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Killing Them is Killing Us by Robert Gore – Straight Line Logic The murdered cannot forgive. Their blood won’t be washed. There is something eerily fascinating about cold-blooded murderers—a staple of Hollywood thrillers and crime dramas—killing without emotion or remorse....
Strip Mining the World by Robert Gore – Straight Line Logic The richest vein in the history of predatory mining is just about played out. A gigantic mine engages in every conceivable destructive practice—strip mining, heap leaching, tailings dams and...
How Many Russians Do You Hate? by Robert Gore – Straight Line Logic How many Russians do you hate? Chinese? North Koreans? Iranians? Syrians? Yemenis? If, aggregated, your answer was zero, your answer is typical. Perhaps you were rejected once...
A Jubilee is Coming by Robert Gore – Straight Line Logic The greatest debt expansion in history draws to a close. Conventionally measured economic growth is related to two aspects of debt: its growth rate and its marginal effectiveness. In...
In Praise of Facts by Robert Gore – Straight Ling Logic Facts rush towards us like an oncoming train, and facts tie us to the track. Your car won’t start. That’s a fact. You think the battery is dead. That’s...
Let’s Connect the Dots by Robert Gore – Straight Line Logic If Seth Rich was the source of the WikiLeaks’ DNC email disclosures and the FBI knew it, then the Russian hacking story was a fabrication, and James Comey was...
Bigger Than Atlantic City by Robert Gore – Straight Line Logic Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. Benjamin Franklin Millions of words have been written about Trump’s motivations and psychology, why he does or...
The Magnificent Eleven by Robert Gore – Straight Line Logic The best presidents are the ones you never hear about. There were eleven presidents between Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson. How many can you name? Some people will get Theodore...
The Corporatocracy by Robert Gore – Straight Line Logic The interests of Washington and large corporations have merged so completely they are now inseparable. America’s large corporations and its government have merged. Or was it an acquisition? If the latter,...
Nothing Succeeds Like FAILURE in Coercive Systems by Robert Gore – Straight Line Logic Collapse generally comes as a surprise, even to those who predict it. The USSR didn’t just fail one day, as does a person who dies of...
There’s no stopping… The Swarm by Robert Gore – Straight Line Logic Thag and his tribesmen had taken down a mammoth that morning. The feast was still underway, but Thag was bored with the men grunt-bragging about their exploit and...
Calling A Bluff? by Robert Gore – Straight Line Logic Things are seldom what they seem… In “Plot Holes,” SLL took a contrary tack to the consensus after Michael Flynn was fired: “The upshot of many commentators is that Trump...
The Useful and the Useless by Robert Gore The battle lines are forming. You’re standing on the prow of an ocean liner cutting through the icy waters of the North Atlantic. A huge iceberg looms dead ahead. You’ve seen it...
Empires have one historical constant: they fail. by Robert Gore President Trump likes deals and campaigned on his deal-making prowess. Negotiation requires parties who respect each other enough to bargain in good faith. It is a lost art in US...
The Emperor Will Make a Mockery of the Future by Robert Gore There is a Supreme Ruler of the world. During the early years of his reign he won accolades and devotion, showering his subjects with goods and services that...
Being Ignored Can Be a Blessing by Robert Gore Billions of people around the globe would like Americans to put America first. The largest infrastructure project in the world is China’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative, often referred to...
What I learned about Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson after spending a week on jury duty with him, by Emily Roden A rare first hand glimpse by someone who does not travel in rarified circles of a man who does—Rex Tillerson,...
A Global Nuclear Winter: Avoiding the Unthinkable in India and Pakistan Here’s a couple of facts that will surprise most people. Pakistan has between 110 and 130 nuclear warheads and will have 200 by 2020. India currently has between 110...
Europe is facing a banking crisis, a reappearance of Greece’s financial crisis, and a crisis in Syria. Hold on to your hats. From The Zman at theburningplatform.com: Back when the Germans were threatening to shut down Greece and sell it...
There has been a progression through each iteration of monetary theft. A trial balloon launches, usually from academia, which proposes an “innovation” contrary to reigning practice and orthodoxy. A curmudgeonly minority reject it; the majority, securing their places on the...
Contemporary governance embodies corruption within deranged systems resting on foundations of theft and fraud. Corruption makes reform impossible; derangement assures eventual collapse. “Defense” spending is a misnomer. The US could defend itself at a small fraction of what it spends...
I and members of my family are minority investors in Dr. Kelly’s majority-owned company, fouRy LLC, or 4Ry. I have performed and will continue to perform, various services for 4Ry, for which I may be compensated. The opinions and analyses...
U.S. Conducts Airstrikes Against ISIS in Libya reads The New York Times’ August 1 headline, capturing virtually everything wrong with US foreign interventionism. Tracing the strands emanating from that headline regrettably requires a deep dive into an ideological and moral cesspool, on...
Your cruise ship sinks, you and one other person, a stranger, are the only survivors, and your lifeboat lands on a deserted island. The two of you have no provisions. Your survival depends on wresting your sustenance from the island....
