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By Charlie Savage The federal government announced on Tuesday that it intends to pay $3.4 billion to settle claims that it has mismanaged the revenue

By F. William Engdahl The man with the nickname “Dr Flu”, Professor Albert Osterhaus, of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam Holland has been named by

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GoldMoney founder and GATA consultant James Turk was interviewed for 27 minutes this week by Eric King of King World News. They discussed the second

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By Anne Seith Two Deutsche Bank funds were designed to profit from premature deaths in the US by buying up life insurance policies. But investors