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Hackers from a 2017 cyber-attack used tools allegedly lifted from the NSA by Chinese intelligence agents, says a new report. Investigative journalist Ben Swann discusses the findings with RT America’s Manila Chan https://youtu.be/90g99wTKg9Q h/t failed_evolution
by bch2478595 Ultimately what started out as open platforms for ideas, collaboration, and dissent have devolved into curated echo chambers where independent thought is wholly unimportant. The only true purpose of these platforms now are for some entities to push narratives, and other entities to induce consumption through clandestine means, meanwhile, users stay happily entwined as imaginary points … Read more
Trying to pick in advance which funds will be among the few that beat the market has proven just as difficult. Morningstar’s famed star ratings have a poor track record of picking winning funds. Brokerage accounts advised by financial advisers achieve lower net returns and inferior risk-return tradeoffs than self-directed accounts.2 Even the expensive investment … Read more
by jessefelder “This is the only time in my 88 years when I saw technology stocks go to 100 times earnings; or, when there were no earnings, 20 times sales. It was insane, and I took advantage of the temporary insanity.” – John Templeton, May 28, 2001 Sadly, he passed away back in 2008 so I … Read more
By Harry Dent U.S. markets have had a bad week. After reaching all-time highs recently – the Dow at 26,656.39 on April 23 (not quite new high), the S&P 500 at 2,945.83 on April 30, and the Nasdaq at 8,164 on May 3 – they’ve spent the last three days in the red. Monday, the Dow shed as much as 1.8% before … Read more
AI Deepfake technology has already been around for nearly 5 years. With every day that goes by the technology improves, and I’d be more shocked if this tech wasn’t already years ahead of what we’re allowed to see. h/t TheTruthIsOutThere
by Jim Quinn The left wing MSM is breathlessly reporting Trump’s massive losses from 1985 through 1994. They seem to have no concept of how the US tax code works. Trump is a real estate mogul. When you own real estate, you are entitled to huge depreciation write-offs on your tax returns. Big tax losses … Read more
by Jesse Colombo Last week, venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya said that central banks have virtually eliminated recessionsthrough their aggressive monetary stimulus programs such as quantitative easing (QE) and record low interest rates – “I don’t see a world in which we have any form of meaningful contraction nor any form of meaningful expansion. We have completely … Read more
via thefreethoughtproject: Ali Mansur Mohamed was shot and killed in 2008. The man who killed him, U.S. Army 1st Lt. Michael Behenna, was found guilty of unpremeditated murder for Mansur’s death and sentenced to 25 years in 2009. Now, years later, president Donald Trump has issued Behenna a full pardon. After taking Mansur in for questioning … Read more
by Jesse Uber the IPO “If you’re the Democrats and you look at the lessons of the election, you saw that people rejected your neoliberal economic legacy, that means you have to start challenging the powerful corporate sectors that you’ve been representing for a long time, actually posing real alternative policies to Donald Trump. If … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtAOGnJH3Ns The White House is considering its options amid the new round of censorship hitting social media. One America’s Jack Posobiec spoke to John Matze of parler.com about the issue.
U.S. Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost described the record number of illegal crossings at the southern border during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary committee on 5/8/19. Be sure to like, subscribe, and comment below to share your thoughts on the video.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/justice-dep…er-report/ Justice Department threatens executive privilege over entire Mueller report The Justice Department warned it will ask the president to invoke executive privilege over the entire Mueller report if the committee does not cancel a planned vote to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt Wednesday morning, according to a letter from Assistant … Read more
From Brandon Smith Global stock markets and some treasury markets have become a rather spectacular farce over the past ten years, so much so that there are many people in the investment world that actually believe the long running bull market rally will “never end”. My view of stock markets has always been the same – … Read more
by Jim Rickards via Daily Reckoning The Trade War Is Back President Trump shocked markets yesterday when he announced that a new, heavy round of tariffs on Chinese goods will take effect this Friday. Complacent markets had assumed that a trade deal would get done, that it was just a matter of sorting out the details. Now that … Read more
Everything the democrats do is about getting trump. They never do their job. h/t supporter
by John Ward I don’t want Theresa May to disappear into well-deserved obscurity to save the Conservative Party. I want her dismissal to be a very important first step: the first step we take in abandoning denial of Alt State takeover, and starting the process of getting our free-speech Democracy back. That culture is under threat … Read more
Skip to 55 seconds to see the report. This report is well done. h/t supporter