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  • Daily Digest
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    Daily Digest 4/28 – Terrorism Vs. Natural Disasters, Learning To Speak Shrub

    by DailyDigest

    Saturday, April 28, 2018, 3:41 PM

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    • The Golden State Killer Is Tracked Through a Thicket of DNA, and Experts Shudder
    • The cost of raising a child in America has soared — it’s a price tag fit for a prince
    • Terrorism Vs. Natural Disasters: Which Costs More? Which Kills More?
    • Chris Hedges: What we can learn from the collapse of the Chaco Canyon civilisation
    • Pipeline shortage could choke North America’s oil supply with ‘serious implications for global markets’, IEA warns
    • Trump Strikes A Blow For Retirees Worried About Enviros Wallowing Out Pensions
    • Tabasco Sauce Is in a Battle For Its Very Survival
    • Learning to Speak Shrub

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  • Daily Digest
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    Daily Digest 1/2 – The Science Of Loneliness, Stop Reading What Facebook Tells You To Read

    by DailyDigest

    Tuesday, January 2, 2018, 5:56 PM

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    • The Science Of Loneliness
    • The dark side of your $5 Footlong: Business owners say it could bite them
    • These Will Be the Big Stories of 2018
    • Stop reading what Facebook tells you to read
    • Too much screening has misled us about real cancer risk factors, experts say
    • Why American doctors keep doing expensive procedures that don’t work
    • It's Time For Innovators To Take Responsibility For Their Creations
    • Americans Will Eat a Record Amount of Meat in 2018

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  • Blog
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    If The Saudi Arabia Situation Doesn’t Worry You, You’re Not Paying Attention

    A key geopolitical axis is swiftly shifting
    by Chris Martenson

    Friday, November 10, 2017, 11:57 PM

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    While turbulent during the best of times, gigantic waves of change are now sweeping across the Middle East. The magnitude is such that the impact on the global price of oil, as well as world markets, is likely to be enormous.

    A dramatic geo-political realignment by Saudi Arabia is in full swing this month. It’s upending many decades of established strategic relationships among the world's superpowers and, in particular, is throwing the Middle East into turmoil. So much is currently in flux, especially in Saudi Arabia, that nearly anything can happen next. Which is precisely why this volatile situation should command our focused attention at this time.

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  • Podcast
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    The Saker: The Syrian Powderkeg

    The risk of nuclear war is now concerningly high
    by Adam Taggart

    Monday, July 10, 2017, 1:20 PM

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    Following up on our recent warning about the situation in Syria, Chris sits down this week for a conversation with The Saker, who writes extensively on geo-political and military matters. The Saker (a nom-de-plume), is a former intelligence expert with professional and personal insights into Russia and the Middle East.

    He shares our deep concern for the dangerously misdirected current state of US foreign and military policy, as well as the potentially lethal repercussions these threaten to have in the powderkeg that is Syria.

    In this week's podcast, The Saker provides an excellent distillation of the complex forces in play in Syria — as well as in the brewing friction between the US and Russia — and why the risk of nuclear war has now grown higher than it has been in decades.

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  • Insider

    Pre-ALERT: Trump Risks War With Russia

    The Syria powderkeg threatens to explode
    by Chris Martenson

    Tuesday, June 27, 2017, 10:44 PM

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    Trump has now backed his administration into a corner.  If there’s another suspected poison gas attack in Syria, he’s promised to escalate the situation by beginning bombings.

    It appears that what I feared might happen under a Clinton presidency (and I still think probably would have, anyways) is now happening under the Trump administration.

    Let me be perfectly clear: bombing Syria risks a direct confrontation with Russia.  If that happens, all bets are off. Anything could happen next, up to and including a nuclear exchange. 

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    Off The Cuff: The Era Of Easy Money Is Over

    Debt-funded stimulus no longer yields an increase of GDP
    by Adam Taggart

    Friday, April 21, 2017, 12:44 AM

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    In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and John Rubino discuss:

    • Sovereign Sabre-Rattling
      • Suddenly, the world became a lot less safe
    • Market Misdirection
      • The central planners are doing their utmost to paint a positive picture
    • The Era Of Easy Money is Over
      • Debt-funded stimulus no longer results in an increase of GDP
    • How This All Will End
      • Exploring the likely pins that will pop this "mother of all bubbles"

    Chris and John look at the disconnect between world events and stock prices and urge folks not to misled: risk is high, and getting higher. There is *no* rational reason for the current price levels in financial markets — only gobs and gobs of liquidity being force-fed into the system by the world's central banks.

    But the data is increasingly showing that the era of "easy money" we've lived under since the Great Recession has reached its inevitable terminus. Shoving more debt into the system is no longer boosting GDP. We are now simply blowing bigger asset bubbles that will monumentally destructive when they burst — as they must.

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    Do We Really Want A War With Russia?

    Because we're in danger of getting exactly that
    by Chris Martenson

    Friday, October 7, 2016, 7:49 PM

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    I wish I could say things were improving between the US and Russia but they aren't. They're rapidly worsening.

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  • Insider
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    Murder And Mayhem In The Middle East

    Why it matters to those living in the West
    by Chris Martenson

    Tuesday, December 1, 2015, 1:03 AM

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    To understand what’s happening in Syria right now, you have to understand the tactics and motivations of the US and NATO — the three parties sharing interwoven aims and goals in the Middle East/North African (MENA) region.

    The main point here is that as resources become tight, the ruling powers can be expected to act in increasingly desperate ways.

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    Off The Cuff: Race For The Exit

    Everybody's dancing near the doorway
    by Adam Taggart

    Friday, November 20, 2015, 8:18 PM

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    In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and Mish Shedlock discuss:

    • The Fab 5
      • Without these 5 stocks, the S&P would be negative for the year
    • The "Positive" Impact Of The Paris Attacks
      • Are they kidding???
    • The Insatiable Military Industrial Complex
      • Crisis is being fabricated to keep it fed
    • Housing Is Looking Sick
      • More and more weakness is showing

     

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