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And just like that, confirming weeks of media speculation, Trump has folded with the Dow Jones/WSJ reporting that not only will Trump not impose the new tariffs set to come into effect on Dec 15, but will cut existing tariffs by up to 50%. Continue reading “Trump Folds: Will Cancel New China Tariffs, Offers To Cut Existing Tariffs By 50% In Exchange For Pledges: Report”
Around 700,000 people left California last year, with more than 10% moving to Texas.
According to a new report by Yardi Systems, over 86,000 people abandoned the Golden State. In terms new Texas residents overall, ex-Californians constituted around 15%, according to the Dallas Morning News. Continue reading “Californians Flock To Texas As Corporations Seek Cheaper Pastures”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Winter Park, FL — Bobbie Sapp, 49, is a registered nurse, who has no criminal past. Despite never having committed a crime, because of the backward justice system in America, coupled with violent police welfare checks, Sapp is now facing the possibility of life behind bars. Continue reading “Cops Break Into Innocent Sleeping Woman’s Home, Shoot Her—Now She Faces Life in Prison”
I wrote and posted this article in 2018. I recently revisited it and confirmed how important this information, gathered by Steve Aftergood, is.
For decades, people have been accusing the government of hiding advanced technology. Here we have a serious clue. Something in the record and on the record. It is only a very small piece of the puzzle, but it’s a potent piece, if you’ll stop and think about it. Continue reading “Five thousand inventions in limbo and under “secrecy orders” at the US Patent Office”
They control the vast majority of the world’s oil and gas assets, yet the average person has never even heard of them, outside of those that are famous for things like getting attacked by missiles or becoming embroiled in a high-profile corruption scandal.
State-owned oil and gas companies (aka, the national oil companies, or NOCs) control at least US$3 trillion in oil and gas assets, compared to around $2.5 trillion as of 2017, and hold an estimated 90% of all known reserves–considerably more than publicly listed companies such as BP, ExxonMobil and Shell. Meanwhile, Saudi Aramco leads the pack as the world’s most profitable company. Continue reading “These Secretive Oil Companies Control $3 Trillion In Wealth”
On Wednesday morning the GOP-led Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to advance Turkey sanctions legislation on an 18-4 vote, despite strong objections from the Trump administration. Senators Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, Ted Cruz, and Tom Udall vote against it.
At the same time, Ankara has threatened to take back US military bases at Incirlik and Kurecik in Turkey, the Turkish Foreign Ministry has announced, saying it would “reevaluate” their status. Continue reading “Turkey Threatens To Revoke US Nuclear Base In Incirlik After Sanctions Bill Advances To Senate Floor”
The U.S. Army plans to fund construction of rare earths processing facilities, part of an urgent push by Washington to secure domestic supply of the minerals used to make military weapons and electronics, according to a government document seen by Reuters.
The move would mark the first financial investment by the U.S. military into commercial-scale rare earths production since World War Two’s Manhattan Project built the first atomic bomb. Continue reading “U.S. Army will fund rare earths plant for weapons development”
“You know what would be cool,” said the consumer product that wished it was a cop? “If everything we made catered to law enforcement rather than the end user.” That’s the Ring business model: make inroads with security-conscious homeowners by inserting them into a toxic ecosystem that includes a snitch app that amps up the worst aspects of humanity, and breaks down the walls between “sharing” and “giving law enforcement agencies footage they can keep and distribute forever without limitation.” Continue reading “Cops Offered Deeper Discounts On Ring Cameras Depending On How Much Of The Neighborhood The Cameras Would Surveil”
A Bloomberg News report on Sunday described how Communist China uses its “social credit system” to control not just citizens but corporations – and not just domestic companies, but foreign companies seeking to do business in China as well.
Nervous foreign businessmen are forking over thousands of dollars an hour for training in how to avoid being flagged as miscreants by the most pervasive surveillance system in history. Continue reading “China Uses ‘Social Credit System’ to Control Domestic, Foreign Companies”
The international struggle for military supremacy in the Arctic has just risen to absurd new heights.
Following the collapse of the arms control regime that for decades aided the US’s tenuous grip on power in the region, the US, Russia and China are now engaged in a winner-takes-all struggle for control of territory north of the Arctic Circle. Continue reading “Moscow Creates ‘Anti-Missile Dome’ Over Northern Fleet As Battle For Arctic Heats Up”
Reboubt News – by Shari Dovale
Homelessness has been on the rise in California, and has skyrocketed since the Camp and Carr fires devastated the state.
Officials throughout California have grappled with various ways to deal with the ongoing crisis, however, in the Northern California city of Redding, Mayor Julie Winter has sent a state-of-emergency request to Gov. Gavin Newsom, approved by the Redding City Council last week, that requests the right to involuntarily detain people into homeless shelters. Continue reading “California Bringing Back Debtors Prisons for Homeless”
In 2020, the US Army will be carrying out its biggest deployment in 25 years into Europe. The deployment will send 20,000 US troops, and 13,000 pieces of equipment across Europe for wargames beginning in May and running through June.
US Gen. Christopher Cavoli would not define the operation as aimed at Russia, but did tie it to Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, saying it “changed everything.” The large deployment will be difficult. Continue reading “US Army Plans Biggest Deployment to Europe in 25 Years”
The mother who famously told Robert “Beto” O’Rourke, “Hell no” to his plans to confiscate AR-15s, is now running for Congress in Colorado’s 3rd District.
On September 20, 2019, Breitbart News reported Colorado mother Lauren Boebert attended one of O’Rourke’s rallies and challenged him when he talked of taking AR-15s. Continue reading “Mother Who Told Beto ‘Hell No,’ Launches Pro-Gun Congressional Run”
Very little headlines come out of the Middle East these days about the two-decade war the US has been fighting against terrorism. But what you hear on an increasing frequency are headlines outlining how Russia and China are the new enemies. The shift happened several years ago when the US military figured out that a great power competition was underway. Continue reading “Pentagon Shifts Focus Ahead Of Next War, Wants To Relocate Troops To Indo-Pacific Region”
Israel’s state prosecutor has plans to indict prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cousin and personal lawyer, alongside six other people, on charges related to a possible conflict of interest over a $2bn purchase of German submarines.
Shai Nitzan said in a statement on Thursday the seven would be charged on various corruption offences, including money laundering, bribery and fraud – pending a hearing. Continue reading “Netanyahu’s personal lawyer to be charged with money laundering”
Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns
Buckingham, VA — An 8-year-old girl was forced to strip completely naked to be able to enter the Buckingham Correctional Center to see her father, an inmate being housed there. Making matters worse for not only the child but the prison system, the child’s mother was not present in order to give consent to the search. Continue reading “8yo Girl Stripped Naked by Officers, Telling Her It’s The Only Way She Can See Her Daddy”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Dallas, TX — Feeding and clothing the homeless in the land of the free has now become a revolutionary act. Luckily, however, there are still good people willing to carry that act out.
In December 2014, the Dallas city council enacted Ordinance No. 29595, which makes it illegal to serve food to the homeless without jumping through a statist myriad of bureaucratic hoops, including a fee, training classes, and written notices. Continue reading “Since Feeding the Homeless Is Illegal, Activists Carry AR-15s to Give Out Food, Supplies”
A South African man was able to become a naturalized American citizen weeks after allegedly murdering two native Alaskan women, Breitbart News has learned.
Brian Smith, a 48-year-old native of South Africa, was indicted in October for the murders of 30-year-old Kathleen Henry and 52-year-old Veronica Abouchuk in Anchorage, Alaska, in separate incidents. Henry was allegedly strangled to death, while Abouchuk was allegedly shot and killed. Continue reading “South African Man Given U.S. Citizenship After Allegedly Murdering Alaskan Women”
Paul A. Volcker, who helped shape American economic policy for more than six decades, and who will forever be etched in the history books for leading the Federal Reserve’s brute-force campaign to subdue inflation in the late 1970s and early ’80s, has died on Sunday in New York, the NYT reported. He was 92. Continue reading “Paul Volcker, Central Banker Who Defeated Inflation, Dead At 92”