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Americans Are Financially And Mentally Unstable: Crippling Debt Is Linked To Chronic Depression

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Mac Slavo April 18th, 2019 SHTFplan.com Americans have become increasingly dependent on debt while at the same time suffering from record high rates of chronic depression. But they probably have a lot to do with each other – perhaps more than we originally thought. In 2018, 36% of Americans admitted to losing sleep over money concerns. That … Read more

The Eurozone Slowdown Is Leading The Global One Slowdown

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Authored by Daniel Lacalle, One of the most repeated messages among European financial analysts this week is this: “we are in a global slowdown”. However, the sentence hides important nuances and very relevant differences. The European Union suffers a severe slowdown. The rest of the world only a moderate reduction in the pace of growth. Data from the United … Read more

How Empires Fall: Moral Decay

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by Charles Hugh-Smith There is a name for this institutionalized, commoditized fraud: moral decay. Moral decay is an interesting phenomenon: we spot it easily in our partisan-politics opponents and BAU (business as usual) government/private-sector dealings (are those $3,000 Pentagon hammers now $5,000 each or $10,000 each? It’s hard to keep current…), and we’re suitably indignant when non-partisan corruption … Read more

California’s Housing Bubble Counts on Blistering Population Growth, But it’s Fizzling

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Los Angeles population drops, San Francisco & Silicon Valley population rises least since 2010, North Bay’s population drops. The housing market in California with its sky-high home prices depends on blistering population growth. So here we go. The population of Los Angeles County, at 10.1 million, declined by about 13,200 people … Read more

Fund Manager: The Stock Market’s Greater Fool Theory

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by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics The current stock market is the most dangerous stock market I have seen in my 34+ year career as a financial markets professional. This includes 1987, 1999-2000 and 2007-2008. The run-up in stocks has been largely a product of momentum-chasing hedge fund algos on behalf of the large universe of sophisticated … Read more

Housing starts, Unemployment claims, China

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by WARREN MOSLER Still heading south: In addition to tightening requirements, states have found other means to keep people from receiving benefits: Has the economy made it arder to get unemployment benefits? Not every terminated employee is eligible to receive unemployment benefits. You have to earn a minimum amount to even qualify; you cannot quit … Read more

Trump’s Oil Waiver Decision Is A Double-Edged Sword

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By Tim Daiss Tokyo is still trying to prevent being caught in the geopolitical cross-fire between Washington and Tehran. On Friday, Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) Hiroshige Seko said that his country remains committed to avoiding any harmful impact from U.S. sanctions on Iran, as it sees the OPEC member important for … Read more

FITTON: MASSIVE: President Trump Tweets Out Big Judicial Watch Update On Russia Hoax and our anti-Deep State Lawsuits!

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by TFittonJW JWPrez @TomFitton Mueller Report Confirms Russia Hoax, NEW Deep State Lawsuit, John Kerry Colluding w/ Iran? https://t.co/u0alefxcvb — Judicial Watch ⚖️ (@JudicialWatch) April 19, 2019 You can see he sent the Left into fits with his educational tweet. Here is Update on YouTube: Background: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-sues-fbi-for-records-of-communications-and-payments-to-anti-trump-dossier-author-steele/ https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-sues-for-communications-top-fbi-and-clinton-dnc-lawyer/ https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-sues-state-department-over-john-kerrys-shadow-diplomacy-to-prevent-u-s-withdrawal-from-iran-nuclear-deal/  

FBI’s Facial Recognition Programs Under Fire Over Privacy, Accuracy… NYC Subway Using ID Software?

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FBI’s Facial Recognition Programs Under Fire Over Privacy, Accuracy Concerns The bureau has largely ignored the Government Accountability Office’s concerns about its use of facial recognition in criminal investigations. The FBI still has not assessed whether its facial recognition systems meet privacy and accuracy standards nearly three years after a congressional watchdog—the Government Accountability Office—raised … Read more

Let’s Not Forget This…

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by Chris This is from a rather extensive PowerPoint presentation made to a division of the GCHQ, the Biritish version of the NSA. It outlines, in table form, the sorts of modules that can be brought to bear to “influence” on-line discussions and comment areas. Each box represents a deep line of inquiry and experimentation.  … Read more

Greenwald: A Backfire Effect Exercise

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by Dave I’m curious if anyone who believed in Russiagate can make it all the way through Glenn Greenwald’s lengthy takedown of the many “bombshell” claims, which he was helpful enough to first quote, then append the Mueller Report’s conclusions which effectively destroyed each particular “bombshell”. I’m betting the Backfire Effect – created by two … Read more

YELLOW VESTS Act 23 · Patriots vs Tyrants, Freedom vs Government + LIVE streams

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Week 23 of the national french protests. Let’s see what happens today, word on the street is that there should be confrontations all throughout france. More live feeds following. https://www.pscp.tv/w/1djGXpbNymBGZ?q=acte%2023 Multistream: Yellow Vest protesters warned to keep clear of Notre Dame A total of 60,000 police were deployed across France on Saturday as the country … Read more