“Legendary investor Jim Rogers sat down with Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget on this week’s episode of The Bottom Line. Rogers predicts a market crash in the next few years. One that he says will rival anything he has seen in his lifetime.”
“‘As for the regime, I am hopeful we will find a way to separate that regime from this system,’ Pompeo said. ‘The North Korean people I’m sure are lovely people and would love to see him go.'”
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/20/politics/cia-mike-pompeo-north-korea/index.html
“U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department will issue new directives to increase the federal govenment’s use of civil asset forfeiture, a controversial practice that allows law enforcement to seize property from suspected criminals without charging them with a crime. He has already dismantled Obama-era directives on drug sentencing guidelines and ordered a review of all of the existing consent agreements between the Justice Department and police departments that were found to be violating residents’ constitutional rights.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2017/07/17/sessions-announces-justice-department-wi
“This year the couple had a second son, Hunter. The state also took custody of him. This time they didn’t even wait to see how they’d behave as parents: Fabbrini was still in the hospital when they took the boy. One volunteer mediator said she told caseworkers that she believed the couple was capable of raising Christopher. Her conclusion conflicted with the position taken by officials, and subsequently, she says, they told her that her services were ‘no longer needed.'”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2017/07/20/oregon-has-decided-this-couple-isnt-smar
“Given the power passive strategies have rapidly accrued, perpetuating blind faith could prove devastating.”
“If one repeatedly learns that feeding a beast can briefly appease it, but predictably makes it more enormous, savage, and unstable, it is best to remember the lesson. Instead, central bankers have doomed the world to learn that lesson again.”
Read more: https://www.hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc170619.htm
“We hope that Sessions’ reference to an historic drug epidemic is focused on the deadly opioid crisis currently plaguing the United States.”
Read more: https://technical420.com/cannabis-article/jeff-sessions-ready-prosecute-against-medical-cannabis
“Cold War-era government bunkers across the country were built to house the President and various Washington elites — members of a so-called ‘shadow government’ in the worst nuclear Armageddon scenario. Since September 11, 2001, Congress has intensified their interest in and funding of top secret ‘Continuity of Government’ (COG) in ways not seen since the Cold War.”
Read more: http://nypost.com/2017/06/10/this-is-where-the-government-will-hide-during-a-nuclear-war/
“A British tabloid columnist faced calls for a police investigation on Tuesday after she used the term ‘final solution’ to describe how the country should respond to the deadly bombing in Manchester. The phrase is the well-known euphemism used by the Nazis for the genocide of the Jews. In late 2015, during the U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump praised Hopkins on Twitter as a ‘respected columnist’ and thanked her for her ‘powerful writing on the U.K.’s Muslim problems.'”