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Author Liaquat Ahamed started the last paragraph of Lords of Finance - The Bankers Who Broke the World (2009) with: More than anything else, therefore, the Great Depression was caused by a failure of intellectual will, a lack of understanding about how the economy operated. … There will be no such excuse this time around. …
Continue reading The Worst Economy in Eighty Years – Lords of Finance Vol 2?
Normally I just post stuff like this as updates in the comments of the recent relevant post on the subject but, given this new format, I am going to try to make a habit of putting what I consider substantive updates in follow-up posts like this. This update (H/T Instapundit) links to a couple of …
Continue reading Irreversibly Broken – The ‘How Corrupt is the FBI?’ Addendum
It could be argued that the agency has gone rogue. Unfortunately, that the greater system…from the judiciary to the watchdog press…enables the behavior and abuses hints rather strongly that something much more substantial is wrong with the Republic established to ensure justice and liberty for all. I do give the The Los Angeles Times credit …
Continue reading Irreversibly Broken – Is Today’s FBI no Longer Compatible with American Liberty?
I do smile to myself when pet topics of mine are occasionally refreshed in the broader interwebs where more than three or four people may read about it. Still, in so many cases, far too few bother to recognize the importance of the phenomenon playing out right under their noses. One of these occasions happened …
Way back at the beginning of May, when I was still posting at the other place, I wrote of the hollow-credentialed buffoons, or the HCYSW (Heavily Credentialed Yet Still Worthless) crowd...again, with apologies for the blatant mimicking of Mr. Taleb’s Intellectual Yet Idiot construct...that now dominate the ruling American beltway (and so much more of the American …
In my last post I touched on the Silent Narrative or those headlines "that are never allowed to become breaking news and/or even get the proper coverage to establish the meanings and motives…and potential implications today and down the road a bit. In many cases, these tend to be the stories that would provide the …
Continue reading Another Encounter with an Anti-Narrative and Some Rather Ignorant Arrogance
On many levels a broader swath of We the People are starting to catch on to how the anti-American forces that now form our ruling beltway can count on the fully compliant and reliably incurious media to overtly spin to the dictated narratives at all costs. That tool is vital to cultivating reportable polling support …
Continue reading Refusing to Ignore the Anti-Narrative: The Chill Continues to Descend Upon Us
Last night while I was not watching the speech, I typed of the Cancer of the Soul that is always visible through Joe Biden's face: "May history record that as the face of the emerging American Totalitarianism here in the twenty-first century. It would be well deserved." Little did I know that the handlers of …
(Photo borrowed from Michael Yon somewhere along the line.) Trusted reading sources of the day tell me that, at this very moment, I am likely missing a lecture to the American people from the Dufus in Chief on the state of the American soul: JOE BIDEN, SOUL DOCTOR Tonight Joe Biden will deliver a speech …
Continue reading Cancer of the Soul – Fifty Years the Demagogue
“There is one rule that works in every calamity… The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.” – A Will Rogers Treasury, Page 157 I suspect that bit of wisdom holds equally well when the currency is “liberty” as when it is good, old American dollars as Mr. Rogers intended. Under this updated model, …
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