activistpost--2020-01-18--The European Union May Ban Facial Recognition For 5-Year Review Of Tech

The European Union is considering banning facial recognition technology which has raised massive privacy concerns over the years since its inception , risking us walking into George Orwell ’ s nightmare 1984 .
The European Commission is considering a ban on all facial recognition technology in public places for three to five years , the BBC reported .
The Commission hopes to examine the technology during these years with “ a sound methodology for assessing the impacts of this technology and possible risk management measures could be identified and developed , ” the EC ’ s 18-page white paper on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to add to the already existing regulation surrounding privacy and data rights or the GDPR ( General Data Protection Rights ) .
The proposed law seeks to impose restrictions on “ both developers and users of artificial intelligence , and urged EU countries to create an authority to monitor the new rules.
” According to the news agency , the proposals come amid calls from politicians and campaigners in the UK to stop the police from using live facial recognition for public surveillance .
Facial recognition technology has shown numerous issues over the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ problems notable by Fight For The Future , which ran a campaign against implementing the technology at music venues , cited “ dangers to their fans in the form of police harassment including — misidentification , deportation , arrests for outstanding charges during an event and drug use during an event , discrimination at their concerts , and fans in a permanent government database , ” all very valid concerns .
Last year , Activist Post consistently reported numerous studies finding that the technology ’ s accuracy isn ’ t all it ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Brother Watch , a watchdog observing UK Metropolitan Police trials , stated the technology misidentified members of the public , including a 14-year-old black child in a school uniform who was stopped and fingerprinted by police , as potential criminals in as much as 96 percent of scans , according to the organization in a press release .
In eight trials in London between 2016 and 2018 , the technology gave “ false positives ” that wrongly identified individuals as crime suspects when an individual passed through an area with a facial recognition @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the process of leaving the EU by the end of this month , the trial showed 96 percent of scans used by police to track watch list suspects were inaccurate , that ’ s a big deal !
Still , even after the UK leaves the EU , the country will remain under its laws until at least the end of 2020 .
No matter where you look , BIG brother has been pushing the use of surveillance technology all over , not just the UK , from Amazon helping law enforcement @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wanting to use it for border control , to the Olympics wanting to use the tech for security .
Even retail is pushing for the technology as an anti-theft mechanism to be introduced in a thousands of stores using biometric facial recognition software FaceFirst to build a database of shoplifters , as Activist Post reported .
Some of the biggest airports in the country — estimated at 16 airports across the U.S. — are now scanning us as we board international flights .
While CBP ( Customs And Border Protection ) expects to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than 97 percent of passengers flying outside of the U.S. by 2021 , according to Nextgov .
In the U.S. , it is all a part of President Donald Trump ’ s “ Biometric Exit ” agenda , which was originally signed into law under the Obama administration , BuzzFeed News reported .
Further , the policy director of U.S. CBP believes that facial recognition has already become essential .
The agency ’ s head Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner John Wagner has also hilariously said that its facial tracking technology isn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In 2017 , Homeland Security clarified their position on domestic spying , stating that Americans who don ’ t want their faces scanned leaving the country “ shouldn ’ t travel.
” “ The only way for an individual to ensure he or she is not subject to collection of biometric information when traveling internationally is to refrain from traveling , ” the DHS wrote in a document .
The NYPD adopted facial recognition technology eight years ago and dozens of other police departments have followed suit .
The rapid growth of this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ slow down the roll out .
Activists , politicians , academics and even police forces are expressing serious concerns over the impact facial recognition could have on our society .
Several lawmakers have even chimed in to voice concerns about Amazon ’ s facial recognition software , expressing worry that it could be misused , The Hill reported .
A Senate bill introduced last March would force companies who want to use facial recognition technology on consumers to first get their consent .
If that happens , as soon as the ink is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Facial Rekognition could be banned across the U.S. Congress under the House Oversight Committee recently held a bipartisan discussion on the issue of regulating the use of facial recognition technology and biometric cameras .
House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings ( D-Md . )
said , “ there are virtually no controls … .
Whatever walk of life you come from , you may be a part of this [ surveillance ] process.
” The committee ’ s top Republican Rep. Jim Jordan ( R-Ohio . )
also expressed , “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out ” on government use of the surveillance technology .
Also occurring last year , the Department of Homeland Security ’ s Customs and Border Protection ( CBP ) branch reversed a previous proposed plan to require all U.S. citizens to participate in its facial recognition entry/exit programs after backlash as Activist Post reported .
This was after Activist Post reported that Sen. Ed Markey , D-Mass.
, called for an end to facial recognition in airports due to lack of oversight on the technology .
Privacy advocate groups , attorneys , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ markets its own facial recognition system , have all raised concerns over the technology , pointing to issues of consent , racial profiling , and the potential to use images gathered through facial recognition cameras as evidence of criminal guilt by law enforcement .
The ACLU also recently sued several agencies including the FBI and DHS in its fight against facial recognition technology for violating individual citizens privacy rights , Activist Post reported .
Both the ACLU and Fight For The Future , as well as numerous other groups , have called for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the voices are getting louder .
Already , we have had several wins in this long fight and there are signs of hope .
First , San Francisco banned facial recognition technology being used by the government in May of this year ; then Somerville , Massachusetts , and Oakland , California followed suit .
Now , the cream of the crop may happen as the EU seeks to ban the technology which has turned China into an Orwellian dictator ’ s wet dream .
Fight For The Future has previously launched a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the U.S. facial recognition technology is being used and where it is being resisted , along with a tool-kit for local activists who want to help kickstart a ban in their city or state , as Activist Post reported .
Consent to be identified by the government whenever and wherever we go is approval to have the government decide whether , when , and where we are allowed to travel like China .
Put bluntly : it is very dangerous .
If we consent , we normalize this type of technology and we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state that it ’ s okay to force this tech down our throats and take more of our rights .
If we confront them , like in San Francisco , Somerville , Massachusetts , and Oakland , California , we show that we care about our rights and won ’ t have our rights taken away without putting up a fight .
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By Aaron Kesel
The European Union is considering banning facial recognition technology which has raised massive privacy concerns over the years since its inception, risking us walking into George Orwell’s nightmare 1984.
The European Commission is considering a ban on all facial recognition technology in public places for three to five years, the BBC reported.
The Commission hopes to examine the technology during these years with “a sound methodology for assessing the impacts of this technology and possible risk management measures could be identified and developed,” the EC’s 18-page white paper on facial recognition writes.
The proposal seeks to add to the already existing regulation surrounding privacy and data rights or the GDPR (General Data Protection Rights). The proposed law seeks to impose restrictions on “both developers and users of artificial intelligence, and urged EU countries to create an authority to monitor the new rules.”
According to the news agency, the proposals come amid calls from politicians and campaigners in the UK to stop the police from using live facial recognition for public surveillance.
Facial recognition technology has shown numerous issues over the years such as racial bias. Other problems notable by Fight For The Future, which ran a campaign against implementing the technology at music venues, cited “dangers to their fans in the form of police harassment including — misidentification, deportation, arrests for outstanding charges during an event and drug use during an event, discrimination at their concerts, and fans in a permanent government database,” all very valid concerns.
Last year, Activist Post consistently reported numerous studies finding that the technology’s accuracy isn’t all it’s marketed to be. Then Big Brother Watch, a watchdog observing UK Metropolitan Police trials, stated the technology misidentified members of the public, including a 14-year-old black child in a school uniform who was stopped and fingerprinted by police, as potential criminals in as much as 96 percent of scans, according to the organization in a press release.
Activist Post Recommended Book: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
In eight trials in London between 2016 and 2018, the technology gave “false positives” that wrongly identified individuals as crime suspects when an individual passed through an area with a facial recognition camera. Although the UK is now in the process of leaving the EU by the end of this month, the trial showed 96 percent of scans used by police to track watch list suspects were inaccurate, that’s a big deal!
Still, even after the UK leaves the EU, the country will remain under its laws until at least the end of 2020.
No matter where you look, BIG brother has been pushing the use of surveillance technology all over, not just the UK, from Amazon helping law enforcement with its Facial Rekogntion software, DHS wanting to use it for border control, to the Olympics wanting to use the tech for security.
Even retail is pushing for the technology as an anti-theft mechanism to be introduced in a thousands of stores using biometric facial recognition software FaceFirst to build a database of shoplifters, as Activist Post reported.
Some of the biggest airports in the country — estimated at 16 airports across the U.S. — are now scanning us as we board international flights. While CBP (Customs And Border Protection) expects to scale up the program to cover more than 97 percent of passengers flying outside of the U.S. by 2021, according to Nextgov.
In the U.S., it is all a part of President Donald Trump’s “Biometric Exit” agenda, which was originally signed into law under the Obama administration, BuzzFeed News reported.
Further, the policy director of U.S. CBP believes that facial recognition has already become essential. The agency’s head Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner John Wagner has also hilariously said that its facial tracking technology isn’t surveillance, as Activist Post reported.
In 2017, Homeland Security clarified their position on domestic spying, stating that Americans who don’t want their faces scanned leaving the country “shouldn’t travel.”
“The only way for an individual to ensure he or she is not subject to collection of biometric information when traveling internationally is to refrain from traveling,” the DHS wrote in a document.
The NYPD adopted facial recognition technology eight years ago and dozens of other police departments have followed suit.
The rapid growth of this technology has triggered a much-needed debate to slow down the roll out. Activists, politicians, academics and even police forces are expressing serious concerns over the impact facial recognition could have on our society.
Several lawmakers have even chimed in to voice concerns about Amazon’s facial recognition software, expressing worry that it could be misused, The Hill reported.
A Senate bill introduced last March would force companies who want to use facial recognition technology on consumers to first get their consent. If that happens, as soon as the ink is dry Amazon’s Ring and Amazon’s Facial Rekognition could be banned across the U.S.
Congress under the House Oversight Committee recently held a bipartisan discussion on the issue of regulating the use of facial recognition technology and biometric cameras.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) said, “there are virtually no controls …. Whatever walk of life you come from, you may be a part of this [surveillance] process.”
The committee’s top Republican Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio.) also expressed, “It’s time for a time out” on government use of the surveillance technology.
Also occurring last year, the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection (CBP) branch reversed a previous proposed plan to require all U.S. citizens to participate in its facial recognition entry/exit programs after backlash as Activist Post reported.
This was after Activist Post reported that Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., called for an end to facial recognition in airports due to lack of oversight on the technology.
Privacy advocate groups, attorneys, and even more recently Microsoft, which also markets its own facial recognition system, have all raised concerns over the technology, pointing to issues of consent, racial profiling, and the potential to use images gathered through facial recognition cameras as evidence of criminal guilt by law enforcement.
The ACLU also recently sued several agencies including the FBI and DHS in its fight against facial recognition technology for violating individual citizens privacy rights, Activist Post reported.
Both the ACLU and Fight For The Future, as well as numerous other groups, have called for an end to the dangerous technology and the voices are getting louder. Already, we have had several wins in this long fight and there are signs of hope. First, San Francisco banned facial recognition technology being used by the government in May of this year; then Somerville, Massachusetts, and Oakland, California followed suit. Now, the cream of the crop may happen as the EU seeks to ban the technology which has turned China into an Orwellian dictator’s wet dream.
Fight For The Future has previously launched a first-of-its-kind interactive map that tracks where in the U.S. facial recognition technology is being used and where it is being resisted, along with a tool-kit for local activists who want to help kickstart a ban in their city or state, as Activist Post reported.
Consent to be identified by the government whenever and wherever we go is approval to have the government decide whether, when, and where we are allowed to travel like China. Put bluntly: it is very dangerous.
If we consent, we normalize this type of technology and we are telling the military-industrial complex and police state that it’s okay to force this tech down our throats and take more of our rights. If we confront them, like in San Francisco, Somerville, Massachusetts, and Oakland, California, we show that we care about our rights and won’t have our rights taken away without putting up a fight.
**By [@An0nkn0wledge](https://steemit.com/@an0nkn0wledge)**
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activistpost--2020-01-18--New Mexico Lawmakers Pre-file Gun Control Bills

While the New Mexico Legislature won ’ t convene until next week , anti-gun legislators have already pre-filed multiple gun control bills , including “ Red Flag ” gun confiscation laws and bans on popular firearm accessories .
House Bill 7 / Senate Bill 5 – Sponsored by Rep. Daymon Ely and Senator Joseph Cervantes , these bills would authorize the seizure of firearms and/or ammunition from individuals without due process .
Unchallenged statements made by a petitioner before a judge , alleging that someone is a danger to themselves or others in an ex parte proceeding — prior to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ respondent can be represented by counsel and present counter-evidence — would be sufficient for law enforcement to enter that person ’ s home and confiscate their private property .
Constitutional rights should only be restricted with sufficient due process of law .
Due process limits restrictions on constitutional rights to only serious convictions and adjudications that provide procedural protections to the accused , which results in more reliable proceedings .
The Right to Keep and Bear Arms should not be treated as a second-class right and should only be restricted when sufficient protections @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – Sponsored by Rep. Patricia Roybal Caballero , HB 85 was introduced with the intent to ban possession of a “ semiautomatic firearm converter.
” However , the bill is so poorly written it would potentially ban normal and legal firearm accessories like match triggers and many ergonomic modifications .
The vague language could lead to the banning of virtually any performance-enhancing product for a semi-automatic firearm , and ultimately threaten the legality of semi-automatic firearms themselves .
Further , those who possess any of the mentioned items would become felons overnight .
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By Sean Walton
While the New Mexico Legislature won’t convene until next week, anti-gun legislators have already pre-filed multiple gun control bills, including “Red Flag” gun confiscation laws and bans on popular firearm accessories.
House Bill 7 / Senate Bill 5 – Sponsored by Rep. Daymon Ely and Senator Joseph Cervantes, these bills would authorize the seizure of firearms and/or ammunition from individuals without due process. Unchallenged statements made by a petitioner before a judge, alleging that someone is a danger to themselves or others in an ex parte proceeding — prior to any formal court hearing at which the respondent can be represented by counsel and present counter-evidence — would be sufficient for law enforcement to enter that person’s home and confiscate their private property.
Constitutional rights should only be restricted with sufficient due process of law. Due process limits restrictions on constitutional rights to only serious convictions and adjudications that provide procedural protections to the accused, which results in more reliable proceedings. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms should not be treated as a second-class right and should only be restricted when sufficient protections are in place.
House Bill 85 – Sponsored by Rep. Patricia Roybal Caballero, HB 85 was introduced with the intent to ban possession of a “semiautomatic firearm converter.” However, the bill is so poorly written it would potentially ban normal and legal firearm accessories like match triggers and many ergonomic modifications. The vague language could lead to the banning of virtually any performance-enhancing product for a semi-automatic firearm, and ultimately threaten the legality of semi-automatic firearms themselves. Further, those who possess any of the mentioned items would become felons overnight.
Article source: The Daily Sheeple
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activistpost--2020-01-18--Epstein’s Former Lawyers Picked for Donald Trump’s Defense Team

The team of lawyers that will be representing Donald Trump for his impeachment will include a few controversial figures including Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr , two of the attorneys who represented the disgraced billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein while he was trafficking sex slaves across the globe for powerful old men .
Dershowitz has also represented Harvey Weinstein in the past as well as O.J .
Simpson , while Starr served as the lead investigator in the impeachment case against Bill Clinton in 1998 .
However , Dershowitz has clarified that he is not a “ full-fledged ” member of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ interview on The Dan Abrams Show on SiriusXM ’ s POTUS Channel Dershowitz said that he will only provide an hour-long “ constitutional argument against impeachment ” for Trump but is not actually retained as his lawyer .
“ I think it overstates it to say I ’ m a member of the Trump team .
I was asked to present the constitutional argument that I would have presented had Hillary Clinton been elected and had she been impeached , ” Dershowitz explained .
“ I was asked to present my constitutional argument @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for one hour , basically , presenting my argument .
But I ’ m not a full-fledged member of the defense team in any realistic sense of that term , ” he added .
Regardless of his official role on the team , Dershowitz has been meeting with Trump over the past several months amid the looming impeachment .
The two even met on Christmas Eve at Trump ’ s infamous Mar-a-Lago resort in West Palm Beach , Florida .
The Hill reported at the time that there were speculations that Dershowitz would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the upcoming impeachment hearings .
Dershowitz and Starr are not Trump ’ s only connection to Jeffrey Epstein .
In fact , the two were close friends for a long time .
Trump made attempts to distance himself from Epstein after the pedophile ’ s conviction , but there has a long , documented history between the two .
In fact , Trump ’ s former Labor Secretary , Alex Acosta , is the lawyer who was responsible for helping Epstein cut a deal to avoid any serious jail time in his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prosecutor in the case , he worked with Epstein and the defense behind the backs of the victims to ensure that the billionaire pedophile received special treatment .
Acosta was ultimately forced to resign from the Trump administration after his connection to Epstein began to make international headlines .
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By John Vibes
The team of lawyers that will be representing Donald Trump for his impeachment will include a few controversial figures including Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr, two of the attorneys who represented the disgraced billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein while he was trafficking sex slaves across the globe for powerful old men.
Dershowitz has also represented Harvey Weinstein in the past as well as O.J. Simpson, while Starr served as the lead investigator in the impeachment case against Bill Clinton in 1998.
However, Dershowitz has clarified that he is not a “full-fledged” member of the impeachment defense team. In an interview on The Dan Abrams Show on SiriusXM’s POTUS Channel Dershowitz said that he will only provide an hour-long “constitutional argument against impeachment” for Trump but is not actually retained as his lawyer.
“I think it overstates it to say I’m a member of the Trump team. I was asked to present the constitutional argument that I would have presented had Hillary Clinton been elected and had she been impeached,” Dershowitz explained.
“I was asked to present my constitutional argument against impeachment. I will be there for one hour, basically, presenting my argument. But I’m not a full-fledged member of the defense team in any realistic sense of that term,” he added.
Regardless of his official role on the team, Dershowitz has been meeting with Trump over the past several months amid the looming impeachment. The two even met on Christmas Eve at Trump’s infamous Mar-a-Lago resort in West Palm Beach, Florida. The Hill reported at the time that there were speculations that Dershowitz would be on Trump’s legal team for the upcoming impeachment hearings.
Dershowitz and Starr are not Trump’s only connection to Jeffrey Epstein. In fact, the two were close friends for a long time. Trump made attempts to distance himself from Epstein after the pedophile’s conviction, but there has a long, documented history between the two.
In fact, Trump’s former Labor Secretary, Alex Acosta, is the lawyer who was responsible for helping Epstein cut a deal to avoid any serious jail time in his previous case. Although Acosta was the prosecutor in the case, he worked with Epstein and the defense behind the backs of the victims to ensure that the billionaire pedophile received special treatment.
Acosta was ultimately forced to resign from the Trump administration after his connection to Epstein began to make international headlines.
By John Vibes | Creative Commons | TheMindUnleashed.com
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activistpost--2020-01-18--Hopi and Navajo Homes Without Heat This Winter Due To Coal Mine Closure

The Kayenta coal mine in northeastern Arizona shut down last year , along with the power plant it supplied .
Coal from that mine used to light up Las Vegas and Los Angeles and supply the electricity to pump water to Phoenix and Tucson .
Those cities have been able to turn to other sources of energy .
Not so on the Hopi and Navajo Nations .
For decades , tribal members relied on Kayenta coal to heat their homes , and now it ’ s their first winter without reliable or affordable fuel .
Hopi community leaders call it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coal has led to a public health crisis on the Hopi Nation .
There are few other options for heating homes .
Propane and space heaters are expensive , and many houses don ’ t have electricity .
Trees are scarce ; the nearest places to buy or cut wood are hours away by car .
Monica Nuvasma , a homeowner affected by the closure , says “ coal economically works better because it burns longer , you don ’ t need as much in order to heat your home.
” One nonprofit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trying to ease the hardship created by Kayenta ’ s closure .
The group runs workshops on alternative heating options , and hires contractors to weatherize houses so they hold the heat better .
Joe Seidenberg , the executive director , says , “ There are people that are living with extreme housing disparities , with major holes in their roofs , with cardboard windows , that… are at a real risk for freezing to death.
” Seidenberg says Red Feather installed 5 solar powered furnaces and weatherized or made repairs on 91 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But the group is limited by funding and has a long waitlist .
Kayenta ’ s closure affects 9,000 people on Hopi and 170,000 on Navajo .
One of Red Feather ’ s customers is Chelsea Sekakuku .
Contractors add insulation and fix broken windows in her 80-year-old stone house in Kykotsmovi Village on Third Mesa .
Sekakuku burns wood in her coal stove now .
“ I ’ m having to get up twice a night to check the fire , make sure it ’ s still going .
I ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the morning , in the evening.
” Some Hopi blame the tribal government for not preparing better for Kayenta ’ s closure .
But Vice Chairman Clark Tenakhongva says the U.S. government bears responsibility for forcing Hopi to mine coal that made the Southwest ’ s cities flourish , while the reservation remains in poverty .
The Hopi Nation lost 80 percent of its tribal budget when coal royalties ceased .
Tenakhongva says , “ I ’ m just hoping , just hoping , that we do not lose anybody throughout this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He says this winter many must choose between eating and keeping warm .
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By Sean Walton
The Kayenta coal mine in northeastern Arizona shut down last year, along with the power plant it supplied. Coal from that mine used to light up Las Vegas and Los Angeles and supply the electricity to pump water to Phoenix and Tucson. Those cities have been able to turn to other sources of energy. Not so on the Hopi and Navajo Nations. For decades, tribal members relied on Kayenta coal to heat their homes, and now it’s their first winter without reliable or affordable fuel. Hopi community leaders call it a “devastating crisis”.
Losing coal has led to a public health crisis on the Hopi Nation. There are few other options for heating homes. Propane and space heaters are expensive, and many houses don’t have electricity. Trees are scarce; the nearest places to buy or cut wood are hours away by car.
Monica Nuvasma, a homeowner affected by the closure, says “coal economically works better because it burns longer, you don’t need as much in order to heat your home.”
“I think that that’s a really difficult thing for most people to grasp, when they just turn their thermostat or push a button, and they get the heating,” she added
One nonprofit, Red Feather Development Group, is trying to ease the hardship created by Kayenta’s closure. The group runs workshops on alternative heating options, and hires contractors to weatherize houses so they hold the heat better. Joe Seidenberg, the executive director, says, “There are people that are living with extreme housing disparities, with major holes in their roofs, with cardboard windows, that… are at a real risk for freezing to death.”
Seidenberg says Red Feather installed 5 solar powered furnaces and weatherized or made repairs on 91 homes last year on Hopi and Navajo. But the group is limited by funding and has a long waitlist. Kayenta’s closure affects 9,000 people on Hopi and 170,000 on Navajo.
“It is truly an injustice that this is happening in the United States of America,” Seidenberg says.
One of Red Feather’s customers is Chelsea Sekakuku. Contractors add insulation and fix broken windows in her 80-year-old stone house in Kykotsmovi Village on Third Mesa. Sekakuku burns wood in her coal stove now. “I’m having to get up twice a night to check the fire, make sure it’s still going. I’m having to chop wood beforehand, in the morning, in the evening.”
Some Hopi blame the tribal government for not preparing better for Kayenta’s closure. But Vice Chairman Clark Tenakhongva says the U.S. government bears responsibility for forcing Hopi to mine coal that made the Southwest’s cities flourish, while the reservation remains in poverty. The Hopi Nation lost 80 percent of its tribal budget when coal royalties ceased.
Tenakhongva says, “I’m just hoping, just hoping, that we do not lose anybody throughout this season to any kind of exposure.” He says this winter many must choose between eating and keeping warm.
Article source: The Daily Sheeple
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activistpost--2020-01-19--Stock Market More Overpriced and Perilous Than Anytime in History

I ’ m not going to predict when and how the US stock market will crash as I did by laying out the stages of its fall for 2018 .
That was easy , but the times are different now .
Back then , the Fed had laid out a precise schedule for its tightening , and it was apparent to me where the big increases in Fed tightening would be sufficient to bring down the market that the Fed had artificially rigged .
Today , the Fed is back to easing — back to doing what it does to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ between what central banks do with their balance sheets and what the stock markets do is now almost 100 % .
All of 2019 looks like lockstepping to me .
The Fed , of course , is the primary mover for the US market .
Therefore , US stocks being overpriced in the extreme may not matter so long as the Fed is willing to keep the money pumps redlining at maximum RPM .
However , the more the market ’ s metrics move above all rational and historic benchmarks , as I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the greater its fall will be if the Fed pulls the plug , AND the more sensitive it will become to the Fed even wiggling the plug .
So , the situation is , in that sense , more perilous than at anytime past because some of the market ’ s most fundamental valuation metrics are now printing at levels never seen before .
Let me lay that out for you .
As I will lay out in my next Patron Post , the Fed has given some indication of a mild return @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and that could create problems for the market .
The Fed has not , however , laid out any clear schedule for tightening , and it won ’ t get far down that road before it sees market problems , and goes right back to easing because we are now in QE4ever by which I really mean “ QE4ever or die !
” That is because , as soon as the Fed backs away from QE , it will see its dependent child go into paroxysms , and like any parent who knows @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that is highly dependent on continued life support , the Fed will rush back to supporting its baby — the stock market .
See : 177 Different Ways to Generate Extra Income Outside of Fed help , the case to be made against the market is huge — as big as it was before the last two major recessions .
The market today looks in almost every way like it did just before the dot-com bust , but the difference , then too , was that the Fed started tightening back then .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ continues its present path of easing , there may not be anything like the dot-com bust , barring a deep recession that busts everything ; but the Fed is now the only thing between the market and a bust .
Here are the similarities that scream market melt-up : The market is overvalued and melting up How high is it ?
The market is a stoner .
As a ratio comparing stock prices to either earnings or sales ( two historic benchmarks for assessing how pricey stocks are ) , the price of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has ever been in history .
This market is tripping on some pricey hallucinogens .
The PEG is another measure that looks looks for overvaluation by comparing the Price/earnings ratios of stocks to their long-term expected growth in earnings .
It , too , has soared in the past quarter to reach an all-time high : Prices are more overvalued based on these historic metrics than they were before the financial crisis that caused the Great Recession and even in the stratospheric run-up to the dot-com bust .
We have never — ever @ @ @ @ @ @ @ means fundamentals have further to go to catch up to current valuations than at any time in history , so what is going to drive stock values up more … other than the one thing that has been driving them for the past decade — the Fed ?
That means , if you know what the Fed is going to do , you might be able to make a safe market bet ; but recognize that your hope for making money in stocks hangs entirely upon your being right about what the Fed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ As for any hope of those fundamentals catching up , three quarters of CFOs polled in the US say the market is greatly overvalued .
That will not , of course , prevent them from overvaluing it more with more stock buybacks … financed in good part by the Fed ’ s easy money .
CEO confidence doesn ’ t look any better and disagrees in the extreme with consumer confidence : So , the biggest insiders ( CEOs and CFOs ) are united in their belief that the market is priced to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that looks far from perfect .
Yet , the market is rising at a rate that can only be matched by previous melt-ups .
“ At this level , many things have to go optimally so that the prices are higher at the end of the year , ” comments David Rosenberg on the growing complacency among investors .
The renowned economist and strategist is one of the most profound experts on the U.S. economy and one of the last remaining skeptics to warn of a correction .
His bearish view is based @ @ @ @ @ @ @ earnings expectations .
He also thinks that the US consumer sector is in worse shape than the consensus believes… .
This is a liquidity and momentum driven market .
It ’ s been that way for the past four months where the correlation between the S & P 500 and the Fed ’ s balance sheet has expanded to a 95 % relationship .
This is a case of a very accommodative Fed policy .
The double-digit growth in the money supply is bypassing the real economy and has entered into asset markets @ @ @ @ @ @ @ So as long as the Fed is in the game priming the monetary pump , shorting stocks is going to be a very dangerous game to play … but this overall market rally is more a house of straw than a house of brick… .
People will claim that there is no recession .
Statistically speaking that ’ s true as far as GDP is concerned .
But we know for a fact that we actually had a four-quarter earnings recession .
I never quite understood why GDP is so important to an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stream .
There ’ s no ticker “ GDP ” on the New York Stock Exchange .
So it ’ s not about the overall level of GDP , it ’ s really about earnings and about the fact that if you look at the 30 % share of the U.S. economy that is outside of the consumer space , we actually have been in a recession in the past two quarters.… [ Does that sound like anything predicted here for 2019 ? ]
On a median basis , the U.S. economy has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the U.S. consumer is not as nearly in good shape as people think .
We see signs that the labor market is starting to show some fatigue… .
The Fed would not be cutting interest rates three times and then re-extending its balance sheet at a rate that even exceeds what they were doing with QE3 .
The most important correlation to the stock market today is the Fed ’ s balance sheet .
The power of the Fed has become so acute that it has replaced the economy as a principle @ @ @ @ @ @ @ point where there is only a 7 % correlation between GDP and the S & P 500 .
Historically , in any given cycle that relationship was anywhere between 30 % and 70 % .
The amount of easing that the Fed has done since the beginning of October by expanding the balance sheet is just about as strong in terms of basis points as the three rate cuts they engineered last year .
They have cut rates almost a 150 basis points when you look at it on an equivalent basis .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Fed ’ s recent emergency liquidity explosion and the main event that triggered the dot-com bust in 2000 : So , here we are in the early part of 2020 with the market strongly surging due to the Fed having juiced the marketplace with “ a lot of liquidity ” for the year change in late 2019 , exactly as it did in 1999 for the Y2K year change , and again the Fed is , at least , talking about starting to draw down liquidity in April or perhaps before as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ change .
Will this time also end as “ not a pretty picture.
” In 2018 it was easy to know when the market would go into paroxysms because the Fed had published a set schedule for its tightening .
This time , as Rosenberg says , … Don ’ t let marketeers influence you with their claims that the market is going to rise this year .
You can bet that every single one of them , if alive in 2000 , was saying the same thing then , too .
Though @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hit in 2000 , almost no one was calling for it to crash .
As Mark Hulbert , who has been in this game for a long time , recalls , 2008 went the same way .
Anyone remember Goldman ’ s investment advice to its clients just before the 2008 financial crisis implosion ?
Everything it wrote was printed in vampire squid ink : While it sucked everyone dry , it outwardly recommended buying more stocks that would fail , even as it bought up lots of almost everything that would do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ strong sign of a melt-up and the nearing top of a market is when everyone is in — retail investors like mom and pop and the big money or “ smart money ” like institutional funds .
When there is not a lot of money sitting on the sides , only newly created money can push the market up .
When everyone is in , enthusiasm ( or euphoria ) is at its peak .
Beware those who have stocks to sell .
All the big advisors counsel everyone to jump in when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ How else will they get rid of all their own holdings so close to the peak ?
According to Rolling Stone and many other publications , that ’ s what Goldman did to maintain its Sachs of gold .
That ’ s how it got the name “ Vampire Squid.
” Or is just another round of Goldman , which populates all levels of the Fed with former GS people and others that it recommends , fleecing the flock ?
( As a refresher , read the whole Rolling Stone article quoted above @ @ @ @ @ @ @ desperate times . )
Money-losing companies are shoving market valuations to the summit One of the big concerns during the final year or two of the market ’ s rise before the big dot-com bust of 2000-2002 was that so many companies that never made a dime were leading the market into the stratosphere .
We ’ re pretty well back to that .
The Journal says these two are two very different exemplars of profitless companies in today ’ s stock market .
Tesla has never made a dime , and is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ companies in the market , and GE is a megalithic dinosaur of great value in the past that has been losing money for years .
The Journal article says that 40 % of listed companies in the U.S. are currently losing money quarter after quarter .
The biggest area of massive-money-losers in the dot-com gold-rush was the IPO segment of the market .
The same is true today : While stocks are overflowing , so is the pouring of money into safe-haven bonds .
If the current net flow of money into bonds @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would look like this compared to any other year since the Great Recession began : Of course , the flow of money into bonds probably will not continue at that rate all year , although several years shown above did continue at the same rate most or all of the year .
Still , many others did not and even turned downward partway through the year .
Regardless , the steepness of the rise in the first two weeks of January exceeds that seen at the start of any year on the chart @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t the only safe havens rising as a warning sign alongside soaring stocks .
Precious metals are , too : David Rosenberg notes why he believes gold is on the rise and should be : It ’ s no secret that the Fed ’ s new money and low interest , and the US government ’ s one-time allowance for low taxes on the repatriation of overseas cash hoards has fueled the market higher .
Over a trillion dollars has been spent on stock buybacks by twenty companies over the past five @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the markets leaders .
What happens when those companies have used up all the foreign profits they had to repatriate or when interest rises so debt to fund buybacks is not longer cheap or when those “ trillion-dollar babies ” just reach the maximum amount of debt they feel comfortable taking on … or reach the maximum amount for which ratings agencies feel comfortable selling good ratings ?
Currently buybacks are slowing down due to the fourth-quarter reporting period .
Repatriation money is also likely running out for many companies , because it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of former foreign profits was allowed under the revised tax code as part of the Trump Tax Cuts .
It feels like 2018 all over again I still think , as I wrote in December , that the following is a strong contender to become the market ’ s peak before it hits a wall : I ’ m not predicting 30,000 is the major breaking point .
I ’ m just noting that I think it is a strong psychological milestone that is quite near in the present melt-up stage as both @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for and then perhaps to fade … or even flee if people see a lot of fading happening .
It will deepened on how many other things are going bad at the same time or on one thing going bad — Fed support .
( Don ’ t say it can ’ t happen .
It did in 2018 when the Fed should have known better then , too . )
First , let me point the last time we neared a milestone of this kind ( Dow 20,000 ) .
You can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was both a magnet , sucking stocks upward and then a two-month bench to rest on .
However , the steep final rise to that level was not a melt-up because a “ melt-up ” is meant to imply things are about to melt down : 30,000 will be a natural place to catch one ’ s breath , but what happens at that point will depend a lot on what kinds of events happen when the market takes a pause bringing momentum to a halt — say if buybacks fade for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more than expected or a very low GDP print ; BUT it relies far more than anything on whether the Fed fades its current easing .
After December , I got out of stocks to sit this mile-marker and possible Fed transition point out .
( I don ’ t even like being in stocks now , given how insane the market is ; but my predictions of the market ’ s fall were based on Fed tightening , so a return to easing changed things for the last few month . )
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ tightening regime , the graph above also bears testimony to just how much the market changed in January of 2018 for the remainder of that year and how it remained below its January blow-off top with some hard bouncing even through the first three quarters of 2019 as the Fed ’ s quantitative tightening continued … even though the Fed stopped raising interest rates .
Only when the Fed moved deep into QE4ever did the market finally sustain a rise above its 2018 high mark .
As for what happened back then when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to now , The only failsafe red indicator now that the market is ignoring all economic the metrics of all economic/business fundamentals is the light on the power cord to the Fed .
Everything depends on the Fed and what it does , and right now the Fed is not all that clear about what it will do .
It is certainly not clear that QE4ever will continue without a failed attempt at reversing it .
The big thing to use as your red light is any attempt or mention of an upcoming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is not financializing the US debt by moving back toward tightening … or even just stopping the money pumps .
( It , of course , won ’ t mention the “ financializing ” part , as it doesn ’ t want you to even think about that , but look for hints of tightening that it can use to support its argument that it is not monetizing the debt with anyone who calls it to task . )
Bear in mind the only way the Fed can maintain its lie that it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with QE4ever is if it can prove that its recent massive asset purchases were just temporary emergency monetary responses .
Lack of “ temporary ” = QE4ever = the Fed monetizing the US debt by soaking up US treasuries forever … or until the Fed decides to crash the entire economy by tightening again .
( It is only 4ever if the Fed wants the economy to keep going . )
So long as the Fed even shows it is going to do nothing more than hold its existing treasuries for years to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , guilty of monetizing that much of the US debt .
Throughout QE , the Fed ’ s sole argument that it was not monetizing the debt rested on its QE being temporary .
The Fed has a great need to quit its repo recovery actions so that the Fed can prove it is not financing the US government by sopping up its debt to roll over in perpetuity .
It doesn ’ t make any difference that the Fed is only buying short-term treasuries , as it now claims for its excuse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over forever .
That is just short-term dressing in name only on permanent monetization of the debt .
So economists , analysts and politicians will be questioning the Fed ’ s “ not QE ” if they see that the Fed simply can not stop .
The Fed is fully aware of that .
As I noted in last year ’ s early Patron Posts , the Fed expressed great concern about losing trust in 2018 .
At the same time , this market has nothing left to keep it up but Fed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ second to support David Haggith on Patreon HERE !
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By David Haggith
I’m not going to predict when and how the US stock market will crash as I did by laying out the stages of its fall for 2018. That was easy, but the times are different now.
Back then, the Fed had laid out a precise schedule for its tightening, and it was apparent to me where the big increases in Fed tightening would be sufficient to bring down the market that the Fed had artificially rigged.
Today, the Fed is back to easing — back to doing what it does to juice markets up. And the correspondence between what central banks do with their balance sheets and what the stock markets do is now almost 100%.
All of 2019 looks like lockstepping to me.
The Fed, of course, is the primary mover for the US market. Therefore, US stocks being overpriced in the extreme may not matter so long as the Fed is willing to keep the money pumps redlining at maximum RPM.
However, the more the market’s metrics move above all rational and historic benchmarks, as I’ll show they now have, the greater its fall will be if the Fed pulls the plug, AND the more sensitive it will become to the Fed even wiggling the plug. So, the situation is, in that sense, more perilous than at anytime past because some of the market’s most fundamental valuation metrics are now printing at levels never seen before.
Let me lay that out for you.
Market madness still being Fed
As I will lay out in my next Patron Post, the Fed has given some indication of a mild return to tightening in the near future, and that could create problems for the market. The Fed has not, however, laid out any clear schedule for tightening, and it won’t get far down that road before it sees market problems, and goes right back to easing because we are now in QE4ever by which I really mean “QE4ever or die!”
That is because, as soon as the Fed backs away from QE, it will see its dependent child go into paroxysms, and like any parent who knows he or she has a sickly child that is highly dependent on continued life support, the Fed will rush back to supporting its baby — the stock market.
Outside of Fed help, the case to be made against the market is huge — as big as it was before the last two major recessions. The market today looks in almost every way like it did just before the dot-com bust, but the difference, then too, was that the Fed started tightening back then. Therefor, as long as the Fed continues its present path of easing, there may not be anything like the dot-com bust, barring a deep recession that busts everything; but the Fed is now the only thing between the market and a bust.
Here are the similarities that scream market melt-up:
The market is overvalued and melting up
How high is it?
The market is a stoner. As a ratio comparing stock prices to either earnings or sales (two historic benchmarks for assessing how pricey stocks are), the price of stocks is higher right now than it has ever been in history. This market is tripping on some pricey hallucinogens.
(EV/EBITDA compares an enterprise’s value to its actual earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization. Typically a value below 10 is considered healthy.)
The PEG is another measure that looks looks for overvaluation by comparing the Price/earnings ratios of stocks to their long-term expected growth in earnings. It, too, has soared in the past quarter to reach an all-time high:
Prices are more overvalued based on these historic metrics than they were before the financial crisis that caused the Great Recession and even in the stratospheric run-up to the dot-com bust. We have never — ever — been priced this high! That means fundamentals have further to go to catch up to current valuations than at any time in history, so what is going to drive stock values up more … other than the one thing that has been driving them for the past decade — the Fed?
Investors should keep in mind that market valuations stand nearly three times the historically run-of-the-mill valuation levels from which stocks have historically generated run-of-the-mill long-term returns. In fact, the highest level of valuation ever observed at the end of any market cycle in history was in October 2002, and even that level is less than half of present valuation extremes. John Hussman, president of the Hussman Investment Trust, in his latest note to investors
That means, if you know what the Fed is going to do, you might be able to make a safe market bet; but recognize that your hope for making money in stocks hangs entirely upon your being right about what the Fed will do in the months ahead.
As for any hope of those fundamentals catching up, three quarters of CFOs polled in the US say the market is greatly overvalued. That will not, of course, prevent them from overvaluing it more with more stock buybacks … financed in good part by the Fed’s easy money.
Chief financial officers at big U.S. companies entered 2020 on a cautious note, with almost all anticipating an economic slowdown against the backdrop of an overvalued stock market, according to a survey released Thursday…. 82% anticipate taking more defensive actions, like reducing discretionary spending and headcount, as a way to stave off the looming headwinds. CNBC
CEO confidence doesn’t look any better and disagrees in the extreme with consumer confidence:
So, the biggest insiders (CEOs and CFOs) are united in their belief that the market is priced to perfection with a business future immediately ahead that looks far from perfect. Yet, the market is rising at a rate that can only be matched by previous melt-ups.
“At this level, many things have to go optimally so that the prices are higher at the end of the year,” comments David Rosenberg on the growing complacency among investors. The renowned economist and strategist is one of the most profound experts on the U.S. economy and one of the last remaining skeptics to warn of a correction. His bearish view is based on exorbitantly high equity valuations and over-optimistic earnings expectations. He also thinks that the US consumer sector is in worse shape than the consensus believes…. This is a liquidity and momentum driven market. It’s been that way for the past four months where the correlation between the S&P 500 and the Fed’s balance sheet has expanded to a 95% relationship. This is a case of a very accommodative Fed policy. The double-digit growth in the money supply is bypassing the real economy and has entered into asset markets broadly, and specifically into equities. So as long as the Fed is in the game priming the monetary pump, shorting stocks is going to be a very dangerous game to play … but this overall market rally is more a house of straw than a house of brick…. People will claim that there is no recession. Statistically speaking that’s true as far as GDP is concerned. But we know for a fact that we actually had a four-quarter earnings recession. I never quite understood why GDP is so important to an equity investor who is buying an earnings stream. There’s no ticker “GDP” on the New York Stock Exchange. So it’s not about the overall level of GDP, it’s really about earnings and about the fact that if you look at the 30% share of the U.S. economy that is outside of the consumer space, we actually have been in a recession in the past two quarters.… [Does that sound like anything predicted here for 2019?] On a median basis, the U.S. economy has stopped growing three quarters ago. Also, the U.S. consumer is not as nearly in good shape as people think. We see signs that the labor market is starting to show some fatigue…. The Fed would not be cutting interest rates three times and then re-extending its balance sheet at a rate that even exceeds what they were doing with QE3. The most important correlation to the stock market today is the Fed’s balance sheet. The power of the Fed has become so acute that it has replaced the economy as a principle influence over the stock market to the point where there is only a 7% correlation between GDP and the S&P 500. Historically, in any given cycle that relationship was anywhere between 30% and 70%. The amount of easing that the Fed has done since the beginning of October by expanding the balance sheet is just about as strong in terms of basis points as the three rate cuts they engineered last year. They have cut rates almost a 150 basis points when you look at it on an equivalent basis. The Market
Rosenberg points out an interesting corollary between the Fed’s recent emergency liquidity explosion and the main event that triggered the dot-com bust in 2000:
We have a template of what happened when the Fed provided a lot of liquidity juice to the marketplace with the Y2K special lending facilities in late 1999. At that time, the market strongly surged, and kept on rallying into the early part of 2000. Then, the Fed started to withdraw that liquidity and it wasn’t a pretty picture.
So, here we are in the early part of 2020 with the market strongly surging due to the Fed having juiced the marketplace with “a lot of liquidity” for the year change in late 2019, exactly as it did in 1999 for the Y2K year change, and again the Fed is, at least, talking about starting to draw down liquidity in April or perhaps before as it did shortly after the Y2K year change.
Will this time also end as “not a pretty picture.”
In 2018 it was easy to know when the market would go into paroxysms because the Fed had published a set schedule for its tightening. This time, as Rosenberg says,…
It’s tough to time when the Fed is finally going to sit back and say: “Ok, you know what: I’m not handing any more candy to the kindergarten class”. My sense is that the response to the Fed no longer priming the pump could be significant.
We’re now “all in”
Don’t let marketeers influence you with their claims that the market is going to rise this year. You can bet that every single one of them, if alive in 2000, was saying the same thing then, too. Though some feared the ridiculous heights the market hit in 2000, almost no one was calling for it to crash.
As Mark Hulbert, who has been in this game for a long time, recalls,
On Jan. 14, 2000, the Dow DJIA … hit its bull-market high prior to the bursting of the internet bubble. And, yet, you’d have never known it by reading what the newsletter editors then were saying. In fact, after reading through my newsletter archives from January 2000, I was struck by the similarities between now and then. MarketWatch
2008 went the same way. Anyone remember Goldman’s investment advice to its clients just before the 2008 financial crisis implosion? Everything it wrote was printed in vampire squid ink:
The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. In fact, the history of the recent financial crisis, which doubles as a history of the rapid decline and fall of the suddenly swindled dry American empire, reads like a Who’s Who of Goldman Sachs graduates. Rolling Stone
While it sucked everyone dry, it outwardly recommended buying more stocks that would fail, even as it bought up lots of almost everything that would do well when other things crash.
One strong sign of a melt-up and the nearing top of a market is when everyone is in — retail investors like mom and pop and the big money or “smart money” like institutional funds. When there is not a lot of money sitting on the sides, only newly created money can push the market up. When everyone is in, enthusiasm (or euphoria) is at its peak.
Beware those who have stocks to sell. All the big advisors counsel everyone to jump in when MOMO and FOMO hit their peaks. How else will they get rid of all their own holdings so close to the peak? According to Rolling Stone and many other publications, that’s what Goldman did to maintain its Sachs of gold. That’s how it got the name “Vampire Squid.”
We’re now “all in”:
Contrary to several goalseeked indicators which erroneously repeat week after week that whales and other prominent institutional traders remain “on the fence” despite the now daily record highs in the S&P, the truth is that virtually everyone is now all in: from simple human-driven discretionary, to macro funds, all the way to algo and CTAs…. “Equity positioning … has run far ahead of current growth as investors price in a global growth rebound….” The question is, are people starting to feel more upbeat about the global economy or is this just another round of central bank dovishness designed to propel asset prices higher? The answer appears to be, yes. Weakness will be met with overt accommodation. Strength with silence. Zero Hedge
Or is just another round of Goldman, which populates all levels of the Fed with former GS people and others that it recommends, fleecing the flock? (As a refresher, read the whole Rolling Stone article quoted above, written at the end of those desperate times.)
Money-losing companies are shoving market valuations to the summit
One of the big concerns during the final year or two of the market’s rise before the big dot-com bust of 2000-2002 was that so many companies that never made a dime were leading the market into the stratosphere. We’re pretty well back to that.
Tesla Inc. shares have doubled in three months, while General Electric Co. shares are up 44%. The pair are the two most valuable loss-making companies, part of a shockingly high proportion of listed companies that have been losing money—despite, or perhaps because of, the long bull market. The Wall Street Journal
The Journal says these two are two very different exemplars of profitless companies in today’s stock market. Tesla has never made a dime, and is now one of the most highly valued companies in the market, and GE is a megalithic dinosaur of great value in the past that has been losing money for years.
The Journal article says that 40% of listed companies in the U.S. are currently losing money quarter after quarter. The biggest area of massive-money-losers in the dot-com gold-rush was the IPO segment of the market. The same is true today:
Bonds overflowing
While stocks are overflowing, so is the pouring of money into safe-haven bonds. If the current net flow of money into bonds were to continue all year, it would look like this compared to any other year since the Great Recession began:
Of course, the flow of money into bonds probably will not continue at that rate all year, although several years shown above did continue at the same rate most or all of the year. Still, many others did not and even turned downward partway through the year. Regardless, the steepness of the rise in the first two weeks of January exceeds that seen at the start of any year on the chart, except maybe 2015.
Bonds aren’t the only safe havens rising as a warning sign alongside soaring stocks. Precious metals are, too:
David Rosenberg notes why he believes gold is on the rise and should be:
When you compare the new supply of gold against the supply of money coming into the system from Central Banks, to me it’s a very clear cut case that you want to have very high exposure to bullion…. Gold demand is predicated on the final act which is going to be right-out debt monetization. When we get to the lows of the next recession, we’re going to find that these Central Banks that already have been extremely aggressive are going to engage in what is otherwise known as the “debt jubilee” or a right-out debt monetization which was actually the final chapter of the Bernanke playbook. Remember, Ben Bernanke got his nickname “Helicopter Ben” because in a speech in 2002 he suggested that helicopter money could always be used to prevent deflation. So we’re going to have helicopter money. The Market
Buyback bonanza is slowing down
It’s no secret that the Fed’s new money and low interest, and the US government’s one-time allowance for low taxes on the repatriation of overseas cash hoards has fueled the market higher.
Over a trillion dollars has been spent on stock buybacks by twenty companies over the past five years to push up the values of the markets leaders. What happens when those companies have used up all the foreign profits they had to repatriate or when interest rises so debt to fund buybacks is not longer cheap or when those “trillion-dollar babies” just reach the maximum amount of debt they feel comfortable taking on … or reach the maximum amount for which ratings agencies feel comfortable selling good ratings?
Currently buybacks are slowing down due to the fourth-quarter reporting period. Repatriation money is also likely running out for many companies, because it has been two years since cheap repatriation of former foreign profits was allowed under the revised tax code as part of the Trump Tax Cuts.
It feels like 2018 all over again
I still think, as I wrote in December, that the following is a strong contender to become the market’s peak before it hits a wall:
The market has a highly attractive 30,000-foot altitude marker in the sky to hit on the Dow. That attractive goal will tend to suck the market quickly up another 5% until it nears that target. Once the market gets to that target, however, that number tends to become resistance as everyone starts to wonder if it can break it and if it will hold or crash in fear of such great heights. 30,000 is a much stronger number psychologically than 29,000 was because it breaks into a new 10,000-foot level. The human psyche likes big, fat, round numbers like that. Once it gets to that level, however, it can generate a lot of fear because of how perilously high the market suddenly feels, which makes it an ideal number for an ultimate blow-off top “Santa, No Longer Tariffied, May Rally for Christmas“
I’m not predicting 30,000 is the major breaking point. I’m just noting that I think it is a strong psychological milestone that is quite near in the present melt-up stage as both the brass ring for investors to reach for and then perhaps to fade … or even flee if people see a lot of fading happening. It will deepened on how many other things are going bad at the same time or on one thing going bad — Fed support. (Don’t say it can’t happen. It did in 2018 when the Fed should have known better then, too.)
First, let me point the last time we neared a milestone of this kind (Dow 20,000). You can see in the graph below that it was both a magnet, sucking stocks upward and then a two-month bench to rest on. However, the steep final rise to that level was not a melt-up because a “melt-up” is meant to imply things are about to melt down:
30,000 will be a natural place to catch one’s breath, but what happens at that point will depend a lot on what kinds of events happen when the market takes a pause bringing momentum to a halt — say if buybacks fade for the reasons above or if earnings estimates sink more than expected or a very low GDP print; BUT it relies far more than anything on whether the Fed fades its current easing.
After December, I got out of stocks to sit this mile-marker and possible Fed transition point out. (I don’t even like being in stocks now, given how insane the market is; but my predictions of the market’s fall were based on Fed tightening, so a return to easing changed things for the last few month.)
As for what happens in a Fed tightening regime, the graph above also bears testimony to just how much the market changed in January of 2018 for the remainder of that year and how it remained below its January blow-off top with some hard bouncing even through the first three quarters of 2019 as the Fed’s quantitative tightening continued … even though the Fed stopped raising interest rates. Only when the Fed moved deep into QE4ever did the market finally sustain a rise above its 2018 high mark.
As for what happened back then when the Fed tightened and how it compares to now,
Stock market investors could be setting themselves up for a nasty fall … according to Mark Newton, a popular independent market technician, in a Friday note to clients. “US stocks have moved up at a clip that’s eerily reminiscent of January 2018,” he wrote. “No news really matters to shake markets, and bad economic news or earnings, not to mention geopolitical threats matter for a few hours only before the relentless rally continues unabated,” he wrote.” The S&P 500 index … fell more than 10% between Jan. 26 of 2018 and Feb. 9 of that year, after rallying more than 27% between the start of 2017 and the Jan. 2018 top. “Make no mistake, this market move is NOT normal, and is NOT something which should be able to continue technically into and through February without a major hiccup,” he added. “Markets truly seem to be near exhaustion using traditional methods, but it’s proper to wait on the sidelines until the break gets underway, which should prove swift and severe….” That said, it’s incredibly difficult to predict exactly when euphoric sentiment will take a turn for the worse. “Indicators don’t flash red when the market is at a top,” Newton warned. “It’s hard to go out there and really trumpet a big bearish call, which makes you wonder if its probably the right thing to be doing.” MarketWatch
The only failsafe red indicator now that the market is ignoring all economic the metrics of all economic/business fundamentals is the light on the power cord to the Fed. Everything depends on the Fed and what it does, and right now the Fed is not all that clear about what it will do. It is certainly not clear that QE4ever will continue without a failed attempt at reversing it.
The big thing to use as your red light is any attempt or mention of an upcoming attempt by the Fed to prove it is not financializing the US debt by moving back toward tightening … or even just stopping the money pumps. (It, of course, won’t mention the “financializing” part, as it doesn’t want you to even think about that, but look for hints of tightening that it can use to support its argument that it is not monetizing the debt with anyone who calls it to task.)
Bear in mind the only way the Fed can maintain its lie that it is not illegally financing the national debt with QE4ever is if it can prove that its recent massive asset purchases were just temporary emergency monetary responses. Lack of “temporary” = QE4ever = the Fed monetizing the US debt by soaking up US treasuries forever … or until the Fed decides to crash the entire economy by tightening again. (It is only 4ever if the Fed wants the economy to keep going.)
So long as the Fed even shows it is going to do nothing more than hold its existing treasuries for years to come, it is, at least, guilty of monetizing that much of the US debt. Throughout QE, the Fed’s sole argument that it was not monetizing the debt rested on its QE being temporary.
The Fed has a great need to quit its repo recovery actions so that the Fed can prove it is not financing the US government by sopping up its debt to roll over in perpetuity. It doesn’t make any difference that the Fed is only buying short-term treasuries, as it now claims for its excuse, if it rolls those short-term treasuries over forever. That is just short-term dressing in name only on permanent monetization of the debt. So economists, analysts and politicians will be questioning the Fed’s “not QE” if they see that the Fed simply cannot stop. The Fed is fully aware of that. As I noted in last year’s early Patron Posts, the Fed expressed great concern about losing trust in 2018.
At the same time, this market has nothing left to keep it up but Fed fumes.
(If you want to read as much as I can lay out about the Fed’s projected moves for the first half of this year, I’m going to give access to January’s Patron Post as soon as it is finished to those who sign up to support my continued writing of free articles like this now at the $5 level or above, even though their first support payment won’t process until February. The Fed has not laid out any clear path, but there are some broad hints, and I don’t want anyone to miss the information in case it is helpful, so I’ll make it available before pledges are processed.)
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activistpost--2020-01-19--New Paper: FCC Broke Environmental Law By Approving SpaceX Satellites To Blast 5G And WiFi At Earth

Astronomers ( see 1 , 2 , 3 ) as well as other credible sources continue warning about satellites and similar space craft creating dangerous situations on Earth as well as in space ( see 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ) .
Regardless , the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) continues to approve tens of thousands more being launched into orbit anyway .
Now a new paper suggests they may have broken environmental law when approving SpaceX ’ s Starlink Mega Constellation ( which includes up to 42,000 spacecraft ) and that if someone sued them , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the sky is raging , and the heavens are losing .
Upcoming mega constellations of satellites , designed to blanket Earth orbit in spacecraft beaming high-speed Internet around the world , risk filling the firmament with tens of thousands of moving points of light , forever changing our view of the cosmos .
Astronomers who rely on unsullied skies for their profession and members of the general public who enjoy the natural beauty of what lies above stand to lose out .
The arrival of such a large number of satellites “ has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and our connection , with the universe , ” says Ruskin Hartley , executive director of the nonprofit International Dark-Sky Association .
But with no binding international laws or regulations in place to protect the night sky , anyone opposing the advancement of mega constellations is surely fighting a losing battle .
Right ?
A new paper to be published later this year in the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law argues that the Federal Communications Commission—the agency responsible for licensing the operation of these constellations in the U.S.—should have considered the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ night sky .
In ignoring a key piece of federal environmental legislation , the FCC could be sued in a court of law—and lose—potentially halting further launches of mega constellations until a proper review is carried out .
The FCC is supposed to protect the public by regulating the telecom industry .
They are facing many lawsuits right now for failing to do so regarding the forced installation of unsafe 5G technology ( see 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ) .
Fingers crossed someone will sue them for approving these satellites @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about unsafe technology .
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By B.N. Frank
Astronomers (see 1, 2, 3) as well as other credible sources continue warning about satellites and similar space craft creating dangerous situations on Earth as well as in space (see 1, 2, 3, 4). Regardless, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) continues to approve tens of thousands more being launched into orbit anyway.
Now a new paper suggests they may have broken environmental law when approving SpaceX’s Starlink Mega Constellation (which includes up to 42,000 spacecraft) and that if someone sued them, they might win.
From Scientific American:
A battle for the sky is raging, and the heavens are losing. Upcoming mega constellations of satellites, designed to blanket Earth orbit in spacecraft beaming high-speed Internet around the world, risk filling the firmament with tens of thousands of moving points of light, forever changing our view of the cosmos. Astronomers who rely on unsullied skies for their profession and members of the general public who enjoy the natural beauty of what lies above stand to lose out. The arrival of such a large number of satellites “has the potential to change our relationship, and our connection, with the universe,” says Ruskin Hartley, executive director of the nonprofit International Dark-Sky Association. But with no binding international laws or regulations in place to protect the night sky, anyone opposing the advancement of mega constellations is surely fighting a losing battle. Right? Wrong. A new paper to be published later this year in the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law argues that the Federal Communications Commission—the agency responsible for licensing the operation of these constellations in the U.S.—should have considered the impact these satellites would have on the night sky. In ignoring a key piece of federal environmental legislation, the FCC could be sued in a court of law—and lose—potentially halting further launches of mega constellations until a proper review is carried out. Read Full Article
The FCC is supposed to protect the public by regulating the telecom industry. They are facing many lawsuits right now for failing to do so regarding the forced installation of unsafe 5G technology (see 1, 2, 3, 4). Fingers crossed someone will sue them for approving these satellites as well.

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activistpost--2020-01-19--To “Make America Great Again” Trump Added a $1 TRILLION Deficit in 2019 — Just Like Obama

The Trump administration ran an Obamaesque budget deficit of over $ 1 trillion in the 2019 calendar year .
It was the first budget deficit over $ 1 trillion in any calendar year since 2012 .
The budget shortfall from January through December totaled $ 1.02 trillion , according to the latest report issued by the Treasury Department .
That was a 17.1 percent increase over the 2018 deficit , which was a 28.2 percent increase over 2017 .
The budget deficit for fiscal 2019 ( October 2018-September 2019 ) came in just under $ 1 trillion at $ 984 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ GDP , the highest percentage since 2012 .
It was the fourth consecutive year in which the deficit increased as a percentage of GDP .
The debt-to-GDP ratio is estimated to have increased a hefty 26 percent over last year .
The CBO estimates the budget deficit for fiscal 2020 will eclipse $ 1 trillion .
These are the kind of budget deficits one would expect to see during a major economic downturn .
The federal government has only run deficits over $ 1 trillion in four fiscal years , all during the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that number today , despite having what Trump keeps calling “ the greatest economy in the history of America.
” Generally , during economic expansions , government spending on social programs shrinks and tax revenues climb with increased economic activity .
Revenues have increased over the last year , but they haven ’ t kept pace with the increase in government spending .
The spending didn ’ t slow in the first quarter of fiscal 2020 .
Through the first three months of the current fiscal year , the deficit ballooned to $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 11.8 percent increase from a year ago .
In just three months , Uncle Sam blew through $ 1.16 trillion .
Spending through the first three months of FY2020 is up 6.5 percent over the spending through the first three months of fiscal 2019 .
Meanwhile , the national debt has climbed to $ 23.2 trillion .
To put that into perspective , last February , the national debt topped $ 22 trillion .
When President Trump took office in January 2017 , the debt was at $ 19.95 trillion .
That represented @ @ @ @ @ @ @ debt in just over two years .
The borrowing pace continues to accelerate .
The Treasury borrowed $ 800 billion in just two months late last summer .
( If you ’ re wondering how the debt can grow by a larger number than the annual deficit , economist Mark Brandly explains here . )
See : 177 Different Ways to Generate Extra Income During the presidential campaign , Trump promised to deal with the skyrocketing national debt .
In fact , he said he could take care of it “ fairly quickly.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ even played lip-service to reining in spending , instead , calling for more outlays for the military and championing paid parental leave for government employees .
Trump supporters have mostly offered up excuses , shifting the blame for the ballooning national debt to “ Democrats in Congress.
” This ignores the fact that 2019 spending was approved the previous year when the Republicans controlled both houses of Congress .
They also minimize the White House ’ s role in the budgeting process .
In fact , the president has significant power and input @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pass spending bills , the president must sign them before they become law .
He doesn ’ t have to sign bills that have spending he doesn ’ t want .
If reining in debt and deficits was a priority , Trump would have vetoed these bills and insisted on spending cuts .
Instead , he called for more spending , particularly for the military .
Republicans will argue that increased defense spending is necessary for “ national security.
” But unsustainable budget deficits pose a significant threat to national security , especially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ biggest buyers of U.S. debt .
The executive branch also plays an integral role in the budgeting process .
Executive branch departments submit spending requests that Congress uses to set spending levels .
The president has complete control over how much money various departments request .
Finally , the president ’ s near-complete silence on deficits and debt indicates that it ’ s not a priority .
Trump didn ’ t even mention the national debt during the last State of the Union address .
Congress does in fact bear a great deal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fiscal malfeasance , but so does the president .
His supporters need to quit making excuses , hold his feet to the fire and insist that he deal with the debt .
The spending trajectory is unsustainable .
If we are running $ 1 trillion deficits now , what will the country ’ s financial situation look like when the next recession hits ?
Congress and the president can continue to kick the can down the road , but they are about to run out of pavement .
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He is from the original home of the Principles of ’ 98 – Kentucky and currently resides in northern Florida .
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By Michael Maharrey
The Trump administration ran an Obamaesque budget deficit of over $1 trillion in the 2019 calendar year.
It was the first budget deficit over $1 trillion in any calendar year since 2012.
The budget shortfall from January through December totaled $1.02 trillion, according to the latest report issued by the Treasury Department. That was a 17.1 percent increase over the 2018 deficit, which was a 28.2 percent increase over 2017.
The budget deficit for fiscal 2019 (October 2018-September 2019) came in just under $1 trillion at $984 billion. That represented 4.7 percent of GDP, the highest percentage since 2012. It was the fourth consecutive year in which the deficit increased as a percentage of GDP. The debt-to-GDP ratio is estimated to have increased a hefty 26 percent over last year.
The CBO estimates the budget deficit for fiscal 2020 will eclipse $1 trillion.
These are the kind of budget deficits one would expect to see during a major economic downturn. The federal government has only run deficits over $1 trillion in four fiscal years, all during the Great Recession. We’re approaching that number today, despite having what Trump keeps calling “the greatest economy in the history of America.”
Generally, during economic expansions, government spending on social programs shrinks and tax revenues climb with increased economic activity. Revenues have increased over the last year, but they haven’t kept pace with the increase in government spending.
The spending didn’t slow in the first quarter of fiscal 2020. Through the first three months of the current fiscal year, the deficit ballooned to $356.6 billion. That’s an 11.8 percent increase from a year ago. In just three months, Uncle Sam blew through $1.16 trillion. Spending through the first three months of FY2020 is up 6.5 percent over the spending through the first three months of fiscal 2019.
Meanwhile, the national debt has climbed to $23.2 trillion.
To put that into perspective, last February, the national debt topped $22 trillion. When President Trump took office in January 2017, the debt was at $19.95 trillion. That represented a $2.06 trillion increase in the debt in just over two years. The borrowing pace continues to accelerate. The Treasury borrowed $800 billion in just two months late last summer. (If you’re wondering how the debt can grow by a larger number than the annual deficit, economist Mark Brandly explains here.)
During the presidential campaign, Trump promised to deal with the skyrocketing national debt. In fact, he said he could take care of it “fairly quickly.” But the president hasn’t even played lip-service to reining in spending, instead, calling for more outlays for the military and championing paid parental leave for government employees.
Trump supporters have mostly offered up excuses, shifting the blame for the ballooning national debt to “Democrats in Congress.” This ignores the fact that 2019 spending was approved the previous year when the Republicans controlled both houses of Congress. They also minimize the White House’s role in the budgeting process. In fact, the president has significant power and input in that process
While Congress does ultimately pass spending bills, the president must sign them before they become law. He doesn’t have to sign bills that have spending he doesn’t want. If reining in debt and deficits was a priority, Trump would have vetoed these bills and insisted on spending cuts. Instead, he called for more spending, particularly for the military.
Republicans will argue that increased defense spending is necessary for “national security.” But unsustainable budget deficits pose a significant threat to national security, especially considering China ranks as one of the biggest buyers of U.S. debt.
The executive branch also plays an integral role in the budgeting process. Executive branch departments submit spending requests that Congress uses to set spending levels. The president has complete control over how much money various departments request.
Finally, the president’s near-complete silence on deficits and debt indicates that it’s not a priority. Trump didn’t even mention the national debt during the last State of the Union address.
Congress does in fact bear a great deal of responsibility for Uncle Sam’s fiscal malfeasance, but so does the president. His supporters need to quit making excuses, hold his feet to the fire and insist that he deal with the debt.
The spending trajectory is unsustainable. If we are running $1 trillion deficits now, what will the country’s financial situation look like when the next recession hits? Congress and the president can continue to kick the can down the road, but they are about to run out of pavement.
Michael Maharrey [send him email] is the Communications Director for the Tenth Amendment Center. He is from the original home of the Principles of ’98 – Kentucky and currently resides in northern Florida. See his blog archive here and his article archive here.He is the author of the book, Our Last Hope: Rediscovering the Lost Path to Liberty. You can visit his personal website at MichaelMaharrey.com and like him on Facebook HERE
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activistpost--2020-01-19--Revealed — Iran’s Attack Did Cause Casualties, US/Israeli Cyberattack & Pompeo Threatens The World

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By The Last American Vagabond
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As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth is, or claiming they have the answer, is likely leading you astray, for one reason or another. Stay Vigilant.

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activistpost--2020-01-20--Does a Tech-Free Vacation Sounds Like Paradise?  6 Resorts Worth Considering

Do you need a break from tech ?
Are you tired of everybody and their grandmas being glued to screens ?
Are you sick of or sick from 24/7 exposure to sources of biologically harmful cell phone and WiFi radiation that disrupt your blood-brain barrier , increase your cancer risk , cause a multitude of other undesirable symptoms and conditions ( see 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ) and could eventually disable you , your children , and even your pets ?
If you answered yes to any of these questions , then a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ need .
Thanks to Vogue magazine for providing details about these 6 tech-free resorts : Are you glancing at your phone ’ s push notifications every five to 10 minutes ( if not more frequently ) , on the lookout for an email you need to instantly respond to even hours after you ’ ve left the office ?
Maybe you ’ re staring at a computer 12 hours a day .
Or perhaps you ’ re constantly scrolling through Instagram , Facebook , and Twitter .
You , my friend , are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Whether you ’ re looking for a far-flung , remote destination in a tech-dead zone or something a little more local , here are six places where you can ( and , in fact , must ) ditch your smartphone , tablet , and laptop to completely turn off .
Sure , you may be panic-stricken at first , but embrace the philosophy and that feeling will quickly dissipate , giving you exactly what the doctor ordered .
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By B.N. Frank
Do you need a break from tech? Are you tired of everybody and their grandmas being glued to screens? Are you sick of or sick from 24/7 exposure to sources of biologically harmful cell phone and WiFi radiation that disrupt your blood-brain barrier, increase your cancer risk, cause a multitude of other undesirable symptoms and conditions (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) and could eventually disable you, your children, and even your pets?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then a tech-free vacation may be just what you need.
Thanks to Vogue magazine for providing details about these 6 tech-free resorts:
Are you glancing at your phone’s push notifications every five to 10 minutes (if not more frequently), on the lookout for an email you need to instantly respond to even hours after you’ve left the office? Maybe you’re staring at a computer 12 hours a day. Or perhaps you’re constantly scrolling through Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. You, my friend, are in need of a digital detox. Whether you’re looking for a far-flung, remote destination in a tech-dead zone or something a little more local, here are six places where you can (and, in fact, must) ditch your smartphone, tablet, and laptop to completely turn off. Sure, you may be panic-stricken at first, but embrace the philosophy and that feeling will quickly dissipate, giving you exactly what the doctor ordered.
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