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Economy and Finance
Bitcoin Spikes To New Record High Over $3500 – Best Week Since Brexit Amid “Netscape Moment”
August 11, 2017Bitcoin is now up almost 35% since the August 1st fork, and up over 90% from...
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Editor's Choice
China Warns Trump: “We Will Prevent A North Korea Regime Change”
August 11, 2017In a troubling repudiation of President Donald Trump’s demands that Beijing do more to rein in...
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Study Warns Of Binge-Drinking “Crisis” As Alcoholism Rates Spike 49%
August 10, 2017The opioid epidemic isn’t the only public-health crisis plaguing the US.
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Cops and Robbers
Record Number Of Dallas Police Officers Quit In July Amid Ongoing Pension Crisis
August 9, 2017The Dallas Police & Fire Pension (DPFP), which covers nearly 10,000 police and firefighters, is on...
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Editor's Choice
Trump Threatens North Korea With “Fire And Fury Like The World Has Never Seen Before”
August 8, 2017"North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met...
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Controlling the Herd
Google Fires Author Of “Outrageous” Memo Slamming Company’s Anti-Conservative Culture
August 8, 2017According to Bloomberg, "Google has fired an employee who wrote an internal memo blasting the web...
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Kelly Loses Control As “Vacationing” Trump Unleashes Angriest Tweetstorm Yet
August 7, 2017All of which kind of makes you wonder whether General John Kelly has already lost control...
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Silicon Valley “Outraged” After Google Employee Pens Viral Doc Slamming “Anti-Conservative” Culture
August 6, 2017A 10-page document penned by an unnamed Google engineer titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber“, that criticizes...
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Wikileaks Reveals “Dumbo”: Tool That Allows CIA To Shut Down Cameras And Microphones
August 4, 2017Dumbo is programmed to operate on 32bit Windows XP, Windows Vista, and newer versions of the...
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Mueller Impanels Grand Jury In Russia Probe, Donald Trump Jr. Subpoenaed
August 3, 2017The grand jury is said to have begun work in recent weeks, suggesting Mueller's inquiry is...
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Economy and Finance
Americans Spend The Most For Health Care, Still Die Young
August 3, 2017There’s also a surprising disconnect between how healthy Americans believe they are, and how healthy they...
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Conspiracy Fact and Theory
Pulitzer-Prize Winning Reporter: FBI Report Shows It Was Seth Rich – Not Russians – Who Gave DNC Emails to Wikileaks
August 2, 2017We’ve noted for many months that the DNC emails were leaked by an insider, not hacked...
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Editor's Choice
Trump Saw A Disturbing Video, Then He Shut Down The CIA’s Covert Syria Program
August 1, 2017The only question that remains is who in the CIA or Obama-era State Department should be...
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Economy and Finance
Overworked, Underpaid, & Overweight
July 31, 2017It's a triple-whammy - Americans are overworked, Americans are underpaid, and, now, potentially as a result...
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Editor's Choice
Gauntlet Thrown: House Judiciary Demands Special Counsel To Investigate Comey, Lynch, And Clinton
July 28, 2017Among other things, the letter specifically highlights the inappropriate handling of the Clinton investigation by James...
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Scaramucci: “Priebus Is A F**king Paranoid Schizophrenic”, Slams Bannon, Wants To “Kill” Leakers
July 27, 2017Trump, who has previously expressed his strong support and admiration for Scaramucci, has yet to opine.
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Trump Relentlessly Blasts Attorney General Sessions Yet Again In Fiery Tweet Storm
July 26, 2017Trump seems to be ignoring calls from almost everyone, from both sides of the aisle, in...
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In Early Tweetstorm, Trump Lashes Out At Sessions For Ignoring “Hillary Crimes”
July 25, 2017The feud between Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions started early on Tuesday, when President Trump, in...
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Five Pieces Of Tech Nostalgia That Shaped The Future
July 24, 2017Though it is easy to downplay the quaint technologies that came nearly thirty years ago, we...
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Economy and Finance
Here Are America’s Most Underfunded Corporate Pensions
July 21, 2017There are some problems that are too large for even U.S. taxpayers to fix and, with...
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Economy
Obamacare Fiasco Likely Means Trump Will Go Winless In His First Year In Office
July 19, 2017After failing at least once in the House, depending on your definition of failure, the GOP's...
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Economy and Finance
Bitcoin Soars As Much-Feared Network Split Appears To Be Avoided
July 18, 2017Bitcoin and other virtual currencies have rallied this week as growing support for a controversial software...
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Economy and Finance
The Striking Reason Why The US Just Spent A Record $429 Billion In One Month
July 14, 2017The student debt bubble has begun to burst, and the Treasury is "provisioning" for it in...
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Why Did Loretta Lynch Grant Trump Jr’s Russian Lawyer A Special Visa To Enter America?
July 13, 2017The Russian lawyer who penetrated Donald Trump’s inner circle was initially cleared into the United States...
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House Democrat Just Filed Articles Of Impeachment Against Trump
July 12, 2017One month after Texas Democratic Rep. Al Green grandstanded on the floor "I do not do...
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Economy
Meanwhile In Venezuela, The Real Mad Max Emerges
July 12, 2017Not quite the "Guzzoline" or "Bullets" that Fury Road offers, but when all you have to...
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Controlling the Herd
One Trader Made $200M Trading Ethereum… And Nobody Knows Who To Tax
July 11, 2017During Ethereum’s big rally last month, when the price of a single coin went from $220...
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Crime/Police State
Comey Bombshell: FBI Director’s Leaked Trump Memos Contained Classified Information
July 10, 2017James Comey is about to be investigated for the exact same thing which he absolved Hillary...
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Editor's Choice
Loretta Lynch Plot Thickens As New Details Emerge Of Her Dealings With The Hillary Campaign
July 7, 2017Some testimony that Lynch offered under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee last year could come...
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Controlling the Herd
Did CNN’s Chris Cuomo Break The Law When He Sent This Now-Deleted Tweet?
July 6, 2017Unfortunately for Cuomo, Kaczynski and all of CNN for that matter, it seems they probably should...