The Media, Mueller, the Big Con and the Democratization of Narrative

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by Charles Hugh-Smith Falling for a con is painful. The first reaction is to deny being conned, of course. The second is to blame skeptics for being correct in their skepticism. Here’s the fundamental “story” of the Mueller Investigation: elites don’t like “the little people” democratizing public narratives. The elites–who reckon theirright to rule is self-evident–want to … Read more

Shock Claim: Clinton Team Hatched ‘Blame Russia’ Plan Within 24 Hours Of Loss – Resulted In 675 Day Mueller Investigation

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by Michael Snyder The narrative that eventually spawned the Mueller investigation was concocted in a gloomy room littered with discarded Shake Shack containers in November 2016.  Even though Hillary Clinton had delivered a concession speech the day before, Clinton and her team were not ready to give up yet, and so they needed a strategy … Read more

200 Million People At Risk: National Weather Service Warns Apocalyptic Midwest Floods Are “A Preview Of What We Expect Throughout The Rest Of The Spring”

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by Michael Snyder The flooding that just struck the middle part of the country was the worst blow to U.S. farmers in decades, but now the National Weather Service is telling us that it was just “a preview of what we expect throughout the rest of the spring”.  Can that possibly be true?  After the immense … Read more

Two Down, One to Go, and the Fed is Stuck: My most important economic predictions have come in rock solid

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by David Haggith Two of my biggest and longest-term predictions for 2018 and 2019 proved resoundingly true this week, and my sole prediction for this year — a prediction of recession bolder than anyone else’s — moved a big step closer to coming true. Prediction #1: The Fed will prove to have no exit plan from … Read more

The Next Big Letdown for Stocks

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Walls Street is hoping for rate cuts and a new bout of QE, expecting that a recession will force the Fed’s hand. Stocks have surged for three months based on that hope for a recession, rate cuts, and QE. But what if the Fed stopped tightening too soon, and instead of … Read more

Global economy is sinking… The markets are starting to price in the how, what, when, and where the next QE is going to be

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🧐Have a Look at this. Global Economy s´Sink?People say this time Different @ThePitBoss16 @TradersCom @Lizardjb3 @OccupyWisdom @hks55 @SpeculaThor @mgftzgd @LordPolemos @CoryLVenable @Simple_Trends @PMack1224 @scar_david @StockBoardAsset @ezkappdo @mcm_ct @EconGlobal @tey_west pic.twitter.com/ShxseNB0Kp — Antonio Pérez-Algás (@apanalis) March 23, 2019 g l i t c h pic.twitter.com/IW0LT6rXn3 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) March 23, 2019 If anyone thinks that $BANKS … Read more

TOO LATE: Australian BANK BAIL-INS OF RETAIL DEPOSITS Have Already Happened

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by John Adams and Martin North from Adams Economics John Adams and Martin North expose the Australian establishment propaganda about bank bail-ins of retail and institutional deposits which they have claimed can never occur in Australia. (A bank bail-in of retail deposits occurred in Cyprus in 2012). Adams and North also discusses our previous findings that bail-ins can occur in … Read more

The Staggering Amount Of Gold & Silver Investment Since The 2008 Financial Crisis

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BY SRSROCCO While the demand for precious metals is certainly off its highs from prior years, investors would be quite surprised by the astonishing amount of physical gold and silver investment since the 2008 financial crisis.  Only by comparing the gold and silver investment demand in the prior decade, can we truly understand how the … Read more

This is what propaganda looks like

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A 20 minute segment of Rachel Maddow summed up in 20 seconds. Bonus material here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ito2wtSPbHw Rachel Maddow fantasizing about what would happen during the polar vortex if the power was cut by the Russians lol.     h/t dukey

Business Insider: “Trump is planning to appoint a conservative economist to the Federal Reserve Board who has repeatedly called for the entire Federal Reserve to be fired”

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President Donald Trump said Friday that he will nominate conservative economist Stephen Moore to the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. Moore has been an ardent supporter of Trump and helped craft the president’s economic message during the 2016 campaign. Moore has also been critical of the Fed’s recent interest rate hikes and Fed Chairman Jerome … Read more

Why This Tiume IS Different: The Fed’s Credibility Has Been Reduced To Zero, Zilch, Nichts, Nada & Nugatory, Too!

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via markstcyr: The real problem with most tropes is they contain their future warnings without changing a single word. The problem lies within where most never consider the flip-side, as in: what made you believe in the magic of “it’s different this time” rationale – the exact opposite is what will tear that once coveted narrative … Read more

AG Barr’s Letter Summarizing Mueller Report Findings

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by US2A NO COLLUSION The Special Counsel’s investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election [page 2, paragraph 2] Regarding Internet Research Agency (IRA) disinformation & social media efforts As noted above, the Special Counsel … Read more

“Russiagate” As The WMD Of This Generation

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by SP A magician reaches into his hat and pulls out a rabbit.  Where there was nothing, suddenly there is something. The oligarchy wants a war.  Suddenly there is a humanitarian crisis or vast stockpiles of WMDs that must be found by military action to “protect the people.”  The oligarchy never lanches a war to kill or … Read more