August 2016 archive

For Sale: The World's First $1+ Billion Dollar House Exactly two years ago, we reported about what we dubbed at the time was “absolute bubble insanity” – a double skyscraper called the Tour Odeon, located in the French Riviera, which would house a 3,300 square-meter (35,500 square-foot) penthouse with a water slide connecting a dance …

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AN EXTReMeLY CaReLeSS MiSTaKe… President Obama Violated The Law With His Ransom Payment To Iran Submitted by Andrew McCarthy via NationalReview.com, The president hoped to camouflage what he knew to be against the law in his dealings with Iran. Did it ever occur to President Obama to ask why he couldn’t just cut a check …

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Could Trump Pull Off A Post-Party Coalition? Authored by Pepe Escobar, originally posted Op-Ed at SputnikNews.com, Hillary Clinton, Queen of Chaos, Queen of War, Golden Goldman Girl, for all practical purposes is by now the official bipartisan candidate of US neocons and neoliberalcons alike. Certified add-ons include Wall Street; selected hedge funds; TPP cheerleaders; CFR …

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Banks Ponder Vault Cash In Response To Negative Rates: Lending Reality In A Nutshell Submitted by Michael Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Under guise of preventing fraud the ECB voted to kill the €500 note. Fraud was not the real reason. The real reason was to make it more difficult for banks to store physical cash to …

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Turkish Turmoil: Let The Politics Begin Submitted by Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk via Bawerk.net, A month on from Turkey’s failed coup attempt, and you’ll find endless op-eds opining the supposed strategic implications of Erdogan’s rear-guard offensives. In a nutshell, it breaks down into four key arguments… The first is that Erdogan will oversee a ‘brutal crackdown’ …

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The Glue Holding America Together Is No Longer Binding Authored by Ben Tanosborn, Often cited as an important reason for US success as a global power, our diversity has finally come home to roost, and it’s taking a destructive, cruel toll. A unique magic glue that we somehow thought would keep myriad groups in America …

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Islamic Islamophobia: When Muslims Are Not Muslim Enough, What Does It Promise For The Rest Of Us? Submitted by Douglas Murray via The Gatestone Institute, Mr Shah's murderer was a Sunni Muslim, Tanveer Ahmed, who had travelled to Glasgow to kill Mr Shah because he believed Mr Shah had "disrespected the Prophet Mohammed." At this …

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Muslims "Blame Trump" After New York Imam Assassinated In Broad Daylight A lone gunman opened fire on a Queens' imam and his assistant as the two walked (near Ozone Park mosque in New York) after Saturday afternoon prayers, leaving one dead and the other critically wounded. As NY Daily News reports, dozens of angry Muslim …

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"Russian" Hacker Guccifer 2.0 Publishes Complete Personal Information Of 200 Congressional Democrats According to so-called experts, the Romanian (as he described himself) hacker Guccifer 2.0 is really a Russian (even though there is still not a shred of evidence to confirm this) who several weeks ago provided a trove of 20,000 emails to Wikileaks, which …

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Hillary Clinton's War Policy: "Turmoil, Chaos, & Catastrophe Lie Ahead" Submitted by Brian Cloughley via Strategic-Culture.org, As a result of Trump’s stumbling, Hillary Clinton seems to be on course to become next president of the United States and it is depressing to reflect on what some of her policies might be if she achieves that …

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