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September 28, 2011
This is a big dominant social theme for the masses of confused people who have heeded the prescription to put their hard-earned dollars into stock and bond markets. (See article excerpt above.) Just wait. The sun will come out tomorrow. Of course, many people m ...
September 28, 2011
The US government is at it again. While the entire world is aware now that Bin Laden was killed by Navy SEALS on May 1, 2011, evidence corroborating the killing has never been released. Everyone should take it on faith, but unfortunately, the US government does ...
September 28, 2011
Staff Reports: Enabling Euro-Elite Fears Downturn. Republicans Desperate to Beat Ron Paul. Beware the Cantaloupe That Kills ...
September 27, 2011
This article by the BBC's Richard Anderson ticks all the boxes of a certain kind of dominant social theme. One is supposed to be slightly melancholy at the pace of progress in the global stock market and the application of trading technology to what used to be ...
September 27, 2011
Part of Western mainstream media propaganda is the "limited hangout." And the Internet era – the Internet Reformation in fact – is forcing such limited hangouts on a variety of fronts. Whether it is global warming, central banking or criminal justice itself ...
September 27, 2011
Staff Reports: Economist Mag Makes Up New China Term. Avoiding Ron Paul, Desperate Republicans Turn to Chris Christie. Indian Gov Says Poor Can Live on Half Dollar a Day. ...
September 26, 2011
This story is interesting because it is written by a mainstream journalist and actually tells the truth about Greece – that Greece, or its citizens, are ready to explode. One can extrapolate from Greece to the rest of the EU, or at least its Southern half. Pu ...
September 26, 2011
The implication of this article seems to be that the attack that was launched against Libya had to do with the failure of an aluminum loan. It is part of a larger dominant social theme, in our view, that the West's wars are fought over resources and exploitativ ...
September 26, 2011
Staff Reports: EU – Is it a Disaster Yet? EU Leaders Need to Step Up. Al Jazeera's Phony Four-Part Series? ...
September 23, 2011
David Cameron joined a number of other prominent leaders in warning about the perilous state of the West's and the world's economy. At the same time, we learn, French President Nicolas Sarkozy is pushing US President Barack Obama to support adding the Chinese y ...
September 23, 2011
The death of a young person is always very sad and no doubt Lady Gaga's emotions following Jamey Rodemeyer's suicide are genuine. But the entire Lady Gaga saga is a manipulated one in our view. Her intention of getting the US federal government involved in the ...
September 23, 2011
Staff Reports: The EU's Implacable Rigor. Brazil Towns Issue Own Money. Facebook Wants to Capture Yet More Data. ...
September 22, 2011
Michael Tomasky, a fairly partisan columnist for the Daily Beast, has written a column called "The Party of Predators" (see excerpt above) that supports the idea that America's economic difficulties are aggravated by a lack of cooperation between the Republican ...
September 22, 2011
In numerous articles over the past year-and-a-half, we've written that the end-game for the Afghanistan war – as cynical as it may be – is civil war. Western leaders will deny this, but what is obviously being planned is a de facto portioning of Afghanistan ...
September 22, 2011
Staff Reports: Americans Like Gold – A Lot. Big Prison for Afghanistan. Disturbing Reports From Libya. ...
September 21, 2011
Nouriel Roubini – Dr. Doom – has posted an article (see above) at Reuters on how the world can avoid a "fiscal train wreck" and "deeper depression." In this article, we'll review his prescriptions and assumptions. Roubini is often portrayed as a prescient m ...
September 21, 2011
It wasn't supposed to be this way. By now, Peak Oil was supposed to be a fact of daily life. People were supposed to be lined up at gas stations, struggling to buy US$10-a-gallon gas. Solar and wind companies were supposed to occupy prominent places on the Big ...
September 21, 2011
Staff Reports: Solyndra Hits Obama Hard. Germany's Pirates Storm Berlin. Mainstream Economists Favor Carbon Tax? ...
September 20, 2011
It used to be that stock drummers were more than happy to share a hot tip with their clients. Today, more than half (55%) of advisors say the most valuable service they provide to clients in or near retirement "is helping the client maintain perspective and thi ...
September 20, 2011
In this article excerpt above, we find yet more evidence that NATO and the West – especially the Anglosphere – has been hiding behind local fighters while organizing the campaign against Gaddafi. This might explain the taking of Tripoli and the general diff ...
September 20, 2011
DB Staff Reports: Progress: Central Banks Under Attack. Yemen Looks to Shed Saleh. Obama Lawlessness Continues? ...
September 19, 2011
The Telegraph, perhaps Britain's leading Euro-skeptic mainstream publication was brimming with reports critical of the staggering EU this weekend. Article after article slammed the EU or, even worse, brought warnings of political developments that might force P ...
September 19, 2011
Saman Mohammadi, the "truth excavator" has recently written an intriguing article, "The Rise of 9/11 Truth And The Second Western Enlightenment." We have commented on Mohammadi's courageous insights before and this is article is especially interesting to us bec ...
September 19, 2011
Staff Reports: China's Subprime Credit Crisis. Greeks Evade Taxes for a Reason. Obama Wants to Raise Taxes – Again ...
September 16, 2011
Good on you, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard. There is really no other story that matters, is there? If China goes down, the economic system of the past 60 years may be finished. Collapsed. Kaput. That's because every other major economy in the world is troubled to a d ...
September 16, 2011
The FDA has been much in the news recently for helping to prosecute Amish farmers who produce raw, unradiated milk. (Some have even gone to jail.) Dr. Mercola and others have made the point that while people die of cancer from smoking and liver disease from dri ...
September 16, 2011
DB Briefs: Central Banks Rescue the World. Green Jobs Are the Hope of the Future? US Seeks Worldwide Justice. Libya Turns Islamic? ...
September 15, 2011
While we cannot vouch for this article by Mac Slavo at SHTFplan.com, if true, it certainly represents a ratcheting up of government resistance to the rising valuation of gold versus paper money. The fears of the free-market community, worldwide, that gold and s ...
September 15, 2011
This is one of the most astonishing and blatant hit pieces we've ever read in a major US publication. Written apparently by a columnist for the Daily News, it informs us quite bluntly that if the US abandons roughly 1,000 military and CIA/FBI spying bases aroun ...
September 15, 2011
DB Briefs: Only Eurocrats Can Save Us Now. Cut Government Except for Wars. Al-Qaeda Grows Like a Blob. ...
September 14, 2011
We've spent considerable time in the past three years (the past decade, actually), analyzing how the powers-that-be have reorganized society, especially American society, in a way that relentlessly reduces prosperity. Figures released yesterday from the US Cens ...
September 14, 2011
It was not a suggestion from what we can tell that received wide traction (even on the Internet) but we want to note that what has occurred in Libya seems to be right in line with our larger observation. Of course, more radical forms of Islam are now resurgent ...
September 14, 2011
DB Briefs: Porter Stansberry Wants a Gold Standard. Co-Chair Calls for a 9/11 Do-Over. Change Ourselves to Change Gov? ...
September 13, 2011
The newspaper, which is likely an ornament of the Rothschild cabal, has defended free markets when it ... well, then there's ... and, of course ... OK, actually we can't think of anything much the Economist has gotten right (not for the past decade anyway). But ...
September 13, 2011
The US military-industrial complex is supposedly due for major cutbacks, but the dominant social theme of mainstream media is that "care must be taken" to ensure America does not lose its military superiority. In this article, we'll examine Fortune magazine's a ...
September 13, 2011
DB Briefs: Once More, to China. The Lure of a Wealth Tax. Libyan Rebels in the Crosshairs. ...
September 12, 2011
We wait nervously for the fate of Greece to be decided. The power elite that seeks to run the world has taken many setbacks in the past few years and the severance of Greece from the European Union would be the most devastating yet. We often make the argument t ...
September 12, 2011
This blog-article by Christopher Booker brings up fundamental points about the dysfunction of wind power in Britain. But one could make the case that the same problems affect mainland Europe and the US as well. We try to track elite memes, and it seems to us th ...
September 12, 2011
Staff Briefs: Don't Blame Bernanke. China Will Be OK and Prosperity Will Continue. Michael Vick Is Repentant But Not Forgiven. ...
September 09, 2011
It used to be easier to believe in ratings agencies but since the world's greatest companies almost went out of business in 2008 it is more difficult. Now Fitch is once again sounding the alarm on China and Japan but cynics might suggest it is too little too la ...
September 09, 2011
What do modern economists suggest when the going gets tough? OECD chief economist Pier Carlo Padoan told the Associated Press that with the world facing another "recession," it was time loosen the central bank purse-strings. According to the article, he said th ...
September 09, 2011
For perhaps a decade, we've been pointing out that the Internet has disrupted the business-as-usual of the Anglosphere elites and considerably reduced the effect and efficacy of Money Power. We also predicted that the Internet would reduce the value of some 20t ...
September 09, 2011
Staff Reports: Is Solyndra the End of Obama? The Sky Is Falling. Women Are Better. ...
September 08, 2011
As expected, the German constitutional court ruled yesterday that Chancellor Angela Merkel's bailouts of Europe were constitutional but that a Parliamentary subcommittee needs to approve Merkel's moves in the future. The Treaty clearly states such bailouts are ...
September 08, 2011
It is fashionable in certain places to blame what has happened to America and Europe on Germany and the Nazis, but we didn't expect to see this meme presented at the Alex Jones sites, Infowars, et al. Paul Joseph Watson, who has written many good and brave arti ...
September 08, 2011
Staff Reports: Phony Depression Brought by Elites. End of Free Speech as the West Knows It. FBI Anthrax Cover UP? Mark Steyn Josef Ackermann Daniel Hannan Robert Mueller Amerithrax Task Force Timothy McVeigh Liberty Dollars Central Banks National Review ...
September 07, 2011
Switzerland is one of those rare European countries that are doing relatively well in a time of international economic crisis. But doing well is not something that can be tolerated in the "new" Europe. The Swiss have come under enormous pressure on a variety of ...
September 07, 2011
It is interesting that Europeans and US media as well are suddenly demanding a narrative of CIA renditions. At the very least, it gives the idea that these programs are finished, when in fact, they have expanded in scope until they take in much of the so-called ...
September 07, 2011
Staff Reports: Kotlikoff on NPR Hits US US$211 TRILLION Debt. US Government Incensed by Wall Street Corruption, Attacks Wall Street. Iraq War – Declare Victory and Leave? ...
September 06, 2011
Presumably Gerhard Schroeder couldn't stand it anymore. The corrupt and failing European Union, which has not delivered on a single promise made by its founders and enablers, is in serious trouble and Schroeder was ready to move ahead with a long-planned script ...