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They just wanted to turn off the lights. ‘After the third request, Alexa stopped responding and instead did an evil laugh.’ By Vanessa Wong | 5 March 2018 BUZZFEED — Owners of Amazon Echo devices with […]
Facebook is now the well deserved recipient of a wrath of ethical condemnation about its role in selling personal information to the corporate-intelligence-political tentacles. That this is some kind of surprise is the real surprise. […]
2 March 2018 ABC NEWS — The Securities and Exchange Commission dropped an inquiry of Apollo Global Management six weeks after the private equity firm extended a loan to a real estate firm owned by the […]
TNN Editor’s Note: It needs to be said that all too often the media and Washington, D.C. overly politicize the coverage of censorship. While it’s true that conservatives are targeted by liberal gatekeepers, so are […]
By Peter Hasson | 27 February 2018 YouTube is getting help from the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center in its effort to identify extremist content. YouTube’s “Trusted Flaggers” police the platform for so-called hate speech […]
By Tyler Durden | 23 February 2018 ZERO HEDGE — Iran says it will withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal if big banks continue to avoid doing business with the Islamic republic, deputy foreign minister […]
Doubts emerge as to who is saving whom. By Don Quijones | 21 February 2018 WOLF STREET — Structural unemployment and falling wages, precarious jobs, an endless brain drain, a rapidly ageing population, and the government’s constant […]
The purpose of the Yemeni war is two-fold. First, it’s an excuse for Salafi Wahhabist Saudi Arabia to continue a legacy of killing Shia infidels. Second, Yemen is another beta test for extermination and war […]
By Kathleen Elkins 7 March, 2018 CNBC The 2008 financial crisis led to the Great Recession and millions of jobs lost. It took years for America to recover and many citizens still feel the ripple effects. According […]
By Simon Black | 26 June 2017 SOVEREIGN MAN — Two more Italian banks failed over the weekend– Banco Popolare di Vicenza and Veneto Banca. (In other news, the sky is blue.) The Italian Prime Minister […]
Enter James Grant of the Interest Rate Observer. He has for many years been a voice of critique and reason in the upside down world of central banking. In this short interview on CNBC, Grant […]
Report naming Safra Catz as a leading choice for next national security adviser comes amid speculation about incumbent’s future 2 March 2018 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL — Safra Catz, the Israeli-born co-CEO of tech giant […]
After blowback following The Great Purge (partial list), YouTube finally had to fess up that they are controlled by players with dubious agendas. Apparently they’ve noticed a flight to other channels that are lifting off […]
26 February 2018 DANIEL LACALLE — The end of the era of cheap money highlights the risk of “Enron-style” bankruptcies in many sectors, including renewable energy. With the path of three rate hikes in the United States […]
If mass shooting events were above board and transparent, one might expect that gun companies would have a vested interest in investigating and exposing blatant and obviously staged deceptions involving key events like Sandy Hook […]
Donald Trump reached deep into the belly of the beast of Wall Street for his administration’s key economic positions. His choices signal that the U.S. will be subjected to brutal Parasite Guild measures, including privatizations via the […]
Central bankers can’t print trillions of dollars and expect inflation to remain contained to asset prices. It’s now seeping into the real economy. They’re in a box. There’s too much debt, markets are severely overpriced […]
‘If authorities do not act preemptively, cryptocurrencies could become more interconnected with the main financial system and become a threat to financial stability.’ By Wolf Richter | 7 February 2018 WOLF STREET — The official crackdown […]
By Paul Craig Roberts | 30 January 2018 INSTITUTE FOR POLITICAL ECONOMY — In an act of insane escalation of provocations against Russia, Washington has produced a list of 210 top Russian government officials and important […]
Of late, folks at Winter Watch have noticed the presence of a slick-sounding website named RationalWiki.org positioned near the top of the first results page when searching truther topics on Google. With such an intellectual-sounding […]
3 February 2018 CREDIT BUBBLE BULLETIN — Even well into 2017, variations of the “secular stagnation” thesis remained popular within the economics community. Accelerating synchronized global growth notwithstanding, there’s been this enduring notion that economies are […]
Even uber-doves are now looking over their shoulder. By Wolf Richter | 2 February 2018 WOLF STREET — There have been all kinds of carefully phrased semi-hawkish statements emanating from carefully contained semi-hawkish Fed governors recently. […]
Despite the NFL’s promise to donate $100 million to radical left anti-Trump social justice organizations like Black Lives Matter, many reports indicate that such organizations will still stage protests on Super Bowl Sunday. Plus, the payoff […]
By Nomi Prins | 1 February 2018. TOM DISPATCH — There’s no way to measure just how cheery this period really is — not if you’re the CEO of a major company. Just as the […]
Former Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich was one of the stalwarts of the Democratic progressive movement back when it was anti-war and focused on real issues. Real progressives, such as the ones I knew (and respected) […]
By Tyler Durden | 1 February 2018 ZERO HEDGE — Sir Steve Webb, a former pensions minister under the recent coalition government, said Carillion would not be the last big company to fold leaving its pension scheme in […]
By Celia Wexler | 31 January 2018 WHO.WHAT.WHY. — During his State of the Union speech January 30, President Donald Trump called on Congress to pass the “Right to Try” bill, which would allow desperate patients to take […]
I doubt any president in U.S. history has been as dominated by anarcho-wildcat capitalists as Donald “The Red Queen” Trump. This, combined with rabid Zionism, will leave a distinct and rancid mark on his administration. […]
By Warner Todd Huston | 27 January 2018 BREITBART — A California woman is suing Walmart, claiming that the store’s policy to lock certain products subject to a higher rate of shoplifting inside glass cases is racist. Essie […]
Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Diaspora Affairs Ministry reveals new and unique platform to combat online anti-Semitism 25 January 2018 ARUTZ SHEVA 7 — Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs […]
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