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QE 4: Folks, This Ain’t Normal
What you need to know about the Fed’s latest move
via QE 4: Folks, This Ain’t Normal – What You Need To Know About The Fed’s Latest Move | ZeroHedge.
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Nobel Peace Prize: Archbishop Desmond Tutu and two other laureates say European Union is not worthy of being given the award | Mail Online
Desmond Tutu has contested the decision to award the prize to the European Union in an open letter to the Nobel Committee
Fellow Peace Prize laureates Mairead Maguire and Adolfo Perez Esquivel also signed the letter, which insisted the EU was not a ‘champion of peace’
The trio said the $1.2million prize money should not be paid out to the bloc, which they claim contradicts the values associated with the prize
The decision to award the prize to the EU in a year marked by rioting amid the ongoing Eurozone crisis has already been widely derided
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Ben Saunders: Why bother leaving the house? – YouTube
Published on Dec 14, 2012
Explorer Ben Saunders wants you to go outside! Not because it’s always pleasant and happy, but because that’s where the meat of life is, “the juice that we can suck out of our hours and days.” Saunders’ next outdoor excursion? To try to be the first in the world to walk from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back again.
Americans Are The Most Spied On People In World History | ZeroHedge
TechDirt notes:
In a radio interview, Wall Street Journal reporter Julia Angwin (who’s been one of the best at covering the surveillance state in the US) made a simple observation that puts much of this into context: the US surveillance regime has more data on the average American than the Stasi ever did on East Germans.
via Americans Are The Most Spied On People In World History | ZeroHedge.
What does Peace in Europe mean to EU? Farage-Nobel Prize Remix – YouTube
http://www.ukipmeps.org | Excerpts from the October 23, 2012 speech in the European Parliament, Strasbourg: UKIP leader Nigel Farage MEP, Co-President of the EFD groupOriginal speech here: http://youtu.be/YSoCZs8WlDg.
Sinister Sites: IRS Headquarters, Maryland | Shift Frequency
The IRS headquarters in New Carrollton, Maryland is a government building that, despite being constructed with public funds, contains art referring to elite secret societies. More importantly, the art conveys a strange message about the U.S. Constitution, and the American people in general. We’ll look at the symbolic meaning of the art found in front of the IRS headquarters in Maryland.
via Sinister Sites: IRS Headquarters, Maryland | Shift Frequency.
True News: The Fiscal Cliff? Stefan Molyneux
Advaita Fellowship Newsletter – Wayne Liquorman
Hello my loves,
I’d like to talk a bit about Gratitude.
In America we have just finished our Thanksgiving holiday which is
traditionally an occasion to watch American football on TV, overeat
and perhaps to take a moment to look around and see if there is
anything to be thankful for. This latter is where it gets interesting.
Some people have no difficulty rattling off a long string of things
that they are grateful for. Others can barely come up with one. As far
as they are concerned the world is going to hell in a hand basket.
Economic disaster is just around the corner. The ice cap is melting.
Cancer is everywhere. Violence is in the air.
What is responsible for such a difference?
It would be easy to dismiss the question with the simple observation
that some people are optimists and others pessimists but it really
goes much deeper than that. On the surface it is plain to see that
there are events we consider good and others we consider bad. When our
attention is focused on the good we are happy and optimistic, when
focused on the bad we are sad and pessimistic. Optimists tell
pessimists to quit being so negative and to focus on all the joy and
beauty that abounds. Pessimists tell optimists to quit being so
airy-fairy and to recognize that there are enormous problems
threatening our very existence.
Gratitude within the context of the Living Teaching transcends such
limited, polaric attitudes. We recognize that life is by its very
nature rich and complex. It has always contained within it the seeds
for annihilation and resurrection. We cannot possibly predict what the
future will hold. In the Living Teaching we abide in the wisdom of
BOTH. The positive and negative are recognized as the essential
building blocks of the manifest world. We are grateful for the lack of
limitation which makes anything possible and live comfortably in the
vastness of the present moment.
May it find you now!
Much love,
Wayne
Martin Lewis: It’s time to ban Christmas presents – Telegraph
Is it time to ban Christmas presents? Across the country people are growling at the enforced obligation to waste money on tat they can’t afford, for people who won’t use it. Festive gift-giving has lost its point, risks doing more harm than good, mis-teaches our children about values and kills the joy of anticipation of what should be a joyous time.
Before you think this is just curmudgeonly bah-humbug, this rant isn’t about presents under the spruce from parents or grandparents to children or spouses. It’s about the ever-growing creep of gifts to extended family, colleagues, children’s teachers and more.
I first braved this subject on my website back in 2009, expecting a snowstorm of protest. Instead, many people joined my call to arms, relieved they were not alone in their distaste for the gifting ritual.
The next year, I polled 10,000 people on whether we should ban presents. Seven per cent said ditch all of them, 30 per cent said to all but children, and a further 46 per cent said limit it to the immediate family. Fewer than one in five supported giving beyond that.
Continued:
via Martin Lewis: It’s time to ban Christmas presents – Telegraph.
Life after Politics: Lessons from the 2012 US Elections – YouTube
Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, sifts through the wreckage of the 2012 US elections to find hope for reason, peace and the progress of humanity.
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