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Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

The central banks claim omnipotent financial powers, but their comeuppance is overdue.

Having suffered a massive backlash from their attempt to downplay a fraudulent story with a "clarification," ABC News has upgraded their contrition to a "serious error" and suspended the veteran reporter Brian Ross who wrote the story.

As a reminder, citing a single anonymous source, Ross told viewers during an ABC special report on Friday morning that Flynn was prepared to testify that Donald Trump, as a candidate for president, told him to contact Russians.

The left erupted in excitement...

The US Congress yesterday revoked press credentials for the Russia-backed RT America television station, claiming RT's new "foreign agent" status disqualified it from conducting journalism on Capitol Hill.

RPI Director Daniel McAdams appeared on RT's The Ed Shultz Show to criticize the move on the grounds that the US government should not attempt to prevent Americans from viewing whatever media they choose.

How Did America Get Unaccountable Police With Absolute Power Over US Citizens?

Constitutional attorney John Whitehead describes the insecurity of the American citizen.

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/nervous_about_traffic_stops_i_am._you_should_be_too_short

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Daytime television aficionados woke up yesterday to discover that another one of the programming block's most prominent male figures had been felled by the expanding national reckoning with sexual harassment in the workplace. Matt Lauer, for 20 years the co-host of NBC's "Today Show", had a long history of sexually harassing and pursuing relationships with co-workers. NBC said they fired Lauer after an employee filed a complaint about behavior that began back in 2014 at the Sochi Olympics when she was an intern.