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Via EricPetersAutos.com, Why the hard-sell for self-driving cars? This week, Ford and Volvo announced they are forming a “coaliton” – along with Google – to push not only for the development of self-driving cars, but for federal “action” (their term) to force-feed them to us. Why? The reasons are obvious: There’s money – and control […]Read More

For every dollar that you have in the bank there is actually 0.00061 dollars available…in other words, there’s 6 cents for every $100 dollars of deposits that you have at the bank. As Mike Maloney explains in this brief clip, we live in an economic system that is made complicated by design. Basically, it’s set […]Read More

By Adventures in Capitalism The Woodstock Of Crony Capitalism It’s been a while since I’ve attended the Berkshire Hathaway (BRK:NYSE) annual meeting. Between the tedium of little kids asking questions about how to live life, to the feel-good nature of the thing, I simply got repulsed. Why do a bunch of hard-nosed capitalists choose to […]Read More

Is Turkey the support behind ISIS? A documentary released by RT lays out evidence that would lead to that conclusion… one we first exposed here, here, and here… and is interestingly timed given Europe’s potential desire to regain some leverage over Erdogan. The documentary takes place just days after the YPG took back the town […]

What until now was mostly effete jawboning over US complaints surrounding China’s territorial expansion ambitions in the South China Sea, including the occasional sailing of a US ship deep inside the disputed territorial waters (with zero impact especially now that China may soon start building maritime nuclear power plants in the area), changed dramatically earlier […]

Authored by Jeremiah Johnson (nom de plume of a retired Green Beret of the United States Army Special Forces (Airborne)), via SHTFPlan.com, Most readers have been watching, as the U.S. and Russia seem to be positioning themselves along Cold War lines.  The posturing is not confined to maneuvering military assets; it also runs along economic […]

Amid pay cuts and sex-slave incentives, it appears not only is ISIS fighters’ enthusiasm flagging but their IQ appears to be dropping too. As the following rather shockingly comical clip via VICE News shows a cluster of shambolic and frenzied ISIS extremists were ‘caught on tape’ as they struggle to fire rockets at Kurdish pashmerga […]

‘Exceptional’ America is no longer the home of the world’s most expensive city in which to live and work. As the latest report from the World Economic Forum finds, the honor of the priciest place to reside is the United Kingdom’s capital – London. At £80,777 (~$120,000) per person per year, “The Big Smoke” is […]Read More

Submitted by Justin Raimondo via AntiWar.com, The reaction to GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s much-awaited foreign policy speechfrom the Washington elites was all-too-predictable: they sneered and snickered that he had mispronounced “Tanzania.” The more substantive criticisms weren’t much better: perpetual warmonger Lindsey Graham, whose presidential bid garnered zeropercent in the polls, tweeted “Trump’s FP speech not conservative. It’s isolationism surrounded by disconnected thought, demonstrates lack of […]Read More

The Oba of Benin, Omo n’Oba Erediauwa Akpolokpolo I, is dead.He was 93 years old. He died on Friday afternoon. The Iyase of Benin Kingdom, Chief Sam Igbe, announced his death few minutes ago. Oba Erediawua took on the title and duties as traditional head of state and rightful heir of the ancient Benin Empire […]

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed that his administration is bent on recovering the funds stolen from the public purse by some corrupt public office holders to rehabilitate the collapsed economy of the nation.   The president said this in his address read at the swearing-in-ceremony of 2016 Batch ‘A’ members of the National Youth Service […]Read More

Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun (2nd right); Director, Ake Arts and Books Festival, Lola Shoneyin (left); representative of Etisalat Nigeria, Opeyemi Lawal (2nd left) and representative of Marine Platforms, Baji Nyam (right) at the 2015 Ake Arts and Books Festival held at the June 12 Cultural Center, Abeokuta on Thursday. The Ogun State Government […]