Headlines

‘Feel free to leak this’: Inside the Pelosi-Nadler impeachment schism

Fed loses control of its own interest rate on day of big decision — ‘This just doesn’t look good’

Netanyahu falls short of a majority ... Cancels trip to UN ...

Study: Rate of U.S. abortions falls to lowest level since 1973

New poll shows Harris’ support has plunged 13 points in Iowa

Gun violence costs the US $229 billion annually, report finds

Health fears prompt Swiss 5G revolt ...

Martin Luther King Iii urges boycott of NFL over Colin Kaepernick

Trump blames ‘Dummy Beto’ for endangering deal on gun reform

Cramer: FedEx holds ‘most dispiriting call about the economy I’ve heard in a very long time’

Gov’t collects almost everything about everyone entering USA ...

Report: House Democrats 43 votes short of impeachment

Headlines

Labor anger over Green New Deal greets 2020 contenders in California

China releases critical document that blames America for the trade war

Amazon primed for antitrust

James Comey accuses AG Barr of ‘echoing conspiracy theories’

Trump’s tariff war leaves allies fretting about the economy

Mexican President hints at migration concessions to avoid Trump tariffs

India heatwave temperatures pass 123 degrees!

Warren: ‘America that elected’ Trump has ‘serious peoblems’

Trump backs Johnson, takes pop at Macron ahead of European trip

Beijing targets Fedex for ‘damaging rights of Chinese clients amid Huawei dispute

Mayor of Londonstan calls Trump ‘fascist’ ...

Bernie: Slash military spending and move ‘toward global community’

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World leaders tell Biden: We need you

EU regulators hit Google with $1.7 billion fine for blocking ad rivals

Finland world’s happiest country ... America lowest ranking ever ...

Harris: ‘Open’ to discussion on eliminating Electoral College

Trump administration withholds report justifying ‘shock’ auto tariffs

A day before it crashed, Lion Air’s Boeing plane was reportedly saved by off-duty pilot

The Conway Show! Trump rips ‘husband from Hell’ ...

Germany furious at U.S. ambassador for calling out low defense spending

Mueller’s old boss delays departure as probe wraps up

FedEx just warned the whole globe is slowing

Border battle: 1million illegals with final deportation orders — still remain in country ...

CNN stunned to find pro-Trump Latinos: We want longer and taller wall

Headlines

Congress loses key immigration deal ingredient: A deadline

Cash for all: Support mounts for universal basic income program

Amazon made $5,6 billion in profits last year, paid ZERO in federal taxes?

Report: in private Trump favors executing major drug traffickers

Gun control legislation bogs down quickly in Senate

Rising mortgage rates hit new home sales hard, an ominious sign for builders

Parkland first responder: I was told to stand down ...

Supreme Court refuses to weigh into DACA fight -- for now

Holder group sues Walker for mot holding elections in Wisconsin

Georgia lieutenant governor says he will 'kill' Delta tax break unless airline reinstates NRA deal

Catholic Church considers married priests to ease clergy shortage ...

FedEx stands with NRA

Headlines

It's now likely Mueller thinks Trump obstructed justice

Evergreen State College lecture: Free speech helps White Supremency

Dow sets another record ... stocks +44% since election ...

Sean Hannity's Twitter account disappears

An affair with Trump? Nikki Haley rebuts 'disgusting' rumors

SHOCKER: Hillary doesn't deny she shielded top aid against sexual harassment claims

Dozens recall sex misconduct by [casino] mogul Steve Wynn ...

... Schumer: I agreed to fund the wall because it's next to impossible to build

Schumer rejects Trump's immigration proposal

Wall Stret could be facing a #MeToo tsunami

FEDEX announces wage increases, bonuses amid tax reform ...

Pelosi slams compromise amnesty plan ... 'A campaign to make America white again'

Headlines

Impeachment debate divides Democrats as 2018 wave builds

Good news for FedEx and UPS: People just opened $90 billion in unwanted gifts

MasterCard: It was the biggest Xmas in history!

CBO: At least 4.5 million anchor babies in U.S.

Guatemala follows Trump's lead on Jerusalem

North Korea caught in hard spot as China suspends country's only source of energy

Oil prices hit 2-1/2 year peak ...

Donald Trump: Phony dossier is a 'crooked Hillary pile of garbage'

Playbook: Brits worry Obama invite to royal wedding will offend Trump

The Library of Congress will stop archiving every Tweet

Northeast states sue EPA over air pollution from Midwest ...

[Sen.] Cotton: If DREAM act were so popular Dems would've shut down gov't ...

Imagine ...

... if Russia or China or Iran or whoever managed with whatever means to shut down the Internet for some period of time. The world has become so dependent on this technology that I believe such an event would cause societal extremis. Just imagine:

- The millions if not billions of people being deprived of their latest news fix from the many Internet sites that now substitute for newspapers. Then a robbery in Peoria or a flood in Perth would not seem quite so important ...

- Social media no longer giving millennials and the other young "gens" the latest updates of the going-ons in their electronic tribe. Face to face communication might just reappear ...

- Tweeters and other instant-message purveyors not being able to comment in real-time to the latest political and social outrages. Politics would then become less strident ...

- Bloggers and other opinion writers being constrained to the lethal gauntlet of trying to get their letters to the editor published in their dying local newspaper ...

- The lack of a e-mail capability making snail-mail letters and FAXes the fallback methods of text communications. Postal carrier mail delivery loads would therefore skyrocket ...

- Television news and opinion programming being deprived of the wellspring of news items from around the world ... instead, being forced to report only about local fires, weddings and traffic accidents ...

- Terrorists and [blank] Lives Matter protesters not being able to coordinate the logistics of their sit-ins or suicide bombings. Wouldn't that be a shame? ...

- Stock market trading being required to go through a telephone call to a broker ... trading volumes would decline dramatically ...

- On-line shopping disappearing ... Amazon, Alibaba, etc. would quickly fold and dying shopping malls would suddenly be reborn. UPS and FedEx package volumes would crater ...

- On-line banking, credit card transactions and money transfers vanishing. Cash would reemerge as the primary unit of commerce ...

But now thinking about it, I'm not entirely sure that the world would be that much worse off ...


Afterward: I forgot ... imagine all the government workers who would be forced to be productive instead of watching porn all day ...