by Dan Lyman
InfoWars Europe
Residents of Lampedusa are protesting against migrants arriving on their overwhelmed island after the Italian government facilitated the entry of 870 more in a single weekend, according to reports.
A total of approximately 870 illegal migrants who departed from North Africa were brought ashore on Friday and Saturday under the supervision of Italian authorities and armed forces.
Nearly 370 were intercepted aboard a fishing boat about four miles from land and then “disembarked in small groups to adhere to the mitigating measures related to the pandemic,” Television Malta reports.
Between Friday and Saturday, another 500 migrants arrived in more than 30 vessels of varying sizes, according to AFP.
[…] Stocks popped, and then flopped a bit into the close.
Last spring the White House warned that COVID-19 could kill between 1.5 million and 2.2 million Americans with “no intervention.” But “with intervention,” it said, the death toll would be somewhere between 100,000 and 240,000. “By very vigorously following these [social distancing] guidelines,” President Donald Trump declared, “we could save more than 1 million American lives. Think of that: 1 million American lives.”
Iconic investor Warren Buffett’s superpower is the ability to understand how companies work and tell which will generate the most and most consistent cash flow. This has (along with, yes, some recent gaming of the system) allowed him to make his investors rich beyond most of their wildest dreams.
The S&P 500 stock index set a new record high on Friday, closing at 3508.01 – the first time it has ever closed above 3500. In fact, the S&P 500 set a record high close every single day last week. Here’s the actual closing numbers:
Hurling smoke bombs and fireworks, “peaceful” protesters did their level best to disturb restaurant diners on sidewalks; issue threats to homeowners with slogans such as “fire, fire, gentrifier”; and make enough noise to keep residential areas awake with the chuk-chuk-chuk of police helicopters above. They even chanted military jodies, with leftist replacement words to Army-like cadence chants, perhaps to demonstrate that they, too, are an army of sorts. The featured speaker was a self-described illegal alien. Here’s the scene in Washington, D.C.:
The few times this Covid-19 year of seclusion that friends have come over for dinner, they’re horrified to hear me say that I will do whatever I can to prevent the Democrats from winning the election. I was never a big thumper for Donald Trump, and didn’t vote for him in 2016 (or Hillary), but I will this time.
Mind your own business. Every one of us has thought or said words to this effect when others have told us how to live our lives. Who our friends should be, what career we should pursue, where we should live, the person we should marry, how we should spend our money, or even what clothes we should wear or how to furnish or decorate the place we live. Even when others have the best of intentions, after all, whose life is it?
Twitter on Sunday removed a post that President Trump retweeted, which misinterpreted coronavirus death statistics from the Central for Disease and Control.
It has been heartbreaking to watch what has been transpiring on the streets of America in recent months. Our founders intended for us to be united by a common set of values, but now our differences are literally tearing our nation to pieces. Americans are fighting other Americans in the streets, and that should make all of us incredibly sad. Does anyone out there actually believe that all of this violence will be resolved by the upcoming election? If anything, rising political tensions are likely to make the violence even worse, and if the result of the presidential election is contested by either side that could easily take things to an even higher level. We have entered such a dangerous chapter in American history, and I am extremely concerned about the months ahead.
A tweet by the widely followed “Existential Comics” account recently made the rounds.
We are still in no man’s land right now with regard to the precious metals and miners. Powell disappointed the markets Thursday with little detail on the timing and tools to be used in relation to the Fed’s not-so-new policy of allowing inflation and employment to run hot over the coming years. In other words, he provided nothing we didn’t know already and was presumably priced into the markets. Yet, instead of being a ‘buy the rumor, sell the fact’ event, the Fed’s announcement overcame the initial plunge in markets, and stocks and precious metals rebounded higher. The key question is whether these latest rallies have just begun or are more short-term in nature until the Fed provides more concrete details on their plans.
“Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace pushed back Sunday on former Vice President Joe Biden’s sudden pivot to in-person campaigning.