Americans Are Taking More Time Off Work The United States, unlike many other industrialized countries, has no statuary agreement on taking paid vacation. Meaning: There is no law telling employers the minimum number of days they need to give their employees off work – that are also paid for. However, as Statista's Dyfed Loesche notes, Project:Time Off, …

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Stocks, Bonds, Euro, and Gold Go Up, Report 4 June, 2017 The jobs report was disappointing. The prices of gold, and even more so silver, took off. In three hours, they gained $18 and 39 cents. Before we try to read into the connection, it is worth pausing to consider how another market responded. We …

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British Media Reporting London Bridge Attacks as 'Crude' Team of Lone Wolves   Content originally published at iBankCoin.com   Aren’t you glad to have that giant ocean between you and the nutjobs in Europe? Three men mowed people down and exited their clowncar on the London Bridge and began knifing people to death — screaming …

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Five Reasons Why America Is About To Become A Very Conservative Country Authored by Daniel Lang via SHTFplan.com, For generations, we’ve seen the political landscape in this country teeter back and forth between the Left and the Right. Usually about every 8 years or so, whichever political party is dominating Congress, the Executive Branch, and …

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NATO Launches Its Own Operation In The Middle East Authored by Peter Korzun via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The recent NATO summit took a decision to formally become a member of the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State (IS), in addition to its training mission in Iraq. Last year, NATO started a training and capacity-building mission for …

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Forget Peace & Stability – Washington's Policy In The South China Sea Is Confrontational Authored by Brian Cloughley via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The American guided missile destroyer USS Dewey was reported as having carried out a ‘freedom of navigation operation’ or FONOP in the South China Sea on May 24. According to the US Naval Institute …

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NATO Recoils From Trump Spending Salvos Authored by Finian Cunningham via The Strategic Culture Foundation, When US President Donald Trump addressed the opening of the NATO summit last week, it was an embarrassing display of American bullying. As Trump lectured the other leaders of the military alliance about laggardly financial commitments, there was much shuffling …

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We Know What Inspired The Manchester Attack, We Just Won't Admit It Authored by Patrick Cockburn via The Strategic Culture Foundation, In the wake of the massacre in Manchester, people rightly warn against blaming the entire Muslim community in Britain and the world. Certainly one of the aims of those who carry out such atrocities …

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These Powder Kegs Are About To Blow: "Trump Needs To Halt The Downward Spiral That Obama Orchestrated" Authoreed by Jeremiah Johnson (nom de plume of a retired Green Beret of the United States Army Special Forces) via SHTFplan.com, President Trump just took a trip to Saudi Arabia in an effort to obsequiously “shore up” the …

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The Fourth Turning's Neil Howe Warns: We Are In The 1930s, "Winter Is Coming" Via Mauldin Economics, From the Balkans to the US, walls are going up, not down, according to demographer and The Fourth Turning author Neil Howe. Speaking to a packed crowd at Mauldin Economics’ Strategic Investment Conference in Orlando, Howe said we …

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