Schools are tracking your child’s mental health… whether you like it or not

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From Kerry McDonald at Intellectual Takeout: A worrying trend is emerging in schools across the country. With increasing regularity, school districts are tracking students’ mental health and raising flags if a screening shows something amiss. Student mental health tracking is often framed in terms of safety or prevention, arguing that all kids should be screened to … Read more

SUSTAINABILITY: As Debt Rises, the Government Will Soon Spend More on Interest Than on the Military. “Tax cuts, spending increases and higher interest rates could make it harder to respond to future recessions and deal with other needs.”

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via nytimes: The run-up in borrowing costs is a one-two punch brought on by the need to finance a fast-growing budget deficit, worsened by tax cuts and steadily rising interest rates that will make the debt more expensive. With less money coming in and more going toward interest, political leaders will find it harder to address … Read more

The Fed’s Newest Double Standard

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By Rodney Johnson Collectively, we just got screwed again, and I bet most people didn’t even know it. It happens so many times, particularly at the hands of the Federal Reserve, it’s hard to keep track. A new bank called The Narrow Bank, or TNB, recently applied for an account with the Fed. This would give the … Read more

MSNBC ‘Morning Joe’ Co-Host Mika Brzezinski Admits: ‘We Sucked Up’ to Hillary’s Campaign ‘In Ways That Embarrass Me’

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via newsbusters.org: In a “Ten Questions” interview in Time magazine, MSNBC Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski plugged a new edition of her book Know Your Value, but Time‘s Belinda Luscombe also pushed her to thump Trump. Near the end, Luscombe asked “Do you regret any of your pre-election coverage?” For a while, Morning Joe was super-cozy with Trump. But Mika said they went overboard … Read more

GEORGE SOROS FUNDED FUSION GPS, HIS SPOKESMAN CONFIRMS

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmauH5ZIXk0 A spokesman for left-wing billionaire financier George Soros is acknowledging that he indirectly funded Fusion GPS, the firm behind the Steele dossier – Sources have told The Daily Caller News Foundation in the past that Soros helped fund Fusion’s post-election work on Russian interference in the election process – Soros’ spokesman told The Washington … Read more

Snow Records in France Fall from Data Tampering

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Somehow over 140 cm or 4.2 feet of snow disappeared from the climate records in Chamonix France as it was too inconvenient for snow to more than double since 2011 in the area with Global Warming predictions that there would be less snow and that Atlantic water temperatures modulate Europe’s temperatures. Atlantic cold, Grand Solar … Read more

“I Never Gave Dianne Feinstein Permission To Release My Letter” Christine Blasey Ford

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4s83lKpC-w “I Never Gave Feinstein Permission To Release My Letter” Christine Blasey Ford Admits Under Oath Today Brett Kavanaugh Hearing took place during which Christine Blasey Ford testify, and Brett Kavanaugh testify, this took place in senate judiciary committee, where brett kavanaugh testimony took place, this is news in politics from brett kavanaugh senate hearing … Read more

74% of Forward Corporate Earnings Guidance Estimates for Q3 Have Been Negative

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via CNBC: Companies are lowering their expectations for the upcoming third-quarter earnings season. So far, 98 have provided guidance, with 74 percent negative and just 24 positive, the worst ratio since the first quarter of 2016 when corporate America was in an earnings recession. Citigroup strategist Tobias Levkovich said investors’ high expectations for profits could … Read more

Tencent music plans for a US IPO, setting the stage to compete with pandora, spotify, and itunes.

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by Leroy–Brown Apparently their edge for revenue generation is live streaming karaoke performances, and tipping performers. I wonder how this specific social media model will hold up in a crowded market in the US. “Tencent Music, bound for U.S. IPO, profits from social savvy” – http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tencentmusic-ipo/tencent-music-bound-for-u-s-ipo-profits-from-social-savvy-idUSKCN1M718Y In a market that until a few years ago was … Read more

GE, the Largest American Company in 2004, Now Worth Less Then 10% of Apple

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via CNN: General Electric, once America’s most valuable company, is now in sharp decline. In a year full of dubious landmarks, GE has encountered another: The storied conglomerate is now worth less than $100 billion. That hasn’t happened since March 2009 — during the Great Recession. GE’s (GE) stock crash — down by nearly two-thirds since the end of … Read more

To Deny It Has a Pension Crisis, Florida Pretends It Has $4.3B More Than It Does

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via watchdog.org: Florida lawmakers are using an accounting tweak to defer payments on $20 billion in pension debt, a maneuver that not only hides the “true cost of government” from voters but “passes this expense on to future taxpayers,” Truth in Accounting (TIA) CEO and Founder Sheila Weinberg said. Speaking with Watchdog.org in advance of Tuesday’s release of … Read more