“No cash accepted” signs are becoming an increasingly common sight in shops and eateries across Sweden as payments go digital and mobile.
— Read on www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-18/-no-cash-signs-everywhere-has-sweden-worried-it-s-gone-too-far

Another globalist banksters wet dream

Sir Howard Davies, chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), recently made an astonishing admission on BBC1’s Question Time when he stated that private finance initiatives (PFI) had been a “fraud on the people”. Beyond seemingly populist rhetoric, the real story of PFI reveals that RBS alongside other global banks, notably HSBC, were instrumental in what Sir Howard has effectively labelled a great heist.
— Read on www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/pfi-banks-barclays-hsbc-rbs-tony-blair-gordon-brown-carillion-capita-financial-crash-a8202661.html

Follow the money

“I have to keep this short because the public only gets a minute and 45 seconds while lobbyists can throw a gala at the Marriott with whiskey and wine and talk for hours to the delegates,” Lucas said.
— Read on truthinmedia.com/woman-pulled-public-hearing-corporate-donations-reps/

I like her style

A father in Argentina took actions into his own hands after he pretended to be his 11-year-old daughter in order to locate and pummel the man who groomed the girl via a messaging app.
— Read on www.foxnews.com/world/2018/02/17/father-pretends-to-be-11-year-old-daughter-to-find-and-attack-sexual-harasser.html

Justice denied.

In his lifetime, Edgar Allan Poe’s renown lay primarily in his reputation as the foremost critic of the day. As a critic, he complained that four or five cliques controlled American literature by controlling the larger portion of the critical journals… (essay by Harry Lee Poe)
— Read on www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/02/edgar-allan-poes-literary-war-harry-lee-poe.html

On Closer Inspection, Debt of Bankrupt Spanish Construction Firm Grows Four-Fold | Wolf Street
— Read on wolfstreet.com/2018/02/17/on-closer-inspection-debt-of-bankrupt-spanish-construction-firm-grows-four-fold/

My father’s generation in Iran lived in an environment in which the Islamist party of the country’s clergy cunningly depicted themselves as intending no harm, supportive of the people, and not interested in power. So, before the revolution, many Iranians
— Read on www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11889/iran-history-lessons

The unvarnished truth

There is a scandal at the FBI of epic proportions, and no, it is not the one involving top officials colluding with the Obama administration to usurp the will
— Read on usdefensewatch.com/2018/02/the-scandal-at-the-fbi/

Defund them.

The long read: How an extreme libertarian tract predicting the collapse of liberal democracies – written by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father – inspired the likes of Peter Thiel to buy up property across the Pacific
— Read on www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-valley-billionaires-are-prepping-for-the-apocalypse-in-new-zealand

Perhaps they know something we should know.

“MishTalk” is Mike “Mish” Shedlock’s global economics blog covering topics such as interest rates and central bank policy, gold and precious metals, jobs, and economic reports, all from an Austrian Economic perspective.
— Read on www.themaven.net/mishtalk/economics/musical-tribute-to-bribes-in-the-us-israel-nigeria-everywhere-gYBhsZDx-0O8PAj8BJC–A

Follow the money