Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
Thailand built its huge tourism industry on US military bases and US military R and R during the Vietnam war. Young US military men spent far more than other tourists. Thailand was then able to turn this war-time tourism industry into a permanent industry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jS7aV568IA
Coptic is the final written version of the ancient Egyption language that was used before being overtaken by Arabic, making Arabic a colonial imperialist language in Egypt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNjXwseRlqQ
Paul may have written the most impactful letters in history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oVzFmt_SGw
Our inability to figure out what’s real is an important social problem. We are being driven crazy by our technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5QuO_wKPhk
When you temporarily defund the military, you lose key human capital that moves into the private sector and can’t easily be brought back. You would make the military weaker long term.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vDb7TRKlcU
Odd Arne Westad: How the Past Shadows China’s Future | Foreign Affairs Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubdp8te6rd4
Israel recognized Somalia’s breakaway region, Somaliland, as an independent country. No other UN country has done so. Somaliland declared independence in 1991.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsmbBnHeVDk
Shirley posted videos of childcare centers than he claimed showed they were fraudulent because no one answered when he visited them, but many of them were active daycares, which don’t answer the doors to groups of men for security concerns. Both government investigations and real reporters who followed up on Shirley’s shoddy work found the daycare centers to be active centers taking care of kids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=283r6-lUnP4
The West is losing its ability to win wars because: ,among other causes, they believe in fantasies that there will be a technical solution to winning tough wars that don’t involve great loss of life; they no longer have a demographic edge; and they don’t believe in the correctness and goodness of their overarching goals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlZ7cw_9pvc
Mark Cuban’s Blueprint for Affordable Healthcare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDnIYznB6kc