Having the most common blood group, O, makes you more than twice as likely to bleed to death from serious injuries, a study has found. The blood group is associated with lower levels of a clotting agent which may result in greater bleeding, researchers believe. Forty-seven per cent of the UK population are type O. Data from 901 emergency care patients in Japan showed a death rate of 28 per cent for those with type O blood. The death rate of patients from other blood groups combined was 11 per cent. Lead researcher Dr Wataru Takayama, from Tokyo Medical and Dental University … Continue reading →

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Fewer than 10 percent of Norwegians are still using paper currency or coins, which could completely disappear in a decade, according to the local authorities. Jon Nicolaisen, the deputy governor of Norway’s central bank, has said Norwegian society has become cashless, and that this is very much a present reality rather than a future dream. “By approximation, I would argue that the present is cashless,” he said at the City Week conference at London’s Guildhall in a discussion on the future of paper currency, chaired by the Bank of England’s chief cashier. “According to our latest numbers, we have less than … Continue reading →

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Strategic investments are made for the long run and with no intent of short term gains or concern of short term fluctuations. This kind of investing is based on buying undervalued and unloved assets and holding them for a very long term. This is what we did with gold in early 2002 for our investors and ourselves. Having come down from $850 in 1980, not only did gold represent incredible value at $300 in 2002, but it was also the best insurance possible against a financial system which was turning increasingly unsound. Sixteen years later we are still sitting on … Continue reading →

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My Difficulties With the Loyola University Maroon Student Newspaper: Controversy Over Affirmative Action and Abortion Previously, I sent this article to be published by the Maroon. It was rejected on the ground it was “offensive.” Block, Walter E. 2018. “Teachers Who Look Like Me?” March 6; See here also. So, instead, I published this on LewRockwell.com. Do you think it offensive? More recently, I asked the editors of the Maroon to publish the essay below. It was rejected on the basis of its lack of clarity. Here is their letter of rejection: “Thank you for submitting your letter to the … Continue reading →

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Live Action Role Playing or LARP is a game in which participants dress up and engage with each other through physical action. A Psyop or Psychological operation is defined by Merriam Webster Dictionary as “military operations usually aimed at influencing the enemy’s state of mind through non-combative means (such as distribution of leaflets)”. Hero’s we’re all familiar with. A great example is Paul Revere who warned his fellow revolutionaries that the British were coming.  In the dark alleyways of the internet, thousands of people are either playing a LARP, being influenced by a Psyop or collaborating with today’s version of Paul Revere. … Continue reading →

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I worked with and conducted liaison with The Israel Defense Force (IDF) for many years. This activity occurred as part of my regular duties as a US Army officer and later as a civilian executive of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Since my retirement from US government service I have had many business or religious occasions to visit Israel and to watch the IDF in action against various groups of Palestinians all over the West Bank. I have many friends who are retired or reserve members of the IDF. My observations concerning the IDF are based on that experience. I … Continue reading →

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NEW YORK—Leave it to a bunch of self-important self-righteous self-serious journalists to miss the whole point. (That’s what they call themselves. They prefer the French word instead of the word that was used for 150 years—“reporter.”) I’m talking about the now-infamous White House Correspondents Dinner at which Michelle Wolf lacerated some of the assembled guests, especially Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who had to sit there taking the mean-spirited abuse because she wasn’t given a rebuttal slot. (Don’t call it a roast, as some of Michelle’s defenders did. At a roast, the roastee speaks last. This was a comedy execution.) Even before it was … Continue reading →

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A man with a shovel threatening you is a pretty scary thing for most people. I’d imagine it would be especially so for a woman, considering the muscle mass difference between the average man and the average woman. It’s often enough that a man could kill a woman with his bare hands. Give him a shovel to use as a weapon, and it’s even worse. Unless you’re the kind of Texan woman who understands that firearms are the great equalizers. Laura Williams says she grabbed her pistol and held an intruder at bay while her teenage daughter called 911 after the … Continue reading →

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