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Many older Americans are living a desperate, nomadic life
Post Date: 2018-02-04 12:22:05 by A K A Stone
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In her powerful new book, “Nomadland,” award-winning journalist Jessica Bruder reveals the dark, depressing and sometimes physically painful life of a tribe of men and women in their 50s and 60s who are — as the subtitle says — “surviving America in the twenty-first century.” Not quite homeless, they are “houseless,” living in secondhand RVs, trailers and vans and driving from one location to another to pick up seasonal low-wage jobs, if they can get them, with little or no benefits. The “workamper” jobs range from helping harvest sugar beets to flipping burgers at baseball spring training games to Amazon’s AMZN, +2.87% ...
FOX & Friends
Post Date: 2018-02-04 12:10:51 by buckeroo
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A male backlash against #MeToo is brewing
Post Date: 2018-02-04 11:47:40 by Tooconservative
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Men are scared, and feminists are delighted. But the urge to call out and punish male sexual transgression is bound to clash with an inescapable truth: We’re all in this together, men and women. Consider what’s happening in the capital of Florida. Female staffers and lobbyists have found “many male legislators will no longer meet with them privately,” reported The Miami Herald. “I had a senator say, ‘I need my aide here in the room because I need a chaperone,’ ” lobbyist Jennifer Green told the paper. “I said, ‘Senator, why do you need a chaperone? . . . Do you feel uncomfortable around me?’ ‘Well,’ he said, ...
SF police union criticizes policy, video shows car hitting officer
Post Date: 2018-02-04 10:30:35 by Gatlin
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You are about to see a video of an incident that should serve as a stark reminder of the dangers police officers face on a daily basis. What is terrible wrong with the situation here is that the SFPD’s Use of Force police prohibits officers from firing at a suspect in a moving vehicle. The San Francisco Police Department has released this video of a bicycle officer being struck by a vehicle during an auto burglary investigation near Alamo Square on Feb. 1, 2018. Media: San Francisco Chronicle. The San Francisco Police Department released a video Friday of an auto break-in suspect running over a plainclothes police officer and an alleged accomplice Thursday near Alamo Square. The ...
Madden NFL 18 predicts Super Bowl 52
Post Date: 2018-02-04 09:55:11 by Tooconservative
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Madden NFL 18 predicts a 24-20 Super Bowl victory for the New England Patriots over the Philadelphia Eagles, which would give this year’s cover star, Pats quarterback Tom Brady, a sixth world championship ring. In EA Sports’ simulation — which is a CPU-versus-CPU game with current rosters on All-Pro difficulty — New England is trying to salt away the victory when the Eagles’ Malcolm Jenkins strips the ball from running back Dion Lewis. Philadelphia, trailing by four, gets the ball back with 1:44 left, apparently deep in its own territory.Quarterback Nick Foles, who took over when starter Carson Wentz was injured in week 14 of the season, gets the Eagles to about ...
Meek Mill to watch Super Bowl from prison
Post Date: 2018-02-04 09:12:40 by Willie Green
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Rapper Meek Mill and the other inmates at SCI Chester will get to watch the Super Bowl in prison. But, for Mill, the game has special meaning. The Philadelphia Eagles will take the Super Bowl field -- arguably the largest stage in the world -- to his song "Dreams and Nightmares." SCI Chester confirmed with with PennLive Saturday that Mill will have the choice to watch from his cell on a TV purchased from the commissary or on one of the community TVs designated for the entire block. Mill released the following statement on the Eagles Super Bowl run: "I'm so proud of my Eagles for making the Super Bowl and representing the city of Philadelphia. It really lifted ...
Why Bitcoin Is the Most Dangerous Global Scam in 20 Years
Post Date: 2018-02-04 00:47:53 by Gatlin
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When bitcoin inevitably crashes, inexperienced investors who believed the hype could lose everything. Originally published by Vivek Wadhwa on LinkedIn: "Why Bitcoin Is the Largest Ponzi Scheme in Human History During the late '90s, Silicon Valley venture capitalists and New York City investment bankers used phrases such as "monetizing eyeballs," "stickiness," and "B2C" to justify the ridiculous valuations of internet companies. They claimed conventional methods were inapplicable in valuing the dot-com companies -- which had no revenue -- because we were entering an entirely new economy. Believing these people, and afraid to miss out on ...
Florida Cop Gets Life in Prison for Paying to See Girl Raped
Post Date: 2018-02-04 00:41:13 by Hondo68
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I will start off by saying that this story brought tears to my eyes, so much so that I didn’t know that I could finish writing the story. Nevertheless I have a job to do and it requires a tough skin. A former Jacksonville, Florida police officer has been sentenced to life in prison for paying a Texas woman to sexually abuse her 3-year-old daughter and send photos to the officer. The U.S. Attorney’s Office sent out a news release noting that former Jacksonville Police Officer Michael Eugene Williams was sentenced on Monday. He pleaded guilty in June 2017 to sex trafficking of a child. The investigation began after the sheriff’s office received a tip from the National Center ...
The Great Bitcoin Scam
Post Date: 2018-02-03 23:44:42 by A K A Stone
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At the outset, let me clarify that Bitcoin itself is not a scam, but how Bitcoin is being sold is a scam. More about that below. To start out, it is important to understand what Bitcoin really is. It would be easy to bore you with a discussion of the technology, about peer-to-peer servers and sophisticated algorithms, but that is not what you need to know. What you need to know about Bitcoin is that distilled to its technological essence, each Bitcoin is simply a number. That's it: A number. It is simply a series of digits, with each number being assigned to each Bitcoin. To illustrate, I'll randomly pull a $1 bill from my wallet, which bears No. L88793293J. Assuming some ...
CNN - After Theatening Life of POTUS, CIA's Phil Mudd Uses N-Word Over the Air
Post Date: 2018-02-03 23:17:33 by A K A Stone
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In August ex-FBI/CIA Officer and Mueller protoge Phil Mudd observed President's Trump's failure to defend the CIA in the face of election meddling by Vladimir Putin, predicting: "The US government will kill [Donald Trump]'". More recently, Phil Mudd expressed his outrage over President Trump's reported use of a slur to describe countries accounting for an outsized share of post 1963 immigration: "A white honky from Norway can come here, but a black dude from Haiti can't. What does that tell you about America that one generation can call you a n*gger, Don Lemon..?" Apparently Mr. Mudd and CNN do not shrink from controversy.
Quick, Men. To The Escape Pods
Post Date: 2018-02-03 22:11:00 by Tooconservative
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“We want to destroy the Conservative government. We want to bring down the Patriarchy.” And if this doesn’t do it, I don’t know what will: In the UK, women and femme-identifying people have come under sustained attack by the Conservative government… But Phoebe Patey-Ferguson and Anna Smith didn’t want to give in to hopelessness. Instead, they decided to wrestle each other in their shared art studio in east London. Chunky tattooed ladies channelling their inner umbrage. Part fetish, part psychodrama, part delusional politics - feminist fight club is apparently a thing now: “Most of the spaces we perform in are queer spaces so often people haven’t ...
Consumer group running Super Bowl ad against the Humane Society of the United States
Post Date: 2018-02-03 21:44:16 by Tooconservative
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This is a sad, but important story, and there’s no better time to bring it up since the big game is tomorrow. A consumer interest group named the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) has bought some Super Bowl advertising time to run an ad asking people not to donate money to the Humane Society of the United States. Instead, they are urging people who care about animal welfare and rescuing lost and abused pets to donate directly to their local animal shelters, not the national organization. (Oklahoma Farm Report)See Also: If you don’t like Trump muttering about the “deep state,” try not to sound like a cartoon “deep state” villainThe nonprofit Center for Consumer ...
Epic misunderstanding leads to ass-whupping
Post Date: 2018-02-03 21:07:08 by sneakypete
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=n...QcE3lZv6RPWLY2Ww&index=74Poster Comment:This is hilarious.
Beautiful Lies
Post Date: 2018-02-03 14:41:40 by Hondo68
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People are fascinated by the German Nazis much more so than they are by the Soviet Communists.Ever wonder why?Both system were organized death on a mass scale – and the Soviet version was worse and lasted longer. But the Soviets were drab and boring. No charismatic Fuhrer; their uniforms were ill-fitting and ugly.The Nazis, on the other hand, knew how to dress. Point being, evil is more attractive, it seems, when it is attractively presented. Beautiful words can convey hideous ideas.The Gettysburg Address, for instance.It is hard to imagine a more audaciously despicable concatenation of stylized lies, of white-is-black, two-plus-two-equals-five inversions of reality presented more ...
Man Owns Cop for Planting Drugs On Him, Gets All of His Charges Dropped
Post Date: 2018-02-03 13:58:04 by A K A Stone
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PROOF Police Departments are CORRUPT
Post Date: 2018-02-03 13:16:47 by A K A Stone
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Movie Review: "May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers"
Post Date: 2018-02-03 12:50:58 by Deckard
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The greatest little band that’s never gone platinum.I have failed several times to pigeonhole the Avett Brothers for people I think might like them. It's hard. To begin with, there's no ignoring the fact that this is a band with a banjo player, and who wants to deal with that? Is this some kind of country act? If so, what's with the cello? The Avetts aren't country, exactly (in Grammy world they've been consigned to the vague Americana category). But there's no use in trying to describe them precisely. The Avetts (whose surname would rhyme with HAY-vet if that were a word) have to be heard and seen in order to absorb the full experience of their music. ...
Per CNN on Twitter: Former CIA Official Claims FBI "ticked" at Trump; Vow "to win"
Post Date: 2018-02-03 11:39:24 by Liberator
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Tweet/threat by former CIA counterterrorism official Phil Mudd at a CNN Tweet feed: The FBI people "are ticked" and they'll be saying of Trump, 'You’ve been around for 13 months. We've been around since 1908. I know how this game is going to be played. We're going to win'" Poster Comment:Just...Wow. Do rank and file Feebs know this guy just made things a LOT worse? And how bad he made ALL of them look? Is this guy the messenger of real threats to the President? OR just flapping his gums about a "Game"? Interesting "game" of Chicken both Mudd and CNN (and MSNBC) are playing. Add Rothstein, Mueller, etal. Do they all think they have ...
BREAKING=> FOX Analyst: Rod Rosenstein Threatened Chairman Nunes and House Intel Members in a Meeting 3 Weeks Ago (Video)
Post Date: 2018-02-03 09:43:13 by Liberator
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FOX News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett went on with Sean Hannity on Friday night after the release of the House Intelligence FISA memo. Jarrett said his sources told him Rod Rosenstein threatened the House Intelligence Committee members three weeks ago. The House Intelligence Committee released their classified FISA memo on Friday morning. The House voted on Monday along party lines to share the explosive memo with the American public. This comes after the approval of President Donald Trump. Gregg Jarrett: I can tell you a congressional source tells me that Rod Rosenstein in a meeting three weeks ago threatened Chairman Nunes and members of Congress he was going to subpoena their texts ...
Teen arrested for hurling bleach on pickle juice-throwing attacker in Queens high school
Post Date: 2018-02-03 09:37:48 by misterwhite
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A 15-year-old girl splattered with pickle juice during a fight at her Queens high school was apprehended by police Friday after she threw bleach at her opponent, police said. Her victim, 14, was briefly hospitalized with minor injuries after the fight at Benjamin Cordozo High School, cops said. The brawl, which could have left the victim blind, was over a boy, according to classmates who watched the brawl break out. “There was pulling hair and everything,” said one student, who didn’t want to be named. “Someone threw bleach. “I saw it. Everyone saw it,” the stunned teen said. “I don’t think anything like that has ever happened before.” The ...
Bitcoin Is Falling Fast, Losing More Than Half Its Value in Six Weeks
Post Date: 2018-02-03 01:23:20 by Gatlin
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Bitcoin plunged below $8,000 in intraday trading, extending its sharp rout since the start of the year in a selloff triggered by a widening regulatory crackdown on cryptocurrencies. Late Friday in New York, bitcoin had recovered to $8,524, down 6.8% on the day after slipping below $7,700. That was the lowest level since November. At its low point, the digital currency had fallen about 60% from an intraday record of $19,783 in December, according to research site CoinDesk Inc. That marks bitcoin’s third biggest drop over the past five years. It fell 76% in the spring of 2013 and 85% from November 2013 to January 2015. Bitcoin’s sharp swings illustrate just how much the digital ...
Fortresses, farmlands of the Maya emerge from massive LiDAR survey
Post Date: 2018-02-02 18:45:44 by Tooconservative
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Huge sprawl of the civilization emerges from beneath the foliage. A recent aerial survey revealed thousands of ancient Maya structures previously hidden beneath the dense Guatemalan jungle, including houses, irrigation canals, fortifications, and even a pyramid. More importantly, though, the survey of 2,000 square kilometers of northeastern Guatemala provides a bird’s-eye view of the landscape of ancient Maya cities, farms, and highways. That big picture view of the Maya is letting archaeologists ask bigger questions about this still-enigmatic civilization. A sense of mystery still surrounds the Maya, mostly because so much of their once powerful and sophisticated society now lies ...
Baltimore Cops Carried Toy Guns to Plant on People They Shot, Trial Reveals
Post Date: 2018-02-02 13:23:29 by Hondo68
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One officer involved in the city's massive corruption scandal said officers kept the replicas "in case we accidentally hit somebody or got into a shootout, so we could plant them."Photo via Flickr user James Case Last week, the beginning of an explosive corruption trial involving eight members of Baltimore's elite Gun Trace Task Force revealed that a handful of Baltimore cops allegedly kept fake guns in their patrol cars to plant on innocent people—a failsafe they could use if they happened to shoot an unarmed suspect, the Baltimore Sun reports.Detective Maurice Ward, who's already pleaded guilty to corruption charges, testified that he and his partners were ...
The Memo is Released [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-02-02 12:57:52 by Pinguinite
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House Intelligence Committee Report On FISA Abuses by The Federalist on Scribd
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