Trump: I'm Reopening 9/11 Investigation ... "First of all, the original 9/11 investigation is a total mess and has to be reopened," Trump said ... Donald Trump believes that 9/11 has not been properly investigated and has promised to find out what really happened when he takes office in January. Donald Trump's plans for his first 100 days in office are raising eyebrows around the world, but of a...Read More

After Trump & Brexit, populist tsunami threatens European mainstream ... Back in May, when Donald's Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election seemed the remotest of possibilities, a senior European official took to Twitter before a G7 summit in Tokyo to warn of a "horror scenario". Imagine, mused the official, if instead of Barack Obama, Francois Hollande, David Cameron and Matteo...Read More

The American voters have Brexited, leaving behind their global dominance America has Brexited. It's an imperfect comparison. The United States can't leave itself. But on Wednesday, with the election of Donald Trump, it withdrew from a number of agreements it long ago entered, some more enduring than others. The American people have voted to leave behind the late 20th century consensus on f...Read More

What's wrong with Hillary Clinton's brand? ... As momentous an occasion as this should be for women around the world, Ms. Clinton would begin her term in the Oval Office with her unpopularity ratings at near-record levels. All of which leads to the question: What's wrong with Brand Hillary? – The Globe and MailIn the run-up to today's election, many articles on Hillary in the mainstrea...Read More

Updating Libertarianism for the 21st Century ... A little while ago, I wrote that libertarianism — the small-government philosophy codified by Robert Nozick and others in the mid-20th century — is looking a little shopworn. As efforts to slash government yield diminishing returns, and empirical evidence piles up that many government interventions are very beneficial, the minimalist s...Read More

... Man searching for toilet in Australia’s outback makes astounding discovery of 49,000-year-old human settlement ... Archaeologists working with traditional Aboriginal owners have discovered astounding evidence of the earliest human habitation of inland Australia. - Sutff, NewZealand's Largest Online SourceAustralian habitation keeps getting pushed back and this discovery mentioned abo...Read More

 Fiery Tesla Crash Sends Flaming Batteries Shooting Like Projectiles, Killing Two In World’s Safest Car ... When a Tesla Model S collided with a tree in downtown Indianapolis Thursday, an inferno erupted. The crash, which killed the driver and her one passenger, sent battery cells "firing off almost like projectiles around rescuers," fire department officials told local NBC affiliate WT...Read More

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

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

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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

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

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

Is Gold On Its Last Legs? ... I am about to make a bold call on the future price of gold . Clearly, no one knows the future, but I firmly think that the preponderance of the evidence points toward dramatically lower prices for the yellow metal over the next 24 months. In fact, I expect gold prices to drop below $1,000 per ounce by October 2018. -NasdaqMore nonsense about gold. It never ceases. N...Read More

On Friday afternoon, New York state Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill making it illegal to advertise your home for short-term rent on websites like Airbnb.The law specifically targets New York City homeowners in apartment buildings who advertise their properties, or even just a spare room in their homes, to rent for less than 30 days at a time.It's important to note that New York already passed...Read More