May 2016 archive

Today’s News 31st May 2016

Will We Never Learn? The Economic Lessons From Venezuela's Current Collapse Shops are being looted as Venezuela's citizens, who live on top of the world’s largest oil reserves, are literally starving and dying for lack of food and medicine; all while the country’s gold reserves are being sold to finance its debt. With 1.8 million …

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Today’s News 30th May 2016

The Global Bear Market In Freedom Submitted by Erico Matias Tavares via Sinclair & Co., Americans will be celebrating Memorial Day this weekend, to honor those who fought and died for the values they have traditionally cherished the most as a nation: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The world has changed dramatically in …

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Today’s News 29th May 2016

How Russia Is Preparing For WWIII Authored by The Saker, I have recently posted a piece in which I tried to debunk a few popular myths about modern warfare. Judging by many comments which I received in response to this post, I have to say that the myths in question are still alive and well …

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Today’s News 28th May 2016

Your Options: To Serve… Or Be Served Authored by StraightLineLogic's Robert Gore via The Burning Platform blog, There are three ways for a person to obtain something of value from another person: receive it as a donation, steal it by force or fraud, or exchange for it. It’s not much of an oversimplification to say …

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Today’s News 27th May 2016

The Looting Stage Of Capitalism Begins: Germany's Assault On The IMF Submitted by Paul Craig Roberts via Counterpunch.org, Having successfully used the EU to conquer the Greek people by turning the Greek “leftwing” government into a pawn of Germany’s banks, Germany now finds the IMF in the way of its plan to loot Greece into …

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Today’s News 26th May 2016

Imminent Intervention? Greece, Italy, & Malta Close Airspace For Aircraft From Libya Via KeepTalkingGreece.com, Weird things are happening in the Mediterranean Sea. Almost simultaneously three countries in the Mediterranean have closed their airspace and territories for aircraft departing from Libya. The exceptions are very few and involve the transport of military and evacuees. At the …

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Today’s News 25th May 2016

The Global Monetary System Has Devalued 47% Over The Last 10 Years Authored by Paul Brodsky via Macro-Allocation.com, We have argued the inevitability of Fed-administered hyperinflation, prompted by a global slowdown and its negative impact on the ability to service and repay systemic debt. One of the most politically expedient avenues policy makers could take …

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Today’s News 24th May 2016

Ten Riot Police Squads Deployed To Greek Refugee Camp As Evacuation Begins Fearing a "forced" evacuation, dozens of migrants have left the refugee camp at Idomeni on the Greek-Macedonian border and are reportedly hiding in the surrounding region. It is perhaps no surprise they are fleeing as KeepTalkingGreece reports, ten riot police squads left Athens …

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Today’s News 23rd May 2016

Despite Depression, Greece Forced To Hike VAT, Add New Taxes Submitted by Michael Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Greece remains in an economic depression interrupted by a few quarters of anemic growth. Hiking taxes in a depression is one of the stupidest thing one can do, but Greece is set for another vote to do just that. …

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Today’s News 22nd May 2016

WWIII? A "Hybrid Geo-Financial War" Between NATO and Russia Is Dangerously Escalating Submitted by Mac Slavo via SHTFPlan.com, Russia is preparing for war against the West. Putin is being urged to do so because the U.S. and NATO have been preparing for war themselves. Syria and Ukraine have just been warm ups. The real thing …

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