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by Mark Angelides As the disastrous Obamacare expensively crashes, and the new Health Care Act comes into play (probably just as expensively), many Americans are wondering why the US has not gone “Full-Brit” and created a National Health Service (NHS). A full health care system, paid for through general taxation, and free at the point … Read more

by Mark Angelides Whatever the final result of the budget bill was, both sides were planning on spinning it as a victory for themselves and a defeat for the opposition; this is the nature of modern politics and is frankly irrelevant to most people who will just look at what the sums are assigned to. … Read more

By Michael Snyder On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives finally approved a bill that would repeal and replace significant portions of the law that created Obamacare.  But it was a very close vote.  On Donald Trump’s 105th day in the White House, 217 members of the House voted in favor of the bill, and … Read more

by Robert Carbery This is a big day for Republicans in Congress. The GOP is again putting forward The American Health Care Act, the alternative to Obamacare, today in the House of Representatives. Will this be another embarrassing defeat? Or will the bill be given a chance and sent to the Senate? Republicans are now … Read more

BREAKING: "President Obama's team sought NSA intel on thousands of Americans during the 2016 election" https://t.co/X7tl2lVmbP — Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) May 4, 2017 circa.com reports: WATCH | The Obama administration distributed thousands of intelligence reports with the  unredacted names of US residents during the 2016 election. 1 of 22 During his final year in office, President Barack Obama’s … Read more

by Mark Angelides It is fair to assume that the vast majority of people have become either disillusioned or outright disgusted with modern politics (89% expressed dissatisfaction in a recent study). We have one party that seeks to control us through demographic percentage edges, and another party that can’t even get a favourable budget passed … Read more

by Mark Angelides   British Prime Minister, Theresa May, has suggested (in fact, outright accused) that Globalist figures both at the head of European nations and within the European Union (EU) Commission are seeking to derail the upcoming, June 8th, General Election in an effort to sink the Brexit position. Speaking to press in front … Read more

by Pamela Williams   Comey said FBI could not prove that Huma Abedin had any kind of criminal intent in forwarding classified Clinton emails to her husband Anthony Weiner.  Weiner did not have a security clearance, and Comey said he most likely did not read them.     At a hearing today, FBI Director James Comey … Read more

By Michael Snyder Puerto Rico has collapsed financially and has “filed for the equivalent of bankruptcy protection”.  When this was announced on Wednesday, it quickly made front page news all over the planet.  For decades, Puerto Rico has been considered to be the territory most likely to become “the 51st U.S. state”, and there have … Read more

by Robert Carbery Donald Trump and the mainstream media are at war and have been since the start of his presidential campaign two Junes ago. Whatever shred of objectivity the media maintained in its reporting is long gone. The Left long ago infiltrated our major media companies and that is why today Americans’ trust in … Read more

by Umar Farooq   Gold prices fell Wednesday, setting the yellow metal up for its lowest finish in about a month as investors await clues from U.S. Federal Reserve officials on the pace of interest-rate increases and the economic outlook.   Spot gold extended losses as the Federal Reserve officials left interest rates unchanged while … Read more

by Pamela Williams   The House Intelligence Committee, led by Trey Gowdy, will be holding a closed-door hearing on Russian interference in the 2016 election  on Thursday.  FBI Director Comey and NSA Director Rogers will be there to testify.  Tucker Carlson is questioning Trey Gowdy about this event.  Carlson feels this issue is in the past, … Read more

by Umar Farooq   “Eight years of super-low interest rates in the US have succeeded in inflating home prices in many cities way past the peaks of the housing bubble that imploded during the Financial Crisis. A boom-crash-boom movement. But home prices in Canada barely dipped during the Financial Crisis and then continued soaring. So … Read more

Title: Minority Leader of House of Representatives Salary: $193,400 http://www.davemanuel.com/pols/nancy-pelosi/ So how rich is Nancy Pelosi? According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the San Francisco democrat is the ninth wealthiest member of Congress and has a colossal net worth of $196,299,990. To quote Pelosi during a recent speech about economic inequality: “Something is wrong … Read more

Dailycaller reports: President Trump criticized James Comey on Tuesday night, just hours before the FBI director testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Trump accused Comey of giving Hillary Clinton a “free pass” in the investigation into whether she mishandled classified information on her private email server. It is unclear what exactly prompted Trump’s outburst, though … Read more

Daniel Lang May 3rd, 2017 SHTFplan.com There aren’t any surefire ways to tell if the stock market, and perhaps the rest of the economy, is about to take a nosedive. That’s because millions of people with millions of ideas are involved, so it’s an inherently unpredictable system. However, there are certain players in our economy … Read more

by Mark Angelides   This Sunday, the French people will go to the voting booths with a choice between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen for the Presidency of France. So far, it looks set to be a landslide for the Pro-EU Macron, but there has been some slight movement on the polls that show … Read more

by Mark Angelides Recent figures show that in the UK, more than 50% of households receive more in State benefits than the pay in direct taxes (income tax, VAT etc…) to the Government. The Centre for Policy Studies says that “the average household paid £13,402 in taxes in 2013/14. Yet it received £12,939 in cash … Read more

Milkenreview.org reports: Over the past two generations, America has suffered a quiet catastrophe in the collapse of work for men. In the half-century between 1965 and 2015, work rates (the ratio of employment to population) for the American male spiraled relentlessly downward — a seeming flight from work in which ever-greater numbers of working-age men exited … Read more

BY SRSROCCO After the U.S. economy disintegrated in 2008, due to the Banking and Housing crisis, Americans pawned off a record amount of gold.  How much gold?  Nearly, 32 million oz (1,000 metric tons).  That’s one heck of a lot of gold.   Matter-a-fact, U.S. gold scrap supply at its peak of 160 metric tons (mt) … Read more

by Pamela Williams Congress member Fred Upton of Michigan, who until January had been chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, one of the main health care legislating committees in Congress, officially came out against the American Health Care Act on Tuesday.  Upton made the announcement during a local radio interview, and his office confirmed … Read more

by Michael Snyder There has been a tremendous amount of talk about the spending deal that was just reached in Congress. Most of the focus has been on who “won” and who “lost” politically, and if you have been keeping up with my articles you definitely know my opinion on the matter. But what nobody … Read more