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From Birch Gold Group It used to be that you could save money for retirement, put some of it into Treasuries and/or CDs, and your “nest-egg” would be primed to give you retirement security. That clear retirement path ended in 2000, according to John Mauldin in a recent SeekingAlpha article (emphasis ours): Until 2000 or so, … Read more
by DCG From NY Post: Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday defended his plan to triple the number of teens who are freed from city jails without bail on violent charges including armed robbery and assault. “We’re ensuring there are real alternatives to incarceration particularly for our young New Yorkers,” the mayor said at an unrelated press … Read more
by Dr. Eowyn A study, led by UK Brunel University London psychologist Dr. Michael Price, found that physically weaker men are more in favor of socialism (“social and economic equality”) than stronger men. The study by Michael Price, Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington (London School of Economics), psychologist James Sidnaius (Harvard U.), and psychologist Nicholas Pound (Brunel U. … Read more
by DCG From Yahoo: After a half dozen episodes of playing the man on “Saturday Night Live,” Robert De Niro is doing his best to offer professional advice to Robert Mueller. In a New York Times op-ed response to Mueller’s Wednesday morning press conference, the actor pleaded for the Justice Department’s outgoing special counsel to be more active … Read more
by TrailDust Britbart article here: https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/05/29/jeffrey-wright-when-we-get-the-power-everybody-else-fking-duck/ Wright’s meaning is plain to see. The moment the Left regains power in America, there will be purges. If you ever again vote for a Democrat, you are a fool.
Had no idea a drone would be able to get this close to an active tornado—footage unlike anything I’ve ever seen. You can see the landscape change as the tornado rolls over it. h/t billy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEFMc2GzfZ0 Julian Assange misses today’s extradition hearing as court hears he is ‘not very well’. Magistrate says next hearing June 12 could be held at Belmarsh prison. Julian Assange’s extradition hearing could be held at Belmarsh after he failed to appear via video-link today due to him being “not very well”, a court heard. … Read more
via politico: The debate is set for Sept. 12 and could extend to a second night, Sept. 13, if enough candidates meet the threshold to participate. The location and moderators have not yet been announced. Like the first two Democratic presidential debates — which are set for next month on NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo and for … Read more
By Robert Ross Looks like the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates soon. Sure, the Fed announced it was leaving interest rates put last week. But I think the Fed will take this one step further and cut rates in the near future. The Fed lowers interest rates when it thinks the economy is weak. This … Read more
There’s a number being whispered among stock market traders, and the whispers just got a little louder. The number: 2,770. That’s the level where the tumbling S&P 500 Index SPX, +0.21% would trigger a closely watched sell signal, potentially setting off a broader alarm, selling pressure and further falls. The S&P 500’s close Wednesday: 2,783 points — just … Read more
In a discouraging sign of things to come, trade talks in Washington and Paris this month made little progress, which leaves more muddling or a sharp escalation as the most likely paths. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-30/trump-risks-new-front-trade-war-talks-europe-falter
by TFittonJW On top of his involvement in Russia smear of President Trump, Judicial Watch uncovered IRS Docs that Reveal McCain Staffer Urged Lois Lerner and Obama IRS to “audit so many that it becomes financially ruinous.” https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-obtains-irs-documents-revealing-mccains-subcommittee-staff-director-urged-irs-to-engage-in-financially-ruinous-targeting/ … https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1080146708602986497
Following President Trump’s recent trip to Japan, the US has approved the sale of over 100 F-35 fighter jets to Japan. The new jets will improve Japan’s military capabilities in the disputed South China Sea, even as tensions rise in the US-China trade war with the US government blacklisting Huawei. Investigative journalist Ben Swann joins … Read more
US Universities And Retirees Are Funding The Technology Behind China’s Surveillance State Millions of dollars from US university endowments, foundations, and retirement plans have helped fund two billion-dollar Chinese facial recognition startups: SenseTime and Megvii. The Chinese government is using their technologies to surveil and profile its own citizens. HONG KONG — Princeton University and … Read more
CELINA, Ohio — The tornado screeching across southern Ohio on Monday night triggered a cellphone alert that roused Rich Schlarman. He ignored it. Then came another. That was enough to persuade him to hurry his 83-year-old mother toward the basement. “We only made it down about four steps when I heard a loud boom,” Mr. … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter New York condo prices flat year-over-year. San Francisco, SoCal, Seattle year-over-year gains shrink to near nothing. Las Vegas flat for sixth month. Miami & Phoenix at post-Housing Bust 1 highs. Spring has come to the most splendid housing bubbles in America, but the seasonal upticks weren’t enough, compared to the seasonal … Read more
Chuck Ross from The Daily Caller Reports, President Donald Trump on Friday said he hopes Attorney General William Barr looks at intelligence the British, Australian and Ukrainian governments provided their American counterparts as part of the investigation of the Trump campaign. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9-6mEjaum8 Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/24/tr…
Scott Morefield from The Daily Caller reports, Townhall senior columnist Kurt Schlichter appeared on Friday night’s edition of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” to discuss a few things the left is likely to prohibit next. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCSlsbwU5Ko Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/24/ku…
Virginia Kruta from The Daily Caller reports, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper got heated during a Friday segment with Facebook executive Monika Bickert, at one point questioning whether the company should “get out of the news business” if it couldn’t do it well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMBjLsOrl24 Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/25/co…