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A soft landing for America 40 years from now? Don’t bet on it. The demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more quickly than anyone imagines. If Washington is dreaming of 2040 or 2050 as the end of the American Century, a more realistic assessment of domestic and global trends […]
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Greek government authorities are on alert after a union of Greek army reservists of Special Forces [6] issued a statement urging the Greek administration to step down and make way for a national unity government. As Keep Talking Greece notes [7], the statement on the union’ website included 15 demands – including the resignation of […]
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It seems like another life. At the height of his corporate career, Tom Palome was pulling in a salary in the low six-figures and flying first class on business trips to Europe. Today, the 77-year-old former vice president of marketing for Oral-B juggles two part-time jobs: one as a $10-an-hour food demonstrator at Sam’s Club, […]
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(DaveHodges) – There are very dark storm clouds gathering around the country and North America as a whole. Things are about to get dark, very dark in just a few short weeks. In just over two months, on November 13-14, 2013, the lights are about to go out. Will the lights come back on? It […]
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Sep 05, 2013 – 04:05 PM GMT By: Casey_Research By Nick Giambruno, Editor, International Man All of us by now have seen the latest sales pitch from the Obama administration for yet another so-called “humanitarian intervention” in the Middle East. It is not hard to see that the case for war is a bunch of rubbish […]
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An animated time-lapse map of worldwide protests from 1979 to 2013: About the creator: Animated Protest Mapping One of the primary shortcomings of the original protest map I posted was that it only captured a static picture of protest activity over a 6 month span. While this was interesting in its own right, many people, including myself, were […]
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Submitted by Brandon Smith of Alt-Market blog, For years now at Alt-Market (and Neithercorp.us) I have carefully outlined the most likely path of collapse to take place within the U.S., and a vital part of that analysis included economic destabilization caused by a loss of the dollar’s world reserve status and petro-status. I have also always made […]
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We’re Not In (Ar)Kansas Anymore, Hillary! As the US is on the verge of generating yet another self-inflicted wound in the Middle East, and another worldwide blow to its already depleted moral authority, many will wonder what prompts this sort of destructive behavior. While most everyone has a view, and while it is likely such […]
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Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog, We assume the existing hyper-structures of our centralized state-cartel economies will deliver us jobs, happiness, wealth, health and financial security. They will not. Correspondent Simon H.’s insightful essay is not just a critique of our current centralized economies but an outline of a community-based alternative economy that offers freedom […]
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Lessons from online learning Will traditional university lectures one day be a thing of the past? Every time a new medium comes along, visionaries proclaim that education is about to be revolutionised. They did it when the cinema started more than 100 years ago. Then they said that radio would change everything. And TV. And […]
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