Beating Expectations: US Consumer Confidence 'Pops' to Highest Level in Nearly Two Decades
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Thursday, August 30, 2018

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Consumer confidence rose in August to its highest level since October 2000, building on July's solid result. The Conference Board's index rose to 133.4 in August, despite expectations from a survey of Reuters' economists that it would fall to 126.7. The measure rose slightly last month to 127.4, up from 127.1 in June as consumers reported better feelings toward the economy in the near-term but less optimism about long-term growth.
Hungary’s PM Orban calls Italy’s Matteo Salvini his “hero,” vows to help Italy defend its borders
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met with Italian Interior
Minister Matteo Salvini in Milan….. assuring Salvini of his support and
telling reporters he is his “hero.” This is the kind of cohesion needed
more among Western leaders in defense of free societies. Salvini stated:
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Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intolerant’ Liberal Culture
Despite the increased chatter about Facebook’s autocratic speech policies, things have not gotten better. In fact, they have gotten worse. Like most totalitarians, the leftists dig in, secure in their absolute power. They continue to steamroll over our most basic freedoms. In the past two weeks, I have been suspended twice — and any of my readers who shared this post were suspended as well.
We need government intervention and we need these employees subpoenaed.
Read entire article here: https://gellerreport.com/2018/08/facebook-employees-nite.html/
By Pamela Geller / THE GELLER REPORT
It must be hell to work at Facebook if you are not a dogmatic leftist robot.“The post went up quietly on Facebook’s internal message board last week. Titled ‘We Have a Problem With Political Diversity,’ it quickly took off inside the social network,” Kate Conger and Sheera Frenkel report for The New York Times. “We are a political monoculture that’s intolerant of different views,” senior Facebook engineer Brian Amerige wrote in the post.
Despite the increased chatter about Facebook’s autocratic speech policies, things have not gotten better. In fact, they have gotten worse. Like most totalitarians, the leftists dig in, secure in their absolute power. They continue to steamroll over our most basic freedoms. In the past two weeks, I have been suspended twice — and any of my readers who shared this post were suspended as well.
We need government intervention and we need these employees subpoenaed.
Read entire article here: https://gellerreport.com/2018/08/facebook-employees-nite.html/
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