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La Nacion (Argentina's leading conservative newspaper) is used to getting shut down by the Peronists, but this has to be a first for Clarin. Argentina's President Fernandez de Kirchner, who succeeded in 2007 her husband Nestor Kirchner, former and never-prosecuted member of the terrorist ERP, has ordered the company's cl...

Too funny. The defeated Prime Minister said, "The people have spoken, but it's going to take a while to determine what they actually said." Ranks up there with Franken on the glibosity scale, and rivals Pelosi's infamous "we'll have to pass the bill so we'll know what's in it." Well, one thin...

The following article was submitted by a friend in Australia. This gentleman was quite an entrepreneur that put his own skin in the game at every turn. What would Switzerland be without the Swatch? R.I.P. Mr. Hayek, your ingenuity and managerial skills were a tough act to follow. Nicolas Hayek The man who saved the Swiss watch in...

All I have to say is DRINK IT! Auction it off for preservation purposes, but it does no one any good to put it back in his shack! My gosh, we have become too altruistic. If this were 1960 and an explorer came upon the shack I am certain that they would have had a sniffer full and raised the glass to Shackleton. Save the bottles a...

A very good article by Ron Paul that I felt was worth posting. Why is RP one of the only politicians who truly gets it? Where are our youth today -- like we had in the 70's -- protesting this horrid made up war? Why aren't the rest of American citizens screaming on every street corner, "NO! WE WON'T SEND AN...

“It’s a very good thing that food and energy are not included in the core CPI because if people around the world actually had to eat and consume energy there might be a problem.” --Michael Krieger, KAM LP, see full article here. Protectionism is increasing around the world and agriculture is not left out. After ...

I've mentioned many times that both the economic wealth and power of the West will slowly transfer to the East and the article below, with reference to mainly UK as well as Europe, refers directly to this oncoming event. The article highlights that Cameron, the UK Prime Minister in his recent visit to India, is openly acknowledg...

Fun facts: In April of 2009, Iran imported 80 billion tons of... no, not yellowcake: peat moss. Exploding peat moss that propagates by vortex power! A physicist and a botanist discovered that spaghnum peat moss shoots mushroom clouds of moss spores that coalesce into vortices to rise high into the air, and published their findings i...