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...NOTE from beneath Area 52: 9/8/2019 This piece of satire really struck a nerve or a thong or jockstrap or tooth or something. Because it’s still getting Visits, and heated “Comments,” even though it was originally posted, 7/8/2019, which a relatively long time ago, in Internet days. 9/12/2019: ACTUALLY, it even seems to me to be under some sort of attack... If you hate the article so much, why don’t you just scrub the article from your site(s)? Why Not? I GUESS, MAYBE, BECAUSE IT GETS YOU CLICKS ?? 🙂 This article is getting so many clicks, maybe I should...

The property, which overlooks Central Park, narrowly saw off competition from Vatuvara Private Island in Fiji The third-best hotel has been named as Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, which was last year's number one Ranking was drawn up by a luxury travel magazine, which also asked readers for their favourite UK hotels He may not be everyone's cup of tea when it comes to politics. But one thing Donald Trump knows is how to run a good hotel. The evidence? Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York has been named as the best hotel in the world by readers...

When Jennifer Lopez read the script for “Hustlers,” she felt an immediate connection to Ramona, the most powerful stripper at a New York club during the 2008 financial crisis. But she also liked that the screenplay for “Hustlers,” written by Lorene Scafaria, touched on much deeper themes. “It’s about the people, but it’s also about something bigger,” Lopez said. “It’s a universal story about life and greed and desperation and what people do.” STX Entertainment’s “Hustlers,” which opens in theaters on Sept. 13, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday night, to wildly enthusiastic reviews. The following day,...

After just 13 episodes, MSNBC has pulled the plug on “Saturday Night Politics,” a show hosted by Donny Deutsch, a staunch critic of President Trump. The show never caught on with viewers, finishing far behind Fox News’ “Watters World” with Jesse Watters, according to The Hill. It’s far from the first cancellation for Deutsch, whose CNBC show “The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch,” was scrapped in 2008. His other shows were trashed in 2010, 2013 and 2015, according to TV Newser.

President Donald Trump signaled Thursday that he may consider an interim trade deal with China. The president told reporters he would prefer a full agreement with the world’s second largest economy. However, he left the door open to thinking about striking a limited agreement with Beijing.

California’s governor is expected to sign into law a bill that critics say would make it difficult, if not impossible, for trucking companies in the state to use independent contractor owner-operator truck drivers. If signed into law, Assembly Bill 5 “will put tens of thousands of owner-operator truckers, who service agriculture, retail and other industry sectors, out of business," said the California Trucking Association in a press release. AB 5 originally passed the California State Assembly back in May, and was passed late in the evening Sept. 10 by the state Senate. It codifies last year’s Dynamex California Supreme Court...

ThinkProgress, the influential news site that rose to prominence in the shadow of the Bush administration and helped define progressivism during the Obama years, is shutting down. The outlet, which served as an editorially independent project of the Democratic Party think tank Center for American Progress (CAP), will stop current operations on Friday and be converted into a site where CAP scholars can post. Top officials at CAP had been searching for a buyer to take over ThinkProgress, which has run deficits for years, and according to sources there were potentially three serious buyers in the mix recently. But in...

LEBANON, Ohio (AP) — A young Ohio mother who prosecutors said killed and buried her unwanted newborn in her backyard was acquitted by jurors Thursday. The Warren County jury deliberated for four hours before acquitting 20-year-old Brooke Skylar Richardson of aggravated murder, involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment charges. She was found guilty of corpse abuse. Richardson began crying as verdicts were being read. Warren County Judge Donald Oda II scheduled sentencing for 11 a.m. Friday on the abuse of a corpse charge. It carries a potential sentence of up to one year in prison, but as a first-time offender, she...

While Baltimore is known fondly as "Charm City" to people who live there, President Donald Trump calls it a "disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess" and on Thursday evening, he plans to venture north of Washington for a visit. The president is scheduled to address House Republicans as part of their three-day retreat at a hotel in downtown Baltimore, near the Inner Harbor. Protests, including a "No Racists in Our Streets" rally, were planned against a visit by the president, who has called the city the "worst in the USA" and a place "no human being would want to live."...

GameStop's new CEO, George Sherman, says the company "is in a tough place" and "needs to make some changes" to keep up with the video game industry. GameStop's total global sales dropped 14.3% to $1.3 billion in the second quarter, the company reported Tuesday. Hardware declined 41.1%, while software sales dropped 5.3%, as Nintendo Switch titles grew. The net loss was $415.3 million, reported CNN. "We're at the end of the console cycle," Sherman told CNN Business Wednesday. "Gaming as an industry could not be stronger ... it's us that needs to pivot. It's GameStop that needs to make some...

Ryder System, Inc. (NYSE: R), a leader in commercial fleet management, dedicated transportation, and supply chain solutions, announces the opening of a new state-of-the-art maintenance facility in Saginaw, Texas – an inner suburb of Fort Worth. The new 28,000-square-foot facility, located at 1325 Triad Blvd., will employ up to 60 employees to better serve the nearly 100 Ryder customers in the area. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190910006062/en/ The new 28,000-square-foot facility, located at 1325 Triad Blvd., will employ up to 60 employees to better serve the nearly 100 Ryder customers in the area. (Photo:...

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration has agreed to provide a key piece of new information about alleged official Saudi involvement in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks after an intense lobbying effort by victims’ families. Victims’ families have for months urged the government to make information public, telling President Trump in a letter recently that it would help them “finally learn the full truth and obtain justice from Saudi Arabia.” The FBI, citing the “exceptional nature of the case,” said it wouldn’t release any other information sought by the victims’ families, but would provide the name of one Saudi official they had...

The Trump administration announced a key step toward opening Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil and gas exploration Thursday, rolling out a plan that would see lease sales occur by the end of the year. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its finalized Environmental Impact Statement, which favors the option to offer lease sales across 1.56 million acres of Alaska’s coastal plains. “After rigorous review, robust public comment, and a consideration of a range of alternatives, today’s announcement is a big step to carry out the clear mandate we received from Congress to develop and implement a...

If there's one thing that set Amazon ($NASDAQ:AMZN) apart from its rivals and paved Jeff Bezos and co's path for e-commerce dominance, it was the company's ability to get items into the hands of its customers faster than anyone else and without significant cost. What was once the main reason to go to an actual store — isntant gratification and lack of delivery fees — became a non-factor. Need kitty litter before the weekend? Amazon Prime has it at your doorstep by the time Mittens has time to make too much of a mess. But it's the final mile —...

For more than a decade, women have used Abortion Pill Reversal as a means to stop their in-progress chemical abortions and save their unborn babies’ lives. Now, Heartbeat International, which took the reins of the protocol’s 24-7 helpline and provider network this spring, says the protocol has led to the births of more than 500 babies, with another 100 on the way. “This new milestone represents not only 500 lives saved, but 500 women who were given a second chance to choose life and save themselves and their babies from a terrible fate,” said Jor-El Godsey, president of Heartbeat International,...

Forager, a Chicago logistics company working to simplify international shipping, raised its first round of funding to help it grow. Forager announced Thursday that it raised $3.25 million in a round led by Chicago Ventures and TFI International. Additional individual investors include local investor Ezra Galston, Herb Shear, the former chairman of Genco, and Steven Galanis, the founder and CEO of celebrity shout-out startup Cameo. Forager was co-founded late last year by Matt Silver, a former employee of Coyote Logistics and the son of Jeff Silver, who founded Coyote in 2006. Using his background in logistics, Silver has helped create...

A district assembly in Prague voted on Thursday to remove a statue of a Soviet World War Two marshal and replace it with a more general memorial following a row that has drawn in the Czech president and Russian authorities. The statue of Marshal Ivan Konev, who led the Red Army forces that liberated most of Czechoslovakia and entered Prague on May 9, 1945, was erected in 1980. It has been the subject of controversy since the 1989 fall of communism because of Konev’s later endeavors, which included a leading role in crushing the 1956 Hungarian uprising as well as...

Greenpeace activists have suspended themselves from the Fred Hartman Bridge, effectively shutting down the Houston Ship Channel to ships trying to enter and leave the port: HAPPENING NOW: We're in the heart of the fossil fuel industry (the largest oil export channel in the US) to confront Trump & the oil industry. RT to support the brave activists & take action for #GreenNewDeal! >> https://t.co/xGNiM0OlYG pic.twitter.com/xkoyvj2nt6— Greenpeace USA (@greenpeaceusa) September 12, 2019 This is to get attention ahead of tonight’s Dem debate in Houston with they hope that the candidates will “promise to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable”: As...

Uber Technologies plans to hire 2,000 employees over the next three years who will help grow the headquarters for Uber Freight in The Old Post Office. The company last month signed a 10-year lease for 463,000 square feet in the massive, long-vacant building. Uber’s space will serve as a headquarters for the tech giant’s freight service, which connects truck drivers with shippers. The new Chicago office also will serve as Freight’s first engineering hub outside of San Francisco. “Chicago is going to be one of the important cities for Uber,” said CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. “This is a big bet that...

The city of Novosibirsk in Siberia has unveiled a memorial plaque Friday honoring Kim Jong Il, the father and predecessor of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Kim, who led the secretive state until his death in 2011, visited the Russian city on Aug. 11, 2001, after talks with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. A youth talent foundation marked Kim’s visit with the plaque ahead of Novosibirsk conservatory students’ trip to North Korea on Friday. Kim’s visit to Novosibirsk “was an unconventional event in the life of the city,” said Novosibirsk Mayor Anatoly Lokot. “We supported the initiative to install...