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I love My Freedom reports, It’s all over, folks. Jussie Smollett has lawyered up. After news spread that Chicago police were treating his report of a hate crime as a hoax, he has retained the council of notorious high-profile defense attorney Michael Monico. Are there still any doubters that the Jussie Smollett “hate crime” was … Read more
The federal budget deficit in December totaled $13.5 billion, helping to push the deficit for the first three months of this budget year up 41.8 percent from the same period the previous year. The Treasury Department said Wednesday that the budget deficit from October through December totals $318.9 billion, up from a deficit of $225 … Read more
They could have saved themselves if they did actual journalism, but they insisted on constant partisan libel and slander. AC
Good article: http://archive.is/ZWHcF The illegal effort to destroy the 2016 Trump campaign by Hillary Clinton campaign’s use of funds to create, disseminate among court media, and then salt among high Obama administration officials, a fabricated, opposition smear dossier failed. So has the second special prosecutor phase of the coup to abort the Trump presidency failed. There … Read more
American taxpayers are continuing to fund border security measures and border walls in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, and Lebanon with President Trump’s signing of a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spending bill. While the United States-Mexico border received only $1.3 billion for construction of a border wall at the overwhelmed southern border with soaring illegal immigration, … Read more
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The President of the United States of America Has Confirmed a Coup Attempt Against the Presidency “This was an illegal coup attempt on the President of the United States.” Dan Bongino on @foxandfriends True! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 18, 2019 TRUMP is PROCLAIMING TREASON! UPDATE #1 Trump Accuses Rod Rosenstein Of ‘Coup Attempt’ … Read more
By Nick Cunningham Crude oil sentiment is shifting in a bullish direction, with OPEC+ cuts and a growing list of serious outages taking supply off of the market. Saudi Arabia recently signaled that it would slash its production to just 9.8 million barrels per day (mb/d), or about 0.5 mb/d more than required under the … Read more
by Ron Paul of Ron Paul Liberty Report Sen. Rubio (R-FL) travelled down to the Colombia/Venezuela border over the weekend to threaten a US invasion of Venezuela if a US “aid” convoy is not allowed to cross the bridge. Rubio’s sudden concern for the humanitarian situation in Venezuela smacks of hypocrisy, as he supported all US sanctions that … Read more
by WARREN MOSLER China Total Vehicle Sales Vehicle sales in China tumbled 15.8 percent from a year earlier to 2.37 million in January 2019, following a 13 percent drop in the previous month. It was the seventh consecutive annual decrease in vehicle sales in the world’s largest auto market and the sharpest since January 2012 … Read more
by QuantalyticsResearch US Stocks Global stocks are drifting lower with investors weighing last week’s US-China trade progress and the potential for further progress this week as well as the outlook for global growth Walmart (WMT) reported a 4.2% rise in sales this morning and provided same store sales guidance of 2.5-3% in 2019, allaying fears … Read more
Utterly unbelievable scale of U.S. debt… The debt accumulated under Donald Trump would be enough to cover the inflation-adjusted cost of U.S. involvement in the Second World War This week, the United States national debt ticked above US$22 trillion for the first time, an amount equivalent to $67,000 per U.S. citizen. The U.S. federal government … Read more
The states are: California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Hawaii Illinois Maine Maryland Michigan Minnesota Nevada New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Virginia https://www.washingtonpost.com AC
by Larry White of The View From Our Whitehouse This may well be one of the most important articles we have run on this blog in some time. In this article we feature an article written by Mike Silva. Mr. Silva served as the Chief of Staff for Tim Geitner at the NY Fed and stayed on at the … Read more
New Mexico’s newly sworn-in governor stirs controversy after pulling the state’s National Guard from the southern border. One America’s Meghann Dyke’takes a look at the reactions to her decision across the state. h/t duFontaine.
by Jesse Colombo U.S. student-loan delinquencies surged in 2018, hitting a record $166.4 billion in the fourth quarter. Bloomberg reports – Delinquencies continued to climb even as the unemployment rate fell below 4 percent, suggesting the strong U.S. job market hasn’t generated enough wage growth to help some people manage their outstanding obligations. Income levels for graduates … Read more
Why Does the MSM Keep Falling for Obvious Hoaxes? Another clueless reporter is *shocked* that the Jussie Smollett story turned out to be a hoax: From @AP: Celebrities 'rallied behind Smollett' when he alleged MAGA attack. Now, with growing evidence attack was hoax, some conservatives have 'gleefully seized' on the news. https://t.co/haqOV2zL4n — Byron York … Read more
CBS’s Lara Logan Calls Media ‘Mostly Liberal’ in Scorched Earth Interview: I’m Committing ‘Professional Suicide’ In a recent interview, CBS News Foreign Correspondent Lara Logancritiqued the international “liberal” media while holding up outlets like Breitbart and Fox News as the opposite side of the coin. Logan spoke to retired Navy SEAL Mike Ritland about a variety of topics … Read more
by Michael Snyder We are getting dangerously close to war with Venezuela. Last month, 35-year-old Juan Guaido declared himself to be the new president of Venezuela, and since that time 50 countries have recognized him as the legitimate leader of the country. But Russia, China and much of the rest of the world still recognizes … Read more
by Charles Hugh-Smith Those who are betting on Central Planning do not understand the essential role of adaptation. The global economy is in the midst of a grand experiment pitting centralization (Central Planning) against the evolutionary model of adaptive, self-organizing networks. Centralization is the dominant dynamic of the Status Quo everywhere: the economies of China, Japan, … Read more