Consumer and corporate confidence collapsed, the economy is decelerating with the rest of the world

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ignore trump – the economy is decelerating with the rest of the world pic.twitter.com/dV3OcH5DxB — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) June 29, 2019 pic.twitter.com/C6tncH4U8i — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) June 29, 2019 Yikes! Consumer confidence of low-income households in the US has collapsed. #notgood ht @SoberLook pic.twitter.com/98D3vCYR8q — jeroen blokland (@jsblokland) June 28, 2019 “The coincident indicator suggests world trade … Read more

A $trillion per year doesn’t buy a force that can win wars. A top military reform expert explains why.

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by Fabius Maximus Summary:  The US will spend $687 billion on the US military, narrowly defined. Broadly defined, we spend almost a trillion dollars. But it repeatedly fails to defeat our poorly trained and equipped foes. Don Vandergriff (Major, US Army, retired), one of our top experts in military reform, points to one cause: how the … Read more

South China Morning Post: Chinese Government Realizes It Blew It With Trump

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China tries to bridge gap in knowledge about the US following criticism that misreading of Donald Trump helped trigger trade war: Move follows complaints that US president’s policies took academics and government by surprise. China has increased the number of government-funded studies into the US and trade this year following criticism that gaps in the … Read more

Hundreds of Haitians, Africans wade through Rio Grande, stroll into USA — carrying luggage! Plan to start building wall Monday crumbles in court…

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VIDEO: Hundreds of Haitians, Africans wade through Rio Grande, stroll into USA — carrying luggage! Groups of hundreds of Africans, Haitians and others from Central and South America continue to trudge across the U.S.- Mexico border in record numbers, despite promises from Mexico to help stop the massive migration. Footage from the Del Rio Sector … Read more

FDA investigates possible link between certain pet foods and heart disease in dogs.

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The FDA is investigating a potential link between pet diets and dilated cardiomyopathy, a disease that weakens the heart in dogs and can lead to cardiac failure. The agency named 16 brands most frequently involved in the reports. The agency first started investigating the possible link after receiving reports of the disease in breeds that … Read more

The biggest open secret of this election

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“The American electorate isn’t moving to the left- it’s shrinking. Democrats figured out they’d never win with Americans, so they implemented an evil, genius plan to change this country by restocking it with voters more favorably disposed to left-wing policies that Americans would ever be…. No minds have been changed. Democrats just brought in a … Read more

These are Real complaints from Google employees (internal memos)

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 Google is trying exceptionally hard to make the company inclusive to people of all backgrounds and identities, recently released memos from the company make clear. The real memos from Google headquarters show an open-minded and inclusive environment with truly socially conscious progressives making an active effort to make the tech giant a model of … Read more

James O’Keefe Challenges Google. US Sen. Ted Cruz has posted banned Project Veritas video on his own channel and defies/ taunts Tech Giant to remove it.

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https://tweetsave.com/jamesokeefeiii/status/1144329433500848128 : James O’Keefe on Twitter: “OK @YouTube. @SenTedCruz has our undercover @google video on HIS channel. You banned our SAME video (approaching 1mil views) for a “privacy complaint.” Your move @SusanWojcicki. Will you apply the same standard of censorship to A US SENATOR?@YouTubeInsider /jPIHIoAWsm”   h/t  CluelessInTheDark

Daily liquidity with potentially very illiquid underlying can create massive nonlinear market dislocations…

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ILLIQUIDITY (via new Bloomberg headline). Take heed: mutual funds have 43x more corporate bonds on their balance sheets than dealers vs 2x in 2007. Daily liquidity with potentially very illiquid underlying can create massive nonlinear market dislocations… pic.twitter.com/ifns9HrTun — Josh Wolfe (@wolfejosh) June 28, 2019

80% of the stock market is now on autopilot

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via CNBC: Passive investments control about 60% of the equity assets, while quantitative funds — those relying on trend-following models instead of fundamental research — now account for 20% of the market share, according to estimates from J.P. Morgan. Passive funds have attracted $39 billion of inflows so far this year, whereas active funds lost … Read more

Trump says agreed U.S. won’t raise tariffs, China will buy U.S. farm goods – buy agriculture options

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by jhadj   US govt to provide aid program – https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-agriculture/trump-says-us-farmers-to-get-15-billion-in-aid-amid-china-trade-war-idUSKCN1SJ22Z ​ and at the same time China may increase purchases on USA agriculture products ​ “We’re holding back on tariffs and they’re going to buy farm products,” Trump told a news conference after a two-day summit of the Group of 20 in Osaka, western Japan. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g20-summit-trump/trump-says-agreed-us-wont-raise-tariffs-china-will-buy-us-farm-goods-idUSKCN1TU08B … Read more

Cops illegally confiscate guys phone and accidentally record themselves debating the best way to frame him

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by AssuredlyAThrowAway https://youtu.be/oVCgCHnmjSY   Beyond that, police officers openly engaging in a conspiracy to frame a suspect is a terrifying act of corruption and serves as a prime example as to why body cameras should be mandatory (and resist to end user tampering) for every police department in the United States.  

‘Charlie Chaplin’ When the silent man spoke he left us speechless. Genius at making a point (Video)

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Abe Lincoln; “The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes… As a … Read more

Project Veritas Informs Congressional Leaders about Google’s Manipulating of Elections

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by axolotl_peyotl Unfortunately for the career debunkers, the latest PV revelations have now attracted the attention of Congress, and at this point this story is simply not going to go away. Google’s long propensity for manipulation and censorship has reached a fevered pitch, and it’s clear we’ve hit the breaking point. We are at a crossroads. … Read more

Deep in contraction

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by WARREN MOSLER Deep in contraction: Looks to be below 2008 levels: So looks like the current tariffs remain. As previously suggested, the US President is narrowly focused on the money he’s collecting, as the tariffs remove $US net financial assets from the global economy and discourages transactions with the US. That is, it all … Read more