Kyle Bass Shares The "Stunning" Thing A Central Banker Once Told Him

"I had a fascinating out of body experience meeting with one of the world's top central bankers in a private meeting about three years ago. it was one of those moments where I...it was one of those epiphanies almost, where it's something you and I knew, but hearing him say it, call it one of the four top central bankers in the world, it was a jarring experience for me..." - Kyle Bass

Defending your liberty with a rifle.

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Hacked Emails Confirm NATO Push To Provoke, Escalate Conflict With Russia

Just two weeks ago, a huge scandal erupted within another 'union' as Germany slammed NATO for "warmongering" destroying the fictional narrative that 'innocent' NATO was merely reacting to evil Russian provocations. Now, as The Intercept's Zaid Jilani and Lee Fang expose, retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove (yes an ironic name for a warmonger), until recently the supreme commander of NATO forces in Europe, plotted in private to overcome President Barack Obama’s reluctance to escalate military tensions with Russia over the war in Ukraine in 2014, according to apparently hacked emails from Breedlove’s Gmail account.

Something "Unexpected" Happened After Starbucks Raised Minimum Wages

An online petition accusing Starbucks Corp of "extreme" cutbacks in work hours at its U.S. cafes, hurting both employee morale and customer service, has been signed by more than 9,000 people. "The labor situation has gone from tight to infuriating"

ISIS Mastermind Behind Istanbul Terrorist Attack Was A "Refugee" Protected By Europe

A Chechen national suspected of being the mastermind behind the deadly Istanbul airport terrorist attack, earlier received refugee status in Austria, which helped him to repeatedly avoid extradition to Russia on terror charges.

This Is What Loretta Lynch Said When Cornered About Her Clinton Meeting

Having been forced to remove herself from the Hillary Clinton email probe, Loretta Lynch admitted that her shockingly ill-advised private meeting with Bill Clinton has "cast a shadow" over the investigations and questions on the meeting are "fair." Her magnanimity was further expressed "I wouldn't do it again," while claiming that she had made the decision to 'recuse' herself days before her Bubba meeting.

Brexit Simplified

Simple as that...

The Invisible Hand Of The Disogranized Masses

The comments this week coming from the so-called elite referencing the ignorant masses have manufactured an aggressive response. Turning entire populations towards revolution takes years of socioeconomic conditioning and the application of downward pressure on civil liberties while also drawing attention to that downward pressure. The disorganized masses through the ultimate expression of self-interest, Adam Smith's 'invisible hand', will inevitably rise up and overthrow those they perceive as being the cause of the problem. The French population was guided by this invisible hand as the people expressed their self-interest through anger at the French monarchy in 1789.

Clinton Is Spending $500k A Day On TV Ads While Trump Spends Nothing

Clinton is going to need all of that cash the campaign is generating because as Bloomberg reports, the Clinton Campaign has run 9,781 ads from June 15-27 at an estimated cost of $6 million, or nearly $500,000 a day. Trump has spent exactly... zero..."I don't even need commercials, if you want to know the truth." And given his 4pt lead, he may well be right.

"EU Wants An Empire" - Brussels Plans To Expand Into Middle East, Africa

“The EU wants its own Empire as former Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso made clear when he was in charge, ...This global strategy by the EU is yet another reason why last Thursday’s result was a lucky escape for the UK.”

Heads Up: Taiwan Mistakenly Fires Missile Toward China

As Communist Party rulers in Beijing celebrated the party's 95th birthday on Friday, Taiwan's Navy fired a supersonic missile allegedly in error and hit a Taiwan fishing boat in waters separating the island from China... however, the missile did not explode but pierced the boat and killed one Taiwan fisherman.

Martin Armstrong Asks "Is Hillary The Most Devious Politician Of All Time?"

"This is typical of Hillary who represents the climax of arrogance and corruption among career politicians. These types of people have been getting away with this for so long that they cannot imagine running a government for any reason other than personal gain."

Brexit & The Crisis Of Capitalism

Thousands of commentaries have been issued about Brexit in the past week. Most discuss Brexit as the result of immigration issues, class war, political theater, a reaction against the European Union's bureaucratic power, sovereignty, etc. Other essays focus on the potential upsides or downsides of Brexit. What few if any commentators present is the idea that Brexit is a symptom of the Crisis of Capitalism...

Breuphoria - Stocks Explode Higher On Biggest Short Squeeze In 7 Years

Obamacare Enrollment Drops To 11.1 Million, Government Calls It "Sign Of Success"

By nearly all accounts, Obamacare has been a spectacular failure. The latest data on enrollment (at 11.1 million but projected to drop to 10.2million) is a mere 50% below the projected 21 million people the government expected by the end of 2016... Mission Accomplished?

What Risk? Post-Brexit VIX Crash Is Greatest Ever

Weekend Reading: Bre-lief?

"There is nothing riskier than the widespread perception that there is no risk."

Why Trump Is Routing The 'Free Traders'

"The returns from free trade are in, and the results are rotten....Is what is best for the world now more important than what is best for America?"

Price Discovery - R.I.P.!

But the destruction of price discovery in the sovereign debt market is not simply an academic curiosity to be jawed about by the few remaining fiscal scolds in the world. To the contrary, it is already having massive toxic consequences in the arenas of fiscal governance and capital markets alike.

With 5 Million Unemployed, Spain Still Can't Find Workers

With soaring youth unemployment, and close to 5 million people out of work overall, one would assume that the last problem Spain would encounter would be that it can't find workers to fill open jobs. However, as Bloomberg reports, Spain is facing labor shortages as employers struggle to find capable employees.

How To 'Win' 91% Of The Time When Trading Oil

Seriously...

“Physical” Silver Market Manipulation

*NOTE the mirrored image and open-sky warehouse that was photo shopped in on this “silver inventory” picture used by the Mainstream Media!
by Bix Weir, Road To Roota:
I have tried to understand and explain silver price manipulation from a broad perspective. There are limitless amounts of electronic silver available to the big players to rig the electronic price of silver up, down or sideways at any moment in time. The US Government has constructed this mechanism through the Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF) and the Working Group on Financial Markets(WGFM). The ESF holds the limitless funds and the WGFM pulls the trigger when needed. Given that the WGFM comprises both the leaders of the monetary and market system (head of Fed and head of Treasury) as well as the leaders of the regulating bodies (head of SEC and CFTC) their operations are above reproach.
So yes, the electronic market rigging apparatus is fully operational and running 24/7 and with a “Click of a Mouse” they can set the price of silver at $0/oz or $1M/oz.
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Vive la Revolution! Brexit and a Dying Order

by Bill Bonner, Acting Man:
Last Thursday, the Brits said auf Wiedersehen and au revoir to the European Union. On Friday, the Dow sold off 611 points – a roughly 3.5% slump. What’s going on?
In Europe and the U.S., the masses are getting restless. Mr. Guy Wroble of Denver, Colorado, explained why in a short letter to the Financial Times:
The old liberal world order is dying because the cost-benefit ratio for the average person in the Western world is now negative.
The welfare state depends on three things: population growth, productivity growth, and credit growth. All three are either slowing… or are already negative. As a result, economies can no longer keep up with the costs imposed by the Deep State and its cronies.
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SHOCK: Americans’ Drinking Water Could Become Thousands of Times More Radioactive Under New EPA Proposal

by David Gutierrez, Natural News:
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently proposed rule changes that would permit drinking water to become hundreds of thousands of times more radioactive than currently allowed. The rule would permit water so radioactive that it would expose those drinking it to the equivalent of 250 chest X-rays per year.
Environmental groups immediately condemned the proposal.
“Clean water is essential for health,” said Catherine Thomasson, executive director of Physicians for Social Responsibility. “Just like lead, radiation when ingested in small amounts is very hazardous to our health. It is inconceivable that EPA could now quietly propose allowing enormous increases in radioactive contamination with no action to protect the public, even if concentrations are a thousand times higher than under the Safe Drinking Water Act.”
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Shocking Report: Over 5,300 U.S. Water Systems Are In Violation Of The Law — Poisoning Millions

by Claire Bernish, Activist Post:
According to a new report, some 18 million Americans “live in communities where the water systems are in violation of the law.”
Flint apparently marked the tip of a nefarious iceberg, and lead isn’t the only contaminant polluting drinking water for millions in the United States.
“Imagine a cop sitting, watching people run stop signs, and speed at 90 miles per hour in small communities and still doing absolutely nothing about it — knowing the people who are violating the law. And doing nothing,” illustrated Erik Olsen, health program director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, which analyzed EPA data for the report. “That’s unfortunately what we have now.”
According to the NRDC’s scathing report, “What’s In Your Water? Flint and Beyond,” lead contamination in Flint — the subject of national outrage and scandal — is “not anomalous.”
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Hillary Clinton Vows To Prosecute All Climate Change Deniers

by Sean Adl-Tabatabai, Investment Watch Blog:
Hillary Clinton has vowed to prosecute climate change deniers if she is elected President of the United States.
The Democratic Platform Drafting Committee issued a statement on Friday urging the Justice Department to investigate “alleged corporate fraud on the part of fossil fuel companies who have reportedly misled shareholders and the public on the scientific reality of climate change“.
This announcement represents the beginning of a much larger move to criminalize anybody who speaks out against orthodox climate change dogma.
Washingtontimes.com reports:
The proposal won the unanimous support of panelists chosen by both Mrs. Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders, but whether the language makes it onto the Democratic Party platform ultimately rests with the Clinton campaign.
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Ex-Secret Service Suspected of Stealing $700,000 Worth of Bitcoin

from Reuters, via Raw Story:
A secret Service agent who stole money seized by the government in the investigation of underground drug bazaar Silk Road is now suspected of stealing money in at least two other cases, according to court filings unsealed on Thursday.
In the larger of those cases, he is thought to have been behind the theft of about $700,000 worth of Bitcoin from a Secret Service account three months after the agency was urged to block his access, the documents say.
Former agent Shaun Bridges pleaded guilty last year and was sentenced in December to nearly six years in prison for stealing more than $800,000 of the crypto currency Bitcoin during the Silk Road investigation.
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EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton’s Emails Packed with America’s Secrets Were Stored by Company ‘Wide Open to Hackers’ and Run by ‘Morons’ Whistleblowers Reveal

by Louise Boyle, Daily Mail:
Hillary Clinton is facing damaging new revelations about the lax security surrounding her emails.
A Daily Mail Online investigation has found that a second firm – hired to store a back-up of Clinton’s secret server – was so lax in its security employees failed to change passwords frequently and left computers logged in, unattended for extended periods and its own clients stumbled upon other clients data.
Datto Inc, the company in question, was hired to store Hilary’s emails by Platte River, the mom-and-pop company contracted to maintain her ‘homebrew’ email system.
Speaking exclusively to Daily Mail Online on condition of anonymity, one former employee at Datto, said the company was woefully exposed to being hacked.
‘If you’re talking about high-level data security, at the political, presidential level, the security level of data [at Datto] hired by Platte River, was nowhere near something that could have been protected from a good hacker that knows how to spread out their points at which to infiltrate,’ he said.
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Silver Up Nearly 7%, Pennies Away From $20/oz

from Silver Doctors:
*MARKET ALERT*
With New Silver Bull Market Technically Confirmed, Silver Prices Burst Through Critical Resistance Friday.

The move in silver prices is likely due to massive flows from funds on the first day of Q3, after watching (missing out on) silver prices soar 40% during the first 6 months of 2016.  Expect the funds flow into the precious metals sector to increase in the coming week as traders return from the 4th of July holiday.

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Illegal War and Disguised Truth – Whitewashing Hillary

by Andrew P. Napolitano, Lew Rockwell:
The 800-plus-page report of the House Select Committee on Benghazi was released earlier this week. It slams former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her willful indifference to her obligation to repel military-style attacks on American interests and personnel at the U.S. Consulate and a nearby CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya. She particularly failed to save the lives of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three of his colleagues, all under her care and control while she was secretary of state.
The report also slams Clinton for her repeated lies about the cause of the attacks. After she told her daughter in an email that the Benghazi consulate had been attacked by an organized terrorist group using heavy military hardware, she told her colleagues at the State Department that the attacks were a spontaneous overreaction by locals to an American-made internet video about the Prophet Muhammad.
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SWEDISH PRECIOUS METALS DEALER BANK ACCOUNT CLOSED WITHOUT NOTICE

by Louis Cammarosano, Smaulgld:
Swedish Gold and Silver Dealer’s Bank Account Closed by Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken(SEB).
Tavex Guld & Valuta Claims it is a Target of the Merchant Banks and a Victim of ‘Dett Kontantlöst Samhälle’ (the Cashless Society).
Swedish precious metals dealer Tavex Guld & Valuta notified its customers today that it could no longer accept payments through its SEB bank account because it had been closed without notice or reason given. As a result, Tavex cannot process payments via their SEB account but has arranged to have client payments made through an Estonian account that they have set up to receive Swedish Krona payment without an exchange fee.
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