by William Federer, Freedom OutPost:
John F. Kennedy stated in his Thanksgiving Proclamation, October 28, 1961:
“The Pilgrims, after a year of hardship and peril, humbly and reverently set aside a special day upon which to give thanks to God …
I ask the head of each family to recount to his children the story of the first New England Thanksgiving,
by Jack Burns, The Free Thought Project:
An influential Catholic Cardinal has been accused of sexually assaulting teenage boys and having “dozens” of sexual relationships with young men.
In what appears to be a continuation of the #MeToo movement, and following decades of substantiated accusations of sexual abuse by priests in the Catholic Church, a rock star American Catholic Cardinal stands accused of abusing an 11-year-old boy. The abuse continued for over 20 years.
Father Theodore E. McCarrick began abusing “James” in 1969 when the now 60-year-old man was just 11. James told the New York Times that McCarrick was a family friend and started grooming him following a swim in the family’s pool. Apparently pretending to be looking for the bathroom, McCarrick, who was already a priest, came into his bedroom, took his clothes off, exposed himself to the boy and said:
by Kenneth Schortgen, The Daily Economist:
Throughout history gold more than any other commodity has held an intrinsic tie to sovereign currencies, and even much more than today’s oil based Petrodollar system. And you can see this of course in how gold’s purchasing power in a given currency has held its strength as said currencies themselves devalued over time.
I use this chart because it brings up an interesting ratio. Ie… how many gold ounces could one purchase in 1960 just prior to the United States removing the currency from the Gold Standard (1964), and how many ounces could one purchase today for that same amount.
From 1960-65 you could purchase (if it were legal back then) around 29 ounces per $1000.
(Fast forward to today).
by John Vibes, DC Clothesline:
Seaside Heights, NJ — A fairly worrisome video has been shared with the Free Thought Project this week purporting to show a man being arrested after police stopped him for riding a bike without a bell.
The video, posted to Facebook by user A Dot Norwood, shows officers from the Seaside Heights police department temporarily detaining a man who was riding his bike.
In the first brief video, the officers appear to stop the man and then let him go. However, in the second video, we see them stopping him again.
by Jim White, Freedom OutPost:
In Los Angeles, we already have a history where citizens had to protect themselves against criminals because the police abandoned them during the LA riots in 1992. Well, nothing has changed and as you will see in the following video, The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has not changed their position and are more than happy to save their own skin rather by running away from criminals rather than protecting law-abiding citizens. So much for “Protect and Serve.”
Editor Note: We already know that police are not duty bound to protect anyone per the Supreme Court, which is exactly why I don’t understand anyone not wanting to carry their own weapons and trust police officers to protect them. In Los Angeles, we already have a history where citizens had to protect themselves against criminals because the police abandoned them during the LA riots in 1992. Well, nothing has changed and as you will see in the following video, The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has not changed their position and are more than happy to save their own skin rather by running away from criminals rather than protecting law-abiding citizens. So much for “Protect and Serve.”
by Daisy Luther and M.K. Matthews, The Organic Prepper:
By now, unless you have been living in a Wifi-free deadzone, you’ve heard about the hundreds of billions in tariffs that the United States and China are flinging at one another like ninja throwing stars. When you’re hearing numbers like “100 billion dollars” it may seem like this is in an entirely different universe than the one in which you exist.
Unfortunately, that’s incorrect.
You can expect up to a 40% increase in the cost of all sorts of things. (We’ll get to those things in a moment.) First, let’s talk about tariffs so that everyone knows what’s going on.
from Jason Goodman:
Kevin Shipp lays it all out in what can only be described as an epic presentation. As a former CIA agent, Kevin’s grasp of the inner workings of the deep state and the shadow government are second to none. Kevin sheds new light on the most powerful and prolific organized crime syndicate in human history.
by Brandon Smith, Alt Market:
It is generally well known in economic circles and in the general public that precious metals, including gold, tend to be the go-to investment during times of fiscal uncertainty. There is a good reason for this. Precious metals have foundation qualities that provide trade stability; these include inherent rarity (rather than artificially engineered rarity such as that associated with cryptocurrencies), tangibility (you can hold gold in your hand, and it is relatively difficult to destroy accidentally), and precious metals are easy to trade. Unless you are attempting to make transactions overseas, or in denominations of billions of dollars, precious metals are the most versatile, tangible trading platform in existence.
by Susan Duclos, All News Pipeline:
Facebook is A Surveillance Company Rebranded As Social Media – Edward Snowden, March 17, 2018
Quick Background: Facebook has lost over $60 billion in market value over the last couple of days after it was revealed that an app developed in 2014 which invited users to find out their personality type, specifically designed to “harvest” data of not only the 270,000 people that took the quiz, but of all their Facebook friends as well. When all was said and done, approximately 50 million users had their data harvested.
That data was passed on to Cambridge Analytica in 2014, a privately held company that combines data mining, data brokerage, and data analysis with strategic communication for the electoral process.
The Trump campaign hired Cambridge Analytica in June 2016, who used the information to tailor content to garner support for his candidacy.
from Blunt Force Truth:
Today, the star of a popular television show was arrested on charges of sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy and forced labor conspiracy.
According to a criminal complaint, Allison Mack, who starred as Chloe Sullivan in the hit superhero series “Smallville,” procured sex slaves for the NXIVM (pronounced “Nexium”) cult.
Founded by Keith Raniere in upstate New York, the cult was marketed as a women’s professional development organization.
by James Turk, Gold Seek:
In 1992 a book entitled “Bankruptcy 1995: The Coming Collapse of America and How to Stop It” hit the nation by storm. Written by Harry Figgie, a prominent businessman who had built a Fortune 500 company, and Gerald Swanson, an economics professor with expertise in public finance, it forecast that the US federal government would go bankrupt in 1995 and default.
The default would arise from a currency[i] collapse. Each lender to the federal government might receive back the same number of dollars they had loaned, but those dollars would have considerably less purchasing power[ii], and possibly none at all, making them worthless. So US Treasury debt instruments would have little or no value because they are denominated in dollars, the purchasing power of which would be decimated by hyperinflation.
Obviously it hasn’t happened. Even though the dollar subsequently experienced some horrific swoons and its purchasing power continues to erode, it has endured, but we should not ignore this book’s conclusions.
by The Federalist, via Intellihub:
The press continues to feed the dying Russia collusion conspiracy theory, spending Friday’s news cycle regurgitating Democrat talking points from the just-filed Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act lawsuit against the Trump campaign, WikiLeaks, and Russia.
Yet the mainstream media took no notice of last week’s federal court filing that exposes an $84 million money-laundering conspiracy the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign executed during the 2016 presidential election in violation of federal campaign-finance law.
by Dave Kranzler, Investment Research Dynamics:
“Nobody, when they’re looking at a privatization, dangles this way and does this sort of teasing dance of choreography. Somebody only does this when they are trying to distract us with a shiny new thing…There’s a lot of problems here. He can’t afford to build the new factory that he says he wants to build. This is a distracting strategy like attacking the press” – Jeffery Sonnenfeld, Yale School of Management on CNBC
by John Rubino, Dollar Collapse:
If you’re getting the sense that stocks always go up, that’s because they’ve been doing so for a really, really long time. From CNBC today:
On the bull market’s ninth birthday, here’s how it stacks up against history
• The Dow has quadrupled during the bull market, which turned 9 on Friday.
• This is the biggest and longest bull market for the Dow post-WWII, according to Leuthold Group.
The bullish run in the Dow Jones industrial average — which celebrates its ninth birthday Friday — is the longest ever and the greatest percentage gain since World War II, according to Leuthold Group.
by Tim Brown, Freedom OutPost:
And who is laughing now, America? Obama and all his minions are because they have taken America on a path to destruction and it seems he will never be brought to account, not even by this administration.
Don’t blame just the Democrats, America. Every single Republican representative who didn’t deal with this usurper demonstrated that they don’t have the spine to abide by the Constitution and deal with people like Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro Sobarkah.
