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From BBC.com: We’ve all been there. Stuck at traffic lights that never seem to change to green. Sitting in queues of cars that stretch on for miles or delayed by a glut of slow traffic that suddenly disappears. Traffic jams are a blight on our modern, fast moving lives. And we have been dealing with them … Read more
Savannah Pointer for the Western Journal reports, The Associated Students at the University of New Mexico Senate voted unanimously last month to denounce the new Title IX recommendations made by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8M7bYSQQAY Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/title-…
by Martin Armstrong The real Game of Thrones is already underway. The contest to succeed Mario Draghi is now officially open. The head of the European Central Bank (ECB) will leave office on October 21st, 2019. The question is who has the guts to step up to the plate to clean up the mess he is leaving … Read more
A letter written by General Antoine Martinez and signed by ten other generals, an admiral and a colonel, as well as former French Minister of Defense Charles Millon, warns Macron that the move strips France of more sovereignty and provides an additional reason for “an already battered people” to “revolt”. The letter accuses Macron of … Read more
In Congressional hearings on Capitol Hill today, financial experts testified about the wrongdoings of the Clinton Foundation. One of the many big bombs dropped was the fact that the original Clinton charity was only for the Clinton Library. The original function of that charity was never modified as required by law to remain a … Read more
via thenextweb: The range is said to include a 5.8-inch S10 Lite – aka the Beyond 0 – with a flat screen instead of a curved one, a standard S10 measuring 6.1 inches, and an S10 Plus at 6.4 inches. Here are the expected prices: S10 Lite: £699 ($881) S10 with 128GB storage: £799 ($1,007) S10 … Read more
from Financial Survival Network Sam McElroy is back… U.S. jobs and wages rose by less than forecast in November while the unemployment rate held at the lowest in almost five decades, indicating some moderation in a still-healthy labor market. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 155,000 after a downwardly revised 237,000 gain in the prior month, a Labor Department … Read more
Marc Lamont Hill was fired from CNN for calling for peace in Israel/Palestine. Here’s what’s really going on in the corporate media. Not so liberal when it comes to juice and their bloody occupation and genocide of others IC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6786AN31FDQ They want to tax text messages in California Agenda 21 is real. AC
via newsbusters.org: CNN’s Jim Sciutto was one of the many journalists this week who attacked President Trump’s comments about border security during his meeting with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer Tuesday. Sciutto even did a whole segment “fact-checking” the president on Wednesday’s CNN Newsroom. Unfortunately for him, actual experts from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) called out his reporting … Read more
by Martin Armstrong Macron is pushing for the European Finance Minister to raise money by selling EU bonds and then distribute the money to the 19-member Eurozone. France is very heavily indebted and here once again we have simply the goal to raise more money rather than reform. Because of the riots in France, Macron … Read more
by Ian Shilling Bill Clinton, in his Acceptance Speech at the 1992 Democratic Convention, called his Professor at Georgetown Carroll Quigley “a big influence on him.” Maybe you should read what Slick Willy was reading and what he was taught before he became Pres, to understand why he did what he did? Carroll Quigley’s Bibliography https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks-intl-ship&field-keywords=Carroll+quigley After … Read more
Google Scott Adams… Google search results 4 and 5 are phony pix of me in Nazi uniform Click the 4th link, goes to a phony Twitter account, 15 followers Is Google intentionally trying to screw me over? If the photos remains up, is Google trying to destroy me? If it remains up, Google’s message seems … Read more
This is different from 2016 in so many ways when we were last at this kind of technical level:1) Draghi took proactive coordination off the table today. 2) Fed is already doing QT. Pausing doesn’t stop that. 3) BoJ already blew their bazooka. 4) China fundamentals are weaker. — Paranoid Bull (@paranoidbull) December 14, 2018 … Read more
by Shaun Richards This morning has seen a barrage of economic data released by the National Bureau of Statistics in China. This gives us an opportunity to see if they are catching the economic cold that we have been observing developing amongst us evil western capitalist imperialists. According to the rhetoric things are going … Read more
The U.S. stock market has been been gapping up on the open and selling off later in the day recently. Go here to understand our fundamentals-driven long term outlook. Let’s determine the stock market’s most probable medium term direction by objectively quantifying technical analysis. For reference, here’s the random probability of the U.S. stock market going up on … Read more
Far-left extremists are raising money on Patreon to “inspire insurrection.” Far Left Watch has done a good job of collating what violence-inspiring lefties are getting away with on Patreon, so you’ll want to click over. But first, this: Patreon is back in the news following another round of what appears to be an ideological purge … Read more
How likely is an earthquake in the Midwest, South? The Big One could be coming The big earthquake, in the New Madrid (Missouri) Seismic Zone. But don’t start quaking in your running shoes and try to escape to Texas because it’s comparatively geologically stable. Here’s why: In 1971 I heard a very informed discussion of … Read more
CHANGE: Number of Streaming Shows Overtakes Basic Cable, Broadcast for First Time. Streaming services snatched their biggest piece of the TV pie ever in 2018. According to FX’s annual report on the number of scripted originals on TV, the number of streaming shows has surpassed the number of basic cable and broadcast shows for the first … Read more
YouTube/BenSwann, Released on 12/13/18 The Yellow Vest protests in France have only received a small amount of media coverage in the U.S. and there may be good reason for it. Is the fact that these protests began over a Carbon Fuel Tax and have spread to general dissatisfaction with big government caused mainstream media to … Read more
wow $4700 destroyed the Hillary campaign! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq7RL-P7-QY&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1BhHORxCNTGQIhC0ZE-_WfWRtLy1cesiWG6CpF0K9kHW5m2UgJE9IFz2A You can’t make this stuff up. “Does Google now know the full extent to which its online platforms were exploited by Russian actors in the election two years ago?” Rep. Jerry Nadler, a Democrat from New York and ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, asked the search engine’s chief executive during Tuesday’s hearing. … Read more
by New_Life Tom Lee (who had originally predicted $25k by EOY) is tired of making BTC forecasts.. Funny that… https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/13/wall-streets-bitcoin-bull-tom-lee-we-are-tired-of-people-asking-us-about-target-prices.html Even as recently as Oct he was saying $25k by EOY was on the table, sobering lesson that a so called expert taking peoples money can be so wrong. (He previously worked as the chief equity … Read more
by John Rubino I thought I’d seen all the “Peter Schiff Was Right” videos, but just stumbled onto this 2006 CNBC classic pitting Schiff against a new cast of (in retrospect) clueless antagonists, including a “chief economist” with some quaintly credulous ideas. This was the peak of the subprime mortgage mania, so the Bubblevision talking … Read more
by Michael Snyder https://youtu.be/sodyRRM4s3g Is it appropriate for a pastor to buy a $200,000 Lamborghini for his wife? When news came out that Greenville pastor John Gray had given his wife a Lamborghini sports utility vehicle for their eighth anniversary, there was an explosion of outrage. In response, Gray posted a video in which he unapologetically refused … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The price of rising interest rates. The FDIC just released the aggregated third-quarter performance metrics of the 5,477 banks and thrifts it insures. The amount of their combined assets ticked up to $17.7 trillion. These assets – mostly loans but also investments of all kinds – include $3.6 trillion in securities (not including … Read more