Our Ruling Elites Have No Idea How Much We Want to See Them All in Prison Jumpsuits

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by Charles Hugh-Smith Even the most distracted, fragmented tribe of the peasantry eventually notices that they’re not in the top 1%, or the top 0.1%. Let’s posit that America will confront a Great Crisis in the next decade. This is the presumption of The Fourth Turning, a 4-generational cycle of 80 years that correlates rather neatly with … Read more

The US spends more per pupil than any country in the OECD, but spends it badly, lagging behind many countries in core competencies. Is it a conspiracy to keep the population dumb or just another example of government waste?

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by Playaguy   All that money does not appear to be translating into better results for US students. According to the Washington thinktank the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), the average student in Singapore is 3.5 years ahead of her US counterpart in maths, 1.5 years ahead in reading and 2.5 in … Read more

Most Americans are not aware how morally and intellectually destructive American colleges—and, increasingly, high schools and even elementary schools—have become

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by Playaguy   Those who still believe that one of the primary purposes of American public (and most private) schools is to Americanize students should know this is no longer the case. On the contrary, most American high schools now celebrate every identity except American identity (which the left brands a euphemism for white supremacy). … Read more

Google pays $13 million to settle Street View scandal in which its cars and trucks scooped up emails, passwords and other personal information from tens of millions of people all over the world

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-21/google-finds-cheap-way-out-of-multibillion-dollar-wi-spy-suit?srnd=premium Google is poised to pay a modest $13 million to end a 2010 privacy lawsuit that was once called the biggest U.S. wiretap case ever and threatened the internet giant with billions of dollars in damages. The settlement would close the books on a scandal that was touched off by trucks used by Google … Read more

In June 1993, 4000 people specifically skilled in transcendental meditation were brought to Washington DC to meditate for peace. Violent crime went down so much the chance it was random was 2 in a billion.

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by Playaguy This National Demonstration Project to Reduce Violent Crime and Improve Governmental Effectiveness brought approximately 4,000 participants in the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs to the United States national capital from June 7 to July 30, 1993. A 27-member independent Project Review Board consisting of sociologists and criminologists from leading universities, representatives from the … Read more

COLLUSION? NBC Promotes ‘Fun’ FaceApp, Then Realizes It’s Russian.

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via newsbusters: On Wednesday, the hosts of NBC’s Today show were delighted by the latest viral craze sweeping the nation, FaceApp, an app that allows users to upload photos of themselves to see what they would like at different ages or even as a different gender. However, on Thursday, the journalists realized that they just handed over images … Read more

IT’S DEJA ‘BAM ALL OVER AGAIN! Biden won’t promise Americans they’ll keep their doctor under his healthcare plan.

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via washingtonexaminer: LAS VEGAS — Joe Biden struggled to answer whether he could promise the American people that they could keep their doctors under his healthcare proposal. “Well look, I can’t promise — I can promise them that if in fact the private insurance they have is kept by their company, they keep whoever that plan allows,” … Read more

JOEL KOTKIN: The Tech Oligarchs Are Going to Destroy Democracy — Unless We Stop Them

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Once, the big tech firms embodied American exceptionalism and aspiration. Today, they are strangling these ideals. Government: do something. “Whom do the oligarchs’ wish to destroy? Of course, Donald Trump, whom they find understandably offensive, but who also owes little or nothing to them.” Plus: John D. Rockefeller tried to control energy distribution through his Standard … Read more

Remember, Trump Is Supposed To Be The Angry, Irrational One: Video Goes Viral Of Rep. Tlaib Losing It At 2016 Trump Event: ‘you Guys Are Crazy!’

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https://twitter.com/NewsChute/status/1152675252901752832 “Overnight, this video has gone viral on Twitter. The reason, of course, is that it proves once and for all that Tlaib truly is nothing more or less than a radical left-wing activist, fueled by hatred and anger for those who dare disagree with her. . . . That’s bad enough as it is, … Read more

Buried lede: socialist discovers how economics works. Or as Karol Markowicz tweets, “Bernie raising his staff’s pay but cutting their hours sums up life under socialism much better than I ever could.”

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#FIGHTFOR15: Bernie Sanders Is Finally Guaranteeing His Workers $15/Hr Minimum Wage…By Cutting Hours. Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Bernie Sanders campaign announces it will cut hours to pay staffers $15 minimum wage, prompting mockery Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders announced this weekend he will cut staffers’ hours so that they can effectively be paid … Read more

IT’S COME TO THIS: Braintree [Massachusetts] Police: ‘Hold Off’ On Crime This Weekend Due To ‘Extreme Heat.’

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BRAINTREE (CBS) — The Braintree Police Department had some fun explaining to residents that they should “hold off” on any crimes they are planning this weekend. In a Facebook post, they wrote, “Folks. Due to the extreme heat, we are asking anyone thinking of doing criminal activity to hold off until Monday.” They said doing so … Read more