From Jenna Orkin

How Foods You Eat Actually Grow video

Japanese Purchases Of US Treasurys Tumble

Norway's $1.1 Trillion Wealth Fund Goes All-In On Asset Bubbles, Seeks Permission To Invest In Private Equity

Mohammed Is Most Popular Name For Newborn Boys In Holland For 2nd Year Straight

Prince Alwaleed Moved To Highest Security Saudi Prison After Refusing To Pay $6 Billion For Freedom: Report

Chernobyl Disaster Site Transformed From Monumental Sarcophagus To Massive Solar Plant
As symbolism, this is gold.

UK Construction Giant With 43,000 Employees Collapses

How One Employee "Pushed The Wrong Button" And Unleashed Doomsday Panic Across Hawaii

A plane in Turkey skidded off an icy runway and landed halfway down a cliff face just feet from the ocean

Spain has told Catalonia's ousted president he isn't allowed to rule the region via Skype

Saudi Arabia is starting to screen films after decades-long ban lifted

A new study found that 700 Amazon employees in Ohio are on food stamps

The floor of the Jakarta Stock Exchange has collapsed, injuring at least 72

Big pharma is getting ready to spend tax reform dollars on big deals

From Jenna Orkin

Chelsea Manning Files for Senate Run in Maryland

When Intelligence Agencies Make Backroom Deals With the Media, Democracy Loses

With Saudi princes dead, arrested, King Fahd's grandson flees kingdom to... Iran

EnGaged:  Carolyn Gage On Stage and Off
My newly released short film.

World’s Top-Ranked Crypto Exchange Adds 240,000 Users… In One Hour

3 Million Barrels Per Day Could Go Offline In 2018 - VZ

Fed Paid $29.3 Billion To Banks 'Not' To Lend In 2017; Gave $80 Billion To Treasury

China's Official Military Newspaper Warns: "War Is Not Far"

Shocking Footage Shows Crowd Of Hungry Venezuelans Slaughtering A Cow In The Open

Sweden could be the first economy to introduce its own cryptocurrency, called the e-krona
It seems like only yesterday they were going cashless.

One walk through Seattle's 'Amazonia' neighborhood made me very uneasy for whatever city gets HQ2

Steve Bannon suggests Trump's lawyer 'took care' of 'a hundred' women during the presidential campaign

Unsealed search warrants reveal new details about the Las Vegas mass shooting that killed 58 people

From Jenna Orkin

 

NB:  This blog may become intermittent for a while.

With Saudi princes dead, arrested, King Fahd's grandson flees kingdom to... Iran

EnGaged:  Carolyn Gage On Stage and Off
My newly released short film.

World’s Top-Ranked Crypto Exchange Adds 240,000 Users… In One Hour

3 Million Barrels Per Day Could Go Offline In 2018 - VZ

Fed Paid $29.3 Billion To Banks 'Not' To Lend In 2017; Gave $80 Billion To Treasury

China's Official Military Newspaper Warns: "War Is Not Far"

Shocking Footage Shows Crowd Of Hungry Venezuelans Slaughtering A Cow In The Open

Sweden could be the first economy to introduce its own cryptocurrency, called the e-krona
It seems like only yesterday they were going cashless.

One walk through Seattle's 'Amazonia' neighborhood made me very uneasy for whatever city gets HQ2

Steve Bannon suggests Trump's lawyer 'took care' of 'a hundred' women during the presidential campaign

Unsealed search warrants reveal new details about the Las Vegas mass shooting that killed 58 people

From Jenna Orkin

2017 crushed a major temperature record and scientists are sounding the alarm

These Birds of Prey Are Deliberately Setting Forests on Fire

Wall Street Bank With Three Felonies Sends Employee To Head SEC Trading Division

Facebook Introducing Sweeping Changes: Will Prioritze Only "Trustworthy" News

Mexican Interior Minister Resigns Amid Soaring Murders; US Warns "Do Not Travel" To Mexico

Mexicans Work More Hours Every Year Than Any Other Nation

Angry Protesters Burn EU Flags As Chaos Strikes Bulgaria

Greeks Go On Strike To Be Allowed To Strike

Russia Secretly Simulated A Full-Scale War Against NATO: Report

World Stocks Hit New All Time High; Hong Kong Up For Record 14 Straight Days

Legendary investor T. Boone Pickens is shutting down his energy-focused hedge fund

Chrissy Teigen calls out Seal for accusing Oprah of having knowledge of Harvey Weinstein's alleged sexual misconduct 'for decades'
Oooohhh.  Well there goes that presidential aspiration.

Walmart is abruptly closing 63 Sam's Club stores and laying off thousands of workers

 
Democrats are torn over whether Kirsten Gillibrand can be their 2020 savior from Trump

From Jenna Orkin

Fake News and False Flags How the Pentagon paid a British PR firm $500 million for top secret Iraq propaganda

Snopes confirms in principal, if not the precise amount

New York City plans to divest $5bn from fossil fuels and sue oil companies

Inmates Can't Receive Donated Books Anymore, They Have to Buy Them

Feinstein Admits She Was Mentally Unstable When Releasing Fusion GPS Transcript

Project Veritas Exposes Twitter "Shadow Banning", Blocking Opposing Views

Thai police catch Japanese crime boss after photos of his full-body tattoos went viral online
Denmark and Greenland have signed deal to clean up waste the US military left on the Arctic island

A top think-tank has warned that cyber attacks on nuclear weapons could lead to accidental launches

Inside the biggest fish market in the world where a single tuna can sell for millions of dollars

A US investigation is underway after footage of a soldier firing into what appears to be a civilian truck surfaces onlineAnd along with that investigation, new, improved regs about posting online.

Lights Out At CES: World's Largest Electronics Show Plunges Into Darkness

From Jenna Orkin

Fusion GPS Lawyer : "Somebody's Already Been Killed" Because Of Trump Dossier

Former Idaho State Rep Commits Suicide After Sexual Assault Allegations

"A Strange Coincidence": US Spy Plane Circled Near Russian Base During Massive Drone Attack

Venezuela Oil Production Plummets To 28 Year Low Amid Chaos, Corruption

Buffett: "I Would Buy A Five-Year Put On Every Cryptocurrency"

Zimbabwe's post-Mugabe regime is opening up the economy — as the new leaders consolidate power

Dubai is getting these stunning $23 million floating villas that can withstand sea level rise

North Korea is sending its popular cheer squad to the Olympics, suggesting the country has been secretly preparing for months

You can now rent a Kodak-branded bitcoin-mining rig — but you'll have to hand over half of the profits you make

Inside the battle between an anti-Putin banker and the firm that produced the Trump-Russia dossier

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Feinstein posts testimony of Fusion GPS co-founder

After Government Corruption-Driven Mistrial, Judge Dismisses Case Against Bundys

China's Richest Woman Just Made $2 Billion In 4 Days

Baltimore Residents Use GoFundMe To Buy Heaters For Broken, Freezing Schools

"Meanwhile, Baltimore City is spending $1,630 per student on administrative costs, which is the highest in the United States for a public school system. The one question everyone should ask: where does all the money go?"

CEO Of Porn-Focused Cryptocurrency Disappears With Investors' Money

Firearms Sold By Washington State Police Ended Up In The Hands Of Criminals

Iran Sanctions Will Help China's Petro-Yuan

Russia Defends Syrian Military Bases From Massive Drone Attack

British men spend nearly 15% more time relaxing than women

Amazon is making a major play for Windows PCs

Turkey's Erdogan says the US conviction of a Turkish banker is a CIA and FBI 'political coup attempt'

Here are the US states where more people are dying than being born

A highly classified US spy satellite is missing due to a SpaceX mission failure

North and South Korea will hold military talks to reduce tensions after a year on the nuclear brink

From Jenna Orkin

What Would Happen If All the Coral Reefs Died? - FB

Technofixes will lead to Jevons Paradox.

False Memories - Pros and Cons - FB

Gives a whole new meaning to "fake news."

Europe Becomes Victim Of Russia's Newest Oil Strategy

Estonian State-Backed Cryptocurrency Moves One Step Closer to Reality

Grand Jury Empaneled In $10 Million Fraud Probe Involving Jane And Bernie Sanders

Sydney was the hottest place on Earth on Sunday

After mass protests, Iran bans English in schools to fight Western 'cultural invasion'

Shadows picked up by satellites suggest Saudi Arabia under reported its oil stores last year

Saudi Arabia is giving many of its citizens $3000 for free

A worker at one of the Chinese companies that builds iPhones killed himself jumping out of a window
Glad to see they've improved conditions since the previous times.

Steve Bannon issues lengthy apology walking back his explosive comments in new tell-all book

Trump to open the floodgates on selling US-made weapons to previously restricted buyers

Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan caught fire

From Jenna Orkin

Michael Wolff Did What Every Other White House Reporter Is Too Cowardly to Do

Pea Milk video.

Wikileaks Publishes Michael Wolff's Entire Sold Out Trump Book As A PDF

Bannon Apologizes: "Donald Trump Jr. Is A Patriot And A Good Man"

Robots Have Replaced Humans In 25% Of China's Ammunition Factories

WSJ Is Seeking A Moscow Bureau Chief: Oath To Russiagate Required, Russian Language Skills Are Not

Global Debt Hits Record $233 Trillion, Up $16Tn In 9 Months

Where China’s Top Leaders Will Hide To Survive A Nuclear War

US Releases Footage Showing US Intercepts Of Russian Fighter Jets Over Baltic

One Dead After Grenade Explosion At Stockholm Subway Station

From Jenna Orkin

Bloomberg's Guide To The World'

Iran's Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Arrested For Inciting Unrest: Report

North Sea Wind Power Hub to supply renewable energy to 80 million

The FBI quietly released documents from the 2016 Orlando nightclub massacre — and the shooter's wife made a stunning admission

China Is Building Its Second Foreign Military Base In Pakistan Amid US Diplomatic Scandal

I know why Steve Bannon let Michael Wolff into the White House

Americans Are Ditching These Five States In Record Numbers

"Record Lows From Bangor to Charleston": Bomb Cyclone Ushers In Brutal Cold, Ice Storm

NASA's $1 billion Jupiter probe has taken mind-bending new photos of the gas giant

France was the first country to ban supermarkets from throwing away unused food — and the world is taking notice