Download Podcast This episode of The Invisible Hand features my recent interview with Ernest Hancock, a seasoned libertarian activist based in Arizona, and host of the show Declare Your Independence on the Liberty Radio Network every weekday from 4pm-7pm CT. Among his many accomplishments, Hancock is responsible for designing the Ron Paul Revolution logo,...
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The Environmental Protection Agency is looking into a possible ban on the ammunition that most people use: lead bullets. They are presently considering a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity to outlaw the use of lead in all bullets, shot, and fishing sinkers. Since 90% of bullets purchased in the US are made...
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The ACLU is objecting to the new “enhanced pat-down procedure” being applied by the Transportation Security Administration. This is the new term for what is done to passengers who refuse to be irradiated and undressed by the so-called “naked body scanners” now appearing in airports. Fliers going through airports in Boston and Las Vegas...
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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the government may, without a warrant and without your knowledge, plant a tracking device on your car as it sits in your driveway and then use it to survey you indefinitely from that point onward. As Time Magazine reports, the court found no reasonable expectation...
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Arnaud Mares, an executive director in the London office of Morgan Stanley, has written a report projecting the inevitable default on sovereign debt on a global scale. He said: “Governments will impose a loss on some of their stakeholders. The question is not whether they will renege on their promises, but rather upon which...
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The USA’s credit rating is once again being threatened publicly, this time by the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s. In an interview with Dow Jones newswire, published August 26th, David Beers, global head of S & P’s sovereign ratings, warned the US Congress that they had better do everything suggested to them by...
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OK, so we’ve got a rainbow and a flaming sword with pink flames. I’m all for gays in the military, but I don’t think it’s fair for the heterosexual troops to have to wear something this fruity. Lest you think the pink hue of the flames is an anomaly, here are some variations. US...
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Download Podcast This episode of The Invisible Hand I bring you the second installment of “Money Grows on the Tree of Knowledge” (see Part 1), and interview William H. Kennedy about his new audio book, The Occult World of Jackie Gleason.
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In my previous essay I explained the dollar sign and its association with the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden. I showed that it was another form of the caduceus, the magical wand crawling with serpents that the Greek Hermes and the Roman Mercury used to transform reality....
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According to the Daily Mail, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization is telling people to eat bugs in order to cut their consumption of meat. The group has issued a report stating that cows and pigs take too many resources to rear and have too much of an impact on the environment. Instead, they...
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The peasants are revolting! At least that’s what it seemed like Wednesday morning when a crowd of 8000-10,000 gathered at the Tri-Cities Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia, and fights broke out. They were all there to apply for Section 8 vouchers. The crowd had been amassing since Monday, and at a certain point, the police...
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It looks like barter and alternative currencies are beginning to catch on everywhere, even in the Axis of Evil. North Korea has just made an unusual offer to the Czech Republic to settle an old debt: ginseng. However, as the Financial Times reports, the root, which purportedly improves energy, sex drive, and memory, is...
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Download Podcast This episode of The Invisible Hand features part 1 of my essay, Money Grows on the Tree of Knowledge. Included as well is a follow-up interview with Delia Lopez, the Republican nominee for the Portland area Congressional District in Oregon. Also, here are some of the news stories included in this edition...
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The symbol for the dollar is familiar throughout the world. The same symbol that’s used in the USA is also used for other forms of the dollar, such as in Canada and Australia. There are several different theories about the origin of this symbol, although I don’t believe that they are mutually exclusive. The...
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A twelve-year-old girl in Watsonville, CA has been able to trace the genealogies of all US Presidents except for Martin van Buren back to a Plantagenet monarch of England from the 13th century, King John “Lackland.” The girl, BridgeAnne d’Avignon, conducted the research for a class project at Monte Vista Christian School. This is...
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Good news for the inmates of America’s privately-owned prison-industrial complex: your life may have been ruined by the War on Drugs, but there’s still a place for you in the warm glow of the stage lights. Yes, you too can temporarily trade your orange jumpsuit for tap shoes and a sequined jacket. The cable...
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If you had previously believed the government’s official story that the new security x-ray machines, now in airports and courthouses and commonly called “naked body scanners,” did not permanently store nude images of passengers — well, surprise — they lied. Yes Virginia, they do have naked pictures of your Mom, and you and your...
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The Financial Times reports that recession-strapped consumers are about to be hit with yet another financial constraint: skyrocketing food prices. Earlier this week, Vladimir Putin shocked world commodities markets when he announced a moratorium on grain exports from Russia for the rest of the year. And although the US Department of Agriculture had actually...
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In a referendum passed by Missouri voters Tuesday, the public overwhelmingly rejected the key component of the health care overhaul passed by both houses of Congress last year. Proposition C, which received a “Yes” vote of 71%, prevents the federal government from forcing Missouri citizens to purchase health insurance under penalty of law. The...
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The Pentagon has demanded the “return” of more than 75,000 sensitive military documents that have been released to the press by the whistleblower website Wikileaks. The Associated Press reports that during a press conference on Thursday, Defense Department Press Secretary Geoff Morrell insisted that “Wikileaks return immediately to the US government all versions of...
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Download Podcast This episode of The Invisible Hand features my recent interview with Todd Wynn, environmental policy analyst and Vice President of the Cascade Policy Institute. Today he talks to us about some of the extreme anti-business and anti-freedom policies of the state of Oregon, including laws against dish detergent, plastic bags, and “non-renewable...
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From The Dragon Legacy by Nicholas de Vere: The Red Cap of the Gnome and the Pixy is the pointed cap associated with witchcraft and shamanism, examples of it can be found in Babylonian stone bas-relief depictions of the gods, in burial sites in Takla Makan and elsewhere in the Celtic world. In relation...
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This year’s Bohemian Grove encampment in Northern California begins tonight, kicked off with an address from the governor himself Arnold Schwarzenegger. Other speeches at the retreat, which lasts for 17 days, will also include addresses from former secretaries of state George Schultz and James Baker, along with media mogul Rupert Murdoch. The secretive resort...
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A huge cache of secret papers in the National Archives in College Park, Maryland has been released to the public, revealing the existence of a secret anti-communist US intelligence organization during WWII that predated the CIA and existed alongside the OSS or Office of Strategic Strategies. The group, known initially as the “Special Service...
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