AMAZON TO BUY WHOLE FOODS David Brewster So Amazon is buying Whole Foods. Does this mean, as this article argues, that Amazon wants to take over the whole world? “The grocery stocks are down today, but they shouldn’t be the only companies trembling: Google, Apple, and even Uber are threatene[...]
Archive for June, 2017
A Friend Confuses Liberalism With Ayn Rand
A friend writes: I am not a progressive like you. This explains why you have a need to introduce me as a Republican, thereby demonizing and marginalizing me in Progressive Seattle. P.s., I’m a pretty hard core atheist. I answer: Your are write. I do sometimes refer to you as a Republican. I apol[...]
June 16th, 2017 - 10:11 am § in Misc.
North Korea Announces Its Own iPAD
Myohyang IT, a state-owned North Korean tech company, just announced a new tablet that will raise some eyebrows: It’s called . . . the iPad. That’s right. While North Korea hasn’t exactly been respectful of intellectual property and trademarks in the past, this blatant violation se[...]
June 16th, 2017 - 7:06 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: 6/16
AMAZON TO BUY WHOLE FOODS RUSSIA CLAIMS TO HAVE KILLED THE CALIPH OF ISIS U.S. Senate votes near unanimously for Russia, Iran sanctions | A visit by the Dalai Lama is dividing UCSD because 14% of students are from China Global stocks pressured by report on Trump probe, Fed hike, soft U.S. data Most [...]
June 16th, 2017 - 5:00 am § in Misc.
TRUMP TWEETS
“I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director! Witch Hunt,”[...]
June 16th, 2017 - 1:20 am § in Hypocrisy
Was The London Fire Terrorism by The Rich?
Charles Mudede 15 hrs · The Stranger · The London housing tower was erected in the early 1970s. Did fine for more than 40 years. Then yesterday, it suddenly burned to a crisp. Was it a terrorist bomb that made the fire so fierce? Numerous people thought so, and began tweeting racist attacks at [...]
June 16th, 2017 - 12:01 am § in Hypocrisy, The Ave Scene
Legal Thuggery Under the Bar
Law student who turned her life around can’t take bar exam because of her past Tarra Simmons, a nurse and mother of three, survived drug addiction, divorce, loss of her house and served 20 months behind bars. In prison she became excited by lawyers. She went on to win virtually every acade[...]
June 15th, 2017 - 10:58 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: 6/17
Trump leak an intelligence catastrophe ABOUT 4,000 MORE US TROOPS TO GO TO AFGHANISTAN Kurds Seek to Expand Reach in Northern Syria Washington – Arrest Warrants Out For Turkish Agents, Others In DC Melee Unable to Pay Bills, Illinois May Halt All Road Work… China overturns rejections[...]
June 15th, 2017 - 9:58 pm § in Misc.
CHARTER SCHOOLS .. pros and cons
Charter schools may provide a better option for children when traditional public schools fail but are they the answer to systemic problems in US education? Kristen Saloomey Kristen Saloomey is a New York-based correspondent for Al Jazeera who has been honoured by the United Nations Foundation for [...]
June 15th, 2017 - 2:44 pm § in Donald Trump
TRUMP FU to JUSTICE DEPT
Trump attacks his own Department of Justice: ‘Clintons and Dems dealings with Russia are not looked at’[...]