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JIM LINDGREN LOOKS AT A UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PROGRAM ASKING IF THERE CAN BE CAPITALISM WITHOUT RACISM: IMO, the answers to these questions are fairly obvious: 1. Racism came first. Every inhabited continent had slaves, and ethnic out-groups were among the most likely to be enslaved. It is the abolition of slavery that is particularly Western, … Read more

No matter how good algorithms become, there may be some things where people still insist on dealing with other people.

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THE HUMAN TOUCH: Why Banks Are Giving Tellers Raises, Instead of Firing Them All. When Goldman Sachs Group Inc. launched its digital consumer bank, it conducted a survey on customer attitudes. It turns out people want to find answers without assistance — until they can’t and immediately want help from a qualified banker. There’s high tolerance … Read more

“THE MOUNT RUSHMORE OF SCARIEST URBAN PLACES IN AMERICA:” Looking back at the hell that was Chicago’s Cabrini-Green, Public Housing’s Most Notorious Failure.

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via city-journal.org: For writers, it pays to be a contrarian. That is, it’s hard to make a living pitching books and articles that say: “The conventional wisdom about Subject X holds up pretty well.” A more promising approach is to contend that what everybody “knows” about X is wrong: the truth is very different, or at … Read more

STEIN’S LAW, REAL ESTATE EDITION

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Luxury Apartment Sales Plummet In New York As Sellers ‘Capitulate.’ “Sales of luxury apartments that cost $5 million or more in New York City have plummeted more than 31% over the first six months of this year, and sellers are trying to make up for the drop in sales by slashing prices to meet buying … Read more

FITTON:WHAT IS HAPPENING AT DOJ? Judicial Watch just uncovered more classified Clinton emails. DOJ is out to lunch on Hillary Clinton national security crimes. Anyone else would have been both arrested and prosecuted by now!

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by TFittonJW Why is Judicial Watch carrying all the load on Clinton corruption? Background: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-uncovers-six-more-clinton-emails-containing-classified-material-on-her-unsecure-non-state-gov-email-system/  

Inside America’s Meddling Machine: The US Funded Group that Interferes in Elections Around the Globe

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In this Grayzone special, Max Blumenthal attends a Capitol Hill gathering of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and explores the group’s destabilizing global campaign to meddle in other countries’ affairs. The report covers the NED’s interference in foreign elections in Russia and Mongolia, its participation in coup attempts from Haiti to Venezuela to Nicaragua, … Read more

Banks policing who candidates may or may not receive donations from is not a road we want to go down.

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YOU MAY NOT BE INTERESTED IN THE GLEICHSCHALTUNG, BUT THE GLEICHSCHALTUNG IS INTERESTED IN YOU: Wells Fargo Closes Florida Politician’s Account Due To Marijuana Donations. It’s well known that many banks are reluctant to open accounts for marijuana businesses out of fear of running afoul of the U.S’s government’s continued criminalization of the drug. But one … Read more

OF COURSE IT IS, THE DEMOCRATS HAVE GONE BATSH*T CRAZY

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Study: U.S. political climate frightening for teens.  Donald Trump‘s America might be harming the mental health of teens, especially minorities, a new study suggests. Fear of discrimination became more common among Los Angeles-area teenagers between the 2016 election and the months following Trump’s presidential inauguration in 2017, researchers found. Trump’s proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall, his … Read more

Government’s Own Report Shows Tax Dollars Spent in Afghanistan Have Boosted Opium Production

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via thefreethoughtproject: As the longest war in United States history approaches yet another anniversary, the U.S. is being forced to admit that after pouring billions of dollars into “counternarcotics efforts” in Afghanistan, the result has been an overwhelming increase in opium production. The recent report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) reveals that U.S. … Read more

Four Different Styles Used for Trading Stocks

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by visualcapitalist While many investors try to emulate “buy and hold” investors like Warren Buffett, not everyone has the conviction or the patience to wait out positions over years or decades. For active investors in the market, it’s pretty common to see switching in and out of positions – sometimes over the course of months to years, … Read more

The Military Wants to Use Commercial Satellites to Defend Against Hypersonic Weapons

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaKwTs7pimU The U.S. military would like commercial satellites to aid in detecting an enemy hypersonic weapon attack. Speaking at a Washington D.C. event, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. Paul Selva, suggested placing sensors on commercial satellites, enabling them to track weapons traveling above Mach 5. http://marygreeley.com/?p=74242

If You Aren’t Prepared for the Basic Medical Emergencies, You Could Be Setting Yourself Up For Disaster

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by Jeremiah Johnson We’ve been covering different medical equipment for the family to use either in their outdoor activities or in the event of a disaster. The focus of this article is the First Aid 2.0 Kit put out by Adventure Medical Kits of Oakland, CA. This is a self-contained kit that measures approximately 9” x 6” x 2”. It can potentially … Read more