Enforce our Bill of Rights
WEB Notes: This goes right in line with other articles about the state of our economy as a whole. Just yesterday we discussed US Corporations are $6.3 trillion in debt.
U.S. operations of Deutsche Bank failed an annual regulatory stress test by the Federal Reserve, according to results released Thursday. Continue reading “Deutsche Bank Fails Federal Reserve Stress Test”
Gina Dimuro writes a fascinating piece in ati (All That’s Interesting), on the consequences of what rampant centuries-long incestuous marriages in one of Europe’s most powerful dynasties of Medieval and Renaissance Europe who reigned over much of Europe for centuries can do to offspring from such relationships. Continue reading “The Habsburg Jaw And The Cost Of Royal Inbreeding”
Liberty Fight – by Martin Hill
Mass-shooter Jarrod Ramos had several Twitter Accounts, most of which Twitter has suspended. But wading through his social media accounts, many of his Twitter Accounts were linked to each other, and at least one is still up at the present time. I don’t expect it to be up much longer after this post though, so save this stuff quick if you want it.
Two of Ramos’ accounts that were suspended by Twitter are @ judgemoylanfrnd, spoofing Judge Charles E. Moylan, Jr. and @erichartleyfrnd, Ramos main account created in 2011, which he described as a “page to defend myself.” Continue reading “Accused Mass-Murderer Jarrod Ramos Had Several Twitter Accounts- They’ve Suspended Them All, But Missed This One.”
(Bloomberg) — Bitcoin’s meteoric rise last year had many observers calling it one of the biggest speculative manias in history. The cryptocurrency’s 2018 crash may help cement its place in the bubble record books.
Down 70 percent from its December high after sliding for a fourth straight day on Friday, Bitcoin is getting ever-closer to matching the Nasdaq Composite Index’s 78 percent peak-to-trough plunge after the U.S. dot-com bubble burst. Hundreds of other virtual coins have all but gone to zero — following the same path as Pets.com and other red-hot initial public offerings that flamed out in the early 2000s. Continue reading “Bitcoin Bloodbath Nears Dot-Com Levels as Many Tokens Go to Zero”
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Archive: TWFTT 6-29-18
Gov. John Carney, on June 27, signed House Substitute 1 for House Bill 222 into law surrounded by members of the general assembly of both parties, law enforcement and advocates for gun safety.
This legislation, sponsored by Rep. David Bentz, allows a court to issue a lethal violence protection order in cases where a family member or law enforcement officer can show that the respondent poses a danger to self or others by owning, possessing, controlling, purchasing or receiving a firearm. Continue reading “Delaware Governor Carney Signs “Red Flag” Legislation”
Washington Post – by DeNeen L. Brown
A lawyer representing the eldest son and two grandsons of Henrietta Lacks, whose “immortal cells” have been the subject of a best-selling book, a TV movie, a family feud, cutting-edge medical research and a multibillion-dollar biotech industry, announced last week that she plans to file a petition seeking “guardianship” of the cells.
“The question we are dealing with is ‘Can the cells sue for mistreatment, misappropriation, theft and for the profits earned without their consent?’ ” said Christina J. Bostick, who is representing Lawrence Lacks, the eldest son of Lacks, and grandsons Lawrence Lacks Jr. and Ron Lacks. Continue reading “Can the ‘immortal cells’ of Henrietta Lacks sue for their own rights?”
Nevada legal brothel owner and HBO “Cathouse” star Dennis Hof, who won a GOP primary to run for the Nevada state Assembly earlier this month, was accused in a newly released police report of raping a sex worker at his brothel in 2005.
According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Lyon County prosecutors closed the case due to a lack of physical evidence. Hof denied the incident. Continue reading “Brothel owner who won GOP primary accused of raping prostitute”
First I said I believed the US stock market would plunge in January, but I also said that January would not be the biggest drop, but just the first plunge that begins a global economic collapse: the big trouble for the economy and the stock market, I said, would show up in “early summer.” That’s when the stock market crash that began in January would take its second big leg down, and global economic cracks would become big enough that few could deny them.
(Now I’ll add a prediction — that even worse will unfold in the fall and early winter … unless summer becomes so bad that central banks rapidly reverse course on unwinding their balance sheets and raising interest; but I think they will stay their promised courses into the fall and winter and headlong into a global economic crisis.) Continue reading “Epocalypse Ahead on Highway to Hell for Global Economy and US Stock Market”
Free Thought Project – by Jay Syrmopoulos
Fort Worth, TX – A 79-year-old veteran suffering from dementia was evicted from his long-time family home on Friday, and his belongings scattered across the front yard, after failing to pay a $6,000 property tax bill.
“All this is furniture from my living room,” Billie McGruder, who lived in the house for decades, told a crew from CBS DFW. “It’s out there for everybody to see.” Continue reading “79-Year-Old Vet with Dementia Evicted by Gov’t from Home He OWNED Over Unpaid Property Taxes”
Free Thought Project – by Rachel Blevins
Annapolis, Maryland – Five people were killed in another mass shooting after a man opened fire at the Capital Gazette newspaper on Thursday afternoon, in what is being called a “targeted attack” by a deranged individual who reportedly went as far as mutilating his own fingers in order to keep police from identifying him.
Fueling conspiracy theories online, just one week before the shooting at the newspaper’s headquarters, the Capital Gazette reported that “Annapolis Police will be conducting an active shooter drill.” Continue reading “Days Before Shooting, Capital Gazette Reported Police Would Be Conducting Mass Shooting Drills”
Kudos to the Gates Foundation, seriously: after spending $775m on the Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching, a Big Data initiative to improve education for poor and disadvantaged students, they hired outside auditors to evaluate the program’s effectiveness, and published that report, even though it shows that the approach did no good on balance and arguably caused real harms to teachers and students.
Cathy “Weapons of Math Destruction” O’Neil has given the report a close reading, and she found that the problems with the approach were pretty predictable: asking principals to rate teachers produces pretty uniform and meaningless five-star results, while the “value add” algorithms that are supposed to figure out how much of a student’s performance is attributable to a teacher are basically random number generators. Continue reading “The Gates Foundation spent $775m on a Big Data education project that was worse than useless”
Congresswoman Maxine Waters – who earlier this week urged her supporters to accost members of the Trump administration at restaurants and other public venues – has been forced to cancel a pair of public events after receiving a “very serious death threat.” The Congresswoman told CNN on Thursday that she’s seen an increase in threats since she made the controversial comments.
Waters canceled appearances in Alabama and Texas this week after receiving “threatening messages” and “hostile mail” at her office, including “one very serious death threat” from an individual from Texas. Continue reading “Maxine Waters Cancels Events Following “Very Serious” Death Threats”
The Organic Prepper – by J. G. Martinez D.
I find the most difficult aspect of survival is to keep a positive mindset. Definitely, it is. The crisis is not over when you escape the collapse. While I expected when I got my family out, our struggles were over, they have just begun. Once you have been a successful professional, with an entire life ahead of you, and a good amount of the road already left behind, and find as refugees in a foreign country…this is where you really know about how strong you can be.
Or how weak, in my case. Don’t misunderstand me, please. I have been much more fortunate than many of my people, and I give thanks to God for that. Continue reading “What Life Is Like for Venezuelan Refugees: The Crisis Isn’t Over When You Escape the Collapse”
A man who police say opened fire at a Maryland newspaper office Thursday, killing five and injuring two others, had a long, acrimonious history with the newspaper, including a lawsuit and years of harassment of its journalists on Twitter.
Jarrod Warren Ramos, swiftly arrested by police after the attack, was charged Friday with five counts of first-degree murder. Continue reading “Shooting suspect had bitter history with Maryland newspaper”