NC Renegades

You are about to see undeniable evidence that the U.S. economy has been slowing down for quite some time.  And it is vital that we focus on the facts, because all over the Internet you are going to find lots and lots of people that have opinions about what is going on with the economy.  And of course the mainstream media is always trying to spin things to make Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton look good, because those that work in the mainstream media are far more liberal than the American population as a whole.  It is true that I also have my own opinions, but as an attorney I learned that opinions are not any good unless you have facts to back them up.  So please allow me a few moments to share with you evidence that clearly demonstrates that we have already entered a major economic slowdown.  The following are 15 facts about the imploding U.S. economy that the mainstream media doesn’t want you to see…

1. Industrial production has now declined for nine months in a row.  We havenever seen this happen outside of a recession in all of U.S. history.

2. U.S. commercial bankruptcies have risen on a year over year basis for seven months in a row and are now up 51 percent since September.

3. The delinquency rate on commercial and industrial loans has been rising since January 2015.

4. Total business sales in the United States have been steadily dropping since the middle of 2014.  No, I did not say 2015.  Total business sales have been in declinefor nearly two years now, and we just found out that they dropped again…

Total business sales in the US did in April what they’ve been doing since July 2014: they dropped: -2.9% from a year ago, to $1.28 trillion (not adjusted for seasonal differences and price changes), the Censuses Bureau reported on Tuesday. That’s where sales had been in April 2013!

5. U.S. factory orders have been dropping for 18 months in a row.

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Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said Wednesday that curtailing Americans’ Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms” will not keep the nation safe from radical Islamic terrorism.

CNSNews.com asked Foxx: “Will curtailing the Second Amendment right of Americans to keep and bear arms protect this country from radical Islamic terrorism?”

Foxx had a two-word answer: “No. Simple.”

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In 2012, nearly four years ago, after the shooting at Sandy Hook, the future of the Republic and the Constitution looked dim.  We had seen a President who disdained the Constitution, who flaunted his power, who had the media on his side and a Congress that conspired with him, be re-elected.  This happened in spite of numerous scandals that should have resulted in his impeachment.

It appeared the seeds of severe European type gun control were going to pass Congress.  Leaders among Second Amendment supporters were grim.  Some said that we could not win. Some claimed that the best we could do was to  compromise and hope to mitigate the damage.  They were wrong.  It took enormous hard work.  It took determination and guts.  But we won.

The Gun Owners of America were steadfast.  The NRA held firm.  No more infringements on the Second Amendment.  Tens of millions of activists across the nation made our case in emails, tweets, essays, comments, and discussion boards.  We sent overwhelming numbers of phone calls and emails to our representatives.  We were right and we won. No more infringements were passed in Congress.  A couple of Democrat states, financed with Bloomberg money, fortified with dirty tricks, passed some evil measures in a couple of legislatures.  Patriots have steadfastly refused to comply.  In a dozen other states, Second Amendment freedoms are being restored.

Now we face another daunting battle.

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“Let the American people go into their debt-funding schemes and banking systems, and from that hour their boasted independence will be a mere phantom.”

William Pitt, referring to Alexander Hamilton’s establishment of the First Bank of the United States

Gold is up another 1% overnight as fear of England’s Brexit increases. Capital assets are flowing into the United States also as it is perceived to be a safe haven when Europe’s economic system fails. Strange thing about perception: it is usually based on deception.

David DeGerolamo

America is a nation adrift, floating on a sea of change. It is a defining era. The 2016 Presidential election is a reflection of this confused and conflicted society. Terrorism, political correctness, larcenous bankers, rigged economics, runaway immigration and hopeless unemployment swirl about in a stew of discontent and distrust.

There is no institution of the past that has retained its once unquestioned credibility. Banks, with solid walls, shined floors and oak desks in the wake of the economic collapse have revealed themselves as shells of glitter surrounding nothing. Empty promises, empty vaults with the proverbial “next shoe” dangling precariously in the lobby.

There is a sense of being conspired against, but perhaps that is because those conspiracies have been exposed for what they have always been. Politicians have always lied, but not always with such unabashed glee at confounding the public desire. There is a sort of pride in themselves for having played the public for suckers. Never was this on display as with the disclosure of the lies told to conclude the Iran Nuclear deal. Equally dastardly were the lies told by Republican politicians in order to get elected in 2014.

The emergence of Donald Trump is in direct response to those lies. He embodies the backlash of the Republican voters to the great consternation of the old-guard Republican establishment. It is a comeuppance of sorts for people who are not accustomed to being challenged or defied. Worse for them is the fact that they have no clout with Trump. The Republican establishment has already spent their political capital trying to keep him from the nomination and have discovered that their perceived “capital” was as empty of value as their promises.

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FREEMANSPERSPECTIVE

I wanted to find a less ugly title for this article, but I couldn’t find one that still conveyed the depth of the crimes that are under way. So, apologies where they are due.

In this post, I’m going to give you an overview of what is going on and an outline of how the schemes work. I am not going to “prove” everything I write with citations and math. That’s an important thing to do, but today I’ll pass. If you doubt anything I write here, do your own research: Find the facts, question them, compare them, and forge your own opinions.

What’s Happening

Right now, people who can fairly be called the “ruling elite” are bleeding the West dry, and many of them are fully aware of what they’re doing. Others are simply “doing what works” and hiding behind slogans like “it’s all legal” that help them bypass morality.

These people are doing this rather urgently at the moment, because the financial system is poised for a collapse. The system has been propped up with many trillions of dollars, but the debts within it will never be repaid. Once the reality of that can no longer be evaded, the hypnotic confidence people have in the system will break.

At this moment (June 2016), Europe and Japan are closer to the precipice than North America. That means that large capital flows are coming into the US and Canada. That drives up the prices of property, stocks, bonds, and other things. At some point, however, even “the last to crash” will indeed fail. And at that point, fear will spike to astonishing levels and a new game will have to be instituted. (See, please, The Breaking Dawn.)

The Debt Swindle

Imagine you had this deal:

• You get a slice of every dollar created.
• You get to set the key interest rates.
• You are authorized to manipulate securities markets.
• You get to lend out many, many multiples of the money you have.
• You can do all of this with complete, government-enforced anonymity.

This is the position that central bankers occupy, and I am not embellishing. (Can you name the shareholders of the Federal Reserve Banks?)

Now ask yourself a question: What do you think these people are doing with this? Continue reading →

by Brandon Smith

Numerous liberty movement analysts and proponents, myself included, have been warning about 2016 and the heightened potential for multiple terrorist events.  I have written extensively on the history of ISIS, its proven ties to western governments and the disturbing program to forcefully inject millions of Islamic refugees into western nations in the name of dubious “multiculturalism,” allowing thousands of potential terrorists into our borders without obstruction.  The reality is that terrorist attacks of small and medium scale are likely to become a monthly or weekly occurrence in the U.S. and the EU as we close in on the end of the year.  Get used to the idea, because this problem is not going to go away while our own governments are aiding and even funding the very psychopaths that they are supposed to be protecting people from.

The recent attack at at gay club in Orlando by a self-proclaimed ISIS advocate, killing at least 49 people and wounding at least 53 more, was not at all a surprise.  The scale of the attack should have been expected.  No one in the U.S. should have assumed anything less given the number of dead during events in Europe.

What is frustrating, however, is that even though these attacks are highly predictable, very few Americans seem to be preparing in any meaningful way to counter them.  In fact, I happened across a clip of establishment mouthpiece Bill O’ Reilly the other day arguing that there “is nothing that we can do” to stop such “lone wolf attacks”.

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President Obama vigorously defended his administration’s counterterrorism policy on Tuesday of avoiding the term “radical Islam” when identifying terrorists, and denied political correctness was behind the ban.

“And the reason I am careful about how I describe this threat has nothing to do with political correctness and everything to do with actually defeating extremism,” Obama said following a White House National Security Council meeting on the Islamic State terror group.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday criticized the president for failing to prevent the Orlando massacre that killed 49 people and wounded 53 others. He blamed politically correct policies. “The current politically correct response cripples our ability to talk and to think and act clearly,” he said.

Security analysts also told the Washington Free Beacon the administration’s refusal to accurately identify or characterize radical Islam in its policies was to blame for the deaths of Americans.

The president dismissed debate over the terminology as partisan rhetoric and sharply criticized Trump for advocating a ban on Muslim immigration in response to the Orlando terror attack.

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CRISPR, a new genome editing tool, could transform the field of biology—and a recent study on genetically-engineered human embryos has converted this promise into media hype. But scientists have been tinkering with genomes for decades. Why is CRISPR suddenly such a big deal?

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Imagine what a truly free market with moral people could accomplish with this tool?

David DeGerolamo

In remarks made yesterday, Barack Obama showed far greater anger and passion about the call to use the words “radical Islamic terror” than he exhibited when speaking about the dead and wounded Americans in Orlando. He openly mocked the idea that there was any point or value in putting a name to those who would destroy our nation.

Hillary Clinton, pushed by her Republican opponent, actually voiced the words “radical Islam” in a speech which suggested that, if elected, her anti-terror strategy would be an extension and expansion of the administration’s current “Operation Diddly Squat” initiative.

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