NY Black & Puerto Rican lawmakers’ nonprofit organization failed to pay school taxes

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by DCG Al Sharpton approved. From NY Post: Share this: A nonprofit run by state lawmakers that spent $1 million on annual scholarship-fundraising galas over two years but gave zilch to needy minority students also failed to pay school taxes on its Albany building, The Post has learned. The New York State Association of Black and Puerto … Read more

Sears Prepares For Liquidation As Lampert’s 11th Hour Bid Fails

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Via ZeroHedge Sears Holdings Corp is readying plans for a liquidation after Chairman Eddie Lampert’s bid to pull approximately 425 stores out of bankruptcy was rejected, according to Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter.   Lampert offered a $4.6 billion package backed by lenders Bank of America and Citigroup, as well as a new participant … Read more

Wall Street Drools over Fishy Jobs Report

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by Money Metals  The Bureau of Labor Statistics delivered a blowout jobs report on Friday. Headline chasing algorithms and investors responded by snapping up stocks. They also sold some gold and silver futures, driving prices lower on the day. To Wall Street cheerleaders, it looked like the stock market correction might be over and precious metals … Read more

What ‘the inside of the stock market’ is telling us

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From Richard Smith, Founder, TradeStops: Stan Druckenmiller is one of the best money managers of all time. He has a track record of better than 30% compound annual returns, over 30-plus years, with no losing years. And Druckenmiller accomplished that track record while managing billions — which is harder than with smaller amounts — and made … Read more

Can cancer care be industrialized?

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From Forbes: By the time he was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma, Luke Simons, now 83, had already watched his wife and his longtime business partner struggle with cancer. His wife had chemo for her breast cancer 20 years ago. His business partner with multiple myeloma died 5 years ago. “I was obviously aware of what it … Read more

Strict gun-controlled California: Fourth man killed in five-hour span in Oakland

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by DCG Something proggies will never understand: You can never make enough laws to guarantee good behavior from people who are willing to break the law. As reported by SF Chronicle: A man was killed early Saturday in the Highland neighborhood of East Oakland, less than five hours after three men were fatally shot across the city. The man, … Read more

The government shutdown is far worse than we even imagined

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by Simon Black Last Thursday, I published a Notes article saying I would use five-to-six figures of the money I saved last year in taxes to pay rent for furloughed government employees. And so far, the response has been amazing. We’ve already sent money out the door to help these people during the government shutdown. And we’ve also received some … Read more

“Shooting going on at the border close to the bridge to Pharr, TX” Are parts of the border with Mexico as dangerous as this video claims? If so, why hasn’t this made the news cycle?

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by Tha_Dude_Abidez Crazy video that claims to be audio footage of a gunfight going on across the border with Mexico. https://youtu.be/k6nS-6cRan4   Anthony was live — shooting on the bridge to Pharr, TX , lasted over half hour yesterday… #SecureTheBorder we knew this was coming to our borders Source: True Conservatives Minutes [TCM]

Chinese police are expanding facial recognition sunglasses program

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via theverge: China’s police have been testing sunglasses with built-in facial recognition since at least last month to catch suspects and those traveling under false identities. Now China is expanding the facial recognition sunglasses program as police are beginning to use them in the outskirts of Beijing, according to Reuters. The program was used as extra security while Parliament voted … Read more

2019’s Five Most Mispriced Tail Events

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Via Global Macro Monitor, 1. Trump Leaves Office By Year-End There is only one thing Trump likes more than power – money.  As his legal troubles grow exponentially in 2019, the president has an epiphany that he could lose all his wealth.  He cuts a Spiro Agnew-like deal and resigns from office in return for leniency.   The … Read more

What Gen Z Learned From Millennials: Skip College

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Authored by Andrew Moran via LibertyNation.com, Generation Z is already learning from the millennial generation’s mistakes… For years, millennials have scoffed at the notion of fixing someone else’s toilet, installing elevators, or cleaning a patient’s teeth. Instead, they wanted to get educated in lesbian dance theory, gender studies, and how white people and western civilization … Read more

A group of Mark Zuckerberg-funded researchers is testing implantable brain devices as part of a $5 billion quest to end disease

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via businessinsider: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his pediatrician wife, Priscilla Chan, have sold 29 million Facebook shares to raise $5 billion for an ambitious biomedical-research program called the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). Related to the CZI is the Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub, which employs top-notch scientists from Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and UC San Francisco. Researchers including a Biohub investigator … Read more

The Fed IS the Ugly Truth

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by Raúl Ilargi Meijer Rembrandt van Rijn Man with a falcon on his wrist (possibly St. Bavo) 1661  This Fed thing just keeps going on, and it needs to stop. There is nothing in the discussion about the Federal Reserve these days that has any value other than it provides even more proof that the Fed has … Read more