Observers Claim Political Retribution Motivated Arrest Of Progressive Congressional Candidate

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by Disobedient Media Last week Samuel Ronan, a progressive congressional candidate in Ohio’s first district, was stopped by police,  assaulted by the officers involved and ultimately arrested. He was charged with three offenses, including obstructing police business. Two of the three charges against him were reported to have been dropped at the time of writing. Shortly after Ronan’s Facebook … Read more

Web giants ‘fuelling child mental health crisis’

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via telegraph.co.uk: NHS is “picking up the pieces” of an epidemic of mental illness among children, fuelled by social media, the head of the service has warned. Simon Stevens urged companies like Google and Facebook to take more responsibility for the pressures they place on children. It follows calls for social media and online gaming firms … Read more

The Federal Reserve Is Increasing The Pace Of Interest Rate Hikes Just In Time For The 2018 Mid-Term Elections

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by Michael Snyder  If the Federal Reserve really wanted to hurt the U.S. economy, the quickest way that it could do that would be by aggressively raising interest rates.  Lower interest rates make it less expensive to borrow money, and therefore economic activity tends to expand in a low interest rate environment.  Alternatively, higher interest rates … Read more

Debt Servitude: IRS’ Private Debt Collectors Are Crushing Poor American Taxpayers

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by stockboardasset Since the IRS implemented the private debt collection (PDC) initiative in 2017, National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson warned that low-income taxpayers whose debts are assigned to private collection agencies (PCAs) are being locked into debt servicing installment plans they cannot afford, as many are unable to cover basic living expenses. That was the conclusion reached by … Read more

BRICKBATS AT PMQs & TORPEDOES FOR BREXIT: fog & fissure in a collapsing political system

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by John Ward The rise and rise of democratic atrophy ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Prime Minister’s Questions every week is a TV programme that hardly anyone in the UK watches, because all it shows is that politicians are deaf. The highest rating it ever got was in 2015, for Jeremy Corbyn’s maiden flight. Roughly 2% of the electorate watched … Read more

PHILLY IS #1

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by Jim Quinn You can’t make this shit up. I regularly point out the absolute degradation of Philly with my 30 Blocks of Squalor articles. Not only is the infrastructure crumbling and free shit army marching throughout the squalor, but the government drones running the city are the most pathetic bunch of lowlife morons ever … Read more

Riskiest Junk Bonds Completely Blow Off the Fed, Face “Sudden” Reckoning

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Still dreaming in la-la-land. High-grade corporate bonds are “gradually” – the key word in everything the Fed says – and reluctantly coming to grips with the new era: Yields are rising and bond prices are falling. The Fed has been laboring to accomplish that. With high-grade debt, the Fed’s plan is … Read more

Saudi Arabia manipulates a video to blame Iran for the 9/11 attacks which is then reported as news by the U.S. Department of State and American media

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by backstabbers An Iranian former government official appears in a TV interview and explains then refutes the claims of an American court ruling that Iran is responsible for 9/11. Al Arabiya TV, the state-funded mouthpiece of the Saudi Arabian dictatorship, edits the video of the interview to make it seem as if the official is admitting responsibility … Read more

The CIA is the biggest drug trafficker & dealer in world, facilitated by 900 overseas U.S. military bases in the transportation of heroin, cocaine and other drugs. Some background of MK-ULTRA too.

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Today we’re joined by author and research Jan Irvin of GnosticMedia.com to discuss his groundbreaking new article, co-authored with Joe Atwill, “Manufacturing the Deadhead: A product of social engineering…” Piecing together the CIA, Skull and Bones, the Esalin Institute, Gordon Wasson, Terence McKenna, Timothy Leary, Marshal McLuhan, MK-ULTRA and much more, this fascinating tale of … Read more

In these US Cities, Consumers Suffer the Hottest Inflation

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Dallas-Fort Worth, not San Francisco, is in second red-hottest place. Consumers in Los Angeles are simply not buying the notion that inflation, however benevolently measured by the Consumer Price Index, was “only” 2.8% in May, as we learned today. And they were right, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So … Read more