NATO is a mess — and that’s nothing new: NATO enlargement post-Cold War was essentially a push from the liberal internationalist lobby within the Clinton administration, led by Madeleine Albright and backed by the German leaders like Volker Rühe. Evidence …
BY PATRICK WATSON No one wants to be “on” welfare. But in fact, almost all of us are on welfare… or will be eventually. That’s because you will someday reach retirement age and collect Social Security benefits. And Social Security is welfare. Now you …
via CBS News: PHOENIX — A wall of dust enveloped the Phoenix metro area, turning daylight into darkness for more than an hour Monday, as a monsoon storm packing thunder and lightning, high winds and sheets of rain grounded flights and …
via thefreethoughtproject: As Allison Mack and Keith Raniere await trial for their part in a twisted celebrity sex trafficking ring, neighbors of the cult’s headquarters in Knox Woods are coming forward with statements about what they saw while the cult was …
via businessinsider: For now, the coming “labor shortage” is good news for workers. We should root for it to continue. It’s undoubtedly a headache for some owners and managers. But it’s one they should, hopefully, be made to live with for …
With Regulators Wary, Facebook Is Poring Over Its Prize Asset: Your Face When Facebook rolled out facial recognition tools in the European Union this year, it promoted the technology as a way to help people safeguard their online identities. “Face …
FRESNO, Calif. — Crystal clear surveillance video shows how a group of young men made off with a small fortune worth of Apple products in Fresno. The four only needed mere seconds to steal 26 items totaling $27,000 Saturday morning …
$152,237,500,000: Merchandise Trade Deficit With China Hit Record Through May (CNSNews.com) – The U.S. merchandise trade deficit with China set a record through May, hitting $152,237,500,000 for the first five months of 2018, according to data released Friday by the Census …
Trump takes another shot at NATO as he prepares to meet with alliance leaders via chicagotribune: President Donald Trump said Tuesday that an upcoming summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin might be easier than a gathering with NATO allies, as he …
BY JOHN MAULDIN This week, the Congressional Budget Office released its 2018 Long-Term Budget Outlook. Like everyone, the CBO makes assumptions, so it’s fair to be skeptical of its estimates. In fact, we had all better hope they are too pessimistic because …
From the Washington Post: Seventy may be the new 60, and 80 may be the new 70, but 85 is still pretty old to work in America. Yet in some ways, it is the era of the very old worker in …
Do you believe that people have financed their lives with maximal debt? Is this sustainable? The financial system is at risk. The regulatory agencies have once again looked the other way. They have stepped aside while mega corporations have ballooned …
https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/…earning-to Quote:New York/Berkeley, Calif. February 6, 2018… The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Center for Technology and Society today announced preliminary results from an innovative project that uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and social science to study what is and what isn’t …
Cover image courtesy of @ConservativeVcs on Twitter By Bob Shanahan African Americans and free thinkers are finally leaving the left in droves. Candace Owens, director of Turning Point USA, has been the victim of vicious liberal attacks …
by DCG By design, many Americans were “Grubered.” From SF Gate: A $13,000 tax bill was the last thing Bill and Cathy Stapp expected when they signed up for Covered California health insurance in late 2013. The Stapps estimated that their combined income …
BY JOHN MAULDIN The official, on-the-books federal debt is currently about $21.2 trillion, according to the US National Debt Clock. $21.2T is the face amount of all outstanding Treasury paper, including so-called “internal” debt. This is about 105% of GDP and it’s only the …
by Thinker Jason Goodman brings us this jaw-dropping lecture by former CIA Counterintelligence Officer, Kevin Shipp, which I have set to the midpoint, when he begins to talk specifically about this incredible phenomenon that we’ve all been witnessing, of the …
Blame Russian bots! Using two websites, created after the 2016 election, one by a group of NeverTrumpers and another by a liberal Hillary Clinton supporter who has an extreme hatred and bias against anything “Russia” related, Arc Digital Media declared …
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, I thought you would be wrong on the pound. I will yield to your forecasts. I do not know how you do it forecasting so many things around the world and getting them right no …
by Dr. Eowyn You may have seen reports of millionaires fleeing California because of tax increases on the wealthy. An example is an article by Steve Straub in The Federalist on July 6, 2018, in which Straub claims a direct cause-and-effect relationship between Prop. …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjwZ3kjfIUk Twitter is cracking down on accounts deemed to be fake and in the months of May and June, the company reportedly deleted some 70 million users from its site. That’s equal to roughly 20% of the site’s monthly tweeters. …
They said it should become a hurricane today. http://ussanews.com/News1/2018/07/09/dml-tv-tropical-storm-chris-gaining-strength-in-the-atlantic/ h/t Jwnlwplus4
planning to shift all Argentine debt to US dollar-denominations Roit-erz: “Argentina next week will issue dollar-denominated, 210- and 378-day Treasury notes and dual-currency bonds, the Finance Ministry said on Friday, without confirming the amount the sale seeks to raise. The …
From Frank Holmes at Frank Talk: Satori is a distributed, decentralized AI “mesh.” That probably doesn’t mean anything to you right now, but Gabe believes it could change the world in a number of ways. In short, Satori aims to aggregate the …
by howmuch We all know it costs money to make money, but is there a direct correlation between income and overall personal wealth? If there is, we would expect to see the relationship in our new visualization comparing accumulated wealth and …
The Universal Basic Income program will be tested in impoverished Stockton, California with some heavy backing from nearby wealthy Silicon Valley A $500-a-month stipend will be given to 100 residents for 18-months The money comes with no strings attached with …
Leveraged-Loan Risks Are Piling Up Rising interest rates have a peculiar effect. US junk-bond issuance in June plunged 31% from a year ago to just $14.5 billion, the lowest of any June in five years, according to LCD of S&P Global Market …
In this edition of Probable Cause Newsbud’s founder and editor Sibel Edmonds is joined by Spiro Skouras, as Edmonds reveals information obtained by multiple insider sources about a secret deal that was made to remove Iran’s current government by force! …
by stockboardasset A new, shocking report by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Engineering and Public Policy (EPP), Harvard University, and the University of California San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy discovered that the US nuclear power industry could be …
via Forbe: All politics aside, many economists are predicting a recession coming down the pipeline. What could that mean for people who live with large amounts of debt hanging over their heads, like mortgage debt? It could mean that homeowners …