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“What the Mainstream Doesn’t Get about Bitcoin” – by Charles Hugh Smith

While I don’t recommend anyone purchase BTC (current price here), I find it not only interesting for its potential future value (more gamble than investment), but particularly useful as a hedge against currency devaluation. I  bought some a few years … Continue reading

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AMZN, Taxes and Fair Shares: Who pays theirs? Better yet, who takes more than theirs?

  Article from The Sun today: “Angry MPs urge Brits to boycott Amazon as it’s revealed the online giant’s UK tax bill HALVED last year – while sales soared. Politicians and campaigners rounded on the US giant for coughing up … Continue reading

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Ever Cheaper Lighting: The Techno-Economic Marvel

  Just when you thought progress wasn’t being made, technologic advancements and plunging prices in lighting over the past 200 years put things in a different light, so to speak. From man’s early history B.C. it took about 400 labor … Continue reading

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The War on Drugs

  The War on Drugs. The primary reason that law enforcement and politicians resist de-criminalizing drugs is that drugs give them entry, excuse and control of others and their property that they would otherwise have no justification for interfering with, … Continue reading

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Burr – Gore Vidal

  Another great Gore Vidal historic novel in which he weaves together real events and the lives of historic people in something more interesting and readable than fiction. I knew little of Aaron Burr before Vidal’s biographic drama based on … Continue reading

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“A Big, Fat, Ugly Bubble” – by David Stockman

Another Stockman feat of economic insight. The US malaise that has traversed decades and administrations only worsens with time – growing and inflating towards an inevitable mega-crash of currency and asset valuations. The Donald had a chance to stop the … Continue reading

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The next market correction will be a doozy!

Lynette Zang of ITM trading is a previous Lehman Brothers analyst who now analyzes markets for hard asset investment (precious metals). In her podcast with Greg Hunter, she offers some eye-opening insights and charts concerning the financial status of the … Continue reading

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Forbidden Questions: 24 Key Issues Ignored by the Washington Elite and the Media – by Andrew Bacevich

Brilliant questions by retired Army Colonel and retired history/international relations BU professor Andrew Bacevich. These show not only what the media and politicians refuse to address, but likely what you seldom, and likely never, have considered. Read the article here, … Continue reading

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Manchester Terror Attack Proves that the War On Terror Is Failing – Washington’s Blog

Sharing a thoughtful post from Washington’s Blog for your enlightened consideration: “Given that the Manchester terrorist was a product of the interventions in Libya and Syria, it’s time to have an adult discussion about what it will take to stop … Continue reading

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Dump the Destroyers of Worlds… for the Sake of the Children

The future demands a different approach, decentralized power structures, the removal of wealth-consolidating scamsters, the rejection of demagogic race-baiters and crisis actors, a cessation of coercive Imperial interventionism into every corner of the world which perpetuates violence, blow back and … Continue reading

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