by Robert Carbery Islamic State gunmen and suicide bombers attacked the heart of Iran’s capital, Tehran, on Wednesday, striking its Parliament and the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeni. The coordinated and symbolic assaults killed 12 people in what is actually a rare incident — a deadly terrorist attack in Iran. This is especially significant … Read more
By Michael Snyder Have you ever wondered why stocks just seem to keep going up no matter what happens? For years, financial markets have been behaving in ways that seem to defy any rational explanation, but once you understand the role that central banks have been playing everything begins to make sense. In the aftermath … Read more
by Michael Snyder Democrats are hoping that the testimony that former FBI Director James Comey will deliver on Thursday will be enough to take Donald Trump down for good. Comey released a written preview of his testimony on Wednesday, and it was obviously intended to draw even more attention to what is already being described … Read more
If statehood wins, as expected, the island will enact what’s known as the Tennessee Plan, an avenue to accession by which U.S. territories send a congressional delegation to demand to be seated in Washington. Puerto Rico will send two senators and five representatives, chosen by Gov. Ricardo Rosselló (D), later this year, once the plan … Read more
Comey’s statement released https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/os-jcomey-060817.pdf Bill O’Reilly: “Not much out of the Senate Intelligence hearings today. 0/4 chieftains implicated the WH in any wrongdoing. Bad day for the anti-Trump media” Not much out of the Senate Intelligence hearings today. 0/4 chieftains implicated the WH in any wrongdoing. Bad day for the anti-Trump media — Bill O'Reilly … Read more
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the indefensible destructiveness of the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) as it’s been a cancer on the American people since 1913 when the IRS Act was passed around the same time as The Federal Reserve Act. Monetary manipulation goes hand in hand with the extortion … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Commercial Real Estate’s boom-and-bust cycle heads south. Commercial real estate’s eight-year boom reached such breath-taking levels that even the Fed has been pointing it out as one of the reasons for tightening monetary policy. The Fed is worried because of the size of the sector, its leverage, and what it did … Read more
by Mark Angelides Not just in the UK, but throughout Europe and America, more and more people are calling for those on terrorist watch lists to be interred, and even some major politicians are floating the idea now, too. But historically, no one has ever been proud of taking this action. It is a step … Read more
https://youtu.be/cexGKpXuOJo Did the FBI have evidence of a breach larger than Snowden? A lawsuit says yes. A former U.S. intelligence contractor tells Circa he walked away with more than 600 million classified documents on 47 hard drives from the National Security Agency and the CIA, a haul potentially larger than Edward Snowden’s now infamous breach. … Read more
Financial analyst Andy Hoffman contends debt is the main problem with the economy. Hoffman says, “There is so much debt in it that even a tiny bit of interest rate increase is killing it further. Yes, they have had the stock market go up, but what have they created? They have created Dotcom valuations in … Read more