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The Secret History Of The Banking Crisis

By silveristhenew | Published August 9, 2017

Authored by Adam Tooze via ProspectMagazine.co.uk, Accounts of the financial crisis leave out the story of the secretive deals between banks that kept the show on the road. How long can the system be propped up for? It is a decade since the first tremors of what would become the Great Financial Crisis began to […]

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“F**k Zuck 2020” Posters Appear In California As Facebook CEO Hires Hillary Strategist

By silveristhenew | Published August 7, 2017

After news broke of the hiring of Joel Benenson, a former top adviser to President Barack Obama and the chief strategist for Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 presidential campaign, as a consultant, we noted that the odds of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg running for President in 2020 surged and bookies positioned him as more likely to […]

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Zuckerberg’s Recent Hires Tell Us A Lot About His Worldview And It’s Not Good

By silveristhenew | Published August 3, 2017

Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, Increasingly, a number of influential people in Silicon Valley seem to think that Mark Zuckerberg will likely run for president of the United States one day. And some people, including myself, believe that he could indeed win. “He wants to be emperor” is a phrase that has become common […]

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Paul Craig Roberts Rages At “The Reign Of Propaganda”

By silveristhenew | Published July 22, 2017

Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, If truth has a chance it is in a different country than America… Masters of propaganda from its inventor, Jewish public relations expert Edward Louis James Bernays, to the Nazi Minister of Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels, agree that a lie can be turned into truth by constant repetition. The more […]

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In The Divided States Of America, There’s Only One Way To “Unite”

By silveristhenew | Published June 17, 2017

Authored by Joey Clark via TheAntiMedia.org, Following the attempted political assassination of several GOP members of Congress this week, calls for “unity” echoed through the halls of power. Democratic and Republican leaders alike offered up their ruminations on the matter — ”ruminating” not in the sense of offering profound thoughts on the latest tragedy, but […]

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The Real Conspiracy: Conspiring to Cast Everything as a Conspiracy Theory

By silveristhenew | Published May 20, 2017

Via The Daily Bell Everything is a conspiracy, the elite globalists control us all, they will win, and resistance is futile. Well, in that case, what’s the point of even fighting it? In fact, if all is so hopeless, why even bother pointing out how hopeless it is? Or could it be–gasp, conspiracy!–that those ultra-pessimists […]

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Hillary Clinton Explains Our ‘North Korea, South Korea, China’ Policy

By silveristhenew | Published April 25, 2017

Authored by Gaius Publius via Down With Tyranny blog, "We don't want a unified Korean peninsula … We [also] don't want the North Koreans to cause more trouble than the system can absorb." —Hillary Clinton, 2013, speech to Goldman Sachs Our policy toward North Korea is not what most people think it is. We don't […]

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Why The Healthcare Reform Bill Went Down In Flames

By silveristhenew | Published March 26, 2017

Via Global Macro Monitor, OK, comrades, let’s check our partisanship at the door and deal with some real analysis on the health care bill that just went down in flames. Here are a few of our thoughts on why the Trump/Ryan healthcare bill to repeal and replace Obamacare went down and some economics behind it… […]

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A CIA Cyber False Flag

By silveristhenew | Published March 13, 2017

Authored by Federico Pieraccini via The Strategic Culture Foundation, New revelations from Wikileaks’ 'Vault 7' leak shed a disturbing light on the safeguarding of privacy. Something already known and largely suspected has now become documented by Wikileaks. It seems evident that the CIA is now a state within a state, an entity out of control that has […]

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Trump Reverses, Agrees To Honor “One China” Policy In First Phone Call With Xi

By silveristhenew | Published February 10, 2017

In a major reversal to his stated foreign policy framework with China, in his first phone call held with China’s president Xi Jinping held on Thursday night, President Donald Trump agreed to honor the “one China” policy, easing a key source of diplomatic tension between the world’s two largest economies. The phone call came just […]

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