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Amazon has absolutely eviscerated brick-and-mortar retailers of late with their decision first to buy Whole Foods Market followed by a subsequent announcement that they would target clothing retailers with "Prime Wardrobe."

The Whole Foods announcement sent the stocks of grocery retailers Kroger, Wal-Mart, Sprouts, and Target plunging... (WMT -4%, TGT -5.5%, SFM -7.6%, KR -12%)

And the "Prime Wardrobe" announcement just a few days later had a similar impact on clothing retailers...

Amid a growing 'swarm' of over earthquakes (now over 1000), and Montana's largest quake ever, scientists are growing increasingly concerned that the so-called 'super-volcano' at the heart of Yellowstone National Park could be building towards a Category 7 eruption. So what is a 'super-volcano' and what does its explosion mean for life on earth? NatGeo explains...

World leaders meeting at the G-20 summit in Germany have agreed on almost every aspect of the joint communique, where in a victory for Merkel they vowed to fight protectionism and secure fair trade seeking to defuse President Donald Trump’s threats of unilateral measures the WSJ reported; they have so far failed, however, on a compromise position in the section on climate where the United States is pushing for a reference to fossil fuels, European Union officials said according to Reuters.

Following a swarm of over 1100 earthquakes recorded in the Yellowstone caldera over the past month, prompting scientists to voice concerns about a dormant Yellowstone "Supervolcano" slowly waking up, overnight these concerns escalated after a strong M5.8 earthquake hit western Montana early on Thursday morning - the strongest quake to hit the area in the past 20 years - the U.S. Geological Survey reported, with Reuters adding that the tremor was felt hundreds of miles away, from Missoula to Billings and some surrounding states. 

Authored by Daniel Lang via SHTFplan.com,