HMM: In blue Seattle, Trump supporters are starting to come out of hiding… California: ‘resistance’ state has donated more to Trump than to most Democrats in 2020 race

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via seattletimes: The latest federal-election reports show that Trump is doing surprisingly well getting backers in this bluest of blue places. With nearly 15 months to go before the 2020 election, he already has drawn more donations from Seattle addresses than he did during the entire 2016 campaign. In Washington state, where his approval rating is … Read more

Red-light cameras undermine rule of law.

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via thehill: The Confrontation Clause grants criminal defendants the right to be confronted with the witnesses against them. Since it is a camera and not a person that witnessed the offense, such violations generally cannot be considered a criminal offense. The ticket is issued to the owner of the vehicle, not to the person driving … Read more

Demand grows for video game addiction clinics

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Teenagers addicted to gaming are travelling to private clinics overseas for treatment due to a lack of services in England and Wales to tackle the growing problem, the Guardian has learned. There are no NHS facilities to treat gaming addiction, which was listed and defined as a condition in the 11th edition of International Classification of Diseases. … Read more

Did you guys see this? Trump is lowering the boom on CA voting fraud! “The reason they weren’t giving up information is because they were guilty.”

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“Well, let the commission — the commission was having a tremendous problem, legally, getting papers from various states like California. They were absolutely hard-lining. They didn’t want to give this commission — it was just a quick commission, headed up by Vice President Pence, to look at voter fraud. The problem the commission had is we … Read more

Turkish convoy in Syria has been targeted by the fighter jets

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https://twitter.com/Intel_Sky/status/1163361579989123073 A third Turkish military convoy enters Syria through the Kafrlusin crossing towards southern Idlib #Syriavia: @lummideast — Aleph א (@no_itsmyturn) August 19, 2019 A Turkish military convoy of 30 vehicles with 7 tanks enters Idlib heading south https://syria.liveuamap.com/en/2019/19-august-a-turkish-military-convoy-of-30-vehicles-with-7 South Idlib: Fierce clashes ongoing at this moment between the rebels and pro-Assad forces on the … Read more

Don’t laugh: Trump’s idea of buying Greenland isn’t entirely wacky

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opini…rely-wacky The U.S. has intermittently expressed an interest in buying Greenland since 1867, and in 1946, President Harry Truman actually offered to purchase it for $100 million (the equivalent of $1.316 billion today). While there is absolutely no sign that Denmark or the mostly autonomous Greenlanders themselves would be interested in becoming part of the … Read more

This Isn’t Normal: Kansas And Oklahoma Have Been Hit By 65 Earthquakes Within The Last 7 Days

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by Michael Snyder What are we supposed to think when rather large earthquakes start happening in places that aren’t supposed to have large earthquakes?  2019 has been quite a year for seismic activity already, and I understand that we should expect to see earthquakes in diverse places, but if someone told me that the U.S. … Read more

A Wobbling Stock Market

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by Charles Hugh-Smith A third period of heightened volatility shouldn’t surprise us. Consider this chart of the SPX (S&P 500) over the past two years: take a look at the relative steepness of each of the red lines (rallies), the duration of each rally (purple lines), the blue boxes (volatile spots of bother) and the green … Read more

In 2007/08, government refrained from stating that there were clear signs of an economic slowdown because they didn’t want to fuel the fire. Today, we have risk of recession in multiple global economies:

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by amemon0326 UK: Consumer confidence is growing, however due to Brexit no-deal, the country is in a perfect position to significantly feel the effects of any global slowdown Japan: Officials have been saying that the country may have already been in a recession since Mar ’19, things aren’t looking pretty with the new Japan/Korea trade … Read more

Tariffs and Rate Cut Hit Confidence

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Originally published at The Boock Report. The University of Michigan consumer confidence index took a hit in August as it fell to 92.1 from 98.4 and that was below the estimate of 97. It’s also the lowest since January and as seen in the chart below, it’s no higher than it was in late 2014. Most … Read more

IT’S HAPPENING – Brexit Secretary signs order to scrap 1972 Brussels Act – ending all EU law in the UK

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The repeal of the European Communities Act 1972 will take effect when Britain formally leaves the EU on October 31. Speaking after signing the legislation that will crystallise in law the upcoming repeal of the ECA, the Secretary of State for Exiting the EU Steve Barclay said: This is a clear signal to the people … Read more