Human Interest

While emoting sympathy for Kim Jong Un's situation, President Trump told Reuters, during a lengthy interview ahead of his 100th day in office, that he'd "love to solve things diplomatically," but warned that "there is a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with North Korea."

Putting a somewhat human face on the North Korean leader, President Trump had an interesting response when asked by Reuters if he considered North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to be rational...

The US Is Now The Ultimate Police State

The US is without any doubt now the worst police state, not only in reality exceeding Gestapo Nazi Germany, but exceeding the human imagination of George Orwell and other authors of dystopias.

And this utterly corrupt criminal police state gets away with pretending to be the “defender of democracy and freedom.” The insouciant American population has no clue.

Freedom of speech is dead in America as are all other freedoms.

https://sputniknews.com/military/201704271053085139-us-detains-journalist-free-speech/

Amazon and Alphabet are surging after hours after big beats but Microsoft is fading (missed on revenues and capex) and Starbucks is sliding on a disappointing same store sales comp.

Alphabet Big Beat

• *ALPHABET 1Q EPS $7.73, GAAP EST. $7.42
• *ALPHABET 1Q PAID CLICKS +44%
• Q1 Revs. $24.75B vs. $24.22B Est.

Major decoupling from 2017 expectation still

Amazon Big Beat:

There was some snickering two days ago when it emerged that as his first paid speech appearance, former president Barack Obama who - at least on paper was a determined crusader against the big banks - will receive $400,000 for roughly an hour of his time from, well, a bank or rather Cantor Fitzgerald.

The great civil war of 2017 was supposed to commence on April 27th, at Berkeley. The lightening rod was going to be Ann Coulter, vehemently hated conservative firebrand by the left, who would've induced sheer and utter panic amongst the ANTIFA thugs who are, seemingly, unable to deal with freedom of speech.

Unfortunately, Coulter canceled the speech, blaming conservative sponsors are the reason for her change of heart.