No heat for over a week at Brooklyn New York detention center…video of inmates banging on Windows in protest

https://abc7ny.com/angry-protesters-confront-correction-officers-at-brooklyn-detention-center/5117105/ LAWYERS: BROOKLYN INMATES STUCK IN DARK, FREEZING CELLS SUNSET PARK, Brooklyn – Hundreds of inmates at a federal jail in New York City have spent days in cold, dark cells amid frigid weather and without access to visitors or …

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Is this the Beginning of a Globalized Housing Downturn?

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Housing has became a global financialized asset class. The possibilities seemed unlimited. And this flow of money, along with local factors, has created enormous distortions in some markets. But the priciest markets are now starting to experience price …

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Despite low rates and massive liquidity, global capital expenditure (investment) is falling; Q1 earnings growth crashes; The recession risk over the next 12 months is now a whopping 49%. Ouch!

Despite low rates and massive liquidity, global capital expenditure (investment) is falling. There will be a say when central planners will undertsand the word "overcapacity" and stop the fallacy of stimulating a demand that has been overstimulated for years. pic.twitter.com/PVKWqoiJjn …

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Senate Vote Opposes Ending US Wars in Syria, Afghanistan: It’s tantamount to a vote advocating a state of permanent war…Congress never actually authorized the war in Syria at all.

by axolotl_peyotl Were Trump’s announcements of an end to the wars in Syria and Afghanistan premature? Did Trump actually think he would be able to challenge the genocidal military industrial complex, or was he deliberately promoting false hope for a …

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French citizens’ legendary right to protest has just been screwed over. New “anti-breakers law” forbidding anyone to protest with any kind of face/breathing protection. If you do, you’re jailed. Few cities have been forbidden to protest at all.

by FeltMtn So basically the French government created this new sudden law that is going to spice things up a bit. So, we ALL know there is only a tiny portion of these protestors breaking public material and deputies decided …

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