes money training people to de-escalate situations for non-violent outcomes.Joe Quirk of the Seasteading Ins...Read More
Dale Brown realized decades ago that if he wanted to help secure the most dangerous neighborhoods in Detroit, he had to appeal to building owners’ wallets, not their humanity. They can make more money when people don’t get murdered in their neighborhoods. Dale’s company makes money training people to de-escalate situations for non-violent outcomes.Joe Quirk of the Seasteading Ins...Read More
When zombies attack or when the electric grid is taken down by an EMP or solar flare, trade must go on.Currently, about 90% of U.S. dollars exist only digitally. Even if fiat cash remained valuable post-apocalypse, it would be pretty hard to come by.Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are great, but still rely on electricity and the internet to function.So what are the best off the grid currencies...Read More
When zombies attack or when the electric grid is taken down by an EMP or solar flare, trade must go on.Currently, about 90% of U.S. dollars exist only digitally. Even if fiat cash remained valuable post-apocalypse, it would be pretty hard to come by.Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are great, but still rely on electricity and the internet to function.So what are the best off the grid currencies...Read More