Brick & Mortar Meltdown at the Movies: Neither Extra-Comfy Chairs Nor Bars Can Reverse the Trend

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Ticket sales plunged 31% per person on average since 2002. You can raise ticket prices only so much before the strategy backfires. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. There are many ways to watch movies these days without having to go to a brick-and-mortar movie theater. And it shows. Despite population growth and all the efforts by movie … Read more

Armies Of Unidentified Drones Are Appearing Over The Western U.S. At Night, And It Is Really Freaking People Out

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by Michael Snyder Since just before Christmas, armies of unidentified drones have been appearing each night in the skies above Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas.  The drones are approximately 6 feet wide and they have red and white lights, but nobody knows where they are from or who owns them.  This is a story that is … Read more

Another day, another fake news pushed by Fake Main Stream Media

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by saman65 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/05/world/middleeast/iran-suleimani-funeral.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes NY times claims a ” A crowd of people stretching over 30 kilometers, or almost 20 miles, poured out onto the streets of Ahvaz, Iran on Sunday to mourn the death of General Suleimani.” This claim sounds ridiculous even not knowing too much context beside the claim! A crowd of 20 Miles?! … Read more

OBAMA dropped OVER 20,000 BOMBS and the MSM was silent, Trump dropped ONE and….

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well , we all see it! Yet Democrat Mr Obama leaves the White House having authorized ten times more drone strikes than George W Bush and having been at war for longer than any President in US history. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-president-barack-obama-bomb-map-drone-wars-strikes-20000-pakistan-middle-east-afghanistan-a7534851.html   The U.S. dropped an average of 72 bombs every day — the equivalent of three an hour — in 2016, … Read more

How To Short The World’s Largest Oil Company

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By Simon Watkins Through a combination of bribing local retail investors via preferential loans, threatening wealthy Saudis with a re-run of their treatment in the Ritz Carlton in 2017, and inveigling the two principal credit ratings agencies to toe the exact Saudi line on the ‘lack of significance’ of the ‘Houthi’ attacks on Abqaiq and Khurais, the Saudis finally … Read more

Ron Paul: Why I Don’t Trust Trump On Iran

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by Ron Paul via Ron Paul Institute President Trump and his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told us the US had to assassinate Maj. Gen. Qassim Soleimani last week because he was planning “Imminent attacks” on US citizens. I don’t believe them. Why not? Because Trump and the neocons – like Pompeo – have been lying about Iran … Read more

Nasdaq Set To Fall 1000pts In Early 2020, And What It Means For Gold

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by Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders One of our most interesting predictive modeling system is the Adaptive Dynamic Learning (ADL) price modeling system.  It is capable of learning from past price data, building price DNA chains and attempting to predict future price activity with a fairly high degree of accuracy.  The one thing we’ve learned about the … Read more

Fund Manager: The COMEX Is A Complete Joke

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by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics Comex gold contracts were brought to life in 1974. Correspondence between senior officials in, and advisors to, the Nixon Administration discussed the need to create an “investment” vehicle to “capture” institutional investment money directed into gold in order to prevent the rapid rise in gold after Nixon closed the gold window. … Read more

America Remains the Land of Opportunity. For Everything Else, There’s Gold

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by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors In 1967, a woman then known as Svetlana Alliuyeva arrived by plane in New York. Moments after landing, she held a press conference during which she renounced her native Soviet Russia, describing it as “profoundly corrupt.” She burned her Soviet passport and called her father—who had died in … Read more

Is This “The Top” For The US Stock Market?

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by Charles Hugh Smith via Of Two Minds Parabolic moves end when the confidence that the parabolic move can’t end becomes the consensus. The consensus seems to be that the stock market is on its way to much higher levels, and soon. The near-term targets for the S&P 500 (SPX, currently around 3,235) range from 3,500 to 4,000, with … Read more

Iran retaliates, China cancels, and yuge jobs report miss by Friday?

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https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1214362983574495232 China will not increase annual grain import quotas to accommodate higher US farm purchases: China Vice Agricultural Minister via Caixin So a Phase 1 deal is physically impossible — zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 7, 2020 Fmr. Amb. Susan Rice says that killing Gen. Qassem Soleimani doesn't eliminate the threat of an imminent attack from Iran: … Read more

RUSH: Nobody has to tell anybody what the American left is or what the modern-day Democrat Party is because they are out there informing everybody.

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via rushlimbaugh RUSH: Well, that was one heck of a Christmas break. And I’ve been chomping at the bit to get back here. I’ve had to revise my opinion of Twitter. Yes, I have. I’ll explain it in a minute. So what happened? The president kills a well-known terrorist who is responsible for the death of … Read more

@EsperDoD says memo on withdrawal is not accurate “there’s been no decision whatsoever to leave Iraq.”

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BREAKING: @EsperDoD says memo on withdrawal is not accurate “there’s been no decision whatsoever to leave Iraq.” pic.twitter.com/52DDhSIIQ2 — Tara Copp (@TaraCopp) January 6, 2020   Just in: Responding to questions about a reported letter from TF-Iraq @EsperDoD says there has been “no decision whatsoever to leave Iraq.” Says he has seen the letter but … Read more

Kellyanne Conway: I am not going to be lectured by people who voted affirmatively to fork over $130 billion in cash to Iran which helped to fund the Quds force. I don’t think it went to economic development or women’s freedom and liberation, do you?

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  Barack Obama later told reporters this was not a ransom payment. Obama lied. Former US Iranian Hostage Saeed Abidini told FOX Business Network today the Iranian regime WOULD NOT let his plane leave Tehran until the ransom plane arrived. Kellyanne Conway: I am not going to be lectured by people who voted affirmatively to … Read more