Armed robbers breaking into homes, restraining & hitting victims yet Seattle Police doesn’t believe “public is at risk”

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by DCG No need for self-defense mechanisms such as firearms, folks! Nothing to see here, move along. The police will keep you safe! By Jason Rantz at MyNorthwest.com: A violent series of armed robberies have hit the Seattle’s Beacon Hill where three, armed men kicked in doors and held residents hostage while they ransacked the victims’ homes. There have … Read more

YouTube Secretly Using SPLC To Police Videos

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The Southern Poverty Law Center is assisting YouTube in policing content on their platform, The Daily Caller has learned. The left-wing nonprofit — which has more recently come under fire for labeling legitimate conservative organizations as “hate groups” — is one of the more than 100 nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and government agencies in YouTube’s “Trusted … Read more

Creating Danger in the Golden State

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by Mark Angelides Libby Schaaf, the mayor of Oakland California, is set to be in hot water over her possibly criminal actions to protect illegal immigrants from being picked up in raids by ICE. Last week, she sent out a memo (that she also promoted through social media) to warn people that there was a … Read more

President Trump Asks Dianne Feinstein to Add ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban to School Safety Bill Yet Knocks Scalise Down on Concealed Carry Reciprocity

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President Trump asked Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to add her “assault weapons” ban to the overarching school safety bill during a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers on Wednesday. Feinstein’s bill, which is an enhanced reintroduction of a bill she has put forward again and again, bans over 200 different firearms. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/02/28/president-trump-asks-dianne-feinstein-add-assault-weapons-ban-school-safety-bill/ Watch Dianne Feinstein Erupt With … Read more

SUPREME COURT RULING is a Huge Defeat for Immigration Advocates

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It’s ironic that a legal immigrant brought the case against being held by U.S. immigration officials indefinitely without a bond hearing. The plaintiff was convicted of possession of a controlled substance and “joyriding”. The government detained him but the ACLU got involved and won his release and stopped his deportation. The government appealed the decision… … Read more

Why U.S. GDP Hasn’t Really Increased Since 2000

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BY SRSROCCO  While official sources forecast U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to surpass $20 trillion this year, the real figure is probably much less.  So how much less is real U.S. GDP?  Well, that depends on how it is measured.  If we factor in energy consumption and the increase in total public debt, U.S. GDP is … Read more

More Than 30 White House Aides Lose Top Secret Clearance

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More than 30 aides to President Donald Trump have been stripped of access to top secret intelligence, two people familiar with the move said. The officials have been notified that they will be downgraded to lower-level “secret” interim security clearances, said the two people. None of the officials has been asked to leave the administration … Read more

Oaktree Capital Management: Prepare For The Bond Bubble Collapse

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via Natasha Turak | @NatashaTurak Rapidly mounting debt in the U.S. may be the trigger that bursts the bond bubble, Oaktree Capital Management’s director Jordon Kruse told CNBC. Several Wall Street observers have warned that a collapse in the debt market could be particularly nasty because current debt levels are so massive. The U.S. Treasury is set to issue nearly $1 trillion … Read more

Not only are YouTube channels getting taken down, but their content creators are being blocked from even watching any other videos on YouTube at all

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YouTube is the primary video platform on the web. The purge of channels over the past few days is bad enough, but to prevent creators of those channels from even viewing what the rest of the world can see is a 1984 micro-targeting for wrong-think. Well it happened I am permanently banned from using #YouTube … Read more

The world on trial: will Globalism/Socialism win?

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by Jon Rappoport By Jon Rappoport These words—Socialism and Globalism—are a mystery to most people. What do they mean? Why do they matter? They matter because, behind the mask, they indicate massive centralized power at the top of the food chain. They aren’t “movements on behalf of the people.” They aren’t “humanitarian solutions to our problems.” … Read more

The Fed Is About to Pop the Bubble in Stocks

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by BILL BONNER BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – We went to dinner last night at a little neighborhood restaurant in Palermo Soho. It was already crowded when we arrived after 9 p.m., with a warm buzz of conversation. But scarcely had we been there 10 minutes when the diners fell silent. A woman at the table next … Read more

The World's Cobalt Supply Is in Jeopardy

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by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors Disney’s Black Panther is in theaters right now, breaking all kinds of box office records and wowing audiences. The film features a fictional, highly-advanced African country known as Wakanda, whose vast wealth and prosperity are derived almost exclusively from the mining of a rare, fantastical metal called vibranium. In its … Read more

Alasdair Macleod: When will the next credit crisis occur?

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Turning Hard Times Into Good Times, Released on 2/28/18 Alasdair Macleod speaks to questions about when he thinks the next credit crisis will occur and the logic behind his view. Alasdair Macleod is head of research for GoldMoney. He also runs FinanceAndEconomics.org, a website dedicated to sound money and demystifying finance and economics. He has a … Read more

A Peculiar Phenomenon in the Rental Market Gets a Lot More Peculiar

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Besides that, rents are in free-fall in Chicago, decline in Seattle, plunge here, soar there, city by city. The peculiar phenomenon that had started last November is getting more and more peculiar. The momentum of median asking rents across the US has split in two: On a national average, one-bedroom rents … Read more