Being an Ideologue Means Never Having to Say You’re Wrong ... "Communism would have worked, if the Soviet Union had only tried it for real." ... For any political-economic ideology, there is always a hard core of believers who will never waver in their conviction that if only the program were tried in its pure form, it would succeed. Any failures — even debacles on a grand scale, inclu...Read More
How Trolls Are Ruining the Internet Joel Stein ... Troll Culture of Hate Time ... They're turning the web into a cesspool of aggression and violence. What watching them is doing to the rest of us may be even worse ... This story is not a good idea. Not for society and certainly not for me. Because what trolls feed on is attention. And this little bit-these several thousand words-is like leavin...Read More
Brief Donald Trump has beaten Hillary in a major poll.Donald Trump appears to have made a political comeback for the ages, but the media has gone silent about a major new poll that shows the Republican has catapulted back into the lead instead showing their viewers polls from three weeks ago. -SputnikA recent poll released by the USC/LA Times, here, found that Trump held a two point lead over...Read More
BriefPresident Duterte kicks out all presidential appointees in government ... Duterte on Sunday lashed out at the U.S. police killings of black men in his latest outburst against critics of his anti-drug campaign, which has left hundreds of suspects dead. – InquirerPhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Sunday that he would be firing thousands of federal officials. Duterte is operating...Read More
How Trolls Are Ruining the Internet Joel Stein ... Troll Culture of Hate Time ... They're turning the web into a cesspool of aggression and violence. What watching them is doing to the rest of us may be even worse ... This story is not a good idea. Not for society and certainly not for me. Because what trolls feed on is attention. And this little bit-these several thousand words-is like leavin...Read More
Brief Donald Trump has beaten Hillary in a major poll.Donald Trump appears to have made a political comeback for the ages, but the media has gone silent about a major new poll that shows the Republican has catapulted back into the lead instead showing their viewers polls from three weeks ago. -SputnikA recent poll released by the USC/LA Times, here, found that Trump held a two point lead over...Read More
BriefPresident Duterte kicks out all presidential appointees in government ... Duterte on Sunday lashed out at the U.S. police killings of black men in his latest outburst against critics of his anti-drug campaign, which has left hundreds of suspects dead. – InquirerPhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Sunday that he would be firing thousands of federal officials. Duterte is operating...Read More
Wealthy Have Nearly Healed From Recession; the Poor Haven't ... The Great Recession and the subsequent recovery from it have deepened the wedge between the very wealthy and everyone else in America, plunging the poor deeper into debt and wiping out two-fifths of the wealth held by families in the heart of the middle class. The wealthiest Americans, meanwhile, appear close to regaining all their...Read More
Wealthy Have Nearly Healed From Recession; the Poor Haven't ... The Great Recession and the subsequent recovery from it have deepened the wedge between the very wealthy and everyone else in America, plunging the poor deeper into debt and wiping out two-fifths of the wealth held by families in the heart of the middle class. The wealthiest Americans, meanwhile, appear close to regaining all their...Read More
Russia leaves the Dollar based monetary system and adopts a system of Sovereign Currency. The implications are phenomenal! "In 1990 the first priority of Washington and the IMF was to pressure Yeltsin and the Duma to "privatize" the State Bank of Russia, under a Constitutional amendment that mandated the new Central Bank of Russia, like the Federal Reserve or European Central Bank, be a purely m...Read More
Air Force ballistic missile upgrade said to be stalled over cost ... The U.S. Air Force’s program to develop and field an intercontinental ballistic missile to replace aging Minuteman III weapons is stalled over Pentagon concerns the service underestimated the cost by billions of dollars, according to a defense official familiar with the program. - Stars and StripesThe Pentagon seems to be g...Read More
Russia leaves the Dollar based monetary system and adopts a system of Sovereign Currency. The implications are phenomenal! "In 1990 the first priority of Washington and the IMF was to pressure Yeltsin and the Duma to "privatize" the State Bank of Russia, under a Constitutional amendment that mandated the new Central Bank of Russia, like the Federal Reserve or European Central Bank, be a purely m...Read More
Air Force ballistic missile upgrade said to be stalled over cost ... The U.S. Air Force’s program to develop and field an intercontinental ballistic missile to replace aging Minuteman III weapons is stalled over Pentagon concerns the service underestimated the cost by billions of dollars, according to a defense official familiar with the program. - Stars and StripesThe Pentagon seems to be g...Read More
This U.S. Bank Is About to Relive the 2008 Derivatives Nightmare ... Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB) - with its stock now trading at a 30-year low - was recently called the world’s riskiest financial institution by the International Monetary Fun … In a last-ditch effort to save itself, DB is trying to dump a bucket load of credit derivatives … You would think no one would buy the...Read More
China to play greater role in Syria while US 'left out' ... Are we seeing the start of a new anti-Islamic State coalition with Russia, Iran and China's involvement in Syria? How could it influence the balance of power in the region? What reaction could be expected from the West, particularly from the countries involved in Syria? -RTThe organization of a larger war continues to become apparent. It...Read More
BRIEFGet ready for the era of The Bitch ... If Hillary Clinton wins the White House in November, it will be a historic moment, the smashing of the preeminent glass ceiling in American public life. - Atlantic (here)This Atlantic article promotes the idea that many men will be angry with President Hillary because of her gender.This is its ultimate point, even though to begin with the article fairly...Read More
BRIEFEvery Month This Year Has Been the Hottest in Recorded History ... On Wednesday, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that July was the hottest month ever recorded on our planet, since modern record-keeping began in 1880. -Motherboard (here) Once again, as almost always it seems, we are confronted with "facts" about global warming.The point of such propa...Read More
BRIEFRyan Lochte, Jimmy Feigen, Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger's celebratory night out in Rio continues to get weirder. First the group said they were mugged in a taxi. Then the story changed to include a stop at a gas station restroom. Now authorities have focused on the gas station restroom and there is apparently security footage that shows one of the swimmers "breaking down" a door and "fighting...Read More
BRIEFFake human sacrifice filmed at Cern, with pranking scientists suspected … Scientific users' of the Geneva facility 'let their humour go too far' with staging of occult rite ... The video, which circulated online, shows several individuals in black cloaks gathering in a main square at Europe's top physics lab, in what appears to be a re-enactment of an occult ceremony. The video includ...Read More
BRIEFUS moves nuclear weapons from Turkey to Romania ... Two independent sources told EurActiv.com that the US has started transferring nuclear weapons stationed in Turkey to Romania, against the background of worsening relations between Washington and Ankara.- Euractiv (here)Always the nukes.Whenever there is military tension anywhere in the world that involves the US, it often involves the nucle...Read More