Category: News

Common Dreams

WASHINGTON – Most top officials at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) become lawyers and lobbyists for major technology companies after they leave the agency or bring Silicon Valley conflicts with them when they arrive, a new Public Citizen report found.

The report shows that most of these officials – 63% (26 out of 41) have revolving door conflicts of interest involving work on behalf of the technology sector. These conflicts help explain the FTC’s chronic reluctance to strictly enforce consumer protection and antitrust laws against Big Tech, Public Citizen maintains.  Continue reading “A Whopping 75% of FTC Officials Have Revolving Door Conflicts With Tech Corporations and Other Industries”

PBS

By 1929, Charles Mitchell, President of the National City Bank (which would become Citibank), had popularized the idea of selling stock and high yield bonds directly to smaller investors. Mitchell and a very small group of bankers, brokers, and speculators manipulated the stock market, grew wealthy and helped create the economic boom of that fabulous decade. Their successes made them folk heroes of the day. The Crash of 1929 chronicles a fateful year through the words and experiences of the descendants of these titans of finance.  Continue reading “The Crash of 1929”

Activist Post – by Nicholas West

It is becoming clearer each day that new technologies are further highlighting the great expanse between intention and application. As with all technologies of value, medicine has pitted the powerful desire of human liberation from suffering and the pursuit of a longer life up against the powerful desire to create centralized systems of management, both for profit and control.  Continue reading “Comcast Plans In-Home Health Surveillance and Medical Tracking Device”

Daily Mail

Phoenix, Arizona, is the fastest growing city in America, with a population spike of 25,288 to reach 1.63 million residents in 2018, according to U.S. Census data released Thursday.

The majority of the nation’s fastest-growing cities were in the West and the South, while the major hubs of New York City and Chicago continued to see their populations shrink.  Continue reading “America’s fastest-growing cities are in the South and the West – with Phoenix seeing the most rapid population increase of more than 25,000 people”

Washington Times – by Stephen Dinan

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan said Thursday that “100%” of illegal-immigrant families in the new border surge are being released into communities, rather than being held and deported.

He said within a month or two, they are also granted work permits, giving them a foothold to live and remain in the U.S. while their cases proceed through the immigration courts — a process that averages two years, and stretches even longer in some overwhelmed regions. Continue reading “‘100%’ of illegal immigrant families being released into U.S., Homeland Security says”

Middle East Monitor

Israel has embarked on a massive recruitment drive to support the country’s online propaganda campaign one day after its companies were exposed for spreading disinformation and meddling in the elections of several African, Asian and Latin American countries.

The new initiative, which would see the government funding pro-Israel groups overseas, was unveiled by Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs, a government arm set up to combat the global rise of pro-Palestinian activism and Israel’s poor global image.  Continue reading “Israel launches massive recruitment drive for social media warriors”

Activist Post – by Jon Rappoport

“Ah, yes.  Utopia.  You see perfection, i see mediocracy.  You see triumph, I see surface gloss and shiny objects and moths drawn to luminous signs and symbols.  You see order, I see walled-in compartments.  You see community, I see the abdication of the soul.” (From my Notes on Technocratic Utopia)

In early human societies, technology was primitive, and top-down control over the population was overt and menacing.  Continue reading “Who is Going to Run a Perfect World?”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The worst fears of Julian Assange’s legal team have just been realized.

Just as Wikileaks’ editor in chief anticipated, the DoJ has revealed that a grand jury in Virginia has returned a new 18-count superseding indictment against Assange that includes violations of the Espionage Act stemming from his role in publishing the classified documents leaked by Chelsea Manning, as well as his original charge of conspiring to break into a government computer, per the New York Times. Continue reading “Assange Hit With Espionage Act Violations As DoJ Unveils 17 New Charges”

KBTX TV

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) – As a pet owner, you know to look out for fleas and ticks. But have you worried about the kissing bug? If you haven’t, you should.

The bug is native to South America, but over recent years has worked its way north into the southern reaches of the United States. The bug isn’t the problem. It’s the disease it brings with it, which can prove a serious – if not fatal – problem.  Continue reading “A lethal kiss for your beloved pet; vet warns of dangers of kissing bugs ahead of summer heat”

Jerusalem Post

A German political party running in the European Parliament’s May 23-26 election is using a slogan coined by Nazi-forerunner Heinrich von Treitschke in the 19th century and popularized by the Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer.

The neo-Nazi party Die Rechte (The Right) turned the slogan “The Jews are our misfortune!” (“Die Juden sind unser Unglück!”) into “Israel is our misfortune!” The party’s chances to win any seats in the vote seem slim.  Continue reading “German party runs for EU parliament under slogan Israel is our misfortune”

SHTF Plan – by Mac Slavo

A United Nations arms official has declared nuclear war to be closer than it has ever been since World War II. The geopolitical climate is so divisive and disturbing right now, that globalists are actually telling us a nuclear war could be coming.

The head of the United Nations’ Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) Director Renata Dwan said in an interview that the use of nuclear weapons is more likely today than any time since the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan in 1945, adding that the use of such weapons today carried a greater risk than ever, according to Reuters. Continue reading “UN Arms Chief Says Nuclear War Is Closer Than Ever Since WW2”

DarkMoon

This past Sunday the Polish Foreign Ministry announced that it had canceled an official visit from an Israeli delegation in Warsaw, since the Israelis were there to demand $300 billion in “restitution” for jewish property that they say had been stolen during WWII. Thousands of Polish patriots marched through the streets to send a clear message to the Israelis that they are sick of the BS.  Continue reading “Poland refuses to pay $300 billion in Holocaust reparations to Israel — ‘No, we won’t be blackmailed!’”

Times of Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directed the Foreign Ministry to reach out to nearby countries for “immediate” assistance in putting out the hundreds of fires that were ravaging the country Thursday evening, destroying dozens of houses and forcing the evacuation of some 3,500 from their homes.

Netanyahu did not specify which countries Israel would approach, but a senior Fire Department official said earlier they could turn to Cyprus, Greece and Croatia for help.  Continue reading “Netanyahu calls for international help as huge fires force evacuation of 3,500”

Washington Examiner – by Anna Giaritelli

Customs officers working at a Texas-Mexico border crossing found $18.5 million worth of methamphetamine hidden inside a shipment of fresh carrots, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday.

Office of Field Operations officers stationed at the Pharr International Bridge in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas discovered 930 pounds of meth last Friday while inspecting a commercial truck that claimed to be carrying vegetables.  Continue reading “Border officers find $18M worth of meth hidden in load of carrots at port of entry”

RT

Tired of the old, painful and ugly suicide methods? Now you can have a “peaceful, elective and lawful death” at the press of a button with Sarco, a suicide pod – and it even comes with a built-in eco-friendly coffin.

Alongside halls filled with abstract art and video installations, browsers at the 58th Venice art Biennale can now get a sneak peak at “Sarco” – short for sarcophagus, – a sleek, portable and 3D printable machine that could help bring suicide into the 21st century.  Continue reading “3D-printable ‘Death Pod’ for ‘stylish’ and ‘peaceful’ suicide premiered at Venice expo”

Middle East Monitor

A public reading of the first-ever alphabet story book in the English language about Palestine has caused outrage among some American library patrons who claim that its contents are anti-Semitic. Now a literary event featuring the children’s book P is for Palestine and its author has been shelved until at least next month when the library’s board of trustees will hold a public meeting to consider rescheduling the event for the book written by Golbarg Bashi. Continue reading “T spells trouble as Zionists claim Palestine alphabet book is ‘anti-Semitic’”