Global economy peaked? | Michael Roberts Blog Optimism for global economic growth remains. But the acceleration in 2017 from the low growth rates experienced in 2015-6 now seems to have paused in the first quarter of 2018. To greet the semi-annual meeting of the IMF and the World Bank in Washington to discuss latest economic … Read more
Teachers carrying guns in school? @RealDonaldTrump says that’s a good idea. His critics say it’s a terrible idea. Here are the facts: Teachers carrying guns in school? @RealDonaldTrump says that’s a good idea. His critics say it's a terrible idea. Here are the facts: pic.twitter.com/1tVYc0HuMH — John Stossel (@JohnStossel) April 24, 2018 Armed Teachers President … Read more
by John W. Whitehead Is the U.S. government evil? You tell me. This is a government that treats its citizens like faceless statistics and economic units to be bought, sold, bartered, traded, tracked, tortured, and eventually eliminated once they’ve outgrown their usefulness. This is a government that treats human beings like lab rats to be caged, … Read more
By Rodney Johnson I never understood that old saw, “What you don’t know can’t hurt you.” Of course it can. If I don’t know someone is about to clobber me with a baseball bat, it’s still going to hurt when I get smacked. Even if I’m not aware that someone is spreading disparaging information about … Read more
With China enacting the most stringent laws ever in the country aganst social media news sharing, now following on the heels of FB and Twitter filtering, Asia is in a full push to limit self fed news. You need to ask yourself if this is to do with the ever mounting global crop losses and … Read more
Bezos Faces Berlin Protest on Tax Policy, Worker Treatment SPD leader Nahles among demonstrators against Bezos award German labor union has pushed for years for better wages Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos faced protests against the company’s tax policy and its treatment of workers when he arrived in Berlin to collect an award Tuesday. Andrea Nahles, … Read more
Machines Helping to Address Violative Content Machines are allowing us to flag content for review at scale, helping us remove millions of violative videos before they are ever viewed. And our investment in machine learning to help speed up removals is paying off across high-risk, low-volume areas (like violent extremism) and in high-volume areas (like … Read more
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by Daisy Luther, The Organic Prepper Every day, we make a million small decisions. What we’ll eat for lunch, who to ask a question at the office, which route to take home, whether we should pick up takeout or cook dinner, if we want to take a walk, who will drive the kids to practice, … Read more
BY SRSROCCO Today we are getting another whiff of what’s wrong in the markets. Currently, the Dow Jones Index is down over 500 points, and the NASDAQ is off by more than 100 points. Who knows where the markets will finally end up at the close of trading, but it really doesn’t matter. Markets aren’t … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Prices of houses and condos across the US surged 6.3% from a year earlier (not seasonally-adjusted), according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index for February, released this morning. The index is now 6.7% above the crazy peak of “Housing Bubble 1” in July 2006 just before the hot … Read more
by visualcapitalist The idea of using modern tech to transform the multi-trillion dollar healthcare industry has been around for a long time. In 1996, legendary Silicon Valley entrepreneur Jim Clark launched his third startup, Healtheon, which was focused on what he called the “Magic Diamond”. The diamond represented the $1.5 healthcare market in the U.S. and … Read more
by trivialremote Intro After obtaining an undergraduate degree and spending a few years in my industry, I will be pursuing a graduate degree starting Fall 2018. I am laying out my finances, and need to accept/reject loan offers imminently. I am in my mid-20s. Expected Finances in September 2018: Account Amount Savings $14,500 Vanguard Brokerage … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiCaHxZ5Scw Christian Datoc for the Daily Caller reports, Sen. Kamala Harris said during a Monday interview on “The Breakfast Club” that she isn’t yet thinking about the 2020 presidential election, but she left the door open to running by soliciting donations via her website. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/23/kam…
From Ron Paul and the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity: Image from Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain Inspectors from the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) have finally arrived in Douma, Syria, to assess whether a gas attack took place earlier this month. It has taken a week for the inspectors to begin their … Read more
by DCG Heckuva job mayor! From Baltimore Sun: For a while, there was reason to hope. Twelve days without a killing in February. Declining street violence in March. Optimism around a new police commissioner. After a three-year spike in violent crime, a long and bloody siege that brought Baltimore international attention, the city seemed finally to be heading toward peace. Then … Read more
by DCG This is what happens when proggies try to mess with our Constitutional rights. From Miami Herald: The National Rifle Association’s Political Victory Fund raised $2.4 million from March 1 to March 31, the group’s first full month of political fundraising since the nation’s deadliest high school shooting on Valentine’s Day, according to filings submitted to the Federal … Read more
by Simon Black On June 6, 1991, Richard Overton finally hit his breaking point. Apparently, Mr. Overton had been spending quite a lot of time in front of his television, watching a flurry of beer commercials featuring scantily clad women falling all over themselves for average looking men. Overton realized immediately that drinking Anheuser-Busch’s magical … Read more
Discovery of the ‘i-motif’ form of DNA was made by researchers in Sydney It is unclear what the function is but it could be for ‘reading’ DNA sequences Although researchers have seen the i-motif before, it has only been witnessed under artificial conditions in the laboratory, and not inside cells A new form of DNA … Read more
via The Capital Spectator The pace of US economic output is set to soften in the government’s “advance” GDP report for the first quarter that’s scheduled for release at the end of this week (Apr. 27), according to several estimates compiled by CapitalSpectator.com. The projection for Friday’s update puts the economy on track to post a … Read more