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Gold Bears Predicting the Price of Gold
Bears are by nature cautious and while caution can be an ally, it can also be fatal where bold action is required. It is understandable that investors who believe in paper money and paper-denominated assets do not understand gold. Gold, after all, is the natural refuge of disbelievers in the current ... … Read entire article »
Free Bradley Manning!
Bradley Manning spent his 23rd birthday on Friday completely isolated, just as he has every day for the last five months months in his cell at the Quantico Marine Base. Manning is the Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to Wikileaks. Since July, he has been held in cruel and ... … Read entire article »
In Memoriam Zecharia Sitchin
Zecharia Sitchin (1922-2010) was an author famous for The Earth Chronicles series of books about the writings of the ancient Sumerians (circa 5,000 years ago) as he interpreted them. He was one of perhaps 200 people in the world, if that many, who could translate cuneiform, the symbolic language of ... … Read entire article »
2011: US Primed For Fascist Dictatorship
“Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.” – Lewis H. Lapham. The year 2011 will bring Americans a larger and more intrusive police state, more unemployment and home foreclosures, no economic recovery, more disregard by the US government of US law, international law, the Constitution, and ... … Read entire article »
Betting in the Endgame
There is a difference between betting in the endgame and betting on the endgame. The former is a fool’s avocation whereas the latter is a once in a lifetime opportunity. The endgame of capitalism is a uniquely different environment where investors find themselves faced with increasingly dangerous options. In the endgame, ... … Read entire article »
Gift of the Magi to the Elect – A Christmas Essay
It’s Christmas morning in the year of the Christian dispensation, 2010 and I’m finding that I’m hard-pressed to be Merry about much of anything. If you want to read something cheerful and uplifting about Christmas, stop now and go elsewhere. Yes, I am more than thankful for my wonderful family and ... … Read entire article »
To the Pope, pedophilia is not that bad after all
Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict’s claim yesterday that pedophilia wasn’t considered an “absolute evil” as recently as the 1970s. In his traditional Christmas address yesterday to cardinals and officials working in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI also claimed that child pornography was increasingly considered “normal” by ... … Read entire article »
Sott Report: Fake Terror & The War For Your Mind
The Miami 7, the Fort Dix 6, the Newburgh 4, the Underwear Bomber, the Portland Car Bomber… The FBI has set up then knocked down dozens of terrorist straw men in an effort to convince you that the ‘war on terror’ is real. This is a very real war for ... … Read entire article »
WikiLeaks: The 9/11 of the Internet
Hillary Clinton has called WikiLeaks “an attack on the international community”. Coming from her, we must assume that is meant in all seriousness. We must compare it to what we saw on our screens on 9/11: “America under attack”. When a Secretary of State announces that we are ‘under attack’, it ... … Read entire article »
TJP Liberty Report from Gaza: Story of Areej
Areej is a 4 year old girl from Sabra in Gaza. She is an orphan whose father was a killed by an Israeli bomb. She has a skin condition that is undiagnosed but worsened severely during the Israeli invasion of Gaza in 2008-2009. Although it is inconclusive, Areej’s neighborhood was ... … Read entire article »
WikiLeaks are Dead – Long Live OpenLeaks!
Former WikiLeaks supporters at odds with founder Julian Assange will shortly launch OpenLeaks, a rival project aiming to get secret documents directly to media, one of them said Friday. “I can confirm that we will be operating under the name ‘OpenLeaks’,” former Icelandic WikiLeaks member Herbert Snorrason told AFP. Unlike WikiLeaks, OpenLeaks ... … Read entire article »
From WikiLeaks to Internet crackdown
The Obama administration is using the WikiLeaks scandal to undertake a vicious attack on the free Internet. The US could begin to resemble other nations who crack down on the Internet and personal freedoms. Policies ranging from licensing for websites to massive government surveillance of mobile devices and all computer ... … Read entire article »
WikiLeaks and the Principle of Truth
As our readers know, Sott.net doesn’t always take the easy path, but we do try to take the right path and we don’t like to get egg on our faces. If we think we are right in the face of all opposition, we’ll stick to our guns. By the same ... … Read entire article »
Wikileaks Serves Israeli Agenda of Demonizing Iran
I obviously missed the momentous occasion when the mainstream media turned anti-war. But who can now deny that it is so when we see Wiki-leaks and the mainstream media joining forces to expose the ugly truth of the US invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan, and more recently, what the US state ... … Read entire article »
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