The Hiroshima Myth Tyler Durden Fri, 08/07/2020 – 23:45 Authored by John Denson via The Mises Institute, Every year during the first two weeks of August the mass news media and many politicians at the national level trot out the “patriotic” political myth that the dropping of the two atomic bombs on Japan in August… Read More

Airline Will Pay Medical & Funeral Costs To Get People Flying Again In COVID-19 World Tyler Durden Fri, 08/07/2020 – 23:25 At a moment the trade union for the airline industry, International Air Transport Association (IATA), has issued a dire prediction laying out that it doesn’t expect air travel to recover to pre-pandemic levels until at least… Read More

“I Started A Local Gun And Preparedness Club… And Leftists Tried To Interfere” Tyler Durden Fri, 08/07/2020 – 23:05 Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, I live in the mountains outside a small town in rural Montana, a place you might assume is conservative through and through, and it is, for the most part. However,… Read More

“No Difference Between John Bolton, Brian Hook Or Elliott Abrams”: Iran FM Tyler Durden Fri, 08/07/2020 – 22:45 “There’s no difference between John Bolton, Brian Hook or Elliott Abrams,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said in a tweet with the hashtag #BankruptUSPolicy on Friday. “When U.S. policy concerns Iran, American officials have been biting… Read More

The 1958 “Psychological Warfare” Plan Playing Out Before Us Tyler Durden Fri, 08/07/2020 – 22:25 Authored by Annie Holmquist via IntellectualTakeout.org, I recently wrote about an old 1984 interview with former communist Yuri Bezmenov, who described the “ideological subversion” that could eventually take down America. <!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–><!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–> It sounds like the stuff of conspiracy… Read More

Meet The RVs That Are Literally “Driving” Our Country’s GDP Tyler Durden Fri, 08/07/2020 – 22:05 The impact that recreational vehicles have had on GDP has rocketed to all time highs, as the pandemic has Americans looking for new ways to vacation after many traditional summer trips have been cancelled. In fact, as many as… Read More

Debunking The Myth That Lockdowns Stop Pandemics Tyler Durden Fri, 08/07/2020 – 21:45 Authored by Stacey Rudin via RealClearPolitics.com, From the beginning of time, humans have used mythology to make sense of a chaotic natural world. Sir G.L. Gomme dubbed myths “the science of a pre-scientific age.” Folklore provided pre-scientific people a comforting sense of… Read More

Visualizing The Biggest Ammonium Nitrate Explosions Since 2000 Tyler Durden Fri, 08/07/2020 – 21:25 This week, a massive explosion involving ammonium nitrate rocked the city of Beirut, sending shock waves through the media. While this recent tragedy is devastating, unfortunately, as Visual Capitalist’s Carmen Ang details below, it’s not the first time this dangerous chemical… Read More

Russia Hoax: Are We All Being Played? Put Up Or Shut Up! Tyler Durden Fri, 08/07/2020 – 21:05 Authored by Sara Carter via SaraACarter.com, Many people have asked me why I haven’t written a book since the start of my reporting on the FBI’s debunked investigation into whether President Donald Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia.… Read More

Bernie Sanders Just Proposed A Tax That Would Instantly Cost Bezos $42.8 Billion And Musk $27.5 Billion Tyler Durden Fri, 08/07/2020 – 20:45 Nothing says liberty and equality quite like swooping in and passing a piece of legislation that instantly absconds with the wealth of America’s most successful businessmen.  But that’s the vision that Bernie… Read More

Trucking Company Refuses To Deliver To Cities Calling To “Defund The Police” Tyler Durden Fri, 08/07/2020 – 20:25 Authored by Michael Wing via The Epoch Times, While governors and mayors echo calls to “defund the police” across the United States, trucking companies don’t seem all that impressed by the social justice virtue signalling. Some have even asserted there… Read More

“Any Inbound Missile Will Be Seen As Nuclear” – Russia’s Military Warns Amid Arms Treaty Talks Tyler Durden Fri, 08/07/2020 – 20:05 Though all eyes have been focused on the emerging ‘new Cold war’ scenario between the US and China, Russia’s military has just issued a rare and eye-opening statement which represents perhaps the most… Read More

Bike Store Cancels Contract With Austin Bike Police After “Woke” Employees Complain Tyler Durden Fri, 08/07/2020 – 19:45 Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, A bike store in Austin, Texas has cancelled its contract with the Austin Police bike patrol unit after three ‘woke’ employees complained that the bikes were being used for… Read More

100 Children Shot In Philadelphia Year-To-Date Tyler Durden Fri, 08/07/2020 – 19:25 100 children have been shot in Philadelphia so far this year, according to police, who say they will take a ‘multi-pronged approach’ to keep them safe. <!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–><!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–> 7-year-old Zamar Jones was fatally shot last weekend “This culture of violence… Read More

Fighting Over Kashmir Could Blow Up The Planet Tyler Durden Fri, 08/07/2020 – 19:05 Authored by T.J.Coles via Counterpunch.org, Jammu and Kashmir, widely referred to as Kashmir, has had many designations since India and Pakistan were partitioned by Britain and gained their respective independence from the Empire: a Princely State, a State, a Union Territory.… Read More

Mentally Ill Professor Invented Bisexual Native American Persona Who ‘Died’ Of COVID-19 Tyler Durden Fri, 08/07/2020 – 18:45 A former assistant professor who was denied tenure at Vanderbilt University for sending threats to colleagues was busted running a years-long ‘hoax’ – in which she invented an online persona on Twitter claiming to be an oppressed… Read More

Ignorance Prevails Once Again! Tyler Durden Fri, 08/07/2020 – 18:25 Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. <!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–><!–[if… Read More

Steele’s Source Met With Russian Official Days Before Dossier Fabrication Began Tyler Durden Fri, 08/07/2020 – 18:05 Christopher Steele’s primary dossier source – alcoholic Russian national Igor Danchenko, who worked at Brookings with a Trump impeachment witness, met with a Russian energy official just four days before Steele produced the first of 17 memos which… Read More

How To Become “Anti-Fragile” Tyler Durden Fri, 08/07/2020 – 17:45 Authored by Patrice Lewis via The Organic Prepper blog, I have a little fantasy which I’ll tell you about it in a moment. First, let me digress to an article I read several years ago. I regret I don’t remember enough details to do an… Read More