Month: July 2018

Uber and Uber Eats to Accept Venmo for Payments

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Two popular mobile services are moving closer together. Ride hailing service Uber said on Thursday that it was adding an option in its apps for customers to pay directly with PayPal’s Venmo service. The feature rolling out in coming weeks will allow users to pay for food in the Uber Eats app and for rides … Read more

We don’t see any bubbles (’00, ’07,’18)…the Fed is not the cause of inequality….we don’t manipulate markets ($15T glbl QE+0% rates)…inflation is too low!

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“We don’t see any bubbles (’00, ’07,’18)…It will all trickle down…. QE1 is working, no QE2 is working…no, surely QE3 will work…the Fed is not the cause of inequality….we don’t manipulate markets ($15T glbl QE+0% rates)…inflation is too low!” H/T: @OccupyWisdom chart David Rosenberg: I’m accused of ‘confirmation’ bias and yet last I saw, the … Read more

The Supreme Court is much too powerful

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From Ryan McMaken at Mises Wire: The current frenzy over the vacancy on the Supreme Court in the wake of Justice Kennedy’s retirement highlights just how much power has been centralized in the hands of a small number of people in Washington, DC. The left has grown positively hysterical over the thought of yet another Trump-appointed … Read more

After US, UK, France Bomb Syria. OPCW Report Contradicts Claims of “Irrefutable Proof” of Chemical Weapons

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So, quite plainly, the decision to bomb Syrian government facilities, research facilities, and civilians in Syria was made on the basis of something that never actually took place. This article argues that without a doubt the lowest moment of Trump’s presidency so far was the inexcusable decision to bomb a sovereign nation (AGAIN!!) over faulty … Read more

Greatest Jobs Market In History?

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by Jim Quinn “In many ways this is the greatest economy in the HISTORY of America and the best time EVER to look for a job!” – Donald Trump – June 2018 This is the narrative being spun by Trump and his Trumpeteers. I always like to verify narratives with facts and reality. It seems the raging … Read more

Abraham Lincoln authorized the creation of the Secret Service whose original purpose was to investigate counterfeit money which accounted for almost half of all US currency. He was shot the same day.

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Didn’t know this piece of history. Big if true. Abraham Lincoln has a long history of dealing with the issue of our country’s currency.   via time: Considering the Civil War had ended only a few days earlier, April 14, 1865, was a normal day in the White House. President Abraham Lincoln read his newspapers, ate … Read more

Two U.S. military code operators were committed to psychiatric institutions after intercepting messages about a planned assassination attempt on JFK, recently released documents reveal

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Author Jerry Kroth describes two previously unknown events revealed in the recently released documents on the JFK assassination. In early November 1963, Eugene Dinkin, a U.S. Army cryptographic code operator, decoded two messages about a plot to assassinate the president. And just before November 1963, David Christensen, a sergeant in the U.S. Air Force, intercepted … Read more

“30 Life Hacks That Deserve a Nobel Prize”

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Jun 22, 2018 HOW TO MAKE YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE MORE COMFORTABLE: There are many great life hacks I wanna share with you. Let’s start with awesome hair dryer hacks. I’ll teach you how to quickly dry wet socks, and to create a wonderful stylish decoration for your flower vase! By the way did you know … Read more

Piers Morgan destroys an anti trump leftie on TV

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You have to watch this one. President Donald Trump is due to visit the UK on his first official visit since becoming President. Thousands are expected to protest his arrival, one of them being Ash Sarkar who gets into a heated debate with Piers on why she will be protesting. Subscribe now for more! http://bit.ly/1NbomQa … Read more

Florida:Largest food stamp fraud bust in history, $20M

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Along with some other multicultural thieves. Source: 12 charged with running $20 million food stamp fraud scheme | Miami Herald  h/t RRW South Florida reached another fraud milestone for what the Justice Department called “the largest combined financial fraud loss for a food stamp trafficking takedown in history.” That dubious new record, federal prosecutors claim, is $20 … Read more

Who will profit from artificial intelligence? The answer is painfully obvious

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From Charles Hugh Smith at Of Two Minds: The real battle isn’t between a cartoonish vision or a dystopian nightmare – it’s between decentralized ownership and control of these technologies and centralized ownership and control. The hype about artificial intelligence (AI) and its cousins Big Data and Machine Learning is ubiquitous, and largely unexamined. AI is … Read more