Our Score Why the public is so pissed off Fair warning, my family just received a 61.5% increase in our healthcare insurance premium of 2017, on top of last year’s 24.8% increase, so I am quite annoyed at the moment. …
Mad As Hell
Trump Moves Closer To Gutting Elizabeth Warren’s Consumer Watchdog
Our Score Submitted by ButtCracker — Former Rep. Randy Neugebauer, a critic of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, may be Trump’s pick to run the agency. NEW YORK ― Big business and congressional Republicans salivate at the idea of gutting the…
Nomi Prins’ Political-Financial Road Map For 2017
Our Score As tumultuous as last year was from a global political perspective on the back of a rocky start market-wise, 2017 will be much more so. The central bank subsidization of the financial system (especially in the US and…
5 Places World War III Could Start in 2017
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — The Trump administration enters office in an unsettled time. For a variety of reasons (some directly connected to Trump’s rhetoric), the great powers face more uncertainty than at any time in recent memory. In…
U.S. To Build A “Weaponized Narrative” Into The Future of War
Our Score A new project has been announced by Arizona State University’s Center on the Future of War and think tank New America. This collaboration has created a subset within ASU titled, “The Weaponized Narrative Initiative.” Two Co-directors, Brad Allenby…
Defying Donald Trump’s Kleptocracy
Our Score The final stages of capitalism, Karl Marx predicted, would be marked by global capital being unable to expand and generate profits at former levels. Capitalists would begin to consume the government along with the physical and social structures…
2016: The year Washington lost its mind
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — Protesters wearing masks of presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump © Dominick Reuter / Reuters Seismic is the only word to describe 2016, especially when describing the US-Russia relationship. Paraphrasing Gramsci, it was a year…
Obama Quietly Signs The “Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act” Into Law
Our Score Late on Friday, with the US population embracing the upcoming holidays and oblivious of most news emerging from the administration, Obama quietly signed into law the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which authorizes $611 billion for the…
Yahoo email scan shows U.S. spy push to recast constitutional privacy
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — Yahoo Inc’s secret scanning of customer emails at the behest of a U.S. spy agency is part of a growing push by officials to loosen constitutional protections Americans have against arbitrary governmental searches, according…
Brandon Smith Warns The System Is Crashing: “Prepare For Bank Confiscations, Shortages, Insurgency”
Our Score Military, police and Homeland Security units have all long been preparing for riots and widespread civil unrest during a prolonged collapse. What is the anatomy of a breakdown? The past eight years have been extremely difficult for the…