Deutsche Bank Says It’s Firing 10% Of Its Global Workers (A Month After Firing 10% Of U.S. Workers)

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from Zero Hedge Well that escalated fast: one month after Bloomberg reported that Deutsche Bank would cut 1,000 jobs in the US, roughly 10% of its total US labor force, as part of new CEO Christian Sewing’s restructuring process, the WSJ this morning writes that executives at the biggest German lender have “zeroed in” on plans to eliminate … Read more

HERE WE GO AGAIN: BREAKING – US-Led Coalition Hits Syrian Army Base – Reports…hit several Syrian army positions

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US-Led Coalition Hits Syrian Army Base – Reports According to the SANA News Agency, US-led Coalition Air Forces struck several positions of the Syrian army in the eastern Syrian desert. According to Reuters and AFP, the strikes allegedly took place near an energy installation located near the Iraqi border, about 100 km (60 miles) west … Read more

ACLU Demands Amazon Stop Selling ‘Affordable Mass Surveillance’ To Law Enforcement

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by stockboardasset Amazon has been marketing its facial recognition platform, called Rekognition, a deep learning-based image and video analysis, to law enforcement agencies in Oregon and Orlando, according to recent documents acquired by American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California. The ACLU alleges that Amazon is marching society towards a dystopian future in which corporations and governments … Read more

The Judge just opened a huge can of worms for Twitter

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Robert Barnes: Technically, Trump blocks nobody; Twitter performs the blocking function based on its app. If Trump cannot block people w/o violating First Amendment, how can Twitter block people w/o violating First Amendment? Therefore, Twitter cannot block people. How do you like that, Jack?   Robert Barnes: That is what my suit against Twitter pending … Read more

IF HALF THE EFFORT CURRENTLY PUT INTO COMING UP WITH CUTE ACRONYMS WERE PUT INTO COMING UP WITH GOOD POLICIES INSTEAD, WE MIGHT BE IN MUCH BETTER SHAPE

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The House Committee on the Judiciary recently approved the proposed “Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act”  “FIRST STEP Act.”  I’d really like to wring the neck of the folks who come up with these acronyms, but … well … if I did I’d end up in prison, so I guess I … Read more

Don’t Let the Government Bankrupt You Too

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By Rodney Johnson I’ve spent the last few weeks diving deeper into the pension mess in the U.S. while researching for the June issue of Boom & Bust, due out to subscribers this week. And I’ve come to a conclusion. We’re in deep trouble. Some things are obvious. Puerto Rico, which I didn’t write about because it’s on display for the world to see, will NOT … Read more

Seconds After Haspel Sworn in Sarah Sanders REVEALS the ONE Thing Democrats Want to Keep Hidden

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXrm_3exe1o Jack Davis for the Western Journal reports, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Monday celebrated the confirmation of Gina Haspel to lead the CIA with a reminder of how much Democrats who claim to be the chief advocates for women have tried to block their ascent since President Donald Trump took office. Read … Read more

The lies about immigration keeping the borders open

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by Fabius Maximus Summary: Advocates for open borders rely on a series of fallacies. They are unquestioned in the major news media, but easily debunked. (1) We need immigrants to keep the economy growing! This is endlessly said, but has little basis in fact or logic. There are three easy rebuttals. First, we are beginning a … Read more

Meanwhile in Sweden: Senior Citizen Faces 2 Years Jail Time For Factually Accurate Statement About Somali Immigrants’ Low IQ

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by Chris Black Motto: In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength-George Orwell A sixty year old Swedish man was accused of hate-speech, an Orwellian term that feels like home in Sweden (and other progressive EU countries by the way) nowadays, … Read more

Visualizing U.S. Energy Consumption in One Chart

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by visualcapitalist Every year, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a federal research facility funded by the Department of Energy and UC Berkeley, puts out a fascinating Sankey diagram that shows the fate of all energy that gets generated and consumed in the United States in a given year. Today’s visualization is the summary of energy consumption … Read more

We’re No Longer Living In Refi Paradise

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by John Rubino Back in the 1990s we did our first cash-out refi. And it was amazing. The bank lowered our monthly mortgage payment AND wrote us a check for $16,000. I told that story to everyone I met for months afterward, and they were, without exception, astounded. That, in a nutshell, is the refi … Read more

James Clapper Committed Perjury On The Senate Floor And Still Continued To Be Director Of National Intelligence Under Obama

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James Clapper (the Director of National Intelligence) flat out lies to the Senate when asked whether or not the NSA is spying on American citizens. The MSM has been trotting this jackass out as a leading “Resist Trump” goon for a while now. He clearly lied under oath to Congress in this clip about something … Read more