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Warren Buffett said his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. made only one “sensible” stand-alone acquisition last year, and it didn’t do much for his growing pile of cash.

Berkshire paid $2.76 billion for its 38.6% stake in Pilot Travel Centers, the owner of the Pilot Flying J truck stop chain, according to an insurance filing. Berkshire didn’t disclose the purchase price when it announced the deal in October, and hasn’t revealed the figure in subsequent reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.  Continue reading “Warren Buffett Reveals He Paid $2.786 Billion for Stake in Pilot Flying J”

What to do, what to do?

Let’s assume that you’re part of a nation’s communist insurgency, just as we have here in the United States. Countless staged gun massacres have failed to persuade the nationals to surrender their weapons, and that surrender is necessary before you can finally begin the cleansing genocide that you have planned for those needy, and deplorable peasants.  Continue reading “Helpful Hints for Ruling a Nation (3)”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Baltimore City announced last week the return of a surveillance plane program that will use high-tech sensors to monitor citizens and help deter violent crime, reported WJZ Baltimore.

Police Commissioner Michael Harrison held a press conference Friday about three new spy planes that could hit the skies by May 2020.   Continue reading “Baltimore Resurrects Spy Plane Program To Monitor Citizens”

Health Impact News – by Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

Excerpts:

Question: If a tree falls in the forest, and there’s nobody around to hear, does it make a sound?

This is a philosophical question that has been around for some time. I shall change it slightly to the following: “If a journal publishes a study, and it doesn’t make a noise, can it make a difference?”  Continue reading “Study: Those with Higher LDL Cholesterol Levels Live the Longest”

The Great Recession

This little monster that feeds beneath the surface of global banking at its core briefly raised one ugly eye out of the water as 2018 turned into 2019. I wrote back then that the interest spike we saw in the kind of overnight interbank lending known as repurchase agreements (repos) was just the foreshock of a financial crisis being created by the Fed’s monetary tightening. I said the Fed’s continued tightening would eventually result in a full-blown recession that would emerge, likely out of the repo market, sometime in the summer. In the final two weeks of the summer, the Repo Crisis raised its head fully out of the water and roared.  Continue reading “Repocalypse: The Second Coming”

Fox News

A young boy and his family got more than they bargained for this past weekend at the Dublin Zoo in Ireland when they received a close-up view of a tiger in full attack mode.

Thankfully, the glass wall of the zoo’s tiger enclosure saved the family from harm. Continue reading “Dublin Zoo tiger ‘attacks’ young boy — only to be stopped by glass partition”

In the News Today

INTELCASTER – Here’s something many people are not aware of yet. When you go online to find sensitive truths Bing (and DuckDuckGo) will often do a better job than Google.

Lets take a look at some examples that prove that Google is an information weapon, while Bing is exactly what one would expect it is, a search engine.  Continue reading “Bing vs Google: Bing is a Search Engine, Google is a Weapon”

CNN

Los Angeles (CNN) As an Uber driver, Lauren Kush tries to keep her Toyota Prius spotless.

But keeping it tidy serves a dual purpose. The 36-year-old woman is homeless and has been sleeping in her car at night, converting the back seat into a bed.  Continue reading “Living in her car, she was afraid and harassed. Then she found an unexpected refuge”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Update: Biden has denied the allegations against him and asked the court to strike the filing from the record, claiming the allegations were improperly filed, and may constitute “redundant, immaterial, impertinent or scandalous” material, and that it was a “scheme by a non-party simply to make scandalous allegations in the pending suit to gain some quick media attention.”  Continue reading “Hunter Biden Denies Ukraine Money Laundering Allegations”

The Eagle – by Chelsea Katz

The first of her kind, CC the cloned cat is breaking more boundaries as she turns 18 years old.

There are no big plans locally to mark the day, but CC — Carbon Copy or Copy Cat — will be the focus of a Dutch cartoon set for release today to celebrate her birthday, researcher and owner Duane Kraemer said.

Continue reading “CC, world’s first cloned cat, turns 18 years old”

KTRE 9

BEAUFORT COUNTY, N.C. (WCTI/CNN) – You look out for bad drivers and objects in the road while you’re driving, but a North Carolina woman says her car was hit by something truly unexpected – a falling catfish.

Rhesa Walston was driving her SUV home from her mother’s house when she got a surprise from the sky.

Continue reading “Catfish shatters N.C. woman’s car windshield”

The Eagle – by Kimberly Kindy

WASHINGTON – Bits of metal, hard plastic, rubber and even glass are increasingly getting mixed and baked into processed meat products reaching consumers, triggering a record number of safety recalls, a Washington Post analysis of federal records shows.

So far this year, the Agriculture Department has announced 34 recalls involving 17 million pounds of meat products after stray materials were found in them.  Continue reading “Recalls for processed meat rise drastically as consumers bite down on metal, plastic and glass”

New York Post – by Gabrielle Fonrouge and Aaron Feis

The Brooklyn CBD wholesaler whose 106-pound shipment of perfectly legal hemp was wrongfully seized by the NYPD last month will have a green Christmas, as the stash was released on Monday.

“We got everything back,” said Oren Levy, the proprietor of Green Angel CBD, whose brother, Ronen, picked up the haul from the NYPD’s Queens narcotics lock-up on Monday. “They actually sealed it normally. I was surprised.”  Continue reading “Brooklyn CBD wholesaler gets wrongfully seized hemp back from NYPD”

NBC 4

It was by chance that two brothers who own a smoke shop in Queens found video footage in a smashed video recorder when they returned to their store after spending more than a month in jail.

At the brothers’ arraignment in late August, prosecutors said in court NYPD cops had recovered 40 pounds of cocaine during a raid and search warrant by the Queens north gang unit. The DA’s office provided no documentation and asked for the two suspects to be held without bail.  Continue reading “NYPD Cops Seen Disabling Security Camera After Brothers’ False Drug Charges Bust”