Published on Apr 11, 2019
Sargon of Akkad
President Trump should pardon him.
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(153) Julian Assange is a Hero – YouTube
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Trump is Right to Blow Up the Fed | The American Conservative
Wednesday, April 10, 2019While the Fed is meant to be independent from the executive branch on a day-to-day basis, it is certainly not independent of Congress or the law. Yet the Fed in recent years has shown a troubling tendency to deviate from its legal mandate and make up new authorities to fit the changing economic situation. Case in point: the dubious notion that we should seek a 2 percent rate of inflation.
Source: Trump is Right to Blow Up the Fed | The American Conservative
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It’s simple. Like Doctor Ron Paul said: “End the Fed”!
Return to the “barbaric” old gold standard of “honest” money.
Let the invisible hand of the free market set the interest rate.
If interest rate is the “time preference for money”, then how could it EVER be naturally zero.
The FED —
The Federal Reserve Bank is a misnomer. IT ain’t “federal”. It reserves nothing. And, it ain’t a “bank”. It is a private cartel of the elite banks run for their benefit and that of the entrenched politicians.
— has destroyed the USA with debt and trained “We, The Sheeple” not to save for a rainy day.
Argh!
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Minimum wage hikes trigger ‘payroll tsunami,’ as small businesses cut back | Fox News
Tuesday, April 9, 2019“For perspective, this is equivalent to eliminating nearly 50 percent of projected job growth between 2016 and 2026,” Ben Gitis, director of labor market policy at American Action Forum, wrote. “Maryland is not in a strong position to absorb this shock, as it continued to experience below-average job growth while the state implemented its previous minimum wage hike from 2014 to 2018.”
Source: Minimum wage hikes trigger ‘payroll tsunami,’ as small businesses cut back | Fox News
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Like a self-inflicted economic wound!
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Combating the Myths of Heartless Libertarianism
Monday, April 8, 2019For the course of two years, I challenged myself to answer a very complicated set of questions. Namely, why are libertarians’ stereotypes so negative, and why have they been allowed to fester and spread through popular culture, the media, and academia like a plague?
Source: Combating the Myths of Heartless Libertarianism
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Libertarianism is not a religion, first and foremost; it is a guiding set of secular principles that speak to the better side of human nature defending the inalienable rights of self-ownership, property rights, and liberty.
Unlike statism, which is found within modern progressivism and neoconservative circles, libertarianism doesn’t seek to answer all of life’s questions. Statism seeks to explain that without a monopoly of force and violence, the comfort of civilization could not exist, despite historical evidence that the state monopoly of force has been the leading cause of unnatural death in human history, with the philosophy of communism being the number one murderer of individuals in the twentieth century alone.
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Libertarians, in general, just want you to have all the freedoms they want for themselves.
Statists have no such principle.
I like the formulation: “Don’t hurt people and don’t take their stuff.”
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When a child’s mental health diagnosis comes too late to help | Aeon Essays
Monday, April 8, 2019The behaviour started in kindergarten, and occurred at home, at school, and on weekends. I dutifully drove her to appointments with a therapist and a psychiatrist, who characterised the behaviour as a symptom of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) combined with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), a behavioural issue some experts contend could stem from permissive parenting or a past riddled with either abuse or neglect. But I wasn’t permissive. Anna had never been abused or neglected. Like many seeking answers, I hit the books and kept a notebook about her extreme rages. When I asked Anna’s first psychiatrist about her extreme tantrums and outbursts, his warm brown eyes couldn’t mask his dismissive body language and cautious remarks that her behaviour was likely just an extreme case of ODD. He offered an antipsychotic mediation, Zyprexa, to her drug cocktail. But the medication didn’t work; the symptoms continued, and Anna’s diagnosis remained ADHD and ODD for years.
Source: When a child’s mental health diagnosis comes too late to help | Aeon Essays
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A touching article. I can’t imagine what some parents go through. Wonder why we can’t “solve” these problems?
So sad.
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Eating raw garlic could help keep your memory sharp in old age | Daily Mail Online
Monday, April 8, 2019Eating raw garlic could help prevent age-related memory loss suffered by Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s patients, scientists suggest.
Source: Eating raw garlic could help keep your memory sharp in old age | Daily Mail Online
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Anything to avoid going to “the home”!
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Stockman Exposes The Two Elephants In The Room That The GOP Has Completely Forgotten | Zero Hedge
Sunday, April 7, 2019If you are still in the casino, run, don’t walk, toward the nearest emergency exit. The Trumpite/GOP is about to learn that deficits do matter and that what really ails the economy of Flyover America is the destructive Keynesian posse domiciled in the Eccles Building.
Source: Stockman Exposes The Two Elephants In The Room That The GOP Has Completely Forgotten | Zero Hedge
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This has to end badly. It ALWAYS does.
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The Disconnect Between Science and Policy | NutritionFacts.org
Sunday, April 7, 2019The government was still subsidizing tobacco, just as our tax dollars subsidize the sugar and meat industries today. The AMA actually went on record refusing to endorse the Surgeon General’s report. Could that have been because they had just been handed ten million dollars from the tobacco industry?
Source: The Disconnect Between Science and Policy | NutritionFacts.org
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Why is the Gooferment subsidizing anything?
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The Land of Immortals: How and what Japan’s oldest population eats – CNN
Friday, April 5, 2019Ikigai, loosely translated, means sense of purpose in life. And in Okinawa, a person’s ikigai often grows as they get older. It is their reason for living, that thing that propels them out of bed in the morning. In the United States, people often retire in their mid-60s, but there isn’t a similar word in Japanese because the concept of retirement doesn’t even exist.Moai is an informal social group of people who have common interests and look out for each other. Your moai is your “tribe” and another reason Okinawans believe they live so long.
Source: The Land of Immortals: How and what Japan’s oldest population eats – CNN
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Very interesting ideas — Ikigai and Moai — here.
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Arkansas Declares War on Cauliflower Rice
Friday, April 5, 2019Following the old practice of economic protectionism, lobbyists from big rice signed a formal public letter complaining about the rise in popularity that these carbs substitutes have been earning among the health-conscious. If you’re a politician that wants to stay in the good graces of big rice, you’d be best to heed their call.
Source: Arkansas Declares War on Cauliflower Rice
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Ahhh, yes, politicians and bureaucrats follow the instructions of their masters, Crony Capitalists.
Argh!
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