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Princes of the Yen – A Central Bank Documentary Film

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 in Economic Crisis1,102 Comments

World Brain (Video)

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 Crisis831 Comments

Government Sniper Shoots 18 Year Old Boy

  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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Bankers: Fixing the System Part 1 Documentary

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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World Reserve Currencies: What Happened During Previous Periods of Transition?

  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 Collapse3,012 Comments

The Great Challenge: China and 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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Tax Free Tour Documentary

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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The Truth Behind the Federal Reserve With Bill Still

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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More Profitable than Exxon and Apple

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 Crisis32 Comments

Money Bubble – Why Hasn’t It Burst?

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 Bubble39 Comments

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