It was on this day that one of the most significant labor disputes in American history, the Pullman Strike, began in 1894. The strike was organized by workers of the Pullman Company in Chicago, Illinois, who protested wage cuts and high rents (sound familiar?). It was led by the American Railway Union (ARU) under Eugene…

Physicist Richard P. Feynman felt that people fail to learn because they trick themselves into believing they understand something more deeply than they really do. He said schooling has focused us on learning the wrong thing  —  that is, the name of something rather than what it truly is. Also, Feynman believed that if you…

If you’re anywhere near the 50-year-old crowd, you’ve probably heard of anticholinergic drugs by now, particularly those used to treat urinary incontinence. What you may not have heard is that they carry a high risk of negatively affecting cognition and increasing one’s risk of dementia. Anticholinergic drugs block the effects of acetylcholine, a chemical released…

The cornerstone of standard medical therapy for the treatment of blockages in coronary arteries is to drill a tunnel through them and put in a metal culvert that remains there forever. Oh, and give you drugs to treat your condition forever. Let’s not forget that part! It is deceptively simple. They tell us the coronary…

On May 4th, 1945, German forces in Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands surrendered unconditionally to British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery at Luneburg Heath, and German forces in Bavaria surrendered unconditionally to American commander Jacob L. Devers. This was just a few days before all German armed forces surrendered unconditionally in the west, on May 7, and in the…

It’s not simply control of money that those who want power desire. It’s the control of the movement of money. And since federal taxes will be due in a few weeks, and there’s something you should know about all that money that will once again be disappeared from the monetary system: Money as we knew…

It’s almost summertime, and if you use chlorine to keep your swimming pool clean, you are exposing yourself to massive amounts of government-approved cancer-causing agents. Your house’s water supply is already mandated to be contaminated with fluoride and chlorine. Just one shower exposes you to the same amount of carcinogens as drinking a week’s worth…

To survive (let alone prosper), we absolutely must think of wealth and savings in terms of natural resource commodities, more specifically, gold and silver. But all commodities are becoming more valuable as paper money collapses. History tends to be cyclical. We are now entering a cycle where credit must begin to unravel — as I…

We often remind you in these Alerts to store water, food, guns, ammunition, documents, first aid, and gold. Inevitably, that remark will spark letters in return pointing out the folly of preparedness. Some people just don’t get it, and apparently, no amount of “preaching” to them on the subject will get through. Boy Scouts, apparently,…

As you age, your body slowly but surely loses the battle to keep organs from suffering oxidative damage. But in two key areas, your genetic material and your mitochondria (cellular energy producers), there is a nutrient that can help the body fight back against getting older. I’m talking about coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10). Over time, as…