Arkansas’ largest commercial beekeeper, closed this week.

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via arkansasonline: Crooked Creek Bee Co., the retail sales and processing side of Arkansas’ largest commercial beekeeper, closed this week, a casualty of dicamba, Richard Coy, one of its owners, said Friday. The herbicide has been damaging or killing vegetation essential to pollination by bees the past three years, Coy said. Redvine, a flowering plant native … Read more

Cue the ‘IT’S HAPPENING’ memes. France could be starting a revolution that will spread throughout Europe. Globalists in panic mode

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by AnonDidNothingWrong Italy populist leaders back France ‘yellow vest’ protests ROME: The two leaders of Italy’s ruling populist coalition Monday spectacularly threw their support behind the “yellow vest” protesters roiling neighboring France. “Yellow vests, do not weaken!” Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio, who heads the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S), wrote on his party’s … Read more

Dems Demand Network Time To Counter President Trump… Don Lemon Questions Why Media Should Air Trump’s ‘Propaganda’ Address

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Despite saying President Trump “should be given the bully pulpit, he owns it,” Lemon was concerned about letting America’s elected leader speak to the people. “But you’re giving him the opportunity to speak to the United States unfettered—to speak to the people of the United State and this President has a problem with the truth,” he … Read more

Chicago Seized And Sold Nearly 50,000 Cars Over Tickets Since 2011, Sticking Owners With Debt

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via wbez.org: Sandra Botello moved to Chicago five years ago for what she called “the opportunities.” Now 41, she and her children had been evicted from her home in Idaho when her landlord’s property was foreclosed. The move to Chicago indeed delivered opportunities. She earned an associates degree and then enrolled at the University of Illinois … Read more

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez might not know much, but she knows exactly what she’s doing.

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THE POWER OF GLAMOUR: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a good dancer, clueless on tax policy. Does the Bernie Sanders-backed U.S. Representative from the Bronx — who wants to abolish ICE — not know there’s seven federal tax brackets in the 2018 U.S. tax code and that the “rich” already pay the lion’s share of taxes? In fact nearly … Read more

Five year jail terms sought for ex Tepco execs. Over fukushima!

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Here we go…. SOURCE: KYODO Five-year prison terms were sought Wednesday for three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. for their alleged failure to prevent the Fukushima nuclear disaster triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. At the Tokyo District Court, court-appointed lawyers acting as prosecutors said if the three had collected … Read more

Mexico’s Battle Against Oil Theft by Violent Gangs Causes Gasoline Shortages

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via cbc.ca: A policeman inspects barrels containing stolen diesel fuel, stored in a tire repair shop, during an operation in the municipality of Apodaca, neighboring Monterrey, on July 4, 2011. More than 100 oil workers and contractors hired by Mexico’s state oil monopoly Pemex have aided criminal gangs stealing millions of barrels of fuel over the … Read more

Blowout on Hannity! Unhinged Geraldo defends violent illegals — Hannity and Bongino EXPLODE!

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Geraldo Rivera got into a shouting match on Monday night after defending violent illegal aliens on Hannity. Sean Hannity had just interviewed the parents 22-year-old Pierce Kennedy Corcoran of Knoxville, Tennesse who was killed by an illegal alien last week. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/blowout-on-hannity-unhinged-geraldo-defends-violent-illegals-hannity-and-bongino-explode-video/   h/t Voluntaryist

Alasdair Macleod: The Eurozone Is In A Danger Zone

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by Alasdair Macleod via Mises Wire It is easy to conclude the EU, and the Eurozone in particular, is a financial and systemic time-bomb waiting to happen. Most commentary has focused on problems that are routinely patched over, such as Greece, Italy, or the impending rescue of Deutsche Bank. This is a mistake. The European Central Bank and … Read more

2019: Fragmented, Unevenly Distributed, Asymmetric, Opaque

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by Charles Hugh-Smith Add up Fragmented, Unevenly Distributed, Asymmetric and Opaque and you get a world spinning out of centralized control. Here are the key dynamics of 2019: fragmented, unevenly distributed, asymmetric, opaque. Want to know what’s happening with inflation, deflation, recession, populism, etc.? It depends on what you own, when you own it, where you … Read more

Housing Bubble Trouble in Silicon Valley & San Francisco

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter But this time it’s not a result of a tech bust. That hasn’t happened yet. Housing inventory listed for sale in the two counties that make up Silicon Valley – San Mateo County and Santa Clara County – and in the county of San Francisco, surged by 113% in December compared … Read more

PG&E shares plunge on bankruptcy worries

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4X3U3dXn5M Jan. 7, 2019– Mary Greeley News – (Reuters) – Chalk it up to years of corporate disconnection from reality, but Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) is reportedly now facing bankruptcy after being suspected a culprit of the last devastating Californian wildfires. https://marygreeley.com/?p=79896