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Congressman, Vern Buchanan, says that the Department of Justice should immediately cease funding the Nation of Islam, an organization led by Louis Farrakhan. This group has received over $364,500 in contracts and awards to teach Islam to prison inmates.

You’re working hard, paying your bills, and enjoying a social life on the side when, all of a sudden, you lose your job. Life isn’t so easy anymore. You worry about how you’re going to pay your rent and put gas in your car. Income fluctuations are stressful, and can lead to numerous health issues. One study found that when you lose money in young adulthood in particular, the risk for heart disease increases.

US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), a self-described socialist, floated a progressive taxation system.

The World Bank reported that legal and illegal immigrants sent $53.4 billion in remittances to Mexico and Central America in 2018. These money transfers provide a huge stimulus to the countries that export their populations to the U.S. labor market.

The new material would revolutionize industries with readily available and inexpensive copper - although the report does not say how much it costs to create the conversion.

“He died for our debts, not our sins”

A doctor reported that some of his adult male patients now weigh no more than 77 pounds. Suicide is on the rise, because many feel that they are doomed to die anyway. Crime and violence have become rampant throughout the country.

Highlights include: providing over $76 million to soldiers in the Somali National Army, devoting over $650,000 to develop a drama series to air in Afghanistan, spending more than $2.4 million to study daydreaming, and setting aside $18 million to support tourism in Egypt.

The stock market has been rocked ever since the October 3rd speech by Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, when he promised to continue hiking interest rates. The stock market has dropped by 4,500 points, and over $5-trillion has been erased from US equity values.

During the G20 dinner, unbeknownst to Trump, the US DOJ ordered the arrest of the CFO of Huawei, a Chinese tech giant with strong ties to the Chinese government. US intelligence agencies have warned that Huawei is a national security threat against the US.