via rfa.org: Chinese fishermen are damaging the livelihoods of South Americans through large-scale illegal fishing. The fishermen have been visible in the Pacific Ocean for several years, and there’s nothing illegal about their fishing in international waters. But according to Evan Ellis, an American expert on such matters, many of the fishermen have now begun … Read more
Logic is the foundation of a coherent worldview. Inability to spot logical fallacies allows you to be subjected to propaganda and disinformation. Learn to spot them. h/t TheCIASellsDrugs
Protesting on the weekends, the French people have been voicing their oppostion. The protests started in December. https://youtu.be/3dZcE9Nst7c Here’s another livestream that’s running right now. – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0WFOJAFulA Feel free to add any other livestreams you find. h/t xleb1
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would donate one dollar to help build the border wall during a recent press conference, — so Brian Kolfage, a triple-amputee Veteran and founder of the border wall GoFundMe decided to head down to the U.S. Capitol to collect. When it comes to raising money every dollar counts. … Read more
In a letter to congressional leaders, Trump said the first of about 80 military personnel arrived in Gabon on Wednesday in case they are needed to protect U.S. citizens and diplomatic facilities in Congo’s capital Kinshasa. He said they “will remain in the region until the security situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter But average transaction prices rise to record highs. In terms of new-vehicle sales in the US, 2018 was the third relentless down-year in a row for three of the four biggest automakers, GM, Ford, and Toyota. For them peak sales occurred in 2015. GM delivered 2,954,037 vehicles in 2018, down 1.6% … Read more
Throughout the United States there are radically different regulations and rules. Some states are very high in taxation. Other very low. Businesses have been moving to the lower tax states for their headquarters in order to reduce the burden of taxation. Many high income earners have been leaving higher tax states in order to offset … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter For the past two months, the sound of wailing and gnashing of teeth about the Fed’s QE unwind has been deafening. The Fed started the QE unwind in October 2017. As I covered it on a monthly basis, my ruminations on how it would unwind part of the asset-price inflation and Bernanke’s … Read more
https://youtu.be/-1AIBUS0EWE Ballsonaro gets it. His first priority was to fire communists from the civil service and education system and will give law abiding citizens gun ownership rights. Neighbor Venezuela has fallen. This is no joke to these people. h/t polakfury
One thing Donald doesn’t do, is attack people who voted Hilary and Democrat. He keeps the attacks to the politicians and media. https://youtu.be/6ahNsZX9hgs Liberal media, pretty much 100% of the entire US media machine, are going to push too far and there will be no sympathy for what they bring on themselves. AC
by John Rubino Peter Schiff: “A dovish Fed won’t fly” … Marc Faber on the markets’ “dreary December” … Jim Rickards: The Depression is already 10 years old … Mike Maloney: 2019 will be the year for gold and silver … Lynette Zang: The four “big Cs” of 2019: confusion, contraction, contagion, chaos …
Declining sales due mainly to Starbucks bathroom and other social justice policies are forcing closure. Several customers who have asked employees why it’s closing have been told an increase in homeless individuals are turning off customers, leading to a decline in sales. “There are people camped out there all day. I noticed an uptick starting … Read more
via nbcnews: The U.S. military plans to scale back its role in Somalia and curtail airstrikes against al-Shabab insurgents after having taken out many of the group’s senior operatives, two senior U.S. officials told NBC News, the latest signal the Trump administration is looking to cut the number of troops deployed around the world. The move reflects … Read more
Millennials up 420% in congress, while Silents and Boomers step aside. https://www.businessinsider.com/changes-in-gender-racial-diversity-between-the-115th-and-116th-house-2018-12 h/t Jim
via visualcapitalist: With each passing year, an increasingly large segment of the population no longer remembers images loading a single pixel row at a time, the earsplitting sound of a 56k modem, or the domination of web portals. Many of the top websites in 1998 were basically news aggregators or search portals, which are easy concepts … Read more
by Dr. Eowyn In the past, political asylum applicants are often detained in the U.S. while their petitions move through the system. Because of the large caseload, lengthy backlog, and a shortage of detention space, many are given a court date and released. President Trump has repeatedly denounced this de facto policy of “catch and release” and … Read more
As much as 40% of Mexican territory is prisoner to chronic insecurity and violence, the future chief of staff of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the incoming president, has claimed. Alfonso Romo, a prominent entrepreneur who was part of the leftist’s watershed election triumph last week, made the assertion during a summit of business leaders on Monday in Mexico … Read more
Wall St. For Main St., Released on 1/4/19 Yesterday, January 3rd 2019, US Congressman Thomas Massie http://www.thomasmassie.com/ of Kentucky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_… went on Fox News with Shannon Bream for 4 minutes total but less than 2 minutes to talk about how he now has bipartisan support and a 2/3 majority in the US House of Representatives for another “Audit The … Read more
by TFittonJW Background: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/federal-judge-opens-discovery-into-clinton-email-usage/
The Double Standard of Distracted Driving Laws (Link to article below) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/sudbury-texting-driving-blitz-1.4960511 Constable Andrew Hinds is parked in an unmarked vehicle at the corner of a busy intersection in New Sudbury. He’s in the middle of a traffic enforcement blitz to catch distracted drivers. “The person we may ticket today might prevent them from driving … Read more
by Martin Armstrong Hillary Clinton’s 506-page memoir has come out. So much of her personality shines through, that in the end, you, too, will want to sleep with an intern.” ~ Craig Kilborn “In Hillary Clinton’s new book ‘Living History,’ Hillary details what it was like meeting Bill Clinton, falling in love with him, … Read more
This video, by an attorney looking over the law and data, goes over the question of whether Mr Trump can actually and legally declare a national emergency over the Illegal Alien problem at the southern border to build the wall/barrier. TRUMP: Can build wall WITHOUT Congress… Declare national emergency… https://youtu.be/WY5VL-Wj37Y h/t Konsaki
GERMAN eurosceptics could push for the country to quit the EU by 2024 unless the bloc is “completely changed” after the upcoming European Parliament elections. The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) commited to delivering “Dexit” unless the EU can undertake its “fundamental reform approaches” in the next legislative period between 2019-2024. While a German exit … Read more
The Democrats could solve the Shutdown problem in a very short period of time. All they have to do is approve REAL Border Security (including a Wall), something which everyone, other than drug dealers, human traffickers and criminals, want very badly! This would be so easy to do! The Democrats could solve the Shutdown problem … Read more
The [DS] pushes ahead with all their bills, impeachment, get rid of the electoral college, protect Mueller, stop the wall etc. This was expected. The Patriots have built a firewall around him and now it is time to build the wall. Trump sends the message to the [DS] the wall will be built no matter … Read more