America

“The most hated man in America” is going to prison over a joke.

Late Wednesday, Brooklyn Judge Kiyo Matsumoto ordered that former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli’s bail be revoked after prosecutors claimed that a Facebook post published by Shkreli on Sept. 4 was tantamount to an invitation to assault on Hillary Clinton during her upcoming book tour. In a letter demanding a bail hearing, the former hedge fund manager was described as a “threat to the community.”

Authored by Kevin Muir via The Macro Tourist blog,

It seems like the only time Canada makes the news is when America elects some right wing President the Hollywood elite don’t like, and they all threaten to move to Canada.

Authored by Eric Peters via EricPetersAutos.com,

Since they can’t sell electric cars – not enough of them, anyhow – and not without subsidies so huge they amount to outright bribes – the solution appears to be to outlaw all cars except electric cars.

This is no joke.

Two days after Equifax revealed that hackers had stolen the sensitive information of more than 143 million customers, prompting a deluge of lawsuits from outraged consumers alleging everything from negligence to outright fraud, the credit-security company’s CEO Richard Smith has chosen the op-ed pages of USA Today – America’s largest circulation newspaper – as the venue for a platitude-laden apology that we imagine will provide scant comfort to individuals who are now having their identities “repurposed” for all manner of nefarious purposes.

Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,

When will America finally wake up? 

The borrower is the servant of the lender, and we now have a colossal 20 trillion dollar chain around our collective ankles.