Financing a country by running the printing presses ruins the middle classes, wipes out all those who live on pensions and fixed incomes, wipes out savings accounts, and brings about desperate conditions among the very people we usually rely on to preserve law and order.
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December 28, 2010 Cusco, Peruâ€â€High in the Andes, spreading from the central plaza seen everywhere in Spanish lands, run narrow streets intended for earlier times and now choked with traffic, chilly but not cold, always threatening rain that doesn’t come. Not Kansas, Dorothy. As almost everywhere south of the Rio Bravo, the church dominates...
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In the long battle to subvert the liberties of man a key to victory over the forces of liberty has always included center stage: 1. an all out effort to subvert the Judeo-Christian belief that man is a child of God, made in His image and likeness, possessed of a duel nature of spirit...
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Polyphenols are chemical compounds that are found in most of the plant-based foods that we commonly eat. As I discuss in detail in my new book, A Cancer Prevention Guide for the Human Race, some polyphenolic compounds, such as green tea flavonoids, soy-based isoflavones, quercetin, curcumin, and resveratrol, among other polyphenols, may possess important...
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Perhaps the biggest media story of 2010 was the influence of Tea Party voters on the congressional landscape. The new congress comes to Capitol Hill with a mandate to end profligate spending and restore fiscal sanity, we are told. But when the House and Senate convene in January, the newly elected members will face...
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Two earth-shattering catastrophes shaped the last ten years. The first 911, the staged terror event that provided the self-justification to wage an endless war against phantom enemies and the second a financial meltdown of the debt ridden international banking system. This has been a frightful decade for America. Instead of looking at a straight...
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Most investors are not aware of a critical division of professionals in the world of financial services. This distinction lies between fee-only fiduciaries who are free to act in your best interests and commission-based agents and brokers who are required to act in the best interest of the companies that employ them. Even when...
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The people of Poland got an early Christmas present this year. It’s bittersweet but long awaited, and indeed a gift of sortsâ€â€and from an unlikely source: Russia. In Moscow, the State Duma, Russia’s legislature, passed a statement conceding Soviet responsibility for the Katyn Woods massacre, one of the 20th century’s worst war crimes. The...
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The American electorate seldom demonstrates an ability to resist the appeals of slick marketing and charlatan candidates. The “so called” swing vote is the battleground where every election is fought. View the vast middle as the ill-equipped idiots that continually waste their vote on establishment surrogates who always protest the corporate/state as their primary...
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In the Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, Mr. Mason of Virginia, suggested: the necessity of preventing the danger of perpetual revenue which must of necessity subvert the liberty of any Country. If it be objected to on the principle of Mr. Rutledge’s motion that public credit may require perpetual provisions, that case...
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George Orwell warned us about the use of “meaningless words†in politics, words that are endlessly repeated by sloganeering politicians until they have no meaning at all. Meaningless words certainly were on display during last week’s congressional debate over the latest tax bill. Over and over again we heard trite, empty phrases like “tax...
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The issue of reproductive rights is, no doubt, one of the most important issues that any society deliberates. The decision to reproduce, with whom, when, and under what circumstances is, by far, the most important decision that any individual will make in their lifetime. Because of this human beings have, in every society, developed...
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As the latest Wikileaks saga unfolded I couldn’t help but recall the scene in the film Sneakers where Martin “Marty” Bishop (Robert Redford) and Cosmo (Ben Kingsley) discuss the “code breaker.†Cosmo: There’s a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it’s not about who’s got the most bullets. It’s about who...
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JOB AND WORKPLACE STRESS The global economy remains in the doldrums, unemployment remains at historically high levels around much of the world, and many people are feeling stressed in both their professional and personal lives. In today’s highly competitive job market, many employees are feeling increasingly vulnerable. There is also the perception among many...
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Lest we forget, the modern world was created and is maintained by science and technology; so much so and so successfully that many people have often been able to take it for granted. A few hundred years ago, you would have been thinking about what it takes to keep your wagon rolling, if you...
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The country is now the Homeland, reminiscent of the Nazi Fatherland and the Soviet Motherland. We hear of American Exceptionalism, the ritual self-idolizaton beloved of pathological nationalism. Blood and Soil. The American Dream. Ubermenschen. All we need is a short Austrian.
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One of the difficulties in creating a good description of HLL is that most of the good words have already been used. Consider the following. What is High Level Logic (HLL)? “High Level Logic†(HLL) occupies a new position in relation to other software development tools and components. What is the highest level of...
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When I was young, before everything was made from synthetics, we heard stories; stories about undomesticated tires living in the woods near the highway. We had seen them ourselves resting in muddy sties and dangling like monkeys in trees. According to legend, rubber is alive. As old cars roll down the road they deposit...
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Of the $1.25 trillion purchased under the Fed’s “Mortgage-Backed Securities Purchase Program,†only $877 billion in purchases have been publicized. What happened to the remaining $400 billion?
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If the goal is to stimulate the economy, the means are already known: Freedom and cheap energy.
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Wikileaks War: No More Secrets
As the latest Wikileaks saga unfolded I couldn’t help but recall the scene in the film Sneakers where Martin “Marty” Bishop (Robert Redford) and Cosmo (Ben Kingsley) discuss the “code breaker.†Cosmo: There’s a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it’s not about who’s got the most bullets. It’s about who...
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