A joint Australian-U.S. military exercise, called Talisman Sabre 2019, will continue through early August following this week’s Australian-led amphibious landing at Langham Beach, Queensland, Australia, reported Naval Today. Forces from around the world (the U.S., New Zealand, United Kingdom, and Japan) practiced one of the most massive beach assault since World War II off the […]

Via Ammo.com, Church attendance in the United States is at an all-time low, according to a Gallup poll released in April 2019. This decline has not been a steady one. Indeed, over the last 20 years, church attendance has fallen by 20 percent. This might not sound like cause for concern off the bat. And if […]

On July 21, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first men to set foot on the moon. Ten more Apollo astronauts followed in their footsteps until 1972 but since then, no human has set foot on Earth’s closest companion in space. Fifty years later, the race for the moon is starting anew with several […]

Via AntoniusAquinas.com, Introduction One cannot speak too highly of Christophe Buffin de Chosal’s The End of Democracy.  In a fast paced, readable, yet scholarly fashion, Professor Buffin de Chosal* demolishes the ideological justification in which modern democracy rests while he describes the disastrous effects that democratic rule has had on Western societies.  He explodes the myth […]

One of President Trump’s favorite talking points is promoting how his economic policies have lifted all Americans. He routinely cites the record low rate of black unemployment and how the economy is the “greatest ever.” — President Trump tweeted Jan. 2018 “African American unemployment has reached its lowest rate ever recorded — ever! Ever! Remember […]

Authored by Tim Kirby via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The Jeffrey Epstein child molestation case made big headlines because of just how close he is to many in power or at least with great pull in Washington and the fact that he had already been busted and possibly used said pull to stay out of jail certainly […]

A Tennessee police department has published a warning on social media to its residents: “Folks…please don’t flush your drugs m’kay,” such as methamphetamine — because this could trigger aggressive “meth-gators.” The warning was published on Facebook, with a post-dated July 13, by the Loretto Police Department who described how officers executed a search warrant on […]

Update: In response to President Trump’s announcement earlier in the day that a U.S. Navy ship had “destroyed” an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said he was not aware of any downing, according to Reuters: “We have no information about losing a drone today,” Zarif […]

Authored by William Hartung via TomDispatch.com, When, in his farewell address in 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the dangers of the “unwarranted influence” wielded by the “military-industrial complex,” he could never have dreamed of an arms-making corporation of the size and political clout of Lockheed Martin. In a good year, it now receives […]

Despite an overall glut in luxury apartments in Manhattan, apartments on Billionaire’s Row are rising in price regardless, according to Bloomberg. Developer Michael Stern, who co-developed 111 W. 57th St. is hiking prices on eight units in the middle of the tower from $1 million to $1.75 million on apartments that are priced between $27 million […]

One of the more confusing discrepancies in recent months was how, despite the weakening in the yuan and the escalating trade war between the US and China, there was virtually no drop in Chinese (official) reserves and thus, no capital flight. Well, “confusion no more”, because as Goldman points out, amid the lingering trade tensions […]

If you glimpsed at the headlines across the mainstream media, you would think a “smoking gun” had been discovered in the newly released unredacted documents related to possible campaign finance violations and ‘hush-money’ payments. As NBC News reports, the documents, released Thursday, describe a “series of calls, text messages, and emails” between Cohen, Trump, Trump […]

A couple of years back, we reported on a study by Arizona State University professor Hendrik Bessembinder which delivered a conclusion that might be surprising to retail investors, if less so for those who have been paying close attention to markets during the prior years: In a study of 26,000 stocks traded in the US […]

After two days of grilling by US politicians (including demands for a moratorium and fearmongering of the end of banking and the ease of funding terrorism) and endless byelines supporting and denigrating Facebook’s new digital currency concept, Libra, one would suspect that it is Americans that should be most interested in Zuckerberg’s latest idea for […]

Three weeks after a meeting between the countries who singed the Iran nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which was ditched by US, French, British and German officials said the trade mechanism which was proposed last summer – designed to circumvent both SWIFT as well as US sanctions banning […]

Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, A fascinating graphic was recently produced by Oxford Economics showing compounded economic growth rates over time. What should immediately jump out at you is that the compounded rate of growth of the U.S. economy was fairly stable between 1950 and the mid-1980s. However, since then, there has been a […]

Jeffrey Epstein was denied bail on Thursday despite his legal team’s best efforts to convince SDNY Judge Richard M. Berman that he isn’t a flight risk.  Judge Berman cites evidence of intimidation and evidence of Epstein missing sex-offender check-ins. Also cites “sexually explicit photos” and “expired Austrian passport” with Epstein’s photo, not his name, and […]

As expected, Turkey blasted the White House’s prior day announcement that it has killed Turkey’s involvement in the F-35 joint strike fighter program after Ankara received a first batch of S-400 Russian-made air defense components starting last week. Turkey’s foreign ministry called on the US to rectify its “mistake”. “This unilateral step is incompatible with the spirit of alliance and […]

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak was photographed entering Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan mansion in January, 2016 wearing a camouflage scarf around his face – the same day that a bunch of young women showed up, according to the Daily Mail. …the women included long-time Epstein friends Sue Hamblin and Jennifer Kalin as well as Russian model Lana […]

Following further selling pressure overnight, someone (or more than one) has decided to buy-the-dip in cryptos this morning, sending Bitcoin (and most of the altcoins) soaring… A sea of green… Source: Coin360 Bitcoin surged back above $10,000… Ethereum bounced off support at its flash-crash lows… But Litecoin is outperforming on the day… As CoinTelegraph notes, […]

An embarrassing gaffe has severely compromised NATO defense security and readiness after a public document inadvertently revealed too much.  A NATO affiliate body called the Defense and Security Committee of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly published a draft report last April entitled, “A new era for nuclear deterrence? Modernization, arms control and allied nuclear forces,” specifically authored by a […]

Authored by Igor Ogorodnev, Attempts to diminish the triumph of Apollo 11 and to reassign credit don’t just taint the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, but presage the technological decline of the US if it persists with identity politics… With the Founding Fathers now rarely mentioned in the media without side notes about their […]

The use of social media has been linked to an increase in depressive symptoms in teenagers, according to researchers at Montreal’s Sainte-Justine Hospital, according to the CBC.  In a new study led by University of Montreal psychiatry professor Patricia Conrod, adolescents were studied over a four-year period to investigate the relationship between depression and various forms […]

Via Southfront.org, This video is based on the research of Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG); The video was originally released in December 2017 Below is the full text of Professor Chossudovsky’ article published by Global Research According to a secret document dated September 15, 1945, “the Pentagon had envisaged blowing up the Soviet Union  with […]

Ex-Fox & Friends co-host Clayton Morris has fled the country with his family amid more than two-dozen lawsuits alleging he committed real estate fraud, reported IndyStar. According to Natali Morris, Clayton’s wife and a former news anchor with MSNBC, the family moved last month from their $1.4 million mansion in New Jersey to a coastal […]

Authored by Dagny Taggart via The Organic Prepper blog, Just because we can do something doesn’t mean we should… That is an expression I often quote in reference to various things people are doing and creating. When I hear about new AI capabilities and developments, it comes to mind. Artificial Intelligence is developing at breakneck speed. While many […]

Even though hedge fund performance has rebounded this year, with big-name managers like David Einhorn and Bill Ackman and macro icons such as Brevan Howard finally putting several years of misery behind them, fees are still dwindling, according to Bloomberg. The average management fee charged by new hedge funds globally in the first half of 2019 […]

Authored by Renee Parsons via Off-Guardian.org, In case you missed the kickoff, there is an unprecedented ‘must win’ wireless race for the US to cross the 5G finish line before China as alluded to during the recent Senate Commerce Committee oversight hearing on the Federal Commerce Commission. The details were thin with no real discussion on the […]

Elon Musk’s plans to merge computers with people’s brains were on full display yesterday during Musk’s presentation updating the public on what brain-computer interface company Neuralink has been up to. Or, as one astute Fin Twit observer put it: 1/ To all the neuroscientists in the world: Welcome to $TSLAQ. You’ve just had what’s known […]

Authored by Charles “Sam” Faddis via ANDMagazine.com, Occupy ICE Vigil “Call from Occupy ICE PDX for a vigil outside of the Portland ICE Detention Center on July 17th. On July 17th, at 8:30pm OccupyICEpdx will be hosting an outdoor vigil beside Portland’s ICE Detention Center located at 4310 SW Macadam Ave.  Join us as we remember a […]

US District Judge Dan Polster presiding over nationwide opioid litigation dismissed an order that now allows the general public, for the first time ever, to examine opioid sales from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Automation of Reports and Consolidated Orders System (ARCOS) that details how the opioid epidemic exploded into almost every community across the US […]

A DC federal judge has ordered Michael Flynn’s former attorneys to appear in court next month after Flynn’s current legal counsel claims they haven’t been given the entire case file by the team at Covington & Burling.  Judge Emmet Sullivan, and Obama appointee, scheduled a status conference for August 27 at 11 a.m., and has invited a […]

The notorious Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been handed a life sentence to be served out in a US prison by a federal judge in Brooklyn on Wednesday, five months following his initial conviction after the 2017 extradition from Mexico which grabbed world headlines.  The 62-year-old drug lord had previously twice escaped Mexican prisons before being brought […]

Authored by John LeSage via OilPrice.com, Tesla and Apple both suspect that their self-driving car technology has been stolen by engineers who went over to a Chinese competitor. That’s a very time-sensitive claim, with intellectual property theft being a central issue in President Donald Trump’s intense trade war against China. The electric carmaker filed a lawsuit […]

If this one piece of unscientific, preliminary data is to be believed, Amazon’s Prime Day may have finally hit a speed bump. According to Bloomberg, internet searches for the term “canceling Amazon prime” were 18 times higher at the beginning of Amazon‘s two day sale than the previous day. The data could suggest that shoppers are […]

Authored by Richard Breslow via Bloomberg, Negative Rates Would Lead To #Chaos Central bankers attending the G-7 meeting are sounding remarkably coordinated in their message. The global economy is growing but inflation isn’t. And that, along with the oft-cited global headwinds, means they’re ready and able to add more liquidity to the system. In the […]

A New York judge has ordered the unsealing of records related to former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, now that prosecutors have concluded a spinoff investigation of the Trump Organization with no charges.  “The campaign finance violations discussed in the Materials are a matter of national importance. Now that the Government’s investigation into those violations has concluded, […]

Two weeks ago, we noted how, after ignoring them for months (presumably at the behest of its legal department), Boeing had decided to dedicate $100 million (roughly 1% of its 2018 revenue) to the families of the victims from the Lion Air and Ethiopian Air crashes. However, that number came with a catch: Some of […]

Bitcoin prices rapidly approached $9,000 overnight (down almost 35% from the mid-June highs) as the Libra hearing sparked concerns of more regulatory crackdown from a clueless (or frightened) Congress desperate to cling to its power. Ethereum has plunged back to $200 – testing the flash-crash lows from the weekend… Since Facebook released its Libra ‘white […]

After Texas Rep. Al Green introduced articles of impeachment against President Trump for the third time yesterday, House Democrats are preparing to vote on Wednesday afternoon on whether to move forward with the process, Politico reports. While this is Green’s third time introducing letters of impeachment, it’s the first time since Democrats took control of […]

Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen, considered a key and close ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, has been narrowly elected president of the EU Commission, becoming the first woman to fill Europe’s most powerful policy-making post, and the first German at the helm in over half a century.  The 60-year old center-right German defense minister will replace Commission President Jean-Claude […]

Authored by Finian Cunningham via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The Trump administration last week cut its fourth and biggest arms sale to Taiwan, sparking a furious condemnation from Beijing that the US was undermining its sovereignty and “grossly interfering in China’s internal affairs”. The weapons deal reportedly worth some $2.2 billion is expected to be given final […]

A startup in Sweden called Biohax International has microchipped more than 4,000 people across the country who can use their hands to open secured doors, replace credit cards and cash, pay for transportation tickets, and share emergency information with medical personnel, reported New York Post. The microchip is about the size of a grain of […]

Authored by Danny Sjursen via AntiWar.com, It is undoubtedly my favorite part of every wedding. That awkward, but strangely forthright moment when the preacher asks the crowd for any objections to the couple’s marriage. No one ever objects, of course, but it’s still a raw, if tense, moment. I just love it. I suppose we […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative to the Arctic was outlined last year in an official Arctic policy white paper that detailed China’s push to build infrastructure and conduct commercial shipping travel in the Arctic. China hopes to establish a ‘Polar Silk Road‘ through developing the Northern Sea Route would save commercial vessels […]

Authored by Conn Hallinan via Counterpunch.org, During the face-off earlier this year between India and Pakistan over a terrorist attack that killed more than 40 Indian paramilitaries in Kashmir, New Delhi made an existential threat to Islamabad. The weapon was not India’s considerable nuclear arsenal, but one still capable of inflicting ruinous destruction: water. “Our government has […]

Tens of millions of Americans in 43 states may have been exposed to toxic fluorinated compounds known as PFAS in their drinking water. In a report from May, the non-profit Environmental Working Group (EWG) showed how PFAS had exposed upwards of 19 million Americans through contaminated groundwater. EWG found 610 contaminated locations ranging from public […]

Authored by Mark Hendrickson via The Epoch Times, With President Donald Trump’s two previous nominees to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors – Stephen Moore and Herman Cain – having withdrawn in the face of stiff resistance in the Senate, the president has nominated two economists – Judy Shelton and Christopher Waller – to those posts. Waller’s […]

Records obtained by CBS 17 North Carolina show that a Raleigh, North Carolina man is facing multiple child sex charges stemming from a case dating back to January. The 32 year old man, Alejandro Duarte Aldama, was arrested last week and charged with “indecent liberties with a child and statutory sex offense – child less than 13; […]

Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, There seems to be an unwritten rule with lawmakers that, every time they create a terrible piece of legislation, they give it the most noble-sounding name. The USA PATRIOT Act from 2001 was a great example. It sounds great. Who wouldn’t love a law named for Patriots? And yet […]