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Former Senator Opines on the Incredible Corruption in America and the Fourth Branch of Government
Former Senator Opines on the Incredible Corruption in America and the Fourth Branch of Government On a more personal level, how can public service be promoted as an ideal to young people when this sewer corrupts our Republic? At this point in early twenty-first-century America, the greatest service our nation’s young people could provide is […]
Slave or Rebel? Ten Principles for Escaping the Matrix and Standing Up to Tyranny
Slave or Rebel? Ten Principles for Escaping the Matrix and Standing Up to Tyranny “Until they become conscious, they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled, they cannot become conscious.”—George Orwell The more things change, the more they stay the same. It’s a shell game intended to keep us focused on and distracted […]
If Your BS Detector Isn’t Shrieking, It’s Broken
If Your BS Detector Isn’t Shrieking, It’s Broken Wishing it was true doesn’t make it true–it makes you a chump who fell for the con. Once upon a time in America, no adult could survive without possessing a finely tuned BS detector. Herman Melville masterfully captured America’s fascination with cons and con artists in his 1857 […]
Systemic Corruption Has Destroyed America
Systemic Corruption Has Destroyed America Preface: It’s been less than a month since we last posted on this topic … but, sadly, we’ve got many more examples. The Cop Is On the Take Government corruption has become rampant: Senior SEC employees spent up to 8 hours a day surfing porn sites instead of cracking down on financial crimes […]
“Much of the Scientific Literature, Perhaps HALF, May Simply Be Untrue” …
“Much of the Scientific Literature, Perhaps HALF, May Simply Be Untrue” … Corruption Is Destroying Basic Science Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine are the two most prestigious medical journals in the world. It is therefore striking that their chief editors have both publicly written that corruption is undermining science. The editor in […]
Government – Designed for Robbery
Government – Designed for Robbery Why I’m Looking Forward to the Next Big Crash First, the Dow dropped 190 points on Monday – or 1%. It was threatening to close below 18,000 for the first time in almost three weeks. We’ll wait to find out. Yesterday, a London-based magazine and a TV station interviewed us. […]
MEXICO’S JOURNALISTS GRAB A TECH SHIELD AS THEIR FIGHT AGAINST THE ESTABLISHMENT ESCALATES
MEXICO’S JOURNALISTS GRAB A TECH SHIELD AS THEIR FIGHT AGAINST THE ESTABLISHMENT ESCALATES Mexico, a country where tens of thousands have been killed in drug-related violence, and where government officials have been complicit in corruption, murders, and disappearances, seems like a natural place to launch a safe, anonymous way for sources to get information to journalists. […]
Thousands Crowd Brazil’s Streets: Demand Military Intervention & Rousseff Resignation, Impeachment
Thousands Crowd Brazil’s Streets: Demand Military Intervention & Rousseff Resignation, Impeachment It appears the ‘people’ are growing more and more dissatisfied with their corrupt and greedy leaders across the world. As we noted recently, Brazil’s economy is imploding, consumer sentiment is at record lows, and with the Petrobras scandal providing a glimpse at just how deep the corruption […]
Taxes and corruption
Taxes and corruption It seems that the rumbling story about HSBC’s Swiss branch has achieved what political pollsters know as “cut through” – meaning that it’s of interest to voters as well as to those reporters who are sentenced to watch Prime Minister’s Questions each week. The story reminded me of a passage in Wolfgang […]
Official Suspected of Biggest Financial Fraud in China’s History Investigated
Official Suspected of Biggest Financial Fraud in China’s History Investigated The high-living nephew of a former Chinese communist leader is said to be in the crosshairs of the Party’s anti-corruption investigators, according to a number of reports in the Hong Kong press recently. Hong Kong press reports are not always reliable, but often enough include […]
For Sale to the Highest Bidder – How Middle Eastern Governments Are Buying Off the U.S. Political Process
For Sale to the Highest Bidder – How Middle Eastern Governments Are Buying Off the U.S. Political Process The quaint notion that the U.S. political system remotely resembles either a Republic or a Democracy should have been abandoned long ago. Any lingering illusions were surely extinguished last year, when an academic study empirically proved that the USA […]
World in a Box
World in a Box. Of all the problems with fiat currency, the most basic is that it empowers the dark side of human nature. We’re potentially good but infinitely corruptible, and giving an unlimited monetary printing press to a government or group of banks is guaranteed to produce a dystopia of ever-greater debt and more […]
Zero Hedge–A Maturing Fight Club Community or Just An Excuse to be Rude and Abusive
May 26, 2015
Zero Hedge–A Maturing Fight Club Community or Just An Excuse to be Rude and Abusive The title of this essay asks a fair question. For quite a few who comment here on Zero Hedge the ‘Fight Club’ theme appears to be a convenient excuse to verbally bash heads and insult people, in essence to act […]
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