Peak Prosperity – by Adam Target

The Origins Of The Retirement Plan

Back during the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress promised a monthly lifetime income to soldiers who fought and survived the conflict. This guaranteed income stream, called a “pension”, was again offered to soldiers in the Civil War and every American war since.

Since then, similar pension promises funded from public coffers expanded to cover retirees from other branches of government. States and cities followed suit — extending pensions to all sorts of municipal workers ranging from policemen to politicians, teachers to trash collectors.   Continue reading “The Great Retirement Con”

Breitbart – by Neil Munro

House leaders are considering a plan to cut legal immigration in exchange for approving some form of DACA amnesty, says GOP Rep. David Brat.

As reported in theHill.com,

Rep. Dave Brat (R-Va.) said the Republicans are eying a plan consisting of three components favored by conservatives: An effort to discourage chain migration; the creation of a mandatory e-verify system to deter hiring immigrants in the country illegally; and the elimination of the diversity visa program.
Continue reading “GOP Leaders Debate Combination Plan to Cut Legal Immigration, Approve a DACA Amnesty”

Breitbart – by Lucas Nolan

Independent news agency World Net Daily has launched a “Thank Trump Card Campaign,” allowing Trump supporters to send personalized e-cards to the White House to thank President Donald Trump for his achievements.

As President Trump’s first year in office comes to an end, World Net Daily has launched a campaign to give Americans the chance to thank him personally for his achievements since being elected to office. The Thank Trump Card Campaign allows Americans to select an e-card of their choice, personalize it with a message for President Trump, and have it sent directly to him to express their gratitude for his efforts to Make America Great Again.  Continue reading “World Net Daily Launches ‘Thank Trump Card Campaign’”

RT

Sending a sample of your DNA through the post may seem like a harmless and novel way of tracing your ancestry, and millions of Americans have already done so, but there is a more sinister side to this relatively new enterprise.

If you’re suspected of a crime police can, if they have a warrant, request access to your DNA profile from both the Ancestry and 23andMe websites. The latter has received five requests for customer information from law enforcement, although the company says it didn’t comply with any of these requests.   Continue reading “Police Can Now Request Your DNA Without Your Consent or Knowledge Via Ancestry Websites”

Daily Mail

President Donald Trump hit out early Saturday at ‘crooked’ Hillary Clinton, his defeated election opponent.

Trump called Clinton ‘the worst (and biggest’ loser of all time’ for saying that his election victory has ‘lots of questions about its legitimacy.’

‘She just can’t stop, which is so good for the Republican Party,’ Trump tweeted on Saturday.   Continue reading “Trump calls ‘crooked’ Hillary Clinton ‘the worst (and biggest) loser’”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is hitting back at the growing bipartisan criticism of Rex Tillerson’s leadership and accusations he is presiding over a debilitating brain drain of the nation’s diplomatic corps. At the same time, it allowed that a lack of communication with employees about Tillerson’s intent to reorganize the department had contributed to low morale.   Continue reading “State Department defends reorganization, admits low morale”

RT

Children as young as two months of age are being sexually abused online, in what a global charity says is a growing ‘dark’ trend of live-streamed child exploitation. Much of the demand comes from UK-based pedophiles.

‘Cybersex trafficking’ is a new form of exploitation, whereby children are being forced to perform sexual acts for the sexual gratification of online customers. The trend has become rampant in the Philippines, where police are receiving thousands of referrals each month, and almost 100 children have already been rescued in the past year.   Continue reading “Live-streaming of child sexual abuse a growing trend, charity warns”

Belfast Telegraph – by Brett Campbell

A Catholic priest who ministers in Co Fermanagh has called for the Church to accept that it has “lost Christmas” and abandon the word altogether.

Father Desmond O’Donnell, who has a congregation in Cleenish Parish near Enniskillen, has urged Christians, no matter the denomination, to accept that the term ‘Christmas’ had been shorn of any sacred meaning.   Continue reading “Northern Ireland priest says church should abandon word ‘Christmas’”

Stephen Lendman

House Republicans voted to continue transferring the nation’s wealth from ordinary people to corporate predators and the super-rich.

Every House undemocratic Dem voted against the bill along with 13 Republicans. Under the Senate version of the measure, households earning under $40,000 annually will face higher federal taxes in 2021.

Those earning $75,000 or less will pay higher taxes in 2027.   Continue reading “The Great American Tax Cut Swindle”

Global Research – by Stephen Lendman

It’s shocking but true. You can’t make this stuff up. College and grad school students already are drowning in debt.

During my higher education years in the 1950s, the student loan racket didn’t exist. It wasn’t needed. Affordable tuition and expenses meant students could complete their education debt free.

Good jobs were plentiful, long before offshoring to low-wage countries created today’s deplorable conditions – well-educated graduates denied opportunities afforded me, many debt-entrapped, unemployed, way underemployed or unable to find work in their chosen fields.   Continue reading “House GOP Tax Cut Swindle: A Huge Tax Hike on Grad Students”

The Daily Beast – by Lloyd Grove

Kiss frontman Gene Simmons—until this week, a favorite guest on Fox News and Fox Business Network programs, which couldn’t get enough of his supposedly outrageous rock-star antics mixed with conservative politics—has been banned for life from the right-leaning cable channels.

Fox finally had enough of Simmons after he crudely insulted female Fox staffers, taunted them and exposed his chest, and otherwise behaved like the “demon” character he plays onstage. Management was not amused, and Simmons’s photograph was promptly posted Wednesday at the security entrance of the company’s Manhattan headquarters along with a “do-not-admit” advisory.   Continue reading “Fox News Bans Kiss Frontman Gene Simmons for Life”

The Daily Caller – by Joshua Gill

A man identifying as a woman has become the U.K. Methodist Church’s first transgender minister, physically transitioning changing his gender to female after four decades of dressing like one.

Joy Everingham, a 46-year-old chaplain at University of Kent Canterbury and father of two, announced to his congregation that he had fully accepted his identity and would transition to wearing women’s clothing full-time and begin taking cross-gender hormones, according to Telegraph. Everingham first discussed his plan of transitioning to senior church leaders, who gave their full approval, before announcing his plans to his congregation. Everingham, still married and living with his wife Ruth and their two sons and ordained as a Methodist deacon, is the first transgender minister accepted by the Methodist Church in the U.K.   Continue reading “First Transgender Minister Appointed In UK Methodist Church”

Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown

In a stunning turn of events following Judge Navarro’s order that the prosecution turn over all evidence regarding video and agents at Bundy Ranch in 2014, reports are coming out the evidence that was not allowed to be presented in the previous two trials was shown to the jury on Wednesday and that evidence basically shutdown the prosecution from any rebuttal.

In a video report from John Lamb and Kelly Stewart, who attended the trial and have been reporting on it live from Nevada, said that such evidence as photos of snipers surrounding the Bundy house four days ahead of the impoundment, unlike the prosecution claimed, and photos of Bureau of Land Management agents with guns trained on protesters, as well as other acts of aggression by the BLM.   Continue reading “Bombshells in Bundy Ranch Case: Government Witness Confirms Bundy’s Claims”

Yahoo News

An Ohio lawmaker who routinely touted his Christian faith and anti-LGBT views has resigned after being caught having sex with a man in his office.

Wes Goodman, who is the Republican state legislator for Ohio, is married to a woman who is assistant director of an annual anti-abortion rally known as March for Life.

The right-wing legislator, who pushed “family values”, was reportedly witnessed having sex with a man inside his office who was not employed by the legislator.   Continue reading “Anti-LGBT politician resigns after being ‘caught having sex with man in his office’”