According to many biologists and earth scientists, we are witnessing the sixth wave of extinctions in the past half-billion years. We are the root cause of this mess due to our technology and life styles! Is this a doom and gloom prediction? What do we do as individuals, families and communities to turn this around? Hope lies in the reader herself. Are you up to the challenge? Personally, I have faith in you!

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So, either the world's "most hated" man has been hacked, or he has gone totally insane... sadly, both appear equally likely at this point

The One Percent Rallies Behind IMF Director Christine LaGarde

Paul Craig Roberts

Washington removed Dominique Strauss-Kahn as the leading contender for the French presidency and as director of the IMF by framing him on phony charges of raping a New York hotel maid. The obviously false charge was proven to be totally fabricated and had to be dropped. In the meantime Strass-Kahn had been forced to resign from the IMF and to drop out of the French election. Washington regarded Strauss-Kahn as insufficiently compliant with Washington’s agendas and moved him aside.

While most sellside "research" has traditionally been complete garbage, either meant to boost soft dollar revenues and build client goodwill by giving one-on-one "expert network" meetings with management, or a macro echo chamber of equity strategists all of whom are terrified to stray from the penguin, or is it lemming, flock (its only utility is to give insight into whatever the prevailing groupthink consensus is, allowing an easy opportunity to fade it) and desperate to be as optimistic as possible (there is little upside on Wall Street to be a pessimist or a realist) there are the occasi

Has the U.S.'s anti-terrorism program worked? Nope. In fact, terrorism has dramatically increased since the war began.