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Easier to start a business in former Soviet republic than in some US states, says economist

Tess Bonn
The Hill
Fri, 13 Jul 2018 13:17 UTC
closed sign business
It's easier to get a business license in Estonia than in some U.S. states, according to American economist Richard Rahn.

Rahn, who is the chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth, says despite starting a business in most states being relatively easy, it all comes down to the kind of business someone is trying to open.

"You have all of these little rules and regulations that say you want to be a flower arranger," Rahn told Hill.TV "Rising" co-host Buck Sexton.

Rahn pointed to Louisiana as a prime example of how challenging regulations can be for aspiring business owners.

"In the state of Louisiana there was a state licensing board that would determine if Buck Sexton knew how to put flowers in a vase in a proper way," Rahn said.

Comment: Nothing like the crushing weight of bureaucracy to strangle the small business owner to death. See also: Collapse: The nine dynamics of decay, the lifestyle of bureaucracy

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Horrific: California couple punch their 30-week unborn baby to death - charges unlikely due to abortion law


Life Site
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 13:17 UTC
pregnant woman
© West Coast Surfer / Global Look Press
(Society for the Protection of Unborn Children) - The parents of a baby girl who died of catastrophic injuries shortly after birth have been accused of deliberately killing her, according to court documents.

The unnamed couple arrived at Kern Medical in Bakersfield, California to give birth on 24th May. The woman was about 30 weeks pregnant.

Horrendous attack

Medical staff found that the baby girl was suffering from a fractured skull and spinal injuries, "traumatic injuries... that led to the child's death" shortly afterwards. They also noticed "severe bruising" on the woman's stomach, and, suspicious of her explanation that she'd fallen while mopping, called the police.

During the police interview, the woman admitted that having decided together that they didn't want the baby, she and her boyfriend agreed for him to beat her in an attempt to kill the baby.

Police say she told them he struck her stomach with his fists "at least 10 times," and squeezed her, after which she "stopped feeling the baby move."

In a separate interview, police say the boyfriend denied hurting the woman or the unborn child.
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Network

Cleanup: Obama loses 2 Million followers in Twitter's crackdown on fake accounts

Will Sommer & Kevin Poulsen.
Daily Beast
Fri, 13 Jul 2018 12:27 UTC
Former President Barack Obama lost more than 2 million Twitter followers on Thursday as the social-networking platform launched a new crackdown on fake accounts, according to a preliminary analysis from The Daily Beast.
Obama
© Reuters
At press time, the Twitter purge had cost Obama 2,346,119 followers, or more than two percent of his audience on the site. With more than 101 million remaining followers, Obama remains the third most-followed person on the site, a few million followers behind singers Katy Perry and Justin Bieber.

Other major political accounts were also hit by the purge, with President Trump losing 325,038 followers so far, a 0.7-percent decrease. As the first day of the Twitter purge wrapped up, Trump had more than 53 million followers left.

Comment: We don't know the criteria twitter used to purge the accounts, it looks politicians are not alone in these purges.
Katy Perry, the most popular user on all of Twitter, saw about 3 million followers disappear, bringing her total down to 107 million. Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift lost about 2 million each. Social media maven Kim Kardashian West lost about 1.5 million followers.

Some users quickly took notice, like 2012 presidential candidate Herman Cain, who tweeted, "...And just like that, 10K followers vanish." He added in another tweet, "Look, if they're genuinely fake or dead accounts, I have no problem with it. ...But how do we know?"
These twitter fake account counts are another proof that there is no fake social media influence in the election of Trump or "Russian meddling in the US elections".

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Gun battle between Mexican soldiers and drug cartel outside Wal-Mart near border with Texas

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Fri, 13 Jul 2018 09:40 UTC
Soldados montan guardia en el penal de Topo Chico en Monterrey, Mexico, el 11 de febrero de 2016.
© Daniel Becerril / ReutersMexican soldiers outside Topo Chico jail in Monterrey, Mexico, February 11, 2016.
Laredo Morning Times, a daily newspaper based in Texas, said a series of gun battles erupted earlier this week in west Nuevo Laredo, a city that resides across from Laredo, Texas, and ended near a Wal-Mart shopping center in the Sister City by Avenida Reforma and Bulevar Emiliano Zapata.

Mexican soldiers military
© Breitbart Texas / Cartel Chronicles
According to Breitbart News, the violence began Tuesday morning when Mexican military forces conducted a series of raids aimed at capturing the leadership of the Los Zetas faction called Cartel Del Noreste. Cartel gunmen immediately responded, setting off numerous gun battles across the region in the neighborhoods called Nueva Era, Voluntad y Trabajo, and La Fe, which some of these areas are less than one mile away from Texas.

Comment: The Mexican president elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador has promised a different approach:

Mexican President-elect AMLO to seek negotiated peace in drug war

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No Entry

US drowning in trash after China refuses to import Western recyclables


RT
Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:53 UTC
trash recycling waste dump
© Brian Snyder / Reuters
Hundreds of tons of waste that Americans believed they were recycling is now piling up in processing plants or being dumped into landfills, as China's decision to stop buying garbage for environmental reasons begins to bite.

Beijing's 2017 decision to ban imports of 24 varieties of trash brought to light the real destination of most Western recyclables: They were shipped to Chinese factories, where they would be cleaned up and repurposed into raw materials. China bought half of all US scrap last year, and has recycled 72 percent of all the world's plastic since 1992, according to a study in the journal Science Advances.

All of that abruptly came to a halt when China decided to stop almost all imports of paper and plastic waste, and have set a .5 percent ceiling on contaminants in cardboard and metal waste, which most US trash processing plants have been unable to meet.
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Snakes in Suits

House Dems introduce bill to abolish ICE


RT
Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:53 UTC
abolish ICE protest
© Joshua Roberts / ReutersProtesters call for the abolition of ICE outside the Justice Department, Washington DC
The far left's calls to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) took one step closer to reality, as progressive House Democrats introduced a bill that would disband the agency and shift its duties to other agencies.

The bill, sponsored by Democrat Representatives Mark Pocan (Wisconsin), Pramila Jayapal (Washington) and Adriano Espaillat (New York) is the first effort by liberal Democrats to legislate the controversial agency out of existence, and was introduced on Thursday.

Its sponsors argue that ICE has become a "militarized" deportation force, used by the Trump administration to "terrorize our communities" with "unchecked power," according to Pocan.

Comment: Further reading: Antifa: Growth of an American Insurgency

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Wall Street

Trump's 'colorblind' job boom continues


Investor's Business Daily
Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:53 UTC
Trump
'Inclusive' Boom: It may be a surprise, but President Trump is nowhere near as unpopular among minority voters as the biased mainstream media suggest. Why is that? In a word, jobs.

Trump, it turns out, has been the most consequential president in history when it comes to minority employment. In June, for instance, the unemployment rate for Hispanics and Latinos 16 years and older fell to 4.6%, its lowest level ever, from 4.9% in May. The previous all-time low was 4.8%.

African-American unemployment bounced up from its all-time low of 5.9% in May to 6.5% in June. But that 6.5% still represents the second-lowest unemployment reading ever for Black Americans.
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Mr. Potato

'No risk to public' but police shut down Salisbury anyway as man "falls ill" near restaurant where Skripals ate


RT
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 19:45 UTC
salisbury man ill
© iCod/Twitter"Major activity in #Salisbury. Police and search and rescue running into the railway station. Sirens audible for ages. Road shut in city centre , tent being erected here."
A new incident has occurred in the British town of Salisbury that hit the news in relation to the poisoning of a Russian ex-spy and his daughter. A man has passed out in the town center, provoking an emergency response.

UK police have closed a road in Salisbury after a man "in his 30s" had reportedly "fallen ill" right outside the Zizzi restaurant in Wiltshire, where the former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, had dined on the day of the chemical attack, in which a nerve agent -dubbed Novichok- was used.

Emergency services have been seen outside the restaurant as police cordoned off the area. The Police have confirmed the incident in a Twitter post but provided no details. The reasons behind it remain unknown.

Comment: If they carry on at this rate, British intelligence and the propaganda pushers will have a field day once flu season arrives.

For more on what is actually going on, see: And check out SOTTs' new show: NewsReal: Novi-shock! Devious Russians Tire of Spectacular World Cup, Poison Innocent Brits For Laughs



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Proof of blatant misinformation by mainstream media in 2018 Douma chemical weapons attack

clarityofsignal
Steemit
Tue, 10 Jul 2018 09:31 UTC
Douma Attack
The following post will highlight the differences (misinformation) between what is presented in the official Wikipedia page on the April 7th, 2018 alleged chemical weapons attack in Dhouma, Syria and the official OPCW report (released July 6, 2018) in relation to MSM reporting and evidence at the Wikipedia page on the subject. The alleged attack was reported to the US authorities and mainstream media by the White Helmets who have been exposed as terrorists posing as humanitarian rescuers of small children. Extensive evidence proving the White Helmets are actually linked to al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda and ISIS terrorists will be provided at the conclusion of this post.

The following screenshots display what is currently, as of July 9, 2018, at the Wikipedia page on the April 7th, 2018 Dhouma alleged chemical weapons attack. Provided below the page screen shots will be additional extensive evidentiary material that has either been removed from the page previously or not included, thus proving that the page is highly inaccurate when it comes to what actually took place at Dhouma, Syria on April 7, 2018, and is presented by official Wikipedia editors. The additional non-included information brings the entire Wikipedia page and its 'official' sources into question and disrepute.

Link to page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douma_chemical_attack

Comment: As noted, Wikipedia is NOT a reliable source for information and is really just an establishment psyop. See also: Eyewitness in Douma: Syrian Civilians from Ground Zero Expose Chemical Weapons Hoax

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Looking East: The West's answer to Liberalism gone mad lies in Russia

Robert Bridge
Strategic Culture Foundation
Wed, 11 Jul 2018 04:28 UTC
Progressive
Just a few years ago, it would have been exceedingly difficult to imagine Russia serving as a model for not only civil society and common sense, but the very bedrock of conservative beliefs. And therein lays the reason, I suspect, for the West's extreme dislike for this sprawling landmass of 11 times zones: It holds up a large mirror to the ugly face of Liberalism itself.

As Liberals in the West continue to push their radical ideas to the breaking point, dabbling in social engineering projects that border on the insane, Russia has brushed off the ashes of its Soviet past and is restructuring its society along the line of conservative thinking. This chameleon act attests to the Russian peoples' deep-seeded need for normalcy, predictability and a smooth-functioning social and political system above all else. In fact, that largely explains why communism failed here in the first place. The Russian people were able to swallow their pride and admit that the Soviet system was broke and needed replaced.
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