Origin of Deep-Space Radio Flash Discovered, and It’s Unlike Anything Astronomers Have Ever Seen HONOLULU — Mysterious ultra-fast pinpricks of radio energy keep lighting up the night sky and nobody knows why. A newly discovered example of this transient phenomenon has been traced to its place of origin — a nearby spiral galaxy — but … Read more
Excerpt: Damascus, Jan 8 (Prensa Latina) The United States evacuated one of its military bases in the Syrian province of Hasakeh, in the northeast corner of this country, media reported today. The US occupation forces definitively abandoned their illegal base in the town of Kherab al-Jeer, near the borders with Iraq and Turkey, the official … Read more
by Shaun Richards Yesterday we looked at the trend towards negative interest-rates and today we can link this into the issue of inflation. So let me open with this morning’s release from Swiss Statistics. The consumer price index (CPI) remained stable in December 2019 compared with the previous month, remaining at 101.7 points (December 2015 … Read more
by David Stockman During more than a half-century of Washington watching we have seen stupidity rise from one height to yet another. But nothing—just plain nothing—compares to the the blithering stupidity of the Donald’s Iran “policy”, culminating in the mindless assassination of its top military leader and hero of the so-called Islamic Revolution, Major General … Read more
Highly Famous ‘Imam of Peace’ Posts What He says Middle Eastern Journalists are Reporting Regarding Iran/U.S. Conflict Imam of Peace / Pray for Peace… Verified account @Imamofpeace This is being repeated a lot by Middle East journalists: “Tehran told Washington DC through proxies that it will bomb US bases in Iraq to save face and … Read more
via foxnews “Iran is refusing to hand over the black box of the doomed Ukrainian airliner to Boeing amid an investigation into what caused the crash that killed all 176 people aboard the flight out of Tehran early Wednesday, according to a report.” UPDATE: A friend on Facebook comments: Following the story of Ukrainian International Airlines … Read more
Trump to adress the nation … President Donald Trump expected to address the nation after Iran launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles at two Iraqi air bases that house U.S. and coalition troops on Tuesday. DT
A total of 1,640 CEOs left their posts in 2019, the highest year on record since Challenger, Gray, & Christmas began tracking in 2002. Last year topped 2008, when the U.S. was embroiled in the financial crisis. Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenberg was fired in December in the wake of the 737 Max crisis. “The number of … Read more
By Jared Dillian I predict that 20% of colleges and universities will shut down or merge in the next 10 years, and probably more. It was a good run. Most people fail to understand that higher education is in itself countercyclical. When the economy is bad, and people lose jobs, many of them will go … Read more
Amid a shakeout among trucking companies & production cuts and layoffs among truck makers. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. Orders for heavy trucks in December came in at 20,000. In the fourth quarter, they averaged just under 20,000. For the past 12 months, there were 179,000 orders for Class 8 trucks, down 64% from 497,000 orders in … Read more
by Michael Snyder It certainly didn’t take long for the missiles to start flying. Just hours after Qassem Soleimani’s funeral proceedings ended, the Iranian military fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles at two U.S. bases in Iraq. President Trump will be making a statement about this attack on Wednesday, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham is … Read more
by Michael Snyder We are at one of the most critical turning points in modern world history, and whether or not we will be able to avoid World War 3 will come down to a handful of key decisions that Donald Trump will make over the next few days. If he makes the wrong decisions, … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xi99vycNbk Trump and the patriots have been setting up a new transitional economy, Trump started with removing the globalist trade deals, then creating new trade deals. Trump removed taxes and regulations. The deals are set, the USMCA is ready to be signed, the China phase 1 deal is ready to be signed and now Trump … Read more
by Chris Kimble Crude Oil double topped in late 2018, then it fell nearly 50% in 90-days, taking stocks along with it. Could Crude be “Double Topping” again? Let’s investigate what the chart is showing us. Crude oil created a weekly Doji Star topping pattern at (1) in the summer of 2018. A few months later … Read more
via nypost: Clearly New York’s ultra-progressive chief executives have arrived at the same place on the state’s absurd new arrest-and-release bail law: Scorched in the press, they now say change definitely is in order. “There’s no doubt that this is a work in progress,” says the governor who proudly signed the bail bill into law. “Changing the … Read more
White House spokeswoman says reports that Trump was preparing to address the nation are "not true" and "were never true" — BNO News (@BNONews) January 8, 2020
UKRANIAN PASSENGER AIRPLANE WITH 180 PASSENGERS & CREW ONBOARD HAS CRASHED NEAR IMAM KHOMEINI AIRPORT OF TEHRAN DUE TO TECHNICAL PROBLEMS UKRANIAN PASSENGER AIRPLANE WITH 180 PASSENGERS & CREW ONBOARD HAS CRASHED NEAR IMAM KHOMEINI AIRPORT OF TEHRAN DUE TO TECHNICAL PROBLEMS — First Squawk (@FirstSquawk) January 8, 2020 #Breaking First footage of the Ukrainian … Read more
Holden sales collapse. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. Australia is next as we’re tracking the decline in global new-vehicle sales that started in the US in 2017 and took on serious dimensions in 2018 with vehicles sales falling for the first time in modern China, the largest auto market in the world. New-vehicle sales in Australia fell … Read more
by Kerry Lutz with John Rubino via FSN GoldandSilver Just when you thought it was safe to short Tesla, the Middle East blows up. The US does a targeted assassination of Iran’s number 2 and it’s off to the races. Gold took off and blasted through the pesky $1550 resistance point. While metals have pulled back they’re still well ahead. … Read more
