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Published on May 18, 2013In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert examine stories about those who, using spoof trades, bogus securities and fictitious capital, steal real wealth and income. They discuss how it is that every benchmark index is rigged and introduce the concept of the bonus benchmark. In the second half, Max talks to Dr. Michael Hudson, author of The Bubble and Beyond, about debt and wage deflation and about the intersection of interest rates and wages going back to David Ricardo when wages were measured against the price of bread to today when they are measured against the price of debt.

via Keiser Report: Whimsical Price Tyranny E446 – YouTube.

The stories we tell ourselves have great influence over our destiny. These narratives shape our belief system and thus, in turn, the decisions we make.

Find yourself making poor choices? That’s likely due to a fallacy in one or more of the beliefs you hold.

Psychology and social science have re-discovered this key learning: We can improve our odds of success in life by improving the stories we tell ourselves. Hence the flood of recent books on the topic (The Power of Story, Flourish, Being Happy — to name just a few)

But this insight is nothing new:

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via Getting Our Story Straight is a Matter of Life & Death (Literally) | Peak Prosperity.

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges joins us to discuss what could mark the most significant government intrusion on freedom of the press in decades. The Justice Department has acknowledged seizing the work, home and cellphone records used by almost 100 reporters and editors at the Associated Press. The phones targeted included the general AP office numbers in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Hartford, Connecticut, and the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery. The action likely came as part of a probe into the leaks behind an AP story on the U.S. intelligence operation that stopped a Yemen-based al-Qaeda bombing plot on a U.S.-bound airplane. Hedges, a senior fellow at The Nation Institute and former New York Times reporter, calls the monitoring “one more assault in a long series of assault against freedom of information and freedom of the press.” Highlighting the Obama administration’s targeting of government whistleblowers, Hedges adds: “Talk to any investigative journalist who must investigate the government, and they will tell you that there is a deep freeze. People are terrified of speaking, because they’re terrified of going to jail.”

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Monitoring AP Phones a “Terrifying” Step.

eeping our nation divided is an agenda supported by both Fox News and MSNBC. The media and the politicians both profit from Americans believing they should hate their fellow Americans. And oddly enough, the one thing that unites the traditional “right” and “left” in this country is our hatred for those same media organizations and politicians that make money by regularly lying to us. The best way to beat them is to find the things that bring us together in one common purpose and unite around that.

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http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/17422-time-to-abolish-left-vs-right

Stefan Molyneux

via They Are Coming for Us – YouTube.

True News: The IRS Targets Conservative Groups? – YouTube.

Even If We Found More Oil, We Wouldn’t Want It
THE ATLANTIC | MAY 13, 2013
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A man in Germany examines the solar panels on his roof, making power he can resell at an excellent financial return. Germany recently installed more s… Read more

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