Month: July 2019

Iranian flag flies from seized UK oil tanker… Britain holds emergency security meeting on Iran

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Iranian flag flies from seized UK oil tanker Iranian flag flies from seized UK oil tanker#Iran #OilTanker pic.twitter.com/TYyxpQtEoO — Press TV đŸ”» (@PressTV) July 22, 2019 On Iranian State media too Britain holds emergency security meeting on Iran British Prime Minister Theresa May chaired an emergency security session on Monday to discuss how to respond … Read more

CHANGE? Puerto Ricans gather for massive protest to expel governor.

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via wate: Hundreds of thousands of people were expected to take over one of the island’s busiest highways to press demands for the resignation of RossellĂł over an obscenity-laced leaked online chat the governor had with allies as well as federal corruption charges leveled against his administration. The demonstration in the capital of San Juan came … Read more

They’re Straining The Meaning Of The Word ‘budget’: Budget Deal Likely To Include Few Or No Cuts While Lifting Debt Limit For Two Years.

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via greenwichtime: WASHINGTON – White House and congressional negotiators rushing to hammer out the final details of a sweeping budget and debt deal are unlikely to include many – if any – actual spending cuts, even as the debt limit is lifted for two years, people familiar with the talks said. The agreement appeared likely … Read more

COLLUSION HAS ITS COSTS: Trump Is Cracking Down On China, And UC Campuses Are Paying A Price.

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via latimes: UC San Diego professor Shirley Meng’s laboratory is a veritable United Nations of research, with 48 scholars from six different countries exploring how to improve battery storage for electric vehicles, robots and — someday — flying cars. But Meng and her colleagues worry that one country soon will be left out of the lab: … Read more

AUTOMATION: Soldiers will run a platoon attack of robot vehicles from a Bradley in a test.

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via militarytimes: The month-long operation test at Fort Carson, Colorado, is aimed at getting data and feedback for the Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Ground Vehicle Systems Center. Army researchers are using upgraded Bradleys, dubbed Mission Enabler Technologies-Demonstraters, or MET-Ds. Those upgrades include a remote turret for the 25mm main gun, 360-degree awareness cameras and enhanced … Read more

The Definition of a Racist

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by Wayne Root You know the definition of a “racist”? Anyone winning an argument with a liberal. I feel like we’re all starring in a new updated version of the movie “Groundhog Day.” We keep waking up to the same silly storyline. And it always turns out in President Trump’s favor, day after day after day. Just … Read more

China’s Real Estate Bubble Is Far Worse Than The US Real Estate Bubble That Popped In 2008

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Jason received more information about China’s real estate bubble from one of his mainland China sources including some anecdotes about how owners of houses don’t want renters. Dinny McMahon | Debt, Dysfunction, and the End of the Chinese Miracle Something Just Broke In China As Repo Rate Soars To 1,000% Overnight https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-19/something-just-broke-china-repo-rate-soars-1000-overnight

IMPORTANT – Video Confirms Butowsky Lawsuit Claim: Julian Assange Told Ellen Ratner DNC Emails Received From Seth Rich – Not a Russian Hack


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by sundance A lawsuit filed a week ago by Businessman Ed Butowsky, alleged that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told Fox News analyst Ellen Ratner the DNC leaked emails were received from Seth Rich and his brother Aaron. [Full Backstory Here] Due to the scale of ramification, there was some valid skepticism about the Butowsky assertion.  However, recently unearthed … Read more

Canada’s Most Splendid Housing Bubbles, June Update

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Oh dear, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg. But there are some warm-spots too. June is generally a strong month for house prices in Canada, according to the Teranet-National Bank House Price Index. But this June, the index rose only 0.8% from May, compared to an average June increase of 1.2%. Once … Read more

Cumulative debt to GDP matters a lot

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by Chris Spanishpaco – Fundamentally GDP is annual but debt is cumulative. Does this matter? Of course it matters. As I’ve been pointing out for nigh on a decade now, the US has been compounding it’s debts since the early 1970’s at 8.9% per year while GDP has been compounding at roughly half that rate. … Read more

Armstrong on the Silence Surrounding Epstein Incident

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by SP Martin points out several aspects of the Epstein affair that sound right to me: 1.  Big Media is very quiet on two aspects of the Epstein case:   a)  the network of coercion/blackmail and a)  the breadth involved participants.  As a diversion, attention is focused on sordid stories of Epstein’s individualdepravity.  (the “lone deranged pedophile”). 2.  … Read more

Bitcoin And Price Manipulation

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by Chris When I see charts like that of BTC today, I can only see a “”market”” fully under the control of lightening-fast algos. If you blinked, you might have missed the “new” price that suddenly developed across and entire globe of interested parties. Millions of eyeballs and hundreds of thousands of interested parties who … Read more

Our Ruling Elites Have No Idea How Much We Want to See Them All in Prison Jumpsuits

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by Charles Hugh-Smith Even the most distracted, fragmented tribe of the peasantry eventually notices that they’re not in the top 1%, or the top 0.1%. Let’s posit that America will confront a Great Crisis in the next decade. This is the presumption of The Fourth Turning, a 4-generational cycle of 80 years that correlates rather neatly with … Read more

The US spends more per pupil than any country in the OECD, but spends it badly, lagging behind many countries in core competencies. Is it a conspiracy to keep the population dumb or just another example of government waste?

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by Playaguy   All that money does not appear to be translating into better results for US students. According to the Washington thinktank the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), the average student in Singapore is 3.5 years ahead of her US counterpart in maths, 1.5 years ahead in reading and 2.5 in … Read more

Most Americans are not aware how morally and intellectually destructive American colleges—and, increasingly, high schools and even elementary schools—have become

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by Playaguy   Those who still believe that one of the primary purposes of American public (and most private) schools is to Americanize students should know this is no longer the case. On the contrary, most American high schools now celebrate every identity except American identity (which the left brands a euphemism for white supremacy). … Read more