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June 15, 2016
The New York Times has just published an article comparing the Orlando shooting to Hiroshima. The point that is made is one we have discussed recently in these pages in several articles. It again justifies our perception that many modern trends, including incre ...
June 15, 2016
As usual, Monsanto is the center of a lot of attention. Bayer is making a huge bid for the company and Monsanto is trying to reinvent itself as a kind of agricultural data guru. Monsanto is going to combine farming and various kinds of agricultural and climate ...
June 14, 2016
3 Reasons Why Silver Will Rally Higher … Like Warren Buffett, I have a disdain for gold as an investment but remain attracted to silver. For many investors, this appears hypocritical given that both are precious metals with closely correlated prices. Howeve ...
June 14, 2016
Trump revokes Post press credentials, calling the paper ‘dishonest’ and ‘phony’ … Why did Donald Trump revoke The Post’s media credentials? … Donald Trump said Monday that he is pulling The Washington Post’s credentials to cover his events b ...
June 13, 2016
Joseph Grosso is Executive Chairman, CEO & President of a leading junior mining firm in Argentina, Golden Arrow Resources. He has successfully formed strategic alliances and negotiated with mining industry majors such as Barrick, Teck, Newmont, Viceroy (no ...
June 13, 2016
Donald Trump’s scaremongering response to Orlando shooting is the opposite of what America needs … The gunning down of dozens of party-goers in a gay club in Florida showed, he wrote, that he had been ‘right on radical Islamic terrorism̵ ...
June 13, 2016
The memory of the use of the first nuclear bomb that brought the second great global inferno to an end continues to weigh on the collective consciousness despite the passing of more than 71 years since the tragic military intervention that obliterated the civil ...
June 13, 2016
Astronaut takes first step inside International Space Station’s inflatable ‘spare room’ … Bigelow Aerospace developed the first-of-its-kind habitat as part of an $18 million contract with Nasa. The company has an eye on eventually using it ...
June 10, 2016
Obama endorses Hillary Clinton: ‘I am with her. I am fired up.’ … President Obama dispensed with his long-held pledge of neutrality in the Democratic presidential race Thursday, backing Hillary Clinton as the most qualified candidate to succeed hi ...
June 10, 2016
What to Know About the Bilderberg Group’s Secret Annual … Barriers stand in front of hotel Taschenbergpalais Kempinski in Dresden, Germany, where the Bilderberg conference will take place place from June 9-12, 2016. Little is known about the secretive group ...
June 10, 2016
Why it’s time to go back to the Moon … It’s more than a stepping stone to Mars … Mars is an extremely popular destination right now. Putting people on the Red Planet has been the big goal for NASA since 2010, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has made it ...
June 09, 2016
How Hillary Clinton’s historic win changes the game for girls … So many girls for so long were told — overtly and subtly — what they could and could not be … Regardless of party persuasion, Hillary Clinton’s victory is the definition ...
June 09, 2016
Under fire from Republicans, Trump says he’ll stop talking about judge … Bowing to pressure from fellow Republicans, Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would no longer talk about a Mexican-American judge after U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan denounced the pre ...
June 09, 2016
Reports: North Korea Recycling Plutonium to Make Nuclear Bombs … An unnamed U.S. official has confirmed to Reuters that evidence indicates North Korea has begun to once again produce plutonium fuel, a key ingredient in nuclear weapons. North Korea’s communi ...
June 09, 2016
There won’t be any unintentional discoveries on the Antarctic any time soon. It will remain “completely off limits” for mining and miners.
In our opinion, that's terrible news. ...
June 07, 2016
Her husband has been accused of rape and drug smuggling, and the two of them have been accused of murder and other serious crimes. Yet mainstream media insists that she isn’t disliked for what she’s done. She is disliked for “who she is". A woman. ...
June 07, 2016
‘Take that order and throw it the hell out’: Trump reportedly rails against campaign staff for telling surrogates to stop attacking judge … Donald Trump advised prominent campaign surrogates to go after journalists who ask questions about a Trump ...
June 07, 2016
Critics claim that the Brexit debate is one motivated by irrational fear. Emotion, they say, is ruling people's perspective and that arguments regarding leaving the EU are based on “irritation and anger.” ...
June 07, 2016
Last year Yellen was positive the US economy was “recovering.” Then she hiked rates by a mere 25 basis points and world stock markets imploded. She never apologized of course, and the mainstream media gave her a pass. But it was obvious she’d been wrong, ...
June 06, 2016
Trump … said he thinks the jobless rate is close to 20 percent and not the roughly 5 percent reported by the Labor Department. And, of course, Crudele reported, anyone who buys the 5 percent figure is a “dummy,” according to Trump. This, in a nutshell, is ...
June 06, 2016
What is memetic warfare and how it threats democratic values? … One of the contributors of Defense Strategic Communications journal issued by NATO Stratcom COE, Jeff Giesea defines memetic warfare as “competition over narrative, ideas, and social cont ...
June 06, 2016
Washington to Moscow: Stop Targeting al-Qaeda in Syria – You’ll Kill Our Moderates! … The Associated Press is reporting this afternoon that the Obama Administration has requested that the Russians cease and desist from bombing al-Qaeda’s Nus ...
June 06, 2016
U.S. Set to Approve Moon Mission … Commercial Space Venture Startup proposes to land payload of scientific gear on lunar surface some time next year. -Wall Street Journal ...
June 03, 2016
Free Speech Isn’t Facebook’s Job … My instinct as a First Amendment teacher is to be outraged at Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Microsoft for knuckling under to European Commission pressure to ban hate speech on their platforms. But after sleep ...
June 03, 2016
Musk: We intend to launch people to Mars in 2024 … Elon Musk will send a mission to Mars without people on it — on the Flying Dragon version 2 rocket — starting in 2018 and launch a rocket headed there every 26 months. – CNBC ...
June 01, 2016
Shady accounting underpins Trump’s wealth … The GOP nominee is rich. But how rich depends on odd accounting and subjective criteria … Donald Trump claims he is worth $10 billion — but financial experts dispute that. -Politico ...
June 01, 2016
Hillary and Trump Leave Americans with Angst, Malaise and Little Confidence … A new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that the choice of Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump for president leaves Americans feeling frustrat ...
June 01, 2016
UK voters shift towards ‘Out’ as EU referendum nears … British voters have moved towards voting to leave the European Union in next month’s referendum according to two surveys by polling firm ICM, surprising investors and sending sterlin ...
June 01, 2016
Moon Landing Hoax | “Moon Buggy” LRV is a Willys Jeep – Lift the Veil ...
May 31, 2016
What the President Does … By Jonathan Bernstein Turns out maybe Donald Trump doesn’t want to be president after all. Oh, he wants to run for president. Almost certainly wants to win. Probably wants to be inaugurated. But doing the actual job? That’s s ...
May 31, 2016
Elizabeth Warren Is Good at Her Job … Elizabeth Warren has a rare talent for distilling political messages. In 2011, as she was running for the Senate seat that she won the next year, the former Harvard law professor delivered the kind of concise, pointed rat ...
May 30, 2016
Speculative traders abandon gold in latest week … Gold prices fell Monday, moving in the opposite direction of the U.S. dollar, which soared after comments by Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen last week indicated an interest-rate hike could come thi ...
May 30, 2016
Over 450 Writers, Including Stephen King And Michael Chabon, Sign Petition Against Trump … Pulitzer and National Book Critics Circle winners call out Trump’s “nativism and bigotry.” -Huffington Post ...
May 30, 2016
Economists overwhelmingly reject Brexit in boost for Cameron … Poll shows 88% of 600 experts fear long-term fall in GDP if UK leaves single market, and 82% are alarmed over impact on household income. -Guardian ...
May 30, 2016
Ap-Norc Poll Finds Bare Confidence In Government, Elections … Few Americans have much confidence in the U.S. political system, the government in general, or in either political party. Most say they’re interested in the 2016 presidential election, but th ...
May 28, 2016
A European army is exactly what the EU and UK needs Whether or not Donald Trump wins the US presidency, American sentiment is for the Europeans to do much more to help themselves … Under Nato Euope’s defences remain incomplete and necessitate US inv ...
May 27, 2016
Gold on Track for Eighth Losing Session U.S. GDP data revision seen bolstering case for interest-rate increase … Gold prices edged lower Friday, on pace for an eighth straight losing session, amid mounting evidence of improving economic growth in the U.S. tha ...
May 27, 2016
After almost a century of making cars and selling them in more or less the same way, automakers (and others) are getting the sense that the business of automotive transportation might be about to change radically. Here’s Toyota executive Shigeki Tomoyama on t ...
May 27, 2016
Katie Couric Regrets ‘Poor Decision’ to Insert Pause in Gun Documentary Interview … Katie Couric is upset that an eight-second pause inserted into an interview she did with gun rights activists in the documentary “Under the Gun” has drawn criticism. ...
May 26, 2016
WikiLeaks releases latest documents from TISA negotiations … The classified annex to the draft “core text” of the Trade in Services Agreement is part of what is being secretly negotiated by the U.S., EU and 22 countries. The website WikiLeaks re ...
May 26, 2016
The Fed’s Amazing Self-Fulfilling Forecast … The Federal Reserve’s track record of economic forecasting is a lot better than many observers recognize. It might also offer some insight into the central bank’s approach to managing the recovery. -Blo ...
May 25, 2016
Russia has no plans to deliver US astronauts to ISS after 2018 — US wants ISS program extended through to 2024 — Russia has no intention of concluding more contracts for delivering US astronauts to the International Space Station after 2018, the deputy ch ...
May 25, 2016
No One Hates the IRS More Than House Republicans … Pity John Koskinen, who agreed to take one of the worst jobs in America and is now being punished for it. In 2013, President Barack Obama asked Koskinen to take over at the Internal Revenue Service amid bud ...
May 24, 2016
The Awakening Will Continue Regardless of This Year’s Election … Every four years the public gets all riled up over the outcome of the presidential election, projecting all their expectations and visions for a better tomorrow on to a candidate in the hopes ...
May 24, 2016
Four Ways to Think About the Economy … I see four different schools of thought about how the economies of the U.S. and much of the developed world should be managed. The challenge for the Federal Reserve and other central bankers is that it’s hard to kn ...
May 24, 2016
Curry house owner jailed for six years after customer dies from nut allergy … Paul Wilson’s parents Margaret and Keith said he loved curry but was always clear with staff about his allergy, asking for his meals not to contain any peanuts … Businesses ...
May 24, 2016
Obama is visiting Japan to meet with world economic leaders this week, and he plans to stop at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and deliver remarks about war and nuclear proliferation. The visit, preceded by similar visits by U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy and ...
May 23, 2016
How corporate America bought Hillary Clinton for $21M … Hillary Clinton has amassed a huge fortune through shady speaking engagements given to some of the most powerful corporations in the world. – NY Post ...
May 23, 2016
The right kind of reform … America’s next president should modernise the Federal Reserve system … Perhaps it was inevitable in the aftermath of the worst financial crisis in almost a century, but America is boiling over with schemes to remake the Federa ...
May 23, 2016
Conditions for a rate increase by the Federal Reserve are “on the verge of broadly being met,” Eric Rosengren, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, told the Financial Times … According to an article on Sunday, Rosengren told the FT he ...
