Scientists can actually identify what we are thinking and now even feeling, Lesley Stahl reports on this Sunday’s 60 Minutes. Her story on the use of functional MRIs and computer analysis to interpret human thoughts will be broadcast on Sunday, November 24, at 7 p.m., ET/PT on CBS. Ten years ago, Stahl first reported on … Read more
Japan is set to deploy its first aircraft carriers since World War II. The Japanese Navy will modernize two helicopter destroyers into de facto aircraft carriers. This will increase the number of carrier operators in the Asia-Pacific region. Historically the Imperial Japanese Navy placed a heavy emphasis on aircraft carriers. The Hōshō, when she was … Read more
By Robert Ross 10,000 baby boomers retire every day. But retirement won’t mean endless rounds of golf or trips to Tuscany for a lot of these folks, who are now 55–75 years old. In fact, retirement will lower the living standards of 40% of boomers, according to The Wall Street Journal. That translates to a lifestyle downgrade for … Read more
https://youtu.be/7tcvXj6HoXw The debate is 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern time. It is being held in Atlanta and co-hosted by MSNBC and The Washington Post. There will be no opening statements. Candidates will have 75 seconds to answer questions from the moderators: Rachel Maddow of MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell and Kristen Welker of NBC and Ashley … Read more
by jessefelder This blog post is based on an excerpt from a recent report featured on The Felder Report PREMIUM. “Even the most circumspect friend of the market would concede that the volume of brokers’ loans—of loans collateraled by the securities purchased on margin—is a good index of the volume of speculation.” -John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash … Read more
American Companies Suckle The Teet Of China, Attack Free Press, And DEFEND COMMUNISM, We’re Doomed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw12_sXfsJM The patriots are now in full control of the economy, the markets hit an all time new high, the house starts and permits rebound and the Trump confirmed that the Fed is not done with cutting rates and pushing stimulus. He is following the plan of Jackson, it’s time to return the economy to … Read more
from Financial Survival Network Nick Santiago returns… As long as there’s light volume in the market, it can continue to go higher and make new highs. However, when we get a huge volume day, 85 million shares or higher volume on the SPDR and the market heads south, then it’s look out below. Intra-day sell-offs on light … Read more
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: The distinction between the Repo Crisis and Quantitative Easing is the duration and purpose as distinguished from 2007-2009? HS ANSWER: Yes. Under QE, the Fed was buying in 30-year bonds in hope of creating a shortage of long-term paper that would in theory lead to consideration of buying long-term mortgage paper. It was … Read more
BOSTON, MA – Amazon has considered adding facial recognition technology to its Ring doorbell cameras, according to a letter to a U.S. senator defending its video-sharing partnerships with police. The company told Sen. Ed Markey that facial recognition is a “contemplated, but unreleased feature” of its home security cameras but that there are no plans to … Read more
by Bill Bonner Today, we woke up with a disagreeable headache… and a depressing hypothesis: The Supreme Court has been derelict in its duty for the last 80 years. For years, the Court has looked the other way as the feds robbed one class of citizen (ordinary, working people) and rewarded another (the elite). As a … Read more
Pelosi issues rebuttal to GOP talking point in Dear Colleague letter: “The weak response to these hearings has been, ‘Let the election decide.’ That dangerous position only adds to the urgency of our action, because POTUS is jeopardizing the integrity of the 2020 elections. So just what the hell is this Crazy B'itch saying? That … Read more
https://youtu.be/XJAMJOVoVyw Uncovered by a cybersecurity firm, an appalling flaw could turn Android-powered devices into spying goldmines, allowing hackers to secretly snap photos and record footage with no permission required. No stranger to security loopholes, Android designers worked hard to bar apps from accessing cameras and mics, unless users give explicit permission by ticking corresponding boxes … Read more
Throughout the 1950s, the US, the Soviet Union, and others tested thermonuclear weapons in the Earth’s atmosphere. Those tests released vast quantities of radioactive material into the air and triggered fears that the nuclear reactions could ignite deuterium in the oceans, thereby destroying the planet in a catastrophic accidental fireball. Atmospheric tests ended in 1980, … Read more
Conservative Newspaper Epoch Times Suffers Brazen Arson Attack by HK Police. Not a Word from our MSM, the Self-Appointed Champions of “Press Freedom” https://twitter.com/EpochTimes/status/1196866760114364419 Four masked intruders dressed in black set fire to the printing press of the Hong Kong edition of The Epoch Times in the early hours of Nov. 19, marking the … Read more
By Anes Alic Not so long ago, oil prices would surge or plummet on just a whisper from OPEC, who at the time held all the supply cards. The mere hint that the world’s most powerful oil cartel was going to cut production could send oil prices up dramatically. Those days are over. When the … Read more
by WARREN MOSLER You can see from the charts how depressed this cycle has been, and how housing has stalled out overall for the last few years, and all with ultra low mortgage rates: Permits which are more volatile have ‘spiked’ back to 1965 levels when the population was about half: A relatively small economy … Read more
Google defends amassing health data on millions of people. Google has come under scrutiny after a report in The Wall Street Journal noted that a newly signed cloud computing deal with a healthcare customer could give the tech giant “detailed personal-health information of millions of people across 21 states.” The deal, which was previously announced on Google … Read more
A huge ancient ritual site dating back over 6,800 years has been discovered in Poland. It is believed to have been used by neolithic people for between 200 and 250 years, with new features added every few dozen years, archaeologists have said. The circular structure is 360 feet in diameter, which is over three times … Read more
