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The Richest 1% Will Own Two-Thirds Of Global Wealth By 2030, Report Finds [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-04-11 09:43:51 by Deckard
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Back in November, Credit Suisse highlighted an alarming - yet altogether unsurprising - milestone in the increasing concentration of global wealth that has been perhaps the most influential force behind the populist revolts that rocked the US in 2016 and have continued to unfurl across Europe. According to the Swiss bank's annual "global wealth pyramid," for the first time, the wealthiest 1% of the world's population had accumulated more than half of its aggregate household wealth. Credit Suisse's researchers describe in stark terms how global wealth inequality had actually improved somewhat in the years between the start of the new millennium and the financial crisis ...
Bank of America will no longer lend to companies that make ‘military-style’ weapons
Post Date: 2018-04-11 09:41:47 by misterwhite
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Bank of America officially took sides in America’s gun debate Tuesday, announcing it would no longer make loans to companies that make “military-style” weapons. The second-biggest U.S. bank announced Tuesday that it would drop current loan-customers Vista Outdoors, Remington and Sturm Ruger, and blackball any other manufacturer of assault weapons. Bank of America Vice Chairman Anne Finucanetold Bloomberg TV on Tuesday her bank has told those companies “it’s not our intent to underwrite or finance military-style firearms.” “We have had intense conversations over the last few months,” Ms. Finucane told Bloomberg, a network founded by tycoon and ...
Congress Yet Again Plants Its Flag Atop Mt. Hypocrisy
Post Date: 2018-04-11 09:12:32 by Deckard
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Is it me, or is there something obscenely ironic in Our Rulers’ condemnation of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s collecting and exploiting some users’ data, given the NSA’s collection and exploitation of all data? I won’t even mention further exculpatory facts, such as Facebook’s wretched record on privacy, which should scare away anyone who prizes confidentiality, or that joining its pages is entirely voluntary.
DeVos review of racial bias guidance stirs controversy (Among DemocRATs, Communists and Negroes)
Post Date: 2018-04-11 08:42:28 by IbJensen
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Civil rights groups are fighting to stop Education Secretary Betsy DeVos from rolling back Obama-era guidance on school discipline that aimed to protect black students from being punished more severely than their white peers. DeVos met with education advocates on the left and right last week to talk about the joint guidance the Education and Justice departments issued in 2014 to help schools avoid policies that discriminate, even unintentionally, against black students. Some Republicans and conservatives have argued the guidance has made schools less safe and contributed to the deadly Parkland, Fla., high school shooting in February. Others say the administration is using the shooting ...
The Time for a Massive Anti-War Movement is Now
Post Date: 2018-04-11 05:46:42 by Deckard
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An alleged new ‘chemical incident’ in Syria reminds of a similar series of events we saw last year. We are told to believe that each time the U.S. pulls back from the war on Syria the Syrian government is responding with a ‘chemical attack’ that pulls the U.S. back in. – From Moon of Alabama article: Syria – Timelines Of ‘Gas Attacks’ Follow A Similar Scheme If you’re genuinely against U.S. wars for profit, power and empire the current moment represents our best opportunity to push back aggressively and launch a real grassroots anti-war movement. The entrenched forces who’ll stop at nothing to get their war with Iran and Russia ...
It’s Spreading: More Anarchists Are Fixing Potholes Because the Gov’t Won’t Do Its Job
Post Date: 2018-04-11 05:42:55 by Deckard
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Image credit: Open Source Roads As government agencies continue to prove themselves incompetent at local, state, and federal levels, some citizens are taking responsibilities typically assigned to the authorities into their own hands. One of these responsibilities is maintaining the roads, a task most people believe only government entities can carry out. In Indianapolis, Indiana, however, where the roads are in disrepair and require hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade from “poor” to “fair” condition, two young men are taking a radically different approach: they are filling potholes themselves and building open source technology to crowdfund a ...
DEA Has Taken $3.2 Billion from People Never Charged with a Crime
Post Date: 2018-04-11 05:26:34 by Deckard
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Western Journal – by Becky Loggia A new report published by the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General suggests that the Drug Enforcement Administration has seized billions of dollars in cash from people who it has not charged with crimes. The report, released in late March, said that since 2007, the DEA has taken over $4 billion in cash from those suspected of involvement with the drug trade. However, 81 percent of those seizures were conducted administratively and did not lead to any civil or criminal charges, according to The Washington Post. In total, that meant $3.2 billion was seized from people who were not charged. In many of these thousands ...
State Department: US 'has its own mechanisms' to investigate Bashar Assad
Post Date: 2018-04-11 02:46:28 by A Pole
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President Trump might not feel obliged to await the results of an international investigation into the latest chemical weapons attack in Syria to decide if an attack on President Bashar Assad’s regime should face a retaliatory strike, the State Department said Tuesday. “The United States government has its own mechanisms to be able to look into things,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters. ... Start at 9:30: “A chemical was used, we're just not sure — at this point, today — exactly what was used,” Nauert said. ... International monitors with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons have announced plans to go ...
Donald Trump Livid After FBI Raids Personal Lawyer: ‘Attorney-Client Privilege Is Dead!’ (Brietbart posters lighting it up! FIX IN?)
Post Date: 2018-04-10 15:23:13 by Liberator
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President Donald Trump continued his frustrated rant against the FBI and Special Counsel Robert Mueller after the office of his personal lawyer Michael Cohen was raided. “Attorney–client privilege is dead!” Trump wrote on Twitter on Tuesday morning, decrying the investigation as “A TOTAL WITCH HUNT!!!” Trump told reporters on Monday night that the raid was “a real disgrace,” “an attack on our country,” and “an attack on what we all stand for.” “When I saw this and when I heard it — I heard it like you did — I said, that is really now on a whole new level of unfairness,” the president continued. He condemned ...
It’s Time For The United States To Divorce Before Things Get Dangerous
Post Date: 2018-04-10 13:25:40 by Liberator
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This idea of breaking up the country may seem a bit outlandish now, but you won’t think so once real domestic unrest comes to your town. “When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another…” — The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 Divorce is hard, but it’s easier than cutting the brake lines on your wife’s car. It is long past time for an amicable divorce of the United States of America. There is simply no common ground with the Left anymore. We are now the couple screaming at each other all night, every night as the kids hide in their room. We cannot come ...
STATEMENT OF THE COMMISSION In the Matter of Facebook, Inc., File No. 092 3184, Docket No. C-4365 August 10, 2012
Post Date: 2018-04-10 12:50:15 by A K A Stone
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The final consent order in In re Facebook, Inc. that we approve today advances the privacy interests ofthe nearly one billion Facebook users around the world by requiring the company to live up to its promises and submit to privacy audits. Notably, Facebook will be subject to civil penalties of up to $16,000 for each violation of the order. We intend to monitor closely Facebook's compliance with the order and will not hesitate to seek civil penalties for any violations. We write to address the arguments raised by our colleague, Commissioner Rosch, who opposes final approval of the order. One of his objections relates to the extent to which the order would reach the activities of ...
How Much Do You Poop in Your Lifetime?
Post Date: 2018-04-10 11:16:17 by Willie Green
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Poop habits may vary, but the volume each of us generates in years and decades is considerable. A person's accomplishments accumulate over years and decades. Something else accumulates, too — their poop. The quantities of poop that people leave behind during an individual bathroom break can vary widely, depending on age, body weight, diet, exercise and other factors. But how much poop does the average person produce in their lifetime? [The Poop on Pooping: 5 Misconceptions Explained] Moving one's bowels is part of the normal digestive process for most animals; after nutrients are extracted from food and liquid, waste is eliminated as urine and feces. Human stool, when ...
Trump Positions War Ships Against Syria
Post Date: 2018-04-10 10:57:01 by A Pole
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Trump calls FBI raid of lawyer’s office a ‘disgrace’
Post Date: 2018-04-09 20:51:24 by Justified
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The Fall,British police drama on Netflix
Post Date: 2018-04-09 18:47:10 by sneakypete
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https://www.netflix.com/watch/70272400?trackId=250311504&tctx=0%2C2%2C9e7df9f8-6cae-4ac1-a1ed-3a97358fe862-9061483%2C0bda430a-a926-4614-812d-4ad3bc96f22f_876954%2C0bda430a-a926-4614-812d-4ad3bc96f22f_ROOT I just got through binge-viewing all 3 seasons,and while the first season seems to be a little slow,Gillian Anderson does better with her British accent by season 2. Truth to tell,I have been binge watching it because I have the flu and been to sick to leave the house. About half the time I had to rewind or watch a whole episode all over again because I didn't remember what I had seen or heard. Better now if not well,and like almost all British dramas,it's well worth ...
F.B.I. Raids Office of Trump’s Longtime Lawyer Michael Cohen [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-04-09 16:21:37 by Hank Rearden
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The F.B.I. on Monday raided the office of President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, seizing records related to several topics including payments to a pornographic-film actress. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan obtained the search warrant after receiving a referral from the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, according to Mr. Cohen’s lawyer, who called the search “completely inappropriate and unnecessary.” The search does not appear to be directly related to Mr. Mueller’s investigation, but likely resulted from information he had uncovered and gave to prosecutors in New York. “Today the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern ...
Border Patrol actually pretty excited to see National Guard helping out
Post Date: 2018-04-09 12:23:58 by Tooconservative
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Ever since President Trump said he was sending “the military” to the border to help stem the flow of illegal aliens coming in from Mexico, the media has been in a tizzy. Was it legal? Was it a good idea? Could they really do anything productive? And just what did he mean by “the military” anyway? Now some of those questions have been answered and several hundred National Guard troops are on the job or at least on the way. But rather than asking the usual collection of talking heads on cable news or the reporters at the Washington Post, perhaps we should ask the people most directly impacted by the decision. Those would be the members of the U.S. Customs and Border ...
'Embarrassed' mom goes viral for accidentally sending son to school in lewd McDonald's parody shirt
Post Date: 2018-04-09 12:15:01 by Justified
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A Texas mom is apologizing for not monitoring her son’s clothing close enough. Shelly McCullar sent her son, Anthony, to school at Travis Elementary on Wednesday in what she thought was a McDonald’s-logo t-shirt. But the mom was in for a surprise when Anthony got home and she took a closer look at what he was wearing – an X-rated McDonald's parody featuring a pair of parted women's legs wearing heals with the tagline, “I’m lovin it” written underneath. “I promise from now on to monitor what my kids are wearing!” McCullar wrote in a now-viral Facebook post. “I had no idea Anthony wore this to school.” According to the Facebook ...
In Hungary, Orban’s anti-migrant policies win him a supermajority
Post Date: 2018-04-09 11:30:46 by Tooconservative
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In February, we previewed this year’s national elections in Hungary and the beginnings of what appeared to be an “anti-migrant alliance” among EU members who were disillusioned with Brussels’ unlimited, open border policies. At the time, incumbent Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban looked like a solid lock for a third term and a possible expansion of his ruling party’s majority in their National Assembly. Well, those elections took place yesterday, and if anything, Orban’s party overperformed even the most optimistic expectations among pollsters. Not only did he win with nearly three-quarters of the vote, but his party should be left with a supermajority ...
How Gun Control Laws for “Mentally Ill” Could Disarm Those Who Question Authority
Post Date: 2018-04-09 09:35:38 by Deckard
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In the growing debate surrounding the natural right to self-defense, one of the most popular proposed methods of gun control has been restrictions on gun-ownership for those who are deemed to be mentally ill. This is a measure that is often suggested by liberals and conservatives alike, but it is important to stop and consider what something like this might entail. When any collective group is banned from owning a gun, they are effectively turned into second-class citizens. In the case of mental illness, that classification is so vague and open to interpretation that it could possibly be applied to over half of the population, depending on which criteria you use. Mental illness can be very ...
Soy Boy Politics and Cop Massacres (They’re stepping up)
Post Date: 2018-04-09 09:30:43 by Deckard
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David Hogg, a student who witnessed Wednesday's massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High school in Florida made a direct plea to lawmakers on Thursday to take action, warning more children will die otherwise. It’s barely four months into the year and already, armed government workers have shot to death 294 people. This is more than twice as many people as have been shot to death by freelancers – those not wearing government uniforms who shot people at schools – during the past six years.Last year, armed government workers shot to death 987 people. This is almost 60 times as many people as were shot to death at Parkland. If the first three-ish months of carnage are ...
Planned Parenthood Fined for Failing to Disclose Hillary Donations
Post Date: 2018-04-09 07:22:29 by IbJensen
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A political faction of Planned Parenthood out of Wisconsin has been fined by the Federal Election Commission for failing to properly report $120,000 in expenditures allocated for the support of Hillary Clinton and Russ Feingold in the 2016 election. According to the FEC report, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin filed a report in October of that year that claimed the group had spent more than $133,000 on political candidates. This produced a discrepancy when the FEC found that $120,000 spent in support of Clinton and Feingold in August was not shown in any previous filing up until the final October report. This was two months past the required reporting date. According to the ...
Mirriam-Webster Dictionary changes definition of ‘assault rifle’ to include sporting rifles
Post Date: 2018-04-09 05:43:54 by Deckard
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Julio Rosas reports for IJR (Independent Journal Review), April 2, 2018, that on its website, top dictionary resource Merriam-Webster has changed the definition of an assault rifle to include most modern sporting rifles that are popular in the United States. In 2016, Mirriam-Webster defined “assault rifle” as: “any of various automatic or semiautomatic rifles with large capacity magazines designed for military use.” But Mirriam-Webster now defines “assault rifle” as: “any of various intermediate-range, magazine-fed military rifles (such as the AK-47) that can be set for automatic or semiautomatic fire; also : a rifle that resembles a military ...
Hillary Clinton visits witches’ coven in Manhattan
Post Date: 2018-04-09 05:33:51 by Deckard
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On Tuesday night, April 3, 2018, Hillary Clinton visited The Wing, an elite women’s club in Manhattan, New York (see The Wing’s enthralled tweet). On its website, The Wing describes itself as: “a network of co-working and community spaces designed for women. The Wing’s mission is the professional, civic, social, and economic advancement of women through community. We believe that the act of coming together as women creates new opportunities, ideas and conversations that will lead to greater mobility and prosperity for womankind.” The Wing is elitist because it is pricey — an “all access” membership costs $2,700 a year. The club is also rabidly ...
Cops Mistake Epileptic Man’s Seizure for a Crime So They Beat, Taser and Arrest Him
Post Date: 2018-04-09 05:20:56 by Deckard
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Indianapolis, IN — When your only tool is a hammer, everything around you, even medical emergencies, begins to look like a nail. As the video below illustrates, police who are only trained to use violence, made a bad situation worse when they responded to a call about a man who was having a seizure. A family is outraged after watching cellphone footage of their son and brother being savagely beaten by Indianapolis Metropolitan Police officers during a medical emergency. The victim, Christopher Knox, who is an epileptic, suffered a seizure while shopping in a Speedway gas station last week. For those unfamiliar with epileptics, often times during and after seizures, they can become ...
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