To me it appears that a small wealthy elite run the world. They buy the regime they want. In order for a candidate to be elected to office they have to attract enormous financial backing. This backing comes from political parties. The political parties are reliant on donors and in order to attract the donors have to produce policies that appease the donors, not the people. The political candidates are in effect vetted by the powerful and the public presented with candidates all of whom represent the establishment. Nobody else gets a look in. We always end up with a choice between the lesser of two evils and hence a sham democracy.Coupled with that, this small, wealthy elite own the media and use it as a propaganda machine to manipulate the views of the population. They also use bribes and lobbying to force through their desires agai…
The three Abrahamic religions started up way back in the dawn of time – in a time of medieval ignorance. Judaism has its roots 3000 years ago. Christianity 2000 years ago. Islam 1500 years ago. They originated in nomadic tribes of Arabs in a small area of the Middle East renowned for it…
In the previous post in this series Let's Talk I asked why, in the year 2017, do we still have unresolved gender issues. Why do women feel the need to band together to acquire that which is their due? Today, thanks to a post by JoAnn Chateau entitled , I am inspired to ponder the question o…
Dear USA. Remember when you were an ideal for the world ? I do remember, back in the Seventies. My parents who have been young in the Fifties, were big fans of you. You brought us the washing machine and the dryer for everybody (sorry, the Germans were faster with the Volkswagen, but …
Hm. What do you see here ? Two or three ends ? Depends where you look from, right ? The same thing happens when you say "I'm right, you're wrong". You look from the left, the other from the right, and - both are wrong - or right ? Your "right", or point of view, is a combinatio…
This is an article I stumbled upon when doing some everyday research. I found the style of this article (written by Hugo Ravn) to be remarkably similar to mine, historically accurate and unbiased. This is a comprehensive piece that portrays an alternate view of t…
The deep state took a deep hit Monday. The deep state is comprised of the unelected, unaccountable, and irresponsible bureaucrats, regulators and legal authorities who bear little or no consequence nor suffer any hardship while they enforce policies that they feel are correct, in spite of legislatio…
As the world observes yet another global environment day, the events in the background paint a mixed picture. There is America opting to exit from the Paris Accord on climate change mitigation, signed in the year 2015 by 194 countries committing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and restricting th…
Dear LEFT: We suffered through two terms of Obama & his outlaw administration. We lost our homes, we lost our health insurance, we lost our jobs. We’ve put up with your Nancy Pelosi’s, your Shelia Jackson Lee’s & your Dick Durbin’s. We watched as everything po…
in a resounding 10–3 decision. This smackdown was harsh. The court came swinging right out of the first paragraph declaring: "The question for this Court, distilled to its essential form, is whether the Constitution . . . remains “a law for rulers and people, equally in …
Thomas Robert Malthus was a reverend from the eighteenth century who foresaw the effects of a huge burgeoning world population. He thought it would be a catastrophe. It would take room, use up resources and create famine and pestilence. He proposed that measures needed to be taken in order to restri…
A common theme that always seems to unite both sides of the political aisle is advocacy for small business. From sweetheart loans to tax rebates, a lot of public assistance is available for small business. When the government isn’t helping small business, it’s usually going o…
After defending a point in one of his articles against an absurdly irrational and rude attack on it, I recently commiserated with Robert Schneider in another comment below it as follows: "You're more than welcome, Howard. This site is becoming increasingly overwhelmed by a mindless horde of sna…
With Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Accord--called a treaty everywhere else--I expected to see the gnashing of teeth and the rending of clothing here on WB. But, alas, I am disappointed. The collective heads of the world leaders have exploded. It is the day, according to them, t…
I'm feeling a bit lazy (again) so I thought I'd share with you something I wrote at Skeptics about "Eisenhower's Death Camps: There is a subset of Holocaust denial that claims that the German POW camps set up in the Rhineland were "death camps" where, allegedly, a million German soldiers died…
The MACRO perspective of a Central Planner starts with a viewing of our world at the global and/or planetary level! Planet Earth is one family of 7.4 billion people (now all interconnected)! Our Central Planners must now think of the entire global community as they plan their policies! As co…
It seems that every time a politician wants to appeal to a certain section of the electorate he starts to prate on about "Let's make the country great again". Over the years we have heard this many times, from many politicians. So I think it is a statement that is worth thinking about. …
Carl Jung is famous for having brought the concept of working on shadow elements within the psyche into Western psychotherapy, although the process of self-therapy, self-transformation and psychic self-evaluation with subsequent spiritual elevation is indeed a very ancient practice. A…
It's sad but true but most government unions managed to extort pension benefits for their members that were empty promises. Oh I know all the agreements they made are "legally binding", but it's just as unrealistic for today's government pensioners to expect their promises to be fulfilled…
A concept that has been steadily entering the public consciousness in recent years is that of Universal Basic Income (UBI) and the similar (but not synonymous) Negative Income Tax and Basic Capital Grant. It is an idea that has fascinated me for some time, and though (caveat emptor) I am certainly…
I have been told by more than one person, guys specifically, that I verge on terrifying. I didn’t get it at first. Like how am I terrifying? Terrifying because I might hurt you? Terrifying because you might hurt me? Terrifying because are falling for me and the timing is bad? …
by Billy Roper The 4th of July holiday will be here soon, a time when most Americans enjoy fireworks, grilling outside, and virtue signalling their patriotism. Most of them, when they think of freedom, are going to be celebrating freedom from responsibility. Oh, a foreign tyrant threat…
NEWS BEFORE IT HAPPENS: DEPLORABLE! NEWS BEFORE IT HAPPENS: DEPLORABLE! You may not recall (unless you have been a long time reader of Tubularsock) but back in July of 2014 Tubularsock, President Obama’s Secretary of the Inferior was reported MISSING and besides the many conspiracy theor…