A ‘Fact Checker’ Declares War On Satire: When we make fun of liberals, Snopes pretends to take us seriously and labels our jokes ‘false.’ If your job is to make people laugh, what do you do when your brand of humor is classified as dangerous? I run the Babylon Bee, a satirical website, and we’ve … Read more
by ahjhrfhKL43746DDf Easy pioneer recipes kept the pioneer travelers along the Oregon Trail fed and filled. Prepping food those days is nothing like how we do it today. Pioneer meals were always cooked from scratch with what they had or what they found along the way. Even as the pioneer travelers trekked miles upon miles of … Read more
Editor’s note: This story previously embedded a picture of the Amazon rainforest that had been taken prior to the current forest fire. The photo has now been removed. In the middle of the afternoon on Monday, the Brazillian city of Sao Paulo suddenly descended into darkness. “It was as if day had turned into night,” Sao Paulo resident Gianvitor … Read more
A sniper located in an apartment building in Los Angeles County opened fire on a sheriff’s deputy just outside his station house on Wednesday afternoon. The deputy, identified as 21-year-old Angel Reinosa, was shot in his bulletproof vest in the parking lot of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Lancaster station by someone in the apartment … Read more
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Crime-ridden San Francisco has introduced new sanitized language for criminals, getting rid of words such as “offender” and “addict” while changing “convicted felon” to “justice-involved person.” The Board of Supervisors adopted the changes last month even as the city reels from one of the highest crime rates in the country and … Read more
Huge lines at airport security can be a nuisance or a disaster, depending on what time you show up for your flight. To know what you’re up against, Upgraded Points conducted a study that looked at data on Transportation Security Administration (TSA) wait times at America’s 25 busiest airports in 2018 to determine the nation’s … Read more
Washington (AFP) – Amazon, Microsoft and Intel are among leading tech companies putting the world at risk through killer robot development, according to a report that surveyed major players from the sector about their stance on lethal autonomous weapons. Dutch NGO Pax ranked 50 companies by three criteria: whether they were developing technology that could … Read more
Beijing’s ‘Big Brother’ surveillance network is the most powerful in the world The nation is due to be equipped with 626 million CCTV cameras by 2020 China also has the five most-monitored cities worldwide, a study reveals The most-surveilled city, Chongqing, has over 2.5 million street cameras Beijing is on track to have one … Read more
by marzipanmaddox America is comparably as full of censorship, both soft and hard, and allowing China to control this place is the only thing that provides any semblance of legitimacy to this website. Think of the extent to which China would defend open criticism of the Chinese government. Very low. Now think of the extent … Read more
San Francisco – Billionaires and Vagrants, no room for the normal people Tucker goes through the problems of large democratic run cities Cities across the US are striving to be like CA’s filthy cities = Washington DC the tents are popping up on sidewalks h/t Annie
by DCG A special report by Fox News. According to their story, the city blames big business while the residents blame officials. See also: Appears that San Francisco cares more about their homeless criminals than law-abiding citizens Attention Nancy: San Francisco saw 150 percent increase in fentanyl-related deaths last year Liberal utopia of San Francisco: Car break-ins double at Golden Gate parking lot Liberal … Read more
A recent report claims that Google-owned video platform YouTube is removing videos of robot fights for “animal cruelty.” The Independent reports: YouTuber and robot enthusiast Anthony Murney was one of the first to highlight the issue, who blamed a new algorithm introduced by YouTube to detect instances of animal abuse. “There is a new algorithm … Read more
by DCG From Daily Mail: An explosion of rats in Los Angeles has lead to a surge in cases of Typhus and could pave the way for a public health crisis. According to Reform California, there have been 124 confirmed cases of Typhus in LA County this year. On top of the increase in Typhus cases, experts fear the … Read more
Obviously Barr is a gigantic lying sack of Swamp sh*t, and that’s what I thought he was from the beginning. Complete cover-up and NOBODY IS GOING TO BUY THIS. The worst thing Trump has done is hire all these SWAMP CREATURES like Barr and Wray for critical positions. But that to me, means, he’s also … Read more
Just another day in China: Provincial government offered to help the debt-laden conglomerate repay its offshore creditors. https://t.co/cOJQOtIQUF — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) August 20, 2019
A historically suppressed metal versus record overvalued stocks late in the business cycle. Change my mind.
Consumer spending is a bubble waiting to burst, market bear David Rosenberg warns Wall Street is depending on strong consumer spending to help keep stocks afloat. But Gluskin Sheff’s David Rosenberg warns the U.S. consumer is in a danger zone, suggesting a bubble is lurking. “What no one seems to talk about is the underlying … Read more
via statista: Figures from the OECD reveal the countries in which the average hour of work contributes the most to GDP. As our infographic shows, no matter how hard the average worker in Chile works, they won’t be as productive (in GDP terms) as the average person toiling away in Ireland. An hour’s work in the South American country contributed … Read more
by chartr McDonald’s secret sauce isn’t in the Big Mac, but the way it runs its business. More than 90% of all McDonald’s restaurants are run by independent franchisees. Typically McDonald’s will own the land or building and lease them to franchisees who will retain control over employees, marketing and pricing decisions. That franchise model … Read more
by LethalAmountsOfSalt Considering most retail companies are strongly pushing online stores, a large part of their revenue would come from their online stores. If you compare the google trend data to last year’s data you can make inferences about how they would do on this quarter’s earning report, relative to last year’s earnings report. Considering … Read more
Article: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190819005633/en/ Michael Burry, the guy from The Big Short who made a killing shorting subprime mortgage bonds, is currently long 3% of GameStop (GME) and trying to start an epic short squeeze. Over 50% of the outstanding shares are short and the company has enough cash on hand to buy back more than the entire … Read more
Negative-yielding corporate debt recently passed $1 trillion in market value. Investors holding the bonds for price appreciation face significant risk should rates start to rise, says Jim Bianco of Bianco Research. “The financial system doesn’t work with negative rates. If the economy recovers, the losses that investors would take are unlike anything they’ve ever seen,” … Read more
KEY POINTS When Tesla acquired SolarCity in 2016, Elon Musk was the biggest shareholder in both companies. In a new lawsuit, Walmart claims Tesla bought SolarCity to “bail out the flailing company,” reviving concerns about the deal. Tesla has already been sued by shareholders because of the acquisition, and Musk was slated to be deposed earlier … Read more
