Submitted by Mac Slavo via SHTFPlan.com,
(Pictured: Secret Service Denver District Chief Kerry O’Grady)
As the last line of defense for the leader of the world, America’s Secret Service agents are tasked with risking their lives and even standing in the way of a bullet should it be headed towards the President.
But after a tumultuous election year some in the agency are not prepared to do their sworn duty.
Yesterday we previewed 3 potential picks that seem to be emerging as front-runners to fill Justice Scalia's vacant seat on the Supreme Court (see "Obama Sets Record For Lowest Supreme Court Win Rate Since Zachary Taylor In 1850"). While various media outlets reported that William Pryor of Alabama, Neil Gorsuch of Colorado and Thomas Hardiman of Pennsylvania are the 3 mostly likely people to get the nod, the Los Angeles Times went one step further by declaring Gorsuch the most likely ultimate winner.
Via ConvergEx's Nicholas Colas,
Counterfactual analysis is a useful way to consider the world we actually inhabit. To that end, today we ask “What if Hillary Clinton had won the Presidency on November 8th?”
As reported yesterday, Mexico is not at all looking forward to starting the process of renegotiating NAFTA with Donald Trump, explicitly warning the US that "there are very clear red lines that must be drawn from the start." What these lines are will be explained by Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo and Foreign Affairs Secretary Luis Videgaray who are both meeting with US officials in Washington on Wednesday and Thursday, setting the stage with next week's visit from Mexico President Enrique Pena Nieto.
The Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said the Israeli army will be ordered to “go in full force” in future wars. Lieberman said the army will stop at nothing to defeat the enemy in conflicts to come, and they won’t stop until the adversary “waves a white flag.” He also slammed third parties ‘meddling’ including attempts by the US, Russia, and especially the EU, to play an intermediary role in the Israeli-Palestine dispute.