Great news! US military will no longer use floppy disks to coordinate nuke launches

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via engadget: It now has a “highly-secure solid state digital storage solution.” As we alarmingly learned in 2014, the US military has been using 8-inch floppy disks in an antiquated ’70s computer to receive nuclear launch orders from the President. Now, the US strategic command has announced that it has replaced the drives with a “highly-secure solid state … Read more

EU agrees Brexit extension until January 31st, 2020

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The European Union has granted the UK a three-month Brexit ‘flextension,’ with the new deadline now moved to January 31, according to the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk. Tusk made the announcement via social media, confirming that the EU27 leaders had agreed to the UK’s request, with the decision expected to be “formalized … Read more

FULLY INTENDED CONSEQUENCES: Lack of transparency may keep public from knowing truth about campaign spending.

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via completecolorado: Where former Democrat State Rep. Rochelle Galindo actually spent $4,500 of her campaign cash, and whether or not it was for defending criminal charges unrelated to her campaign, may never be known because of rules written by the Secretary of State and placed into law by the Democrat majority in the last session — … Read more

Pando Editor Sells Site, Quits Journalism, Citing Sexual Harassment and Threats in Silicon Valley.

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via slashdot: Former TechCrunch writer Sarah Lacy started PandoDaily in 2012. But now she’s “selling the company, quitting journalism, and ditching Silicon Valley after 20 years,” reports Business Insider, citing Lacy’s blog.She says her decision comes from years of sexual harassment and threats in her two decades covering Silicon Valley. “I have absorbed so many more stories … Read more

James LeBron homeless driving around to find shelter after buying new 23 million California home amid Fires

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Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James was among the Southern California residents who had to leave their homes as mandatory evacuations were issued early Monday, after a “very dynamic fire” erupted on a hillside near the Getty Center museum, fire officials said. The Los Angeles Fire Department is urging residents to evacuate neighborhoods on the city’s west side., due to the explosive … Read more

Ron Paul: Trump Flip-Flops on Syria Withdrawal. Again.

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Ron Paul, Institute for Peace and Prosperity, Released on 10/28/19 President Trump is reversing his foreign policy decisions so quickly these days that it almost seems like he overturns himself before making the decision in the first place. Last week he was very clear that the US was pulling its troops out of Syria. “Bringing soldiers … Read more

It is not the rising level of debt that is the problem; it is the decline which marks peaks in both market and economic expansions.

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Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In a recent weekly newsletter (Subscribe for free e-delivery), I discussed the rather dramatic decline of short-interest in the S&P 500 which suggests a high degree of complacency by investors. As Wolf Richter recently noted: “Of the total shares outstanding of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF, only 2.6% were out on loan … Read more

K12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Teachers union instructs members how to push identity politics on students…. SERIAL OFFENDER: Leftist UNC student arrested AGAIN, this time for harassing pro-life demonstrator.

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‘We can’t ignore Trump’s bigotry and cruelty’ America’s second-largest teachers union wants to educate its 1.7 million members in how to practice inclusion in the classroom. Namely, by reminding students at every turn how they are different from others. The fall issue of the American Federation of Teachers’ quarterly journal, American Educator, is brimming with calls for incorporating … Read more

Causing His Enemies To Beclown Themselves Is Trump’s Superpower

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Was it Trump’s magic wand that turned the Washington Post into a laughingstock? I’m beginning to think that hidden somewhere in the White House or Trump Tower there’s a magic wand that the president wields which turns his detractors— old Obama hands, make-believe conservative politicians and commentators, Democrats, and the media, into laughingstocks. If so, this weekend … Read more

PragerU: Public Pensions: An Economic Time Bomb

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Who cares about public pension liability? Well, you should – after all, it’s the reason entire cities and even states are facing bankruptcy. Joshua Rauh, professor of finance at Stanford and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, paints a startling picture of just how broken the public pension system really is, and what will happen … Read more

When Did Halloween Become So Sick, Twisted And Gory?

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by Michael Snyder Have you noticed that each year the overall tone of Halloween just continues to get darker and darker?  The movies keep getting more graphic, the decorations keep getting more gory and even the costumes keep getting more twisted.  When I was growing up, I remember watching relatively benign cartoons such as “It’s … Read more