Nabisco’s Chips Ahoy cookies celebrates Mother’s Day with drag queen. Cookies recalled for ‘unexpected solidified ingredient’

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by Dr. Eowyn On Mother’s Day last Sunday, May 12, 2019, Nabisco’s Chips Ahoy! tweeted a video of a drag queen, Vanessa Vanjie, with this message: #HappyMothersDay to your moms, your drag moms and everyone who celebrates you being YOU. #GetTheseCookies Here’s the video: http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Chips-Ahoy-Mothers-Day-drag-queen-tweet-5-12-2019.mp4 Below are some tweets in response: Reaper: “This is a man” Mark Dice: “Maybe just … Read more

States get ‘aggressive’ as residents flee high taxes… Cities drowning in debt

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New York, California get ‘aggressive’ when residents try to flee high taxes As an increasing number of residents are looking to leave high-taxOpens a New Window. states, such as California and New York, some of these state and local governmentsOpens a New Window. are not making the process easy. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act introduced a number of reforms, … Read more

Michael Ballanger: “Invisible Hand” Of Govt Intervention And Interference Now In Full View

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by Michael Ballanger via Streetwise Reports Sector expert Michael Ballanger muses on the effects of Twitter and political maneuvers on the markets, and specifically on a favorite gold explorer. I have a confession to make: There are no free markets anymore; there are only interventions. Of course, I bow to Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) cofounder Chris Powell, … Read more

The Current Monetary Order Is Nearing Its End

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by Claudio Grass via Claudiograss.ch Interview with Dimitri Speck Given the massive intervention and monetary manipulation experiment by central banks over the last decade, the amount of distortions created in the market, as well as the record debt accumulation at all levels of the economy, have given rise to considerable risks for investors. For a more detailed understanding … Read more

Alabama Passes A Bill Making Abortion A Felony, Potentially Setting Up A Historic Showdown In The Supreme Court

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by Michael Snyder They actually did it.  On Tuesday night, the Alabama Senate passed a bill that would actually make abortion a felony in the state of Alabama.  Needless to say, pro-abortion forces all over the nation are officially freaking out about this new law.  They know that it is intended as “a direct challenge” … Read more

Investors May Be Laughing At China’s “People’s War” Now, But Here Is Why They Won’t Be Laughing For Long…

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by Michael Snyder Wall Street is still treating this crisis as a temporary trade dispute, but the Chinese see things completely differently.  At this point, the narrative in China is that the U.S. has deeply insulted their national honor, and every angry statement from U.S. officials is just digging the knife in a little bit … Read more

The Economy Has Fundamentally Changed in the 21st Century–and Not for the Better

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by Charles Hugh-Smith The net result is we have an economy that’s supposedly expanding smartly while our well-being and financial security are collapsing. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and other metrics of economic activity don’t measure either broad-based prosperity or well-being. Elites skimming financialization profits by expanding corporate debt and issuing more loans to commoners while spending … Read more

Wall Street Bear Who Says 2019 Recession “Virtually Unavoidable” Doubles Down

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by Mac Slavo of SHTFplan The wall street bear who claimed that an economic recession in 2019 will be “virtually unavoidable” has doubled down on his assessment.  He warning that the corporate buybacks will fuel the next recession. Gluskin Sheff Chief Economist and Strategist David Rosenberg acknowledged that his prediction about the recession may have come a bit … Read more

Keith Weiner: The Madness Of Borrowing To Consume Will End, And It Will End Badly

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by Keith Weiner of Monetary-Metals We have deviated, these past several weeks, from matters monetary. We have written a lot about a nonmonetary driver of higher prices—mandatory useless ingredients. The government forces businesses to put ingredients into their products that consumers don’t know about, and don’t want. These useless ingredients, such as ADA-compliant bathrooms and supply chain tracking, … Read more

The guy just appointed to investigate Mueller/FBI/DOJ has a history of exposing Mueller’s dirty deeds

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via rushlimbaugh: RUSH: Thank you very much, sir. CALLER: The sin that those four fellows committed was not being swamp dwellers. They were probably — RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hang on. He’s talking about the four people that were innocent that were kept in jail by Mueller so as to protect Whitey Bulger’s … Read more

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Takes A Big Step Toward Ending Robocalls Consumers want and need reliable caller ID information. That’s why we must

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The Federal Communication Commission announced plans Monday to instruct major phone companies to update their caller ID services to help combat so-called spoofed robocalls. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will host a summit in July to examine to what degree the industry is implementing new industry-wide standard for caller ID authentication. The new standard is called … Read more

Jim Rickards: Trends Suggest Next Crisis WORSE Than Expected, “Requiring” MARTIAL LAW

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by Larry White of The View From Our Whitehouse Jim Rickards Discusses His New Book – “Aftermath” Readers here know that I have followed Jim Rickards for many years because of his extensive understanding of the issues we cover here and because he has talked about the potential for major monetary system change. That is what this blog … Read more

Nasdaq Drops 6.3% in 6 Days, as Uber & Lyft IPOs Turn into Colossal Flops. S&P 500 Chart Not Pretty

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Russell 2000 back where it had first been in November 2017. This market, after a historic rally despite declining corporate earnings in the first quarter, was looking for a trigger, any trigger, and it found a trigger, or triggers. But the trade war cannot explain the colossal flops in the over-hyped … Read more