From Jenna Orkin 

 

Economics Professor: Negative Interest Rates Aimed at Driving Small Banks Out of Business and Eliminating Cash

How to survive a global disaster: a handy guide

Interview with Nafeez Ahmed.

Nano membrane toilet

Top US Official Admits Government Will Use "Internet Of Things" To Spy On The Public 

6 Dead After Gunman Storms Saudi Education Department

Something Very Disturbing Spotted In A Morgan Stanley Presentation

Inflation Expectations Around The Globe Just Hit Record Lows 

John Kerry Makes Last Ditch Effort To Avert World War III As Saudis, Turks Prepare For Syria Invasion 

ISIS has released a video appearing to show a 4-year-old British boy blowing up a car full of spies

NATO is sending warships to intercept people-smugglers in the Mediterranean

North Korea Calls South's Suspension Of Operations In Industrial Zone A 'Declaration Of War' 

Cleveland Bills Tamir Rice Family For Teen's Ambulance 

Ex-L.A. County Sheriff Pleads Guilty To Corruption Charge

 

And...

Good News: Hookers Aren't Planning To Hike Rates

These ultra-luxurious underwater homes are being built in Dubai

From Jenna Orkin 

Australia Admits Recent Stellar Job Numbers Were Cooked

"Jingle Mail" Makes Comeback In Canada As Underwater Borrowers Mail Keys Back To Banks

The End Is Nigh For Europe As Officials Mull 2 Year Schengen "Suspension"

Hawaii Island Declares Dengue Fever State Of Emergency

Profit At World's Largest Shipping Company Plunges On Collapsing Global Trade, Sinking Crude Prices 

You Could Go To Prison For Performing Oral Or Anal Sex In Michigan

Sweden Arrests 14 For Plotting To Attack Migrant House With Axes, Iron Pipes 

North Korea reportedly executed its army chief of staff 

12 fascinating facts about the Chinese economy 

Sweden is so close to being a cashless society that people are charged fees if they use cash

Haunting photos of Walmart stores shutting down reveal a new normal in America

  

And...

Couple Allegedly Allowed 9-Year-Old To Drive Because They Were Too Drunk

Train Station's Top Cat Earns Mouse-Catching Promotion

From Jenna Orkin 

 

Fed Lacks The Physical Cash, Legal Authority And Computer Systems To Implement NIRP, According To The Fed 

Deutsche Bank Stock Crashes To Record Low

Saudi Arabia Prepares To Send Special Forces To Syria; Will Fight As Part Of "US-Led Coalition"

State Department: Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice staffers received classified info via personal email

European Sovereign Risk Soars As Bank Contagion Spreads 

Ron Paul Slams Government Plan For "Mandatory Depresssion Screening" Of All Americans 

France Just Enshrined Its "State Of Emergency" In The Constitution 

"We Can Put Refugees On Buses": Leaked Memo Shows Erdogan Blackmailed Europe For Billions 

Gunshots Heard In Hong Kong As Police Battle Angry Crowds On First Day Of Chinese New Year 

Americans are quitting their jobs like crazy

This meatball was grown in a laboratory — and it's delicious

No thanks.  

US intelligence chief: North Korea restarted a plutonium reactor

Meet THAAD: America’s answer to North Korean threats

From Jenna Orkin


Chesapeake Plummets Over 20% On Report It Has Hired Bankruptcy Attorneys
Germany Shuts Down Canadian Bank Tied To Money Laundering
A man may have been killed by a meteorite for the first time in nearly 200 years
More Than 3,100 Pregnant Colombian Women Have Zika Virus: Gov't
Man killed by falling crane remembered at funeral

Chicago Christian college professor to step down after saying Muslims worship same god

Leaked police files contain guarantees disciplinary records will be kept secret

Bayer refuses to pull insecticide despite EPA's request
Colombia sees Guillain-Barre syndrome spike amid Zika cases
A Renewables Revolution Is Toppling the Dominance of Fossil Fuels in U.S. Power

From Jenna Orkin

 

65,000% Spike In Reported Radioactivity After Tritium Leaks At Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant

Syria civil war: Up to 70,000 refugees head to Turkey, says PM

Zika nations should allow access to contraception, abortion: UN
'Intriguing data': Kickstarter crowdfunds to publish 700,000 CIA declassified docs How much damage is the Porter Ranch leak doing to the climate?
Michigan Officials Absent At Flint Water Crisis Hearing

As Madoff Airs On TV, Two Anonymous Whistleblowers Are Pounding On The SEC's Door Again 

Flint Officials Could Have Prevented Lead Crisis for $80 A Day, Broke Federal Law Instead 

The parents of a Briton who travelled to Syria and has been dubbed 'Jihadi Jack' were arrested after sending their son money

Luxembourg wants to mine asteroids for minerals with the help of Google's Larry Page

Anti-Refugee Rallies Sweep Europe As Nationalists Declare "We Will Not Surrender Europe To Islam" 

Those Days You Work From Home May End Up Wrecking the Planet  

Scientists Say Climate Change May Have Fueled Zika Outbreak 

 

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Op-Ed: Americans on average will spend 43 days of their life on hold

From Jenna Orkin

 

US, Japan, Canada, Australia and 8 Other Countries Sign Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement

A New Advocacy Group Is Lobbying for the Right to Repair Everything

Lawyers, Doctors and Public Servants in Firing Line from Rise of the Machines

France to Pave 1000km of Roads with Solar Panels

And Now: “Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Join The Fight To Stop Zika Virus”

70% Of Jobs Added In January Were Minimum Wage Waiters And Retail Workers 

Hyperinflating Venezuela Used 36 Boeing 747 Cargo Planes To Deliver Its Worthless Bank Notes 

German Professor Says All Students Should Be Required To Learn Arabic 

Congress Wants To Turn The US Postal Service... Into A Bank 

World's Biggest Containership "Hard Aground" As Baltic Dry Crashes Below 300 For First Time Ever 

NATO is planning its biggest military build-up in eastern Europe since the Cold War

France is the first country to force supermarkets to donate unsold food to charities and foodbanks 

 

 

And... 

A man was arrested after flying his drone into the Empire State Building

From Jenna Orkin

 

Meanwhile In Greece, Familiar Scenes Are Back: General Strike, Molotov Cocktails, Tear Gas

"They Rape, Kill, Destroy": Montanans Stage "Security Rally" To "Head Off" Refugee "Invasion"

Vancouver Real Estate Goes Full-Retard; Average Home Price Now $1.8 Million

Town Hall Meeting Erupts After German Mayor Says Schoolgirls Should "Not Provoke" Refugees

US Factory Orders Plunge As Inventories Ratio Soars To Recession Cycle Highs 

Starting 2016 With A Bang: Challenger Reports Highest January Layoffs Since 2009 

Weatherford Fires 15% Of All Workers 

If Russia started a war in the Baltics, NATO would lose in 36 hours

Russian-Iranian relations just got $40 billion stronger

UN Panel To Rule That Wikileaks' Assange Was 'Arbitrarily Detained' 

IVF Linked To Birth Defects And Childhood Leukemia 

Bloomberg Op-Ed Calls For An End Of Cash 

4 Out of 5 Americans Prescribed Antibiotics Each Year  

NSA’s Hacker-in-Chief: We Don’t Need Zero-Days To Get Inside Your Network  

From Jenna Orkin

 

Quote of the Day:

I'm beginning to wonder if all of these conspiracy theories are just part of a big conspiracy to distract us from real conspiracies.

 

First Case Of Sexually Transmitted Zika Virus Confirmed In Texas

Brazil Grants Forced Entry Into Private Properties To Hunt Zika Virus

Full Summary Of Chinese Actions To Prevent An All-Out Economic Collapse
Germany Unveils "Cash Controls" Push: Ban Transactions Over €5,000, €500 Euro Note

10 things you probably don't know about sovereign wealth funds

The Sanders campaign is asking 'Bernie Bros' to shut up

Retail Apocalypse: 2016 Brings Empty Shelves And Store Closings All Across America 

"We Need To Rise Up": Bilked Chinese Investors Call For Nationwide Uprising After Massive Ponzi Uncovered 

"Liar Loans" Are Back In 2007 Housing Bubble Redux 

Full Summary Of Chinese Actions To Prevent An All-Out Economic Collapse 

Austria To Pay Migrants €500 To Go Back Where They Came From 

There Are Now 3,700 U.S. "Boots On The Ground" In Iraq 

These 8 charts show how catastrophic the oil price crash has been for Russia

In case you were wondering why the market was being flooded.  Well, it worked the first time so...

 

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Ben Carson campaign releases strange statement denying he's pulling the plug, saying he's going home to 'get a fresh set of clothes'

From Jenna Orkin

 

In Biggest Ever Chinese Corporate Takeover, ChemChina Set To Buy Swiss Syngenta For $43 Billion

10 Things They Won't Tell You About the Flint Water Tragedy. But I Will

Why Are We Seeing an Explosion of New Viruses Like Zika?

Think Crude's Cheap? Biodiesel's Going for Free in Some Places  

Puerto Rico Proposes 46% Reduction of Debt in Restructuring   

Testing Workers' Genes Could Make Office Wellness Programs Work  

Quagga, Zebra cousin, recreated 100 years after extinction
One million people in 21 states could lose food stamps
BP Suffers Biggest Loss On RecordCaught On Tape: Chinese Investors Find Out They Got Fleeced By A $7 Billion Ponzi Scheme
Hong Kong Housing Bubble Suffers Spectacular Collapse: Sales Plunge Most On Record, Prices Crash

"They Want Us Dead & Gone" - Homelessness Surges Across The US 

Total U.S. Debt Surpasses $19 Trillion; Rises $8.4 Trillion Under President Obama 

Puerto Rico "Generously" Offers To Repay 54 Cents On The Dollar To Creditors Owed $70 Billion

Global Bond Yields Extend Collapse As German, Japanese Hit New Record Lows

 

FYI

All of the FBI's EDTA blood evidence from Steven Avery's murder trial is now online

 

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Americans Will Eat 1.3 Billion Wings During The Super Bowl

From Jenna Orkin

 

60 Dead In Massive ISIS Suicide Attack On Syrian Capital

200 Swedes Storm Occupied Stockholm Train Station, Beat Migrant Children

"Pandora's Box Is Open": Why Japan May Have Started A 'Silent Bank Run'

Peak "Sharing Economy" - Syphilis Rates Soar To Record Highs

This is exactly how the FBI convinces hedge funders trading on inside information to spill the beans on everyone else

SANDERS SMASHES FUNDRAISING RECORDS  

German Teen 'Made Up' Story Of Rape By Refugee That Outraged Nation

And here is my comment from January 5 in relation to the link below:   

Germany In Shock After "Monstrous" Attacks, Rape By 1,000 Men "Of Arab Or North African Origin" 

Want to bet that one or more of these will be found to have been fabricated?  That would be a low percentage but it wouldn't matter; what a brouhaha will ensue.

 

Clinton Gets $6 Million From Soros As Money Race Winners Revealed Ahead Of Iowa Caucus 

Is Germany Paying African Nations To Take Back Rejected Refugees? 

The CIA has been distributing false memos for years to deceive its own workforce 

British scientists are planning to genetically modify human embryos, but not in the way you think

5 giant, dead whales all washed ashore near one another and no one knows why