Investment Watch Blog

by Shaun Richards One of the features of the credit crunch era is the way that those in authority so often get given pretty much a free pass from the media, This is illustrated starkly by the BBC’s senior economics correspondent Dharshini David. Today the Bank of England’s Governor admitted to me that rates are … Read more

via spiked-online: It isn’t populists who have been beating, shooting and maiming protesters in France for the past six months, causing scores of them to lose eyes and limbs. It’s anti-populists who are doing that. It is the anti-populists’ hero, in fact – Emmanuel Macron – who is overseeing this extreme state violence and brutal clampdown … Read more

New York Times: “F.B.I. Sent Investigator Posing as Assistant to Meet With Trump Aide in 2016” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/us/politics/fbi-government-investigator-trump.html I agree with everything in this superb article except “Azra Turk” clearly was not FBI. She was CIA and affiliated with Turkish intel. She could hardly speak English and was tasked to meet me about my work in … Read more

Former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were involved in a “coup” against President Trump, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarty, R-Calif., said. Thousands of Strzok and Page’s text messages have been revealed, including language that was very critical, dismissive, and in some cases profane about Trump, which have raised concerns about bias against the president. Last … Read more

via theoutline: Zuckerberg described a number of new initiatives in this “future is private” push, including encrypted, and even ephemeral, Facebook messaging features, as well as an ephemeral “status” feature (similar to Instagram or Facebook Stories) for WhatsApp. WhatsApp messages have always been end-to-end encrypted, and Zuckerberg noted they would stay that way. He emphasized several … Read more

Sharyl Attkisson: A case in point: the smear that was promulgated when I left CBS. It was often incorrectly reported that I told CBS management I was quitting due to liberal media bias. That false story turned out to be convenient for both political sides, and largely survives today. It simply wasn’t rooted in fact. … Read more

Pig ‘Ebola’ Virus Sends Shock Waves Through Global Food Chain What started with a few dozen dead pigs in northeastern China is sending shock waves through the global food chain. Last August, a farm with fewer than 400 hogs on the outskirts of Shenyang was found to harbor African swine fever, the first ever occurrence … Read more

Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Health officials once again warned consumers about the dangers of washing raw chicken before cooking it, citing the risk of spreading harmful bacteria to utensils or other foods. In a tweet sent out on April 26, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) linked to a series of … Read more

Barr is told Mueller’s team has concerns about his letter. Barr contacts Mueller and asks him if his letter was inaccurate. Mueller says “no”. Barr is asked by Congress if he was aware of the concerns Mueller’s team had about his letter. Barr testifies that he was not aware of the specific concerns Mueller’s team … Read more

via reason: Get ready to pop the cork on a bottle of champagne. As the American Prospect reported earlier this month, California—where a highest-in-the-nation one in five people is poor, according to the Census Bureau’s cost-of-living-based standard—might be on the verge of doing “something that’s never before happened in the United States: eliminate childhood deep poverty.” The Legislature simply … Read more

“The election is too decentralized to be interfered with” Obama “Russia absolutely got Trump elected, and i knew it was happening.” Obama after the election.   AC