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Global slowdown continues

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global slowdown continues pic.twitter.com/UM2LFI7nMB — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) May 15, 2019 China Industrial Production Growth pic.twitter.com/5koEbSnpVp — Eric Basmajian (@EPBResearch) May 15, 2019 maybe emerging markets go lower pic.twitter.com/48hsTJNBzR — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) May 14, 2019

Do you think Hong Kong is safe?

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via @mnicoletos: #HongKong: Pressure on the #USD – #HKD peg is mounting. The rising #US interest rates have put enormous pressure on the HKD peg. This has depleted Hong Kong’s excess FX reserves. More #HongKong has FX Reserves of $438bn (March 2019) plus another $6.9bn from the HKMA Exchange Fund which is there to stabilize the … Read more

Fox guarding henhouse: Former IRS employee convicted of $½ million tax evasion

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by Dr. Eowyn U.S. Dept. of Justice press release says that on May 13, 2019, a federal jury in Las Vegas, Nevada, convicted former attorney and former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employee Craig P. Orrock, 71, of Sandy, Utah, of tax evasion and obstructing internal revenue laws. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, starting in the … Read more

After Twitter “ACCIDENTALLY” Deletes His Account David Horowitz BREAKS SILENCE

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzpEeNaQyys Jim Hoft from The Gateway Pundit reports, Twitter suspended David Horowitz from the Freedom Center on Tuesday. Horowitz was the latest conservative banned or suspended by the far left media giant. We are witnessing the elimination of conservatism from the public square. And Republicans do NOTHING! Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019…    

FITTON:MASSIVE Find on “13 Angry Democrats”: NEW Records Show Mueller No. 2 Anti-Trumper Andrew Weissmann had Key Role in Hiring Special Counsel Staff

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by TFittonJW Judicial Watch heavy lifting gets big results! Great interview on WMAL at 730 am this morn: (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today the U.S. Department of Justice released 73 pages of records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) containing text messages and calendar entries of Mueller special counsel prosecutor Andrew Weissmann showing he … Read more

FITTON:MASSIVE:New Docs Show State Dept Official and Bruce Ohr Targeting Trump with Steele Dossier Material. Ohr: ‘I really hope we can get something going here.’

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by TFittonJW (Washington, DC)- Judicial Watch today released four pages of documents from the U.S. Department of Justice showing a conversation between former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Kathleen Kavalec and former Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, discussing the targeting of Donald Trump with Steele dossier material. In discussing … Read more

DiGenova: “Durham Already Used a Grand Jury, Has the Documents, Talked to Intel People – Been on the Case a Couple of Months”

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4:22   VIDEO: “Digenova shares the conclusion of the OIG report on FISA abuse: Horowitz found that THREE FISA renewals were obtained ILLEGALLY”   If they lied to DOJ IG investigators,that's game over. — Brian Cates – Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) May 10, 2019 Digenova states that Horowitz found that THREE FISA renewals were … Read more

Mark Cuban: “people voted for Trump because he wasn’t a politician …No one from current Dem 2020 Presidential Candidates can win against

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Mark Cuban was interviewed by Scott Wapner on CNBC on Tuesday. When asked about 2020 race and whether he’d consider running, he left open the possibility saying: “We’ll see.” “We’ll see what happens. It would take the perfect storm for me to do it,” the owner of Dallas Mavericks said. “There’s some things that could open the … Read more

‘Living alongside big, new power’: UK to use Huawei 5G kits despite Washington’s China scare

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPot9WpFfVM Major British telecoms firm Vodafone has confirmed it’s going to use equipment provided by China’s Huawei as it looks to roll out its 5G network across the UK by July. UK’s foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has refused to rule out allowing the Chinese telecoms giant to operate in Britain, adding that London does not … Read more

The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada Deflate Further

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Vancouver prices drop. Toronto down 3.7% from peak, flat for 10 months. Winnipeg plunges most since at least 1990. Quebec City flat for 6 years. In Greater Vancouver, BC, Canada, house prices fell 0.4% in April from March, the ninth month in a row of month-to-month declines, according to the Teranet-National Bank … Read more

Seattle socialist councilmember believes speed bumps will curb drive-by shootings

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by DCG Socialist Kshama Sawant Socialist Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant isn’t the brightest. Back in 2013 when Boeing employees were in the midst of contract negotiations, Sawant said the machinists should take over the plant and re-tool the machines to mass produce transit buses instead of war machines. Her latest idea? Install speed bumps to reduce … Read more