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Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday held that the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation should prosecute 16 suspects accused of fraud at the Consolidated Discount House Limited. There was a disagreement between lawyers representing the AGF and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on who should […]

The National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Professor Wale Oladipo, has refuted reports that he received money from the former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col Sambo Dasuki,(rtd). In a statement to journalists at the PDP National Secretariat in Abuja, Oladipo also denied seeking soft landing with the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo by promising […]

If you’ve ever been to Houston, you know that the city has decided not to limit expansion with restrictive zoning laws. The city sprawls as far as the eye can see, with apartments next to restaurants, which are next to gentleman’s clubs, which are next to luxury hotels. While not the “norm”, this type of […]Read More

Submitted by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com, In 1906, Alfred Henry Lewis stated, “There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.” Since then, his observation has been echoed by people as disparate as Robert Heinlein and Leon Trotsky. The key here is that, unlike all other commodities, food is the one essential that cannot be […]

Back on April 9 we described the latest example of how criminal Wall Street behavior leads to zero prison time and just more slaps on the wrist, when Warren Buffett’s favorite bank, Wells Fargo, admitted to “deceiving” the U.S. government into insuring thousands of risky mortgages.  According to the settlement, Wells Fargo “admits, acknowledges, and […]Read More

Submitted by Mac Slavo via SHTFPlan.com, At this point, despite major highs in U.S. stock markets and reassurances from no less than President of the United States himself that the economy is sound, one only need to look around to understand that we are on the cusp of what researcher and collapse strategist Michael Snyder of The […]Read More

Over the better part of the past year, we’ve documented the curious case of 1MDB, Malaysia’s government investment fund founded in 2009. It’s a long and exceptionally convoluted story that doesn’t exactly lend itself to a concise summary but suffice to say that the development bank was something of a black box right from the […]Read More

It goes without saying that if the people of any country want something done efficiently, and in the most cost-efficient manner, they do it themselves or outsource it to private third-party service providers, instead of entrusting it to a bunch of bureaucrats and unmotivated government workers. Finally, airports in the United States are starting to […]

Gold and bond prices dropped and stocks popped as yet another open-mouth operation went underway this evening from none other than Boston Fed president Eric Rosengren. Ahead of next week’s FOMC meeting, and just days after another Fed president said no April hike, Rosengren spewed firth that “I don’t think financial markets have it right.” […]Read More

Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “The way things are supposed to work is that we’re supposed to know virtually everything about what [government officials] do: that’s why they’re called public servants. They’re supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that’s why we’re called private individuals. This dynamic – the hallmark […]Read More

Obama told CBS News today that we can’t allow bipartisan legislation subjecting the Saudis to potential liability for terrorism … or else other countries could retaliate against the US (starting at 0:40): Similarly, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said today: “The whole notion of sovereign immunity is at stake,” Earnest told reporters Monday. “It could […]Read More

Paper boats and candles placed in memory of drowned refugees are seen at a protest calling on the European Union to reform its policies on handling refugees outside of the European Commission and European Parliament’s representation in Berlin on April 24, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. European leaders meeting in Brussels on Thursday promised to increase […]