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While the mainstream media continues to tout economic data pointing to a recovery, such as the 7% unemployment rate, the reality for many Americans is quite different. Record numbers of people from all demographics are unemployed, underemployed, or depend on government assistance. Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog: In America today, there are […]
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Capitalism, or any free market system, is always defined by it’s participants. Goods and services in demand will be provided to the extent possible. We all make economic decisions on a daily basis, and by doing so, are creating the system. For example, if everyone decided not to buy watches, at some point, they would […]
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Data shows that radiation from the Fukushima disaster may be 10 x larger than all radiation from Nuclear testing combined: Above-ground nuclear tests – which caused numerous cancers to the “downwinders” – were covered up by the American, French and other governments for decades. See this, this, this, this, this and this. But the amount of radiation pumped out by Fukushima dwarfs the amount […]
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More leaked documents reveal a secret NSA hacking operation, with techniques ranging from physical implants of malware (sometimes hardware) to infiltrating Telecom networks, and even exploiting Microsoft updates to infect the target machine. TAO has existed since 1997, but recently interest in the program is exploding, as seen by the drastic increase in the number […]
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Feminist and intellectual Camille Paglia says that the reversal of gender roles, or more specifically, the dilution of what it means to be ‘man’ or ‘woman’ marks the decline of Western Civilization. She said that if women were running society from the beginning, we’d still be living in grass huts. She’s not pro or con, […]
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In a surprise ruling, a New York judge has ruled that the NSA’s surveillance program is legal, because it proves Al-Qaeda a ‘counterpunch’. The name Al-Qaeda was a name created by the CIA that means ‘database’ – in this case, database of radicals. Is much of the conspiracy theory purported by the US government (The […]
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Another government is going after Bitcoin, the anonymous virtual currency gaining momentum as traditional asset classes are questioned. In a surprise move, the Indian government has raided one Bitcoin seller and urged citizens to not use the virtual currency: Having failed miserably in the “control” of capital outflows from the Rupee (via Gold), the India government […]
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There may have been a day when markets were truly free, achieving price discovery through the simple mechanism of supply and demand for capital to assets. That day has long past, we can argue about when it happened. But now, many markets, most notably financial markets, commodity markets, the stock market, are highly controlled. Talk […]
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What would we do without Zero Hedge? Does anyone else notice the rapid deterioration of financial news media, especially in the US? OK, we are not naive, there are biases in the media, traders from big ibanks talking up their positions, and trading is all about information arbitrage. But financial news used to be really […]
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Used by the CIA, diplomats, and business professionals to read volumes of info quickly, the Vortex XStream is a simple desktop based application that will flash words on your screen based on a text file, enabling you to read significantly faster and absorb more info than traditional reading. Think different! How we assimilate information is […]
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