“Come Heavily Armed”: Oregon Senator Threatens Violence As Governor Hunts Down Lawmakers

via Zerohedge: A standoff between Republican and Democratic Oregon state senators escalated on Friday after Governor Kate Brown (D) authorized state police to track down Republican lawmakers who have stalled a vote on carbon credit legislation by walking out and refusing to vote. Under the proposed cap-and-trade bill, Oregon would put an overall limit on greenhouse gas emissions … Read more

Mutant DNA-edited babies ‘secretly born in China’… ‘Frankenstein’ scientist

Mutant DNA-edited babies created by ‘Frankenstein’ scientist ‘secretly born in China’ CHINA is producing secret gene-edited “Frankenstein” babies not yet known to the rest of the world, a leading expert has claimed. Scientist He Jiankui was condemned around the world last year where he brazenly announced in a YouTube video he had produced the first … Read more

How to Retire in a Zero Percent Tax Bracket

by FS This time on Financial Sense’ Lifetime Income program, Jim Puplava lays out a path to retire in a zero percent tax bracket with some serious planning and preparation. Tax Rates Headed Higher No matter who controls the Federal government, we are likely to see higher tax rates in the decades ahead, Puplava noted. This is … Read more

US Government Says It Can Indefinitely Detain Anyone…Even US Citizens: “There is no bar to this Nation’s holding one of its own citizens as an enemy combatant.”

FOR OVER 17 years, Moath al-Alwi has been held at Guantánamo Bay without charge. A Yemeni citizen, al-Alwi is one of Guantánamo’s “forever prisoners,” those whom the U.S. government has not charged with a crime but is unwilling to release. On June 10, the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in his case, the latest setback in … Read more

Google Chrome is “surveillance software”

by Playaguy Google makes money on advertising. Letting them run how you interact with the internet is an open invitation for them to spy. If you are not paying for the product, you are the product. via siliconvalley: You open your browser to look at the web. Do you know who is looking back at you? Over … Read more

FITTON: MONSTER Week! New Page-Strzok Emails Suggest Media-FBI Anti-Trump Collusion;California Massive Roll Clean Up–Up to 1.59 million names!; and Clinton Email Witness Admits Clintons Paid Legal Bills.

by TFittonJW Massive Update: No one is doing more heavy lifting: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-strzok-page-emails-reveal-fbi-efforts-to-muddle-comey-testimony-on-clinton-emails-fbi-media-collusion/ https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/california-begins-massive-voter-roll-clean-up-notifies-up-to-1-5-million-inactive-voters-as-part-of-judicial-watch-lawsuit-settlement/ https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-releases-testimony-of-clinton-email-administrator-clinton-lawyer-cheryl-mills-communicated-with-him-a-week-prior-to-testimony/ https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-statement-on-supreme-court-ruling-world-war-i-veterans-memorial-cross-will-remain-standing/ The back is is me on the roof of our HQ here in DC yesterday. Beautiful day!    

The Constitution isn’t about making it easy and painless for government officials to do whatever they want.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Clarence Thomas Benchslaps the Federal Government in a Property Rights Case. Quoth Thomas: The United States…urges us not to enforce the Takings Clause as written. It worries that requiring payment to accompany a taking would allow courts to enjoin or invalidate broad regulatory programs “merely” because the program takes property without paying for … Read more

U.S. College Grads Are In For An Unpleasant Surprise

via Zerohedge: U.S. college students currently working on their degree are in for an unpleasant surprise when negotiating their first salaries. That’s because, as Statista’s Felix Richter details, according to a new study conducted by Clever, undergraduate students in the United States are overestimating what they’re worth by a varying degree, depending on the major. Comparing average expected salaries to median actual … Read more

A Visual History of the Largest Companies by Market Cap (1999-Today)

by visualcapitalist The macro narrative that underlies the market is constantly under revision. While this is partially a function of shifts in investor sentiment, it’s also driven by game-changing events as well as much more structural market forces. For example, how does the macro narrative change after a commodity price crash? What about when the unprecedented … Read more