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by Chris Martenson https://cm-us-standard.s3.amazonaws.com/audio/Straightup/Straight-Up-Waiting-for-the-Black-Swan.mp3 Two more tankers were attacked near the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday morning (6/13/19) in the Gulf of Oman, and if hostilities advance we could be facing a ‘black swan’ event. One that changes everything, and divides the world into ‘before’ and ‘after’ periods. A lot of us are waiting for ‘something’ … Read more
by Dr. Eowyn Bill Allison reports for Bloomberg, June 13, 2019, that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) “has a money problem,” which “could hurt its nominee’s chances of beating President Donald Trump in 2020.” That’s because whoever wins the party’s nomination will rely heavily on the DNC in the general election for organizing, identifying voters and … Read more
via MSN: WASHINGTON — The United States is stepping up digital incursions into Russia’s electric power grid in a warning to President Vladimir V. Putin and a demonstration of how the Trump administration is using new authorities to deploy cybertools more aggressively, current and former government officials said. In interviews over the past three months, … Read more
via Troy: Bears are saying “the S&P today looks just like 2007” while bulls are saying “the S&P today looks just like 2016”. In reality, the S&P today is most like 1967 (not quite what you would expect). Various technical factors suggest that the medium term is bullish. The short term is mixed, and such a … Read more
by Shaun Richards One of the features of the credit crunch era has been the shift in some places about fiscal policy. For example the International Monetary Fund was rather keen on austerity in places like Greece but then had something of a road to Damascus. Although sadly Greece has been left behind as it … Read more
via redstate: Usually, when Steven Crowder does a “Change My Mind,” he heads to a University campus to challenge the students there on their viewpoints, and as the name of the bit implies, change his mind as well. Reactions to Crowder tend to range from understanding and conversational to rage and tears. After Crowder became the … Read more
Elint News (@ ELINTNews), Beep Delete (@ beepdelete) and @ TheUpdaterTU have been suspended today People reactions https://twitter.com/search-home https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/1140011449290579969 The funny part is that they're trying to get OSINT accounts suspended based on tweets that are not related to India in any way. For example, @ELINTNews's tweets on Middle East were reported. My tweets on … Read more
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s comments on the pro-life cause and its advocates are illustrative of the left’s increasing extremism, militancy and disturbingly intolerant and authoritarian mindset. Someone asked Gillibrand if having a litmus test for judicial nominees would threaten judicial independence, as she has promised to only appoint justices who would affirm the Supreme Court case … Read more
The explosions were reported to have occurred in an undisclosed military area in Dummar, west of Damascus. https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Syrian-state-TV-Explosions-heard-in-Damascus-592611 https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5525541,00.html http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/AllFlashes.aspx h/t NB
By Robert Ross The markets are in the middle of a once-in-a-decade event. And it says a lot about what you should do with your money right now. I’m talking about a critical recession indicator called the yield curve inversion—or the Diamond Cross. As you may recall, a Diamond Cross happens when the difference between the … Read more
by The_In-Betweener The idea of false flags is pretty well known at this point so it’s nice to watch so many instantly question these situations. Here’s Ben Garrison cartoon where he seems to have faith that Trump won’t cave to those committing the potential false flag. The leaders of Saudi Arabia and Israel along with … Read more
Book value vs stock prices at every #Bubble peak. This bubble had flat wages + 1/2 the GDP growth of prior two economic cycles; but 0% rates, exploding global debt (US $10T–>$22T, China $7T–$40T) + $15T global QE.🤔#idiocy@RobSKaplan @neelkashkari @marydalyecon @EricRosengren pic.twitter.com/NwNVK8IqOr — M/1_LP (@MI_Investments) June 15, 2019
via Zerohedge: While central banks have yet to lose control over the stock or bond market, an eventuality which even the world’s biggest bond manager warns is just a matter of time, they sure have lost control over what is arguably an even more important market metric: inflation expectations. Take the euro-area, where despite years … Read more
via metricmaps.org: Source is ACS 2017 5 year county geo, and tool is maptitude h/t metricmaps_or
via taxprof: Memorandum Opinion For the General Counsel, Department of the Treasury, Congressional Committee’s Request for the President’s Tax Returns Under 26 U.S.C. § 6103(f) (33 pages): The provisions in 26 U.S.C. § 6103 protecting confidentiality of tax returns prohibited the Department of the Treasury from complying with a request by the Chairman of the House Ways and … Read more
Authored by John Solomon via The Hill If you read the newspapers, tuned into the cable TV pundits or received an email from one of the Democrats running for president, you’d swear Donald Trump was back to his treasonous ways. All that was missing was an annoying OMG text exclamation punctuating the unfounded claims that Trump might … Read more
By John Mauldin Ray Dalio is the thoughtful, somewhat controversial founder of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, which he started in 1975. While much of his writing is private, I (and many others) peruse every word we can of his and the Bridgewater team’s thinking. I find it to be some of the … Read more
GLENN REYNOLDS’ SOCIAL MEDIA UPHEAVAL Makes The Case For Trust-Busting Big Tech Companies In Glenn Reynolds’ new book, ‘The Social Media Upheaval,’ the popular blogger and law professor persuasively fleshes out his argument for breaking up the Silicon Valley giants. Reynolds has a deceptively simple prose style that he’s perfected at Instapundit. There, he’s the master of … Read more
by TFittonJW President Trump took notice this am: Obama-Clinton-Russia: The REAL Collusion Scandal; Docs Show Obama State Dept. Launders Steele Dossier to Target @realDonaldTrump; and Leftists Threaten Electoral College and U.S. Constitution. Huge @JudicialWatch Update! https://t.co/JTMAjukmKm pic.twitter.com/LQSz3TTJXr — Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) June 15, 2019 Background: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-releases-state-department-emails-showing-dossier-author-christopher-steeles-close-relationship-with-state-department/ Judicial Watch today released 43 pages of documents from the U.S. … Read more
