via reason: The recent announcement that a now-defunct law firm will pay $600,000 to a former Costa Mesa mayor and a current councilman and his wife puts to bed an ugly chapter in that Orange County city’s recent history. Nevertheless, it would be wrong to ignore the deeper statewide lessons from that controversy, which also spotlights the … Read more
Journalist James Bloodworth, spent a month working undercover as a “picker” in an Amazon order fulfillment center and found workers were urinating in bottles because they were discouraged from taking bathroom breaks. His new book is “Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain.” h/t normanbatesmotel
https://youtu.be/UxYXYsQOtO4 Rod Rosenstein under investigation by little-known up-and-coming investigator, Bob Bosenstein.
Internet Celebrity “Homeless Lottery Winner” Now Claiming His Charity Money Has Been Stolen (Over 27 Million Views) 1. Homeless Lottery Winner 2. Homeless Man Gets A Home 3. Former Homeless Man Helps The Homeless 4. Magic of Rahat you did me wrong and you know it. ERIC THE HOMELESS MAN 2018 UPDATE 5. Eric got … Read more
“New GOP Video Ad Goes for the Dems Jugular” h/t NotStarvingActress
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[snip] A nuclear power station in Hokkaido is relying on emergency backup power after a powerful earthquake knocked out electricity on the northern island Thursday, offering a stark reminder of the 2011 Fukushima disaster. The three-reactor Tomari nuclear plant, operated by Hokkaido Electric Power Co. and in shutdown since the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster, … Read more
by Dennis Miller A New York Times (NYT) headline blared, “Too Little Too Late’: Bankruptcy Booms Among Older Americans”. They reference a Consumer Bankruptcy Project (CBP) study, “Graying of U.S. Bankruptcy: Fallout from Life in a Risk Society”: “For a rapidly growing share of older Americans, traditional ideas about life in retirement are being upended by a dismal … Read more
BREAKING: FOX: “Police raid home of couple who raised $400K for homeless man” FLORENCE, N.J. – Police raided the home Thursday of a couple who raised $400,000 online for a homeless good Samaritan who has alleged they squandered some of the money, including on a used BMW that investigators hauled away on a flatbed truck. … Read more
via arstechnica: According to a report by Netlab 360’s Genshen Ye, more than 7,500 of them are actively being spied on by attackers, who are actively forwarding full captures of their network traffic to a number of remote servers. Additionally, 239,000 of the devices have been turned into SOCKS 4 proxies accessible from a single, small … Read more
Paul Sperry: Exclusive: FBI Kept From U.S. Spy Court Russian View of Carter Page as ‘an Idiot.’ The FBI omitted from its application to spy on Carter Page the fact that Russian spies had dismissed the former Trump campaign adviser as unreliable – or as one put it, an “idiot” – and therefore unworthy of … Read more
Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff explain how “good intentions and bad ideas” have made young people super-fragile—and how to make things better. As of time of time this post was written, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt’s The Coddling Of The American Mind is the number one book at Amazon in its Social Sciences category. h/t ED
via morningconsult: A 34 point drop almost overnight. But wait, it gets worse: “Among younger generations, Nike users, African Americans, and other key demographics, Nike’s favorability declined rather than improved.” Plus: “Before Kaepernick was revealed as the face of Nike’s campaign, only two percent of Americans reported hearing something negative about Nike. After the launch, that … Read more
by DCG Burgerville is a restaurant chain headquartered in Vancouver, Washington with 47 locations throughout Washington and Oregon. The workers formed the Burgerville Workers Union in April 2016 which the company opposed. According to Wikipedia, in 2018, the workers of one Burgerville restaurant in southeast Portland voted 18-4 in an NLRB-administered election to form a labor union; the vote compels the company to officially … Read more
by stockboardasset China has launched ahead of the United States with “several dozen successful hypersonic missile tests that Washington cannot ignore,” Missile Defense Agency commander Lieutenant General Samuel Greaves warned Tuesday. “The Chinese have now done several dozen successful hypersonic (missile) tests… we just cannot (ignore),” Greaves briefed a group of government officials held by the Missile Defense … Read more
From Birch Gold Group Lakshman Achuthan, a Wall Street veteran at the ECRI (Economic Cycle Research Institute), doesn’t share in the optimism of a strong U.S. market. In fact, he criticized Wall Street last year on “the quality spread between junk bonds and corporate debt.” In a CNBC report from February, later confirmed by the S&P slowing down in March of this … Read more
People have been fasting for years to lose weight,but what if we told you that the longer you fast, the longer you can live? The idea may be hard to stomach, but a new study by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) suggests that intermittent fasting could be the key to longevity. A group of scientists from the … Read more
by Thinker If the mainstream media had been reporting what has been happening in Africa over the years, Obama would have never been able to bomb Libya. As long as the new world order c can keep the majority glued to televisions and sports, corruption in elections and politics can survive. It’s time for elections … Read more
by Charles Hugh-Smith If the world’s economies still need central bank life support to survive, they aren’t healthy–they’re barely clinging to life. The “recovery”/Bull Market is in its 10th year, and yet central banks are still tiptoeing around as if the tiniest misstep will cause the whole shebang to shatter: what are they so afraid … Read more
From John Stossel at Reason: Some people are very angry about President Trump’s new Supreme Court pick. “Hell no, Kavanaugh! He is a dangerous man!” protesters shouted on the steps of the Supreme Court. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand yelled, “What is at stake is freedom for LGBTQ Americans, for equal rights, civil rights…” “They are freaking out … Read more
by Thinker It seems that, just as I was about to blow a gasket out of frustration, the very thing that I’ve been hoping for is finally happening! Two Federal Agents, Robert Corona and Joshua Macias have announced on Ann Vandersteel’s YourVoiceAmerica show, that a coalition of 119 (and growing) US intelligence workers from the … Read more
by Thinker In the last year, the Reserve Bank of India bought 8.6 metric tons of goal, its first big purchase since 2009. New Delhi (Sputnik): The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) purchased 8.46 metric tons of gold during the last fiscal year (April 2017 to March 2018). In its annual report, the RBI revealed … Read more
by Thinker Failed investigations, friends, or a judicial system that’s broken??? Why didn’t the D.A. let Bill Cosby off the hook, or let him go to rehab like so many others??? Do sexual abusers reall rule in Hollywood??? Actions of the Attorney General speaks for itself. While Former FBI agent Richard Taus sits in the … Read more
Just in case there’s any doubt about what Democrats’ post-Kavanaugh confirmation claims will be, they made it clear at the opening of the third and last day of the judge’s hearing they will claim he is illegitimate. Just like Trump is for colluding with Russian intelligence to steal the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton. And isn’t it … Read more
