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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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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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Holiday Lunacy: How Americans Are Conditioned to Buy Like Pavlov's Dogs When the Corporate Bells Ring

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Truth-Out - 12/05/13, JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT

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Anyways, the point is that Americans are easy targets. The commercial world sells the illusion of happiness: the more you buy and have the happier you'll be, right? Wrong, observed the poet, Charles Bukowski:

the city dumps fill
the junkyards fill
the madhouses fill
the hospitals fill
the graveyards fill

But Americans fall for it every time, including the super rich who also believe that being happy has something to do with excessive wealth until they too fall into debt, not to mention how miserable they become from the ugly competition and the sick addiction to money and the material world.

Huge crowds rally for EU deal, build barricades in Ukrainian capital

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RT - 12/08/13

An aerial view shows Maidan Nezalezhnosti or Independence Square crowded by supporters of EU integration during a rally in central Kiev, December 8, 2013 (Reuters / Stoyan Nenov)

An aerial view shows Maidan Nezalezhnosti or Independence Square crowded by supporters of EU integration during a rally in central Kiev, December 8, 2013 (Reuters / Stoyan Nenov)

 

Ukrainian protesters blocked streets leading to government buildings with barricades, as tens of thousands rallied on Kiev’s Independence Square. The opposition hoped its pro-EU protest would attract 1 million people, calling it “The Million March.”

Nearly 100,000 protesters have gathered on Kiev’s center, according to police estimates. The opposition has claimed nearly 1 million people are taking part in the rally.

Video and more: RT.com

 

NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking

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The Washington Post - 12/10/13, By Ashkan Soltani, Andrea Peterson, and Barton Gellman

A slide from an internal NSA presentation indicating that the agency uses at least one Google cookie as a way to identify targets for exploitation. (Washington Post)

A slide from an internal NSA presentation indicating that the agency uses at least one Google cookie as a way to identify targets for exploitation. (Washington Post)
 

The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using "cookies" and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking and to bolster surveillance.

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