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Plenty of petroleum products available (and at a nice low price..) to run all this heavy equipment harvesting the feedstock this year... this family makes it look like they are having fun...(Tho I don't like all the small children apparently running around all the heavy equipment... they could tighten that part up imo...)[embedded content]

Kashkari put these out this week in response to some 'audit the Fed!' nut-jobs ... kinda funny...Ok here you go. https://t.co/L2yOJ2RUey https://t.co/yDNSaUVVKS— Neel Kashkari (@neelkashkari) November 8, 2018 KPMG https://t.co/7qb67qTZIT— Neel Kashkari (@neelkashkari) November 8, 2018

The doctored video of CNN's Jim Acosta shared by White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was "not altered," White House counsel Kellyanne Conway claimed on Fox News Sunday, just "sped up." "They do it all the time in sports to see if there's actually a first down or a touchdown," she told host Chris Wallace. "So, I have to disagree with the, I think, overwrought description of this video being doctored as if we put somebody else's arm in there." Independent expert analysis of...

Recently declassified documents show that the former CIA director and former director of national intelligence approved illegal spying on Congress and then classified their crime. They need to face punishment, writes John Kiriakou. Consortium News Brennan and Clapper Should Not Escape Prosecution John Kiriakou

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The old "should the government issue bonds" debate has come up again. I would point the reader to this article at Mike Norman Economics, as well as the Richard Murphy article it refers to. I would argue that there is limited room for debate. The Treasury of the central government certainly can stop issuing bonds, conditioned on there being changes to the legal/regulatory framework for the central bank. The more important question is whether such a policy is a good idea. My argument is that...

Awesome! Home from home. And I hope they have real ale there too, drawn up from a traditional hand pump. You can't beat a drop of London Pride! [embedded content] Tianducheng, or "Sky Capital City," is a real estate development modeled after Paris, complete with its own Eiffel Tower. English real ale.  Inside a traditional English pub. My local. Just a two mile walk through the woods. I spent the best part off my youth in this one. Or this one.

Over the last decade, my colleague, University of California, Santa Barbara psychology professor Jonathan Schooler and I have developed what we call a “resonance theory of consciousness.” We suggest that resonance – another word for synchronized vibrations – is at the heart of not only human consciousness but also animal consciousness and of physical reality more generally. It sounds like something the hippies might have dreamed up – it’s all vibrations, man! – but stick with me. The...

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