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By Tyler Durden | 6 December 2017 ZERO HEDGE — Google has announced the latest escalation in its battle to censor “extremist” content on its platforms, a covert campaign to censor conservative voices. The company plans to […]
By Anne Faith | 11 April 2016 THE ALGEMEINER — Back in January, a Jewish healthcare charity in New York was ordered to repay $47 million to state and Federal authorities following the revelation of Medicaid fraud. This followed […]
By Tyler Durden | 5 December 2017 ZERO HEDGE — On the heels of a weekend full of threats and promises from governments, bankers, and the mainstream media, Bitcoin was lambasted once again overnight, this time by The […]
As Bitcoin continues its mania, warnings are coming in fast and furious. For those unfamiliar with the price action of historic thin-air manias, here are a couple prime examples- the Dutch Tulip Mania and the […]
Steinhoff International Holdings is emerging as the poster child of oligarch banking in this cycle. Using debt, it acquired nine companies in the past two years, including Mattress Firm Holding in the U.S. When you […]
Some videos showing children in distress had racked up “tens of millions” of views. By Jason Murdock | 23 November 2017 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES — Video hosting giant YouTube says it will take action against a […]
24 November 2017 BUSINESS TECH — S&P Global Ratings on Friday evening lowered its long-term foreign currency sovereign credit rating on the Republic of South Africa to ‘BB’ from ‘BB+’ and affirmed the ‘B’ short-term foreign […]
Deal Expected to Face More Resistance in Congress By Jason Ditz | 23 November 2017 ANTIWAR — With international complaints about war crimes mounting, and a vote on US involvement in Yemen having just been derailed […]
By Jan Oberg | November 2017 STRATEGIC CULTURE FOUNDATION — OK, it’s from Russia Today so you should of course not trust it but somehow this video and text and the man in it seems quite factual, not fake and […]
By Chris Riotta | 3 December 2017 NEWSWEEK — Jared Kushner failed to disclose his role as a co-director of the Charles and Seryl Kushner Foundation from 2006 to 2015, a time when the group funded an Israeli settlement […]
Professor Stuart Russell, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) expert at the University of California, said allowing machines to kill humans would endanger freedom and security By Jamie Bullen | 21 November 2017 MIRROR — Killer robots capable of […]
By Gilad Atzmon | 21 November 2017 GILAD ATZMON — The list of NYC’s 100 worst landlords is, once again, overwhelmingly dominated by Jewish names. Naturally, I wondered whether this bar mitzvah guest list quality also applies to […]
As the opioid crisis breaks records by killing more than 100 Americans every day, opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has reached a record high in 2017. By Rachel Blevins | 18 November 2017 THE FREE […]
By Tyler Durden | 18 November 2018 ZERO HEDGE — Silicon Valley’s disdain for its mostly white, mostly male tech workforce has reached absurd new heights. The New York Post is reporting that, after just six months […]
Building a wall won’t solve the United States’ migration problem. Mass illegal migration stems from issues that run deeper than the tunnels that burrow under such artificial barriers. California is the nation’s hotbed of illegal […]
By Martin Slagter | 15 November 2017 THE ANN ARBOR NEWS — The University of Michigan’s Central Student Government is calling on university leaders to investigate divestment from companies that do business with Israel. UM’s student […]
By Michael Snyder | 9 November 2017 THE AMERICAN DREAM — Are the days of the free and open Internet numbered? The Internet is certainly used for all sorts of horrible things, but it has also […]
By Stephen Dinan | 8 November 2017 THE WASHINGTON TIMES — The U.S. Border Patrol is losing agents faster than it can hire them, according to a new audit released Wednesday that said competition with other […]
Today’s disturbing allegations are not unprecedented. A spotlight on Jack Warner, co-founder of one of the biggest movie studios, who was accused of ‘womanizing’ decades ago By Rich Tenorio | 9 November 2017 THE TIMES OF […]
Barak unwittingly gave Weinstein information that helped him reach out to Israeli firm Black Cube, hired to research his accusers and to scuttle reports of his sexual abuse 7 November 2017 HAARETZ — Former Israeli Prime […]
Under huge pressure from the usual suspects, social media and Internet giants Facebook, Twitter, Google’s Youtube and Microsoft last year agreed to a European Union code of conduct to tackle online “hate speech.” [See “Word […]
Harvey Weinstein’s Army of Spies The film executive hired private investigators, including ex-Mossad agents, to track actresses and journalists. By Ronan Farrow | 6 November 2017 THE NEW YORKER — In the fall of 2016, Harvey […]
Naturally, the Age of Selfies has ultimately led to “revenge porn.” It can take many forms, but typically it goes something like this: Boy meets girl; boy and girl eventually have sexual relations; boy takes […]
The term “wildcat banking” refers to non-federally regulated U.S. state banking between 1816 and 1863, also known as the Free Banking Era. It resulted in widespread bank failures. A modern form of this approach would involve […]
By John Rappoport | 12 July 2017 ACTIVIST POST — I’m reprinting my article from 2013 below. But first, a quick bit of recent history concerning two little known Israeli companies, Narus and Verint. They have […]
From the Hope Springs Eternal Department comes news that Condé Nast is reducing the frequency of most of its titles, including the print edition of Teen Vogue. Teen Vogue — largely led in recent years by its […]
“When a government compulsorily overvalues one type of money and undervalues another, the undervalued money will leave the country or disappear from circulation into hoards, while the overvalued money will flood into circulation.” — Sir Thomas Gresham (Gresham’s […]
By Ron Paul | 23 October 2017 LIBERTY REPORT — This week President Trump revealed his final five candidates for Federal Reserve chair. Disappointingly, but not surprisingly, all five have strong ties to the financial and […]
By Wolf Richter | 23 October 2017 WOLF STREET — I don’t remember ever having seen crazier times of more pandemic proportions. “It is the biggest scam ever, such a huge gigantic scam that’s going to […]
21 October 2017 THE NEW OBSERVER — Stanislav Nazarov, 46, a dual citizen of Israel and Russia, has become one of the first Jews to be extradited from Israel to face charges in an indictment accusing […]