Seine is overflowing. Louvre and Musee d’Orsee must implement flood preps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO-4VbLdzAE God knows where all the migrants will end up. After an onslaught of constant rain, Paris’s fabled Seine River has flooded — again. On Tuesday, the water level reached about 4.9 meters (about 16 feet) and is expected to peak at just … Read more
The participation of players in the national anthem before games used to NOT be a thing at all. The Department of Defense pays the NFL big fucking money to promote the armed forces and whip up nationalism at their games as a recruitment tool. “Until 2009, no NFL player stood for the national anthem because … Read more
From P.J. O’Rourke, Editor-in-Chief, American Consequences: Great literature is gone. Good journalism has disappeared. Philosophy dove off the highboard of thought only to find the pool of thinking had been drained. Even comic books have been ruined. Let us consider Superman, his alter ego Clark Kent, and Lois Lane, the woman who loves them both. Superman was … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7imD7J0kZs He never answered the 1st question as to why he kicked thousands of people out of his country. CL
The narrative casting Jeff Bezos as a transformative media baron reached new heights in 2017. His Washington Post consistently set the political agenda while claiming two straight years of profitability. Bezos himself glowed on the red carpet as an improbable journalism hero when Steven Spielberg’s The Post, a fictionalized account of the newspaper’s publication of The Pentagon Papers, opened in December. Bezos … Read more
(CNSNews.com) – Federal spending for the fourth Monday in January set a record of $16,596,000,000 for that day in January even though the federal government was shut down, according to the Daily Treasury Statement. The House of Representatives did not pass the current short-term continuing resolution to fund the government and end the latest shutdown until 6:09 … Read more
JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon says Trump’s tax cut will lead to economic boom this year Dimon says economic growth could hit 4 percent this year. In a CNBC interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Dimon also expressed strong support for the tax overhaul, predicting it will boost capital investment and job creation. Four … Read more
A blue moon, a supermoon and a lunar eclipse will all fall on the same night at the end of January in an event that hasn’t happened in over 150 years. These three lunar events separately are not uncommon, but it is rare for all three to occur at the same time. The last time … Read more
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen (for the first time in 4K) about an incredibly risky move made by Barclays as they dump 280,000 savers’ pensions into their “riskier investment banking division” which dramatically endangers the pensions. Alongside the massive shortfalls we see in pension plans throughout the world (all ponzis), … Read more
There is a political conspiracy to corrupt our democratic system with a combination of gerrymandering, voter-ID laws and dark money. As a Libertarian living in a Democratic controlled State, I can tell you that the dems are also guilty of gerrymandering. However, with GOP controlling 33 State legislatures, attack on our democracy is now mostly a red … Read more
by Anthony B Sanders December existing home sales, according to the National Association of Realtors, fell -3.6% from the previous month. This was worse than the expected -1.9% decline. But on a positive note, existing home sales ROSE 1.1% on a Year-over-year (YoY) basis. The bad news? The inventory of existing home sales fell to … Read more
by howmuch Bitcoin ATMs allow consumers to exchange their cash for Bitcoins, and vice versa. Although the Bitcoin machines are not ATMs in the more traditional sense that we are accustomed, these kiosks are connected to the internet in order to accept cash deposit, exchange for Bitcoins or send Bitcoin to a public key on … Read more
by Chris Black Following the Democrats’ failure to keep the government shut over DACA, and months after a crowd of DACA aficionados crashed Nancy Pelosi’s news conference, the same crowd of cheerful (and presumably illegal aliens) folks bit the hand that feeds them (literally) and raided Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’ house in New York … Read more
Merkel’s attack on TRUMP: German leader tells Davos STRONGER EU is needed to take on US ANGELA Merkel lashed out at Donald Trump at the Davos World Economic Forum today and called for the EU to press ahead with a shared foreign and defence policy to take on the US and China. Angela Merkel joined other … Read more
He added that while President Trump shut the government down, “all of us in the Democratic caucus, not just the moderates, but the liberals as well, came to the view that if we carried it on much longer, two things would happen: A. No one would budge. The public would lose support of the shutdown. … Read more
Isn’t it great?.This is my wife’s check and I assume the same will be on mine. That should be about $170 extra bucks a month for our household. We are going to upgrade my car. Put it back into the economy and the train keeps a rollin. h/t William
In the linked article, it details everything from how greed, lying, cheating and outrageous payouts and salaries rule the day. In essence, you’ll learn you have no voice in the organization you trust to protect your rights. Their priorities have NEVER been about machine guns, silencers, or even semi-auto “AK-47’s”, which past NRA President Heston … Read more
The number of war criminals being discovered among asylum seekers in Sweden is rapidly increasing with the Swedish Migration Board claiming cases have doubled in the last two years. In 2014, the Swedish Migration Board reported 12 asylum seekers to the Swedish police’s commission on war crimes but that number rose to 21 in 2015, 41 in … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHcyiwhfeR8 On June 15, 2012, President Barack Obama announced Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals [DACA] – an executive order which bypassed lawmakers and offered similar legal status to an estimated 1.7 million illegal immigrants. In June 2017, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and others announced plans to challenge DACA in court if the Trump administration … Read more
by Anthony B Sanders Jerome Powell has been approved by The US Senate as new and improved Federal Reserve Chair. Well, at least the new Chair since I think he will just continue the same policies as former Chairs Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen. (Bloomberg) Billionaire hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio said that the bond market has … Read more
Police in the Dutch city of Rotterdam have launched a new pilot programme which will see them confiscating expensive clothing and jewellery from young people if they look too poor to own them. Officers say the scheme will see them target younger men in designer clothes they seem unlikely to be able to afford legally – if it is not clear how … Read more
Government rules for the internet have been debated for nearly as long as the internet has existed, even before a professor coined the term “net neutrality” 15 years ago. The internet has changed our lives and grown beyond what anyone could have imagined. And it’s done so, for the most part, with very few—but often … Read more
President Donald Trump, Republican lawmakers and political watchdogs are furious that the FBI failed to preserve five months of text messages between FBI agents Lisa Page and Peter Strzok – but the news divisions at CBS, NBC and ABC have largely ignored the story. Press Secretary Sarah Sanders has said the missing texts are relevant because Page … Read more
They left a few out Justice Department Sends Letters to 29 Jurisdictions Regarding Their Compliance with 8 U.S.C. 1373 The Department of Justice today sent the attached letters to 29 jurisdictions that may have laws, policies, or practices that violate 8 U.S.C. 1373, a federal statute that promotes information sharing related to immigration enforcement. … Read more
by stockboardasset Russian military jets of the Pacific Fleet’s naval aviation unit (Pacific Fleet) in Kamchatka, a peninsula in the Russian Far East, have been drilling at supersonic speeds along the country’s Pacific coastline preparing for a rapid enemy incursion. Earlier this week, fighter-pilots conducted supersonic air battles as high as 20km (12.4274-miles) in the stratosphere, while they simulated intercepting enemy fighter aircraft at … Read more