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By Charles Hugh Smith | 7 September 2017 OF TWO MINDS — Labor’s share of the national income is in freefall as a direct result of the optimization of financialization. The Achilles Heel of our socio-economic […]
Donald “The Red Queen” Trump now reportedly hates his economic adviser and Fed chair pick (((Gary Cohn))), “according to two people with close ties to the White House.” The premise for this World Wide Wrestling […]
Locking up the money of unsuspecting depositors to prop up collapsing banks. By Don Quijones | 5 September 2017 WOLF STREET — The European Central Bank (ECB), arguably the European Union’s most powerful and least accountable institution, apparently […]
Left-wing nonprofit pays lucrative six-figure salaries to top management By Joe Schoffstall | 31 August 2017 THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a liberal, Alabama-based 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization that has gained […]
You don’t need an army to achieve World Domination; all you need is enough cheap credit to buy up everything that generates the highest value and/or income. By Charles Hugh Smith | 28 August 2017 […]
By Tyler Durden | 27 August 2017 ZERO HEDGE — Former US Congressman Ron Paul has joined a growing list of independent political journalists and commentators who’re being economically punished by YouTube despite producing videos […]
By Isabelle Z. | 26 August 2017 NATURAL NEWS — As America grapples with alleviating the opioid addiction crisis that killed more than 30,000 people in the country in 2015, the debate rages on over the […]
By Eric Thomson (2002) | 18 August 2017 (compiled from two pieces) RENEGADE TRIBUNE — Masonry was the first intelligence agency of the modern era. And it was an extrusion of the British Empire. Of this there […]
By Jonathan Swan | 18 August 2017 AXIOS — Steve Bannon’s next moves will be all about the billionaire Mercer family. I’m told Bannon, who visited New York this week, met with Bob Mercer and together they […]
By Fiona Simpson | 16 August 2017 EVENING STANDARD — An international news agency has banned journalists from using the phrase “alt-right” amid claims it disguises racism. The Associated Press will no longer publish the term […]
These are truly strange times in which we live. Sculptures of historic figures are being toppled while homosexual pornography is being promoted, and AirBnB is deleting the accounts of Alt-Right members while a baker in Colorado […]
By Wayne Madsen | 4 October 2013 WAYNE MADSEN REPORT — WMR has learned from the executor of the estate of a woman defrauded by jailed New York securities dealer Bernard Madoff that much of Madoff’s […]
11 August 2017 THE NEW OBSERVER — Israel has once again maintained its reputation as the world’s leading online fraud and subversion center with the arrest of two Jews in that country for running the planet’s […]
By Aaron Kesel | 11 August 2017 ACTIVIST POST — Mozilla, the non-profit organization which runs the Firefox internet browser, said Wednesday it was launching an effort against “fake news,” as fact-checking software backed by eBay […]
Demographics don’t have to be destiny. By Daniel Moss | 14 August 2017 BLOOMBERG — Japan has served its time as a symbol of economic failure. Its latest growth surge puts it in a welcome new […]
14 August 2017 CBS NEWS — Web hosting company GoDaddy said Sunday it is cutting off white supremacist website the Daily Stormer after the site posted a scathing article about the woman killed at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, […]
The New Nationalist (TNN) has contended from the get go that Donald “Red Queen” Trump will be taken down as a role actor in a Trojan Horse operation. We also have stated numerous times that […]
By Don Quijones | 8 August 2017 WOLF STREET — New statistical data from the investment bank Jefferies LLC has revealed a startling new trend that could have major implications for Europe’s economic future: Italian banks […]
Drive for higher fees ‘betrays’ sixth-formers By Andrew Gilligan | 6 August 2017 THE SUNDAY TIMES — British A-level students are being “discriminated” against by many of the UK’s top universities as they recruit more lucrative […]
By Tyler Durden | 5 August 2017 ZERO HEDGE — While all eyes have been focused on the incessant rise in the price-weighted farce known as The Dow Jones Industrial Average, a funny thing happened in […]
By Robin Eberhardt | 4 August 2017 THE HILL — Amazon is selling toilet paper with President Trump’s tweets printed on it. A single roll of the two-ply paper goes for $11.99 on Amazon, slightly less than the $12.95 […]
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data shows “somebody” is aggressively piling on bets against (short) stock market volatility. In effect, they are gambling that the VIX, or market volatility, will move even lower than the […]
By Charles Homans | 15 February 2011 FOREIGN POLICY — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hasn’t been charged with any crime in the United States yet, but he is preparing for the possibility that he will be […]
By Tyler Durden | 3 August 2017 ZERO HEDGE — Three weeks ago, when the WSJ ran an infomercial of the “down to earth” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as just the guy next door in “Mark Zuckerberg Hits […]
Finis Germania by Rolf Peter Sieferle has been withdrawn from influential list over ‘right-wing extremist’ content By Philip Oltermann and Alison Flood | 28 July 2017 THE GUARDIAN — The influential German news magazine Der Spiegel has […]
By Kyle Hunt | 24 July 2017 RENEGADE TRIBUNE — So much has already been said about this issue, so I will keep this as simple as possible. If you want to dig up the details, […]
In addition to merely removing content it deems offensive, Google’s Youtube is now demonetizing the accounts of said “offenders”. It is also sweeping up and hiding videos that don’t violate its content rules but that it […]
27 June 2017 BUSINESS INSIDER — Alfons López Tena was a member of the Catalan Parliament from 2010 to 2012, specializing in clean governance and Catalan independence issues. He gave us permission to run this op-ed. […]
The skunk mobile is an Israeli invention used for crowd control and against rock throwing protesters. Dubbed the “whiff from hell,” it is also superbly fitted for “collective punishment” against entire communities given that the […]
18 July 2017 WRAL (AP) — The co-founder of Purdue Pharma, a Connecticut company that markets the powerfully addictive painkiller OxyContin, has died at age 97. Company officials say Dr. Raymond Sackler, a Greenwich resident, […]