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	05/17/13 - The Failure of Retirement Gen X Has New Reason to Resent Boomers as Retirement Looks Bleak ... Generation X, the unlucky cohort of Americans who became young adults during the boom years of the 1990s ...

	05/14/13 - Fracking, Just in Time to Help the US Economy? Import prices fell in April due to a drop in oil costs, a positive sign for household finances that also pointed to benign inflation pressures ... The tame inflation ...

	05/14/13 - UN to World: Eat Bugs UN says: why not eat more insects? ... The U.N. has new weapons to fight hunger, boost nutrition and reduce pollution, and they might be crawling or flying near you right now: ...

	05/08/13 - What Buffett Has Forgotten, But We Should Remember Buffett says economy on mend, bonds 'terrible' investment ... Warren Buffett said the U.S. economy is gradually improving, but low interest rates have made bonds "terrible ...

	05/07/13 - Eurocrats Contemplate Social Credit as Meme Expands Following Europe's lead on the basic income for all ... Folks in Europe are currently campaigning for a basic income, which would provide a livable income directly to everyone ...

	05/06/13 - President Obama: Reject Warnings of Tyranny In a speech to college graduates at Ohio State, President Obama spent a few minutes talking about people who warn of government tyranny. He told the graduates to "reject these ...

	05/03/13 - Fed Is Tightening. No, It's Loosening. No, It's ... Fed Open to Expanding QE as It Counters Talk of Tapering ... Facing the risk of a fourth straight summertime slowdown, Federal Reserve officials raised the prospect of ...

	05/02/13 - Times Bemoans Poverty, Neglects Solution Wealth Gap Among Races Has Widened Since Recession ...Given the dynamics of the housing recovery and the rebound in the stock market, the wealth gap might still be growing, ...

	05/02/13 - Chinese Should Drop Cash Like Other Modern Economies Chinese Way of Doing Business - In Cash We Trust ... Lugging nearly $130,000 in cash into a dealership might sound bizarre, but it's not exactly uncommon in China, where hotel ...

	05/01/13 - Is the Consumer Really More Confident? Consumer confidence rebounds in April ... Consumer confidence rebounded in April as Americans felt better about the outlook for the economy and their income prospects, ...

	04/30/13 - Who Are the Monarchs of Money? Neil Macdonald: The 'monarchs of money' and the war on savers ... Power Shift: First in a series on the rise of the central bankers and the global imposition of cheap credit ...

	04/29/13 - True Cost of Energy Efficiency? In 2012, America had the most energy efficient economy in US history. The EIA released new energy data this week showing that the U.S. had the most energy-efficient economy in ...

	04/29/13 - AEI's Half-A-Loaf Analysis Is Better than None Earth Day and Four Decades of Fear ... A vast array of blatherings have accumulated over the years, warning the end is nigh. Earth Day means never having to say "Don't worry." ...

	04/26/13 - Euro Debacle: Is a Big Dominant Social Theme in Trouble? Euro may only last five years, says senior German government advisor ... The euro has a "limited chance of survival" and may only endure another five years, Kai Konrad, one of ...

	04/24/13 - Again, Reuters Compares Central Bankers to Superheroes! Banker steps into the role of superhero ... In other ages, we have called on shamans or saints in times of crisis when the usual remedies have not worked. In the stagnant world ...

	04/22/13 - Jaw-Dropping African Promotion Continues The hottest frontier ...When you are trying to keep a retail outfit afloat amid hyperinflation, it helps to have a sideline. "We had a business selling crocodile skins to ...

	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 - Central Bank Superheroes in the Gears of the Machine Insight: Central bankers cast as superheroes with no script ... Top central banks have slashed rates to zero, pumped in vast amounts of cash, helped orchestrate bailouts and ...

	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 ...

	04/16/13 - Is China Turning Into a Service Economy? Industrial eclipse ... Earlier this year, we noted that China's output of services was poised to overtake its industrial production, probably as soon as this year. That would ...

	04/16/13 - Complexity of the Modern Algae-Powered Building Algae-powered apartment complex blooms in Hamburg BIQ House ... A 15-unit net-zero energy apartment complex clad with an algae-filled bio-adaptive shell, is completed in ...

	04/15/13 - Gold, Why So Volatile? Gold tumbles to two-year low ... The slide in gold prices became a rout on Monday as the precious metal tumbled a further 5 per cent to its lowest level in two years. Bullion ...

	04/15/13 - Low Budget Vid About North Korea Is Strangely Moving Journey to the Land of Whispers ... North Korea lies somewhere between a 1930′s Soviet Union frozen in time and a dark, futuristic vision of society... as imagined back ...

	04/13/13 - No Difference in Ideology and Values When you consider what is the difference between the ideology of North Korea and that of the U.S.A., it is difficult to say. In practical terms, of course, the U.S.A. is still ...

	04/12/13 - The China Syndrome and the African Gambit China posts surprise trade deficit for March ...China swung to a trade deficit of $880 million in March, the General Administration of Customs reported Wednesday, as imports ...

	04/10/13 - Tax Havens - Surely a Meme France's President Hollande: Eradicate tax havens ... President Hollande was getting poor opinion poll ratings even before the tax scandal ... French President Francois ...

	04/09/13 - The Fiction That is Kenya Kenya's new president Will the new centre hold? ... Uhuru Kenyatta comes to power on a wave of cautious optimism. But he must tackle a host of national shortcomings if he is to ...

	04/04/13 - Solari Stories: The Mom and Pop Predicament This week's Solari Story from Catherine Austin Fitts is titled "The Mom and Pop Predicament." Here's a bit of the transcript: I find there's a real effort now to blame Mom and ...

	04/03/13 - China Builds Great Central Bankers? The Trillion-Dollar Bureaucrat ... He may be the most important central banker in the world. But is China's Zhou Xiaochuan really in charge? The longest-serving leader of a ...

	04/02/13 - Weird: BOE Supports Chinese Financial Domination ... News Release – People's Bank of China swap line ... Governor Zhou Xiaochuan met Governor Mervyn King today during Governor King's visit to Beijing. They ...

	04/02/13 - Germany ... A Wicked, Wicked People Southern Europe lies prostrate before the German imperium ... Cyprus is only the first victim of a one-size-must-fit-all policy that is made in Berlin ... 'Cyprus is ...

	04/01/13 - Shock: Is Australia Really Falling Under the Orbit of China? Thanks, World Reserve Currency, But No Thanks: Australia And China To Enable Direct Currency Convertibility ... A month ago we pointed out that as a result of Australia's ...

	03/29/13 - Italy Struggles and Consensus Withers, as Predicted Center-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani has assessed options after failing in his attempt to find a way out of Italy's political deadlock and President Giorgio Napolitano Italy ...

	03/28/13 - Climate Change as Financial Policy: A Costly Fashion? State Tells Investors That Climate Change May Hurt Its Finances ... The warning, which is now appearing in the state's bond offerings, comes as Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, continues ...

	03/28/13 - What Central Banks Need More Of ... Russell Lynch: Central banks are now too powerful to have free rein ... Who guards the guards? It's a question worth asking as the Bank of England takes on a vast new remit to ...

	03/28/13 - Robotics Reporters: A Meme Compounded by a Theme 'Robo-reporter' computer program raises questions about future of journalists ... Reporters may not look like this in the future, but one media outlet employs a robo-reporter ...

	03/27/13 - Rise of the Job Scarcity Meme The Rise of Robots – and Decline of Jobs – Is Here ... Last night, 60 Minutes aired an interesting report on the rise of robots in the workforce – a subject ...

	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 ...

	03/26/13 - Africa Emerges Alongside New China Meme China's Xi promises equal trade relations with Africa ... China's new president sought to address concerns among African leaders about the uneven nature of trade relations on ...

	03/25/13 - Rare Earth Is Not so Rare ... Redux Japan breaks China's stranglehold on rare metals with sea-mud bonanza ... Japanese scientists have found vast reserves of rare earth metals on the Pacific seabed that can be ...

	03/23/13 - I'm Keeping the Lights on for Earth Hour US News tells us that libertarians want to "keep the lights on" for the current Earth Hour. Earth Hour is a worldwide event organized by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), ...

	03/22/13 - Is Qatar Going to Bail Out Britain? The West is in decline, but its values still prevail ...The first ever non-European pope takes over at the Vatican, while Italy's economic ills and ungovernability foretell, ...

	03/21/13 - Stratfor Promotes EU Fascism Meme? Europe, Unemployment and Instability ... The global financial crisis of 2008 has slowly yielded to a global unemployment crisis. This unemployment crisis will, fairly quickly, ...

	03/19/13 - Now New Zealand Plans Cyprus-Style Bank Confiscations National planning Cyprus-style solution for New Zealand ...The National Government are pushing a Cyprus-style solution to bank failure in New Zealand which will see small ...

	03/18/13 - The Debt Crisis Is a Dollar Reserve Crisis GOP: We've been lying all along ... Boehner's admission that we don't really have a debt crisis reveals his party's ulterior, program-cutting motives ... I never thought I'd ...

	03/18/13 - Do EU Wonks Really Have Endless Time to Get It Right? Analysis: Europe's social shock-absorbers show crisis strain ... With more than 26 million unemployed in the 27-nation European Union, including nearly 6 million young people, ...

	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 ...

	03/01/13 - Drudge Analyzes the Decline and Fall of the West INCOMES DROP MOST IN 20 YEARS ... Consumer spending in the U.S. rose in January even as incomes dropped by the most in 20 years, showing households were weathering the ...

	02/28/13 - Bono Raises Money for Africa's Impoverished, But Does It Do Any Good? U2 rocker Bono gave a TED talk in California this week addressing global poverty. But has the wealthy TED audience found what it's looking for? ... If you want a living ...

	02/26/13 - Suddenly, There Is Energy Everywhere, Even in Africa Energy revolution promises to transform East Africa ... An energy revolution is taking place in East Africa as the price of solar technology tumbles and huge resources of ...

	02/21/13 - Credit Suisse Says Governments Are Discouraging Gold Holdings – And What It Misses India and Vietnam: Taking the Glitter out of Gold ... When uncertainty reigns, investors all over the world turn to gold as a safe haven. But some countries are starting to ...

	02/21/13 - Self-Referential Paternalist Foibles Over the last several years, statists have changed their tune a bit. Instead of advocating Draconian governmental intrusions on people's lives, in the tradition of the Soviets ...

	02/20/13 - The Problem with Press TV An analyst says the international banking cartel headed by private central banks such as the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank are advancing their imperial ...

	02/18/13 - Information in the 1950s Attacking Comic Books Was Falsified Dr Fredric Wertham Lied And Lied And Lied About Comics ... The Illinois News Bureau reports, (with the most condescending and predictable headline you can imagine, even for ...

	02/16/13 - Machu Picchu Is Much Older Than the Incas Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca site located 2,430 metres (7,970 ft) above sea level. Machu Picchu is located in the Cusco Region of Peru, South America. It is situated on ...

	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 ...

	02/11/13 - Bloomberg: Heroically, Putin Buys Gold Putin Turns Black Gold Into Bullion as Russia Out-Buys World ... When Vladimir Putin says the U.S. is endangering the global economy by abusing its dollar monopoly, he's not ...

	02/08/13 - Wind Power – Just Better? Australian Wind Energy Now Cheaper Than Coal, Gas, BNEF Says ... Wind is now cheaper than fossil fuels in producing electricity in Australia, the world's biggest coal exporter, ...

	02/07/13 - CNN: Bad Government is YOUR Fault Not Ours It's your fault: How our 'tribes' help create gridlock in Congress ... If Congress has danced at the most perilous edges of brinkmanship, we the people helped push them there. ...

	02/05/13 - Oxfam Hops Aboard One Percenter Meme Annual income of richest 100 people enough to end global poverty four times over ... Leaders must aim to bring down global inequality at least to 1990 levels ... An explosion ...

	02/04/13 - Real Reason for Fracking Boom Is to Build North American Union? Keystone pipeline decision to languish until mid-June-US source The Obama administration's decision on the Keystone XL oil pipeline will not be made until at least June, a U.S. ...

	01/30/13 - The Polio Eradication Meme and the Nobility of Gates Bill Gates: The world can defeat polio ... Glance at the latest figures for polio incidence and it would appear that the world is within touching distance of eradicating the ...

	01/29/13 - Zero Dark Thirty Is Aimed at YOU Bruce Riedel lays down clear examination of what is happening to John Kiriakou and how the Obama Administration needs to step forward to release Kiriakou from any sentence if ...

	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 - Boycott the UN's World Water Day (Em)Powering a thirsty world – water and energy for a world we want! ... UN launches Water Cooperation 2013 ... In December 2010, the United Nations General Assembly ...

	01/15/13 - Savage Attacks: Flu Debunkery Hits the Conservative Mainstream Michael Savage: Don't trust feds on flu shot ... 'Not everything your government tells you is true' ... Asking listeners to put aside his political orientation for a moment, ...

	01/09/13 - Gold and Silver Registration in Illinois A bill to register gold and silver coins: It had to come. It has been introduced in Illinois, the most anti-gun state in the USA. ... Creates the Precious Metal Purchasing Act. ...

	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 ...

	01/05/13 - Are Multinationals Good Citizens? Business Insider has published an interesting article, "Why The World's Most Sustainable Company Publishes CO2 Emissions Next To Its Earnings." It's part of a sponsored "Future ...

	01/04/13 - Revealed: Military's Top Secret Tsunami Bomb 'Tsunami bomb' tested off New Zealand coast ... The United States and New Zealand conducted secret tests of a "tsunami bomb" designed to destroy coastal cities by using ...

	01/02/13 - Driving Under Attack: The 20mph Revolution Millions more motorists could soon face reduced speed limits as new research by The Independent suggests that more than a third of local authorities have introduced measures to ...

	01/01/13 - What We Can Expect: Ten Top Elite Memes for 2013 What a year it's been, marked mainly by increasing worldwide chaos, senseless wars and economic upheaval, all leading inevitably to increased "chaos" out of which shiny, new ...

	12/28/12 - Tesla Motors ... Another Elite Theme in Collapse? Why you shouldn't invest in Tesla stock ... Financials resemble those of many struggling firms ... In my last column, I wrote that Tesla Motors Inc. would have to go back to ...

	12/27/12 - New Meme? Corporate and Banking Elite Have the Most to Lose from NWO The world is changing dramatically, and the 'world order' is therefore changing too. The western powers of the United States and Europe are in decline, whilst China and Asia in ...

	12/26/12 - Tebow ... Cultural Barometer What have they got against Tim Tebow now? ... Christian quarterback faces sudden firestorm of scathing comments ... He's become an upstanding hero to millions of young football ...

	12/21/12 - UN Takes on Al Qaeda in Mali U.N. authorizes African force to take on al Qaeda in Mali ... The 15-nation U.N. Security Council on Thursday unanimously authorized the deployment of an African-led military ...

	12/17/12 - The Horror of the Connecticut Shooting and the Tragedy of Unresolved Massacres These are the innocents of America's Dunblane — each smiling face a heartbreaking plea for the nation to give up its guns. President Barack Obama has declared he will use ...

	12/15/12 - 'World War Z' Seems to Be a Good Example of Elite Dominant Social Themes Recently, I wrote about elite dominant social themes and economics but for a change of pace we'll take a look at a blockbuster movie set for release next summer ... "World War ...

	12/13/12 - Now UN Wants to Control Tourist Behavior ... For the 'Greater Good,' of Course Record one billion tourists in 2012 can be force for good, UN tourism agency says ... As the estimated number of tourists travelling this year hits a record one billion today, ...

	12/13/12 - A Dishonest Article about US Army Suicides Congress can help prevent military suicides ... As troop commanders coming up through the Army ranks, we learned that taking care of our soldiers was a primary responsibility ...

	12/11/12 - Power Elite Bans Classic Books in US, Seeks Exclusive Narrative Catcher in the Rye dropped from US school curriculum ... Schools in America are to drop classic books such as Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and JD Salinger's Catcher in ...

	12/10/12 - CIA Takes Over Pentagon No longer a turf war, the Pentagon and CIA work closely ... With the increase use of drone strikes as a powerful fighting force, the military is looking to get more involved in ...

	12/10/12 - Is It Peak Water Yet? Another Phony Meme Peak Water Debate Focuses on Asia's Water Shortage ... The concept of peak water as an overarching term for increased shortage of water supply in Asia remains contentious 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 - Electronic Handcuffs: More Warnings From Law Enforcement ... Next-Gen Law Enforcement Handcuff System Revealed ... While researching tech patents from some of the top companies in the industry as we do every week, we happened to stumble ...

	12/05/12 - Rising Taxes Part of Elite Global Strategy? The taxman isn't really after the big beasts ... Small businesses, not the multinationals, will bear the brunt of the Revenue's blitz ... Small businesses will be targeted by ...

	12/04/12 - Yuan Reserve? We're not Betting on It How the Yuan Could Take the Dollar's Crown ... China could eclipse the United States sooner than many think as the yuan (renminbi) becomes a major player on the word stage that ...

	12/03/12 - Forbidden to Mention Foreign Currency in Ukraine Now Use of foreign currency in the advertising is forbidden in Ukraine ... Verkhovna Rada adopted amendments to Article 8 of the Law "On Advertising". According to new Law it is ...

	12/01/12 - What's the REAL Story About the Flu Vaccine? We analyze memes here at The Daily Bell, the dominant social themes an evident and obvious power elite purvey to ensure that society keeps progressing toward what seems to be a ...

	11/30/12 - Free-Market Thinking Advances in Britain UKIP is now the 'second party of the North' Farage declares as panicked Tories hire new guru who warns northern voters feel 'ignored' ... The UK Independence Party is now the ...

	11/28/12 - Big Oil, a Tale of Two Paradigms US-Created "Syrian Opposition" Led by Big Oil As in Libya, Syrian "opposition" is led by long-time servants of Western corporate-financiers. A year ago, it was reported that ...

	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 ...

	11/19/12 - Supersize the Committee to Prevent Fiscal Cliff Suicide Senate economist calls for 'Super Duper Committee' ... After the supercommittee's failure in 2011, the Senate Finance Committee's chief economist suggested this week Congress ...

	11/16/12 - Central Banking and 'The Edgy Optimist' The Edgy Optimist – When did America get so pessimistic? ... Barely had the counting ceased in last week's presidential election when the news took a somber ...

	11/16/12 - Real Reason for Classified Documents Petraeus mistress had substantial classified data on computer: sources ... What was found on Paula Broadwell's home computer Classified material kept by the woman who conducted ...

	11/14/12 - Union Strikes Are Likely More EU False Flags ... Europe Faces a Multi-National General Strike Against Austerity .... Workers from Telefonica phone company take part in a demonstration blocking the traffic and protesting ...

	11/13/12 - Lurching Horror of Climate Change Swedish boffins: An ICE AGE is coming, only CO2 can save us ... A group of Swedish scientists at the University of Gothenburg have published a paper in which they argue that ...

	11/12/12 - The GOP Crisis as Directed History Party Next Time ... As immigration turns red states blue, how can Republicans transform their platform? ... When historians look back on Mitt Romney's bid for the Presidency, ...

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