How harmful is smoking to smokers? Public health advocates who claim one out of every three, or even one out of every two, smokers will die from a smoking-related illness are grossly exaggerating the real threat. The actual odds of a smoker dying from smoking before the age of 75 are about 1 in 12. In other words, 11 out of 12 life-long smokers don’t die before the age of 75 from a smoking-related disease. In a 1998 article titled … Continue reading →
Ever since the earliest recordings of history, there have been individuals that have sought to gain an unfair advantage over others in many aspects of life, especially in the area of commerce. One recent example is where the National Milk Producers Federation settled a lawsuit alleging antitrust conspiracy in slaughtering dairy cow herds, reducing herd sizes causing scarcity to justify higher product prices. Now the defendants (Dairy Farmers of America, Inc., Land O’ Lakes Inc., Dairylea Cooperative Inc. and Agri-Mark … Continue reading →
Prior to the 17th century most money was commodity money, typically gold or silver. A commodity money is a medium of exchange the units of which are fixed amounts of an actual commodity that has value other than as money alone. The continued violation of the law of just weights and measures led to a new kind of money. This was the goldsmiths’ debt rather than silver or gold coin. This development required the acceptance in trade of the goldsmiths’ … Continue reading →
It was my general understanding that insurance companies charged its customers a premium for insurance policies which they in turn reinvested to cover the eventual payouts. The more efficiently they did that, the more money they made. Apparently they’re not satisfied with that anymore. Now, they see the “deep pockets” of the tobacco industry coupled with a hyped-up public hysteria about smoking and have targeted the tobacco industry to further line their pockets with increasing profits. Read more Insurance Companies … Continue reading →
Why does our government require us to pay taxes when they print all the money they want? What is the Federal Reserve and Who Controls it? The Federal Reserve is not a governmental agency and neither the Congress nor the President have one iota of control over its day-to-day operations. The chilling truth is that the Federal Reserve, America’s central bank, is simply one component of an interlocking, international banking cartel that now controls the wealth of this planet. The … Continue reading →
Whether it’s health care, national security, human rights, the environment, education, or whatever… there is always a bottom line. And, that bottom line is always money – or to be more specific… the control of money as Rothschild alluded to. “Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws. ” – Mayer Amschel Rothschild Those that control the global economy and who established our current fiat monetary system are not … Continue reading →
As important as money is to most people, most of us take for granted this valuable resource without giving thought to what it really is, where it comes from, or how it works. We earn it, we spend it, we save it, and some may complain they don’t have enough of it, but few really know much about it. For most people, money, finances, monetary policy, etc. are pretty confusing and as a result they surrender the subject to others. … Continue reading →
