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
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
by AC I posted this to facebook and it is not intended to be political, just an old guy sharing a few things. I have been following the news like all the rest of you as well as watching comments. I have been on this earth for a while and many of my friends have … Read more
Hesameddin Ashena linked to an article listing properties owned by Trump It included Trump Tower in New York as well as his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida The adviser said that Tehran’s ‘sole problem is Trump’ rather than Americans Iran has vowed revenge after the death of Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike Trump has warned … Read more
Russia: Foreign Minister Condemns Soleimani Killing as War Crime https://twitter.com/therussophile/status/1214202525949333510 Make no mistake about it, Russia and China are on the side of IRAN… AC
Someone should tell Trump that “cultural sites” are not viable military targets and that it is actually a war crime under the geneva conventions to target such sites for non-military reasons. Trump doubles down on threat to Iranian cultural sites, demands Iraq pay for U.S. base President Donald Trump dug in Sunday night on his … Read more
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/06/disneys-streaming-services-worth-over-100-billion-investors-believe.html The market is valuing Disney’s streaming business at $108 billion, according to Barclays. Disney announced that it gained 10 million subscribers in the first day of Disney+. Shares of Disney are up about 6% since the new streaming service launched.
Democrats’ worries grow as ObamaCare court fight drags on. A federal appeals court ruling on a case threatening ObamaCare is raising the stakes for the health law and the Supreme Court in the 2020 election. ObamaCare supporters worry the law could be in jeopardy if President Trump is reelected and gets the opportunity to appoint another … Read more
by northmantrader A brief follow up to the $VIX discussion in this weekend’s 2020 Vision market update: US markets experienced two major volatility events with $VIX running above 40 twice during the past 4 years: 2015 and 2018. In both cases the $VIX spiked into the high 40’s. Charts suggest another volatility event of such magnitude may be … Read more
By Tsvetana Paraskova Although oil prices hit a seven-month high on Friday and continued to soar early on Monday, these high price levels are unlikely to persist for long if global oil supplies are not disrupted, Goldman Sachs said in a note on Monday, carried by Bloomberg. Oil prices surged on Friday, following the assassination of Iran’s most powerful and … Read more
Future historians will ask why George W. Bush sought and received express congressional authorization for his wars (against al Qaeda and Iraq) and his successor did not. They will puzzle over how Barack Obama the prudent war-powers constitutionalist transformed into a matchless war-powers unilateralist. And they will wonder why he claimed to “welcome congressional … Read more
by Alina The price of gold is up nearly $100 since Christmas, reaching around $1,575 per troy ounce as I write this letter. This most recent price bump is due to the panic over Iran. But the gold price is up nearly 20% over the last year, so there have obviously been plenty of other … Read more
There will doubtless be fakes to make Trump look bad, this will be a good thing to show to people we know who get duped. h/t undine53
Photo by Wikimedia.org | CC BY | Photoshopped From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Gold prices hit six-year highs after U.S. strike kills Iranian general, what to expect from gold prices in 2020, and stash of 1,200-year-old gold coins discovered in Israel. … Read more
(Image: © Shutterstock) Related: The 11 Most Beautiful Mathematical Equations The algorithm they built provided accurate solutions up to 100 million times faster than the most advanced software program, known as Brutus. That could prove invaluable to astronomers trying to understand things like the behavior of star clusters and the broader evolution of the universe, … Read more
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Martin, I have been following your blog for several months and have begun to start reading older posts because it is all amazing work. When looking at your war cycle with Russia that started in 2014 and supposedly cycles roughly 25 years, I noticed that correlates nicely with your ECM on Russia … Read more
Merkel und Maas fliegen zum Krisentreffen mit Putin https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/iran-krise-eu-aussenminister-berufen-sondertreffen-ein-16567649.html Merkel to Meet Putin in Moscow for Talks on Mideast Crises https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/01/06/world/europe/ap-eu-germany-russia.html Bundeswehr bereitet sich auf raschen Rückzug aus dem Irak vor https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/live204792166/Iran-Krise-Trump-beklagt-Impeachment-Verfahren-als-Zeitverschwendung.html Bundeswehr prepares for withdrawal from Iraq AC
Close to 400,000 anchor babies were born in the United States in 2019 as an executive order to end birthright citizenship gets kicked down the road for another year by President Donald Trump’s administration. Analysis conducted by the Center for Immigration Studies revealed in 2018 that about 300,000 U.S.-born children of illegal aliens are born … Read more
