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Clinton and DNC at Risk for Campaign Finance Violations

With the WikiLeaks email scandal already causing the resignation of Democrat Party chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Hillary Clinton and the Democrat Party may now face legal risk regarding violations of campaign finance guidelines.

DNC Protest Sign (Joel Pollak / Breitbart News)

Germany: Immigrant Terrorism and Post-Brexit Decline Doom EU

The combination of the German economy plunging after the “Brexit” in June, and the terrorist attack last week by the son of Iranian immigrants screaming “Allahu Akbar” as he slaughtered 9 people in Munich, may signal the tipping point that dooms the European Union.

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Silicon Valley ‘Dazed and Confused’ by Peter Thiel’s RNC Speech

Many tech leaders were left “dazed and confused” after top Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel won a standing ovation at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland last Thursday when he introduced himself as both “proud to be gay” and “proud to be Republican.”

Peter Thiel (Nelson Barnard / Getty)

McKinsey: 2/3 of Western Economies Not Seeing Income Gains

McKinsey & Company was one of the biggest advocates of globalization, but the company just published a report warning that with incomes for two-thirds of households in 25 advanced economies flat or down between 2005 and 2014, advanced countries are about to suffer “corrosive economic and social consequences.”

According to findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association, African-American

Elon Musk Reveals Forecast to ‘Take Over the World’

Not satisfied with just losing gobs of money on each car that Tesla builds, CEO Elon Musk just revealed his “Master Plan” to “try to take over the world” — a plan that seemed so farfetched, the stock crashed by 3.5 percent

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Clinton Nightmare: Republican Platform Reinstates Glass-Steagall

Donald Trump is using his Art of the Deal to attack Hillary Clinton’s Wall Street fundraising spigot by promising to reinstate the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act that her husband, President Bill Clinton, repealed in the waning days of his Administration.

Donald Trump silhouette (Evan Vucci / Associated Press)

Pro Athletes Are Going Pro in Venture Capital

Once relegated to “dumb jock” roles on the gridiron or the field house, modern day sports figures are using their brand and money to be movers and shakers at Donald Trump’s Republican National Convention and as Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

Stephen and Ayesha Curry (Omar Vega / Invision / Associated Press)

French Prisons are ‘Radical Islam’ Terrorist Universities

The common link to France accounting for five of the 16 major Western nation terrorist incidents in 2016, including the July 14 “lone wolf” attack in Nice that killed 84 people, is French prisons being “radical Islam” terrorist universities. Despite

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5G Approved by FCC: 100 Times Faster than 4G

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously on Thursday to open nearly 11 gigahertz of high-frequency spectrum for the roll out of “5G” mobile, flexible and fixed-use broadband wireless that may be 100 times faster than 4G.

5G (Josep Lago / AFP / Getty)

CBO Warns: U.S. Debt to Reach 141% GDP

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) warns this week that U.S. debt will hit 141 percent of GDP in the next 30 years as America taxes itself into poverty.

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CalPERS Suffers $30.8 Billion Annual Loss

The California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS) is about to report the world’s largest public employee pension suffered an actuarial investment loss of $30.8 billion last year.

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California Tests Per-Mile Fee to Spike Gas Tax Collection

California is testing a per-mile “fee” (gas tax) on drivers to spike Caltrans fuel tax collection — which will pay for employee feather-bedding, higher mileage cars and subsidized electric vehicles.

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SEC Investigating Tesla for Failing to Disclose Autopilot Death

The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an investigation regarding Tesla Motors Inc. potentially breaching U.S. securities laws by failing quickly to disclose that a Model S driver died watching a Harry Potter DVD with the car’s autopilot engaged.

Elon Musk (Scott Olson / Getty)

Fed Former Chair Greenspan: Brexit Paves Way for ‘Gold Standard’

Although former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the UK referendum to leave the EU was a “terrible mistake” that led to a “terrible outcome in all respects,” he now expects “Brexit” will cause an inevitable return to the “gold standard.”

Alan Greenspan (Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty)

Theranos Fashionista CEO Banned by Fed Regulators

After 9 months of scandal, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) notified Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes that she has now been banned from owning or operating any diagnostic laboratory for two years.

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$6 Million San Jose Pot Bust as California Nears Legalization

Despite reports that California voters seem on the the cusp of passing an initiative in November that would make the regulated production and consumption of marijuana for recreational use legal, San Jose police just made a $6 million pot bust.

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U.S. Economy Accelerates with 287,000 Jobs in June

With Breitbart News predicting an acceleration of U.S. manufacturing would mean no recession this year, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that employment jumped by 287,000 jobs in June ,as hiring rebounded from a two-month slowdown.

Payroll firm ADP reported the US private sector added 172,000 jobs in June

DOJ Investigating Facebook for Suspected Irish Tax Dodge

The United States Department of Justice has asked for a federal court order to compel Facebook Inc. to provide the IRS with documents relating to undervaluing global assets transferred to its Irish holding company in a scheme to slash its tax rate to 3.5 percent.

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U.K. Real Estate Gets Cheaper After Brexit

The United Kingdom’s Brexit from the European Union is a “canary-dying-in-the-coal-mine” warning of disaster for commercial real-estate winners in the globalist economy, just as the Lehman Brothers’ 2008 bankruptcy was a dramatic warning of disastrous losses in middle-class manufacturing jobs.

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CA May Dump Daylight Savings Time; Criminals Rejoice

With growing support in Sacramento to eliminate Daylight Savings Time, the one class of Californians most excited about the idea are criminals, who hate daylight savings time because they are more likely to be seen by witnesses and police.

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The Bad Guys’ Plan to Destroy Silicon Valley: Demand Profit

In the 1985 James Bond classic A View to a Kill, super-villain Max Zorin (Christopher Walken) plots to destroy Silicon Valley. That was fiction, of course — but this year, tech start-ups have suffered 70 “down-rounds” as venture capitalists have suddenly demanded that companies become profitable.

Christopher Walken A View to a Kill (Hulton Archive / Getty)

Tesla to Miss Revenue Target by $315 Million

Tesla Motors Inc. appears to have missed its revenue target for the latest quarter by $315 million, suggesting the company is much better at selling cars than making them.

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July 4-20: California Could Make Billions on Legal Marijuana

With 39 million people, and a booming 20-year-old medical marijuana trade, California politicians will soon have $1 billion a year in extra cash to spend — if the new recreational marijuana initiative passes on the November ballot.

Marijuana cash (Raquel Baranow / Flickr / CC / Cropped)

After Wasting $7B, CA to Spend $2B to House Homeless

After years of wasting $7 billion trying to support homeless mentally ill on the streets, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill on July 1 to use $2 billion of Prop 63 bond money to build 14,000 housing units for the population.

Homeless in San Francisco (Beth Pollak / Facebook)

Claim: L.A. Electric Bills Paid for City Consultants’ Hookers

With the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) settling a suit last year for over-billing customers $44 million due to shoddy work by Pricewaterhouse Coopers implementing a billing system, the L.A. City Attorney has now alleged that the prestigious firm accounting also fraudulently billed DWP to pay for hookers at swanky bachelor parties at Vegas hotels.

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Hillary Clinton’s Son-in-Law Lost CalPERS Money Betting Greek Bonds

Then-Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton appears to have sought inside information on a potential European Union bailout as her son-in-law, Marc Mezvinsky, speculated on defaulting Greek bonds in 2012 with CalPERS’ public pension cash as his hedge fund was getting wiped out.

Clintons and Mezvinsky (Drew Angerer / Getty)