Paul Craig Roberts

Income tax which is confiscation of labor – essentially slavery or part-time slavery. A slave is a person who doesn’t own his own labor. No one subject to an income tax owns his own labor. A slave is a person whose labor, in part, belongs to another claimant. That is what income tax is, a claim on your labor. Most American taxpayers pay higher taxes than medieval serfs.

In case you haven’t figured out what the Chinese “spy balloon” and additional shoot-downs were all about, they were about removing the prospect of any cuts to the Pentagon’s budget as part of the debt ceiling solution.

Gilbert Doctorow, an intelligent and informed Russian expert explains that it is indeed a nano-second to midnight. This is an extremely important warning, which like my own is likely to be ignored at our peril.

Saudi Arabia’s recent announcement that the government is open to accepting payment for oil in currencies other than the dollar is a major announcement ignored by the presstitutes. The end of the petrodollar would have severe adverse effects on the value of the dollar and on US inflation and interest rates.

Will anyone notice?

WashingtonTucker Carlson provides an excellent 12 minute report about the CIA’s removal of President Kennedy and President Nixon. I recommend that you watch it 2 or 3 times until it sinks in and forward it to all of your friends and relatives.

From time to time readers ask what it is like trying to communicate with people in an era of mass disinformation. There are a few individual voices, as often as not censored and under attack, against which the TV and print media and the establishment’s Internet sites are arrayed. It is frustrating, especially as so many people are content with a few minutes of managed news headlines. The insouciance in the population is massive.

Quota-based hiring and promotion has had deleterious effects on those awarded status-based preferment. The best among them are left in doubt whether they earned their place.

On Christmas eve in Paris the police were battling violent protesters from the Paris Kurdish community. Clashes of this sort have become common all over Europe. They are the product of “diversity” and “multiculturalism.”

Christmas is a time of traditions. If you have found time in the rush before Christmas to decorate a tree, you are sharing in a relatively new tradition. Although the Christmas tree has ancient roots, at the beginning of the 20th century only 1 in 5 American families put up a tree. It was 1920 before the Christmas tree became the hallmark of the season. Calvin Coolidge was the first President to light a national Christmas tree on the White House lawn.