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It has been described as the ‘holy grail’ of shipwrecks containing one of the most valuable hauls of treasure ever lost at sea. Named the San Jose, the 18th-century Spanish galleon was found three years ago off the coast of Colombia. Now new details have emerged about the discovery of the shipwreck, which contains £12.6 billion ($17 billion) worth of treasure. According to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the San Jose was located by an underwater autonomous robot. The REMUS 6000 – which also helped find the wreckage of Air France 447 in 2011 –  used sonar to find the San Jose … Continue reading →

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Is it possible that we Americans only pretend not to notice the conditions that produce an epidemic of school shootings, or is the public just too dumbed-down to connect the dots? Look at the schools themselves. We called them “facilities” because they hardly qualify as buildings: sprawling, one-story, tilt-up, flat-roofed boxes isolated among the parking lagoons out on the six-lane highway strip, disconnected from anything civic, isolated archipelagoes where inchoate teenage emotion festers and rules while the few adults on the scene are regarded as impotent clowns representing a bewildering clown culture wrapped in a Potemkin economy that has nothing … Continue reading →

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By Dr. Mercola In the U.S., more than 2 in 3 adults are either overweight or obese, while 1 in 13 is considered to have extreme obesity.1 As obesity rates have risen so, too, have obesity-related diseases like cancer, Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and osteoarthritis. It’s still commonly believed that the best way to lose weight is to simply eat less and exercise more, but this health dogma fails for many, in large part because of an emphasis placed on low-fat, high-carb foods and counting calories. As a result, people struggling with obesity may turn to extreme measures like … Continue reading →

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The idea is floated frequently that the still nameless Russian collusion scandal is “worse than Watergate.”  It may well be, but that comparison overlooks a more useful parallel. The gold standard of government conspiracy remains the investigation into the July 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 off the south coast of Long Island.  The ensuing cover-up involved many of the same players as in the Russia conspiracy and for the same immediate goal: to secure a presidential election for a Clinton. As with the Russia scandal, not all the collaborators in the TWA 800 case were equally motivated or equally powerful.  The White … Continue reading →

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More than 200 farmers from South Africa have applied for humanitarian visas in Australia after allegedly suffering attacks for being white, according to the Australian Home Affairs Ministry. “The type of criteria they of course have to meet – or the key one – is evidence of persecution, so that’s exactly what we will be looking at,” Home Affairs Deputy Secretary Malisa Golightly said. Home Affairs said 89 refugee visa applications relating to 213 people had been received, although they did not specify their ethnicity or any other details. News reports emerged earlier this year revealing that white farmers in South … Continue reading →

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I have just spent a week in Mashad and Tehran Iran, speaking at an international conference on the future of Jerusalem as well as other related issues while also meeting with a broad range of Iranians, including journalists, students and government officials. The conference was organized by a non-government organization called New Horizon. It was the sixth such conference, intended to bring together speakers from a number of countries to discuss issues involving Middle Eastern security and identity issues. To be sure, Iran, threatened as it is from all sides, has certain aspects of a security state. And as what is essentially a partial … Continue reading →

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Justin note: Something’s stuck with me since the last time I spoke with Doug Casey. Earlier this month, we discussed the new “era of peace” in the Korean Peninsula. Doug talked about a meme floating around the internet saying that the US could employ a new super weapon dubbed the “Rod from God.” While this weapon probably won’t be deployed anytime soon… it got me thinking about the future of war. Specifically, how they’ll be fought and how they’ll be different from past wars. I called up Doug for more on this idea… Justin: Doug, how will wars of the future be fought … Continue reading →

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That joking retort we heard as children, “Is the pope Catholic?” is starting to look like a serious question. Asked five years ago about a “gay lobby” in the Vatican, Pope Francis responded, “If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge?” As judgment was thought to be part of the papal job description, traditional Catholics were startled at what the new pope had volunteered. Now the Holy Father has apparently fleshed out what he meant. According to a childhood victim of a pedophile priest in Chile, Juan Carlos Cruz, a homosexual … Continue reading →

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Being as I am a self-appointed explicator of things Latin to Americans curious about what lies to the south, and has come north, I occasionally and in a scattershot and prejudiced manner try to offer a picture of life below the border. There is more to the place than narcos and MS-13. If I lived in Thailand instead of Mexico, I wouldn’t. But Latin America matters to America today as Thailand does not. So here goes. Trigger Warning: Republicans and Nordic populations may find this column unsettling. It contains disturbing color and some of the images show signs of having escaped … Continue reading →

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