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Recently, Abigail Disney wrote an article entitled, I Was Taught From a Young Age to Protect My Dynastic Wealth (Miss Disney is the granddaughter of Roy Disney who founded with Walt Disney the successful entertainment company in 1923). According to Miss Disney: “When ProPublica published its report last week on the tax profiles of 25 of the…
According to former US assistant secretary of education for planning, Williamson M. Evers, "If California education officials have their way, generations of students may not know how to calculate an apartment's square footage or the area of a farm field, but the 'mathematics' of political agitation and organizing will be second nature to them.…
According to geopolitical historian and strategist Halford J. Mackinder, "The great wars of history — we have had a world-war about every hundred years for the last four centuries - are the outcome, direct or indirect, of the unequal growth of nations, and that unequal growth is not wholly due to the greater genius and energy of some nations as…
A friend of mine, Alex Story, sent me a brief essay, which he published in The Critic and in which he reviewed Robert Wigley’s book: Born Digital – The Story of a Distracted Generation under the title: How Gen Z became Gen Me The subtitle is: “How the dominance of social media and mobile technology is making today’s teenagers less empathetic and…
I have a few American friends who are greatly concerned about worsening economic, social, and political conditions in the US. Several of my friends are also convinced that war between the US and China is inevitable. Until about two years ago, I thought that such an outcome was most unlikely. Recent events have, however, raised my concerns that a…
At high school in the early 1960s, we learned about the merits of democracies, the freedom of people, the ability to participate in the government through the right to vote, and of course about the unrestricted freedom of speech and expression, which we in Western democracies enjoyed. What we read in the newspapers or what we heard on the Radio or…
Marc Faber