January 2012
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Power Elite Doings →
Podcast: Lew Rockwell talks to Bob Wenzel about Ron Paul, the establishment, government insider-trading, and the scary economic future.
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Belgium Strikes On Day Of EU Summit →
by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRUSSELS January 30, 2012
BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian trade unions organizing a nationwide strike Monday called on leaders attending the European Union summit in Brussels to move away from austerity measures and start boosting growth and employment.
The 27 EU leaders converging on Brussels for their informal summit were largely unaffected by a train and public transport...
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Newspapers, Paywalls, and Core Users →
by Clay Shirky
posted on Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
This may be the year where newspapers finally drop the idea of treating all news as a product, and all readers as customers.
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There has never been a mass market for good journalism in this country. What there used to be was a mass market for print ads, coupled with a mass market for a physical bundle of entertainment, opinion,...
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Watchoccupyonline:
Bernard Lietaer has been studying the implementation of monetary systems for over thirty years. Trained as a civil engineer and economist, he has worked as a central banker, fund manager, university professor and consultant to governments, corporations and communities. He travels the globe researching and speaking about currency systems and is the author of numerous books and...
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“There is no crisis of rampant unemployment caused by people who have come to...”
– Rocky Anderson, Immigration Rally and March
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Google’s New Privacy Policy Lets You Opt Out Of... →
Drew Bowling | January 27, 2012
We asked, now we answer: Google’s new Privacy Policy will not force you into accepting any vampiric habits of Google to vulture information from you for the purpose of advertisements. If you don’t want them to.
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Only Two Types of People Will Survive Economic Collapse
Activist Post
Friday, January 27, 2012
Living in a world engulfed by economic crisis teetering on collapse requires preparation for worst-case scenarios. Whether it is losing a job to downsizing, a currency crisis, or full-blown economic system failure, being prepared is just plain smart.
Already, nearly 30% of Americans are...
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Bernanke and His Toolbox
vulgartrader:
Art by Jeff Olsen
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Use an OTA Tuner to Turn Your PC into a TV and DVR →
This may come as a surprise, but Windows [7] packs a very powerful TiVo-like DVR system called Windows Media Center. When paired with an inexpensive TV tuner and a decent antenna, it lets you watch and record broadcast television—in high-def!
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Web Tracking Becomes Privacy Time Bomb →
By BYRON ACOHIDO, USA TODAY
The coolest free stuff on the Internet actually comes at a notable price: your privacy.
For more than a decade, tracking systems have been taking note of where you go and what you search for on the Web — without your permission. And today many of the personal details you voluntarily divulge on popular websites and social networks are being similarly tracked and...
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Google's New Privacy Policy Will Allow Tracking... →
by EYDER PERALTA January 25, 2012 for npr
Yesterday afternoon Google announced it was making sweeping changes to its privacy policy beginning March 1. Users can’t opt out, so Google is beginning to send notice to its users via email and even on its homepage.
The big change is that Google will now track you across its services. In other words, Google will now, for example, be able to...
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New Rules Mean Full Disclosure For Airfares →
By Wendy Kaufman for npr
New rules will soon compel airlines and travel sites to disclose the total price of an airline ticket upfront. But some airlines say the rules aren’t fair, and they’re going to court to try to stop them.
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A Free Falling Economy Makes Bartering Go Boom →
by Tess Pennington
One thing is for sure, bartering for goods and services boom during tough times. Many situations can cause a person to barter for goods. It could be as simple as neighbors exchanging skills and services to help each other out, or it could be due to economic turmoil, currency inflation, a bug out situation or natural disaster.
It is safe to say that America is in a full...
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FED TO KEEP A LID ON RATES THROUGH 2014 →
Posted on Jan 25, 2012
rosebennet (CC-BY)
The Federal Reserve lent weight to economists’ warnings of a long and slow recovery on Wednesday when it announced plans to keep short-term interest rates near zero for at least the next three years. The idea is that low rates will encourage borrowing and investment in American businesses, helping resurrect the economy. —ARK
The New York Times:
The...
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vulgartrader:
More of these? Yes. Click image to enlarge.
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The Ultimate Chris Hedges Interview
polyslime:
If you are an American you owe it to yourself to watch and listen to this interview. It will be painful but will awaken you to the desperate state of the American Empire. Keep in mind too that a desperate government is capable of anything, not the least of which is the sacrifice and enslavement of the people. Listen with an open mind and I guarantee you will be demanding the red pill...
Obama To Use Pension Funds Of Ordinary Americans... →
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thenakedparty:
“The story did not outline terms, but previous leaks have indicated that the bulk of the supposed settlement would come not in actual monies paid by the banks (the cash portion has been rumored at under $5 billion) but in credits given for mortgage modifications for principal modifications. There are numerous reasons why that stinks. The biggest is that servicers...
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Liberty: The Gold Standard. →
libertarians:
People tend to believe that the gold standard is “taking a step back in time.” But it’s not. It’s taking a large step forward after the previous generation’s many (yet subtle) steps backward. Trade within the human species first evolved into a bartering mechanism, and then—after centuries of…
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FDA Reverses its 30-Year-Old Promise to Get Antibiotics Out of Animal Feed
On December 22, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly posted a notice in theFederal Register that it was effectively reneging on its plan to reduce the use of antibiotics in agricultural animal feed – a plan it has been touting since 1977.
Now, with virtually no public announcement, the FDA has decided it...
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Auditing the Fed's gold →
baseballlibertarian:
by Gary North
I have posted a video of something I thought I would never see: all five of the Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate verbally demanding an audit of the Federal Reserve System. You can see it here.
Bernanke is facing what no Federal Reserve chairman has ever faced: public...
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Family Farmers vs. Monsanto →
polyslime:
On January 31, family farmers will take part in the first phase of a court case filed to protect farmers from genetic trespass by Monsanto’s GMO seed, which contaminates organic and non-GMO farmer’s crops and opens them up to abusive lawsuits. In the past two decades, Monsanto’s seed monopoly has grown so powerful that they control the genetics of nearly 90% of five major commodity...
