On Wire

It appears it really will be another promise made and another promise kept by an American president who continues to confound his enemies and delight his tens of millions of supporters both in the United States and around the world. Via The Washington Examiner: The Defense Department has identified $12.8 billion in possible funding that … Read more

The Social Security Administration may start screening your Facebook and Instagram posts to evaluate your disability claim Currently, the federal agency uses them to investigate fraud cases, but it’s planning to expand that usage Social media is considered a poor measure of a person’s life, so the practice raises data privacy questions Careful what you … Read more

We are told by the legal profession that nothing can be done to block bogus asylum-seekers from entering our country en masse, obtaining catch-and-release, and remaining here pending the outcome of a court decision that may be years in coming. But why is the DHS not at least deporting those who already went through this … Read more

via antiwar: ith everyone still reeling at the announcement of the $750 billion proposed military budget for 2020, a huge increase, the Trump Administration is now offering a proposed spying budget that is similarly looking for a substantial increase over the previous year. The proposal stands at $86 billion, and is a six percent increase over the … Read more

by Mac Slavo of SHTFplan Student loan debt has reached record level highs and its impacts are being felt throughout the entire economy. This crisis will be hard on those deeply indebted, but it is also a drag on the nation’s economy as a whole. For an entire generation of Americans, who were told they would amount to … Read more

by thrilldirectorial https://twitter.com/CaptalismCrime/status/1108010388908576771 Investment Banks own the entire world. To go even deeper, let’s take a look at the majority shareholders of each of these six corporations: They’re all the same. Institutional investment banks like BlackRock, The Vanguard Group, State Street, Wellington, and some others. Each of those banks has trillions in Assets Under Management … Read more

By Jared Dillian You have some money. Do you pay down the mortgage, or do you invest in the stock market? You can use math to make this decision, but math is not much help because there is uncertainty. The stock market allegedly returns 8%, but sometimes a lot less. Your house will hopefully appreciate, but by … Read more

by John Ward With every day, every vote and every hour, the options for Brexit are reduced….and thus (as always applies among the wise) the creativity applied to the problem increases in due proportion to the steamrollering process. It’s a slim chance, but it’s worth shooting for. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ It is fascinating to read the optimism of … Read more

by Ron Paul Last week Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ordered the last of the US diplomats out of Venezuela, saying their presence was a “constraint” on US policy toward the country. The wording seemed intended to convey the idea that the US is about to launch military action to place a Washington-backed, self-appointed politician to … Read more

Democratic Superstars Get Away with Questioning the Integrity of Elections. Andrew Gillum and Stacey Abrams were 2018 runner-up candidates for governor in the country’s third- and ninth-largest states, are considered “rising stars” in the Democratic Party, and are engaging in “horrifying,” “shocking” rhetoric that is “threatening our democracy.” That’s according to Hillary Clinton and Tim … Read more