Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com, UPDATE: It looks like the suspension was lifted just after I hit publish on this. A lot of my fans and even a few haters made a big noise in objection to Twitter’s actions, and it worked! As we discussed recently, the plutocratic manipulators work so hard to manufacture our consent because they… Read More

Hedge fund manager and noted Tesla bear Crispin Odey, in the wake of Tesla’s nearly 10% crash on Friday, talked in his most recent investor letter about how difficult it was to be short the name. He also made the revelation that he believes that the company is “entering the final stages of its life”. Odey, like many… Read More

Authored by Brian Quinlivan via Hackernoon.com, Let’s Face It The crypto markets are currently f*cked. Between the consistent manipulation they face, as well as specific issues per individual major exchanges like Coinbase Pro, Binance, and Bittrex, there is a lot to be concerned about when making even the simplest of token swaps and transfers. There are bots… Read More

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds force commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani has for two years maintained an Instagram account, and despite the well-known elite Iranian force commander being formally designated a terrorist by the U.S. Department of the Treasury since 2011, the account hasn’t been suspended.  Among a number of prior threatening images, Gen. Soleimani recently posted an artistic… Read More

Via Political Calculations blog, There are certain things that are understood without having to be said, because they’re very obvious. Things like “never get involved in a land war in Asia” or “never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line” are examples of these kinds of things. Other examples can be found in the… Read More

China has lodged a diplomatic protest in response to the latest Pentagon annual assessment on “China’s Military Threat” delivered to Congress and made public late Thursday evening, saying it “firmly opposes” the report as a gross misinterpretation of its true military aims and intent, and is indicative of a false “Cold War mentality” on the part… Read More

Authored by Michael Snyder via The American Dream blog, Ocean temperatures continue to rise, and scientists are extremely alarmed as a mass die-off of sea creatures appears to be imminent.  This week, environmental experts were stunned when ocean water off of the San Diego coast hit an all-time record high of 81.3 degrees Fahrenheit.  Daily… Read More

Thanks to strained manufacturing supply chains and a booming economy, an unprecedented run of orders for new big rigs has nearly doubled the backlog at truck factories to nine months, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing industry analysts.  North American freight-haulers ordered over 300,000 Class 8 trucks through July of this year, and are on… Read More

Authored by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog, Two thirds of Americans want the Mueller investigation (inquisition, someone called it) over by the midterm elections. Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has said that if Mueller wants to interview Trump, he’ll have to do so before September 1, because the Trump camp doesn’t want to… Read More

Lake Mead – the West’s largest reservoir – is running dry again and is on track to fall below a critical threshold in 2020, according to a new forecast by the Bureau of Reclamation. In 2016, Lake Mead water levels drop to new record lows (since it was filled in the 1930s) leaving Las Vegas… Read More

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, If you want to preserve your sanity and avoid unhappy derangement, turn off all corporate and social media from now to Thanksgiving. Since elections are extremely profitable for traditional media / social media corporations, your sanity will gleefully be sacrificed in the upcoming election–if you are gullible… Read More

After a week like that, this seemed appropriate… Before we get started, let’s note that all is not well in the world (despite the constant happy-talk on ‘Murican media)… Global stocks are down 14% from their all-time-high in January…   31-month lows for SHCOMP as Chinese stocks had another ugly week… (3rd biggest weekly drop… Read More

The judge in Paul Manafort’s Virginia trial for bank and tax fraud revealed in open court on Friday that he has received death threats, and is now traveling with the protection of the US Marshals Service.  “I have the marshal’s protection,” Ellis said. “I don’t even go to the hotel alone. I won’t even reveal… Read More