Month: June 2018

Massive evacuation underway after Guatemalan volcano eruption, 75 dead, 200+ missing

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLfVPxswkdA The death toll from the Fuego volcanic eruption rose to at least 75 while the search for over 200 missing people continues, as seen on footage filmed in Los Lotes on Tuesday. Furthermore, as many as 3,200 people have been evacuated with 2,000 being accommodated in shelters according to official figures. READ MORE: https://on.rt.com/96wg

World Peace Deteriorates; Partisanship Damages US Score

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via usnews: The world has become less peaceful in the past year as longstanding global conflicts remain unresolved and the United States and other world powers face political instability, an international study finds. The 12th annual “Global Peace Index” by the Institute for Economics and Peace, an independent non-profit think tank based in Australia, scored 163 independent states and territories according … Read more

CHIP COMPETITION FEELS LIKE THE ’90S AGAIN

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AMD tops Intel with its 32-core Threadripper 2, which will ship this year. “Intel wowed the Taipei crowds on Tuesday with a 28-core Core chip, which the company promised by the end of the year. One day later, on Wednesday, AMD announced Threadripper 2—and at 32 cores and 64 threads, it will easily top what Intel … Read more

What Rising Oil Prices Mean for Real Estate

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By Rodney Johnson I had a finance professor in college who referred to self-evident ideas as BGOs, or blinding glimpses of the obvious. The term stuck with me, and my kids have heard it their entire lives. And it came to mind recently when I considered if rising oil prices weighed on the real estate market. Well, … Read more

Parkland students plan bus tour to target places where NRA “bought and paid for politicians”

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by DCG Be sure to vocalize your true agenda while on the road, kids… There were record gun sales in April, the second month in a row. The NRA has reached 6,000,000 members. The NRA had record attendance at their annual convention in Dallas last month. The NRA broke a 15-year fundraising record in April. Donations to the NRA PAC tripled after the #GunControlNow crowd started targeting the … Read more

Czech Pm Rejects Merkel’s Plan Of EU Immigration ‘Flexibility’, As Aftermath Of Migrant Crisis Intensifies

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by stockboardasset European Union member states remained mostly divided to start June over how to embrace and share burdens of the aftermath of the migrant crisis in a troubling sign, that political divisions will continue to develop. While millions of people have escaped the world’s worst war zones and poverty-stricken areas in Africa and the Middle East, they have … Read more

How the world’s largest gold investor learned from history

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Image by iStock/Alphotographic From Frank Holmes at Frank Talk: Although not directly addressed in [the World War II movie] Darkest Hour, the U.K. ended up evacuating billions of dollars’ worth of gold bullion and other assets across the Atlantic, all to be kept safely in Canada. The mission, codenamed “Operation Fish,” is still the largest movement of … Read more

Healthcare Inflation Lies

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by Chris The ever-lying BLS will tell you that medical care inflation is currently running at 2.2% The above article will tell you that: Health insurance companies in New York State have submitted their rate requests for 2019, and on average, the 14 companies are requesting a 24% hike for individuals. So only off by a factor … Read more

Slowing Economic Growth World-Wide Unnerves Investors… Billionaire Investor Cooperman Says He Would Sell Stocks

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Global growth now hamstrung by a moderate but unmistakable slowdown in economic momentum in Europe and elsewhere. https://twitter.com/WSJCentralBanks/status/1003671616197414912 Billionaire Investor Cooperman Says He Would Sell Stocks “I think that inflation and interest rates will catch up to the market as we normalize” “I would be a reducer on strength, not a buyer on strength. I … Read more

50 Years After RFK Was Killed, Here are 5 Reasons Why His Own Son Doesn’t Believe the Official Story

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via thefreethoughtproject: On June 5, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy had just won the California Democratic presidential primary when he was shot following a speech at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. As Americans remember the tragic night 50 years ago, Kennedy’s son is joining with one of the survivors of the shooting to call … Read more

TRUMP JUMP: The nation’s 800,000 warehouse workers have won a 9.4 percent pay increase amid President Donald Trump’s pro-American migration policy…

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The rising wages also give employees a greater share of the productivity gains achieved by adding many robots to Amazon’s warehouses. The rising wages for warehouse workers is a financial problem for Jeff Bezos, whose Amazon retail empire employs a reported workforce of roughly 300,000 employees. Trump is limiting the supply of imported workers, so Bezos and other … Read more

As Media Hypes Trump-Kim Summit, The Real Rulers of the World are Secretly Meeting at Bilderberg

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via thefreethoughtproject: The world’s ruling elite will meet in secret this week. No press will be allowed in, no one will be interviewed about it, and Bilderberg will barely register as a blip within the mainstream media’s radar. As the media hypes the mostly symbolic meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, bankers, politicians, military … Read more