Damn interesting?

[charles royer]

The Dutch Tulip Bubble of 1637
The later part of the 20th century saw its share of odd financial bubbles. There was the real-estate bubble, the stock market bubbles, and the dot com bubble, just to name a few. In each instance of price inflation people paid exorbitant amounts for things that shouldn’t have been worth anything like the going price. And each time people stood around afterwards and said “What were we thinking?”

One has to believe that the same thought occurred to the Dutch in the 17th century when they settled down after their bout with tulipomania, wherein the humble tulip bulb began to sell for prices to make New York Realtors blanch.

As much as the tulip is associated with Holland, it is not native there. Rather it was introduced in 1593 by a botanist named Carolus Clusius, who brought it from Constantinople. He planted a small garden, intending to research the plant for medicinal purposes. Had Clusius’s neighbors been morally upright, the tulip might still be a rare exotic in the gardening world. Instead they broke into his garden and stole some of his bulbs in order to make some quick money, and in the process started the Dutch bulb trade
http://www.damninteresting.com/the-dutch-tulip-bubble-of-1637/
Just sayin!

[kevin kiernan]

Trump likes to keep the rumor mill spinning..http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/25/media/donald-trump-rupert-murdoch-s...

[charles royer]

What are military UN trucks doing in Virginia? Bemused motorists spot white 'combat vehicles' on the interstate

U.N. 'tactical vehicles' have been spotted in Virginia driving on interstate
Motorists have been positing pictures online sparking debate about them
One website asks if the U.N. is preparing for economic collapse in America
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3661842/What-military-truck...

[kevin kiernan]

[The Bull]

No story here the trucks are just going from the Manufacturer to the Port to be shipped out.

[charles royer]

A mere 20 years ago, responding to pressure from then-President Clinton to de-emphasize Arab international terrorism, FBI head Louis Freeh shifted the agency’s focus from foreign terrorists to domestic terrorists or “rightwing extremists.” As a direct consequence, 40 boxes of evidence from the first World Trade Center attack in 1993 that would have revealed valuable information about Al Qaeda operations were never reviewed and key evidence, including the presence of Arab nationals at U.S. flight schools, was ignored.

In the same way, serious evidence of Middle Eastern involvement in the Oklahoma City bombing that claimed 168 lives, injured more than 680 people and damaged 324 buildings within a 16 block radius was ignored. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) alluded to this in his 2006 Chairman’s Report for the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee on the attack. Rohrabacher cited suspicions of meetings and phone calls between bombing accomplice Terry Nichols and convicted 1993 World Trade Center (WTC) mastermind Ramzi Yousef. Similarly, the attack strategy and mechanics resembled the first WTC bombing. Finally, multiple witnesses reported seeing Hussain Hashem al-Hussaini, an Iraqi connected to Saddam Hussein’s Republican Guard, in the company of McVeigh prior to the bombing, leaving the truck used in the attack, and driving away prior to the blast. These significant similarities didn’t even warrant an investigation by the Clinton administration.
- See more at: http://www.westernfreepress.com/2013/06/03/u-s-ignores-muslim-broth...

[charles royer]

$15 minimum wage!
A robot-powered burger joint is coming to San Francisco.

In 2012, secretive robotics startup Momentum Machines debuted a machine that could crank out 400 made-to-order hamburgers in an hour. It's fully autonomous, meaning the robot can slice toppings, grill a patty, and assemble and bag the burger without any help from humans. The internet flipped out.

Years of relative silence ensued, but in January, Hoodline's Brittany Hopkins learned that the San Francisco-based startup had applied for a building permit to convert a ground-floor retail space in the SoMa neighborhood into a restaurant.

Now it looks like the restaurant is actually happening. A job posting on Craigslist from early June gives us our first glimpse into how the company's future flagship, presumably opening soon, might work.
http://www.techinsider.io/momentum-machines-is-hiring-2016-6

[kevin kiernan]

Robots will take the job away even at 8 bucks an hour. Robots do not call in sick or complain. Corporations only care about the money. But at least the Robots will need maintenance.

[jack ludwig]

for those that have money or jobs it's the only way to get better service and quality products if it is done by a robot. Counting on a human to do a good job is a dream that has long past.

[The Bull]

The New Modern Laissez-faire Constitutionalism

By James Russell

New Modern Laissez-faire Constitutionalism.

• ·       The ideology reflects classical economic freedom, with its commitment to market control of the economy, a preference for entrepreneurial liberty, and a concomitant hostility to governmental regulation. 
• ·       The embrace of traditional American values, including individualism, access to opportunity, and hostility to restraints on competition by government regulation;
• ·       A view that progressivism, socialism, organized labor, open and unregulated international trade, is a threat to individual liberties and is contrary to traditional concepts of capitalism.
• ·       A vigorous pursuit of equality of justice, and opportunity, for all citizens and legal residents, without ethnic or economic constraints on personal freedom.
• ·       A strong sense that the seventeenth amendment has corrupted the natural checks and balances designed into the Constitution to minimize the viral influence of special interest groups and has minimized state ability to retain its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States Government by its Constitution and therefore needs to be repealed.
• ·       A separation from Gold and Silver coinage has lead to this governments unrestrained and uncontrolled spending and has placed the United States in jeopardy of loosing its national security and sovereignty. A return to the constitutionally mandated gold standard is needed to place a constraint on government spending.
• ·       The secular nature of our courts today makes necessary for a Constitutional Amendment to codify into legal statutes, the unalienable and natural rights of men to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness this is necessary because the courts no longer recognizes rights given by God to be law.
• ·       Due to the recent view that the Constitution is merely symbolic by our congress it is necessary to require a comprehensive review of all government laws and regulations to ensure compliance to strict Constructional principles all other laws need to be summarily dismissed as unconstitutional.

 

We need immigration but we do not need open borders. We need international trade but we need to have fair and equal trade regulations with nations that we are trading with.

[charles royer]

We need international trade but we need to have fair and equal trade regulations with nations that we are trading with.
By congressional Design! Time to stop them lining their own pockets. It's now or never!IMO

[jack ludwig]

purchases are made on the perception of the buyer's perceived value of the product or service. No law or trade policy will change that reality. Just think of every product or service that is provided by a foreign country, the exact product or service is also provided by American companies, yet most buyers prefer the foreign goods. Why, because they perceive they are getting more value for their buck. 

[The Bull]

There was a show on the TV last night they were at a Harley Davison shop in China the sales person said that the Bike cost $100,000.00 dollars to buy in China the reason was primarily import taxes, and other taxes that targeted exclusively Harley Davison imports.  Meanwhile the Chinese have built a knockoff that

looks identical and sells it for $17899.00.