Paul Craig Roberts: "Washington Is Impotent To Prevent Armageddon" Submitted by Paul Craig Roberts, Paul Craig Roberts’ address to the Conference on the European/Russian Crisis, Delphi, Greece, June 20-21, 2015 ?Paul Craig Roberts, formerly Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury for Economic Policy, Associate Editor, Wall Street Journal, Senior Research Fellow, Stanford University, William E. …

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The Last Rebels: 25 Things We Did As Kids That Would Get Someone Arrested Today Submitted by Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper blog, With all of the ridiculous new regulations, coddling, and societal mores that seem to be the norm these days, it’s a miracle those of us over 30 survived our childhoods. Here’s …

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California Has Never Experienced A Water Crisis Of This Magnitude – And The Worst Is Yet To Come Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, Things have never been this dry for this long in the recorded history of the state of California, and this has created an unprecedented water crisis.  At this …

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Artist's Impression Of GOP Presidential Nominee Race That platform is starting to get full… of something…     Source: Townhall.com "Goldbug" Analysts Capitulation Submitted by Leonard Sartoni via GoldBroker.com, The gold market has been in a profound lethargy (at least in dollar terms) for over a year. This is as frustrating for the bulls as …

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Goldman Asks, Is The Bundesbank "Ominously" Trying To Sabotage The ECB's QE? When the sell-off in German Bunds first got going, it looked like a temporary squeeze, with the largest position in the market – the ECB QE trade – coming under pressure after much weaker-than-expected Q1 GDP on 4/29.   However, as (Draghi mouthpiece) …

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Bank Of America Begins 66-Day Countdown Until The Terrible Ghost Of 1937 Returns In 66 trading days on September 17, 2015, the Federal Reserve will, according to Bank of America, hike rates for the first time since 2006, which according to BofA will “end the era of excess liquidity.” We disagree entirely, but let’s hear …

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Snowden, Putin, Greece: It’s All The Same Story Submitted by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog, Through the last decades, as we have been getting ever more occupied trying to be what society tells us is defined as successful, we all missed out on a lot of changes in our world. Or perhaps …

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IMF Says It Will Continue Lending To Ukraine Even After A Default, And Why This Is Bad News For Greek Gold With Tsipras’ delegation in Brussels desperate to work out a last minute deal and preserve Greek pension cut “red lines”, not to mention Greece in the Eurozone, it is the IMF which has become …

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Round 1 Goes to We the People Fast track authority for TPP – which would have assured the passage of a horrible treaty – was voted down today. But Obama, Ryan and the powers-that-be are forcing Round 2 on Tuesday. Conservatives and liberals BOTH hate the TPP. It's literally We The People versus the oligarchy. …

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Toronto’s Epic Condo Bubble Suddenly Turns into Condo Glut Wolf Richter   www.wolfstreet.com   www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The high-rise construction boom in Toronto has been evident for a while. It has been motivated by sky-high prices. In May, prices in Toronto rose another 5% from a year ago. For all types of homes, prices are now 42% higher than …

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