"While the vision of a European army is being debated over and over again, it is already being created. Military co-operation in the EU has never been as strong as it is now." This comes after German chancellor Angela Merkel, last week supported French President Emmanuel Macron’s call for a “real European army” to reduce Europe’s dependence on US defence.

The Zeit article added: "To classify this, a specification helps. What is meant by the term European army or EU army? Certainly not a new army, which sends hundreds of thousands of new soldiers into worldwide war zones under the EU flag. There is no EU state. But there certainly is the EU as the sum of its individual member states. Bundling their knowledge, sharing military research and plans and creating a common structure, creates a new force: the army of all EU states."

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, were accosted and harassed by a deranged left-wing mob as they were leaving a dinner at Georgetown University. Senator McConnell was harassed by protesters at Reagan National Airport, as well as at several venues in Kentucky. Senator Ted Cruz and his wife were harassed at a Washington, DC, restaurant. Afterward, a group called Smash Racism DC wrote: “No — you can’t eat in peace — your politics are an attack on all of us. You’re (sic) votes are a death wish. Your votes are hate crimes.”

Other members of Congress — such as Andy Harris, Susan Collins and Rand Paul — have been physically attacked or harassed by leftists. Most recent is the case of Fox News political commentator Tucker Carlson. A leftist group showed up at his house at night, damaging his front door and chanting, “Tucker Carlson, we will fight! We know where you sleep at night!” “Racist scumbag, leave town!”

Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freeness of Speech.” Much later, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said, “Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.” From the Nazis to Stalinists to Maoists, tyrants have always started out supporting free speech, just as American leftists did during the 1960s. Their support for free speech is easy to understand. Speech is vital for the realization of their goals of command, control and confiscation.

The right to say what they please is their tool for indoctrination, propagandizing and proselytization. Once the leftists gain control, as they have at many universities, free speech becomes a liability and must be suppressed. This is increasingly the case on university campuses. Much of the off-campus incivility we see today is the fruit of what a college education has done to our youth.

All told, about 200 people died an opioid-related death every day in 2017. Earlier estimates also confirmed that the number of people Big Pharma killed with opioids in a single year was higher than the number of causalities the US incurred during the Vietnam and Iraq wars combined.

While all these lives (and the lives of their loved ones) are being torn apart, Big Pharma has been raking in billions. And the same industry that caused this massive epidemic of death now stands to profit by selling new, pharmaceutical “cures” for the problem they created.

As Mike Adams, founder of Natural News and creator of Brighteon.com, contends:

“The purpose of the pharmaceutical industry’s entire existence is to extract the maximum amount of money from the US economy by pretending to make sick people healthier through the widespread consumption of high-profit pharmaceutical medications. However, the profit model of the industry is almost entirely based on convincing healthy people they need lifelong medications to be healthy.”

Let’s talk about OIL first.  The price of oil peaked in early October, but since that time it has fallen more than 25 percent, and the IEA is warning of “relatively weak” demand out of Asia and Europe…

Meanwhile, the price of COPPER has been declining for quite some time now.  The price of copper also fell substantially just before the last recession, and many analysts are pointing out that “Dr Copper” is now waving a red flag once again…

The price of LUMBER is a “third witness” that indicates that big trouble is looming. Last month, lumber dropped more than 10 percent, and that was the biggest monthly drop that we have seen in more than 7 years… If oil, copper and lumber are all telling us the same thing simultaneously, don’t you think that we should be listening?

How many signs is it going to take before people start understanding what is happening? Global economic activity is slowing down, and things are shifting very rapidly now. The weather is already getting very cold, the mood of the nation is very dark, and it would only take a very small push to send us completely tumbling over the edge.

The government got off to a good start at achieving this illustrious achievement last month. According to the Treasury Department report, the deficit came in at $100.5 billion in October. That represents a 58 percent increase from the $63 billion deficit recorded in October 2017. Spending rose 18 percent year-on-year.

Annual interest payments already approach $500 billion. Every uptick in the interest rate increases that number. At the current trajectory, the cost of paying the annual interest on the US debt will equal the annual cost of Social Security within 30 years. Several studies have estimated that economic growth slows by about 30 percent when the debt to GDP ratio rises about 90 percent. Most analysts say the US economy is already in the 105 percent range.

“There is this old-fashioned notion that we actually vote before we go to war,” Paul said. But, he added, “My main objection in this whole thing is the war in Yemen is a tragedy like most wars, but it’s a particular tragedy because they’re one of the poorest countries on the planet … I think it is something we should not be participating in.”

Paul also slammed the 17-year-old War in Afghanistan, which is costing about $45 billion per year. There are currently about 14,000 US troops in Afghanistan training and advising Afghan forces to fight the Taliban.

“You can’t find a foreign policy person, Republican, Democrat or Independent, who thinks there’s a military solution to Afghanistan,” he said. “In fact, if you ask them if there’s a military solution to Yemen they don’t think there is. In fact, probably for at least five years, people have been saying there is no military solution to Syria and yet we still react with a military response when we say there is no military solution.”

“I’m convinced that there is a majority of American people who believe as I do and as many of you do that we’ve been at war too long, and in too many places. I think there is a possibility for changing things, and I will continue to agitate for that.”

In other words, they don’t have enough to eat. Many parents out there choose to skip a meal (or two) each day just so that their kids can have full stomachs.  But sometimes the money runs out completely, and that is when it gets really tough. In recent years, the wealthy have been doing quite well, and many of them have very little sympathy for the struggles of the poor.

But the cold, hard reality of the matter is that the gap between the wealthy and the poor is now the largest that it has been since the 1920s, and approximately one-third of the entire nation cannot even afford the basics each month. Consider the following statistics. The average American can’t scrape together $500 for an emergency. A third of Americans can’t afford food, shelter, and healthcare. Healthcare for a family now costs $28k about half of median income, which is $60k. Those are very sobering numbers, and you won’t often hear them repeated by the mainstream media.

At this point, more than half of all US households with children receive assistance from the government each month. The middle class is steadily eroding, and the ranks of the “working poor” have been growing rapidly. Many of the working poor are single parents, and they often suffer in silence because they don’t want those around them to look down on them. It can be absolutely soul crushing to work as hard as you possibly can day after day and it still isn’t enough.

In the end, you have got to do what you have got to do in order to survive from month to month. At one time, America’s “endless prosperity” seemed like it would roll on indefinitely, but now we have entered a different era. Things are going to be tough during the days to come, and we are all going to need more flexibility than ever before.

Despite efforts by state legislators at creating a socialist utopia, California still has the highest poverty rate in the nation at 19%, despite a 1.4% decrease from last year according to the Census Bureau. And while California has a “vigorous economy and a number of safety net programs to aid needy residents,” according to the Sacramento Bee, one out of every five residents is suffering economic hardship – which is fueled in large part by sky-high housing costs, according to Caroline Danielson, policy director at the Public Policy Institute of California.

It’s not just housing prices driving the exodus, of course. Punitive taxes – more than twice as much as some other states, are eating away at disposable income. Nearby Arizona’s income tax rate is 4.54% vs California’s 9.3%, while the new tax bill may accelerate the exodus.

The potential collapse of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government would be a key factor in deciding when the US proposal should be unveiled, the officials said. Officials said Friedman, along with some advisers, were warning against releasing the plan during an Israeli election campaign, in order to prevent the vote from becoming a referendum on the US plan.

The report came as Netanyahu’s government appeared on brink of collapse, likely moving up the next Knesset elections before their scheduled date in November 2019.

"We have an entire year until the election. We are in the midst of a campaign and you don't pull out in the middle of a campaign or play politics. National security is beyond politics," Netanyahu said in his speech on Sunday. "I will not say this evening when we will act and how. I have a clear plan. I know what to do and when to do it. And we will do it."

Bennett referred to Netanyahu's address in saying that Jewish Home, which has eight of parliament's 120 legislators, would remain in his coalition. "If the prime minister is serious, and I want to believe his words last night, then I say here to the prime minister: We are withdrawing all our political demands and we will stand by you in this mighty task, so that Israel starts winning again."