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Trump Threatens to Tax the Internet Because He’s Mad at Jeff Bezos
Post Date: 2017-06-28 10:50:29 by Willie Green
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There is no such thing as “Internet taxes.” Hours after The Washington Post published a story revealing that a Time magazine cover featuring Donald Trump, which hangs in several of his golf clubs, is actually fake, the president lashed out at the Post and its owner, Amazon C.E.O. Jeff Bezos, in a bizarre, borderline incoherent tweet. “The #AmazonWashingtonPost, sometimes referred to as the guardian of Amazon not paying internet taxes (which they should) is FAKE NEWS!” Trump wrote. Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump The #AmazonWashingtonPost, sometimes referred to as the guardian of Amazon not paying internet taxes (which they should) is FAKE NEWS! 8:06 AM - 28 Jun 2017 ...
Runaway roofers who removed the wrong roof tracked down by St. Louis neighbors
Post Date: 2017-06-27 08:28:44 by cranky
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It was the mystery of the missing roof. On Friday, St. Louis resident Laura McInnis discovered that nearly half the shingles on her perfectly good roof were missing. A haphazardly secured tarp covered the damage. A pile of tiles were strewn on her property, with some beer bottles mixed in. “I had no idea what happened,” she said. McInnis had just moved to Michigan with her husband, Chris McInnis. The couple were set to close the sale of their house in the 5600 block of Rosa Avenue in the Princeton Heights neighborhood. But on Friday, Laura McInnis was contacted by a watchful neighbor. “The tarp your roofers put on yesterday is starting to blow up and back,” her ...
Jessica Alba’s Honest Company Settles False Advertising Lawsuit for $1.5M
Post Date: 2017-06-25 04:51:32 by 3-Dee
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Jessica Alba’s Honest Company Settles False Advertising Lawsuit for $1.5M by Jerome Hudson 8 Jun 2017 Honest Company — a household goods and cleaning products company co-founded by actress Jessica Alba — has agreed to pay $1.55 million in a class-action lawsuit settlement for failing to inform consumers that its soaps and cleaning products contain a toxic chemical. The California-based company did not state that some of its products contained a byproduct of Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, a compound found in most cleaning products that can cause rashes, according to court records obtained and published by the Daily Mail. In March 2016, the Wall Street Journal published a report ...
Think Twice Before Opening A Gold Or Silver IRA
Post Date: 2017-06-21 11:36:13 by Willie Green
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For anyone worried about financial security in retirement, those ads touting gold and silver IRAs on conservative-leaning cable TV channels and from digital news outlets can sound pretty persuasive. Take the Rosland Capital commercial where actor William Devane gets caught in a downpour while golfing. “Some things you just can’t control,” says Devane, “like runaway inflation or unstable governments printing money as worthless as wet scorecards. But you can control whether or not you let the money in your retirement lose its value.” Then there’s the one from Lear Capital — like Rosland Capital’s, running on Fox News Channel — that asks the ...
‘Disgusting:’ McDonald’s introduces ‘gay pride’ fries, Christians call for boycott [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2017-06-16 07:55:06 by HomerBohn
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WASHINGTON, D.C., June 15, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) -- For Gay Pride month, McDonald’s franchises in San Francisco and in the nation’s capital are issuing “Pride Fries” in rainbow-colored containers. “The rainbow fry boxes are a fun way to show our support of the LGBTQ community, using one of McDonald’s most iconic and recognizable items,” Cathy Martin of the restaurant corporation’s “Pride Network” stated in a press release. She added that McDonald’s is “proud to honor and celebrate the LGBTQ community, including our employees, customers and beyond – each and every day.” McDonald's is acknowledged as a corporate ...
Coal industry could be in store for a 'rare earth' reboot
Post Date: 2017-06-13 10:42:31 by Tooconservative
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The coal industry's future may have much more to do with building smartphones, wind turbines and missile defense radar than billowing smoke stacks and environmental finger pointing, say federal coal advisers and experts. The direction of the industry is aimed at harvesting what are known as "rare earth elements," for which the U.S. industry depends on China. The 19 elements are key ingredients in building complex electronics used in smartphones, jets, defense applications, advanced wind turbines and renewable energy, not to mention light-emitting diodes, or LEDs. The bottom line is that the U.S. needs to diversify its supply of the minerals, and the coal industry is the ...
Five of the ‘Big 6’ agricultural corporations, including Monsanto, looking to merge
Post Date: 2017-06-13 10:12:51 by Anthem
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Mergers between five of the "Big Six" agricultural chemical and seed corporations — Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Pioneer; ChemChina and Syngenta; Bayer and Monsanto — are raising concerns for farmers nationwide. Mergers between five of the “Big Six” agricultural chemical and seed corporations — Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Pioneer; ChemChina and Syngenta; Bayer and Monsanto — are raising concerns for farmers nationwide. These leading companies control more than 60 percent of the market for seeds, pesticides and herbicides worldwide. “If these posed mergers work like all of the past ag supply mergers that we have already experienced, it will mean ...
This Is What Globalized Crony Capitalism Looks Like: Immelt Got Fabulously Wealthy While GE Shares Dropped
Post Date: 2017-06-13 07:57:46 by cranky
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Jeff Immelt is perhaps the perfect paragon for the failures of the now passing age of globalization. Immelt is stepping down from his position as chairman and chief executive of General Electric, the massive company he has led since September of 2001. Jack Welch, his legendary predecessor, had overseen the company as its value rose from about $14 billion in when he took the reins in 1981 to nearly $500 billion when he retired 20 years later. Its stock price increased 400 percent. Annual revenue soared from $18 billion to an eye-popping $130 billion. When he took the top job, Immelt promised that “GE will always outperform any market that we’re in.” That certainly has not ...
We Could Have Had Cellphones Four Decades Earlier
Post Date: 2017-06-12 10:56:57 by Deckard
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Thanks for nothing, Federal Communications Commission.The basic idea of the cellphone was introduced to the public in 1945—not in Popular Mechanics or Science, but in the down-home Saturday Evening Post. Millions of citizens would soon be using "handie-talkies," declared J.K. Jett, the head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Licenses would have to be issued, but that process "won't be difficult." The revolutionary technology, Jett promised in the story, would be formulated within months. But permission to deploy it would not. The government would not allocate spectrum to realize the engineers' vision of "cellular radio" until 1982, ...
America Sits Atop the Global Hydrocarbon Throne for 5th Straight Year
Post Date: 2017-06-08 22:13:19 by Tooconservative
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Last year, for the fifth straight time, the United States produced more oil and gas than any other country on this planet. That data comes to us courtesy of the Energy Information Administration (EIA): For the United States and Russia, total petroleum and natural gas hydrocarbon production in energy content terms is almost evenly split between petroleum and natural gas, while Saudi Arabia’s production heavily favors petroleum. Total petroleum production is made up of several different types of liquid fuels, including crude oil and lease condensate, tight oil, extra-heavy oil, and bitumen. In addition, various processes produce natural gas plant liquids (NGPL), biofuels, and ...
Despite the left’s best efforts, the Dakota Access Pipeline is now delivering oil
Post Date: 2017-06-01 19:45:14 by Tooconservative
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Protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline became an international news story last year. Progressives around the country rallied to the cause and held marches around the country. Over a million dollars was raised on social media to support the main protest camp and thousand of people traveled to remote Cannonball, North Dakota to become part of the effort to block the final mile of the nearly 1,200-mile long pipeline. Protesters battled police on land and in the water and over several months hundreds, mostly from out of state, were arrested. One woman faces 10 years in jail for (allegedly) firing a gun toward police officers. The Obama administration came to the protesters’ ...
Suicidal to Stay in this Market
Post Date: 2017-05-31 07:59:35 by U don't know me
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Suicidal to Stay in this Market-Charles Nenner By Greg Hunter On May 31, 2017 By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Renowned financial and geopolitical analyst Charles Nenner is doubling down on his prediction last year that the financial markets will crash in the fall of 2017. Nenner says, “People not positioned correctly may lose everything.” Nenner points out, “We all know they say the market goes up 8% on a yearly basis. That’s based on the fact if I draw a line through the markets, it shows 8%. I don’t think anybody realizes how much we are above the line. In order to get back to 8%, we have to go much below the line . . . So, it’s total nonsense to say ...
5 Highly Respected Financial Experts That Are Warning That A Market Crash Is Imminent
Post Date: 2017-05-30 13:45:30 by U don't know me
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5 Highly Respected Financial Experts That Are Warning That A Market Crash Is Imminent By Michael Snyder, on May 29th, 2017 If everything is going to be “just fine”, why are so many big names in the financial community warning about an imminent meltdown? I don’t think that I have seen so many simultaneous warnings about a market crash since just before the great financial crisis of 2008. And at this point, you would have to be quite blind not to see that stocks are absurdly overvalued and that a correction is going to happen at some point. And when stocks do start crashing, lots of fingers are going to start pointing at President Trump, but it won’t be his fault. The ...
United Airlines President Says If You're Uncomfortable In Coach, It's Your Own Fault
Post Date: 2017-05-29 09:05:33 by Willie Green
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The airline appears to have no sympathy with your discomfort. They feel your suffering. They understand your pain as if it were their own. They watch you struggle and they wish they could do something about it. I'm talking about airline executives. And I'm lying. I've been moved, you see, by the words of United Airlines president Scott Kirby. Skift managed to get wind of this thoughts from a recent town hall meeting with employees. I fear you may find some of his sentiments a bit of a drag. Kirby mused this on the subject of coach seats having little to no legroom -- sometimes, the closest measure of this is called seat pitch. "Seat pitch has come down because that's ...
They Want to Destroy Trump & America
Post Date: 2017-05-17 19:56:40 by U don't know me
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They Want to Destroy Trump & America-Gregory Mannarino By Greg Hunter On May 17, 2017 By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Analyst/trader Gregory Mannarino says America is in conflict with itself. Mannarino explains, “We have a President who gets it. He’s obviously not a socialist, and there is no doubt this man has the back of America. . . . There is a literal war going on right now between political parties here. This is a deliberate effort by some to destabilize our country, to bring America to its knees from the inside. They want to basically throw this country into some kind of third world situation, and I don’t think it’s going to happen. I think there are ...
FBI Gives Hollywood Hacking Victims Surprising Advice: "Pay the Ransom"
Post Date: 2017-05-12 13:29:08 by cranky
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Netflix isn't alone: Agencies and others are balancing demands for money against the fears of stolen data ending up online. Phones are the lifeblood of a talent agency like UTA, but on April 11, its IT department discovered an intruder lurking in the voicemail system and computer network and quickly decided to shut them down, sending agents to conduct business on their iPads. Soon thereafter a demand from a hacker arrived: Pay a ransom or watch the agency's most confidential data get posted online. It turns out UTA was lucky — an outside cybersecurity firm was brought in and, after conducting a forensic analysis, determined that nothing valuable had been pilfered. But the ...
Win-Win vs Zero-Sum Game: How China Managed to Overcome Global Economic Slowdown
Post Date: 2017-05-10 10:21:21 by A Pole
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While Beijing is preparing to hold the One Belt, One Road Forum for International Cooperation on May 14-15, Xinhua has stepped forward to bust the myth that China's New Silk Road project is essentially a Marshall Plan 2.0. China's New Silk Road Project has nothing to do with America's post-WWII Marshall Plan, China's state-run media outlet Xinhua argues. "Why do Western commentators stuck with a Cold War mindset consider the Chinese Belt and Road initiative —the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-century Maritime Silk Road — a modern version of the American Marshall Plan aimed at restoring Europe after Second World War?" the media outlet asked. ...
The ’51st U.S. State’ Declares Bankruptcy As Corporate Insiders Sell Stocks At The Fastest Rate Since The Last Financial Crisis
Post Date: 2017-05-03 22:45:48 by U don't know me
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The ’51st U.S. State’ Declares Bankruptcy As Corporate Insiders Sell Stocks At The Fastest Rate Since The Last Financial Crisis By Michael Snyder, on May 3rd, 2017 Puerto Rico has collapsed financially and has “filed for the equivalent of bankruptcy protection”. When this was announced on Wednesday, it quickly made front page news all over the planet. For decades, Puerto Rico has been considered to be the territory most likely to become “the 51st U.S. state”, and there have even been rumblings that we could soon see a renewed push for statehood. But that is on the back burner for now, because at the moment Puerto Rico is dealing with a nightmarish financial ...
American Airlines is crammin' 'em in like Sardines...
Post Date: 2017-05-03 11:46:14 by Willie Green
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Nothing says happy flying like less legroom. American Airlines plans to cut legroom on some seats of new jets it plans to roll out later this year. Three rows in the economy class will shrink from 31 to 29 inches between seats, CNN reported. Legroom for the remaining seats in the section will drop to 30 inches. The tight rows will be close to the minimal legroom offered on low-cost flights by Spirit Airlines and Frontier Airlines, where passengers have only 28 inches between seats, according to CNN. American Airlines worker accused of hitting mom with stroller Jet Blue has the most space in between economy seats — 34 inches — followed by Virgin Airlines’ 32 inches, ...
Jack Ma Sees Decades of Pain as Internet Upends Old Economy
Post Date: 2017-04-24 08:49:11 by cranky
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Alibaba founder says education can ease blow from automation ‘Machines should only do what humans cannot,’ Ma tells forum Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Chairman Jack Ma said society should prepare for decades of pain as the internet disrupts the economy. The world must change education systems and establish how to work with robots to help soften the blow caused by automation and the internet economy, Ma said in a speech to an entrepreneurship conference in Zhengzhou, China. “In the next 30 years, the world will see much more pain than happiness,” Ma said of job disruptions caused by the internet. “Social conflicts in the next three decades will have an impact on ...
Home Again, and Hello Dante
Post Date: 2017-04-20 21:39:23 by U don't know me
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Home Again, and Hello Dante March 7, 2017 By: The Mogambo Guru Hey! Look! Here I am! Over here! I’m back! (Sound of thunderous applause). Thanks! Wonderful to be here! I know that you, like most people, are probably scratching your head quizzically, asking yourself “Who is this doofus who calls himself Mighty Magnificent Mogambo in the next paragraph, which doesn’t even make sense? And who cares that he is back, which is not to mention why am I reading this stupid crap in the first freaking place?” Or perhaps you are wondering “Where have you been all this lonely, lonely time, oh, Mighty Magnificent Mogambo (MMM), that you can now announce your triumphant ...
Google’s new job site might let recruiters see your search history
Post Date: 2017-04-17 10:08:34 by cranky
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It comes as no surprise that a prospective boss is going to Google you before you get an interview. But now the search giant is building its own recruitment tool that will help companies learn a lot about its applicants. Its top secret project is called Google Hire. It will work similarly to LinkedIn but will let employers track and manage applications, tech website Axios reported. For now, it appears to be accessible using your personal Google account, which links up your search history, your Google Plus and your YouTube account. The website appears to be in early stages of development, so you’ll need to have an invitation to sign up. Google is keeping very quiet about the project, so ...
Trump Has Already Spent Almost Double Obama’s Annual Travel Budget
Post Date: 2017-04-10 14:24:45 by Willie Green
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This denoted the seventh end of the week that President Trump spent at what he has come to call the “Winter White House” since taking office on Jan. 20. It is evaluated that each of the president’s treks to Mar-a-Lago costs citizens around $3 million. Implying that since taking office, Trump has effectively spent around $21 million in citizen money for his end of the week voyages, which additionally twofold as awesome ads for his Trump-marked properties. Conversely, President Obama’s travel was assessed to have taken a toll citizens somewhere close to $85 million and $96 million, as per Public Citizen, a dynamic support aggregate. Considering the most noteworthy ...
Japan’s ‘oldest porn queen’ calls it quits at 80
Post Date: 2017-04-09 14:04:23 by Willie Green
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After a decade of undressing for X-rated movies, the country’s oldest porn actor announced she will call it quits — at the ripe old age of 80. Maori Tezuka, a former opera singer who made her debut in the flourishing “silver porn” industry at 71, attributed her decision partly to the lack of red-blooded lotharios that could keep up with her. “Once the lights go on, you just do your best,” she told local media. “I have no regrets, but shooting became difficult when the actor wasn’t my type,” added Tezuka, who in true show business fashion left the door open for a possible return. “It was never about the money for me. I’ve already ...
Uber has allegedly been cheating both riders and drivers
Post Date: 2017-04-08 14:43:13 by cranky
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Uber has a lot of spring cleaning to do, considering the many distinct scandals it has to deal with. And things aren’t looking up for the “taxi” company, as a new lawsuit brings up an astonishing new claim. Apparently, Uber uses a “sophisticated” software that allows it to cheat on both the driver and the passenger. According to the new class action suit found by Ars Technica, Uber’s software manipulates navigation data used to determine the “upfront” fare price, showing the customer a higher price than the driver. This way, Uber can charge the rider more for a fare, while the driver gets paid from the cheaper, faster route. What allegedly happens is ...
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