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In his farewell address to the nation 56 years ago, President Dwight D.

Just weeks after it was revealed that the Pentagon attempted to bury a study, that it itself had actually commissioned, which revealed staggering financial waste on Department of Defense programs, John McCain has proposed a new military budget that would exceed Obama's proposed spending by $430 billion over 5 years and total over $5 trillion, in aggregate.  In a 33-page white paper called "Restoring American Power", McCain described his proposals as just a start toward repairing the "damage that has been done to our military over the past eight years" under the Obam

Dr Udo Ulfkotte, the  journalist and author, who spoke out about mainstream and fake news, reportedly died from a heart attack on January 13th at the age of 56. The former editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of largest newspapers in Germany, had admitted that he -in effect- ‘worked’ for the CIA and that he had been educated to lie to and betray the public. His fears for a war in Europe, lead him to his decision to expose the truth about corporate media being controlled by the financial class. (See Video below)..

Submitted by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,

Since World War II, the two men who have most terrified this city by winning the presidency are Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.

And they have much in common.

Both came out of the popular culture, Reagan out of Hollywood, Trump out of a successful reality TV show. Both possessed the gifts of showmen — extraordinarily valuable political assets in a television age that deals cruelly with the uncharismatic.

Trump Releases the Dollar Hounds (3 days)

via Vince Lanci and Marketslant. Last night the WSJ published an excerpt from its Friday interview with Donald Trump. The key market drivers were his dollar statements, and his dismissal of Paul Ryan's BAT idea. Both weakened the USD and drove up Gold.  Note that until last night Trump was pro a strong dollar and gave indications he was pro the Border Adjustment Tax. On tap are 3 Fed speakers as George Gero reminds us, although so far their rhetoric has been muted on Gold.

Trump on the Strong Dollar