Via The Babylon Bee HARTFORD, CT—At a rally over the weekend, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders promised to fight for a nation where no one can earn over $15 an hour. “We live in a land where people can slave away and earn a lot of money,” he said, flapping his arms about, his fingers flopping … Read more
To Defeat Trump, New York Times Columnist Argues, We Must Abolish Judicial Review. New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie faults Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg for his insufficiently ambitious plan to remake the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that progressives need to challenge the idea that the Court has the final say on what the Constitution means. The problem, Bouie says, is not … Read more
Half of Americans Are Effectively Poor Now. Article cites cnn money as the source of this study Cnn money cites “united for Alice” as the source And alice cites (i shit you not) the same cnn money article THAT CITED UNITED FOR ALICE as the source for the study/story Journalism is officially dead. Great catch by u/SamSlate on how … Read more
by DCG In December 2017 the individual mandate under Obamacare was repealed via President Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Yet residents in California may be forced to again pay a fine if they don’t have health insurance – if Gov. Newsom has his way. He hopes the fine will generate money to … Read more
by northmantrader Exhausted by the wild swings in markets? By tweets, daily newsflashes, central banks speeches, etc, all of which cause markets to move up and down on a dime leaving wide open gaps to the upside and downside? Welcome to 2019. And 2018. It’s been a wild ride over the past 2 couple of years … Read more
From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest news involving precious metals and the overall economy. Stories include: Gold has beaten the U.S. dollar for nearly 50 years, why the price of silver could be on the cusp of a major breakout, and Malaysian prime minister eyeing a gold-backed currency. Gold has … Read more
by Amy S. The American Cancer Society shows that cancer is considered the second most common cause of death in the United States. It is characterized by the uncontrolled development of abnormal cells harming your body in different ways. There are multiple types of cancer such as skin, breast, ovarian, lung, pancreatic, colon, lymphoma, and … Read more
via reason: Imagine being a U.S. citizen who believes that America should withdraw its troops from Afghanistan after nearly 18 years of increasingly pointless war. Shouldn’t be too hard, since that describes 61 percent of Americans—and an eye-popping 69 percent of veterans—polled in October 2018 by YouGov. But let’s also stipulate that by some glitch in … Read more
by Charles Hugh-Smith Herds get spooked and run. That’s the crash scenario in a nutshell. We have all been trained by a decade of central bank saves to expect any stock market swoon will soon be reversed by central bank sweet talk and/or rate cuts. As a result of such ever-present central bank willingness to intervene … Read more
by TFittonJW Massive: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-releases-state-department-emails-showing-dossier-author-christopher-steeles-close-relationship-with-state-department/ And one wonders why it looks like sometimes I’m going to explode: In an email on January 12, 2017, Hollywood producer Eric Hamburg forwards an article about the Steele dossier to Winer, asking him if he would be interested in working on a movie about it. Hamburg writes: “Dear Jonathan, I have … Read more
Authored by Cyril Widdershoven via OilPrice.com, After a prolonged oil price plunge, pushing price levels down to around $59 Brent per barrel, signs are showing that the market believes the downward trend has overshot its target. Concerns about global demand and supply have been wreaking havoc, based on assessments that the ongoing China-US trade war … Read more
India Meteorological Department Tropical Cyclone Advisory #3 – 11:30 AM IST June 9 2019 DEEP DEPRESSION ARB01-2019 =========================================== Pre-Cyclone Watch for Gujarat Coast At 6:00 AM UTC, The depression over east central and adjoining southeastern Arabian Sea & Lakshadweep area area moved north northwestwards with a speed of about 15 km/h in last six hours, … Read more
by DCG From NY Post: Mayor de Blasio didn’t even register in a new Iowa poll that shows former Vice President Biden’s support slipping but Pete Buttigieg surging among the field of Democratic presidential hopefuls in Iowa. De Blasio, who’s been in Iowa campaigning over the weekend, and Wayne Messam, the mayor of Miramar, Fla., were the only … Read more
Hat tip nkit Via Gateway Pundit In Philadelphia, city councilman Kenyatta Johnson has pushed for the city to ban balconies and bay windows from new apartments and condos, saying that they are a “symbol of gentrification” that causes anxiety, as he criticizes the new housing developments being built in the city. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: … Read more
by ZeDoubleD The Theory: The SEC is really just a tool for big banks and credit card companies to destroy competition. Their sole purpose and goal is to ignore real financial crimes by big players. Instead, they come up with ridiculous lawsuits against random individuals/ companies or perceived threats to the banking and credit monopolies. Reasons … Read more
by Selco After many years of teaching survival courses, I never know what kind of students I might get on course. But just like most of the people around, I also fall into the trap of feeling like, “Oh, I know how this person will perform” after reading the precourse questionnaires, or after spending that … Read more
New York Times Runs Elaborate Front-Page Sunday Smear of YouTube Conservatives (Image of the Front Page and Links) Kevin Roose, a technology writer for the New York Times, made a front-page splash on Sunday with “The Making of a YouTube Radical – How the Site’s Algorithms Played Into the Hands of the Far Right.” A … Read more
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by DCG Professor Zhou/Georgia Gwinnett College photo Truth shall not be told. From Fox News: A college professor in Georgia is drawing criticism for his online comments about illegal immigrants, including his contention that people in the U.S. illegally can be a drain on the nation’s economy. “If you are going to reward illegal immigrants, there will be … Read more
Via SaraCarter.com, The number of homeless Californians in the Los Angeles county has reached 58,936, New York Times reported this weekend. But Californians don’t seem to be the priority of democratic governor Gavin Newsom. Under an agreement between Gov. Newsom and Democrats in the state legislature, low-income adults between the ages of 19 and 25 living in California … Read more
The government watchdog tasked with oversight of the FBI has initiated 10 new investigations of the bureau since last year, according to a review of archived versions of the page tracking the agency’s ongoing work. The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is best known for its ongoing investigation of the FBI’s … Read more
via libertynation: For months, the White House has lobbied the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates. President Donald Trump has pleaded his case via Twitter on multiple occasions, saying that if rates were lower, then the gross domestic product (GDP) would be a lot higher. Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, suggests the central bank reduce … Read more
via Zerohedge: Mark Meadows confirmed what many have suspected about the Trump-Russia for a long time; the FBI knew early on that the foundation of its counterintelligence investigation against the Trump campaign was built on ‘a foundation of sand,’ reports the Daily Caller‘s Chuck Ross. North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows (R) told Hannity Friday night that the FBI knew “within … Read more
