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Just before the Songkran festival marking the Thai new year, I met 69-year-old Marc Faber in his museum-like home office in Chiang Mai, Thailand. After a brief greeting, as I was about to walk around inside the architectural masterpiece filled with Communism and Maoist artifacts, Faber asked me to take off my shoes. “We ARE in Thailand, after all,” he grinned. Having lived in the largest city in Northern Thailand for decades, Faber is very much a local. There was no air conditioning on this humid day. In a black tank top and barefeet, he converses in Thai with his … Continue reading →

I am inspired by the very definition of self-reliance: to be reliant on one’s own capabilities, judgment, or resources. Ultimately, it is the epitome of independence and lays the groundwork of what we are all striving for – to live a life based on our personal principles and beliefs. It is a concept rooted in the groundwork  that made America great. Being dependent on our own capabilities and resources helped create a strong, plentiful country for so long. That said, the existing country as it is now is entirely different than when it began. Why Are We So Dependent? It is much too complicated to get into how … Continue reading →

A birthday party ‘invitation from hell’ has been mocked online after racking up over a million views. The invitation, apparently sent by a one-year-old boy’s mother, demanded a number of gifts for guests to bring to the party. She asks for a water table, a play tunnel, tent and book for her one-year-old, adding she had sent a separate list to her mother and sister-in-law to ‘avoid duplication’. An anonymous Reddit user shared the invitation, explaining a colleague received it from a family with a ‘very significant income’. “With [our child’s] birthday coming up, we thought we’d ask for four … Continue reading →

Trade was taking place between East Asia and the New World hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus arrived in the area in 1492. This is according to a series of bronze artefacts found at the ‘Rising Whale’ site in Cape Espenberg, Alaska. Archaeologists discovered what they believe to be a bronze and leather buckle and a bronze whistle, dating to around A.D. 600. Bronze-working had not been developed at this time in Alaska, and researchers instead believe the artefacts were created in China, Korea or Yakutia. ‘We’re seeing the interactions, indirect as they are, with these so-called ‘high civilisations’ of … Continue reading →

Dating back thousands of years are numerous examples of ancient technology that leave us awe-struck at the knowledge and wisdom held by people of our past. They were the result of incredible advances in engineering and innovation as new, powerful civilizations emerged and came to dominate the ancient world.  These advances stimulated societies to adopt new ways of living and governance, as well as new ways of understanding their world. However, many ancient inventions were forgotten, lost to the pages of history, only to be re-invented millennia later. Here we feature ten of the best examples of ancient technology and … Continue reading →

In this address given on the California Capitol steps in Sacramento Robert Kennedy Jr. provides an inspired and detailed analysis of the extent to which the powerful pharmaceutical cartel has effectively captured the nation’s scientific, regulatory, and law-making processes. Combined with the corporate news media’s dependence on drug advertising, this has put big pharma in a position where it is running roughshod over informed choice and dictating vaccine policies that have little-if-any basis in scientific research yet will greatly contribute to that industry’s already gargantuan profits. This is Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s speech at the SB277 rally that took place … Continue reading →

Agent In Charge of Amerithrax Investigation Blows the Whistle The FBI head agent in charge of the anthrax investigation – Richard Lambert – has just filed a federal whistleblower lawsuit calling the entire FBI investigation bullsh!t: In the fall of 2001, following the 9/11 attacks, a series of anthrax mailings occurred which killed five Americans and sickened 17 others. Four anthrax-laden envelopes were recovered which were addressed to two news media outlets in New York City (the New York Post and Tom Brokaw at NBC) and two senators in Washington D.C. (Patrick Leahy and Tom Daschle). The anthrax letters addressed to New … Continue reading →

Pain affects all of us at some point, but it seems the older we get the more pain we experience. Sure it’s easy to take a pill to combat this pain, but throughout the day you may be topping up to six pills! The damage these can do to your body isn’t good, so finding effective, natural painkillers is ideal. No matter your level of pain or location of your pain, natural cures for pain are available and should be given a fair chance. If you’re looking for natural painkillers that work, here are some of the best and most effective … Continue reading →

When our first black president was elected, people took to the streets to cheer. It was the first time that many of us felt genuinely proud of our country. Who would have ever guessed that a nation so steeped in prejudice could look past their own bigotry and elect a black man? And he wasn’t just a black man. Barack Hussein Obama is a smooth operator who makes the ladies swoon and the guys drool over the idea of grabbing a beer with him. In many ways, he’s our first cool president. So, let’s continue this tradition of dusting off … Continue reading →

Yesterday was Equal Pay Day. Or maybe it’s today. Or maybe it’s tomorrow. Who really cares. In a recent post, Black Guys, Fat Guys, and Discrimination, I mentioned that I used to work at a law firm in San Francisco as a paralegal. About six months after I was hired, the firm hired a White woman who was pretty, blonde, and had a southern drawl. Her name was Tara. One day I was bored with work. I started looking through some of the documents that were stored on the firm’s hard drive. All these documents were available for employees, so … Continue reading →

Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog, (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 here) An entire new feedback loop of accreditation is needed, and fortunately that feedback is within our control: it’s a process I call accredit yourself. Economist Michael Spence developed the job market signaling model of valuing employees based on their credentials in the 1970s. The basic idea is that signaling overcomes the inherent asymmetry of information between employer and potential employee, i.e. what skills the employer needs and what skills the employee actually has is a mystery to the other party. Credentials (diplomas, certificates, grad point averages, test scores, etc.) … Continue reading →

In lederhosen and knee-high socks, Adolf Hitler lounges against a tree in a pose more twit than tyrant. It is little surprise the Fuhrer later banned the absurdly camp woodland snap, calling it ‘beneath one’s dignity’. But the rare archive photo, and several other portraits as comical as they are chilling, have been discovered in a Hitler ‘fan magazine’ from the Thirties. Hitler seems ill at ease with his hands, squeezing them into his tight lederhosen pockets in one photo, and perching them awkwardly on his hips in another. In one ridiculous picture, he tilts his head and tries a … Continue reading →

I’m sure many of you remember why there were so many guns sold between 2008 and 2014. Between Obama’s reelection and the threats of confiscation after Sandy Hook, there was a genuine fear for our right to bear arms. Even now, that fear wouldn’t be unwarranted. But back then it almost seemed like a panic. Guns were flying off the shelves and so much ammo was being sold that the police were having trouble maintaining their regular supplies. And it wasn’t just the most popular weapons that were being sold out, like the AR-15. The prices for every kind of … Continue reading →

A Czech national has proclaimed the establishment of a new country of seven square kilometers on ‘no man’s land’ located at the border of Serbia and Croatia. A Czech named Vít Jedlicka has declared himself the president of Europe’s youngest country, which he formed on April 13 with the name ‘Liberland,’ and the motto “to live and let live.” The country is located on the west bank of the Danube river between Croatia and Serbia, on land which has been subject to a decades-long border dispute and therefore, according to Jedlicka, a ‘terra nuillius’ or no man’s land, before the institution of his state on Monday. President Jedlicka is in the process of writing … Continue reading →

The United States risks sliding into the abyss of economic crisis, Ron Paul warned, pointing out that “there is a huge bubble with the dollar.” The rising Dollar index, which reached its 12-year highs against the basket of currencies, is not a reason for optimism, warned Ron Paul, a former Republican congressman and two-time US presidential candidate. “It’s not so much that the dollar is a great currency. It’s the fact that nothing else is any better. The fundamentals are a disaster. The economy is in bad shape when you have more than half the people hardly making ends meet,” Dr. Ron Paul underscored.  The … Continue reading →