On the last day of calendar 2016, total US public debt jumped by $98 billion, mostly as a result of end of quarter Social Security debt allocation, which accounted for $70.4 billion of the daily increase. As a result, total US government debt on December 30, 2016 was $19,976,826,951,047.80.
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
An economy that only serves the prosperity of the protected top 5% is an economy doomed to rising inequality, stagnation and widespread social discontent.
Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?” ? Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
In January 2009, just three days after his inauguration, an arrogant President Obama, a "community organizer" and one-term senator from Illinois, proclaimed to then Republican Whip Eric Cantor that "elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won." Unfortunately, he was absolutely right and the consequences of Obama's election, having already crushed the coal industry, are about to bring the restaurant industry crashing down as well.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has likened alternative media outlets to terrorist groups such as ISIS. One month after the San Bernardino attack that killed 14 civilians, the DHS security Secretary Jeh Johnson told advisors that the “alt right” posed just as much of a threat to the country as Islamic extremists. Dailycaller.com reports: Johnson made the comments during the Homeland Security Advisory Council’s (HSAC) January meeting.