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| Food For Thought |
| George Orwell : If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face |
| …For ever.
Don’t let it happen.
It depends on you.Thursday, March 26, 2020 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| Mike Kosares: Gold and silver predictions for 2018 |
| GATA's struggle against gold price suppression by governments and central banks has been going on so long that if we're asked for predictions we're most likely to recall the one offered to Winston Smith, the hero of George Orwell's "1984," by the government thug O'Brien: "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever."
So maybe we can be forgiven for calling attention to a little optimism for advocates of free markets in the monetary metals, the predictiTuesday, January 2, 2018 |
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 | James Howard Kunstler |
Forecast 2018 — What Could Go Wrong  |
| Markets
If you take your cues from Consensus Trance Central — the cable news networks, The New York Times, WashPost, and HuffPo — Trump is all that ails this foundering empire. Well, Trump and Russia, since the Golden Golem of Greatness is in league with Vladimir Putin to loot the world, or something like that.
Since I believe that the financial system is at the heart of today’s meta-question (What Could Go Wrong?), it would be perhaps more to the point to ask: what has held this matrix of rackeMonday, January 1, 2018 |
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| Sprott Money |
| The Triumph of Collectivism - Jeff Thomas |
| The French Revolution began in 1789. Maximilien Robespierre was one
of its most eager proponents. An extreme left-winger, he sought a
totalitarian rule that claimed to be “for the people” (echoing the
recently successful American revolution), but in reality was “for the
rulers.” He in turn inspired Karl Marx, author of
The Communist Manifesto.
Both Robespierre and Marx had been well-born and well-educated, but
rather spoiled and, as young adults, found that they had no particular
talentThursday, November 9, 2017 |
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 | George F. Smith - Barbarous Relic |
Mises stands between us and 1984  |
| On this day in 1949 Yale University Press published Ludwig von Mises’s economic treatise, Human Action. Later in 1949 another book appeared, George Orwell’s 1984.
Almost everyone has at least heard of Orwell and 1984. The same is unfortunately not true of Mises and Human Action.
Both books are attached to their authors as if they were extended surnames. Orwell is 1984, Mises is Human Action.
Among the many who’ve read it, 1984 is regarded as a premonition of what could happen if thFriday, September 15, 2017 |
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 | JS Kim - Smart Knowledge U |
| Is There Any Validity to the Claim that Bitcoin Could be a Trojan Horse (v2.0) |
| by by JS Kim
This article is copyrighted, and subject to all international copyrighting laws. Republishing of this article is strictly prohibited unless expressed written consent has been given by SmartKnowledge Pte Ltd. First published on 15 August 2017 and updated on 14 September 2017.
Is There Any Validity to the Claim that Bitcoin Could Be a Trojan Horse, v2.0
I am presenting this article again here for the following reason. Though the original article remains intact, the additions to theFriday, September 15, 2017 |
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 | Egon von Greyerz - Matterhorn AM |
| CASSANDRA, CENTRAL BANKS and GOLD |
| by Egon von Greyerz
The general public doesn’t like hearing what some of us who are Cassandras have to say. Because our message is does not fit in with the choir of propaganda and lies. We are predicting a future for the world which is unpleasant for most people and therefore few believe our predictions. It is part of human nature to believe that the current state of affairs will go on forever. And that is the case whether times are good or bad. In bad times, everyone believes that it will nFriday, June 9, 2017 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
| No Exit |
| A most curious feature in the current low state of American politics is the delusional thinking at both ends of the political spectrum. Both factions have gone off the rails mentally, and the parties they represent race toward oblivion like Thelma and Louise in their beater car. More ominously, there are no new factions with a grip on reality even beginning to form anywhere in the background — as in the 1850s when the Whigs foundered and the party of Lincoln segued into power.
To see the DemocraFriday, May 26, 2017 |
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 | Jim Willie CB - Hat Trick Letter |
| Gold Standard Challenges |
| Scattered recent analysis has centered upon the Gold Standard and its viability within the global financial system. The topic is certainly very blurred and at times confusing. Consider a recent article by a competent analyst Charles Hugh Smith of the site OfTwoMinds on the practicality of gold used as a standard. The article is entitled “The Problem With Gold-Backed Currencies” (which is found HERE and also on Lew Rockwell site HERE). He makes several points, many good ones. In the Jackass opiniSaturday, April 8, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| Big Brother In America Is The Media - Dave Kranzler |
| One of the hallmarks of a totalitarian political regime is control of
the media. In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed into law the
Telecommunications Act of 1996. This law, which was bought and paid for
by corporate media lobbies, allowed big corporations to acquire and
consolidate media outlets nationwide.
The 1996 law lifted the limit on the number of television and radio
stations any one corporation could own. In 2003, the FCC voted to lift
the ban on cross-ownership of newspapers andTuesday, March 7, 2017 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| The Alternative Fact of the Cashless Society |
| Why gold will benefit from the alternative fact of the cashless society
Alternative facts prevail in the European Commission’s calls for cash controls
Terrorism is blamed for the need to control cash
Evidence shows criminals find alternative ways to finance activities
Citizens continue to want and to use cash in day-to-day life
Cashless society is being used to force through other ‘agendas’
Gold and silver will be used as savers are forced to hold assets outside of the financial system
Why goWednesday, February 1, 2017 |
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 | Deepcaster |
| Nationalists / Internationalists Versus Globalists—A Key Distinction for Protection and Profit |
| It is difficult to maximize success as an Investor (or to adequately understand or participate effectively in Politics) without making a clear distinction between Nationalists /Internationalists on one hand and Globalists on the other.Conscious Globalists’ (as opposed to the unthinking or indoctrinated/conditioned Masses who carelessly use the term) policies have caused and are causing tremendous losses, pain and suffering in the world.Consider the Citizens of European Countries, for example, whFriday, January 27, 2017 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
 Slouching Towards Election Day |
| It’s getting hard to give a shit about this election, though you might still care about this country. The damage has been done to the two long-reigning political parties and perhaps that’s a good thing. They deserved to be dragged into the gutter and now they can either go through a severe rehab or be replaced by as-yet-unformed coalitions of reality-based interests.
Trump did a greater disservice all-in-all to the faction he supposedly representTuesday, October 25, 2016 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| Sean Corrigan: Flow my tears, the policeman said |
| In his novel "1984" George Orwell wrote that "if you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face -- forever." Sean Corrigan, an economist of the Austrian school, has just imagined the economic specifics of such a future, a future with increasingly comprehensive "financial repression" by government. Corrigan's commentary is headlined "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said" and it's posted at his Internet site, "True Sinews," here:
http://truesinews.com/2016/09/30/mytears/Monday, October 3, 2016 |
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 | Nelson Hultberg - AFR.org |
 The New Totalitarianism |
| It is vitally important for Americans to understand that the collectivist dictatorship of the future (that writers like Aldous Huxley and George Orwell were warning us about) is not going to take over our country instantaneously as in Nazi Germany or violently as in Soviet Russia, and certainly not by openly declaring that it is going to take over. It is coming about very slowly and subtly by the adoption of false ideas and a subconscious self-deception among the intellectuals that lead our natiWednesday, September 28, 2016 |
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| Egon von Greyerz - Matterhorn AM |
| Bill Murphy Chris Powell – The Gold Cartel Will Have To Retreat Big Time |
| THE MATTERHORN INTERVIEW – Sept 2016: Bill Murphy & Chris Powell
“The Gold Cartel Will Have To Retreat Big Time”
In this months’ Matterhorn Interview Bill Murphy and Chris Powell, co-founders of Gata,analyse risks of the monetary system and comment on changes to the London Gold fix procedures and participation, liquidity issues and the difficult relationship between paper (futures) and physical metals as well why, conveniently, mainstream media ignore the most popular market intervention methodsFriday, September 16, 2016 |
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 | Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| Plutocracy |
| We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our country to be destroyed? Why else would we be rewarding its destroyers? Why else would we all— by proxies we have given to greedy corporations and corrupt politicians— be participating in its destruction?
Most of us are still too sane to piss in our own cistern, but we allow others to do so and we reward them for it. We reward them so well, in fact, that those who piss in our cisSunday, July 24, 2016 |
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| George F. Smith - Barbarous Relic |
The real Untouchables  |
| Jacob Hornberger has written an engaging ebook — The CIA, Terrorism, and the Cold War: The Evil of the National Security State — that exposes a government not found in the Constitution.Hornberger refers to it as a “fourth branch of government having unbelievable powers of invasion, assassination, torture, and fomenting coups and regime-change operations.” But since, as he says, it is untouchable by the three constitutional branches, I think it is more accurate to regard it as an autonomous goverSaturday, April 9, 2016 |
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| George F. Smith - Barbarous Relic |
| The real Untouchables |
| Jacob Hornberger has written an engaging ebook — The CIA, Terrorism, and the Cold War: The Evil of the National Security State — that exposes a government not found in the Constitution.Hornberger refers to it as a “fourth branch of government having unbelievable powers of invasion, assassination, torture, and fomenting coups and regime-change operations.” But since, as he says, it is untouchable by the three constitutional branches, I think it is more accurate to regard it as an autonomous goverFriday, April 8, 2016 |
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| Nelson Hultberg - AFR.org |
 Trump’s Precarious Path to the Nomination |
| George Orwell told us, “The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” Donald Trump has spoken powerful truths to America on immigration, trade policy, foreign wars, media integrity, and Republican competence. The political establishment has responded with tidal waves of vitriol and mendacity. Consequently Trump’s path to the GOP nomination is now racked with dangerous pitfalls and hate-filled Rinos waiting in the bushes to smear his image in any way they canSunday, March 20, 2016 |
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