How to Declare Your Digital Independence from Government and Big Tech

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Via International Man An often-overlooked ingredient of international diversification is spreading your digital presence across multiple friendly jurisdictions. Just as obtaining a second passport or an offshore bank account can help you obtain significant political diversification benefits, so too can moving your digital presence to multiple jurisdictions. Most of us today have a significant digital … Read more

Court To The Washington Post: Don’t Try Too Hard To Get It Right

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by Ann Coulter Last week, U.S. District Court Judge William O. Bertelsman dismissed Nick Sandmann’s $250 million defamation suit against The Washington Post for its stories about a mythical racist hate-crime allegedly committed by Sandmann, a Catholic schoolboy, against fake war acter despise the press, and also the courts. For three days running after the annual … Read more

Did U.S. Attorney General Barr Just Trade James Comey’s “Memogate” for “Spygate”?

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By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com Awakened Americans realize the nation’s system of justice now remains at a crossroads. Either the Deep State cabal including the likes Comey, Clapper, Brennon, McCabe, Clinton, Strozk, Page, Ohr, and others will continue on their book tours and talk show circuits – or they will face prosecution at the whim of U.S. … Read more

Energy-efficient Engine Turns Waste hot Water Into Electricity

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by Amy S.  A new engine that generates electricity from waste hot water could reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions for thousands of different businesses, from cargo shipping to data centres. So says Exergyn, a firm based in Dublin, Ireland, which plans to run the first industrial trials of its technology next year. By James Randerson Globally, … Read more

Top Bakken Shale Producer Stock Plummets Nearly 40%

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BY SRSROCCO A top shale producer in the Bakken lost nearly 40% of its value today as investors dumped a record number of shares.  Whiting Petroleum’s stock was hammered due to miserable earnings, a huge drop in oil prices, and additional Chinese tariffs issued by the Trump Whitehouse. Whiting’s stock price fell $7 in a single … Read more

Another Democrat-Run City: Philadelphia’s Longest-Serving Sheriff Facing Prison Time for Taking Over $675K in Bribes

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Federal prosecutors say John Green took kickbacks from businessman James Davis during his 22 years in office while awarding him $35 million in contracts. Authorities say the $675,000 in bribes included more than $300,000 for a Florida retirement home. https://www.fox29.com/news/ex-philadelphia-sheriff-facing-prison-time-over-675k-in-bribes.amp

Facebook And Other Tech Companies Spending Millions Of Dollars To Create Technology Capable Of Reading Your Mind, And They’re Succeeding

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by Geoffrey Grider In 2017, Facebook announced that it wanted to create a headband that would let people type at a speed of 100 words per minute, just by thinking. It is a sobering reality when you come to the startling conclusion that Facebook is not a product, no, not by a long shot. To paraphrase that classic line … Read more

The Biggie that Used to Be Strong: Nonresidential Construction Spending Suddenly Sags

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Only feeble signs of manufacturing returning to the US (you’ve got to build the plants first). Construction spending, an important part of the US economy, has essentially gone nowhere over the past 18 months – the longest period of drought since the great recession. Total construction spending – residential and nonresidential, … Read more

From Less-Splendid Housing Bubbles to Crushed Markets in America, July Update

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Chicago struggles, Dallas-Fort Worth, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Charlotte reach new highs. Drum-roll for Detroit and Cleveland! This is the other side: Not every metro in the US has experienced the kind of blistering housing bubbles occurring in Miami or the San Francisco Bay Area, as illustrated in The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in … Read more

Best Economy Ever: Lowe’s Laying Off Thousands And Outsourcing Maintenance And Assembly Jobs

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via Zerohedge: Home-improvement chain Lowe’s told thousands of workers this week that their roles were being eliminated and that the company was outsourcing maintenance, assembly and janitorial services,according to the Wall Street Journal. Maintenance staff and assemblers were notified that they were being laid off, according to employees, and that their roles are going to be outsourced to … Read more

Stock Market Nears the Moment of Truth

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by Kimble Charting As investors prepare for the Federal Reserve announcement today, they are feeling pretty good. That’s mostly due to the performance of the “big 3” stock market indexes: the S&P 500 IndexINDEXSP: .INX, Dow Jones IndustrialsINDEXDJX: DJI, and the NasdaqINDEXNASDAQ: .IXIC. As you can see in the upper half of today’s chart, all three are at all-time … Read more

Strongest Economy Ever? Just Ignore The Negative Revisions

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Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Over the last 18-months, there has been a continual drone of political punditry touting the success of “Trumponomics” as measured by various economic data points. Even the President himself has several times taken the opportunity to tweet about the “strongest economy ever.” But if it is the “strongest economy ever,” then why the … Read more