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The old joke about the 1990s TV show Seinfeld was that it was a show about nothing. Now it looks like Germany wants to be an economy about nothing. German University paying scholarships to do nothing A German university is looking for people it can pay to do nothing. Literally. They want to
When the captain came on the announcement system yesterday morning to introduce himself to passengers, the first thing he said was, “Ladies and gentlemen, a lot of us have been cooped up and under tremendous stress for the past several months. So the most important thing we can do right now is be
In 221 BC, the 38-year emperor Qin Shi Huang declared total victory against all of his rivals in northern China. Qin’s ancestors had literally spent centuries invading neighboring states and engaging in complex diplomacy in order to unify China into a single empire. And Qin Shi Huang was the first Emperor to rule
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. Teachers call Child Services when kids miss online class Teachers are serving as the state’s newest surveillance
When Charlie Chaplin first arrived to Los Angeles in December 1913, the city was still a fairly small oil town… just a fraction of the size of San Francisco. LA was so underdeveloped that, as Chaplin wrote in his autobiography, wild coyotes frequently roamed around Hollywood and Beverly Hills. But within a few
CNN almost makes it sound like a James Bond movie. It’s like there’s a tuxedo-clad billionaire straightening his bowtie while boarding his private jet and flying off to his private island… where scantily clad women await him with champagne and caviar. This is the image that CNN conjures when they talk about “the
Today’s Notes from the Field are a little bit different. As you’ll notice instead of Bahia, this letter is coming to you from Dubai, UAE. And, is pinned by a Sovereign Woman. Hi, I’m Viktorija, for those who don’t know me yet, I’ve been with Sovereign Man for the majority of its existence,
In late November 1943, as World War II raged in Europe and the Pacific, leaders of the ‘Big Three’ allied nations– the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union, held a key strategy meeting in Tehran. It’s hard to imagine anymore that the United States and Soviet Union were, at least for a
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. NASA to rename insensitive cosmic objects You may think NASA’s mission is to take humanity to Mars
Does anyone else find this ironic? In the age of #MeToo and BLM, the most ‘woke’ political party in the Land of the Free has chosen a guy with multiple sexual misconduct allegations as its presidential nominee; and a lady who locked up countless black people (many for victimless crimes) as its vice
Not long ago, the British Army realized that it needed to completely revamp its recruiting campaign. The younger generation simply wasn’t responding to the Army’s previous ‘Be All You Can Be’ style of advertising. So British leadership changed the recruiting message to keep up with the massive cultural shift that has been sweeping
Recently I held a live Q&A Zoom call with my friend Peter Schiff, and several dozen members of our Total Access group. And towards the end of the call, one of our members asked– what do you think the future looks like for the US, and the West in general? Peter went off
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. Yale Study tests the best Covid vaccine propaganda Is guilt, self-interest, or anger the most effective way
I’ve written a lot in the past that there are two lifelong benefits that parents can provide their children, practically from birth. The first is the gift of a foreign language. Every kid is going to learn his/her parents’ native tongue. But giving a child constant exposure to a foreign language from a
Life has taken an eerie turn for digital nomads as their favorite cities emptied of tourists and foreigners working remotely. Tasha Prados arrived in Vietnam in late February, a few weeks before the country closed its borders. On March 12, she received word that she had 10 days to request an evacuation to
