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10 Mandatory Preps Regardless of How SHTF

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Via Survival Sullivan One of the key things to learn about prepping is that even though each person has in mind specific SHTF events they believe will happen, there’s really no way to predict when SHTF or how it will happen. One of the most dangerous things a prepper can do is to prepare exclusively … Read more

$116 Billion A Year

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Via the Raconteur Report $116B per year. That’s how much money we set on fire annually to pay for illegal aliens in this country. Enough to build, arm, crew, and deploy 6 new supercarrier task forces every year, forever. (Hint: That would have doubled the current number deployed, in just the two years since Trump has been president.) Or, … Read more

The dependence on anonymous sources marks a failing in modern journalism.

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by CelineHagbard Today, McClatchy DC Bureau put out a piece claiming Cohen’s cell phone put him in Prague at the time of the alleged meeting between him and Russian officials. Their headline — Cell signal puts Cohen outside Prague around time of purported Russian meeting — states this as a matter of fact, yet the article itself paints … Read more

How Much of the Internet Is Fake?

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via nymag: In late November, the Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight people accused of fleecing advertisers of $36 million in two of the largest digital ad-fraud operations ever uncovered. Digital advertisers tend to want two things: people to look at their ads and “premium” websites — i.e., established and legitimate publications — on which to … Read more

Government Shutdown Stops Nasty Housing Data in its Tracks

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Homebuilders, a bedraggled bunch recently, breathe a sigh of relief, but get crushed anyway. “NOTICE: Due to a lapse in federal funding this website is not being updated,” the Commerce Department’s website says currently on the page where the Census Bureau would have published this morning’s data for new-home sales, inventory, … Read more

Widespread flu outbreaks reported… Virus sending infants to intensive care

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Widespread flu activity across the country NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY) – Federal authorities are reporting widespread flu activity across the country and two states with especially high levels. Colorado and Georgia were singled out for high rates of influenza-like illnesses reported. New York City and nine states (Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, New Jersey, … Read more

Danielle Park – Markets Finally Head South

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from Financial Survival Network Danielle Park notes that it’s been a long time coming, but at long last the stock markets are heading downward. What seemed like an impossibility just a few short months ago has now become a stark new reality. Danielle believes that it could keep on tumbling until it reverts to the mean. Pity … Read more

You might have thought California could at least get this one thing right, but no.

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BECAUSE GOVERNMENT: One year of legal pot sales and California doesn’t have the bustling industry it expected. Here’s why. As the first year of licensed sales comes to a close, California’s legal market hasn’t performed as state officials and the cannabis industry had hoped. Retailers and growers say they’ve been stunted by complex regulations, high taxes … Read more

The clock is ticking: Sears may be down to its last 24 hours. Iconic retailer likely liquidates if no bid comes in tomorrow.

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Sears could face liquidation within 24 hours from CNBC. via CNBC: The employer of more than 68,000 filed for bankruptcy in October. Its last shot at survival is a $4.6 billion proposal put forward by its chairman, Eddie Lampert, to buy the company out of bankruptcy through his hedge fund, ESL Investments. ESL is the … Read more

CNN’s Blitzer Claims Democrats Support Border Security. Stephen Miller Humiliates Him.

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Ryan Saavedra for the Daily Wire reports, Senior Trump administration adviser Stephen Miller humiliated CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Thursday night after Blitzer claimed without evidence that “Democrats support border security.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeVoPWQ_6EM Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.dailywire.com/news/39581/… Senior Trump administration adviser Stephen Miller humiliated CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Thursday night after Blitzer claimed without evidence that “Democrats support … Read more

2019: Zombie Markets Before The Fall

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by Raúl Ilargi Meijer Francis Tattegrain La ramasseuse d’épaves (The Beachcomber) 1880  I haven’t really written about finance since April of this year, and given recent fluctuations in what people persist in calling the markets, maybe it’s time. Then again, nothing has changed since that article in April entitled This Is Not A Market. I was right then, … Read more

5 most viewed Campus Reform videos of 2018

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Via Campus Reform Campus Reform rounded up the five most viewed Campus Reform videos of 2018. While students had a lot to say on various issues, they didn’t always offer a lot of knowledge on those issues. In 2018, Campus Reform videos received millions of views across social media and right here on CampusReform.org. From January to December, Campus … Read more

To serve and protect? Slain Utah athlete repeatedly called school, Salt Lake City police about harasser

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by DCG A primate example of why you cannot rely on anyone but yourself for your personal safety. A good reason to believe in the Second Amendment and exercise that right. From Yahoo: Lauren McCluskey, the 21-year-old Utah track athlete who was abducted outside her Salt Lake City dorm and killed in October, had called both University … Read more

Universal basic income had a rough year

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Some of the biggest and most promising experiments were plagued by delays and shutdowns. From the MIT Technology Review: Silicon Valley loves the idea of universal basic income. Many in the tech elites tout it as the answer to job losses caused by automation, if only people would give it a chance. The idea is that … Read more