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via CBS News: PHOENIX — A wall of dust enveloped the Phoenix metro area, turning daylight into darkness for more than an hour Monday, as a monsoon storm packing thunder and lightning, high winds and sheets of rain grounded flights and damaged property. CBS News affiliate 3TV/CBS 5 (AZFamily.com) said officials at Phoenix Sky Harbor International … Read more
via thefreethoughtproject: As Allison Mack and Keith Raniere await trial for their part in a twisted celebrity sex trafficking ring, neighbors of the cult’s headquarters in Knox Woods are coming forward with statements about what they saw while the cult was in town. Although the full extent of the accusations against Mack and Raniere were underreported … Read more
via businessinsider: For now, the coming “labor shortage” is good news for workers. We should root for it to continue. It’s undoubtedly a headache for some owners and managers. But it’s one they should, hopefully, be made to live with for a few years. They say “labor shortage” like it’s a bad thing. “America’s labor shortage … Read more
With Regulators Wary, Facebook Is Poring Over Its Prize Asset: Your Face When Facebook rolled out facial recognition tools in the European Union this year, it promoted the technology as a way to help people safeguard their online identities. “Face recognition technology allows us to help protect you from a stranger using your photo to … Read more
FRESNO, Calif. — Crystal clear surveillance video shows how a group of young men made off with a small fortune worth of Apple products in Fresno. The four only needed mere seconds to steal 26 items totaling $27,000 Saturday morning at the store inside Fashion Fair Mall. Lt. Mark Hudson of the Fresno Police Department … Read more
$152,237,500,000: Merchandise Trade Deficit With China Hit Record Through May (CNSNews.com) – The U.S. merchandise trade deficit with China set a record through May, hitting $152,237,500,000 for the first five months of 2018, according to data released Friday by the Census Bureau. From January through May, the Census Bureau reports, the United States exported $52,902,300,000 in … Read more
Trump takes another shot at NATO as he prepares to meet with alliance leaders via chicagotribune: President Donald Trump said Tuesday that an upcoming summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin might be easier than a gathering with NATO allies, as he left the White House for a week of high-profile diplomacy in Europe. In a series … Read more
BY JOHN MAULDIN This week, the Congressional Budget Office released its 2018 Long-Term Budget Outlook. Like everyone, the CBO makes assumptions, so it’s fair to be skeptical of its estimates. In fact, we had all better hope they are too pessimistic because we’re in deep trouble otherwise. Because the CBO thinks federal spending will grow significantly faster … Read more
From the Washington Post: Seventy may be the new 60, and 80 may be the new 70, but 85 is still pretty old to work in America. Yet in some ways, it is the era of the very old worker in America. Overall, 255,000 Americans 85 years old or older were working over the past 12 … Read more
Do you believe that people have financed their lives with maximal debt? Is this sustainable? The financial system is at risk. The regulatory agencies have once again looked the other way. They have stepped aside while mega corporations have ballooned up, far beyond our imagination. All the while, the middle class has been evaporated, erased … Read more
https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/…earning-to Quote:New York/Berkeley, Calif. February 6, 2018… The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Center for Technology and Society today announced preliminary results from an innovative project that uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and social science to study what is and what isn’t hate speech online. The project’s goal is to help the tech industry better understand the … Read more
Cover image courtesy of @ConservativeVcs on Twitter By Bob Shanahan African Americans and free thinkers are finally leaving the left in droves. Candace Owens, director of Turning Point USA, has been the victim of vicious liberal attacks because she is a black woman who supports President Trump. On a recent Fox … Read more
by DCG By design, many Americans were “Grubered.” From SF Gate: A $13,000 tax bill was the last thing Bill and Cathy Stapp expected when they signed up for Covered California health insurance in late 2013. The Stapps estimated that their combined income would be less than $63,000 in 2014 — making them eligible under the Affordable Care … Read more
BY JOHN MAULDIN The official, on-the-books federal debt is currently about $21.2 trillion, according to the US National Debt Clock. $21.2T is the face amount of all outstanding Treasury paper, including so-called “internal” debt. This is about 105% of GDP and it’s only the federal government. If you add in state and local debt, that adds another $3.1 trillion … Read more
by Thinker Jason Goodman brings us this jaw-dropping lecture by former CIA Counterintelligence Officer, Kevin Shipp, which I have set to the midpoint, when he begins to talk specifically about this incredible phenomenon that we’ve all been witnessing, of the soft coup by the shadow government and the intelligence agencies against a sitting president of … Read more
Blame Russian bots! Using two websites, created after the 2016 election, one by a group of NeverTrumpers and another by a liberal Hillary Clinton supporter who has an extreme hatred and bias against anything “Russia” related, Arc Digital Media declared the #WalkAway movement was a “deceptive propaganda campaign,” being pushed by Pro-Trump and Russian-linked Twitter … Read more
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, I thought you would be wrong on the pound. I will yield to your forecasts. I do not know how you do it forecasting so many things around the world and getting them right no less. Reading between the lines who have written, on the one hand, you have said … Read more
by Dr. Eowyn You may have seen reports of millionaires fleeing California because of tax increases on the wealthy. An example is an article by Steve Straub in The Federalist on July 6, 2018, in which Straub claims a direct cause-and-effect relationship between Prop. 30 and millionaires leaving the state: According to new research released by Charles Varner, associate … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjwZ3kjfIUk Twitter is cracking down on accounts deemed to be fake and in the months of May and June, the company reportedly deleted some 70 million users from its site. That’s equal to roughly 20% of the site’s monthly tweeters. The move came following pressure from lawmakers on capitol hill who charge that so-called russia-linked … Read more
They said it should become a hurricane today. http://ussanews.com/News1/2018/07/09/dml-tv-tropical-storm-chris-gaining-strength-in-the-atlantic/ h/t Jwnlwplus4