By Michael Snyder The health of the economy has been a major determining factor in many past presidential elections, and the health of the economy… 10 Signs That The Economy Is A Giant Mess As The Election Approaches

By Masha Borak Vietnam wants to enable all of its taxpayers to log into the country’s online taxation platforms with their electronic identification by 2025…. Vietnam Integrates National Digital ID and Tax System

By Neenah Payne The 2024 Global Elections Super Cycle explains that national elections are being held in 52 countries this year. The information voters get… Growing Global Attacks On Freedom of Speech

Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times Convenience store chain 7-Eleven will close hundreds of stores as the company faces declining sales at its… More Than 400 North American 7-Eleven Stores To Close

By Charles Hugh Smith Or we can let the bubble implode under its own weight and have a plan ready to clean house when the… Can We Rein In the Excesses of Financialization Without Crashing the Economy?

By John Johnson Ecovacs devices hurled racial slurs at US customers. Those robot vacuums are handy devices—until they allow strangers to watch your family, hurl… Hackers Make Robot Vacuums Go Rogue Inside Houses

By The Conscious Resistance Derrick Broze interviews Michael Connett, lead attorney for the Fluoride Action Network and the lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency…. Explaining the Historic Ruling in the Fluoride Lawsuit, What Comes Next, & How You Can Help

Authored by Nick Corbishley via NakedCapitalism.com, In a major U-turn in the Global War on Cash, the government and central bank of Norway, one of… Norway, One Of World’s Most Cashless Economies, Just Made It A Lot Easier To Pay With Cash

By Tyler Durden Data brokerage National Public Data has filed for bankruptcy months after admitting that “hundreds of millions” of people were affected in one of… National Public Data Files For Bankruptcy Months After Data Breach Involving 3 Billion People Reported

By Masha Borak The Swedish police want to use facial recognition in real time to crack down on serious crimes. Government investigators have already drafted… Swedish Police Want to Fight Crime with Live Facial Recognition

By Tyler Durden Turns out those years at vocational school and going into business instead of going to college are starting to pay off. Other… Private Equity Firms Are Now Acquiring Skilled Trade Small Businesses

By Paul A. Philips This is where we are at. The clueless willfully ignorant masses remain conditioned, distracted, more polarized than ever. Intensively disinformed, having… Declaration of Our Awakening

Authored by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com For the entire lives of anyone under the age of seventy-five, the US has been at the top of… Is There Hope For The US?

By Charles Hugh Smith That most of us live in a low-value, low-trust economy of shoddy goods and services hidden beneath high-tech frictionless, faceless transactions… Social Trust: It’s Not Warm and Fuzzy, It’s the Money, Honey

Do you have any idea how unbelievably difficult it is to make a sandwich? No? Well, you’re about to!

By Aaron and Melissa Dykes So this is going to have to be three parts now because there’s a third aspect to this that needs… What Is Actually Going on in North Carolina? (Part 2)

This week on the New World Next Week: stare into the orb to prove you’re a human; the WHO wants to regulate smartphones; and government hurricanes prove that relying on government help is a deadly mistake.

The BBG flew solo on today’s show! Richie Allen provides unique and often hilarious analysis of the week’s biggest news stories. 

Richie reviews Thursday’s newspapers

Today’s show was a phone-in! Listeners called in from the UK, US and Ireland to have their say on the week’s biggest issues.