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Italian Freemason Giuseppe Mazzini TURNING MEN INTO SWINE How do you take a nation of free and independent citizens and turn them into slaves? How do you do this slowly and imperceptibly, without violence, and with the willing participation of the slaves-to-be? The answer is simple. You corrupt them, undermine them, deprave them, demoralize them, until they have acquired all the characteristics of slaves. As the sorceress Circe, with a wave of her magic wand, turned the followers of Ulysses into grunting swine, you can wield your weapon of mass hypnosis, the media, over a nation and transform its citizens into willing slaves. ....
Financing deals announced at LendIt Several platforms used this week’s LendIt conference in New York City to announce significant financing agreements. Online platform LendKey struck a deal with MidCap Financial where MidCap agreed to purchase up to $1 billion in student consolidation loans originating on LendKey. MidCap’s parent company Apollo Global Management may purchase additional loans via investment funds under its control. Several platforms made significant funding announcements immediately before and during LendIt “This transaction is a transformational event for the online lending industry,” said LendKey CEO Vince Passione. “This commitment serves as a testament to LendKey’s success in building a valuable student loan portfolio for our current customers and a validation of the ability of online lending platforms to directly originate high quality loans.” ....
AvantCredit has big-picture plan to own alt-finance Most alternative finance companies seek to meet the needs of an underserved niche in the marketplace while a few have wider aims. Count AvantCredit among the latter. The Chicago-based company was recently ranked sixth on Forbes 100 Most Promising Companies list thanks to an impressive growth pace which sees it with more than $1 billion in funding, 550 employees, and $75 million in annual revenue in just over two years of operation. Investors love AvantCredit. Within its first sixth months of operation AvantCredit attracted $1 million in seed funding, an $8 million Series A round, and a $25 million debt facility. A year later they closed a $75 million Series C round and two $200 million debt financings. ....
3 incumbents lose their seats in Polk municipal elections Tuesday Three incumbents lost their seats in Tuesday s municipal election involving six cities in Polk. In Bartow, incumbent Commissioner James Clements was ousted in the election for at-large Seat 1, grabbing only 24.07% of the vote compared with 52.75% for the winner, Tanya Tucker. Sal Carter took 16.39% of the vote and Charlie Bittinger 6.8%. In Dundee, Commissioner Rukhsana Harper received 35.96% of the vote, losing to Mary Richardson with 64.04%. And in Lake Wales, incumbent Al Goldstein lost Seat 4 to challenger Kris Fitzgerald. The vote came down to a difference of only 32 ballots; Goldstein took 49.15% of the vote and Fitzgerald 50.85%. ....
Lake Alfred The town of Lake Alfred had two seats up for grabs on the ballot City Commission Seats 3 and 4. Three candidates were on the list for the two at-large seats, including Nancy Z. Daley. Daley took one of the seats with 42.93% of the vote. She has served on the Lake Alfred City Commission for 10 years including four terms as mayor and four terms as vice mayor. The other seat was taken by Mac Fuller, who will replace Charles Lake, who did not seek reelection. Fuller earned 35.54% of the vote. Joseph Hults Lake Wales Residents of Lake Wales had two City Commission seats on the ballot Tuesday, although only one featured an incumbent. ....