"Bloodbath" In Black Gold – Buffett's Phillips 66 Dumps Oil In Cushing, Crashes Crude Spreads To 5 Year Lows The canary in the coalmine of an increasingly desperate energy industry just croaked. With "unusual timing" and at "distressed prices," Reuters reports that Phillips 66 – the major US refiner owned by Warren Buffett – dumped …

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Is The American Dream Dead? Submitted by Tom Chatham via ProjectChesapeake.com, The American dream is not a thing in physical terms but an idea that lives or dies with certain beliefs in society. Can it die? Yes it can if those beliefs are purged from the conscience of society. This is what Jefferson meant by …

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Japan In Turmoil: Stocks, USDJPY, Bond Yields Collapse The total and utter failure of The BoJ continues to accelerate… *JAPAN 10-YEAR GOVERNMENT BOND YIELD FALLS BELOW ZERO FIRST TIME   Stocks have crashed the most since Black Monday erasing all QQE2 gains..   With Japanese Bank stocks  leading the way, now down 25% since NIRP …

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Possible Silver U-Turn Report, 7 Feb, 2016 Wow, did the dollar move down this week! It dropped more than it has in quite a while. It fell 1.3mg gold, or 0.1g silver. Gold and silver bugs of course are excited, as they look at it as the prices of the metals going up $55 and …

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“The People Who Cast The Votes Don’t Decide An Election, The People Who COUNT The Votes Do.” Stealing Elections Is Easier Than You Can Imagine Princeton University scientists showed how easy it is to steal elections by tampering with Diebold voting machines: Here’s a summary: So did University of California at Santa Barbara computer scientists: …

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Paths of Glory From the Slope of Hope: A couple of Thursdays ago, we were all wringing our hands (or at least I was) about the powerful bureaucrat and lifetime government employee Haruhiko Kuroda and what his next move would be. He dropped a big bomb – negative interest rates – and created precisely the …

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What Is The Best Method Of Rebellion Against Tyranny? Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, I have heard it often said that there is no one right way to accomplish a goal. I agree. However, I would add that while there is no such thing as “one right way” to achieve an objective, this does …

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Paul Craig Roberts: There Is No Freedom Without Truth Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, “This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government. We …

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The Coming Revaluation Of Gold Submitted by Hugo Salinas Price via Plata.com.mx, The current melt-down of the world's debt bubble is likely to continue in the course of the next months. The secular trend to expansion of credit has morphed into contraction and liquidation. It is my opinion that the new trend is now established …

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America, Meet Your "Apolitical" Federal Reserve Moments after the “disestablishment” Ted Cruz (even if Goldman may have a lien or two on said disestablishmentarianism), was announced to be the winner of the Iowa Caucus, a most unexpected commentator appeared among the flood of the otherwise traditional Twitter noise with what can only be classified as …

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