POLITICAL CORRUPTION: Microsoft, Facebook to intentionally interfere with Canada’s election, official says

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via theguardian: OTTAWA (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp and Facebook Inc have agreed to help boost the security of Canada’s October election by removing fake accounts and cracking down on bots, a top government official said on Monday. Last month the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau complained that the world’s major social media companies were … Read more

Digenova: “Christopher Wray is now the enemy of the people. Deep State Literally at War With POTUS/AG. Spying started 2012”

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This is full scale WAR going on between the Justice Dept and the FBI, between Attorney General Barr and the FBI Director Chris Wray. The intelligence community is in full resistance to disclosing what they did during the presidential campaign. This is history in the making! Shorter version: There is a full-scale war in Washington … Read more

Julian Assange Indicted on 18 More Counts

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by Martin Armstrong Julian Assange of WikiLeaks was charged with conspiring to obtain national security secrets in what prosecutors have described as one of the largest compromises of classified information in U.S. history. They filed 18 new charges against Assange, which include allegations that he aided and abetted former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning’s efforts … Read more

Hot trend in smartphones? Not buying new one

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via CNBC: The smartphone industry plans to tackle a global slowdown in sales by selling new, pricey foldable devices and handsets that can support the super high-speed mobile internet standard known as 5G. But that may not be enough to sway people to trade in their old phones as long as they remain in good … Read more

As ER wait times grow, more patients leave against medical advice

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via khn: Emergency room patients increasingly leave California hospitals against medical advice, and experts say crowded ERs are likely to blame. About 352,000 California ER visits in 2017 ended when patients left after seeing a doctor but before their medical care was complete. That’s up by 57%, or 128,000 incidents, from 2012, according to data from … Read more

Eliminating Free Speech The Smart Way

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by Jeff Thomas Via International Man Left-wing activists have recently been increasingly active in seeking to limit opposing political viewpoints, in order to create a more ubiquitous “groupthink.” One effort in accomplishing this has been to propose the creation of a “Human Rights Committee” in order to monitor the economic transactions of “white supremacist groups and … Read more

Car Makers CUT 38,000 Jobs in 6 Months! More Store Closures! Worst Year Since Financial Crisis!

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The economy is an interesting thing. You generally hear the same statistics over and over again. The fake unemployment rate, the wonderful consumer confidence, and everyone’s favorite, the GDP. Now I love a good comedy myself, but it’s also important to actually spend some time looking at facts. The jobs numbers are definitely not giving … Read more

How a Low Share Price Would be Fatal for Tesla, and why Musk has to pump it up, come hell or high water.

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Tesla shares are down 50% from last December and are back where they’d first been in September 2013. Bonds dropped to a new low on Friday, reflecting what the market thinks the probability is that Tesla will default, and what bondholders will get if it does. This poses a unique existential … Read more

Forget “Money”: What Will Matter Are Water, Energy, Soil and Food–and a Shared National Purpose

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by Charles Hugh-Smith If you want to identify tomorrow’s superpowers, overlay maps of fresh water, energy, grain/cereal surpluses and arable land. The status quo measures wealth with “money,” but “money” is not what’s valuable. “Money” (in quotes because the global economy operates on intrinsically valueless fiat currencies being “money”) is wealth only if it can purchase … Read more

Busted Housing Bubble 1 Morphs into Housing Bubble 2 in Spain?

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Madrid, Barcelona, other markets are well on their way. But some markets are still crushed. Spain’s last epic housing bubble, one of the biggest in living memory, propelled median home prices to €2,100 per square meter, at which point the bubble began to burst. The national median price eventually plunged 31%, … Read more

FBI Lawyer Squeals Like a Pig: Implicates Comey, McCabe, and Yates for Mishandling of FISA Warrant

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Collins released transcripts on several FBI, DOJ officials including: Trisha Anderson William Sweeny Loretta Lynch James Kybicki Andrew McCabe George Toscas Jonathan Moffa John Giacalone Sally Moyer In her testimony, (Trisha Anderson) alleges that the application process for the FISA warrant was handled in an “unusual” fashion and that numerous Obama era FBI officials were … Read more

BATTLE OF EU

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Macron vs. Salvini: Two leaders face off over EU’s future BRUSSELS (AP) — France’s pro-EU president and the leader of Italy’s euroskeptic, far-right movement jockeyed for the role of chief powerbroker on the continent Monday after elections to the European Parliament hollowed out the traditional political middle. The four days of balloting that drew to a close … Read more