Well, Trump slept on it, and… nothing changed. Confirming that the tensions between the US and Mexico are only set to escalate after a diplomatically volatile day, in which president Pena Nieto unexpectedly pulled out of his Jan. 31 meeting with the US president, prompting the White House to first [...]

Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Meanwhile, back in reality, household income for the bottom 95% has declined while the owners of capital and their privileged, protected servants in the Establishment have gorged themselves on private wealth. As noted yesterday in The Collapse of the Left, the working class [...]

In Blow To Theresa May, UK Supreme Court Rules Parliament Must Vote Before Brexit Can Start In a blow to Theresa May’s ambitions to implement a “clean Brexit”, on Tuesday morning UK’s Supreme Court ruled the UK Prime Minister can’t start the Brexit process without approval from Parliament, a decision [...]

In order to sidestep and avoid Democratic obstruction with a Trump Supreme Court nominee; are you in favor of the Senate employing the “Constitutional Option” or Nuclear Option”?? The nuclear or constitutional option is a parliamentary procedure that allows the U.S. Senate to override a rule or precedent by a simple [...]

Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The Left is not just in disarray- – it is in complete collapse because the working class has awakened to the Left’s betrayal and abandonment of the working class in favor of building personal wealth and power. The source of the angry angst [...]

The $7 billion school improvement grant program: Greatest failure in the history of the US Department of Education? Education Font SizeAA The final IES report on the School Improvement Grant program is devastating to Arne Duncan’s and the Obama administration’s education legacy. A major evaluation commissioned by the U.S. Department [...]

Submitted by Johnny Kampis via The Foundation for Economic Education, Migration patterns for 2016 show that Americans tended to move away from high-tax states and into states where residents keep more of what they earn. United Van Lines, the nation’s largest moving company, recently released its annual movers study report [...]

Freedom: To a Liberal means that you are subjected to the authority of the state; to a Conservative it means the state is subject to the authority of the people… [...]

Pay attention to the reaction Democrats have had to a peaceful transition of power,,these are some of you neighbors, never underestimate these animals, they count on your complacency..their culture is anti freedom…they are unable to handle freedom as you can see, that is why the continually vote freedom away!!! [...]

Submitted by Tony Heller via RealClimateScience.com, Climate Central just ran this piece, which the Washington Post picked up on. They claimed the US was “overwhelmingly hot” in 2016, and temperatures have risen 1,5°F since the 19th century. The U.S. Has Been Overwhelmingly Hot This Year | Climate Central The first [...]

1. Chart of the Day I (above). Detroit public charter schools out-performed traditional Detroit public schools in the last few years, and it’s not even close according to research conducted by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy’s Ben DeGrow, summarized in a blog post here: Detroit Charters Far Outperform Traditional [...]

Submitted by Antony Davies and James Harrigan via InsideSources.com, Hugo Chavez’s successor, socialist President Nicolas Maduro has raised the nation’s minimum wage for the fifth time in a year. The whopping 50 percent wage hike raises the monthly wage to between $12 and $60, in U.S. terms, depending on whether [...]

Submitted by Jonathan Rochford via Narrow Road Capital, The recent blow-up of the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System was entirely predictable. Whilst it is tempting to blame unusual circumstances for the recent lock-up of redemptions and likely substantial reductions to pensions for those still in the fund, many other [...]

In a “mass layoff” event reported late last week by the Department of Labor, the Clinton Foundation announced it would lay off some 22 employees at the Clinton Global Initiative, which attained notoriety during the John Podesta leaks, when the various details of the fallout between between CGI head Doug [...]

Early on Thursday morning, in a 51-48 vote, the Senate took the first concrete step toward dismantling Obamacare, when it voted to instruct key committees to draft legislation repealing Barack Obama’s signature health insurance program. Republicans needed a simple majority to clear the repeal rules, instructing committees to begin drafting [...]

Submitted by Nick Bernabe via TheAntiMedia.org, Long-simmering social tensions in Mexico are threatening to boil over as failing neoliberal reforms to the country’s formerly nationalized gas sector are compounded by open corruption, stagnant standards of living, and rampant inflation. The U.S. media has remained mostly mute on the situation in Mexico, [...]

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As it began so it will finish. Putting the exclamation point on a trend that has marked Obama’s entire presidency, in the final Obama jobs report, the BLS announced that the total number of people not in the labor force grew once more, rising by 18,000 in December, and a [...]

Back in September, we noted that, in a surprisingly logical decision particularly for a state like California which is typically devoid of all reason, a court upheld the rights of Marin County (and it’s taxpayers) to reduce final year salary levels utilized to calculate pension payments.  The ruling was meant [...]

California’s liberal lawmakers in Sacramento are certainly well left of center and maybe a bit kooky and have done something quite ridiculous by passing Senate Bill No. 1322, Senate Bill No. 1322. Below is the first page of SB1322 which notes that while “existing law makes it a crime to solicit or [...]

As noted yesterday, for the first time in three years, and only the second time in history, bitcoin rose above $1,000 in Yuan-denominated Chinese trading as more and more people are starting to see the benefits of the bitcoin, the rise has been from people that are curious about how [...]

The U.S. Department of Education has just released it’s latest ranking of international education systems (Program for International Student Assessment – “PISA”) and performance of U.S. students just continues to deteriorate on both absolute and relative terms. Perhaps it’s time to have a real conversation about the complete failure of [...]

Submitted by Pater Tenebrarum via Acting-Man.com, Surface Temperatures Plunge – the Great Pause Continues Last year’s El Nino phenomenon temporarily provided succor to climate alarmists, who were increasingly bothered by the “Great Pause” – the fact that the tiny amount of warming experienced since the last cooling cycle ended in [...]

Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Sorry, U.S. Census Bureau, I.R.S. and St. Louis Federal Reserve – you’re issuing “Russian propaganda” according to The Washington Post’s shoddy “fake news” methodology. In case you missed it, The Washington Post’s criminally careless publishing of “fake news” about purported “Russian propaganda” created [...]

Back in April, when we first reported that Deutsche Bank had agreed to settle allegations it had rigged the silver market in exchange for $38 million, we revealed something stunning: “in a curious twist, the settlement letter revealed that the former members of the manipulation cartel have turned on each [...]

Fallacy One:: All Cultures Are Morally Equivalent. Fallacy Two:: I Am Indifferent As To Which Culture My Children Adopt. Fraud One:: The Left Believe That They Are Morally Superior. Fraud Two:: The Left Is Determined To Force You To Adopt Their Culture.. [...]

The cleansing of the Temple. To begin I will state that I am an atheist. Religion on the other hand exist and most of it is good.  Religion is a construct of man, a derivative of culture, an attempt to provide rules and mores to enable man to inhabit a [...]

Tax cash withdraws will of course give “capital controls” a new dimension. Greek banks have proposed a series of measures to combat tax evasion, strengthen the electronic transactions and limit the use of cash in the economy, and as KeepTalkingGreece.com reports, one of the measures proposed is a special tax [...]

Submitted by Richard J.Maybury via The Mises Institute, Each year at this time, schoolchildren all over America are taught the official Thanksgiving story, and newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines devote vast amounts of time and space to it. It is all very colorful and fascinating. It is also very deceiving. [...]

Russia gold buying accelerated in October with the Russian central bank buying a very large 48 metric tonnes or 1.3 million ounces of gold bullion. This is the largest addition of gold to the Russian monetary reserves since 1998 and could be seen as a parting ‘gift’ by Prime Minister Putin [...]

Derek Scissors China edges toward a big mistake Asia, Economics, Foreign and Defense Policy Font SizeAA The People’s Bank of China may be in the process of losing its collective mind. Again. In August 2015 and January 2016, China’s central bank changed currency policy in opaque fashion. The result was [...]

Deutsche Bank’s long-held analogy of “plate-spinning” central bankers acting like the old popular circus act where the performers would spin plates on numerous poles and run between them in order to re-spin before they came crashing down to the ground, has held perfectly for several years. Over the years more [...]

Facebook Apologizes for Overstating Video Metrics   Facebook apologized on Friday for an error in the way it measured video viewership, a miscalculation that greatly overstated how much time, on average, its users were spending watching videos. The incorrect numbers were displayed to partners, including advertisers and publishers, for more [...]

In the aftermath of the ECB halting production of the €500 banknote, and more recently, India phasing out its highest denomination bills instantly eliminating some 86% of the cash in circulation as increasingly more countries make a move toward a cash-free society, another central bank – the world’s oldest – [...]

Donald Trump exclaimed that “we’re going to get Apple to build their damn computers and things in this country instead of in other countries,” in January, and now as Nikkei reports, Key Apple assembler Hon Hai Precision Industry, also known as Foxconn Technology Group, has been studying the possibility of [...]

As we’ve noted before, Defined Benefit Pension Plans are, almost by definition, a ponzi scheme. Current assets are used to pay current claims in full in spite of insufficient funding to pay future liabilities: classic Ponzi.  But unlike wall street and corporate ponzi schemes no one goes to jail here [...]

Submitted by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, Less than a week after India’s surprise move to scrap its highest denomination cash notes, another front in the War on Cash has intensified down under in Australia. Yesterday, banking giant UBS proposed that eliminating Australia’s $100 and $50 bills would be “good for [...]

Submitted by Jayant Bhandari via Acting-Man.com, Chaos in the Wake of the Ban Here is a link to Part 1, about what happened in the first two days after India’s government made Rs 500 (~$7.50) and Rs 1,000 (~$15) banknotes illegal. They can now only be converted to Rs 100 [...]

Ron Emanuel, As The Mayor Of Chicago, The Mulder Capital Of The Free World, Shows The World Just How Ignorant He Is. Putting His Own Erroneous Political View Ahead Of The Rule Of Law As He Reaches Out To Illegal Criminal Immigrants To Seek Sanctuary In His Killing Fields. Hard [...]

The Democratic party is the party of ever increasing government and wealth redistribution. Fueled by the extortion of taxes, they purchase votes with mana from the state.  Approximately 122.500.000 individuals are the recipient of means tested funds provided by the government. Another approximate 22,500,000 individuals are employed by Federal, State [...]

Submitted by Chris Hamilton via Econimica blog, GDP Without the Debt Incurred Is Just A Gross Distortion GDP or gross domestic product is the big lie used by politicians because it neatly avoids the debt undertaken to achieve it’s purported growth.  The chart below shows annual US GDP growth back to [...]

The shock and disbelief of Democrats and Liberals across the country is astonishing. Apparently they had bought into the lies that the Major Media (ABC, CBS, NBC , CNN, NYT, WP) were emitting as the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party. Unfortunately, in an effort to persuade the citizens and [...]

List Your Entry For Most Profound Lyrics In Rock And Roll And Vote In The Comment section   1)“Did You Exchange A Walk On Part In A War For A Lead Roll In A Cage”:  Robert Waters; Wish You Were Here; Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here: 2) “Meet The [...]

“Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,”  “And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass,” he added.  As a consultant, Gruber banked nearly $400,000 from the Department of Health and Human Services. “They proposed [...]

Take The Survey. Like This Page And Indicate Why You Will Vote For Hillary:: Amoral; Hillary, volunteered, as a favor, to defend the 41 year old brutal rapist of an innocent 12 year old girl. Disregarding her obligation as an officer of the court to see that justice is served, she used a [...]

It is time that you asked Hillary Clinton voters if they support the introduction of violence and intimidation into the electoral process. If they are going to reward the tyrannical tactics that Hillary and the Democratic party employed to shut down free speech and the right for opposition political assembly. [...]

The recent bombings and hate speech attacks of Republican campaign offices are a direct result of Hillary Clinton’s dehumanization of her Republican political adversary’s. Hillary has duplicated the propaganda Hitler and the Nazi’s employed in creating a negative sub human image of “Jews” and applied that strategy against Republicans. Her [...]

U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan granted Judicial Watch the right to ask 25 questions of Hillary Clinton about the creation of her private email server which she was required to answer under oath. This morning Hillary filed her response to those 25 questions:: “Does Not Recall“:  20 “Object” [...]

Hillary Clinton Said Jordan ‘Can’t Possibly Vet All Those Refugees’ from Syria; ‘Jihadists Are Coming in Along with Legitimate Refugees’ This Is What Hillary Is Indifferent About:: She Wants To Increase The Amount Of Refugees By 500% Islamic State militants in Syria heinously tortured and killed a 12-year-old boy, along [...]

That Hillary is an Arrogant elitist is obvious to most. That she is also a bigoted racist should now be clear to all! Hillary Reveals She Is A Racist, Then Tries To Paint Us All With Her Guilt…. Hillary, ” Lester I think implicit bias is a problem for everyone”” [...]