by John Ward Changing the way we vote is, like sensible House of Lords reform, another way to give The People back some of the power they have lost ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ The 21st century has produced an increasingly odd mix of ideological alignments. Who’d have thought, in the 1960s, that the anti-Israel fanatical wing of Islam … Read more
by Cinderella Broom In his recent FrontPage Mag article, “Fighting Political Segregation with a Digital First Amendment,” Daniel Greenfield argues in favor of passing legislation to protect free speech specifically on the Internet. Using an argument that even a radical liberal could love, he compares the recent silencing of alternative and conservative opinions online to racial and economic segregation. Greenfield … Read more
by DCG This great idea comes from Brockton Public School District which is south of Boston. From the YouTube video description: “Brockton school and city officials teamed up with Lowe’s to create classroom emergency kits at the Lowe’s in Brockton on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018. Each emergency kit includes a 5-gallon bucket, a wooden doorstop, a 1-pound hammer, a … Read more
As with all “bleeding edge” technologies, the challenges are huge, and it’s possible they may end up derailing the whole venture. By MC01, a frequent commenter on WOLF STREET: In September 2017, a consortium of Norwegian firms, including Yara International, Vard, and Kongsberg, announced that they’d start testing the hull design of the YARA Birkenland at … Read more
Do you think that people have taken on too much mortgage debt? Or will they eventually pay it back? We knew that it was bad but certainly not this bad. Despite excessively low interest rates, Australians have bit off more than they can chew. We are now seeing the breaking point for many who took … Read more
by Bill Bonner POITOU, FRANCE – Yesterday’s headline news, from Reuters: U.S. economic growth was a bit stronger than initially thought in the second quarter, notching its best performance in nearly four years, as businesses boosted spending on software and imports declined. Gross domestic product increased at a 4.2 percent annualized rate, the Commerce Department said … Read more
This is it, the pieces are falling into place. We are getting closer to the real truth of the issue. Glenn Simpson, Bruce and Nelli Ohr met with Christopher Steele the day before the FBI opened the Trump counterintelligence investigation. via theconservativetreehouse: There’s an Associated Press report published today presenting a ridiculously slanted version of the Bruce Ohr … Read more
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com California’s biggest boondoggle just broke the bank. Not only is the massive high-speed rail project 11 years behind schedule and billions in the red, managers are now saying they will need to ramp up spending to hit a 2033 deadline. California’s money pit cost taxpayers $3.1 million a … Read more
For the past year, select Google advertisers have had access to a potent new tool to track whether the ads they ran online led to a sale at a physical store in the U.S. That insight came thanks in part to a stockpile of Mastercard transactions that Google paid for. But most of the two … Read more
So much for investigative journalism: https://twitter.com/DRUDGE_REPORT/status/1035327849832431616