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Jerry Brown Signs $125 Billion Budget Without a Single Objection

Every California governor for the last 44 years has used the state’s line-item-veto to kick-out the most egregious fantasy spending by the legislature, but Governor Jerry Brown signed this year’s record $125 billion budget without a single spending veto.

Jerry Brown watch (Justin Sullivan / Getty)

NHTSA Launches ‘Review’ of Tesla Autopilot Fatal Crash

After a Tesla Model S with its semi-autonomous autopilot on crashed into a tractor trailer last month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) Office of Defects initiated a formal “review.” The NHTSA has opened a preliminary evaluation into a

Elon Musk (Haiko Jumne / AFP / Getty)

One Week after Brexit, Only UK Stocks Are Higher

Despite all the hysteria from media and political elites that claimed the UK would stagnate if British voters passed Brexit to leave the EU, it turns out that UK stocks are higher a week later while the other stock markets are still down.

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Puerto Rico Intends to Default Despite U.S. Aid

Despite Congress being ready to pass special legislation to restructure its $70 billion in debt, the Governor of Puerto Rico announced that the U.S. Territory will default on July 1.

Puerto Rico bailout (Kathy Willens / Associated Press)

Trans-Pacific Partnership Beloved by Hollywood, Tanked by Brexit

Media and entertainment companies stood to gain the most from passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)– so it is not surprising that the industry’s stock index lost $20 billion in the first two trading days after the UK vote for “Brexit.”

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The EU Failed to Produce a ‘Worker’s Paradise’

Although Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party (IKIP), said after the Brexit, “The euroskeptic genie is out of the bottle and it will now not be put back… EU’s dead,” he also offered the European Parliament a “sensible tariff free deal” on Tuesday that, he said, would be good for EU residents.

Abandoned British factory (Scott Heppell / AFP / Getty)

UK Credit Rating Downgraded to AA, But British Better Off

Breitbart News correctly predicted that if the British peopled voted for “Brexit,” that would cost the UK its AAA credit rating. And our other prediction — that the British would be better off leaving the EU — is also looking good.

Big Ben Brexit (Justin Tallis / AFP / Getty)

Puppet Master Soros Losses Big Betting Against British People

George “Puppet Master” Soros, who tried to use fear tactics to create panic among UK investors and voters in the run-up to the Brexit vote, suffered big financial losses when the British people chose to “leave” the European Union last week.

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Bitcoin was ‘Good as Gold’ in the Brexit

With the Brexit being the worst one-day global financial crash since the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in 2008, Bitcoin gained a tremendous amount of credibility as a safe haven asset that is “good as gold.”

The Bitcoin currency was launched in 2009

$46.6B Annual Cost of Hated EU Rules Caused the Brexit

The media elites are somewhat right that the Brexit victory was about the UK voters’ disdain for globalization, immigration, and lost pride, but the real cause of the British asking for an EU divorce was the $46.6 billion in hard costs for intangible benefits.

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Obama’s Global Entrepreneurship Summit Celebrates Muslim Outreach

President Barack Obama will appear at Stanford University in Silicon Valley on Friday to be keynote speaker at the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), which will highlight his commitment to building bridges to Muslim-majority countries around the world. Obama has

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Brexit: Soros Defeated by Act of God

As Breitbart News predicted, severe flooding hammering the UK on Election Day depressed British turnout enough to assure a victory for the “Brexit” from the European Union.

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Brexit: EU Going The Way Of The Soviet Union

Although the British seem ready to vote to “Bremain” in their June 23 referendum on European Union (EU) membership, the closeness of the “Brexit” caused Switzerland to withdraw its application to join and other EU states to demand referendums, as the EU seems to be going the way of the Soviet Union.

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Brexit: Win or Lose, EU Going the Way of Soviet Union

Although the polls suggest that British voters seem ready to vote “Bremain” in their June 23 referendum on European Union membership, the possibility of the “Brexit” caused Switzerland to withdraw its application to join, and other EU states to demand referendums. Win or lose, the EU seems to be going the way of the Soviet Union.

Brexit Remain (Niklas Halle'n / AFP / Getty)

Apple Scapegoats Trump as Consumers, Investors Grumble

With Apple management failing to deliver any disruptive new products since Steve Jobs left almost 5 years ago, CEO Tim Cook is trying to play politics, shifting blame for Apple’s collapsing business model to some moral deficiency in Republican Donald Trump.

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Stratfor: Russia Nears Easing of Western Sanctions

In a dramatic turnaround from last year, Russia’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum attracted huge numbers of Western government officials and business leaders, despite U.S. and EU sanctions that are expected to be renewed.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has called for an energy alliance with Europe

Communist Authorities Ban Apple iPhone 6 Sales in Beijing

Beijing regulators have banned iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus sales for “knocking-off” a local competitor’s design, following a ruling by a Beijing court last month that Apple did not hold the exclusive trademark for the name “iPhone.”

Tiananmen Square (AP Photo / Jeff Widener)

California Adds $2.7 Billion in Unfunded Spending

With a little over two more years left in office, California Governor Jerry Brown agreed to a $122.5 billion budget for the 2016-17 fiscal year that adds $2.7 billion of mostly unfunded new spending for welfare, schools and prisons.

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Disney Alligator and Terrorist Attack May Trigger Florida Recession

Tourism may suffer serious damage in Florida after a seven-to-eight-foot alligator dragged a two-year-old toddler off a Disney World hotel beach as parents furiously fought to save him. The attacked followed just two days after an Orlando terrorist attack.

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Florida Economy Will Suffer from Orlando Terrorist Attack

Radical Islamic terrorist Omar Mateen almost appears to have chosen the Orlando nightclub “Pulse” because he knew the media coverage of his slaughter would continue to hammer Florida’s huge tourism-based economy.

Disney World parade (John Raoux / Associated Press)

Orlando Terrorist Attack Is Deadly Threat to Left’s Agenda

The Left is being forced to acknowledge that the Orlando terrorist attack is an existential threat to its agenda, amid an election already focused on America’s inability to control world affairs and its own borders.

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Orlando Terrorist Worked For Firm with DHS Contracts

Orlando Terrorist Omar Mateen, was a licensed and armed security guard for a multinational security company that had the Department of Homeland Security contracts to transport illegal alien caught by US Border Patrol agents.

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Bilderberg: Elites Panic as Brexit Takes 10% Lead

Despite European Union elites, including some Bilderberg attendees, negotiating a deal with Turkey to temporarily suspend Middle East immigrants pouring into the EU until after the June 23 Brexit vote, UK voters now favor leaving the EU by 10 percent.

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California: Gov. Brown Spikes Social Spending as Tax Revenues Plummet

Californian Democratic Governor Jerry Brown reached a final budget deal with the state’s Democrat controlled Legislature that will increase spending on low-income housing subsidies and child care by $400 million, even though California state tax revenues are plummeting.

Gov. Jerry Brown of California September 22, 2015 in Seattle, WA.

House Passes Puerto Rico Debt Crisis Legislation

The U.S. House passed the “Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act” (PROMESA) debt crisis legislation on Thursday by a 297-127 vote. The bill now heads to the U.S. Senate, where there appears to be a similar level of bipartisan support for approval.

Puerto Rico bailout (Kathy Willens / Associated Press)