TAKE COVER! KUSI’s response to Brian Stelter’s criticism might spark some head explosions at CNN
via twitchy: To paraphrase the Simpsons’ Jasper Beardsley, that’s a doxxin’. Earlier: CNN Defends Decision to Spike Local Media Pro-Border Wall Interview: ‘This Is a Non-Story.’ h/t ED
JOEL KOTKIN: Trump Is Not Crazy: The Middle Kingdom And The U.S. Economy.
via ocregister: In the poker match between President Donald Trump and China’s new all-but-emperor, Xi Jinping, it’s widely assumed that Xi holds the best hand. Yet President Xi’s hand may not be as awesome as it appears, while the United States, even under this very flawed president, may hold some fine cards. Of course, Xi wields … Read more
FRANCE: The Yellow Vests Are Unstoppable.
via spiked-online: Not only does peripheral France fare badly in the modern economy, it is also culturally misunderstood by the elite. The yellow-vest movement is a truly 21st-century movement in that it is cultural as well as political. Cultural validation is extremely important in our era. One illustration of this cultural divide is that most modern, … Read more
Orwellian
by Nate China is planning on rolling out a nationwide network where all their citizens are graded on a variety of metrics and given a “social credit score.” In this Bloomberg QuickTake video, they explain how it works, what it is, and the battle China is facing domestically with its own population. For those that have low … Read more
Understanding Market Cycles… “Where Are We Now?”
Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, I was digging through some old charts over the weekend and stumbled across this gem from AlphaTrends which explains the “best time to buy stocks.” “Is it possible to time the market cycle to capture big gains? Like many controversial topics in investing, there is no real professional consensus on market timing. Academics … Read more
ATTN SHOPPERS! Guess Who Was Ranked NUMBER ONE US Grocery Store Chain?
Thomas Barrabi for FOX Business reports, Trader Joe’s is the preferred grocery store destination for U.S. consumers for the second consecutive year, according to an analysis by consumer data science firm Dunnhumby. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Teu9biTbW4g Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.foxbusiness.com/retail/tr…
The Democrat Wall of Insanity Is Cracking – Top Democrats Announce Support for Border Barriers
Jim Hoft for the Gateway Pundit reports, Pelosi and Cryin’ Chuck Schumer begged President Trump this week to reopen the government. Trump doesn’t give a damn and wants a wall. Chuck and Nancy are losing. And their wall of insanity is crumbling down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm8jsr-yVl0 Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019…
Trump Executes DANGEROUS Game of Chicken With Twisted Dems, Pelosi and Schumer
The government Shutdown continues. Who will blink first? The one who does could lose everything in the upcoming 2020 presidential race – including President Trump. Conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg, the senior editor of the National Review, told NPR’s Noel King, “ is just simply that for both sides it’s become a zero-sum thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auhnxssB9GA … Read more
New Study Claims 13 Million Year True Polar Axis Shift
I have read Hapgood Cayce and others who claimed cataclysmic pole shifts and always waited for more scientific confirmation of “true polar wander”, or the variance of the poles from the current spin axis. Then I read a new study at Rice University that documented a slow shift over the last 13 million years. What … Read more
I Read The News So You Don’t Have To – Market News (January 14, 2019)
by ogordained UNITED STATES Futures are down amid weak trade data out of China US CPI was in line with expectations at 1.9% Loan Growth has accelerated rapidly going into 2019 Business loans are up 11% since last year S&P 500 companies are warning that their 2019 earnings may not be as high as initially forecast OTHER UK Industrial Production disappointed (Actual -1.5% | Expected … Read more
Foreign Aid Keeps Flowing Under President Trump
by howmuch President Trump loves to talk about cutting U.S. foreign aid, even if he doesn’t always follow through. What’s most often missed in media coverage about this debate is where American dollars are going, and the issues U.S. expenditures are meant to fix. Our latest visualization lays out a nice snapshot, revealing the handful of countries with … Read more
Where Will The “Pending” Financial Crisis Originate?
by GoldCore – Case for a pending financial collapse is well grounded warns Rickards – “Ticking time bomb” the Federal Reserve has created is set to go off… – Economist warns U.S. high-yield debt, default of “junk bonds” could cause next crisis – Systemic risk is “more dangerous than ever” as “entire system is larger … Read more
Source Of MSM Talking Points
JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVES WITH CHYRONS, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: The MSM Never Questioned Airing An Obama Speech Despite These 1,063 Examples Of His Lies, Mendacity, Etc. WIDELY CITED STUDY OF FAKE NEWS TURNS OUT TO BE BOGUS: Last year, a study was published in the Journal of Human Behavior, explaining why … Read more
Senators Feeling Pressure of Longest Shutdown in History; Economic Growth Pinched; Gov’t Workers Turn to Emergency Loans
Lindsey Graham Blinks: Urges Trump to open govt ‘temporarily’… WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) – A Republican senator close to President Donald Trump on Sunday backed a temporary re-opening of the federal government, in the 23rd day of the longest shutdown ever, to allow for talks on a spending agreement that could satisfy Trump’s border security … Read more
SUN AND FUN! DEMS PARTY IN PUERTO RICO DURING SHUTDOWN
30 Democrats in Puerto Rico with 109 lobbyists for weekend despite shutdown Some 30 Democratic lawmakers left the government shutdown behind Friday on a chartered flight to Puerto Rico for a winter retreat with 109 lobbyists and corporate executives during which they planned to see the hit Broadway show “Hamilton” and attend three parties including one with … Read more
Magma Under The Yellowstone Supervolcano Is “Rising”, And Scientists Warn That An Eruption Would Devastate The Entire Planet
by Michael Snyder Could it be possible that a full-blown eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano is not too far away? All over the world seismic activity has been increasing in recent years, and this process seems to have accelerated during the early days of 2019. In particular, quite a few once dormant volcanoes are springing to … Read more
What’s the deal with retailers — and retail sales?
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter This is on purpose. Macy’s is not alone. Other department stores and brick-and-mortar retailers are into this too, at least the ones that haven’t filed for bankruptcy yet. So we’ll take a look (11 minutes):
The Decline and Fall of the European Union
by Charles Hugh-Smith This exhaustion of the neocolonial-neofeudal model was inevitable, and as a result, so too is the decline and fall of the European integration/exploitation project. That a single currency, the euro, would fracture rather than unite Europe was understood long before the euro’s introduction as legal tender on January 1, 2002. The euro, the … Read more
The Call Is Being Heard, It Started With This Tweet
The world is preparing for a no deal BREXIT, they are making it seem if this happens there is going to be total chaos, this is the plan of the central banks, if it is not their deal there will be chaos, or not. France and Germany see the future, globalism is imploding, they take … Read more