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via justice.gov: State Department Employee Arrested and Charged With Concealing Extensive Contacts With Foreign Agents A federal complaint was unsealed today charging Candace Marie Claiborne, 60, of Washington, D.C., and an employee of the U.S. Department of State, with obstructing an official proceeding and making false statements to the FBI, both felony offenses, for allegedly … Read more

by  John Ward Across all the members of the alternative corporate State, no community is more ever-present than the Texas oil business. Did Trump fire the tomahawks at Assad to protect US access to oil…..or to disrupt access, and help Texas out? The Slog looks at means and motive.   Here are a few things … Read more

North Korea has enemies surrounding its borders after causing global terror with its nuclear weapons programme. Kim Jong-un has threatened to nuke many of his neighbours and the US as the dastardly dictator flexes his muscles. In response, Donald Trump has sent its naval fleet to the Korean peninsula over fears of North Korea’s ICBM … Read more

By Michael Snyder Whenever the world starts going crazy, investors instinctively begin flocking to precious metals.  So it wasn’t exactly a surprise when gold and silver prices started to move upward aggressively as global leaders continued to talk about the possibility of World War III and nuclear conflict.  The price of gold spiked to a … Read more

by Mark Angelides When politicians and experts talk about the effects, costs and benefits of immigration, it is easy to assume that any differences they may have with your own opinions are subjective; that they have looked at the data and drawn different conclusions. But what if it was all a fantasy? What if the … Read more

by Pamela Williams   When President Trump said he made a deal with China, it seems he did. It is a good deal for US coal miners! President Trump said he wanted to help the coal miners get back to work, and he has made just a deal that will do that. North Korean coal shipments … Read more

Joshua Krause Ready Nutrition Maybe you’re looking for a fresh start. Or perhaps you’re looking to find a different job, or you’re trying to get out of the city. Whatever the case may be, when you’re looking for a new place to live there’s a lot to consider. And if you’re thinking of crossing state … Read more

by Umar Farooq   For many of today’s college students and recent graduates, obtaining a degree means taking on mortgage-like levels of debt. College tuition costs are soaring and forcing U.S. younger generation to bear obscenely high levels of student loan debt, while a ballooning more than $1 trillion student loan bubble shares a strikingly … Read more

by Pamela Williams First I want to stress this is just speculation, but I will present the facts in the article, a map of possible submarine, and a video. First of all, below is the video: Here is the map:   The speculation began with unusual aircraft in the area, which is used to spot … Read more

by Pamela Williams   President Trump is tweeting again, showing he is two steps ahead of North Korea. He knows exactly what he is doing, and he has his strategy neatly in place.  You have to connect China to North Korea, as  China has the power to make or break North Korea.  During this fragile time … Read more

by Mark Angelides Turkey has long been a shining (only) example of how a Muslim majority country can exist as a progressive society with freedoms, rights and a secular rule of law. But slowly, as power has become more centralized in the hands of President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, the liberty and secularism that made Turkey … Read more

Jim Rickards says we’re in a different world. The systemic risks have never been greater. The next financial crises will be unprecedented in its magnitude and the central bankers capacity to deal with it are diminishing. Were looking at an extinction level event in the next financial crises.

by Fabius Maximus  Summary: Yesterday’s incident at United reveals much about the changes happening to America. First, let’s sort through the stories to see what really happened. Then let’s skip the cheap hand-waving and draw conclusions that can help us understand events and so begin to retake control of this nation. The New York Times tells … Read more

by Pamela Williams Unfortunately the people in Dallas, Texas know what the end of the world feels like.  They were asleep, or many of them were, when sirens went off alerting everyone to prepare themselves for….well, right now I would think of a bombing by North Korea or Russia.  I cannot get my mind off of … Read more

by Mark Angelides Across the Western world, governments and citizens are clubbing together to work for either a minimum wage to be put in place or to increase the minimum wage to a more “living wage”. But they are ignoring the reality. In almost every place where a minimum wage is enacted, it soon becomes … Read more

By Gabrielle Seunagal   A freelancer is defined as a person who works as a writer, designer, performer, or the like, selling work or services by the hour, day, job, etc., rather than working on a regular salary basis for one employer. In previous times, freelancing was looked down upon and even synonymous with being … Read more

by Umar Farooq   For homeowners the great, big, unanswered question is whether or not the Canadian real estate market will finally crash in 2017. Turns out, all reports and analysis lean towards a flattening out of property prices in most Canadian markets, with some areas of the country experiencing a decline in both sales … Read more

  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday announced a crackdown against alleged stock promotion schemes in which writers were secretly paid to post hundreds of bullish articles about public companies on financial websites. Twenty-seven individuals and entities, including a Hollywood actress, were charged with misleading investors into believing they were reading “independent, unbiased … Read more

by Pamela Williams   We need some good news, and we just got it.  Following the Labor Department’s release of the March unemployment report, President Trump’s Chief Economic Advisor Gary Cohn said that tax reform is the number one domestic priority for the administration,  and Cohn hopes to get it done this year. “The President is pushing … Read more

by Mark Angelides The Left (and much of the Right) appears to have themselves in a bit of a paradoxical pickle. They have become entrapped in strands of righteous virtue trying to decide on one hand how to denounce Trump, Putin and Al-Assad, whilst on the other, trying to support Syrians who decry Al-Assad, the … Read more

by Mark Angelides The European Union, finally fed up with the news agencies that don’t follow the party line, has taken the unsurprising step of opening its own propaganda arm in the form of two news agencies. As a bloc that brooks no dissent (EU pensions are contingent on a non-disparagement clause), the newly formed … Read more

by Michael Snyder According to CBS News, an astounding three-fourths of all Americans have to “scramble to cover their living costs” each month.  In other words, most of the country is either living paycheck to paycheck or very close to it.  But instead of tightening their belts and trying to put something away for the … Read more

By Michael Snyder April 2017 could turn out to be one of the most important months in U.S. history that we have seen in a very long time.  On April 6th, Donald Trump attacked Syria on the 100th anniversary of the day that the U.S. officially entered World War I, and now at the end … Read more

By Gabrielle Seunagal On Thursday, election loser, Hillary Clinton spoke at a women’s summit in New York. During her speech, she credited her election loss to misogyny and stated that “it had to be admitted.” Clinton also noted that she was  struggling to find the underlying reasons. It is astounding that after 5 months, Clinton … Read more