(Zero Hedge) After more than 200 years, the Rothschild family is leaving Austria – selling its last piece 7,000 hectares (17,300 acres) of forest in the Lower Austria region.
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“This Was In No Way A Concession”: Trump Vows To Move Forward On Wall In 21 Days — Deal Or Not
(Zero Hedge) Friday’s agreement between President Trump and Congressional Democrats to reopen the government for three weeks has been celebrated by gloating Democrats, and panned by Trump’s base. The temporary deal will pay roughly 800,000 federal employees who were set to miss their second paychecks on Friday, while negotiations over Trump’s wall will occur over the next 21 days. Federal workers will receive backpay as part of the deal.
Federal Reserve Confesses Sole Responsibility For All Recessions
(David Haggith) In a surprisingly candid admission, two former Federal Reserve chairs have stated that the Federal Reserve alone is responsible for creating all recessions in the United States.
MSM Begs For Trust After Buzzfeed Debacle
(Caitlin Johnstone) Following what the Washington Post has described as “the highest-profile misstep yet for a news organization during a period of heightened and intense scrutiny of the press,” mass media representatives are now flailing desperately for an argument as to why people should continue to place their trust in mainstream news outlets.
Brazil’s Bolsonaro Blasts Left’s “Marxist Indoctrination… Enslaving Kids To Welfare Dependence”
(Zero Hedge) Less than two weeks after he was sworn into office, Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro is making good on his commitments to dismantle the Marxist indoctrination underpinning Brazil’s culture.
The Yellow Vest Movement Has Officially Gone Global
(Zero Hedge) The Yellow Vest anti-government movement started in France on November 17, when over 300,000 people across France protested a carbon tax on fuel that French President Emmanuel Macron touted as evidence of France’s leadership when it comes to mitigating climate change.
Largest Cache Of Hacked Data In History Discovered: Over 770 Million Email Addresses, 21 Million Passwords
(Zero Hedge) Security expert Troy Hunt has exposed the largest publication of breached data in history, affecting over 770 million email addresses and 21 million passwords.
How The Federal Reserve Quietly Bankrupted The US Pension System
(Stephanie Pomboy) Actions have consequences. Even for the Fed.
The Super Rich Are Investing In Magic Mushrooms And Fancy Batteries
(Zero Hedge) At some point, the super rich reach a level of wealth where “traditional” boring investments like real estate, precious metals, equities and bonds all become a little too mundane. That’s generally when they find time for investing in things like art, collectible cars, fancy batteries and even psychedelic drugs. In fact, we recently wrote about the boom in insurance for items like whiskeys, which are also becoming popular collectible items, having recently priced at more than $1 million per bottle in auction.
IRS Will Take Your Money but Won’t Issue Tax Refunds During Shutdown
(Zero Hedge) While most Americans thought they wouldn’t be affected by the partial government shutdown, anyone with a federal tax refund coming to them will have to wait until the stalemate is over, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Blue Lights in NYC: New Yorkers Fear ‘Alien Invasion’ After Mysterious Blue Light Floods City Skyline
(Zero Hedge) A mysterious blue light rising over Queens Thursday night sowed mass confusion in the metropolis of nearly 9 million people as thousands of city dwellers took to their social media feeds to express fears that the aliens might have finally arrived…only to learn that the source of the light was quite pedestrian.
“It’s Our Right” – College Students Demand Eight Hours Of Sleep Every Night
(Zachary Petrizzo) ‘Everyone deserves 8 hours of sleep!’
Causes advanced by democratic socialists are many: tuition-free college, universal health care, a federal jobs guarantee, a “living wage,” and much more.
Former CIA Chief Of Disguise Explains How Spy Agency Trains Agents To Blend In
(Zero Hedge) The CIA has a long and checkered history of sending highly trained agents into very foreign environments to conduct everything from espionage to assassinations.
How Government Bureaucrats & The NYTimes Are Misleading The Public About Climate Change
(Robert P. Murphy) The Executive Branch’s recently released Volume II of the National Climate Assessment (NCA) is a massive document that is being cited as yet further evidence that the U.S. government should act quickly and boldly in the fight against climate change. The coverage in the New York Times was typical:
US Military Ordered to Withdraw 7,000 Troops From Afghanistan
(Zero Hedge) CNN warns that US officials are bracing themselves for Trump’s announcement on Afghanistan after his bombshell Syria troop pullout announcement on Wednesday.