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Colleagues…
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Apr 2024

Comedy Hour

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By the Dawn’s Early Light: On the Fall of the Francis Scott Key Bridge
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Apr 2024

7 Apr 2024 – The Baltimore bridge that collapsed on 26 March was named for Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to the US national anthem “The Star-Spangled Banner” in 1814. His inspiration was the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in the critical port of Baltimore during the War of 1812. The British had just burned the U.S. Capitol and the White House.

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Blame Game
Unknown | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

No kidding…

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Yanis Varoufakis Blasts Europe’s Complicity in Genocide
Yanis Varoufakis | Double Down News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

“In Germany today you can only talk about Genocide if you support it.”

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The Public Bank That Wasn’t: New Jersey’s Excursion into Public Banking
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

9 Mar 2024 – In 2017, Phil Murphy, a former Goldman Sachs executive, made the establishment of a public, state-owned bank a centerpiece issue during his run for New Jersey governor. He regularly championed public banking in speeches, town halls and campaign commercials.

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US Totalitarian “Crypto Dollar” May Come before the Election
Aaron R. Day | Brownstone Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

Central Bank Digital Currencies threaten to replace the cash we use with programmable, trackable, and censorable government tokens. Your financial choices could be suppressed and privacy eliminated and this could happen before the 2024 election. The best way to stop it is through direct action, not through politics. 

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Defusing the Derivatives Time Bomb: Some Proposed Solutions
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

16 Feb 2024 – The “protected class” is granted “safe harbor” only because their bets are so risky that to let them fail could crash the economy. But why let them bet at all?

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Casino Capitalism and the Derivatives Market: Time for Another ‘Lehman Moment’?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

In 2008, derivatives brought down investment bank Bear Stearns and insurer A.I.G. They could not fail because the trillions of dollars in credit default swaps would have been wiped out, forcing banks and financial institutions to write down their own risky and now “unhedged” loans. Bear and A.I.G. were bailed out; but the Treasury drew the line at Lehman Brothers, and the market crashed.  

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Merchants of Death…
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

… are Making a Killing in Gaza, Ukraine, …

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Three US Presidents Who Made Thanksgiving a National Holiday — and What They Were Thankful for
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

24 Nov 2023 – All three were giving thanks for bringing the country through a major financial crisis related to war, and they achieved it through the “American system” of banking and finance.

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“The Great Taking”: How They Can Own It All
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

3 Oct 2023 – The derivatives bubble exceeds one quadrillion dollars. The GDP of the world is $105 trillion, or 10% of one quadrillion; the collective wealth of the world is $360 trillion. The bubble looks ready to pop. We need to design an alternative financial system that is equitable and sustainable.

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Winner? Winners!
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

Which one fits your personal story?

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What Constitutes an “Ungood” Person?
Author Unknown, 11 Sep 2023

There are several signs that someone may not be a good person. Here are a few, to be aware of:

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A Bad One
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Sep 2023

No Comment

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More Banks to Fail? Not in North Dakota
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

1 Sep 2023 – North Dakota has the fastest growing GDP per capita in the country and its banks are thriving, backstopped by the nation’s only state-owned bank.

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War by Other Means: Short Selling JPMorgan
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Aug 2023

10 Aug 2023 – As was said of Lehman Brothers fifteen years earlier, the targeted banks did not fall; they were pushed. One blogger shows how even JPMorgan Chase, the US largest bank, could be pushed — not perhaps by local short-sellers, but by China. And that is another good reason not to provoke the Chinese Dragon into “war by other means.”

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Internal Beauty
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jul 2023

Ditto!

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The Federal Debt Trap: Issues and Possible Solutions
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jul 2023

14 Jul 2023 – The US achieved its greatest-ever infrastructure campaign in the Great Depression. We can do that again with the same machinery: off-budget financing through a government-owned financial institution. It is good to have viable alternatives when, as in the 1930s, politicians are compelled to seek them out.

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A Memorial Day to Remember What, Exactly?
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jun 2023

Memorial Day USA [Revisited]

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Another Look at the U.S. Financial Transactions Tax That Could Eliminate Need for All Others
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

2 Jun 2023 – A small financial transactions tax could correct a number of maladies in the US economic system, from the federal debt crisis to the widening wealth divide to the rampant financialization of the economy, while eliminating taxes on income and sales.

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Tina Turner, Queen of Rock & Roll, Dead at 83
Brittany Spanos and David Browne | Rolling Stone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

24 May 2023 – Legendary Singer “Died Peacefully” Today in Switzerland after a Long Illness

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Squeezed by the Shorts: Time to Ban Short Selling?
Ellen Brown | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

17 May 2023 – Short sellers have made a killing in the recent banking crisis, scalping $14.3 billion from bank stock owners just in March of this year. Short sellers “borrow” stock they don’t own and immediately sell it, driving the price down. Then they buy it back at the lower price, return the stock, and pocket the difference.

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How the War on Crypto Triggered a Banking Crisis
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 May 2023

29 Apr 2023 – Facts & Info – Expert Analysis

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Duplicity
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Apr 2023

Joke? No Joke!

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The Cobalt Gold Rush and the East Palestine Train Disaster
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Apr 2023

13 Apr 2023 – Holidays in my childhood were spent at my grandparents’ farm in Plain Grove, Pennsylvania, 35 miles from East Palestine, Ohio. I have therefore taken a keen interest in the toxic chemical disaster in East Palestine on 3 Feb. The official narrative doesn’t seem to add up. Something else must have been going on, but what?

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Meanwhile, in Pandemic Land
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Apr 2023

-Yes, doc.
– Thanks, doc!

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Banking Crisis 3.0: Time to Change the Rule[r]s of the Game
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Mar 2023

Bail In, Bail Out, or “Socialism for the Rich”?

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The Looming Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Tsunami
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Mar 2023

On10 March Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest in the country, collapsed. This was the second largest bankruptcy in U.S. history, following Washington Mutual in 2008. Despite its size, SVB was not a “systemically important financial institution” as defined in the Dodd-Frank Act, which requires insolvent SIFIs to “bail in” the money of their creditors to recapitalize themselves.

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Peace Delivery
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Mar 2023

Captionless…

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Identified: The Boating Crew That Blew Up Nordstream
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Mar 2023

Alas!

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A Photo Is Worth a Billion Words
Author Unkown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Mar 2023

No comment…

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Cry Uncle
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Feb 2023

Like with everything else…

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What Will Happen When Banks Go Bust? Bank Runs, Bail-Ins and Systemic Risk
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Feb 2023

25 Feb 2023 – “Bail-ins:” the provision allowing Systemically Important Financial Institutions (basically the biggest banks) to bail in or expropriate their creditors’ money in the event of insolvency. So how big is the risk to your deposit account? From Bailouts to Bail-Ins.

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Wishful Thinking
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Feb 2023

What took them so long?…

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Reactive
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Feb 2023

Men, Women

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Faith
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Jan 2023

… is a choice.

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Solving the Debt Crisis the North American Way
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jan 2023

20 Jan 2023 – Our forefathers turned their debts into currency. That Constitutional approach could work today.

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Spiritual Evolution
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Jan 2023

Indeed

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Brazil Protests: Lula Vows to Punish ‘Neo-Fascists’ after Bolsonaro Supporters Storm Congress
Tom Phillips and Andrew Downie | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Jan 2023

9 Jan 2023 – President tours scene of riot and orders federal government to take control of policing in capital Brasília as extremists refuse to accept his presidency.

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Guiding Hands…
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Jan 2023

Tragicomedy?

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Be Yourself
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

NOW!

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Forgive Yourself
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

Feel compassion for yourself. Love yourself, not merely your body.

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Expectations
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

Some wisdom…

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Talking of Illusions…
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Nov 2022

Consider this:

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Consider this…
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Oct 2022

No Comment

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Protection Wall
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Oct 2022

Emotional Health

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Demands for Peace
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Sep 2022

INDEED!

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Trauma vs Healing
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Sep 2022

YES

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A Few for the Road…
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Sep 2022

What do you call a sleeping bull?

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Really?
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Sep 2022

How Poignant!

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USA: How to Green Our Parched Farmlands and Finance Critical Infrastructure
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Sep 2022

2 Sep 2022 – There are work-arounds the U.S. can use to fund affordable housing, drought responses, and other urgently-needed infrastructure that was left out of the two recent spending bills.

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The Meaning of Success
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Sep 2022

One Image Is Worth a Million Moral, Philosophical, or Psychological Studies or Treatises

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The Usual Suspects
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Aug 2022

Take your pick.

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Believe! You Can!
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Aug 2022

Dare to Risk

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Interest Rate Hikes Will Not Save Us from Inflation
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Aug 2022

27 Jul 2022 – Rather than making money harder to get, the U.S. government needs to focus on the other side of the demand vs. supply inflation equation.

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Focus
Author Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Aug 2022

Your choice…

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On Growth
Author Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jul 2022

YES!

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Hardships…
Unknown Author – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Jul 2022

… for Success

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Facing the Storm
Author Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jul 2022

Hope

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Achieving Self-Funding Local Sovereignty as Global Food Systems Collapse
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jul 2022

9 Jul 2022 – The solution to the current food crisis is small and local, including growing food locally. But how to fund local food co-ops without pricey loans from big banks? “Deglobalizing” and “dedollarizing” have been much in the news.

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Rhapsody in Blue (Music Video of the Week)
The 5 Browns – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jul 2022

– Full Performance – Live from the Factory Floor

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A Couple for the Road…
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2022

They said, ‘Do what you love and the money will follow.’

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Most Important
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jun 2022

Pertinent Question –> Perfect Answer

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The Food Shortage Solution in Your Own Backyard
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jun 2022

9 Jun 2022 – A confluence of crises—lockdowns and business closures, mandates and worker shortages, supply chain disruptions and inflation, sanctions and war—have compounded to trigger food shortages; and we have been warned that they may last longer than the food stored in our pantries. What to do? 

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A Reset That Serves the People
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 May 2022

19 May 2022 – Instead of buying into the World Economic Forum’s dystopian “Great Reset,” we can build an alternative system with a mandate to serve the people.

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Seeing vs Believing
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 May 2022

Ring any bells?

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A Monetary Reset Where the Rich Don’t Own Everything
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 May 2022

5 May 2022 – We have a serious debt problem, but solutions such as the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset” are not the future we want. It’s time to think outside the box for some new solutions.

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On Being Human
Unknown Author – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 May 2022

Indeed… ?

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The Monopoly on Your Mind (Part 2): Billionaires Bet Big on the News
Rebecca Strong | Down The Rabbit Hole - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 May 2022

28 Apr 2022 – But What’s in It for Them? – How worried should we be about the oligarchy media model? Can we depend on the media to challenge the powerful when they’re the ones paying writers’ salaries? When Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post for $250 million in 2013, he made a written promise to employees:

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Civilization Progress
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

Right!!

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Wisdom of the Day
Author Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

Indeed

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The Monopoly on Your Mind (Part 1): Six Media Companies Control 90% of What You Read, Watch and Hear
Rebecca Strong | Down The Rabbit Hole - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

12 Apr 2022 – Ever-mounting media consolidation has narrowed the perspectives the public is privy to. Ownership and funding of these corporations are riddled with conflicts of interest and Big Tech companies are outright censoring and demonetizing independent outlets.

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The Coming Global Financial Revolution: Russia Is Following the American Playbook
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Apr 2022

5 Apr 2022 – No country has successfully challenged the U.S. dollar’s global hegemony—until now. How did this happen and what will it mean? it could well mean the end of the petrodollar as sole global reserve currency, and the end of the devastating petroleum wars it has funded to maintain its dominance. 

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Stressing the Obvious
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Apr 2022

Reacting to Life

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The Comedian
Unknown author – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Mar 2022

Tragicomedy?

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Stepping up
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Mar 2022

Indeed…

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Patience
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Feb 2022

Yes!

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Rather Than Sink Main Street by Raising Interest Rates, the Fed Could Save It. Here’s How.
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Feb 2022

Today’s price inflation was triggered not so much by “too much money” as by “too little supply,” due to U.S. lockdowns and mandates. The Fed can help restock consumer supplies using tools that include Open Market Operations to counteract speculation, and the Discount Window to purchase loans from local banks willing to fund Main Street businesses if they had some help from the national Lender of Last Resort.

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Artificial ‘Intelligence’
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Feb 2022

Sorry? Really?

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Justice 2022
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Feb 2022

More to the point…

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Reward
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jan 2022

Good Old Capitalism…

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Cattle Boom in Brazil’s Acre Spells Doom for Amazon Rainforest, Activists Warn
Sarah Brown | Mongabay – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jan 2022

7 Jan 2022 – With about 80% of its forests still untouched, Acre is one of Brazil’s least-deforested Amazonian states. But in the past three decades, the thriving cattle industry has become a major threat to Acre’s forests, with livestock now outnumbering the state’s human population by a factor of four.

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The Real Antidote to Inflation: Stoking the Fire without Burning Down the Barn
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Dec 2021

24 Dec 2021 The Fed has options for countering the record inflation the U.S. is facing that are more productive and less risky than raising interest rates.

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Patterns
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Dec 2021

Paradigm Change

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Necessary Struggle
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

Indeed

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The Case for a Central Bank Digital Currency
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Nov 2021

23 Nov 2021 – Whether the U.S. should have its own Central Bank Digital Currency is hotly debated. Several countries, including China, already have CBDCs in operation. Prof. Saule Omarova, President Biden’s nominee for Comptroller of the Currency, is in favor and has made a strong case for it.

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Appearances
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Nov 2021

Deceitful

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Conservation or Land Grab? The Financialization of Nature
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Nov 2021

5 Nov 2021 – Just in time for the UN’s policy push for “30 x 30” – 30% of the earth to be “conserved” by 2030 – a new Wall Street asset class puts up for sale the processes underpinning all life.

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A New Water Source That Could Make Drought a Thing of the Past
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Oct 2021

1 Oct 2021 – Oceans of water are beneath our feet, and new technologies are extracting it economically without ecological damage.

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The Meaning of the FDA Resignations
Jeffrey A. Tucker | Brownstone Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

14 Sep 2021 – How significant is it that the two top US Food and Drug Administration officials responsible for vaccine research resigned last week and this week signed a letter in The Lancet that strongly warns against vaccine boosters? This is a remarkable sign that the project of government-managed virus mitigation is in the final stages before falling apart. 

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Costs of War Project – Sep 2021
Watson Institute | Brown University – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Sep 2021

• Over 929,000 people died from violence in post-9/11 wars; several times as many from effects of war
• Over 387,000 civilians killed
• 38 million refugees and displaced persons
• US price tag over $8 trillion
• US government leads counterterror in 85 countries
• Wars caused violations of human rights and civil liberties in U.S. and abroad

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Quick Quiz
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Aug 2021

Find the ass.

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Nature’s Own Fuel Could Save Us from the Greenhouse Effect and Electric Grid Failure
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Aug 2021

30 Jul 2021 – On July 14, the EU unveiled sweeping climate change and emissions targets that would mean “the end of the internal combustion engine.” Hemp fuel and other biofuels could quickly reduce carbon emissions while saving the electric grid, but they’re often overlooked for more expensive, high-tech climate solutions.

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Meanwhile, Somewhere on Earth
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

Trade Mark

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How America Went from Mom-and-Pop Capitalism to Techno-Feudalism
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 May 2021

19 May 2021 – The crisis of 2020 has created the greatest wealth gap in history. The middle class, capitalism and democracy are all under threat. What went wrong and what can be done?

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The Costs of War to U.S. Allies since 9/11
Jason W. Davidson | Watson Institute/Brown University – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 May 2021

12 May 2021 – The US allies in the post-9/11 wars have borne significant human and budgetary costs. They were the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq that have grown from the “Global War on Terror.” While the Afghan and Iraqi governments incurred the highest human costs, this research paper focuses on the human and financial contributions of European and other allies of the U.S.

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Ramsey Clark, Attorney General Who Became a Critic of U.S. Policies, Dies at 93
Emma Brown | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Apr 2021

Ramsey Clark, the U.S. attorney general under President Lyndon B. Johnson who redefined himself as a relentless critic of American foreign policy and as a courtroom defender of figures such as former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, died April 9 at his home in New York City. He was 93.

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Socialist!
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Apr 2021

Perhaps…

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When War Becomes Major Business
Author Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Mar 2021

That Which Unites ‘the Good Guys’ under God and the Dollar

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Workers
Author Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Mar 2021

Working

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