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Trump’s appointment of Jared Kushner’s basketball pick-up game minion Avrahm “Avi” Berkowitz as head of the U.S. Middle East Peace Envoy sends a veiled message — especially given that Kushner’s 30-year-old Mini Me sidekick has […]
Former NFLer Charged After Allegedly Staging Racially-Motivated Burglary 13 September 2019 CBS NEWS — Police have arrested a former NFL player and local business owner after he allegedly staged a racially-motivated burglary inside his Gwinnett County […]
By Brandon Smith | 11 September 2019 ALT-MARKET — This week government officials are set to come back from their summer recess, and I have heard from a couple different sources that the US Senate in […]
Israel Hayom publisher speaks to police as part of the investigation into the suspicion that PM Netanyahu offered benefits in exchange for positive news coverage 8 September 2019 HAARETZ — The publisher of the daily Israel […]
By Tyler Durden | 9 September 2019 ZERO HEDGE — The makers of Oxycontin, Purdue Pharma, are now expected to file for bankruptcy after settlement talks regarding the nation’s opioid crisis have “hit an impasse”, according to ABC News. […]
Felix Arvid Kjellberg, more famously known as “PewDiePie” (aka The Mad Lad), has the largest YouTube platform in the western world. YouTube honored him recently for reaching a milestone 100 million subscribers. Obviously, PewDiePie is […]
CNN added to its stable of retired FBI and CIA officials Friday by hiring Andrew McCabe, who was fired by the bureau due to a lack of candor during an internal probe. McCabe is the […]
By Alexandros Antoniou | 6 September 2019 THE CONVERSATION — The latest photo app craze can make you look like a movie star. Zao uses artificial intelligence to replace the faces of characters in film or TV clips […]
By Tian Chen and Eric Lam | 5 September 2019 Rating company says integration with China presents challenge Hong Kong’s Fitch rating still higher than mainland China’s BLOOMBERG — Fitch Ratings Inc. downgraded Hong Kong as […]
By Jonathan Chait | 5 September 2019 NEW YORK INTELLIGENCER — One of President Trump’s most absurd personnel moves was appointing his real-estate lawyer Jason Greenblatt as special envoy to the Middle East. Greenblatt had no […]
By Chris Tomlinson | 1 September 2019 BREITBART — A Swedish municipality that took in one of the highest numbers of asylum seekers per population faces a crisis as natives move out and decimate the local […]
By Kay Stevenson In 1938, DES (diethylstilbestrol) was the first synthetic estrogen to be created. It was prescribed to millions of pregnant women, primarily between 1938 and 1971 but certainly not limited to those years. In some cases, […]
By Gilad Atzmon | 29 August 2019 SIGN OF THE TIMES — The story of Jeffrey Epstein has lost its mystery as more and more commentators allow themselves to express the thought that it is a strong […]
By Arthur Lyons | 31 August 2019 VOICE OF EUROPE — After taking in close to 3,000 ‘asylum seekers’ in just three years, the municipality of Hässelholm in southern Sweden faces financial ruin as up to 80 […]
Jeffrey Epstein once allegedly had three 12-year-old girls flown in from France and delivered to him as a birthday present, a former “sex slave” says in newly released court documents. By Jim Hoft | 2 […]
By Faran Krentcil | 31 August 2019 NEW YORK POST — This past spring, you couldn’t miss her. Commanding 4,000 square feet of premium Soho air space and wearing nothing [but] CK underwear, the indie rapper […]
By Pete Norman | 31 August 2019 Pentagon research to sift 250,000 news items in initial phase Fears grow about viral political memes polarizing society BLOOMBERG — Fake news and social media posts are such a […]
By Nicholas Vega | 28 August 2019 NEW YORK POST — Sorry we’ve been eavesdropping on your sex life. Apple on Wednesday apologized to its users for employing third-party contractors to listen to audio recordings picked […]
Sacramento residents and business owners have spoken out on the city’s growing rates of homelessness – which is up 19 per cent in the last two years [since the state legalized marijuana and instituted sanctuary […]
By Tyler Durden | 27 August 2019 ZERO HEDGE — It was just days ago that we reported on PIMCO’s investment in Argentine bonds taking a major haircut due to the country’s collapsing currency. Now, it looks at […]
Sealed memos fought over in federal court last week show authorities have known for years that claims about Backpage were bogus. By Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 26 August 2019 REASON — For nearly a decade, Backpage […]
The Hong Kong protests, which have been boiling since the start of the summer, pose a potential market risk that could translate to a black swan event. In financial sector vernacular, a black swan is […]
By James Barrett | 22 August 2019 THE DAILY WIRE — Just a few weeks after Procter & Gamble reported a sobering $8 billion writedown, Gillette has officially called off its war on “toxic masculinity.” The […]
As the markets approached the weekend, the computer algos that run trading sniffed out some more easy-money chatter from Federal Reserve mucky muck Jerome Powell at the 2019 Economic Policy Symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. […]
After a magnificent 100-million-year run, the future of the bee is in dire jeopardy. The Critical Importance of Bees Bees are one of the best natural allies humanity has ever had. It’s about much, much more […]
On certain hot-button issues, corrupt troll armies deploy from “intelligence fusion centers” a swamp online forum to manipulate discussion. Intelligence fusion center (IFC) is also a term that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies […]
Strict lending requirements that were put in place after financial crisis are starting to erode By Ben Eisen | 21 August 2019 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL — The risky mortgage is making a comeback. More than […]
Multiculturalism oppresses individualism. In a nutshell, that is the simple yet astute view of Nima Gholam Pour, a conservative writer and brave member of the board of education in the small Swedish southern city of […]
That’s Just The Latest Among Many New Developments In The Story Of The Convicted Pedophile Financier. 19 August 2019 TRU NEWS — In the wake of the reported “suicide” of convicted pedophile former financier Jeffrey Epstein, […]
14 August 2019 TRUE PUNDIT — San Francisco Police, its bomb squad and the FBI surrounded the residence of Google whistleblower Zach Vorhies, just hours before he was scheduled to provide evidence to the Justice Department […]