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What do you think of Ann Coulter's solution for the mass shootings?
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2018-02-21.html#read_more
'How Much Are You Worth, Nancy?'
Pelosi Heckled at Town Hall While Slamming Trump Tax Law
Rep. Nancy Pelosi was heckled by a woman at a town hall event Tuesday after she continued blasting President Trump and Republicans' tax cuts.
"God never intended one group of people to live in superfluous inordinate wealth while others live in abject deadening poverty," the House minority leader said, adding that the quote was from Dr. Martin Luther King.
Watch the short video at the link... Priceless. Just another one of those 'Facts' that you won't find on the liberal media.
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/02/20/pelosi-heckled-town-hall-about-trump-tax-law-how-much-you-worth
"deleting or otherwise not producing emails sought by the Special Counsel's office"
That sounds familiar
They are more likely to be employed if the get a degree in basket weaving.
Maria Bartiromo... The money honey.
She does a really good number on John Pedestal in this interview:
Stockton rolls out universal income experiment
Hard-luck city to offer low-income families $500 per month
The city of Stockton is committing to an experiment with a Universal Basic Income (UBI) in 2018: The city will supplement a few low-income Stockton families’ budgets to the tune of $500/month and then monitor the results.
Announced in October of last year, the Stockton pilot will run for 12-18 months. The project is largely the ward of Stockton’s 27-year-old mayor Michael Tubbs, who frames the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration [SEED] program as a potential cure for a shooting gallery of city problems.
Per SEED:
When the rug is yanked out from underneath families, they find it difficult if not impossible to find financial security. The negative consequences of economic instability are putting an untenable strain on the education system, health care, and community lives. As work continues to fragment and wages continue to stagnate, the prognosis will only get worse.
Tubbs tells NPR the city will consider applicants through June and pay out from a $1.2 million fund of charity grants. Tubbs cites Martin Luther King Jr. as an inspiration—King endorsed “a guaranteed minimum income for all people” during a 1967 speech at Stanford, and on other occasions.
In 2016, the U.S. Census estimated that the median income in Stockton was just over $46,000. In 2012, the city declared bankruptcy.
( Makes you wonder why they went bankrupt. )
More...
https://sf.curbed.com/2018/2/1/16959714/stockton-universal-income-economy-families
It Looks Like "The Greatest Act Of Bureaucratic Ass-Covering In US History..."
Remember this one from 1996?
Funny, that was the American mainstream media bragging, after the fact, about our own meddling in another nation’s election.
WASHINGTON — A team of American political strategists who helped [California] Gov. Pete Wilson with his abortive presidential bid earlier this year said this week that they served as Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin’s secret campaign weapon in his comeback win over a Communist challenge.
—The Los Angeles Times, July 9, 1996
The beauty in Robert Mueller’s indictment of thirteen Russian Facebook trolls is that they’ll never face trial, so Mr. Mueller will never have to prove his case. In the new misrule of law made popular by the #Me Too movement, accusations suffice to convict the target of an investigation.
Kind of sounds like going medieval to me, but that’s how we roll now in the Land of the Free.
Readers know, of course, that I’m not a Trump supporter, that I regard him as a national embarrassment, but I’m much more disturbed by the mindless hysteria ginned up Washington’s permanent bureaucracy in collusion with half a dozen major newspapers and cable news networks, who have run a psy-ops campaign to shove the country into a war mentality.
The New York Times published a doozy of a lead story on Saturday, the day after the indictments were announced. The headline said: Trump’s Conspicuous Silence Leaves a Struggle Against Russia Without a Leader. Dean Baquet and his editorial board are apparently seeking an American Napoleon who will mount a white horse and take our legions into Moscow to teach these rascals a lesson — or something like that.
I’m surely not the only one to notice how this hysteria is designed to distract the public attention from the documented misconduct among FBI, CIA, NSA, State Department officials and the leaders of the #Resistance itself: the Democratic National Committee, its nominee in the 2016 election, HRC, and Barack Obama’s White House inner circle. You would think that at least some of this mischief would have come to Robert Mueller’s attention, since the paper trail of evidence is as broad and cluttered as the DC Beltway itself. It actually looks like the greatest act of bureaucratic ass-covering in US history.
Of course, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was quick to qualify the announced indictments by saying that Russian trolling on Facebook had no effect on the 2016 election, and that the Trump campaign was not implicated in it. Maybe the indictments were just a table-setter for something more potent to come out of Mueller’s office. But what if it’s not. What if this is all he has to show for a year and a half of the most scrupulous delving into this “narrative?”
Meanwhile, the damage done among America’s former thinking class essentially leaves this polity like the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz: without a brain. I doubt they will be satisfied by Mueller’s indictment of the thirteen Russian trolls. Rather, it may tempt them to even more violent hysterics and greater acts of lawlessness. The only thing that will stop this nonsense is Big Trouble in the financial system — which the news media and most of the public are ignoring at their peril. It is coming at us good and hard and it will feel like a two-by-four to nation’s skull when it gets here
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-19/it-looks-greatest-act-bureaucratic-ass-covering-us-history
Say it ain't so !!
Who are Hunter Biden's Ukrainian bosses?
Who does Hunter Biden really work for? It's the question the media has been asking since Wednesday (14.05.2014), when it was revealed that the son of the US vice president joined the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings in April.
http://www.dw.com/en/who-are-hunter-bidens-ukrainian-bosses/a-17642254
My ban was lifted as well from th groupthink board.
The list of conditions I was given to be allowed to post there again sounds like something you would expect from communist China ! That guy has got some serious issues.
Hi Ayock...Before you start posting about how the Susan Rice email to herself is proof that Obama did everything by the book, please refer to your recent post:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=138398326
In January they reported selling about $9.7 million in stock... Add this $6 million " equity investment" and you have an increase in the number of shares outstanding making it harder to come up with a reasonable earnings per share number.
The problem seems to be that the cost of goods is too high leaving a small amount as gross profit and the SG&A portion of the expense is taking most of that.
My account shows the ask ABOVE the last trade... What's the big deal ???
It's called a market.
$200,000 cops: why NY property taxes keep soaring
Wonder why New York property taxes are sky-high, particularly in the Long Island and Lower Hudson Valley suburbs around the city? The Empire Center’s latest analysis flags one key reason: the astounding pay doled out to government workers in those areas — especially uniformed services, like police and firefighters.
For the second year in a row, the center found, 47 of the top 50 highest-paid local-government workers outside New York City were police officers — with five of the top seven on the Town of Ramapo payroll.
The No. 1 earner, Ramapo Police Officer Thomas Donnelly, pulled in $441,968 in the year ending last March. Four other Rockland County cops joined him in the top 10.
The 20 officers in the Nassau County Village of Kings Point (pop. 5,005 in the last Census) had the highest average pay of any group of government workers at $220,088.
We don’t begrudge first responders being paid what they’re worth, but these cops and firefighters, some in tiny hamlets, earn far more than their New York City counterparts.
“Personnel costs are the biggest part of most local government budgets, and thereby the biggest driver behind our high property taxes,” notes the Empire Center’s Tim Hoefer. Westchester and Rockland have the highest property-tax rates of all US counties.
Unless New York gets a handle on inflated salaries at all levels of government, property taxes will only keep climbing higher.
Never mind that the standard deduction for a married couple has been increased to $24,000... Which may well be more than the lost deductions you are ranting about.
Also... Please refer to some reliable "news" sources. We know that you prefer to read the junk that supports your left wing agenda but most people on this board are not as gullible as you.
"Notes: The Blue Dot Daily is a news and opinion blog that sometimes uses sensational headlines to report current news with a clear left bias, but they do openly state that they are not a news media source, but rather a blog. Bottom line: Extreme left bias in wording and relatively factual reporting (F. Locke-Siewert 12/30/2016)."
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/blue-dot-daily/
Looks like they have a lot of fun toys
My favorite video re lies !
They will be very busy talking to their lawyers
PERI is near the low that has been seen several times going back 2 years. It may bounce from this level again... It's done so several times in the past. I added some at .95.
"U.S. federal borrowing will nearly double this year"
That's good right ? I mean the democrats really like spending other peoples money. Just think of how much more money can me squandered away due to corruption , graft and waste. All the lobbyists will have a hayday with the politicians. This is what the democrats love to do... What is there not to like ???
There might even be some left over to funnel more into entitlements... About half of the population doesn't pay any income taxes... we should be able to get that number higher... maybe up to 60%.
If we get creative we can probably spend more to support a larger number of illegals...This would be good because they will vote democratic at the next election.
Or did you suddenly get religion re budget deficits ????
Kevin O'Leary the Shark Tank guy said on CNBC yesterday that XIV did exactly what it was supposed to... XIV is a bet against volatility so when volatility went thru the roof XIV went to zero. He said if you don't understand this stuff you shouldn't buy it.
I think there will be more surprises re the ETF and ETN stuff. Too many people are on the same side of the boat
DryShips Inc.DRYS Announces Dividend for the Quarter Ended December 31, 2017 and Authorization of an up to $50 Million Stock Repurchase Program
ATHENS, Greece, Feb. 07, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- DryShips Inc. (DRYS) (“DryShips” or the “Company”), a diversified owner of ocean going cargo vessels, announced today that, in accordance with its previously announced dividend policy, the Company’s Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend with respect to the quarter ended December 31, 2017.
With respect to the quarter ended December 31, 2017, the Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $2.5 million payable on or about March 8, 2018 to common shareholders of record as of February 20, 2018. The dividend per share amount to be paid by the Company, based on the Company’s 104,274,708 common shares outstanding, will be approximately 2.4 cents per share.
The Company also announced today that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock repurchase program, under which the Company may repurchase up to $50 million of its outstanding common shares for a period of 12 months.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dryships-inc-announces-dividend-quarter-134500037.html
Nomura "Sincerely Apologizes" For Blowing Up Investors With Its VIX-Linked ETN
On Monday evening, well before Credit Suisse decided to pull the plug on its now infamous XIV ETN which lost 96% of its value in the blink of an eye after Monday's Volmagedon, resulting in massive losses for ordinary retail investors...
... Nomura became the first bank to announce the early redemption of its VIX-linked ETN, the aptly named "Next Notes S&P500 VIX Short-Term Futures Inverse Daily Excess Return Index ETN", which would be redeemed at a 96% discount, i.e., a complete wipeout for investors.
Then, overnight, realizing it is facing an avalanche of lawsuits even though it explicitly laid out the possibility of the ETN getting "terminated" should VIX explode, Japan's biggest brokerage issued an apology after investors in its $300 million vol-linked ETN were all but wiped out during this week’s stock-market turmoil.
In a statement, Nomura said that it has received inquiries from individual investors after its decision to redeem the exchange-traded notes at a 96% discount.
"We sincerely apologize for causing significant difficulties to investors," its Nomura Europe Finance unit said in a statement a day earlier.
"This is a listed product, and we believe it can be bought by both individual and institutional investors," Nomura said in an emailed statement. It declined to comment on any positions it took in the product or any impact of its demise on earnings.
As we first reported on Monday evening, Nomura’s "Next Notes" was basically a short bet on the VIX, and its early redemption - the first of its kind in Japan - was triggered after the notes lost more than 80 percent of their value amid the global equity-market selloff. The ETN would be redeemed at 1,144 yen per unit, Nomura said, a 96% loss to holders: it was valued at 1.3 billion yen in Tokyo Wednesday, down from 32 billion yen on Monday.
Miwa Aonuma, a spokeswoman at Japan Exchange Group said investors in the Nomura ETN include Japanese individuals, while declining to disclose the ratio. There are currently 24 ETNs traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and the Nomura product was the first to trigger an automatic redemption since the first listing in 2013, according to Japan Exchange Group, which operates the bourse.
Nomura is not alone: the bank's vol shorting product is among more than a dozen worldwide that will be liquidated or are halted as bets soured that the calm pervading stock markets would persist, Bloomberg notes.
The collapse is raising concerns over whether novice investors should pile into such complex trades. BlackRock Inc., the world’s biggest provider of exchange-traded funds, on Tuesday reiterated a call for regulation that would clearly spell out the risks associated with inverse and leveraged exchange-traded products.
“This is a very risky product,” Kiyoshi Kimura, an executive at the Japan Association for Individual Investors, an advocacy group, said of the Nomura ETN. “The question is whether brokerages fully explained it to retail investors or not.”
Well, thanks to the upcoming tsunami in class-action lawsuits, we will soon find out; as for Nomura's apology, we only hope to hear the same from those truly responsible: Greenspan, Bernanke and Yellen.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-07/nomura-sincerely-apologizes-blowing-investors-its-vix-linked-etn
Nomura "Sincerely Apologizes" For Blowing Up Investors With Its VIX-Linked ETN
On Monday evening, well before Credit Suisse decided to pull the plug on its now infamous XIV ETN which lost 96% of its value in the blink of an eye after Monday's Volmagedon, resulting in massive losses for ordinary retail investors...
... Nomura became the first bank to announce the early redemption of its VIX-linked ETN, the aptly named "Next Notes S&P500 VIX Short-Term Futures Inverse Daily Excess Return Index ETN", which would be redeemed at a 96% discount, i.e., a complete wipeout for investors.
Then, overnight, realizing it is facing an avalanche of lawsuits even though it explicitly laid out the possibility of the ETN getting "terminated" should VIX explode, Japan's biggest brokerage issued an apology after investors in its $300 million vol-linked ETN were all but wiped out during this week’s stock-market turmoil.
In a statement, Nomura said that it has received inquiries from individual investors after its decision to redeem the exchange-traded notes at a 96% discount.
"We sincerely apologize for causing significant difficulties to investors," its Nomura Europe Finance unit said in a statement a day earlier.
"This is a listed product, and we believe it can be bought by both individual and institutional investors," Nomura said in an emailed statement. It declined to comment on any positions it took in the product or any impact of its demise on earnings.
As we first reported on Monday evening, Nomura’s "Next Notes" was basically a short bet on the VIX, and its early redemption - the first of its kind in Japan - was triggered after the notes lost more than 80 percent of their value amid the global equity-market selloff. The ETN would be redeemed at 1,144 yen per unit, Nomura said, a 96% loss to holders: it was valued at 1.3 billion yen in Tokyo Wednesday, down from 32 billion yen on Monday.
Miwa Aonuma, a spokeswoman at Japan Exchange Group said investors in the Nomura ETN include Japanese individuals, while declining to disclose the ratio. There are currently 24 ETNs traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and the Nomura product was the first to trigger an automatic redemption since the first listing in 2013, according to Japan Exchange Group, which operates the bourse.
Nomura is not alone: the bank's vol shorting product is among more than a dozen worldwide that will be liquidated or are halted as bets soured that the calm pervading stock markets would persist, Bloomberg notes.
The collapse is raising concerns over whether novice investors should pile into such complex trades. BlackRock Inc., the world’s biggest provider of exchange-traded funds, on Tuesday reiterated a call for regulation that would clearly spell out the risks associated with inverse and leveraged exchange-traded products.
“This is a very risky product,” Kiyoshi Kimura, an executive at the Japan Association for Individual Investors, an advocacy group, said of the Nomura ETN. “The question is whether brokerages fully explained it to retail investors or not.”
Well, thanks to the upcoming tsunami in class-action lawsuits, we will soon find out; as for Nomura's apology, we only hope to hear the same from those truly responsible: Greenspan, Bernanke and Yellen.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-07/nomura-sincerely-apologizes-blowing-investors-its-vix-linked-etn
Nomura "Sincerely Apologizes" For Blowing Up Investors With Its VIX-Linked ETN
On Monday evening, well before Credit Suisse decided to pull the plug on its now infamous XIV ETN which lost 96% of its value in the blink of an eye after Monday's Volmagedon, resulting in massive losses for ordinary retail investors...
... Nomura became the first bank to announce the early redemption of its VIX-linked ETN, the aptly named "Next Notes S&P500 VIX Short-Term Futures Inverse Daily Excess Return Index ETN", which would be redeemed at a 96% discount, i.e., a complete wipeout for investors.
Then, overnight, realizing it is facing an avalanche of lawsuits even though it explicitly laid out the possibility of the ETN getting "terminated" should VIX explode, Japan's biggest brokerage issued an apology after investors in its $300 million vol-linked ETN were all but wiped out during this week’s stock-market turmoil.
In a statement, Nomura said that it has received inquiries from individual investors after its decision to redeem the exchange-traded notes at a 96% discount.
"We sincerely apologize for causing significant difficulties to investors," its Nomura Europe Finance unit said in a statement a day earlier.
"This is a listed product, and we believe it can be bought by both individual and institutional investors," Nomura said in an emailed statement. It declined to comment on any positions it took in the product or any impact of its demise on earnings.
As we first reported on Monday evening, Nomura’s "Next Notes" was basically a short bet on the VIX, and its early redemption - the first of its kind in Japan - was triggered after the notes lost more than 80 percent of their value amid the global equity-market selloff. The ETN would be redeemed at 1,144 yen per unit, Nomura said, a 96% loss to holders: it was valued at 1.3 billion yen in Tokyo Wednesday, down from 32 billion yen on Monday.
Miwa Aonuma, a spokeswoman at Japan Exchange Group said investors in the Nomura ETN include Japanese individuals, while declining to disclose the ratio. There are currently 24 ETNs traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and the Nomura product was the first to trigger an automatic redemption since the first listing in 2013, according to Japan Exchange Group, which operates the bourse.
Nomura is not alone: the bank's vol shorting product is among more than a dozen worldwide that will be liquidated or are halted as bets soured that the calm pervading stock markets would persist, Bloomberg notes.
The collapse is raising concerns over whether novice investors should pile into such complex trades. BlackRock Inc., the world’s biggest provider of exchange-traded funds, on Tuesday reiterated a call for regulation that would clearly spell out the risks associated with inverse and leveraged exchange-traded products.
“This is a very risky product,” Kiyoshi Kimura, an executive at the Japan Association for Individual Investors, an advocacy group, said of the Nomura ETN. “The question is whether brokerages fully explained it to retail investors or not.”
Well, thanks to the upcoming tsunami in class-action lawsuits, we will soon find out; as for Nomura's apology, we only hope to hear the same from those truly responsible: Greenspan, Bernanke and Yellen.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-07/nomura-sincerely-apologizes-blowing-investors-its-vix-linked-etn
It's impossible to know. All this tells you is that there is some information that the SEC normally requires to be included in filings that they do not want to disclose. The reason given is that it's for competitive reasons but who knows for sure. One would think that when the SEC agrees to allow an omission that the SEC agrees that the information is competitive in nature. I seriously doubt that omitting something like a law suit for example would be allowed.
From the SEC web site...
Perion Network Ltd. submitted an application under Rule 24b-2 requesting an extension of a previous grant of confidential treatment for information it excluded from the Exhibits to a Form 20-F filed on April 16, 2015.
Based on representations by Perion Network Ltd. that this information qualifies as confidential commercial or financial information under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4), the Division of Corporation Finance has determined not to publicly disclose it. Accordingly, excluded information from the following exhibit(s) will not be released to the public for the time period(s) specified:
Exhibit 4.13 through December 31, 2020
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1338940/999999999718000421/filename1.pdf
Either level is a bit rough on my account given that most of my holdings are high beta stocks. Although today on a % basis I actually lost less than the S&P 500. This is because of my significantly overweight position in SLP which was down only .31%.
Good Limerick !
ACOL is a joke !
Over 5 BILLION shares outstanding, losing money every year and their current liabilities are 3 X the current assets, Wow !!
Just in case you aren't aware... Current liabilities are bills that are required to be paid RIGHT NOW... They don't have the cash to take care of that.
The barriers to entry in this business is very low. Anybody can do this stuff... There is nothing new. Plastic/glass packaging is an extremely mature business. Nitrogen injection ??? Toyota puts nitrogen in my Tacoma tires... so what ???
Hard to imagine that someone else could buy plastic bottles from a injection moulding manufacturer ( there 1000's of them ) and put a label on it and call it a MJ container.
Plastic bottles/containers are available EVERYWHERE and the pricing is cut throat competitive. Anybody can do this.
Thank you for the links re cancer and the Keto diet.
When I got off the sugar and carbs I lost 25 lbs in less than 3 months.
Here is a link that makes it very easy to see the results you are getting based on what you are eating.
https://cronometer.com
Test kits are available to let you know if you are in ketosis.
Here is the simple version of the relationship of carbs and cancer:
Hi geodan...
What percent of total sales at Brownie's is attributed to their current Hookah line of diving gear?
How many different Hookah models are offered ?
Thanks.
FBI Director Wray "Shocked To His Core" By FISA Memo, McCabe 'Removed' Next Day, More Heads To Roll: Report
( Why is this guy being offered a full retirement benefit ??? )
FBI Director Christopher Wray was allegedly "shocked to his core" after viewing the four-page FISA memo Sunday night - hours before asking Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe to step down, according to journalist Sara Carter.
Hannity sat down once again with journalist Sara Carter, whose sources say McCabe may have instructed FBI agents to alter their "302" forms - the paperwork an agent files after interviewing someone:
Carter: What we know tonight is that FBI Director Christopher Wray went Sunday and reviewed the four-page FISA memo. The very next day, Andrew McCabe was asked to resign. Remember Sean, he was planning on resigning in March - that already came out in December. This time they asked him to go right away. You're not coming into the office. I've heard rep[orts he didn't even come in for the morning meeting - that he didn't show up.
Hannity: A source of mine told me tonight that when Wray read this, it shocked him to his core.
Sara Carter: Shocked him to his core, and not only that, the Inspector General's report - I have been told tonight by a number of sources, there's indicators right now that McCabe may have asked FBI agents to actually change their 302's - those are their interviews with witnesses. So basically every time an FBI agent interviews a witness, they have to go back and file a report.
Hannity: Changes? So that would be obstruction of justice?
Carter: Exactly. This is something the Inspector General is investigating. If this is true and not alleged, McCabe will be fired. I heard they are considering firing him within the next few days if this turns out to be true.
Carter said that McCabe "quitting" is just the beginning, and that more resignations will be coming.
As we reported yesterday, McCabe was "removed" from his post as deputy director, "leaving the bureau after months of conflict-of-interest complaints from Republicans including President Trump." Several media outlets reported that McCabe is using his remaining vacation days to go on "terminal leave" and that his official retirement from the agency won't happen until March, allowing him to collect the full pension.
And as we noted last week, FBI Director Wray threatened to resign after being pressured by AG Jeff Sessions.
Around the time of the reports of his impending retirement, McCabe had spent several marathon sessions answering questions from Congressional committees behind closed doors.
It was expected that McCabe would hang on until early March, when he would become eligible for his full pension. It's unclear why he's choosing to step down early.
McCabe's accelerated resignation may a sign that Trump appointee Christopher Wray - who succeeded James Comey as FBI Director - is finally cleaning house.
According to Axios, McCabe may be leaving in anticipation of the release of an inspector general's report on how the FBI handled the Clinton email investigation.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-30/fbi-director-wray-shocked-his-core-fisa-memo-mccabe-removed-next-day-more-heads
When the facts don't support your ideology...
Meet Europe's Latest Threat:
She Is A Blue-Eyed Blonde Who Wants "Finland First"
First it was Nigel Farage, then Beppe Grillo, Frauke Petry, Alexis Tsipras, Marine le Pen, Geert Wilders, Victor Orban, Sebastian Kurz and so on, as one after another European populist, anti-immigrant leader emerged in response to the economic cataclysm unleashed by central banks over the past decade which left the "1%" better off than ever, at the expense of everyone else.
Now a new threat has emerged out of Finland, one which is petite, with blonde hair and blue eyes.
“I want to change the direction of Finland and take back our independence.”
Huhtasaari is in her element on the campaign trail. Speaking in downtown Helsinki to a devoted crowd that braved the height of winter to hear her speak, she rolled out the greatest hits of her populist platform: ranting against a heavy-handed European Union, an out-of-touch Finnish political elite indifferent to the working class, and the perils of large-scale — mainly Muslim — immigration.
( This is the result of extreme liberalism that has gone totally out of control. )
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-28/meet-europes-latest-threat-she-blue-eyes-blonde-who-wants-finland-first
Meet Europe's Latest Threat:
She Is A Blue-Eyed Blonde Who Wants "Finland First"
First it was Nigel Farage, then Beppe Grillo, Frauke Petry, Alexis Tsipras, Marine le Pen, Geert Wilders, Victor Orban, Sebastian Kurz and so on, as one after another European populist, anti-immigrant leader emerged in response to the economic cataclysm unleashed by central banks over the past decade which left the "1%" better off than ever, at the expense of everyone else.
Now a new threat has emerged out of Finland, one which is petite, with blonde hair and blue eyes.
“I want to change the direction of Finland and take back our independence.”
Huhtasaari is in her element on the campaign trail. Speaking in downtown Helsinki to a devoted crowd that braved the height of winter to hear her speak, she rolled out the greatest hits of her populist platform: ranting against a heavy-handed European Union, an out-of-touch Finnish political elite indifferent to the working class, and the perils of large-scale — mainly Muslim — immigration.
( This is the result of extreme liberalism that has gone totally out of control. )
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-28/meet-europes-latest-threat-she-blue-eyes-blonde-who-wants-finland-first
I don't post on the OT board... arizona1 seems to be proud that your and my tax $$ have paid for her/his solar panels. Also, the reason Germany has such a high rate of renewable energy is because they pay up to 3 X more for their electricity than their neighbors.
It always seems to be such a great arrangement when it's other peoples money.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-06/can-we-afford-renewable-energy
Just imagine the mentality of the loons that keep voting these guys back into office and then also paying them a salary !
OK... Thanks.