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By Julianne Geiger Vice President Mike Pence announced that the United States will add 34 PDVSA owned or operated vessels to the sanctions list on Friday, according to Reuters. The announcement came during the Vice President’s Friday Venezuela-focused speech at Rice University’s Baker Institute of Public Policy in Houston—an invitation-only event. The sanctions not only target the … Read more

by Martin Armstrong The German economy is what holds up Europe. The data on the industrial sector in Germany is out and it has disappointed everyone once again with production dropping 0.8% month-on-month in January 2019. January’s contraction was driven by a steep drop in capital goods output and a fall in intermediate goods production. … Read more

by Martin Armstrong It actually snowed in London this past April. Heavy snow caused sheer chaos across much of the UK.  The snow and hail even hit London where it rarely ever snows. I remember there was a dusting of snow one day back in 1985, and the city came to a halt. There was no snow removal … Read more

“The company cannot be left to its own devices, and existing enforcement authorities haven’t done enough.” By Bennett Cyphers and Jason Kelley, Electronic Frontier Foundation: Once again, Facebook is in the news for bad security practices, dark design patterns, and secretly reappropriating sensitive data meant for “authentication” to its own ends. Incredibly, this time, the company managed to accomplish all … Read more

A college without free speech is an indoctrination camp with sub human rights.     AC

“The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulY8SbbVJRw The power and pervasiveness of cognitive dissonance combined with the willingness of most to submit to a perceived “authority” they think is mildly sympathetic to their plight and needs cannot be understated. Stanley Milgram discovered that some who see others as “authority figures” will do anything for that “authority” up to and including murdering … Read more

by Ruby Henley I will be doing a series of articles attempting to pick out untruths in the Mueller Investigation.   The alleged untruths will have to have documents from trusted sources to merit examination. The war has begun, and team members from the Mueller investigation are beginning to say that Attorney General Barr was wrong … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Many Americans are priced out of the new-car market. At wholesale auctions, used-vehicle prices rose 4.0% in March from March last year, according to Manheim, the largest auto-auction company in North America, which runs about 8 million vehicles through its auctions a year. In the chart of the Manheim Used Vehicle Value … Read more

by David Haggith The 2018 stock market crash is now a fait accompli, having taken a polar bear plunge that put ice in the veins of the Fed and electrified their collective spine with such a deep chill they ran like a fat walrus from the bear market to halt their long-nurtured plans of economic tightening. With that event … Read more

Your incredibly shrinking dollar. The purchasing power of your dollar has dropped 94% since inception. In other words, prices are going up. That’s not good news for people who buy stuff. Remember, a lot of people think that inflation is what happens to prices. It’s not. Inflation is what happens to money. That’s where the … Read more

Devin Nunes has laid it all out for the American people: The REAL story of the attempted coup against President Donald Trump and the REAL story of collusion. The only thing left now is criminal referrals and then indictments of the deep state co-conspirators. The Russian collusion hoax meets unbelievable end https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op…      

by visualcapitalist A united African continent working towards common goals would be a major force on the global economic stage. To this end, nations in the region have been working towards an ambitious plan to create the world’s largest trade area. The Gambia recently became the latest country to ratify the African Continental Free Trade Area … Read more

by Michael Snyder  According to a brand new survey that was just conducted by the Pew Research Center, 77 percent of all Americans are either “very worried” or “fairly worried” about America’s moral health.  Of course the truth is that we should all be deeply concerned, because we can see evidence of the cancerous moral decay that … Read more

via CNBC: U.S. $100 bills in circulation hit an all-time high last year, according to new data from the Federal Reserve out this week. Meanwhile, overall global demand for cash is slowing down. Some say the surge in $100 bills in the past decade may be a sign that global corruption is alive and well. … Read more

From Birch Gold Group According to the IMF, the U.S. dollar is known as the “Global Reserve Currency”. There are a number of reasons for this, but mainly because it’s backed by the U.S. economy. That economy is fraught with uncertainty at the moment. But that isn’t the only issue plaguing the U.S. dollar’s dominance in the global markets. … Read more

Magnetohydrodynamic Submarines The repelling side of magnets Repels and pushes water For propulsion   AC

He received $100,000 in donations The City Government shut him down Homeless Living in Cars AC

By Rodney Johnson Last weekend I went to a local rodeo with my wife and parents. Before the teen bull riding competition started, an older gentleman next to me asked to open the screw top on his beer. He told me that 10 back surgeries had stripped him of the strength and leverage to do … Read more