On Wire

by Charles Hugh-Smith The world appears to be tiring of globalization and hegemons, and that trend may doom the Belt & Road to irrelevancy. The conventional narrative holds that China’s Belt & Road Initiative is cementing China’s global superpower status. There’s an alternative narrative, however: it’s a decade too late. From this perspective, global trade has … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Industry and government organs in Canada, Australia, the UK, and other places with housing bubbles that are now deflating are trying to hide behind a false understanding of mortgage laws in the US and what happened during the US mortgage crisis. What happened in the US cannot happen here, they say … Read more

John Sneisen and Financial Advisor Tim Picciott talk about the real estate bubble popping in Vancouver and how the Vancouver housing market has hit 30-year record lows by far in house sales for April being at 130. The average condo prices in Vancouver are year over a year down 19%. With a lack of new … Read more

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton goes through a list of lawsuits that Judicial Watch has filed to get to the truth about Trump targeting by the Deep State.  

by TFittonJW Giant Judicial Watch Update: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-records-obtained-in-court-ordered-discovery-reveal-obama-white-house-tracking-foia-request-for-clinton-emails/ https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-seeks-information-on-qatari-governments-funding-of-texas-am-a-public-university/ https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-sues-health-and-human-services-for-documents-on-human-fetal-tissue-used-in-humanized-mice-testing/ https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-sues-health-and-human-services-for-documents-on-human-fetal-tissue-used-in-humanized-mice-testing/ https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-sues-justice-department-for-communications-between-key-anti-trump-collusion-officials-peter-strzok-and-bruce-ohr/ https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-bruce-ohr-email-raises-possible-ethics-concerns-tied-to-russia-testimony/ https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-sues-fbi-for-records-of-meeting-set-up-by-andrew-weissmann-with-ap-reporters-about-manafort-investigation/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5Edjo5e5FU There are a number of symptoms of a downward-spiral of civilization, here I go through 5 which show us how uncertain the future really is.

European states pay tiny amounts for military purposes because the USA props up a huge western sphere. As such they have discretionary funding for some socialized programs (which are backed by free market cash derived largely from energy and tourism) but are not, fully, socialistic.

Friday morning’s CNN Newsroom ended on quite the interesting note as co-host and former Obama official Jim Sciutto brought on U.S. Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost to discuss the tsunami of illegal immigrants crossing into the country and, needless to say, Provost brought the heat and some takes that CNN viewers probably haven’t heard as … Read more

The chopper company ceo says they charge only $2000 for people on medicaid while they charge more than $6000 for people on medicare. Why is there a difference in the bill ?   AC

by Fabius Maximus Summary: Amidst the gloom that blankets America, evidence grows that another discontinuity in history approaches – a singularity. If so, it will evaporate many of today’s problems and create new ones. Let’s prepare for what is coming. “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” — Attributed to Charles H. Duell, Director of US … Read more

via hotair: Google provides a significant percentage of the incoming traffic which many news sites get, but the algorithms that determine which sites get that traffic are proprietary and not widely understood. Academics at Northwestern University decided to attempt to quantify how those algorithms work by looking closely at search results for news related queries for … Read more

Washington is flirting with a debt crisis. No one has a plan to stop it Washington (CNN)The US government is hurtling toward a potential financial crisis, and no one in Washington seems to know how to stop it. As lawmakers trade fire over contempt votes and impeachment, there’s been no progress toward reaching a budget agreement … Read more

by northmantrader And then The Never Ending Market Rally ended. With a tweet no less and $VIX exploded 82% higher just days after $VIX futures net short positioning reached an all time high. Knuckleheads. Look, technicals matter greatly, but so do sentiment, the political, macro, and central banks, and the structural. It’s a complex web that can be … Read more

Mark Taylor, author of the popular book called “The Trump Prophecies,” predicted there would be “military tribunals” the day after Trump was elected to the Presidency. Taylor says, “I don’t know the timing of this, but I sense we are on the cusp of a lot of big stuff happening because of the FISA report … Read more

by Jim Quinn You will find more infographics at Statista Since the September 11 terror attacks in the United States, the U.S. has racked up costs of almost $6 trillion in its War on Terror. This is according to a new Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs analysis. Unlike official estimates from the Pentagon, the study takes into … Read more

by Jordan Peterson They don’t care that there are well-documented reasons for unequal outcomes in occupational choice and pay in addition to whatever role genuine prejudice plays In this occasional series, Jordan Peterson writes from his international speaking tour for his book, 12 Rules for Life. The mantra of Diversity, Inclusivity and Equity (DIE) perhaps constitutes the … Read more