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via charlotteobserver: Almost 2,400 North Carolina elementary school teachers have failed the math portion of their licensing exams, which puts their careers in jeopardy, since the state hired Pearson publishing company to give the exam in 2013, according to a report presented to the state Board of Education Wednesday. Failure rates have spiked as schools around the state … Read more
(CNN) — It’s not very often that Michael Phelps gets knocked off the record board. But a 10-year old swimming phenom with a superhero name has done just that. His name is Clark Kent Apuada. And of course, they call him “Superman.” Over the weekend, Clark competed at the Far West International Championship in California, where … Read more
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, one of the most outspoken members of the anti-Trump ‘resistance’ in Congress, is facing fresh questions about a longstanding controversy regarding how her campaign raises money and how those funds have flowed to her daughter. The California congresswoman has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars … Read more
Outbreaks confirmed in Indiana, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia HFMD is a viral infection that causes lesions around the hands, feet and mouth Although usually not serious, pathogens can enter the body via scratched skin Adults’ immune systems are typically strong enough to prevent infection New York Mets ace pitcher Noah Syndergaard revealed he contracted the … Read more
by Geoffrey Grider New details have emerged revealing that George Soros helped prop-up Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s political career in an attempt to put 400 Bernie Sanders-like politicians in Congress. Well, that didn’t take long. As the fake news media has been gushing and fawning over rising star Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, pushing hard the ‘she came out of nowhere!’ … Read more
by Dr. Eowyn Ben Morgan reports for the Evening Standard that on July 30, 2018, the UK’s Supreme Court ruled that in cases where families and doctors are in agreement, medical staff can remove feeding tubes from patients in a permanent vegetative state, without the patient’s consent and without consulting a judge. UK’s highest court made that ruling … Read more
by Bill Bonner YOUGHAL, IRELAND – As a republic matures, it slides down-market… The rails are silently greased by the cronies and grifters who control policy measures for their own benefit… while the rabble rallies to campaign slogans and admires TV idols. The media – dependent on the mass of consumers for ad sales – sinks, … Read more
Peter Schiff, Released on 7/31/18 ”We could say the government spend like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money.” – Ronald Reagan JC
by AMY S. How will the coming financial reset impact your cash, savings, retirement accounts, stock, bonds, real estate, mortgage, student loans, gold, silver, and other assets? Will the collapse DESTROY WEALTH or TRANSFER IT from the unprepared to the those who have positioned themselves in advance? What facts do we have to go on from … Read more
From USA Today: If you fall asleep or use the bathroom during your next flight, those incriminating facts could be added to your federal dossier. Likewise, if you use your laptop or look at noisy children seated nearby with a “cold, penetrating stare,” that may be included on your permanent record. If you fidget, sweat or … Read more
From Frank Holmes at Frank Talk: When you think of the top 1% of all income earners in American households, how much do you think this group rakes in? Millions? Tens of millions? What about the top 10%? On the contrary, to be considered in the top 1% of taxpayers nationally, you’d need an annual income … Read more
from Financial Survival Network John Rubino is back for another week. It appears that President Trump has prevailed in his trade dispute with the European Union. The goal of zero tariffs appears to be within reach. But is that enough to head off the impending financial disruption? John thinks not. There’s just too much debt and not … Read more
By Lance Gaitan Stocks have struggled to make new highs in recent weeks. What’s going on with the economy? With the help of the Federal Reserve’s extraordinary policy measures, U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) has expanded slowly over the past nine years. The U.S. economy grew at a 4.1% rate in the second quarter, the fastest pace since … Read more
by Martin Armstrong I have been warning that Global Warming is profitable for governments. They paid these academics $1 billion to come up with dire forecasts that ignore nature, cycles, and history, all to justify taxing people that will never actually impact anything nor balance their budgets. Canadian households in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia will be … Read more
June 14, 2018: >>The European Central Bank could decide to announce the end its quantitative easing programme on Thursday. >>Such a move would end years of post euro-crisis stimulus. >>The ECB is expected to argue that its €2.55 trillion ($3 trillion) bond-buying scheme has done its job in bringing the 19-member currency bloc back from … Read more
City officials help teen start business instead of shutting down hot dog stand When the city received the complaint a few weeks ago, the Minneapolis Department of Health started making calls to help him. “When I realized what it was, I said, ‘No, we’re not going to just go and shut him down’ like we … Read more
In late 2017, cognitive scientists Stanislas Dehaene, Hakwan Lau and Sid Kouider theorized in a published review that consciousness is “resolutely computational” and subsequently possible in machines. The three neuroscientists are from the Collège de France, University of California and PSL Research University, respectively. They addressed the question of whether machines will ever be conscious: … Read more
From Barron’s: Investors in gold need not fear that bitcoin will replace it as the preeminent global store of value. That is the implication of a recent study by Eric Budish, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago. The National Bureau of Economic Research published the paper—“The Economic Limits of Bitcoin and the Blockchain”—in … Read more
TradersChoice.net, Released on 8/1/18 Jim Rickards: Investors Have Fallen Into a False Sense of Security In January 2018, two significant market events occurred nearly simultaneously. Major U.S. stock market indexes peaked and volatility indexes extended one of their longest streaks of low volatility in history. Investors were happy, complacency ruled the day and all … Read more
by Wayne Root What a two-week period for President Donald J. Trump. They’re all rooting against him, thereby (by default) hoping America and the US economy and middle class jobs either fail, or fall short. And it’s not just Democrats. It’s virtually everyone in power, in government, in the establishment. Economists are rooting for Trump to fail. Democrats … Read more