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Woman Fired For Calling Michelle Obama An "Ape In Heels" Quietly Gets Her Job Back

Woman Fired For Calling Michelle Obama An "Ape In Heels" Quietly Gets Her Job Back

Pamela Taylor, the director of the Clay County Development Corp in West Virginia, who got some unwelcome fame for calling Michelle Obama an "Ape in Heels" on Facebook has just been cleared to go back to work.  According to the Chareleston Gazette-Mail, Taylor will return to work on December 23rd at the CCDC which received nearly $2.0mm in state and federal funding in 2014.

Pension Ponzi Squared: New Jersey Wants To Sell Debt To Its Own Insolvent Funds

Pension Ponzi Squared:  New Jersey Wants To Sell Debt To Its Own Insolvent Funds

After struggling to raise debt from third parties to repair crumbling infrastructure, the state of New Jersey has come up with a "clever" approach to fundraising that entails selling debt to their own insolvent pension funds...something we've dubbed the "Pension Ponzi Squared."  Of course, because when everybody else shuns your debt for being too risky who better to sell it to than yourself?

"We Are Watching The Long Game To Total Censorship Play Out"

"I don't believe any of this is a coincidence at all," explains TruthStream's Melissa Dykes.

"This is a coordinated effort to take everything that the government does not want people sharing online and slap labels on it: 'hate speech', 'cyber bullying', 'fake news', and now 'Russian propaganda' - mix it all together in a giant ball and justify censoring it. You can see, when you take a step back, how coordinated this effort really is."

Trump Officially Nominates Retired Marine General John Kelly As Homeland Security Secretary

Trump Officially Nominates Retired Marine General John Kelly As Homeland Security Secretary

This morning Trump has confirmed his intention to nominate retired Marine General John Kelly to head the Department of Homeland Security, a pick that had been rumored for days.  In a statement, Trump highlighted Kelly's experience in defending the homeland from threats of terrorism and said that he was the right person to "spearhead the urgent mission of stopping illegal immigration and securing our borders."

Now German Politicians Worried About "Striking Increase" In Russian Propaganda And Fake News

Now German Politicians Worried About "Striking Increase" In Russian Propaganda And Fake News

Either Russian intelligence officials have suddenly become extremely efficient at disrupting national elections in the world's largest democracies or the establishment leaders of those democracies have intentionally launched a coordinated, baseless witch hunt as a way to distract voters from their failed policies. We have our suspicions on which is more likely closer to the truth...

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