Hong Kong protests: Thousands surround police headquarters

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Thousands of people in Hong Kong have surrounded police headquarters, calling for an extradition bill to be scrapped. Police have asked the protesters to withdraw peacefully, saying their presence would “seriously affect” emergency services. The protest comes a day after the government ignored a deadline set by a group of students from various universities in … Read more

Trump’s presidency has revealed a lot. Perhaps even to Trump.

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LLOYD MARCUS: Trump’s Orlando Speech: Unprecedented and Remarkable. “Trump’s speech revealed a far more ideologically conservative Trump than he was is 2016. When Trump ran for the presidency, he was not ideological. His leanings appeared to be towards the left. He probably thought conservatives were a bit paranoid and over-the-top sounding the alarm about how Democrats seek … Read more

POLL: Only 7% (!) of Americans Support Private Companies Selling Personal Data Without Permission.

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via pjmedia: More proof that the average American — John Doe, if you will — is smarter than he’s given credit for by the elites: American voters do not want private companies to be allowed to compile and sell data about people without permission, a new poll shows. In a Hill-HarrisX survey of 1,000 registered voters, only 7 … Read more

Rosiak Exposes Another Hill Computer Outrage

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The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Luke Rosiak busted Pakistani computer rogue Imran Awan in 2017, and now he’s peeling back the layers of deception, deceit and denial in yet another Hill IT scandal. Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) is a former CIA agent and freshman congressman, who hired Samantha DeForst-Davis, accomplice to convicted felon Jackson Cosko, the former … Read more

Why US media hypes war

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAHDfBsBCfE Rick Sanchez explains how stories get blown out of proportion on corporate networks for the sake of ratings; establishment journalists get ahead of themselves, lose context, and sometimes even mislead nations into war. This is further exacerbated by the increasing erosion of objectivity in US media outlets.  

Schiff: July Rate Cut Probability = 100%

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RT, Released on 6/19/19 Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. Schiff made his name as President and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital. He frequently delivers lectures at major economic and investment conferences, and is quoted often in the print media, including the Wall Street … Read more

June 21, 2019: leading indicators macro update

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by Troy Instead of trying to predict when the economy will deteriorate in the distant future (which countless experts have tried and failed), we simply look for deterioration among the leading indicators. Instead of predicting the next 10 steps, we seek to predict the next 1-2 steps for the economy. Here’s a brief summary of the … Read more

GET WOKE, GO BROKE? Facebook Usage Has Collapsed After Privacy Scandals, Data Shows.

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via slashdot: mrspoonsi shares a report from the Guardian: Facebook usage has plummeted over the last year, according to data seen by the Guardian, though the company says usage by other measures continues to grow. Since April 2018, the first full month after news of the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke in the Observer, actions on Facebook such as likes, shares … Read more

CHANGE: Low-Tax States Are Adding Jobs 80% Faster Than High-Tax States Due To GOP Tax Law.

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via taxprof: Forbes, Low-Tax States Are Adding Jobs 80% Faster Than High-Tax States Due To Trump’s Tax Cut & SALT Cap: Job growth has been running 80% stronger in low-tax states than in high-tax states since the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 in December 2017. Understanding why holds important lessons for policy, … Read more

FITTON:MASSIVE Ethical Mess: New Strzok-Page Emails Show Clinton Email Games, Media Collusion, and Lovers’ Spat between Strzok-Page

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by TFittonJW Judicial Watch heavy lifting gets big results: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-strzok-page-emails-reveal-fbi-efforts-to-muddle-comey-testimony-on-clinton-emails-fbi-media-collusion/ “These new Page-Strzok emails show the Obama FBI to be a mess both professionally and ethically” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The best example of the ethical morass at the FBI are the emails showing how a report on Judicial Watch’s disclosure that a grand … Read more

Hello 1987…

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"IT'S TOO MUCH, TOO FAST!"$SPX is up +25.9% within the past 125 trading sessions, so I put together a chart showing every time that happened since electronic trading began in 1983. It's not bearish unless you squint and lie to yourself. pic.twitter.com/fyUdek5bjz — OddStats (@OddStats) June 20, 2019 pic.twitter.com/I5em3wJIH3 — †Yeshualives🇳🇱🇮🇱 (@RayKalsitrant) June 21, 2019 … Read more

Lenore Palladino: “I think there’s a real danger of stock buybacks topping out the market, and then the bubble bursting. We know who gets hurt when the bubble bursts. It’s the majority of us.”

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https://twitter.com/JordanHaedtler/status/1142072649893523461 We'll keep talking about what the Fed did, should do, might do, could've done. But however we got here, the cost of corporate debt has tracked Treasury yields lower and capital-markets math says that supports stocks. The BBB yield is back where it was in January 2018. pic.twitter.com/r21xic0jZD — Michael Santoli (@michaelsantoli) June 20, … Read more

Canada’s Senate Passes Energy Bills In Defeat For Oil Industry

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By Tsvetana Paraskova Canada’s Senate passed on Thursday two controversial bills restricting the movement of oil tankers off the northern coast of British Columbia and overhauling the assessment process for oil pipelines—bills which have pitted environmentalists and liberals against the oil industry and the neighboring oil-producing province of Alberta. In a very close 49-46 vote, the Senate … Read more