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05/16/12 - Merkel Admits the Entire EU Is Nothing But a Large Promotion
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has just made an astounding statement. In a press conference with new president Francoise Hollande, she said, "People who have a common currency ... |
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05/16/12 - Time Magazine: Fed is Responsible for the JPMorgan Blow Up ...
Another limited hangout from a mainstream publication. In this case, Time magazine. This is how the game works. One never calls for the end of central banking – only for central ... |
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05/15/12 - Oh, the Horror! Greek Gov Collapses
So the Greek government has collapsed ... again. Reuters (above) makes it sound like a national tragedy. But maybe we are missing something here. Didn't the Greek government ... |
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05/15/12 - Is Ron Paul Dead Yet, Dorothy? Drop a House on Him ...
Has libertarian Congressman Ron Paul really dropped out of the GOP race? Is it really the end? Seems hard to think so. But the media will have its day. There's no way not to ... |
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05/14/12 - Drop the Cash From Helicopters!
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has gotten to the heart of the matter in a recent article on monetary contraction (see above). He rightly points out that less money is circulating but ... |
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05/14/12 - Thank Goodness for Regulation
Paul Krugman is out with another weary defense of massive financial regulation. The US Leviathan is in the process of strip-searching seniors and infants at airports for reasons ... |
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05/14/12 - JPMorgan Has Lost US$ 2 Billion, Now It's Time for the Volcker Rule
Even the 'Net alternative media seems attracted by this "rule" that the former Federal Reserve Chairman is flogging. But we can't help recall that virtually all his life Volcker ... |
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05/11/12 - S&P's 'Wall of Debt' Warning is Phony as They Come
As the power elite that wants to run the world grows more crazed and desperate, their bought-and-paid-for financial facilities and media mouthpieces become crazier, too. That's ... |
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05/11/12 - Now Cometh the Eurozone 'Recession' ...
If the Eurozone is not to be condensed and held, then by God, let loose the hounds of Hell. That would seem to be the next step in the European Union saga. There was, of course, ... |
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05/11/12 - The Euro Is Finished? And What Comes Next? ...
The power elite that we cover as part of our brief to understand the Way the World Really Works focuses apparently on the goal of world government. It follows many paths to get ... |
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05/10/12 - Desperate Argentina Now Seen Begging for Oil Investment
Are Argentina's top officials having second thoughts about their expropriation of Spain's Argentine oil-producer? It would seem that way from the above news report via Merco ... |
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05/10/12 - Italian Voters Reject Austerity, Too
The powers-that-be run the world's mainstream media and they are now spending a great deal of time reporting on the end of austerity in the EU. Greece, Italy, Spain and even ... |
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05/10/12 - US Car Sales Are Up – Is the Recession Really Over?
So sales of American cars are going up. That's great. But we still end up feeling like there's a great big promotion going on. It's what we call a dominant social theme aimed, ... |
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05/09/12 - Biggest Question: Will Germany Adjust or Will Euro Die?
Our favorite mainstream economic reporter, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, is out with a good analysis of the current, brewing dissolution of the euro and the EU (see above). It ... |
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05/09/12 - Catch These Corporate Bribers and Put Them in Jail
There is a manufactured "surface" conversation in this world and then there is reality. The reality is that a secretive power elite has taken over the West, seeks to rule the ... |
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05/09/12 - Directed History of Coming Depression Grinds On
We've been banging on about a worldwide slump for years now, ever since it occurred to us that once Europe and the US "went out" in 2008, from an economic standpoint, the BRICs ... |
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05/08/12 - Ron Paul: Energizer Bunny of US Politics for Good Reason
Ron Paul, libertarian-conservative candidate for US president just won't quit. In fact, he keeps grabbing delegates and is threatening to deprive putative GOP nominee Mitt ... |
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05/08/12 - Face of US$ 100 Billion ... Facebook Specialty Is Pilfering Client Data, While Instagram Is a Craft Package?
We've been clear about our disbelief regarding Facebook and its US$ 90 billion valuation, which is apparently about to go up to US$ 100 billion or so based on the company's ... |
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05/08/12 - UN Claims Sub-Saharan Africa Faces Dramatic Crisis as New Nation State Is Formed
The power elite is supporting a new nation in sub-Saharan Africa. Actually, the French and European Union are said to be against the new country that will basically take the ... |
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05/07/12 - Is RBC the New Business Cycle?
Megan McArdle is out with an interesting rumination about the business cycle. It's not merely a theoretical examination, however. Who is she? From The Atlantic: "Megan McArdle ... |
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05/07/12 - EU Bust as Internet Reformation Rolls On ...
Here at the Daily Bell one of the things we are (modestly) known for is our perspective that the Internet and the information it distributes would have a huge impact on Western ... |
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05/04/12 - Selective Doubt at the Milken Money Conference
Michael Milken was a Wall Street legend in the 1980s when he made junk bonds into a form of popular financing. He was the black knight on a white horse, teaching Wall Street and ... |
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05/04/12 - Bank of England Draws "Lessons" From the Idiocy of the 2000s
So the wheel keeps on turning, even after it has delinked from the axle. Monopoly-fiat central banking is not so arcane as it used to be: It's price fixing and it doesn't work. ... |
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05/04/12 - The Volcker Rule Advances
Here it comes. Another elite dominant social theme designed to support the idea that wise regulation can make a big and positive difference in the world. This is surely a ... |
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05/02/12 - The Obama Recovery Persists At Least Until After the Election ... and Then Watch Out!
Just in time for Barack Obama's re-election, as we've pointed out previously, the entire American economy is taking a tremendous uptick. We know this is so because we read about ... |
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05/02/12 - Now Bolivia Seizes Oil – Open Season on Western Assets or Something Even More?
Historical events tend to move in cycles. This is because the world seems to be in the grip of a kind of directed global convulsion leading to greater world government. We seem ... |
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05/02/12 - Almost Psychic ... Andreessen Most Clairvoyant Person Since Pythia, or Not?
Marc Lowell Andreessen has always been at the forefront of the "technology revolution" and has made a lot of money by doing so. Now he is really excited about small phone-'Net ... |
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05/01/12 - The Velocity of Money Is Coming, Along With Big Price Inflation?
Axel Merk of Merk Funds is out with another good analysis of the tremendous monetary inflation now inherent in the Western dollar reserve system and its eventual impact. We have ... |
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05/01/12 - Britain Slows in Slump
Only 100 years ago there were very few central banks in the world. Today there are perhaps 150 of them, many reporting to the main Bank for International Settlements in ... |
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05/01/12 - The Caro Come Down ...
Robert Allan Caro once wrote a brilliant book about Robert Moses, who is a seminal planning figure in modern America life. The book Caro wrote about Moses is justifiably ... |
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05/01/12 - Building the Private Warfare State
What we call the Internet Reformation has given us a good perspective on how the West's military-intel-industrial complex foments conflicts and then monetizes them. We've ... |
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04/30/12 - Austerity Staggers, Germany Blows Up?
Here's another winning analysis from UK Telegraph columnist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, in our view. As spectacularly wrong as he was about Spain avoiding a collapse (and we called ... |
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04/30/12 - India Falters? Global Depression On Tap?
There is a big argument in the Western world, and especially in the US and Britain over the issue of public versus private monopoly-fiat (central banking) money. In this article ... |
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04/30/12 - Canada Introduces Plastic Cash – Say, How About Trying a Little Gold and Silver?
Used to be that money was at least in part gold and silver, circulating as gold and silver or as bank notes that represented gold and silver. At the height of the free-banking ... |
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04/30/12 - Let Mitt Romney Be Romney and the US Shall Be a Better Place
An argument could be made that US President Barack Obama is typical of the kinds of rulers that the modern power elite is trying to install around the world. Bloodless, ... |
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04/27/12 - Spain's Collapse Is No Little Thing
Is Spain beginning to collapse and, perhaps, the EU with it? For well over a thousand years, Spain has been at the epicenter of Europe and its fate has provided a bellwether for ... |
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04/27/12 - Chile Worries About Potential Argentine Military Provocations
The southern half of South America is bracing for an Argentine devaluation. People are readying for the worst. Last time it happened was more than ten years ago, around the turn ... |
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04/26/12 - Taxpayers, Don't Let Them Fail! Spanish Banking on Brink ...
Once again the cry goes up to preserve the banking sector. Is this necessary? In a free-market economy such failing institutions would shut down of their own accord. But that's ... |
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04/26/12 - Transformational President Romney – Not!
Romney is not going to be a transformational president. Let's make that clear right away. But this squib of an article that has received wide play on the Internet makes that ... |
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04/26/12 - Where Do We Go From Here in the Freedom Movement?
The Feds Prepare for Social Unrest . . . Shouldn't You? Join Senator Rand Paul, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Tom Woods, Peter Schiff and John Browne plus over 150 other speakers for ... |
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04/26/12 - VIDEO: A Rainbow for Obama
So ... this photo is all the over 'Net – the rainbow at the wingtip of Air Force One. We've had trouble all along with this Obama-as-messiah thing, and believe it to be a kind ... |
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04/25/12 - Is the Euro Slowly Dying?
Quietly, the euro may be dying. Or at least the top men in various countries may be taking steps to create room for its removal. We can see from the above excerpt that various ... |
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04/25/12 - Is the Tea Party Waning?
This article from the Economist – a full-fledged mainstream mouthpiece – predicts, hopefully, the demise of the Tea Party movement in the US. But those who run the Economist and ... |
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04/24/12 - The Trap Is Sprung ... Obama as East-West Savior?
What we have here is what we've long anticipated, the end of one war and the beginning of a resurgent Barack Obama who may act as a peacemaker between East and West. This ... |
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04/24/12 - Crime Is Up Worldwide, UN Intends to Provide a Solution
This is one of the oldest and hoariest of elite memes. It is the idea that only government can protect individuals from crime. It is an elite meme because elites have always ... |
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04/23/12 - EU Unraveling – Now It's Holland's Turn
Like some kind of rolling contagion, the insolvency affecting the Southern PIGS is spreading northward toward the supposedly solvent part of the EU. Now it's Holland's turn. We ... |
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04/23/12 - Germany Stands Athwart the European Crackup Shouting 'Stop'
In another article today we discuss the impending dissolution of the Dutch government over the issue of EU-imposed "austerity." There is no social consensus in Holland currently ... |
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04/23/12 - Taxes vs. Fed – What's to Blame?
The above article excerpt would seem to put the "fiscal versus monetary" argument into perspective. It is an argument that, in our view, defines the modern state and what's ... |
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04/23/12 - Is the Case Against Megaupload Coming Apart?
We along with many others questioned the original premise when this occurred. The US justice system – really, the West's – has increasingly imposed punishment before the crime ... |
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04/20/12 - Spain Bans Cash
They are not even making a pretense anymore that the West is run via market economies. As we have long predicted, the phony "sovereign debt" crisis in Europe is being used to ... |
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04/20/12 - Huge Water Resource Found in Africa: World Bank Steps In?
We've charted this elite meme for several years – water scarcity. The powers-that-be create fear-based scarcity promotions and then propose globalist solutions. Water scarcity ... |
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04/20/12 - Does the CDC Tell the Truth About Vaccines and Immunizations?
The vaccine wars are heating up and now the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has stepped in to let us know that measles is on the rise. Should we believe it? ... |
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04/19/12 - BIS: Asian Central Banks Are Pretty Good!
What kind of snow are they eating in Switzerland? Monopoly private/public central banking has been a failure wherever it has been tried. The reason is very simple. Those who are ... |
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04/19/12 - Time Magazine Predicts Many Cars to be Unaffordable by 2025
We've been tracking the Western war on cars and this article in Time magazine raises the offensive a notch. The idea is that by making cars electric, you limit range and ... |
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04/19/12 - Is the Vaccine Industry Beginning to Fail?
It began as a tiny drip-drip-drip when one of the Kennedys got angry and claimed in an article that vaccines had health consequences. And then there was the sad saga of Dr. ... |
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04/19/12 - The Illuminati Strikes Again: April 19th and 20th Are Fraught
April 19th and 20th are bad days, from a freedom standpoint. Here's a list of April 20th's historical sad and bad events, courtesy of Ghoulpool.com: 1792 – France declares war ... |
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04/18/12 - Occupy Wall Street Sees Merit in Current Tax System?
This article from Dissent magazine was also carried by Truthout, which is a leading alternative media news source, though one that focuses on a leftist interpretation of modern ... |
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04/18/12 - UN's International Baccalaureate Program Under Attack in NH
There is a public debate going on in New Hampshire over whether or not to ensure that the UN's International Baccalaureate "Programme" does not have a long tenure in New ... |
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04/17/12 - Bequest of Chicago Free-Market Boys is Chile Violence?
Are the Chile Dam protests symptomatic of deeper dysfunction? There are plenty of reports of protests over the dam that the Chile Supreme Court just approved (see excerpt ... |
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04/17/12 - Did US Expect Taliban Attacks?
The news today is all about Australia leaving Afghanistan earlier than planned, or so Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard says. But there are several crosscurrents taking ... |
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04/16/12 - IMF Exploits Euro-Crisis to Create Global Money Power
Almost unnoticed, the world's leaders now speak in terms of trillions rather than billions (or millions) as they used to, and the IMF and central banks are leaders in this trend ... |
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04/16/12 - FDA Protects Drug Companies Again?
We have just written several articles on regulation and suddenly we see our points in action. In the excerpt (above) we observe quite clearly what we call "regulatory capture." ... |
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04/16/12 - TSA Creates 'Privileged Flyers' as Part of Larger Program
Is the TSA's efforts to create a privileged "flying class" part of a larger elite strategy to create a group of entitled corporate and government workers? We've written about ... |
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04/13/12 - Debt Crisis Plotted to Deliver the Euro to the IMF?
We've long since come to the conclusion that the EU's sovereign crisis is a manufactured one. This article supports such a conclusion, in our view. One has to keep in mind the ... |
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04/13/12 - Latest Elite Meme: Autism Caused by ... High Fructose Corn Syrup?
Here is a fairly predictable power elite meme. As vaccines come under more and more attack thanks to what we call the Internet Reformation, the powers-that-be are trying to find ... |
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04/12/12 - How the Elites Manipulate Big Stocks – and Why They're Failing
This kind of question is a kind of elite dominant social theme, no doubt about it. It frames the conversation and presupposes that the market itself is a greater good and that ... |
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04/12/12 - New 'Red Scare' ... Universities Hotbeds for Un-American Activities?
The FBI has discovered that American Universities are swarming with spies. This is ironic because US Intel agencies generally have been responsible for generating false-flag ... |
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04/12/12 - As Predicted, Attacks on Thrive, the Movie Have Begun
As we suspected, the counterattacks have begun. We were doubtful about "Thrive" from the beginning, but liked it more once we saw it. We interviewed the movie's maker, who ... |
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04/11/12 - Regulators Build Too-Big-to-Fail Empire
It used to be in the US that you were on your own, at least when it came to building a business. If it succeeded, great – if not, then ... too bad. But not anymore. Now there ... |
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04/11/12 - First Newspapers, Now TV – the Internet Reformation Rolls On
Citibank entertainment media analyst Jason B. Bazinet is in the news today. He wrote to investors that he simply cannot account for the slump in cable TV viewers. As a result, ... |
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04/10/12 - Elite Psyop? Public Banking and OWS Converge to Provide Mass 'Public' Solutions
We can see from this article excerpt above, that two nascent "protest" movements are joining forces in Philadelphia. One is public banking and the other is Occupy Wall Street. ... |
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04/10/12 - Elites Strike Back Via Roosevelt Institute: Government Isn't Bad; It's Essential
Free-Market Analysis: The power elite is starting to get serious. At first the alternative media was nothing but a tiny nuisance, like a buzzing gnat. Later on, it was seen as ... |
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04/10/12 - US Expands War on Terror to South America
South America has prospered somewhat in the past 25 years as Washington's various destabilizations have diminished somewhat – at least the overt ones like "Iran Contra." But now ... |
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04/09/12 - Lincoln Must Have Worked for Money Power
The cult of Lincoln continues unabated. Now comes another movie glorifying the Great Emancipator – see excerpt above. It is a "mash up" in which several genres are combined, ... |
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04/06/12 - Elite Meme: Anything Is Better Than Gold
We have been covering an upsurge in articles about the "gold bubble" of late. We checked online at Google and in the last 24 hours there have been over 200 articles including ... |
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04/06/12 - UK Telegraph Columnist Calls for More Gov. Surveillance
Every now and then the UK Telegraph – which is surely the most free-market oriented of major British newspapers – posts a really wacky article. It's probably because the ... |
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04/06/12 - Elites Destroy Endangered Species on Purpose?
The modest paradigm that animates these pages is that a power elite uses fear-based promotions to frighten people into accepting globalist solutions – answers that would not ... |
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04/05/12 - Rebellion Spreads ... EU Elites Have Miscalculated?
We have often written that the power elite's reaction to the Internet Reformation is one that will not be entirely successful. The suicide of Dimitris Christoulas may perhaps ... |
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04/05/12 - Gold Collapse ... the Bubble Is Pricked?
It really gets repetitious after a while. When the stock market falls, pundits don't immediately shout, "The bubble is over!" No, there are anxious meetings and grave ... |
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04/05/12 - 2500 Troops ... Elites Expanding Phony Wars to Australia and China
Free-Market Analysis: So America is expanding its empire to Australia. Actually, it's not really "America." From what we can tell, there is a power elite that runs the West and ... |
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04/04/12 - Straight From Oz: Real Reason Elites Intend to Legalize Some Drugs?
Last week we thought we detected a trend: The top elites via politicians and the mainstream media in the US were embarked on creating some sort of dominant social theme aimed at ... |
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04/04/12 - Advisors Still Can't – and Won't – Recommend Gold and Silver
One of the hallmarks of a controlled press is its regular departure from reality. The US press and the Western press generally have been departing from reality for most of the ... |
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04/03/12 - Western Elites Encourage Dollar Death With Uruguayan/Iran Deal?
So now Uruguay is standing up to the US – a country that could turn Uruguay into a smoldering hole in the Earth. Of course, Uruguay trades with Cuba so perhaps this is merely an ... |
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04/03/12 - 80% of Financial Advisors Not Recommending Facebook
Now, this is a strange and noteworthy occurrence (see excerpt above). American financial advisors are not big boosters of the upcoming Facebook IPO. Of course, we understand ... |
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04/03/12 - US Internet Criminalization Now Pursued at State Level – Conn. Attacked
These bills are all about the criminalizing of the Internet. Now that SOPA has been pushed back on the federal front, the action is turning to the states. The idea, in our view, ... |
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04/02/12 - The World Bank Is Hopeless and Changing Leaders Won't Help
The World Bank is a part of a kind of "tag team" with the International Monetary Fund. The World Bank lends money to dictators and sundry thugs and then when these unsavory ... |
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04/02/12 - Bin Laden Death Movie Mired in Controversy
Every time we think we are finished with the death of Osama bin Laden, we are thrust down the rabbit hole again. Surely we are not the only publication to question the death of ... |
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03/30/12 - Pot Calls Kettle Black! Dallas Fed Claims Banks Too Big
The excerpt above is taken from a column that "monitors" financial markets in order to hold "companies, executives and government officials accountable for their actions." OK. ... |
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03/30/12 - Every Day a New Elitist Fairy Tale – Now 'Earth Hour'
Every time we turn around we are assaulted with another meme of elite propaganda. They are mostly fear-based, promoting scarcity themes. Today, we are being beaten upside our ... |
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03/29/12 - Central Banks Won't Produce Natural Interest
Here comes Andrew Lilico, an economist with Europe Economics, and a member of the Shadow Monetary Policy Committee, according to the UK Telegraph (see article above). The ... |
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03/29/12 - Assange and Anonymous As Elite Helpers?
Julian Assange wants to run for public office in Australia, his home country, and Anonymous wants to destroy the Internet, temporarily anyway. We are not surprised. The Internet ... |
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03/28/12 - Have Elites Decided to Legalize Some US Drugs?
What's going on here? The US has jailed tens of millions in the past decade over drug infractions. But now we seem to be seeing some re-thinking. We usually speculate such ... |
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03/28/12 - Pentagon Has No Records of Osama's Death ... CIA and Admin Stonewall Requests ...
As responsible members of the alternative media, we've gone on record often as pointing out that Osama bin Laden died five to ten years ago. We were very suspicious of the ... |
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03/27/12 - Elites Crush PIGS – Old Game Plan Made Anew?
Did you hear that about half of Europe is in recession or headed that way? We can see from the above excerpt that Spain is certainly headed that way. Greece, Portugal and ... |
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03/27/12 - Stockholm Syndrome: Wall Street Execs Flog Themselves Hard
When the bought-and-paid-for mainstream media starts analyzing non-existent aggregations like "Wall Street" (see above) you can almost be sure a dominant social theme is in the ... |
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03/26/12 - UN Warns Against 'Land Grabbing'
On the surface it sound reasonable, that the UN would sound the warning on private land purchases, given they are occurring in the poorest of countries and can deprive farmers ... |
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03/26/12 - Lawrence Summers Discovers a New Meme: Contingency
Lawrence?Summers, one of the most important and famous economists in the United States, has written an article about something called contingent commitments. Like most strange ... |
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03/23/12 - SEC Hopes to Trim Computer Investing?
As predicted in these modest pages, the US Securities and Exchange Commission is now taking aim at computers and trading. The proximate cause of the probe is the so-called Flash ... |
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03/23/12 - Central Bankers Gather in Fearful DC Huddle
It is all falling down about their heads and now they are meeting in Washington DC, fearfully, to try to decide what to do next. Nothing the money printers have done has stemmed ... |
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03/22/12 - Bernanke's Banking Misdirection
This is surely a dominant social theme – that banks can be seen as healthy due to so-called stress tests. The whole idea is that the paper money reserves held by banks must be ... |
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