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President-elect Donald Trump fired off Sunday morning with a Tweetstorm (after again complaining about the "totally biased, not funny " Saturday Night Live), and in a series of six tweets threatened heavy taxes as "retribution" for U.S. companies that move their business operations overseas, fire US workers and still try to sell their product to Americans. Trump vowed he would slap a 35% tax on products sold inside the U.S. by any business that fired American workers and built a new factory or plant in another country.

A fake US embassy successfully operating for 10 years has been discovered and shut down in Ghana, West Africa. For about a decade criminals have been operating a fake US embassy in Ghana’s capital Accra, flying the American flag and issuing visas. The fraud came to light during “Operation Spartan Vanguard” initiated by the real US embassy in Ghana.

Authored by Paul Craig Roberts,

You’ve likely seen the population density map of the United States in one form or another. A lot of people per square mile reside in big cities, fewer people reside in suburban areas, and a lot fewer people reside in rural areas.

But as FlowingData.com's Nathan Yau explains, cities weren’t always cities though. Rural wasn’t always rural. If you look at people per square mile over a couple of centuries, you get a better idea of how the country developed.

Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,