July 2018 archive

Forget Trump: The Military-Industrial Complex Is Still Running The Show With Russia Authored by Bruce Fein via The American Conservative, As the media fulminates, they fail to see how Trump has kept the usual machinery running… President Donald Trump has strengthened, not weakened, American military and economic opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin. That fact …

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Calm Before The Storm? Treasury 'Risk' Hits 45-Year Low As Shorts Hit Record Highs Having killed the Japanese bond market, some are wondering if central bank interference has finally slayed the US Treasury market, as its numbness to news suggests a zombie-market-walking. The 10-year Treasury yield has moved less than 9 basis points so far …

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Amazon Now Accounts For 49% Of Online Retail Amazon will account for accounts for 49.1% of all online retail sales, up from 43% the year before, if they clear an expected $258 billion in sales this year. The stunning figure provided by research firm eMarketer is tempered by the fact that Amazon’s near-majority share of …

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America's 'Gift' To The World: Visualizing 70 Years Of US Arms Exports Back in April, the Trump administration rolled out a new “Buy American” initiative aimed at allowing more countries to buy more and even bigger weapons. It will loosen U.S. export rules on equipment ranging from fighter jets and drones to warships and artillery, …

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Putin Likes To Keep Other World Leaders Waiting President Trump became the latest leader to experience the “Putin wait” today, with the Russian president 45 minutes overdue for their summit in Helsinki. But, as Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes, Vladimir Putin has earned a reputation for keeping other world leaders waiting. Since 2003, the Russian leader has arrived late …

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The Gaping Holes In The Official Skripal Story Authored by Craig Murray, In my last post I set out the official Government account of the events in the Skripal Case. Here I examine the credibility of this story. Next week I shall look at alternative explanations. Russia has a decade long secret programme of producing …

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The True Meaning Of "Collusion" Exposed Authord by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog, The indictment by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, whose task it is to investigate possible collusion between the Trump campaign and ‘Russians’, that was released yesterday by Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein, raises so many questions one has to be picky. Many people …

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The Globalist Elite Fears Peace, Wants War Authored by Federico Pieraccini via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The announced meeting between Trump and Putin has already produced a good result by revealing the hypocrisy of the media and politicians. The meeting has been branded as the greatest danger to humanity, according to the Western globalist elite, because …

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'Fake' Saudi Prince Busted After Being Caught Eating Pork A confidence man who defrauded victims of millions of dollars while posing as a Saudi Prince was exposed after a Miami hotelier witnessed the imposter royal – supposedly a devout Muslim – eating pork during their meetings, according to RT. The man was, in fact, Anthony …

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Germans Actually Want US Troops Out Of Germany, Poll Finds A central irony behind Trump’s rumored “threat” that he could withdraw or at least greatly reduce American troops stationed in Germany, who last month wrote to Angela Merkel of “growing frustration in the United States that some allies have not stepped up as promised” on defense …

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