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Today’s News 1st February 2016

Star Wars VII: The Audience Awakens       By EconMatters While I do not see EconMatters as a movie critic like Roger Ebert, sometimes it feels almost like civil duty to let people know not to waste money on a bad movie. I missed the Start War VII when it opened during Christmas last year …

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Today’s News 31st January 2016

Deep State: Inside Washington's Shadowy Power Elite This “state within a state” hides “mostly in plain sight, and its operators mainly act in the light of day,” says Lofgren, and yet the “Deep State does not consist of the entire government.” “Our plutocracy, whether the hedge fund managers in Greenwich, Connecticut, or the Internet moguls …

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Today’s News 30th January 2016

War Party On The Run – The Roots Of The Anti-Trump, Anti-Sanders Camps In Both Parties Submitted by Justin Raimondo via AntiWar.com, I haven’t had this much fun in years – of course I’m talking about the US presidential election season, with The Donald taking on all comers, and winning (at least so far), and …

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Today’s News 29th January 2016

Chaos Ensues After Nikkei Reports Bank Of Japan Discussed Negative Interest Rate Policy Just minutes before The BoJ is due to release its statement, USDJPY and Nikkei 225 went haywire around 2220ET as Nikkei news dropped a headline about NIRP discussions taking place at The BoJ. This is not the BoJ statement but has sparked …

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Today’s News 28th January 2016

Circus Politics: Will Our Freedoms Survive Another Presidential Election? Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the …

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Today’s News 27th January 2016

Nationalism & Its Discontents: A Deep Rumination On The Meaning Of Trump Submitted by Justin Raimondo via AntiWar.com, At the end of the cold war, a cadre of neoconservative intellectuals surveyed the debris of the fallen Soviet colossus and boldly proclaimed “the end of history.” The West, said Francis Fukuyama, writing in The National Interest, …

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Today’s News 26th January 2016

Presidential Crimes Then And Now Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, Are Nixon’s and the Reagan administration’s crimes noticable on the scale of Clinton’s, George W. Bush’s, and Obama’s? Not much remains of the once vibrant American left-wing. Among the brainwashed remnants there is such a hatred of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan that the commitment …

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Today’s News 25th January 2016

The Ultimate "Truth Bomb" – The East Knows The West Is Bankrupt Submitted by Bill Holter via Jim Sinclair's Mineset blog, What a tangled web the global geopolitical situation has become.  Geopolitics and finance have always been interrelated but recently much more so.  As many readers know, I have speculated we would be hit over …

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Today’s News 24th January 2016

Putin Is Winning The Final Chess Match With Obama Submitted by Ron Holland via PravdaReport.com, The world press is filled with violence and sexual attack horror stories about the Islamic refugees escaping from Syria and other war torn countries of the Middle East to Greece and consequently flooding into all areas of Europe. It is …

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Today’s News 23rd January 2016

Mitch McConnell Moves To Grant The President Unlimited War Powers With No Expiration Date Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or …

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