Just two days after North Korea resumed its “dotard” insults at President Trump, North Korea’s ambassador to the United Nations said on Saturday morning that further denuclearization talks are no longer needed with the Trump administration as it appears negotiations have stalled, reported Reuters.  In a statement to Reuters, NoKo ambassador, Kim Song, said: “We do […]

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was yanked off a Dallas radio station for berating the hosts in a foul-mouthed tirade. Calling in to the team’s official radio home, 103.5 the Fan in Dallas just 12 hours after the team’s 31-24 defeat to the Chicago Bears, Jones started off salty according to the Washington Post.  “Get your […]

Authored by James Rickards via The Daily Reckoning blog, Markets are eagerly awaiting the conclusion of the so-called “phase one” trade deal between the U.S. and China. Both parties are trying to reach a mini-deal involving simple tariff reductions and a truce on new tariffs along with Chinese purchases of pork and soybeans from the […]

“Trump’s trade war is losing, not gaining, support,” Paul Krugman wrote this week in his column “Why Is Trump a Tariff Man?” So why does the president avoid making the deals that might end this perpetual state of economic uncertainty? In a word, freedom. “Tariffs let him exercise unconstrained power, rewarding his friends and punishing […]

Despite the US sanctions and propaganda war against Iran continually heating up since the hot summer of ‘tanker wars’ and September’s Saudi Aramco attacks blamed on Tehran, it appears there’s still some behind the scenes diplomacy happening, or at least indirectly via European mediation.  The White House on Saturday celebrated the release of Xiyue Wang, […]

Authored by Chris Martenson via PeakProsperity.com, As we look at the multiplying signs of failure across our economy and the environment, society is slowly realizing that we need to start doing things very differently.  At least if we want a positive future in which we can believe. Those awakening to this are asking: What should we […]

Mike Bloomberg took heat on Friday after saying in a CBS interview that fellow 2020 presidential candidate Cory Booker is “very well-spoken.” When asked about a recent jab by Booker – who said “there’s more billionaires in the 2020 race than there are black people,” Bloomberg replied “Cory Booker endorsed me a number of times, […]

This week, we speak with Ben Horowitz, founding partner of famed venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, and author of What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture. A16Z (as it known) has $12B in assets under management across multiple funds, and was an early investor in such start ups as […]

Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Antifa extremists threatened to assassinate a member of parliament for the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, even naming the exact date on which they would kill her. Police confirmed that left-wing radicals posted signs outside Christina Baum’s dental office in Lauda-Königshofen yesterday, including a wooden cross […]

While China has considered those who drafted the US Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act to be placed on a no-entry list — prohibiting them from traveling to mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau, it seems that on Saturday a much broader list could already exist as the president of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Hong Kong was […]

by Calculated Risk on 12/07/2019 08:11:00 AM

Via The Strategic Culture Foundation, If the NATO summit this week marking the 70th anniversary of its foundation in 1949 was meant to be a resounding celebration, it backfired spectacularly, more as a resounding farce. Amid all the pomp and ceremony afforded by an official reception at Buckingham Palace, hosted by the British Queen, the […]

In 2017, Statista put together an infographic about the price of an AK-47 on the black market and the weapon had an average cost of anywhere between $1,135 in Belgium and $2,100 in Syria. Calibre Obscura, a fascinating website and Twitter account devoted to research on arms in the hands of non-state groups, has now published data on the average price […]

SlateStarCodex sums it up: You might already be following the Navy UFO thing: over the past few years, the Navy has encouraged its pilots to come forward with UFO accounts, signal-boosted the reports, and sponsored UFO research organizations, as if they’re trying to stoke interest for some reason. Now the plot gets weirder: a Navy […]

The EU’s flyover, meaning areas in economic decline, are also its hotbeds of discontent and anti-EU sentiment.

Germany owns no nuclear weapons. It renounced the very idea when it reunified in 1990. But if war were to break out in Europe today, German pilots could clamber into German planes, take off from Büchel Air Base in Rhineland-Palatinate and drop nuclear bombs on Russian troops. The Luftwaffe can do that thanks to Nato’s nuclear-sharing […]

A takedown of the pharmaceutical industry’s assertion that it need to price gouge so it can invest in R&D. Profits go almost entirely to various forms of looting.

This is a weird book, published primarily in Singapore, and somehow not fitting the canons of what people “are supposed to do” (NB: it is not at all racist, just bolder in its cultural generalizations than is currently in vogue).  Nonetheless I learned a great deal from the book, while taking some parts with a […]

Authored by Lawrence Sellin via AmericanThinker.com, December 2015 was a pivotal month in many respects… During the first week of December 2015, Donald Trump began to establish a substantial lead over his Republican primary opponents. Vice President Joseph Biden traveled to Ukraine to announce, on December 7th, a $190 million program to “fight corruption in law enforcement and reform […]

Over a decade ago, the birth of Bitcoin sparked a revolution in the digital world – and just last year, the number of active cryptocurrencies jumped from roughly 1,600 to over 3,000 worldwide. As Visual Capitalist’s Ashley Viens details below, cryptocurrencies have now evolved past simple digital currencies, offering solutions to meet the complex needs of modern financial markets. […]

Authored by Matthew Ehret via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Donald Trump is in a painful bind. The China-bashing traitors within his own party trying to pass themselves off as American patriots have done everything imaginable to destroy the one chance the President has to save America from the policies of economic and social decay which […]