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The New Nationalist does not believe in phenomenal coincidences or in the bogus Hanlon’s Razor, which says, “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” In our reporting we find that malice […]
A 2-hour simulation includes a suicide bombing in a Jerusalem marketplace, a stabbing attack, a live demonstration with attack dogs and a sniper tournament. ‘I wonder whether a Jew in Auschwitz could have dreamed that […]
By Mark Landler, Eric Shmitt and Michael R. Gordon | 10 July 2017 THE NEW YORK TIMES — President Trump’s advisers recruited two businessmen who profited from military contracting to devise alternatives to the Pentagon’s plan to […]
By Lee Fang | 15 July 2017 THE INTERCEPT — After using Goldman Sachs as a punching bag for his campaign, sharply criticizing his political opponents for ties to the investment bank, Donald Trump has taken unprecedented steps to appoint […]
Ethereum down 52%, Ripple down 57%, EON down 70% in eight days. By Wolf Richter | 11 July 2017 WOLF STREET — A “collapse” isn’t when something edges down 1% in value or even 10% or […]
With evangelical Zionists moving into seats of power in D.C., a look under the hood is in order. The New Nationalist (TNN) has already written about the shock doctrine/parasite guild economics we see dead ahead, but […]
16 June 2017 SRSROCCO REPORT — The U.S. PetroDollar system is in serious trouble as the Middle East’s largest oil producer continues to suffer as the low oil price devastates its financial bottom line. Saudi Arabia, […]
By Tyler Durden | 8 July 2017 ZERO HEDGE — Exactly six months ago, when oil bulls still held on to some fleeting hope that OPEC may somehow stabilize the crash in oil prices despite the […]
By Catherine J. Frompovich | 7 July 2017 ACTIVIST POST — Many people are concerned — seriously, too — about a bill introduced into the California State Legislature dealing with the placement of 5G Wireless towers on […]
New wave feminists have a new commercial that demonstrates their true colors: violent triggered tantrums, rampant consumerism and materialism, lying about statistics and pure self-centered vanity. Somebody’s ass needs to be fired and socially ostracized. […]
To those who argue Donald Trump has no loyalty or that he’s a political neophyte, here’s further proof that you’re wrong. Without much fanfare, the Trump administration on Friday announced the appointment of Brenda Fitzgerald, […]
By Robert Cusack | 22 June 2017 THE NEW ARAB — UK pension companies will be allowed to boycott Israeli investments, following a judicial review which found the government had acted unlawfully. The UK High Court […]
By Tyler Durden | 7 July 2017 ZERO HEDGE — A series of fake news articles (see here, here and here), black mail of anonymous Reddit users who had the audacity to poke fun at them and a couple of undercover videos […]
Italy has the second-highest public debt-to-GDP ratio in the European Union at 132%, or €2.1 trillion. It has been stabilized at this level for the last few years via an austerity budget plan combined with […]
Lally Graham Weymouth, former owner of the Washington Post, now owned by Jeff Bezos, threw a party at her home in the Hamptons that drew a wide array of guests from all flavors of the political […]
4 July 2017 THE NEW OBSERVER — The liberal lie that “immigration is needed to bolster Europe’s labor force” has been dramatically exposed as a lie once again with the news that a record 80,000 Italians […]
By David Floyd | 18 April 2017 INVESTOPEDIA — “The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs,” Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi wrote in July 2009, “is that it’s everywhere.” Whether that makes the bank […]
By Joe Miller | 30 June 2017 BBC — Social media companies in Germany face fines of up to 50 million euros ($57.1 million) if they fail to remove “obviously illegal” content in time. From October, […]
20 June 2017 FOX NEWS — The Yale University dean criticized for posting Yelp reviews that called people “white trash” is leaving her position, according to a report Tuesday. June Chu, the dean of Yale’s residential […]
27 June 2017 FOX BUSINESS NEWS (AP) — Facebook is cracking down on potential instances of what it calls “hate speech” by adding thousands of employees to delete offensive posts, the company announced in a blog […]
“World bankers, by pulling a few simple levers that control the flow of money, can make or break entire economies. By controlling press releases of economic strategies that shape national trends, the power elite are […]
WARNING: Disturbing content. The world of sex dolls online includes tiny childlike figures which boast of being ‘pretty’ with ‘realistic skin’ By Kirstie McCrum | 21 June 2016 MIRROR — Sex dolls are being sold online […]
By Lisa Bourne | 23 June 2017 LIFE SITE — Major toy and game companies are dropping all references to children’s genders in the promotion of their products. Lego, Mattel and Hasbro have begun approaching the […]
By Kurt Nimmo | 19 June 2017 ANOTHER DAY IN THE EMPIRE — Faced with fines in Europe, Google will enforce four new steps to identify “terrorist-related content” on its YouTube subsidiary. “We are working with […]
By Michael D. Shear and Vivian Yee | 16 June 2017 THE NEW YORK TIMES — President Trump will not immediately eliminate protections for the so-called Dreamers, undocumented immigrants who came tothe United States as small children, […]
By Mish | 14 June 2017 MISH TALK — The state of Illinois has not passed a budget for close to three years. Arguably it’s just as well because Illinois budgets for decades have been nothing […]
By Tyler Durden | 13 June 2017 ZERO HEDGE — With the US shale industry producing at near-record levels as oil prices languish around $50 a barrel, cities in oil-dependent states like Texas are resorting to […]
By Tyler Durden | 12 June 2017 ZERO HEDGE — On June 1, first S&P the Moody’s almost concurrently downgraded Illinois to the lowest non-Junk rating, BB+/Baa3 respectively, with both rating agencies warning that the ongoing […]
By Dani Deahl | 12 June 2017 THE VERGE — Clickfarms are a dubious business people rarely get a peek inside of, but accept as part of our everyday internet existence. We know companies pay bots […]
Harry Markopolos has unearthed a new fraud: The Boston Transit Authority (MBTA) pension fund is $500 million deeper in the hole than previously reported. The half a billion dollar gap is due to bad investments, […]