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By Pam Martens and Russ Martens | 12 April 2019 WALL STREET ON PARADE — One day before Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee held an historic grilling of the CEOs of the mega banks […]
By John Nolte | 11 April 2019 BREIBART — CNN, the chief co-conspirators behind the Russia Collusion Hoax, has fallen to 15th place in primetime with fewer than 750,000 average viewers. Throughout all of cable […]
By Preston Huennekens | 29 March 2019 CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES — In April 2017, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 18837 — a directive to “Buy American and Hire American”. The order signaled the president’s intent to […]
8 April 2019 INVESTMENT WATCH — Social media companies will face huge fines if they fail to live up to their “duty of care” to internet users. The UK government is taking a hard line when […]
By Allum Bokhari | 8 April 2019 BREITBART — Under pressure from left-wing journalists and activists, Amazon is purging right-wing authors from its store, including a book co-authored by English Islam critic and independent commentator […]
By B.N. Frank | 1 April 2019 ACTIVIST POST — According to the Brussels Times In July, the government concluded an agreement with three telecom operators to relax the strict radiation standards in Brussels. But according to […]
29 March 2016 INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY — Fraud: While the global warming alarmists have done a good job of spreading fright, they haven’t been so good at hiding their real motivation. Yet another one has […]
By Bennett Cyphers and Jason Kelley | 4 April 2019 ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION — Once again, Facebook is in the news for bad security practices, dark design patterns, and secretly reappropriating sensitive data meant for “authentication” […]
By Nate Raymond | 4 April 2019 REUTERS — The founder of Insys Therapeutics Inc put profits over patients’ safety by bribing doctors to prescribe an addictive fentanyl spray, fueling the U.S. opioid epidemic, a […]
Step 1: Use AI to make undetectable changes to outdoor photos. Step 2: release them into the open-source world and enjoy the chaos. By Patrick Tucker | 31 March 2019 DEFENSE ONE — Worries about deep fakes — […]
Former employee brought lawsuit against university 28 March 2019 THE COLLEGE FIX — Duke University has agreed to pay $112.5 million to the US government for scientific research misconduct, the Department of Justice announced in a press […]
By B.N. Frank | 29 March 2019 ACTIVIST POST — Since 2004, The International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) has opposed the use of their stations for cell towers and antennas because of health risks from exposure. Their website […]
27 March 2019 DEMOCRACY NOW — The state of Oklahoma has reached a $270 million agreement with Purdue Pharma — the makers of OxyContin — settling a lawsuit that claimed the company contributed to the […]
By Danny O’Brien | 26 March 2019 ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION — In a stunning rejection of the will of five million online petitioners, and over 100,000 protesters this weekend, the European Parliament has abandoned common-sense and the advice of academics, […]
The kakistocracy’s media arm loves using a neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) slide to describe Euro-skepticism, opposing weaponized migration. censorship, and the debt slave model. Slides, as regular readers know, are terms used to shut down the […]
Similar revelations about other banks and offshore tax-evasion schemes — such as those contained in the Panama Papers — led to global protests and even the resignations of some world leaders By Whitney Webb | […]
By Tyler Durden | 23 March 2019 ZERO HEDGE — The great bitcoin bull market of 2017 wasn’t the first bubble in the pioneering digital currency’s brief lifespan, and it might not be the last, but […]
By Bob Moser | 21 March 2019 THE NEW YORKER — In the days since the stunning dismissal of Morris Dees, the co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, on March 14th, I’ve been thinking […]
By Tyler Durden | 23 March 2019 ZERO HEDGE — The Southern Poverty Law Center — the “vicious left-wing attack dog” used by the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Google and Amazon to identify “hate groups” […]
By Ethan Huff | 21 March 2019 NATURAL NEWS — In the wake of the revelation that the mass shooting that took place at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, may have actually been a […]
By Emily Birnbaum | 21 March 2019 THE HILL — Instagram said Thursday it plans to block a slew of anti-vaccine hashtags amid an ongoing crackdown on medical misinformation on the platform. The company, which is […]
Two Stanford students, Erica Olsen and Kalea Woods, filed a $5 million class action suit on Wednesday Parent Jennifer Kay Toy filed a separate $500 billion lawsuit saying her son was not admitted to some […]
By Neil Munro | 14 March 2019 BREITBART — Federal investigators arrested five people for helping Chinese nationals cheat their way into U.S. universities — and then perhaps into U.S. jobs and research laboratories. “The indictment […]
By Tyler Durden | 147 March 2019 ZERO HEDGE — The storm clouds gathering above Facebook are getting darker by the hour. Less than one day after Facebook suffered an unprecedented outage that lasted for hours […]
By James Kirkpatrick | 12 March 2019 THE UNZ REVIEW — The dark horse candidate of the 2020 Democratic primary is entrepreneur Andrew Yang, who just qualified for the first round of debates by attracting over 65,000 […]
It’s unclear when the grand jury was called By Makena Kelly | 13 March 2019 THE VERGE — Federal prosecutors are pursuing a criminal investigation into Facebook’s data deals it made with large tech companies, The New […]
What the Singer college scandal illustrates more than anything is the depths that some will go to to keep up with the Cohens in a full-blown kakistocracy. Although there is a certain schadenfreude in watching […]
By Roberta Rampton and Ginger Gibson | 12 March 2019 REUTERS — President Donald Trump called on Monday for spending more U.S. taxpayer money on the military and a U.S.-Mexico border wall, while overhauling social […]
By Tyler Durden | 10 March 2019 ZERO HEDGE — Here is an inconvenient truth for the Democratic socialists that control New York City: Gotham is “careening closer to all-out financial bankruptcy,” according to New York Post. Mayor Bill […]