CNBC News – by Jeff Cox

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told CNBC on Tuesday that Congress must implement tax reform to make the country more competitive.

“America is the best country on the planet. I’m a complete patriot,” Dimon said in a live interview from Chicago. “It is the shining city on a hill. But we should acknowledge our problems and fix them.”
Continue reading “Jamie Dimon: US ‘should acknowledge our problems and fix them’”

Fox News – by Katherine Lam

Florida historians on Tuesday unveiled the items locked in a century-old time capsule that was discovered hidden in the base of a Confederate statue in June.

Orlando’s Historic Preservation Board discovered Confederate money, a letter from 1911, newspaper clippings and other historic documents in the rusted metal box, FOX35 reported.   Continue reading “Century-old Confederate time capsule opened in Florida”

The Guardian – by Sarah Boseley

Public health experts in the UK have spoken out against a new book that claims many of us should be eating more salt, not less – claiming the advice could endanger people’s health.

New York scientist James DiNicolantonio says in his book The Salt Fix that the World Health Organisation and the US and UK advisory bodies on diet have got it wrong with their advice to cut down on salt.   Continue reading “A danger to public health? Uproar as scientist urges us to eat more salt”

Daily Mail

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday announced “dead-or-alive” bounties worth $40,000 each for policemen he accused of helping an accused narco-politician, and said he prefered they be killed.

The call for police officers to kill their colleagues is the latest inflammatory comment by Duterte in his controversial drug war, which has claimed thousands of lives, and comes shortly after a meeting with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.   Continue reading “Philippines’ Duterte announces ‘dead or alive’ bounties”

MassPrivateI

Robert Smith, a former police officer claims his company Nightclub Security Consultants (NSC) can detect possible terrorists in bars and nightclubs.

Mr. Smith, claims his courtroom expertise, drug recognition, fake identification detection and alcohol consumption detection “can and will protect your business from the very real and often life changing incidents that just one night can produce.” 
Continue reading “Former police officer trains bouncers to treat customers as possible terrorists”

Bloomberg – by John Tozzi

Steady improvements in American life expectancy have stalled, and more Americans are dying at younger ages. But for companies straining under the burden of their pension obligations, the distressing trend could have a grim upside: If people don’t end up living as long as they were projected to just a few years ago, their employers ultimately won’t have to pay them as much in pension and other lifelong retirement benefits.   Continue reading “Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions”

BDS

G4S, the world’s largest security company, is actively training Israeli police forces currently attacking Palestinians in Jerusalem. FST Biometrics, the company expected to supply the smart surveillance cameras that Israel plans to  install at the doors of al-Aqsa Mosque (already installed at the Mughrabi Gate), is a partner of AMAG Technology, a company owned by G4S.  Video evidence shows cars with the G4S logo supplying the security systems used by the Israeli government to restrict Palestinian access to the al-Aqsa mosque.   Continue reading “Global Security Company G4S deepens ties with Israeli apartheid. Boycott G4S!”

Breitbart – by Deborah Danan

TEL AVIV – Fifty-three members of the U.S. House of Representatives are spending August break in Israel on a trip sponsored by the American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF).

The groups are comprised primarily of freshman members, according to a statement by the organization, which is an independent non-profit funded by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).   Continue reading “53 Congressmen Visit Israel During August Break”

Breitbart – by Michael Patrick Leahy

Starbucks held a hiring event exclusively for refugees in El Cajon, California on Tuesday, part of its recently announced commitment to hire more than 10,000 refugees over the next five years.

El Cajon is located in San Diego County, where more than 20,000 refugees have have been resettled by the federal government in the past nine and a half years since the beginning of Fiscal Year 2008.  Continue reading “Starbucks Holds Hiring Event for Refugees in San Diego, TB Rates Among Highest in Country”

CBC News

Bees in Alberta are making a comeback a decade after being hit by a mite infestation and a harsh winter that depleted hives by 30 per cent in the province.

The population has increased from 223,000 hives in 2007 to 305,000 in 2016, Medhat Nasr, an apiculturist with Alberta’s agriculture ministry, told CBC News Tuesday.

The reason for that, he said, was the province’s monitoring of three variables that can affect bee health: mites, viruses and a parasite called Nosema. n Continue reading “Alberta bees bounce back as monitoring leads to healthier hives”

Health Impact News – by John P Thomas

Telecom Companies are Going Green, but Their Version of Green will cause Illness and Death

When the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) approved the use of 5-G microwave communication technology in 2016 and approved the use of microwave frequencies in the 30 Ghz range, [1], they opened the door to even higher levels of human illness and severe disability for American children and adults.   Continue reading “New 5G Cell Towers and Smart Meters to Increase Microwave Radiation – Invade Privacy”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Cherokee County, GA — The family of a teenager who was viciously assaulted for sleeping in his truck has filed a formal complaint against the Cherokee County Police Department after a disturbing video shows their handcuffed son being tortured by police with a taser.

“Please, please, I can’t breathe,” screamed Daniel Fruhling as Cherokee County Police Officers knelt on his back and repeatedly tasered him while he was face down and handcuffed.
Continue reading “Cops Hold Down Handcuffed Teen, Torture Him With Taser—For Sleeping in Truck”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

On August 7, the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) issued its first ever travel advisory warning American gun owners not to go to California unless they are willing to enter the state disarmed or risk going to jail.

The gun rights group is “warning law-abiding armed citizens that their civil rights could be in jeopardy due to that state’s restrictive gun control laws.”   Continue reading “2nd Amendment Foundation Issues Travel Advisory: Your Gun Rights Are No Good in California”

CNBC

North Korea said on Wednesday it is “carefully examining” a plan to strike the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam with missiles, just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump told the North that any threat to the United States would be met with “fire and fury”.

A spokesman for the Korean People’s Army, in a statement carried by the North’s state-run KCNA news agency, said the strike plan will be “put into practice in a multi-current and consecutive way any moment” once leader Kim Jong Un makes a decision.   Continue reading “North Korea seriously considering strike on Guam, state media outlet says”