#MorningMonarchy: August 25, 2017
Fake film crews, stalled negotiations and playing albums backwards + this day in history w/Aaliyah killed and our song of the day by Beck on your Morning Monarchy for August 25, 2017.
Fake film crews, stalled negotiations and playing albums backwards + this day in history w/Aaliyah killed and our song of the day by Beck on your Morning Monarchy for August 25, 2017.
Exclusive: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is ratcheting up war tensions in Syria again, but President Trump reportedly is not happy with the threats as he shifts again toward resisting the neocons, writes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry Despite the chaos…Read more →
Al-Manar | August 25, 2017 US and Saudi diplomats have reportedly been urging the armed Syrian opposition to come to terms with President Bashar al-Assad’s role in Syria’s future, a report said, indicating to the major policy U-turn in the western stance from the Syrian crisis. In an article published on Thursday, the Associated Press […]
Perfect currencies do not exist. As the brainchild of fallible humans, monies are bound to constantly face primal temptations. But as imperfect as man-made currencies are, they hold society together far better than the mythical social contract.
Press TV – August 25, 2017 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel felt threatened by Iran’s growing influence in the Middle East. Netanyahu expressed his Iranophobic view in a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi on Wednesday. Press TV has asked Scott Rickard, former American intelligence […]
We are joined by the lawyer and university lecturer Adeyinka Makinde for the second instalment of a two-part interview centring in his recent article, "The Pan-Islamic Option : The West's Part in the Creation and Sustaining of Islamist Terror".
In this second part we discuss some of the historical background to the West's use and support of violent Islamist groups, looking at examples of German, British and US policy since the early days of the Twentieth Century.
We are joined by the lawyer and university lecturer Adeyinka Makinde for the second instalment of a two-part interview centring in his recent article, "The Pan-Islamic Option : The West's Part in the Creation and Sustaining of Islamist Terror".
In this second part we discuss some of the historical background to the West's use and support of violent Islamist groups, looking at examples of German, British and US policy since the early days of the Twentieth Century.
EU prosperity visualized. Migrants have turned central Rome into a chaotic mess.
From austerity to migrant quotas…Angela Merkel’s “innovative” EU initiatives are transforming beautiful cities, and proud nations, into unrecognizable, ungovernable, neo-liberal slums.
StockBoardAsset.com reports…
The new PPP survey has Congress' approval down at 9%. By a 49-35% margin, voters want to see Democrats win control of the House in 2018. On top of that, the Republican Speaker, Paul Ryan, has a job approval rating of just 16%-- with 62% of Americans disapproving of the way he's handling his job.
As the statue debate in America ranges on…moving beyond statues, to engulf sports broadcasters sharing a name with Robert E. Lee, and now college mascots, like this USC horse, which shares the name of Robert E. Lee’s horse…
The primary way to promote free trade is to eliminate all tariff and non-tariff barriers to imports. Consumers can then buy at the cheapest prices. This truth should be the driver of UK post-Brexit trade policy. The UK should promote free trade, which would lower import prices and increase productivity and wages.
By Paul Homewood | Not A Lot Of People Know That | August 25, 2017 A commercial LNG tanker has sailed across the colder, northern route from Europe to Asia without the protection of an ice-breaker for the first time. The specially-built ship completed the crossing in just six-and-a-half days setting a new record, according […]
This week we deliver another LIVE broadcast from the UK, as SUNDAY WIRE host Patrick Henningsen is joined by two incredible guests to discuss the disturbing political situation in America. In the first hour we’ll be joined by artist and the brilliant and controversial best-selling author and internationally acclaimed jazz artist, Gilad Atzmon, to discuss Charlottesville and the problem of Left vs Right identity politics in the West, as well its roots in Jewish ID politics, and how society might be able overcome the downward spiral it currently finds itself in.
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Even though the US Congress has ineptly handled the fake news “Trump Dossier” by not moving forward with an investigation into the smear campaign targeted at then US presidential candidate Trump, the British Spy behind the ridiculous document will have to explain to a US court how he came up with such fiction.
Fox News is reporting that the former MI-6 British Intelligence Officer Christopher Steele, has been ordered to give a deposition in a lawsuit brought against Buzzfeed over the dossier.
Parents are fed up. As mass schooling becomes more restrictive, more standardized and more far-reaching into a child’s young life, many parents are choosing alternatives. Increasingly, these parents are reclaiming their child’s education and are refocusing learning around children, family, and community in several different ways.
Poor Jim Acosta. The CNN White House correspondent, and hero for snowflakes across the USA, is being ignored by Trump and his staff.
Acosta took to twitter to cry about the WH snub. Bad move to whine on twitter. Acosta was easily demolished by social media users.
Via The Gateway Pundit…
In today’s show originally broadcast on August 25 2017, TBR Radio’s Andrew Carrington Hitchcock interviews Mike Walsh to discuss, “Surveillance.” We discussed: Mike’s experiences of being under surveillance; having phones bugged; being followed; how people should behave in order to protect themselves if they are under surveillance; and many other topics. Click Here For Mike’s…
By Megan Darby / Climate Change News.
Sovcomflot vessel cut through thinning sea ice on the northern sea route to carry its cargo of fuel from Norway to South Korea in record time
The Christophe de Margerie is capable of sailing through ice up to 2.1 metres thick (Pic: Sovcomflot)
By Jeff Faux / Democracy Journal.
Simply because Trump said NAFTA was bad for American workers, doesn’t mean it wasn’t. Just don’t look to him for a fix.
How we describe something can transform how we view it. Lauren Bravo wraps her tongue around the small linguistic tweaks that can have a big impact
The post Why aren’t ‘organic carrots’ just called ‘carrots’? appeared first on Positive News.
By Ryan Mallett-Outtrim / Venezuela Analysis.
Puebla, Mexico, August 18, 2017 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuela’s National Constituent Assembly (ANC) approved Friday a decree that will allow it to legislate on national security issues.
Under the decree, the ANC will be empowered to pass legislation on issues including the “preservation of peace, security, sovereignty, the socio-economic and financial system,” according to its president, Delcy Rodriguez.
(MEE) — Children were among at least nine people killed in an air strike on Friday in a residential neighborhood of Yemen’s capital Sanaa, witnesses and medics said.
The attack destroyed two buildings in the southern district of Faj Attan, leaving people buried under debris, they said.
Millennials have economic attitudes that are different from older Americans. But is their economic behavior different? Do they walk the socialist walk? Here, the evidence is decidedly mixed.
I constantly tell everyone that I am a student of REAL history, and not the bullshit that was attempted to be shoved in my mind from some 16+ years trapped in the fraud "education system"... To me, that was not only brainwashing but pure propaganda to try to meld my own mind and my personality into something I was not.. The truth is, from an early age I was always a "rebel" and someone that never accepted anything as being "factual" or the "truth"....
(ANTIWAR.COM) — Heavy US airstrikes in densely populated residential areas have, throughout the ISIS war, proven a recipe for massive civilian casualties.
By Thomas DiLorenzo | Institute for Political Economy | August 21, 2017 “Lincoln is theology, not historiology. He is a faith, he is a church, he is a religion, and he has his own priests and acolytes, most of whom . . . are passionately opposed to anybody telling the truth about him . . […]
We at FEE have thought about this quite a lot for our articles, courses, seminars, and videos. We have distilled “economic thinking” into 12 key concepts. The following list has guided us internally for a few years, and I figure it’s now time to share it with the world.
Many Germans have had their homes raided and received hefty fines for alleged hate speech on social media. [...]
The women blamed the mainstream media, and Obama for aggravating racial tension over the past eight years by pursuing identity politics. [...]
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the hashtag may seem silly. But the hashtag itself actually answered many questions posed by F.A. Hayek in his essay, The Use of Knowledge in Society.
The Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement, an armed Antifa group, is calling for attacks against police, theft of goods, and armed insurrection. [...]
Alt-left leader, Jordan Towers, sent a tweet threatening to pound Nazis with a bat with nails in it at a San Francisco prayer rally scheduled for this weekend. [...]
Youtuber says that many states have anti-mask laws that, if enforced, would stop most of the violence committed by Antifa. [...]
LED street lights are so hazardous to people’s health that the American Medical Association (AMA) has adopted an official policy about them.
The US-backed onslaught on the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa is claiming hundreds of civilian lives every week, including dozens of women and children. US aircraft and troops on the ground are deploying indiscriminate force on a civilian center where an estimated 25,000 people remained trapped and a further 270,000 have already fled. According to Airwars, which monitors air strikes by[Read More...]
Despite reports of a rift with China in US media, tensions between Pyongyang and Washington appear to have subsided
The war of words between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un appears to have subsided this week as South Korean President Moon Jae-in announced he was seeking improved relations with Pyongyang.
During a political rally in Arkansas earlier in the week, Trump claimed that Kim was “starting to respect us” even as the North Korean leader continued to inspect weapons facilities in his country.
"The unselfishness concept is a merry-go-round that has no purpose. No one’s self-interest is enhanced by the continual relaying of gifts from one person to another to another." - Harry Browne
Trumpist by Nancy OhanianA week or so ago, Señor Trumpanzee launched an Adderall-fueled tweet storm against his perceived enemies within the Republican Congress. He struck out especially hard against Arizona Senator Jeff Flake, one of 3 Republicans especially vulnerable in the 2018 midterms.
Usually when we hear about life expectancy rising and death rates falling, the good news is accompanied by handwringing about living in a “greying world” and a supposedly increasing proportion of people who must depend on others for health reasons. But times are changing, as life at certain age groups is not what it was even one generation ago.
We've all seen the breathless stories about the latest sign of the coming Artificial Intelligence apocalypse, and we've all seen the fine print revealing those stories to be empty hype. So is there anything at all to the AI phenomenon, or is it all just another boogeyman designed to scare us into line? If you think you have the answer then marshal up the data and prove it to us one way or the other! I'm all ears.
In the article on the Charlottesville unrest and the broader issues of sectarian rifts and societal breakdown, I wrote about the possible psy-op properties and divide-and-conquer strategy being applied. I also wrote that ‘our hope should be that the majority of people are more intelligent and discerning than that and will refuse to get drawn […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will discuss investment cooperation prospects with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in Moscow on September 13, the Russian Cabinet said in a statement Friday.
“During the meeting, the heads of government will discuss the state and prospects for the development of Russian-Lebanese trade, economic, investment and humanitarian relations, as well as other issues,” the statement reads.
Researchers are constantly studying and learning more about autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but they have yet to be able to pinpoint specific causes. The origins of the disorder seem to be based in genetics and environmental factors. Now a study funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health and Sciences (NIEHS) seems to suggest that exposure to heavy metals could be one of the environmental triggers of autism. [1]