Video: Corruption, Cooptation, Cronyism: The Hillary Clinton "Takeover", The "Counter-Coup", Action of America's Intelligence Community -Global ResearchIs it possible the recent counter coup announced by Steve Pieczenik, a former official in numerous Republican administrations, is actually part of a much larger dominant social theme designed to reinforce positive perceptions regarding the most sec...Read More
Populists stick to tradition of central bank-bashing ... If anyone still doubts the affinity between support for Trump in the US and for Brexit in the UK, they should look no further than the two movements' attitude to monetary policy. -Financial TimesThe "populism vs. globalism" meme is increasingly evident in the mainstream media just as we predicted, and analyzing it can generate considerable i...Read More
‘I fear for the country’ if Trump wins, Bill Weld tells Rachel Maddow ... Libertarian vice presidential candidate William Weld said the country will be in “chaos” if Donald Trump wins the presidency and praised Hillary Clinton during an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Tuesday. - USA TodayBill Weld is hardly a libertarian. His informal endorsement of Hillary Cli...Read More
Populists stick to tradition of central bank-bashing ... If anyone still doubts the affinity between support for Trump in the US and for Brexit in the UK, they should look no further than the two movements' attitude to monetary policy. -Financial TimesThe "populism vs. globalism" meme is increasingly evident in the mainstream media just as we predicted, and analyzing it can generate considerable i...Read More
‘I fear for the country’ if Trump wins, Bill Weld tells Rachel Maddow ... Libertarian vice presidential candidate William Weld said the country will be in “chaos” if Donald Trump wins the presidency and praised Hillary Clinton during an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Tuesday. - USA TodayBill Weld is hardly a libertarian. His informal endorsement of Hillary Cli...Read More
The Stock Market Has a Favorite in the Election ... On the evening of Sept. 26, two interesting things happened. First, Hillary Clinton won a decisive debate victory over Donald Trump in the first presidential debate, as judged by prediction markets (and later, by polls). Second, financial markets abruptly experienced large, abnormal swings. Economists Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz have do...Read More
The Stock Market Has a Favorite in the Election ... On the evening of Sept. 26, two interesting things happened. First, Hillary Clinton won a decisive debate victory over Donald Trump in the first presidential debate, as judged by prediction markets (and later, by polls). Second, financial markets abruptly experienced large, abnormal swings. Economists Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz have do...Read More
Near-term production and district-scale potential has attracted some of Canada's biggest and best-known gold investors to this junior gold mining stock. Investor's Digest of Canada columnist Richard Buzbuzian says Golden Predator Mining's 3 Aces project in an orogenic gold district in southeastern Yukon could be a very large discovery of very high-grade gold within the world's most desirable count...Read More
The rise of paranoid politics could make America ungovernable - and the FBI is fuelling the fire ... Nothing can disprove the fears of a paranoiac. Indeed, everything confirms them ... It takes away politicians' incentive to understand one another and get things done. It says that if you scream loud enough, established norms will buckle under the pressure. And while those norms might be annoyi...Read More
The rise of paranoid politics could make America ungovernable - and the FBI is fuelling the fire ... Nothing can disprove the fears of a paranoiac. Indeed, everything confirms them ... It takes away politicians' incentive to understand one another and get things done. It says that if you scream loud enough, established norms will buckle under the pressure. And while those norms might be annoyi...Read More
Four Steps to Save American Politics ... Donald Trump has taken a battering ram to longstanding political norms — the unwritten conventions that make governance possible ... Immediately after the election, one of the most pressing questions will be how to restore them. To answer that question ... what are the minimal norms on which we might agree? Here are four suggestions. -BloombergCass R....Read More
Four Steps to Save American Politics ... Donald Trump has taken a battering ram to longstanding political norms — the unwritten conventions that make governance possible ... Immediately after the election, one of the most pressing questions will be how to restore them. To answer that question ... what are the minimal norms on which we might agree? Here are four suggestions. -BloombergCass R....Read More
Half Of Americans Believe 9/11 Conspiracy Theories ... "The United States is a strongly conspiratorial society." ... A majority of Americans believe that the government is concealing information about the 9/11 attacks, one new survey suggests. And that's not the only conspiracy theory believed by a wide swath of Americans: Around 40 percent believe the government is hiding information abou...Read More
Half Of Americans Believe 9/11 Conspiracy Theories ... "The United States is a strongly conspiratorial society." ... A majority of Americans believe that the government is concealing information about the 9/11 attacks, one new survey suggests. And that's not the only conspiracy theory believed by a wide swath of Americans: Around 40 percent believe the government is hiding information abou...Read More
Imagine Jailing the Central Bankers Who Saved the world ... The U.K. may be on the verge of an unprecedented experiment in public accountability. The courts may soon be invited to consider the following question: Should government officials face prosecution if the actions they took to support the financial system during the credit crisis stink in hindsight? – BloombergFinally central banke...Read More
Imagine Jailing the Central Bankers Who Saved the world ... The U.K. may be on the verge of an unprecedented experiment in public accountability. The courts may soon be invited to consider the following question: Should government officials face prosecution if the actions they took to support the financial system during the credit crisis stink in hindsight? – BloombergFinally central banke...Read More
The Globalization of Rage Why Today's Extremism Looks Familiar ... Militant secessions from a civilization premised on gradual progress under liberal democratic trustees-the kind of civilization that D'Annunzio and his peers denounced as feeble and corrupt-are once again brewing within the West and far beyond it: and as before, they are fueled by a broad, deep, and volatile desire for destructio...Read More
Editor of Austria's Largest Paper Charged with 'Hate Speech' over Migrant Article ... An editor of Austria's largest paper, Kronen Zeitung, is to be tried for hate speech over a commentary he wrote about the migrant crisis last year. -Breitbart NewsThis is part of a larger attack on the Western media, especially the alternative media.It's surely not a coincidence that these attacks are being launc...Read More
The Globalization of Rage Why Today's Extremism Looks Familiar ... Militant secessions from a civilization premised on gradual progress under liberal democratic trustees-the kind of civilization that D'Annunzio and his peers denounced as feeble and corrupt-are once again brewing within the West and far beyond it: and as before, they are fueled by a broad, deep, and volatile desire for destructio...Read More
Editor of Austria's Largest Paper Charged with 'Hate Speech' over Migrant Article ... An editor of Austria's largest paper, Kronen Zeitung, is to be tried for hate speech over a commentary he wrote about the migrant crisis last year. -Breitbart NewsThis is part of a larger attack on the Western media, especially the alternative media.It's surely not a coincidence that these attacks are being launc...Read More