Month: December 2019

The Great Recession

This little monster that feeds beneath the surface of global banking at its core briefly raised one ugly eye out of the water as 2018 turned into 2019. I wrote back then that the interest spike we saw in the kind of overnight interbank lending known as repurchase agreements (repos) was just the foreshock of a financial crisis being created by the Fed’s monetary tightening. I said the Fed’s continued tightening would eventually result in a full-blown recession that would emerge, likely out of the repo market, sometime in the summer. In the final two weeks of the summer, the Repo Crisis raised its head fully out of the water and roared.  Continue reading “Repocalypse: The Second Coming”

In the News Today

INTELCASTER – Here’s something many people are not aware of yet. When you go online to find sensitive truths Bing (and DuckDuckGo) will often do a better job than Google.

Lets take a look at some examples that prove that Google is an information weapon, while Bing is exactly what one would expect it is, a search engine.  Continue reading “Bing vs Google: Bing is a Search Engine, Google is a Weapon”

CNN

But keeping it tidy serves a dual purpose. The 36-year-old woman is homeless and has been sleeping in her car at night, converting the back seat into a bed.  Continue reading “Living in her car, she was afraid and harassed. Then she found an unexpected refuge”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Update: Biden has denied the allegations against him and asked the court to strike the filing from the record, claiming the allegations were improperly filed, and may constitute “redundant, immaterial, impertinent or scandalous” material, and that it was a “scheme by a non-party simply to make scandalous allegations in the pending suit to gain some quick media attention.”  Continue reading “Hunter Biden Denies Ukraine Money Laundering Allegations”

The Eagle – by Chelsea Katz

Continue reading “CC, world’s first cloned cat, turns 18 years old”

KTRE 9

Continue reading “Catfish shatters N.C. woman’s car windshield”

The Eagle – by Kimberly Kindy

WASHINGTON – Bits of metal, hard plastic, rubber and even glass are increasingly getting mixed and baked into processed meat products reaching consumers, triggering a record number of safety recalls, a Washington Post analysis of federal records shows.

So far this year, the Agriculture Department has announced 34 recalls involving 17 million pounds of meat products after stray materials were found in them.  Continue reading “Recalls for processed meat rise drastically as consumers bite down on metal, plastic and glass”

New York Post – by Gabrielle Fonrouge and Aaron Feis

The Brooklyn CBD wholesaler whose 106-pound shipment of perfectly legal hemp was wrongfully seized by the NYPD last month will have a green Christmas, as the stash was released on Monday.

“We got everything back,” said Oren Levy, the proprietor of Green Angel CBD, whose brother, Ronen, picked up the haul from the NYPD’s Queens narcotics lock-up on Monday. “They actually sealed it normally. I was surprised.”  Continue reading “Brooklyn CBD wholesaler gets wrongfully seized hemp back from NYPD”

NBC 4

It was by chance that two brothers who own a smoke shop in Queens found video footage in a smashed video recorder when they returned to their store after spending more than a month in jail.

At the brothers’ arraignment in late August, prosecutors said in court NYPD cops had recovered 40 pounds of cocaine during a raid and search warrant by the Queens north gang unit. The DA’s office provided no documentation and asked for the two suspects to be held without bail.  Continue reading “NYPD Cops Seen Disabling Security Camera After Brothers’ False Drug Charges Bust”

Yahoo News

Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York and President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, told New York Magazine in an interview that he’s “more of a Jew” than George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist and Democratic activist.

“Don’t tell me I’m anti-Semitic if I oppose him,” Giuliani said. “Soros is hardly a Jew. I’m more of a Jew than Soros is. I probably know more about — he doesn’t go to church, he doesn’t go to religion — synagogue. He doesn’t belong to a synagogue, he doesn’t support Israel, he’s an enemy of Israel. He’s elected eight anarchist [district attorneys] in the United States. He’s a horrible human being.”  Continue reading “Rudy Giuliani insists he’s ‘more of a Jew’ than George Soros, who survived the Holocaust”

CNN

A Fort Smith Police investigation into Debra Stevens’ death found that while the 911 dispatcher “violated policy by being rude to Stevens at times,” she hadn’t violated the law in her response.  Continue reading “A 911 dispatcher who told a drowning woman to ‘shut up’ will not face charges”

Ziliak Law – by Jesse Hudson

On Friday, May 31st the Illinois House approved a law legalizing recreational cannabis, or marijuana, in the state, making Illinois the 11th of the United States to do so. The law, referred to as the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act (“CRTA” or the “Illinois law”) is on the desk of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, who has championed legalization, to sign and then will go into effect January 1st, 2020. Two things make the Illinois law stand out from the rest of the nation’s cannabis legalization legislation.  Continue reading “Two Things that Stand out About Illinois’ Landmark New Legislation Legalizing Cannabis”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is advising members of the military not to use consumer DNA kits, saying the information collected by private companies could pose a security risk, according to a memo co-signed by the Defense Department’s top intelligence official.

A growing number of companies like 23andMe and Ancestry sell testing kits that allow buyers to get a DNA profile by sending in a cheek swab or saliva sample. The DNA results provide consumers information on their ancestry, insights into possible medical risks and can even identify previously unknown family members.  Continue reading “Pentagon warns military members DNA kits pose ‘personal and operational risks’”

Breitbart – by John Binder

Democrat governors representing red states such as Kentucky, North Carolina, Montana, and Kansas have approved more refugee resettlement in 2020 for their states.

For Fiscal Year 2020, President Donald Trump will continue cutting refugee admissions by reducing former President Barack Obama’s refugee inflow by at least 80 percent. This reduction would mean a maximum of 18,000 refugees can be resettled in the U.S. between October 1, 2019, and September 30, 2020. This is merely a numerical limit and not a goal federal officials are supposed to reach.  Continue reading “Red State Democrat Governors Approve More Refugees for Their States”