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I’d Rather Be All Wrong

Personally, I give it three months or less. Israel has begun poking around on the southern border of Lebanon again. They’d like to find an excuse to poke Syria from the Golan Heights, but it’s not quite there yet. I … Continue reading

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Random Observations on Current Events

Too many things which are too big to ignore, but none worthy of a full article, so I’m offering a list of my opinionated rantings. They say the situation with that nuclear generator on the Missouri River in Nebraska is … Continue reading

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Fake Prosperity, Fake Peace

We are aware that America in particular, and the West in general, have been on a fast ride of faux prosperity based on profligate debt. You can go back and chart each wave of wasteful spending and consumer credit as … Continue reading

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Spiritual Economics

What price a sane life? You can be sure the current massive debt burden taken on by students seeking degrees is not justified in most cases. The price is excessive and the education is a joke. Most degrees these days … Continue reading

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Virtual Civilization

Inherent in the Covenant of Noah is the requirement to build a civilization, but with a great deal of flexibility. To be civilized is to embrace the rules necessary to live peacefully in close quarters with other humans. A civilization … Continue reading

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Next Civilization: Virtual without Virtue

(This is nothing more than my personal guesswork, part analysis, part intuition, provided for your entertainment.) People worry about the government doing something akin to taking down the Internet. It won’t happen — at least, not intentionally. Governments themselves rely … Continue reading

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Economic Faith

Suffering from paranoia doesn’t make you inherently wrong about threats; it simply immobilizes your good actions. Basic distrust is just good sense. The best and most effective systems are those which limit trust by default. The myth of complete openness … Continue reading

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Stopping Forum Spam

(Yeah, it’s a slow day.) A friend asked me to join a discussion forum. Then he gave me admin rights. I’ve been moderator on a handful of mailing lists and forums, in part because I tend to go after problems … Continue reading

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Two Chains of Slavery: Police and Debt

We’ve already seen how the key to enslaving America in particular (and the West in general) is debt. I’m hardly the only person who sees this coming, but I was focused on how I felt the Illuminati were using the … Continue reading

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The New Debt Feudalism

Proper Ancient Near Eastern feudalism was not about real estate or real assets; those things were secondary. The ultimate value was in the people, the retainers and servants who could turn sand and rock into crops and structures. Western feudalism … Continue reading

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