(Reuters) – U.S. oil major Chevron Corp (CVX.N) said late on Friday it is optimistic about maintaining a presence in Venezuela even amid U.S. sanctions on the country and state oil company PDVSA as part of Washington’s effort to oust President Nicolas Maduro. The logo of Chevron is seen at the company’s office in Caracas,… Read More
* India draft in debutant spinner Nadeem for Ishant * Klaasen and Linde make test debut for South Africa (Updates at lunch) NEW DELHI, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Kagiso Rabada bowled with unbridled hostility to wreck India’s top order and help reduce the hosts to 71 for three wickets at lunch on the opening day… Read More
I’ve held the view that Chinese finance has been at the epicenter of international market unease. The U.S./China trade war was not the predominant global risk. It has had the potential, however, to become a catalyst for Chinese financial instability. And there remains a high probability for an eruption of Chinese disorder to quickly reverberate… Read More
6 Warning Signs That Civil Unrest Is Imminent Authored by J.G.Martinez D. via The Organic Prepper blog, This week has been “interesting” in South America. Interesting, indeed, but as in the ancient Chinese curse style. For those of us in this side of the hemisphere, having been able to witness first-hand, in the front line, how… Read More
Office Vacancies In China Hit Decade High Amid Economic Turmoil A darkening outlook for China’s economy continues to materialize week by week. New data from commercial property group CBRE warns the country’s office vacancy rate has just surged to the highest since the financial crisis of 2007–2008, first reported by Bloomberg. CBRE said the vacancy… Read More
Terrorized, Traumatized, & Terminated: The Police State’s Deadly Toll On America’s Children Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Mommy, am I gonna die?”— 4-year-old Ava Ellis after being inadvertently shot in the leg by a police officer who was aiming for the girl’s boxer-terrier dog, Patches “‘Am I going to get shot again.’”—2-year-old… Read More
Japan To Send Its Own Military Force To Strait Of Hormuz Ever since the new round of ‘tanker wars’ began in Strait of Hormuz in mid-June with a mysterious mine attack on multiple tankers, one involving a Japanese-owned ship, Tokyo has reportedly mulled sending a Japanese defense force to the area to help protect vital… Read More
Why Is The Elitist Establishment So Obsessed With Meat? Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, I don’t know how many people have noticed this, but in the past three months it has been impossible for a person to throw a beef burger patty in any direction on the compass without hitting a news article on… Read More
China Bans Exports Of Black Clothing To Hong Kong Amid Escalating Social Unrest Over the last 24 hours, several reports have surfaced, one from the South China Morning Post (SCMP), and another from Reuters, are now detailing new export bans that Beijing has enacted from mainland China to Hong Kong, which explicitly states shipping couriers… Read More
Medicare-For-All Is A Plot To Pillage You Authored by Veronique de Rugy via The American Institute for Economic Research, Medicare-For-All (M4A) is gaining some steam. Two prominent Democratic candidates for the presidency, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, support it, and several polls show that the idea is supported also by a majority of Americans. … Read More
‘WhatsApp Revolution’ Protests In Lebanon Turn Violent With Fires, Road Blocks; Multiple Dead & Wounded Lebanon erupted in large-scale ‘Arab Spring’ style protests starting Thursday night into Friday, marked by number of massive fires and makeshift roadblocks which could be seen going up in Beirut, in what international reports are calling the biggest cross-sectarian anti-government uprising in… Read More
The Late Great State Of California Authored by Jeffrey Harding via The Mises Institute, My family moved to California in 1950, part of the post-WWII westward migration. My widowed mother, tired of Boston’s dreary winters, felt the westward pull. My eldest brother, a WWII Navy veteran, had heard good things about San Diego from sailors… Read More
Ray Dalio Warns Of Looming “Big Sag” That Will Rattle Global Markets Ray Dalio never misses an opportunity to tell a room full of absurdly rich people how their unchecked greed and unwillingness to lift their heel from the throat of the poor could usher in a global revolution. And what better venue for this… Read More
Shining Some Light On The Dark Web Authored by Sarah Cowgill via LibertyNation.com, The seedier side of the internet gained notoriety with the juggernaut of illicit online products and services, Silk Road, which promised to protect users’ privacy. Sex trafficking, human smuggling, murder for hire, body parts for sale – all had a welcome place. As… Read More
“Duck, Duck, Doom” – When Big Pharma Decides Who Among Us Is Worthy Of Saving “When a pharmaceutical company decides who among us is worthy, and who among us is not, we are no longer living in an ethical, moral society. We are playing duck, duck, doom. I pray no one dies.“ These are the… Read More
‘Peace-Expert’ George W Bush Says “Isolationism” Is Dangerous To Peace Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com, Humanity was treated to an important lecture on peace at a recent event for the NIR School of the Heart by none other than Ellen Degeneres BFF and world-renowned peace expert George W Bush. “I don’t think the Iranians… Read More
WeWork Valuation Collapse From Cash Crunch Could Crush Hong Kong Office Market WeWork running out of cash has derailed the company’s plan for massive expansion worldwide. JPMorgan Chase and SoftBank/Vision Fund are preparing to offer the company financial lifelines to avoid bankruptcy in the coming months. As Bloomberg reports, SoftBank is assembling a rescue financing… Read More
Why Has There Been A 56% Increase In Suicide Among Young Americans In Just 10 Years? Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, It is very hard to face the future when you don’t have any hope. Today, our society offers more ways to entertain ourselves than ever before, but… Read More
Twitter War Breaks Out Between “Russian Asset” Tulsi Gabbard And “Warmongering Queen” Hillary Clinton Democratic presidential candidate and Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard – who like Trump was quickly put in the crosshairs of the military industrial complex, the deep state and the pro-war Atlantic Council for her de-interventionist policy proposals – fired back at Hillary… Read More
Economists: Greta Thunberg’s Ideal World Would Result In A “Human Tragedy Of Disastrous Proportions” Whether you were inspired by Greta Thunberg’s tearful UN speech… …. or merely thought it was the year’s greatest meme, in which an indoctrinated, emotionally frail child is being preyed upon by adults with a far bigger and more lucrative agenda,… Read More