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Memorial Day 2013 | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 24, 2013 "At a time when too many of our institutions have let us down, they exceed all expectations. They're not consumed with personal ambition. They don't obsess over their differences. They focus on the mission at hand." - Barack Obama In the quote above, the “they” our Commander-in-Chief refers to is the U.S. A...
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Syria as a Game-Changer: US Political Impotence in the Middle East | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 22, 2013 In an article published May 15, 2013, American historical social scientist Immanuel Wallerstein wrote, “Nothing illustrates more the limitations of Western power than the internal controversy its elites are having in public about what the United States in particular and western European states should be doing about the civil war in Syria.” Those lim...
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No Bear Market In Gold | Paul Craig Roberts
May 20, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- You know that gold bear market that the financial press keeps touting? The one George Soros keeps proclaiming? Well, it is not there. The gold bear market is disinformation that is helping elites acquire the gold. Certainly, Soros himself doesn’t believe it, as the 13-F release issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 15 proves. George Soros...
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Washington Signals Dollar Deep Concerns | Paul Craig Roberts
May 18, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- Over the past month there has been a statistically improbable concurrence of events that can only be explained as a conspiracy to protect the dollar from the Federal Reserve’s policy of Quantitative Easing (QE). Quantitative Easing is the term given to the Federal Reserve’s policy of printing 1,000 billion new dollars annually in order to finance the U.S. bu...
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Angelina Jolie, Corporate Science, and “Prevention” | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “Corporate science puts profit before the public interest. Corporate science is often secretive, not peer-reviewed, laden with lobbying power, and driven by profit-seeking strategies.” - Ralph Nader By now, I’m guessing the vast majority of you have heard about movie star Angelina Jolie choosing to have a double mastectomy to reduce her ris...
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Let Them Eat Bugs (when capitalists address hunger) | Mickey Z.
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 16, 2013 “If all insects on Earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the Earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.” - Jonas Salk Billions of humans are hungry, industrial propagandists have corrupted our understanding (sic) of nutrition, and much of how we’re programmed to eat is rapi...
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Israel, Hawking and the Pressing Question of Boycott | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 15, 2013 It is an event “of cosmic proportions,” said one Palestinian academic, a befitting description regarding Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott an Israeli academic conference slated for next June. It was also a decisive moral call that was communicated on May 8 by Cambridge University, where Hawking is a professor. Hawking is a world-renowned cosmolo...
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The Pleasures of Extinction | John Michael Greer
May 15, 2013 (ArchdruidReport) -- One of the wry pleasures that’s repeatedly come my way since the beginning of this blog seven years ago is that of watching a good many of my predictions come true in short order. Now it’s true that I’ve also made a certain number of failed predictions over that time. Back in 2007 and 2008, for instance, I insisted that the U.S. government wouldn’t be dumb enou...
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Gangster State America | Paul Craig Roberts
May 13, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts.com) -- There are many signs of gangster state America. One is the collusion between federal authorities and banksters in a criminal conspiracy to rig the markets for gold and silver. My explanation that the sudden appearance of an unprecedented 400 ton short sale of gold on the COMEX in April was a manipulation designed to protect the dollar from the Federal Reserv...
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No Mo' PoMo? | James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust May 13, 2013 Whenever the Federal Reserve wants to tweak the dials of the economy -- or pretend that it can -- it turns first to its sock puppet at The Wall Street Journal, Jon Hilsenrath, and "leaks" a rumor of policy change (HERE). They like to do this late on Fridays when financial markets are about to close, so that market players will have...
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The Pain of Bangladesh: T-shirts Made with Blood and Tears | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 8, 2013 As they spoke to a BBC correspondent in their run-down room which they call home in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a man sobbed as his 12-year-old daughter sat close to him. His face, wrinkled before its time, was a picture of utter anguish. It could only be understood by a parent whose child was dying under giant slabs of concrete where nothing could be done. ...
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