The metaphorical ink was hardly dry on last week’s “2017: Year of Technocracy” editorial when a flood of stories twittered their way across the newswire to confirm my predictions in spades: CES 2017 is all about cars, drones, smart devices, TVs, and drones Staying Off Grid When “Nearly Everything Is Chipped, Almost Everything Is Tracked” Read More…
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The Clinton Foundation Is Shutting Down The Clinton Global Initiative
In a “mass layoff” event reported late last week by the Department of Labor, the Clinton Foundation announced it would lay off some 22 employees at the Clinton Global Initiative, which attained notoriety during the John Podesta leaks, when the various details of the fallout between CGI head Doug Band and Chelsea Clinton were revealed; it Read More…
Actually, Goldman Sachs ‘Hacked’ the Presidential Election
As the media continues to parrot American intelligence agencies’ as-of-yet unsubstantiated claims that Russia hacked the U.S. election, there is far more evidence to implicate an equally dangerous infiltrator: Goldman Sachs. The infamous banking company, which was widely implicated in the 2008 economic crash, appears to have come out on top in the most recent Read More…
Hundreds of Millions of US Tax Dollars Spent on Non-Existent Afghan “Ghost Soldiers”
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko is once again warning about the long-standing problems of corruption in Afghanistan, and the amount of US “reconstruction aid” disappearing down black holes over the course of the years. As always, the discussion came around to “ghost soldiers.” Ghost soldiers are a phenomenon in which Afghan Read More…
Psychiatrists: Why It’s Time To Face The Possibility That Medications Hurt More Than They Help
A worrisome trend has emerged in the last few decades that many physicians are choosing to ignore: As the amount of psychiatric drug prescriptions increase, our mental health declines. It’s time we swallow the hard pill and ask ourselves, are psychiatrists doing more harm than good? I know that, to some of you, this question seems absurd. Why would licensed Read More…
The False Economic Recovery Narrative Will Die In 2017
Yes, the narrative of the “new normal” has been around for so long now that many people have simply grown used to it. The assumption is that the fiscal “new normal” has become the fiscal “normal,” and though the fundamentals continue to strain under the weight of poor global demand and historic debt levitated by Read More…






