The Cuban Missile Crisis begins on October 14, 1962, bringing the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear conflict. Photographs taken by a high-altitude U-2 spy plane offered incontrovertible evidence that Soviet-made medium-range missiles in Cuba—capable of carrying nuclear warheads—were now stationed 90 miles off the American coastline.
Continue reading “THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Cuban Missile Crisis begins – 1962”
“We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.”
Benjamin Harrison
“Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.”
Herbert Spencer
“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.”
Voltaire
“The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.”
Thomas A. Edison
From Brandon Smith
With the U.S. and China in the midst of a new round of high level trade talks, this Thursday marks 22 months since tariffs were launched and the trade war began. Far from being “easy to win”, the trade war has lasted far longer than most analysts in the mainstream and alternative media predicted. In past articles, I have warned that the trade war itself is probably not meant to be won at all; rather, it is a massive distraction and a convenient scapegoat as global banks set the implosion of the Everything Bubble in motion. I continue to stand by this assessment, which is why I think it is unlikely that the current talks with China will accomplish much of anything.
Continue reading “Here’s How the New U.S.-China Trade Talks May End”
Who’s really clamoring to see a black, transgender fairy godmother on cinema screens? Certainly the liberal media. But do audiences really care for woke remakes of childhood classics?
Is there any phrase more guaranteed to ruin a sweet childhood memory than “a modern re-imagining of…”? Especially when ‘modern’ means ‘sanitized’ and ‘injected with pointless social-justice twaddle.’
Enter the black, transgender fairy godmother. According to Hollywood Reporter, Emmy-award winning actor Billy Porter will play the role in Sony Pictures’ upcoming remake of the 1950 Disney classic, alongside Cuban-American actress Camila Cabello as the titular princess. Billy Porter, for the uninitiated, is a gay man.
A Hong Kong police officer was knocked down by a flying drop kick as he attempted to arrest a protester during the 19th week of anti-government unrest.
The officer can be seen struggling over custody of a protester until the kick levels him, followed by others running up and hitting the man before they run off.
The protests – this week’s revolving around a new ‘anti-mask’ law – saw turnouts in more than half of the semiautonomous Chinese territory’s 18 districts.
Continue reading “Watch: Hong Kong Cop Taken Out By Flying Drop-Kick To Stop Arrest”
It’s not just “tinfoil blogs” who (for the past 11 years) have been warning that a monetary reset is inevitable and the only viable fallback option once trust and faith in fiat is lost, is a gold standard (something which even Mark Carney hinted at recently): central banks are joining the doom parade now too.
An article published by the De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), or Dutch Central Bank, has shocked many with its claim that “if the entire system collapses, the gold stock provides a collateral to start over.”
“Do not underestimate the ‘power of underestimation’. They can’t stop you, if they don’t see you coming.” ― Izey Victoria Odiase
During the summer of 2008 I was writing articles a few times per week predicting an economic catastrophe and a banking crisis. When the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression swept across the world, resulting in double digit unemployment, a 50% stock market crash in a matter of months, millions of home foreclosures, and the virtual insolvency of the criminal Wall Street banks, my predictions were vindicated. I was pretty smug and sure the start of this Fourth Turning would follow the path of the last Crisis, with a Greater Depression, economic disaster and war.
In the summer of 2008, the national debt stood at $9.4 trillion, which amounted to 65% of GDP. Total credit market debt peaked at $54 trillion. Consumer debt peaked at $2.7 trillion. Mortgage debt crested at $14.8 trillion. The Federal Reserve balance sheet had been static at or below $900 billion for years.
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This word of wisdom from Ned Ryun at American Greatness:
“So if you’re wondering how all of this stops, how we return to normal, I will tell you what a friend told me: ‘There is no normal. There is only Clausewitz.’ There is only absolute and total political war on this axis we face until we beat them into an unconditional surrender. The Left wants it that way because they think they can win. They want no holds barred total political war. Since we can’t escape it, I say we give it to them measure for measure.”
RTWT.
For the Common Core grads out there, what is referred to is von Clausewitz’ classical maxim:
“War is the continuation of politics, by other means.”
We note in passing that though von Clausewitz never said so, the reverse is also true:
Politics is the continuation of war, by other means.
The left has been waging war on this presidency since 11/9/2016.
Continue reading “This Penny Is Going To Drop For You. Get Busy.”
Chris’ note: The rise of electric vehicles (EVs) and self-driving cars is one of the world’s most unstoppable trends… and it’s just getting started.
Yesterday, in the first part of our discussion, Doug Casey told us why this megatrend needs to be on your radar today.
Below, we pick up where we left off and talk about what this means for certain commodities… what the investing implications are… and much more…
Chris: Doug, what happens to oil as EVs and self-driving cars go mainstream?
Doug: Almost all gasoline is used for vehicles. In fact, something like 75% of oil production is used for transportation. So, this will put a cap on petroleum prices. There’s going to be a glut of oil. Petroleum’s main use is basically going to be a feed stock for plastics and things of that nature. It’s going to collapse the production, if not the prices, of corn, palm oil, and perhaps sugar as well, because so much of those crops are – idiotically – used as biofuels.
Continue reading “Doug Casey on Electric and Self-Driving Vehicles, Part II”
Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
Our computer models have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is absolutely no basis for human-caused global warming and that the climate has ALWAYS changed. There is no foundation to presume that the climate is being altered by humans. There have been previous periods where CO2 levels have been more than twice that currently.
We are breaking records for cold each year. Weather is changing and the next solar cycle our model is forecasting will be a lower activity level that the past wave and there remains a risk of things getting much more colder during the winters with swings to heat and droughts in the summer.
Continue reading “Winter Wonderland – Volatility in Weather & Communism”
Comment from Aldous Huxley
For those too ignorant or too full of cognitive dissonance here is a short understanding for ya..
It is Saturday morning and I like to wake up early so I had set my iPhone alarm to wake me at 5am. (Apple now knows what time i woke). I grab my iPhone and head to the kitchen and turn the coffee maker on (it wirelessly informs several other kitchen appliances, Alexa and my iPhone denotes this too). I open the fridge (it sends a signal to other kitchen appliances and my iPhone) and to grab a few items. Yogurt, orange juice, some blueberries. When I shut the fridge door the RFID signal on the packages I took out were read by the fridge so it knows what was removed and at what time. Now apple and others know, with near certainty who was up, rummaging in the fridge and what they took out. (Ok I think you get the point of “breakfast in the new age” so let’s move on. )
1 Trump supporter vs 8 Antifa! https://t.co/Zo7t9h3gq0
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Guest Post by Eric Peters
If you doubt there’s a double standard when it comes to saaaaaaaaaaaaafety, consider the fact that the government isn’t recalling or even investigating Teslas equipped with something called “Smart Summon,” a feature that is causing driverless Teslas to bump into other cars and – inevitably – people who happen to be in the way.
