The Great FreedomFest Debate Was Like Watching Tom and Jerry by Keith Weiner With apologies to his fans, Jerry is an evil little mouse who constantly pesters Tom the Cat. Tom tries and tries, but cannot seem to overpower someone who is a fraction of his size and strength. Watching Stephen Moore attempt to …
July 2015 archive
Jul 11
Today’s News July 11, 2015
Pentagon Concludes America Not Safe Unless It Conquers The World Submitted by Paul Craig Roberts, The Pentagon has released its “National Military Strategy of the United States of America 2015,” June 2015. The document announces a shift in focus from terrorists to “state actors” that “are challenging international norms.” It is important to understand what …
Jul 10
Today’s News July 10, 2015
The Global War On Pensions Gets Personal – Scenes From A Dying Nation We have been warning about the 'global war on pensioners' for a while (most recently here, here, and here) but the soul-destroying images of Greek pensioners' hopes being crushed bring that central-bank-driven repression front-and-center… As The Wall Street Journal reports, fear is …
Jul 09
Today’s News July 9, 2015
Utter Desperation: Chinese Police Vow To Arrest "Malicious Short Sellers" In what can only be described as total and utter desperation, China's Public Security Ministry and China Securities Regulatory Commission are discussing a plan to take action against "hostile short sellers"… (via Google Translate) [ Ministry of Public Security in conjunction with the recent Commission …
Jul 08
Today’s News July 8, 2015
Meanwhile, In "Success Story" Portugal Somehow, with over 33% of young people unemployed, Portugal is held up to be a ‘success story’ for Merkel’s Europe’s grand plan. With their stock market tumbling and bond yields (and spreads) soaring… Perhaps it’s time to realize nothing is fixed at all… as this image exposes all …
Jul 07
Today’s News July 7, 2015
THERE’S Your Hyperinflation! by Keith Weiner Hyperinflation is commonly defined as rapidly rising prices which get out of control. For example, the Wikipedia entry begins, “In economics, hyperinflation occurs when a country experiences very high and usually accelerating rates of inflation, rapidly eroding the real value of the local currency…” Let’s restate this in …
Jul 06
Today’s News July 6, 2015
Silver Market Change Report 5 July, 2015 The prices of the metals drooped further this shortened week (Friday was a holiday in the US, as the Fourth of July, Independence Day, occurred on Saturday). The S&P 500 index also fell this week, as did crude oil. Markets all over the world are beginning to feel …
Jul 05
Today’s News July 5, 2015
MaRaTHoN MeNSCH-auBLe They Want To Use "Hate Speech Laws" To Destroy Freedom Of Speech In America Submitted by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, Hate speech laws are going in all around the world, and progressive activists in the United States want to use these kinds of laws to destroy free …
Jul 04
Today’s News July 4, 2015
The Superpower Conundrum – The Rise and Fall of Just About Everything Submitted by Tom Engelhardt via TomDispatch.com, The rise and fall of great powers and their imperial domains has been a central fact of history for centuries. It’s been a sensible, repeatedly validated framework for thinking about the fate of the planet. So it’s …
Jul 03
Today’s News July 3, 2015
The German Press Does It Again: "Give Me The Money Or I Shoot" When a message needs to be sent by the powers that be, the German press can always be relied upon to send it, no matter how divisive (as they did here, here, and here). So it is no surprise that with the …
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