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Asian Indices Slide Over North Korea Tensions While Gold, Yen Rise

Indices dipped across Asia following a late-Tuesday selloff in U.S. markets over escalating tensions between the United States and North Korea. The risk-off trading saw rises in the yen and gold, while U.S. Treasuries edged higher.

Japan’s Topix saw it’s biggest slide since May 18, followed by South Korea’s benchmark index losing over 1 percent in Wednesday trade. European indices also sagged, with nearly every sector of the Stoxx Europe 600 index declining following harsh threats traded between N. Korean president Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Trump.

North Korean state-run KCNA news agency reported that North Korea was “carefully examining an operational plan” for targeting Guam with “enveloping fire” using a medium-to-long range ICBM, after Trump warned earlier in the day that any provocation would be “met with fire, fury, and frankly, power, the likes of which this world has never seen before” after a Washington Post report that claimed Pyongyang was capable of building a nuclear weapon able to fit inside a long range missile.

Volatility Spike

Yesterday’s spat between Trump and Kim Jong Un caused volatility indicators across the world to spike, as the renewed tensions between the USA and North Korea coincide with markets hitting all time highs, while uncertainty looms over the availability financial safety nets from the Fed and ECB.

The market is realizing that economies are doing well enough for both the Fed and the ECB to remove stimulus,” Ken Peng, a Hong Kong-based investment strategist at Citi Private Bank, said. “This is going to make a lot of people a bit more nervous about liquidity. In that environment, these geopolitical headlines will have more impact, more punch. The talk is more intense than what it used to be.” –Bloomberg

Escalating tensions between the U.S. and North Korea couldn’t come at a worse time for top-heavy markets. Let’s hope cooler heads prevail.

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N. Korea Responds To Trump: ‘Seriously Considering’ ICBM Strike On Guam

Hours after President Trump’s harsh warning to North Korea that any more provocations would be met with more ‘fire, fury and power [than] the world has ever seen,’ Kim Jong Un responded – warning that they are ‘seriously considering a strategy to strike Guam with mid-to-long range missiles.”

A spokesman for the Korean People’s Army, in a statement carried by the North’s state-run KCNA news agency, said the strike plan will be “put into practice in a multi-current and consecutive way any moment” once leader Kim Jong Un makes a decision.

In another statement citing a different military spokesman, North Korea also said it could carry out a pre-emptive operation if the United States showed signs of provocation.

Earlier Pyongyang said it was ready to give Washington a “severe lesson” with its strategic nuclear force in response to any U.S. military action.

Washington has warned it is ready to use force if need be to stop North Korea’s ballistic missile and nuclear programs but that it prefers global diplomatic action, including sanctions. -Bloomberg

In response, U.S. Congresswoman and delegate to Guam Madeline Z. Bordallo, 84, issued a statement saying “Recent reports regarding North Korea’s nuclear capabilities are deeply troubling, but I remain confident that Guam remains safe and protected.

President Trump must work in partnership with the international community to de-escalate the growing tensions in the region and prevent North Korea from advancing its nuclear program further.”

Meanwhile, US B-1B Lancers have arrived in Guam to reinforce the U.S. presence in the region.

This is some bond villain shit.

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Sebastian Gorka Lays Waste To MSNBC Hosts: ‘Radical Islam Is Evil And Has To Be Destroyed’

In a fiery Tuesday interview with MSNBC hosts Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle, Deputy White House advisor Dr. Sebastian Gorka labeled radical Islam “evil” which “has to be destroyed.”

“It’s not about economics, it’s not about being disenfranchised. It’s about people who have an ideology that is evil and has to be destroyed.” –Sebastian Gorka

The MSNBC hosts were taken aback by Gorka’s comments, who insisted that most terrorist attacks on U.S. soil and Europe are carried out by “lone wolf lunatics,” to which Gorka hit back “There is no such thing as a lone wolf, you do know that… That was a phrase invented by the last admin to make Americans stupid. There has never been a serious attack or a serious plot that was unconnected to ISIS or Al Qaeda.”

Gorka went on to say “We will call it Radical Islamic terrorism, we will target the ideology, we will call them out for being evil, and we will work with our Muslim partners. This is the crucial part; we are not here to invade other people’s countries and occupy them. The President think that’s fundamentally un-American. We are here to help those nations that share our values and share our interests.”

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‘Aspiring Pastor’ Hillary Goes From Seances And SpiritCooks To Bible Thumping For Votes

According to deep state’s department of brand management & optics Atlantic division, the ever-pious Hillary Clinton wants to become a pastor – a move which is sure to bring religious rust-belt swing voters back to the blue side for any future political endeavors…

“Hillary Clinton wants to preach. That’s what she told Bill Shillady, her longtime pastor, at a recent photo shoot for his new book about the daily devotionals he sent her during the 2016 campaign. Scattered bits of reporting suggest that ministry has always been a secret dream of the two-time presidential candidate: Last fall, the former Newsweek editor Kenneth Woodward revealed that Clinton told him in 1994 that she thought “all the time” about becoming an ordained Methodist minister. She asked him not to write about it, though: “It will make me seem much too pious.” The incident perfectly captures Clinton’s long campaign to modulate—and sometimes obscure—expressions of her faith.” –The Atlantic

Because what better way to make people forget about a massive pay-for-play scheme, raping Haiti, and a bitchy image than God?

Seances

While Hillary has apparently been in the closet for decades over her desire to preach, she turned heads in the 90’s when investigative journalist Bob Woodward wrote in his book ‘The Choice,” that Clinton “held imaginary conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt and Mahatma Ghandi as therapeutic release.” When an advisor suggested that she communicate with Jesus Christ, she declined, saying it would be “too personal.”

Satanic Idols

In 1993, the president of Wellesley College approved a new rule that all senior theses written by a president or first lady of the United States would be kept under lock and key, a move aimed at preventing the public from learning about their new First Lady. After the Clintons left the White House, however, Hillary’s senior thesis was released to the public – a 92 page homage to radical leftist Saul Alinsky, who dedicated his book to Lucifer.

Hillary describes Alinsky as a “neo-Hobbesian who objects to the conventional mystique surrounding political processes; for him, conflict is the route to power.”

Kind of like Satan, or Jihad.

That’s the spirit! 

I’m sure you remember #Spiritcooking satanist Marina Abramovic from 2016 election Wikileaks  who Tony Podesta gave money to, who was invited to Hillary Clinton’s Campaign launch, whose art Hillary Clinton placed in US embassies around the world, who Hillary wanted to invite to a lunch event, who donated the maximum $2700 to Hillary’s campaign, and who said in a Reddit AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) that her spirit cooking dinners in private homes are not art.

I think it’s safe to say that Hillary Clinton is a fan of Marina Abramovic, whose ‘art’ probably wouldn’t go over so well with the Methodist congregation Hillary apparently wants to preach to.

While Hillary’s base is sure to lap up her new ‘revelation’ about her faith, the rest of us aren’t buying it…

What will they cook up next?

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Google Fires Engineer Who Penned Viral ‘Anti-Diversity’ Memo

The Google engineer who authored a now infamous 10-page ‘anti-diversity’ memo which went viral internally before leaking over the weekend has been fired for his beliefs.

James Damore (source: Harvard.edu)

In the memo, titled ‘Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,’ author James Damore argues that certain topics of conversation at Google are ‘shamed’ into silence, stifling meaningful discussion. “This silencing has created an ideological echo chamber where some ideas are too sacred to be honestly discussed,” wrote Damore, who when on to say that political correctness breeds “the most extreme and authoritarian elements of this ideology.”

Damore also said the gender gap and lack of women in technology jobs is due in part to biological differences.

In response, Google CEO Sundar Pichai released an internal memo titled “our words matter,” which states that the senior engineer violated the company’s code of conduct, and that while Damore’s anti-diversity memo was open for debate, “portions of the memo violate our Code of Conduct and cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in the workplace.”

Pichai’s memo goes on; “Our job is to build great products for users that make a difference in their lives. To suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is offensive and not OK. It is contrary to our basic values and our Code of Conduct, which expects ‘each Googler to do their utmost to create a workplace culture that is free of harassment, intimidation, bias and unlawful discrimination.”

Backlash to Google’s decision has spread like wildfire as the hashtag #GoogleManifesto trends

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HERE WE GO AGAIN! James O’Keefe Hints At New York Times Undercover Sting

Is the New York Times about to get the CNN treatment from James O’Keefe of Project Veritas?

It all started with an innocent Monday afternoon poke at the ‘failing’ New York Times, owned by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim (and which undoubtedly influenced the 2016 U.S. election with it’s overt anti-Trump bias).

Hours later, O’Keefe replied with a huge teaser…

OH BOY! 

The last time O’Keefe set his sights on the MSM, CNN suffered a a multi-combo takedown from which they’ll never recover, after Project Veritas journalists infiltrated the Fake News Network with hidden cameras.

Not only was host Van Jones caught on film calling the Russia narrative a “big nothing burger,” Project Veritas also scored footage of a CNN producer who said the ‘Russia’ story is fake news pushed for ratings, and a hate-filled associate producer’s vitriol for conservatives – stating “American voters are stupid as shit,” and admitting to a company-wide hatred for President Trump.

Finally, after hand-grenading billions in value, AT&T announced three days ago that they are considering jettisoning the Fake News Network (along with TMZ) as part of their purchase of CNN parent company Time Warner, announced in late 2016.

Vindication

Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Deuty assistant to President Trump, hailed the O’Keeffe sting as ‘complete vindication for the president,’ in a June interview with Breitbart.

“I think this is the day when the Left rues ever coming up with the phrase ‘Fake News’ because now we have the evidence. We have the consequences of systematic generation of Fake News, happening at the epicenter of one of the places that was producing the most of it,” he said.

“It’s just a testament to the determination of the president,” Gorka continued. “He sticks with what he knows to be true. He hangs in there doggedly and finally. Thanks to intrepid people like James O’Keefe, we have the evidence, and people are getting fired.”

So what’s O’Keefe got on the New York Times? Inquiring minds want to know if perhaps one of O’Keefe’s operatives was even at that charity event former FBI Director James Comey attended during his visit to the grey lady in late June.

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Sessions Slams Rahm For ‘Unprecedented Violent Crime Surge In Chicago’ In Response To Sanctuary City Lawsuit

Looks like AG Sessions is taking a break from busting potheads and not indicting Loretta Lynch for lying under oath about her email accounts.

In response to a much anticipated lawsuit filed by the city of Chicago this morning to prevent the Trump administration from withholding federal funds from sanctuary cities, Jeff Sessions hit back in a scathing letter directed at mayor Rahm Emanuel.

The lawsuit asserts that the new federal policies to withhold money from sanctuary cities forces the nation’s third largest city to choose between its constitutional rights and federal funding, claiming “These new conditions also fly in the face of longstanding City policy that promotes cooperation between local law enforcement and immigrant communities.”

The policies also include a requirement that local law enforcement agencies give federal authorities 48 hours notice before releasing anyone wanted for immigration violations.

Democratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Sunday that the city would sue, escalating a pushback against an immigration crackdown launched by Republican President Donald Trump’s administration. –Bloomberg

Sessions hits back

Jeff Sessions did not mince words. In a response issued hours later, the Attorney General said that ‘no amount of federal taxpayer dollars will help a city that refuses to help its own residents‘ (boom) – an admonishment over Chicago’s out of control crime rate.

Letter below:

“No amount of federal taxpayer dollars will help a city that refuses to help its own residents.

 “This administration is committed to the rule of law and to enforcing the laws established by Congress. To a degree perhaps unsurpassed by any other jurisdiction, the political leadership of Chicago has chosen deliberately and intentionally to adopt a policy that obstructs this country’s lawful immigration system. They have demonstrated an open hostility to enforcing laws designed to protect law enforcement — Federal, state, and local — and reduce crime, and instead have adopted an official policy of protecting criminal aliens who prey on their own residents. This is astounding given the unprecedented violent crime surge in Chicago, with the number of murders in 2016 surpassing both New York and Los Angeles combined. The city’s leaders cannot follow some laws and ignore others and reasonably expect this horrific situation to improve.

“The Mayor complains that the federal government’s focus on enforcing the law would require a ‘reordering of law enforcement practice in Chicago.’ But that’s just what Chicago needs: a recommitment to the rule of law and to policies that rollback the culture of lawlessness that has beset the city.

“This administration will not simply give away grant dollars to city governments that proudly violate the rule of law and protect criminal aliens at the expense of public safety. So it’s this simple: Comply with the law or forego taxpayer dollars.”

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Brave New World: Kids Going To Summer Camp For Silicon Valley Trannies As Young As FOUR YEARS OLD

Parents in California are sending their children to the ‘Bay Area Rainbow Day Camp’ for Transgender and ‘nonbinary’ children as young as FOUR YEARS OLD – where curious ‘gender expansive’ kids can play with each other in a ‘community of peers that will provide a safe space for the exploration of gender identity and expression.’

For children 13-17, ‘camp Kickin’ It’ offers a ‘social day camp for gender non binary, questioning, genderqueer, and trans teens to explore Bay Area activities and gender identity in a safe space in a community of their peers.

Via Fox News:

The camp seems like any other. Children arrive with a packed lunch, make friendship bracelets, sing songs and get silly. But each day at check-in, campers make a nametag with their pronoun of choice. Some opt for “she” or “he” while others choose “they” or something else.

And enrollment at the camp is booming. The number of children at the San Francisco Bay area camp has tripled to about 60 youngsters, from age 4 to 12, since it opened three summers ago, with kids coming from as far away as Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and even Africa. There is talk of opening branches of the camp across the country.

Founded by Sandra Collins, mother of a transgender 9 year old, the Rainbow Day Camp is the ultimate safe space.

“A lot of these kids have been bullied and had trauma at school. This is a world where none of that exists, and they’re in the majority,” Collins said. “That’s a new experience for kids who are used to hiding and feeling small.”

Specialists consulted

‘Gender specialists’ say the camp’s popularity reflects the increase in children coming out as transgender at young ages – a phenomenon credited to greater awareness of LGBT issues, as well as parents noticing that their kids are showing signs of ‘gender dysphoria,’ or distress about their gender.

Enabled or encouraged?

It’s tough to find widespread agreement outside of California’s ‘gender specialists’ on the topic of gender dysphoria at a young age. In a June article by three medical experts entitled “Growing Pains: Problems with Puberty Suppression in Treating Gender Dysphoria,” the authors write that allowing a child to explore transgenderism and other ‘gender fluid’ identities ‘may drive some children to persist in identifying as transgender when they might otherwise have, as they grow older, found their gender to be aligned with their sex.”

In fact, the authors posit that “the interference with normal pubertal development will influence the gender identity of the child by reducing the prospects for developing a gender identity corresponding to his or her biological sex.”

Let’s just let kids be kids? 

While many would say sending kids as young as age four to a transexual summer camp is child abuse, perhaps the camp for older 13 – 17 year olds – in the throes of puberty and raging hormones – isn’t such a bad idea, especially considering the vast difference in suicide rates in supported vs. unsupported youths who later identify as their non-biologicial gender.

Via Fox:

Studies show transgender adults have higher rates of suicide and depression than the general population. A 2016 study by the University of Washington’s TransYouth Project, published in the journal Pediatrics, found trans children who live as their preferred gender and are supported by their parents have the same mental health outcomes as other kids their age.

Meanwhile, it’s 2017 and we’re talking about transgender children. Discuss.

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California Cheatin’? More Registered To Vote Than Actual Voting-Age Population In 11 Counties

Government watchdog group Judicial Watch has found that 11 California counties have more people registered to vote than there are eligible citizens of voting age – a number which varies from 102 percent up to 144 percent.

The numbers from publicly available voter registration records break down as follows:

“Imperial (102 percent), Lassen (102 percent), Los Angeles (112 percent), Monterey (104 percent), San Diego (138 percent), San Francisco (114 percent), San Mateo (111 percent), Santa Cruz (109 percent), Solano (111 percent), Stanislaus (102 percent), and Yolo (110 percent).”

However, when Judicial Watch contacted Los Angeles county in June, the total number of voters stood at 144  percent of the total voting-age residents. With roughly 8 million adults of voting age, no including those ineligible to vote such as felons, that roughly amounts to a potential three million ineligible voters in Los Angeles alone.

While this doesn’t necessarily prove the case for election fraud, it suggests at minimum that California and other states need to clean up voter registration lists. To that end, Judicial Watch is threatening to file a Federal lawsuit over the discrepancies.

“California’s voting rolls are an absolute mess that undermines the very idea of clean elections,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “It is urgent that California take reasonable steps to clean up its rolls. We will sue if state officials fail to act.”

In April, Judicial Watch sent notice-of-violation letters threatening to sue 11 states having counties in which the number of registered voters exceeds the number of voting-age citizens.  The states are: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina and Tennessee.

On July 18, Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against Montgomery County and the Maryland State Boards of Elections under the NVRA. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Baltimore Division (Judicial Watch vs. Linda H. Lamone, et al. (No. 1:17-cv-02006)). –Judicial Watch

Excerpts from Judicial Watch letter (click here for entire six-page .pdf): 

Dear Secretary Padilla:

From public records obtained on the Election Assistance Commission (“EAC”) 2016 Election Administration Voting Survey (“EAVS”), and through verbal accounts from various county agencies, eleven (11) counties in California have more total registered voters than citizen voting age population (CVAP) calculated by the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2011-2015 American Community Survey. This is strong circumstantial evidence that California municipalities are not conducting reasonable voter registration list maintenance as mandated under the NVRA.

This letter serves as statutory notice that Election Integrity Project California, Inc., a registered non-profit corporation in California, and Judicial Watch, Inc., will bring a lawsuit against you and, if appropriate, against the counties named in this letter, if you do not take specific actions to correct these violations of Section 8 within 90 days.

The following information explains how we determined that your state and the counties named are in violation of NVRA Section 8 and the remedial steps that must be taken to comply with the law.

1. Eleven California Counties Have More Total Registered Voters Than Citizen Voting Age Population

Based on our review of 2016 EAC EAVS report, the 2011-2015 U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, and the most recent California total active and total inactive voter registration records, California is failing to comply with the voter registration list maintenance requirements of Section 8 of the NVRA. For example, a comparison of the 2011-2015 U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, and the most recent California active and inactive voter registration records shows there were more total registered voters than there were adults over the age of 18 living in each of the following eleven (11) counties: Imperial (102%), Lassen (102%), Los Angeles (112%), Monterey (104%), San Diego (138%), San Francisco (114%), San Mateo (111%), Santa Cruz (109%), Solano (111%), Stanislaus (102%), and Yolo (110%). Our own research shows that the situation in these counties is, if anything, worse than the foregoing data suggest. For example, we contacted Los Angeles County directly this past June. At that time, county officials informed us that the total number of registered voters now stands at a number that is a whopping 144% of the total number of resident citizens of voting age.

2. The NVRA Requires You to Undertake Reasonable Efforts to Maintain Accurate Lists of Eligible Registered Voters

3. Failure to Comply with NVRA Subjects You to Lawsuits and Financial Costs

In passing the NVRA, Congress authorized a private right of action to enforce the provisions of the NVRA, including Section 8. Accordingly, private persons may bring a lawsuit under the NVRA if the violations identified herein are not corrected within 90 days of receipt of this letter.

4. Avoiding Litigation

We hope you will promptly initiate efforts to comply with Section 8 so that no lawsuit will be necessary. We ask you and, to the extent that they wish to respond separately, each county identified in this letter, to please respond to this letter in writing no later than 30 days from today informing us of the compliance steps you are taking. Specifically, we ask you to: (1) conduct or implement a systematic, uniform, nondiscriminatory program to remove from the list of eligible voters the names of persons who have become ineligible to vote by reason of a change in residence; and (2) conduct or implement additional routine measures to remove from the list of eligible voters the names of persons who have become ineligible to vote by reason of death, change in residence, or a disqualifying criminal conviction, and to remove noncitizens who have registered to vote unlawfully.

5. Production of Records

Finally, pursuant to your obligations under the NVRA,15 your office and, to the extent that they keep records separately from your office, each county named in this letter, should make available to us all pertinent records concerning “the implementation of programs and activities conducted for the purpose of ensuring the accuracy and currency” of California’s official eligible voter lists during the past 2 years. Please include these records with your response to this letter.

I hope that the concerns identified in this letter can be resolved amicably. However, if we believe you do not intend to correct the above-identified problems, a federal lawsuit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against you may be necessary. We look forward to receiving your prompt response.

Sincerely,
JUDICIAL WATCH, INC.
s/ Robert D. Popper
Robert D. Popper
Attorney, Judicial Watch, Inc.

 

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Pedo Defending Salon Sued By Landlord For $700K After 2016 Eviction For Nonpayment

Pedo defending Salon.com, who last year deleted an article written by a pedophile in order to publish a hit-piece on Milo Yiannopoulos before reveling in his short-lived downfall, looks to be in serious financial trouble.

After being evicted in late 2016 for a $90,000 late payment, their landlord is now suing the digital publisher for over $700,000 of the unused portion of their five-year lease through September 2019.

Salon had been paying over $300,000 a year to Vbgo Penn Plaza for offices at 31 Penn Plaza, near Madison Square Garden.

By the fall of 2016, according to a suit filed recently in Manhattan state court, Salon had already fallen behind in its rent covering the period from July 2016 to Sept. 30, to the tune of $90,565. Vbgo said it evicted Salon in December and now is trying to get the struggling Web media company to pay up for the rest of the lease. –NY Post

Running at an accumulated deficit of $126 million, Salon’s Democrat investors – most notably Pelosi family friend and Salon board member William Hambrecht – the company’s second largest investor, can’t be happy.

The liberal propaganda rag has been home to democrat operatives Sidney Blumenthal and James Carville – as well as David Brock, and Salon’s ardent defense of liberals go all the way back to the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky scandals – where Salon writers went to bat for Bill Clinton.

Pedo Safe Space

Salon Pedo Todd Nickerson

Salon has been pushing the pro-pedophilia agenda for some time. Contributor Todd Nickerson, a self professed pedo, said “I WOULD engage in sex play with a child… I will never deny that,” and “…consensual sex play likely wouldn’t be traumatic or mess kids up so much if society didn’t make a big deal out of it,” posits that society should embrace pedophiles as long as they promise never to act on their urges.

For better or worse — mostly worse — we have this sexuality, and unlike with most sexualities, there is no ethical way we can fully actualize our sexual longings. Our desires and feelings, if we are to remain upright, are doomed from the outset. –Todd Nickerson

 

In closing

Salon, their Democrat owners, and their pedophile propaganda are but a mere symptom of a much larger problem of normalizing abusive degeneracy. With any luck they won’t be around much longer.

(operating statistics and background provided by @Fourth_Legion

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