Pentagon-Style “Threat Inflation” On Steroids: The Threadbare Case For Wasting $750 Billion/Year On DOD

via bracingviews: Missile Envy W.J. Astore I grew up on a steady diet of threat inflation.  Before I was born, bomber and missile “gaps” had been falsely touted as showing the Soviet Union was ahead of the U.S. in developing nuclear-capable weaponry (the reverse was true).  But those lies, which vastly exaggerated Soviet capabilities, perfectly served … Read more

RussiaGate: The Real Crime Was That It Ever Started In The First Place

via wemeantwell: The end of the Special Counsel’s investigation into the non-existent conspiracy between Trump and the Russians has created an army of “Mueller Truthers,” demanding additional investigations. But Republicans are also demanding to know more, specifically how the FBI came to look into collusion, and what that tells us about the tension between America’s political and intelligence … Read more

REPEAT A LIE OFTEN ENOUGH

Granted, Variety Magazine is hardly the stuff of insightful or particular detailed reporting, but using Christine Amanpour as a springboard to repeat a canard is pretty low. Being a Hollywood-based publication, it’s not surprising how a sly but false anti-Trump innuendo would show up: “To Amanpour, it’s no surprise that violence against journalists has grown. This is … Read more

CNN, WaPo Demand That Trump Further Escalate Tensions With Russia

via Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com, CNN has aired a segment in which pundit Fareed Zakaria tells the network’s audience that the US president has “been unwilling to confront Putin in any way on any issue” and asks “will Venezuela be the moment when Trump finally ends his appeasement?” The segment is a near-verbatim reading of Zakaria’s Washington Post columnfrom a … Read more

Mega Banks Tell SEC: Derivatives Could Blow Up Wall Street Again

via wallstreetonparade: The most recent 10Ks (annual reports) filed by the largest Wall Street banks covering their financial condition as of December 31, 2018, provide the strongest argument thus far for Congress to enact legislation to separate the Federally insured, deposit-taking commercial banks from the trading casinos on Wall Street. In other words, Congress needs to … Read more

Update on the Spreading Housing Bust in Australia, and Why it’s Happening

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter This bubble was not pricked by the central bank — on the contrary. Home prices in the metro area of Sydney, according to CoreLogic’s Home Value Index, fell 0.9% in March from February and 10.9% from March last year. Prices in the most expensive quarter of the housing market dropped 11.9% year-over-year. … Read more

ARREST AT MAR-A-LAGO!

Terry Spencer from Sun Sentinel reports, A woman carrying two Chinese passports and a device containing computer malware lied to Secret Service agents and briefly gained admission to President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club over the weekend during his visit, federal prosecutors allege in court documents. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DplVo8YSmrI Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/pa…  

Arms Sales: USA vs. Russia (1950-2017)

by visualcapitalist Arms Sales: USA vs. Russia (1950-2017) Between countless proxy wars and the growing threat of nuclear catastrophe, the Cold War created an unprecedented geopolitical climate. For nearly half a century, the world’s two biggest superpowers were scrambling to top one another by any means necessary. It was a tension that ignited everything from the … Read more

FITTON:FBI met w/Clinton-DNC spy Steele 13 times in 2016 and paid him 11 times to get Trump. And then fired him. And then used Bruce Ohr to get Steele’s anti-Trump dirtt. Ohr communicated w/Steele dozens of times.

by TFittonJW https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-uncovers-doj-records-showing-numerous-bruce-ohr-communications-with-fusion-gps-and-christopher-steele/ https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-fbi-records-show-dossier-author-deemed-not-suitable-for-use-as-source-show-several-fbi-payments-in-2016/