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  Washington's Blog

• The Next Recession Will Be Devastatingly Non-Linear 11 hours ago

  Linear correlations are intuitive: if GDP declines 2% in the next recession, and employment declines 2%, we get it: the scale and size of the decline aligns. In a linear correlation...
  

• Stephen Cohen’s Misrepresentations About the 2014 Coup in Ukraine a day ago

  Eric Zuesse The restoration of the Cold War now, between Russia and the United States, is based on frauds by the United States, as will be documented here; and one of the biggest responsibilities...
  

• The U.S. Government’s Missing $21 Trillion — Where It Went a day ago

  How $65,000 Was Stolen From You (& From Each American) Eric Zuesse Here are key excerpts from the most concise, accurate, and clearest, news-reports about something that almost...
  

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  The Vintage News

• When a Dutchman removed his own bladder stone with a kitchen knife in 1651 7 hours ago

  One day in 1651, Dutchman Joannes Lethaeus, better known to the world as Jan de Doot, reportedly told his spouse to go the fish market and then called his brother for a little assistance...
  

• The last king of Hawaii brought prosperity to the island and promoted the hula dance but was doomed by corruption 8 hours ago

  Well before the United States acquired Hawaii as the 50th state, the island enjoyed self-governance as the Kingdom of Hawaii. The kingdom, officially recognized as its own nation...
  

• Celestia, Pennsylvania― a 600-acre property deeded as God’s land was home to a doomsday group and auctioned by the government when divine intervention failed to pay the taxes 8 hours ago

  The end of the world has been foreseen numerous times in history and has sometimes caused global panic as superstition took hold over large groups of people. Some of these stories are...
  

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  Utopia – you are standing in it!

• Does this mean the trickle down effect for new products is almost instant? 3 hours ago

  
  

• In Sickness & In Health – Alf argues with spike milligan 3 hours ago

  
  

• A Progressive’s Guide to Political Correctness 4 hours ago

  
  

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The Truthseeker

• Deep in the Desert, Iran Quietly Advances Missile Technology 19 hours ago

  Iran does not appear to be sprinting toward a long-range missile, but preparing the ground in case Iranian leaders should one day deem that necessary.
  

• Emma Barnett: A Classic “Philip Cross” Wikipedia Operation 19 hours ago

  Wikipedia appears to be running a disinformation campaign to smear dissidents and airbrush the lies and distortions of the establishment media.
  

• Dreamers, Opioids and Involuntary Celibates a day ago

  Linh Din returns to America where he's met by familiar faces and a land where enforced paranoia has become the norm.
  

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  TARPLEY.net

• Trump’s Complaints About the FBI Are Bunk! a day ago

  United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, May 22, 2018 Bureau’s Total Concealment of Counter-Intelligence Probe of Russia and...
  

• Gasoline Price Tops $3 per Gallon On Iran Tensions, Threatening Trump’s Last Line of Defense 2 days ago

  United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, May 21, 2018 Boss Tweet Going Berserk as Collusion with Dark Ages Gulf Monarchies Emerges...
  

• “With Friends Like This You Don’t Need Enemies,” Says Europe’s President of Trump! 4 days ago

  Atlantic Alliance Splintering Due to Iran Deal Sabotage, Jerusalem Meddling, and Tariff Fiasco: Impeachment Looms as National Security Imperative; Tribe Theory of Impeachment...
  

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  Sustainable Pulse

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  The Peril On Your Plate – Watch the New RT Documentary on GMOs and Glyphosate Here 7 hours ago

  In the quest for answers, RTD’s Ekaterina Yakovleva embarks on a journey to meet the people who lift the lid on the perils of GMOs and the chemicals used in the industry. The investigation...
  
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  Monsanto in Epic Fail with Attempted Attack on Global Glyphosate Study 2 days ago

  The peer-reviewed accepted manuscripts from the pilot phase of the Global Glyphosate Study were revealed last Wednesday in a Press Conference at the European Parliament. The results...
  
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  The EU Needs to Speak Up to Avoid ‘Backdoor’ GMOs on Our Plates 5 days ago

  When is a genetically modified organism (GMO) not a GMO? This is the question that the ECJ will soon rule on after a complaint from a coalition of French agriculture groups reached...
  

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  sunshine hours

• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 142 – 2018 13 hours ago

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 141 – 2018 a day ago

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• Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 140 – 2018 3 days ago

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  Stumbling and Mumbling

• Rationalism, rationality & reasonableness 16 hours ago

  Rationalism and rationality, wrote Deirdre McCloskey, “are not often found in the same company.*” Robert Wright’s piece on the myth of perfectly rational thought reminded...
  

• On neoliberalism 8 days ago

  Is neoliberalism even a thing? This is the question posed by Ed Conway, who claims it is “not an ideology but an insult.” I half agree. I agree that the economic system we have is “hardly...
  

• On guilt by association 10 days ago

  When is guilt by association not a fallacy? I ask because of two things I’ve seen recently. The first is Daniel Hannan’s fear that we’re heading for “absolutely the most harmful...
  

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  Stagecraft and Statecraft

• The art of unraveling a potential deal 2 days ago

  Brahma Chellaney, The Japan Times Donald Trump’s planned summit meeting with Kim Jong Un is still days away but the American president has already stirred things up by warning the...
  

• The Nehruvian Style of Modi’s Foreign Policy 6 days ago

  Brahma Chellaney, Open magazine In the four years that he has been in office, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has animated domestic politics in India and the country’s foreign policy...
  

• Changing Indo-Pacific power dynamics 12 days ago

  Brahma Chellaney, The Washington Times China’s two main Asian rivals, Japan and India, are seeking to mend their relations with it at a time of greater unpredictability in U.S...
  

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  Socio-Economics History Blog

• IDF Snipers Ordered to Shoot Palestinian Children, Threat to Security of Israel, According to Israeli General an hour ago

  IDF Snipers Ordered to Shoot Palestinian Children, Threat to Security of Israel, According to Israeli General by Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, via https://www.globalresearch.ca/...
  

• Egypt Demolished 3,600 Sinai Buildings in Three Months, Says HRW an hour ago

  The Al-Sisi, Egyptian government, is treating Egyptians worse than terrorists. Did terrorists demolish their homes? All the talk about fighting ISIS terrorists in Sinai is BOGUS...
  

• Fate of Iran Nuclear Deal Lies With EU, Russia, China – Analysts 2 hours ago

  This effort to save the Iran nuclear deal, does not make sense. Even the deal itself does not make sense. There are NO EVIDENCE Iran has a nuclear weapons program before the deal was signed...
  

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  Socialist Economic Bulletin

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  An Outbreak of Crass Cross-Party Economics 13 days ago

  By Tom O’LearyThere has recently been a spate of cross-party economic initiatives. Ostensibly they are designed to reach a ‘non-political’ consensus to address some areas...
  
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  How Labour can transform the economy under Corbyn - The economic impact of increased investment a month ago

  By Tom O’Leary The UK economy remains mired in stagnation caused by the crisis of investment. The official forecasts for UK growth point to the weakest expansion in the economy in...
  

• Trump's tariffs against China are bad news for US farmers, companies and workers! a month ago

  By John RossIn drawing up its list of tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese products the Trump administration carefully tried to avoid one of the chief bad effects these tariffs will have...
  

  Ramani's blog

• Naivedya Prarthana Pradakshina Ahuthi in Pre Islamic Arabia 15 days ago

  Pre Islamic society borrowed the conceptsl of Hinduism either directly or through the Hitties/Sumeria. Prophet had destroyed 360 Idols in Kaaba. There were four Major Deities...
  

• Essence Of Devotion Bhakti Twelve Azhwars of Tamil Overview 15 days ago

  Goosebumps all over,Flowing Tears from the eyes, Overflowing Bliss makes one lose one's mind, Failed words, all these make one lose balance, If these be the Divinity of Abhirami Experience,may...
  

• Brahmins’Eat From Produce from Unowned Property’ Brahmin Lifestyle Mahabharata 15 days ago

  A Brahmin should eat on the fifth quarter of the day, Never rich food, Live near the banks of Rivers, Eat vegetables,fruits and Roots grown in a property which is not owned by anyone...
  

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  Diane Ravitch's blog

• Sandy Hook Families Sue Conspiracy Monger Alex Jones 2 hours ago

  I vividly recall the Sandy Hook massacre, the slaughter of 20 first grade children and six members of the staff at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. It came...
  

• Los Angeles: UTLA Will Rally Tomorrow 5 hours ago

  The teachers of Los Angeles will hold a rally tomorrow to support their demand for a fair contract. MEDIA ADVISORY ** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 23, 2018 Media Contact: (213) 305-9654...
  

• New York City: A Retired Teacher Who Is in Love with Public Schools 12 hours ago

  Martin Raskin taught in the New York City public schools for many years, and he is now retired. He is obsessed with collecting memorabilia about the city’s public schools, especially...
  

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  P U L S E

• Are there really “no good guys” in Syria? 20 days ago

  A version of this article first appeared in The New Arab.  Following the Syrian regime’s recent chemical attack on Douma, US, Britain and France took swift but symbolic action...
  

• Disagreeing on the Internet: The New McCarthyism? 21 days ago

  Originally published at Muftah on December 19, 2016. What if the United States carried out daily bombing raids in a foreign country for over two years, killing hundreds of innocent...
  

• You aren’t antiwar if you aren’t anti-Assad’s war 24 days ago

  by Anton Mukhamedov Following the joint US-UK-French strikes at the facilities associated with Syrian government’s chemical weapons programme on April 16, 2018, the international...
  

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  Pasco Phronesis

• Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of May 14 3 days ago

  While many shows will take time off later this month for the Memorial Day holiday, some programs got an early start this week, or took a break just because they felt like it.  Of those...
  

• Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of May 7th 11 days ago

  This past week the featured bookings revolved around a scientist who also plays one on TV.  Mayim Bialik.  The Big Bang Theory actress plays a neuroscientist on the show and has a...
  

• Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of April 30 16 days ago

  One thing that can be counted on for late night science and technology content remains cast members from The Big Bang Theory.  Kunal Nayyar stepped up for the show last week, appearing...
  

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  NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

• Latest News On Flood/Droughts! 8 hours ago

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• Water Shortages? Blame Them On Climate Change! 12 hours ago

  By Paul Homewood   h/t Philip Bratby   England is facing water supply shortages by 2050 unless rapid action is taken to curb water use and wastage, the Environment Agency has warned...
  

• CHRISTOPHER BOOKER: Scandal of ‘killer’ wood burning stoves and the question – is the political class’s obsession with global warming rotting their brains? 19 hours ago

  By Paul Homewood   From the Mail (and, no, Mr Booker has not changed his name!):   The Government earned plaudits from the green lobby yesterday for its new plan to crack down on the...
  

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  NoTricksZone

• New Study: Solar Module Owners Sitting On A Pile Of Hazardous Lead And Cadmium 17 hours ago

  Dubbed as a clean source of energy, new research findings show that home and property owners producing “clean, CO2-neutral” solar electricity with solar modules may in fact...
  

• Sobriety Returning To Germany…Leaders Finally Realizing Green Energies Are Fraught With Huge Obstacles 2 days ago

  At the site of Germany’s Arbeitgeberverband (Federation for German Employers) Dr. Björn Peters wrote a piece describing the recent “Baden-Badener Energiegesprächen“...
  

• Scientists Have Found The ‘Missing Link’ From Sunspot Activity To Cosmic Rays-Clouds To Climate Change 3 days ago

  Hailed as ‘the last piece of the puzzle’ in codifying our understanding of the mechanism(s) that cause climate changes, scientists are increasingly turning to Sun-modulated...
  

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  NEPC Blog Post of the Day

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  Mike Klonsky's Blog: U of C Study, Out Today, Shows Rahm's 2013 School Closings Failed CPS Students 14 hours ago

  Mike Klonsky's Blog: U of C Study, Out Today, Shows Rahm's 2013 School Closings Failed CPS Students Thousands of Chicago parents and community members protested the 2013 school closings. ...
  

• Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Democracy Prep: “No Excuses” Schools that Build Citizens? 2 days ago

  Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Democracy Prep: “No Excuses” Schools that Build Citizens? Professors, pundits, and Cassandras intone that democracy...
  

• Diane Ravitch's Blog: William Mathis: Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain 3 days ago

  Diane Ravitch's Blog: William Mathis: Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain William Mathis, managing director of the National Education Policy Center, wrote this post...
  

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  Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

• The Trump Rationale a day ago

  Victor Davis Hanson // National Review His voters knew what they were getting, and most support him still. Why exactly did nearly half the country vote for Donald Trump? Why also...
  

• How Democracies End: A Bureaucratic Whimper 2 days ago

  Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness One strange trait of the die hard NeverTrump Republicans and progressives is their charge that Donald Trump poses an existential threat...
  

• The Miraculous Image Rehabilitation of Former Republican Presidents 6 days ago

  Victor Davis Hanson // National Review It’s an evergreen media strategy for disparaging the sitting GOP executive. When Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980, many in the...
  

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The Moderate Voice

• Why we need to rethink how to teach the Holocaust 7 hours ago

  Photos and history of Holocaust victims frame the ceiling of the Hall of Names at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. White House photo by Chris Greenberg Alan Marcus, University...
  

• House conservatives demand an investigation – of Hillary Clinton 7 hours ago

  WASHINGTON — Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation has won indictments against President Trump’s former campaign chairman and 16 others and has secured guilty pleas from...
  

• Cartoon: Monetizing of the Presidency 7 hours ago

  The post Cartoon: Monetizing of the Presidency appeared first on The Moderate Voice.
  

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  Marginal REVOLUTION

• Ethiopian food in Ethiopia 28 minutes ago

  I will compare to Ethiopian food in the United States, so I won’t be starting from scratch here. The good news is that the product is tastier in Ethiopia.  But the other good news is...
  

• Wednesday assorted links 13 hours ago

  1. Scooter charger those new service sector jobs.  And  writers create fictional tales for airport fliers (NYT). 2. China’s social credit system has blocked 11 million flights...
  

• My Conversation with Nassim Nicholas Taleb 15 hours ago

  Interesting throughout, so interesting I don’t feel the need to give you an excerpt, here is the audio and transcript.  There is no other conversation with Taleb which places his...
  

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  Lloyd Lofthouse

• Boredom 19 days ago

  People who are often bored are at a greater risk of developing anxiety, depression, and drug or alcohol addiction. Continue reading →
  

• Anya Kamenetz: “A Nation at Risk” Cooked the Books 23 days ago

  Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: ? In this report by NPR journalist Anya Kamenetz, we learn that the famous 1983 report “A Nation at Risk,” we learn that the Reagan-era...
  

• Queen Eva’s Gambit a month ago

  Originally posted on Gary Rubinstein's Blog: In the New York Post today there was a headline that read “Charter school upsets juggernaut Stuyvesant HS on way to chess crown” It...
  

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  Mainstream Media’s Credibility Problem Is of Their Own Making 7 hours ago

  To be a member of the press was once a high calling, a great responsibility, and an honor. The press of today has abdicated that place of respect in order to spew biased trash disguised...
  
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  Booming Economy Dimming Democrats’ “Blue Wave” Hopes in November 8 hours ago

  It's still months away from the midterms, but momentum is clearly on the Republican side, thanks to the booming economy.
  
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  Student Sues School After Being Asked to Remove Pro-Trump T-Shirt 8 hours ago

  A lawsuit has been filed against Liberty High School in Hillsboro, Oregon, for refusing to allow a student, senior Addison Barnes, to wear a pro-Trump border wall t-shirt to class...
  

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  MintPress News

• NFL Owners Unanimously Approve Ban of Kneeling During National Anthem 11 hours ago

  People are still going to complain and fans will remain unhappy if players just stay in the locker rooms instead. The post NFL Owners Unanimously Approve Ban of Kneeling During National...
  

• As US Tries to Remake Rather than Rebuild Northern Syria, Local Resistance Groups Emerge 11 hours ago

  The growing discontent among Syrian civilians in areas under American control suggests the unraveling of the U.S. occupation of Syria may come from internal, not external, forces...
  

• US Ambassador to Israel Poses with Photoshopped Image Depicting Jewish Temple Replacing Mosque 11 hours ago

  The photo clearly imposes a temple on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, removing the famous golden hues of the Dome of the Rock. The post US Ambassador to Israel Poses with Photoshopped...
  

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Mark's Daily Apple

• The Carnivore Diet: Pros, Cons, and Suggestions 13 hours ago

  All-meat diets are growing in popularity. There are the cryptocurrency carnivores . There’s the daughter of the ascendant Jordan B. Peterson, Mikhaila Peterson, who’s using...
  

• Summer Preview: What’s In Store For Mark’s Daily Apple a day ago

  Where I’m from, snow showers aren’t unheard of over graduation weekends. To this day, I hold to the traditional “Memorial Day to Labor Day” timeline—and, well, here we...
  

• Dear Mark: More On Women and Fasting 3 days ago

  Last week, I updated an older post on women and intermittent fasting . For today’s edition of Dear Mark , I’ll be answering some of the comments and questions from that post. First...
  

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  Marginal REVOLUTION

• Streetcars, Subways and Segregation 2 days ago

  In the NBER reporter, Allison Shertzer and Randall P. Walsh summarize some of the recent research on urban segregation. As a cause of early 20th century segregation, Shertzer and...
  

• *Accounting for Capitalism: The World the Clerk Made* 2 days ago

  That is the title of a new and excellent book by Michael Zakim.  Here is one bit: A single block fronting Wall Street in 1850 was thus home to seventeen separate banking firms, as well...
  

• Legalize pot, but don’t normalize it 2 days ago

  That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column.  Here is one bit: You might wonder why we should be so worried about public marijuana use. To put it bluntly, I see intelligence as one...
  

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  Made from Truth and Lies

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  Interesting Links for 23-05-2018 18 hours ago

  Genetic differences between people across the world are no greater than differences between pigeons (tags: genetics ) Damon Lindelof writes open letter to Watchmen fans with...
  
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  Interesting Links for 22-05-2018 2 days ago

  Zero Wing updated to be GDPR compliant. (tags: meme privacy funny ) Hotter bodies fight infections and tumours better (tags: heat health immune_system viaMyBrotherHugh ) Best...
  
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  Interesting Links for 21-05-2018 3 days ago

  "What I Learned on My Date With a Sex Robot" (tags: sex robots ) Capitalism and Magic The Gathering (tags: Capitalism games magic ) Why, if the p-value for a study is 0.04, we can't say...
  

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Featured Health News from Medical News Today

• Medical News Today: What is formication? 9 hours ago

  Formication is the feeling of having insects crawling on or under the skin. This may lead to severe itching that affects a person’s quality of life. Near-constant scratching can...
  

• Medical News Today: Can BPH cause kidney failure? 10 hours ago

  Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) refers to enlargement of the prostate that is unrelated to cancer. Because of the positions of the prostate and kidneys, an enlarged prostate...
  

• Medical News Today: How does the Conners rating scale work? 11 hours ago

  There are many criteria used for a diagnosis of ADHD. Symptoms and impact on daily life are measured in various ways. One way is by using the Conners rating scale. This diagnostic tool...
  

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  Brian M. Lucey

• Cryptocurrency Conference May 2018 6 days ago

  Agenda – Cryptocurreny Conference, 24 May 2018 (3)   At Anglia Ruskin University, Thursday 24 May 2018 09:00 – 09:30 Registration and refreshments 09:30 – 10:00 Welcome and...
  

• a-Fisking we shall go: Jonathan Stanley in Think Scotland 13 days ago

  Sometimes an article so boneheadedly wrong appears one has to take an hour or so to see if its a mistake, pisstake or real. Thus it is with this risible piece of nonsense in Think Scotland...
  

• a-Fisking we shall go – Hugh Bennett in Brexit Central, again!. a month ago

  Hugh Bennett (@hughrbennett) is the gift that keeps on giving. A rambling piece, devoid, nay utterly ignorant, of history and full of nonsequiturs and misdirection, his latest in...
  

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  InvestmentWatch

• Proof That Central Bank Fiat Currency Is Dying 2 hours ago

  Banks are preparing for the worst, Deutsche bank is now going to layoff 10,000 workers and this number might go even higher. Other banks will follow. New home sales decline ... Read...
  

• “Peak Gold” Scarcity Could Drive Gold Value Past $1,600 2 hours ago

  From Birch Gold Group Gold is a finite resource. According to a recent study in Science Daily, most of the available gold was initially deposited in the Earth’s mantle (emphasis...
  

• Fund Manager: The Homebuilder Stocks Are The Short Seller’s ATM 2 hours ago

  by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics Someone or some entity – likely a hedge fund – bought 4500 September $35-strike puts on XHB on Thursday last week when XHB...
  

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  www.gurukalehuru.com

• A Possible Solution to School Shootings 7 hours ago

  I hate to side with big surveillance, but if I was in law enforcement and wanting to prevent the next school shooting (I’m assuming somebody in law enforcement would like to prevent...
  

• The Invisible Hand a day ago

  I’m still slogging through “Economics of Good and Evil” by Tomas Sedlaček.  Despite being over my head and kind of dull in parts, I am learning some things.  For instance...
  

• Speaking Other Languages 2 days ago

  Aaron Schlossberg fucked up real bad.  After his nasty anti-hispanic rant in public, it’s been  revealed that he’s actually  not a member of the New York Bar Association...
  

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  Fragments from Floyd

• E(mesis) Pluribus Unum 16 hours ago

  Or…Whatever you want to do you have to do something else first. One from the many–interruptions, distractions, diversions and alteration of so-called plans. Source: various...
  

• Aging in Place 2 days ago

  And so this is where the actuarial rubber meets the road. Baby boomers appeared of a sudden, historically. We swelled the ranks of the middle class. We demanded and got affordable housing...
  

• Octopi From Outer Space 3 days ago

  No Really. That is being posited as the source of the many-faceted oddness of the 8-tentacled creature that has been shoehorned into the mollusk group but really, in many ways, is such...
  

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