Link between newborns with vitamin D deficiency and schizophrenia confirmed…
December 7, 2018
Professor McGrath, says the new study is based on 2602 individuals. The study confirms a previous study that also found an association between neonatal vitamin D deficiency and an increased risk of schizophrenia. The findings support the hypothesis that the risk of schizophrenia could be reduced with the treatment of vitamin D deficiency during the earliest stages of life.
49% Approve President Trump’s job performance…
December 7, 2018
Grammy winner forced woman into sexual servitude…
December 7, 2018
A Grammy Award-winning music teacher in North Carolina is accused of using promises of a singing career to force a student into sexual servitude.
Clayton police said in a statement Thursday that 60-year-old Ivan Hampden Jr. was arrested at his home. He's charged with several counts of sexual servitude and disseminating obscenity.
Investigators say Hampden tied up the woman in a back room of his music school and recorded various sex acts, then sent video recordings and images of the acts to the victim. They say the woman in her 50s took singing lessons there from 2014 through August. Police say a relative helped her contact police.
Japan follows U.S. lead on banning government purchases of equipment from China’s Huawei and ZTE…
December 7, 2018
This move by Japan allows it to beef up its defenses against intelligence leaks and cyber attacks.
Sears chairman Eddie Lampert offers to buy Sears out of bankruptcy, including 500 stores…
December 7, 2018
Lampert said the acquisition would keep 50,000 Sears employees working.
He said the deal would include 500 stores, which covers essentially all of the locations Sears has not identified for closure. The deal would include Sears and Kmart stores.
It would also include the Kenmore appliance and DieHard tool brands, key real estate and the company's inventory and receivables.
China-Executives Disappear or Get Arrested One by One…
December 7, 2018
Example of this is Alibaba (BABA US) founder Jack Ma surrendering control of the company. We have also covered the massive risk for international investors with the VIE structure of assets in China, with the arrest in the U.S. of JD.Com (JD US) founder on rape charges. It now appears that the Chinese government is stepping up its efforts to take control of Chinese companies. Most recently the head of Alibaba’s online video platform Youku was arrested on corruption charges.
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The Chinese government appears to be stepping up its efforts to fully control all Chinese companies through either arrest or restriction of movement for their leaders. This on top of taking control of various assets. With the arrest of Huawei’s CFO, these arrests and further control could spill over to the U.S. executives. Question is will the Chinese government actions increase and how that will affect both Chinese and U.S. companies.Chinese workers just get $1.09 cents for each Disney doll produced…
December 7, 2018
Staff at the Wah Tung factory in the city of Heyuan said that they worked 175 hours of overtime in a month, with only one day off over that period – both breaches of Chinese labour law and toy industry codes of conduct.
The basic wage on the line is 7.5 Chinese yuan (85p) – legal, but so low that workers say they feel obliged to work overtime. The investigation, which took place earlier this year, also highlighted a significant gender imbalance, with men outnumbering women nine to one in management roles but women making up 80% of the workforce.
As of this writing, 7,.5 Chinese Yuan = $1.09 USD.
Nunes reacts to new evidence of FISA abuse in FBI emails…
December 7, 2018
The Large Hadron Collider is shutting down for 2 years…
December 7, 2018
Located at the particle physics laboratory CERN in Geneva, the accelerator has smashed together approximately 16 million billion protons since 2015, when it reached its current energy of 13 trillion electron volts. Planned improvements before the machine restarts in 2021 will bring the energy up to 14 trillion electron volts — the energy it was originally designed to reach.