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Greg Hunter gives the Weekly News Wrap-Up for Friday, December 21st, 2018 President Trump abruptly decided to pull U.S. troops out of Syria and ordered an “evacuation” of all State Department employees. He also ordered troops home from Afghanistan. This was followed by an abrupt resignation from Defense Secretary General Jim Mattis. What’s going on? Who knows, but … Read more
US embassies abroad have been buying spying tools, papers released by WikiLeaks show. The documents revealed that one embassy has ordered almost 100 spy cams masked as ties, caps, pens, buttons and watches. The US Embassy Shopping List, a collection of over 16,000 procurement requests filed by US embassies around the globe, was published by … Read more
The discovery will significantly reduce the use of rare, expensive metals in factories, said the authors. Professor Sun Jian and colleagues at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Liaoning, shot a copper target with a jet of hot, electrically charged argon gas. The fast-moving ionised particles blasted copper … Read more
https://twitter.com/therealcornett/status/1076289383173640192 h/t BullionDude
by John Ward Social media take liberties and are weaponised by the élites. Worse still, however, they persuade too many people that petitions, marches and high hopes are enough. In fact, social media demonstrate – despite themselves – that electorates divided by cynical political strategies cannot regain power by virtual pressure alone. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ A bloke I … Read more
Jack Davis for the Western Journal reports, California has dropped plans for a proposed “Text Tax” now that the Federal Communications Commission has decided that text messaging is an “information service” and not a telecommunications service. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KtWfvZENWs Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/fcc-ru… Here is an update to the #texting surcharge proposal before @californiapuc. pic.twitter.com/6QziYqQKXY — California PUC … Read more
Federal shutdown begins after lawmakers fail to reach deal WASHINGTON (AP) — A partial federal shutdown took hold early Saturday after Democrats refused to meet President Donald Trump’s demands for $5 billion to start erecting his cherished Mexican border wall, a chaotic postscript for Republicans in the waning days of their two-year reign controlling government. … Read more
White House negotiators left the Capitol late Friday, and the House and Senate adjourned without a spending deal, ensuring a partial government shutdown at midnight with President Donald Trump demanding billions of dollars for his long-promised Mexican border wall. Trump’s top envoys were straining to broker a last-minute compromise with Democrats and some of their … Read more
Zuckerberg is zuck’d: http://archive.is/wZOSt
by Michael Snyder Just when you thought that things couldn’t get any worse, they did. During normal times, a Friday before Christmas is an extremely boring trading session, but these are not normal times. On Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down another 414 points, and that brought the total drop for the week to … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq97iII0QgI Dec. 21, 2018 – Mary Greeley News – The long, dark nights of winter are about to get a little brighter. This Friday, Dec. 21, is the winter solstice, our shortest day and longest night of the year. Starting this weekend, the sun will be up for a few seconds longer each day as … Read more
President Trump is perhaps the best troll ever to roam the internet. And he loves it. He also loves needling Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who’s about to be Trump’s best friend in the 2020 election (after she takes over as House Speaker in January). On Thursday, after the House voted to add $5.7 billion for security … Read more
The government is jerking off in the corner over a $5 billion dollar check for Trump when Obama got an $831 Billion Dollar check from the stimulus program and did little more than replace the light bulbs at the L.A. Courthouse WTF? h/t RonBananas
by Dr. Eowyn Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is an American multinational medical devices, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods manufacturing company founded in 1886. With worldwide sales of $70.1 billion in 2015, J&J is headquartered in New Brunswick, NJ, and includes some 250 subsidiary companies with operations in 60 countries and products sold in over 175 countries. … Read more
by DCG Another day, another story of a homeless person in Seattle receiving a free pass from the bureaucrats… Seattle has a homeless crisis that is exasperated by the fact that the bureaucrats do not enforce laws related to loitering, trespassing, public defecation, drug use and prostitution. Read about the many stories I’ve posted about … Read more
via visualcapitalist: The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. The tech boom is here, and it’s heating up. Over the past decade, the tech industry has created more than 1 million jobs across the United States. Between 2010 and 2017, tech-related job growth averaged 6% – more than four times the national … Read more
by David Haggith This ain’t no ballgame. This bear has shown up for blood, not sport. The Nasdaq intraday hit the 20% down mark that is widely regarded as qualifying for a change from a bull market to a bear market. A close at that level would have made it as official as a declaration of … Read more
by WARREN MOSLER Rail Week Ending 15 December 2018: Economically Intuitive Sectors Continue In Contraction Written by Steven Hansen Week 50 of 2018 shows same week total rail traffic (from same week one year ago) improved according to the Association of American Railroads (AAR) traffic data. The economically intuitive sectors were in contraction this week. … Read more
by Harry Dent of Economy & Markets Markets have had support at around 2,530 on the S&P 500 and 23,300 on the Dow. Those were the early 2018 low off the last market crash. And they’ve broken through those levels. But they still have dropped to levels that definitively say the crash has started. So, I’ve been tracking the … Read more
by Martin Armstrong France is now preparing to use chemical weapons against its own citizens around Paris to counter-attack the Yellow Vest rioters as their anti-Macron protests continue after 5 weeks. This chemical is a debilitating powder that can be spread over an entire area of the size of six football fields in ten seconds. So far, the police have … Read more