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Bloomberg
by By Elisabeth Behrmann, Jack Farchy and Sam Dodge
1/11/2018

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When BMW AG revealed it was designing electric versions of its X3 SUV and Mini, the going rate for 21 kilograms of cobalt—the amount of the metal needed to power typical car batteries—was under $600.

Only 16 months later, the price tag is approaching $1,700 and climbing by the day.

For carmakers vying to fill their fleets with electric vehicles, the spike has been a rude awakening as to how much their success is riding on the scarce silvery-blue mineral found predominantly in one of the world’s most corrupt and underdeveloped countries.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-cobalt-batteries/

Photographed by Miller Mobley

Farrow dismisses “the easy narrative about the son of Hollywood taking down the system.”

The Hollywood Reporter
by Marisa Guthrie
1/10/2018

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A child of entertainment royalty and an early witness to “power used for ill,” the son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow opens up about helping bring down Harvey Weinstein (“My family background made me understand abuse from an early age”), the NBC News debacle and what’s next (a big HBO deal) as mom Mia reveals why she was “increasingly concerned for his safety.”

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/ronan-farrow-hollywood-prince-who-torched-castle-1073405

The New American
by Selwyn Duke
1/10/2018

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A University of Knoxville student recently said it was okay to kill young children who can’t communicate. He’s not alone. Two “philosophers” justified “after-birth abortion” in 2012. The next year students at George Mason University signed a petition to legalize the practice. Also in 2013, an MSNBC host opined that when life begins “depends an awful lot on the feeling of the parents.” Welcome to the intellectual vanguard of the culture of death.

The Tennessee student’s opinion was captured on video by Students for Life’s Appalachian Regional Coordinator Brenna Lewis. As Liberty Nation reports, “The interviewee concurs with colleagues that two-year-olds unable to speak due to muteness, autism, learning infirmities, and other difficulties should be put to death” (hat tip: Whatfinger.com).

The unnamed young man actually states (video below), “Without communication, we have no way of knowing if you’re sentient or not. It’s no different than this tree,” he says, motioning to his left. “It’s alive, but is it sentient? I don’t know. I cannot communicate to it,” he continued.

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https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/27924-the-new-college-intellectualism-it-s-okay-to-kill-young-children

American Thinker
by Thomas Lifson
1/10/2018

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The first community organizer to become president has managed to anger community groups so much with his planned personal monument, aka a “presidential center,” that part of the plan was just scrapped.

Lolly Bowean of the Chicago Tribune reports:

Bowing to community pressure, the Obama Foundation has scrapped its plan for an above-ground parking garage and will instead build an underground facility below the presidential center in Jackson Park, officials said late Monday.

The original plan would have grabbed a treasured part of Chicago’s park system, the Midway (site of Chicago’s World’s Fair), for a two-story garage.  The group Save the Midway sprang up to protect the historic public park land from a private developer (the Obama Foundation) appropriating the land for a private purpose (the Obama Center will not be part of the National Archives System):

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As for that “suitably modern” design, it appears to my eyes to be designed in the tradition known as “brutalism” for its use of raw concrete and blank facades:

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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/01/obama_nonlibrary_presidential_center_in_chicago_devolving_into_a_fiasco.html

On Wednesday morning O’Keefe tweeted out a picture of himself in a disguise warning “15 mins. Here we go…”

Gateway Pundit
by Cristina Laila
1/10/2018

Excerpt:

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/01/breaking-okeefe-strikes-undercover-video-reveals-twitter-ready-give-trumps-private-messages-doj/

Anti-Trump lowbrowism burst into full bloom with the new Michael Wolff book. Credit Carlos Barria/Reuters

The New York Times
by David Brooks
1/8/2018

Excerpt:

Let me start with three inconvenient observations, based on dozens of conversations around Washington over the past year:

First, people who go into the White House to have a meeting with President Trump usually leave pleasantly surprised. They find that Trump is not the raving madman they expected from his tweetstorms or the media coverage. They generally say that he is affable, if repetitive. He runs a normal, good meeting and seems well-informed enough to get by.

Second, people who work in the Trump administration have wildly divergent views about their boss. Some think he is a deranged child, as Michael Wolff reported. But some think he is merely a distraction they can work around. Some think he is strange, but not impossible. Some genuinely admire Trump. Many filter out his crazy stuff and pretend it doesn’t exist.

My impression is that the Trump administration is an unhappy place to work, because there is a lot of infighting and often no direction from the top. But this is not an administration full of people itching to invoke the 25th Amendment.

Third, the White House is getting more professional. Imagine if Trump didn’t tweet. The craziness of the past weeks would be out of the way, and we’d see a White House that is briskly pursuing its goals: the shift in our Pakistan policy, the shift in our offshore drilling policy, the fruition of our ISIS policy, the nomination for judgeships and the formation of policies on infrastructure, DACA, North Korea and trade.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/opinion/anti-trump-opposition.html

The future of socialism is trading sugar for beans on social media.

FrontPage Mag

by Daniel Greenfield
1/9/2018

Excerpt:

Prime Minister Thatcher once famously observed that socialists “always run out of other people’s money.” But what actually happens when socialism runs out of money?

Venezuela, a once wealthy nation with black gold coming out of the ground, is a test case.

The socialist regime ran out of other people’s money, and then out of money, years ago. The government met protests by its starving population with a 40% minimum wage hike. That’s the usual socialist solution to what leftists call ‘income inequality’. The problem is that 40% of nothing is still zero.

The “Strong Bolivar” introduced by former dictator Hugo Chavez, who died of an overdose of Cuba’s socialist medicine, leads the world in one economic category: a 3,000% inflation rate. Currently a dollar will buy you 111,413.23 bolivars. Wait a while and there will be a better bargain in bolivars because economists are forecasting a 30,000% inflation rate. In Venezuela, even the poorest American can become a millionaire in bolivars. The only question is why would anyone actually want bolivars?

The socialist currency of the revolution isn’t counted, it’s weighed on scales. The only thing “strong” about the bolivar is the exercise you get from carrying bags of them everywhere. You could forge bolivars, but the fake money would cost you more than the real money. If you can actually print bolivars, go ahead and get in touch with the Venezuelan government which can’t afford to print its own money.

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https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/268930/what-happens-when-socialists-run-out-money-daniel-greenfield

“I’M JUST ASKIN’ YA”

The Post & Email

by Sharon Rondeau
1/8/2018

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(Jan. 8, 2018) — On Saturday evening’s edition of FNC’s “Justice with Judge Jeanine,” former Westchester County, NY District Attorney and judge Jeanine Pirro asked one of her guests whether or not he had “ever seen a ‘long-form,’” undoubtedly referring to the “long-form birth certificate” of former White House occupant Barack Hussein Obama.

Pirro’s two guests for the segment, former Secret Service agent and former Republican Maryland congressional candidate Dan Bongino and former Bill Clinton staffer and current Democratic strategist David Goodfriend, were discussing the captioned “economic successes” of Trump’s first year in office when Goodfriend attempted to make the case that President Trump was “bonkers” for claiming that his Oval Office predecessor “was never a citizen.”

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https://www.thepostemail.com/2018/01/08/fox-news-program-host-ever-see-long-form/

Ground zero for the worst mass shooting in U.S. history may soon become the headquarters for the Las Vegas SWAT division.

Medium

EXCLUSIVE by Laura Loomer
1/8/2017

Excerpt:

LAS VEGAS, NV (Laura Loomer) — MGM Resorts International is currently in negotiation with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) over the donation of the infamous 15-acre Las Vegas Village.

According to a former LVMPD police detective familiar with the talks, the police department plans on converting the concert grounds into a headquarters facility for their SWAT division.

The source, who spoke with Loomer on condition of anonymity, detailed that in a meeting at the beginning of January, Captain Christopher Tomaino, Bureau Commander of LVMPD SWAT, briefed team members that MGM Resorts International, the parent company of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino was in active discussion with police officials over the transfer of the land for a new headquarters complex for the Las Vegas SWAT division.

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https://medium.com/@lauraloomer/exclusive-mgm-in-talks-with-lvmpd-to-donate-las-vegas-shooting-site-for-new-swat-hq-b4728947a460

Image source —CDR Kerchner (Ret)’s Blog, Lead Investigator Mike Zullo Provides New Insights on Obama Birth Certificate Mystery, Part 1 — https://cdrkerchner.wordpress.com/2017/12/03/lead-investigator-mike-zullo-provides-new-insights-on-obama-birth-certificate-mystery-part-1/

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FOLLOWING NEW BIRTH CERTIFICATE REVELATIONS

The Post & Email
by Sharon Rondeau
1/7/2018

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On December 29 with Gallups, Zullo opined that Trump may be preparing to have his Justice Department investigate issues involving corruption which it now appears the Obama administration could have purposely overlooked or obscured. As of this writing, the DOJ has just announced that an investigation into the Clinton Foundation is under way.

After one Obama sycophant made the claim that Zullo was never a detective, The Post & Email brought the comment and several others to his attention for his response, which he prefaced by stating that he had not seen them previously and does not spend time reading comments on message boards.

His response is as follows:

These are the same tactics this coordinated group of disinformation operatives have been employing over the years, most of whom have never revealed their true identities or qualifications, trying to defend the indefensible.

I encountered them early on in this investigation and made a public offer to them: To anyone having creditable information that would clear the document, simply identify yourself, your qualifications and provide a sworn affidavit including your identity, qualifications, finding and methodology and I would fly you to Phoenix at our expense and sit down with you and you can prove your point. Not one of them took me up on the offer. Not one. Telling! From that point on I paid no mind to these people. They should have jumped at the chance.

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https://www.thepostemail.com/2018/01/07/obama-sycophants-desperately-try-infiltrate-post-emails-comments-section/