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If You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It  |
| Various readers, fans, blog commenters, Facebook trolls, and auditors twanged on me all last week about my continuing interest in the RussiaRussiaRussia hysteria, though there is no particular consensus of complaint among them — except for a general “shut up, already” motif. For the record, I’m far more interested in the hysteria itself than the Russia-meddled-in the-election case, which I consider to be hardly any case at all beyond 13 Russian Facebook trolls.
The hysteria, on the other hand, oMonday, March 19, 2018 |
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 | Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Hypersonic weapons and your standard of living… |
| Do you believe there is any coincidence the Russians first, followed by the Chinese … announced “hypersonic weapons”? I ask this question for several reasons and will come to a conclusion at the end but for now, with the rollout of the “petro-yuan” set for March 26 is there any coincidence we find out about these weapons now?
We were even offered proof over the weekend of successful tests. If that were not enough, what heck is this? Please take the two minutes to watch the video, these are seasoSaturday, March 17, 2018 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Price Spikes vs. Dollar as Trump Sacks Tillerson 'Cos of Russia', Inflation Rises |
| GOLD PRICES leapt against a sinking Dollar on Tuesday but quickly fell back after US consumer prices showed the fastest inflation in 6 months and US President Donald Trump sacked his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with a tweet, one day after Tillerson called Russia "a force for instability in the world."
Trump had tweeted overnight that the House Intelligence Committee "
found no evidence of collusion or coordination" between his 2Wednesday, March 14, 2018 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
| Light It Up |
| It must be hard on The New York Times editors to set their hair on fire day after day in their effort to start World War Three. Today’s lead story, Russian Threat on Two Fronts Meets Strategic Void in the U.S., aims to keep ramping up twin hysterias over a new missile gap and fear of Russian “meddling” in the 2018 midterm elections.
The Times’s world-view begins to look like the script of a Batman sequel with Vlad Putin cast in The Joker role of the cackling psychopath who must be stopped at allMonday, March 5, 2018 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
 Thirteen Russians ands a Ham Sandwich |
| Remember that one from 1996? Funny, that was the American mainstream media bragging, after the fact, about our own meddling in another nation’s election.
WASHINGTON — A team of American political strategists who helped [California] Gov. Pete Wilson with his abortive presidential bid earlier this year said this week that they served as Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin’s secret campaign weapon in his comeback win over a Communist challenge.
—The Los Angeles Times, July 9, 1996
The beauty in RobMonday, February 19, 2018 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
| Agitprop Is Not News |
| Forget about sharks. In their Valentine’s Day editorial: Why Does Trump Ignore Top Officials’ Warnings on Russia?, The New York Times jumped several blue whales (all the ones left on earth), a cruise ship, a subtropical archipelago, a giant vortex of plastic bottles, and the Sport’s Illustrated swimsuit shoot. The lede said:
The phalanx of intelligence chiefs who testified on Capitol Hill delivered a chilling message: Not only did Russia interfere in the 2016 election, it is already meddling in Friday, February 16, 2018 |
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| James Howard Kunstler |
| A Quandary |
| It is the super-duper quandary of the moment: choose between the oafish, charmless, and possibly not-so-stable-genius Leader-of-the-Free-World… and a security state that will do whatever it takes to get rid of him, for instance, engineering a nationwide hysteria over Russia.
Has anyone else noticed how odd it is that the so-called “Resistance” has all along included the state security apparatus in its every sordid iteration — the CIA, the NSA, the FBI, and God knows how many others among the touMonday, February 5, 2018 |
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| Andy Hoffman - Miles Franklin |
| Part 3 Sleaze, Various Other Truth Bombs |
| We scratched the surface on Government, finance, politics and the rule of law so far. Today, let’s take a look at sleaze and fraud. The sleaze part is not just “sensational”. It is important because in many cases it crosses any decent person’s red line and should piss anyone off who reads it or discovers it.
The first part is certainly not all inclusive but is wide ranging. That said, 2018 looks to be shaping up as barn burner for the arrests of child molesters and human traffickers. NoSaturday, December 30, 2017 |
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 | Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd |
| Imaginations of the Misguided |
| aheadoftheherd.com
The end of the world as we know it
It’s Christmas 2017 and North Korean Dear Leader Kim Jong-un is facing a crisis. Recently the United States, with UN approval, imposed the harshest round of economic sanctions yet on his reclusive regime.
While North Korea has been sanctioned since 2006 due to continuing attempts to develop nuclear weapons, this new provocation by its sworn nemesis is the last straw for Kim, who feels the great legacies of his father and grandfather, Kim Friday, December 29, 2017 |
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 | Lew Rockwell |
| Neocons Hate LRC |
| That’s nothing new, of course. It began with our first issue in 1999, and has gotten more intense ever since. Just recently, the despicable NY Times, Washington Post, and National Review have vented their spleens once again.
You’d think big, establishment organs like the two newspapers wouldn’t care. But they do. LRC drives them crazy (crazier?). They can’t stand the truth, especially as enunciated by Murray Rothbard and Rothbardians.
Murray has more and more influence. Both NyTi and WaPo are nFriday, December 29, 2017 |
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 | Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Intelligence Insider Warns Of Imminent War: “Likely In The Next 12 Weeks… The Director Of The CIA Told Me” |
| Having worked closely with U.S. intelligence agencies over the last two decades, James Rickards was once asked to simulate asymmetric economic attacks on the U.S. financial system. He is an expert at escalation scenarios and end games, and in a recent article at The Daily Reckoning he warns that the geopolitical situation on the Korean Peninsula will soon come to a head.
According to Rickards, author of The Road To Ruin: The Global Elites Secret Plan For The Next Financial Crisis, while the worlWednesday, December 27, 2017 |
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 | Rory Hall - The Daily coin |
| CIA Created News and Events For Profit and Power |
| Over the past two years we have witnessed the power of mainstream media to manipulate the American public. We could go back much further to show isolated examples but the past two years it is has been a steady stream, from multiple outlets, producing content with the sole purpose of creating a world that doesn’t exist. That world is built on perpetual war, theft and control of the population by a handful of oligarchs.
Click here to sign up for The Daily Coin FREE newsletter covering precious metTuesday, December 19, 2017 |
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| Rory Hall - Sprott Money |
| Political Entertainment |
| During the 2016 election “season” I am on record as stating the only way Trump would have any success would be to surround himself with loyalist military and march down the back hallways of the White House, Senate chambers and the Pentagon and either begin arresting or, at the very least, removing everyone from their seat – no opportunity to erase, delete, burn or change any of the records. Until this happens, these small distractions, such as Strzok emails being disclosed, will continue. TheseThursday, December 14, 2017 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Bullion Nears 4-Week Friday Low as 'No Way Currency' Bitcoin Rallies, Turkey-US Tensions Worsen |
| GOLD BULLION prices gave back a rally against the US Dollar on Friday to head for their lowest weekly close in four as European stock markets retreated, relations between Turkey and Nato ally the US worsened again, and Bitcoin rallied 6% below this week's new all-time record high.
Falling back to $1273 per ounce at lunchtime in London, wholesale gold bullion bars began December 10% higher for 2017 to date against the Dollar, but was lower from NFriday, December 1, 2017 |
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 | Stewart Dougherty |
Electronic Gold: The Deep State’s Corrupt Threat to Human Prosperity and Freedom  |
| There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate.” Final blog entry by Daphne Caruana Galizia, 53, renowned Maltese investigative reporter who specialized in exposing state corruption; posted on 16 October 2017, one day before she and her vehicle were blown to bits by a car bomb in Bidnija, MaltaIn 2011, gold pulled a “Bitcoin” before anyone even knew what Bitcoin was: its price went vertical to $1,900 per ounce. Inflation-adjusted, the price was still faTuesday, November 7, 2017 |
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 | Bob Hoye - Institutional Advisors |
| Precious Metals |
| Our September 14th Pivot noted that the decline in the DX seemed to be basing. In which case, as the dollar recovered, the sector would sell off.
Our conclusion was that the Precious Metals sector could be much cheaper by late in the year.
This year's high for the GDX was 25.58 at the first of September. This week's decline to 22.25 has taken out the 20-Week ema at 23.22.
To look to the brighter side, the decline could diminish the old mojo that the Fed is evil and will drive the dollar down. ThSunday, November 5, 2017 |
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 | Nelson Hultberg - AFR.org |
Nietzsche, Trump, and the Political Left  |
| The German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, warned us back in the 19th century with his famous theme, the “Transvaluation of Values.” An ominous world dictatorship was coming where good would become evil, and evil good. Freedom would be thought of as slavery, and slavery would become freedom.
He “boldly prophesied that power politics and vicious wars were in store for the future. What he sensed was an approaching period of nihilism, the seeds of which had already been sown.” [1]
Ironically, eveSunday, November 5, 2017 |
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 | Jason Hamlin - Gold Stock Bull |
| Silver, Stock Markets and TANSTAAFL |
| SILVER:
Silver has been the money of commerce for several thousand years. In contrast, unbacked debt-based fiat currencies have been a devaluing money substitute for decades.
According to the St. Louis Federal Reserve, total debt securities and official national debt have increased exponentially for decades. Prices for the stock market, silver, gold, food and most other necessities increase similarly.
National debt has risen at 8 – 9% per year since 1913. Since then the value of the dollar hFriday, October 27, 2017 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| Government Officials Warn: Breakdown In Diplomacy With North Korea Is A Fast Track To War |
| Government officials are worried that a new breakdown in talks with North Korea could trigger a war. With heated rhetoric taking the stage instead of diplomacy, it could only be a matter of time before the anger hits a boiling point.
Joseph Yun, a top American diplomat to North Korea, has been warning of the breakdown in meetings on Capitol Hill and seeking help to persuade the administration to prioritize diplomacy over the heated rhetoric that appears to be pushing the two nuclear powers closThursday, October 26, 2017 |
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| Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan |
| New Special Edition Of ‘Fahrenheit 451’ Must Be Heated To Be Read |
| The newest edition of the book Fahrenheit 451 is going to be out soon, and ironically, it must be heated up to be read.
For those who haven’t read the book Fahrenheit 451, it’s coming highly recommended. It tells the story of a dystopian society in which books are outlawed and burned by firemen to prevent citizens from reading them. It follows one fireman’s journey of following orders and questioning authority. Ray Bradbury’s iconic book was originally published in 1953 and will leave a permaneSaturday, October 21, 2017 |
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