“I am the punishment of God…If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.”–Genghis Kahn

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• The Four Companies That Control the 147 Companies That Own Everything

You can see where I’m headed here. That means the real power to control the world lies with four companies: McGraw-Hill, which owns Standard & Poor’s, Northwestern Mutual, which owns Russell Investments, the index arm of which runs the benchmark Russell 1,000 and Russell 3,000, CME Group which owns 90% of Dow Jones Indexes, and Barclay’s, which took over Lehman Brothers and its Lehman Aggregate Bond Index, the dominant world bond fund index. Together, these four firms dominate the world of indexing. And in turn, that means they hold real sway over the world’s money.

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• A spiritual message from a Mexican cemetery from John Perry Barlow: the last American shaman

John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow is an American poet and essayist, a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, and a cyber-libertarian political activist who has been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He is also a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead. He tells us about an encounter with death in a cemetery in Mexico.