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Sales of the world's most popular handgun have collapsed under Trump presidency

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Fri, 12 Oct 2018 13:26 UTC
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Bloomberg opens up the door to a rare look at the corporate finances of the world's most popular handgun manufacturer and discovers sales have collapsed under the Trump presidency.

Before Donald Trump won the 2016 election, former President Obama was America's best gun salesman. Americans were panic buying firearms, as if the apocalypse was tomorrow, partly due to the fear of stricter federal gun laws. AR-15 style rifles and Glock pistols were some of the most popular items paranoid Americans had to have, and of course, ammunition, meal kits, water, and underground bunkers.

Glock Ges.m.b.H., the most popular handgun company in the world, experienced a rather sharp decline in sales during President Trump's first year in office. Bloomberg said Glock sold 36% fewer pistols in 2017 and revenue fell 35% to 464 million euros, the company is located in Austria, as per its latest annual report. Net income declined 58% to 67.9 million euros, following massive profits in the Obama era.
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MyHeritage scientist reveals it's frighteningly easy to track someone down via DNA


RT
Sat, 13 Oct 2018 12:58 UTC
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A scientist at Israeli genealogy firm MyHeritage has published a paper revealing that public genealogy databases can identify relatives - third cousins and closer - in nearly two-thirds of people of European descent.

This means that if your second cousin sent a DNA sample to MyHeritage or a company like it, that sample can be used to identify you too, especially if triangulated with other identifying information like geographic area or approximate age.

Yaniv Erlich, chief science officer at MyHeritage, estimates that as these databases continue to grow, investigators will soon have the ability to identify anyone in the US within a particular ethnicity given a sample of their DNA.

Comment: There are always positive and negative effects of the use of the growing human database. It is best to be aware of both sides of the coin.

Creating a suspect society out of thin air: The frightening side of the technological police state

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Sen. Ted Cruz describes the mob that surrounded and chased him and his wife out of a restaurant

Mike Brest
The Daily Caller
Sat, 06 Oct 2018 12:41 UTC
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Texas Senator Ted Cruz described an incident from Monday when him and his wife were chased out of a D.C. restaurant by protesters during an appearance Friday on Fox News' "Hannity."

"We showed up at a restaurant that we love, it's a delightful restaurant," Cruz began. "Unfortunately somehow the protesters were there waiting for us as we walked in, they surrounded us, they screamed at us, they basically shut down the restaurant and they made it impossible to have dinner."

"So Heidi and I got up to leave, they blocked her from getting out. When we left the restaurant, this actually has not been reported, but we left the restaurant, we went out the door and around the back alley," he continued. "This mob of about 15 screaming leftist protesters chased Heidi and me down the alley screaming and yelling at us. A waiter from the restaurant let us in the back door to the kitchen."
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Woman terrified after 'killer clown' tries to force way into her car


The Bolton News
Sat, 13 Oct 2018 12:05 UTC
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A driver was left terrified after a man wearing a killer clown mask tried to force his way into her car.

The shocked motorist was stopped at the lights of a busy junction in North Benfleet when she noticed a vehicle pull up too close behind her.

Reliving the ordeal on social media she explained: "I just want to make people who are local to us aware that we had an incident on Tuesday night in our car.

"We were followed up to the Pound Lane lights near Saddlers Farm.
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'Well Done Livingston': Banning The Sun was the right thing to do

Tommy Sheridan
Sputnik
Sat, 13 Oct 2018 11:28 UTC
The Sun Brexit
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I love football. It is my favourite sport. I've played it all my life and still turn out for charity games and a weekly 7 a side game. I am very deceiving on the park because I'm actually slower than I look.

My generous waistline and massive bum don't help when up against younger and fitter players but that failing body is the responsibility of my feet. They constantly take me into local fish and chip shops and the cream cake stands in Greggs the bakers. Naughty feet.

My team is the Famous Glasgow Celtic. My late dad used to take me to see them every week from around 6 years of age. But a couple of weeks ago another Scottish football team also won my support and respect. That team is newly promoted Livingston. They are now in Scotland's top Premier League. In fact they have lost only one game in eight, against my team on the first day of the season. A week past Sunday they beat Steven Gerard's Rangers team and that endeared me to them. However what they did on 27th September was even more impressive. The courageous Livi, also known as The Lions, banned the Scottish Sun (SS) newspaper and Sun Group papers from their stadium. Brilliant. Well done Livi.
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Cambridge University votes to use Remembrance Sunday as "productive criticism" of war

Camilla Turner
The Telegraph
Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:25 UTC
The Queen
© Stefan Rousseau/ PAThe Queen at the Cenotaph for Remembrance Sunday
Cambridge University's Student Union (CUSU) has voted down a motion to promote Remembrance Sunday amid fears about the "glorification" of conflict.

The motion called on the university, its Colleges and faculties to be "more proactive in promoting the cause of Remembrance". This could include asking for a minute's silence on Remembrance Sunday or sending email reminders to students about the availability of poppies, the motion said. It encouraged the commemoration of British veterans, adding that CUSU should "ensure that Remembrance Day becomes a well-established and well-marked event across the university".

But the motion, which was put forward by two members of the university's Conservative Association, was rejected by students during their first meeting of the new academic year.

Comment: The ideas don't appear to be mutually exclusive but the issue is much more complex which seems to be the real challenge for people's black and white thinking these days: One can be critical of war and its proponents, honour those who have sacrificed their lives to protect the world from tyranny while also questioning those who participated ignorant of the nuanced motivations of their country, meanwhile also honouring those who were innocent victims.

More pressing concerns are the recent and current wars waged in their name by their government, which, for the UK, would include: Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen.

See also: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Perfidious Albion: If Russia is a Rogue State, What is the UK?

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Social media is contributing to America's 'moral degradation'

Robert Kraychik
Breitbart
Fri, 12 Oct 2018 08:50 UTC
Jedediah Bila
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ABC and Fox News Channel alumnus Jedediah Bila, author of #DoNotDisturb: How I Ghosted My Cell Phone to Take Back My Life, linked the growing ubiquity of social media with "moral degradation" across America. She offered her remarks in a Friday interview with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on SiriusXM's Breitbart News Daily.

Bila described the genesis of her latest book: "I wrote the book because I was completely addicted to technology, and it was making me lose my mind. We're in this industry, we feel like we need to be plugged into a news cycle all day long. You feel like if you're not commenting on the news 24 hours a day, seven days a week, you're not going to be relevant. You have to be posting on Instagram, answering these trolls every now and then, then you put something out there and somebody comes back and negates it, you feel like you have to fact-check them. I mean, it never ends."

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Bila added, "This was going straight through the night. My workday had no end. I had the phone next to me [in] bed when I was sleeping. I would get up in the middle of the night and be answering these messages, and one day just woke up and realized my health was suffering. I was exhausted. I wasn't sleeping. I was restless, and I began to think about the implications of all of us not making eye contact anymore. Every conversation we have face-to-face is being interrupted by a buzzing device beckoning our attention elsewhere. People just treat each other really badly, now."

Comment: See also:

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Most of us are not participating in the hysterical rage shown on the news

Daisy Luther
The Organic Prepper
Tue, 09 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC
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If you were to read about the United States of America from someplace else, you'd probably think it was a nation full of people who are gearing up to go to war. Anyone would think the same thing from what they saw in the media. You would see hysterical rage fueling terrible acts. You'd see the intense hatred between people who belong to different political parties. You'd believe this is nationwide.

But it's not. Sure, there's some tension if you talk politics, but in most places, it isn't crazy in a life-threatening kind of way. Mostly, it's pretty friendly.

But this isn't the America of the media

When I went through the news today to search for a writing topic, it was like being hit with a wall of despair. Parts of the country are truly in bad shape. The venomous hatred is like nothing I've ever seen in this nation.
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Liberal outrage strikes out at Dwayne Johnson because he's not black enough to play folklore legend John Henry in new Netflix movie

Andrea Park
CBS News
Tue, 09 Oct 2018 21:58 UTC
Dwayne Johnson
Not everybody is happy that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is set to play folklore legend John Henry. The actor posted a teaser for "John Henry and the Statesmen" on Instagram on Tuesday. Henry is an African-American folk hero who, as a steel driver, raced against a steam machine and won, giving up his life in the process.

Johnson wrote on Instagram that he's excited to play one of his "childhood heroes." In the upcoming Netflix film, he will lead an ensemble of "the most popular folklore figures and legends from different cultures around the world." He continued, "@NETFLIX is the perfect partner & platform to bring these global folklore icons to life. ... The legend of JOHN HENRY'S strength, endurance, dignity and cultural pride was instilled in my DNA at a very young age. My dad would sing 'Big John' to me every time he would put me to bed." He released a brief video teaser along with the announcement.
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Australia is considering banning new migrants from big cities


The Week
Thu, 11 Oct 2018 22:45 UTC
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Australia is considering banning new migrants from living in its largest cities, under new plans to reduce congestion in urban areas.

Government data reveals that nearly 70% of the 186,000 migrants who moved to Australia last year arrived on skilled migrant visas and nearly all of them settled in Sydney or Melbourne.

Comment: Australia will welcome (sort of) high skill candidates but it has hardly been welcoming to refugees.

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