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Thracians, We Hardly Knew Ye

History is written by the victors, usually. But using better methods and sources to debunk their PR is sometimes possible and fun. While Greeks and Romans, and later Spanish, French, British and Americans all built vast empires, the cultures they seemingly erased are given short shrift because they lost. How could the decentralized cultures of […]

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Leviathan and the 1%

That we have more and more intrusive government at all levels as well as the unprecedented concentration of wealth is no coincidence. To address each separately is problematic. If our gigantic, expensive, corrupt and incompetent governing bodies don’t work for we the people, and only seem to give lip service to the noisiest, expecting them […]

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Re: Ersatz Democracy

I originally wrote this on the eve of the 2020 American presidential election. It makes little difference who gets picked as carnival barker for the freak show at the Potemkin Village of democracy. We will still be sliding into totalitarianism as the fiscal cliff and great reset approach. Here is what I tell myself and […]

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Jeffrey Tucker Interviews Max Blumenthal

Great stuff from Brownstone Institute & Jeffrey Tucker. I am a fan of Max Blumenthal, Jimmy Dore and Russell Brand. If we survive the idiocy being foisted by imperialist fools on the left and the right plus the anti-life, technocratic, globalist nightmare; then they may have already articulated a path toward reconciliation and common ground. […]

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Times a Changin’

US Homebuilding, new mortgage applications, closed deals, homebuyer sentiment, homebuilder sentiment, showings/foot traffic and actual sales of both new and existing homes are all tanking and have been for months. But actual prices have just started to moderate. At any other time, all of the above would have meant price COLLAPSE. What gives? Current price […]