He is always contrarian and sometimes controversial, now commenting on Brexit, Thailand-based Marc Faber believes a U.K. exit could actually be good for everyone. On June 23 the British people will take part in a referendum vote on the question of whether they should be in or out of the European Union (EU). Markets around the world have become jittery as the exit vote has gradually built momentum and now leads in many opinion polls. One poll conducted by ORB on behalf of the British newspaper The Independent recently showed as much as a 10 point swing in favour of … Continue reading

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What Galileo and Descartes had begun, Isaac Newton polished: By discovering the mathematical principles that grounded everything from falling apples to orbiting moons, planets, and comets, Newton laid the foundations of modern physics. Oh, and he co-invented calculus too. And a new kind of telescope. And more. Some of his achievements are readily filed under G for genius; others simply reveal his complex and all-too-human personality. Here are 15 things that you might not have known about Sir Isaac. 1. BORN PREMATURELY, ISAAC BARELY SURVIVED HIS FIRST WEEK ON EARTH. Newton’s father, also named Isaac Newton, died a few months before young … Continue reading

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Let us go back forty years. Here is one of the greatest scenes in the history of the movies. Howard Beale is the presumptive Republican candidate for President of the United States. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, polls indicate that a majority of British voters are going to vote to pull out of the European Union on June 23. The international establishment is facing a two-front war. The Atlantic alliance is in visible disarray. This has not happened before. This is truly historic. A DESPERATE ESTABLISHMENT On June 14, I wrote about the refusal of Obama and Clinton to use the … Continue reading

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Late last month the Government Accounting Office found that more than 60 years after the Brown v. Board decision declaring “separate but equal” schooling  unconstitutional,  the segregation of black and Hispanic students in K-12 schools in America was increasing. As Bobby Scott, a black Congressman from Virginia, put it, “Segregation in public K-12 schools isn’t getting better, it’s getting worse, and getting worse quickly.”  The report found that 20 million students are now attending racially segregated schools, 16 per cent of the total student body, up from 9 per cent in 2000.  And it didn’t even deal with the large … Continue reading

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Write about things you really know, was the advice Papa Hemingway offered wannabe writers, so here goes: The French Open is still on, Wimbledon is coming up, and I’ve just read a lament by some Frenchwoman about how professional tennis and big-time sports have become ever more ubiquitous and ever more out of reach. Duh! A former model by the name of Géraldine Maillet has made a documentary about the 2015 French Open, not exactly a stop-the-presses kind of story as it hit the video shops just as the 2016 Open began. The French Championships, as they were back then … Continue reading

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If Donald Trump has even a partial clue about the nation’s monumental economic mess one of his first acts will be to demand Janet Yellen’s resignation. And for sheer incompetence among countless other failings. She was out there again today talking in completely incoherent circles. On the one hand, Yellen robotically insisted that the U.S. economy is moving steadily toward the Keynesian nirvana of full employment. At the same time, she struck a profile in cowardice that was downright pathetic. Yep, after 90 months of ZIRP the Fed has decided to wait for further confirmation from the “incoming data” before concluding that even one more baby step toward interest … Continue reading

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Cholesterol does not cause heart disease in the elderly and trying to reduce it with drugs like statins is a waste of time, an international group of experts has claimed. A review of research involving nearly 70,000 people found there was no link between what has traditionally been considered “bad” cholesterol and the premature deaths of over 60-year-olds from cardiovascular disease. Published in the BMJ Open journal, the new study found that 92 percent of people with a high cholesterol level lived longer. The authors have called for a re-evaluation of the guidelines for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and … Continue reading

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Helga Zepp-LaRouche spoke to the following effect in concluding a telephone meeting with the LaRouchePAC Policy Committee yesterday.

The crucial thing is to mediate the historic tension of this moment, throughout our movement and beyond. The biggest danger would be for people to go on with business as usual, thinking that, well, we have always been saying there was a crisis. But right now, look at all the elements coming together: the war danger, the military maneuvers, the NATO summit, the fight to prolong the anti-Russian sanctions, the possibility of Britain’s exit from the Euro, and with it the collapse of the financial system. And on the positive side, there’s the St. Petersburg Economic Forum where Italian Prime Minister Renzi, European Commission President Juncker, and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon are going with many CEOs,– so Russia is not isolated at all! Then Xi Jinping will come for a 5-day trip to Central Europe and Central Asia, starting with Poland June 17. There is all the progress around the Silk Road, integration, the Eurasian Economic Union, and ASEAN, as more train routes are also continuing be opened between China and Europe.

So all of this is moving forward, and the tension is: which system will prevail? Will it be the global development partnership which is on the horizon and moving forward, or will the forces of the empire go for the annihilation of mankind? The tension between these two dynamics has never been as acute as right now. That’s the sense we have to mediate. If they think it’s just Orlando, or just this or just that,– then they don’t understand it at all. And the reason that the Walter Jones initiative, HRes 779, is so important in this context, is because that could derail the whole British-Saudi foreign policy of the United States,— which is the crux of the matter. So, the Walter Jones resolution is an integral part of the initiative to change it, but people must not treat it as a single issue, but instead say that that’s how you can do something to stop the war danger. And you have to learn how all of these things hang together.

And what we have to do as an organization, is to communicate that this is probably the most important {punctum saliens} in human history. And we have to elevate people onto the stage of strategic world-historical developments. That’s why they have to join us, because they don’t get that kind of view from anyone else,— but that’s what they need to survive. That’s the challenge which we have to communicate.

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For a monoculture – Islam – that is completely intolerant of “diversity”.

Paul Joseph Watson | The left has chosen to protect the feelings of Muslims over the lives of gays.