Shocking Police Brutality at Yellow Vests Protests. Under Macron, France is regressing into a third world police state.

by Sabremesh   The conspiracy here is that western media is simply not reporting the savage repression of the Gilets Jaunes protesters. Mindless, unprovoked, unconscionable police brutality. It’s absolutely horrific. https://youtu.be/h869zfG4BlE   ‘Yellow Vest’ protests could become mainstream, survey warns Look how CNBC divvies the public into “the mass population” and “the informed public.” Also … Read more

The Great Recovery Rewind: How the Federal Reserve’s Balance-Sheet Unwind is Unwinding Recovery

by David Haggith We are in the end time of an unprecedented era of financial expansion — the greatest expansion of the world’s money supply ever attempted, expansion of the Federal Reserve’s vast and unchecked powers far beyond what the Fed could do before the financial crisis, and super-sizing expansion of banks that were already way … Read more

Visualizing 200 Years of U.S. Stock Market Sectors

by visualcapitalist If you could travel back in time to the 19th century, it would be very difficult to convince anyone that railroad investments were not the future of the stock market. Governments were offering subsidies and land grants to stimulate rapid industry growth – and in the period of 1868-1873, just after the American Civil … Read more

Muller Swallows Wrong Man

by TrailDust WARNING: May Cause Indigestion! Unlike eating a nice tasty corrupt lawyer, some victims may cause injury, and in some cases, death. Note to Deep State: You just gave a national platform to a man who has the goods on you. When this man talks, he will tell all about the Hillary Clinton email scandal. He … Read more

FITTON:BIG Month: California has to clean 1.56 million voters, Court opens up Clinton email/Benghazi, and Air Pelosi exposed.

by TFittonJW Heavy lifting getting great results — it is going be a good year for Judicial Watch and the rule of law: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/in-the-news/tom-fitton-air-pelosi-what-you-dont-know-about-the-lucrative-travel-our-leaders-enjoy-on-your-dime/ https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/federal-court-orders-discovery-on-clinton-email-benghazi-scandal-top-obama-clinton-officials-susan-rice-and-ben-rhodes-to-respond-to-judicial-watch-questions-under-oath/ https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/california-and-los-angeles-county-to-remove-1-5-million-inactive-voters-from-voter-rolls-settle-judicial-watch-federal-lawsuit/

“Worst December in 10 Years”: Brick-and-Mortar Retail in the UK Faces Overindebted Consumers

But online sales are hot, now at 20% of total retail.  By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. It’s a confusing picture. A monthly survey of retailers published by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) indicated that just 4% of retailers reported good sales volumes for January, whereas 41% said they were poor, giving a … Read more

Remember the subprime mortgage mess? $1.2 trillion in risky corporate debt is flashing similar warning signs

via outline: Remember the subprime mortgage mess? $1.2 trillion in risky corporate debt is flashing similar warning signs Indebted borrowers increasingly take out high-interest, adjustable-rate loans that are packaged into securities and sold to investors eager for a better rate of return. Everything’s fine while the economy is growing. But when it slows, those borrowers could … Read more

Americans stopped buying homes in 2018, mortgage lenders are getting crushed, and an economic storm could be brewing

via businessinsider: The US housing market took a dark turn in 2018 as homebuying fell off a cliff and mortgage lenders saw a steep decline in applications, originations, and profits. Interest rates are partly to blame for the slide in housing, but that’s only half of the equation, according to analysts. It’s too soon to panic, … Read more

China, Russia, Iran & N Korea Building Super-EMP Bombs for ‘Blackout Warfare’

by Amy S.  Several nations, including China and Russia, are building powerful nuclear bombs designed to produce super-electromagnetic pulse (EMP) waves capable of devastating all electronics—from computers to electric grids—for hundreds of miles, according to a newly-released congressional study. According to The Washington Free Beacon, the countries have nuclear EMP weapons built into their military plans. A … Read more

SHADOW WAR WITH RUSSIA IN VENEZUELA?

The Kremlin loves shadow wars. (bumped) Private military contractors who do secret missions for Russia flew into Venezuela in the past few days to beef up security for President Nicolas Maduro in the face of U.S.-backed opposition protests, according to two people close to them. A third source close to the Russian contractors also told … Read more

This is what happened to Venezuela

by OB1_kenobi First, here’s a link that many of you will remember… since the story only dates back to December. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/10/venezuela-russian-bombers-maduro And the US took a pretty dim view of Russian assistance and strategic bombers visiting Venezuela. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/11/pentagon-knocks-russias-bomber-deployment-to-venezuela-amid-economic-turmoil.html Now, amidst all the chaos and confusion, the opposition leader declares himself President and immediately gets recognition by … Read more

Roger Stone draws the judge who did nothing on Benghazi & Fast-and-Furious — Oh, and also the same judge that threw the book at Manafort

by Voluntaryist This is comedic-level banana republic shit we’re seeing here. The Founders would be ashamed of what we’re putting up with. ——- Roger Stone draws the same judge who threw Paul Manafort in jail https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-25/roger-stone-draws-the-judge-who-threw-paul-manafort-in-jail?srnd=premium Judge has ruled on Benghazi & Fast-and-Furious  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-02/trump-s-ex-campaign-chief-faces-obama-appointee-on-bench Judge was appointed by Barack Hussein Obama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Berman_Jackson ——- No conflict of … Read more