Month: July 2018

American Digest – by Vanderleun

Alabama coal company reopens, names $2.7 million excavator after President Trump for ending ‘war on coal’ An Alabama coal company is crediting President Donald Trump for its reopening after being idle since February 2014. In a news release, RJR Mining Company, Inc. announced the purchase of a $2.7 million Hitachi 1900 excavator that it named “Trump” in honor of the president’s efforts to end the “war on coal” started by former President Barack Obama.

If you’re going to drain the swamp you’re going to need heavy equipment.  Continue reading “Dig It: Today an Excavator, Tomorrow an Aircraft Carrier”

CNS News – by Emilie Cochran

Professors at the University of Wyoming (UW) are urging the university to “shelve” its new marketing slogan, “The World Needs More Cowboys.”

The university’s athletic teams are named the Cowboys and their mascot is a cowboy, so UW adopted the slogan to encourage more students to attend games.
Continue reading “Professors Object to University of Wyoming Using ‘Cowboys’ in New Slogan”

No wonder we made friends with North Korea.

Casino News

Sheldon Adelson is looking to expand his business to North Korea, the casino mogul himself said during a recent event in Jerusalem.

Mr. Adelson, whose net worth is believed to total $43.4 billion as of June 2018, is the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Las Vegas-based gaming and hospitality giant Las Vegas Sands Corp. The company operates multiple integrated resort properties in Las Vegas, Macau, and Singapore, and is eyeing expansion across new markets.   Continue reading “Casino Mogul Sheldon Adelson Wants to Open Up Business in North Korea”

Bloomberg

Fast-food restaurants are already grappling with rising wages and a smaller pool of workers. Now 11 U.S. states want to restrict chains’ ability to bar employees from jumping to another franchisee across town.

The investigation by states including Massachusetts, California, New York and Illinois, announced Monday, is targeting so-called no-poaching agreements at some of the industry’s largest chains. The states argue that the companies — the list includes Arby’s, Burger King, Dunkin’ Donuts and Wendy’s — are depressing workers’ earnings by preventing them from moving to different franchisees of the same chain.   Continue reading “States Want Fast Food Chains to Allow Employee Poaching”

Daily Mail

Stockton, California will become the first city in the country to participate in a test of Universal Basic Income, in which 100 residents will be given $500-dollars-a-month, with no strings attached.

The program aims to create a level of income that no one will fall beneath.    Continue reading “Residents of California city once known as ‘America’s foreclosure capital’ are set to get monthly $500 stipend, with NO strings attached, in bid to boost local economy”

This article was originally posted April 2, 2013. We just received the following email with an update.

That is my son and I and we are still up against this very corrupt good ole boys county. Feel free to add this:

Judge Casey Blair, 86th District Court of Kaufman County continues the tyranny of this man and his son (who is now in his 20’s). Casey Lee Blair continues to pursue this father like a wild animal, a dad who has paid $68,000 to date in child support which is far more than the 20% of his income for that time period. Judge Casey Blair refuses to calculate to see if this man, Todd Tomasella, has paid his lawful child support amount. Casey Lee Blair is getting a percentage of that money that is supposedly owed by Todd Tomasella and therefore refuses to let it go.   Continue reading “DAs Murdered For Exposing ‘Good Ole Boys’ & Child Kidnapping In Texas?”

RT

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang held talks on Monday in Berlin, and stressed their commitment to a multilateral trade system in the wake of trade disputes with Washington.

As part of the talks, the sides signed a range of commercial agreements worth about €20 billion ($23.5 billion). Joint projects, involving governmental agencies and companies such as Siemens, Volkswagen, BASF and others, were announced.   Continue reading “China and Germany sign €20 billion in trade deals in response to US tariff hikes”

RT

Beijing has prepared a package of $20 billion in loans, and about $106 million in financial aid, for Middle East nations, including Palestine, Reuters reports.

The decision was announced in Beijing during a meeting between President Xi Jinping and representatives of 21 Arab nations. The financial aid from China to the Middle East is part of “oil and gas plus” model to revive economic growth in the region, Xi said.  Continue reading “China pledges $20 billion in loans to Middle East and aid for Palestine”

Mail.com

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California prosecutor was disciplined Monday after posting to social media crude and profane comments about U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, former first lady Michelle Obama, Mexican immigrants and the victim of a police shooting.

Michael Selyem, a veteran deputy district attorney who handles gang prosecutions in San Bernardino County, was placed on administrative leave while an investigation is conducted, the district attorney’s office said. He could ultimately lose his job.   Continue reading “Prosecutor disciplined over profane post about Maxine Waters”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump chose Brett Kavanaugh, a solidly conservative, politically connected judge, for the Supreme Court, setting up a ferocious confirmation battle with Democrats as he seeks to shift the nation’s highest court ever further to the right.

A favorite of the Republican legal establishment in Washington, Kavanaugh, 53, is a former law clerk for retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. Like Trump’s first nominee last year, Justice Neil Gorsuch, Kavanaugh would be a young addition who could help remake the court for decades to come with rulings that could restrict abortion, expand gun rights and roll back key parts of Obamacare.   Continue reading “Trump replaces high court’s swing vote with conservative”

The Organic Prepper

Are you convinced that you can’t prep unless you have a whole lot of money to spend? That couldn’t be further from the truth. There are all sorts of ways you can become better prepared without spending a dime. The thing to remember is that there is a lot more to prepping than just feverishly filling mylar bags with food or stacking ammo to the ceiling. You need to think outside of the consumer mindset.   Continue reading “10 Smart Ways to Prep Without Spending Money”

Alt-Market – by Brandon Smith

Years ago when analysts used the term “globalist, there was an immediate recognition among liberty advocates as to who they were referring to. This was back when the movement for small government, the non-aggression principle and true free markets was small but growing. These days, it’s difficult to gauge how many liberty groups there are or even if they know what small government and the non-aggression principle represent, let alone what makes a “globalist” a globalist.   Continue reading “Globalists Are Telling Us Exactly What Disasters They’re Planning For The Economy”

Tech Xplore – by Nancy Owano

Remember when tech topics had such happy focal points as bendable displays and a new stylus for tablets? Unfortunately, the accent in this year’s headlines is on how much we might be getting tracked. Facebook, move over. This time the glare is on smart TVs.

An article in the The New York Times has attracted a lot of buzz in its look at smart TV tracking services, designed for viewers’ convenience as well as ad targeters.  Continue reading “Privacy conversation turns to enabling smart TV tracking services”

The Oregonian

President Donald Trump on Tuesday commuted the sentences of two eastern Oregon ranchers serving time in federal prison for setting fire to public land in a case that inflamed their supporters and gave rise to the armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

The decision will free Dwight Hammond Jr., 76, and son Steven Hammond, 49, convicted in 2012 of arson on Harney County land where they had grazing rights for their cattle. They were ordered back to prison in early 2016 to serve out five-year sentences.   Continue reading “President Trump pardons Oregon ranchers whose plight led to refuge occupation”

Eric Peters Autos

Reinhard Heydrich, who was the Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia – formerly Czechoslovakia, until the Nazis decided it wasn’t anymore – was probably the smartest Nazi. He knew how to wheedle his victims into cooperating in their own victimhood.

“His Czechs” – as he styled them –  would be rewarded with extra rations and less brutal working conditions when they submitted obediently  . . . and punished when not. He called it the “carrot and stick” approach. It worked so well that the Brits parachuted a team of SOE operatives behind the lines to assassinate the entirely too-effective Reichsprotecktor.  Continue reading “Carrot and Stick”