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The Real Russiagate: Obama’s Stasi State

Michael Hudson and Paul Craig Roberts

Mike Whitney has written an excellent expose of the “Russiagate” cover story for Obama’s political use of national security to help his party oppose Republicans. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46775.htm

Covert surveillance of politicians on Obama’s Nixon-like “Enemies List” has been going on for many years, but is only now being unmasked as a result of the failure of Obama’s cover story–“We weren’t spying on political opponents; only on Russians to protect America.”

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Trudeau to Trump: Drop Dead! (Implications for Gold)

Written by Peter Diekmeyer (CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL)

Forty years ago, the Daily News published its famous Ford to City: Drop Dead headline, which dealt with President Gerald Ford’s response to a New York City handout request.

DISCLAIMER: this essay was written in the spirit of April Fool's Day.

Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

The basic idea is that giving each household, regardless of wealth or income, $1 million each will spur consumption so mightily that inflation will skyrocket.

Authored by Wolf Richter via WolfStreet.com,

Those who lost out on the Fed’s “wealth effect.”

Here’s a mystery: Has this “wealth-effect” economy that the Fed so beautifully engineered since the Financial Crisis gotten a lot riskier, scarier, and uglier in some profound ways for lower-income Americans, those making $30,000 or less a year?

One of the questions that Gallup posed was this:

The war in Yemen just marked its second anniversary.  

"What war" you may ask given the lack of mainstream media coverage?

Here's Planet America's Chas Licciardello to explain how the war is causing one Yemeni child to die of malnutrition every 10 minutes, and what America's role in the conflict is...