Bloomberg

Some of the world’s largest companies have benefited from a little-known law that lets the Defense Department override decisions barring contractors accused or convicted of bribery, fraud, theft, and other crimes from doing business with the government.

International Business Machines Corp., Boeing Co., BP Plc, and several other contractors have received special dispensation to fulfill multimillion-dollar government contracts through “compelling reason determinations.” That process allows the Defense Department in rare cases to determine that the need to fulfill certain contracts justifies doing business with companies that have been suspended from government work.   Continue reading “Millions Flow to Pentagon’s Banned Contractors Via a Back Door”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

One day after what appeared to be a coordinated attack by media giants Facebook, Apple, Spotify and Google on Alex Jones, whose various social media accounts were banned or suspended in a matter of hours, the crackdown against alternative media figures continued as several Libertarian figures, including the Ron Paul Institute director, found their Twitter accounts suspended.    Continue reading “The Crackdown Continues: Twitter Suspends Libertarian Accounts, Including Ron Paul Institute Director”

B’Tselem

In just over two months, from the beginning of May to 7 July 2018, B’Tselem documented 10 instances in which settlers destroyed a total of more than 2,000 trees and grapevines and burned down a barley field and bales of hay. In some places, the settlers left behind them graffiti slogans in Hebrew, reading “No to farmer terrorism” and “”There’s not place we won’t reach”. Some of the farmers had already suffered settler violence in recent years.

Continue reading “Settlers destroy 2,000+ Palestinian-owned trees and vines, backed by Israeli authorities”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

School shootings in the United States have become so ubiquitous that while legislators continue to try to “ban guns” – the effect of which has resulted in no meaningful legislation and seemingly no prevention of incidence –insurance companies like McGowan Program Administrators are stumbling onto an unfortunate realization: school shooting insurance is necessary and in demand. They have written over 300 of these policies already.   Continue reading “School-Shooting Insurance Is A Real Thing – And Its On the Rise”

Gateway Pundit – by Jim Hoft

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the former chair of the US Senate Intelligence Committee, and her former office manager and Chinese spy Russell Lowe.

Russell Lowe was identified on Monday night as a Chinese spy. He was Senator Dianne Feinsein’s office manager.

Continue reading “CHINA Murdered or Imprisoned 20 CIA Operatives and Sources While Feinstein Had a Chinese Spy as Office Manager”

A rat looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package. What food might it contain? He was aghast to discover that it was a rat trap. Retreating to the farmyard the rat proclaimed the warning; “There is a rat trap in the house, a rat trap in the house!”

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, “Excuse me, Mr. Rat, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it.” So.. the Chicken returned to clucking and scratching.   Continue reading “The Rat Trap”

MassPrivateI

Last week I thought I saw it all, when I learned that Waldo Photos is trying to convince parents that “facial recognition at summer camps is fun.”

I thought, things could not get any crazier.

That was until I heard of a company called SmartDrive Systems (SDS).  Continue reading “SmartDrive claims in-cab truck surveillance cameras are “saving the planet””

Campus Reform – by Toni Airaksinen

The University of California-Los Angeles has hired 18 students at $13 per hour to combat “social injustices” and “privilege and oppression” following a semester-long recruitment campaign.

Hosted by the UCLA Intergroup Relations Program, the Diversity Peer Leaders project is a year-long internship during which students facilitate workshops on social justice issues in exchange for leadership training and compensation from UCLA.    Continue reading “UCLA makes students pay classmates to promote ‘social justice’”

AOL

MONROE, N.C. (AP) — A teenager who held up a North Carolina lemonade stand for $17 was still at large Monday, and authorities said they hoped to track him through surveillance footage and possible DNA and fingerprint tests.

Neighbors were asked to check their home security cameras for possible clues, said Union County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Tony Underwood. He said a camouflage hat and BB pistol found along with a metal cash box was found in some nearby woods and could be checked for fingerprints and DNA. The 9-year-old lemonade vendor said a teenager wearing a similar hat and a black shirt pointed a black handgun at him and took his cash box Saturday afternoon in Monroe, about 30 miles southeast of Charlotte.  Continue reading “Lemonade stand robber on the run; DNA could help track him”

Investment Watch – by Thinker

The documents the Department of Justice doesn’t want to leak, might reveal to much truth about the war games for land, oil, power, by the “rule of law” deep state. What was Iraq like before U.S. invasion for humanitarian reasons? Safe enough for any American to visit! What was Libya like before Obama bombed it without congressional or public approval? All the refugees stopped there, were welcomed. Now they are being sold as slaves and the whole country is in chaos. What does Donald Trump really know and what is being kept from him about what is really happening in the Middle East? Will he have to turn to alternative media to learn what is happening among the anti-Trump employees that still number in the hundreds? Has he brought back the purged commanders who didn’t pass the Obama litmus test? Only time and actions will reveal what is real…  Continue reading “The Rothschild Syria Connection – Major Revelations”

CBC News

Many Sears Canada retirees found it hard to take this week when they got their first reduced pension payment — chopped by 30 per cent.

They had been bracing for a 20 per cent cut but learned in June it would shrink by a further 10 percentage points.

“It’s terrible,” said Ron Husk of Mount Pearl, N.L., who worked for Sears for 35 years. On Wednesday, his monthly pension payout dropped by almost $450.   Continue reading “‘It’s going to be hard’: Sears pension payments cut by 30% this week”