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The Real Con
The Real Con COMMENT: Hi Mr. Armstrong, Been reading you for a very long time. You are very insightful. One thing I have to admit is that the Powers That Be (WEF, etc.) did not keep it in the dark of what they were planning. Definitely out there for anyone to find and read. But if you […]
The ‘Big Con’ Revealed: Report Details Fossil Fuel Industry’s Deceptive ‘Net Zero’ Strategy
A brown coal mining machine operating at the Welzow-Sued lignite opencast mine in Welzow, eastern Germany. A new report out Wednesday details how so-called “net zero” pledges are simply schemes propagated by the fossil fuel industry and other powerful interests “to mask inaction, foist the burden of emissions cuts and pollution avoidance on historically exploited […]
The Flim-Flam Men
The Flim-Flam Men I suspect if average Joe or Jane were asked to identify modern examples of ‘Flim-Flam Men’, many would point to Bernie Madoff or Allen Stanford. (Remember them from the last “Great Financial Crisis” of 2008?) Or even to a long list of Too Big To Fail bank CEO’s past and present, plus various corporate, […]
CONfidence
CONfidence Markets are subject to a giant con game. The game of CONfidence. Confidence must be maintained under all circumstances or we’re heading into a global recession first and then a US recession to follow. Consider the macro context here: Nine major economiesare either in recession or on the verge of it. This includes Germany, UK, Italy, […]
How To Beat A Manipulator
How To Beat A Manipulator I’ve been busy working through some of my own stuff lately, while marveling at how closely my personal journey has been mirrored in the larger world. I wrote out the following as a personal exercise while meditating on all the similarities between abusive personal relationships with manipulators and our relationship as […]
Mafia Expert Calls Great Britain the “Most Corrupt Place on Earth”
Mafia Expert Calls Great Britain the “Most Corrupt Place on Earth” The City is a semi-offshore state, a bit like the UK’s crown dependencies and overseas territories, tax havens legitimized by the Privy Council. Britain’s financial secrecy undermines the tax base while providing a conduit into the legal economy for gangsters, kleptocrats and drug barons. Even the more […]
If Russia Had ‘Freed’ Canada
If Russia Had ‘Freed’ Canada Special Report: The U.S. government defined events in Ukraine as a “pro-democracy” revolution battling “Russian aggression” — at least as far as the world’s mainstream media was concerned. But what if the script were flipped, asks Joe Lauria. As the United States plans to move thousands of NATO troops to Russia’s […]
The Krugman Con
The Krugman Con Gold’s biggest enemy is a brilliant Nobel Prize winning economist, university professor and columnist for the New York Times. Sadly, he is also a con man. Last week Paul Krugman wrote a column for the New York Times in which he called Republican Paul Ryan, a “con man.” The Republican chairman of […]
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 […]
