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Andrew Kerr of the Daily Caller News Foundation’s (DCNF) Investigative Group has done a remarkable piece of deep-dive journalism that went live this morning: “Revealed: Antifa Leader Relied on Anonymity to Push Radical, Violent Communist Agenda.” The Antifa leader in question is known on Twitter as “#Sabokitty.” But that’s just the beginning, according to DCNF’s Kerr: “The … Read more
via range365: In 2012, then-President Hugo Chavez banned firearm ownership by private citizens in Venezuela, leaving the unarmed populace unable to defend themselves from criminals and corrupt government officials alike. In the years following, the crime rate and government abuses increased at an unprecedented rate. Fox News recently ran a report detailing the fallout that resulted, in … Read more
by Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders ES SETS UP MAJOR DOUBLE BOTTOM AHEAD OF THE FED The downside price rotation in the US markets on Monday, December 17, set up a near-perfect double bottom formation near the 2530 price level and also prompted a dramatic price recovery after reaching these lows. Currently, the ES has rallied over … Read more
by howmuch President Trump wants Apple to move all its manufacturing to the U.S., repeatedly warning that he will slap tariffs on Apple products in an escalating trade fight with China. He might be onto something because the economy is generating factory jobs at an impressive clip, growing 3.1% over the first 21 months of his administration. This … Read more
From John Stossel at Reason: Leaked emails show some Google engineers blaming their company for Trump’s 2016 win, suggesting that the site should censor outlets like The Daily Caller and Breitbart. Google says the company never did that, but for many people, it raises the question: could Google executives flip an election? “Google’s senior management was heavily in favor … Read more
by Martin Armstrong It really is very astonishing how brain-dead politicians are. The latest stats are showing that residents are increasingly fleeing New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. The perpetually rising taxes are just getting insane. We just received this notice ourselves about taxes due in California. Apparently, they must have subpoenaed Amazon to see who has merchandise they are … Read more
by DCG In November I told you how New York State Sen. Kevin Parker and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams proposed legislation that would incorporate social media accounts into background checks for gun buyers. From my post: “The pair of bills would empower the New York State Police and local departments like the NYPD to check three years of … Read more
by Charles Hugh-Smith Just in case you missed what’s going on in France: the status quo in Europe is doomed. The status quo has a simple fix for every crisis and systemic problem: 1. create currency out of thin air 2. give it to super-wealthy banks, financiers and corporations to boost their wealth and income. … Read more
Amanda Prestigiacomo for the Daily Wire reports, A Columbia University student identified as Julian von Abele sparked mass outrage after bragging about Europeans building the modern world and expressing his love for white men in a now-viral video clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISoUppsF0iw Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.dailywire.com/news/39324/…
Jim Hoft for the Gateway Pundit reports, On Wednesday beautiful First Lady Melania Trump joined Sean Hannity for a rare television interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNU_0jJPQxk Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018…
Why are millennials unable to AFFORD a home? The Federal Reserve initiated the most reckless, foolish set of measures in the last century with their Quantitative Easing policy. Even after it was stated that QE basically didn’t work as they expected it to, they still engaged in 3 rounds, plus Operation Twist. In December … Read more
via The Zman In a crisis, people either turn to their institutions or they turn to their leaders to provide a path forward through the emergency. This is especially true when the path forward is waiting out the emergency. People respect action, so they have to have faith in their leaders if the right course is … Read more
by Egon von Greyerz As we approach the beginning of the biggest wealth destruction in history, it is timely to turn to the wisdom of one of the great philosophers. Plato (428-348 BC) stated: “The greatest wealth is to live content with little” And this is the lesson that most people in the world will … Read more
by Mac Slavo of SHTFplan The trade war rhetoric continues to heighten tension between the United States and Chinese governments. The president of Communist China, Xi Jinping even said that “no one is in a position to dictate to the Chinese people,” when referencing U.S. demands during the trade war. There appears to be no end in sight … Read more
by Fabius Maximus Summary: Nothing shows America’s broken vision like the persistence of fake news propaganda despite years of debunking by experts. This leaves us divided and unable to respond to our problems, as neither Left nor Right clearly see the world. “We’re choking the ocean with plastic” is one such tale, showing how real … Read more
Internal records show that the social network had arrangements with Microsoft, Amazon and others, effectively exempting some partners from its usual privacy rules. The documents underscore how personal data has become the digital age’s prized commodity. For years, Facebook gave some of the world’s largest technology companies more intrusive access to users’ personal data than … Read more
Listen to this (teacher?) at the outset of the video. It’s like 1984 that with each version of the Newspeak dictionary, the vocabulary gets shorter and shorter until the only word left is “obey”. JD
by John Ward We have all (myself included) been overly obsessed with the Brexit “process” over the past year. It’s time intelligent Brits and commercial opinion leaders focused on the disastrous global economic picture….and woke up to the last thing we should be on March 30th 2019: members of the European Union. Sometimes, the radical view … Read more
https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/1075386280198987776 WASHINGTON—In an abrupt reversal, the U.S. military is preparing to withdraw its forces from northeastern Syria, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday, a move that throws the American strategy in the Middle East into turmoil. https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-military-preparing-for-a-full-withdrawal-of-its-forces-from-northeastern-syria-11545225641 President Trump declares in a tweet that the U.S. mission to defeat the militant group in Syria … Read more
by SP What Did Michael Flynn Lie About? It looks like there were 2 primary events Flynn did not discuss in the way the FBI wanted him to. 1. Giving a lecture in Moscow paid for by the news and entertainment agency RT. (here and here) 2. During the Obama to Trump transition period, in the last week … Read more