THEY’RE STILL TAKING TAXES OUT OF PAYCHECKS. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS STILL WORKING: Shutdown? What Shutdown?

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via powerlineblog: Rumor has it the federal government has shut down. Have you noticed? I haven’t. I was on Howie Carr’s radio show this afternoon, talking about the shutdown–or perhaps we should say, alleged shutdown. Here are a few observations: 1) It goes without saying that the shutdown is the Republicans’ “fault.” It makes no difference … Read more

The Federal Reserve Is A Suicide Bomber With A Deeper Agenda

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by Brandon Smith of Alt-Market Central bankers are sociopathic in nature and sociopathic people tend to behave like robots. When one understands the motivations of central bankers, or at the very least what their goals are, their actions become rather predictable. The question is, what truly motivates these people? I believe according to the evidence that the central … Read more

Record number of illegal immigrants tried to buy guns this year

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The National Instant Criminal Background Check System said that it rejected 7,836,600 planned purchases from “illegal/unlawful alien” in 2018. And that was at the end of November. Christmas purchases of guns are typically high and were not included. (Screenshot via NICS) MORE: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/fbi-record-number-of-illegal-immigrants-tried-to-buy-guns DHS says there are only 12 million illegals in the USA. (source: https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/18_1214_PLCY_pops-est-report.pdf) LOL! … Read more

Trump Considering Executive Order To Ban Purchases Of Huawei, ZTE Equipment

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from  Zero Hedge After the US government elicited outrage from the Chinese due to its attempts to convince its allies to bar the use of equipment made by telecoms supplier Huawei, President Trump is apparently weighing whether to take another dramatic antagonistic step that could further complicate trade negotiations less than two weeks before a US … Read more

Death Toll from Cold Doubles & Its Not Over Yet

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by Martin Armstrong As the fake academics keep pushing the Global Warming scenarios because that justifies more taxes and they are rewarded with endless grants, I have warned that it is Global Cooling we should be concerned about. Particularly the elderly should really try to relocate to warmer territory. The death rate caused by the … Read more

PAULA BOLYARD: Ohio Heartbeat Bill Goes Down in Flames after GOPs Side with Kasich, Planned Parenthood, and Democrats. “A despicable betrayal.”

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via pjmedia: Ohio’s “heartbeat bill,” which would have prohibited killing unborn children with a detectable heartbeat, went down in flames on Thursday after the Senate failed by one vote to override Gov. Kasich’s heartless veto of the bill. The bill passed both chambers earlier this month — the House by a comfortable majority and the Senate … Read more

Popular News Anchor First to Arrive at Borderline Grill Shooting found dead at 42

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Chris Burrous, a fixture on the KTLA 5 Morning News since 2011, passed away Thursday. He was 43. The broadcaster was found unresponsive at a Days Inn in Glendale. His death is being investigated as a possible overdose, Glendale police said in a news release. KTLA President and General Manager Don Corsini and News Director Jason Ball … Read more

Has it begun? Grid going down, transformers exploding, CenturyLink and Verizon major internet outages, 911 call centers going dark…

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Is this what the beginning looks like? Is this a test run of an EMP style weapon to see if they can knock out power and communications at the same time, perhaps just in a limited test run? These transformers going down, along with the major internet outages across the country, do not bode well … Read more

Trump declares end to US ‘policeman’ role

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via Yahoo: Al-Asad Air Base (Iraq) (AFP) – President Donald Trump used a lightning visit to Iraq — his first with US troops in a conflict zone since being elected — to defend the withdrawal from Syria and declare an end to America’s role as the global “policeman.” Trump, accompanied by his wife Melania, landed … Read more

ROFL the latest #FakeNews story trying to keep the #Russiagate Hoax alive. McClatchy makes ridiculously false allegations of Michael Cohen visiting Prague

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by Ian Shilling The McClatchy Fake News article is below. I am surprised that McClatchy have sunk so low – they used to be a fairly reasonable outlet (for the mainstream) – this article is totally ridiculous and on a par with the laughable accusations of three Manafort/Assange visits junk article recently published by the … Read more

ECB Ends Corporate Bond Buying, and Look What Happens – Companies Feel The Pain As Euro Junk-bond Yields More Than Doubled From A Year Ago.

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. To the white-knuckle end, 2018 has been a terrible roller coaster ride for Spanish supermarket chain Dia, once one of Europe’s biggest grocery chains. The firm’s shares, reduced to a penny stock — despite the 22% surge today to €0.44 — have … Read more

China’s Startup Bubble Runs Aground – Bike-Share Companies, Among The Hottest Startups, Are Wiping Out Investors.

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter “It now appears bike sharing is the stupidest business, but the smartest brains of China all tried to get in,” Wu Shenghua, founder of 3Vbike, one of the many collapsed bike-sharing companies in China, told Reuters. “It really now seems ridiculous.” Afterwards, a lot of the ingenious must-not-question stuff that happened during … Read more

How the recent stock market crash is just like 1987

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by Troy The stock market is making an oversold bounce right now, and has reached its first fib retracement (23.6%). The standard target for a bounce is 38.2% – 50% Go here to understand our fundamentals-driven long term outlook. Let’s determine the stock market’s most probable medium term direction by objectively quantifying technical analysis. For reference, here’s … Read more