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By Mac Slavo | 10 October 2018 SHTF PLAN — Now, this is what unity looks like. South Africa’s Zulu nation has joined forces with white farmers being subjected to racial land seizures in order to […]
By Adam Ashton | 14 October 2018 THE MERCURY NEWS — The California State Lottery has paid more than $500,000 to settle lawsuits filed by two former investigators who claimed they were fired for calling […]
By Bradford Betz | 8 October 2018 FOX NEWS — A Bulgarian journalist who had been reporting on alleged corruption linked to European Union funds, was found raped and murdered on Saturday, authorities said. Viktoria Marinova, 30, […]
By Charlie Nash | 10 October 2018 BREITBART — Amazon Echo and Google Home A.I. assistant devices are scaring their owners with unprompted statements. According to the Wall Street Journal, one Echo owner “was sitting on her […]
By Gennie Gebhart | 27 September 2018 ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION — Add “a phone number I never gave Facebook for targeted advertising” to the list of deceptive and invasive ways Facebook makes money off your personal information. […]
For three years, the website has spread fear among undergraduate activists, posting more than a thousand political dossiers on student supporters of Palestinian rights By Josh Nathan-Kazis | 3 October 2018 HAARETZ (THE FORWARD) — One of […]
2013 conversation in Warsaw restaurant part of series of tapes that boosted popularity of Mateusz Morawiecki’s right-wing Law and Justice party 2 October 2018 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL (JTA) — Poland’s prime minister was heard making […]
By Tyler Durden | 1 October 2018 ZERO HEDGE — As we slip deeper into the euphoria of what is now the longest bull market on record, resulting in a deluge of corporate “zombies” , the initial public […]
By James Kirkup | 28 October 2015 The use of technology to track and treat mental illness is deeply worrying but sadly necessary THE TELEGRAPH — Next week, Dr Tom Insel leaves his post as […]
By Dave McNary | 17 May 2018 VARIETY — Netflix has acquired movie rights Michael Lewis’ real-life financial drama “Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt” — a project that had been in development at Sony Pictures in 2014. […]
By Tyler Durden | 30 September 2018 ZERO HEDGE — The IMF released the Currency Composition of Official Foreign Exchange Reserves (COFER) data for Q2 2018 on Friday. The total of reserves that are broken down […]
By Daisy Luther | 27 September 2018 THE ORGANIC PREPPER — Have you heard about China’s dystopian new “social credit” program? If you haven’t, there’s a terrifying infographic from Bored Panda that I’ll be referencing throughout this article. […]
Georgetown University Associate Professor Carol Christine Fair went on a Twitter tirade Tuesday in which she called U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Michael Kavanaugh a “serial rapist” and proclaimed that all “entitled white men” who […]
And why are Bank of Mexico executives and employees resigning in droves? By Don Quijones | 24 September 2018 WOLF STREET — Around 200 central bank employees, including 20 senior executives, have left their posts at the Bank […]
Twitter begins monitoring user behavior from ‘off platform’ By Alex Christoforou | 22 November 2017 THE DURAN — Hit with a serious case of “Trump Derangement Syndrome” coupled with a dose of “Russian Meddling Disease”, Twitter executives […]
By James Rickards | 24 September 2018 DAILY RECKONING — Free riding is one of the oldest problems in economics and in society in general. Simply put, free riding describes a situation where one party takes […]
By Tyler Durden | 25 September 2018 ZERO HEDGE — The Norwegian power trader who got caught on the losing end of a 4-sigma move in price spreads is being forced into bankruptcy after liquidating his entire […]
On Sept. 14, addled Janet Yellen, the former chair of America’s central bank who last June said she doesn’t believe that “we will see another crisis in our lifetime,” urged the Federal Reserve to commit to a new approach […]
By Chris Merriman | 21 September 2018 THE INQUIRER — Google had admitted that, even though it has stopped scanning your Gmail accounts for ad-targeting, it still lets third-parties at them. In a letter to Senators which […]
Commits to preserving long-term openness and interoperability of internet By John Eggertonsep | 20 September 2018 MULTICHANNEL NEWS — National Security Adviser John Bolton says that given that the U.S. is under attack daily from cyberspace, […]
By Tyler Durden | 21 September 2018 ZERO HEDGE — One of the reasons why the US economic response to Trump’s trade war with China had been lukewarm at best, is that US consumers had not […]
They’ve always been ineffective. What’s different now is that they’re threatening to undermine American strength. By Doug Bandow | 20 September 2018 THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE — Washington is filled with talk of American exceptionalism. Policymakers insist […]
By Nomi Prins | 16 September 2018 TOM DISPATCH (THE NATION INSTITUTE) — There’s a clear pattern to Donald Trump’s life. Put simply: He gets away with it. Yes, sometimes (but not usually) he has to […]
By Riley Griffin | 19 September 2018 BLOOMBERG — As U.S. household debt rises and wages stagnate, millions of Americans are thinking about tapping into home equity to keep up with day-to-day expenses. Twenty-four million homeowners believe borrowing against home […]
19 September 2018 YAHOO (AFP) — Illicit cryptocurrency mining has been surging over the past year, in part due to a leaked software tool from the US National Security Agency, researchers said Wednesday. A report by […]
19 September 2018 YAHOO (AFP) — Facebook on Wednesday said it will have a “war room” up and running on its Silicon Valley campus to quickly repel efforts to use the social network to meddle in […]
By Daniel Lacalle | 12 September 2018 HEDGEYE — The day Lehman went bankrupt I left the office in London for Waterloo Station and realized that something monumental had happened. The faces of the dozens of people waiting patiently […]
By Jamie Nimmo | 15 September 2018 DAILY MAIL — A subprime mortgage lender set up by former Northern Rock directors is to sell £500 million of controversial mortgage-backed securities in a deal that has alarming […]
By B.N. Frank | 16 September 2018 ACTIVIST POST — It doesn’t seem to matter that an increasing number of Americans – including Dr. Naomi Wolf and Dr. Oz – continue voicing concerns and [are] taking action against the mass installation of risky 5G wireless WiFi […]
By Tyler Durden | 2018 ZERO HEDGE — Trump’s “fake news” nemesis, CNN, experienced a dramatic collapse in ratings last week compared to 2017.According to AdWeek, CNN viewership tumbled 41% in daytime TV ratings and tumbled 36% […]