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Today’s News 24th February 2016

Trump Takes Nevada By A Landslide; Rubio/Cruz All Tied Up – Live Feed And the juggernaut rolls on…   Most major news wires have already called the Nevada GOP Caucus for Donald Trump (despite only 3% reporting) making it 3 in a row: Trump 42% Cruz 22.8% Rubio 21.8% Marking Rubio's 4th loss to Trump …

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Today’s News 23rd February 2016

Hillary Clinton Is Backed By Major Republican Donors Authored by Eric Zuesse, An analysis of Federal Election Commission records, by TIME, which was published on 23 October 2015, showed that the 2012 donors to Romney’s campaign were already donating more to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign than they had been donating to any one of the 2016 campaigns of (listed here …

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Today’s News 22nd February 2016

First Massachusetts Poll Shows Trump With 'Yuuge' Lead With nine days until the Massachusetts Primary on March 1st (Super Tuesday), the first polls show Donald Trump with an enormous lead over his rivals for the GOP nomination (with Ted Cruz suffering the biggest setback). So much for all those Jeb supporters 'swinging' away from Trump. …

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Today’s News 21st February 2016

This Is What Happens To Gold When Citizens Lose Faith In Fiat Currency It appears, first slowly and now quickly, the world is realizing that Alan Greenspan was right after all: "Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency. No fiat currency, including the dollar, can match it." As Nick …

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Today’s News 20th February 2016

Iraq War: Not A Mistake, But A Holocaustic Crime Authored by Ben Tansoborn, Either our minds have softened in the United States, or our hearts have hardened way beyond the callous stage.  Or, likely both! Just 13 years past his criminal decision to invade Iraq, George W. Bush is campaigning in South Carolina to get …

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Today’s News 19th February 2016

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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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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 …

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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. …

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