The regulation by the state of the streets of London goes back to 1635. It began under King Charles I, who was a full-time tyrant, and whose life ended on the scaffold in 1649. Charles decided that the streets were too crowded in London, and what the city needed was government control over the number of taxis. This tradition extends to today. In major cities, the government regulates the supply of taxis, and the result has been higher prices and rotten service. Regulation has created an oligopoly of taxi companies, which use state power to extract greater wealth from people … Continue reading →

The US regime change policy for Syria has been a catastrophe. More than 200,000 killed and an entire country reduced to rubble at least partly because President Obama decided that “Assad has lost his legitimacy.” How is it that the president of a country 6,000 miles away has the authority to decide whether another leader belongs in office or not? What if Rouhani in Iran decided that Obama had lost his legitimacy for killing a number of American citizens by drone without charge or trial? Would we accept that? At least three years of US efforts to train rebels to … Continue reading →

Have you got cracks at the side of your mouth or thinning hair? Or itchy feet, an unexplained rash or dark circles under your eyes? They may seem like benign, innocuous symptoms, but they could in fact be a warning sign of illness or other health issues, says Dr Deyo Famuboni, a GP in London. ‘It’s important to listen to your body,’ she told Healthista. ‘This is ever so true – especially when it’s trying to warn you that something isn’t right. ‘There are so many subtle signs it gives us, that picking up on them – and being attuned to … Continue reading →

KINGSTON, NY, 7 October 2015—It is official. Global equity markets had their worst quarterly showing since 2011. Is history repeating itself? Go back to 2007, in the months leading up to the Panic of ’08. On 24 July the Dow took a 226-point dive. Blaming the market fall on weak corporate profits, “experts” shrugged off the sudden decline, because “the market needs some profit taking after hitting 14,000.” With trillions being lost worldwide, The New York Times ran the headline, “Advisers Tell Worried Investors to Take Stock ‘Hiccup’ in Stride.” The tale began with the opening lines: “Take a deep breath. These things … Continue reading →

Sleep paralysis can be a terrifying state of consciousness; not only can you not move your body, but it is often accompanied with scary hallucinations. Sleep paralysis is when the body is unable to move smoothly through the different sleep cycles and the inability to move while fully conscious. It commonly occurs during the transition between wakefulness and sleep. Sleep paralysis may result from other sleep disorders but rarely is it caused by an underlying psychiatric condition. When does sleep paralysis occur? The REM connection Sleep paralysis can occur in the transition from wakefulness to sleep or from sleep into … Continue reading →

It is erroneous to believe that free traders have been historically in favor of free trade agreements between governments. Paradoxically, the opposite is true. Curiously, many laissez-faire advocates fall into the government-made trap by supporting “free-trade” treaties. However, as Vilfredo Pareto stated in the article “Traités de commerce of the Nouveau Dictionnaire d’Economie Politique” (1901): If we accept free trade, treatises of commerce have no reason to exist as a goal. There is no need to have them since what they are meant to fix does not exist anymore, each nation letting come and go freely any commodity at its … Continue reading →

While the FBI continued to analyze the emails Hillary Clinton thought she deleted and her advisers pressed her to hire a Republican criminal defense attorney in Washington, a madman used a lawfully purchased handgun to kill a professor and eight students at a community college in Roseburg, Oregon. Looking to change the subject away from her emails, Clinton was quick to pounce. She who has ripped into Republicans for seeking political gain from the four American deaths in Benghazi, Libya, now seeks her own political gain from the dozens of murdered children and young adults in Newtown, Connecticut, and Roseburg. … Continue reading →

Everyone knows about Area 51, supposedly the center of secret American UFO research and the most secret military installation in the world. While in reality the base has been used for the development of superbombers and stealth aircraft, conspiracy lore has it that it has also been used for a variety of more esoteric research and development projects, including reverse-engineering alien technology, time travel, weather control, teleportation, and energy weapons. Although Area 51 is the most notorious military installation beloved by conspiracy theorists, there are other bases and facilities around the world with their own stories and legends as well. … Continue reading →

A friend and colleague of mine once taught me that there are four types of shooters. I believe that in pursuit of learning and applying a skill, it makes a lot of sense to grade students and I also believe it makes a lot of sense to divide shooters into these four categories. 1. Unconscious incompetent Here is a shooter who doesn’t know what he doesn’t know. On top of that, this is a student-shooter who does not believe the trainer when he tells him that he is doing something wrong. For instance, let’s say that I am training a … Continue reading →

Broadway sensation, TV detective and three-time Oscar nominee Angela Lansbury turns 90 in October. Fiona-Jane Weston is an expert on her extraordinary career, thanks to researching her one-woman show Looking For Lansbury. Can you detect the correct ans…

Andrea Heath, a former police officer in Desert Hot Springs, California, died three years ago at forty-four years of age. Her untimely death was indisputably the result of trauma she suffered in the line of duty. Yet she was not the subject of an elaborate state funeral, nor was her name inscribed on the Officer Down Memorial Page. She was an authentic victim of what can legitimately be called a war on cops – specifically, the unending war waged within law enforcement against whistleblowers who cross the Blue Line. Heath died from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head on October … Continue reading →

(ANTIMEDIA) Had the President of Nobel Peace Prize-winning Doctors Without Borders not warned us of the “imminent threat to global health” posed by the TPP, would these 22 doctors and patients have lost their lives early Saturday? “I don’t know exactly how long, but it was maybe half an hour afterwards that they stopped bombing. I went out with the project coordinator to see what had happened. What we saw was the hospital destroyed, burning,” described nurse Lajos Zoltan Jecs of the U.S. bombardment of a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. Harsh criticism and skepticism surround what is being labeled an errant U.S. … Continue reading →