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Toward Freedom: Will The UK Write History?
Submitted by Claudio Grass via Acting-Man.com, Mutating Promises We are less than 24 hours away from the EU referendum, the moment when the British people will be called upon to make a historic decision – will they vote to “Brexit” or to “Bremain”? Both camps have been going at each other with fierce campaigns to tilt the vote in their direction, but according to the latest polls, with the “Leave” camp’s latest surge still within the margin of error, the outcome is too close to call.
The Endless Dodge - Why Washington Doesn't Come Clean On The Downing Of MH-17
A newly posted video showing a glimpse of a Buk missile battery rolling down a highway in eastern Ukraine has sparked a flurry of renewed accusations blaming Russia for the July 17, 2014 shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 killing 298 people. But the “dash-cam video” actually adds little to the MH-17 whodunit mystery because it could also support a narrative blaming the Ukrainian military for the disaster.
Hard Times And False Narratives
Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, The mainstream media mouthpieces for the establishment peddle false narratives, disingenuous storylines, and outright propaganda to keep the ignorant masses confused, oblivious to reality, misinformed, and passively submissive to the opinions of highly paid “experts” and captured fiscal authorities. The existing social order likes things just as they are. They reap ill-gotten riches, wield unchecked power, and control the minds of the masses.
On the Freddie Gray Case and Baltimore’s Path to Poverty
In what has turned into a never-ending saga, we learned yesterday of the acquittal of one of the Baltimore police officers charged in the arrest of Freddie Gray. As The New York Times reported: “Officer Edward M.
Paul Craig Roberts: "Americans Are A Conquered People"
As readers know, I have seen some optimism in voters support for Trump and Sanders as neither are members of the corrupt Republican and Democratic political establishments. Members of both political establishments enrich themselves by betraying the American people and serving only the interest of the One Percent. The American people are being driven into the ground purely for the sake of more mega-billions for a handful of super-rich people.
Currency War Resumes - China Devalues Yuan To 5-Year Lows
After a brief hiatus from the ongoing currency wars, China fired another salvo at The Fed tonight by devaluing the Yuan fix to 6.5693 - its weakest against the USD since March 2011. After eight days higher in a row for The USD Index, it seems PBOC has turned its currency liberalization plan off, stabilizing the broad Renminbi basket (which has been steadily devalued) and turning its attention to devaluing against the USD.
European Close Triggers Precious Metals Plunge
Because nothing says 'fiduciary' duty like waiting until Europe closes to dump $850 million notional of gold... To the tick 1130ET - when European stocks close - gold started to be dumped... And Silver... As The USD was suddenly bid... Charts: Bloomberg Average: Your rating: None Average: 4.5 (2 votes)
The War On Cash Is A War On Your Freedom To Opt Out
Cash is a proxy for the freedom to maintain some privacy in an era of Big Brother repression, surveillance and the suppression of dissent. I've covered the war on cash i.e. the proposed elimination of cash, a number of times, for example, The War On Cash: Officially Sanctioned Theft (June 13, 2015) Our first question should be: just how big a share of our financial universe is cash? The answer is: vanishingly small.
Taliban Leader Mansour Killed In US Drone Strike Inside Pakistan
Earlier today, a veteran White House correspondent laid out his version of how Obama "gets away with it" in a news cycle when everyone's attention should be glued to the economic failures of the lame duck president. One thing he forgot to mention, however, was the use of such conventional "rally around the flag" tactics as taking out a key symbolic nemesis of the US to drum up patriotic fervor.
FBI Director Contradicts US Intelligence - "No Evidence" Of Terrorism In EgyptAir Crash
Even the best and the brightest within the United States are now contradicting each other on what happened to EgyptAir Flight MS804. Earlier today, reports came out that US Intel saw evidence of an explosion, meaning a terrorist attack had taken down the flight. Now, however, FBI Director Jim Comey has contradicted US intel reports, saying that there is "No evidence" of a terrorist attack. Which Reuters is now confirming as well.
Meanwhile In The U.S. Congress: "Chaos And Shouting" After LGBT Measure Fails To Pass
The US economy must be truly fixed and all geopolitical conflicts resolved, because as the world enjoys its global utopia on a day when yet another airplane was taken down by terrorist according to the latest news, the US Congress is busy dealing with stuff like this: according to the Hill, "the house floor devolved into chaos and shouting on Thursday as a measure to ensure protections for members of the LGBT community narrowly failed to pass after Republican leaders urged their members to...
Shocking Images Of Record Long Lines At US Airports
"I always tell people I won't apologize for doing our job well, but I do apologize to the people who found themselves stranded in Chicago yesterday" Two days ago we showed a video that promptly became viral of what was a line at Midway Airport that, somewhat hyperbolically, stretched for miles. As the WaPo reported, when Sean Hoffman arrived at Midway Airport last week for his flight home to Oregon, he said he was taken aback by the comically long line to get through security.
Cable Spikes To 3-Week Highs On Latest BREXIT Poll
With still more than a month to go until the June 23 referendum on whether to keep Britain inside the European Union, the pound is strengthening amid evidence the "leave" campaign is losing ground in the Brexit debate. Cable has spiked this morning to near 3-week highs after an opinion poll by the Evening Standard newspaper and Ipsos Mori put the “remain” camp’s lead at 18 percentage points.
"Markets Have No Purpose Any More" Mark Spitznagel Warns "Biggest Collapse In History" Is Inevitable
After making over $1 billion in one day last August, and warning that "the markets are overvalued to the tune of 50%," Mark Spitznagel knows a thing or two about managing tail risk.
The Destabilizing Consequences Of Globalization
It is not possible to coherently discuss the "New Normal" economy without discussing financialization--the substitution of credit expansion and speculation for productive investments in the real economy--and its sibling: globalization. Globalization is the result of the neoliberal push to lower regulatory barriers to trade and credit in overseas markets. The basic idea is that global trade lowers costs and offers more opportunities for capital to earn profits.
Stocks Bloody On Friday 13 As Treasury Curve Crashes To 9 Year Lows
Scared... you should be... On the week, bad news was bad news and good news was worse news...Nasdaq could not cling on to green but Trannies were trounced... Once again - the 4th time - S&P 500 was "bounced" off unchanged year-to-date, thanks to some VIX action... AAPL is back at 2 year lows - suffered its biggest 4-week crash since Lehman... And stocks are catching down to yields this week...
Crude Chaos Sparks Stock Schizophrenia, Trannies Trounced
Stocks were mixed today -Trannies and Nasdaq tumbled, the S&P ended marginally red and Dow barely held green.. Stocks were saved in the pre-NYMEX ramp from crude...
Stop Blaming Consumers, They Can't Help It!
Since 2009, mainstream economists, the media, and the Fed have continued to prognosticate a resurgence of economic growth. Yet each year, as shown in the chart of Fed forecasts below, such predictions have repeatedly overstated reality. Since the economy is almost 2/3rds driven by consumption, it was only a function of time before these same individuals, consistently wrong, lash out at those directly responsible for their shortcomings – the consumer.
Raw Venezuela: Looter Burned Alive, While "Streets Filled With People Killing Animals For Food"
The situation in Venezuela is reaching all out chaos, as crippling socialist policies have resulted in a devastating power and food shortage, as well as looming political instability. This is Caracas today... These are hungry Venezuelans protesting that their children are dying from lack of food and medicine and that they do not have enough water or electricity.
Getting It All Straight - Trumpism, Nationalism, Patriotism, & Libertarianism
I was struck by a tweet from libertarian Republican congressman Justin Amash, who has become the “new Ron Paul” now that the three-time presidential candidate and libertarian icon has taken a well-deserved rest from politics.
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