The next financial crisis (there will always be a "next financial crisis" in capitalism) will not look like the last one. The reason is because working class consumers were mostly locked out of the credit markets from 2008 until recently.
The only exceptions for consumers were auto loans (which is too small of a market to cause a financial meltdown) and student loans (which is almost entirely backed by the federal government).

The day we have been waiting for is finally here and Rob Mueller has fired his first shot on his Russia Gate investigation.

Robert Mueller files sentencing memo on Trump ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn

The Deep State has gotten lazy and stupid.

I hadn't seen anyone cover this yet, but I may have missed it.

On the occasion of my 63rd birthday, I'd like to thank former President Obama. Without his help, I'd likely have health insurance. Instead, I'm thankful that I only have 2 more years until qualifying for Medicare.

For background, see snoopydawg’s exposé on the Guardian’s 'Paul Manafort Secretly Met With Julian Assange Multiple Times’ ‘gold-standard’ of yellow journalism.

Video: Guardian mysteriously hid third author of fabricated front page story "Manafort Held Secret Meetings With Assange" -- as revealed by direct digital archive library. Compare to the Guardian's online version the world saw. Villavicencio background:.https://t.co/KX80IrScyl pic.twitter.com/k6X4cHM6FB

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) December 3, 2018

I am fully aware that SCOTUS has declared that “money is speech.” That’s nonsense. The day my wallet starts talking to me, I might reconsider that view. Until then, I believe that the pernicious influence of money on our elections must be removed.

It didn't take long for the Trump Administration to decide that false-flag operations were only conspiracy theories when it was convenient.

I'll just copy/paste it below the fold, his words speak better than mine.

The annual world climate talks take place in Katowice, Poland, this week and next. For this year the goal is to come up with a rulebook for implementing the Paris Climate Agreement.

A major goal of that agreement, made in December three years ago, is to keep global warming to 1.5°C (2.7°F) above preindustrial average. As of last year, the planet stood at 1.0°C (1.8°F) warmer.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world's top authority on the subject, produced a report for use at the meeting. The report focuses on the 1.5°C goal.

Effects of Warming

Effects of warming as we go from present to 1.5°C warmer, and then to 2.0°C, include ever higher risks to society. From the IPCC report:

B.1. Climate models project robust differences in regional climate characteristics between present-day and global warming of 1.5°C, and between 1.5°C and 2°C (3.6°F). These differences include increases in: mean temperature in most land and ocean regions (high confidence), hot extremes in most inhabited regions (high confidence), heavy precipitation in several regions (medium confidence), and the probability of drought and precipitation deficits in some regions (medium confidence).

B.3. Climate-related risks to health, livelihoods, food security, water supply, human security, and economic growth are projected to increase with global warming of 1.5°C and increase further with 2°C.