Tea Party groups targeted by Obama’s IRS receive settlement checks

via dailysignal: MADISON, Wis.—Dozens of conservative organizations are receiving late Christmas presents years after the IRS handed them a lump of coal.  The federal government in recent days has been issuing settlement checks to 100 right-of-center groups wrongfully targeted for their political beliefs under the Obama administration’s Internal Revenue Service, according to an attorney for the … Read more

FRANCE: The Yellow Vests Are Unstoppable.

via spiked-online: Not only does peripheral France fare badly in the modern economy, it is also culturally misunderstood by the elite. The yellow-vest movement is a truly 21st-century movement in that it is cultural as well as political. Cultural validation is extremely important in our era. One illustration of this cultural divide is that most modern, … Read more

Orwellian

by Nate China is planning on rolling out a nationwide network where all their citizens are graded on a variety of metrics and given a “social credit score.” In this Bloomberg QuickTake video, they explain how it works, what it is, and the battle China is facing domestically with its own population. For those that have low … Read more

Understanding Market Cycles… “Where Are We Now?”

Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, I was digging through some old charts over the weekend and stumbled across this gem from AlphaTrends which explains the “best time to buy stocks.” “Is it possible to time the market cycle to capture big gains? Like many controversial topics in investing, there is no real professional consensus on market timing. Academics … Read more

The Democrat Wall of Insanity Is Cracking – Top Democrats Announce Support for Border Barriers

Jim Hoft for the Gateway Pundit reports, Pelosi and Cryin’ Chuck Schumer begged President Trump this week to reopen the government. Trump doesn’t give a damn and wants a wall. Chuck and Nancy are losing. And their wall of insanity is crumbling down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm8jsr-yVl0 Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019…  

Trump Executes DANGEROUS Game of Chicken With Twisted Dems, Pelosi and Schumer

The government Shutdown continues. Who will blink first? The one who does could lose everything in the upcoming 2020 presidential race – including President Trump. Conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg, the senior editor of the National Review, told NPR’s Noel King, “ is just simply that for both sides it’s become a zero-sum thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auhnxssB9GA   … Read more

I Read The News So You Don’t Have To – Market News (January 14, 2019)

by ogordained UNITED STATES Futures are down amid weak trade data out of China US CPI was in line with expectations at 1.9% Loan Growth has accelerated rapidly going into 2019 Business loans are up 11% since last year S&P 500 companies are warning that their 2019 earnings may not be as high as initially forecast OTHER UK Industrial Production disappointed (Actual -1.5% | Expected … Read more

Foreign Aid Keeps Flowing Under President Trump

by howmuch President Trump loves to talk about cutting U.S. foreign aid, even if he doesn’t always follow through. What’s most often missed in media coverage about this debate is where American dollars are going, and the issues U.S. expenditures are meant to fix. Our latest visualization lays out a nice snapshot, revealing the handful of countries with … Read more

Source Of MSM Talking Points

JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVES WITH CHYRONS, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: The MSM Never Questioned Airing An Obama Speech Despite These 1,063 Examples Of His Lies, Mendacity, Etc. WIDELY CITED STUDY OF FAKE NEWS TURNS OUT TO BE BOGUS: Last year, a study was published in the Journal of Human Behavior, explaining why … Read more

Senators Feeling Pressure of Longest Shutdown in History; Economic Growth Pinched; Gov’t Workers Turn to Emergency Loans

Lindsey Graham Blinks: Urges Trump to open govt ‘temporarily’…  WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) – A Republican senator close to President Donald Trump on Sunday backed a temporary re-opening of the federal government, in the 23rd day of the longest shutdown ever, to allow for talks on a spending agreement that could satisfy Trump’s border security … Read more

SUN AND FUN! DEMS PARTY IN PUERTO RICO DURING SHUTDOWN

30 Democrats in Puerto Rico with 109 lobbyists for weekend despite shutdown Some 30 Democratic lawmakers left the government shutdown behind Friday on a chartered flight to Puerto Rico for a winter retreat with 109 lobbyists and corporate executives during which they planned to see the hit Broadway show “Hamilton” and attend three parties including one with … Read more

Magma Under The Yellowstone Supervolcano Is “Rising”, And Scientists Warn That An Eruption Would Devastate The Entire Planet

by Michael Snyder Could it be possible that a full-blown eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano is not too far away?  All over the world seismic activity has been increasing in recent years, and this process seems to have accelerated during the early days of 2019.  In particular, quite a few once dormant volcanoes are springing to … Read more

The Decline and Fall of the European Union

by Charles Hugh-Smith This exhaustion of the neocolonial-neofeudal model was inevitable, and as a result, so too is the decline and fall of the European integration/exploitation project. That a single currency, the euro, would fracture rather than unite Europe was understood long before the euro’s introduction as legal tender on January 1, 2002. The euro, the … Read more