Life – Week of 12.15.13
Book ‘Em: In Bozeman, Foibles Yield Sentences of Note
The Wall Street Journal | 19 December 2013
A Montana Newspaper Turns Its Police Blotter Into a Local Best Seller…
Uniquely Detroit: Night Light…
Book ‘Em: In Bozeman, Foibles Yield Sentences of Note
The Wall Street Journal | 19 December 2013
A Montana Newspaper Turns Its Police Blotter Into a Local Best Seller…
Uniquely Detroit: Night Light…
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China’s lunar probe Chang’e-3, with the country’s first moon rover onboard, successfully landed on the moon on Saturday night, marking the first time that China has sent a spacec…
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By Catherine Austin Fitts
One of our annual Christmas donations goes to a wonderful pre-school educational institution in East Palo Alto, California – the Creative Montessori Learning Center (You c…
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By Paul Mylchreest, Monument Securities
Sir Halford Mackinder’s 1904 speach in which he outlined his “Heartland Theory” was a founding moment for geo-politics. He argued that control of the Eur…
By Charles Kennedy
At a recent petrochemical conference in Pasadena, Exxon Mobil Corp predicted that by 2040 natural gas will be used to generate 25% of the world’s electricity, and overtake coal…
By Michael del Castillo
The United States is no longer tops in global app revenue, ceding the position to Japan thanks to five major companies, according to an App Annie report published today. In …
By Jon Rappoport
Remember something called the War on Poverty? The Great Society?
President Lyndon Johnson declared it and announced it in 1965. Since then, the federal government and state governme…
By BBC News
Robert McDowall, Alderney’s Finance Committee chairman, has been in talks with the Royal Mint about producing coins based on the online money.
He said commemorative coins brought “a go…
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By Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Five federal agencies on Tuesday iss…
“Never invest in any idea you can’t illustrate with a crayon.”
~ Peter Lynch
“Never invest in any idea you can’t illustrate with a crayon.”
~ Peter Lynch
By Tyler Durden
The number of employees across the firms of the broad-based Russell 2000 equity index has collapsed by more than half from its peak. The price of that index, in the same period, has…
By Wikileaks
On 13 November 2013 WikiLeaks released the draft text of the crucial Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) Intellectual Property chapter during the lead-up to a TPP chief negotiato…
By Chuck Gibson
Most human activities have seasonal cycles. The stock market too, has seasonal cycles that have been powerful trends to follow over the long term. You have heard me mention the fact I…
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot. …
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By Catherine Austin Fitts
Significant funds have been div…
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Churchill immediatel…
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Vatican Clean-Up ‘Has Not Sorted Out Scandal-Hit Bank and Asset Managers’
The Guardian| 12 December 2013
The Holy See’s regulators had not done full inspections of the Vatican bank or of the Administr…
Swiss Gold Sector Embraces Transparency, Up to a Point
Moneybeat | 13 December 2013
The window into the Swiss gold sector is about to become a little less fogged up…
Iamgold Shares Plunge After Di…
By Gonzalo Lira
However, thinking about cryptocurrencies from the point of view of the Federal Reserve, or a senator on the Banking Committee, or a trader at a bank’s prop desk, cryptocurrencies…
By J. D. Heyes
There are parts of the earth where plant life simply doesn’t grow well, if at all. But that isn’t deterring NASA from attempting to grow veggies on the moon.
According to Britain’s Da…
Iran Quits Nuclear Talks After US Expands Blacklist Sanctions
Zero Hedge | 13 December 2013
“We are evaluating the situation and will make the appropriate response,”…
Government Spies Are Forcing P…
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By Kim Zetter
In 2008, two security researchers at the DefCon hacker conference demonstrated a massive security vulnerability in the worldwide internet traffic-routing system …
Human DNA Is Not A Document, It’s An App
Forbes | 13 December 2013
Yesterday, scientists at the University of Washington announced…
Second Annual Global Breakthrough Energy Movement Conference
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America’s Descent into Third World Status: Tropical Diseases Rise Among Poor (Update)
Naked Capitalism | 12 December 2013
To the extent that middle class and more affluent people think about poverty…
Singularity Or Bust
Forbidden Knowledge | 09 December 2013
In 2009, film-maker and former Artificial Intelligence programmer Raj Dye spent his summer following futurist Artificial Intelligence…
St…
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“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” ~ Nelson Mandela
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A judge urged Detroit and its creditors to keep negotiating Thursday in a 150-page opinion that mimics his decision earlier this week that the city is…
By Ruth Simon and Angus Loten
Entrepreneur Adam Lee and his brother couldn’t get a bank loan. Then they learned that Georgia state officials had taken steps that might make it easier for their star…
By Marianne Garvey, Brian Niemietz and Lachlan Cartwright
It’s a leak Barbara Walters doesn’t want you to know about.
The ABC News doyenne pushed hard to have NSA leaker Edward Snowden at the …
“One’s own employees ought to be one’s own best customers. Paying high wages is behind the prosperity of this country.”
~ Henry Ford
By Catherine Austin Fitts
The debate continues regardin…
By Peter Coy and Susan Berfield
The public images of low-paying employers such as Wal-Mart and McDonald’s take a hit during the holidays, when Americans are seized by a spirit of charity. Stephen…
By Catherine Austin Fitts
November was not a strong month for precious metals. The current trends in the market have me concerned.
In last month’s Precious Metals Market Report, Franklin and I dis…
By Catherine Austin Fitts
There is no doubt about it. The stocks of pro-centralization team leaders were high flyers this year. Here is a chart of Lockheed Martin, Google and Facebook compared to th…
By Alex Fitzpatrick and Courtney Subramanian
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed an experimental drone-based delivery service on Sunday, in an ambitious move by the online retailer to capitalize on a te…
By Simon Kennedy
Not long ago, before the financial crisis and the global recession it triggered, economists referred to Americans as the consumers of last resort. When the U.S. grew at a healthy pac…
By Bloomberg News
China’s move to end a 14-month ban on initial public offerings and allow the sale of preferred shares led to a rally in financial stocks as investors bet the measures will boost f…
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Chris Reinhart is now leading the MicroHouse program for Open Source Ecology (OSE) full time. OSE has exciting plans for workshops in 2014. If you and yours would like to …
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“Most overnight successes come after repeated attempts and failures. You’ve got to keep at it.”
~ Nathan Myhrvold
“Most overnight successes come after repeated attempts and failures. You’ve got to keep at it.”
~ Nathan Myhrvold
By The Economist
A simple idea underpins science: “trust, but verify”. Results should always be subject to challenge from experiment. That simple but powerful idea has generated a vast body of …
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Apple Completes Key China Mobile Deal – Report
CNN | 05 December 2013
Apple and China Mobile have reportedly inked a long-anticipated deal that …
Turkey’s Gold Imports, Investment Demand Hit Record High So Far This Year
Scrap Register | 06 December 2013
Turkey’s gold imports and gold investment demand hit a new record high level so far this yea…
Iceland Sticks It to International Bankers and Writes Off Massive Mortgage
Hang the Bankers | 01 December 2013
Iceland’s government has announced that it will be writing off up to 24,000 euros ($32,…
India’s Stand Prevails in Bali
The Hindu | 07 December 2013
India has had its way on the Bali Package at the Ninth Ministerial of the World Trade Organisation here…
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Scientists Build a Low-Cost, Open-Source 3D Metal Printer
Michigan Tech | 26 November 2013
OK, so maybe you aren’t interested in making your own toys, cellphone cases, or glow-in-the-dark Christmas …
Barton: OCare Website Hidden Source Code Says Users “Have No Reasonable Expectation of Privacy”
YouTube | 24 October 2013
Farmers Describe ‘Worst Storm in 150 Years’
BBC News | 30 November 2013
Nearly two months after devastating blizzards hit parts of South Dakota and Wyoming…
In God We Trust, Maybe, but Not Each Oth…
2013 GlobalBEM Day 2 Tent 2 Livestream – Richard Dolan
YouTube | 19 October 2013
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If there’s a gene for hubris, the 23andMe crew has certainly got it. Last Friday the U.S. …
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The announcement by a Chinese military spokesman on November 23rd sounded bureaucratic: any aircraft flying through the newly designated Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ) in t…
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“I have three treasures which I hold and keep. The first is mercy, for from mercy comes courage. The second is frugality, from which comes generosity …
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“One s****y deal.” “S****y deal.” “S****y.” The date was April 27, 2010, and Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.) was pissed as h…
By Catherine Austin Fitts
With the North American markets moving even higher, I was reminded by a colleague of the expression TINA, as in “There Are No Alternatives” to equity.
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The Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT) released a report today proposing a link between genetically modified (GM) foods and gluten-related disorders. In today’s report, a team o…
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The budget and the federal regu…
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By Dan Vergano
Time to push back Buddha’s birth date a century or so? Archaeologists may have uncovered evidence of the oldest Buddhist shrine yet disco…
By Russell Westerholm
China is all but ready to launch its own moon mission, but will not do so without hearing from the agency that is currently conducting its own lunar labor.
According to Space…
By Matt Levine
A while back Greece had a problem. The problem was that it wanted to borrow more money, but didn’t want to increase its debt. (Because the European Union would frown on it having more …
An Update on Two Endangered Tax Breaks
Governing | 27 November 2013
With just over a month left in 2013 and Congress’ already abysmal track record, it’s a good bet that nothing will happen with tax re…
Insight: A New Wave of U.S. Mortgage Trouble Threatens
The Chicago Tribune | 26 November 2013
U.S. borrowers are increasingly missing payments on home equity lines of credit they took out during the h…
France Sends in Troops to Central African Republic to Stop ‘Another Rwanda’ as Conflict Threatens to Explode Into Muslim-Christan War
The Independent | 27 November 2013
France is to send 1,000 soldie…
Japan Wants To Turn The Moon Into A Giant Power Plant
Business Insider | 27 November 2012
Shimizu Corporation, a Japanese architecture and engineering firm, has a plan to effectively turn the moon int…
Infographic: The 20 Most Charitable Countries in the World
Good | 19 November 2013
Do you know which country is considered the most generous nation in the world?
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You will be riveted by this video, not even three minutes long, showing JFK’s Secret Service protection being waved away from his car, and the perplexed reaction of at least one Sp…
By Art Swift
As the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination approaches, a clear majority of Americans (61%) still believe others besides Lee Harvey Oswald were involved. But t…
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“This country was built by giants. They died, and midgets moved in. Tiny people were walking around inside this republic like a nine-year-old boy wearing his father’s suit. When the tiny people got …
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The complete failure of the military-…
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The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has just released their study on options to reduce the federal budget deficit. They have presented 103 options that would increase re…
By Scott Moritz & Freeman Klopott
New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and Trillium Asset Management LLC filed shareholder proposals asking AT&T Inc. (T) to report government requests for custo…
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Security guards (at least the good ones) are paid to be paranoid. Computer-security researchers are the same. Many had long suspected that governments us…
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What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)?
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secretive, multi-national trade agreement that threatens to extend restrictive intellectual p…
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Hugh Hendry Capitulates: “Can’t Look At Himself In The Mirror” As He Throws In The Towel, Turns Bullish
Zero Hedge | 22 November 2013
First David Rosenberg, then Jeremy Grantham, and now Hugh Hendry…..
Gold Pours Into China to Meet Record Demand, Bypasses Hong Kong
Reuters | 20 November 2013
China, set to pass India this year as the world’s top gold consumer…