Tech Exec "Outraged" At Having To See "Homeless Riff-Raff", Warns Of Revolution In an open letter to San Francisco's mayor Ed Lee, tech entrepreneur Justin Keller said he is "outraged" that wealthy workers have to see people in pain and despair. As The Guardian reports, The latest cultural altercation between San Francisco’s tech workers and …
February 2016 archive
Feb 18
Today’s News 18th February 2016
America's Largest Union Refuses To Back Hillary Over Sanders In what could be the biggest blow yet for her campaign, the leader of the America's largest federation of unions (counting 12 million active and retired "everyday Americans") has chosen not to endorse Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders. Clinton has racked up endorsements from 18 unions, …
Feb 17
Today’s News 17th February 2016
Russia's Trap: Luring Sunnis Into War Submitted by Burak Bekdil via The Gatestone Institute, Washington should think more than twice about allowing Turkey and Saudi Arabia, its Sunni allies, militarily to engage their Shiite enemies in Syria. Allowing Sunni supremacists into a deeper sectarian war is not a rational way to block Russian expansion in …
Feb 16
Today’s News 16th February 2016
American Democracy? – Money, Super-Delegates, & Hacked Voting Machines Authored by Cynthia McKinney, Op-Ed via RT.com, Jesus once remarked to a wealthy man that “it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to go to heaven.” Today, we could amend the words …
Feb 15
Today’s News 15th February 2016
Washington's Dismal Comedy Of Terrors – When In Doubt Bomb Syria Submitted by Jeffrey St.Clair via Counterpunch.org, Poor ISIS. Try as they might, the men in black still can’t out-terrorize their enemies or, more pointedly, even their patrons. For the past three years, decapitations have served as the money shots for ISIS’s theater of cruelty. …
Feb 14
Today’s News 14th February 2016
Central Banks Are "Malicious Tools Of Wholesale Cultural Destruction" Originally posted at The Daily Bell, Stock markets suspect Federal Reserve has interest rate jitters … Hints that the Fed won't raise interest rates in March are proving to be good news for miners and oil producers' share prices The Federal Reserve's William Dudley said further …
Feb 13
Today’s News 13th February 2016
Paul Craig Roberts: Are Americans Too Insouciant To Survive? Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, When one looks at the deplorable state of the world, one cannot help but wonder at the insouciance of the American people. Where are they? Do they exist or are they a myth? Have they been put to sleep by an …
Feb 12
Today’s News 12th February 2016
Canada Sells Nearly Half Of All Its Gold Reserves By Monique Muise, as published on Global News Canada sells nearly half of all its gold reserves The government of Canada sold off nearly half its gold reserves in recent weeks, continuing a pattern of moving away from the precious metal as a government asset. According …
Feb 11
Today’s News 11th February 2016
"Bloodbath" In Black Gold – Buffett's Phillips 66 Dumps Oil In Cushing, Crashes Crude Spreads To 5 Year Lows The canary in the coalmine of an increasingly desperate energy industry just croaked. With "unusual timing" and at "distressed prices," Reuters reports that Phillips 66 – the major US refiner owned by Warren Buffett – dumped …
Feb 10
Today’s News 10th February 2016
Is The American Dream Dead? Submitted by Tom Chatham via ProjectChesapeake.com, The American dream is not a thing in physical terms but an idea that lives or dies with certain beliefs in society. Can it die? Yes it can if those beliefs are purged from the conscience of society. This is what Jefferson meant by …
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