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From Mike Whitney of Counterpunch [48] The Greatest Propaganda Coup of Our Time? There’s good propaganda and bad propaganda. Bad propaganda is generally crude, amateurish Judy Miller “mobile weapons lab-type” nonsense that figures that people are so stupid they’ll believe anything that appears in “the paper of record.” Good propaganda, on the other hand, uses factual, sometimes […]
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GIH: Is the Ukrainian revolution a Slavic version of the occupy movement? Now that a new government has been installed, documents are surfacing showing that the former president (claiming to be the current president but in another country..Russia) squandered away billions, hiding in various offshore banks and building a lavish lifestyle for himself and his […]
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GIH: Click fraud is nothing new, but Facebook seems to be taking it to an entirely new level, according to this account of a small business operator who paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for fake profile likes, with no accounting of where his money went. Now being a public company, this cannot be written […]
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GIH: Alarming information has been brought forth as part of an ongoing disclosure regarding activities of NSA and other intelligence agencies. The following should be alarming for anyone using the internet – especially businesses, governments, and other organizations. What SEO managers and forum administrators have suspected for years, government agent ‘shills’ are infecting the internet […]
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Editor’s Note: The following Geopolitical Weekly originally ran in November 2010 as part of our Geopolitical Journey series. We repost it as Ukraine’s position between Europe and Russia puts it in the spotlight. By George Friedman The name “Ukraine” literally translates as “on the edge.” It is a country on the edge of other countries, sometimes part […]
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GIH: Few understand how the banking system really works, and fewer understand how it’s working now with addition of technology. Most rules, knowledge, books, systems, etc. that define the banking system were done a long time ago, before the internet and computing, and before globalization. As stated in this article (below), banks – in their […]
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Rather than grovel and beg for the U.S. government to respect our privacy, these innovators have taken matters into their own hands, and their work may change the playing field completely. People used to assume that the United States government was held in check by the constitution, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and which […]
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As we reported earlier today [10], for whatever reason China sold the second biggest amount of US Treasurys in December. However, that was only part of the story. In fact, as we also noted, while the two largest US foreign creditors were net sellers, total foreign bond holdings actually rose in the last month of 2013 and […]
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GIH: Finally, a situation arise that challenge legal nuances about the NSA spying, and attorney client privilege. The philosophical question is – to what extent are attorney’s legally required, and also as a matter of service, to go in order to ensure client security? Having a complete encryption solution would prevent 99% of NSA spying, […]
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GIH: The below statistics give a new perspective to the term ‘zombie nation.’ Previously, we’ve seen correlations between cocaine and the financial services industry. But with a growing number of Americans on some form of mind altering drug, it seems there are few who are not under the influence. Submitted by Michael Snyder of The American […]
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