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by Jim Quinn Obama won it for being elected. He then proceeded to ramp up the Afghan war, attack Libya, support a dictator taking over Egypt, armed Saudi Arabia in their demolishing of Yemen, and created ISIS and the Syrian war. All Trump did was broker a peace between two nations at war for the … Read more

by Charles Hugh-Smith This is how we end up with a neofeudal society that benefits the Protected Few at the expense of the powerless, exploited Many. Blow-out earnings from Facebook and Amazon have cheered Wall Street, but institutional owners might want to focus not just on blow-out earnings but rising blowback against the tech superpowers (Facebook, Google … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Up58OURmWU Chris Agee for the Western Journal reports, The race to replace U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, a Republican who resigned last year amid allegations of inappropriate workplace behavior, became much closer than the seat had seen in previous elections. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/blue-w…

by Thinker In 2012, a former governor of Delta, James Onanefe Ibori, one of Nigeria’s richest oil states, has plead guilty to stealing $250mn in public funds. James Ibori is being tried for the corruption charges in a court in London, where he allegedly siphoned off the money. James Onanefe Ibori attended Baptist High School, … Read more

by Thinker As part of its latest disastrous earnings, which saw trading revenues tumble by 17% as new CEO Christian Sewing took over, we reported that Deutsche Bank announced a sweeping restructuring plan, abandoning its long-running ambitions to be a top global securities firm, scaling back U.S. rates sales and trading, reducing the corporate finance … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP3UHpjKekc Johnny Smith for Right Wing News reports, As you all must surely be aware of by now it seems like yet another American Brand has decided that the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution has become obsolete. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://rwnofficial.com/nra-yeti-stat…

Everything has become more expensive these days. Even something like having children. Do you believe that the trend of having less children will continue? WIth the economy becoming an issue for many, they are foregoing having children. In fact, soon, retirees with outnumber young people. This is a huge demographics issue at a time when … Read more

by Ruby Henley We have multiple issues facing our Country at the present time – Will we withdrew from the Iran Deal? Will we restructure the Iran Deal? Iran has threatened to attack our ships if we withdraw from the Iran Deal. They have threatened us, and it is very difficult to accept that. Angela … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-Jm1IdtPfA Jim Hoft for the Gateway Pundit reports, After a year in office, half of President Trump’s nominees are still waiting for confirmation in the US Senate. Mitch McConnell can vote anytime on the nominees. But Mitch won’t do it because he is required to use 30 hours of floor debate to force a vote. … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDsjm3oxKYI The pair of studies, published online on 26 April in Science1,2, heighten scrutiny of the potential role of the geothermal plant in the quake, which was South Korea’s second-strongest since observations began in 1978 and the most destructive ever recorded in the country. Eighty-two people were injured, and more than 200 homes were seriously … Read more

The GAO report—“Immigration Detention: Opportunities Exist to Improve Cost Estimates”—examined how ICE calculates its anticipated budgetary needs for detaining illegal aliens. It discovered, for example, that ICE had made some basic mathematical errors in preparing its budget justifications for Congress, including a $34.7 million multiplication error in its fiscal 2014 request and a $129 million … Read more

Democrat welfare destroyed the black community. Did you know back in the 50’s, 90% of black households had a father present. Now its 10% or less.   h/t Kirmz

Comey says Justice Department watchdog interviewed him over handling of memos Former FBI Director James Comey told Fox News on Thursday night that the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General has interviewed him about his handling of memos detailing conversations between Comey and President Trump. Comey told “Special Report” host Bret Baier that he … Read more

He recently wrote a piece titled “I Helped Sell the False Choice of War Once. It’s Happening Again.” Where specifies ” I worked on Colin Powell’s speech supporting the invasion of Iraq 15 years ago. The Trump administration is doing the same thing today with Iran.” https://youtu.be/eeZqemBOSDU h/t gematrix

Amazon will now deliver packages to the trunk of your car. Last year, Amazon asked for permission to unlock your front door so it could leave packages inside your home, and a certain number of extremely trusting Amazon Prime subscribers (Amazon won’t say how many) said okay. Now, the tech giant wants to do the same thing … Read more

by Phil $134 BILLION!  That’s what Jeff Bezos is worth this morning as Amazon (AMZN) crushed earnings last night with $51Bn in sales for Q1, up 43% ($16Bn) from Q1 last year.  And Q1 is usually AMZN’s slowest quarter so we’re taking about possibly a $300Bn year, which would make Amazon approximately 1/10th of all US Retail Sales and growing … Read more