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Job Losses Hit As Shale Slows Down

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By Nick Cunningham Halliburton is cutting its workforce and shelving fracking equipment amid a slowdown in the U.S. shale industry. The oilfield services giant said that its revenue fell 13 percent in the second quarter, and it decided to cut its North American workforce by 8 percent. The company’s share price jumped 9 percent on … Read more

U.S. And China Face Off In Iranian Conflict

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By Cyril Widdershoven China’s relationship with Iran is being put to the test after US president Trump slammed sanctions on Chinese state-run energy company Zhuhai Zhenrong for allegedly violating restrictions imposed on Iran’s oil sector. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated that the sanctions were put in place as the company engaged in the … Read more

James Corbett Interviews writer and journalist Glyn Moody to discuss his recent TechDirt article, EU Looking To Regulate Everything Online, And To Make Sites Proactively Remove Material.

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Crackdown on social media freedoms continue. Many subreddits have been banned here and are worth keeping track of in my opinion to speculate on an agenda there. https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1465-glyn-moody-on-the-eu-copyright-directive/ SHOW NOTES: Glyn Moody on Twitter EU Looking To Regulate Everything Online, And To Make Sites Proactively Remove Material TechDirt coverage of EU Copyright Directive Glyn Moody: … Read more

Jeffrey Epstein splashed out $18M for SECOND Caribbean island… Dems refuse to give back donations

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REVEALED: Jeffrey Epstein splashed out $18M for a SECOND Caribbean island in 2016 where work continues on compound despite cease and desist orders, $2.1M in fines and pedophile’s incarceration Jeffrey Epstein owns two neighboring properties in the US Virgin Islands, having purchased Little St. James in 1998 and Great St. James in 2016 He paid … Read more

Google’s reCaptcha is compromising users’ privacy

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via fastcompany: In the fall of 2018, Google released a new version of reCaptcha, the company’s widely used bot detector. reCaptcha v3, as its called, is great at detecting bots but it has a dark side, as researchers suspect that Google is compromising users’ privacy to feed the system. Luckily, there’s alternative to reCaptcha for website owners … Read more

Gaetz: “Can you state with confidence the Steele dossier was not part of Russia’s disinformation campaign?” Mueller: “With regard to Steele…that’s beyond my purview.”

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Gaetz: "Can you state with confidence the Steele dossier was not part of Russia's disinformation campaign?" Mueller: "With regard to Steele…that's beyond my purview." Gaetz: "It's exactly your purview! The organizing principle was to fully investigate Russia's interference!" pic.twitter.com/z5E5Gl7xZU — Former Congressman Matt Gaetz (@FmrRepMattGaetz) July 24, 2019 I don’t remember, I don’t recall..I wasn’t … Read more

Flashback: CNN Poll – 0% of Voters Say Russia Investigation Is Most Important 2020 Issue

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In the 1993 movie “A Bronx Tale,” Chazz Palminteri’s gangster reiterates, “Nobody cares.” Almost a quarter-century later, that quote is apropos in American politics, as nobody — except desperate Democrats — cares about former special counsel Robert Mueller‘s fruitless Russian investigation. The proof is in CNN’s pudding from a poll in mid-March, as registered voters were … Read more

VA hospital whistleblower killed in car crash

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via fosters: HAMPTON (AP) — A doctor who filed a whistleblower complaint alleging substandard care at New Hampshire’s medical center for veterans died following a car crash Tuesday. Dr. William “Ed” Kois, 62, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, was heading south in Hampton just before 4:30 p.m., state police said, when he left the road and drove into … Read more

BOMBSHELL FROM Nasa–EARTH’S rotation is slowing

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From the article- NASA bombshell: Earth’s rotation is slowing – and it could cause major earthquakes Earth’s rotation is slowing as our planet uses energy to keep the tidal bulge ahead of the Moon’s orbit. The Moon’s gravity keeps Earth’s rotation in check, and to do this the lunar satellite’s orbit must be slightly ahead … Read more

China Armed Forces Prepare For Massive International War Exercise

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via Zerohedge: The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is preparing for a massive war exercise, called International Army Games (IAG), expected to kick-off next week, reported China Military. The military exercise will be held in ten countries: Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, and Uzbekistan. More than 6,000 troops are expected to participate from August 3 to 17. … Read more

VIXplosion

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by northmantrader It’s that time of the year again, the ritual $VIX crushing as markets are relentlessly drifting into the Sell Zone in anticipation of rate cuts from the Fed and more stimulus from the ECB. When central banks go wild, volatility dies. Tomorrow markets will hear from ECB head Mario Draghi, the central banker who never raised … Read more

‘Bull Markets Die On Euphoria’

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by jessefelder Over the past couple of months I have written about major breadth warnings in the stock market, deteriorating fundamental conditions indicated by the “inside of the stock market” and how investors were not embracing risk in way that would be supportive of sustained gains. In adding to that last point, I want to share a longer-term perspective today … Read more