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Iraqi TV: Iranian military commander General Soleimani killed in Baghdad strike. “Gen. Qassim Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, was killed in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport Friday, Iraqi television and three Iraqi officials said. The strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias known as the Popular Mobilization … Read more

Iraqi caretaker PM Abdul-Mahdi: The attack is a breach of the deal that permits US presence in Iraq. Called parliament for an extraordinary meeting. UPDATES: • Iraqi caretaker PM Abdul-Mahdi: The attack is a breach of the deal that permits US presence in Iraq. Called parliament for an extraordinary meeting • Iran’s Khamenei is participating … Read more

Didn’t both Roger Stone and Flynn go to Jail for “changing their story?” I’m sorry doesn’t cut it. He needs to be prosecuted!   AC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju0VtkrjBe4 Henry Rodgers from The Daily Caller reports, Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy on Sunday explained how he would like to see the Senate run the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump. Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Kennedy was asked if the American people would think the impeachment trial would be fair if … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aD4BXQj7KY Virginia Kruta from the Daily Caller reports, CBS reporter Major Garrett said Sunday that President Donald Trump’s overall record with minorities was one that any third-year president “would want to claim.” Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/29/cb…

Despite the stock market being significantly larger than the balance sheet of the Fed, it’s clearly apparent that every move they make has a direct and profound impact on what happens. Fed meetings have every investors on the edge of their seat, awaiting the next rate cut to soothe their anxiety. They need that drip … Read more

Authored by John Mauldin via MauldinEconomics.com, Let’s address an elephant in the room: the rapidly expanding federal debt. Each annual deficit raises the total debt and forces the Treasury to issue more debt, in hopes someone will buy it. The US government ran a $343 billion deficit in the first two months of fiscal 2020 (October and November), … Read more

by David Haggith With stocks priced at record highs far above the economic landscape and still rising, the economy is still receding below. We’ll know at the end of January if the fourth quarter of 2019 was the worst of the past year, as I expect it will be. For now, we have to keep looking … Read more

BY JOHN RUBINO The 2010s were not kind to precious metals, in either nominal or relative terms. Gold and silver are down from their 2011 highs and waaayyy down versus equities and other favorite assets of the 1% like fine art and trophy real estate. But this imbalance has begun to reverse, in two ways. First, … Read more

AND CNN RESPONDS BY DECEPTIVELY EDITING HIS STATEMENT AND CLAIMS HE WAS OFFERING TO TESTIFY AGAINST TRUMP NOT THE DEMOCRATS! ***FORCE THEM TO DO AN ON AIR RETRACTION***   AC

The Migrant Crisis Is OVER, Trump Declares Victory As Yuma ENDS State of Emergency Praises President. The Mayor of Yuma, Arizona has officially ended their state of emergency and largely credited the policies of the Trump administration. Acting Deputy Department of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli joined the mayor of Yuma to announce the policies involved … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mkl3IxXIM8 Jim Hoft from The Gateway Pundit reports, Donald Trump was very popular on the left in the black community until he ran for president as a Republican. In ‘Home Alone 2’ Donald Trump made a cameo with the star Macaulay Culkin in the hotel hallway. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019…

Authored by Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog, While pondering the current economy that is becoming more of a conundrum every day, I stumbled upon an analogy I would like to share. The global economy is like a giant “Rube Goldberg” machine. It is a ridiculously complicated contraption built to perform what should normally be a simple … Read more

by Charles Hugh-Smith If you believe you’ve front-run the herd, you’re now in mid-air along with the rest of the herd that has thundered off the cliff. We’re awash in financial charts, but only a few crystallize an entire year. Here are the two charts that sum up everything you need to know about the stock … Read more

by Michael Snyder Be very thankful that you don’t live in China.  Approximately one out of every seven people on the entire planet lives in China, and it has become one of the most dystopian societies that the world has ever seen.  Surveillance cameras, government spies and facial recognition scanners are everywhere, and the totalitarian … Read more

By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. The US economy and financial system – including being able to maintain and fund the gargantuan trade deficits and fiscal deficits – has become reliant on the dollar being the dominant global reserve currency. And the IMF just released its next installment on how this status has been changing. Total foreign exchange … Read more

In this edition of Dave vs. The MSM, Dr. Dave dissects the recent take down of MS-13 and President Trump’s role.