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GAMBLING SITES, by Taylor Smith — March 4, 2020

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One very interesting candidate here is Michelle Obama at +2500. Former president Barack Obama has had his pulse on the election in recent days despite the fact that he has yet to officially endorse a candidate.

Biden’s appeal to voters stems from the fact that he was Obama’s VP. Potentially adding Michelle Obama, arguably the single most popular figure in the entire Democratic Party, to the presidential ticket would be a massive boon for Biden’s chances of unseating Trump in the general election.

Michelle has rebuffed talk of running for office, but serving as Biden’s VP would instantly propel her back into the political spotlight.

Democrats are hell-bent on beating Trump in November. They have said on numerous occasions that this is the most important election of our lifetimes. Assuming he wins the nomination, Biden can’t afford to screw up the VP pick. Michelle Obama makes a ton of sense, if she’s willing to do it.

If you’re willing to bet on this, it’s hard to ignore Michelle as a value at +2500 odds.

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https://www.gamblingsites.org/blog/joe-biden-heavy-favorite-earn-democratic-presidential-nomination/

ZeroHedge, by Tyler Durden — March 3, 2020

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Commenting on the Fed’s emergency rate cut, which while expected was extremely unusual and only the first one since the financial crisis, Obama’s chief economic advisor Larry Summers laid out the problem Powell is facing, especially now that the Fed appears to have lost much of its remaining credibility:

Fed Risks ‘Scaring People’ With Rate Cut. My interview today on the Fed’s emergency rate-cut on @BloombergTV.

When you have limited ammunition you have to conserve it. The Fed has limited ammunition with interest rates so low.  Interest rates don’t cure the #coronovarius and interest rates don’t repair supply chains.

While Larry Summers’ opinion has been repeatedly discredited over the years, he does bring up a valid point: why is the Fed wasting half of all of its ammo just to delay what is now an inevitable crash, and why scramble with an “intermeeting” cut when it could have jawboned for the next two weeks and waited until the regular March 18 FOMC meeting. If anything, it would at least eliminate the sense of Fed panic from the equation.

Instead, as it stands “it smells like panic” as more than one Wall Street veteran put it.

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https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/it-smells-panic-not-what-powell-had-mind

Very concise, intelligent summary by TheLastRefuge!
Is the Dem's ultimate plan to have BIDEN (Pick MICHELLE OBAMA as VP 'in a Heartbeat')– https://t.co/KkhZmGJT5Bhttps://t.co/zIaR67UYOj https://t.co/GU6oHLDkNW

— Was Obama Born In Kenya (@bsteadman) March 4, 2020

So now it's down to a communist, a fake Indian, a smug, prissy elitist who disdains farmers, a senile old grifter, and a lady who throws staplers at her staff. What could possibly go wrong?

— Ty Clevenger (@Ty_Clevenger) March 2, 2020

No surprise that A.G. Barr supports reauthorizing Patriot Act without legislative reforms. To protect all Americans from domestic surveillance we absolutely must block the FISA court from spying on Americans!
https://t.co/OfUEKeft8x

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 2, 2020

Off-Guardian, by Matthew Ehret — March 2, 2020

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With the 2016 Brexit and election of President Trump, a new wave of nationalist spirit has become a fire which the technocrats have lost their capacity to snuff out.

Increasingly, the idea that nation-states have a power over the private banking system has become revived and discussion for reforming the now dead Trans-Atlantic system is increasingly shaped not by the calls for a “New World Order” as Sir Kissinger would have liked, but rather for a New Silk Road and a true New Deal.

The Eurasian nations are already firmly committed to this new system, and if the west is to qualify morally to take part in this new epoch, then the first step will be a return to a Glass-Steagall.

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https://off-guardian.org/2020/03/02/why-the-coming-economic-collapse-will-not-be-caused-by-corona-virus/

ZeroHedge, by Tyler Durden — March 3, 2020

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Over the weekend, China-watchers – or at least the ones who don’t really watch China all that closely and instead rely on others’ “hot takes” – were shocked to learn that in February both the Chinese manufacturing and non-manufacturing PMIs had crashed far below consensus expectations, tumbling to record low levels, surpassing even the economic contraction observed at the peak of the global financial crisis.

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And yet, judging by the market’s torrid surge on Monday, it appears that – as so often happens – traders took China’s latest numbers in stride, and specifically as an indication of Beijing “kitchen sinking” the collapse in February, with a V-shaped recovery sure to follow.

Or maybe not, because while not only has China’s economy not picked up even modestly, but it is only a matter of time before Beijing, which has forced people to go to work against their will, succumbs to a second wave of coronavirus infections, one which will result in an even worse economic slump than the current one, which incidentally has yet to show any actual recovery!

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https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/chinas-economy-finally-starting-recover-here-what-real-data-shows

President Trump Starts Implementing Ban on Welfare-Dependent Immigration to U.S.: Democrats buying illegal votes — dismantle the corrupt machine. https://t.co/Z9zeYi0noj pic.twitter.com/Spoh7142ZZ

— Pamela Geller (@PamelaGeller) March 2, 2020

CITIZEN FREE PRESS, by Kane — March 1, 2020

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First ladies don’t kiss and tell.

A racy “New York” magazine cover showing Melania Trump smooching a Big Apple firefighter in the wake of 9/11 has been unearthed nearly two decades later.

At the time of the photo shoot in 2002 — meant to be reminiscent of the iconic V-J Day smooch between a sailor and a nurse in 1945 — Trump was a little-known model named Melania Knauss who had been hired to pose on the cover of the publication’s Valentine’s Day “Singles” issue, according to New York.

Knauss — who at the time was dating Donald Trump, then known as a Big Apple property developer — was selected to star on the cover paying homage to New York’s first responders, who had become “rock stars” in the wake of the devastating 9/11 attacks months earlier.

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https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/sexy-melania-kisses-firefighter-in-unearthed-new-york-cover/

View the complete, referenced New York Post article at:

https://nypost.com/2020/02/28/melania-trump-kisses-firefighter-in-unearthed-new-york-cover/

DAILY CALLER, by Chris White Tech Reporter — February 29, 2020

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A Republican donor reportedly purchased a major stake in Twitter with the intention of pushing out CEO Jack Dorsey, who the billionaire says is too distracted with other ventures.

Activist investor Elliott Management wants to make changes at the social media company, the Bloomberg News report noted Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter. Paul Singer, the billionaire behind Elliott, once opposed President Donald Trump’s campaign but has since grown more supportive.

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