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“Walmart, Nordstrom, Macy’s, Staples, Whole Foods and many others have felt the impact of disruptive changes from online competition and new business models,” Lampert wrote.

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This is a paradigm shift not an economic one. People are shifting how they purchase goods and services resulting in the need for fewer physical stores. This creates more profits for the retailers and more money in the pockets of consumers so if you want to blame Obama for that go right ahead...

I think Hillary will be elected because of the extent of her knowledge and having Pres. Clinton and Obama as advisors is almost like having an insurance policy. Neither one would allow her presidency to flounder, on a personal or partisan basis. She is also the most realistic when it comes to providing details on how she plans to accomplish specific things. Trump and Sanders both offer resounding platitudes that are not very realistic (free college, border wall, Muslim ban) without a clue of where the funding will come from or what specifics they have developed in terms of a tangible plan.

Because bitch Clinton is a lying, greedy, self-serving incompetent puppet for Wall Street and voters (at least all thinking voters and not just blind lackeys) have caught on. Trump has awaken the anger in the American people that are tired of the same old corporate/government collusion and corruption. Sanders and Trump are the only ones that are not obviously in the pocket of Wall Street banksters and hedge funds. Hang on and watch!

BTW, I am neither a dem or a repub. They are just the left and right arms of the same party (the corporate party). Trump and Sanders are scaring the hell out of the party establishment.

That question has been asked and answered for damn near 14 years. Problem is that conspiracy nuts just cannot deal with 911 without their mythical bombs. They simply have no connection to the real world.

To keep it simple: At the onset of the collapse of Tower 1, large sections of the perimeter columns along with burning material smashed into the south face of WTC 7. These impacts caused damage to the southwest corner between Floors 7 and 17 and on the south face between Floor 44 and the roof; other possible structural damage included a large vertical gash near the center of the south face between Floors 24 and 41.

This debris damaged a number of support columns, transfer and floor trusses. Column #79 was severed at the base and displaced almost 6 ft. This debris impact set the building on fire, shut down electrical power, and reduced water supply to a trickle. The fires advanced up through 11 or 12 floors in the SW portion of the building. Without sufficient water supply, firefighters were unable to control it. The fires burned out of control all afternoon.

At about 2 pm, firefighters observed a bulge in the SW corner between the 10th and 13th floors. Firefighters inside reported creaking sounds throughout the building. At around 3:30pm, the fire commander on scene was informed of observed buckling in the SW corner. It was then, after a quick conversation with Silverstein, he PULLED his men out of the building.

At 5:21 pm, Column #79 and those adjacent failed and the building collapsed. The primary reason that the collapse resembled a controlled demolition was the unusual support column construction necessary to accommodate the ConEdison substation directly under the building. This required the use of transfer trusses (horizontal beams that transferred loads to adjacent vertical columns.)

911 Trutherism's fabrications about the use of explosives to demolish the building is total fabrication.