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New poll spells doom for Democrats’ dreams of a blue wave: Three Senate Democrats are running behind their Republican challengers — leaving Democrats worried about the fall… Poll: Most ‘better off financially’ under Trump than Obama.

July 10, 2018 10:07 pm

WORRIES AT SALON: New poll spells doom for Democrats’ dreams of a blue wave: Three Senate Democrats are running behind their Republican challengers — leaving Democrats worried about the fall. With the upcoming midterm elections inching closer, the Democrats’ odds of flipping …

What Happens When Democrats Run Your State?

July 10, 2018 10:04 pm

Here’s What Happens When Democrats Run Your State Government. Examining How the Left ruined California Video clips used from the videos linked below the YouTube video at link: HEADLINES FROM 2009: Socialism Isn’t the Future of the Democratic Party – …

What IBM Said about the IT Chaos at UK Bank TSB and Owner Sabadell, Now in its 12th Week

July 10, 2018 9:58 pm

Contracted to fix the fiasco, IBM estimates costs at $1.25 billion: sources. There’s even talk of divorce, after just 3 years of corporate marriage. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. As the blame game intensifies over beleaguered …

Merrill Lynch’s Private Clients Still Hold Extremely Low Levels Of Cash And … … Run High-Beta Portfolios…. Margin Debt Is Starting To Look Like A Bitcoin Chart

July 12, 2018 7:53 amJuly 10, 2018 9:57 pm

Merrill Lynch’s private clients still hold extremely low levels of cash and … … run high-beta portfolios. Buybacks Amazon, Netflix and Microsoft together this year are responsible for 71% of S&P 500 returns and for 78% of Nasdaq 100 returns. …

Have you noticed all the Finance media folks who 6 months ago told you Federal Reserve would never let curve invert now claiming an inverted yield curve will be meaningless this time… thats a bigger lie than SUBPRIME IS CONTAINED

July 10, 2018 9:48 pm

https://twitter.com/DividendMaster/status/1016744817051697152 What Happens Next? https://t.co/dy0g4zGVgL — zerohedge (@zerohedge) July 10, 2018 Harley Bassman: "The Yield Curve will not invert until near the December FOMC meeting" — zerohedge (@zerohedge) July 10, 2018 Fed’s Bullard: Inverting Yield Curve ‘Key Near-Term Risk’ Officials …

‘Laugh so as Not to Cry’ Dept: The Comically Overpromised Pensions of Illinois

July 10, 2018 9:31 pm

via wirepoints: One graphic perfectly captures the absurdity of Illinois pensions over the past three decades. It’s what Justice Samuel Alito described as Illinois’ “generous public-employee retirement packages” when writing for the majority in the Janus v. AFSCME decision. “Illinois’ pension funds …

CNBC’s Handy Cartoon Instructions for Maximizing Unnecessary Debt

July 11, 2018 10:40 amJuly 10, 2018 9:30 pm

via CNBC : There’s condescension, and then there’s this. CNBC has concluded that the reason you haven’t taken out a second mortgage on your house is because you didn’t know you can. Nowhere, not once, do they mention that it’s a highly …

President Trump Has Pardoned Dwight And Steven Hammond – They Have Just Walked Out Into The Sunshine As Free Men.

July 12, 2018 7:53 amJuly 10, 2018 9:29 pm

by Ruby Henley Dwight and Steven Hammond were just pardoned by President Trump in an act of honor and compassion, bringing this Country closer to the truth. No doubt the Deep State is in an uproar, but let them roar …

Germans Prove NATO is Obsolete Boondoogle for Military Industrial Complex

July 10, 2018 8:35 pm

As Trump heads to NATO meeting, then to Putin meeting in Helsinki, here’s incontestable proof that NATO is a useless anachronism. And, is the latest “nerve gas” attack in the UK a false flag to undermine the Trump-Putin meeting? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe4utM6ljw0

Rising Wages = Shrinking Corporate Profit Margins … And Falling Stock Prices?

July 10, 2018 7:59 pm

by John Rubino Today’s Wall Street Journal contains a couple of charts that illustrate a relationship that’s not getting much media attention these days: The fact that tightening labor markets are forcing companies to raise wages, in the process squeezing their own …

Trump Pardons Oregon Cattle Ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond

July 12, 2018 7:53 amJuly 10, 2018 7:59 pm

by Chris Black Dwight and Steven Hammond are 2 Oregon ranchers who were convicted of arson back in 2012 by Barack Obama’s administration. The prosecutors used a 1996 anti terrorism law to do that, a law that carries a minimum …

A New World Order: Brought to You by the Global-Industrial Deep State

July 10, 2018 5:31 pm

by John Whitehead “There are no nations. There are no peoples … There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. The world is a college of …

TradeWar chart! S&P 500 Index future reverses gains as #Trump is said to release a list of an additional $200 billion in Chinese products to be hit with #tariffs. Everyone who bought the dip in cash session was wiped out in minutes

July 10, 2018 5:25 pm

#TradeWar chart! S&P 500 Index future reverses gains as #Trump is said to release a list of an additional $200 billion in Chinese products to be hit with #tariffs. Everyone who bought the dip in cash session was wiped out …

What’s About To Hit US Shores Will Knock Us All Out Cold—What Cost Are You Willing To Pay?

July 10, 2018 5:05 pm

For More Information See: https://www.fairus.org/issue/publicat… http://www.limitstogrowth.org/article… http://ww.rrojasdatabank.info/HDRP_2010_40.pdfhttp://speisa.com/modules/articles/index.php/item.454/sweden-to-become-a-third-world-country-by-2030-according-to-un.html https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/10/… http://wjla.com/news/inside-your-worl…

BIG Trouble For The Stock Market Buyback Bubble As We Haven’t Seen This Since 2007!

July 13, 2018 6:39 amJuly 10, 2018 5:04 pm

by Josh Sigurdson and John Sneisen of World Alternative Media Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the continuation of stock buybacks in the markets as an act of desperation. The problem with that is, despite vast amounts of massive stock …

Monsanto ‘bullied scientists’ and hid weedkiller cancer risk, lawyer tells court: “Monsanto has specifically gone out of its way to bully and to fight independent researchers…they fought science.”

July 10, 2018 5:03 pm

A lawyer recently had the courage to state what conspiracy researchers have been shouting from the rooftops for decades: Monsanto is anti-science and anti-humanity. The case is significant in part because the judge has allowed Johnson’s lawyers to present scientific …

CIA-Linked Military Contractor Used Arizona “Black Site” to Secretly Jail Dozens of Migrant Children

July 10, 2018 5:00 pm

A major U.S. military and CIA contractor has been detaining dozens of migrant children inside a vacant Phoenix office building with dark windows, no kitchen and only a few toilets, according to a new investigation by Reveal from the Center …

Andrew Bridgen formally requests a vote of no confidence in Theresa May’s leadership: “The negotiations with the European Union appear to have deteriorated into a state of complete capitulation.”

July 10, 2018 4:56 pm

https://twitter.com/JackBMontgomery/status/1016661974367834112 Theresa May NO CONFIDENCE challenge BEGINS: ‘You have INSULTED the British people’ A TORY backbencher has submitted a furious letter of no confidence in Prime Minister Theresa May in which he accuses her of attempting to dupe the British …

The U.S. State Department’s current travel advisory to the United Kingdom is the same level as:

July 10, 2018 4:52 pm

by Attacitus South Africa Sierra Leone (where 3,000 people died of Ebola) Mexico (where there is an active insurgency) Kenya Egypt (where there is an active insurgency) Zimbabwe Ukraine (a literal warzone) Denmark France Spain Saudi Arabia Countries currently rated …

Protesters had pre-printed signs for each SCOTUS Pick.

July 10, 2018 4:51 pm

When you pre-write your press release slamming Trump’s SCOTUS pick but forget to add the name…. NYC Students Hate Trump’s SCOTUS Pick…. That hadn’t been named yet. AC

Chart of the century gives gloomy market outlook

July 10, 2018 4:50 pm

From Rich Miller and Vince Golle at Bloomberg: A multi-colored graphic that’s made the rounds at the Federal Reserve hints at what Chairman Jerome Powell could face if President Donald Trump succeeds in throwing globalization into reverse: Higher prices for many …

The Democratic party has become a terrorist organization

July 10, 2018 5:07 pmJuly 10, 2018 4:33 pm

New Bill Introduced In The House: “Unmasking Antifa Act of 2018” – “to provide penalty enhancements for committing certain offenses while in disguise, and for other purposes.” [FULL TEXT] A #WalkAway family member is currently dropping red pills Democrats Hate …

Seth Rich Press Conference

July 10, 2018 4:18 pm

https://youtu.be/odeiBxOYKmQ

The mother of all credit crises is coming…

July 10, 2018 4:14 pm

From Jim Rickards, Editor, The Daily Reckoning: So many credit crises are brewing, it’s hard to keep track without a scorecard. The mother of all credit crises is coming to China with over a quarter-trillion dollars owed by insolvent banks and …

Baby Trump Blimp Approved By Sadiq Khan To Fly Across London

July 10, 2018 4:01 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IoeUfSnRAk Alex Jones breaks down how London Mayor Sadiq Khan approved plans to fly a massive balloon resembling President Trump as a big baby over the central part of the city as a mass virtue signal.

SUMANTRA MAITRA: No, Trump Is Not To Blame For NATO’s Chaos, Nor For Breaking Up The Liberal Order.

July 10, 2018 3:47 pm

NATO is a mess — and that’s nothing new: NATO enlargement post-Cold War was essentially a push from the liberal internationalist lobby within the Clinton administration, led by Madeleine Albright and backed by the German leaders like Volker Rühe. Evidence …

Wall of dust, powerful monsoon storms slam Phoenix area

July 10, 2018 3:12 pm

via CBS News: PHOENIX — A wall of dust enveloped the Phoenix metro area, turning daylight into darkness for more than an hour Monday, as a monsoon storm packing thunder and lightning, high winds and sheets of rain grounded flights and …

Democrat hero and Smallville Star, Cult Leader Allison Mack Now Accused of Molesting 8yo Girl and Recording It

July 10, 2018 2:55 pm

via thefreethoughtproject: As Allison Mack and Keith Raniere await trial for their part in a twisted celebrity sex trafficking ring, neighbors of the cult’s headquarters in Knox Woods are coming forward with statements about what they saw while the cult was …

Coming ‘labor shortage’ in America is great news for workers… Quitting jobs at fastest rate since ’01

July 10, 2018 2:55 pm

via businessinsider: For now, the coming “labor shortage” is good news for workers. We should root for it to continue. It’s undoubtedly a headache for some owners and managers. But it’s one they should, hopefully, be made to live with for …