This Is What Happens To Gold When Citizens Lose Faith In Fiat Currency It appears, first slowly and now quickly, the world is realizing that Alan Greenspan was right after all: "Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency. No fiat currency, including the dollar, can match it." As Nick …

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Iraq War: Not A Mistake, But A Holocaustic Crime Authored by Ben Tansoborn, Either our minds have softened in the United States, or our hearts have hardened way beyond the callous stage.  Or, likely both! Just 13 years past his criminal decision to invade Iraq, George W. Bush is campaigning in South Carolina to get …

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Tech Exec "Outraged" At Having To See "Homeless Riff-Raff", Warns Of Revolution In an open letter to San Francisco's mayor Ed Lee, tech entrepreneur Justin Keller said he is "outraged" that wealthy workers have to see people in pain and despair. As The Guardian reports, The latest cultural altercation between San Francisco’s tech workers and …

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America's Largest Union Refuses To Back Hillary Over Sanders In what could be the biggest blow yet for her campaign, the leader of the America's largest federation of unions (counting 12 million active and retired "everyday Americans") has chosen not to endorse Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders. Clinton has racked up endorsements from 18 unions, …

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Russia's Trap: Luring Sunnis Into War Submitted by Burak Bekdil via The Gatestone Institute, Washington should think more than twice about allowing Turkey and Saudi Arabia, its Sunni allies, militarily to engage their Shiite enemies in Syria. Allowing Sunni supremacists into a deeper sectarian war is not a rational way to block Russian expansion in …

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American Democracy? – Money, Super-Delegates, & Hacked Voting Machines Authored by Cynthia McKinney, Op-Ed via RT.com, Jesus once remarked to a wealthy man that “it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to go to heaven.” Today, we could amend the words …

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Washington's Dismal Comedy Of Terrors – When In Doubt Bomb Syria Submitted by Jeffrey St.Clair via Counterpunch.org, Poor ISIS. Try as they might, the men in black still can’t out-terrorize their enemies or, more pointedly, even their patrons. For the past three years, decapitations have served as the money shots for ISIS’s theater of cruelty. …

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Central Banks Are "Malicious Tools Of Wholesale Cultural Destruction" Originally posted at The Daily Bell, Stock markets suspect Federal Reserve has interest rate jitters … Hints that the Fed won't raise interest rates in March are proving to be good news for miners and oil producers' share prices The Federal Reserve's William Dudley said further …

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Paul Craig Roberts: Are Americans Too Insouciant To Survive? Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, When one looks at the deplorable state of the world, one cannot help but wonder at the insouciance of the American people. Where are they? Do they exist or are they a myth? Have they been put to sleep by an …

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Canada Sells Nearly Half Of All Its Gold Reserves By Monique Muise, as published on Global News Canada sells nearly half of all its gold reserves The government of Canada sold off nearly half its gold reserves in recent weeks, continuing a pattern of moving away from the precious metal as a government asset. According …

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