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	05/22/13 - Moral Bias at The New York Times The headline said it all: "Confusion and Staff Troubles Rife at I.R.S. Office in Ohio." No mention of mendacity, of evil, of meanness, of vice. Nada. For liberals, their own ...

	05/17/13 - Africa, the Next China? LONG before Baobab became a lowly journalist he scraped a living as a lowly academic. "If you're so clever why aren't you rich?" was a favourite tease of his less bookish but ...

	05/16/13 - Lawrence O'Donnell: The IRS Was Just Doing Its Job Lawrence O'Donnell – IRS Agents Were 'Doing Their Jobs - YouTube Dominant Social Theme: The IRS is not at fault and its agents do their best to conform to the law. ...

	05/14/13 - Litigation: The Alternative to the Mainstream Media That Must Be Considered U.S. broadcast TV ratings slide pressures ad rates at 'upfronts' ... The increased competition will force ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC to settle for their lowest average rate hikes in ...

	05/08/13 - More Environmentalist Confusions The New York Observer reported in its April 15, 2013, issue (B 1) that Leonardo DiCaprio is teaming up with Christie's in New York City to hold a "major philanthropic auction." ...

	05/07/13 - Has Rome Saved Italy? Italy came to brink before being saved by "King George" ... Since an election in February that left no group with enough support to govern alone, one political disaster had ...

	05/06/13 - Morgan Stanley Commentators: Please Reveal Your Conflicts of Interests The Oil and Gold Booms Are Over ...The wreckage caused by China's great, juddering slowdown continues to spread far beyond the country's shores. Although most commodities ...

	05/03/13 - The Bounty of Fracking The U.S. Has Much, Much More Gas and Oil Than We Thought ... The United States has double the amount of oil and three times the amount of natural gas than previously thought, ...

	05/01/13 - Madness of a Stimulating Fed Is the Federal Reserve Insane? ... Americans have been whipsawed by devastating cycles of boom and bust over the past three decades. Now some at the Fed want us to go through ...

	04/30/13 - Self-Delusion of Barry Diller? Newsweek/Daily Beast Owner: 'I Wish I Hadn't Bought Newsweek, It Was a Mistake' ... The Newsweek/Daily Beast owner, Barry Diller, shared his regrets today on Bloomberg TV: ...

	04/25/13 - Solari Stories: Trusted Sources This week's Solari Story from Catherine Austin Fitts is titled "Trusted Sources." Here's a bit of the transcript: "The first place you should go for good, trustworthy ...

	04/22/13 - The Real Problem With the US Economy Is Not Enough Workers and a Sluggish Internet Free exchange – Where did everyone go? ... Demography may explain the weakness of America's recovery ... The notion that America's potential growth has slipped is not ...

	04/19/13 - US Failing Again: Never Ending Downturn Jobs, factory data point to slowing economy ... Economic data for January and February suggested that growth accelerated in the first quarter after activity almost stalled in ...

	04/19/13 - For Real? CNN Poll Finds All Is Well in US For first time in six years, half of Americans say U.S. running well ... A national poll released on Friday found 50 percent of Americans believe the United States is running ...

	04/18/13 - Solari Stories: Know Your Heroes This week's Solari Story from Catherine Austin Fitts is titled "Know Your Heroes." Here's a bit of the transcript: "One of my greatest frustrations is if you look at a world ...

	04/17/13 - 'No Doubt, Pensions Are Screwed' In a SPIEGEL interview, Harvard economist Carmen Reinhart argues governments are incapable of reducing their debts and that central banks are now stepping up to resolve the ...

	04/12/13 - Thatcher's Big Mistake Margaret Thatcher made Britain a less, not more, desirable place to do business The ex-PM's greatest mistake was her failure to recognise that social cohesion is crucial to ...

	04/08/13 - Time Magazine Asks If the Global Economy is Falling Apart Is the global economy slowly falling apart? ... A new book, David Stockman, President Ronald Reagan's budget director, chronicles the relentless downward spiral of America's ...

	04/04/13 - Britain's Increasing Insolvency: Will the Center Hold? Britain's debt mountain reaches £1.39TRILLION, equivalent to 90% of the entire economy, ONS reveals ... Gross debt at the end of 2012 stood at £1.387trillion, up 7% ...

	04/04/13 - The Most Incredible Sophistry The Washington Post's Ezra Klein and Neil Irwin of WonkBlog discuss central banking policy after the financial crisis and the opposing views about its role in the state of the ...

	04/02/13 - Reaction to Flash Crash Article Exposes Roots of Real Crisis Three days that saved the world financial system ... The BlackBerrys all started buzzing, just before dinner was to begin at the Palacio da Bacalhoa, a 15th-century estate ...

	03/28/13 - Ideology Again Perusing the Sunday New York Times will almost guarantee running across the term "ideology" in various commentaries and news analyses. In her essay in Week in Review, titled ...

	03/27/13 - CFR Tells US Good News About Commodity Prices Energy, Security, and Climate ... CFR experts examine the science and foreign policy surrounding climate change, energy, and nuclear security. Bad News for Pessimists ...

	03/26/13 - Halting Gold Delivery, Clearing the Path for Rash Action? Gold repatriation ... The Cyprus/ Eurozone crisis has just intensified, as Dutch Bank ABN Amro has sent a letter to clients this weekend informing them that they will halt ...

	03/20/13 - An Evil Story? Food stamps put Rhode Island town on monthly boom-and-bust cycle ... The economy of Woonsocket was about to stir to life. Delivery trucks were moving down river roads, and ...

	03/18/13 - The Rise and Fall of Military Keynesianism Has military Keynesianism come to an end? ... The outcome of the sequester ultimatum appears to have taken everyone by surprise. Two long summers ago, when the president and ...

	03/14/13 - And You Thought the Particle Was Confirmed? The particle found in the Large Hadron Collider last year "strongly indicates" that it is the long-sought Higgs Fri, Mar 8 2013 boson, the CERN physics research center said on ...

	03/14/13 - Shocker: Desalinization Breakthrough as Memes Fall One by One Method for Making Cheap, Clean Water Is Announced ... Pentagon weapons-maker finds method for cheap, clean water ... A defense contractor better known for building jet fighters ...

	03/14/13 - Who Will Win the Electric Car Prize? Henrik Fisker has quit as executive chairman of Fisker Automotive, the plug-in hybrid car company he founded in 2007. A dispute with other executives over a survival strategy ...

	03/08/13 - What Does the Dow Really Measure? The Dow Isn't Really At A Record High (And It Wouldn't Matter If It Were) ... Just a quick, cranky reminder: Despite what you may have read, the Dow Jones industrial average ...

	03/07/13 - I've Fired The New York Times For years I subscribed to The New York Times online. Then I took the Sunday Times only for a couple of years but they managed to annoy me nearly as much as the daily edition. ...

	03/04/13 - NY Times: 'Net Feedback Distorts Thought GRAY MATTER: This Story Stinks ... In the beginning, the technology gods created the Internet and saw that it was good. Here, at last, was a public sphere with unlimited ...

	02/27/13 - Ben Swann Is Optimistic About the Internet Reformation Meet Ben Swann, New Fox19 Anchor ... Where to begin? He was home schooled in El Paso, Texas, along with his nine brothers and sisters. They were all on a fast track. He earned ...

	02/26/13 - Man Bites Dog: Columnist Reveals Truth About History of 'Journalism' Unsolicited advice for Jeff Zucker, CNN's new boss ... As Zucker seeks inspiration for CNN, I can guarantee he won't devote himself to the 300-year history of the American ...

	02/23/13 - And the Antidote to the Great Fiscal and Monetary Crisis Is ... "Fiscal trouble ahead for most future retirees." Or so the Washington Post tells us in a recent column explaining why future retirees (Baby Boomers) are headed for considerable ...

	02/20/13 - Economist's Wishing and Hoping Won't Make a Minimum Wage Effective Minimum human wages ... The empirics of the minimum wage debate are complex, but it isn't impossible to draw some conclusions. A recent Free exchange column attempted to do ...

	02/19/13 - The Voice of Public Choice Is Dead, Economist Lives On Free exchange ... The voice of public choice ... James Buchanan, who died on January 9th, illuminated political decision-making ... A list of things that Americans judge more ...

	02/14/13 - New Meme: Dangers of the Baby Bust The birth dearth/empty cradle/baby bust is upon us, threatening consequences just as dire as the overpopulation bomb that Paul Ehrlich predicted would cause mass global ...

	02/13/13 - Esquire Article on Bin Laden in Another Flap – Promotion Totally Useless Now Lying liars at Esquire double down, falsely claim they disclosed former Navy SEAL's eligibility for VA benefits; Update: Esquire (finally) acknowledges error ... Yesterday, ...

	02/09/13 - How the Power of Mainstream Media Blasted Berlusconi Talk about going viral. Paolo Berlusconi supposedly called his football club's latest superstar acquisition, Mario Balotelli, a "a house ni--er" at a political rally and this ...

	02/01/13 - Severe Disaffection: Seventy-five Percent of US Citizens Don't Trust Government A new survey from the Pew Research Center finds the nation is increasingly distrustful of the federal government: 73 percent don't have faith that lawmakers – members of ...

	01/23/13 - Bloomberg Discovers Federal Reserve Inflation ... Sort of In today's "Single Best Chart," Bloomberg's Scarlet Fu displays how inflation has increased in the 100 years since the creation of the Federal Reserve. She speaks on Bloomberg ...

	01/22/13 - Root For Wall Street to Go to Jail More than four years since the financial crisis, not one senior Wall Street executive has faced criminal prosecution for fraud. Are Wall Street executives "too big to jail"? In ...

	01/17/13 - Media Mogul Stewart Calls NRA a False-Flag Operation – Is It? Jon Stewart: "NRA is a false flag operation run by Michael Moore" ... The NRA came out with a disgusting new commercial in which it called Obama an "elitist hypocrite" because ...

	01/14/13 - Crackerjack Global Analysis or Analysis on Crack? Save? Party like it's 2013! ... Economic forecast for 2013: Forget the fiscal cliff, this is the year to spend, spend, spend ... If the words 'fiscal cliff' send you into a ...

	01/13/13 - Professor's Questions About Sandy Hook Shooting Recall Columbine Massacre Believe it or not, there are actually people out there who are convinced that last month's horrific shooting in Newtown, Connecticut was staged. Anderson Cooper opened his show ...

	01/10/13 - Inflation Propaganda Exposed Economists who hold the popular view that expanding the money supply will provide the best medicine for our ailing economy dismiss the inflationary concerns of monetary hawks, ...

	01/08/13 - Reuters: Turn to Government for Successful Societies? Politics makes a comeback ... Prepare for the revenge of politics. For the past few decades, the quants – mathematicians, physicists and technologists – and their ...

	01/07/13 - Barter and Alternative Currencies Growing in Greece Euros discarded as impoverished Greeks resort to bartering ... Communities set up local currencies and exchange networks in attempt to beat the economic crisis ... It's been a ...

	01/07/13 - Taxes versus Revenues: Leslie Stahl's Malpractice As I reach old age I shield myself from unpleasant television as much as I can. Of course, in order to stay apprised of events I cannot afford to skip all of what is irritating ...

	12/24/12 - Newsweek Print Edition Folds Betrayed by the Zeitgeist she once channeled, Tina Brown invokes it one last time ... On the last day of this year, outliving the universe by 10 days if the Mayan calendar was ...

	12/18/12 - The Madness of Afghanistan Leaving Afghanistan without a peace deal is madness ... General Sir David Richards, the head of Britain's Armed Forces, is right to flag up the likely difficulties British ...

	12/14/12 - Now Reuters Opinion-Maker Endorses National Socialist Economics It may take a few decades and a few more crises, but I believe that politicians and economists will eventually realise that to welcome greed throughout the financial system is ...

	12/14/12 - On The Controlled Media Matrix and Collateral Damage "You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to ...

	12/13/12 - Elite Neo-Nazis ... Is Russia Today (RT) Part of the Controlled Media Matrix and the Imposition of Global Government? This is perhaps the biggest Trojan Horse-oriented story I may ever write. I use the term "I" advisedly because much of what goes on here at The Daily Bell is a team effort. But ...

	12/08/12 - FDR, Lincoln ... and a Disturbing Supposition Regarding Barack Obama Here's a new dominant social theme: US presidents are good and they ought to be in movies. Of course, it helps if you are a socialist leader and make maximum use of the awesome ...

	12/06/12 - South Africa Vanishes With Its Gold? Last week's shocking announcement by Statistics South Africa that the nation's gold production had hit a 90-year low was met with token media coverage and surprisingly, hardly ...

	11/27/12 - The Meme of Republican Moderation Here's what's supposed to be happening: After losing two presidential elections, Republicans are supposed to be re-evaluating what their party stands for. Are they out of line ...

	11/23/12 - Secession's Warning This Time The hurricane of hatred that greeted Obama's election and the tsunami of slander since that has questioned his religion, his birthplace and his legitimacy show that, 150 years ...

	11/14/12 - Uncanny 'Running Man' Runs Into Elite Gloom Directed by former Starsky and Hutch TV star Paul Michael Glaser, this post-apocalyptic science fiction yarn satirized American entertainment, mocking pro wrestling, game ...

	11/07/12 - We Told You So! We Need a Little Fear ... The voters have spoken. So, what now? How will our still divided government deal with our mounting threats and challenges? Shared fear can help ... A ...

	11/07/12 - Shirley Temple Returns With a Pig The Zen of Honey Boo Boo ... I'm not a big reality TV fan, although I do like watching Gordon Ramsey scream obscenities. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo was way off my radar, but the ...

	11/04/12 - Silent No More ... The Military Meme Expands Navy Seals furious with Obama says Brad Nagel, 20 year Navy veteran and former SEAL. Newly released emails indicate that the Obama White House KNEW WITHIN 30 MINUTES of the ...

	10/29/12 - The Virtual Recovery Since mid-2009 the US has been enjoying a virtual recovery courtesy of a rigged inflation measure that understates inflation. The financial Presstitutes spoon out the ...

	10/24/12 - Elite View: The Yo-Yo Economy Euro zone rot spreads to Germany, China mending ... The euro zone's biggest member Germany is being sucked into the bloc's worsening economic quagmire, business surveys ...

	10/19/12 - BBC Will Find the Sharpest Brits ... or Will They? Clare Balding is to be the host of a new Saturday night TV show BBC1 entertainment show to find the country's sharpest mind. The presenter, one of the stars of the BBC's ...

	10/16/12 - Toll of War Deformities Is Heavy Price to Pay in Iraq Iraq records huge rise in birth defects. New study links increase with military action by Western forces ... It played unwilling host to one of the bloodiest battles of the ...

	10/13/12 - Nobel Backlash Is Symptomatic of a Deeper Elite Issue The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize, which is usually given to a person. There's been a good deal of astonishment over the award as people have a hard time ...

	10/11/12 - Lance Armstrong Investigation: Not Really About Sports at All Lance Armstrong doping case: 11 teammates testified against cycling legend ... Armstrong's former teammates testified against him in its investigation of the cyclist, revealing ...

	10/10/12 - New Lincoln Movie Is Another Obama Promotion? Spielberg says "Lincoln" is no political football ... Steven Spielberg offered a cinematic vision of President Abraham Lincoln's battle to outlaw slavery in "Lincoln," which ...

	10/02/12 - Central Bank Narrative Grinds On via AP Ben Bernanke makes strong defense of Federal Reserve's rate policies ... Chairman Ben Bernanke offered a wide-ranging defense of the Federal Reserve's aggressive policies to ...

	10/02/12 - How the Government's Lies Become Truth In my last column, " A Culture of Delusion ," I wrote that "Americans live in a matrix of lies. Lies dominate every policy discussion, every political decision." This column ...

	09/24/12 - Dworkin's Plain Statism As is usually the case, The New York Review of Books gives ample room to some leftist jurists, like Professors David Cole or Ronald Dworkin, to provide the politically correct ...

	09/21/12 - Private Investigators Targeted in Britain Private detectives are out of control in Britain ... He may be looking at you – and you can't stop him ... The reputation of the private investigation industry has taken ...

	09/20/12 - NYT Reporter Confirms Paper Is Purposeful Mouthpiece for Military-Industrial Complex EXPOSED: NY Times Peddles War Propaganda ... Former New York Times journalist, Daniel Simpson, spills the beans on how NYT operates. − RT Dominant Social Theme: The New ...

	09/18/12 - A Simple Piece of Advice Blow up your TV, throw away your paper Go to the country, build you a home Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches Try and find Jesus on your own. – John Prine ...

	09/15/12 - THE PRAGMATIST: No, Reuters ... Uribe's Perspective on Santos and FARC Is Policy Driven In an interview this week at his country residence, Uribe insisted he is not an "enemy of peace" and wants an end to a decades-old war but only if rebels first lay down their ...

	09/12/12 - Middle East Reporting: What's Being Left Out? The Cairo-Tehran Express ... Egyptian-Iranian intelligence meeting prompts fears of a new Middle East terror axis ... U.S. intelligence agencies recently monitored a secret ...

	09/10/12 - Spinning Bad Financial News Into Good Friday's payroll jobs report says that 96,000 new jobs were created in August and that the unemployment rate (U.3) fell from 8.3% to 8.1%. As 96,000 new jobs are not enough to ...

	09/05/12 - The Republicans Cross the Rubicon Does anyone remember when National Public Radio was an independent voice? During the 1980s NPR was continually on the case of the Reagan administration. NPR certainly had a ...

	09/04/12 - Reuters Gets It Right ... Sort Of Why the Yahoos at Yahoo were wrong to fire David Chalian ... Chalian, the Washington bureau chief for Yahoo News, ridiculed Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, during a Monday ...

	09/03/12 - Clint Eastwood and Disrespect The political left in America is outraged at Clint Eastwood's recent presentation at the GOP convention. The shock and disbelief of Rachel Maddow at MSNBC and the Blitzer gang ...

	08/23/12 - Our Deal with CNN Plagiarist Fareed Zakaria CNN and Time should explain why he's being forgiven and what he's doing to cut down on his workload and multiple payrolls. More than that, reporters should press CNN and Time ...

	08/17/12 - Julian Assange's Directed History Julian Assange faces long stay in Ecuador's London embassy ... In the covert existence that Julian Assange adopted as founder of the secrecy-busting organization WikiLeaks, he ...

	08/15/12 - London Olympics ... Boon or Boondoggle? Boris Johnson: We will reap economic rewards for years ... The Olympic Games were "money well spent" as tourists delivered a huge boost to restaurants, nightclubs and theatres ...

	07/25/12 - ABC's Ross Controversy Sign of the Times ABC News president Ben Sherwood told staff today that last Friday's incorrect report by Brian Ross detracts from the network's otherwise excellent coverage of the Colorado ...

	07/18/12 - UK Telegraph Struck With Internal Feuding Between Top Columnists Over Money Printing Red Pill, Blue Pill ... The other day m'learned colleague Ambrose Evans Pritchard wrote a piece in praise of money-printing. What the world needs is more Quantitative Easing, ...

	07/17/12 - Pew Study: Great News! ... YouTube Reports Tap the Mainstream Media YouTube Now Key Source for News Junkies: Pew ... Since its online debut in early 2005, YouTube continues to grow as a news outlet for people who are expanding the ways in which ...

	07/11/12 - Americans' Trust in TV Degrades Again Americans' Confidence in Television News Drops to New Low – Liberals' and moderates' views are now similar to conservatives' ... Americans' confidence in television news ...

	06/26/12 - Condoleezza Rice's Authoritarian Fantasy and Her CBS Enablers Rice spoke over the weekend at a Utah retreat of big Republican donors for Romney and her remarks were widely praised by attendees. "I talked about the need for American ...

	06/13/12 - Floyd Mayweather Deserves Solitary Confinement? So Floyd Mayweather Jr. doesn't like jail. As heavyweight champion Joe Louis said when he was told that an opponent didn't like to get hit in the body, "Who do?" – New ...

	06/07/12 - Did '96 Bill Force People to Work? As The New York Times would put it, when in 1996 "President Bill Clinton delivered on his pledge to 'end welfare as we know it'...he signed into law a bill forcing recipients ...

	05/25/12 - AP, Reuters Take Staged Photo of Same Chinese Woman Over Decades The media manipulates stories with photographs that are staged. They also are trying to create new conservative leaders for us. – YouTube Dominant Social Theme: Don't ...

	05/18/12 - Facebook IPO Is Bubble Redux? A global frenzy buzzes now like so many angry bumblebees. At any moment, a company started in a dormitory just eight years ago will sell promoted common shares to the investing ...

	05/17/12 - A Potpourri of Issues, Minor and Not So Much Justice Kennedy's observation that the mandate changes the relationship between government and the individual is doubtful since there really are quite a lot of actions that ...

	05/16/12 - Time Magazine: Fed is Responsible for the JPMorgan Blow Up ... Is the Fed to Blame for JPMorgan's $2 Billion Blowup? ... The JPMorgan $2 billion-trading-loss story is nearly a week old, and the news has predictably gone through the various ...

	05/15/12 - Oh, the Horror! Greek Gov Collapses Greece calls new election after coalition talks fail ... Greece abandoned a nine-day hunt for a government on Tuesday and called a new election that threatens to hasten the ...

	05/11/12 - Is Ron Paul Actually Winning the Delegate Count? CNN Asks Ron Paul To Drop Out & Endorse Romney Despite His Chances To Win 5/9/12 ... Ron Paul on CNN "Newsroom." They continue to attack and ask Ron Paul to drop out. Ron ...

	05/10/12 - Italian Voters Reject Austerity, Too Italians reject Monti's austerity in local vote ... A maverick comic who wants Italy to quit the euro made big gains in local elections on Monday while former Prime Minister ...

	05/01/12 - Britain Slows in Slump Growth fears as UK manufacturing slows sharply ... Export orders for Britain's manufacturers have collapsed at their fastest rate in almost three years, a key survey has found, ...

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