Month: February 2018

Brick & Mortar Meltdown Hits These Stores the Most

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter They’re the primary stores at malls. It happens category by category as commerce shifts bit-by-bit to the Internet: Music stores and video stores got wiped out first, then came bookstores. Shops that are able to offer something the Internet does not offer can thrive, but the overall brick-and-mortar bookstore category is … Read more

MSM silent on Chinese election meddling

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKjdHho4aWI A multi-billion dollar chemical company that is controlled by a foreign government just joined the American Chemistry Council, a lobby organization that is known for meddling in US politics. The ACC has spent tens of millions of dollars in the past few recent years on campaign contributions, super PACs, and other avenues of meddling, … Read more

Another Obama State Department Member Pleads the 5th in the Dossier Investigation. Imagine the outrage if a Trump associate plead the 5th?

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A former State Department official and associate of Sen. John McCain has invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to testify in connection with questions from the House Intelligence Committee about the anti-Trump dossier’s Russian sources, according to a law enforcement source. David J. Kramer, who is a central player in how the unverified Trump dossier … Read more

HORRIFYING VIDEO Shows “Child Protection” Officials Chasing, Tackling, Removing 12-Yr-Old Boy From Home Because His Parents Are Homeschooling Him

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https://youtu.be/j_FPiKtHLoU What should have been a happy homecoming to Norway for Leif Kristiansen and his family turned into a parent’s worst nightmare when Barnevernet (Norway’s child welfare agency) brutally took custody of 12-year-old Kai after his parents started homeschooling him. Kai, a Canadian child living in Norway, was tackled and held face down in the … Read more

ALERT! The real reason for school shootings

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Best film about reason behind school shooters. Summary: A detailed expose on psychiatry and the psychotropic drugs they push on the population. It’s almost a decade old, but very informative. This is a Documentary and will provide the facts about psychotropic drugs and the huge profits they create for the pharmaceutical industry. These drugs are … Read more

Twitter-Allied Platform MEDIUM Silences Free Speech Rights Of Independent Journalists

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Twitter-Allied Platform MEDIUM Silences Free Speech Rights Of Independent Journalists Twitter-allied platform MEDIUM silenced the free speech rights of independent journalists Michael Cernovich, Laura Loomer, and Jack Posobiec, as they immediately vowed to sue in court. The popular writing platform run by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams arbitrarily destroyed all of the journalists’ articles, editorials, and … Read more

Americas lobby is 3.6 billion a year. That's 6.7 million per 535 members of Congress. Money means America is a corporatocracy not a democracy. This means all wars to spread democracy are a farce.

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Something is out of balance in Washington. Corporations now spend about $2.6 billion a year on reported lobbying expenditures—more than the $2 billion we spend to fund the House ($1.18 billion) and Senate ($860 million). It’s a gap that has been widening since corporate lobbying began to regularly exceed the combined House-Senate budget in the … Read more

Is President Trump Caving on Gun Control ?

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By Chris Black President Trump tweeted on Thursday morning that the Congress should basically create a national gun registry, as he proposed something along the lines of “comprehensive background checks”, whatever that means. Here’s the tweet: I will be strongly pushing Comprehensive Background Checks with an emphasis on Mental Health. Raise age to 21 and … Read more

Florida high school survivor: "I wanted to go to the CNN town hall, but I was only allowed to ask scripted questions by CNN. I decided not to go."

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This is definitely concerning – CNN posted a response and invited him on to speak about his views – I hope he takes them up on it. https://twitter.com/CNNPR/status/966664545908461569 Oh wow… They’re not even speaking of a miscommunication. They’re straight-up calling that 17-year-old kid a liar.

Kylie Jenner Wipes Out $1.3 BILLION From SNAP With 1 Tweet… CEO Got $638 Million In Year

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Kylie Jenner tweets she hasn’t been using the app lately Users pile on with feedback that echoes Wall Street concerns   https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2018-02-22/kylie-jenner-helps-erase-1-5b-from-snap-in-just-one-tweet-video   Snap Inc.’s flagship platform has lost some luster, at least according to one social-media influencer in the Kardashian-Jenner clan. Shares of the Snapchat parent company sank 6.1 percent on Thursday, wiping out … Read more

BORDER WALL CONSTRUCTION BEGINS!

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The federal government began work Wednesday to replace a section of border wall in California, the first wall contract awarded in the Trump administration outside of eight prototypes that were built last year in San Diego. Customs and Border Protection is replacing a little more than two miles in downtown Calexico, a sliver of the … Read more

ABBAS THREATENS U.S. WITH 'TERRORISTS' 'It's either that or you continue' to send money to Palestinians

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President Trump hasn’t been pleased with the Palestinians’ refusal to consider compromises to achieve Middle East peace. So he’s decided to withhold tens of millions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer funding from the Palestinian Authority. And what answer does he get? The threat of terrorism. “If you end your assistance they become terrorists or refugees … Read more

1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants have committed more than 40 percent of all mass shootings

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If you missed your favorite immigrant mass shooting, please note that I excluded Jamaican immigrant Colin Ferguson (Long Island Railroad massacre in 1993); Nigerian immigrant Peter Odighizuwa (Appalachian School of Law shooting in 2002); Haitian illegal immigrant Kesler Dufrene (North Miami shooting in 2012); and Nigerian immigrant Henry Williams Obotetukudo (Bronx-Lebanon Hospital shooting in 2017). … Read more

Millions MORE of us should be taking antidepressants: Largest-ever study claims the pills DO work and GPs should be dishing them out

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Antidepressants are highly effective and should be prescribed to millions more people with mental health problems, researchers declared last night. After the largest-ever study, the Oxford University-led team said they had wanted to ‘give the final answer’ to the controversy of whether or not the pills effectively treat depression. Their study, which examined 120,000 people … Read more

The Great Deception/Are You Ready?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCXh5d3p4gY Et tu, Brute? (pronounced [?t ?tu? ?bru?t?]) is a Latin phrase meaning “and you, Brutus?” It is notable for its occurrence in William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, where it is spoken by the Roman dictator Julius Caesar to his friend Marcus Junius Brutus at the moment of Caesar’s assassination. The phrase’s first known occurrences … Read more

Can Alzheimer’s disease be reversed?

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From the Health & Wealth Bulletin: Alzheimer’s Disease accounts for about 60% to 80% of all dementia cases and has three defining characteristics. In this week’s Health & Wealth Bulletin, research writer Amanda Cuocci discusses these three characteristics and attempts to answer the question: Can Alzheimer’s disease be reversed?