White House officials are making plans to order grid operators to buy electricity from struggling coal and nuclear plants in an effort to extend their life

by COMPUTER1313 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-01/trump-said-to-grant-lifeline-to-money-losing-coal-power-plants-jhv94ghl The Energy Department would exercise emergency authority under a pair of federal laws to direct the operators to purchase electricity or electric generation capacity from at-risk facilities, according to a memo obtained by Bloomberg News. The agency …

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A TALE OF THREE MEDIA MOMENTS

Épater la bourgeoisie or épater le (or les) bourgeois is a French phrase that became a rallying cry for the French Decadent poets of the late 19th century including Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud. It means to shock the bourgeoisie. —Wikipedia. ● Shot: But executives at ABC and …

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The Advantages Of Creating An LLC

by Adam Taggart This week we release the next installment of our “news you can use” series. Recent articles have focused on reducing personaly liability risk using umbrella insurance, making a 30x-higher return on your cash savings through the TreasuryDirect program, and getting a …

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This is Italy. This is not Sparta.

by Raúl Ilargi Meijer Nikolay Dubovsky Became Silent 1890  “European Stocks Surge Celebrating New Spanish, Italian Governments”, says a Zero Hedge headline. “Markets Breathe Easier As Italy Government Sworn In”, proclaims Reuters. And I’m thinking: these markets are crazy, and none of …

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Policing for Profit Goes to Federal Court

by Martin Armstrong   Lawyers have brought a lawsuit against towns in Georgia for using tickets as the major revenue source to fund their pensions and budgets. The City of Doraville, Georgia is facing a federal lawsuit that alleges the city is illegally making millions …

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