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The Song Remains the Same | John Michael Greer
May 8, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- If you always do what you’ve always done, a popular saying nowadays has it, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten. Most people accept that readily enough in the abstract. It’s when they attempt to apply this logic to their own lives and thinking that they get tripped up, because self-defeating patterns very often arise from a mismatch between basic presuppo...
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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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Bank of Cyprus Customers May Lose as Much as 60% on Deposits | Paul Tugwell, Tom Stoukas and Georgios Georgiou
March 30, 2013 (Bloomberg) -- Cyprus may imposes losses of as much as 60 percent on Bank of Cyprus Plc accounts exceeding 100,000 euros ($128,000) as part of an aid deal to stop the country from going bankrupt. Customers will have 37.5 percent of their deposits above this amount converted into shares with full voting rights and access to any futureBank of Cyprus dividend, the Nicosia-based centra...
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The United States of Propaganda (What We’re Up Against) | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Feb. 26, 2013 “The 20th century (was) characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.” - Alex Carey Recently, while at an event marking the 1,000th day of imprisonment...
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Scientists Confirm: Arctic Sea Ice 'Collapse' at Our Door | Jacob Chamberlain
Warming planet and new evidence portend future of ice-free Arctic Arctic sea ice volume in 1000s of cubic kilometers (via Robinson) Feb. 15, 2013 (CommonDreams) -- The Arctic Sea is experiencing rapid ice loss at a pace so fast that the area will soon be ice-free in warmer months, scientists confirmed in a report -- showing a collapse in total sea ice volume to one-fifth of its level in 1980. T...
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Attack On Sovereignty | Paul Craig Roberts
Jan. 15, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- Those concerned about “The New World Order” speak as if the United States is coming under the control of an outside conspiratorial force. In fact, it is the United States that is the New World Order. That is what the American unipolar world, about which China, Russia, and Iran complain, is all about. Washington has demonstrated that it has no respect for it...
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Remember the Firebombing of Dresden (What We’re up Against) | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Feb. 4, 2013 Come you masters of war/You that build all the guns/You that build the death planes - Dylan As we mark the 68th anniversary of the firebombing of Dresden, I thought I’d offer another not-too-subtle reminder of what we’re up against. The groundwork for the barbaric assault on Dresden was laid four years prior when Marshal Arth...
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Nothing Gold Can Stay: Mali, Mercury, Manipulation & More | Mickey Z.
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Jan. 25, 2013 “So we're told this is the golden age/And gold is the reason for the wars we wage.” - Bono As the West (this time, with France mostly taking the lead), unleashes a frenzy of spin to justify its latest lethal military intervention (this time, with Mali mostly taking the hits), it may be a challenge for some to discern the ulterior motives. For...
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In the Twilight of Empires | John Michael Greer
Nibiru? Don't bet on it. Photo credit: NASANov. 21, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- Last week’s post on the logic of nuclear deterrence in an age of decline got what was, all things considered, a much less irrational response than discussions of nuclear war generally field. I’m not sure whether or not that counts as evidence for my theory that we’ve all somehow slipped into an alternate reality, ...
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Katrina-Sandy: From One Hurricane To Another, The End Of America As We Knew It | LEAP/E2020
Nov. 16, 2012 (LEAP/E2020) -- Pubic announcement GEAB N°69 -- As anticipated by LEAP/E2020 for several months, a major shock to the world economy and global stability has arrived in the Fall of 2012, in the form of a symbolic landmark in world history: Hurricane Sandy. In the method of political anticipation upon which LEAP bases its analyses (1), Sandy corresponds to two characteristics: the “l...
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Globe Risks ‘Cataclysmic Changes’ From Warming, World Bank Says | Alex Morales
Current national pledges to reduce greenhouse gases won’t do much to change the current trajectory of temperatures, which are set to rise by about double the United Nations target of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100, the scientific study e-mailed by the World Bank shows today. Universal Images Group via Getty Images Nov. 19, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- The globe risks “cataclysmic chang...
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