ARE WE GOING TO WAR WITH IRAN? New oilfield containing 53 billion barrels of crude was discovered in Iran, President Rouhani announced Sunday

Rouhani claims Iran discovered new oil field with 53 billion barrels By JERUSALEM POST STAFF November 10, 2019 https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Rouhani-claims-Iran-discovered-new-oil-field-with-53-billion-barrels-607384 Iran says it discovered a natural gas reserve that could create $40 billion in revenue Updated 7:08 PM ET, Sun October 13, 2019 https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/13/middleeast/iran-natural-gas-reserves-discovery/index.html     AC

How China Plans to Take Over the US

By John Mauldin When the US and ultimately the rest of the Western world began to engage China, resulting in China finally being allowed into the World Trade Organization in the early 2000s, no one really expected the outcomes we see today. There is no simple disengagement path, given the scope of economic and legal … Read more

Monkey in Argentina wins court case, Granted Personhood & basic human rights .. also granted asylum and welfare for life in USA

(CNN)A 33-year-old orangutan who was granted ‘legal personhood’ in Argentina has been relocated to a new home in Wauchula, Florida. Patti Ragan, director of the Center for Great Apes where Sandra the orangutan is now living, told CNN she has been “inquisitive, calm, engaged and interested in her new surroundings” since her arrival on Tuesday. … Read more

SHOCKER: “Glitches”: Indiana, Pennsylvania elections once again show risks of computer voting.

via HOTAIR: State and local elections in off-years provide pundits endless fodder for predictive analysis, even though flipping coins might be just as predictive. One prediction that seems to come true every time, however, is that computer-screen voting will remind us of the wisdom of hand-marked paper ballots. In Indiana, computer-screen voting machines switched voter … Read more

Saudi Arabia’s Newest Tactic To Hush Dissidents

By Michael Kern In 2017, Saud al-Qahtani–advisor to the Saudi Crown Prince–was rather active on social media. In one Twitter post, he stated: “Does a pseudonym protect you from #the_black_list? No 1) States have a method to learn the owner of the pseudonym 2) the IP address can be learned using a number of methods 3) a … Read more

Under The Lens: Most Important Thing To Understand About The Repo Market Situation

by Gordon Long via GordonTLong UnderThelens – 10 23 19 – NOVEMBER – Repo Revelations  Thank you to all Macro Analytics/Gordon T Long YouTube followers. I will continue to add the following message to each video, which many have already seen to help all of those that haven’t learned of the new update. Thank you again for your … Read more

Italian government gives 3,700% more aid to ‘migrants’ than its own disabled citizens

by Dr. Eowyn Have you wondered why the Left support and ally with radical Islam, including working actively to promote and facilitate the importation of Muslim “refugees” into Europe and the U.S.? The explanation for that strange and unholy alliance goes beyond the adage,  “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. As pointed out by Dr. Abdessamad … Read more

Three Deep State Confessions On Syria

And finally, not everyone is as pessimistic on the continuing prospects for yet more US-led regime change future efforts as Robert Ford is above. Below is an astoundingly blunt articulation of the next disturbing phase of US efforts in Syria, from an October 31 conference at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). “The panel … Read more

China’s Factories Are Exporting Lower Prices Around the World

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-factories-exporting-lower-prices-053232671.html (Bloomberg) — Explore what’s moving the global economy in the new season of the Stephanomics podcast. Subscribe via Apple Podcast, Spotify or Pocket Cast. Chinese factories are again threatening to drag down prices around the world as the cost of their goods decline by the most since 2016. In a fresh challenge to the … Read more

Short Candidate: YUM

by professorpuddle Hey all. With all the commotion on this forum, I wanted to make a post on which this forum was actually founded on: picking stocks. That’s right, this forum was originally created on sharing analyses of stocks and such strategies. Here’s my homework: – Their revenues have declined by -16.02%/year (geometric average) in … Read more

Volatility and Fed Rate Cuts

by roepes I’m holding a position of VXX and have traded it a few times over the last six or so months. Prior to the three rate cuts, its movements were more noticeable, more drastic, and tended to be more volatile in its upward movements. Since the rate cuts, the volatility has dampened considerably, and … Read more

Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick raises $400 million dollars from Saudi Arabia to launch new business Cloud Kitchens

Saudi Arabia’s sovereign-wealth fund has pumped $400 million into Travis Kalanick’s new company CloudKitchens, according to people familiar with the situation, in a deal that could value the operator of so-called ghost kitchens at about $5 billion and reunites the former Uber Technologies Inc. chief with one of his biggest backers. The Saudi fund’s agreement with CloudKitchens was completed … Read more

The Fed’s “QE” rally is on. We look at what is happening, how to play it, and what happens next.

by Lance Roberts The “QE, Not QE” Rally Is On Just recently, we released a study for our RIAPro Subscribers (30-Day Free Trial) on historical QE programs and what sectors,  markets, and commodities perform best. (If you subscribe for a 30-day Free Trail you can read the entire report “An Investor’s Guide To QE-4.”) “On October 9, 2019, the … Read more

Great news for vampires: The California startup that sells the blood of teens for $8k a liter to keep you young is back in business.

The CEO of Ambrosia, the startup that sells young blood: — is not licensed to practice medicine — won’t name any doctors or employees he works with — has no plans to further study the treatment’s safety or efficacy This is sure to end well!   via onezero: Earlier this year, Ambrosia, the much-maligned California startup … Read more