The Rio Olympics Could Be the Next Victim of Brazil's Corruption Scandal ... A massive corruption investigation is reaching into construction deals done for the already troubled Rio 2016 ... Two multibillion dollar projects linked to the troubled Rio 2016 Olympic Games have been drawn into Brazil's ever-growing corruption scandal. -TIMEBrazil is under covert attack from global elites using the US...Read More

Tony Blair has warned against “flabby liberalism” and says there needs to be a tougher centre ground approach to issues such as tackling extremism and responding to the refugee crisis ... He argues that education against extremism and intolerance will come to be seen as an international obligation – in the way that environmental policy, such as tackling pollution, is addressed...Read More

Nixon Aide Reportedly Admitted Drug War Was Meant To Target Black People ... pulls back the curtain on the true motivation of the United States' war on drugs. -Huffington PostThe Huffington Post article, excerpted above, blames the Nixon administration for the "war on drugs" and is based on a cover story in Harper's magazine by Dan Baum.Baum’s long article eventually makes the case for...Read More

The lords of finance are losing their touch. Institutions which dragged the world from its worst depression since the early 20th century are finally seeing their magic desert them, if conventional wisdom is to be believed. -UK TelegraphWe have read a deluge of mainstream media articles about central banking problems and the article quoted above is no exception.When the mainstream media trumpet...Read More

New York Times ... With 'Smog Jog' Through Beijing, Zuckerberg Stirs Debate on Air Pollution ... Some noted he should have worn a face mask ... Others simply took umbrage with where the photo was staged, at the heart of Tiananmen Square."The floor you stepped has been covered by blood from students ..." wrote a user named Cao Yuzhou. - New York TimesMark Zuckerberg’s China trip turned surpri...Read More

“Consistent with its statutory mandate, the Committee seeks to foster maximum employment and price stability ... Against this backdrop, the Committee decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 1/4 to 1/2 percent. The stance of monetary policy remains accommodative, thereby supporting further improvement in labor market conditions and a return to 2 percent inflation.&#...Read More

"Prosperity is like a Jenga tower. Take one piece out and the whole thing can fall."That's a direct quote from John Williams, the President of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank in a speech he gave a few weeks ago.He could have just as easily been talking about propaganda. The Fed, the White House, Wall Street, the media have a vested interest in peddling a certain narrative about the economy....Read More

George Soros Forms Pro "Illegals" Super PAC To Shift Election ... Soros Dumping Millions Into Questionable Voter Influence Campaign - Illegals? ... Their tools in the onslaught are what the New York Times describes as "Latinos and other immigrants." -RickWellsCall this decade "1960's Redux"- mostly because the men at the top want it this way.They want continued and expanded polarization. They seek...Read More

CFR Elites Seek Renewed Military Spending Around the WorldNew World Order is New World Disorder ... Richard Haass, president at Council on Foreign Relations, discusses this weekend’s attacks in Turkey and the Ivory Coast and the importance of international leadership by the United States. He speaks on “Bloomberg Surveillance.” – BloombergThe Council on Foreign Relations is...Read More

Moveon.Org raising funds from Trump protests, warns more disruptions to come ... "We refuse to be intimidated by Donald Trump, Fox News, or anyone else ... We've been ramping up our efforts for months ... We need to double-down in the face of direct attacks on our community"... The progressive group is funded by billionaire George Soros, and has endorsed Democratic candidate Vermont Sen. Bernard...Read More

James Jaeger is an award-winning filmmaker who co-founded Matrix Entertainment which has partnered with Bill Van Alen, of Cornerstone Entertainment, Constitutional attorney, Edwin Vieira, Jr., and independent producer, Richard B. Iott, to produce a series of feature-length political documentaries centering on the U.S. Constitution. The first documentary - Fiat Empire about the Federal Reserve...Read More

Believe in conspiracy theories? You’re probably a narcissist: People who doubt the moon landings are more likely to be selfish and attention-seeking ... Psychologists from the University of Kent carried out three online studies ... -UK Daily MailWe are seeing an increasing number of academic studies analyzing the psychology behind "conspiracy theorists" and those who question government prop...Read More

Kim Jong-un orders North Korea’s nuclear arsenal on standby Kim Jong-un’s bombastic statement came after the UN security council’s adoption of tough new sanctions on Pyongyang. -UK TelegraphSome of the biggest fear-based propaganda swirls around the nuclear resources of the modern age.For instance, North Korea claims to have a new-type "large-caliber multiple launch rocket system...Read More

Human beings have come up with some crazy ideas for money and finance over the years.Conch shells. Beads. Animal skins. Salt. Rice. All of these were used as a form of money at one time or another.But the strangest by far has got to be the Rai Stones of Yap Island.Yap is a tiny speck in the western Pacific, a few hours by plane from the Philippines and Guam.Long ago, islanders began using gigantic...Read More

Lula and the BRICS in a fight to the death ... "BRICS" is the dirtiest of acronyms in the Beltway/Wall Street axis ... So it's no surprise the three key BRICS powers have been under simultaneous attack, on many fronts, for some time now. -RTThis RT article provides us a momentous summary of the world's latest Cold War.It is "The BRICS Versus the Anglosphere."The analysis comes from one of the savv...Read More

Trump's rise disturbs world media ... As the U.S. woke up Wednesday to the news that Donald Trump had triumphed in a majority of the states up for grabs in the Super Tuesday contests, the wider world also woke up to the prospect of a man whom some consider a demagogue occupying the world’s most powerful political office … – Financial ExpressThe mainstream media is filled with...Read More

Canada plans to experiment with giving people unconditional free money ... Finland and the Netherlands have already shown their interest in giving people a regular monthly allowance regardless of working status, and now Ontario, Canada is onboard. - Tech InsiderFor years we've written how the "basic income" is statist propaganda expressed in monetary terms.Love your state and the support it provid...Read More

John W. Whitehead is an attorney and author who has written, debated and practiced widely in the area of constitutional law and human rights. In 1982, he established The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties and human rights organization whose international headquarters are located in Charlottesville, Virginia (www.rutherford.org). Whitehead has won many honors as a result of his freed...Read More

The missing piece from the economic recovery has finally materialized. Median household income, adjusted for inflation, is now higher than it was before the recession that began at the end of 2007, according to new data published by Sentier Research. -YahooSo incomes are rising again. Presumably, this is supposed to mean that the "recovery" is becoming stronger in the US.This economic propaganda c...Read More

In the middle of a heated battle against my jetlag yesterday, I finally decided to exercise the nuclear option and turn on CNBC in order to stay awake.I figured someone would say something completely ridiculous, and it would get my blood boiling enough to power through the next couple of hours.Within minutes I saw a top economist for Moody's (one of the largest rating agencies in the world) saying...Read More