Citibank, Deutsche Bank, ANZ to Fight Possible “Criminal Cartel” Charges in Australia

There’s unconfirmed speculation JPMorgan may have been granted immunity as the whistleblower. By Charles Benavidez, Safehaven.com: Amid an ongoing investigation in Australian banks, insurers, financial service providers and pensions funds for everything from rate-rigging to mistreating customers and questionable consumer lending practices, two major global banks are now facing criminal charges in the country. Prosecutors are now expected … Read more

Rewatch: Former CBS Reporter Exposes Media Lies, Internet Shills & Astroturfing

https://youtu.be/0s__qs0cBek Published on Nov 30, 2015 In this eye-opening talk, veteran investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson shows how astroturf, or fake grassroots movements funded by political, corporate, or other special interests very effectively manipulate and distort media messages. Sharyl Attkisson is an investigative journalist based in Washington D.C. She is currently writing a book entitled Stonewalled … Read more

FITTON: OUTRAGE: What hasn’t this DOJ taken legal action against Hillary Clinton while going full bore against President Trump!

by TFittonJW Endless stamina is needed for our anti-corruption battles. Judicial Watch not slowing down — no breathing room, no wiggle room for the Deep State: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-fights-state-department-full-accounting-clinton-related-emails-anthony-weiners-laptop/   AC

No surprise, Zuckerberg lied to congress. Facebook shared personal info with about 60 companies including Apple, Amazon, BlackBerry, Microsoft and Samsung.

Zuck lied to congress, but they knew he would ahead of time. That’s why he wasn’t under oath but Silk and Diamond were. They were protecting their narrative controlling spy machine. via wral: As Facebook sought to become the world’s dominant social media service, it struck agreements allowing phone and other device-makers access to vast amounts … Read more

FANGMAN Stocks Are Not a Bubble, Pleads Goldman Sachs

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter This time, it’s different, say the strategists. So we’ll take a look. In the bewildering wilderness of the most hyped Wall Street acronyms, we’re going to stick to FANGMAN – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google’s parent Alphabet, Microsoft, Apple, and Nvidia – for the special moment. And the special moment is that … Read more

Nebraska retiree uses earth heat to grow oranges in snow

Interesting tips on how to harvest heat from below frozen ground to grow food in cold climate. Winter temperatures in Alliance, Nebraska can drop to -20°F (the record low is -40°F/C), but retired mailman Russ Finch grows oranges in his backyard greenhouse without paying for heat. Instead, he draws on the earth’s stable temperature (around … Read more

RED ALERT: Major Divergence Between Smallcap Stocks And HY Credit Risk, Credit Spreads Have Troughed, S&P Tech To Financials Ratio Has Not Been This High Since The Tech Bubble…

https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1003726375872815105 https://twitter.com/MacroTechnicals/status/1003597145637834753 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1003726119722475521 #FANGMAN stocks hit fresh highs as investors continue to lean into secular winners 8yrs into current econ expansion. Amazon has crossed $800bn mkt cap for 1st time. Tech returns have been justified by fundamental growth, valuations much lower compared w/prev bubbles, Goldman says pic.twitter.com/7pFeZOfKff — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) June 4, 2018 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1003709738062884867 … Read more

De-Dollarization Escalates Again: “African Economy Needs More Usage Of Chinese Yuan”

from Zero Hedge The world’s push towards de-dollarization continues to accelerate as Americans go about their daily lives worrying more about blasphemous comedians, participation trophies, and Kim and Kanye’s traitorous behavior. From yuan-denominated oil futures (and soon to be yuan-denominated metals contracts) to Europe’s decision to use Yuan to pay for Iranian oil; and from non-dollar settlement systems for … Read more

Patrick Little Appeals To Asians In California

by Yojimbo, TBP Patrick Little is peeling off some of the Asian vote in California. Asians are regularly discriminated against in the Ivy League colleges in acceptance rates. They know this, and a lawsuit was filed against Harvard demanding to see their records. Little is brilliantly playing identity politics in an “intersectional” fashion by dropping red … Read more

FITTON: Put not your faith in the IG.

by TFittonJW The IG report will have some good and bad in it. Trying to tell like in this brief on the IG and the real story on the Clinton emails: We don’t just yap (or rely on IGs), Judicial Watch does the heavy lifting by going to federal court: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-fights-state-department-full-accounting-clinton-related-emails-anthony-weiners-laptop/

THE THIRD TIME SINCE…

https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1003425749808963585 "'We're very focused on Main Street', not Wall Street" Bernanke, 2013 Well… Not Really… pic.twitter.com/YxvYG16AqF — Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) June 4, 2018 pic.twitter.com/F7CobpoxK2 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) June 3, 2018 h/t @OccupyWisdom

THE PRISON-HOUSE OF POLITICAL LANGUAGE

A must read article in Quilette, about the various ways in which the political left uses the techniques of Newspeak in the real world, in Britain and in the USA, while projecting their own totalitarian motives onto their opponents. Nail on the head stuff right here: “The US media, stocked with coastal elites who all seem to … Read more

Judicial Watch wants FULL AUDIT of Clinton Emails on Anthony Weiner’s Laptop

Read more here: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-r… Judicial Watch announced that it is fighting the State Department for a full production of records responsive to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for the emails found by the FBI on Anthony Weiner’s laptop. According to then-FBI Director James Comey, Weiner’s laptop contained “hundreds of thousands” of emails of … Read more

Quantitative Tightening Update (June 2018) – 5 Fed Charts

via @Callum_Thomas As the Fed is steadily progressing through its balance sheet normalization plan, it’s worth checking in on a few charts that highlight the path to normalcy… And some of the potential stumbling blocks along the way. The beginning of large scale asset purchases (or QE – Quantitative Easing) in the wake of the financial crisis … Read more

Bearish: U.S. Births Decreased In 2017

via Bill McBride From the National Center for Health Statistics: Births: Provisional Data for 2017. The NCHS reports: The provisional number of births for the United States in 2017 was 3,853,472, down 2% from 2016 and the lowest number in 30 years. The general fertility rate was 60.2 births per 1,000 women aged 15–44, down 3% from … Read more