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		<title>Wikileaks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 09:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few things to keep in mind when trying to make sense of Wikileaks and all things Assange: The best lies are laced with 95% truth, (plus statistics). Especially juicy, embarrassing, gossipy truth. Who benefits? Whose life is improved by these revelations? Who is attempting to create a leadership vacuum&#8230; are they a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firingsquid.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6041951&amp;post=1127&amp;subd=firingsquid&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Historical Repetition?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s obviously not easy being a politician. It takes training from an early age and political success partly relies on memorable imagery. This one of Julia certainly is memorable! Tagged: julia gillard, lenin, mao, saddam<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firingsquid.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6041951&amp;post=1111&amp;subd=firingsquid&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Global Falsehoods</title>
		<link>http://firingsquid.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/global-falsehoods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We live in the age of falsehood. Take any stated claim of the mass media that is not self evident, invert the meaning of what is said, and you will find yourself closer to knowing the truth than before. The rate at which an accepted Truth changes nowadays is astounding. The ability of people to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firingsquid.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6041951&amp;post=1081&amp;subd=firingsquid&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Without cash, gold can have no monetary role</title>
		<link>http://firingsquid.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/without-cash-gold-can-have-no-monetary-role/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although the topics of the Cashless Society and the Gold Monetary Standard have been discussed previously on this and other sites, we feel that further discussion on these pressing issues is warranted. The Cashless Society Earlier we speculated that there might be a glorious return to sound money, such as a precious metal standard. But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firingsquid.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6041951&amp;post=1066&amp;subd=firingsquid&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Haven&#8217;t Heard of Chesterton?</title>
		<link>http://firingsquid.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/havent-heard-of-chesterton/</link>
		<comments>http://firingsquid.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/havent-heard-of-chesterton/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problems of the modern world do not merely revolve around whether money is based on faith, or gold, or seashells, nor whether the US has the weapons, or Russia, or China. All the problems persist, while wrong ideas persist. So it is our pleasure to add a link to our site in promotion of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firingsquid.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6041951&amp;post=1063&amp;subd=firingsquid&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Get Drunk at This Party</title>
		<link>http://firingsquid.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/dont-get-drunk-at-this-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 05:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several rather unconnected reports give a poignant lesson on the importance of true principles. That is, if you follow a correct idea through to its conclusion, it does not matter what the established facts may be at a given time, your hunch will come good. In a not unexpected report (Financial Times), it&#8217;s announced that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firingsquid.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6041951&amp;post=1055&amp;subd=firingsquid&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rioting in America?</title>
		<link>http://firingsquid.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/rioting-in-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we have a little daydream about what might happen in American society if unemployment were to skyrocket, as it appears very likely to do. The scenario might go something like this. Official unemployment soars to twenty, may be thirty percent, such that the number of idle males of working age in America is one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firingsquid.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6041951&amp;post=1051&amp;subd=firingsquid&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prepare for the Big Dipper</title>
		<link>http://firingsquid.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/prepare-for-the-big-dipper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A report on MSN news estimates US unemployment at 20%, citing inaccuracies and bias in data collection and methods of calculating the unemployment rate in America. Ah, America, the nation where Freedom of Speech really means freedom of the rich to tell lies with impunity. It&#8217;s the nation drunk on ignorance, the land of make-believe, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firingsquid.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6041951&amp;post=1037&amp;subd=firingsquid&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rephrasing Bloomberg</title>
		<link>http://firingsquid.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/rephrasing-bloomberg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Articles on Bloomberg are entertaining, juicy, and just a tad biased. That&#8217;s what makes Bloomberg a much better read than most news outlets (since the news is additionally entertaining and juicy). In a recent article with the understated and rather misleading title &#8220;Goldman Sach&#8217;s Investment in Trading Code Put at Risk by Theft&#8221;, a computer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firingsquid.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6041951&amp;post=1032&amp;subd=firingsquid&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Every Download Is Sacred</title>
		<link>http://firingsquid.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/every-download-is-sacred/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excellent blog post appeared in the Guardian newspaper entitled &#8220;Are Downloads Really Killing Music? Or Is It Something Else?&#8220;, where it was stated: But the reality is that nowadays, one can choose between a game costing £40 that will last weeks, or a £10 CD with two great tracks and eight dud ones. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firingsquid.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6041951&amp;post=1025&amp;subd=firingsquid&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Swinders in the Mist</title>
		<link>http://firingsquid.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/swinders-in-the-mist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember the days in the old school yard? Remember how some kids couldn&#8217;t take any loss of face? Investors who lost their fortunes in the Madoff Scandal (the guy who made off with over $50 billion from his Ponzi scheme)  are now hoping to claim the appreciated amount of money instead of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firingsquid.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6041951&amp;post=1020&amp;subd=firingsquid&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Here Comes Sound Money</title>
		<link>http://firingsquid.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/here-comes-sound-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our suspicions, just a day or two ago, that gold may not be the metal of choice in a standardised (non-fiat) monetary system, grow stronger today. Russia is likely to take the &#8220;palladium standard&#8221; as the basis of the Ruble. But first, a short history of alternative toilet paper. Back in the days of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firingsquid.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6041951&amp;post=996&amp;subd=firingsquid&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gold: Whose Precious?</title>
		<link>http://firingsquid.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/gold-whose-precious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent newspaper articles and, for a long time, on the Daily Reckoning, gold has been touted as the Next Big Thing in commodities, that it is destined to return to glory as the chief component of a world reserve currency. It is, however, just a metal, albeit a pretty one. One has to wonder [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firingsquid.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6041951&amp;post=981&amp;subd=firingsquid&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GM through Kresa&#8217;s Eyes</title>
		<link>http://firingsquid.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/gm-through-kresas-eyes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever reading news, it&#8217;s far more entertaining to see how they fit within a hypothesis than to simply soak the information up unquestioningly like a sponge. The latter approach seems to be the norm, however, judging from conversations overheard at coffee houses, markets and workplaces. This week we considered once again how things might be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firingsquid.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6041951&amp;post=969&amp;subd=firingsquid&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Preparing for the Single World Currency</title>
		<link>http://firingsquid.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/preparing-for-the-single-world-currency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 12:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg has a commentary by Mark Gilbert, summarising the evidence to support the idea that the U.S. dollar&#8217;s days are numbered. His commentary concurs somewhat with one made by Bill Bonner on The Daily Reckoning. He describes the merciless battle between the forces of inflation versus deflation, but with rather more frankness suggests that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firingsquid.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6041951&amp;post=964&amp;subd=firingsquid&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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