Mike Flynn Tells FBI He Will Testify In Exchange For Immunity...

Mike Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, has told the FBI and congressional officials investigating the Trump campaign’s potential ties to Russia that he is willing to be interviewed in exchange for a grant of immunity from prosecution.

"He Certainly Has A Story To Tell" - Statement From Mike Flynn's Lawyer

"[Flynn] is now the target of unsubstantiated public demands by Members of Congress and other political critics that he be criminally investigated. No reasonable person, who has the benefit of advice from counsel, would submit to questioning in such a highly politicized, witch hunt environment without assurances against unfair prosecution."

NY Times Outs White House Sources Who Provided Intel Reports To Nunes

The NYT has outed the Nunes sources, who it claims are Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence at the National Security Council, and Michael Ellis, a lawyer who works on national security issues at the White House Counsel’s Office and formerly worked on the staff of the House Intelligence Committee.

White House Makes Surveillance Documents Available To Lawmakers

The Trump administration on Thursday invited leaders of congressional intelligence panels to review the documents it said raise indicate government spy agencies improperly identified President Donald Trump’s campaign officials and associates in the course of routine foreign surveillance.

"We Can't Have Massive Trade Deficits": Trump Warns Of "Very Difficult" Meeting With China

"The meeting next week with China will be a very difficult one in that we can no longer have massive trade deficits and job losses.  American companies must be prepared to look at other alternatives."

CBO Warns Of Fiscal Catastrophe As A Result Of Exponential Debt Growth In The U.S.

"The resulting losses for mutual funds, pension funds, insurance companies, banks, and other holders of government debt might be large enough to cause some financial institutions to fail, creating a fiscal crisis."

Trump May Be Right: The 'Five Eyes' Allies Do Spy On One Another

The GCHQ and the British government have cried foul over reports they surveilled Trump’s transition team on behalf of the Obama administration. However, there is a wealth of historical information on such cooperation between the 'Five Eyes'. The fact that GCHQ squawked publicly about it being implicated in political eavesdropping makes it more likely that it was caught red-handed.

EU Chief Threatens Trump For Supporting Brexit; Vows To "Promote" Break Up Of U.S.

"A lot of people would like it that way.  Even people on another continent where the newly elected U.S. President was happy that the Brexit was taking place and has asked other countries to do the same.  And, if he goes on like that, I am going to promote the indenpendence of Ohio and Austin, Texas in the United States of America."

How America’s Most Prestigious Universities Bilk the U.S. Taxpayer

Ivy League payments and entitlements cost taxpayers $41.59 billion over a six-year period (FY2010-FY2015). This is equivalent to $120,000 in government monies, subsidies, & special tax treatment per undergraduate student, or $6.93 billion per year.

Trump Goes Personal: Calls Out Freedom Caucus Members By Name

"If @RepMarkMeadows, @Jim_Jordan and @Raul_Labrador would get on board we would have both great healthcare and massive tax cuts & reform."

South Africa President Zuma Has Fired Finance Minister Gordhan

The drama surrounding South Africa's finance minister appear to be over, and as many had expected, it concluded with president Jacob Zuma firing his finance minister.

Margin Debt Hits New Record High But Analysts Say "Don’t Worry"

"This isn’t a signal to me that markets are reaching an exuberant level like they did in the 1920s or 1990s, when speculation was rampant.  What our clients are doing is borrowing against the portfolios because interest rates are so low. They’re not leveraging up because they see the market exploding to the upside; they’re using leverage because they can pay it off at any time.”

Fed's Dudley: "I Don’t Think We Are Removing The Punch Bowl Yet"

"William McChesney Martin, the ninth chair of the FOMC, once famously opined that the Federal Reserve is “in the position of the chaperone who has ordered the punch bowl removed just when the party was really warming up.”  I don’t think we are removing the punch bowl, yet.  We’re just adding a bit more fruit juice."

Venezuela Opposition Calls For Military Intervention After Supreme Court "Coup"

The leader of Venezuela's coalition of opposition forces and the president of the National Assembly, Julio Borges, said President Nicolas Maduro had staged a coup and called for a military intervention.

Reflation Roars Back From The Dead: Stocks Jump On Stronger Dollar, Oil Back Over $50

Huge 300,000 Bpd Fracklog Could Derail Oil Price Recovery

Thousands of drilled shale wells are sitting idle, unfracked and uncompleted.  Wood Mackenzie estimates that if the Permian Basin’s DUC list was completed, it would add 300,000 bpd in new supply.  That supply sitting on the sidelines will put downward pressure on any new oil price rally.

An Angry Freedom Caucus Responds To Trump's 2018 Threat

".@realDonaldTrump it's a swamp not a hot tub. We both came here to drain it. #SwampCare polls 17%. Sad!"

RBC: Two Things Are Behind Today's Rally

"With the ‘hawkish Fed/dovish ECB’ scenario, the USD is experiencing ‘signs of life.’  In turn, this could in fact reinvigorate ‘US domestic reflation’ trades which had been on life-support or unwound outright over the prior weeks / months."

McCaskill Opens Probe Into Opioid Drugmakers, But Omits Nation's Worst Offender From Her Home State

U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill opened an investigation Tuesday into the role drug companies may have played in the nation’s opioid epidemic. She requested internal documents from five leading drugmakers on how they market opioid painkillers and if they knew anything about the dangers of the drugs. Yet, the top opioid prescription manufacturer, which is located in McCaskill’s home state is missing from the initial list of companies she’s investigating.

South Korea's Ex-President Park Arrested On Bribery Charges

After being formally impeached just three weeks ago, former South Korea President Park Geun-hye was arrested on Friday in connection with a corruption scandal that led to her removal from office, Yonhap reports.

Trump's Deputy Chief Of Staff Is Leaving The White House

President Trump’s deputy chief of staff and long-time staffer for Reince Priebus, Katie Walsh, is leaving the White House, Politico reports. She's expected to work on outside efforts to support the Trump administration, the AP noted, including helping the RNC and the independent group America First.

Ivanka Trump Takes Unpaid Position as White House Employee, Leftists Go Crazy

by Cristina Laila, The Gateway Pundit:
Ivanka Trump announced today that she is joining the Trump administration as an unpaid employee. She will also gain security clearance.
As expected, the leftists lost their minds!
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Foreign Investors Are Dumping Japanese Bonds & Stocks At Almost Record Pace

from ZeroHedge:
Foreigners selling Japanese assets has become very seasonal as liquidity needs appear critical at quarter-ends for much of the last three years.
Last week – as Q1 ends – Foreigners sold 1.923 trillion Yen in Japanese bonds and 754 billion Yen in Japanese stocks. That was the second largest dump of Japanese assets in history…
This is also the biggest Q1 plunge ever – worse than in 2008.
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The Surveillance State Behind Russia-gate

by Bill Binney and Ray McGovern, Washington’s Blog:
Binney is the NSA executive who created the agency’s mass surveillance program for digital information, who served as the senior technical director within the agency, who managed six thousand NSA employees, the 36-year NSA veteran widely regarded as a “legend” within the agency and the NSA’s best-ever analyst and code-breaker, who mapped out the Soviet command-and-control structure before anyone else knew how, and so predicted Soviet invasions before they happened (“in the 1970s, he decrypted the Soviet Union’s command system, which provided the US and its allies with real-time surveillance of all Soviet troop movements and Russian atomic weapons”).
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DUI Checkpoints Now Include Mouth Swaps To Check If You’ve Smoked Weed Days Ago

from True Activist:
The mouth swab test can give positive results even if the person did not use cannabis that day, but this “evidence” is still admissible in court.
On St. Patrick’s Day, California’s southernmost metropolis decided to debut a roadside test for those suspected of driving under the influence of cannabis. Several “sobriety checkpoints” were set up throughout the city with the standard invasions of privacy, but this time they added a mouth swab test known as the Drager 5000.
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Marine Le Pen Vows To Destroy New World Order

by Baxter Dmitry, Your News Wire:
Leading French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has vowed to “destroy the New World Order” when she is elected President of France, sending a warning to European elites that she will “dismantle their corrupt, self-serving institutions with my own two hands if I have to.“
“The people have spoken and their message is clear: the New World Order is finished,” Marine Le Pen announced to a starstruck tour group at the headquarters of the National Front party west of Paris.
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Conspiracy Theory No More, Harvard Reveals Big Oil-Approved ‘Stratospheric Injection’ Geoengineering

by Claire Bernish, The Free Thought Project:
Officially kicking rumors of ‘chemtrails’ into overdrive, Harvard scientists announced the launch of a $20 million geoengineering program, set to kick off mere weeks from now — the first such project this comprehensive in scope — in a bid to stave off soaring global temperatures.
Geoengineering, in other words, just moved one colossal step closer to reality, on a massive scale, but what some scientists see as a viable, cost-effective solution, at an estimated $10 billion, others see as a nightmarish development — which could eventually spawn catastrophic drought.
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Monsanto’s Terrible Secrets Are Tumbling out as Company Faces Wave of Cancer Lawsuits

by Joshua Krause, Ready Nutrition:
In 2015 the World Health Organization declared that glyphosate, the world’s most popular herbicide, is probably carcinogenic. That declaration has since become a serious chink in the armor of Monsanto. It was one of the first times that a reputable institution suggested that maybe, Monsanto’s best-selling herbicide could be bad for human health. In fact, the company’s first response to that claim was that every other regulatory agency in the world had seen the same data as the WHO, and none of them thought that glyphosate was harmful.
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War Between U.S. And China Brewing in S. China Sea?

by James Holbrooks, The Anti Media:
South China Sea — Adding fuel to an already highly combustible situation in Southeast Asia, Reuters reported Tuesday that China has “largely completed major construction of military infrastructure on artificial islands it has built in the South China Sea,” and that the Asian superpower “can now deploy combat planes and other military hardware there at any time.”
Citing satellite imagery analyzed by the Asian Maritime Transparency Initiative, part of Washington, D.C.’s Center for Strategic and International Studies, the news agency writes that “work on Fiery Cross, Subi and Mischief Reefs in the Spratly Islands included naval, air, radar and defensive facilities.”
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