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Fred's avatar
Sep 5Edited

A World in Debt, 1935/36 by Freeman Tilden, here’s a link to the full book in pdf https://dn790000.ca.archive.org/0/items/AWorldInDebtFreemanTilden/World%20In%20Debt%2C%20A%20-%20Freeman%20Tilden.pdf

Rudy Havenstein's avatar

Thanks. I have that copy. The scan is kind of sketchy so I still have to do a lot of editing when copy text out of there.

Fred's avatar
Sep 5Edited

thought you would, was more for fellow subscribers :)

Petra Kehr's avatar

Hi Rudy, you're morphing into a kind of Sunday Times Volume.... Just regarding the volume of your delivery 😀

Petra Kehr's avatar

Please don't. Just overwhelmed.

Rudy Havenstein's avatar

I may slow down

Abe's avatar

my respect (and admiration) for you work in collecting a passing along all this very relevant stuff on how the lowlifes and bastards are slowly killing us all and my thoughts about the monetary value of your work to all of us but this particular issue was somehow very depressing. The bastards and scumbags are winning and even they don't in the long run, they are still going to take us all down anyway. one begins to understand that guy who took down that health care exec.

Rudy Havenstein's avatar

I don’t want to depress anyone, I just post things that I think are important to be aware of, or are curious, or amusing, and often random and eclectic. I myself remain very cheerful in the face of the bad stuff. There’s a lot of good in the world too. I suppose I could focus more on that, but I just do what I do. Godspeed.

Melody Wright's avatar

Great article! Thankful I didn't miss that Bloomberg article. And, thank you :)

Diogenes Spooner's avatar

Always a pleasure, Rudy.

This one is particularly nice.

Phil Denniston's avatar

This time it's different.

Patrick B's avatar

Regarding subways in the West vs subways in the East: I am always annoyed when these comparisons never discuss the demographic differences among the ridership.

"Why are subways so much cleaner and safer in Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, and Shanghai, compared to New York, Chicago, London, and Paris??"

It's almost impossible to answer this question accurately and remain in the confines of polite society -- but it is becoming more and more polite to discuss the real answer to the question: No muslims and no blacks.

Petra Kehr's avatar

There's one common Observation in these societies. They are so called High Trust societies which I feel explains much of the different behaviour.

Patrick B's avatar

The United States used to be such a High Trust society -- what changed?

It turns out that multiculturalism and diversity are inversely correlated with high trust in societies: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335924797_Ethnic_Diversity_and_Social_Trust_A_Narrative_and_Meta-Analytical_Review ("We find a statistically significant negative relationship between ethnic diversity and social trust across all studies.")

But even among ethnically homogenous communities, the level of trust is typically dependent upon the ethnic group. Compare: Poland, Croatia, India, Nigeria, South Africa

patrick.net/memes's avatar

I've been reading about the Epstein scandal like a fiend lately, and my conclusion is that it wasn't primarily about trafficking girls for blackmail material, though that happened too.

Epstein was primarily a tax fixer for billionaires like Leon Black and Les Wexner. He would find illegal ways to save them massive amounts in taxes, and then take ~10% of the savings. This is why Leon Black paid Epstein $158 million. Because Epstein saved Black $1.58 BILLION in taxes. And this is why Wexner gave Epstein that mansion in NYC. Epstein's mysterious wealth is suddenly explicable.

Note that tax evasion is also criminal, making those who engaged in it subject to blackmail even aside from the underage girl videos. And maybe Epstein was providing Ehud Barak details on all that tax evasion, giving Israel leverage over many rich Americans. He did seem to meet with Barak a lot.

Rudy Havenstein's avatar

Yes.

"...writing a 900-page book on this stuff, I can say Epstein is, first and foremost, a financial criminal, who later dabbled in sex-trafficking and also arms-trafficking. It's bad." - Whitney Webb

Tankster's avatar

Dave Chappelle, white guy strolling across his yard, rifle over his shoulder...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbZEgz5ubUQ

Barry Sobel's avatar

Mint, which you linked to, is a highly offensive Jew hating, Israel bashing propagandist. Not exactly unbiased. What a bunch of trash. If I was woke I would be offended at how offended I am and I would be much more upset if you were still taking my money. But since it’s free, I guess I can’t really complain. And if I’m offended, it’s pretty damn offensive.

Rudy Havenstein's avatar

Can you point out what in my post offended you? I mean, what was false?

Tankster's avatar

Found it. It's not only Hamas propagandists, Dave Collum has also mentioned that he was a Mossad/8200/intelligence asset. Why call Rudy out on a link that's out there, and I think there more than a zero likelihood that he was such an asset. My question is why no Deadman Switch, that had to be pulled every month or so, or petabytes of info would go to Anonymous?

Rudy is one of the most solid, no punches pulled authors in Substack. I am generally overwhelmed by the amount of content in his articles. The links, e.g., the Telegraph on the upcoming bankruptcy of England and France (as if that is news to anyone. Hell, the total gross national debt amounts to $108,551 per person or $279,319 per household. We're going to have a Flubber moment when we tell our creditors: "You fucked up! You trusted us! He has malice but is not malicious, so pray tell what made you go off. FWIW, my son was a paratrooper in the 101 as a Chayal Boded 2010-2012.

Barry Sobel's avatar

I’m sorry, nothing in the actual post. It’s the link to a Hamas / Qatar propaganda site, MINT. If Epstein is guilty or not perhaps linking to literal Nazis is not the best source. I happen to think he’s a scum bag but they would kill him for just being of Jewish DNA.

MoodyP's avatar

Reading Behold a Pale Horse again. Read it 25 years ago, at least. Pretty astonishing stuff.