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For the record, I'm not in favor of political chaos and economic anarchy, but that seems to be the only route that Deep Staters 'round the world want to go down. The convenient protocols of finance in the industrial era which allowed routine borrowing from the future to get today's enterprise up and running have lost their mojo.

EXCLUSIVE: VA Asks For Meeting With Whistleblowers To Find Out How They Face Retaliation

The Department of Veterans Affairs is reaching out to whistleblowers for a meeting on the challenges they've faced when exposing wrongdoing at their facilities, following the establishment of an office to protect whistleblowers. Whistleblowers Kuauhtemoc Rodriguez from the Phoenix VA and Sean Higgins from the Memphis VA have been contacted by the Central Whistleblower Office for a conference call meeting Friday, which comes just over a week after President Donald Trump signed an executive order creating a new Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection at the VA, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

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Freelance reporter, Joe 'Rambo' Biggs and David Rodriguez documented just how easy it is to cross the southern border. Biggs and Rodriguez were able to cross the border between Anapara, Mexico and Sunland Park, New Mexico, U.S. many times in under a minute! Biggs and Rodriguez walked right up to the border with Mexico.

Reports from Cuba: If Venezuela goes to hell, will things look bad for Cuba?

Soot covers the unpainted facades of buildings on Tenth of October Boulevard. Old American cars from the 1950s, rebuilt with modern diesel engines and now privately operated as taxis, transit across asphalt, leaving behind a trail of black smoke and the unpleasant odor of gasoline.

“Deaf man claims lawyer’s bad sign language cost him millions”

"A deaf former IBM worker claims he wrongly accepted a lowball discrimination settlement of $200,000 because his lawyer exaggerated his knowledge of sign language and confused the sign for 'million' with that for 'thousand' while negotiating the deal." Software engineer James Wang, who had blamed his firing on his deafness, got $200,000 but says he expected $200 million.

April Jobs Report Bounces Back From March Doldrums

After a disappointing March , the U.S. jobs market bounced back in April to deliver numbers more consistent with what we'd been seeing at the end of 2016 and the start of the new year: Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 211,000 in April, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 4.4 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in leisure and hospitality, health care and social assistance, financial activities, and mining.