Yesterday is forgotten. Why the equity markets across the globe were tanking over the last few weeks is ancient history. “Happy Days are Here Again,” with equities across much of the globe getting back on their “high”... while the plantation workers of Slavelandia are hitting new lows.
Category: 13 August 2024
MONEY NEVER SLEEPS? A THIRD ELEMENT.
Money never sleeps, and we all know that Washington is in bed with Wall Street, but something else is going on here, A THIRD ELEMENT.
SLAVELANDIA: INCOME INEQUALITY WORSE IN U.S. THAN ANY OTHER RICH COUNTRY
U.S. households earning in the top 20 percent have seen their real incomes, adjusted for inflation, grow 46.2 percent since 1979, almost twice as much as any other income group, according to The Visual Capitalist.
2024: GOVERNMENT ATTACKS ON FREE SPEECH GROWING
If anyone thought Elon Musk’s efforts with the X social media platform were going to save free speech, current events are demonstrating otherwise.
NETANYAHU’S NEW DEMANDS FOR CEASEFIRE RULES OUT DEAL, REPORT SAYS
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—who has blamed Hamas for refusing to agree to a ceasefire—has, in private, added new conditions to the deal that make any agreement nearly impossible, according to a report Tuesday.
PUTIN RULES OUT PEACE NEGOTIATIONS WITH UKRAINE AFTER KURSK INCURSION, THREATS TO NUCLEAR PLANTS
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday rejected any further peace negotiations with Ukraine after accusing Kyiv of intentionally targeting civilians in its incursion inside Kursk and carrying out a drone attack on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant.
GERMANY BANS FREEDOM OF SPEECH. PROTESTER FINED FOR CHANTING ‘FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA, PALESTINE WILL BE FREE’
A German court ruled last week that an anti-genocide protester should be fined $650 for yelling “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free” during a rally last October in Berlin.
SMOTRICH WARNS NETANYAHU NOT TO AGREE TO GAZA CEASEFIRE
Bezalel Smotrich, the Israeli finance minister, told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reject any international pressure to agree to a ceasefire in Gaza and called any such deal nothing more than a capitulation.
TOP EU DIPLOMAT ‘HORRIFIED’ AT LATEST ISRAELI MASSACRE. BUT NOT U.S.; WASHINGTON SENDS $3.5 BILLION IN WEAPONS TO KEEP THE KILLING GOING
Josep Borrell, the top diplomat in the EU, said he was “horrified” after learning about Israel’s latest murderous rampage in Gaza—killing at least 100 Palestinians sheltering inside a school in Gaza City on Saturday.
AS U.S. ROTS, CONGRESS WANTS TO SPEND MORE TO KEEP RAMPING UP ISRAEL WAR
The U.S. Military is firing hundreds of expensive missiles to intercept the Houthi campaign in the Red Sea—and at a major cost.