Sadiq Khan wins a second term as Mayor of London having picked up an astonishing number of votes within one hour

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Sadiq Khan wins a second term as Mayor of London having picked up an astonishing number of votes within one hour during counting last night, pulling him ahead of Shaun Bailey, the Conservative candidate Just as it became obvious that he wasn’t going to win. He brought in Dominion voting machines. Sound familiar? https://twitter.com/CarolineCoramUK/status/1391177515402678279 Tess

Crypto/BitCoin Goes Viral in Venezuela as Inflation Climbs Over 3,000%, Becoming a trending topic on Venezuelan Twitter with more than 200,000 Tweets

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Binance Reaches Twitter Trending Topic Status in Venezuela Binance, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges worldwide, has reached a trending topic status in the Twitter social network sphere in Venezuela. The trend before the weekend, shows just how important cryptocurrency topics are for the citizens of the country at the moment. Cryptocurrencies are extremely useful … Read more

US Seizes Thousands of Weapons in Arabian Sea, Destination Unknown, Buyer Emirates? Check out Pics/Vid, Poster Estimates Value @ $700,000,000

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USS Monterey and its embarked U.S. Coast Guard Advanced Interdiction Team (AIT) discovered the illicit cargo during a routine flag verification boarding conducted in international water in accordance with customary international law. pic.twitter.com/7V6AxnN8Hl — U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/U.S. 5th Fleet (@US5thFleet) May 8, 2021 https://www.dvidshub.net/news/395970/uss-monterey-seizes-illicit-weapons-north-arabian-sea The cache of weapons included dozens of advanced Russian-made … Read more

The largest landlord in the industry, just boosted rents by 11% on all vacant property

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On Thursday, American Homes 4 Rent, which owns 54,000 houses, increased rents 11% on vacant properties in April, the company reported in a statement: … Continued to experience record demand with a Same-Home portfolio Average Occupied Days Percentage of 97.3% in the first quarter of 2021, while achieving 10.0% rental rate growth on new leases, … Read more

LBMA Clearing Banks Risk Collapse, Silver Raid Rattles Comex

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Samuel Briggs via Kinesis LBMA Clearing Banks Risk Complete Collapse In this week’s Live from the Vault, Andrew Maguire breaks down the LBMA’s latest, desperate attempt to lobby for an exemption from Basel III: At the close of Q2 this year, Basel III will make unallocated gold trading impossibly expensive, with market makers experiencing an 85% haircut on each trade. … Read more

Three Reasons Why the Biden Tax Increase Makes No Sense

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by Daniel Lacalle via Mises Anyone who believes the “rich” and large corporations will pay for $28 trillion in debt or the $2 trillion in new deficit has a real problem with math. Biden’s announcement of a massive tax increase on businesses and wealthier segments of the population simply makes no sense. The tax hikes will have a significant impact on economic … Read more

Major business group calls for ending $300 federal bonus in unemployment checks, blaming it for weak April job gains

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The disappointing April jobs report prompted the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Friday to call for an end to the $300 federal bonus in weekly unemployment checks, suggesting it’s discouraging the unemployed from taking new jobs. The economy added just 266,000 jobs last month, well below the 995,000 economists had forecast, according to their median … Read more

Egon von Greyerz: This is the endgame for paper silver … Kevin O’Leary: There’s a big problem brewing in the cryptocurrency space …

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BY JOHN RUBINO Egon von Greyerz: This is the endgame for paper silver … Kevin O’Leary: There’s a big problem brewing in the cryptocurrency space … Nouriel Roubini: The Fed is ‘cornered’; will either lose control of inflation or crash markets … Michael Saylor: Bitcoin is not a currency, so it won’t be outlawed … Andrew … Read more

Hedge fund manager Kamensky goes full retard, gets caught in a massive fraud involving Nieman, gets whopping 6 month sentence and a $55,000 fine for perpetuating billion dollar scam

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Daniel Kamensky, founder and former manager of New York-based hedge fund Marble Ridge Capital, has been sentenced to six months in prison for bankruptcy fraud, according to a statement from the United States Attorney’s Office in the southern district of New York. The sentence, which came on Friday in a Manhattan federal court, comes after … Read more

BlackRock reports 71% decrease in ownership of PLTR

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Link – https://fintel.io/so/us/pltr/blackrock 2021-05-07 – BlackRock Inc. has filed a 13F-HR form disclosing ownership of 9,378,527 shares of Palantir Technologies Inc. Class A (US:PLTR) with total holdings valued at $218,425,000 USD as of 2021-03-31. BlackRock Inc. had filed a previous 13F-HR on 2021-02-05 disclosing 33,350,543 shares of Palantir Technologies Inc. Class A at a value of … Read more

Ice Age Farmer: BRACE FOR IMPACT: “About to get much worse.”

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We are staring down the barrel of a confluence of several scenarios–each of which individually is a significant, life-changing event–but which are together conspiring is a dangerous and incendiary situation: food shortages, inflation, and a breakdown of the supply chain. A new media narrative today acknowledges food shortages, and blames animal agriculture, indicating we are … Read more