How Junk Food Disguises Itself As Healthy Nutritious Sports Food (And how you keep falling for it)
Junk food brands love to associate themselves with sports to improve their brand image.
Month: July 2019
Former IRS head Steve Miller admits income taxes are voluntary
C-Span piece from 2013. Haven’t heard much chatter about this; can’t be good for business. https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4455340/irs-head-steve-miller-admits-income-taxes-voluntary h/t MrJDouble
McAfee taken into custody. Threatens document dump
by Tha_Dude_Abidez John McAfee is threatening to do a document dump. He’s already dropped info on some agents in the past few weeks on his twitter. He’s fled on a boat to try and evade capture but it appears he’s now being taken into custody. It’s be interesting what his dead man’s switch is. … Read more
The US Economy Is Not Fake, It’s Unsustainable
by Keith Weiner of Monetary-Metals Folks in the liberty movement often say that the economy is fake. But this does not persuade anyone. It’s just preaching to the choir! We hope that this series on GDP provides more effective ammunition to argue with the Left-Right-Wall-Street-Main-Street-Capitalists-Socialists. We frame it that way, because nearly everyone loves to tout GDP (though some do so only when it … Read more
UBS CEO Warns of ‘Dangerous’ Bubbles
UBS CEO Warns of ‘Dangerous’ Bubbles Spurred by Central Banks (Bloomberg) — UBS Group AG’s chief executive officer is sounding the alarm on fresh monetary easing just as European policy makers appear poised to deliver another helping to stimulus-hungry markets. “I’d be very, very careful about growing further the balance sheet of central banks,’’ Sergio … Read more
A ‘tsunami of poverty’ is coming for retirees
From MarketWatch: First the good news: As you know, the stock market has surged for more than a decade. Since the recession low of March 9, 2009, the S&P 500 has rocketed from a devilish 666 to over 3,000 today. That’s a gain of 350% in 10 years. Talk about building wealth. Now the bad news: This … Read more
Illinois police department tells criminals to stay inside during heat wave
by DCG This is not from The Onion. From MyFoxChicago: Criminal activity has been officially canceled in one suburban Chicago town due to the extreme heat that’s cooking most of the country. “It is just too hot to be outside committing crimes,” the Park Forest Police Department said on Facebook Friday. “We’re asking all aspiring criminals, seasoned veterans, … Read more
The easiest (and safest) return on investment you’ll ever achieve
by Simon Black In 1993, William Kurt Hauser, a San Francisco investment analyst, presented his results from an incredibly interesting study. Hauser had analyzed tax revenues in the United States over time and came to the conclusion that tax revenue as a percentage of GDP had remained around a narrow band of 19% since 1946. That … Read more
Print it, and they will spend.
THE MONOPOLY MONEY THEORY OF GOVERNMENT: Print it, and they will spend. Sadly, there’s nothing new or uncommon with this kind of thinking. h/t SG
Bob Mcmanus On The Continued Decline Of New York City Under Bill De Blasio.
Over the weekend, young toughs with buckets full of water randomly soaked cops in Harlem and Brownsville just for the hell of it. At one point, an officer got conked on the head by an empty plastic bucket — to the vast amusement of jeering onlookers. It was apparently an internet challenge sort of thing — and … Read more
Dem ex-judge ordered to jail for corruption, dragged out of courtroom
A corrupt judge had to be dragged out of a courtroom by police to begin her prison sentence. Juvenile judge Tracie Hunter began her six months jail sentence Monday for illegally giving her brother, a former government employee, confidential records to help him keep his job in Hamilton County, Ohio. The packed courtroom erupted into … Read more
Tucker Carlson: Dems say no one is above the law – except illegal immigrants. And that could cost them in 2020
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Maybe you’ve noticed this from watching TV in the past couple of years. When it’s about tax returns or executive orders, or of course, Russia, the left strikes a law and order pose. Nobody, they’ll remind you — finger wagging in your face — is above the law in this … Read more
China Is Building Their Strategic Pork Reserve
China June pork imports surge 62.8% from a year earlier. BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s pork imports in June surged from the previous year, customs data showed on Tuesday, as the world’s top consumer of the meat stocked up on supplies after African swine fever has decimated domestic pig herds. China brought in 160,467 tonnes of … Read more
Is it happening? DOJ to open antitrust review of Big Tech…
Just one week after the tech world’s most visible conservative and entrepreneur to back President Donald Trump, Peter Thiel, slammed “treasonous” Google for agreeing to work closely with China, trying to get its search engine back into the Chinese market, while deciding to let a US defense department contract that gave the military access to its artificial intelligence … Read more
Fund Manager: Tesla, Gold, Silver, And A Historic Stock Market Bubble
by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics “Tesla’s headed for bankruptcy. It’s got a flawed business model; costs are way too high for the price charged for the vehicles and its riddled with accounting fraud. But the regulators will look the other way until it’s too late.” Silver Liberties invited me on to its podcast to discuss reality. We … Read more
The Everything Bubble Has Burst… Can the Fed Patch It?
By The Phoenix Yesterday I asked, just what exactly is terrifying the Fed? As a brief recap, there are three main issues grabbing their attention. 1) The collapse of German banking giant Deutsche Bank (DB). 2) China’s banking system entering a credit freeze. 3) The bursting of the Everything Bubble. Of the three, it is the … Read more
The Single Most Important Bond in the World Is Still in Trouble
By The Phoenix Yesterday I asked, just what exactly is terrifying the Fed? As a brief recap, there are three main issues grabbing their attention. 1) The collapse of German banking giant Deutsche Bank (DB). 2) China’s banking system entering a credit freeze. 3) The bursting of the Everything Bubble. Of the three, it is the … Read more
Posting negative review online can get you sued
Posting reviews has become second nature for many consumers nowadays – 82 percent of adults say they read online reviews at least some of the time, according to a Pew Research Center Study – so when they have a bad experience with a business, up goes a review, to share it with others. But for one man … Read more
Judicial Watch Files House Ethics Complaint against Rep. Ilhan Omar Over Potential Immigration, Marriage, Tax, and Student Loan Fraud
by TFittonJW https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-files-house-ethics-complaint-against-rep-ilhan-omar-over-potential-immigration-marriage-tax-and-student-loan-fraud/ The Judicial Watch complaint is reprinted below: Ethics Complaint Against Rep. Ilhan Omar Concerning Possible Violations of Federal and State Law Dear Chairman Skaggs, Judicial Watch is a non-profit, non-partisan educational foundation, promoting transparency, accountability and integrity in government and fidelity to the rule of law. We regularly monitor congressional ethics issues as part … Read more
Epstein Case Explodes As Military Moves To Protect President
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfVuyEPB1qk
VENEZUELA blames BLACKOUT ON EMP ATTACK
It was the first blackout to include the capital, Caracas, since March, when the government blamed the opposition and United States for a series of power outages that left millions of people without running water and telecommunications. The blackouts exacerbated an economic crisis that has halved the size of the economy. More than half of Venezuela’s 23 states lost power on … Read more
Guess What? BOEING’s 737 MAX 8 are still 100% grounded & may never fly again due to CRITICAL DESIGN FLAWS by IGNORAMUSES via H1-B VISA Program…
I am going to re-iterate that the Max 8 may kill Boeing. If it does not kill Boeing, it is going to maim the company well into the future. Reason: Because it is a piece of crap put together by FOREIGN engineers who started life cooking with cow dung, got a less than stellar diploma, … Read more
Candace Owens shows AOC lies with a tour of ICE child facility.
Here is how Candice saw the child center on her visit…… She is truly upset…she is pissed at how children are being treated…. but wait she is pissed at the Democrats for how they are treating children that are actually US citizens. a little truth for the un-fab 4…………..those girls just got schooled…and it will … Read more
Trump administration moves to expand fast-track deportations
The Trump administration announced on Monday that it will vastly expand the authority of immigration officers to deport migrants without allowing them first to appear before judges. It is the second major policy shift on immigration from the federal government in the last eight days. Starting on Tuesday, fast-track deportations can apply to anyone who … Read more
USGS Data Analyst Reveals A “New Supervolcano” Is Forming Under Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake In California
via cloverchronicle: A whistleblower who claims to work at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) headquarters in Reston, Virginia recently revealed a new supervolcano is forming under the Naval Air Weapons Station in China Lake, California. Here is their alarming message: I work at [the] USGS headquarters as one of the main data analysts. We have been coordinating … Read more