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“Federal Employees Are Warned Not to Discuss Trump ‘Resistance’ at Work”: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/federal-employees-are-warned-not-to-discuss-trump-‘resistance’-at-work/ar-BBQh3QR?li=BBnbcA1 A reupload of sorts – recently the Office of Special Counsel issued a new guidance on federal employees to avoid discussing ‘resistance’ at work, which may now be interpreted as illegal. We figured the connection between the guidance and our September videos was … Read more

by WARREN MOSLER Looking very weak: Highlights Construction has been a soft spot of the economy evident once again in October where spending fell 0.1 percent for the third straight decline and the fourth decline in five months. Spending on new single-family homes in October fell 0.5 percent with home-improvement spending down 0.9 percent, both offsetting … Read more

By Bill Bonner BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – The show went on! And, as we predicted, The Donald claimed victory… and stocks went up. When we left you on Friday, Mr. Trump was on Air Force One. He was on his way to the G20 in Buenos Aires to decide the fate of the world. At least, that … Read more

Natasha Sweatte reports on predictions of major changes to the US housing market, as unsold homes climb to the highest level since 2009, when the US was in a middle of a mortgage crisis. Natasha talks to Jeff Deist, President of Mises Institute, about why experts forecast this change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilXXvfOjTEA   CA housing market is … Read more

by TFittonJW Great piece by Paul Sperry:https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/12/02/actually_mueller_appears_to_be_exonerating_trump.html Contrary to media speculation that Robert Mueller is closing in on President Trump, the special prosecutor’s plea deal with Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen offers further evidence that the Trump campaign did not collude with Russians during the 2016 election, according to congressional investigators and former prosecutors. Cohen pleaded … Read more

I love how he gets cut off while proving trust in media came long before Trump. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gou_l7GY-w   WHAT BIAS? Washington Post Puts Story About Kavanaugh Coaching Basketball Under ‘Public Safety’ Tag Lisa Haven Describes “NORMALCY BIAS” – AMERICANS COMPLETELY OBLIVIOUS TO WHAT IS GOING ON AROUND THEM (SHEEP) In a very emotional plea to … Read more

from Zero Hedge On a day when US and European auto stocks rallied (at the expense of shares of their Chinese competitors) following President Trump’s tweet (since complicated by comments from Kudlow and Mnuchin) that China might soon agree to reverse its tariffs on US-made cars, Morgan Stanley has published a report that further justifies the short-term bull … Read more

by John Adams of Adams Economics The real position of the global economy and of the current global debt bubble is currently hiding behind a mask of accounting and legal trickery. During the course of 2017 and 2018, two shocking stories were revealed by key global institutions that at least $US 20 trillion (or $AUD 28 trillion) of … Read more

via visualcapitalist: We are each entitled to our own personal world view. Unfortunately, when it comes to interpreting information and making objective sense of reality, human brains are hard-wired to make all kinds of mental mistakes that can impact our ability to make rational judgments. In total, there are 180+ cognitive biases that mess with how we process … Read more

“The dining experience is becoming less sociable and more atomized, even as old conceptions of public life wear away,” as explored by Rebecca Spang, “Director of the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University.” It’s a fascinating article, until the bad orange man caused her to politicize its conclusion. via theatlantic: When men and women heckle … Read more

via newsbusters: The (mostly) kind obituaries for former President George H. W. Bush have highlighted the decency and civility that marked his long career, often as a less-than-subtle jab at the current Commander-in-Chief. “Never a proponent of ‘kinder and gentler’ politics, Mr. Trump prefers a brawl, even with his own party,” New York Times reporter Peter Baker juxtaposed … Read more

via Foxnews: Conservative author Jerome Corsi on Monday filed a “criminal and ethics complaint” against Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team, accusing investigators of trying to bully him into giving “false testimony” against President Trump. The complaint, which Corsi had threatened for days, is the latest escalation between Mueller’s team and its investigation targets. The 78-page document, asserting the … Read more

France’s Marine Le Pen’s 2011 Presidential Campaign Ad Has Come True: Prediction Fulfilled – Hall of Wins Real: “Choose your France”: the National Front caught in the caricature game Posted on 17 November 2011 https://www.nouvelobs.com/politique/election-presidentielle-2012/20111114.OBS4495/choisis-ta-france-le-front-national-pris-au-jeu-de-la-caricature.html https://youtu.be/7cdMf64e3o0 https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/1069582544360955904 Schools join now the movment, ambulance drivers too …. Every day NEW actors join the "YellowJackets #GiletsJaunes. May … Read more

via thecrux: Most companies try to get you hooked on their products. Some do it literally… Take cigarette makers, for instance. As anyone who has tried to stop smoking can tell you, quitting can be an awful experience. Research shows that nicotine can be just as addictive as “hard drugs,” like heroin or cocaine. Symptoms of … Read more

Reuters made public the use of parallel construction by the DEA in 2013, and its association with Stingray technology has been the topic of many MSM news stories in the past few years. Yet here we have ex-FBI head, and current special prosecutor pretending not to be familiar with the term. Hilariously, if you watch the … Read more

Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “This country, and with it most of the Western world, is presently going through a period of inflation and credit expansion. As the quantity of money in circulation and deposits subject to check increases, there prevails a general tendency for the prices of commodities and services … Read more