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Buckle up - How (Not) to pop a bubble

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Sun, 28 Oct 2018 16:57 UTC
Economic Bubble
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It may not have been the craziest headline that the Trump whirlwind has generated in recent months, but you might have seen it amidst all the Stormy Kavanaghs out there:

Trump says Fed is his 'biggest threat' because it is raising rates too fast

This latest outburst is just one more example of a pattern we have seen emerge over the past two years: Any and all good news about the economy is because of Trump, and any and all bad news about the economy is because of the Fed. I've touched on this theme before, but I think we all know how it goes.

When candidate Trump was on the campaign trail, he bemoaned the "big fat ugly bubble" blown by the Fed's low interest rate policies. But when candidate Trump became President Trump, he suddenly stopped pushing for higher rates and instead started touting the big fat ugly bubble. And now that the Fed is actually raising interest rates like candidate Trump said he wanted, the dissembler-in-chief has suddenly decided that this is horrible and tells us the Fed has "gone crazy."

Correction: The Fed has not "gone crazy." And although it might make a good quip, it's not even true that the Fed has always been crazy. Sadly, the wizards of Wall Street are perfectly in control of their mental faculties. They know what they are doing when they blow a bubble up, and they know what they are doing when they make one pop. And guess who's got their needle pointing ominously at the global economy right now?
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Russia to provide Cuba with military equipment worth over $50 million


Sputnik
Sat, 27 Oct 2018 21:54 UTC
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Russia will lend Cuba over $50 million for purchases of Russian military equipment, Russian newspaper Kommersant reported, citing two sources in the sphere of technical and military cooperation.

According to the speakers, the respective agreements will be signed during the 16th intergovernmental commission on economy, trade and scientific-technical cooperation due to take place in Havana on October 29-30. However, neither Russia, nor Cuba has confirmed the reports.

"This sum will go straight to military and technical cooperation. Along with this agreement, a set of general economic documents and agreements initiated by the Russian Ministry of Finance will be signed, but other sums will be allocated for that," a source familiar with the negotiations remarked.

Comment: The US should surely have no problem with this development, considering they've been supplying any willing country (on Russia's borders) with their faulty goods for a good while now. But, unlike Russia, the US has fairly low standards and is even supplying deadly weapons to countries like Ukraine, which is nigh on a failed state: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Putin The World To Rights: Russia's New Nuclear Weapons And The End of 'Unipolarity'

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Smiling Trump joins 'lock him up' chant against globalist Soros


RT
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 10:20 UTC
George Soros
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US President Donald Trump seems to agree with calls to imprison George Soros, as he laughed and joined in the "Lock him up" chant by a crowd of young black supporters targeting the billionaire liberal.

Trump encountered a passionate audience as he addressed the Young Black Leadership Summit at the White House on Thursday. His speech was constantly interrupted by applause, cheers and chants.


The president was talking about the trade wars he's been waging around the world and blamed the globalists of "cheating our [American] workers." This is when some in the crowd started calling out "Soros" - the man routinely described as a "champion" of globalism.

Trump tried to continue his address, but was interrupted by chants "Lock him up," directed at the billionaire. The US president then chuckled and repeated the chant himself, saying "Lock him up" and pointing the finger at the part of the audience from where the idea originated.
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Lavrov states US quitting landmark INF treaty is 'fact', Moscow prepares response to list of 'questions'


RT
Sun, 28 Oct 2018 14:29 UTC
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Moscow sees the US decision to quit the historic INF accord as an "objective fact" and has started working on responses to claims of pact violations, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

The Russian Foreign Ministry received a detailed "extensive list of questions" on the Cold war-era pact from the US embassy in Moscow, days before President Donald Trump made the abrupt announcement that the US is leaving the deal.

"Finally, they gave it to us - in response to our requests to provide what disturbs them and on what basis do they make a conclusion about our non-compliance with the treaty," Lavrov told Rossiya 1 TV channel. The Ministry of Defense, along with other relevant departments, are working on a set of responses. "It is an objective fact for us that the decision [to withdraw from the deal] has been made and is being implemented," Lavrov said.

Comment: For more on the treaty ramifications: Who profits from the end of the mid-range nuclear INF Treaty?

And more official response from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs:



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The feminist corporate coup of California

Jeffrey Harding
Mises Wire
Thu, 25 Oct 2018 19:17 UTC
feminismo occidental
The California Legislature's 201-2018 session just ended with an ocean of new laws inflicted upon its citizens. It's actually difficult to discover how many new laws were passed. There were about 2,100 bills passed and signed by the governor, but many of them were bills supporting things like National Arbor Day or the Ritchie Valens Memorial Highway or Cinco de Mayo Week or Persian New Year. If you look up the legislative agenda there are about 50 pages of passed bills with 50 items on each page, of which about 7 pages of bills were vetoed by Governor Brown. I can't tell you how many of them are "real" laws, but in the last session there were about 900 new laws. My guess is that there were more than 900 this session.

Does anyone seriously believe that these laws will materially improve our lives? What about the 900 passed last year? Or the 800 the year before that? What they will do is make life more complicated for Californians and drive businesses out of state.

The crown jewel of California's Progressive-feminist policy this year was Senate Bill 826 which mandates publicly-held corporations to put women on their boards. It was passed and signed by Governor Jerry Brown. California now proudly leads the nation in identity politics. The law requires a minimum of one woman board member by 2019, and by 2020, two for boards with five members and three with boards of six or more.

Comment: Colour, creed, and sex clearly come before competence in the eyes of a small, growing minority. Common sense dictates that the most efficient, talented person would get the job...but not anymore. For further reading:

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Blatant censorship: Social network Gab booted off Internet because Pittsburgh synagogue shooter had account there


RT
Sun, 28 Oct 2018 06:22 UTC
free speech
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Social media platform Gab, where the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter had a page, is about to lose its hosting provider. Gab is being widely accused of enabling the shooting.

Joyent, Gab's hosting provider, sent it a warning message that because of an unspecified "breach of the Joyent Terms of Service," it will be pulling the plug on Gab on Monday morning. Earlier, PayPal cut off contact with the social network, after an avalanche of media reports pointed out that Michael Bowers, who killed 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday, had a page there.



Comment: This is OBVIOUSLY a pretext for getting gab.ai shut down. If every social media platform was taken offline every time some atrocity was committed, there'd be no bloody social media!

See also: Police responding to active shooter at Pittsburgh synagogue, at least 7 casualties reported

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EU may halt Saudi arms sales over Khashoggi murder, Merkel & Macron agree in Istanbul


RT
Sat, 27 Oct 2018 18:13 UTC
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The slaying of journalist Jamal Khashoggi may have far-reaching consequences for Saudi Arabia, French and German leaders have agreed; these include a possible weapon sales ban and other sanctions at European Union level.

The EU will make a joint decision on how to punish Saudi Arabia for the gruesome murder of the journalist, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday, speaking in Istanbul after the Russia-Turkey-France-Germany summit on Syria. The decision, including a potential weapons sales ban, will depend on the results of the murder investigation, she added.

"We agreed that when we have more clarity, and we are counting on that, when we know who was behind this then we will try to find a unified European solution or reaction from all member states of the European Union to show that we negotiate on the basis of common values," Merkel said.

Comment: See also: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Saudi Arabia: A Wretched Hive of Scum And Villainy, Fully Supported by The West

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Tone deaf: Saudi foreign minister calls media reaction to Khashoggi assassination 'hysteria'


Sputnik
Sat, 27 Oct 2018 20:26 UTC
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© Associated Pres/Emrah GurelA poster of missing Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, on a barrier that blocks the road leading to the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul.
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Jubeir on Saturday said that the world media's response to the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul amounted to "hysteria," the Bahrain-based Al Bahil Press news portal reported Saturday.

"The Khashoggi case has become hysteria, investigations take time and facts get determined as the investigation goes on," Jubeir said at a forum in the Bahraini capital of Manama.

Comment: The fallout over Jamal Khashoggi's murder continues. It would almost be a diplomatic comedy of bluster, posturing and behind-the-scenes horse trading, were it not for the heinous event at the heart of it all.

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NATO-friendly media & organizations wilfully refuse to address White Helmets' atrocities in Syria

Vanessa Beeley
RT
Wed, 24 Oct 2018 19:43 UTC
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© Reuters / Alaa Faqir
The White Helmets are the flagship of the Western-manufactured "human rights" industry working to destabilize Syria and to criminalize the Syrian government and its allies.

They became an official entity inside Syria in early 2013 as news of "rebel" use of chemical weapons in Khan Al Assal, Aleppo began to surface.

In July 2013, 51 Syrian Arab Army (SAA) soldiers were executed in Khan Al Assal. Nusra Front (Al-Qaeda) and affiliated extremist group Ansar Al Khalifah took responsibility for this brutal mass murder. Videos alleged to be taken just before the execution show young boys among the soldiers forced to lie on the ground. One soldier is seen giving the victory salute just before death.

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Democratic congressmen call for release of suppressed Iraq War 'lessons learned' study


Sputnik
Sat, 27 Oct 2018 19:43 UTC
mosul
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Two Democratic congressmen on the House Armed Services Committee called for the "rapid public release of a study on the Army's lessons learned from the Iraq War" on Thursday.

The Wall Street Journal noted earlier in the week that the study was finished in 2016 but kept getting "stuck in internal reviews" prior to public disclosure.

"It's no secret that the Army and, frankly, our entire defense establishment, made serious mistakes and miscalculations in Iraq since 2003," said Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), adding that the withholding of the document was "simply to protect the careers and egos of Army brass."

"This is simply the Army being unwilling to publicly air its mistakes," Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) added.
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