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The Presidency has announced that it has nothing to do with the #Istandwithbuhari  advocacy group. It has also demanded that the group should immediately stop claiming any alliance with the Buhari Administration. In a press release from presidential spokesman Garba Shehu, the Presidency also demanded that the persons behind the controversial  #Istandwithbuhari group should stop […]

Submitted by Wolf Richter via WolfStreet.com, This wasn’t part of the rosy scenario. The Merchandise World Trade Monitor by the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, a division of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, tracks global imports and exports in two measures: by volume and by unit price in US dollars. And the just […]

While we suspect there will be few, if any, easter eggs adorning Bernie’s house this weekend, the following artist’s impression accurately explains the micro-aggression of egg-hoarding and the fairness of redistribution that an increasing number of Millennials seem to prefer… Source: Townhall.com “I kinda like the old system better…” indeed. Average: Your rating: None Average: […]Read More

By EconMatters We look at the AUD/USD Currency Cross in this video. Will the AUD get back to parity with the USD? The AUD is off the 2016 lows, will it strengthen or weaken from here for the remainder of the year? This is the big question for currency traders after the rally off the […]

Some very good, if politically incorrect, points from Glenn Greenwald on cause and effect in the aftermath of the Brussels terrorism in this DemocracyNow interview. The key section is below: What we’ve seen in Brussels is the same exact pattern as we’ve seen, essentially, for the last 15 years each time there is one of […]

Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, This past week, Al Jazeera presenter Mehdi Hasan sat down with Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the UN. He asked him a very pointed question regarding why he supports democracy in Syria but not in Saudi Arabia. It’s a great question, and let’s just say the answer was not at all convincing. […]Read More

As christians remember the fall and rise of Jesus, there is another – perhaps more important to many – rising-and-falling thing to celebrate: Egg prices are the cheapest for Easter since at least 2008… While pork prices are soaring in China; in America, egg prices are tumbling… Just in time for Easter…(cheapest Easter for eggs […]

The world will soon be facing a tsunami of defaults on bad debts. This will include municipal or local government defaults, governments “defaulting” on promises they’ve made to the people (Social Security, Medicaid), a default on the social contract between society and politicians such as the one in Cyprus (a default on the notions of […]

Submitted by Chris Perrin via TheAntiMedia.org, Before George Manuel published The Fourth World: An Indian Reality, the idea that any real differences existed among population groups in fully developed countries was still taboo. At the time, Indigenous rights were still something of a political non-issue, a blemish on a relatively clean looking statistical sheet that […]

The Fukushima disaster was over five years ago, and may have been largely forgotten by the general public and the media (perhaps because the Japanese olympics are just four years from now), but its effects still linger. Perhaps nowhere more so than for those who took pare in the Fukushima clean up effort: as Starts […]

In the escalating war between “Lyin'” Ted Cruz and “Snivelling Coward” Donald Trump, reports that Cruz could end up with more delegates than Trump from Louisiana – despite The Donald’s victory – have incensed the New York businessman. As Politico reports, Trump raged that Ted Cruz is trying to “steal” delegates, “because that’s the way […]Read More

A Nigerian Arny Colonel, Samaila Musa, has been kidnapped in the northern state of Kaduna, a report said. Online newspaper, Sahararrporters.com, said Colonel Musa was kidnapped by heavily armed men close to Kaduna Refinery while his wife and children watched helplessly as the kidnappers went away with the officer. The kidnappers are said to have taken the […]Read More