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Socialism scare more accurately aimed at capitalism

It’s hilarious when the capitalists try to fearmonger over trying something that might actually help people. Socialism leads to “complete economic calamity?” Isn’t that what capitalism did in 2008? And 1987? And 1971? And 1929? And is about to do … Continue reading

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How the rich got richer and continue to do so: evading risk.

On the most recent episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy open the show with a discussion of the chart below, which shows that the top 1 percent of the world’s population owns half of the world’s wealth, and … Continue reading

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GOLD, SUPERPOWERS, AND…RAVEN-SYMONE?

There’s something wrong with the money system.  It’s fraudulent on its face—“money” is “loaned” into existence, which is a concept so fantastical and illusory that they have to brainwash us our entire lives to get us to accept it.  They … Continue reading

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WHY DOES EVERYTHING COST SO MUCH? SCHIFF EXPLAINS

The simple answer is, of course, inflation. The powers that be are trying to convince us that inflation is a good thing, a healthy thing, as Peter Schiff notes here: “It is no accident that the concept of ‘inflation’ has … Continue reading

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$200 TO SETTLE $10K? OPEN THE “SECONDARY DEBT MARKET” TO THE PUBLIC AND FIX THE ECONOMY!

So the Rolling Jubilee continues!  Right on!  It’s a great idea, but one wonders, why can’t we all be given the option to do this ourselves?  That is, why can’t we buy our own bad debts and thereby extinguish them?  … Continue reading

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THE BANK VS. YOU: ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE

Rarely does one hear the financial terrorism of the banks distilled with such clarity into a single paragraph… Max Keiser (begins at 17:42):  If we look at the recent history of these financial predators going back 5 or 6 years, … Continue reading

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Metallica on the bankster economy?

On their killer new tune “Hardwired,” Metallica probably didn’t intend to comment on the rigged, doomed-to-crash bankster economy, but that’s how I hear these lyrics in the song’s chorus: “We’re so fucked/shit outta luck/hardwired to self-destruct…” It’s the end of … Continue reading

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