In March 2017, Tina Onufer, a career foreign service officer stationed in Havana, was standing at her kitchen window, washing dishes, when it hit her. “I felt like I was being struck with something,” she said. “Pain that I have never felt before in my life … mostly in my head and in my eyes. … … Read more
The National School Boards Association, which urged the Biden administration to use federal law enforcement to investigate parents who speak out on local education matters as potential domestic terrorists, has political ties to the Democratic Party and labor unions. The national association represents members of locally elected school boards, which usually are officially nonpartisan, and is a … Read more
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Jacobo grew up in the western Mexico state of Jalisco, home to the Jalisco New Generation drug cartel. Never comfortable in school, he had an abusive childhood: at one point his mother held his hands over an open flame after he allegedly shoved a classmate. Now 17, Jacobo claims he didn’t … Read more
More than half of the residents living in the San Francisco Bay Area say they are considering moving out of the area permanently, according to a poll from Joint Venture Silicon Valley released Monday. The survey of voters in five Bay Area Counties found that 56 percent of respondents said they were likely to leave … Read more
SHAME. How can one call itself a news organization when it blacks out coverage of a story like this, which has such broad impact on the safety of our children and education? And they wonder why ratings and trust of the media continue to tank. https://t.co/GIEY5Cw2s9 — Brent Bozell (@BrentBozell) October 13, 2021 https://freebeacon.com/campus/media-silent-on-virginia-school-boards-alleged-coverup-of-trans-bathroom-rape/
The Federal Reserve’s most embarrassing ethics scandal in years has cast a harsh spotlight on the world’s most powerful central bank and the arm’s-length governance of its 12 regional branches. Their chiefs are among America’s most influential public officials, helping to set borrowing costs for the $23 trillion economy. But the process of picking them, … Read more
A trove of internal Amazon documents reveals how the e-commerce giant ran a systematic campaign of creating knockoff goods and manipulating search results to boost its own product lines in India – practices it has denied engaging in. And at least two top Amazon executives reviewed the strategy. Amazon.com Inc has been repeatedly accused of … Read more
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A Manhattan police pursuit Monday ended with shots fired in Midtown. New video of the chase shows authorities trying to stop two men they said were wanted for at least a dozen robberies, including stealing $4 million worth of jewelry, CBS2’s John Dias reported. https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2021/10/11/nypd-shots-fired-midtown-traffic-stop-fleeing-vehicle/ h/t ST. FLOYD OF FENTANYL
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by totallynot_human So this company has been racking up 300 billion dollars in debt for 2 decades right? Sure, houses/buildings that aren’t finished. Why isn’t Evergrande bigger news right now? Feds propping up the US economy, along with other countries doing the same (although England and New Zealand beginning tapering and rate hikes. How much … Read more
by MarkusEF It’s on a massive 10 day win streak, up almost 50% from $110 to $160/share. Yet I couldn’t find any obvious news that would explain the parabolic move. In fact, it got 2 analyst downgrades: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.marketbeat.com/instant-alerts/nyse-net-analyst-earnings-estimates-2021-10-2-3/amp/ Its earnings aren’t scheduled until Nov 4, so it’s not a pre-earnings run-up. 4% short interest … not … Read more
There were only two previous periods where the top 10-stocks contributed more than 25% to the earnings of the entire index. Probably Nuttin' pic.twitter.com/qtmBvjLT3E — Lance Roberts (@LanceRoberts) October 14, 2021 A flattening Treasury yield curve signals a U.S. recession risk https://t.co/4dAHOiGHbE pic.twitter.com/9BW15rUyk2 — Bloomberg (@business) October 14, 2021 With friends in hospitality industry here … Read more
IT'S LIKE A 'DDoS ATTACK" HAS HIT THE GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN SYSTEM From today's @markets newsletter, I wrote about why global supply chains are getting even worse, based on our latest chat with Flexport CEO @typesfast Get the newsletter here:https://t.co/Pl5nZqsNJq pic.twitter.com/YsiMrJLHEL — Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) October 14, 2021 Every year we get the EXACT same … Read more
