MAYBE LETTING THE ENEMIES OF OUR CIVILIZATION TEACH OUR CHILDREN WAS A MISTAKE:

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Kids today: 4 in 10 call Constitution ‘outdated,’ OK with silencing speech. Among the key findings in the survey of college undergraduates conducted by McLaughlin & Associates for the program: Thirty-six percent believe the Constitution is outdated, while 52% call it “important.” A year ago, 63% called the founding document important. While support for the First Amendment … Read more

The Bull Market That Won’t Die And Too Much Debt For Stimulus To Work

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by Jim Rickards via Daily Reckoning Investors have been hearing for years that “interest rates are near all-time lows,” and “rates have nowhere to go but up,” and finally, that “the bond bear market is right around the corner.” These warnings have come from notable bond gurus including Bill Gross, Jeff Gundlach and PIMCO’s Chief Investment Officer Dan … Read more

CULTURAL CROSSROADS: media dumbdown & Left meltdown leave UK on cliff-edge

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by John Ward  The truly astonishing opinion encapsulated below was expressed in an article at The Times website by James Forsyth this morning. Before I get into the meat of its flawed asumptions (and odd attempt to present democracy and liberty as interchangeable) let me just say that, on paper, Forsyth represents the cream of the crop: schooled at … Read more

China warns Taiwan “It means War..”

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Epic escalation! A Chinese Community Party newspaper said Chinese warplanes “must fly over the island of Taiwan” and warned that Taiwanese government retaliation “means war.” An article by Hu Xijin, the combative editor-in-chief of Chinese state newspaper Global Times, came after yet another round of potential U.S. arms sales to Taiwan was announced by the … Read more

Chinese warplanes have just entered Taiwanese airspace!

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And so it begins… https://twitter.com/Crisis_Intel/status/1322139130000822274 Three PLA aircraft (Y-8 ELINT, Y-8 EW, and Y-8 RECCE) entered #Taiwan’s southwest ADIZ on Oct. 30. #ROCAF deployed patrolling aircraft and air defense missile systems to monitor the activities. No matter what happened, we keep #guarding our country day and night. pic.twitter.com/IPVQVh0KWU — 國防部 Ministry of National Defense, ROC(Taiwan) … Read more

Matt Taibbi: The media — and social media — drive to squelch information a menace no matter who wins election.

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The incredible decision by Twitter and Facebook to block access to a New York Post story about a cache of e-mails reportedly belonging to Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s son Hunter, with Twitter going so far as to lock the 200-year-old newspaper out of its own account for more than a week, continues to be a major underreported … Read more

The Biden’s were working to sell 14% of Rosneft Oil Company to the Chinese to circumvent US sanctions on Russia. FBI Director Christopher Wray represented Rosneft.

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by BlueSaltMiner https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1321883188113870856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1321883188113870856%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthedonald.win%2Fp%2F11PW38XqBY%2Fbreaking-news-the-bidens-were-wo%2Fc%2F It’s all so tiresome. When Wray was nominated for FBI Director CNN reported that he removed ALL references to his representation of Rosneft. Hunter’s laptop includes details about the deal between the Russians and Chinese to circumvent Trump’s Russian sanctions. https://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/20/politics/kfile-fbi-nominee-law-firm-bio/index.html Wray had his firm delete all mentions of Rosneft from their website. … Read more

“Capitalism” Is No Longer Attractive to Capitalists

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by Charles Hugh-Smith This “capitalism” is only attractive to parasites, predators, kleptocrats, legalized looters, embezzlers, fraudsters and all those insiders whose palms get greased along the way. Back of the envelope definition of classical capitalism: 1. Transparency in markets, including pricing, information on quality and reliability of products, sellers and buyers, and of rules of conduct … Read more