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British education group, and the world's largest education company, Pearson PLC lost a quarter of its market cap in an instant this morning after it issued a dire warning about the state of the textbook business, cut profit forecast, and warned of an "unprecedented" decline in its North American business. It also put its stake in the iconic Penguin Random House book business for sale in a bid to raise cash, not long after selling the Financial Times to the Nikkei.

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With Trump on the horizon, the survivalist movement — long a pastime of the right — is picking up progressive converts fast.

Colin Waugh bought a shotgun four weeks before November’s election.

In his farewell address to the nation 56 years ago, President Dwight D.

Just weeks after it was revealed that the Pentagon attempted to bury a study, that it itself had actually commissioned, which revealed staggering financial waste on Department of Defense programs, John McCain has proposed a new military budget that would exceed Obama's proposed spending by $430 billion over 5 years and total over $5 trillion, in aggregate.  In a 33-page white paper called "Restoring American Power", McCain described his proposals as just a start toward repairing the "damage that has been done to our military over the past eight years" under the Obam

Dr Udo Ulfkotte, the  journalist and author, who spoke out about mainstream and fake news, reportedly died from a heart attack on January 13th at the age of 56. The former editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of largest newspapers in Germany, had admitted that he -in effect- ‘worked’ for the CIA and that he had been educated to lie to and betray the public. His fears for a war in Europe, lead him to his decision to expose the truth about corporate media being controlled by the financial class. (See Video below)..