MOTHER OF THE YEAR

Via WMSV

Texas mom playing ‘chicken’ game with vehicle fatally strikes 3-year-old son, officials say

HOUSTON (AP/Meredith) — Authorities say a 26-year-old Houston woman who was driving an SUV toward her children in an apparent game of “chicken” struck and killed her 3-year-old son.

Harris County prosecutors said Friday that Lexus Stagg is charged with criminally negligent homicide in the June 11 death of her son.

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SpaceX’s Latest Launch Ends With Fiery Crash

Via ZeroHedge

Though it had carried out a handful of successful launches, SpaceX’s legacy of launch-day malfunctions is well recognized by now, and will likely create problems for CEO Elon Musk as he pushes to launch the company’s first manned space flight by the end of the year.

Explosion

But in the latest setback, the company failed in what RT described as an “audacious” mission to retrieve rockets after launch. After the main rocket successfully landed on a sea-based launch pad, the center core booster that had helped power the rocket missed the pad, instead crashing into the sea in a fiery explosion.

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Gold Sees New Highs After Breaching $1,400

From Birch Gold Group

gold reaches $1,400

This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest news involving precious metals and the overall economy. Stories include: Gold surges to $1,411, gold fever is spreading, and ‘Bond King’ Jeffrey Gundlach bets on gold against upcoming recession and dollar decline.

Gold Breaches $1,400 in USD

On Friday, gold surpassed $1,400 an ounce after a spectacular week that saw the metal breach one key level after another. Although many analysts had previously upgraded their gold forecast for 2019 to $1,400, few expected the metal to soar so quickly, and even fewer during its traditionally weakest quarter.

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Trump: War President or Anti-Interventionist?

Guest Post by Pat Buchanan

Trump: War President or Anti-Interventionist?

Where is the evidence that any such secret program exists? And if it does, why does America not tell the world where Iran’s secret nuclear facilities are located and demand immediate inspections?…

Visualizing 150 Iranian dead from a missile strike that he had ordered, President Donald Trump recoiled and canceled the strike, a brave decision and defining moment for his presidency.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, John Bolton and Vice President Mike Pence had signed off on the strike on Iran as the right response to Tehran’s shootdown of a U.S. Global Hawk spy plane over the Gulf of Oman.

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Eisenhower takes command – 1942

Via History.com

Following his arrival in London, Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower takes command of U.S. forces in Europe. Although Eisenhower had never seen combat during his 27 years as an army officer, his knowledge of military strategy and talent for organization were such that Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall chose him over nearly 400 senior officers to lead U.S. forces in the war against Germany. After proving himself on the battlefields of North Africa and Italy in 1942 and 1943, Eisenhower was appointed supreme commander of Operation Overlord–the Allied invasion of northwestern Europe.

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QUOTES OF THE DAY

“Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.”

Thomas Jefferson

“In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.”

Napoléon Bonaparte

Our Interregnum

Guest Post by The Zman

One of the most remarkable things to happen in the West since the end of the Cold War has been the rise of identity politics over the last half decade. It is remarkable for a couple of reasons. One is that it has emerged in what economists consider to be a time of unrivaled prosperity. People should be happy and content, rather than angry, with post-national liberal democracy. A central tenet of liberal democracy is that the end point of human activity is to create a world of material plenty.

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Report: Internet Users Who Call For Attacking Other Countries Will Now Be Enlisted In The Military Automatically

Via The Babylon Bee

U.S.—A new policy issued by the United States Department of Defense, in conjunction with online platforms like Twitter and Facebook, will automatically enlist you to fight in a foreign war if you post your support for attacking another country.

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False Flag Time

Guest Post by Jeff Thomas via International Man

For many years, I’ve held the belief that, when World War III was brought on, it would most likely be in the Strait of Hormuz.

The strait is relatively narrow, with a shipping lane of just two miles. It’s bordered on the east by Iran and on the west by the United Arab Emirates. It’s also the main oil highway for Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Since it’s the most critical point for oil distribution in the world and it’s shared by the oil industry’s equivalent of the Hatfields and McCoys, it’s the ideal location for an aggressive nation to start a “rumble.”

In May of this year, it was reported that mines in the strait had damaged four oil tankers. US National Security Advisor John Bolton quickly announced that “naval mines almost certainly from Iran” were to blame. He offered no evidence to back up this claim.

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Hollow Words

Guest Post by Eric Peters

We go through the motions – often, because it’s the easiest thing to do. Inertia. We celebrate anniversaries without meaning. Wedding days in marriages gone cold.

And, of course, the Fourth.

That vapid day is coming ‘round again. People will drink beer and cook out and go through the motions. Some will launch illicit fireworks – real ones being mostly illegal now.

But only a cognitively dissonant American celebrates his “freedom” – which for the record isn’t even what the day is supposed to commemorate.

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Boxed in by Neocons and the Media, Will Trump Launch Iran War?

Guest Post by Ron Paul

President Trump did the smart thing last week by calling off a US airstrike on Iran over the downing of an American spy drone near or within Iranian territorial waters. According to press reports, the president over-ruled virtually all his top advisors – Bolton, Pompeo, and Haspel – who all wanted another undeclared and unauthorized US war in the Middle East.

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