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Lies, Damned Lies, and Government Statistics

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The Corbett Report - 12/11/13, James Corbett

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Late last month former Bank of Canada governor and recently-appointed Bank of England governor Mark Carney surprised many by criticizing the quality of the economic data being provided by the UK’s Office for National Statistics. Measurement of investment in Britain was one source of discomfort for the former Goldman Sachs insider, who said that “We’re not putting full weight on that data and it has to be said that it doesn’t entirely feel right that investment is, as measured, falling at a time when we see continued strengthening investment intention.” He added that “a lot of work” would have to be done to bring Britain’s flow of funds data up to international standards.

To be clear, what was surprising was not that the ONS data is incomplete and misleading; everyone with an ounce of economic understanding already knew this. What is surprising is that a high-ranking bank official was admitting that the data they and the market in general is relying on is so unreliable.

Ukraine Forces Retreat, Ceding Square to Protests

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The New York Times - 12/11/13, by DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and ANDREW E. KRAMER

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Mobilizing after midnight, thousands of riot police officers and Interior Ministry troops broke through barricades around Independence Square, pushed demonstrators back and formed tight cordons around them. They then called in bulldozers and other heavy equipment to raze some of the protesters’ tents and barricades.

The security forces clashed with protesters and briefly tried to regain control of City Hall. Then at 10:30 a.m., they abruptly withdrew, raising new questions about Mr. Yanukovich’s handling of the crisis, which has seemed increasingly erratic. The retreat let protesters reclaim the square and they quickly rebuilt their barriers, this time using heaping bags of snow.

Is government aid a giant money-laundering scheme?

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RINF - 12/11/13, Jon Rappoport

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When government officials, asked about poverty in America, simply say, “We have to do more,” they’re not only obfuscating and lying, they’re accessories after the fact. They know. They’re not that stupid. They know enormous sums have been, and are being, carted away into the night.

Every presidential administration since 1965 has been complicit.

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Canada set up spy posts for NSA

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Press TV - 12/11/13, CAH/HSN/SS
 

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Canada has set up covert spying posts around the world and spied on trading partners at the request of the US National Security Agency (NSA), a report says.

Canadian broadcaster, CBC News, published the report on Monday, revealing that the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) is involved in espionage activities with its US counterpart in “approximately 20 high-priority countries.”

Video and more: PressTV.ir

 

Inside the Box

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Slate - Jessica Olien, 12/06/13

People don’t actually like creativity.

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This is the thing about creativity that is rarely acknowledged: Most people don’t actually like it. Studies confirm what many creative people have suspected all along: People are biased against creative thinking, despite all of their insistence otherwise.

Most people agree that what distinguishes those who become famously creative is their resilience. While creativity at times is very rewarding, it is not about happiness. Staw says a successful creative person is someone “who can survive conformity pressures and be impervious to social pressure.”

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History Is Always Now

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Before It's News - 12/09/13, by Zen Gardner

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Orwell said it quite aptly, “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”

The time to wake up is now. Always now. Refuse the false narrative of delay, walking sleep and distraction.

Now says “go for it”.  Follow the Truth. It’s our time to assert.

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Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram

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Nature.com - 12/10/13, Ron Cohen

 

At a black hole, Albert Einstein's theory of gravity apparently clashes with quantum physics, but that conflict could be solved if the Universe were a holographic projection. Artist's impression by Markus Gann/Shutterstock

A team of physicists has provided some of the clearest evidence yet that our Universe could be just one big projection.

In 1997, theoretical physicist Juan Maldacena proposed1 that an audacious model of the Universe in which gravity arises from infinitesimally thin, vibrating strings could be reinterpreted in terms of well-established physics. The mathematically intricate world of strings, which exist in nine dimensions of space plus one of time, would be merely a hologram: the real action would play out in a simpler, flatter cosmos where there is no gravity.

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