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Shares in Alphabet plunged about 8% on Tuesday, slashing the market cap of Google's parent company by around $70 billion to $831 billion, as investors lashed out after a mixed first-quarter earnings report . Alphabet — which also owns YouTube, Waymo and DeepMind — reported a 17% rise in revenue to $36.34 billion, its slowest sales growth in three years. However, earnings per share climbed to $11.90 versus consensus forecasts of $10.53, excluding a €1.5 billion fine ($1.7 billion) by European competition regulators. "The market may be punishing Alphabet just a little harshly when you consider the impact of FX headwinds in these numbers," said Neil Wilson, chief market analyst for Markets.com. Google's advertising revenue rose by 15% to $30.72 billion, a sharp slowdown from 24% growth a year ago, according to its earnings report for the first quarter of 2018 . Paid clicks rose 39%, a significant decrease from 59% year-on-year growth in the first quarter of 2018. Cost-per-click also fell 19%, after sliding 19% in the same period of 2018. "Another EU fine won't have washed well with investors, but in reality it's not the check on its way to Brussels that's causing the shares to drop," said George Salmon, an equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown. "Instead, it's a nasty combination of growth in traffic to Google ads slowing and lower revenue per click from those ads that's upset the market." Mounting losses at Google's famous "moonshots" won't have helped matters. Sales in Alphabet's "Other Bets" segment rose 13% to $170 million, but the division's operating loss widened by 52% to $868 million. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/google-stock-alphabet-set-to-lose-70-billion-on-q1-ad-sales-traffic-2019-4-1028152666

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Wyoming Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., announced Saturday in the state he represents that he will not run for a fifth term in the Senate in 2020.

WATCH: Obama says that he has no idea how President Trump is going to bring back jobs. Unfortunately, government traditionally is a magnet for morons. And Barky Insane was not only THE worst president in American history - he is also an intellectual moron who is so stupid blinded with ego that he has NO idea as to his own stupidity. And THAT is exactly what made him so dangerous.

On Friday, May 3, Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law that would ban sex reassignment surgery using Medicaid funds. kcci.com Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed a Health and Human Services appropriation bill into law that includes a ban on using Medicaid funds for sex reassignment surgery for transgender Iowans. The amendment from conservative Republicans banning transitional surgery was added to the bill in the last few days of the legislative session. Backers say the bill was a response to an Iowa Supreme Court decision that ruled last month that the state cannot deny two transgender women Medicaid coverage for such a surgery. LGBTQ advocacy group One Iowa quickly condemned Reynolds’ decision, saying she “could have line-item vetoed the cruel and outdated language that enshrines discrimination in Iowa law without disrupting HHS services, but chose not to.” The measure also would prohibit government money from paying for sex education programs by Planned Parenthood.

Last week, The New York Times published a cartoon so anti-Semitic that Bret Stephens wrote in his Times column that it was "an image that, in another age, might have been published in the pages of Der Sturmer." Der Sturmer was the Nazis' major anti-Semitic newspaper.

French President Emmanuel Macron outlined the plan recently

“They all stood to sing the national anthem. Several here began to cry. The embassy has become a proxy fight for pro- and anti-Maduro groups, but the factions out here are split along ethnic lines. The pro-Maduro group inside are Americans. Opposition supporters are Venezuelan. https://t.co/zxSAeceIZB”

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States accused China on Friday of putting well more than a million minority Muslims in “concentration camps,” in some of the strongest U.S. condemnation to date of what it calls Beijing’s mass detention of mostly Muslim Uighur minority and other Muslim groups. FILE PHOTO: Workers walk by the perimeter fence of what is officially known as a vocational skills education centre, under construction in Dabancheng in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China September 4, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo The comments by Randall Schriver, who leads Asia policy at the U.S. Defense Department, are likely to increase tension with Beijing, which is sensitive to international criticism and describes the sites as vocational education training centres aimed at stemming the threat of Islamic extremism. Former detainees have described to Reuters being tortured during interrogation at the camps, living in crowded cells and being subjected to a brutal daily regimen of party indoctrination that drove some people to suicide. Some of the sprawling facilities are ringed with razor wire and watch towers. “The (Chinese) Communist Party is using the security forces for mass imprisonment of Chinese Muslims in concentration camps,” Schriver told a Pentagon briefing during a broader discussion about China’s military, estimating that the number of detained Muslims could be “closer to 3 million citizens.” Schriver, an assistant secretary of defence, defended his use of a term normally associated with Nazi Germany as appropriate, under the circumstances. When asked by a reporter why he used the term, Schriver said that it was justified “given what we understand to be the magnitude of the detention, at least a million but likely closer to 3 million citizens out of a population of about 10 million.””So a very significant portion of the population, (given) what’s happening there, what the goals are of the Chinese government and their own public comments make that a very, I think, appropriate description,” he said. The Chinese embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday used the term re-education camps to describe the sites and said Chinese activity was “reminiscent of the 1930s.” The U.S. government has weighed sanctions against senior Chinese officials in Xinjiang, a vast region bordering central Asia that is home to millions of Uighurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities. China has warned that it would retaliate “in proportion” against any U.S. sanctions. The governor of Xinjiang in March directly dismissed comparisons to concentration camps, saying they were “the same as boarding schools.” U.S. officials have said China has made criminal many aspects of religious practice and culture in Xinjiang, including punishment for teaching Muslim texts to children and bans on parents giving their children Uighur names. Academics and journalists have documented grid-style police checkpoints across Xinjiang and mass DNA collection, and human rights advocates have decried martial law-type conditions there. Reporting by Phil Stewart; additional reporting by David Brunnstrom; Editing by Leslie Adler https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-china-concentrationcamps/china-putting-minority-muslims-in-concentration-camps-u-s-says-idUKKCN1S925F?

We’re going to pay a lot more attention to character in 2020

It’s good to be Chelsea Clinton. The crowned princess of the Clinton Clan just has to show up a few times and get handed buckets of money.

Barack Obama admitted 'this stings' after the 2016 election result and spent the night watching the movie Dr Strange to try and distract himself, a new book claims. The former president went from being confident that Hillary Clinton would beat Donald Trump to seeing it as a 'personal insult' that she lost. Obama could not believe the American people had 'turned on him' for a man he had written off as a 'cartoon'. As the dust settled Obama told his family that 'this hurts' and blamed Clinton who 'brought many of her troubles on herself' and ran a 'scripted, soulless campaign'. The eye-popping details are in the new edition of 'Obama: The Call Of History' by New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker. The book was originally released in July 2017 but has been updated with extensive new reporting throughout Obama's time in office - and the run through of election day is electrifying. Obama was cordial to the president elect in their face-to-face meeting in the Oval Office, but in private Obama called Trump a conman straight out of Huckleberry Finn. Obama even likened himself to Michael Corleone in the Godfather movies and said he was handing power over to somebody who would destroy his legacy. As Obama saw it he 'almost got out' of the White House unscathed just like the mob boss nearly survived without being whacked. Baker writes that Obama woke up on the morning of November 8 2016 convinced he would 'not be handing the nuclear football over to Donald Trump - the reality television star, he thought, was a joke'. Obama arrogantly thought there was 'no way Americans would turn on him' even though Clinton was far from perfect. Baker writes: 'She was a serious and seasoned professional who had served at the highest levels of government and provided mature leadership. Just as important, she would continue his policies and cement his biggest achievements. 'His legacy, he felt, was in safe hands'. Given that Obama had no formal role in the election he went to the White House movie theater with his wife Michelle and adviser Valerie Jarrett where they watched Dr Strange, the superhero movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Baker writes that Obama's phone buzzed with an update and he said: 'Huh. Results in Florida are looking kind of strange'. Michelle went to bed early but as Obama watched TV he looked on in horror as Trump won Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan which had been Democratic for years. Baker writes: 'By the end of the evening, the unthinkable had happened'. Obama struggled with what the American people had done and thought to himself that they 'simply could not have decided to replace him with a buffoonish showman whose calling cards had been repeated bankruptcies, serial marriages and racist dog whistles'. At 1am Obama sent a message to Clinton saying she should concede quickly which she did. In a phone call to Obama Clinton said: 'I'm sorry for letting you down'. Baker writes: 'While Clinton had lost, so had he. The country that had twice elected Barack Hussein Obama as its president had now chosen as his successor a man who had questioned the very circumstances of his birth. 'Obama may not have been on the ballot, but it was hard not to see the vote as a 'personal insult,' as he had called it on the campaign trail. 'This stings,' he said. 'This hurts'. Obama tried to keep his cool in the weeks afterwards and texted his speechwriter Ben Rhodes: 'There are more stars in the sky than sand on the earth'. But soon he was unable to contain his rage which escalated after he met Trump in the Oval Office. Baker writes that despite being cordial in public he afterwards summoned Rhodes who told him that Trump 'peddles in b*******' Rhodes said: 'That character has always been part of the American story. You can see it right back to some of the characters in Huckleberry Finn'. Obama replied: 'Maybe that's the best we can hope for'. As the weeks went by Obama went through 'multiple emotional stages', at times being philosophical and other times he 'flashed anger'. He also showed a rare self-doubt and wondered if 'maybe this is what people want', Baker writes. Obama told one aide: 'I've got the economy set up well for him. No facts. No consequences. They can just have a cartoon'. In a stinging passage Baker writes: 'To Obama and his team, however, the real blame lay squarely with Clinton. 'She was the one who could not translate his strong record and healthy economy into a winning message. 'Never mind that Trump essentially ran the same playbook against Clinton that Obama did eight years earlier, portraying her as a corrupt exemplar of the status quo. 'She brought many of her troubles on herself. No one forced her to underestimate the danger in the Midwest states of Wisconsin and Michigan. 'No one forced her to set up a private email server that would come back to haunt her. 'No one forced her to take hundreds of thousands of dollars from Goldman Sachs and other pillars of Wall Street for speeches. 'No one forced her to run a scripted, soulless campaign that tested eighty-five slogans before coming up with 'Stronger Together'. Baker's book also gives new insight into why Obama was so hesitant about criticizing Russia for meddling in the 2016 election before vote took place. Obama was led by his 'cautious don't-do-stupid-s**t instincts' and feared that a forceful response would make Russia 'escalate' its operation. Then there was the question of how Trump would react and Obama admitted that 'if I speak out more, he'll just say it's rigged'. Obama wrongly assumed that Clinton would win the election and Obama said in one meeting that Russian President Vladimir Putin 'backed the wrong horse'. In the end Obama would wait until after the election result before expelling Russian diplomats and it was only weeks before he left office that he released the intelligence assessment confirming that the hacking was done the Kremlin. Recent reports have said that Trump's aides will not bring up election security with him because he sees it as de-legitimizing his election victory. That has not stopped Trump from blaming Obama for the Russian hacking and he Tweeted last week: 'Anything the Russians did concerning the 2016 Election was done while Obama was President'. Trump added: 'He was told about it and did nothing! Most importantly, the vote was not affected'. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6985985/Obama-blamed-Hillary-2016-loss-scripted-soulless-campaign.html#v-9176600842561893883

Now that Creepy Joe Biden thinks he has put to rest all the cringy questions about his grabby hands, he has reverted to one of his old-time shticks: middle-class Joe. Champion of the masses. Hero of the hoi polloi. A six-term U.S.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio could announce his candidacy for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president as early as next week, reports the

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Friday renewed five of seven sanctions waivers that allow Russia and European nations to conduct civilian nuclear cooperation with Iran but revoked the other two as it steps up pressure on Tehran, the State Department said. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo extended the waivers, which were due to expire Saturday, for 90 days, shorter than the 180 days that had been granted in the past. The waivers permit work at several Iranian nuclear sites to continue without U.S. penalties. Under the terms of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Russia and several European nations help maintain the facilities and are engaged in converting equipment there for exclusively civilian use. Facilities included in the waiver extensions include the Bushehr nuclear power plant, the Fordow enrichment facility, the Arak nuclear complex and the Tehran Research Reactor, the State Department said. However, the Bushehr waiver is being tightened so that any assistance to expand the plant could incur sanctions. The other two waivers — one that allowed Iran to store excess heavy water produced in the uranium enrichment process in Oman, and one that allowed Iran to swap enriched uranium for raw yellowcake with Russia — were not renewed, the department said. That decision is aimed at forcing Iran to stop enriching uranium, something it was allowed to do up to certain limits under the nuclear deal, it said. Highly enriched uranium can be used to fuel a nuclear weapon. “Iran must stop all proliferation-sensitive activities, including uranium enrichment, and we will not accept actions that support the continuation of such enrichment,” State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said in a statement. “The United States will continue to impose maximum pressure on the Iranian regime and remains committed to denying Iran any pathway to a nuclear weapon.” President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal last year, re-imposed sanctions that had been eased in November and has steadily ramped up pressure on Iran in the months since. Last month, his administration announced it would no longer renew sanctions exemptions that allowed China, India, Japan, Turkey and South Korea to continue importing Iranian oil. Those waivers expired Friday, although it was not immediately clear whether the administration would impose sanctions on some or all of those countries if they take delivery of previously purchased oil. Some hard-liners on Iran in Congress and outside the administration have called for the elimination of all sanctions waivers, including for civilian nuclear cooperation, in order for the administration to make good on its “maximum pressure” campaign. Supporters of the Iran deal say the cooperation waivers are important to maintain because they give the outside world additional eyes on what Iran is doing in its nuclear facilities. https://apnews.com/afb7f68d42614c2789af28291317d333

  In August 2018 Facebook permanently banned Infowars for unspecified “hate speech.” The tech giants, including Facebook, Twitter, Google-YouTube and Wikipedia have all stepped up their harassment of conservative publishers since the 2016 election. Conservative television host, writer and popular YouTuber Paul Joseph Watson reported at the time. Facebook has permanently BANNED Infowars. For unspecified …

Journalists and concerned citizens file hundreds of thousands of Freedom of Information Act Requests each year, and government officials continue to find new and unique ways to avoid complying.

Not so long ago most of the far-left economic “experts” were warning of doom and gloom should Donald Trump become president. Well, we’re headed into the third year of the Trump presidency and guess what? The economy has never been better… Via The New York Post: Experts predicted economic Armageddon under Trump — where are …

The IDF reportedly attacked several Hamas posts in Gaza in retaliation to earlier rockets launched.

More than two-thirds of Americans want an investigation into the Justice Department’s handling of the Russia Collusion Hoax. This is very bad news for Barack Obama, the corrupt Deep State, their minions in the establishment media, and Democrats. According to a April 25-28 poll of 1,007 random adults taken for CNN (a far-left fake news outlet), a full 69 percent “think Congress ought to investigate the origins of the Justice Department’s inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election, including 76% of Democrats, 69% of independents and 62% of Republicans.” And the “origins” of that inquiry means the Obama Justice Department. Naturally, CNN buried this inconvenient bombshell in its own report on its own poll. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...nt-investigation-into-obama-dojs-2016-spying/ With the wrap up of the Mueller report, the focus of the majority of Americans has moved to the Obama administration. This of course has potentially catastrophic consequences for the DNC, Obama, Hillary, and perhaps even Biden. Seems to me that Barr has a mandate from Americans to investigate what exactly happened in the Obama white house.

A Look Back in Time George Washington High School in San Francisco has a collection of murals depicting the legendary first president. However, this may not be the case for long. Students and community members have submitted complaints to get at least some of the murals taken down. This mural contro

This week, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg met with American civil rights activist and Baptist minister Al Sharpton for lunch in New York. They met to discuss “winning over the African-American community” and how to talk about Buttigieg’s sexuality with others.

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If you needed further evidence that the current movement surrounding sexual assault was an anti-due process witch hunt, look no further than a student group at the University of Texas-San Antonio (UTSA).

Narrative pushing turned into an extreme sport.