When It Comes To Governments, Local Is Better

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Local government is close to the people’s needs. Because it doesn’t worry about global or even regional issues it can concentrate on improving conditions right at the level of the citizen. When large governmental entities arise, they do stupid things like the EU, importing immigrants completely foreign to the culture and traditions of the citizens. … Read more

TheHill: “Schiff blasts Trump’s ‘un-American’ order to intel agencies to cooperate with Barr probe”

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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) blasted a Thursday evening order by President Trump ordering intelligence agencies to cooperate with Attorney General William Barr’s investigation into possible “spying” on Trump’s 2016 campaign, calling it “un-American.” https://thehill.com/homenews/house/445357-schiff-blasts-trumps-un-american-order-to-intel-agencies-to-cooperate-with Comment from the article: L1bertyHawk And so it begins. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/445357-schiff-blasts-trumps-un-american-order-to-intel-agencies-to-cooperate-with?mode=comments#comment-4474765906 Adam Schiff Verified account @RepAdamSchiff While Trump stonewalls … Read more

Army Tweets ‘How Has Serving Impacted You?’ Gets Thousands of Responses About the Horrors of War

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Via Reason On Friday, the United States Army asked Twitter users how the service impacted their lives, likely as part of a Memorial Day campaign. The sad responses are a poignant and timely reminder of the toll of war. Appropriate for the holiday, but probably not what the Army P.R. team intended. When I was 18, in … Read more

San Francisco: An Expensive, Shit-Coverd Cesspool Marked By Crime And Depression

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Via ZeroHedge Thanks to high-crime, squalor, relaxed drug laws and an excruciatingly high cost of living, San Francisco has become one of the nation’s most depressing places to live, according to the City-Journal‘s Erica Sandberg. And it’s not just the shit-covered streets which require highly-compensated “poop patrollers” to try and keep up with the fecal fiasco, or the thousands of used drug needles littering the ground, … Read more

Assange Faces 170 Years in Prison as US Adds Charges Under Espionage Act

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by axolotl_peyotl via antiwar: As the US prepares to try to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange through extradition, the Justice Department has revealed a new series of charges against him. Assange would face 170 years in US prison if convicted. The new allegations include 17 separate charges under the Espionage Act. According to the Justice Department, the charges … Read more

Brennan panicking and openly calling for Coates and Gina Haspel to defy AG Barr to protect him. MSNBC and CNN dutifully protect the poor defenseless CIA.

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John Brennan: I’m not going to get into the specifics as you can imagine, but I am deeply, deeply concerned about what is going on right now, and how Mr. Trump is right now is authorizing what appears to be his personal attorney to pursue these efforts inside the intelligence community-the agencies, and to uncover … Read more

41 homes, 25 vehicles and $2.2 million in cash to be confiscated in CO weed bust

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Be careful out there. If you live in a state where recreational has been legalized, follow the laws on growing (usually 12 plants per adult)! DENVER — Authorities said Friday they raided hundreds of black market marijuana operations in Colorado that flouted the state’s cannabis law by growing tens of thousands of plants in Denver-area … Read more

The last 2 times this happened was 2000 and 2007

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by Troy The Dow has fallen for 5 consecutive weeks, and markets that are more impacted by the trade war have been worse. Here’s the return for various markets since the trade war began on January 22, 2018. Today’s headlines: Short term Treasury yields are falling, just like 2000 and 2007? Dow’s 5 week losing … Read more

Greg Hunter: President Trump Has Shifted The Russian Collusion Hoax Into High Gear

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Greg Hunter gives The Weekly News Wrap-Up for Friday, May 24th, 2019 Last night, President Trump kicked the Trump-Russian collusion hoax investigation into high gear. Trump ordered “the intelligence community to quickly and fully cooperate with the Attorney General’s investigation into surveillance activities during the 2016 presidential election.” President Trump is also giving the authority to declassify … Read more

Let The Chips Fall Where They May

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by Dana Lyons Market-leading semiconductor stocks are plunging – is it do or die for this key sector? As the stock market engineered its historic 1st quarter rally off of the December lows, one industries leading the way was the semiconductor stocks. Not only did the group gain over 20% for the 1st quarter, as measured by … Read more

Eric Sprott: Recession is coming. Are you ready?

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Eric Sprott interviewed by Craig Hemke on The Weekly Wrap-Up May 24, 2019 The trade war is heating up and spreading out, the stock market is showing signs of weakness, and all indications point to a recession. Central Banks are buying up gold. Should you follow their lead? Eric Sprott joins us once again with all the gold and … Read more

Quarter Americans in credit card debt to pay for necessities… Young homebuyers scramble as prices rise faster than incomes

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DOW longest weekly losing streak since 2011… Stocks rose on Friday, but notched weekly losses as investors worried the U.S.-China trade war is hurting economic growth. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the day up 95.22 points at 25,585.69 while the S&P 500 climbed 0.1% to 2,826.06. The Nasdaq Composite rose 0.1% at 7,637.01. The indexes rebounded slightly from sharp losses … Read more