Month: August 2022

Former UK PM Calls For Energy Utility Nationalization

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By Irina Slav A former British Prime Minister has called for the nationalization of energy utilities that cannot offer their customers lower electricity prices. In an op-ed for The Guardian, Gordon Brown wrote that the energy cap on electricity bills needs to be removed before it is updated later this month, and energy firms’ “windfall profits and bonuses … Read more

Report Shows FBI Had “Had Personal Stake” in MAL Agents Were After Spygate Documents Trump Was Holding That Likely Indicted FBI

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New details on Monday’s raid of Mar-a-Lago may offer an explanation on what the FBI was looking for and why the FBI has not released the Spygate documents as they were ordered to when President Trump left office. Investigative reporter Paul Sperry had his Twitter account taken down for the second time on Monday. Sperry … Read more

Video of armed hostage situation in Lebanon at the federal bank in downtown Beirut, demanding his $210,000 deposit

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An armed man holds up bank employees in Beirut to demand their savings back. Most Lebanese have lost access to their bank deposits/pensions after the 2019 crisis and are only allowed to withdraw minimal cash while members of the political elite have sent their capital abroad. Many citizens have gathered outside the bank to support the … Read more

Ultimate Doom! Dec. 13, 2022 Now Called ‘C-DAY’ “BIDEN BUCKS”/ Central Bank Digital Currency: (CBDC) Executive Order 14067

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Buried in the new government spending bill is Executive Order 14067 (called “Bitcoin’s Evil Cousin”). James Ricards and Robert Kiyosaki call this evil move to eliminate our US Currency and replace it with ‘Biden Bucks’ “the most treasonous act in U.S. history” . “He also exposed the supposed singular event called C-Day, which according to them, will … Read more

Twitter announces steps ‘to protect’ US midterm elections. ZH: ‘The ban lists will be glorious’

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JUST IN – Twitter announces steps "to protect" US midterm elections. — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) August 11, 2022 TWITTER ANNOUNCING STEPS CO. IS TAKING AHEAD OF US MIDTERMS The ban lists will be glorious — zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 11, 2022 LOL in connection with Pelosi openly suggesting the election will be "fortified" this is just another … Read more

Sierra Leone imposes nationwide curfew amid violent anti-government protests. And so it begins

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Sierra Leone’s leadership announced a nationwide curfew on Wednesday in response to violent anti-government protests that it said had caused an unspecified number of deaths, including among the security forces. The curfew was due to start at 3 p.m. local time (1500 GMT) in a bid to stem the violence… https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2022/08/10/Sierra-Leone-imposes-nationwide-curfew-amid-violent-anti-government-protests This is the start. … Read more

Russia and Turkey reach deal to ditch dollar in trade

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Russia and Turkey have reached an agreement in principle to switch some of the payments for Russian natural gas to rubles as part of deepening trade ties between the two countries, the Turkish energy ministry announced on Thursday. The move to avoid payments in US dollars helps both countries. Russia has called the currency “toxic,” … Read more

It appears that the bear market rally is nearing its end…

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https://twitter.com/WifeyAlpha/status/1557651423998910464 From the WSJ…. Feels like the bear market rally is coming to an end. 🙃 pic.twitter.com/DvZ5dK4Xmw — Ayesha Tariq, CFA (@AyeshaTariq) August 11, 2022 https://twitter.com/MFHoz/status/1557271184026247168 Microsoft, $MSFT, is cutting hundreds of contractors amid layoffs and a hiring freeze, per BI. — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) August 11, 2022 Biggest monthly drop in intermediate PPI since Lehman … Read more

Why Americans increasingly dubious about going to college

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This story about college enrollment decline was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Even as freshmen nervously arrive on campus for the fall semester, policymakers are grappling with what they say has become an “alarming” decline in the number of high school graduates willing to invest the … Read more

Jurassic MBS Market! Agency MBS Prices Swoon With Implied Fed Hikes (Duration Risk Increases Too)

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by confoundedinterest17 Agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) prices started to degrade as The Federal Reserve started to try to combat inflation caused by Biden’s energy policies and rampant Federal spending. That is, under June when the implied Fed O/N rate (red line) cooled and the 30-year mortgage rate (blue line) has come down a little. In terms … Read more

Biden’s FBI Just Arrested Trump Ally GOP Rep

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Democrat Joe Biden is escalating political leverage against his America First opponents in a wretched manner that has gone deeply personal, as his FBI this week raided the home of former President Donald J. Trump, broke into Trump’s safe, and the FBI have now hunted down a sitting representative of the American people, who was … Read more