by B.N. Frank, Activist Post:
Broadcast news programming has changed a lot over the past 15-20 years. News magazine programs like “Dateline” covered more than tragic and twisted crimes. They also didn’t use marketing slogans like “Don’t Watch Alone.”
Drama sells and, unfortunately, there seems to be no shortage of it being reported by all media sources. But when is it news and when is it deliberate public manipulation?
From “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson” – Unfreedom of the Press:
by Corey Lynn, Corey’s Digs:
The manufacturing of an industry by those exploiting transgenders, far exceeds what most could have conjured up in their wildest imagination. A historical timeline and the social engineering is detailed in part one of this report, and is absolutely mandatory reading before continuing below. What is happening in our country and all around the world has already crossed into dangerous territory, with children as their target. This is a billion dollar industry growing at rapid pace, and if people don’t see the writing on the wall, there is no turning back.
from Silver Doctors:
While we don’t have runaway inflation, yet, we do have quite a few factors that should be supportive of the gold price…
by Jason Hamlin via Streetwise Reports
The gold price bottomed in late 2015 around $1,050 per ounce. It has since advanced to a high of $1,555 in early September, followed by a pullback to the current price of $1,470. Gold is in a well-defined uptrend channel with higher lows and recently higher highs. The breakout above $1,360 this summer was significant and we have seen follow-through buying. The $420 move in the price of gold from the bottom in late 2015 represents a gain of 40% in just under four years.
by Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds:
All the status quo “fixes” only hasten the collapse of the status quo.
That economic, social and political conflict is accelerating is self-evident. What’s open to debate are the core drivers of conflict / disorder /unraveling.
Here’s the core self-reinforcing dynamic in my view:
1. The status quo elites can no longer mask soaring costs of essentials nor soaring wealth / income inequality between the top .01% (Oligarchs), the top 9.99% who enrich the Oligarchs with their discretionary spending and technocratic/managerial labor, and the bottom 90% who are rapidly losing ground on all fronts: economic, social and political.
by F. William Engdahl, New Eastern Outlook:
For several years since the global push to develop mass-scale Electric Vehicles, the element Lithium has come intofocus as a strategic metal. Demand is enormous in China, in the EU and in the USA at present, and securing control over lithium supplies is already developing its own geopolitics not unlike that for the control of oil.
China Moves to Secure Sources
For China, which has set major targets to become the world’s largest producer of EVs, developing lithium battery materials is a priority for the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) period. Though China has its own lithium reserves, recovery is limited, and China has gone to secure lithium mining rights abroad.
by Alicia Luke, Freedom OutPost:
A husband ‘shot his estranged wife and her new boyfriend dead in the parking lot of an Oklahoma Walmart before turning the gun on himself when he was confronted by an armed bystander.’
According to local KOCO News, a witness claimed that the shooter fired nine rounds into the car, killing the two victims. When the gunman was confronted by an armed citizen, he then turned the gun on himself.
from True Pundit:
A woman who came forward with accusations of child sex abuse against Jeffrey Epstein on Monday described a disturbing encounter with the now-deceased sex offender, said she took former President Bill Clinton’s seat on the “Lolita Express,” and noted bizarre bedroom floors made of mattress foam and being encouraged to cry after sex with the disgraced money man.
from Humans Are Free:
Measles vaccinations will be made compulsory for German schoolchildren from next year.
The Bundestag – Germany’s parliament – yesterday passed a law that means parents who do not vaccinate school-age children face fines of up to €2,500 (that’s about $2763 or £2,140).
The new rules – which come into force in March – will also force parents to prove younger children have been vaccinated before they can attend nurseries or pre-schools. Visits to medical facilities, community centres and holiday camps will also require proof of immunisation.
by Dean Garrison, DC Clothesline:
The second week of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry is moving out of the “heard it from a friend” stage to focus on witnesses who actually listened in on the phone call between President Donald Trump and the president of Ukraine, or who talked directly with Trump about administration policy toward the former Soviet republic.
by Wolf Richter, Wolf Street:
The Fed opened the vault in September. But others bought too.
The US Gross National Debt has jumped by $1.28 trillion as of today, compared to 12 months ago, to $23.04 trillion. And these are the good times. The economy is rocking and rolling, we’re told. How will this debt balloon during the next economic downturn? Yes, that was a rhetorical question. It’s better to not even think about it. And no one is thinking about it:
from ZeroHedge:
Now over six years since Pope Benedict took the nearly unprecedented step of abdicating the throne in 2013, with rumors at the time swirling that it was due to irregularities and scandal at the Vatican Bank — though it was health reasons officially cited (a papal resignation hadn’t happened in the prior 600 years) — the Vatican Bank is once again at the center of scandal.
