JONATHAN TURLEY: “Mueller’s position on the investigation has become increasingly conflicted and, at points, unintelligible.

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via jonathanturley.org: Below is my column in The Hill newspaper on three unanswered and troubling questions for Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The concerns over Mueller’s motivations was heightened by the justifications that he has offered for some of his decisions like not reaching a conclusion on the weight of the evidence on obstruction. Many of us … Read more

BRENDAN O’NEILL: A city without citizens: John Cleese has a point about London.

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via spiked-online: “Demographically, London has changed enormously in recent years, but it has become tantamount to a speechcrime to say anything critical about these developments. . . . What is really bizarre about the attacks on Cleese is that his critics actually agree with him that London is no longer fundamentally an English city, only they … Read more

Goldman Sachs Is Predicting an Escalation of Global Trade Wars

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Goldman Sachs has revised up the possibility of sweeping auto tariffs being introduced this year to 40%, from 25% previously. The Wall Street investment bank raised the possibility of the U.S. introducing a new 10% tariff on the remaining $300 billion of Chinese imports to 60%, from 40% previously. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/03/goldman-sachs-is-predicting-an-escalation-of-global-trade-wars.html Morgan Stanley chief economist says … Read more

If this is the strongest argument against Trump’s immigration policy, then Trump’s immigration policy is safe.

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DOES TRUMP’S EFFORT TO GET MEXICO TO REIN IN ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTE A RETURN OF THE BERLIN WALL? “Defenders of Trump’s action could argue that there is a distinction between locking people in completely and ‘merely’ preventing them from leaving for a specific destination (such as the US). But surely we would still … Read more

Catherine Austin Fitts – Inflation is Already Here, Bipartisan Support for Secret Accounting to Hide Missing Money –

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Just because trillions of dollars are “missing” and the federal budgets are now “secret” doesn’t mean you cannot see the effects of all the massive amounts of money created. It’s is showing up in the form of inflation, not official inflation calculated by the government, but real inflation for the man on the street. Investment … Read more

Obama Worried There Will Be ‘Fake’ Videos Coming Out of Him Saying/Doing Horrible Things

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Obama Tells Ottawa Crowd ‘Deepfake’ Videos Have Him Worried “People can duplicate me speaking and saying anything.” OTTAWA — Barack Obama says he’s concerned “deepfake” videos will have real-life consequences, messing with people’s abilities to sort fact from fiction. The former U.S. president told an Ottawa audience that he’s seen fake videos bearing his likeness, … Read more

Manufacturing Index dips to lowest level in decade… Bonds ‘on fire’ as flight to safety rumbles on… Yield collapse

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U.S. Manufacturing Index Dips to Lowest Level in Almost a Decade (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index fell by more than two-points to 50.5 in May, the lowest level since Sept. 2009, according to IHS Markit. New orders contracted for the first time since August 2009. The overall index has fallen by almost … Read more

A Quiet Revolution Is Brewing

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by Charles Hugh-Smith Politics as practiced in a bygone era of stability no longer offers any solutions to these profound disruptions. I recently read a fascinating history of the social, political and economic context of the American Revolution: The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon Wood. What is particularly striking is the critical role played by … Read more

John Brennan Comes UNGLUED! BARKS At Dems After Mueller’s Statement, Who Does He Think He Is?

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Jim Hoft from the Gateway Pundit reports, Controversial Special Counsel Robert Mueller held a press conference on Wednesday on the Special Counsel findings where he smeared President Trump and then ran from the microphone and took no questions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og23nPRjS_w Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019…      

Rudy Giuliani DROPS BOMB on Biden Crime Family

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Jim Hoft from the Gateway Pundit reports, Trump attorney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani joined Sean Hannity on Thursday following Robert Mueller’s abysmal press conference on Wednesday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvzn50pjBZ8 Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019…    

Mega Mansions Are UNSOLD as Real Estate Goes Soft!

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Why do you think the mansions aren’t selling? Slow economy? Too many on the market? Slowing real estate market? We’ve always noted the bottom 50% of the public having economic issues. In recessions they take the biggest hit. In prosperous times, they often see almost no benefit. The richest tier however tend to get richer … Read more

Industrial Production, Forecast, US personal income, Oil, ATT Presidential boycott

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by WARREN MOSLER Slow motion trainwreck by Agent Orange, aka Tariff Man, continues… Below 50 indicates contraction: Demand for Saudi oil has fallen back: Saudi pricing of discounts generally trending higher but most recently there’s been a small move back: And how about this? https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/03/trump-calls-for-a-boycott-of-att-to-force-big-changes-at-cnn.html

The Treasury Market Acts Like the Economy is in a Death Spiral, But Wait…

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter In the past, the Treasury market was terribly wrong about this. In these instances, the 10-year yield had no predictive quality. It was just a stupid move by the market that then self-corrected brutally. The last such idiocy happened in 2016. The good folks who made that move are still ruing … Read more

For U.S. and China, it’s not trade war anymore — it’s something worse… Beijing Targets FEDEX… Defense Minister Warns of ‘Fight to the End’

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For U.S. and China, it’s not trade war anymore — it’s something worse…  What started out two years ago as an effort by President Trump to wring better terms from China on the nuts and bolts of foreign trade now threatens to become a far wider and more ominous confrontation. The conflict continues to be … Read more