Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke launches a four-day listening tour on Sunday to gather input on whether or not to do away with some of former President Barack Obama’s more controversial decisions on expanding national monuments. The listening tour will begin in Utah at the Bears Ears National Monument and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in … Read more
by Robert Carbery Hiring increased in April, encouraging signs that the economy is rebounding after a slogging first quarter. Strong gains in business services and healthcare have helped the economy expand into the Spring months of 2017. Will there be more or similar growth to come in May and June? With unemployment this … Read more
By Michael Snyder Venezuela and Yemen were both once very prosperous nations, but now parents are literally watching their children starve to death as the economies of both nations continue to utterly collapse. Just like so many here in the United States, most of those living in Venezuela and Yemen would have called you completely … Read more
by Robert Carbery While we are all busy discussing a healthcare bill that was passed by the Republican-held House of Representatives on Thursday that could very well doom the GOP, world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking believes our planet is already doomed. Hawking has been discussing the impending expiration of the human race for years now … Read more
You can find many timelines that follow allegations of Russia tampering in the U.S. election and alleged involvement of Trump officials. But I couldn’t find any comprehensive timelines cross-referencing Obama-era surveillance of whistleblowers, journalists and other U.S. citizens with Russia surveillance allegations. So I built one. Please note: temporal proximity of events doesn’t necessarily imply … Read more
By Gabrielle Seunagal A body camera belonging to a police officer showed him diving into a pond to rescue a four year old child with autism from drowning. This event transpired a little over 24 hours ago in Topeka, Kansas. The policeman is Aaron Bulmer, who happened to be patrolling around the Central Park Community … Read more
circa.com reports: Circa has formally requested that the Trump administration declassify records showing how often government officials have searched National Security Agency intercepts for intelligence on U.S. presidential candidates, members of Congress, journalists, clergy, lawyers, federal judges and doctors and how often such Americans had their identities unmasked by the intelligence community after Barack Obama made … Read more
The US and China’s manufacturing activity seem to be synchronized – and both are slowing…#recession2017? #igwt2017 pic.twitter.com/3eUtruyVRp — Ronnie Stoeferle (@RonStoeferle) May 4, 2017 Global recession risk rises as the US and China tighten into the storm Equity investors across the world are positioned for the nirvana of synchronised and accelerating global expansion led by China … Read more
by Mark Angelides As the disastrous Obamacare expensively crashes, and the new Health Care Act comes into play (probably just as expensively), many Americans are wondering why the US has not gone “Full-Brit” and created a National Health Service (NHS). A full health care system, paid for through general taxation, and free at the point … Read more
by Mark Angelides Whatever the final result of the budget bill was, both sides were planning on spinning it as a victory for themselves and a defeat for the opposition; this is the nature of modern politics and is frankly irrelevant to most people who will just look at what the sums are assigned to. … Read more