by Charles Hugh-Smith The desire to improve our social standing is natural. What’s unnatural is the toxicity of doing so through social media. It seems self-evident that the divisiveness that characterizes this juncture of American history is manifesting profound social …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hod2gDbCEqA “Artificial sweeteners have become increasingly controversial due to their questionable influence on consumers’ health. They are found in most foods, and many consume this added ingredient without their knowledge,” Ariel Kushmaro, a professor at Ben-Gurion University and author of …
via Bloomberg: Some of the world’s wealthiest clans have been throwing their money into an esoteric piece of financial engineering that has Wall Street in its thrall. They’re called collateralized loan obligations, and they transform riskier company loans into bonds …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter What will the Bank of Canada do? The Bank of Canada has nudged up its target rate four times, starting July a year ago, from 0.5% to 1.5%. It last hiked on July 11. But now …
by Thinker As many as 9,795 people were diagnosed with cancer linked to 9/11, the federal World Trade Center Health Program recently confirmed ahead of the 17th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. The New York Post initially reported the numbers …
via pjmedia: Imagine a world in which leftists, by some magic, were unable to accuse their political opponents of racism. Racism, sexism, all of the various make-believe phobias — these charges were suddenly somehow off-limits during political discussion. Instead, at all …
Via Fox Canadian psychologist Prof. Jordan Peterson shared his views on a University of Wisconsin-Whitewater professor’s argument that “toxic masculinity” should be taught to children as early as kindergarten. Kathleen Elliott argues in an issue of “On The Horizon,” an academic …
by Charles Hugh-Smith These nine dynamics are mutually reinforcing. Beneath the surface signals of an eternally rising stock market and expanding GDP, we all sense something is deeply, systemically wrong with the U.S. economy. These nine structural dynamics generate secondary dynamics, …
Wikileaks claims former campaign chair for HJillary Clinton — John Podesta — previously knew about the dangers immigration poses in the country. One America’s Neil W. McCabe takes a look at the new information and how it relates to Europe.
Daniel Richman the Comey memo leaker had special government clearance. FEC records show the Clinton campaign laundered 84 million dollars. The illegal immigrants have arrive at the border of Texas, the showdown begins. North Kore and South Korea leaders are …
By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. Europe’s banking authorities are finally beginning to pile pressure on poorly performing banks to clean up their books, something that should have happened a long, long time ago. But as is …
by Thinker History now shows the actions of those who wanted to change the world for the better, and those who only wanted to profit from and enslave those that live there. Who can make changes and chooses not to …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Even uber-doves are now looking over their shoulder. There have been all kinds of carefully phrased semi-hawkish statements emanating from carefully contained semi-hawkish Fed governors recently. Today, Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan repeated what he has …
By Michael Snyder After reading this article, you will never look at tap water the same way again. Most Americans have generally assumed that the water coming out of our taps is perfectly safe, but the Flint water crisis and …
By Michael Snyder It has become exceedingly clear that the Democratic Party is in deep trouble. Close to 55 million dollars was spent on the race in Georgia’s sixth congressional district, and that shattered all kinds of records. Democrat Jon …
by Mike Adams (NaturalNews) Just two weeks after the release of my new book Food Forensics, which identifies dangerous levels of lead contamination in turmeric products, the FDA has taken bold enforcement action on the subject. At least three turmeric …