BREAKING: Train derailment kills several near Milan, Italy. The scene looks bad.

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SEGGIANO DI PIOLTELLO, Italy (Reuters) – A train derailment near Italy’s financial capital Milan killed at least three people and left 13 people seriously injured, the government said in a statement on Thursday. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-accident-train/at-least-three-dead-after-train-derails-near-milan-idUSKBN1FE0PR?il=0 At least 3 people were killed and dozens were injured after a commuter train derailed outside Milan, Italy, local media reports. … Read more

NEW FUNDING BILL ALLOWS INTEL AGENCIES TO SPEND W\O OVERSIGHT

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IN A DRAMATIC moment on the Senate floor Monday afternoon, as the upper chamber rushed a spending bill through to end the government shutdown, the top Republican and Democrat on the Intelligence Committee warned that the bill contains language that would kneecap Congress’s ability to oversee secret covert actions and surveillance programs. Their effort to … Read more

Gauging Contemporary Bubbles

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Authored by Chris Hamilton via Econimica blog, Those curious to gauge just how big the current equity bubble has grown need some kind of “measuring stick”.  In the chart below I use the total disposable personal income of the US (the national total income available after taxes are paid) as that measuring stick versus the Wilshire … Read more

Sanctuary California: Illegal alien working as Uber driver arrested for four rapes, could possibly be more cases

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by DCG  Illegal alien Alarcon-Nunez free to roam and rape in sanctuary California From Daily Mail: California prosecutors said an Uber driver living in the country illegally has been charged with raping, assaulting and robbing young women. San Luis Obispo County District Attorney Dan Dow said Monday that Alfonso Alarcon-Nunez’s alleged four victims are between 19 and 22 years old and three … Read more

Just 128 miles from Flint, Nestlé pays the state of Michigan just $200 per year to extract millions of gallons of clean water.

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A Tale of Two Cities tells the story of two very different Michigan communities—picturesque, small town Evart and gritty, industrial Flint— who have found their futures inextricably linked by a threat to the one thing that all life requires: water. The film explores the growing threat of water privatization and what happens when the government … Read more

Jim Rickards: U.S. Dollar Decline | Currency War with China | Gold Price Spike

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The Buck Sexton Show, Released on 1/24/18 Topics: -Coming Currency War with China -What if China decided to stop buying U.S. Treasuries? -Global financial war games -Political Triad: Trump – China Trade War – North Korea -U.S. Federal Reserve weak dollar policy -Inflation expectations could spike gold prices -China & Russia exploding gold reserves -Currency … Read more

Numerous and Burning Scandals Within The FBI Forces The Deep State To Further Expose Themselves

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by Jon Hall, Free Market Shooter At the start of the week, it was revealed that – along with the 50,000 text messages originally exchanged between the FBI’s Peter Strzok and Lisa Page – even more messages were deleted and left unpreserved, about five months’ worth of communications in total. Back in December, Peter Strzok ignited a firestorm after being … Read more

Spy Court Finds Surveillance Operating Outside The Law

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 by Paul Craig Roberts The NSA, CIA, and FBI are criminal organizations that should be abolished and their leaderships imprisoned. Here is proof from the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that security agencies have been operating outside the law: https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/icotr/51117/2016_Cert_FISC_Memo_Opin_Order_Apr_2017.pdf On page 4 the federal court that oversees the spy program states that the US government … Read more

How Long Does This Bull Market Have Left?

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by Harry Dent We called this explosive Trump rally. Right after the election… After Dow futures fell 800 points overnight and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures hit their 5% limit, which halts trading, and then everything turned around and opened the day in the green – an extreme reversal on high volume… We sent an … Read more

Feds Spent $167,045 Fighting “Fat Shaming”

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by John Whitaker, NEE The National Institutes of Health Spent $167,045 on Study to Fight “Fat-Shaming” Although obesity increases the risk of diabetes and heart disease, which kills or shortens the lives of millions of Americans, the National Institutes of Health has spent some $167,045 on a study to help fight “fat shaming”.  The bill will only grow, … Read more

US Dollar almost nears its baseline of growth from where Yellen started to pitch economy was in recovery

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@StockBoardAsset $DXY US Dollar Index Continues to "Track" Long-term Bearish Analog – https://t.co/PnBVIh2GbQ pic.twitter.com/bGBahvwrac — Nautilus Research (@NautilusCap) January 24, 2018 It is like we've said before, the dollar is headed to Pete Schiff's target of 87.50. pic.twitter.com/of9UnVZzn8 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) January 24, 2018 Dollar Tumbles After Mnuchin Endorses Weaker Currency As Ross Speaks Of … Read more

Why the Next Downturn “Will Not Look Like 2008”

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Nine years of scorched-earth monetary policies come home to roost. There are always cycles. The current cycle started at the bottom of the Great Recession and will last “until central banks put on the brakes,” said Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, in an interview with Bloomberg. “We’re in a perfect situation, inflation … Read more

HOW TO INVEST IN EMERGING MARKET STOCKS

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Emerging markets are up 53%. That is huge and will severely impact long term returns as the higher is the price you pay for a stock the higher is the risk, such is the stock market. I discuss the MSCI emerging market etc, Tencent, how the ETF is created, specific emerging countries and how to … Read more