from Zero Hedge More so than with Gen X and the Baby Boomers, housing has become indelibly tied up with the millennial identity. That’s largely because economic hardship – or at the very least, stagnation and heavy debt – is perhaps the single defining characteristic of the generation that came or age during or just after the … Read more
via tomluongo: Last week I went through just some of the highlights as to why Russia is becoming a destination for global capital. For years it’s been a little lonely out here banging on about how well the Russian state headed by Vladimir Putin has navigated an immense campaign by the West to marginalize and/or isolate Russia … Read more
Researchers have identified a metal that conducts electricity without conducting heat – an incredibly useful property that defies our current understanding of how conductors work. The metal, found in 2017, contradicts something called the Wiedemann-Franz Law, which basically states that good conductors of electricity will also be proportionally good conductors of heat, which is why things … Read more
Does body language and the evidence prove Prince Andrew of England is guilty as a Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirator? SSES
I told Yall , cell phones were the mark of the beast! BEIJING — China will require telecom operators to collect face scans when registering new phone users at offline outlets starting Sunday, according to the country’s information technology authority, as Beijing continues to tighten cyberspace controls. In September, China’s industry and information technology ministry … Read more
via Eric Peters Electric cars are costing us more than just too much money. They’re also costing jobs. Just in time for Thanksgiving, Audi announced the end of 9,500 of them – to help finance the development of electric cars. “We are now tackling structural issues in order to prepare Audi for the challenges ahead,” said Audi’s CEO … Read more
by chudslayer Anyone else thinks that’s a bit weird? The mainstream narrative is that Al Qaeda is responsible, and Al Qaeda appears as an option in the poll. While there is a massive amount publicly available evidence clearly pointing to Saudi Arabia’s involvement, the government and media refuse to acknowledge it, and insist that it was … Read more
The 2020 Democratic field began with so many candidates it initially took two separate debates to host them all. The herd has thinned as most of the candidates with little to no name recognition have given up, leaving Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Pete Buttigieg as the front-runners (in that order, according to … Read more
Via Wired What was the last thing you searched for online? For me, it was ‘$120 in pounds’. Before that, I wanted to know the capital of Albania (Tirana), the Twitter handle of Liberal Democrat deputy leader Ed Davey (he’s @EdwardJDavey) and dates of bank holidays in the UK for 2019 (it’s a late Easter … Read more
Shot: Bloomberg: Darned right we need to tax the poor. —Jazz Shaw, Hot Air, Friday. Chaser: “The press went with it without explaining that it was an April Fool’s joke. Patsy Schroeder referenced it on the floor of the House of Representatives, a bunch of other Democrat and liberals. By the way, the condition of the poor has … Read more