Diamonds May be Forever, High Prices Are Not

With natural diamonds not so hot, De Beers is venturing into man-made diamonds with a price war. By Mining.com via Safehaven.com: Anglo American’s De Beers, the world’s No.1 diamond miner by value, has just had the lowest sales for its seventh cycle since it began releasing data in 2016, as it let customers delay acquiring smaller stones for … Read more

JW sues for all the hidden gov docs on Weiner laptop and coverup details by Comey-Strzok FBI.

by TFittonJW Judicial Watch continues the Herculean task of exposing the Swamp. New lawsuit on Clinton-Weiner scandal: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-sues-to-retrieve-emails-the-fbi-found-on-anthony-weiners-laptop/ More Weiner laptop cover-up docs just uncovered: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-fbi-records-reveal-strzok-authored-initial-draft-of-comey-letter-to-congress-notifying-them-of-clinton-emails-on-weiner-laptop/ Vid discussion: Fox News story: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/11/judicial-watch-sues-justice-dept-for-records-from-anthony-weiner-laptop.html  

SF Mayor commits $100 million to modular housing factory, predicts savings of $50,000 per unit

by DCG Mayor London Breed: Taking a $100 million risk with taxpayer dollars Like many west coast, progressive run cities, San Francisco has a homeless crisis. The city has doubled the amount of taxpayer money they spend on the crisis and as of 2017 there were almost 7,500 homeless citizens. The homeless are allowed to defecate … Read more

Big government at work: Bay Area transit card to get mobile phone update at cost of $194 million

by DCG The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) serves as the Bay Area’s transportation planning, coordinating, and financing agency, and oversees the Bay Area Toll Authority. Riders use a “Clipper” card from MTC to avoid having to pay cash at each transit ride and when they change transit systems (over a dozen agencies accept Clipper cards). Clipper cards were … Read more

Missing wages, urine bottles: Disturbing delivery driver stories

via businessinsider: Business Insider spoke with 31 current or recently employed drivers about what it’s like to deliver packages for Amazon. Some drivers described a variety of alleged abuses, including lack of overtime pay, missing wages, intimidation, and favoritism. Many of these drivers also described a physically demanding work environment in which, under strict time constraints, they … Read more

The Anatomy of a Cannabis Plant, and its Lifecycle

via visualcapitalist: By 2027, it’s projected that the legal cannabis market in the U.S. and Canada could hit $47.3 billion in size. That will make it bigger than annual global sales for raw metals like nickel and silver put together. It would be a size that even exceeds the North American pork market. But while almost … Read more

Bloomberg Model 3 Tracker: Down to 3,486 / week

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/ With all of the posts on Elon’s personality going on, I figure I might as well post something that’s actually relevant to TSLA the company itself. Its hard to keep up with all the rumors behind the Model 3’s manufacturing rate. There’s been rumors about a SiC Mosfet shortage, large amount of rework needed, … Read more

The Bank Most Exposed to Turkey, Argentina, Other Emerging Markets Tries to Calm Investor Fears

After the euro debt crisis, BBVA, Spain’s alpha-lender, sought greener pastures in the Emerging Markets. That bet is coming home to roost. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. Few, if any, global banks have bet as large, or as recklessly, on fast-growth emerging markets as Spanish lender BBVA. In the first half of … Read more

Transports lag — seems like today was just one big short cover forced by oil ramp on iran sanctions & vix smash

transports lag — seems like today was just one big short cover forced by oil ramp on iran sanctions & vix smash pic.twitter.com/0QoDi29qeA — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) September 11, 2018 continued vix smashing pic.twitter.com/MBMzohQLuL — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) September 11, 2018 WTI has been a very important prop in stock market pic.twitter.com/DpaWnHLlwT — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) September 11, … Read more

What The Heck! Leaving ‘Offensive Comments’ NOW a Crime For Police To Handle…Wait It Gets Worse!

For More Information See: https://www.infowars.com/uk-police-te… http://www.bellevuereporter.com/news/universal-mental-health-screenings-to-be-introduced-in-local-middle-schools/?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialmedia In addition to reporting hate crime, please report non-crime hate incidents, which can include things like offensive or insulting comments, online, in person or in writing. Hate will not be tolerated in South Yorkshire. Report it and put a stop to it #HateHurtsSY pic.twitter.com/p2xf6OLoQZ — South Yorkshire Police (@syptweet) … Read more

ANALYSIS: how the UK political Establishment is eating itself, & why this may not be all good news.

by John Ward The last fortnight’s developments have made it more likely than ever that new groupings on the Right and Centre-Left of British politics will be established in the near future. The key players – “all the usual suspects” as Claude Rains might have said – seem to be clearing the decks for change, and … Read more