The Only Smart Thing Salon Said All Year: No 2018 Blue Wave, No Impeachment

The Democratic party is in full panic mode. They are hinging everything they have on their "we're not Trump" platform, yet Trump's popularity, even in highly biased polls, continues to tick higher, while they remain leaderless.

 Unfortunately for them, they are looking at utter defeat in the upcoming 2018 midterms, if recent past special elections have been an indication of future results.

Salon, a bastion of leftist insanity are known for their incredible bias against the right. They push story after story of hatred against anyone who doesn't agree with them, yet, even they can see the writing on the wall and are stating two things:

• Trump will not be impeached.
• There will be no 2018 blue wave.

If even they can admit this, then you have to ask yourself, what is wrong with the rest of these brainwashed fools? Are they truly that far gone? Is the cool aid really that good?

Styxhexenhammer breaks this down in one of his most recent videos, which have become highly politicized over the last couple years, much to the delight of many libertarians and Donald Trump supporters.

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White House Slams False & Unverifiable CNN Claims Of Intercepted Russian Trump Threats

Seemingly dredging up old 'fake' news as new bombshells, CNN reports that Russian government officials reportedly talked about having possibly "derogatory" information about President Trump and some of his top aides during the 2016 presidential race.

As The Hill details, the officials' discussions were intercepted by U.S. intelligence, CNN reported, citing two former intelligence officials and a congressional source.

A source told CNN the information was related to finances.

Russians appeared to think "they had the ability to influence the administration through the derogatory information," the source said.

However, not only is The White House slamming the suggestions...

"This is yet another round of false and unverified claims made by anonymous sources to smear the President," a White House spokesman told CNN.

"The reality is, a review of the President's income from the last ten years showed he had virtually no financial ties at all. There appears to be no limit to which the President's political opponents will go to perpetuate this false narrative, including illegally leaking classified material."

The spokesman said the story plays "into the hands of our adversaries and put our country at risk."

But CNN itself admits this is all bluster:

...sources said the Russians claims "could have been exaggerated or even made up."

Sources declined to say specifically which aides were being discussed.

"The Russians could be overstating their belief to influence," said one of the sources.

Still, when has anonymous sourcing of unverifiable claims held the liberal media back from penning another Democrat narrative-confirming article to spoon-feed to the echo-chamber?

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Three Leakers Of Classified White House Information Said To Be Identified, Expected To Be Fired

As reported over the weekend, having returned from his first foreign trip president Trump is preparing a "war room" in response to the barrage of Russian news blanketing the media, and plans to restructure the White House communications strategy and possibly staffing.

There have been rumors around Washington that press secretary Sean Spicer's job is in danger (and that Jared Kushner, the focus of much of the latest newsflow, may be forced to take a "step back") but the White House has denied these rumors. In an interview with Fox News' Jeanine Pirro earlier this month, Trump said Spicer has been "doing a good job but he gets beat up."

But the biggest issue plaguing the White House at this moment is the seemingly relentless leakage of confidential information surrounding Trump's activities, with Trump administration officials saying last week the recent high-profile leaks of classified information are "coordinated and timed."

And in a new development, CBS News has confirmed that three leakers of classified information at the White House have been identified and are expected to be fired.

According to CBS, "officials within the Trump White House believe leaks of Mr. Trump's conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov are a "deliberate attempt" by officials who are holdovers from President Obama's administration and are trying to damage the Trump presidency."

Last week, the Trump campaign released an email to supporters entitled "SABOTAGE," in which the campaign said, "There are people within our own unelected bureaucracy that want to sabotage President Trump and our entire America First movement."

The White House has yet to announce any terminations or staff reallignment. Instead, overnight Trump took another swipe at reports that his Twitter privileges may be removed, saying that "the Fake News Media works hard at disparaging & demeaning my use of social media because they don't want America to hear the real story!"

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Petrified: Is JPMorgan Preparing For A Massive Silver Spike?

Silver is up $1 and gold up $100 off recent lows. What’s going on behind the scenes? Bill Murphy joins Silver Doctors to reveal... Murphy says JPMorgan is manipulating the price of silver. The silver market could get "chaotic" if it breaks through $21/oz. JPMorgan is "petrified," Murphy says.

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Rumors Swirl: Intelligence Sources Report That A Secret Indictment Has Been Issued Against President Donald Trump

A new report circulating on left-leaning internet channels says that a secret indictment has been issued against President Donald Trump. Details surrounding the indictment have yet to be released, but should it actually exist, would likely be related to alleged connections that President Donald Trump has ties to Russia.

The report originated on the Patribotics Blog from investigative journalists Louise Mensch and Claude Taylor, both of whom have previously disclosed accurate reports regarding FISA warrants and other information related to the Trump-Russia investigation, but have also been accused of filing numerous unsubstantiated reports and conspiracy theories.

According to Mensch and Taylor, intelligence and justice community sources say that a sealed indictment against the President exists, but because of the U.S. Constitution prosecution cannot move forward until the President is impeached by Congress:

Separate sources with links to the intelligence and justice communities have stated that a sealed indictment has been granted against Donald Trump.

While it is understood that the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution means that, until Mr. Trump is impeached, he cannot be prosecuted, sources say that the indictment is intended by the FBI and prosecutors in the Justice Department to form the basis of Mr. Trump’s impeachment. The indictment is, perhaps uniquely, not intended or expected to be used for prosecution, sources say, because of the constitutional position of the President.

In April the statistician who predicted President Trump’s November victory warned that not only would the President eventually impeached, but that his own party will turn on him.

The month before, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, whose bloviating often leaves people confused and unsure of what she actually said, tweeted that America should prepare for the impeachment of the President.

It’s no secret that the President’s enemies want him out of office, but actionable or prosecutable evidence has yet to be presented to the public.

This may explain why, rather than targeting trump, the Deep State has been taking out Trump’s lieutenants in an attempt to sabotage the new administration.

It is not clear whether reports of the secret indictment are real or fake, but we expect a follow-up Tweet from the President in due course as this story makes the rounds on social media.

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Will China and Russia Take Down the US Petrodollar?

Will China and Russia takedown the U.S. Petrodollar with a gold-backed digital currency?

Today on TRUNEWS, Rick Wiles speaks with financial analyst Jim Willie regarding the seemingly inevitable transition from an American dominated financial order to a system controlled by the East.

Jim also shares his theory that Prince Philip’s retirement is actually a smokescreen for the secret death of Queen Elizabeth.

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Washout Next, Or Are the Hedge Funds Ready to Flip Long in Gold & Silver?

Is the Smash Over Or Is A Washout Waterfall Coming Next Week?
PM Fund Manager Dave Kranzler Joins Us To Break Down the Action in Gold and Silver.

Does the Data Reveal the Bullion Banks and Hedge Funds Are About to Flip Long in Silver?

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Empty Gold Vaults and Fresh Out of Bombs

As the global economic and power shift continues to unfold if we look at history we will see that most, if not all, transfers of power happened after a major war. The odds of war being the catalyst for the coming change increases with each passing day. The endless saber rattling coming out of Washington DC is beginning to incite many of the world leaders who, over the past 15 years, have either kept quiet about the endless unConstitutional wars launched by the U.S. or have done their best to remain calm and collected as they attempt to negotiate with blood-thirsty warlords that occupy the Pentagon and State Department.

All the while China, Russia, India and most of the rest of Asia along with South Africa and Brazil, have all been working towards the next shift of power, economics and finance in a more realistic manner.

China sits at the head of several major economic partnerships including the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), BRICS and One Belt One Road (OBOR).

Russia is the driving force behind the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and is working closely with several of the former Soviet block nations in a way that lifts the entire region and ties it together with economical and financial incentives that help all the members and all the citizens. Russia is also a major player in the One Belt One Road project as well as a member of BRICS.

These massive partnerships have been built on a foundation of mutual cooperation, economic independence and growth. It almost appears as if China and Russia learned from what the U.S. did when NAFTA was signed by President Clinton and did the exact opposite in developing their plans for regional partnerships and economic unions.

As the U.S. continues to threaten, bomb and exploit nations and people around the world the Eastern economies continue to focus on business and being a good neighbor. I am not saying that Russia nor China are the “good guys” and the U.S. is the “bad guy”, I am simply reviewing what is on the table at this moment with these 3 superpowers. 

If I were the Prime Minister of one of the Baltic States or, any other South Pacific rim nation, the only question that would need addressing is – why would a nation do business with a country that has proven to ignore terms of treaties, invoke economic sanctions and financially attack a nation that hyper inflates their currency? These are the tactics the U.S. has used around the world. How could anyone see these tactics as anything less than barbaric and acts of war?

Since the derivatives implosion in 2008 the financial and economic world has changed. The global economy is saturated in debt. Nations, regions and citizens are all levered up as high as possible with un-payable debt. The primary reason for all this debt is bubble economics and abuse of the World Reserve Currency – Federal Reserve Note.

Paul Volker was the last central bankster to actually do the right thing and push interest rates to 21%. Can you imagine that happening today? The entire global financial system would blow apart before lunch.

As U.S. politicians are in a constant state of bickering and arguing, not only with the world, but within our borders, how are we to compete with an economic machine the size of China and Russia? The citizens of this country need to understand these projects are happening and will change the course of history. The economic and power shift is happening right now. The now unavoidable economic collapse coming to the shores of America is happening. The Western economies began unraveling in earnest in 2008 and, as we are seeing today, will continue to accelerate until its bitter end.

The pieces of the puzzle involving war have been shifting and being put into place since 2011 and will be completed by 2020 – 3 years from today. This assumes the warmongers at the CIA/State Dept/White House don’t develop an ichy trigger finger and begin firing long before 2020.

Jerry Robinson: The pivot to Asia that took place back in 2011, under then President Obama. Has now led, as you so cleverly show in the documentary (The Coming War on China) about 400 military bases that surround China. It’s very difficult to imagine a country not feeling threatened by that. You really draw that out in the film. It really forces the Westerner, as they’re watching the film, to think outside of their own skin, their own country, their own nationality and to realize that this military industrial complex that has been built is now, basically, noosing-up the second largest superpower in the world on our watch. It’s difficult for many Americans to imagine a hot war, a hot full scale war with China, but that is the thesis of your film….Does the Trump administration aggravate this, from your perspective, does he make things better?

John Pilger: Well. the theme of willful ignorance on the part of the United States and the American people, particular American elites has been the theme of most of my films. Several times in your question you said “we don’t really know about this.” I think the question your listeners should like to ask themselves is why they don’t know. Because the pivot to Asia announced by President Obama in 2011 was not a secret, but as you say, very few people know about it. It meant most of the U.S. naval and air forces to the Pacific – Asia Pacific region by the year 2020. Source

This is not news and it is not anything the American people have paid attention to for a second. I guarantee they could name the winner of the last Superbowl, but to even recognize the Asia Pivot would be a stretch for most Americans.

The Asia Pivot has hit a dump in the road with the Trump administration. According to The Diplomat the Asia Pivot is going to either be reworked or cast aside.
In a press conference on Monday [March 13, 2017] discussing U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s inaugural trip to Asia, Susan Thornton, the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, had this to say about the Obama administration’s “pivot” or “rebalance” to Asia:

On the issue of pivot, rebalance, et cetera, that was a word that was used to describe the Asia policy in the last administration. I think you can probably expect that this administration will have its own formulation and it hasn’t actually, we haven’t seen in detail what the formulation will be or if there even will be a formulation.

Those words aren’t necessarily surprising in the context of the Trump administration, but it’s quite something to hear from the top dedicated U.S. diplomat for East Asian policy that the “rebalance” is officially over. The Obama administration had staked out the policy late in its first term, seeking to launch a sustained adjustment of U.S. foreign policy attention away from the Middle East and Europe toward Asia. Source

In light of the events over the past several weeks I wonder how the Asia Pivot fits with the latest Trump agenda regarding foreign policy? Trump, it seems, has resigned himself to doing his masters bidding. Wether it be bombing innocent people or backing away from pursuing the Clinton crime machine and their treasonous acts or something as small as replacing Janet Yellen. Trump is no match for the power plays happening at this time in history. Our world is changing and the U.S. will awaken, in the not-too-distant future, to find the power has shifted from West to East and the warmongering will no longer pay the bills. Personally, I believe the only thing that will pay the bills will be gold.

When you are ask to pay your bill/debt with a credit card other than the one you are currently offering, it can be rather embarrassing to find the alternative payment is just as empty as the original. When the U.S. are ask to, by another nation, to conduct an audit and bring real, physical gold to the table as payment, we will learn, very quickly, how much gold is being held by the Federal Reserve. When that day happens, will we see what DARPA has up it’s sleeve and just how many nuclear bombs can be set off in one day?

- Source, Rory Hall via Sprott Money

Economic Reality: Bottom 50% Of Americans No Longer Matter

The Fed likes to brag about the “We saved the world” recovery.

However, the unfortunate truth of the matter is a record Half of American Families Live Paycheck to Paycheck.

Does it Matter? Let’s investigate.

Unprepared for Nearly Anything

• 50% are woefully unprepared for a financial emergency

• Nearly 1 in 5 (19%) Americans have nothing set aside to cover an unexpected emergency.

• Nearly 1 in 3 (31%) Americans don’t have at least $500 set aside to cover an unexpected emergency expense, according to a survey released Tuesday by HomeServe USA, a home repair service.

• A separate survey released Monday by insurance company MetLife found that 49% of employees are “concerned, anxious or fearful about their current financial well-being.”

A Fed study shows U.S. Households Will Soon Have as Much Debt as They had in 2008.

The Federal Reserve announced Friday that the U.S. has $1 trillion in credit-card debt. Consumers hit that number in the fourth quarter of 2016, but eased on revolving credit during January 2017. The Fed announcement showed revolving consumer credit hit more than $1 trillion once again in February 2017.


“Credit card debt is rising quickly, but delinquencies are still really low,” said Matt Schulz, a senior industry analyst at the credit cards site CreditCards.com. “Many Americans are doing a good job of controlling their debts, but eventually with big debts and rising interest rates, it’s likely that something will have to give.”

Paycheck to Paycheck “Good Job”

Excuse me for asking but if half the nation lives paycheck to paycheck, is that really indicative of doing a good job at managing debt.

And as for “low delinquencies”, I remind you of my April 26 article Subprime Credit Card Losses Bite Capital One: Income Down 20%, Charge-Offs Up 30%.

Nonetheless, I remind you of an important perception.

We Saved the World

• Wall Street Journal Oct 4, 2015: How the Fed Saved the Economy

• Washington Post August 26, 2009: Ben Bernanke: The Man Who Saved the World

• Forbes Oct 5, 2015: Ben Bernanke On How The Fed Saved The Economy

• January 12, 2013: How Tim Geithner Saved the Banks—With Ben Bernanke’s Help

Two Reasons Not to Worry

The stock market and housing are still going strong. We heard the same thing in 2007 but it’s different this time.
The bottom 50% of the economy simply do not matter.

The real crux of the matter is point number two.

The Fed does not give a damn about the bottom half of the economy even though it spouts continual lies about “income inequality.

The Bottom 50% Do Not Matter

As long as the Fed can keep stocks and home prices elevated, there is no concern about the food-stamp, rent-subsidized, Medicaid-supplement, disability-income, Obamacare-subsidized 50% of Americans struggling paycheck-to-paycheck.

That money rolls in guaranteed, month after month!

That 50% cannot afford a house is irrelevant as long as suckers keep paying $500,000 to two-bedroom shacks in LA.

The game is to keep asset prices up so that the top 50% keep spending. The bottom 50% are taken care of by government (taxpayer) subsidies noted above.

Here’s the real deal: Fed Expects a Second Quarter Rebound, Higher Equity Prices.

Repeat Performance
The Fed needs to keep asset prices elevated even though it’s pretty clear concerns are mounting over bubbles.

Can the Fed save the world again?

Previously, the bottom third did not matter. Then the bottom 40% did not matter. Now the bottom 50% do not matter.

That statement is a bit over the top. By how much I don’t know. But the trend is clear, as is the fly in the ointment.

Brexit was the first warning shot. Trump was the second.

As soon as the bottom 65% don’t matter, those 65% may vote to take matters into their own hands.

- Source, Mish Shedlock via Zero Hedge