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China Two Child Policy and the Population Crunch

James Corbett, November 7 2015

China is not alone in its prospect of facing a demographic winter scenario of an aging (and eventually shrinking) population. In fact, the latest world population data shows that a majority of the nations on the planet now have a total fertility rate below the replacement rate of 2.1 children per couple...

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New Study Shows Antarctica Actually Gaining Land Ice

James Corbett, November 4 2015

You see, the same researchers who can’t even accurately say whether the Antarctic ice sheets are gaining or losing mass are able to determine global sea level rise to within hundredths of a millimeter.

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An Introduction to Counter Economics

James Corbett, October 31 2015

Economics is the realm of white markets: legal and lawful everyday exchanges in the above ground economy. Counter-economics is everything else: black market and grey market activity either specifically outlawed by the state or not licensed or approved by it.

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A new Five Year Plan For China and What You Need to Know

James Corbett, October 28 2015

...look for a flurry of eye-popping, toe-tapping Communist Party propaganda to unleash that on the public in the weeks following the plenum.

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5 Stories From the Oil Markets You Need to Know

James Corbett, October 24 2015

As we've discussed before, if this oil slump continues it's going to have a profound impact on transforming economies around the globe, not just in the Middle East.

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The Real Winner of the Canadian Election

James Corbett, October 21 2015

The truth is that it doesn’t matter who wins this election, the real winner will be the same winner as in every election. The same Canadian Council of Chief Executives clique that helped shape the SPP negotiations in secret backroom negotiations with the “elected officials” who supposedly govern the country.

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South Africa to Withdraw from the Internaional Criminal Court

James Corbett, October 17 2015

That the ICC has arrived in this situation should be no surprise that the lip service that the court gives to the pursuit of justice for the gravest crimes is just that: lip service.

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Dutch Safety Board Releases MH17 Report

James Corbett, October 14 2015

...why wasn’t the airspace over Eastern Ukraine closed to civilian air traffic at the time? Why were 160 flights passing over that region on the day of the MH17 shootdown alone? Unsurprisingly, answers to these questions are not forthcoming from Kiev.

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Breaking the Silence on the Destruction of Yemen

James Corbett, October 10 2015

No matter how you boil it down, the script is as sad as it is predictable. Once again international powers are using a conflict in a strategically located country to advance their own agendas and enrich their military contractors at the expense of the ordinary Yemeni.

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TPP Deal Reached

James Corbett, October 7 2015

The TPP is a so-called "free trade agreement" that is the largest such deal since NAFTA. If ratified it will cover 12 countries, impacting over 400 million people and nearly 40% of the world's GDP.

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How to Enjoy Your Servitude

James Corbett, October 3 2015

Even assuming that the technical details of the systems that make these steps toward enslavement possible could be explained, it's the mindset of people in the current era that would be unfathomable to this time traveler from the 1950s.

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Syrian Blowback as Russia, China and Iran Form Military Coalition

James Corbett, September 30 2015

We are now witnessing the rise of a power bloc that contains the second and third largest militaries on the planet as well as the active cooperation of the governments actually effected by the ISIS invasion.

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Bow Or Die

Bob Rinear, September 26 2015

If VW had merely killed innocent consumers by putting in faulty switches, they’d have been fine. No problem. Sorry, simple mistake. But play with the golden God of Carbon emissions? Now you have a problem.

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The Age of Biometric Elections

James Corbett, September 23 2015

This is an insidious process, and we’re just starting to see the birth pangs of it in these new biometric elections. And rest assured, regardless of whether these elections go off without a hitch or are a technical nightmare,

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What Global Defense Spending Tells Us About the World

James Corbett, September 19 2015

If there is any bright spot to this harrowing statistic, it is that the contractors are making money hand over fist without the need for active conflict in many parts of the globe.

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