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Billions Wasted: Structures Built For 2016 Olympics In Brazil Are Now In Ruins

Billions Wasted: Structures Built For 2016 Olympics In Brazil Are Now In Ruins

Submitted by Alice Salles via TheAntiMedia.org,

The 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil cost Brazilian taxpayers $4.6 billion, conservative estimates show. But once related expenses covered by the Brazilian government are factored in, the overall costs hit the $12 billion mark, which equates to about 0.72 percent of Brazil’s national budget.

Irrespective Of Travel Ban, Trump Has Broad Executive Powers On Immigration Enforcement

If eight years under Obama rule, 6 of which included Republican majorities in Congress, taught us anything, it's that Presidents have fairly broad authority to govern through executive orders and rules changes implemented at the 100's of government agencies responsible for overseeing our every move.  Fortunately for the Trump administration, this broad Presidential authority extends to immigration laws and, despite his recent defeat in the 9th Circuit, grants the executive branch of the federal government broad authority on vetting immigrants and enforcing immigration laws.  Per Bloomberg:

Dear Disaffected Hillary Protesters: Michael Moore Really Wants To Lead Your "Resistance"

Dear Disaffected Hillary Protesters:  Michael Moore Really Wants To Lead Your "Resistance"

Michael Moore, the ultra-liberal documentary filmmaker who infamously predicted a Trump victory well before election night last November by stunningly calling Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania for the Republican nominee, has since had a noticeably difficult time processing the victory that he, himself, predicted long before anyone else.  Meanwhile, Moore's inability to come to terms with Trump's presence in the White House has since resulted in his very public broadcast of multiple nervous breakdowns over various social media outlets for all to see. 

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