Authored by Darius Shahtahmasebi via TheAntiMedia.org,
Generally speaking, people can be lumped into three main categories.
The first category consists of the typical apathetic, celebrity-idol worshiping citizen who watched Miley Cyrus twerk on stage at the VMA Awards in 2013 and gossiped with his or her friends for a straight week afterward. This group buys this sort of nonsense as a source of entertainment.
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
When the parties do finally implode, the general mood will be: good riddance.
History informs us that once something is obsolete, it can disappear far faster than anyone expected. While we generally think of obsoleted technologies vanishing, social and political systems can become obsolete as well.
Walter Shaub, an attorney and the director of the government’s ethics office who regularly clashed with President Trump over his business interests, submitted his resignation on Thursday. He is leaving his office nearly six months before the end of his term. Shaub's last day as the head of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) will be on July 19, according to his resignation letter to Donald Trump which he posted on his Twitter account.
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— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) July 6, 2017
Authored by David Stockman via The Daily Reckoning,
Back in the 1950s when GM had 50% of the auto market they always said that, “As General Motors goes, so goes the nation.”
Benjamin Brafman, attorney for former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli has based Shkreli's defense on the notion that, while his client may have misled investors in hedge funds and pharmaceutical companies that he controlled, most of them made money thanks to Shkreli's business acument and investing prowess.