US markets quiet to start the week as German government gives approval to merger of Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank

by QuantalyticsResearch US Stocks Preview Ahead of the Open US stocks index futures are little changed to start the week with front month Dow Jones minis –0.16%, S&P 500 minis +0.10% and Nasdaq 100 minis +0.12% The German government has given its approval to a merger of Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank following news that German Finance Minister … Read more

What Sort of “Democracy” Do We Have If Everyone’s Goal Is Maximizing Their Government Swag?

by Charles Hugh-Smith The “marketplace” of individuals and entities all seeking to maximize their share of the central-state swag doesn’t make a democracy. A democratic republic is a government in which power flows from citizens to their elected representatives. The American revolutionaries did not make a big distinction between republic and democracy, for in the context … Read more

THE NEW NORMAL: The United States Government Will Be Installing Full Facial Recognition Scanning Machines In America’s Top 20 Airports

by Geoffrey Grider In March 2017, President Trump issued an executive order expediting the deployment of biometric verification of the identities of all travelers crossing US borders. That mandate stipulates facial recognition identification for “100 percent of all international passengers,” including American citizens, in the top 20 US airports by 2021. Facial recognition has been quietly building in the background … Read more

THAT’S NOT THE NARRATIVE: Finland: Government Collapses Over Universal Health Care Costs, #Bernie2020 Hardest Hit.

via legalinsurrection: “Similar problems are bedeviling Sweden and Denmark, two other countries frequently held up as models to follow on health care” Finland has long been touted by American socialists as the socialist Nirvana, where everything is free and everyone is happy, happy, happy.  Sadly, fiscal reality hit Finland’s government as it collapsed Friday due to the rising costs … Read more

35% of American Believe Government is the Problem

by Martin Armstrong   The results of my life research, reading every newspaper story going into the bull market of the Roaring ’20s and the Great Depression revealed that before the high in 1929, when interest rates were rising, people interpreted it as BULLISH for it demonstrated that there was STILL a demand for money. Indeed, interest rates decline … Read more

The US government is allowed to to experiment with the Spanish Flu known as H1N1 influenza virus

The US Government has been scorned for lifting its ban on experiments to engineer deadly bird flu which could infect humans. Research into the viruses will soon be allowed to carry on, despite experts warning people could die if the pathogens break out of laboratories. Here is the link: US government approves experiment to create … Read more

You’re NOW CLINICALLY a CRIMINAL If You Don’t Believe MSM & Government

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoHI1_t-d2k This is really nothing to take lightly. There are many who will take this “study” seriously. MSM will lean on it like a crutch, Social Media Giants can leverage this to ban even MORE people from their platforms (in an effort to “reduce crime”) and governments can use it as a justification to intrude … Read more

U.S. Government Tracking Journalists Through Secret Database

Documents obtained by NBC 7 Investigates show the U.S. government created a secret database of activists, journalists, and social media influencers tied to the migrant caravan and in some cases, placed alerts on their passports. At the end of 2018, roughly 5,000 immigrants from Central America made their way north through Mexico to the United … Read more

FITTON: SOROS WATCH: U.S. Government Media Network Fires Journalists Over Report Critical of Soros

by TFittonJW At the request of a scandal-plagued Democratic senator tried for bribery and corruption, the head of the government’s international media networks is abusing his office to punish employees behind a broadcast critical of leftwing billionaire George Soros. U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) Chief John F. Lansing, an Obama appointee, is utilizing Stalinist … Read more

Government Ordering Agriculture Be Removed From Commodity Indexes

by Martin Armstrong I am in Europe ahead of the May elections as the crisis begins to build. It appears that the powers that be may be talking about Global Warming to justify more taxes, but behind the curtain, these freezing winters are having their impact. The potato crop in Germany has hit a historic low due … Read more

Government Corruption in Municipalities is Off The Charts

by Martin Armstrong One of the secret tools government pulls is to deny the people the right to vote on key issues they want that are often cloaked in backroom deals. Seattle is a great example of how the local government pulls every trick in the book to hide the truth about what they are really up to. … Read more

More Lousy Data Emerges after Government Shutdown: Construction Spending

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Residential Construction Skids, Nonresidential Construction Stagnates. The delay gave markets a break from lousy data. OK, it looks like GDP growth, released last week for the fourth quarter (+2.6% annualized rate), will be revised lower on March 28, given today’s data on construction spending for December, which had been delayed due … Read more

Were There Government Defaults in Canada During the Great Depression?

by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: You always mention how there were defaults and suspension of debt during the Great Depression by states and municipals. Was this also true in Canada? JRT ANSWER: Oh, yes. Whenever commodities have collapsed, Alberta finds itself in trouble. Central banks look to the national market and not to the regional sectors.

Another Government Debt Crisis Begins On Friday?

by Brian Maher of Daily Reckoning The president has redrawn his March 1 line in the sand. “Substantial progress” in trade talks with China is the reason he cited. But another March 1 deadline menaces the United States… like a creeping shadow, dark, broad and doomy. And Mr. Trump cannot push it back. Details shortly. First … Read more

The US government just made clear it’s going to go after all tech from Chinese companies

via CNBC: A letter from top U.S. officials and senators calling for a ban on Huawei-made solar equipment injects yet another complicated wrinkle in an ongoing and fierce series of tech disputes between the U.S. and China. Technology issues surrounding everything from alleged violations of Iran sanctions to trade-secrets theft and tech-transfer laws have hampered … Read more

Your Government Lies to You —-Former Technical Director of the NSA, Bill Binney, says Russian hack of DNC is Bogus

by Playaguy   Specifically he said if it were hacked there would be evidence for it. He says that it had to be downloaded directly from the server. Seth Rich was one of the few that had this access. Also – the DNC somehow didn’t have to comply with the FBI’s request to search the server. … Read more

ALERT! New Government Bill Is Going To Force a Stranger Into Your Home?!

For More Information See: https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019… https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019… https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019… http://www.ncregister.com/blog/matthe… https://healthimpactnews.com/2019/ore… https://www.wweek.com/news/2019/01/19…   This State Just Issued An Emergency Bill Allowing Nurses To Invade Homes—Is One Coming To Yours?      

Chicago – Where More People are Retired than Paying into Government Pensions

by Martin Armstrong Over 80% of government pension funds are completely funded by the government with no employees paying into the funds. This reflects why governments are coming after the people and extorting more taxes under the threat of seizing your home and throwing you in prison. For 169 governmental bodiesin Chicago, the numbers reveal the crisis. In … Read more

Government Shutdown Is the Best-Ever Argument for Privatization

 by Mark Nestmann I was starting to feel sorry for the 800,000 federal employees who hadn’t received paychecks for more than a month. Then Donald Trump caved to the Democrats and ended the government shutdown. There’s now a bipartisan effort in Congress to enact a law that would make government shutdowns less likely. But I have … Read more

Government by Emergency

Welcome back to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: New Jersey Wants To Tax The Rain https://bit.ly/2N3FWed Story #2: Scientist Cures HPV With Non-Invasive Method https://bit.ly/2RYcpmZ StartPage: Photodynamic Therapy https://bit.ly/2SuZ4rA … Read more

Jim Jordan GRILLS Anti-Trump Government Official On His Negative Trump Tweets

https://youtu.be/BjfF2hSsYHc Jim Jordan GRILLS Anti-Trump Government Official On His Negative Trump Tweets today during oversight committee hearing jim jordan in the house oversight and reform committee this is news and latest news and breaking news and in politics and political news and current events and business original air date: 2/6/2019  

Global stocks rising on news of US government budget deal, potential trade progress

by QuantalyticsResearch   US Stocks Global markets are rising on news that Congressional negotiators have come to a final deal to avert a government shutdown, with “an agreement in principle” having been reached US stocks index futures are rising with front-month Dow Jones minis +0.84%, S&P 500 minis +0.73% and Nasdaq 100 minis +0.84% White … Read more

MSM reporting 40,000 protestors against the Government of Spain…

Katie Hopkins MSM reporting 40,000 protestors against the Government of Spain…. erm … Grateful thanks to the resplendent vox_es a brilliant movement for ordinary people of Spain https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/1094934302490537985 Wow, it’s a sea of orange vests. (Or is that flags?) Protesters against Spain’s socialist government gather in Madrid Central Madrid was filled with Spanish flags as … Read more

The Big Government Show Must Go On

by MN Gordon Another week.  Another week of distractions.  On Tuesday, for instance, was the great State of the Union Address.  To this, many opinions and observations have been offered.  Here, we’ll contribute several of our own… President Trump is a showman of stout ego.  How he must have relished the run-up to Tuesday’s primetime address with … Read more