Category Archives: History

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, March 20, 2019: 

The common refrain that those who refuse to learn anything from history are bound to repeat its mistakes is about to apply to the Mayor of Newark, New Jersey. The lesson from history was well put by John Smith, writing to the people in his failed communist experiment in Jamestown in 1609:

Countrymen, the long experience of our late miseries I hope is sufficient to persuade everyone to a present correction of himself, and think not that either my pains nor the adventurers’ purses will ever maintain you in idleness and sloth…

 

…the greater part must be more industrious, or starve…

 

You must obey this now for a law, that he that will not work shall not eat (except by sickness he be disabled). For the labors of thirty or forty honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintain a hundred and fifty idle loiterers.

Smith slightly modified the exhortation from the Maker of the Universe, Who said, through His Apostle Paul: “If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.” (2 Thessalonians 3:10-12)

Oblivious to such history and exhortations from the Creator, Newark’s Mayor Ras Baraka announced plans during his State of the City speech last week to create a commission to study the concept of a “universal” income plan to help the more than one quarter of the city’s population living in poverty: taking money from those who earned it and giving it to those who didn’t.

Baraka touted its collectivist benefits without mentioning its individual costs:

This article was published by the McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, February 20, 2019: 

The anti-gun bias of the Chicago Tribune shined through in its editorial on Sunday: “After Aurora, Illinois has to tighten gun law enforcement.” In simple terms, the editors were calling for more of what didn’t work, hoping that somehow, in the future, it would:

According to authorities, the man who fatally shot five employees of Henry Pratt Co. and wounded several officers Friday was a convicted felon. Gary Martin served time in prison in Mississippi in the 1990s for aggravated assault. Yet about a decade later, he was issued an Illinois firearm owner’s identification card and purchased a Smith & Wesson .40-caliber handgun.

 

Not everyone is allowed to have a FOID [state-required firearm owner identification card]. A felony conviction is a disqualifier. Martin wasn’t flagged until after his purchase, when he sought a concealed carry license. It appears that during the background check process, which included fingerprinting, his criminal record popped up. What happened next? Frustratingly, not enough. Martin’s FOID was revoked, but he kept his firearm — later using it to cause a bloodbath in Aurora.

 

There are gun laws on the books designed to keep weapons away from dangerous people. Then there is enforcement. In this instance, there was a deadly lapse. Martin should never have received a FOID. Once that error was discovered, Illinois State Police apparently would have notified Martin by letter that he was not legally eligible to own a gun. Obviously, he either never got notification or ignored it. And no one took his gun away.

How did this happen? How could it possibly have happened?

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, February 13, 2019: 

Rarely does the mainstream media expose George Soros’s messianic view of himself or his family’s history of insanity. The biographic at the end of his lament over the pending collapse of his pet project, “Europe, Please Wake Up,” that appeared at Business Insider on Monday is typical:

George Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management and Chairman of the Open Society Foundations. A pioneer of the hedge-fund industry, he is the author of many books, including The Alchemy of Finance, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What it Means, and The Tragedy of the European Union.

Soros has been pouring billions into making the world safe for tyranny, but May’s election in Europe isn’t likely to go well for the megalomaniac messiah. Wrote Soros:

Europe is sleepwalking into oblivion, and the people of Europe need to wake up before it is too late. If they don’t, the European Union will go the way of the Soviet Union in 1991. Neither our leaders nor ordinary citizens seem to understand that we are experiencing a revolutionary moment….

 

The next inflection point will be the elections for the European Parliament in May 2019. Unfortunately, anti-European forces will enjoy a competitive advantage in the balloting. There are several reasons for this, including the outdated party system that prevails in most European countries, the practical impossibility of treaty change, and the lack of legal tools for disciplining member states that violate the principles on which the European Union was founded.

Translation: citizens are waking up to the personal and political liberty they lost when they traded it for the promise of an improved economy. The Wizard of Oz has been exposed, his name is George Soros, and they aren’t taking it anymore.

Soros complained that the EU had unnecessarily exposed its iron fist back in 2017:

The EU made a fatal mistake in 2017 by strictly enforcing the Dublin Agreement [whereby the EU controls former states’ immigration policies], which unfairly burdens countries like Italy where migrants first enter the EU.

 

This drove Italy’s predominantly pro-European and pro-immigration electorate into the arms of the anti-European League party and Five Star Movement in 2018. The previously dominant Democratic Party is in disarray. As a result, the significant portion of the electorate that remains pro-European has no party to vote for … a similar reordering of party systems is happening in France, Poland, Sweden, and probably elsewhere.

There’s a dark spiritual side missing from nearly every reference made to the billionaire. From DiscoverTheNetworks.org comes this: