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Our Fragile Infrastructure: Lessons From Hurricane Helene
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024

5 Nov 2024 – North Carolina: The raging floods were triggered by unprecedented rainfall and winds. On Sept 27, when the floods hit, evacuation orders were issued to residents near a number of critical dams due to their reported “imminent failure” or “catastrophic collapse.”

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‘War’ by Bob Woodward
Simon Henderson | The Georgetowner - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024

21 Oct 2024 – If newspapers are the first draft of history, the books of Bob Woodward can claim to be the second draft. “War,” his new book on the inner workings of the Biden White House, is a worthy second draft, although it should been better entitled “Wars” with an “s.”

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Israeli Soldiers SICKENING War Crimes EXPOSED
Double Down News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Oct 2024

16 Oct 2024 – The Footage the BBC or CNN Won’t Show You

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The Song Israel Doesn’t Want You to Hear (Music Video of the Week)
Double Down News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Oct 2024

8 Oct 2024 – They Really Did All of This

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Corruption…
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Sep 2024

… Is King

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The Florida State Sunshine Bank: How a State-Owned Bank Can Protect Free Speech
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Sep 2024

14 Sep 2024 – Fifteen years have passed since the Occupy Wall Street movement focused attention on the inequities and hazards of large Wall Street banks, particularly those risky banks with trillions of dollars in derivatives on their books.

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Palestinians: The Final Victims of the Holocaust
Allan C. Brownfeld | Washington Report on Middle East Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Sep 2024

When we discuss the Holocaust, we forget that it had other victims, the Palestinians, whose country was taken from them as the world sought a place for Jews displaced by the Nazis without inviting them into their own countries.

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How Unelected Regulators Unleashed the Derivatives Monster – and How It Might Be Tamed
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

4 Aug 2024 – While the world is absorbed in the U.S. election drama, the derivatives time bomb continues to tick menacingly backstage. Warren Buffet famously labeled derivatives “financial weapons of mass destruction” in 2002. Twenty years later, financial commentators have put it as high as $3.7 quadrillion.

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ChatGPT Isn’t ‘Hallucinating’—It’s Bullshitting!
Joe Slater, James Humphries & Michael Townsen Hicks | Scientific American – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

17 Jul 2024 – It’s important that we use accurate terminology when discussing how AI chatbots make up information.

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The Supreme Court Takes on the Administrative State
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

15 Jul 2024 – In a highly controversial decision, the Supreme Court on June 28 reversed a 40-year old ruling, reclaiming the Court’s role as interpreter of statutory law as it applies to a massive body of regulations imposed by federal agencies in such areas as the environment, workplace safety, public health and more. 

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Genocide Joe (Music Video of the Week)
Lowkey | Double Down News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

9 Jul 2024 – Lowkey releases his new track ‘Genocide Joe’ featuring Mai Khalil.

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Elections
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

Cliché – Ring any bells?

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God Bless Anglo America
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

Joke? No Joke!!

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Stand Up for Palestine (Music Video of the Week)
Roger Waters, Yusuf Cat Stevens, Lowkey | Double Down News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

21 Jun 2024 – Join legendary music legends Roger Waters (Pink Floyd), Yusuf Cat Stevens and iconic rapper Lowkey plus special guests for a one-off concert in aid of peace, freedom and justice for Palestine.

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Why Does the US Government Borrows when It Can Print?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2024

19 Jun 2024 – In the first seven months of FY 2024, net interest on the US federal debt reached $514 billion, exceeding spending on both national defense ($498 billion) and Medicare ($465 billion). The interest tab also exceeded all the money spent on veterans, education, and transportation combined.

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Upside Down World: Elections
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2024

The Embarrassing 2024 US Empire Debate

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Inspire to Action
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jun 2024

Keep staring…

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Tackling California’s Budget Crisis: Raise Taxes, Cut Programs, or Form a Bank?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 May 2024

8 May 2024 – The usual solutions are to cut programs or raise taxes, but both approaches are facing an uphill battle. The remedy for unemployment is employment, and the remedy for the unhoused is affordable housing. An I-Bank expanded into a state-owned depository bank could provide both.

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The One Video Israel Doesn’t Want You to See
Al Jazeera Investigations | Double Down News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 May 2024

10 Apr 2024 – What Really Happened on October 7

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Art… Signs of the Times
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2024

Reverse Inspiration

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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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