He’s derided them as “bot-infested badlands,” “dysfunctional and sometimes dystopian,” and platforms for “the fake, the faux and the fallacious.” On a recent earnings call, he called them “mephitic,” prompting his spokesman to tweet the definition: “foul smelling.”
— Read on www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-01/murdoch-s-ceo-waxes-lyrical-in-crusade-for-facebook-payments

Greedy and corrupt is not a good business model

U.S. President Donald Trump struck a defiant tone on Friday, saying trade wars were good and easy to win, after his plan to put tariffs on steel and aluminum imports triggered threats of retaliation from trading partners and a slide in stock markets.
— Read on www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade/trade-wars-are-good-trump-says-defying-global-concern-over-tariffs-idUSKCN1GE1PM

Even up the playing field

When news broke this week that the chairman of CEFC China Energy, an acquisitive conglomerate, was being investigated for economic crimes, one particular group gulped – dealmakers involved with Chinese companies.
— Read on www.reuters.com/article/us-china-companies-analysis/chinas-latest-conglomerate-crackdown-casts-dealmaking-shadow-idUSKCN1GE18D

In 1991, at the end of Desert

Storm, a 19 yr. old US Army Cavalry Scout Private who had

just spent 8 months at war sat out

on a street at Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia.

He sat there

on his duffle bag with his Battalion around him for 4 days

waiting for the buses to come and take him to the King Fahad

Airport so he could go home.

Unfortunately, the politicians of the day never planned for

how to bring so many soldiers home after the war ended so

there was a shortage of planes. Politicians are great at

talking, but terrible at doing.

Finally, the buses came, and took the young man to the

airport. The planes waiting were from Tower Air.  The owner

of Tower Air had volunteered his planes and staff to bring

soldiers home for the cost of fuel only.

Happily, the young veteran got home just in time for Easter

weekend in 1991, and spent that time emotionally healing

with friends and family surrounding him.

That

Private

was me, Ron Knouse.  The Airline owner –

Donald J Trump.

Written by Ron Knouse

“The pension crisis is inching closer by the day… Cities point to possible insolvency if payments keep rising but CalPERS is near insolvency itself. It may be reform or bailout soon.”

— Read on www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-24/former-calpers-board-members-shocking-admission-calpers-near-insolvency-it-needs

No money to follow

A person close to Nikolas Cruz, the teenager who killed 17 people at a Florida high school on Valentines day, warned the FBI that Cruz “is going to explode” and would “get into a school and just shoot the place up.”
— Read on www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-23/fbi-tipster-transcript-leaked-cruz-will-get-school-and-shoot-place

Government fail

SPRINGVILLE, UT — A man with a concealed carry permit was able to save the life of a police officer ambushed by a man who was raiding a donation near&hellip
— Read on concealednation.org/2018/02/would-be-cop-killer-stopped-by-good-man-with-gun/

A happy ending

You know the 100th anniversary this month of the “glorious Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army” would showcase a bunch of vintage Soviet hardware, still in remarkable condition.
— Read on www.guns.com/2018/03/01/recent-military-parade-shows-the-russians-never-really-throw-anything-away-photos/

Interesting