Last night, anti-Trump protesters in New Mexico stormed a Trump rally, and got into a violent skirmish with local riot police breaking cars and throwing stones and bottles at the police. While not quite as violent (yet), with Trump currently conducting a rally in Anaheim, the anti-Trump protesters are back and are currently clashing outside the location of today's Trump rally.

Protest clashes outside Trump rally @ #Anaheim Convention Center. Katella closed btw Harbor & West. @KNX1070 #traffic

Less than a decade ago, the mere hint that the Fed was either propping up markets or actively pushing them higher was enough to get one branded a conspiracy theorist loon and never again invited to polite conversation. Since then first Bernanke, and then virtually all central bankers both domestic and foreign have admitted that the "wealth effect", a polite way of saying pushing up asset prices, has been their primary goal and function.

Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

With all the U.S.-trained fighters dead, captured or missing and their leader in the hands of Al Qaeda, top U.S. commanders are scrambling this week to determine how to revive the half-billion dollar program to create a moderate Syrian army to fight the Islamic State.

 

Now that all eyes have turned on China eager to find how it will react to a potential Fed rate hike in June or July, the question is whether the sharp Chinese devaluation unveiled overnight, which sent the Yuan to fresh 5 year lows, will be a one-off event, and whether the PBOC will intervene far more aggressively in the offshore CNY market to keep FX market turmoil to a minimum.

According to at least one person, the answer is no.

Two of the world’s largest terrorist groups who were once allies are now fighting for supremacy in Syria. Al Qaeda is heading to Syria to replace ISIS as the lesser of two evils. Raw Story reports: According to Ali Soufan, the CEO of strategic-security firm The Soufan Group, the brutal activities of ISIS — also known as ISIL — have led the Muslim world to view Al Qaeda more favorably. “What ISIS did made so many people in the Muslim world think, ‘Al Qaeda are the good guys.