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INTERVIEWING THE MOST WANTED MAN in the hemisphere is not something any sane person undertakes lightly. Aside from weighing the risk to one’s personal safety, a journalist must also protect his or her source by taking careful precautions — some reporters have gone so far as to risk or actually receive jail time rather than break the confidence of their sources. As the Snowden revelations have brought ubiquitous mass surveillance into sharp relief, these considerations have become far more complex and personal fortitude isn’t always enough. On Saturday, Rolling Stone published a major scoop: Actor Sean Penn traveled to northwestern Mexico to … Continue reading →

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Since Keynesian economics has reined supreme among mainstream economists for decades, you might want to know some of the basics. If this is confusing to you though, don’t worry about it! There are people in charge who have it all under control. Source: The Austrian Insider Reprinted from Zero Hedge.

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By Dr. Mercola The connection between your food and your mood has been the focus of occasional scientific inquiry over the past couple of decades. Your diet can have a pronounced biochemical effect on your mental health, but the reverse is also true—your emotional state can influence the foods you choose, as well as being a major force behind food cravings. Dr. Brian Wansink1 of Cornell University, author of more than 200 articles and books about the psychology of eating, is featured in the PBS documentary “Food on the Brain.” This program explores the psychology of eating and provides tips … Continue reading →

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A Town Hall meeting at George Mason University over executive action on gun control included this yelp from the chief executive himself. “Our position is consistently mischaracterized … If you listen to the rhetoric, it is so over-the-top, it is so overheated.” But on this or any other subject in 21st century America whose position hasn’t been? Media, government, think tanks and academia devote enormous resources toward hyping the opinions of their ideological opponents into the extreme-osphere. Racism, sexism, isolationism, xenophobia and nationalistic jingoism are routinely found lurking in the most precisely fact based observations afforded by the English language. … Continue reading →

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Is there a secret to genius? Probably not, but there are some common traits you see in smart, creative people who are willing to break boundaries. For our series “The Genius Behind”, we met six people who are helping to transform the world in their own way, including a teenager who built a prosthetic arm that can be controlled with the mind, an astrophysicist hunting for a “second Earth” and a scientist looking to preserve civilisation forever using DNA. In the videos below, discover their stories – and the mode of thinking that makes them stand out from their peers: … Continue reading →

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The scale of the global epidemic of obesity, metabolic syndrome and diabetes are truly staggering. Though evidence of a looming global healthcare crisis is plainly visible, few seem to realize the consequences will be catastrophic to individuals, households and national economies. Here is a list—by no means exhaustive—of major health issues threatening hundreds of millions of people globally. Air & Water Pollution Photos such as these provide graphic evidence that air and water pollution are serious health hazards in many developing nations around the world: Source: Kyodo News Source: Independent.co.uk The statistics are equally horrendous: roughly 40% of all deaths … Continue reading →

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This week, The New Yorker published an article on the John Birch Society. It goes into the background of the forgotten missionary to China, John Birch. For this reason alone, the article deserves to be archived in your Evernote files. The article also provides a reasonable summary of the influence of the JBS on the conservative movement, especially in the 1960’s. The author is a professor. He says that he keeps a poster of the Goldwater campaign on his office wall at the university. I have several reasons for keeping a half-century-old “Goldwater for President” poster on a wall of … Continue reading →

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The headlines are filled with the latest alleged threat posed by ISIS – a band of savages thousands of miles away that, at most, has the capacity to inspire the crazies in our midst to acts of relatively smalltime violence. Relative, that is, to the real threat of violence, which emanates from our own “defense” policies as formulated in Washington, D.C. – the very real and growing threat of nuclear war. That ominous possibility, which hung over us during the cold war era – and spiked during the truly scary Cuban missile crisis, when the fate of the world hung … Continue reading →

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Coretta Scott King: “We have done what we can to reveal the truth, and we now urge you as members of the media, and we call upon elected officials, and other persons of influence to do what they can to share the revelation of this case to the widest possible audience.” – King Family Press Conference, Dec. 9, 1999. Dr. King’s 2-minute message to you: Dr. Martin Luther King’s family and personal friend/attorney, William F. Pepper, won a civil trial that found US government agencies guilty of assassination/wrongful death. The 1999 trial, King Family versus Jowers and Other Unknown Co-Conspirators, is the only trial ever conducted … Continue reading →

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The federal criminal investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s failure to secure state secrets was ratcheted up earlier this week, and at the same time, the existence of a parallel criminal investigation of another aspect of her behavior was made known. This is the second publicly revealed expansion of the FBI’s investigations in two months. I have argued for two months that Clinton’s legal woes are either grave or worse than grave. That argument has been based on the hard, now public evidence of her failure to safeguard national security secrets and the known manner in which the … Continue reading →

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The 20th-century Turkish concept of a “deep state” first spread to other Mediterranean countries such as Italy, and is now slowly being picked up by American pundits. Ex–Republican congressional staffer Mike Lofgren’s 2016 book The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of the Shadow Government offers a snarky and intelligent tour d’horizon of some of America’s more or less perpetual ruling organs. The original Turkish version of the term is, of course, conspiratorial-minded: No matter who won the elections, the Kemalist military-intelligence complex would hold the ultimate veto. (To finally overcome the secularist deep state, Turkish … Continue reading →

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The Philippines LaRouche Society chairman, Butch Valdes, on Tuesday denounced the decision by the Philippine Supreme Court declaring President Aquino’s treasonous deal with President Obama, which turns the Philippine military bases over to US military …