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Wednesday, 26 August 2015

What If The "Crash" Is as Rigged as Everything Else?

Take your pick--here's three good reasons to engineer a "crash" that benefits the few at the expense of the many. There is an almost touching faith that markets are rigged when they loft higher, but unrigged when they crash. Who's to say this crash isn't rigged? A few things about this "crash" (11% decline from all time highs now qualifies as a "crash") don't pass the sniff test. Exhibit 1: VIX volatility Index soars to "the world is ending"...

Feds Go Door-To-Door To Inform Gun Owners Rights Not Absolute

Thank God criminals follow laws – otherwise we might be in trouble. This has always been the traditional attitude of government in regards to gun restrictions. It is important to note that everybody believes in gun rights. – It is just a question of who has those rights. So-called “gun-control supporters” don’t support the absence of guns in society, they support gun ownership being monopolized and centralized in the hands of the state and their...

Cops Shoot Man 'Holding Rifle,' Turns Out To Be Car Jack

 The Bakersfield Police Department said the man fatally shot last weekend by an officer appeared to have a rifle, which turned out to be a car jack. Jason Lee Alderman, 29, was shot to death by an officer at a Subway restaurant. According to the department, a two-officer patrol unit heard breaking glass during an unrelated investigation. The broken glass was from the front door of the Subway, and a white BMW was backed up to the...

What If Your Naked Eye Could See Wifi Signals?

  I was reading earlier this morning about these parents suing their child’s boarding school in Massachusetts over their use of supposedly too strong wi-fi signals which they say are harming his health, causing nausea and nosebleeds. The parents claim that their 12-year-old son suffers from Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Syndrome, a condition which is aggravated by electromagnetic radiation, even batteries. It’s what Michael McKean’s...

North Dakota Becomes First State to Legalize Drones Weaponized with Tasers, Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets & Sound Canons

It is now legal for law enforcement in North Dakota to fly drones armed with everything from Tasers to tear gas thanks to a last-minute push by a pro-police lobbyist.  With all the concern over the militarization of police in the past year, no one noticed that the state became the first in the union to allow police to equip drones with “less than lethal” weapons. House Bill 1328 wasn’t drafted that way, but then a lobbyist representing...

US Military Now Has Authority to “Capture and Punish” Journalists Who they Deem “Belligerent

  Washington, D.C. — Newly adopted Department of Defense guidelines will allow military commanders to “punish journalists” and treat them as “unprivileged belligerents.” The DoD’s 1,180 page Law of War Manual outlines provisions for military commanders to violate the rights of journalists who they disagree with in vaguely written legal speak. According to the Associated Press: The Law of War manual, updated to apply for the first...

Virginia police say they found killer using license plate reader

This morning, the nation was horrified to discover that a Virginia local news reporter was shot dead, along with her cameraman, on live television. Hours later police released the name of the man they suspected as the killer. This afternoon, apparently after a police chase, the suspected killer shot himself and died. Now one journalist is reporting that the police searching for the suspect found him by using an automated license plate reader....

Literary Magazines for Socialists Funded by the CIA, Ranked

In May of 1967, a former CIA officer named Tom Braden published a confession in theSaturday Evening Post under the headline, “I’m glad the CIA is ‘immoral.’” Braden confirmed what journalists had begun to uncover over the previous year or so: The CIA had been responsible for secretly financing a large number of “civil society” groups, such as the National Student Association and many socialist European unions, in order to counter...

Graphic: Visual of Global Military Expenditures

  How did the US propel itself so far ahead, to the point that it could, alone, comprise about half of global military spending? Professor of history at Cornell University: “The idea that the commodification and suffering and forced labor of African-Americans is what made the United States powerful and rich is not an idea that people necessarily are happy to hear. Yet it is the truth.”  Even divided in half, the two...

Latest Revelation – Lois Lerner Used a Second Personal Email for IRS Business Under the Name “Toby Miles”

It’s not just Hillary who has problems when it comes to mixing personal email addresses with official government business. We know know that conservative and tea party-targeting former head of the IRS’  Exempted Organizations division, Lois Lerner, used not just one, but two personal email addresses. The latest one discovered wasunder the name “Toby Miles.” The Washington Times reports: Lois Lerner had yet another personal...
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