Lots of evidence of slowing

by WARREN MOSLER Highlights A marginal headline gain of 0.1 percent in construction spending masks significant declines in residential spending during August. Residential spending fell 0.7 percent in the month to more than offset a 0.2 percent rise in July. Looking at sub-components, single-family spending was also down 0.7 percent in August with multi-unit spending … Read more

144 House Democrats approve of illegal aliens voting in U.S. elections

by Dr. Eowyn Democrats are the Anti-America Party of Lawlessness. Congressional resolutions are not laws. They are not legislative in character, but are statements of intent or declarations used primarily to express principles, facts, opinions, and purposes. When Congress seeks to pass a law, it uses either a bill or a joint resolution, which must be … Read more

Here is what Julian Assange wanted us to know right before his internet was cut

via reddit: “Intelligent evil dust, it’s everywhere in everything” and “The generation being born now is the last to be free” What was he talking about? Smart Dust Smartdust involves 5G wireless and IoT as I will soon explain. First, here’s Assange describing it in his own words: https://youtu.be/Rd6u5Los-VM?t=1m42s It’s interesting to note that research on … Read more

CATALONIA: CLASHES AS PRO-INDEPENDENCE PROTESTERS TRY TO STORM THE PARLAMENT

https://twitter.com/_ju1_/status/1046853760352493573 https://twitter.com/eSpaiNews/status/1046850288043413504 Pro-Spanish MPs have been escorted out of the Parliament Hoy de nuevo, al acabar la preparación de los plenos de mañana, hemos tenido que salir escoltados del Parlament por un fuerte cordón policial por la presencia de una manifestación de los comandos separatistas en la puerta pic.twitter.com/5GvkzCJaE0 — Inés Arrimadas (@InesArrimadas) October 1, … Read more

Two Prominent Market Observers And Historians, Robert Shiller And Edward Chancellor, Are Expressing Concern About Stock Market

by John Coumarianos  They say nobody rings a bell at the top of the market. But whether this is the top or not, two prominent market observers and historians, Robert Shiller and Edward Chancellor, are expressing concern. First, Shiller warns readers not to take big increases in earnings too seriously because earnings are volatile. Everyone … Read more

On Friday, the nation turned a blind eye to google’s meeting with congress. That sort of coverage doesn’t bring in ratings. But it impacts the entire world.

Google meets with GOP, strengthening ties with the government RT, Released on 10/1/18 Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, recently met with about two dozen prominent Republican Congress people, for a couple of reasons. First, there’s the issue of bias that keeps coming up. A lot of Republicans feel like Google is very biased against conservatives, and … Read more

China cancels October security dialogue with US Defense officials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCQfSjgFC4A Beijing has abruptly canceled a high-level security meeting with U.S. Department of Defense official scheduled for October. U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis was planning to visit Beijing in mid-October to meet with top officials from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The Chinese government on Sept. 30 released a statement that not senior officials … Read more

ALARMISTS GONNA ALARM

Some of the usual suspects used their perch in the Washington Post last week to allege that the administration’s new fuel economy rule (the SAFE rule) will lead to a post-apocalyptic hellscape. My colleague Marlo Lewis eviscerates this alarmist claptrap: “Last month, deep in a 500-page draft environmental impact statement, the Trump administration made a startling assumption: … Read more

If we create ‘super soldiers,’ can we turn them back?

From Popular Mechanics: A soldier wears a skullcap that stimulates his brain to make him learn skills faster, or reads his thoughts as a way to control a drone. Another is plugged into a Tron-like “active cyber defense system,” in which she mentally teams up with computer systems “to successfully multitask during complex military missions.” The Pentagon … Read more

World’s top 5 ‘most evil’ corporations

To be honest there is a long list of candidates that could have been chosen for inclusion in the “top 5”, but this RT’s (politicised) list, which predictably singles out US corporations, with only a couple of exceptions, and includes no Russian names. They go for: Monsanto Apple Nestle Philip Morris McDonald’s Other contenders listed … Read more

SILICON VALLEY BLUES: WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton Gives The Inside Story On #DeleteFacebook And Why He Left $850 Million Behind.

via forbes: He clearly doesn’t relish the spotlight this story will bring and is quick to underscore that Facebook “isn’t the bad guy.” (“I think of them as just very good businesspeople.”) But he paid dearly for the right to speak his mind. “As part of a proposed settlement at the end, [Facebook management] tried to … Read more

The Hounding of Judge Kavanaugh: A Synopsis

by Dr. Eowyn Beverly Ann Barnum is a longtime Facebook reader of Fellowship of the Minds. She wrote this essay to inform “all those clamoring for an FBI investigation into the Ford/Kavanaugh situation.” WHO: Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, accuser; Judge Bret Kavanaugh, defendant; Mark Judge, witness; Patrick J. Smyth, witness; Leland Ingham Keyser, witness. WHAT: All named witnesses declare, under oath … Read more

JAY COST: In the Kavanaugh Hearings, Democrats Break Norms to Gain Power… McConnell: Senate Will Hold Kavanaugh Vote ‘This Week.’

via nationalreview: What grates me about this recent talk of norms is that that efforts to police norms have of late been notoriously one-sided, mainly serving the purpose of advancing Democratic political priorities. For instance, in 2011, President Barack Obama invited Paul Ryan, who was then the chairman of the House Budget Committee, to a speech … Read more