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Bill Bonner: 6 Success Secrets of a $22-Billion Family

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“Gerard Mulliez is often called the Sam Walton of France.  The Mulliez family has businesses with annual revenues of about $60 billion and more than a quarter million employees. You’ve probably never heard of them. And you’ve almost certainly never seen a picture of them. They’re discreet, private and unassuming.  The family has been in business for two centuries. But only in the last 50 years has it built one of the world’s biggest and most profitable family-business empires. And it has done it while also creating one of the biggest and most successful families.  I have identified six secrets to the Mulliez family’s success.”

http://www.bonnerandpartners.com/6-success-secrets-of-a-22-billion-family/

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Is the War on Drugs Over?

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“There’s an international powwow scheduled for 2016, one that was moved up from 2021. And every day more articles and editorials appear that argue not just for the full legalization of pot but of illicit drugs in general. The best guess is that the power elite sees drug legalization as a global solution to a problem that knows no borders. One can make an argument that the ‘war on drugs’ may have been a kind of red herring designed to lead to the ‘directed history’ of an international solution. Of course, it is widely acknowledged that the ‘war on drugs’ has been a failure – but who would ever have thought it was going to be a success in the first place except for certain law enforcement types?”

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/35358/Anthony-Wile-Is-the-War-on-Drugs-Over/

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Bill Bonner: Why I Sued Washington 28 Years Ago

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“When the Spanish conquered South America, their encomienda system of slavery typically required only 40 days of work from their victims. The French conquered Madagascar; they forced male Hovas between 16 and 60 to work 50 days a year.  The US example is closer to that of Russia – where Emperor Paul I, in 1797, declared that three days a week was enough for serfs to give their lords and masters. That works out to nearly 150 days a year.  A 50% tax rate – federal, state and local – is the equivalent of about 125 days of forced labor a year. Pretty steep. But that’s just the beginning. In our system of crony democracy, all the major industries have whips in their hands.”

http://www.bonnerandpartners.com/why-i-sued-washington-28-years-ago/

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Bill Bonner: College is a con

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“Gradually, making things in the US became less and less profitable. So, if you wanted to earn a good salary you had to go somewhere else. Finance, administration, accounting, law, education, or health care. The good jobs in these industries required college. That’s why you’re here.  But wait, there’s more to the story. Unlimited credit also made it easier to support zombies and parasites. Government connived with industry to create quasi-monopolies, cartels, subsidies, guarantees and price supports. And the feds could add bureaucracy, controls, rules and regulations.  For example, the education industry added few teachers, but lots of ‘educators’ and policy coordinators.”

http://moneyweek.com/college-is-a-con/

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The Shocking Real Reason for FATCA, and What Comes Next

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“The central planners at the G20 and OECD devised what they call a new ‘global standard’ of automatic financial information exchange between governments (i.e., GATCA) modeled on the US’s FATCA.  However, GATCA would have never been possible in the first place had the US not cleared the path with FATCA.  The G20 and OECD needed the US—the sole financial superpower (for now at least)—to strong-arm and cram down the throats of the rest of the world this privacy-killing measure. There’s no other entity on the planet with the capability to do so.  The very big stick the US wielded was access to the US financial system and the world’s premier reserve currency.”

http://www.internationalman.com/articles/the-shocking-real-reason-for-fatca-and-what-comes-next

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Paul Craig Roberts: Why War Is Inevitable

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“President George W. Bush’s repeal of the Constitution has been expanded by President Obama and codified by Congress and executive orders into law. Far from defending our liberties, our soldiers who died in “the war on terror” died so that the president can indefinitely detain US citizens without due process of law and murder US citizens on suspicion alone without any accountability to law or the Constitution.  The conclusion is unavoidable that America’s wars have not protected our liberty but, instead, destroyed liberty. As Alexander Solzhenitsyn said, ‘A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.'”

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/05/25/war-inevitable-paul-craig-roberts/

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Paramilitary Tactics Learned Abroad, Used at Home

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“One young mother is blinded by a spotlight while she nurses her tiny infant. Two of the men rifle though the family’s personal possessions while two others guard the entrance to the home. This is the third invasion of their home in the past two months. Almost every night, the paramilitaries drive by their yard, spotlighting their windows and watching them from the roadside.  Another member of the same community recalls being followed for miles by a low-flying Blackhawk helicopter with machine-gunners hanging out of the open helicopter doors. She’s also been pulled over, pepper-sprayed, beaten with batons and interrogated about her grocery shopping.  Is this some godforsaken third-world hellhole?”

http://thesovereigninvestor.com/asset-protection/paramilitary-tactics-learned-abroad-used-home/

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The US Imperium, Coming Dollar Difficulties and Investing Abroad

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“I like gold, foreign securities, unique startup situations and IPOs and even mining stocks, although I’m not convinced mining shares will do well because there are now so many other precious metal alternatives. As I said earlier, I believe big money will likely be made by early investors into the exciting new cannabis startups and IPOs. But diversify any investment in this area among a number of companies because many will fail and only a few will do well. Once again, although there are real medical benefits from cannabis use, the government policy change is primarily because they need the revenue at all levels of government.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/exclusive-interviews/35336/Anthony-Wile-Ron-Holland-on-the-US-Imperium-Coming-Dollar-Difficulties-and-the-Advantages-of-Investing-Abroad/

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Lessons from the Great Austrian Inflation

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“One of these tragic episodes that is worth recalling and learning from was the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the accompanying Great Austrian Inflation in the immediate postwar period in the early 1920s.  For those who say that such things as a hyperinflation, economic chaos, capital consumption and political tyranny ‘can’t happen here,’ it is worth remembering that a hundred years ago, in 1914, few in prewar Vienna could have imagined that it would happen there.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/35298/Richard-Ebeling-Lessons-from-the-Great-Austrian-Inflation/

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Lew Rockwell: Speaking Truth to Monetary Power

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“We have every reason to expect governments to exploit their positions as monopolists of the production of money in ways that increase their power and benefit favored constituencies. We do not need ‘monetary policy’ any more than we need a paintbrush policy, a baseball bat policy, or an automobile policy. We do not need a monopoly institution to create money for us. Money, like any good, is better produced on the market within the nexus of economic calculation. Money creation by government or its privileged central bank yields us business cycles, monetary debasement, and an increase in the power of government.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/35335/Llewellyn-H-Rockwell-Jr-Speaking-Truth-to-Monetary-Power/

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