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Thursday, October 4, 2018

MarketWatch: “Another Key Barometer of U.S. Economy Hits Postrecession High: ISM Service Index Soars”

The numbers: A survey of business executives pointed to the strongest U.S. growth in September in more than two decades, suggesting the economy is primed for a strong finish in 2018.

The Institute for Supply Management’s survey of non-manufacturing firms climbed to a 21-year high of 61.6 last month from 58.5. It’s the highest mark of the current nine-year-old expansion and the second strongest reading in the history of an index whose roots stretch back to 1997.

Numbers over 50% are viewed as positive for the economy, and anything over 55% is considered exceptional.
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All 17 industries tracked by the ISM reported growth in September. Many companies saw an increase in new orders and they hired more workers. A gauge measuring employment rose to a record 62.4.
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The economy is going strong and appeared primed for a strong holiday season to finish out the year. The latest ISM survey shows little likelihood that growth will slow anytime soon, and the recent trade agreement with Canada is sure to further ease the worries of corporate America.

RED WAVE? Trump Rallygoers Say They're Voting in Midterms for First Time Ever

At the packed Trump rally in Johnson City, Tennessee on Monday, Infowars reporter Millie Weaver found a host of Trump supporters saying they're planning to vote in the midterms for the first time ever.

"I've never voted in my life," one man in his 30's said. "I'm a business owner, and been struggling for a long time, and it's really turned around in the last couple of years, the economy's great, I'd imagine Trump had something to do with that."

Another man said, "To be totally honest with you, I'm 35, but I guess technically I'm still a millennial even though, you know, I don't identify in that manner and I wasn't so politically active until Trump came along, so no I haven't voted before."

Another said he's voting for the first time because of all the establishment's "corruption" and "using our intelligence agencies" for "politically motivated" ends.

A middle-aged man told Weaver he's voting "to keep folks like Maxine Waters and the rest of the tribe out of power."
"All the crazy people!" his young daughter interjected.

Asked if they think there will be a "Blue Wave," one young man said, "I think the blue wave actually isn't going to happen because all of the moderate Democrats are going to flee because of the social wave that's going on."

He pointed to his friend who exclaimed, "I was a Democrat, Trump changed my mind!"

According to a report Tuesday in The Hill, a record...

Report: FBI Holding Onto 37 Pages of Potentially Key Uranium One Deal Documents

Thanks to the national fever over the Kavanaugh hearings, a report that the FBI is holding onto documents that are potentially damning for the Clintons has been able to slip under the radar of the establishment media.

In a recent bombshell report by The Hill, investigative journalist John Solomon wrote that the FBI has identified 37 pages of documents that may offer information about what FBI agents told the Obama administration preceding the Uranium One deal about the criminal wrongdoing found in Russia’s nuclear Industry.

Those suspicious of the deal pointed to evidence that bribery may have been at play in the deal. For example, the fact that Russians paid former President Bill Clinton $500,000 to give a speech at a Russian bank that was promoting Uranium One stock a few weeks before then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton had to vote on the acquisition.

Or you could bring up the $145 million that went to the Clinton Foundation from interests linked to Uranium One. Or the fact that Tony Podesta, the brother of Hillary Clinton’s former campaign manager, was paid $180,000 by Uranium One to encourage Clinton’s approval of the deal.

And more evidence of Clinton-Russia collusion may exist in these FBI documents. At least, there is reason to believe that the documents would inform the American people about what information the Obama administration was working with before the Obama-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States made the highly controversial deal with...

Chappa, Chappa... It's On The Tip Of My Tongue....

REAL NEWS: Ted Kennedy Secretly Asked The Soviets To Intervene In The 1984 Elections

Fun Fact: Democrats ARe Sinking Faster Than Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile...

Chappaquiddick!

Top FBI attorney provides ‘explosive’ testimony regarding Trump-Russia probe, suspected FISA abuse

A former top lawyer at the FBI provided “explosive” testimony to Congress on Wednesday regarding the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation, lawmakers said.

James Baker, who served as the FBI’s general counsel until May, told Congress that a previously unidentified source provided information to the FBI for its investigation, which began on July 31, 2016.

“During the time that the FBI was putting — that [the Department of Justice] and FBI were putting together the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act surveillance warrant] during the time prior to the election — there was another source giving information directly to the FBI, which we found the source to be pretty explosive,” Ohio GOP Rep. Jim Jordan said after a hearing, according to Fox News.

As the FBI’s top attorney, Baker was directly involved in handling applications for the FISA warrants granted against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

Baker was interviewed behind closed doors as part of a congressional task force’s investigation into the FBI’s possible abuse of the FISA process. Republican lawmakers have expressed concerns that the Page FISAs relied heavily on the unverified Steele dossier.

The document, which was funded by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee, was cited extensively in the FBI’s applications to spy on Page.

“Some of the things that were shared were explosive in nature,” North Carolina GOP Rep. Mark Meadows told Fox regarding Baker’s interview. “This witness confirmed that things were done in an abnormal fashion. That’s extremely troubling.”

Jordan and Meadows did not provide additional details about what information Baker shared or who the FBI’s source was. They said that congressional investigators were not aware of the source until Baker’s testimony.

Meadows said earlier on Wednesday that he has seen evidence that “confidential human sources” used by the FBI “actually taped members within the Trump campaign.”

“There is strong suggestions in that some of the text messages, emails, and so forth who was involved, that extraordinary measures were used to surveil,” Meadows told...

The White House has found no proof of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in the FBI report submitted to the White House.

Republicans have a narrow 51-49 edge in the Senate, so two defections would doom the nomination. In the event of a 50-50 tie, Vice President Mike Pence would cast a deciding vote on Judge Kavanaugh’s behalf.

The Wall Street Journal moved a report early Thurdsday morning confirming the details..

The report said it was not evident whether the White House has finalized its review of the FBI’s reports of witness statements.

The White House said it would forward the FBI report to the Sen. Grassley’s Senate Judiciary Committee early Thursday.

The FBI probe was launched last Friday as the Judiciary Committee prepared to vote on sending Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Senate floor. Mr. Flake voted yes, but asked for the FBI to be given up to a week for a supplemental background check into allegations by Dr. Ford and another accuser, Deborah Ramirez, who says Judge Kavanaugh exposed himself to her in college.

Judge Kavanaugh also denies Ms. Ramirez’s allegations, saying he has never sexually assaulted anyone and characterizing the assertions as a political smear.

FBI agents have interviewed three people Dr. Ford said were at the social gathering where the alleged assault took place. The bureau also questioned two friends Judge Kavanaugh named in his 1982 calendar, Tim Gaudette and Chris Garrett, known as “Squi,” according to their lawyers.

Democrats have already signaled they consider the FBI...

Here’s all the wins Trump got in the New Mexico-Canada trade deal

Politicians have been promising to end or renegotiate NAFTA for decades, but President Donald Trump achieved that goal Monday. Here’s what’s in the new agreement.