Unfortunately, spending is up 7.6% to $2.57 trillion. The largest increase is debt service, up 13.6% from last year. This is in a low interest rate environment. The Fed is trapped in maintaining low interest rates. Danielle DiMartino: “Fed controlled rates theoretically set floor. Investors ultimately determine rate at which governments borrow. Artificially low floor drags down curve unless Fed loses control.”
Ben Armbruster has a great rundown over at the LobeLog of all the recent fake news stories about the “increased Iran threat” in the past couple weeks. Of course it all started with the Israelis, and if there was a kernel of truth to it at all it was that the Iranians were considering their defensive options in reaction to the labeling of the IRGC as official “terrorists” by the State Department.
Seems like USA is getting pretty bad at picking new leaders for their regime changes: Karzai, Maliki, Hadi, Belhadj, Jolani, Yatsenyuk/Poroshenko, and now this scumbag, loser, traitor to his country, Juan Guaido.
How dumb of an NSC idiot would one have to be to believe in yourself and your job at this point?
Harris admits in the CNN interview that she had a homeless mother of three who was working two jobs arrested when her kids missed school—but she insisted that this was for the woman’s own good. (The idea that having to take time off work to meet with prosecutors and judges, pay court fees, and take mandatory parenting classes actually helped this overworked and indigent mother and her family is the kind of logic that only a cop or politician can love.) Arrest allowed them to get the homeless woman the services “that she needed and didn’t know was available,” argued Harris.
In Episode 38 Mike Maharrey joins Tommy to discuss the legality and history of nullification.
Many believe that advocates of nullification are Neo-Confederates clinging on to the ideals of slavery or segregation. They claim nullification is unconstitutional or illegal as it challenges the legitimate authority of the state.
Mike pushes back on these accusations, giving historic and modern examples of nullification practiced successfully in order to promote freedoms we all take for granted.
Mike Maharrey is the national communications director of the Tenth Ammendment Center, author of Our Last Hope: Rediscovering the Lost Path to Liberty, and host of Godarchy.
The Bahri-Yanbu, a Saudi Arabian cargo ship was scheduled to pick up a load of weapons bound for Yemen at a northern French port. The ship departed France without the weapons a day after a rights group tried to block the cargo on humanitarian grounds. French rights group ACAT argued in a legal challenge on Thursday that the consignment contravened a U.N. treaty because the arms might be used against civilians in Yemen. French president Macron defended the arms sales to Saudi. Macron said on Thursday Riyadh, which he called a key ally in the fight against terrorism, had assured him the weapons the ship was to load were not to be used against civilians. The move by ACAT came after online investigative site Disclose published leaked military intelligence showing weapons sold by France to Saudi Arabia, including tanks and laser-guided missile systems, were being used against civilians in Yemen.
“France is one of Saudi Arabia’s main arms’ suppliers, but has also faced increasing domestic pressure to review that trade relationship as the human cost of Yemen’s war has risen. ACAT had argued that the transfer contravened the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty, which says one country cannot authorize the transfer of weapons if it knows at the time that those weapons could be used to commit war crimes or target civilians.”
Via Robert Blumen, check out this great podcast about the TV show COPS and Live PD.
