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Kerala India Group Wants Wedding Gold Limits

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“The women’s commission of India’s Kerala state is seeking to limit the amount of gold given at weddings to no more than 80 grams to reduce the burden on families and help ease India’s trade deficit. Most Indians see gifts of gold, mostly jewellery, from the bride’s family to the groom as auspicious for a marriage, helping to ensure financial security. But grooms have been seeking increasing amounts of gold as rising duties and restrictions on imports have led to a shortage in India, the world’s second-largest gold consumer after China.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/34925/Kerala-India-Group-Wants-Wedding-Gold-Limits/

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Fed up with euro, France flirts with coupon money

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“Whether buying bread, filling a pharmacy prescription, getting a haircut or going to the doctor, some residents of Montreuil, France, are rejecting the euro in favor of ‘La Peche’, a local community currency.  In France, local currencies are growing in popularity as trust in state institutions erodes. An elaborate coupon system lets locals pay for services and goods with special local banknotes, which are recycled and kept within the community.  France, Europe’s second largest economy, has at least 20 different types of complementary currencies. Worldwide there are over 4,000 community-centered money schemes.”

http://rt.com/business/france-currency-alternative-euro-415/

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Predictable Rise of Populism

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“Both populism and corporatism are significant paradigms of control. Modern corporatism uses the building blocks of central banking, corporate personhood and ‘democracy’ to create a top-down, elite-controlled society that gradually collapses inward on itself as fewer and fewer individuals control more and more assets. Modern populism is the elite-developed antidote. This attacks central banking and corporatism by proposing that government be used to make life fairer for the ‘people.’ Of course, what is really going on is that the top elites are actually behind populism and are cleverly proposing a solution that is a Trojan Horse for further elite control.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/34913/Predictable-Rise-of-Populism/

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Regulating Bad Behavior on Wall Street: Who’s at Fault?

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“FINRA, the SEC, etc., would do better to confront the real problem of financial markets, which is its tendency to radically overinflate and then collapse. It is this organized stimulation that is force-feeding money into securities markets around the world, eventually creating the boom-to-end-all-booms. Today we can clearly see the construction of another – vaster – bubble economy. Those orchestrating this are the real culprits. Crime thrives when there is an environment for it. The larger manipulations of finance and investing provide ample opportunity for fraud. If one wants to reduce such fraud, one needs to attack the macro factors, not the micro ones.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/34900/Regulating-Bad-Behavior-on-Wall-Street-Whos-at-Fault/

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Congress still at near-record low approval rating

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“A Rasmussen Reports poll indicated just 8 percent of likely voters think Congress is doing a good or excellent job. Sixty-six percent rate its performance as poor.  Congress as an institution has long proved unpopular in opinion polls though voters tend to express more optimism when asked about their local congressman or senator, though Congress’ positive rating bottomed out at just 5 percent in December 2012.  Making matters worse, nearly seven in 10 Americans (69 percent) agreed with the statement no matter how bad things are, Congress can always find a way to make them worse. Seventeen percent of people disagreed with the statement and 14 percent had no opinion.”

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2014/01/08/Congress-still-at-near-record-low-approval-rating/UPI-83661389214620/

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Are we on the brink of war? 1914 past and 2014 present compared

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“Now, the United States rules the waves.  Her vast fleet is unmatched in size and strength. It plies the seven seas with confidence and impunity.  She has the added reassurance that her jets also rule the skies.  But the world is changing.  The trump-card of nuclear weapons is now part of the arsenal of a growing number of nations.  And is the potential of cheap, automated drones and missiles similar to that of the unrecognised power of the machinegun of 1914?  And what of cyber war? Just how much damage can computer-based attacks inflict on a nation?  Unfortunately, it will probably take a major war for the world to find out.”

http://www.news.com.au/world/are-we-on-the-brink-of-war-academic-sparks-debate-by-drawing-comparisons-between-1914-past-and-2014-present/story-fndir2ev-1226793586357

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Is War With China Inevitable?

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“China has stopped future increases of dollar forex holdings, and has cut the use of the dollar in bilateral trade agreements with multiple countries.  Oil-producing nations are shifting alliances to China because it is now the world’s largest consumer of petroleum. And, China has clearly been preparing for this eventuality for years. So, given these circumstances, how can the U.S. government conceive of confrontation with the East? Challenging one’s creditors to a duel does not usually end well. At the very least, it would be economic suicide. But perhaps that is the point. Perhaps America is meant to make this seemingly idiotic leap.”

http://www.alt-market.com/articles/1866-is-war-with-china-inevitable

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Is NATO’s Invisible Hand Alone in the Ukraine?

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“The poor, beleaguered Ukrainian culture is torn between East and West and those wishing for a better life apparently have to choose between Russia and the EU. What a choice! The EU is a fascist/corporatist empire in the making and Russia is devolving into an authoritarian cult of personality.  Yet Western Ukraine apparently is enamored of the EU, at least in part. The East, with huge factories and industrial trade with Russia believes that the Ukraine’s future lies with the Great Bear. The easiest observation to make – as we mentioned above – is that a lot of the current ruckus smacks of NATO/CIA interference.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/34844/Is-NATOs-Invisible-Hand-Alone-in-the-Ukraine/

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Mandela ‘received weapons training from Mossad agents in 1962’

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“Nelson Mandela apparently underwent weapons training by Mossad agents in Ethiopia in 1962 without the Israeli secret service knowing his true identity, according to an intriguing secret letter lodged in the Israeli state archives.  The missive, revealed by the Israeli paper Haaretz two weeks after the death of the iconic South African leader, said Mandela was instructed in the use of weapons and sabotage techniques, and was encouraged to develop Zionist sympathies.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/20/nelson-mandela-weapons-training-mossad-agents

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Afghanistan gains will be lost quickly after drawdown: NIE

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“The National Intelligence Estimate, which includes input from the country’s 16 intelligence agencies, predicts that the Taliban and other power brokers will become increasingly influential as the United States winds down its longest war in history.  The report predicts that Afghanistan would likely descend into chaos quickly if Washington and Kabul don’t sign a security pact that would keep an international military contingent there beyond 2014 — a precondition for the delivery of billions of dollars in aid that the United States and its allies have pledged to spend in Afghanistan over the coming years.  That conclusion is widely shared among U.S. officials working on Afghanistan.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/afghanistan-gains-will-be-lost-quickly-after-drawdown-us-intelligence-estimate-warns/2013/12/28/ac609f90-6f32-11e3-aecc-85cb037b7236_story.html

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