New York Mag

In late November, the Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight people accused of fleecing advertisers of $36 million in two of the largest digital ad-fraud operations ever uncovered. Digital advertisers tend to want two things: people to look at their ads and “premium” websites — i.e., established and legitimate publications — on which to host them.   Continue reading “How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.”

Reuters

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian blogger critical of the authorities was sentenced to six years in prison on Wednesday, his lawyer said, in an extortion case critics say is politically-motivated.

Alexander Valov, whose blog had been critical of the authorities in the southern Russian city of Sochi, was charged earlier this year with extorting money from federal lawmaker Yuri Napso.   Continue reading “Russian blogger critical of authorities jailed for six years: lawyer”

Axios

The U.S.-led coalition airstrikes against ISIS in Syria are continuing, and the coalition announced that attacks Dec. 16-22 “severely degraded” the group’s facilities and “removed several hundred ISIS fighters from the battlefield,” per CNN.

Why it matters: It’s a sign that the coalition’s military strategy hasn’t changed since President Trump announced last week that the U.S. would withdraw from Syria. There’s also an unspoken message: the coalition doesn’t consider the terrorist group to be defeated.   Continue reading “Syria airstrikes continue despite Trump withdrawal announcement”

Herald Net – by Zachariah Bryan

MARYSVILLE — The plan was simple: Steal tools and pawn them for money.

That’s what two men, 22 and 23, reportedly had in mind when they showed up to the Coastal Farm & Ranch store in Marysville on Saturday afternoon, according to a police report. They allegedly took four nail guns, each worth over $400, walked out of the store and got into a Honda Civic.   Continue reading “The plan was to steal tools. Then customers drew their guns”

Welfare families with children are not only at the short end life’s stick, but are stuck with the lowering of their benefits on a yearly basis. The main costs being their rent and child care. If you have a couple of kids and on welfare, you’re probably feeding them out of tins 3 or 4 times a week, inadequate to say the least. Fresh veggies and meat is a luxury, and that is what needs to change and fast. The world is not a safe place, families living under stress more than ever. Long ago kids never had the problems we have today. Why is it that our kids live under more stress than ever before? Watching their parents self worth evaporate, the pain being passed on to their kids.   Continue reading “The Money Trap – Welfare Verses Common Sense”

Observer – by Sissi Cao

Whether cryptocurrencies are the future of money—or even a legitimate investment asset—is still up for debate. But at least one of the early winners of the Bitcoin boom has already cashed out enough to join the ultra-wealthy league of Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Elon Musk to self-label as a billionaire philanthropist.

Last week, Brian Armstrong, the 35-year-old co-founder and CEO of cryptocurrency trading app Coinbase, signed the Giving Pledge, started by Buffett and Gates in 2010, to give away the bulk of his net worth to philanthropic causes.   Continue reading “Newly Minted Billionaire Coinbase CEO Is Already Tired of His Wealth”

Daily Mail

Two competing GoFundMe campaigns – one raising money to pay for President Donald Trump’s border wall and the other seeking funds to buy ladders for migrants to climb over said wall – are both continuing to draw donations.

The original crowdfunding campaign, entitled We The People Will Fund The Wall, surpassed $16.5million as of Monday afternoon, on its way to its lofty $1billion goal.

More than 272,000 people have donated to the page since it was created on Sunday by Brian Kolfage, a triple amputee Air Force veteran.    Continue reading “GoFundMe for Trump’s border wall top $16million”

It’s hard to say Merry Christmas when you have been faced with tyranny and treason; American Nationals freedoms flushed down the toilet. We here at FTTWR know all too well how our Bill of Rights has been stripped from us, especially since globalization took hold in the last 15 or so years.

We are reminded daily from our talk show host, Henry Shivley, as he expertly draws us the picture of what has happened over the years, the deceit shoved down our throats, and how we have been robbed by our own leaders, so only the wealthy may have a more comfortable life. Some of the wealthiest people on the planet somehow managed to find positions of American leadership, controlling our every move, the wealthy looking down their noses at the rest.   Continue reading “2018 Brought Our Bill Of Rights To Its Knees – What Will 2019 Bring?”

New York Post – by Steven W. Mosher

Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou’s arrest in Vancouver on Dec. 6 led to immediate blowback.

Furious Chinese Communists have begun arresting innocent Canadians in retaliation. So far, three of these “revenge hostages” have been taken and are being held in secret jails on vague charges. Beijing hints that the hostage count may grow if Meng is not freed and fast.  Continue reading “How arrest of Chinese ‘princess’ exposes regime’s world domination plot”

Daily Mail

A man was arrested after he moved into a $500,000 home that another family had just purchased in Georgia.

Joel Fedd, 33, claimed the home in Gwinett County was his because he is an ‘indigenous Moor’ and as such had rights to the land.   Continue reading “Squatter who moved into a $500k home charged with criminal trespass”

Forbes

It was a turbulent year for many investors around the world, as stock markets were shaken by events from Brexit to U.S.-China trade tensions. Amid the uncertainty, many billionaire fortunes shrunk in size. The biggest loser in the world was Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who had a terrible year amid internal scandals and damaging publicity. He was the only American among the ten biggest billionaire losers, half of whom were from Asia.   Continue reading “The Biggest Billionaire Winners And Losers Of 2018”

CNBC

Even in the worst of times for financial markets, there’s usually a few ways to profit. Well, not this year.

In fact, in 2018, just about every single asset class one can invest in — from stocks around the globe to government debt to corporate bonds to commodities — have posted negative returns or unchanged performance year to date.

Continue reading “Nothing worked for investors this year — nearly every major asset class is in the red for 2018”

CNBC

Farming worker shortages are getting worse. In a survey by the California Farm Bureau Federation last year, 55 percent of the 762 farmers surveyed said they had experienced employee shortages. That’s why researchers are now trying to tackle this problem with robots.

Researchers from Europe and Israel have built a robot that can pick ripe peppers in a greenhouse. The prototype, called Sweeper, is backed by the European Union as part of its Horizon 2020 innovation program. Continue reading “This robot picks a pepper in 24 seconds using a tiny saw, and could help combat a shortage of farm labor”

AutoWise

It seems California is leading the way to continually disenfranchise the state with the proposed state bill AB-3006 which would kill lifted trucks. The state bill AB-3006 is proposed to be put to a vote at the next assembly. Spearheaded by California’s 12th congressional district representative Nancy Pelosi, the bill proposes legal ramifications to personal motorized vehicles categorized as a light-duty, medium-duty, or heavy-duty truck.   Continue reading “California Bill To Ban “Lifted” Trucks – AB-3006”

Daily Mail

Outgoing Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis handed Donald Trump his resignation letter at the White House on Thursday during an argument after he realized he couldn’t convince the president to reverse course and leave American troops in Syria.

His first order of business when he got back to his office was to tell aides to print 50 copies of the letter, ordering them to distribute them as soon as Trump announced his departure.  Continue reading “Mattis quit after trying one last time to convince Trump to leave troops in Syria”

Recently we have heard about more shootings in affluent neighborhoods, basically robberies, Washington DC being especially hit hard. What is happening is that major drug dealers who handle the big shipments of many kilos of coke are getting less and less supply, and this trickles down to the street hustler in a big way. The street hustler used to be able to rob his fellow gangster; they call it getting in a “lick” whereas they rob another gangster who they know has kilos of cocaine and big cash from nothing more than a simple word from the “Street”.   Continue reading “Gangsters Feeling the Pinch – Border Crackdown Means Less Drugs”

Bloomberg – by Spencer Soper

Jeff Bezos captured the world’s imagination when he appeared on CBS’s “60 Minutes” and pledged to fill the skies with package delivery drones.

Five years on, Amazon.com Inc.’s chief executive officer is betting on decidedly more terrestrial technology: drivers. As in real people. Tens of thousands of them. High-tailing it through town in gas-slurping vans to leave packages on doorsteps just like the milk man, postal worker, UPS guy and pizza dude before them.

Continue reading “Forget Drones. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Needs Lots of Delivery Guys”