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  • How America Will Fail

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  • New Zealand Mulls $100 for Pack of Cigarettes

    New Zealand’s Health Ministry has reportedly considered boosting the price of a pack of cigarettes as high as $100 ($81 U.S.) in a bid to make the country smoke free by 2025. An internal government working paper raised the possibility of upping the cost of a 20-cigarette pack by 30 to 60 percent and tacking…

  • Bank of America Hates the Second Amendment

    McMillan Fiberglass Stocks, McMillan Firearms Manufacturing and McMillan Group International have been collectively banking with Bank of America for 12 years. But no more: In a recent meeting, the mega-bank told the firearms company that its business is no longer welcome. Operations director Kelly McMillan told the Daily Caller that his company has never been…

  • We’re Dying — Another 5.4 Million Get SS Disability

    Yesterday I re-wrote about Tytler: A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. The post when on to cite recent news about how we’re nearing this point.  We have a record number of folks on…

  • Michigan’s Armed Raids on Small Pig Farmers

    NaturalNews can now confirm that the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has, in total violation of the Fourth Amendment, conducted two armed raids on pig farmers in that state, one in Kalkaska County at Fife Lake and another in Cheboygan County. Staging raids involving six vehicles and ten armed men, DN[R] conducted unconstitutional, illegal and…

  • Google’s Brin: Web Faces Greatest Threat Ever

    The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation of the internet three decades ago are under greater threat than ever, according to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. In an interview with the Guardian, Brin warned there were “very powerful forces that have lined up against the open internet on all sides and around…

  • European Markets Tank

    European markets took a big hit today, obliterating any hope generated by yesterday’s rally. Contagion is back, baby!  … Italy and Spain led the downward trend, with the latter index briefly down over 4 percent.  Yields on Spanish government bonds continued to push 6 percent, but did not exceed that benchmark level. via Business Insider.…

  • Is the Fed Promoting Recovery or Desperation?

    A lengthy beating to the Fed begins: On Friday, the Department of Labor reported that March non-farm payrolls increased by 120,000, falling well short of consensus expectations in excess of 200,000. …  On the payroll front, our present expectation is that April job creation will deteriorate toward zero or negative levels. Immediately after the payroll…

  • Worst Housing Market Is In?

    New data out of Standard & Poor’s this morning painted a somewhat mixed picture of the U.S. housing market: showing home prices may have hit bottom. via Business Insider. Hit bottom?  Unlikely.  But what I really wanted to show what this chart: Looking at the worst performing cities:  Atlanta, Las Vegas, Chicago. In January 2011,…

  • Bogus Chicago-area Jobless Rate Dips

    Lies… Damn Lies… and Statistics: The February unemployment rate in the Chicago area dropped to 8.9 percent from 9.6 percent a year ago, according to preliminary data released Thursday by the Illinois Department of Employment Security. The Chicago area, which includes Joliet and Naperville added roughly 38,100 jobs  to the payrolls, according to the data,…