Posted on 14 December 2014. Tags: Yen
Title: Princes of the Yen Directed by: Queuepolitely Year: 2014 Film Synopsis from Queuepolitely: “Princes of the Yen” reveals how Japanese society was transformed to suit the agenda and desire of powerful interest groups, and how citizens were kept entirely in the dark about this. Based on a book by Professor Richard […]
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Posted on 05 September 2014. Tags: google, world brain
Is Google becoming a form of artificial intelligence that will benefit mankind or will it provide the necessary tool for fascists leaders to have ever more control over our lives? In 1937 HG Wells predicted the creation of the World Brain?, a giant global library that contained all human knowledge and which would lead to […]
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Posted in Economic Crisis
Posted on 18 August 2014. Tags: NSA, Police
Reprinted from Soverign Man The sniper took a breath in as he put the fleeing form of Peter Fechter into the crosshairs of his rifle. As he exhaled, he squeezed the trigger, landing his bullet squarely in the young boy’s back. Watching Peter’s body fall, he mentally congratulated himself on what he’d just done […]
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Posted in Economic Crisis
Posted on 16 August 2014. Tags: Central Banks
BBC Knowledge Network presents part 1 of 3 of the short documentary series Bankers. In 2008 the financial crisis swept across the modern world. Today, banks are still at the eye of the storm. This three-part BBC documentary series examines recent scandals that have shaken the financial sector, and the revelations of complacency, greed and […]
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Posted on 11 August 2014. Tags: China, Dutch East India Company, Economic History, Fourth Turning, Napoleon, Portugal, Reserve Currency, Social Behaviour
The decline of the US dollar hegemony is ever so clear today and this article aims to provide the reader with what exactly happened during past periods of reserve currency transitions. Historically, when a reserve currency transitioned over to a new one, it marked a pivotal change for the world. The economic paradigm shifted […]
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Posted in Economic Crisis, Featured, US Dollar Collapse
Posted on 10 August 2014. Tags: China, Petrodollar, russia
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1990, the US became the world’s superpower. The US, then tried to contain its future rivals, that is Russia and China. With this aim, the US proposed the project of “the greater middle-east”. The US occupation of Afghanistan, Iraq and its presence in the middle-east was not […]
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Posted on 13 April 2014. Tags: offshore banks
Where do multinationals pay taxes and how much? Gaining insight from international tax experts, Backlight director Marije Meerman, takes a look at tax havens, the people who live there and the routes along which tax is avoided globally. Those routes go by resounding names like ‘Cayman Special’, ‘Double Irish’, and ‘Dutch Sandwich’. A financial world […]
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Posted on 03 March 2014. Tags: bill still, Federal Reserve
Title: The Truth Behind the Federal Reserve Director: Bill Still Year: 2013 [rate] What’s the problem with the world economy? It’s debt — too much personal debt — too much corporate debt — and most importantly, too much government debt. “People have a natural tendency to want to spend now and pay later. They will […]
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Posted on 13 February 2014. Tags: Federal Reserve
At the beginning of this month, Janet Yellen became the first woman to lead the world’s most powerful financial institution, the Federal Reserve. That means that she passed Oprah Winfrey as the most influential woman in the world. That’s pretty significant, not just because it makes her, one could argue, the most powerful woman in […]
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Posted in Austrian Economics, Economic Crisis
Posted on 03 February 2014. Tags: Fiat Currency, James Turk, Kondratiev Wave
James Turk and John Rubino have just recently written an excellent new book entitled The Money Bubble. Where a variety of important economic questions are answered from a unique perspective. An exclusive interview with John Rubino is below for you to listen to. Enjoy!
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Posted in Austrian Economics, Economic Crisis, Gold and Silver, Housing Bubble