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by stockboardasset India is preparing to construct a significant overseas military base on an island in Seychelles, an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, off East Africa to counter growing Chinese influence in the Indian Ocean. Last month, Seychelles and India signed a twenty-year agreement, permitting the Indian military to build an airbase and naval installations on Assumption … Read more

President Obama was briefed on all details concerning Russian involvement in the 2016 election, including the infamous Trump dossier paid for by the Clinton campaign and the DNC used to justify spying on the Trump team. In an email about a January 5 cabinet meeting written by former National Security Advisor Susan Rice, the information … Read more

I’m so shocked, reddit has been unblocked for the first time in Iran. Yesterday same as the always I turned on the vpn to enter reddit but i noticed I can open the site without any vpn and that means reddit has been unblocked in Iran, I am not sure that’s because of iran filtering … Read more

Which “academics” did you poll for this?: http://archive.is/kywY0 Remember folks, this is the same New York Times that had a percentage meter on their main page on election night that had Hillary at 85% percent to win the presidency. As soon as states were called, it plummeted to Trump at 95% to win the presidency. … Read more

h/t @TeddyVallee "We think there is a thick irony that, in our over-leveraged economy, economic growth is harming economic growth." From our piece Deficits Do Matter coming out tomorrow. — Michael Lebowitz, CFA (@michaellebowitz) February 20, 2018 Very Interesting! Bank Credit of All Commerical Banks rolled over w/ Stock Market pic.twitter.com/ZQg64WM18v — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) February 19, … Read more

$SPX Why can't BTFD Work? pic.twitter.com/JiyW1pBe9f — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) February 20, 2018 The gap between S&P 500 Operating EPS and As Reported EPS in Q4 was the highest since 2008, >43% difference. $SPX pic.twitter.com/GrwGQfgjSh — Charlie Bilello (@charliebilello) February 20, 2018 S&P 500 Nominal EPS US Treasury Yields, highest since…3-Month: 20086-Month: 20081-Year: 20082-Year: 20083-Year: 20085-Year: … Read more

Here Is Goldman’s Chart Showing Why The US Is Headed For “Banana Republic” Status. Earlier today we discussed a report by Goldman Sachs which, when summarized, suggested that unless something significant changes in the coming years, the current US fiscal policy will lead to a debt catastrophe. In an unprecedented warning, the bank which spawned … Read more

How Twitter Lost the Internet War. Del Harvey, Twitter’s resident troll hunter, has a fitting, if unusual, backstory for somebody in charge of policing one of the Internet’s most ungovernable platforms. As a teenager, she spent a summer as a lifeguard at a state mental institution; at 21, she began volunteering for Perverted Justice, a … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0v_7QMkBOw Cristina Laila for the Gateway Pundit reports, On Sunday’s “Face the Nation,” Hillary Clinton’s former campaign chairman John Podesta was rattled after CBS host Nancy Cordes asked him how the Russians knew to focus on Michigan and Wisconsin and Hillary didn’t. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: http://thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/j…

by JEFF DESJARDINS, VISUALCAPITALIST Across the United States, there’s a seemingly unstoppable movement gaining ground. The legalization of cannabis for adult use – first passed in the states of Washington and Colorado in 2012 – is now approved in a total of nine states and the District of Columbia. By the end of the year, that total … Read more

by Lance Roberts In our portfolio management practice, we focus on weekly and monthly data to smooth out daily volatility. Since we are longer-term investors, our focus remains on being invested during rising (bullish) trends and more heavily weighted to fixed income and cash during declining (bearish) trends. Therefore, the only data that really matters to us is where … Read more

by DCG  Sex assault suspect Sergio Martinez, February 2008 (Photo: Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office) From KGW8 News: (PORTLAND, Ore.) A man with a long criminal history, deported 20 times, was sentenced Friday to 35 years in prison after breaking into a woman’s home last summer. Sergio Jose Martinez, 31, thensexually assaulted the 65-year-old woman and stole her car. He … Read more

by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com Remember that one from 1996? Funny, that was the American mainstream media bragging, after the fact, about our own meddling in another nation’s election. WASHINGTON — A team of American political strategists who helped [California] Gov. Pete Wilson with his abortive presidential bid earlier this year said this week that they served … Read more

by Simon Black By the end of the 3rd century AD, the finances of ancient Rome were in terminal crisis. Years and years of debasing the currency had resulted in severe hyperinflation– a period of Roman history known as the Crisis of the Third Century (from AD 235 through AD 284). During the time of Julius … Read more

Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, The chart below says there has been 55.6% inflation over the last 20 years. That is just less than a 2.4% annual level of inflation. What a load of bullshit. Let’s look at a couple of categories listed below and do a smell test. Everyone knows the … Read more

Will the city of Stockton be the official test pilot before the Federal Government looks to make it a national entitlement? Share your thoughts below… Stockton, California, is set to experiment with a universal basic income plan in which select individuals will be given $500 a month, no strings attached.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN4J0V3TBFU It’s not just airports, they’re on everywhere. Even on at our military bases, hospitals, anywhere that has a tv. I always ask if I can change the channel and usually the response is no.? CM