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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 ...
Saudi Arabia unveils plans for 'entertainment city' near Riyadh
Post Date: 2017-04-08 13:26:48 by Willie Green
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Saudi Arabia has unveiled plans for an entertainment city on the edge of Riyadh which will be 50 times the size of Gibraltar once complete. The 334 sq km (129 sq mile) attraction will offer cultural, sporting and entertainment activities - including a Six Flags park and a safari park. The announcement boasts it will be the first of its kind in the world, with building to begin early next year and the first stage finished by 2022. It forms part of a wider master plan. Vision 2030, announced by Deputy Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman a year ago, aims to diversify the economy and reduce the kingdom's reliance on oil, through a series of projects. The entertainment city - about a ...
Liberty Dollar creator marks Trump inauguration with a new series (World Peace - LOL)
Post Date: 2017-04-07 20:51:53 by Hondo68
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Inaugural Trump Dollar produced in double-split gold Proof piedfort, silver, copper Privately produced gold, silver and copper medals celebrating the Jan. 20, 2017, inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 45th president of the United States are being issued by Bernard von NotHaus, creator of the Liberty Dollar. Original images courtesy of Bernard von NotHaus, www.trumpdollar.us. This Proof Inaugural Trump Dollar double-split gold piedfort piece is composed of two outer half-ounce .9999 fine gold planchets sandwiched over a gold-plated 1-ounce .999 fine silver planchet in the center. Images courtesy of Bernard von NotHaus, www.trumpdollar.us The designs for the Inaugural Trump Dollar are ...
Gold Bugs: Why Russia is Stacking Bullion Bricks Like There's No Tomorrow
Post Date: 2017-04-01 15:48:07 by A Pole
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Russia's Central Bank purchased record amounts of gold in 2016, and plans to accelerate its purchases, retaining its spot as global leader in the growth of gold reserves. That's according to a recent survey by the GFMS analysts at Thomson Reuters. Russian economists explain the thought process behind the Bank's purchases. According to GFMS analysts, Russia's Central Bank purchased 201 tons of gold in 2016, more than the central bank of any other country. The Bank made its purchases over 11 consecutive months, with purchases accelerating to an average of 36 tons per month between October and November as gold prices fell. The analysts expect Russia to continue buying large ...
No, wealth isn’t created at the top. It is merely devoured there
Post Date: 2017-03-30 13:46:37 by A Pole
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Bankers, pharmaceutical giants, Google, Facebook ... a new breed of rentiers are at the very top of the pyramid and they’re sucking the rest of us dry ====== Rutger Bregman This piece is about one of the biggest taboos of our times. About a truth that is seldom acknowledged, and yet – on reflection – cannot be denied. The truth that we are living in an inverse welfare state. These days, politicians from the left to the right assume that most wealth is created at the top. By the visionaries, by the job creators, and by the people who have “made it”. By the go-getters oozing talent and entrepreneurialism that are helping to advance the whole world. Now, we ...
What I Learned From “The Art Of The Deal”
Post Date: 2017-03-26 02:58:31 by Gatlin
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With the election of Donald Trump (your president and mine!), I decided that it has become increasingly relevant for us all to read some of his books to get an idea of how the man “ticks”. And so I picked up The Art of the Deal. Having done so, I can say that I’m glad: for while some of the book should be looked at skeptically (as should some of what Trump is saying in his presidency), as a whole, this book will provide some pretty solid advice on business and life in general, as well as, perhaps inadvertently, reveal some details about Mr. Trump himself . This article does not seek to be a review of the book, so much as it is an article enumerating what advice one can ...
Lab-Grown Chicken Strips Could Change the Meat Industry Forever
Post Date: 2017-03-15 13:08:14 by Willie Green
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For decades, there have been concerns about the environmental impact of and the treatment of animals in the $200 billion American meat industry. Two startups are looking to shake things up.Bay Area company Memphis Meats and Netherlands-based Mosa Meats have made it their goal to replace farm animals with meat grown from self-producing cells. The cell-produced meats are created in stainless steel bioreactor tanks, and the companies have labeled these products as “clean meat,” which could essentially revolutionize the meat market.Scientists from these companies have already created beef products including a burger and a meatball grown from bovine cells. But yesterday, Memphis Meats ...
Civil war over trade 'breaks out' within the White House
Post Date: 2017-03-12 09:35:52 by Willie Green
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A rift within the Trump administration broke out during a recent trade meetingThe dispute erupted over differences between a group of economic nationalists and a team of pro-trade officials from Wall StreetSources said trade adviser Peter Navarro has become increasingly sidelined Former Goldman-Sachs executive Gary Cohn has been reportedly overpowering the adviser A civil war over trade has broken out within the White House after a contentious meeting in the Oval Office between economic nationalists and pro-trade leaders from Wall Street, reports said.The dispute resulted from differences between a group including senior adviser Steve Bannon and trade adviser Peter Navarro, and a ...
Titans of oil world meet in Houston after two-year price war
Post Date: 2017-03-05 09:53:51 by Willie Green
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The biggest names in the oil world come together this week for the largest industry gathering since the end of a two-year price war that pitted Middle East exporters against the firms that drove the shale energy revolution in the United States. When OPEC in November joined with several non-OPEC producers to agree to a historic cut in output, the group called time on a fight for market share that drove oil prices to a 12-year low and many shale producers to the wall. Oil prices are about 70 percent higher than they were the last time oil ministers and the chief executives of Big Oil met in Houston a year ago at CERAWeek, the largest annual industry meet in the Americas. The ebullience as ...
When Mexican Aluminum Isn't Actually Mexican Aluminum
Post Date: 2017-02-28 12:21:05 by Tooconservative
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In the final week of the Obama administration, the outgoing president filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization (WTO) accusing China of unfair trade practices. This wasn't a big surprise: Obama averaged one complaint against China every six months throughout his presidency. Indeed, Donald Trump's tough talk about China is really just a continuation of what the Obama White House had been actually doing for the last eight years. But this latest WTO filing is a little unusual. The U.S. is alleging that China, through a series of low interest loans and subsidized power rates, is unfairly competing in the market for aluminum. Over the past few decades China has risen to become ...
This Is Walmart’s New Plan to Squeeze Prices in the Face of Discount Chains
Post Date: 2017-02-28 07:35:44 by U don't know me
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This Is Walmart’s New Plan to Squeeze Prices in the Face of Discount Chains Reuters Feb 27, 2017 Wal-Mart Stores is running a new price-comparison test in at least 1,200 U.S. stores and squeezing packaged goods suppliers in a bid to close a pricing gap with German-based discount grocery chain Aldi and other U.S. rivals like Kroger, according to four sources familiar with the moves. Wal-Mart launched the price test across 11 Midwest and Southeastern states such as Iowa, Illinois and Florida, focusing on price competition in the grocery business that accounts for 56% of the company's revenue, said vendor sources with direct knowledge of the matter who did not wish to be identified ...
The popularity of Starbucks has plunged since they decided to take on politics
Post Date: 2017-02-24 12:07:49 by Tooconservative
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As we’ve noted here in the past, supersized coffee chain Starbucks has decided to take a very public stance in the world of American politics over the past couple of years. Given the youthful, next-generation persona which they try to project in all of their marketing it will come as no surprise that this has taken the form of a decidedly liberal initiative. So how’s that working out for them these days? According to Yahoo Finance, the company’s popularity as measured by the YouGov Brand Index rankings has completely tanked. Starbucks’ brand has taken a beating since the company announced plans to hire 10,000 refugees worldwide in the next five years in response to ...
Fox News under federal investigation over Ailes settlement payments
Post Date: 2017-02-16 10:40:18 by Willie Green
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LOS ANGELES (CNNMoney) The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether Fox News failed to inform shareholders about settlements made with employees who charged former chairman and CEO Roger Ailes with sexual harassment, a source with knowledge of the matter told CNNMoney. The investigation, which has been going on for months, came to light on Wednesday after attorney Judd Burstein, who represents clients who have brought sexual harassment charges against Ailes, announced in a court hearing that one of his clients had received a subpoena relating to "alleged violations of criminal law by Fox." "I was told by the U.S. attorney's office there is an ongoing criminal ...
The Real Reason Why Andy Puzder WonÂ’t Become Labor Secretary
Post Date: 2017-02-15 17:58:54 by Willie Green
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On December 8, days after Donald Trump chose Andy Puzder as his nominee for Labor Secretary, I predicted that he wouldn’t get confirmed. I didn’t have any special inside information, just the knowledge that Puzder’s beliefs included the one idea conservatives would not not abide: support for immigration reform. Breitbart’s Julia Hahn, who’s now working in the White House, wrote a scathing piece on December 8, excoriating Puzder for supporting “amnesty and flooding the labor market with foreign workers.” It wasn’t just that the immigration issue would sap Puzder’s support among the far right. It meant that the grassroots wouldn’t ...
You and I Have No Right to Be Scared
Post Date: 2017-02-13 11:25:26 by srp1598
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So, you're thinking about buying some gold or silver, but you're still hesitant. You've paid attention and done your homework. You understand your nation's financial health is nowhere near what your government, Wall Street, and mainstream news are saying. U.S. Dollar depreciation You're told the unemployment rate is 6%. You wonder how that could be when one out of three working-age Americans, 90 million souls, are out of work. You have relatives and friends not working, maybe several, and you notice it didn't used to be that way. The numbers sound to you more like Great Depression than Green Shoot Recovery. Your government puts inflation at 1%, but you see the ...
Uh-Oh! Marijuana Prices Are Plunging, and You're Not Going to Be Happy With the Reason Why
Post Date: 2017-02-12 19:56:44 by Hondo68
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This supply-and-demand issue has wide-reaching implications. The marijuana industry was one of the brightest stories in an otherwise chaotic 2016. Heading into November, residents in nine states were set to vote on various recreational and medical cannabis initiatives and amendments. With the exception of Arizona, which had its recreational-marijuana initiative rejected by just 2%, it was a clean sweep for pot in every other state. Two other states, Ohio and Pennsylvania, approved medical-cannabis laws entirely through the legislative process (i.e., without putting a measure on the ballot for residents to vote on). By year's end, 28 states were now considered medical cannabis-legal, ...
Employees Tell What It's Like Working for Trump's Labor Department Pick
Post Date: 2017-01-11 09:46:45 by Willie Green
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"I honestly can’t think of anyone less qualified to enforce laws that are supposed to protect employees." Former employees of Carl's Jr., the company run by Andrew Puzder, Donald Trump's choice to head the Department of Labor, got to testify on Capitol Hill today—but not in his confirmation hearing. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) had scheduled the meeting to showcase how Democrats might grill Puzder. Dems had asked for former employees who would testify when Puzder appears before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP), but HELP chair Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) shot down that request. It's easy to see why. "Mr. Pudzer took a ...
The Trump was bailed out of bankruptcy by Russia crime bosses
Post Date: 2017-01-10 12:07:58 by Willie Green
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In 2008, Donald Trump Jr. attended a real estate conference, where he stated that Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia. As it turns out, that may have been an understatement. Human rights lawyer Scott Horton, whose work in the region goes back to defending Andrei Sakharov and other Soviet dissidents, has gone through a series of studies by the Financial Times to show how funds from Russian crime lords bailed Trump out after yet anther bankruptcy. The conclusions are stark. Among the powerful facts that DNI missed were a series of very deep studies ...
Few Are Prepped For A Stock-Market Shock”: As Debt Collapse Nears, Wall Street Has Blinders On
Post Date: 2016-12-24 23:35:11 by U don't know me
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“Few Are Prepped For A Stock-Market Shock”: As Debt Collapse Nears, Wall Street Has Blinders On Mac Slavo December 21st, 2016 SHTFplan.com “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.” – Proverbs 16:18 Fresh stock market highs are giving everyone the holiday season cheer that encourages spending and inspires optimism about the future under the incoming Trump administration. The market could hit 20,000, and investors are ecstatic… but reality is still looming over the desperately vulnerable economy. The Federal Reserve has announced that it is raising rates, and there is every indication that things could take a turn for the worse ...
Federal Reserve Initiates End Game As Trump Heads To White House
Post Date: 2016-12-24 23:14:23 by U don't know me
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Federal Reserve Initiates End Game As Trump Heads To White House by Brandon Smith For years, alternative economic analysts have been warning that the “miraculous” rise in U.S. stock markets has been the symptom of wider central bank intervention and that this will result in dire future consequences. We have heard endless lies and rationalizations as to why this could not be so, and why the U.S. “recovery” is real. At the beginning of 2016, the former head of the Dallas branch of the Federal Reserve crushed all the skeptics and vindicated our position in an interview with CNBC where he stated: “What the Fed did — and I was part of that group — is we ...
Houston power company files for bankruptcy
Post Date: 2016-12-15 07:50:18 by U don't know me
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Houston power company files for bankruptcy Dec 14, 2016, 2:49pm CST Updated Dec 14, 2016, 3:00pm CST Joshua Mann Reporter Houston Business Journal Houston-based Illinois Power Generating Co., a subsidiary of Dynegy Inc. (NYSE: DYN), has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with a prepackaged restructuring plan. Illinois Power Generating Co., also called Genco, reported $970.41 million in debts and $450.14 in assets, according to a filing it made with the Southern District of Texas bankruptcy court. Illinois Power Generating Co. has nearly $1 billion in debts going into the restructuring. Enlarge Illinois Power Generating Co. has nearly $1 billion in debts going into the restructuring. ...
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