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Liberal utopia of San Francisco: People are pooping more than ever on the streets of San Francisco

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by DCG Demorats have turned San Francisco into a literal sh*thole. From SF Gate: One of America’s wealthiest cities has a huge problem with public poop. Between 2011 and 2018, San Francisco experienced a massive increase in reported incidents of human feces found on public streets. In 2011, just over 5,500 reports were logged by the San … Read more

Robert Ray: Trump is Right, it’s ‘Game Over’

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by Thinker Former Whitewater independent counsel Robert Ray on the political fallout from the findings in the Mueller report. How many more are running to get the free no jail time cards that the Trump administration is passing out to underlings caught up in the widows web of corruption. So many good people brought down … Read more

Do you feel “something BIG” is coming? The collective consciousness across YouTube prepper channels seems to think so. What is coming?

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Have noticed over the past few days a LOT of people across many youtube channels saying they can “feel it” that “something BIG” is coming. Nobody has specifics. A few say they’ve received “intel” in the past 72 hours or so, but won’t disclose wat that is so I dunno if its legit or like … Read more

Did they run out of liberal fact-checkers? Too many lawsuits on the way?

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A fact-checking spinoff of the conservative website Daily Caller has partnered up with Facebook to police fake news, and mainstream media are outraged. The social media behemoth has added Daily Caller’s CheckYourFact.com to its list of US media partners this week, sparking outrage among the mainstream (and politically rather differently aligned) media outlets, who argued … Read more

Are You Numb To It All?

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After 2 Years Of Russia Probe Drips, Are You Numb To It All? WASHINGTON (AP) — For two years there’s been the drip-drip-drip of the Russia investigation and the tweet-tweet-tweet of President Donald Trump assailing it. Numb yet? The slowly rolling revelations may have worked in Trump’s favor by diluting the impact of a damaging report … Read more

China’s Fake Numbers And The Risk They Pose For The Rest Of The World

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BY JOHN RUBINO Not so long ago, London Telegraph’s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard was one of the handful of must-read financial journalists. He probably still is, but since he disappeared behind the Telegraph’s pay wall his work is invisible to non-subscribers, only emerging when a free outlet runs one of his stories. That happened this morning when the Sydney Morning … Read more

Retail’s Existential Threat? Private Equity Firms

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A “bust out” is a fraud tactic used in the organized crime world wherein a business’s assets and lines of credit are exploited and exhausted to the point of bankruptcy — Wikipedia. By John E. McNellis, Principal at McNellis Partners, for The Registry: Bleeding badly, Debenhams, a 200 year old British department store chain, died last week. The … Read more

Debt collectors soon to text, email consumers

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Debt collecting is an age-old business but it may soon receive a 21st-century revamp when the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency created in the wake of the financial crisis to protect consumers, proposes new rules for the industry. Among the changes may be whether debt collectors can text and email borrowers as they pursue … Read more

Our Political Class Is Composed Of Idiots

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via Twitter: “Chief Legal Analyst” for CNN. UPDATE: From the comments: “This is not stupid, and it is dangerous to see it that way. This is the deliberate and coordinated big lie, the latest attempt to keep this coup together. All the left united in the latest lie. It is aimed at people so ignorant … Read more

Mueller Report Is Out But Mainstream Media Keep Pushing Their Old Narrative… Tom Fitton: Mueller Report is a Political Document Designed to Smear President Trump

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Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton is sounding off on the special counsel’s findings. One America’s John Hines caught up with Tom Fitton and has this report from Washington. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUtZKOiXbTE Like, for real? Isn’t it kinda weird? US President Donald Trump unleashed scathing remarks about special counsel Robert Mueller’s ‘crazy’ report on Friday, saying it was … Read more

How bullish is the stock market?

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via @gwestr: Today over 1 million shares of $ZOOM, an OTC BB stock, traded up 10% because Robinhood users thought it was the $16B IPO for $ZM. Don’t worry robbin’ hood will give you your money back if you file a support ticket. @RampCapitalLLC @AdamSinger  

Greece Demands Germany to Pay over 300 Billion in WWII Reparations

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Greece’s parliament on Wednesday began debate on a resolution to demand the payment of German war crime reparations. The issue has long been disputed by Berlin. ‘These demands are always active. They were never set aside by Greece,’ parliament chairman Nikos Voutsis said earlier this week. The chamber is expected to approve a resolution calling … Read more

Sears sues Eddie Lampert for looting company

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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/18/sears-sues-eddie-lampert-steven-mnuchin-others-for-alleged-thefts.html Sears accuses its former CEO Eddie Lampert of stealing billions of dollars from the once-storied retailer. Sears Holdings filed for bankruptcy in October, after years of losses under Lampert, who was then its chairman, CEO and largest shareholder. “Altogether, Lampert caused more than $2 billion of assets to be transferred to himself and Sears’ … Read more

Post 2008 risk for all monetary minded people

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via @OccupyWisdom : 1/ Post 2008 risk for all monetary minded people A) we are in a 10-yr depression, although it’s been called an expansion After the recession technically ended in summer 2009, we’ve averaged 2% “growth” for 10 years. This is 1% below trend growth of 3%. Long term below trend 2/ growth is the definition … Read more

$SKEW vs $VIX – anyone remember sept?

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$SKEW vs $VIX – anyone remember sept? pic.twitter.com/gAlq9P87m7 — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) April 18, 2019 $NASI is rolling over AND AAII sentiment at levels of Sept Highs pic.twitter.com/LbSnQKdR51 — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) April 18, 2019 https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1119118568837091328 https://twitter.com/Simple_Trends/status/1119040341011836928