Old and busted: Confederate-era Democrats believe they can pick and choose which federal laws they wish to enforce.

PARTYING LIKE IT’S 1859: ● Atlanta Mayor Signs Order Banning ICE Detainees If you are looking for a nice, safe place to go on vacation, don’t go to Atlanta. Fox Insider reports that Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms signed an Executive Order on Thursday that bans all ICE detainees from Atlanta jails. The narrative that this administration’s immigration policies … Read more

We have a serious problem with real wages

by Shaun Richards One of the features of the early days of this website was the fact that there were regular replies/comments suggesting that wages and earnings would continue to be a problem for some time. I doff my cap to those who first suggested it as it has become a theme of the credit … Read more

ANNIVERSARY OF THE U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS

It was this week in history that Dwight Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957.  Among other things, it created the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. In 2007, I was asked to testify at a Senate hearing celebrating the Act’s 50th anniversary. (The Chairman couldn’t make it, so I was the rookie substitute.) … Read more

Twitter Exposes Its Politically Motivated Censorship Policy In Banning Of Alex Jones

by Disobedient Media It has been a busy month for Twitter, and Alex Jones, with Jack Dorsey forced to defend the decision not to ban Jones early last month, only reverse course by suspending Jones shortly after a tense Senate hearing on social media. The Senate hearing, in which Dorsey spoke alongside Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, … Read more

Gold and the Next Financial Crisis

by Jesse This NY Times Op-Ed quoted below is for the tenth anniversary of the financial crisis, written by three of the men who helped to create it, and intensify its after effects. With a little help from the like minded who have followed, they have virtually insured a repeat.  Bob Rubin, Bill Clinton, and … Read more

Citing ‘Conclusive Evidence’ of Explosives, Families of Victims File Petition to Re-Open 9/11 Investigation

via thefreethoughtproject: This month, the Lawyers’ Committee for 9-11 Inquiry, a group representing families of the 9/11 victims, filed a petition with the U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York to push for an investigation into the crimes of 9/11. The committee states that they have “conclusive” evidence that explosives were planted and … Read more

Canadian Unemployment WORSENS! – The HIDDEN Job Numbers

Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the real Canadian unemployment numbers. Recently a story came out showing that Canada shed 51,600 jobs in the last month, wiping out the gains from July. The problem is, this goes far deeper. For years, Canada alongside the United States and several other countries … Read more

China BUYS SHARES of Stock Market To Prevent Collapse! Here Are the Stocks They Bought.

Why aren’t other people breaking down this type of information? Since 2015, the Chinese government has admittedly been buying up shares through subsidiary entities, out in public view. They aren’t denying it but in general, the public is unaware simply because it’s indirect. Either way intervention is always great temporarily because it (Falsely) gives investors … Read more

The payback period is coming? Somethings gotta give…

Somethings gotta give… pic.twitter.com/Z1C4EDNySE — Ronnie Stoeferle (@RonStoeferle) September 10, 2018 Now is the time you want to reduce $SPX exposure due to the extreme divergences versus Chinese tech crash… The payback period is coming. pic.twitter.com/Wgqb5ZRwww — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) September 9, 2018 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1038978260305145860 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1038929820430856192 #geometrics update pic.twitter.com/TCUEq18Xua — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) September 10, 2018 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1039117403869851649 https://twitter.com/pierpont_morgan/status/1039091578579689473 … Read more

London Property: Here Comes the Crash

via GoldCore: by Bloomberg News – Jitters surrounding London property are finally starting to show up in home prices – Brexit uncertainty, rising interest rates, higher sales tax and stretched affordability – Islington suffered the biggest declines, with home prices falling 7.8 pct in 12 months as per official data – Surveys have shown declines for … Read more

Implosion of China’s P2P Lending Boom Hits Consumer Spending

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter First sign: auto sales suddenly plunged. The Chinese government legalized peer-to-peer lending platforms in 2015. P2P sites attract money from individual investors – mostly savers – by offering them extraordinarily high yields. They lend this money at high interest rates to borrowers who have trouble getting loans elsewhere – classic subprime. … Read more

How Things Fall Apart: Extremes Aren’t Stable

by Charles Hugh-Smith A funny thing happens on the way to stabilizing things by doing more of what’s failed: the system becomes even more unstable, brittle and fragile. A peculiar faith in pushing extremes to new heights has taken hold in official circles over the past decade: when past extremes push the system to the breaking point … Read more

Assad Gives Order To Use Chemical Weapons…..

by SP Yes, this is stupid beyond belief.  (Source) Mr Assad just about finishes his clean-up of mercenary “rebels” in one last pocket in Idlib, and decides to announce to the world that he intends to “cross the line” by using chemical weapons so that the US has the rationale to bomb Assad from the … Read more

Lawyers Claim to Have “Explosive” Monsanto Documents

Could we be witnessing the beginnings of a major shift in public awareness regarding the destructive and murderous business model of companies like Bayer and Monsanto? Was Monsanto’s absorption into Bayer an early attempt at damage control in anticipation of Monsanto’s reputation being ruined forever? via euronews: US lawyers say they have “explosive” documents about crisis-hit … Read more