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Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever | Matt Taibbi
Illustration by Victor Juhasz April 25, 2013 ( Rolling Stone) -- Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. We found this out in recent months, when a series of related corr...
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Noam Chomsky: Obama's Attack on Civil Liberties Has Gone Way Beyond Imagination | Mike Stivers
April 26, 2013 (TruthOut) -- Mike Stivers interviews Noam Chomsky: Mike Stivers: Anyone following issues of civil liberties under Obama knows that his administration's policies have been disastrous. The signing of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which effectively legalizes indefinite detention of US citizens, the prosecution of more whistleblowers than any previous presid...
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The God With Three Heads | John Michael Greer
April 24, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- It's been said that a man’s religion is the thing he can’t bear to have questioned. If there’s any truth in that old saying, the idea that faith in progress is a religion has a great deal going for it. Over the seven years this blog has been appearing, I’ve discussed any number of controversial issues and made plenty of proposals that contradict the conve...
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Boston Marathon Bombing | Paul Craig Roberts
April 19, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- Boston Marathon Bombing Dear Readers, A number of you have asked me my take on the Boston Marathon Bombing and subsequent events. I am flattered that so many look to me for leadership on so many issues. However, I've not followed closely the Boston event. My website hasn’t the resources to field an investigative team, and in my opinion the TV and pr...
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Update to the Update: The Attack on Gold | Paul Craig Roberts
April 16, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- April 18 Note: At the online retailer Gainesville coins, and everywhere else, the increased premiums above the spot price of gold and silver indicate that the demand for bullion possession, that is, the demand for the metal itself, is greater than the price established in the paper market by manipulation. The premium on a gold eagle over the spot price of ...
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An Aside To My Readers | John Michael Greer
April 17, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- Americans in particular, and people throughout the industrial world more generally, like to pretend that history has nothing to teach them. It’s a remarkably odd habit, not least because the lessons of history keep whacking them upside the head with an assortment of well-aged and sturdy timbers, without ever breaking through the trance. My favorite example, no...
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Assault On Gold Update | Paul Craig Roberts
NOTE: Gold weights are based on metric tons and Troy ounces. 500 metric tons of gold would be 16,075,000 troy ounces. This changes the arithmetic slightly but not the point April 13, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- I was the first to point out that the Federal Reserve was rigging all markets, not merely bond prices and interest rates, and that the Fed is rigging the bullion market in order to pr...
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The Sound of the Gravediggers | John Michael Greer
March 27, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- Over the nearly seven years I’ve spent blogging on The Archdruid Report, the themes of my weekly posts have veered back and forth between pragmatic ways to deal with the crisis of our time and the landscape of ideas that give those steps their meaning. That’s been unavoidable, since what I’ve been trying to communicate here is as much a way of looking at the ...
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Americans’ Economic Prospects And Civil Liberties Have Been Stolen | Paul Craig Roberts
March 24, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- I receive numerous questions from readers about our economic situation and the condition of civil liberty. There is no way I can answer so many inquiries, and no need. I have written two books that provide the answers, and they are inexpensive. I have done my job. It is up to you to inform yourself. Kindle Reader software is available as a free online down...
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The Illusion of Invincibility | John Michael Greer
March 20, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- One of the wry amusements to be had from writing a blog that routinely contradicts the conventional wisdom of our time is the way that defenders of that same conventional wisdom tend to react. You might think that those who are repeating what most people believe would take advantage of that fact, and present themselves as the voice of the majority, speaking for...
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Reinventing America | John Michael Greer
March 13, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- It’s been more than a year now since my posts here on The Archdruid Report veered away from the broader theme of this blog, the decline of industrial civilization, to consider the rise and impending fall of America’s global empire. That was a necessary detour, and the points I’ve tried to explore since last February will have no small impact on the outcome of t...
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