26 Million Americans Are Now "Too Poor To Shop" Study Finds

"The poorest Americans have stopped shopping, except for necessities" and "It's scary when you start to see things that you've never seen before"..."People are so pessimistic about their future"

Breakdown Of US Citizens Killed By Cops In 2016

How George Soros Singlehandedly Created The European Refugee Crisis - And Why

In 2015, a Sky News reporter found “Migrant Handbooks” on the Greek island of Lesbos. It was later revealed that the handbooks, which are written in Arabic, had been given to refugees before crossing the Mediterranean by a group called “Welcome to the EU.” Welcome to the EU is funded by—you guessed it—George Soros' Open Society Foundations. Soros has not only backed groups that advocate the resettlement of third-world migrants into Europe, he in fact is the architect of the “Merkel Plan.”

A Portrait Of Quantitative Failure

Simply put, it's not working stupid!

From Cops To Clinton: Impunity Corrupts

On Wednesday, two shocking videos of police officers fatally shooting civilians surfaced. The day before, many were appalled to hear the Director of the FBI announce that Hillary Clinton would not be charged for mishandling classified information. The two events may seem unrelated, but at bottom, they concern the same fundamental problem: impunity.

What Happens When This Chart Hits Zero?

Nothing good...

The Decline & Fall Of The Biggest Bond Market In The World Has Only One Inevitable Ending

Such a process would be highly inflationary and, sooner or later, would be viewed by the market as such...

When Narratives Go Bad

There’s a … tiredness … to the status quo Narratives, a Marie Antoinette-ish world weariness that sighs and pouts about those darn peasants all the way to the guillotine.

Dramatic Footage Shows Dallas Shooter Engage In Firefight With Policeman

As more and more video emerges following Thursday night's deadly Dallas shoot out, we get a new understanding of just how intense last night was.

If Senseless Violence Continues, America Will Be A Total Police State In No Time

While we don’t know who the police murderers in Dallas were, or their motivations; we do know one thing - their actions will unquestionably have several very counterproductive and dangerous outcomes.

Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts – Pause Ahead of the Non-Farm Payrolls – Winter Is Coming

from Jesse’s Café Américain:
“Every increase of knowledge may possibly render depravity more depraved, as well as it may increase the strength of virtue.
It is in itself only power; and its value depends on its application.”
Sydney Smith
Let’s see if the Non-Farm Payrolls Report tomorrow gives the Fed enough of a recovery fig-leaf to start talking about rate increases, and sufficient nudge for the market takers to shove the price of the precious metals around to catch any of the over-leveraged specs leaning in the wrong direction.
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Attacking Police and Enacting Violence Will Do Nothing to Stop Brutality — It Will Make it Far Worse

by Matt Agorist, Activist Post:
Late Thursday night, during an entirely peaceful protest, murderers opened fire on crowds of police officers. Five Dallas cops were tragically killed and six others injured.
These apparently unprovoked attacks on individuals who were not directly involved in threatening the life of the shooters are a hindrance to the progression of liberty and police accountability.
Random acts of violence will only serve to undo what little progress those of us in the peaceful movement have accomplished and, in fact, will reverse it and prevent any future progress.
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House Delivers Clinton a Day from Hell: State Department Reopens Investigation

by Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Wall Street On Parade:
Just 18 days before the Democratic National Convention is set to convene in Philadelphia, where delegates and superdelegates will select the presidential candidate in one of the most critical elections in U.S. history — coming amidst signs of slowing economic growth and financial stresses where a strong, trusted leader will be needed to steer the country through major headwinds — the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee delivered Hillary Clinton’s campaign a day from hell yesterday.
On hand to raise alarming questions about Clinton’s fitness to handle classified national security material was FBI Director James Comey, State Department Inspector General Steve Linick and Charles McCullough, the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community.
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Sign of the Times: Riot Control Gear Sales Are Soaring Globally

by Joshua Krause, Ready Nutrition:
If you pay attention to the news at all, it probably seems like the world has been fraying at the edges lately. In South America, Brazil’s economy is crumbling and Venezuela is on the verge of collapse. In the United States, riots are expected at the Republican National Convention later this month. In Europe, the Brexit vote is threatening to tear apart the EU and the UK.
And all over the world, people are becoming sick and tired of the status quo. In nearly every single country, people are losing their faith in major institutions, and in increasing numbers, they are losing their trust in the financial and political elitists who run those institutions.
Obviously, this state of affairs can’t continue indefinitely. There is a flashpoint somewhere down the road, when the people of the world reach their breaking point, and the elitists who run their societies will do everything they can to hold onto their power. It’s going to be ugly, and it’s going to be global in scope.
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On Brexit: Is It Time the World Exited the Folly?

by Phil Butler, New Eastern Outlook:
Brexit has the geo-political arena buzzing like the Roman Coliseum before Christians were fed to the lions. With no one and nothing to trust anymore, because mainstream media is “oh-so” sold out, the reverberations emanating from Britain are deafening. “What’s next?” The corporate media scrambles to fill in the void. Well here is a theory I’ll guarantee you’ll never hear on BBC. Here is the reality and the ghastly potential of our times.
“People are upset for a lot of reasons.” Donald Trump – On Brexit
News Report from Somewhere in a Parallel Universe
January 1st, 2017. Germany’s ZEIT has just broken the news; Belgium, Holland, France, and Germany have formed Neu Carolginia, a unified core state in north and central Europe. After the “domino-like” secession of European Union states since the Britain exit (Brexit), the leaders of these four nations seek to form a new country to promote a unified economic, social, and mutual defense front in the heart of what was once the Frankish Empire. Named for the Carolingian Empire (800–924), Neu Carolginia’s leadership will consist of a “Chancellor”, an upper and lower parliament, and four parliamentary secretaries from each of the former independent regions.
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The Disastrous Dollar Standard

by Richard Duncan, DailyReckoning:
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards
Withdrew, And the hearts of the Meanest were humbled and began to believe
It was true That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
— Rudyard Kipling, 1919
When the Bretton Woods international monetary system broke down in 1973, the world’s financial officials were unable to agree on a new set of rules to regulate international trade and monetary relations. Instead, a new system began to emerge without formal agreement or sanction. It also remained nameless.
The current international monetary system which evolved out of the collapse of Bretton Woods will be referred to as the dollar standard — so named because U.S. dollars have become the world’s core reserve currency in place of gold, which had comprised the world’s reserve assets under the Bretton Woods system as well as under the classical gold standard of the 19th century.
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