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In Unexpected Move, Trump Enacts Obama-era Law Opening US Arms Sales To Ukraine
After years of covert American involvement in the Ukrainian proxy and civil war which has raged since 2014 - and which a leaked recording confirmed was precipitated by the US State Department - President Trump has decided to come off the fence regarding his prior reluctance to formally approve arms sales to the Kiev government.
This Bill In Congress Could Means 10s Of 1000s More Americans Banned From Buying Guns
Authored by Michael Snyder via The American Dream blog, When news that a “concealed-carry reciprocity law” had been passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, gun owners all over the nation rejoiced. But what most people didn’t realize is that there had been a last minute change to the bill that could substantially increase the number of Americans that are banned from buying guns. This poison pill completely ruins the bill, and it must be voted down.
Antarctic Volcano Warning: Ash Could "Encircle The Globe" Causing Worldwide Health Problems
Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com, Scientists are sounding the alarm about a volcano eruption in Antartica that could cause global health problems. The ash from this eruption could encircle the globe, affecting millions of people. Deception Island, off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, is a hotbed of volcanic activity with at least 50 craters spread across the region.
France's Macron Covers For Saudi Aggression
Authored by Finian Cunningham via The Strategic Culture Foundation, France’s invitation to beleaguered Lebanese premier Saad Hariri for him and his family to spend “a few days in Paris” has been viewed as French President Emmanuel Macron stepping in with deft soft power to resolve tensions between Saudi Arabia and Lebanon.
This Is The Huge Anti-Trump Protest That Was Organized By... The Russians
From November 2016... Protesters demonstrating against the election of Donald Trump made their voices heard again Saturday - taking to the streets of New York for the fourth straight day. A crowd of over 5,000 people gathered in Union Square around noon, their ranks rapidly growing and spilling out of the park.
Mueller Reportedly Ready To File First Charges In Russia Probe
Five months after Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein tasked Robert Mueller with taking over the Justice Department investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, CNN is reporting that the first charges have been filed, and that arrests could be made in the coming days. A federal grand jury in Washington, DC, on Friday approved the first charges in the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller, according to sources briefed on the matter.
Orban Launches Intelligence Probe Into George Soros' "Open Society" Network
Apparently, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban thinks his propaganda campaign to discredit Hungarian-born billionaire George Soros - Orban’s political archnemesis - hasn’t been sufficiently effective.
Nobody's Buying Hamptons Mega-Mansions Because 'Small Is The New Big'
Any realtor worth their salt will tell you, when it comes to the home-buying habits of wealthy hedgies and bankers, gaudy McMansions and sprawling estates are so last season.
Caught On Video: Maxine Waters Uses Funeral Speech To Push Trump Impeachment
What was supposed to be a remembrance ceremony for this man, comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, yesterday turned mildly bizarre, which is a recurring theme as it were, when California congresswoman Maxine Waters took the stage.
Hillary Clinton May Challenge Legitimacy Of Presidential Election
The US presidential election took place nearly one year ago, but to Hillary Clinton it may as well never had ended. And now, in an interview with NPR, the former first lady said that "if Russian interference turned out to be deeper than previously thought" she wouldn’t rule out challenging its legitimacy or the outcome. “No, I wouldn't rule it out,” she said.
Is North Korea Using Bitcoin To Get Around UN Sanctions?
The latest round of United Nations sanctions against North Korea are designed specifically to prevent Kim Jong Un from obtaining hard currency. Luckily for the Kim regime, there’s always bitcoin. According to Bloomberg, the isolated country, facing further restrictions on exports that would bring in desperately needed Chinese yuan, has increasingly been turning to bitcoin to circumvent the sanctions.
What Country Is This? Forced Blood Draws, Cavity Searches, And Colonoscopies
Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “The Fourth Amendment was designed to stand between us and arbitrary governmental authority.
College Profesors Begin Direct Support For AntiFa Groups On Campuses
Authored by Jacob Grandstaff via Campus Reform, Two professors, one from Purdue University and the other from Stanford University, are assembling a "Campus Antifascist Network" (CAN) to serve as a “big tent” for “anyone committed to fighting fascism.” Despite the reputation Antifa groups have cultivated for employing violence to shut down opposing speakers, the professors insist that they only support "self-defense" by "those who are being threatened by fascists.” Two professors are...
Sanders: "I Am Absolutely Introducing Single-Payer Healthcare Bill"
Now that Obamacare repeal is dead for the foreseeable future thanks to John McCain, the full court press to expand on the existing system has begun with Bernie Sanders saying Sunday that he will “absolutely” introduce legislation on single-payer healthcare. “Of course we are, we’re tweaking the final points of the bill and we’re figuring out how we can mount a national campaign to bring people together,” Sanders said on CNN’s State of the Union. Sanders.
Drug Overdoses Now The Leading Killer Of American Adults Under 50
The opioid crisis that is ravaging urban and suburban communities across the US claimed an unprecedented 59,000 lives last year, according to preliminary data gathered by the New York Times. If accurate, that’s equivalent to a roughly 19% increase over the approximately 52,000 overdose deaths recorded in 2015, the NYT reported last year.
White Students Banned From Student Lounge At D.C. University: "Nothing More Important Than A Multicultural Campus"
Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com, As tolerance spreads across the United States, universities and their progressive student bodies are coming up with new and innovative ways to ensure a positive multi-cultural experience for everyone… unless you happen to be a Caucasian.
US Deploys Second Aircraft Carrier Toward Korean Peninsula
One month ago, when we first discussed that in addition to the CVN-70 Carl Vinson aircraft carrier group, the US was deploying two more carriers toward the Korean peninsula, some took the Yonhap-sourced report skeptically: after all, what's the incremental symbolic impact of having two aircraft carriers next to North Korea when just one would more than suffice.
The Dow Streak May Be Finally Over, But In February Everything Was Up
Just because... VIDEO The Record Winning Streak Is Over... They desperately tried to ramp it but failed NOTE: Today was the worst day for Small Caps since October * * * Banks, Bonds, Bullion, and Broad equity indices were all up in February... So was VIX...a massive divergence for a month Dow led the way this month with a 4th monthly gain in a row for stocks Bonds were bid for the month with 2Y underperforming...
Elon Musk Reveals The Spaceship For Colonizing Mars - Live Feed
Having found his earth-based inventions and investments somewhat constricting. not to mention cash-burning, at this moment Elon Musk is speaking at the 67th annual International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, an annual gathering of engineers and scientists devoted to tackling the grandiose and technical questions shaping the future of space exploration.
Democratic Strategist Calls For The Assassination Of Julian Assange
This is a MAJOR problem for the markets. Investing is for the rich. Amid the media-hyped furor over Donald Trump's 2nd Amendment comments and Wikileaks' suggestions about the untimely death of DNC-staffer Seth Rich, we thought it perhaps of note that Democratic strategist, and CNN host, has publicly called for the "illegal assassination of that son-of-a-bitch" Julian Assange...
Another Bad Month For Truck Shipping
Submitted by Michael Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Truck shipments were up in June from May. So were expenditures. That sounds pretty good, but it really isn’t. Shipments are normally up in June and the Cass Freight Index report from which I get numbers is not seasonally adjusted. The best way to compare June is to prior years, and that picture isn’t pretty. Cass Freight Index Shipments Expenditures Truck shipments and expenditures are below the June level of 2015, 2014, and 2013.
President Obama To Discuss The Nice Massacre (Without Saying 'Radical Islam') - Live Feed
Perhaps in an effort to appear 'tougher' than Clinton did last night - in the face of Republican bluster and rage - President Obama feels the need to address the nation with regard the massacre in the south of France. For those playing at home, we suggest listening closely for the words "immigration", "radicalized", and "guns" as the divider-in-chief explains how winning the war on terror is making blowback like this increasingly likely... for everyone.
India's 'Gold Shirt Man' Stoned-And-Sickled To Death By Mob
Datta Phuge took the interwebs by storm three years ago when we introduced the $250,000 22-karat-gold-shirt-wearing 32-year-old Indian who proclaimed "I know I am not the best looking man but surely no woman could fail to be dazzled by this shirt?" showing the world that gold is much more than a barbarous relic. Sadly, as The BBC reports, "the gold man" was murdered overnight - found stoned-and-sickled to death near his home in Dighi, India. As ABP Live reports, millionaire money-lender, Datta D.
What's Next For The S&P: "All Eyes On 1,950" The Charts Say
With global equity and especially FX markets underoing historic moves in the last two days, every trader's playbook has been tossed aside as setups and trendlines everywhere have been broken.
Forget Hikes - Rate-Cut Odds Soar For September As NIRP "Bets" Hit Record High
Despite a modest bounce today, the collapse in stock prices and bond yields since the 'non-event' "won't affect our market" Brexit vote has sent market-implied rate-hike odds careening lower. In fact, there is now a 0% chance of a rate hike to November and a 23% chance of rate-cut in September with December (post-election) rate-hike odds just 7.7%!!! Fed Credibility is official dead... Fed rate movement expectations have collapsed... With stunning 23% chance of cut now in September...
We Like Valeant Pharmaceuticals for a Trade (Video)
By EconMatters Considering it costs $2.5 to $5 Billion from the initial Research phase to bringing a new drug to market, the $32 Billion in VRX Debt given their other assets, and proven drug portfolio makes this stock look cheap here on a valuation basis. I bet I could find a buyer willing to pay $50 a share for Valeant Pharmaceuticals over the weekend if Bill Ackman wasn`t in such a hole on this stock, and needs a much higher price given the average stock price on his accumulated share stake.
With Or Without You? U2 Urges Irish Brits To Vote "Remain"
You know the establishment is paniccing when they roll out Bono (and Liam Neeson) to appeal to the Irish (which make up around 10% of the UK electorate) to vote "Remain" or face "the worst ramifications." As The Irish Times reports, U2 warns "a Brexit vote will make us weak," suggesting a vote to 'Leave' would mean Thursday bloody Thursday and a vote to 'Stay' would be a Beautiful Day.
Hedges Soar, Markets Snore As Traders Brace For Big Brexit Day
Some nostalgia... "some poeple are on the pitch, they think [Brexit]'s all over... it is now!!" VIDEO Although we suspect, by this time tomorrow, the sounds from trading floors around the world may be more like this... VIDEO Polls point to "Leave" and Bookies' money-flows tipped towards "Leave" today... It appears the professionals are tracking the polls... Volume cratered... Black swan bets soared... And Short-term VIX soared to 26.5 today, highest since mid-Feb...
"Black Swan" Bets Explode As Brexit Looms
Bets are starting to pile up in distant corners of the U.S. options market that tomorrow’s U.K. referendum will ignite massive losses in stocks. In the last four days, open interest for deep out of the money puts on the S&P 500 that mature on Friday have increased 1100%. These options will only pay off if the S&P plunges 20% or more on Friday.. and are the second most held of all weeklies... As Bloomberg reports, "It's a black swan type of put," said Steve Sosnick of Timber Hill LLC.
Brad Feld VS James Altucher Ask Me Anything
If you spent $3.5 trillion and the best you can garner is a recovery that is weaker than the 2001 recession… maybe you’re not cut out for the job of “fixing” the economy.
Mike Rowe Gives Advice To Students: "Never Follow Your Passion"
Mike Rowe has some truthiness for those students who are "following their passion" without possessing the skills necessary to accomplish what they're trying to do. "You've all been given some terrible advice, and that advice is this: follow your passion." The former host of Dirty Jobs tells it like it is by explaining to students that passion and ability have nothing to do with each other, and that "Just because you're passionate about something, doesn't mean you won't suck at it.".
No Fly No Buy: Obama's Last Ditch Effort To Cripple The Second Amendment
Submitted by Joshua Krause via TheDailySheeple.com, There’s one thing that all gun grabbing politicians have in common. They are all quite adamant that they don’t want to take your guns. They’ll tell you over and over again that all they want is a few reasonable regulations. Every once in a blue moon they’ll let their guard down in front of an reporter, and reveal their true long-term intentions, but by and large they’re always trying to put a reassuring face on their gun grabbing agenda.
ISIS Is Converting 2/3 Of US Humvees Given To Iraq Into Car Bombs
Submitted by Russ Read of The Daily Caller Islamic State militants have not only stolen a majority of the military Humvees provided to the Iraq Security Forces (ISF) by the U.S., they are now re-purposing them into car bombs. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi confirmed that 2,300 are in ISIS hands, more than 2/3 of all Humvees provided to Iraq by the U.S. Most were stolen after the terrorist group captured the Iraqi city of Mosul in June 2014.
Introducing Europe's Frightening New Tax Directive
Submitted by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, In a bizarre story disclosed over the weekend, we learned that Belgium’s Princess Astrid was robbed by two assailants on a motorbike. The thieves apparently approached her while she was sitting in traffic, smashed in her window, snatched the Royal Handbag, and sped off with over 2,000 euros in cash. I have no doubt that was a harrowing experience for the princess, as it would be for anyone.
Huge Fire Erupts After At Least 8 Oil Cars Derail Near Oregon - Live Feed
A train towing cars full of oil derailed on Friday in Oregon's scenic Columbia River Gorge, sparking a fire that sent a plume of black smoke high into the sky. According to witnesses, multiple cars derailed and smoke and flames can be seen in downtown Mosier near the Rock Creek overpass. The train is operated by Union Pacific, who had not returned calls at the time. Live Feed: From KSL The accident happened just after noon near the town of Mosier, about 70 miles east of Portland.
BP Oil Cargoes In Limbo At Terminal As Venezuela Can't Pay Its Bills
As Venezuela drowns in debt and takes its state-run oil company, PDVSA, down with it, Reuters is reporting that BP has over 2 million barrels of oil stuck at a terminal in the Caribbean over unpaid bills. The cargo of 2 million barrels of U.S. light sweet crude sold by BP cannot be discharged at the PDVSA terminal in Curacao until it’s paid for, according to the news agency, which is relying on unnamed sources and Thomson Reuters vessel tracking data.
July Rate Hike Odds Rise As Beige Book Signals "Tight Job Market", "Modest Growth"
The Beige Book offered its ubiquitous modest, moderate, mummified growth outlook but added a few points that provide The Fed more ammo for hiking rates. The key higlights from the report: Some key anecdotes from the regional feds: On the all important topic of wage growth and employment: Employment grew modestly since the last report, but tight labor markets were widely noted in most Districts.
World's Largest Asset Manager Downgrades Global Equities To Neutral
With one after another bank issuing downgrade reports on global stocks, including such stalwarts as JPM and, most recently, Goldman, overnight a far more important market entity - the world's largest asset manager - joined the club when BlackRock downgraded U.S. and European stocks to neutral, citing elevated U.S. valuations and the higher probability of a midyear interest-rate increase by the Federal Reserve.
Wikileaks Asks If This Is The "Smoking Gun" Email That Will Bring Down Hillary
All along Hillary Clinton has pled that when it comes to her violation of Federal regulations, she was at worst naive, hardly malicious and - as of recently - merely doing what each of her state department predecessors has done; and she has been very careful to make it clear that she never purposefully and intentionally "stripped" confidential data in order to send it through her unsecured server as such an act would imply not only a breach of email retention policy, but a willful abuse of...
NSA Whistleblowers Vindicated By High-Level Pentagon Official
Obama, Hillary Clinton and other government officials have said that Snowden should have "gone through proper channels" instead of publicly blowing the whistle. But we pointed out in 2013 that there are no proper channels Snowden could have gone through. Now, a high-level Pentagon official confirmed that wouldn't have worked. He gives the example of NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake (see exclusive interviews with Thomas Drake here, here, here and here), who tried to go through proper channels.
Silent Majority: 55% Of Americans Want Independent To Run Against Trump, Clinton
It’s happening! According to a new poll, Americans have finally maxed out their tolerance for “lesser evils” in presidential politics. The survey, published by independent research firm, Data Targeting, found a majority of Americans now want an independent candidate to take on Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump — two of the most disliked candidates in recent history.
Shame On The Supreme Court For Making A Mockery Of The First Amendment
Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, Shame on the U.S. Supreme Court for making a mockery of the First Amendment. All the justices had to do was right a 60-year wrong that made it illegal to exercise one’s First Amendment rights on the Supreme Court plaza. It shouldn’t have been a big deal. After all, this is the Court that has historically championed a robust First Amendment, no matter how controversial or politically incorrect.
"Was Ist Sex" - These Are The Disturbing Cartoons Germany Uses To Teach Sex To Refugees
Over the past year, Germany has gone to great lengths in its attempt to culturally integrate the hundreds of thousands of middle-eastern refugees that entered the nation as a result of Angela Markel's now defunct overly welcoming immigrant policies. Just in January, Germany created a leaflet that it handed out to "sexually frustrated" immigrants at local swimming pools to teach them proper poolside etiquette.
Are Newspapers Captured By Banks?
With Donald Trump going after Jeff Bezos' "capture" of The Washington Post this week, along with Facebook's alleged liberalization of the mainstream's news feeds, the topic of press independence is once again back out of conspiracy theory back-rooms and near top of mind for many average indoctrinated joes.
Zuckerberg To Meet Conservative Media Figureheads As Facebook Censorship Scandal Escalates
After last Monday's explosive claims published in Gizmodo, in which a former Facebook employer alleged that the "social network" has been "routinely" suppressing conservative news stories, the company and its CEO have been on the back foot defending themselves from, as expected, mostly a conservative media onslaught.
If Everything Is So Great, Where Are The Unicorn IPOs?
Over the course of the last week it seemed no matter where I turned in the business media one meme was being pushed above all others: It’s still a great time to be a private tech unicorn. Implying, that funding rounds were still “robust.” What wasn’t said, so I will, is this: It’s a great time to be a private “unicorn” rather, than take the chance and become the poster-child for the IPO apocalypse.
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The Saudi 9/11 Blackmail Explained: The K-Street Lobby Racketeers Have It Covered
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, Although scores of us in the alternative media world have been discussing the obvious links between Saudi Arabia and the attacks of 9/11 for many years, this reality has only now started to enter the mainstream consciousness due to a recent report on 60 Minutes. But that’s not the only reason Saudi Arabia has been in the news as of late.
The Whole System Is Built Upon Lies And "We're In The Terminal Phase"
At this point, despite major highs in U.S. stock markets and reassurances from no less than President of the United States himself that the economy is sound, one only need to look around to understand that we are on the cusp of what researcher and collapse strategist Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse Blog calls the “early chapters of a total meltdown.” In his latest interview with Future Money Trends Snyder notes that the fundamental economic problems we face can be seen across the globe.
Live Feed From Japan Which Wakes Up To Destructive Earthquake Aftermath
The massive magnitude 7.3 earthquake that struck Japan this afternoon, the strongest since the devastating quake of 2011, took place at night local time, and as such there was little available media coverage. As Japan wakes up, much of the destruction becomes apparent. As Reuters reports, the quake has killed at least one person, injuring hundreds and bringing down buildings, citing media reported, just over a day after a quake killed nine people in the same region.
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