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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. “Long Covid” Can Now Qualify as a Disability The White House issued a lengthy statement this week,

Late in the evening of October 17, 1534, a small group of protestant activists swept across the five biggest cities in France, posting anti-Catholic propaganda posters all over town in major public squares. The activists even managed to brazenly nail one of their posters to the bedroom door of King Francis I, himself

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. UK to issue vaccine passports to people in the PLACEBO group Britain’s “vaccine minister” (yes I’m serious)

In May 1969, at the height of America’s involvement in Vietnam, the US military declared victory in the Battle of Hamburger Hill. The Army had lost only 50 soldiers and killed about 600 Viet Cong in the process of taking the remote hilltop. But US journalists questioned the importance of the victory: what

Robert Woodruff, President and CEO of Coca Cola, was in a terrible jam in 1953. Coke was already one of the most popular and successful products in the world. Everyone loved it. Coca Cola had become such a staple in American life, in fact, that, in 1943, the US War Department requisitioned 6

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. Families Sue Universal Studios Over Character Who Flashed “Okay” in Photos Two families are suing Universal Studios

Editor’s Note: Today’s letter is written by a Sovereign Man team member, Andre Bothma, who is based in South Africa. In KwaZulu-Natal province, where Zuma is from, supporters of the former president launched a massive, coordinated protest campaign against his incarceration. Freeways were blocked with burning tires. Vehicles were stoned. Trucks set alight

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. LinkedIn deletes mRNA research pioneer’s account Dr. Robert Malone is sometimes referred to as the inventor of

Elizabeth Packard disagreed with her husband on religion. While this might not seem like a big deal today, when you were a woman married to a preacher in the mid-1800s, it was a HUGE deal. Elizabeth became increasing bold in stating her religious opinions openly—as well as her anti-slavery views and support for

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. Canada plans to punish hate speech pre-crime If passed, a bill in the Canadian legislature will punish

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. China says Wuhan Lab Scientists Deserve Nobel Prize China’s government-run media outlets are reporting that, instead of

In last week’s podcast — the first podcast episode we’ve published in a few years — Viktorija and I discussed how central banks engineer inflation… and why inflation is probably here to stay. In this week’s episode, we dove even deeper into the topic to discuss a different type of inflation: ASSET price

1960 was supposed to have been a fantastic year. The world was largely at peace for the first time in decades and had fully recovered from the influenza pandemic that had broken out in the late 1950s. Exciting new technology was rapidly developing, from color TV to the invention of the microchip. In

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. Twitter Censored Users at the Request of the State The National Association of State Election Directors, and

More than twenty years ago when I was a young Army intelligence officer fresh out of the academy, my commander summoned me to his office one afternoon because he had a ‘special mission’ for me. I was beyond excited. My assumption was that it would be a clandestine assignment to lead one of

By the 1960s, it was pretty obvious that sugar contributed to health problems. Several studies had already been published suggesting that excess sugar consumption was a major cause of coronary heart disease. This was a problem for the Sugar Research Foundation— an industry group dedicated to promoting the consumption of sugar. The organization

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. An actual medical journal says whiteness is “a malignant, parasitic-like condition” “Whiteness is a condition one first

“There is nothing sinister,” wrote Judge Billings ‘Learned’ Hand, “in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.” The year was 1947, and Hand was a high level federal judge for the US Second Circuit Court; he was writing an opinion in a complicated case in which the Internal

On December 10, 1948, in the aftermath of World War II, the newly formed United Nations wanted to make a bold statement to counter all the atrocities the world had just witnessed. The previous decade had been almost nonstop genocide and devastation brought on by a Nazi doctrine of intolerance. And so the

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. White Spanish teacher cancels herself, because “White isn’t Right” Speaking online at the “Virtual Women’s and Gender

Mikhail Tukhachevsky was only 42 years old when Joseph Stalin promoted him to the highest possible military rank in the Soviet Union. As “Marshall of the Soviet Union”, Tukhachevsky had near supreme authority over all Soviet military forces. And he had been personally tasked by Stalin to modernize the military and prepare for

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. Actor John Cena apologizes for calling Taiwan a country While promoting the film Fast and Furious 9

[Editor’s note: This letter was written by Viktorija, our Sovereign Woman] Last week after my little ‘incident’ when I was almost mugged in downtown Las Vegas, I felt the need to unwind and have a drink. Apparently everyone else had the same idea, because the hotel bar was packed as tightly as a

“No 90-year old ever complained about being too healthy,” my friend Dr. Michael Bilof joked to me over lunch on Saturday. Mike is a vascular and bariatric surgeon, as well as an anti-aging expert. And he’d just given us a really interesting presentation about how to prolong both quantity AND quality of life;

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. “A man cannot get pregnant” is hate speech on Twitter A Spanish politician was suspended from Twitter

[Editor’s note: This letter on personal resilience was written by Viktorija, our Sovereign Woman] I’ve been in plenty of dangerous situations in my life. I’ve been shot at. I’ve been through a rocket attack. And, as a single female, I’ve been stalked more times than I can count.dd Yet even with all those

[Note: This letter on personal resilience was written by our founder, Simon Black.] Fourteen year old Gao Yuan was attending a boarding school in China when the Cultural Revolution broke out in 1966. And that’s when his life changed forever. Even though the communists had won the Chinese Civil War and been in

You’ve almost certainly heard the news that the CDC in the Land of the Free has now decided that fully vaccinated people don’t need to wear a mask anymore. The President of the United States subsequently sent out a demeaning ultimatum via Twitter— The rule is now simple: get vaccinated or wear a

We’ve reached a point now where anyone who can’t see inflation is clearly not paying attention. Inflation has now become so ridiculous that, according to the Wall Street Journal, even the price of a USED car is increasing… by a lot. Since January 2020, NEW car prices have increased 9.6%. But USED car

Early in the 2nd century AD, around the year 101, the Roman humorist Decimus Junius Juvenalis began publishing a collection of satirical poems poking fun at the Empire. Rome was already in serious decline by the time Juvenalis wrote his first poem. In the first century AD alone, Romans suffered the tyrannical insanity

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. CIA goes full woke in new recruiting campaign The CIA has gone full woke in an “unapologetically