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BY JOHN RUBINO Venezuela has suffered through recurring power outages this year, as money for routine maintenance dries up and power plant employees flee the country (and, okay, as the US practices its cyberwar skills on a vulnerable target). Some of the blackouts have lasted as long as a week. Here’s an aerial photo comparing … Read more

via visualcapitalist: View the full-size version of this infographic. What do Equifax, Yahoo, and the U.S. military have in common? They’ve all fallen victim to a cyberattack at some point in the last decade—and they’re just the tip of the iceberg. Today’s infographic from Raconteur delves into the average damage caused by cyberattacks at the organizational level, sorted by type … Read more

via Zerohedge: Following a decade during which markets learned that economic data is irrelevant in a time when central banks are injecting trillions in liquidity and corporations are issuing trillions in debt to repurchase trillions in stocks pushing the S&P to all time highs, one can now say the same about corporate earnings, initially in … Read more

by howmuch Cloud computing is changing the economy and transforming the way millions of people work, and private companies with multibillion dollar valuations are at the forefront of the disruption. Our latest visualization reveals the top 25 private cloud companies. Stripe takes the top spot in the Forbes Cloud 100 ranking with $785M in private … Read more

by Michael Snyder If other forms of meat suddenly became too expensive, would you feed dog meat to your family instead?  Sadly, this is a dilemma that many families in China are facing right now.  As I reported a few days ago, one-fourth of all the pigs in the entire world have already been wiped out … Read more

by Charles Hugh-Smith MMT is presented as the solution to the “problem” of insufficient government funding, but that’s not the real problem. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is presented as a means to painlessly fund the large-scale infrastructure / alternative energy spending the nation needs to rebuild and modernize. While most people support the goal of useful … Read more

by TFittonJW COVER-UP? More than enough evidence to open up a criminal investigation into Ilhan Omar marriage scandal. And House Ethics Committee needs to act! https://youtu.be/Fak6PsSOFMI Per usual, Judicial Watch with the heavy lifting: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-requests-ethics-investigation-of-whether-rep-ilhan-omar-improperly-used-campaign-funds/ https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-files-house-ethics-complaint-against-rep-ilhan-omar-over-potential-immigration-marriage-tax-and-student-loan-fraud/  

via rushlimbaugh: RUSH: Trump was praising today the value of people’s 401(k)s, the stock market at an all-time high, economic activity shooting through the roof. On the Democrat side, “Growing Uncertainty Looms Over the Democrat 2020 Primary.” Growing uncertainty? There’s nothing growing about it. The uncertainty has been there since day one. There’s not a one … Read more

Since she won’t be nominated: https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/stat…  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7OT-f3b2w8 Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz turned in his report into potential FISA abuses to Attorney General William Barr almost four weeks ago. During this time, nothing has leaked, which is quite telling in itself. If there was anything that could be leaked from this report that would mitigate the coming fallout, we’d … Read more

Trump Wanted the Country to See the Left Booing Him at the World Series – Here’s Why (GLP Trolls Fell For it Hook, Line, and Sinker) Austere Scholar Poso Verified account @JackPosobiec Trump knew there was a 100% chance a DC crowd would boo him but he went anyway bc he knew how middle America … Read more

Wish I was younger so I could see humanity spread into our solar system. We wasted a lot of time since moon landings. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/nasa-nuclear-space-rocket Let’s get one thing clear: A nuclear engine won’t hoist a rocket into orbit. That’s too risky; if a rocket with a hot nuclear reactor blew up on the launch pad, … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7T_zWepvwc The elite are starting to realize that the BREXIT is not going the way they want, they are trying to delay, they do not want a vote, why because they know they don’t have a chance of winning. The US economy is doing better than ever statistically, Trump and the patriots are ready to … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tPazRaw4UQ The [DS] is running out time, the patriots have cornered them and they are nudging them into the trap, they have taken the bait and they are now going to vote. The [DS]/MSM have been trying to explain away the killing of Baghdadi. Trump is set to release video footage of the raid. This … Read more

PG&E’s power shutoffs have an enormous impact on businesses, both big and small. Business leaders say the unreliability of the power system might force them to leave the state. Devin Fehely reports. (10-25-2019)

by Lance Roberts In a recent weekly newsletter (Subscribe for free e-delivery), I discussed the rather dramatic decline of short-interest in the S&P 500 which suggests a high degree of complacency by investors. As Wolf Richter recently noted: “Of the total shares outstanding of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF, only 2.6% were out on loan to short-sellers this … Read more