It's my weekly sit-down with Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos. We discuss EVs, our shrinking autonomy, and how to restore civilization at the individual level.

If you're struggling to find happiness in your day to day life, Dr. Robert Malone has some timely advice. He says to celebrate the simple gifts.

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Anyone who's serious about improving the world knows that the starting place is always the person looking back at us in the mirror. Barry Brownstein explains why living a meaningful life means asking the most of ourselves.

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The devastation of the Los Angeles fires is hard to comprehend. However, as James Howard Kunstler explains, the reasons for it are pretty straightforward.

It's not that we've lost our sense of right and wrong, the breakdown of our culture and society more closely correlated with how our moral energies are dispersed. Paul Rosenberg describes why scattering our moral energy takes it away from where it matters most.

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If you love writers who are skilled wordsmiths, you'll love Jim Bovard's recap of some of his zestiest epigrams of 2024. The man knows how to say things with clarity and wit.

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We all have aspirations and things we'd like to accomplish but too often we want to wait for things to be perfect before we begin. Scott Livingston has some timely advice on this matter: Start stupid.

Choosing to be kind is the sort of decision we'll rarely regret. Barry Brownstein has a marvelous story about what Robin Williams taught us about kindness.

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It's hard to overstate the devastation of the Los Angeles wildfires but it's very easy to over-politicize them. Michael Herman zooms out for the big picture and offers a reasoned explanation for the devastation.

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Few writers have a deeper well of wisdom from which to draw and a keener eye for truth than Jeff Einstein. He's back from a lengthy hiatus with a gem of an essay on spirituality and freedom.

Finding common ground today seems more difficult than ever. Jeff Thomas notes that one of the characteristics of our time is that we've stopped believing in the things that actually matter.

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One of the best reasons to rethink our daily consumption of mass media is how it affects our emotional and mental health. Christine Schueckler explains how the media is trying to make you mad.

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One of our biggest responsibilities is to give our children and their children the truths they'll need to keep the torch of civilization alight. Check out this essay from Restoring Truth on passing the torch in a digital generation.

It's ironic that the people who are most serious about their health are the ones who have some of the biggest doubts about our health care systems. Paul Rosenberg says the weaponization of medicine is the reason for this.

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Knowing who you are is much more than an exercise in navel-gazing. Destry Griffiths has a marvelous essay on how the world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

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I'm back behind the mic again and Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos joins me to talk about our shrinking free speech and the prospects of what lies ahead for 2025.

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Given how prevalent the deception is at nearly every level of society, each of us must become more skilled in pattern recognition in order to avoid being misled. Here are two must read articles from Josh Stylman that will give you a leg up. The first is on reading between the lies and the second covers manufacturing official dissent. Both are well worth your time.

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If you've ever wondered whether your efforts to be a positive influence are falling short, you need to check out this old Twilight Zone episode. It's called "The Changing of the Guard" and the message is timeless.

Are you familiar with the term "preference cascade?" Jeffrey A. Tucker has a deeply insightful article about what this phrase means and how we tend to falsify our preferences for the sake of blending in.

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If you had to pick the biggest story of 2024, what would you choose? Kit Knightly looks beyond the obvious events to a far more disturbing trend that almost no one is talking about.

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It's my weekly conversation with Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos. Eric can always be counted on for a rational take on our unpredictable world.

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Marxism has threaded its way into so many of our institutions that it's no longer a vague, shadowy threat that only John Birchers can see. El Gato Malo explains how this poisonous ideology subverts human flourishing.

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If we're going to have to do math, we might as well use hamburgers to help illustrate the problem. Here's a great article from Joaquin Henault and Laura Williams on Big Mac Math: How the Federal Reserve Ate Our Bills Buying Power.

A lot of attention is being directed to the drones that are appearing over the Eastern U.S. Brandon Smith has a few good reasons to maintain a healthy sense of skepticism and to be alert for false flag operations.

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Does it seem as though everything has gotten uglier? Check out this essay from the Black Sheep substack and you'll have a better understanding of how a broken culture stops reflecting beauty.

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This shouldn't come as a shock but our government has been lying to us. Particularly about the events and people involved with the Jan 6 disturbance at the U.S. Capitol. James Howard Kunstler has a concise breakdown of the issue.

Another solid resource for information about the J6 disinformation campaign is Sasha Stone.

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The green energy agenda has been a huge boon to those with the right connections. However, as Doug Casey explains this $5 trillion boondoogle is collapsing as pseudoscience gives way to physics and critical thinking.

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