Month: January 2020
SHOCKED: San Francisco official in charge of cleaning up city’s filthy streets arrested by FBI for corruption
The head of San Francisco Public Works, which is in charge of cleaning up the city’s feces-filled streets, has been arrested by the FBI on suspicion of public corruption. San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru was arrested Monday alongside Nick Bovis, the owner of a popular sports bar in Fisherman’s Wharf, Lefty O-Doul’s. Sources told … Read more
FLASHBACK: WaPo June 2018 (Remember back when Bolton was the devil?)
John Bolton was paid $115,000 by a Ukrainian oligarch before joining the Trump white house. Seems relevant now, doesn’t it? h/t DemocratMafia
The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America, January Update
Prices in New York City condo market, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle down to early 2018 levels. Chicago nearly flat from year ago. Other markets rise. Phoenix, Tampa, Charlotte surge. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. Reports have been circulating for a while about the deterioration in the Manhattan housing market, including a report in December that studied condo towers … Read more
Internet of Things at Home: Ring sends the surveillance data of its own customers to third parties, including Facebook.
By Bill Budington, Electronic Frontier Foundation: Ring isn’t just a product that allows users to surveil their neighbors. The company also uses it to surveil its customers. An investigation by EFF of the Ring doorbell app for Android found it to be packed with third-party trackers sending out a plethora of customers’ personally identifiable information (PII). Four … Read more
Matt from Silver Fortune: Why This Coronavirus is Different than SARS and Ebola
https://youtu.be/ET4ruTv3yZU More updates, and why this pandemic looks different.
[CB]s Are Panicking, The Global Economy Is Failing, This Event Will Not Cover It Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLF9LG7Lkac The [CB] are panicking, their entire fake economy is coming apart at the seems, they never got the event they needed and now they need a huge distraction and an explanation of why the system crashed on their watch. Trump signals the Fed to lower rates.
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Food Shortages! Areas Barricaded! Hong Kong Closes Schools!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieGog6XOW2I Joe Hoft from The Gateway Pundit reports, Barriers are in place around China, preventing individuals from traveling the country as is customary during the Chinese New Year. Food shortages are being reported as the year of the rat starts on a terrible note. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020…
50 Common Cognitive Biases (to be aware of if you want people to believe an argument)
by SpaceyTheMinotaur This is going to be a somewhat controversial post, I understand, but some biases are extra-relevant to this sub: reactance, backfire effect, belief bias, confirmation bias, false memory, curse of knowledge, false consensus, and third-person effect. Things working AGAINST people who are telling the truth in this sub: sunk cost fallacy, authority bias, … Read more