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Feb 04
Today’s News 4th February 2016
Paul Craig Roberts: There Is No Freedom Without Truth Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, “This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government. We …
Feb 03
Today’s News 3rd February 2016
The Coming Revaluation Of Gold Submitted by Hugo Salinas Price via Plata.com.mx, The current melt-down of the world's debt bubble is likely to continue in the course of the next months. The secular trend to expansion of credit has morphed into contraction and liquidation. It is my opinion that the new trend is now established …
Feb 02
Today’s News 2nd February 2016
America, Meet Your "Apolitical" Federal Reserve Moments after the “disestablishment” Ted Cruz (even if Goldman may have a lien or two on said disestablishmentarianism), was announced to be the winner of the Iowa Caucus, a most unexpected commentator appeared among the flood of the otherwise traditional Twitter noise with what can only be classified as …
Feb 01
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 …
Jan 31
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 …
Jan 30
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 …
Jan 29
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 …
Jan 28
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 …
Jan 27
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, …
Jan 26
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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