Monday, May 08, 2017
Afghanistan Is America's New Vietnam Unwinnable War / Politics / Afghanistan
By: John_Mauldin
BY GEORGE FRIEDMAN AND KAMRAN BOKHARI : There is a paradox when it comes to views about Afghanistan. No one would disagree that after 15 years, the Afghan state built by the West remains ineffective. Yet, no one is willing to accept that if present trends continue, the clear outcome will be regime collapse.
The Afghan government is unable to thwart a growing jihadist insurgency dominated by the Taliban. Nor is it able to prevent the Islamic State (IS) from expanding its footprint in the country. Worse is that increased factional infighting is gutting the Afghan political system from the inside.
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Monday, May 08, 2017
Poverty Is Going Extinct But The Middle Class Is Still In Trouble / Politics / Social Issues
By: John_Mauldin
On a global basis, the number of people trapped in extreme poverty has dropped this century. That trend does not mean everyone everywhere is living comfortably. Many millions still endure terrible conditions. But their numbers are shrinking.
The reason for the improvement, I believe, is two-fold. Technology and free trade. These have brought economic growth to formerly stagnant economies.
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Monday, May 08, 2017
How is the Adventurous Path of Bitcoin to $2,000? / Currencies / Bitcoin
By: Submissions
Jack Huyn: Recently, the parabolic rise of Bitcoin has made it become a very very hot currency that attracts many investors and speculators. In my opinion, movements of this cryptocurrency these days are just a sign that Bitcoin is a bubble waiting to burst.
Fundamentally, the current uptrend of Bitcoin prices are due to the following factors:
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Monday, May 08, 2017
Stocks Are Back At Record High, But Will They Continue Higher? / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Paul_Rejczak
Briefly: In our opinion, speculative short positions are favored (with stop-loss at 2,410, and profit target at 2,200, S&P 500 index).
Our intraday outlook is bearish, and our short-term outlook is bearish. Our medium-term outlook remains neutral, following S&P 500 index breakout above last year's all-time high:
Intraday outlook (next 24 hours): bearish
Short-term outlook (next 1-2 weeks): bearish
Medium-term outlook (next 1-3 months): neutral
Long-term outlook (next year): neutral
Monday, May 08, 2017
Gold and Silver Proprietary Cycle Indicator is Down / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: The_Gold_Report
Technical analyst Jack Chan charts the latest moves in the precious metals markets.
Our proprietary cycle indicator is down.
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Monday, May 08, 2017
Why Gold Is Set For An Epic Rally This Spring / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2017
By: OilPrice_Com
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Monday, May 08, 2017
Tesco Crisis - Dangerous Finger Cutting Trolleys Customer Warning Alert! / ConsumerWatch / Tesco
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Tesco customers are not only having to watch out for sharp practices whilst shopping such as fake shelf prices that don't convert at the checkouts as the February 2017 BBC Investigation revealed, but also have to watch out for sharp pieces of metal sticking out from trolleys that can result in cut fingers as this unlucky customer experienced (Sheffield).
Monday, May 08, 2017
Trump’s Conversion into a Warmongering Neo-con - The Horror! The Horror! (Part Three) / Politics / US Politics
By: James_Quinn
In Part One and Part Two of this article I detailed the decades of propaganda, false flags, and misinformation campaigns used by the Deep State to gain power and control over the U.S. government. When war or a financial crisis is necessary to keep the profits flowing, events will be steered to such an outcome. With the latest financial plundering operation running out of steam, the Deep State is pushing the world toward global conflict.
If at first you don’t succeed with a false flag gas attack, try try again. Knowing a vast swath of the American populace is incapable of critical thinking or able to discern between fake news and factual events, the Deep State and their media lackeys unquestioningly promoted the story of children being killed by a sarin gas attack by Assad. The photos of rescue workers helping victims without gloves immediately invalidated the narrative, as the rescue workers would be dead if they handled sarin gas victims without protective gear.
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Monday, May 08, 2017
Stock Market B Wave Still Favored / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Andre_Gratian
Current Position of the Market
SPX Long-term trend: Uptrend continues.
SPX Intermediate trend: The correction from 2400 on 3/08 continues, possibly as the top of the B-wave.
Analysis of the short-term trend is done on a daily-basis with the help of hourly charts. It is an important adjunct to the analysis of daily and weekly charts which discuss longer market trends.
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Monday, May 08, 2017
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By: OilPrice_Com
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Monday, May 08, 2017
BrExit Threat - London Bridge is (Broken) Down / Politics / BrExit
By: Raul_I_Meijer
The French election, won just now by Emmanuel Macron, put several segments of the French population opposite one another in a pretty fierce contest. And that contest will continue. Because Macron won’t be able to lift the French economy out of its doldrums any more than Le Pen could have, or than Trump can life the US, and the new president will have the honor of presiding over a further and deepening downturn. The French political dividing line was aptly described by Simon Kuper recently:
Sunday, May 07, 2017
Emmanuel Macron and Banking Elite Win French Presidential Election 2017 / ElectionOracle / France
By: Nadeem_Walayat
It's 7pm BST, and the voting is all over, with the count under way the early projection is for a strong Macron win on 65.5% against Le Pen on 34.5%. So Madam Fascist BrExit failed to do a Trump or BrExit in France. Instead now a Rothschild Banker will take hold of power for business as usual for the French elite to rule over the French people. Though for most voters it was always a choice between two evils between fascism and the banking elite.
Sunday, May 07, 2017
France Votes: Nationalism v. Globalism on the Ballot / ElectionOracle / France
By: Stephen_Lendman
On May 7, France votes under draconian/militarized state of emergency conditions, imposed after the November 2015 Charlie Hebdo/kosher market false flag attacks.
According to French interior ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet, “more than 50,000 policemen, gendarmes will be deployed” nationwide for Sunday’s vote.
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Sunday, May 07, 2017
Sell Gold in May and Go Away / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: Submissions
By Jack Huyn: Recently I have read some commentaries state that the old saying "Sell in May and Go Away" might work great for stocks, but it's not the wisest choice when it comes to gold this year. According to these commentaries, gold maintained its upward momentum in April following a very positive first quarter. Despite last week’s retreat to $1,225/ounce, gold's fundamental case remains solidly intact, and additional gains are anticipated as 2017's second half approaches.
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Sunday, May 07, 2017
Walkers Crisps Pay Packet Instant Win Odds of Winning a Prize / ConsumerWatch / Freebies and Comps
By: Anika_Walayat
The Walkers Crisps pay packet promotion has now been running for over a month, and so far we have bought over 200 packets of crisps but won no prizes. So we decided to calculate the odds of winning the prizes on offer that range from £28k to £5. So check out our odds analysis so that you are fully aware of how likely you are to win a cash prize.
Sunday, May 07, 2017
Macron Wins French Presidential Election, Le Pen to Concede Defeat on Close of Polls / ElectionOracle / France
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The last minute En Marche! hack and leak of 9 gigabytes of Emmanuel Macron's personal and campaign emails came too late to have any effect on the outcome of the French Presidential election, as going into voting day the Rothschild Banker Macron led Fascist Le Pen by a huge 26%, 63% against 37%, an unbridgeable gap, which means Emmanuel Macron IS the next President of France.
Saturday, May 06, 2017
Did MI6 Not Putin Hack French Election, Macron Emails Leak for BrExit War? / ElectionOracle / BrExit
By: Nadeem_Walayat
A huge estimated 9 gigabytes of the Macron personal and campaign emails have been leaked within 24 hours of the French people going to the polls with all eyes on Czar Putin's hacking regime that so successfully hacked the US Presidential election for his Manchurian candidate Donald Trump. Where for the French election Putin's clear candidate of choice is far right Marine Le Pen, who earlier in the campaign had paid a visit to her master at the Kremlin, so it is no wonder that every one in the clueless mainstream press is pointing the finger at Czar Putin.
Saturday, May 06, 2017
Plunger’s Big Trade Update & Gold Stocks GDXJ update / Commodities / Commodities Trading
By: Plunger
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One can see from Rambus’ below charts that it appears the PM stocks are still early on in the decline process. I would agree, but of course stocks don’t move in a straight uninterrupted line. Therefore I would suggest we are due for a bit of an upward retracement soon. I claim this on the following basis: RSI is now significantly oversold and is now putting in a positive divergence (note red line). Also stochastics are extended to full range and appear to be in the first stage of turning up. We have reached its measured move as depicted. Also its reached the boundary of its Bollinger Band, (altough not outside of it). As a result I covered my short today and actually went long JNUG and some selective shares. I am looking for no more than a bounce up. It may look like a BT to the red bear flags Rambus has drawn in the below charts. I am not advocating others do the same just discussing trading opportunities.
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Saturday, May 06, 2017
US Stock Market Resumes Uptrends / Stock-Markets / Stock Market 2017
By: Tony_Caldaro
The market started the week at SPX 2384. After a rally to SPX 2394 on Monday the market pulled back to 2380 on Wednesday, and retested it on Thursday. Then the market rallied to end the week SPX 2399, its highest level since March 1st. For the week the SPX/DOW gained 0.45%, and the NDX/NAZ gained 1.0%. Economic reports for the week were generally positive. On the downtick: the Q2 GDP estimate, the WLEI, the PCE, construction spending, ISM manufacturing and the ADP. On the uptick: personal income, auto sales, ISM services, factory orders, monthly payrolls, consumer credit; plus weekly jobless claims, the trade deficit and the unemployment rate all improved. Next week’s highlights: the CPI/PPI, retail sales and wholesale/business inventories.
Saturday, May 06, 2017
Gold And Silver – Asylum Globalists Still Prevail / Commodities / Gold and Silver 2017
By: Michael_Noonan
Usually, we endeavor to tie in our commentaries to gold and silver, sometimes straining the association, but in reality, there is much more affecting the price of PMs than meets the obvious. There can be no question that the globalists running the federal government of the United States have been actively suppressing the price of gold directly since 1933,
when the moneychangers shut down the US banking system and reopened it five days later, totally under the control of the Federal Reserve, owned specifically by foreign banking interests. [The Federal Reserve has never been a part of the US government. The globalists have let the world think that it is. Deception is one of their main ruses.]