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Tesla ‘Ludicrous Mode’: 0 to 60 MPH in 2.5 Seconds

Tesla has unveiled the world’s fastest production car, a Model S with a “Ludicrous Mode” that allows it to accelerate from 0-to-60 miles per hour in 2.5 seconds, while also being the first electric vehicle with a range of over 300 miles.

Ludicrous speed Tesla (Tydence Davis / Flickr / CC / Cropped)

California Appeals Court Denies Pension Spiking as Legal Right

A ruling by the California Appeals Court could terminate public employee unions’ claims that public pension spiking creates a legal contract under the “California Rule.” The ruling could overturn up to $250 billion of pension spiking.

Reuters / Max Whittaker

Fed: 19% of NY Firms Cutting Jobs Due to Obamacare

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that 17 percent of service sector firms and 21 percent of manufacturers are reducing the number of workers they employ due to Obamacare.

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Apple’s September iPhone 7 Introduction Looks Like a Dud

The weak Apple Inc. stock price performance in the run-up to the September 7 release of the next iPhone generational updates reinforces Breitbart News’ expectation that the iPhone 7, without a truly “disruptive” innovation, could be a major dud.

Broken iPhone (Andrew Mager / Flickr / CC)

Mexitreat: New California Startup Offers Treats from Mexico

Two San Diego entrepreneurs have developed a new subscription-based monthly mail service called “Mexitreat,” which offers the traditional high-spice, citrus and salt snacks that may be attractive to California’s 15 million residents with Latino roots.

Mexitreat (Facebook)

Sacramento Democrats Push to Expand Farmworker Overtime

Despite the minimum wage for farmworkers jumping from $8 to $10 since June 2014, Sacramento Democrats are going all-in to capture additional overtime pay for farmworkers during the countdown to the 2016 election.

Migrant workers harvest strawberries at a farm March 13, 2013 near Oxnard, California.

Oracle Funds Anti-Google Effort that Outs Hillary, Obama

The Oracle Corporation is using its deep financial resources to fund the “Google Transparency Project,” which has set up headquarters in Washington, D.C. with a mission to “out” Google’s dicey lobbying practices and expose crony relationships with President Obama and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

Larry Ellison (Kimberly White / Getty)

Silicon Valley Job Cuts Double in 2016

Cisco Systems, Inc. announced August 17 that it will slash 5,500 jobs. The cuts are consistent with Silicon Valley tech terminations running almost double the pace of 2015.

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Jerry Brown Trying to Extend Cap-and-Trade Without 2/3 Vote

California Gov. Jerry Brown is trying to amend Senate Bill 32, which would extend “targets” for greenhouse gas emissions reduction beyond 2020, in order to pass an extension of cap-and-trade “proceeds” (i.e. taxes) without the constitutionally required two-thirds vote of both houses of the legislature to pass a tax.

Jerry Brown (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)

Aetna Joins Industry by Bailing Out of Obamacare

The Aetna insurance company is terminating coverage for 73 percent of its Obamacare individual policies, facing huge financial losses and the need to hike health insurance premiums by 20 percent just one week before the November 8 elections.

Private health insurance (Stan Honda / AFP / Getty)

Silicon Valley CEO’s Meteoric Rise Ends in Prison Sentence

Many people in the Silicon Valley online marketing ethosphere have called Gurbaksh Chanal a tech genius, but instead of continuing to jet around the planet as a the CEO of Gravity4, Chanal may be engaged full-time in a 12 month stint in prison.

Gurbaksh Chahal (Michael Buckner / Getty for Fox)

BART’s $3.5B Capital Bond Proposal Allows Union Pay Spiking

Bait-and-switch has been the language of California politicians from both parties, but the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) $3.5 billion capital construction bond initiative on the November ballot has a loophole allowing proceeds to subsidize union wage spikes.

BART Oakland (Justin Sullivan / Getty)

California Moves Closer to Dumping Daylight Savings Time

Despite warnings from law enforcement that criminals hate daylight savings time (DST) because they are more likely to be seen by witnesses and police, Assembly Bill 385 cleared the Senate Appropriations Committee and is headed for confirmation, to be placed on the state ballot in 2018.

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Lawsuit: Crowd-Funded Skully Liked Lap Dances More than Helmets

The former book-keeper for Skully, the futuristic motorcycle helmet maker, filed a lawsuit this week claiming the company squandered $2.5 million on exotic cars and lap dances, casting doubt on Silicon Valley claims that crowd-funding would bury Wall Street.

Skully (Twitter)

Trump’s Tax Plan Cuts Clinton’s Deficit by 75%

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has presented an economic plan that would create a sustainable economic boom, beating Hillary Clinton’s economic plan by 75% when it comes to the federal budget deficit.

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Hillary Clinton Shaking Silicon Valley for PAC, Lobbyist Cash

Thanks to Hillary Clinton directing the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to terminate its 2008 ban on presidential nominees taking donations from federal lobbyists and political action committees (PACs), the Clinton campaign has raised $31 million in Silicon Valley.

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32 Child Predators Arrested in Sutter County Sex Sting

Following the arrest of the Stockton Mayor on child endangerment and delinquency charges, nearby Sutter County announced the arrest of 32 adults in a child sex sting operation. Breitbart News reported on August 4 that the Stockton’s 41-year-old Republican Mayor,

Stockton Mayor Anthony Silva (ACSD / AP)

9,000 Companies Left California Since 2008

At least 9,000 companies have left California from 2008 to 2015, according to the 378 page study by Spectrum Location Solutions titled, California’s Forty Year Legacy of Hostility to Business. Joseph Vranich, president of site selection consultants Spectrum Location Solutions (VLS)

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Zika: Aerial Spraying and Releasing Bats Approved

With Miami-Dade County Mosquito Control rapidly losing the battle to contain the epidemic from the Zika-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, panicking authorities began aerial spraying and may soon bring in bats that can eat 1,000 mosquitoes an hour.

Bat in flight (Raghunath Thirumalaisamy / Flickr / CC / Cropped)

America on Verge of Zika Pandemic; Aerial Pesticides Next

With the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issuing their first warning for Americans to avoid travel to an American neighborhood, the U.S. is on the verge of a Zika pandemic that may soon require extreme measures, including aerial pesticide spraying.

The Associated Press

Seattle $15 Minimum Wage Hurts Workers & Gov’t Budgets

Although the City of Seattle launched the “$15 For All” minimum wage movement in 2014 to help the poor and cut government welfare spending, new research reveals that the minimum wage increases unemployment and causes welfare spending to spike higher.

The Associated Press

Tesla was Under SEC Audit before Autopilot Crashes

Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA:NYSE) will release its second quarter 2016 results on August 3, with the company still losing gobs of cash, stock down 12 percent in the last 12 months, the hands-free autopilot suffering three product failure crashes, and the SEC looking into the company regarding accounting violations prior to the autopilot allegedly killing a driver.

Elon Musk and Tesla 3 (Justin Prichard / Associated Press)

Silicon Valley IPO Dam Just Broke

Silicon Valley has been suffering a tech IPO drought, but the dam may have broken after data software company Talend, Inc. jumped 42 percent on its first day of trading. Talend raised $94.5 million in its July 29 initial public

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Apple’s CEO Tim Cook Hosts $50,000-per-Ticket Hillary Fundraiser

Despite Hillary Clinton’s convention outreach to Sen. Bernie Sanders’s supporters over campaign finance reform — “Your cause is our cause,” she said — Apple CEO Tim Cook is hosting a fundraiser for Clinton at up to $50,000 a ticket.

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Same Lawyer for Clinton, DNC May Have Advised Anti-Sanders Effort

The WikiLeaks release of hacked emails appears to show that the huge Perkins Coie law firm, while representing both the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign, provided strategic advice to hurt Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign.

DNC Protest Sign (Joel Pollak / Breitbart News)

Twitter Stock Crashes $1.6B After Cash Flow Plunges

After booting Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos — possibly the worst blunder in social media history — and alienating his 400,000 followers, Twitter announced that its user growth is dead, and that its cash flow estimate was cut by $80 million for the latest quarter.

Twitter fail whale stencil (Wapster / Flickr / CC / Cropped)