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Uber lost $1.46 billion in Q3 (h/t Reuters).

This time, a female colleague brought a complaint against Matt Lauer, the 23-year veteran of the “Today" show on NBC. The details aren’t public, but we know the alleged incident dates back to NBC’s coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Two more complaints shortly followed. Lauer joins other media bigwigs sent packing for similar allegations: Charlie Rose (CBS), Mark Halperin (NBC), Bill O’Reilly (Fox), and, just yesterday, Garrison Keillor (Minnesota Public Radio). But Lauer may be the most high-profile of them all. He was the biggest name on the "Today" show, a morning tradition as popular as the snooze button. It generates $500 million for NBC and tops competitors ABC and CBS in the key 25-54 demo. And, hey, even we’d wake up at 2 AM every morning for Lauer’s salary of ~$15 million (the highest of any NBC journalist). Now, he’s just another name on a list that’s growing by the day.

As the weather continues to drop, e-commerce price wars are heating up. A new study found that goods on Walmart’s (+0.01%) online store cost only 0.3% more on average than those on Amazon (+0.83%)...much tighter than the 3% gap last year. We submit wearables (fitness trackers & smart watches) as evidence: last year, Walmart’s prices came in 12.6% above Amazon’s. This time around? They were 6.4% lower. And it’s not a moment too soon for Walmart As the holiday shopping season kicked into gear (right when you kicked someone to reach the last remaining 4K TV), online shoppers stuffed stockings in record numbers. Just look at this latest Black Friday: in-store shopping fell 4%from 2016 while online sales jumped 18%. Not to mention yesterday’s Cyber Monday mania, which brought in ~$6.6 billion (17% YoY growth). Numbers like these seem to justify Walmart throwing the piggy bank at e-commerce. To compete with Amazon, the retailer acquired Jet.com for $3.3 billion, moved to two-day delivery, and spent $1 billion to slash prices. And it’s paying off: Q3 online sales grew 50%. But don’t get the impression Walmart is even remotely close to touching Bezos’ online empire. This year, Amazon will grab 43.5% of U.S. online sales. Walmart will take only 3.6% of the pie. And online bargain-basement prices won’t close the gap on their own Walmart’s got a tricky balancing act on its hands. While it wants to carry its reputation as the “low price leader” to the online marketplace, it doesn’t want these low prices cannibalizing its higher-margin, brick-and-mortar stores. Because as much as online shopping generates media buzz, physical stores still account for more than 90% of all retail sales. And with 4,700 locations in the U.S., Walmart plans to keep them busy this holiday season. http://morningbrew.cmail20.com/t/j-l-odrujjd-yhyuhjkhdk-m/

And while we have no idea what’s driving this price up, down, or sideways each day, we certainly can speculate: Is it the (now) 13 million active accounts on Coinbase driving demand? Charles Schwab only has 10 million. Is it Japan putting its finger on the crypto-trigger? 60% of Bitcoin is now traded in yen. Is it hedge fund manager Mike Novogratz predicting the currency would hit $10,000 last month? He and his $500 million new crypto fund might agree. For now, we’ll just strap in and enjoy the ride.

70%—The probability of a stock market correction per Vanguard Group. That’s about 30% higher than the average over the last 60 years. But what does Vanguard know? It only manages $5 trillion in assets...

The Hughes Film New documents have been released on the JFK assassination; this decision was made in 1992 after the movie “JFK” was released in 1991. Trump was advised not to release everything (although he claims this was his doing). Those files have been gone over thoroughly and I doubt anything new will be found in them. If the government killed Kennedy, and I think they did, theyÂ’ve had these documents all along—and plenty of time to alter and redact.

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The Kennedy Limo DID SLOW down just before the final shot:

Sorry... I was messing with the coding of the website and disabled a setting earlier affecting your view of this website. You can toggle between three different views by selecting one of these three buttons to the upper right of this post on any forum view page.: They are now all enabled again. My apologies.

@Noble Berean What does it look like? Can you post an example?

As you may have noticed I have simplified the default view on the front page. We call this the "fluid view" versus the grid view we are all used to. Alternatively, you can always still choose the other views you were accustomed to. All the forums and posts are still here. Enjoy!

@Bible Speaks Thank you for the suggestion and idea. However as the .ORG is in reference to TheWorldNewsMedia.org ;-) I also changed the color scheme to that of Facebook. I figure since they are by far the world's leader in forum / social media they would know the best combinations of colors. I'm sure they have A/B tested everything to the nth degree. What we really need now is an app.... and eventually "Live Video" and possibly chat. Live video is probably to technologically difficult for me to take on right now... but the chat I can do easily if people want it. The app.... well... let's just say the jury is still out on that one.

@Bible Speaks I wanted something different than the World. It is too common. @TrueTomHarley Let me find his profile page for you. Â

@TrueTomHarley Mark Zuckerberg went with this blue due his color blindness. I guess he can view more shades of this color than any other..

I ended up going for this one:

I changed the title of this website to .ORG as you can see above. I needed something multilingual / multinational.... and understood by many cultures and languages. It also can cover various organizations and belief systems from around the world. I like learning from everyone discussing topics on a wide range of topics. Enjoy everyone. Let me know if I can be of more help. @admin p.s. - You'll notice that uploaded video now plays the same as Facebook and Twitter etc.... The one thing that differentiates this site to those is that we don't try to keep you only on our platform. You'll see easy share buttons to every social media out there so that you can post once... and share ad infinitum. p.s.s. - Language is obviously a challenge for all global websites. I am trying to keep us all on one site rather than many different language sites. You should see a google translate button on the right hand side to assist with that. I know it's not 100% yet. p.s.s.s. - The site is now translated for use by the main language groups in the theme itself. I will continue to try and expand it as more experts help me out.

@TrueTomHarley Lol... yes... we are getting bigger everyday. I figure it is best to keep things simple and easy to understand.

I am considering using a logo instead of just "World Forum"..... anyone want to be creative and make a logo for consideration? It needs to be simple.... recognized internationally... and by that I mean there are many language groups on this website.... it needs to look good small and very small for the .ico version..... Any ideas? I am also open to new names... World Forum just seems simpler to me that The World News Media. or World News Media plus those are English specific..... hmmm... You can see how this is a tough one. And no... I can't change the URL to something other than TheWorldNewsMedia.org