Hours after the government shutdown that the White House blamed on “obstructionist losers” who are holding government funding “hostage…over an unrelated immigration debate,” The Trump campaign posted an explosive new advertisement to the campaign website and YouTube channel on Saturday, featuring 37-year-old illegal immigrant Luis Bracamontes who killed two police deputies in 2014 after having been deported […]
Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, Under the Belt and Road Initiative, Beijing aims to connect western China to the eastern Mediterranean… China’s “Go West” strategy was brought into sharp focus at a forum in Shanghai last weekend. Billed as the Belt and Road Initiative: Towards Greater Cooperation between China and the […]
A former Federal Prosecutor sat down with The Daily Caller to give perhaps the most comprehensive rundown of the Obama Administration’s “brazen plot to exonerate Hillary Clinton” and “frame an incoming president with a false Russian conspiracy.” In this highly recommended 30 minute interview with Joe diGenova, the former Special Counsel who went after both the Teamsters […]
Via Greg Hunter’s USA Watchdog blog, Two time, best-selling author Nomi Prins says central bankers have no idea how to stop the easy money policies that they started after the financial meltdown of 2008. Prins explains, “So, when the Fed says they are going to remove assets from their $4.5 trillion book by not reinvesting […]
Any hope that the 2-day government shutdown could be suddenly resolved with an early morning vote on Monday morning died moments ago when Chuck Schumer said “there is no deal” while Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he is canceling the previously scheduled 1am procedural vote and instead the Senate will vote on the stopgap […]
A 15-year-old “hacktivist” who tricked AOL and Verizon customer support operators into believing he was then-CIA Director John Brennan, was able to crack into Brennan’s accounts and access highly sensitive documents concerning US military and intelligence operations in Afghanistan and Iran, a UK court has heard. Kane Gamble AKA “Cracka” Kane Gamble, now 18, was able to […]
Submitted by Louis Cammarosano of Smaulgld The Russian Central Bank added 300,000 ounces (9.3 tons) of gold to its reserves in December, bringing the total acquisitions of the precious metal in 2017 to a record 223 tons. Since June 2015, the Central Bank of Russia has added over 558 tons of gold, and December’s 9.3 […]
This week on Erik Townsend’s MacroVoices podcast, Bloomberg macro strategist Mark Cudmore (a frequent contributor to ZeroHedge) and Townsend discussed last week’s “lower low” in the US dollar index and what this means for the near-term future of the greenback – a trade that will have profound ramifications for financial markets. Back in October, Cudmore […]
Authored by Alex Thomas via SHTFplan.com, Pope Francis is now attacking the credibility of child sex abuse victims in a shocking move made at the end of a trip to Chile in which he had hoped to “heal” the wounds of said abuse. That’s right, Pope Francis ended his trip by publicly defending a […]
A building occupied by left-wing Antifa activists in Thessaloniki has been torched by reported right-wing nationalists during a massive rally in the Greek port city demanding neighboring Macedonia change its name. Read Full Article at RT.com x Can’t load widget var changellyModal = document.getElementById(‘changellyModal’); var changellyButton = document.getElementById(‘changellyButton’); var changellyCloseButton = document.getElementsByClassName(‘changellyModal-close’)[0]; changellyCloseButton.onclick = function() […]
Another explosion has rocked the Swedish city of Malmo, just days after a grenade attack directly targeted a police station. Read Full Article at RT.com x Can’t load widget var changellyModal = document.getElementById(‘changellyModal’); var changellyButton = document.getElementById(‘changellyButton’); var changellyCloseButton = document.getElementsByClassName(‘changellyModal-close’)[0]; changellyCloseButton.onclick = function() { changellyModal.style.display = ‘none’; }; changellyButton.onclick = function widgetClick(e) { e.preventDefault(); […]
Two weeks ago, when bitcoin was trading in the $15,000 range, we published what in retrospect was a warning to bitcoin investors, highlighting that traders of bitcoin futures appeared to be quietly building a net short position. As we reported on Jan. 7, CFTC data for leveraged funds – which consists largely of hedge funds […]
Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, Facebook will now let users rank the credibility of stories. Expect partisan ratings. In an move that supposedly will weed out fake news, Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News. “Facebook said on Friday that it planned to prioritize high-quality news on the social network by allowing […]
Topless FEMEN activists were forced to dodge blows from aggressive anti-abortionists after they crashed their demonstration in Paris. Read Full Article at RT.com x Can’t load widget var changellyModal = document.getElementById(‘changellyModal’); var changellyButton = document.getElementById(‘changellyButton’); var changellyCloseButton = document.getElementsByClassName(‘changellyModal-close’)[0]; changellyCloseButton.onclick = function() { changellyModal.style.display = ‘none’; }; changellyButton.onclick = function widgetClick(e) { e.preventDefault(); changellyModal.style.display = […]
Three charts to consider ahead of Monday’s post-Government-Shutdown open. VALUE The S&P 500 is trading at a Price-to-Sales ratio of 2.35x… a new record high for valuation… GREED The S&P 500 is up 8 of the last 9 weeks, 16 of the last 19 weeks, and 15 of the last 15 months (and 22 of […]