Ukraine’s new leaders begin search for missing billions
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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Facebook click fraud revealed $600,000 small business nightmare
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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The Conspiracy Theory Is True: Agents Infiltrate Websites Intending To “Manipulate, Deceive, And Destroy Reputations”
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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Ukraine: On the Edge of Empires
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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Why Banks Are Doomed: Technology And Risk
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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6 anti-NSA technological innovations that may just change the world
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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Scary Chart Of The Day: Average Foreign Purchases Of US Securities Take Out Lehman Low
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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U.S. Plunges To 46th In World Press Freedom Index… Below Romania
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, One of my most popular posts of 2013 highlighted the decline of America’s once large and enviable middle class. It was titled: How Does America’s Middle Class Rank Globally? #27, and it helped to dispel many myths Americans (particularly the mainstream propaganda media) continue to tell to themselves. As […]
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EUSSR expands controls, regulations
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The American Dream blog, Becoming more like Europe is not a good thing. But that is the path that we are currently on. For the most part, Europeans live in a socialist “Big Brother” system in which the government completely dominates your life from the cradle to the grave. Of course there are […]
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