Category: Aggregated

Kenyan police clash with anti-government protesters

Turkey slams Germany for failing to hand over ‘terrorists’

Israeli forces shoot dead Palestinian in occupied West Bank over alleged stabbing

I beg the indulgence of my many non-religious readers as I open my column with an analogy from Saint Matthew’s Gospel narrative. In His final words to the Jewish Pharisees, Jesus pronounced God’s condemnation upon them, their sacred temple, their holy city, and their false religion in the plainest and most plaguing terms–all of which came to pass within their generation, less than forty years later. Toward the end of His public condemnation of them, Jesus said this to the Pharisees: “That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel … Continue reading →

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From the conclusion of my earlier post on the topic: It is the state against the people; it is the stakeholders against the subjects. Significant power and wealth and militarization and a massive overt and covert “security” apparatus are on one side, and significant anger and frustration is growing on the other side. Returning to Lincoln’s speech: In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached, and passed. We know what came a few years after Lincoln’s speech, the last time the house was so divided. Broken Promises It seems to me that the “subjects” obliviously … Continue reading →

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Talk to anyone in law enforcement and they will tell you that the stupidity of criminals is a key part of solving crimes. The crooks leave clues and make huge blunders that allow the cops to catch them. Ray-Ray decides he has had enough of Peanut disrespecting him so he walks up to him at a party and starts shooting. Not only are there a million witnesses, Ray-Ray leaves the gun with his fingerprints and brags to his buddies later that he just dusted Peanut at a party. It’s not a hard case to solve because Ray-Ray is a moron. That … Continue reading →

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The FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private e-mails is not directed at a case of negligence in the face of security regulations but at a conspiracy attempting to eliminate any trace of her correspondence which should have been archived on the servers of the Federal State. It could include exchanges about illegal financing or corruption, and others concerning the links between the Clintons, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the jihadists. The reprise of the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private e-mails no longer concerns questions of security, but rather acts of skullduggery and cheating which could be as serious as high treason. … Continue reading →

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It is especially painful for me, as an economist, to see that two small cities in northern California — San Mateo and Burlingame — have rent control proposals on the ballot this election year. There are various other campaigns, in other places around the country, for and against minimum wage laws, which likewise make me wonder if the economics profession has failed to educate the public in the most elementary economic lessons. Neither rent control nor minimum wage laws — nor price control laws in general — are new. Price control laws go back as far as ancient Egypt and … Continue reading →

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The aftermath of today’s surprising decision by a UK high court to rule against the government‘s Brexit stance, pushing a Parliamentary vote to ratify Article 50, may have major consequences for the political landscape of the UK according to Deutsche Bank. As DB’s Oliver Harvey writes, the court’s decision today reduces odds of a “hard Brexit” and weakens PM May’s position, which makes a 2017 election now the German bank’s most likely scenario. Here is a recap of what happened for those who missed it, and what Deutsche Bank thinks will happen next: UK High Court Rules against government prerogative … Continue reading →

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Vladimir Putin said Russian officials were told not to interfere in the US’s domestic affairs after multiple attempts to warn about Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s growing radicalization. The Russian president’s remarks about the lead-up to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing were made during a recent address to the Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi, Russia. Putin’s claim, however, directly refutes the official US stance, which maintains that the FBI repeatedly asked the Russians for more substantive information on Tsarnaev so it could investigate deeper. The Bureau claims its hands were tied because Russia wouldn’t provide more information. The FBI maintains it first became … Continue reading →

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Exposing the Clintons’ perfection of a corrupt political system won’t change the conditions and incentives that created the Clintons’ harvester of corruption. Let’s set aside Hillary Clinton as an individual and consider her as the perfection of a corrupt political system. As I noted yesterday, Politics As Usual Is Dead, and Hillary Clinton is the ultimate product of the political system that is disintegrating before our eyes. The corruption of pay-to-play and the commingling of public and private influence is not the failing of an individual–it is the logical conclusion of a thoroughly corrupt political system.  Given the incentives built … Continue reading →

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In what he represents, Donald Trump is not as unique as either his admirers or his despisers think. How do we explain the Trump phenomenon?  When he announced his candidacy for president, no one believed that he had a realistic chance to enter the White House.  He was viewed as a joke candidate running an ego-driven campaign to promote his brand and his reality television show.  He stunned everyone by defeating 16 opponents for the Republican presidential nomination—most of whom were respected, professional politicians.  He did this despite increasing opposition and hysteria from the GOP establishment, Beltway conservative pundits, neoconservatives, … Continue reading →

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Desmond Doss was a real man but he seems more like the stuff of legend. Being a bit of a loner, small in stature, and meek, he was probably the last person anyone would ever peg for a potential war hero. He enlisted in the Army during the second world war because he believed in the cause. He only had one condition: He would not carry a gun. Make that two: He would not work on Saturdays. Though he did not receive an extensive formal education as a young man in West Virginia, he did receive excellent spiritual formation as … Continue reading →

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Five years after a tsunami shut down the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan, these haunting images show how the towns inside the exclusion zone have been frozen in time. In March 2011 an earthquake measuring 8.9 triggered a tsunami off the coast of north-eastern Japan, leading to an explosion at the nuclear reactor in Fukushima. On April 22 everybody within a 12-mile radius of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station was forced to flee and the area completely cordoned off. But photographer Arkadiusz Podniesinski has gained access to the exclusion zone to take these shocking images. It is an urban area … Continue reading →

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By Dr. Mercola A 16-year-old boy with autism and his family are suing a medical clinic for administering vaccines they believe caused the boy’s autism. The Tennessee-based case is unique for a number of reasons, the first being that it’s the first time in 30 years that a vaccine case such as this has been heard in a U.S. court. This is because in the U.S. there is a federally operated vaccine injury compensation program (VICP) that Congress created under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. The U.S. Court of Federal Claims in the District of Columbia (Washington D.C.) handles … Continue reading →

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