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  • Prescription Pain-Killers: “Far Riskier” Than Gun Ownership

    Submitted by Duane Norman via SingleDudeTravel.com, If Americans are so happy, then why do we consume 80 percent of the entire global supply of prescription painkillers?  Less than 5 percent of the world’s population lives in this country, and yet we buy four-fifths of these highly addictive drugs.  In the United States today, approximately 4.7 million […]Read More
  • Kyle Bass Was Right: SocGen Does The Math On China’s Staggering NPL Problem, Issues Dire Warning

    Yesterday, when reporting on the latest development in China’s ongoing under-the-table stealth nationalization-cum-bailout of insolvent enterprises courtesy of a proposed plan to convert bad debt into equity, we noted that while China has already managed to convert over $220 billion of Non-performing loans into equity, concerns – both ours and others’ – remained. As Liao […]
  • Here’s How The U.S. Government Treats Whistleblowers

    Submitted by Michael Krieger of LibertyBlitzkrieg Here’s How the U.S. Government Treats Whistleblowers What is it about whistleblowers that the powers that be can’t stand? When I blew the whistle on the CIA’s illegal torture program, I was derided in many quarters as a traitor. My detractors in the government attacked me for violating my secrecy […]Read More
  • Wheelbarrow Economics

    Submitted by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com, In 2014, we published an article entitled “Watch the Movie Before It Is Filmed.” In that article, I described the situation in Venezuela at that time. The effects of fifteen years of collectivism were threatening to collapse the economy. The government was reacting by printing bolivares (Venezuelan currency) on […]
  • The CME Admits Futures Trading Was Rigged Under Old System

    Ask any trader what they believe to be the hallmark feature of any “rigged market” and the most frequent response(in addition to flagrant crime of the type supposedly demonstrated every day by Deutsche Bank and which should not exist in a regulated market) will be an institutionally bifurcated and legitimized playing field, one in which […]
  • The Fed’s Loss Of Credibility Is Real: This Is What It Looks Like

    Asset markets aren’t prepared for a hawkish Fed. As Bloomberg’s Richard Breslow notes Fed speakers have even taken to the Sunday talk shows to beat the rate-rise drum as economics is morphing into punditry. They’re going to raise rates because they can, are independent, apolitical and can’t be bullied by foreigners. The numbers notwithstanding… Hallelujah […]Read More
  • FBI’s Own Report Exposes “War On Cops” As Pure Propaganda

    Following a year in which the public was relentlessly barraged with alarmist rhetoric about a “war on cops” and the dreadful impact of the so-called “Ferguson Effect,” official FBI statistics confirm that violent line-of-duty police deaths declined precipitously in 2015. According to the Bureau: “Preliminary statistics … show that 41 law enforcement officers were feloniously […]Read More
  • Lagos: Interstate Driver kills Passenger Over N5,000 Fare

    Interstate Driver kills Passenger Over N5,000 Fare Tragedy struck in the Ojota end of the Ikorodu expressway after an interstate bus driver, Eze Gabriel, crushed his passenger, identified as Sunday, to death. According to Punch Metro the deceased was among passengers who joined the interstate bus from Jibowu, Lagos, en route to Abuja. Sunday was […]
  • Travel Loan: Lai Mohammed Lied

    Most Media News Are Negative We are disturbed by the latest falsehood published in The Nation newspaper of Monday, 16 May, 2016, and the theatre of the absurd currently playing out in the Federal Information and Culture Ministry, following the recent leak of a letter requesting a loan of N13.2 million from the National Broadcasting […]
  • Lovely Photo Of Jay Jay Okocha and Son

    Africa is blessed, Nigeria is more blessed, maybe that’s why she is called the Giant of Africa. The name Jay-Jay is not an unfamiliar one when you talk about football not only in Nigeria, Africa, but the world at large. He is an African, a Nigerian born uncommon talent who has made a name in […]