There are two types of people in this world; those who worship the ideal of centralized command authority, and those who do not. Those who value freedom regardless of risk or pain, and those who value slavery in a desperate bid to avoid risk and pain. When I consider the ... … Read entire article »

National planning Cyprus-style solution for New Zealand …The National Government are pushing a Cyprus-style solution to bank failure in New Zealand which will see small depositors lose some of their savings to fund big bank bailouts, the Green Party said today. Open Bank Resolution (OBR) is Finance Minister Bill English’s ... … Read entire article »

“Without big banks, socialism would be impossible.” – Vladimir Lenin. Socialism is not crafted solely on the backs of standing human or robotic armies, police, and bureaucracy. The modern state must also possess an apparatus of big banks, as Lenin wrote at the onset of the Bolshevik Revolution, for it is banks ... … Read entire article »

This article may seem to be about abstract theory, but it isn’t. It’s about how populations are viewed by psychological-operations specialists. More importantly, it’s about how people are led to accept substitutes for their own highest ideals. The substitutes look like the real thing, but they’re actually very well drawn cartoons. The ... … Read entire article »

The end of civilization is already here. Most of humanity has been turned into an unthinking mass of economic zombies that are looking to feast on the still living flesh of the few survivors. This may explain the increasing popularity or obsession with all things zombie. From fiction to pub ... … Read entire article »

As millions of grief-stricken Venezuelans thronged the streets of Caracas after the untimely death of 58-year-old President Hugo Chavez, memories flooded back of Sept. 1970, when an equally flamboyant, controversial leader, Egypt’s Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser, suddenly died of a heart attack, aged only 52. Nasser’s death convulsed Egypt in grief. ... … Read entire article »

If tyranny was a living being, it would be a strange and marvelous creature. By that I don’t mean it would be a good thing, I mean it would be something to gaze upon and marvel at, much like a dangerous or poisonous animal. One could appreciate its qualities, but ... … Read entire article »

A man goes to his doctor for a routine checkup. The doctor performs a perfunctory examination and informs him that unless he receives an experimental treatment the doctor has devised, he will soon become disabled. “What’s it cost, Doc?” the man asks. “Well, unfortunately it’s not cheap, Mr. Smith, and ... … Read entire article »

Just as the advent of television changed political campaign strategies forever, so the Internet will shortly revolutionize the entire political process. The spectacular showing by Beppe Grillo’s Movimento 5 Stelle, which just won more votes in Italy’s general election than any other single party, represents a brand new, powerful, double-barreled trend ... … Read entire article »

I walked past a house today and saw what looked like two little angels, about four and five years old, sitting quietly in the pyjamas in a living room. The house was a Victorian residence with large bay windows in a well-to-do English suburb of Nottingham and the glimpse of ... … Read entire article »