December 2015 archive

Today’s News December 12, 2015

Trump's Cunning Plan Revealed Donald Trump – Bigot, zealot, xenophobe, racist, hitler-ite? Or Donald Trump – cunning strategist who knows Americans better than the "leave us alone up here on our Hill" career politicians and their lackey liberal media partners? You decide… As YouGov reports, a majority of Americans say that they view Islam unfavorably, …

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Today’s News December 11, 2015

Jeremy Grantham Urges "Easily Manipulated" Americans To "Become More Realistic" About World's Demise Authored by Jeremy Grantham via GMO, Give Me Only Good News! “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble.    It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” (Attributed to Mark Twain) It takes little experience in the …

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Today’s News December 10, 2015

Onshore Yuan Has Been In Freefall Since The IMF Added China To The SDR Basket For the 5th day in a row, Onshore Yuan has tumbled against the USDollar. Absent the violent devaluation in August, this is the largest drop since March 2014, leaving the Chinese currency at its weakest level against the USD since …

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Today’s News December 9, 2015

Putin Hopes "There Will Be No Need To Nuke" The Islamic State Earlier today, in a clear advance notice to the French and US navies which are both set to arrive just off the coast of Syria in the coming weeks, Russia for the first time targeted Islamic State targets in Syria with Kalibr land-attack …

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Today’s News December 8, 2015

George Orwell, Edward Bernays & Perpetual War Submitted by Zero Hedge reader "Ferrari", Another horrific act of terror, another shrill chorus calls the faithful to war. It’s a recurring phenomenon in this early Twenty-first Century. The horrible news crashes from the heavens like a meteor, violently jolting us from the Saint Vitus Dance of our …

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Today’s News December 7, 2015

Get Rid of ISIS Using This 'One Weird Trick' Submitted by Dan Sanchez via DanSanchez.me, You’ve seen those internet ads that offer “one weird trick” for eliminating belly fat or boosting testosterone, right? Well, here’s one weird trick for getting rid of ISIS and boosting our security from terrorism. The “trick” is non-intervention. And it …

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Today’s News December 6, 2015

Cuomo Sends Investigators After Blackout Forces Shutdown Of Nuclear Reactor Near NYC Almost 2 years after being fined for falsifying safety records, and 7 months after a transformer exploded at the Indian Point Nuclear Reactor (just 30 miles from midtown Manhattan), Entergy – the plant's operator – has 'safely' shutdown the Unit 2 reactor due …

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Today’s News December 5, 2015

Nothing To Fear But The Fearful Themselves Submitted by Dan Sanchez via DanSanchez.me, When I first learned of the recent attacks in Paris, a chill went down my spine. “No,” I thought, “This is all happening too fast.” I was terrified. I was not terrorized, mind you. What happened in Paris was tragic, of course. …

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Today’s News December 4, 2015

No, Bank Bailouts HAVEN’T Ended   CNN headlines, “Fed Ends ‘Too Big to Fail’ Lending to Collapsing Banks”. Sounds good … But CNN quickly backtracks: “There are still loopholes that the Fed could exploit to provide another back-door bailout to giant financial institutions,” [Congresswoman Elizabeth] Warren, a Democrat, told CNNMoney.   ***   It’s important …

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Today’s News December 3, 2015

Chairman of U.S. House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee: “Either [Turkey] Shouldn’t Be in NATO or We Shouldn’t” Congressman Dana Rohrabacher – Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats – wrote last week: Not radical Islam, but the Russians have been portrayed to us as the villains in this chapter of …

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