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| Friday, 05/18/2012 | |
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| business | 05/18/2012 |
| The Purpose of Banks | |
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| Banks fullfill a very important function in society, by storing money securely, paying interest for investors and making loans to debtors. It is especially the middle class and the poor who profit from stable banks. A rich man is able to buy a factory as an investment, mere mortals cannot and have to rely on banks. |
| Monday, 05/14/2012 | |
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| business | 05/14/2012 |
| Why One Should Not Buy Bank-Stocks | |
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| Banks are investing money, therefore their stocks are even more indirect and inscrutable than normal stock funds. |
| Wednesday, 05/09/2012 | |
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| business | 05/09/2012 |
| USA: Paid By The Taxpayer | |
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 The U.S. government was not an example for fiscal responsibility for a long time (maybe never), but the Obama administration has - despite being in a recession - set new records for spending money on questionable things. |
| Saturday, 05/05/2012 | |
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| business | 05/05/2012 |
| The Government and Subprime-Mortgages | |
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| Would government regulation have helped? |
| Tuesday, 05/01/2012 | |
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| politics | 05/01/2012 |
| USA: Evidence For Fraud in 2008 Presidential Elections Surfaces | |
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| Internal emails of the Stratfor company, which provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations and government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Marines and the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, provide evidence of voting fraud in the 2008 presidential elections. |
| Saturday, 04/28/2012 | |
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| business | 04/28/2012 |
| Why Funds Cannot Work in the Long Run | |
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| An investment-funds promises to earn money on the stock exchange without caring about the companies in which it is invested and without risk - unfortunately that is just an illusion. |
| Tuesday, 04/24/2012 | |
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| business | 04/24/2012 |
| How the Central Banks are Manipulating the Price of Gold | |
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| The German gold-expert Walter Eichelburg is forecasting a price of $20,000 per ounce. |
| Friday, 04/20/2012 | |
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| business | 04/20/2012 |
| European Central Bank Employees Fear Inflation | |
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| The employees of the ECB demand a guarantee against inflation for their pensions. The belief in the promise of stability by the central bank seems to falter. |
| Wednesday, 04/18/2012 | |
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| society | 04/18/2012 |
| USA: The Story Behind a "Racist Murder" | |
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 Over the whole world the media reported the death of Trayvon Martin, but not very truthfully. |
| Tuesday, 04/17/2012 | |
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| technology | 04/17/2012 |
| Apple Removes Support For IPv6 | |
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 Apple's newest version of their WLAN-management ("AirPort") utility does no longer support IPv6. |
| Monday, 04/16/2012 | |
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| business | 04/16/2012 |
| How the Stock Exchange Works | |
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| Many socialists (from both the national and the international variant) see the stock exchange as some fundamentally evil institution which should be regulated, strictly controlled or even completely forbidden. The other extreme are "mainstream"-economists, most bankers and many politicians (very often the same who request strict regulation) who see the stock exchange (indirectly, through funds) as an investment or pension scheme for everybody. |
| Friday, 04/13/2012 | |
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| history | 04/13/2012 |
| 20% More Died in US Civil War Than Previously Thought | |
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| Since about 1900, historians and the general public have assumed that 618,222 men died in the American Civil War. New estimates, based on Census data, indicate that the death toll was approximately 750,000, and may have been as high as 850,000. |
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| week 15 | |
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| history | 04/11/2012 |
| The First Americans Might Have Been Europeans | |
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 New archaeological evidence suggests that America was first discovered by Stone Age people from Europe – 10,000 years before the Siberian-originating ancestors of the American Indians set foot in the New World. |
| week 14 | |
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| business | 04/08/2012 |
| Can we lie ourselves out of the crisis? | |
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| During all inflationary crises, those in power request from the people to keep up their optimism. |
| society | 04/06/2012 |
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| United Kingdom: Muslim and Sikh staff escape NHS hygiene rule | |
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 Muslim doctors and nurses are to be allowed to opt out of strict hygiene rules introduced to restrict the spread of hospital superbugs. |
| history | 04/04/2012 |
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| Conclusion to “The Pink Swastika” | |
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| The book puts National Socialism into the context of pederast warrior societies. |
| politics | 04/03/2012 |
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| South Africa: Does the Government Try to Destabilize a Province? | |
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| Since the Democratic Alliance (DA) won in the Western Cape province in 2009, the province has become an object of hatred for the African National Congress (ANC), which is in power at the federal level and in all other provinces. |
| politics | 04/02/2012 |
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| Why Iran was Cut Off the Banking System | |
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 The reason why Iran was cut off the global Banking System (SWIFT-system) is little known. |
| week 13 | |
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| business | 04/01/2012 |
| The Central Bank as "Bad Bank" | |
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| The idea of a "bad bank", a bank that buys worthless paper assets from privileged owners (in other words from banks, not from private citizens) is already widely known. |
| week 12 | |
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| business | 03/25/2012 |
| Short Summary of the Bernie Madoff Scandal | |
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| Bernie Badoff has run the biggest private pyramid-scheme which encompassed about 65 billion dollars. How was it possible for that to happen? |
| history | 03/24/2012 |
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| Criminality and Homosexuality | |
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| The Nazi-regime harbored and protected many criminals. In fact the regime was so criminal that it is unclear whether many members committed crimes to push a political agenda or joined a political movement in order to commit crimes. Ernst Röhm, Edmund Heines, Violette Morris and many others enjoyed violence as such. The distinction between political violence (intimidation and elimination of dissidents) and sadistic violence for personal gratification is fuzzy for such characters. |
| politics | 03/22/2012 |
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| United Kingdom: Labour Candidate Wants to turn London into "Beacon of Islam" | |
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 Ken Livingston, Labour's candidate for mayor of London also said: “I want to spend the next four years making sure that every non-Muslim in London knows and understands [Mohammed's] words and message.” and promised to Muslims to “make your life a bit easier financially.” |
| week 11 | |
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| business | 03/18/2012 |
| What Can be Learned from Past Crises | |
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| Always when government has massively intervened in the economy, the crisis was prolonged and worsened. |
| business | 03/17/2012 |
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| Iran Cut Off From Global Banking System | |
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 The Belgium-based Swift, the world's largest electronic payment system will disconnect 30 Iranian banks from their system. |
| ⇊ profound analysis ⇊ |
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| 1st quarter · 2012 | |
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| politics | 02/13/2012 |
| US-army officer Describes Afghanistan War | |
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 Lieutenant colonel Daniel L. Davis, who served in Operation Desert Storm, in Afghanistan in 2005-06 and in Iraq in 2008-09 has spent the whole year 2011 in Afghanistan in his second combat deployment and has interviewed more than 250 US-soldiers and many Afghan security officials, civilians and a few village elders in that time. |
| business | 02/05/2012 |
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| Summary of the Great Depression | |
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 Officially, the Great Depression was caused by evil, anonymous and mysterious forces, but a rational investigation yields a completely different picture. |
| politics | 01/21/2012 |
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| Is our security defended in Iran? | |
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 The pacifism of the European left dissapeared together with the Red Army. |
| politics | 01/17/2012 |
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| Summary of situation around Hormuz | |
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 Also, the US has given 84 F-15 fighter jets to ally Saudi-Arabia, has declared to continue the drone campaign in Iran and has moved aircraft carrier Carl Vinson into the Arabian Sea, which has joined aircraft carrier John C. Stennis, which has been already stationed outside of the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 4th quarter · 2011 | |
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| business | 12/18/2011 |
| Manipulation of the market basket and economic growth figures | |
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| Economic growth is officially defined as the nominal growth of the gross domestic product minus the official inflation. The inflation is calculated with a market basket. By selecting the goods in the market basket accordingly, the official figures of economic growth can be increased. |
| politics | 11/30/2011 |
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| USA: Short Summary of Solyndra scandal | |
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 In 2009, the Obama administration invested half a billion dollars in an unproven upstart energy company which was largely owned by Oklahoma's wealthiest man and Obama fundraiser George B. Kaiser via two investment vehicles. The company went bankrupt in September 2011, just as predicted two years earlier. |
| business | 11/27/2011 |
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| Short summary of Keynesianism | |
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| Keynes was his whole life a politician in the British Empire, but still he is today usually called an economist. He triggered the so-called "Keynesian Revolution", which had substantially influenced our current economic system. But what is Keynesianism and what does it mean for us today? |
| society | 11/13/2011 |
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| USA: The crime problem of "Occupy Wall Street" | |
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 One underreported aspect of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement is the seemingly rampant crime problem which the movement itself seems to see as rather embarrassing. One branch even told rape victims not to go to the police and offered counseling - for the rapists. On top of that we saw a gang killing and a suicide within the group. |
| business | 11/07/2011 |
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| Greek bailout will cause much bigger problems in the future | |
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 German chancellor Angela Merkel said that "it must be prevented that others come seeking a haircut". The good news is that Merkel seems to have understood moral hazard. The bad news is that there is no more a good way out of the crisis left because in the European Union, crime does pay - if on a large enough scale. |
| science | 10/15/2011 |
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| The Space Shuttle and space tourism | |
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 It is often said that space tourism has started 2001, but in reality it has started two decades earlier, in 1982, when the Space Shuttle was launched into space with more than two astronauts. |
| society | 10/14/2011 |
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| Italy: Short summary of the Amanda Knox case | |
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| A more objective view of the case shows two completely innocent people spending four years in prison for a crime without any evidence whatsoever and a complicit media that deliberately and willingly created "Foxy Knoxy", the "angel faced killer with ice cold eyes" which never existed. |
| politics | 10/02/2011 |
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| Presidential candidate Ron Paul alone against the establishment | |
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| Ron Paul hits the nerve of the American establishment, because even though he polls well and performs outstandingly at discussions, he is largely ignored in the mainstream-media. |
| 3rd quarter · 2011 |
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