by Simon Black of Sovereign Man Nearly 4,000 years ago in the mid 18th century BC, the King of Babylon passed away, leaving the throne to his 18-year old son Hammurabi. Hammurabi was smart enough to know that his kingship would be incredibly short if he didn’t do something quickly to assert his power. So as his first … Read more
by visualcapitalist In today’s tech-driven economy, data is essential for gaining new insights, making decisions, and building products. In fact, there is so much data out there, that the quantity of it is doubling every two years – and by 2020, there will be 45,000 exabytes of data in existence. This is an unprecedented figure, and … Read more
Money manager Michael Pento says the biggest unreported story is the skyrocketing interest rate of LIBOR. What’s that? Pento explains, “LIBOR, and people don’t understand or talk about it, is the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate. This rate has gone from 0.3% at the end of 2015 to 2.3% today. The London Inter-Bank Offered Rate is … Read more
China announced additional tariffs on 106 U.S. products, in a move likely to heighten global concerns of a tit-for-tat trade war between the world’s biggest economies. The new charges are targeted at U.S. products including soybeans, cars and whisky. The effective start date for the new charges will be revealed at a later time, though … Read more
Nasim Aghdam: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know Aghdam, 39, lived in southern California. She was active on YouTube and often ranted about the company in videos on her channels, on Instagram, and on her own website. It is unknown if this was a potential motive in Tuesday’s shooting. Aghdam identified as Persian and often posted … Read more
by Ruby Henley Please scroll down for the update on the shooting. While I was finishing this first report, the shooter was identified. That will be in PART 2. PART 1 A witness to the shooting at YouTube’s headquarters in California was interviewed by Fox KTVU. He made a surprising statement to the reporter, or … Read more
by Disobedient Media While Julian Assange remains unable to contact the outside world from the Ecuadorian embassy amidst the silence imposed by the Ecuadorian government, a heroic group of activists has been continually standing in solidarity with Assange. The vigils did not begin when the Assange’s internet was cut, as they have been participating in … Read more
I’m not sure exactly how many comments are going to be deleted or what they are saying but they basically just admitting to removing any theory that doesn’t fit what they want to hear. There isn’t even any covering it up. And to make it worse, he is painting broad strokes across all “bullshit conspiracy … Read more
by Harry Dent Jeff was a small business owner in New Hampshire. One Tuesday afternoon, his neighbor called… “You need to get home NOW! There’s a dumpster in your yard, a padlock on your door, and a bunch of guys are ransacking your house!” Completely panicked, Jeff dropped everything and raced home. When he got there, he … Read more
by TFittonJW Here’s the story based on my Judicial Watch appearance on Fox News this afternoon: http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/04/03/jill-mccabe-speaking-out-lot-noise-let-andrew-challenge-ouster I’m getting tired of the FBI’s protecting McCabe and the rest:
by Ruby Henley There has been a shooting at the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California. There are reports of seven victims with one fatality. It is said the shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. There is an unverified report the shooter shot her boyfriend, and it may be a domestic situation. YouTube has … Read more
Nobody wants to talk about it because they know how dangerous this is. Debt. It follows you wherever you go. If your city, state, province, or country is in debt, it’s still on your back. You can’t escape it. And it’s all because of central banks. Many assets are connected to floating rates and that … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter It’ll take many more sell-offs and the collapse of many more iffy stocks before this hyper-enthusiasm, after nine years of central bank nurturing, is finally wrung out of the market. Shares of “blockchain” company LongFin (LFIN) plunged 17% today to $14.31, the sixth trading day in a row of plunges. Intraday … Read more
by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors With volatility returning to domestic equities, it might be time for investors to consider increasing their exposure to foreign markets, specifically emerging Europe. As I shared with you in January, emerging Europe countries, as measured by the MSCI EM Europe 10/40 Index, finished last year up more than 20 percent, and so … Read more
by Chris Porton Down experts confirm they are unable to confirm ‘Novichok’ nerve agent came from Russia or establish it’s country of origin! https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/03/porton-down-experts-unab… What a surprise! Yes, what a complete surprise! Of course they couldn’t and we knew that here weeks ago of course. So the bottom line is that the UK plus all … Read more
The next director of the CIA might be one of the most controversial picks ever. Gina Haspel not only helped to oversee the CIA’s torture program, but may have also destroyed evidence in an effort to hide torture techniques. Is this really the person who should run the Central Intelligence Agency? https://youtu.be/DkHJXaGv2b4
The Saudi Crown Prince is in the Bay Area to visit companies like Google (Youtube’s parent). Now there’s an Active Shooter at YouTube’s HQ just a 15 mile drive north on highway 101. Earlier conspiracy theories posted here suggested that the Las Vegas shooting also may have involved a strange coincidence with Saudi Royalty. More on the Las … Read more
By David Stockman The are few snarkier defenders of the current rotten financial status quo than Ben White of Politico’s Money Morning. So it’s not surprising that he is out this AM with the latest Trumb-o-phobe meme from Swamp Dweller’s Central. To wit, the renewed stock market swoon is purportedly all the Donald’s fault owing to his unhinged tweet storms, protectionist trade initiatives and attacks … Read more
by DCG From Kansas City.com: A Missouri couple decided to turn their entire yard into a flower garden. It turns out, that was against a city ordinance, which says half of residents’ yards must be grass turf. But the wife is allergic to grass. Now a federal judge has ruled: tough. So Janice and Carl Duffner are … Read more
