Day: January 3, 2017

Laurence Fink: The Trillion-Dollar Deadhead

Among the current crop of Wall Street financiers, Laurence “Larry” Fink has received the greatest number of awards and plaudits. He is the CEO and Chairman of BlackRock , the world’s largest multinational investment management corporation.

Donald Trump’s tough talk toward North Korea could come back to haunt him

“It won’t happen!” Trump wrote after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said on Sunday his nuclear-capable country was close to testing an ICBM of a kind that could someday hit the United States. Preventing such a test is far easier said than done, and Trump gave no indication of how he might roll back North Korea’s weapons programs after he takes office on Jan. 20, something successive U.S. administrations, both Democratic and Republican, have failed to do.

Donald Trump rebukes intelligence agencies for ‘delaying’ his…

Trump mocks intelligence agencies for ‘delaying’ his briefing on the ‘so-called’ Russian hacks – and suggests that they don’t even have a case Donald Trump has come out swinging at US intelligence agencies after they allegedly delayed a briefing with him on the Russian hacks until Friday. In a tweet on Tuesday night, Trump questioned whether the ‘intelligence’ briefing – he put the word in quotation marks – was put back because his advisers didn’t actually have a case.

Fourteen people ‘including 12 children’ swept off rocks by a freak…

Inside Ivanka and Jared’s $5.5 million, six bedroom new D.C. home – just two blocks away from the Obamas’ post-presidency digs Put down your fork after three bites, greet people with a kiss and NEVER let guests wash up! Etiquette expert reveals the Duchess of Cambridge’s rules for hosting a successful party Revealed: American hiker who mysteriously died falling off icy cliff in Switzerland was facing child pornography charges in the U.S. Altar boy, 15, who fatally shot a teenage girl in her bedroom during New Year’s attack dies of self-inflicted gun wound The smile that says she’s leaving: Beaming Megyn Kelly heads to the studio hours after announcing she’s moving to NBC ‘after Fox TURNED DOWN her last-minute $25M demand’ ‘We wish her the best’: Murdoch hopes Megyn Kelly has ‘tremendous success’ after it’s revealed she’ll return to Fox News show tonight but is out end of week after … (more)

Reid: FBI director’s letter cost Democrats the election, Senate

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said Monday FBI Director James Comey was “heavily involved as a partisan” in the weeks leading up to the election and that Comey’s actions handed the presidency to Donald Trump. The retiring Nevada Democrat said Democrats “would have won the majority in the Senate and would have won the presidency but for Comey.”

A New Year Prediction

Or just CLICK THIS LINK to start shopping for anything. Don’t worry – anything you buy through it will pay Daily Pundit a commission! Thanks! Once Trump’s EPA nominee is confirmed, and the government war against “climate change denialists” is called off, you’ll see a lot of climate change “scientists” decamping for more lucrative academic pastures overseas, where the climate change cult is a trillion dollar graft that the elites there still see as a milch cow designed to feed their lust for wealth, power, and control.

Newhouse co-sponsors bills on healthcare, gun rights, abortion funding, undocumented immigrants

U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., was sworn in Tuesday for his second term representing the 4th Congressional District and immediately added his name to several bills and resolutions. Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017 to recognize 2nd Amendment rights by ensuring valid concealed carry permits issued in one state are valid for carrying concealed handguns in other states that also recognize their own residents’ right to conceal carry.

Legislator wants FDA to target ‘fake milk’

Got milk? Vermont’s sole congressman says if it’s from soybeans, almond or rice, it should not be labeled as milk. Democratic Rep. Peter Welch, Republican Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson and 23 other members of Congress signed a letter asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to investigate and take action against manufacturers of what they say is “fake milk.”

Here comes the sun power? Not for a while

DIXON – It could be another 2 or 3 years before a solar farm comes to the Dixon Municipal Airport. The City Council reviewed the findings of an airport feasibility study in October that gave recommendations on how to make the facility a more sustainable operation, including generating more revenue by leasing a portion of land to a company to develop a solar farm.

Honest, truthful scientist fired by DOE for not defending Obama’s climate action plan

The U.S. Department of Energy is the latest government agency to be exposed for putting politics over principle after it was revealed that a top DOE scientist was fired simply for telling the truth about climate change. Reports indicate that Noelle Metting was basically canned by the Obama administration when she was caught answering questions from a legislative committee honestly, which apparently is a major no-no when it comes to anything related to climate change policy .

Could 2017 Be a Blockbuster Year for M&A?

We saw some huge M&A deals in 2016, with AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner leading the way. But as equity markets continue to perform strongly, what’s ahead for this year? Bloomberg’s Ben Scent reports on “Bloomberg Markets.”

Entrepreneurship at Home and Abroad

Last spring, after ISIS-linked suicide bombers killed thirty-two innocent people in Brussels, NPR’s Dina Temple-Raston interviewed members of the Muslim community in that city and discovered something fascinating. The main suspects in the bombings were from Moroccan immigrant families, as are most of 500-plus Belgians who have traveled to Syria.

The Latest: Official says intel community ready for Trump

A U.S. official says there has been no delay in the intelligence community’s plans to brief President-elect Donald Trump on Russian interference in the 2016 election. The official says the intelligence community was confused by Trump’s tweet Tuesday saying the briefing had been delayed until Friday.

Washington prepares for a very different kind of president

As Washington went back to work on Tuesday, with Congress being sworn in, politicians on all sides were concerning themselves with very different things. With just two weeks left in office, President Barack Obama is considering how to protect the legacy of his two terms, much of which the Republicans and President-elect Donald Trump have threatened to reverse.

Don’t Read Too Much Into Vermont Hack Debacle

On Friday evening, The Washington Post reported hackers affiliated with the Russian government had penetrated the United States electric grid by attacking a utility company in Vermont. The story was originally illustrated with an image of the headquarters of a Russian spy agency, which it alleged was behind the intrusion.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange interviewed on a Hannitya

During the hour, Assange insists the Russian government was not his source for the hacked emails he released from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. In the interview, Assange argues that the Obama administration has pushed the narrative of Russia meddling in the U.S. election to delegitimize President-elect Donald Trump.

U.S. dollar surges to 14-year high

The US dollar has rallied to a 14-year high on stronger-than-expected manufacturing data. Mark McCormick, Head of FX Strategy, TD Securities tells Bloomberg TV Canada why he expects the greenback to strengthen further in the first half of the year.

Lindy West Leaves Twitter: “Get Back To Me When Your Website Isn’t A Roiling Rat-King Of Nazis”

Writer Lindy West, who spent years cultivating a reputation for engaging with social media trolls, has announced she’s leaving Twitter because of the “global repercussions” of the platform’s “refusal to stop” harassment campaigns launched by the white supremacist, misogynist “alt-right” movement. In a January 3 opinion piece at The Guardian , West explained that she had deactivated her Twitter account after “half a decade of troubleshooting” to curb personal harassment and threats from anonymous users trolling her on the social media platform.

Quick Takes: Is Trump Planning to Deport the DREAMers?

First of all, Julia Edwards Ainsley reports on a disturbing request from the Trump transition team to the Department of Homeland Security. The transition team also asked for copies of every executive order and directive sent to immigration agents since Obama took office in 2009, according to the memo summarizing the meeting.

A Trump tweet that doesn’t spark outrage in Chicago

President-elect Donald Trump ‘s tweets often trigger what is now commonly referred to as Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS. You’ve seen the symptoms: the wailing and shrieking of tortured liberals; their references to Hitler and the end of days or whatever dark prophecies can be tweeted with two left thumbs.

Trump objects after House GOP votes to gut ethics office

President-elect Donald Trump criticized House Republicans Tuesday for making one of their first acts a vote to gut the independent Office of Congressional Ethics, arguing that tax reform and health care should be higher priorities. “With all that Congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the Independent Ethics Watchdog, as unfair as it may be, their number one act and priority,” Trump asked over Twitter the morning after the surprise and secretive move by the House GOP.