A Five Minute Blast From the Past & Retrospective

Some comments this week encouraged me to put together a short retrospectiveg piece for today that is elegant and simply demonstrates how a World Class Super Power has been infiltrated,  and indeed subverted, by agents of globalism and foreign powers over the past 45- years.. Take 5-minutes and take a listen to this from 1974:  … Read More

Killing Old News, The Lagging People

We have too damn much news in this country.  ‘Cept it’s something else.  And that being so, you have to realize, there’s often a lag between reality of the here & now and what the news aggregator sites say.  Machines do a crappy job of being current. Day 2 after hernia surgery and I couldn’t … Read More

Ideas: Are They From the Future?

Woo-Woo Time:  As you know, I’ve done a tremendous amount of research into topics that most people call “woo-woo.” In particular, I’m fascinated with bending space-time and “getting out of my head” being a prolific vivid dreamer.  Vivid dreams are sensational (yes, with poor pun intended) but as I have just discovered in a revealing … Read More

Happy MUND! (Mostly Useless News Day)

As you may know, I set up and operate a website that simply reposts headlines (including breaking and financial) onto a “clean” website with no ads so  Nostracodeus project whizGrady has something he can use as “clean source” when dialing-in word frequency analysis of the news. I can point my old copy of  Nostracodeus at … Read More

How to Check Your “Social Status”

When comes to being an “urban survivor” there’s often some uncertainty over what one’s social status is.  This week, you have a dandy opportunity to sort that out. Here’s the ‘sort routine.’ If you have the whole week off and there’s no government check involved, congrats.  Top of the heap.  You have worked hard and … Read More

11-Rules of Ruthless Time Management

“The secret to effective time management is learning to “pre-live” your Life.” Recently, in one of our comment section remarks, a reader asked if I would give a short summary of my personal time management approach because I seem to get so much done. You may not like some of what follows because it’s not how … Read More

Dam: Fake News…or Prescience? Housing

Since our “market darts” have already told us where things should go when markets open today (down until around lunch-time, then a strong rally into Friday…but this is just the darts, lol) we can sit back, watch the dough pile up and try to sort out the question of how social media is used to … Read More

Two-bits Worth of Weekend Wisdom

First, and foremost, click over to the NY Post piece here titled “Top 10 things the media got wrong about ‘collusion’ and ‘obstruction’.” It’s a dandy read but there are literally dozens upon dozens of other examples for those who take the time to study the news closely.  We’re pleased, as always, not to have … Read More

Prepping: Being Judgmental is Good

A Short Course on Judgment As investors, and preppers, we are called on, dozens of times per day to make decisions about whether to “hold ‘em or fold ‘em.” Or, in the prepping context, “What’s the next shoe to drop likely to be?” What makes the difference between a successful survivor or investor and a … Read More

Prepping: Just How “Sustainable” Are Things?

The short answer is “Not very sustainable, at all.” Worse?  We lie to ourselves about this whole “sustainability” notion day-in, and day-out.  Don’t even blink an eye about it.  Corporation X-Y-Z says “Yup, we’re “sustainable” and surprise!  No questions asked. That’s because A) most people lie to themselves about how “normal” things are and B) … Read More

Immigration: Another 1920’s Rhyme

I’d be willing to bet that most Americans have no clue what the Johnson-Reed Act was.  Passed in 1924, and in 1929 setting an annual immigration quota of 150,000, the act was a continuation of restrictive immigration laws that were enacted before 1900.  As the Office of the Historian at the U.S. State Department site … Read More

Bordering on Thoughtless, Durable Goods

I happened to catch a “news commentary” on WOAI out of San Antonio Monday and I was shocked at how the border crisis is being morphed into a “mush-headed economic marvel.” The station news director’s commentary pointed out that if president Trump indeed closes the border in order to deal with the unchecked, illegal immigration, … Read More

Russian Webulation: (Web Regulation)

In my 2012 book Broken Web (see “books” in menu) I forecast that the USA would, shortly after our big economic break (just ahead, though possible this Fall) that we would replay the outbreak of federal regulatory powers that culminated in the Communications Act of 1934.  This Act, I noted, effectively seized and controlled the … Read More