I just uploaded all but two Chapters of Kita Ikki’s Kokutairon and Pure Socialism. These Chapters in question are from the fourth Section of the book. There are two more Chapters which constitute the fifth and final Section. Kita spent… Read More ›
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Fragment on Race in America
Race is a social construct insofar as the concept has to be defined as a sociological phenomenon understood by an identifiable group of people. It cannot be reduced to a sequence of genetic material or biological matter, which has been… Read More ›
Refining the Schwurhand-Strategie (Pt. II of IV)
After weeks of strategizing and calculating, I am proud to announce that I had garnered nearly $400 USD in Dividends from those ETFs I mentioned in Part I of this Post. Although some losses were sustained, I nevertheless broke even… Read More ›
Refining the Schwurhand-Strategie (Pt. I of IV)
My decision to reduce the amount of activity on The Fourth Estate coincides with my concurrent decisions to diversify my offline professional life. Since all the research I had done in the 2010s has been exhausted, I decided to use… Read More ›
Update (5 November 2024)
Some interesting things happened recently. Last week, I learned about a recent development involving something which I had written around the same time I started The Fourth Estate. “Election Betting” just became legal in America after a Federal ruling made… Read More ›
The “Schwurhand-Strategie”: Why I am Returning to WordPress
To all Readers of The Fourth Estate, I have decided to resume writing for The Fourth Estate on WordPress, abandoning its Substack extension for the very simple fact that it is no longer necessary for me to ever charge even… Read More ›
Update (28 October 2024)
After weeks of deliberation and questioning the rationale for staying on Substack, I have made the conscious decision to return to WordPress. Chasing after a much larger readership on Substack was only going to be justified by having people purchase… Read More ›
Camp MacKall & the 11th Airborne Division are born
The original idea for an American airborne came from Gen. Billy Mitchell in 1918. His commander, Gen. Pershing agreed, but once the WWI Armistice was signed, the plan was terminated. In the late 1920’s, Germany began training parachute units and… Read More ›
Credit card debt is soaring, especially in these cities | DC News Now
(NEXSTAR) – Americans are falling behind on their credit card payments at a level not seen in more than a decade amid high interest rates and persistent inflation, but some cities have far higher average debts than others, a study found. Four of the… Read More ›
Smitty: Everett A. Smith
The next posts will be a re-play of Smitty’s bio and letters home to his mother on Broad Channel, NY. We have quite a number of new readers who are unfamiliar with Smitty. I hope none of my long-time readers… Read More ›
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