Nearly $1 million worth of cancer medication stolen from semi-truck

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T7–lAb1_A Authorities in Tennessee report a semi-truck headed to Dothan, AL with medication for cancer patients was stolen from a truck stop Thursday. The truck driver stopped for fuel at the Pilot Truck Stop on Lewisburg Highway around 8:30 p.m. When he returned from the store, he said the truck was gone, according to WHNT. … Read more

Former CIA Officer Charged With Conspiracy to Commit Espionage

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCo5FcApEvQ Cristina Laila for the Gateway Pundit reports, The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 53, of Hong Kong, was indicted by a federal grand jury with one count of conspiracy to gather or deliver national defense information to aid a foreign government, and two counts of unlawfully retaining documents … Read more

Fact-Checking Haspel’s Nomination Hearing Against the Declassified Record: FRINFORMSUM 5/10/2018

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Unredacted (blog), The National Security Archive, George Washington University. Compares Gina Haspel’s confirmation hearing testimony with the declassified record. Disputes Haspel’s claim that CIA has “historically not done interrogations.” The 1963 Kubark manual. Fact-Checking Haspel’s Nomination Hearing Against the Declassified Record PolitiFact reached out to the National Security Archive’s CIA expert John Prados to help fact-check … Read more

DOJ Charges Baltimore Police Commissioner With Failure To File Taxes

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by stockboardasset Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa acknowledged Thursday that he failed to file federal and state income tax returns for three consecutive years after the Department of Justice (DOJ) slapped him with three misdemeanor counts of failure to file taxes. In a statement published on Twitter, De Sousa said: “there is no excuse for my failure to fulfill … Read more

How Safe Are We? Our Blindness to Systemic Dangers

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by Charles Hugh-Smith How do we explain our obsession with relatively low risk dangers and our collective blindness to manufactured/marketed scourges that kill tens of thousands of people annually? If you’ve bought a new vehicle recently, you may have noticed some “safety features” that strike many as Nanny State over-reach. You can’t change radio stations, for … Read more

Hottest & Coldest Luxury Housing Markets in the World

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Prices boil over in some cities and hot air hisses out of others. So how is the luxury housing market doing in the top cities around the world, as they’re facing “significant risks ahead in the form of rising debt, inflation, and greater housing market regulation?” Knight Frank’s Prime Global Cities Index rose … Read more

Stocks Set Up For A Big Rally

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by Daniel Carter Two weeks ago, I wrote an article explaining why I thought the stock market would have one more major rally before the end of this economic cycle. In that article, I explain that jobless claims are still shrinking, the yield curve is still flattening, and investor sentiment is not euphoric. All of these … Read more

Is Russia Really Trying To Subvert US Democracy?

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by Daniel Carter Possibly. We would have to unspin the US government’s lies to gain any substantive insights on the matter. They have lied to and manipulated US citizens far more than Russia could ever dream. However, that does not mean Russia is innocent. They and others see US supremacy waning, which makes it easier for … Read more

The Striking Similarities Between SJWs and Evangelicals

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by Daniel Carter Over the past several years, the Social Justice Warrior movement has swelled to become a formidable beast in the US. Anyone who does not follow their strict doctrine is lambasted with terms such as “fascist”, “racist”, “mansplainer“, “deplorable” and an abundance of other dehumanizing insults. SJWs have corrupted academia, the media and politics. … Read more

The Fed Is About To Kill The Credit Boom

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via Gary Gordon Summary Household debt levels may not be as menacing as they were in the previous credit boom-bust cycle. On the other hand, corporations have never been as leveraged as they are right now. Excesses in corporate credit preceded each of the three previous recessions. Ten years ago, one-third (33%) of corporations carried lower-quality … Read more

We Are Coming Off Of One Of The Most Extreme Periods Of Overvalued, Overbought, Overbullish Enthusiasm In Market History

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by Hussman Funds Doug Hussman has come up with a future market performance indicator so accurate, it’s difficult, over a 50+ year term, to see where the predictions ended and the actual performance began. The catch? It’s deadly accurate foretelling stock market returns over the coming 12 years. Not next week, not next year. The … Read more

Raoul Pal: What Will Happen to Pension Funds During the Next Recession?

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In this hard-hitting Real Vision special, Raoul Pal presents the single most important financial topic of a generation — the Baby Boomer retirement crisis. He asks the hard questions: Can you afford to retire? How will the coming crisis impact your life? What risks are you unknowingly taking with your retirement? Moreover, will the insufficient … Read more