CNN, WaPo Demand That Trump Further Escalate Tensions With Russia

via Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com, CNN has aired a segment in which pundit Fareed Zakaria tells the network’s audience that the US president has “been unwilling to confront Putin in any way on any issue” and asks “will Venezuela be the moment when Trump finally ends his appeasement?” The segment is a near-verbatim reading of Zakaria’s Washington Post columnfrom a … Read more

Mega Banks Tell SEC: Derivatives Could Blow Up Wall Street Again

via wallstreetonparade: The most recent 10Ks (annual reports) filed by the largest Wall Street banks covering their financial condition as of December 31, 2018, provide the strongest argument thus far for Congress to enact legislation to separate the Federally insured, deposit-taking commercial banks from the trading casinos on Wall Street. In other words, Congress needs to … Read more

Update on the Spreading Housing Bust in Australia, and Why it’s Happening

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter This bubble was not pricked by the central bank — on the contrary. Home prices in the metro area of Sydney, according to CoreLogic’s Home Value Index, fell 0.9% in March from February and 10.9% from March last year. Prices in the most expensive quarter of the housing market dropped 11.9% year-over-year. … Read more

ARREST AT MAR-A-LAGO!

Terry Spencer from Sun Sentinel reports, A woman carrying two Chinese passports and a device containing computer malware lied to Secret Service agents and briefly gained admission to President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club over the weekend during his visit, federal prosecutors allege in court documents. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DplVo8YSmrI Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/pa…  

Arms Sales: USA vs. Russia (1950-2017)

by visualcapitalist Arms Sales: USA vs. Russia (1950-2017) Between countless proxy wars and the growing threat of nuclear catastrophe, the Cold War created an unprecedented geopolitical climate. For nearly half a century, the world’s two biggest superpowers were scrambling to top one another by any means necessary. It was a tension that ignited everything from the … Read more

FITTON:FBI met w/Clinton-DNC spy Steele 13 times in 2016 and paid him 11 times to get Trump. And then fired him. And then used Bruce Ohr to get Steele’s anti-Trump dirtt. Ohr communicated w/Steele dozens of times.

by TFittonJW https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-uncovers-doj-records-showing-numerous-bruce-ohr-communications-with-fusion-gps-and-christopher-steele/ https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-fbi-records-show-dossier-author-deemed-not-suitable-for-use-as-source-show-several-fbi-payments-in-2016/  

Recession Signs Everywhere

by John Mauldin This month, the Federal Reserve joined its global peers by turning decisively dovish. Jerome Powell and friends haven’t just stopped tightening. Soon they will begin actively easing by reinvesting the Fed’s maturing mortgage bonds into Treasury securities. It’s not exactly “Quantitative Easing I, II, and III,” but it will have some of the … Read more

Jake Tapper Needs MEDICAL HELP After He States Most INCORRECT Statement, PRAISING CNN

Cristina Laila from The Gateway Pundit reports, This is unreal! Jake Tapper, the fake news king at CNN said on Sunday that his network didn’t get anything wrong in their 3 years of Russiagate reporting despite the fact that CNN was forced to make several embarrassing corrections and retractions on their Trump-Russia stories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIDIKoLjJbE Read … Read more

NSA Whistleblower: Government Collecting Everything You Do

Abby Martin interviews former Technical Director of the National Security Agency, Bill Binney, who blew the whistle on warrantless spying years before Edward Snowden released the evidence. They discuss the US empire’s mass surveillance program and dangers of the Intelligence Industrial Complex. Transcript & Links: https://bit.ly/2VkHT9i    

Is The LYFT IPO The Inflection Point In The Ponzi?

via AdventuresInCapitalism.com, Over the past few quarters, I have become increasingly critical of the Profitless Prosperity Sector, known amongst my friends as the Ponzi Sector. Why Ponzi Sector? Because these companies have no profits yet continue to raise new capital by showing explosive revenue growth. Oddly, the more revenue they show, the more money they lose, because incremental revenue … Read more

FITTON:HUGE Scandal: Hillary Clinton put classified info on Internet equivalent of public park bench and Chinese took advantage. Clinton protected from fallout by Strzok. Judicial Watch suing for answers. submitted a minute

by TFittonJW   Judicial Watch keeps on pushing: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-sues-for-details-of-an-intelligence-office-meeting-with-fbi-regarding-security-threats-caused-by-hillary-clintons-illicit-email-system/  (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it is suing the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) for details of a meeting with the FBI regarding national security threats associated with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s “private” email system. Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit … Read more

Largest monthly inflow to S&P 500 growth ETF ever! VIX short positioning by speculators is more extreme than it was just prior to the market selloff in Q4 2018.

Largest monthly inflow to S&P 500 growth ETF ever! Previous inflow extremes also preceded significant market selloffs. Record bullishness at near record valuations can never a good sign. Credits to @jessefelder pic.twitter.com/fSpEIEVr20 — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) April 1, 2019 VIX short positioning by speculators is more extreme than it was just prior to the … Read more

BUST: Whole Foods will slash prices, Walgreens lowers 2019 forecast, Apple slashes iPhone prices in China

Whole Foods will slash prices on hundreds of items starting Wednesday Whole Foods will slash prices on hundreds of items starting Wednesday. Customers will save an average of 20 percent on the new reduced-price items. It expects to focus its discounts on produce, such as greens, tomatoes and tropical fruits.   Walgreens shares slide as … Read more