Lawrence Wilkerson: "The American 'Empire' Is In Deep, Deep Trouble" Former US army colonel and Chief of Staff for Colin Powell, Lawrence Wilkerson unleashed a most prescient speech on the demise of the United States Empire. As Naked Capitalism's Yves Smith notes, Wilkerson describes the path of empires in decline and shows how the US …

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The Media-Opoly: Cancelled, From Saturday Night, It's Conspiracy Theory Rock! A day after we ran “Meet Your “Independent” Media, America“, in which we showed how prime time entertainment like 60 Minutes is strategically and voluntarily “planted” with propaganda trolls and “concerns” thus crushing any “unbiased” credibility mainstream US media may have, we dug into the …

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A Mosaic Of Facts – Media Weapons Of Mass Delusion Can you tell truth from lies in mass media? RT’s Miguel Francis-Santiago delves deep to try to understand the intricacies of information war. He meets media experts and puts together the Mosaic of Facts, showing how public opinion is manipulated, not just over the Ukrainian …

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If You Work Here, Quit Before You Are Fired: The 20 Largest US Layoff Announcements Of 2015 Earlier today, in the latest laughable attempt to boost confidence in a clearly recessionary economy, the BLS reported that a paltry 277,000 Americans had sought unemployment benefits. Why laughable? Because at the very same time, Challenger Gray which …

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Syria: “Not a Proxy War. It’s One Step Closer” Russia started bombing jihadi bases in Syria today. Given that the the U.S. and its allies are largely responsible for creating ISIS, and that U.S., Turkey and Israel have all been acting as ISIS’ air force – they are not taking too kindly to Russia’s actions. …

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Paul Craig Roberts: Obama Deifies American Hegemony Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, Today is the 70th anniversary of the UN. It is not clear how much good the UN has done. Some UN Blue Hemet peacekeeping operations had limited success. But mainly Washington has used the UN for war, such as the Korean War and …

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"Minority Report" Is 40 Years Ahead of Schedule: The Fictional World Has Become Reality Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “The Internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about …

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Getting Paid for Doing the Obvious? By Chris at www.CapitalistExploits.at I’ve spent a good few hours running. Up hills, down hills, along flats… just running. A not so startling realization is that running uphill burns more calories, is more taxing on your body, makes you breathe harder, and will make you tire faster than running on …

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Jim Grant Explains How To Hedge Against The Coming Money Paradrop Submitted by Christopher Gisiger via Finanz Und Wirtschaft, James Grant, Wall Street expert and editor of the investment journal Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, warns of ever more extreme central bank policies and bets on the comeback of gold. The global financial markets are under …

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The Table Is Set For The Next Financial Crisis Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, The housing market peaked in 2005 and proceeded to crash over the next five years, with existing home sales falling 50%, new home sales falling 75%, and national home prices falling 30%. A funny thing happened after …

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