Month: January 2020

NBC: Thousands of foreign students in U.S. on student visas may have ‘worked’ for fake companies

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WASHINGTON — A federal visa program allowing international students to work at firms in the United States after graduation appears to have been exploited by fake companies providing false employment verifications, according to an NBC News/NBC Bay Area investigation. The F-1 visa program includes a component that allows students to stay in the U.S. to … Read more

100 Years of Communism—and 100 Million Dead The Bolshevik plague that began in Russia was the greatest catastrophe in human history.

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by Playaguy Already famous throughout Europe, this international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism around the world: terror, torture, famine, mass deportations, and massacres. Astonishing in the sheer detail it amasses, the book is the first comprehensive attempt to catalogue and analyze the … Read more

China’s Gas Demand Growth Slows Significantly

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By Tsvetana Paraskova Natural gas consumption in China rose by 4 percent year on year in November 2019—a much slower growth pace than the 20-percent rise in November 2018, in a sign that Chinese gas demand growth has slowed down significantly over the past year. According to the latest data from China’s National Development and … Read more

Oil Soars Following U.S. Killing Of Iran’s Top General

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By Tom Kool Oil prices soared early on Friday morning after U.S. forces in Iraq assassinated Iran’s most powerful and visible military leader, Qassem Soleimani. The United States killed the Iranian general in an airstrike early on Friday morning according to Pentagon reports. Influential Iraqi militia commander and advisor to Soleimani, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, was … Read more

This is the future in regards to warfare. Drone swarms carrying out “missions”. The payloads vary between cameras, bombs etc.

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I think these swarms are evidence of military training and it’ll become common knowledge the more they pop up. The strange lights began appearing in the night sky a week before Christmas. A formation of unidentified drones, some in groups of 30, have been reported flying high above a corner of rural northeastern Colorado and … Read more

No Sign Of Bottom Yet

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by UPFINA The November International Trade in Goods report showed a lower deficit than expected which raised GDP growth forecasts. Specifically, the deficit was $63.2 billion which was much below the consensus of $69.5 billion and even below the lowest estimate which was $65 billion. It fell from $66.8 billion in October. Exports were up 0.7% … Read more

Central banks have broken economics. Caught in a trap they themselves created, where nothing works the way it’s ‘supposed’ to now. (God help us on the next down turn)

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Central banks have broken economics.Caught in a trap they themselves created, where nothing works the way it's 'supposed' to now.(God help us on the next down turn)@DiMartinoBooth @paranoidbull https://t.co/7KYiSFWeHf — Markets-like people-should be free-TQN-👑 (@TechQn) January 2, 2020 Note the correlation of Fed balance sheet expansion to market gain over 4 months. https://t.co/OikIfCbYPr — David … Read more