You may have seen "Students Love Green New Deal... Until Hearing What's In It" by now, but if not you probably get the gist just from the title. Yes, it's one of those "man on the street" interview videos where random college students are asked whether they support...
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Fake News: Economics Edition
Just when you thought "fake news" was only about those dastardly Russians hiding under every bed, Japan comes out and admits that 40% of its economic data is bogus. That's right, a report from Japan's Internal Affairs Ministry this week reveals that 22 of the 56 key...
Has the Chinese Dragon Been Tamed?
Chinese President-for-Life Xi Jinping is warning that the glorious Communist Party of China (CPC) "is facing long-term and complex tests in terms of maintaining long-term rule, reform and opening-up, a market-driven economy, and within the external environment." Or at...
Know Your Enemy: The Royal Institute of International Affairs
Readers of this column will know all about the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) by now. The CFR's influence in setting Washington's foreign policy agenda was once derided as “conspiracy theory." But, as is often the case, that "conspiracy theory" is now a simple...
Banksters HATE The Free Market
It's no secret that governments hate the free market. At its base, every single government tax, license, regulation and restriction is an implicit rebuke to the idea that humans should be able to interact freely with those around them. This is old news to my long-term...
5 Outrageous New Year’s Predictions
Sick of the same old, same old boring list of predictable, safe New Year's predictions that are so vague they can't possibly come true? (Weaponized narratives, indeed!) Yeah. So am I. So, in the spirit of spicing things up for this post-holiday hangover season, let's...
Venezuela Joins the Social Credit Club
So you know all about China's social credit system by now, right? You know, the one that I've been talking about for years? The one that we had a sneak preview of eight years ago in "You Are Being Gamed?" The one that's being trial ballooned at home via Carrot Rewards...
Episode 350 – History Is Written By The Winners
Who gets to write the history textbooks? Where do the history teachers learn about history? What documents are allowed into the historical record, and what documents are excluded? These are not merely academic questions, they go right to the heart of the question of...