Mega Millions is just a tax on U.S. lower class

From ZeroHedge: With the Mega Millions Jackpot now nearly $1 billion, people, mostly those in the lower and middle classes, are coming out in droves and buying lottery tickets with hopes of striking it rich. After all, with $1 billion one can even afford healthcare in America. Naturally, we wish the lucky winner all the (non-diluted) … Read more

“I Don’t Regret What I Said” Trump SHUTS DOWN Reporter Over Body Slamming Congressman Comments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfXm0OLwHKU “I Don’t Regret What I Said” Trump SHUTS DOWN Reporter Over What He Said About A Body Slamming Congressman Trump Smiles At Reporter Then Tells Her He Has No Regrets About Praising A Body Slamming Congressman president trump signed a memorandum today and he was asked if he regrets praising a congressman who body … Read more

Battery Megafactory Forecast: 400% Increase in Capacity to 1 TWh by 2028

via visualcapitalist: When ground broke on the massive Tesla Gigafactory in Nevada in 2014, the world marveled at the project’s audacity, size, and scope. At the time, it was touted that the cutting-edge facility would be the largest building in the world by footprint, and that the Gigafactory would single-handedly be capable of doubling the world’s lithium-ion battery … Read more

How ‘Big Data’ can help fight opioid abuse

From Marketplace.org: The opioid crisis has put a spotlight on physician prescribing practices, especially since studies show a quarter of chronic pain patients misuse opioids. One startup in Nashville has become a sort of watchdog for health insurers who spend far more when a patient is abusing opioids. “It’s billions of dollars in amenable, avoidable health care expenses … Read more

The Face of the Left: Man vandalizes campaign signs; hisses ‘I hate Ted Cruz’

by Dr. Eowyn On Graustak St. near the Black Hole Coffee House in Houston, Texas, a long-hair maggot-infested Demonrat steals and tears up two Sen. Ted Cruz (R) campaign signs. His face contorted by rage, the demon-possessed man then gets in the face of the video camera and, in a Gollum voice, hisses: “I hate Ted Cruz! I hate Ted Cruz! … Read more

THERE ARE FEW INSTITUTIONS MORE DISHONEST THAN THAT OF “NONPARTISAN” BIG-MEDIA FACT-CHECKING

PolitiFact is forced to retract a story claiming Claire McCaskill didn’t say what she definitely said. “At some point, we may have to consider the possibility that certain media fact-checkers are not so dispassionate and free from partisan biases as they’d like us to believe. PolitiFact has already stepped in it twice this week, publishing … Read more

Once Congress let people get away with ignoring subpoenas in the Obama Administration, they set themselves up for this kind of problem.

  YRON YORK: Rosenstein talks to press, but not to Congress; Republicans irate. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein doesn’t give many press interviews. But he did, on Wednesday, invite a Wall Street Journal reporter to the Justice Department for what the Journal called an “expansive” conversation. Rosenstein talked about the Robert Mueller Trump-Russia special counsel investigation, … Read more

Loser Tim Kaine Goes On MSNBC, ORDERS Dems To Do ONE THING That Should Get Him KICKED Out Of Office

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-xcGzTEFA Jim Hoft for the Gateway Pundit reports, Linwood ‘Woody” Kaine, youngest son of vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine, was arrested at the Minnesota State Capitol in March 2017 after disrupting a pro-Trump rally. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018…

President Donald J. Trump Tweets New Video: #JobsNotMobs

#JobsNotMobs! pic.twitter.com/U1suRW5j6G — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 19, 2018 MOBS VS. JOBS: GOP Candidate Recovering From Assault Blames Maxine Waters, Hillary Clinton, and Eric Holder.“Shane Mekeland, a Republican candidate for the Minnesota House of Representatives, blamed Democrats for the climate of incivility and violence that led to the assault against him last weekend. He also … Read more

Global Biohackers Have Made Human Implantable Microchips The Fastest-Growing Industry In The World

by Geoffrey Grider “The question isn’t ‘Do you have a microchip?’  ” Kramer says. “It’s more like, ‘How many?’ We’ve entered the mainstream.” When NTEB first started back in 2009, we would occasionally do a story on human implantable microchips and their relationship to the coming Mark of the Beast as prophesied in the Bible. I say occasionally because, … Read more

Weekend Reading: Tax Cuts Saved The Economy?

by Lance Roberts IBD recently penned an article touting the success of the recent tax cuts from the Trump administration. “The Treasury Department reported this week that individual income tax collections for FY 2018 totaled $1.7 trillion. That’s up $14 billion from fiscal 2017, and an all-time high. And that’s despite the fact that individual income tax rates … Read more

Verizon Lays Off 44,000; American Workers Left in Lurch

via Joe Guzzardi: The headline financial news story of late is Verizon’s announcement that it offered a voluntary severance package to about 44,000 employees or about one-third of its workforce. But the subtitle is equally disturbing. Verizon will transfer more than 2,500 jobs – some insiders peg the total at closer to 5,000 – to India-based Infosys as … Read more

Dr. Doom’s latest warning should not go unheeded

From Barron’s: Dr. Doom is back—and age has done nothing to soften his views. Henry Kaufman earned that moniker in the 1970s and 1980s as the hugely influential chief economist of Salomon Brothers, then the reigning bond kings of Wall Street. Along with his fellow nonagenarian from my old neighborhood of Washington Heights in Manhattan, former Federal … Read more

Subprime loans are back

From Brittany Hunter via FEE.org: For as often as the phrase “history repeats itself” is used, it’s shocking how rare it is for mankind to actually learn from its mistakes. This year marks a decade since the housing crisis rocked the American economy to its core. Its implications were so far-reaching, many are still recovering from … Read more

Report Finds UN Employs 3,300 Pedophiles, Responsible for 60,000 Rapes in Last 10 Years

via thefreethoughtproject: An outright frightening dossier released by a former senior United Nations official reveals that United Nations employees have carried out over 60,000 rapes in just the last decade. What’s more, the dossier estimates that the organization currently employs at least 3,300 pedophiles. In just ten years, under the guise of rendering aid, the United … Read more

Mitch McConnell Comes Out And BLAMES The ONE THING That’s KILLING Our Deficit – Dems NOT Pleased

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faCWVbJzR2M Colin Wilhelm for the Washington Examiner reports, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday blamed “bipartisan reluctance” to reform federal entitlement programs for the rising federal deficit, which the Treasury Department said Monday reached $779 billion in 2018. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/po…

This CIA Report Will Blow You Away—The Unveiling Of a Massive “Conspiracy” Proven Fact

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Bubbles, Balloons, Needles and Pins

by Raúl Ilargi Meijer M. C. Escher Meeting (Encounter) 1940  It’s no surprise that China has its own plunge protection team -but why were they so late?-, nor that Beijing blames its problems on Trump’s tariffs. GDP growth was disappointing at 6.5%, but who’s ever believed those almost always dead on numbers? It would be way more … Read more

History’s Longest Bull Market About to Crash?

by monkeysinthesky David Rosenberg thinks this bull market is a sham. In his Wednesday interview with CNBC’s “Trading Nation,” he warned that this record-breaking bull market (it’s the longest in history as of August) paired with the weakest economic expansion of all time has only been possible thanks to the flood of cheap money from central banks. … Read more

The party is over — all those poor millennials who bought overpriced homes

the party is over — all those poor millennials who bought overpriced homes https://t.co/PdiQ4GkuFX — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) October 19, 2018 https://twitter.com/atlewillems/status/1053032198620766209 via CNBC: The amount of home equity that consumers are sitting on has been rising steadily since it hovered at around $6 trillion from 2009 through 2011. Homeowners who are considering turning to a … Read more

When did the New Yorker join the alt-right?

DISPATCHES FROM THE “IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT” PARTY: ● Shot: The Daily Dot asks, What are NPCs, the popular new far-right meme? ● Chaser: An article on the right-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group in an upcoming issue of the New Yorker and their promotional tweet: When did the New Yorker join the alt-right? Related: Why the NPC Meme Crashed Twitter (Video). Saul Alinsky smiles. h/t ED