Authored by Ben Bernanke via The Brookings Institute, I must admit I was appalled to hear of Treasury Secretary Jack Lew’s decision last week to demote Alexander Hamilton from his featured position on the ten dollar bill. My reaction has been widely shared, see for example here, here, here, here, and here. Hamilton, the first […]
Archive for June, 2015
Goldman’s "Conspiracy Theory" Stunner: A Greek Default Is Precisely What The ECB Wants
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Obama’s "Single-Payer" Monopoly Looms As Healthcare Merger-Mania Heats Up
It would appear, whether by plan or unintended consequence, Obama’s dream of a single-payer socialized healthcare is getting closer by the day, and as WSJ reports, drastically increasing the risk that ObamaCare is creating oligopolies, with the predictable results of higher costs, lower quality and less innovation. The five largest commercial health insurers in the […]
European Bonds, Stocks Explode Higher As "Optimism" Trade Gets Second Wind
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Dr. Joseph Goebbels’ ‘Total War’ Speech (VIDEO)
Dr. Joseph Goebbels’ ‘Total War’ Speech (VIDEO) Dr. Goebbels’ addresses a mass rally in Berlin on February 18, 1943, just a few weeks after the catastrophic defeat of German and allied forces in the Battle of Stalingrad. The Reich Minister frankly explains the mortal danger that threatens all of Europe. Germany could lose the […]
Twitter Responds Hilariously to Hullabaloo About Obama’s Use of ‘N-Word’
Photo Credit: Everett Collection/Shutterstock.com President Barack Obama used the n-word during a podcast with comedian Marc Maron in which the two discussed race relations and gun control in the wake of the Charleston shootings, CNN reports. In the podcast “WTF with Marc Maron,” which was released this morning, […]
Supreme Court Will Make Shock Waves No Matter How It Rules on Same-Sex Marriage and Obamacare Subsidies
Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com No matter which way it decides, the U.S. Supreme Court will send cultural and political shockwaves across the country when it issues two rulings to finish its current term by the end of June—with the possibility that one could come as early as today, June […]
10 Careers With the Most Psychopaths
Are you a psychopath? Happens to the best of us. James Fallon, a neuroscientist studying Alzheimer’s effects on the brain, accidentally discovered that he was a psychopath and then he wrote a book about the experience. Fallon, like most people with psychopathic brains, wasn’t a violent person or a serial killer. But after discovering […]
WATCH: John Oliver’s Perfect Suggestion for What to Do With South Carolina’s Confederate Flag
Photo Credit: via YouTube Leave it to a Brit to come up with the perfect solution for what America should do to make a gesture at dealing with its racist past (and present). In the wake of the mass shootings at a black South Carolina church last week, […]
In U.S., Domestic Terror, Cop Killings and Violent Gun Deaths with Suicides, Dwarf Anything "Jihadis" Have Produced
Consider this paragraph a holding action on the subject of getting blown away in America. While I write this dispatch, I’m waiting patiently for the next set of dispiriting killings in this country. And I have faith. Before I’m done, some angry — or simply mentally disturbed — and well-armed American “lone wolf” […]
UNHRC report put criminal, victim in one scale
Days of Palestine, Brussels –Detailed UN report accuses Israeli occupation and Palestinian resistance of committing war crimes. The United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry on Operation Protective Edge (last summer’s Israeli offensive on Gaza that killed 2,260 Palestinians) found that Palestinian resistance and Israeli occupation committed abuses in the Gaza war that may amount to […]
Six ladies arrested upon leaving Al-Aqsa Mosque
Days of Palestine, Jerusalem –Israeli occupation forces arrested on Monday morning six Palestinian women while they were leaving Al-Aqsa Mosque. Q Press, a media centre dedicated for Al-Aqsa news, reported that the Israeli occupation forces stopped the six ladies, held their IDs for a while and then arrested them. Like our page on Facebook Follow us […]
NuvaRing Caused Daughter’s Death Claims Family
Karen Langhart claims that NuvaRing caused the death of her young daughter. She believes that many women like her daughter are not aware of the potential risks of using the hormonal contraceptive NuvaRing. In an article for the Guardian, Langhart explains why she was horrified to find widespread use of the hormonal contraceptive NuvaRing among […]
Former Assistant To Ukraine’s Defense Minister Defects To Donbass
Aleksandr Kolomiyets, a former assistant to the Ukrainian defense minister has announced that he has deflected and is now working with the anti government forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. “I am Ukrainian Armed Forces Major General Aleksandr Kolomiyets. My latest posts are chief analyst of the Ukrainian armed forces, assistant to the Ukrainian […]
Why Drinking Beer Is Good For Your Health
Drinking beer in moderation is actually very beneficial for you. Besides making you have a brighter outlook on life, beer can help you to become thinner, healthier, smarter, younger and much more… The Metro reports: 1) Beer makes you live longer Virginia Tech researchers found that regular, moderate beer drinkers were 19% less likely to […]
Tory Ministers Plan To Clampdown On Freedom of Information
Conservative ministers are planning to restrict Britain’s Freedom of Information (FoI) laws, a move that critics warn could signal the death knell for Cameron’s pledge to cultivate a new wave of transparency in Westminster. The Financial Times revealed on Monday that the Justice Secretary, Michael Gove is attempting a crack down to make it considerably […]
Video: Stowaway Cat Forces Emergency Landing
The pilot of the light plane belonging to the flight club ULM 16-34 flying out of Kourou, French Guiana was forced to return back to base, after a stowaway cat hiding on the wing of his plane woke up and approached his cockpit. The single engine plane was hundreds of feet in the air when the […]
Dad Calls Cops On Son To Teach Him A Lesson, Cops Shoot Son Dead
James Comstock just wanted to let his son know that taking his truck without asking was serious business. He wanted to give his son a good “scare” so he called the police, to ask them to talk some sense into him, and let him know that he could get in real trouble for doing somethinglike that. […]
Oren pushed Random House to hurry his book so American Jews will ‘intercede’ to stop Iran deal and save millions of Jews
Michael Oren said he put “immense pressure” on Random House to publish his new book, Ally, this month, so he could mobilize American Jews against the coming Iranian deal, and they would intercede as they had failed to do in response to the Nazi threat in the 1930s. Speaking at the 92nd Y last night, […]