Month: April 2018

Big Pharma’s $6 Billion Tax Deduction Under Fire

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OK, so everyone knows who will pay for this right?   At a time when prescription drug prices are rising, some lawmakers think the government should stop giving tax deductions to pharmaceutical companies’ advertising expenses. This is a battle that has gone on for years, with various proposals to eliminate the tax deductions being proposed and … Read more

Just another example of how the state is merging with corporations to spy on your every move.

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Amazon filed a patent to de-anonymize Bitcoin transactions and sell the data to law enforcement In 2014, Amazon applied for a patent that would help de-anonymize crypto currency transactions and then sell that information to law enforcement and government agencies. Although Bitcoin was never meant to be totally private, the patent looks to remove almost all levels … Read more

If they can do this to the people of Flint, they can just as easily do this to the people of any other mostly poor city…

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Despite overwhelming public outcry from Michiganders, Michigan approved a request by Nestle to increase the amount of water it pumps from the groundwater in Michigan by 167 percent. Then, just 4 days later, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder announced that he would be terminating the bottled water program that had been providing Flint, MI with a short … Read more

Over 100,000 people in the US die each year from adverse reactions to prescription drugs prescribed by a doctor and taken in accordance with a doctor’s order, making it the 4th leading cause of death.

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Seems like the FDA has its priorities all f*cked up. Where’s the big-monied kratom lobby when we need it? And why doesn’t the media ever talk about this? Probably because big pharma spends millions on ads, and media execs own lots of stock in pharma companies.   ADRs: Prevalence and Incidence The first question healthcare … Read more

How Good Is the Corporate Establishment Media

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by Jesse Pretty strong stuff in this video. Remember the ‘chair throwing’ incident at the Nevada convention that was widely reported? This may be the result of the concentration of the ownership of media and the overturning of the ‘fairness doctrine’ along with the gutting of the FCC. I doubt that MSNBC is worse than Fox News … Read more

The Fed Has Forgotten The Lessons Of 2008

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by Jesse Colombo A few days ago, Neel Kashkari, president of the Minneapolis Fed, told an attendees at an event at Howard University that Wall Street is “forgetting the lessons of the 2008 financial crisis“: “The shareholders got bailed out. The boards of directors got bailed out. Management got bailed out. So from their perspective, … Read more

Soros Foundation Leaving Hungary

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BUDAPEST (Reuters) – George Soros’ Open Society Foundations will close their office in Budapest and move their eastern European operations to Berlin, Austria’s Die Presse newspaper reported on Thursday. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has blamed Soros, a Hungarian-born U.S. financier, for a host of ills and pushed through legislation cracking down on non-governmental organizations … Read more

By US Standards, America Should’ve Been Bombed for What Happened in Texas, 25 Years Ago Today

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When reports claimed that a chemical attack killed 70 civilians in Syria earlier this month, the Trump administration was quick to place the blame on the Syrian government—despite having no evidence—and they claimed that the horror of such an atrocity deserved retaliation in the form of targeted airstrikes. While the United States military maintained that the … Read more

The Core Right To Self-Defense Is Under Attack – US Gun And Taser Laws – Europe’s Knife Laws.

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by Ruby Henley On April 14, 2018, the cream of the crop in law-abiding American citizens rallied together in state capitals across this Country.  Honorable in their endeavor to protect the United State Constitution, Patriots shook hands and spoke out. There was not one incident that occurred in any of the 50 rallies that disturbed … Read more

U.S. Pension Fund Collapse Isn’t a Distant Prospect, America Will Be In Worse Fiscal Shape Than Italy, Mozambique And Burundi By 2023…

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U.S. Pension Fund Collapse Isn’t a Distant Prospect. It Could Come in 5 Years Warnings about looming public pension disasters have regularly cropped up since the 1950s, pointing to problems 25 years or more down the line. To politicians and union leaders, 1  the troubles were someone else’s predicament. Then crisis fatigue set in as the big … Read more

Worldwide Debt Default – Michael Pento

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https://sdbullion.com http://www.silverdoctors.com/precious… The yield curve will invert, leading to a shrinking of the money supply, and a recession later this year, Michael Pento of Pento Portfolio Strategy tells Silver Doctors. He says bonds currently are the “most mispriced assets in the history of the world.” He sees a world wide default on debt coming. The … Read more

Draining the Swamp Commences: Former FBI Deputy Director McCabe Referred by DOJ for Criminal Prosecution

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by Chris Black According to multiple reports on Thursday, it looks like the swamp is finally getting drained, or at least partially. More precisely, we’ve just learned that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has been referred by the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General to the US Attorney’s Office for the District … Read more

Can’t Misconstrue Blankfein’s Words: “Central Banks Around The World Are Buying All The Risky Assets”

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from Zero Hedge We can finally put to rest any financial, economic, ideological or simply philosophical debates why stocks have risen over 300% since the March 2009 post-crisis lows of 666, and we have Lloyd Blankfein’s underperformance mea culpa to thank for putting it so simply and succinctly, even a majority of fintwit might actually get it. From … Read more

Air Force Awards $1 Billion Contract For ‘Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon’

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by stockboardasset The United States Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin, an American aerospace, defense, security and advanced technologies company, with a $928 million contract to design and prototype new hypersonic missiles. These high tech missiles can travel five times the speed of sound and outmaneuver the most advanced missile defense shields in the world, announced … Read more