Month: March 2021

The union for a Los Angeles trucking company, Teamsters Local 986, was forced out after nearly 80% of workers signed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to remove it. The National Labor Relations Act governs private sector workers, unionization and how workers can remove a union from their workplace. In 27 right-to-work states, … Read more

I didn’t expect it to be that quick. While I was on a Google Hangouts call with a colleague, the hacker sent me screenshots of my Bumble and Postmates accounts, which he had broken into. Then he showed he had received texts that were meant for me that he had intercepted. Later he took over … Read more

Uber is to guarantee its 70,000 UK drivers a minimum hourly wage, holiday pay and pensions after a landmark supreme court ruling. The ride-hailing app said drivers would start benefiting from the changes from Wednesday while retaining the right to choose when they work, as it accepted they were classed as workers in line with … Read more

January 2018: * Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama was linked to NXIVM, the controversial self-help organization described by former members as a ‘sex cult’ * He spoke at an event in Albany, New York, in 2009 and put a Tibetan scarf round the neck of its founder Keith Raniere in what was said to be a ‘victory’ … Read more

Single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza plane crashed in Pembroke Pines, Florida, shortly after it took off from North Perry Airport at around 3pm Monday  Neighbor’s Ring camera caught the plane crashing into passing SUV and bursting into flames  Plane’s two occupants were pronounced dead at the scene  Woman and young child who were riding in the SUV … Read more

https://twitter.com/Boomieleaks/status/1371932231816638477 Four migrants with names on terror watch list picked up at border since October Four foreign nationals, whose names match those on the terror watch list, have been stopped trying to enter the U.S. via the southern border since October, a congressional aide familiar with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) information told Fox News. … Read more

A federal judge ordered the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to release additional information about its purchases of organs harvested from aborted human fetuses, according to a statement issued by Judicial Watch on Monday. Two agencies under the HHS, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), … Read more

The LA Coun­ty Sheriff’s Depart­ment made sev­er­al crit­i­cal deci­sions in the inves­ti­ga­tion of Tiger Woods’ dev­as­tat­ing crash that were favor­able to the golf­ing leg­end — who was giv­en the ben­e­fit of the doubt despite indi­ca­tions he was inat­ten­tive or had dozed off, accord­ing to a report. Sher­iff Alex Vil­lanue­va announced on Feb. 23 — when … Read more

Did S&P go to sleep in 2019??The last two stimulus bills account for approximately 25% of GDP. Add another $2 or $3 trillion in infrastructure fiscal stimulus and your north of 33%. pic.twitter.com/98Ri9tXTrm — Jack (@JackPScott) March 16, 2021 US AA+ rating affirmed by S&P, outlook stable despite exploding debt. pic.twitter.com/Uilp6EEgn1 — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) March … Read more

https://twitter.com/farrisbaba/status/1371794139600334854 Retail sales fell in February, but economists expect improvement in coming months as vaccines become more widely available https://t.co/84Bp5gXgBK — Real Time Economics (@WSJecon) March 16, 2021 There is no inflation Call Jerome Powell to print more stimulus checks pic.twitter.com/67V50IMu48 — Alessio (@AlessioTMAD) March 16, 2021 Hard-core CPI ‘inflation’ is dead in the US … Read more

What a joke… https://t.co/rmpEOrTHTN — Dahboo7 🎙 (@dahboo7) March 16, 2021

Alas­ka, Flori­da, Mon­tana, Neva­da, and Puer­to Rico have joined a law­suit filed by Texas and oth­ers against Google, which accuse it of break­ing antitrust law to boost its already dom­i­nant online adver­tis­ing busi­ness, Texas Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton said on Tuesday. The law­suit was one of five filed last year by the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment or … Read more

Thousands of people in Sweden are inserting tiny microchips under their skin — making their lives much easier as they no longer have to carry IDs, gym passes, and keycards to get into work. But it’s not without data risks. Will microchip implants be the next big thing in Europe? About 3,000 Swedes have inserted … Read more

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/16/alibabas-uc-browser-deleted-from-android-app-stores-in-china.html Alibaba’s internet browser has been removed from several app stores in China, according to a report from The Financial Times on Tuesday. Android app stores including those operated by Huawei, Xiaomi and Tencent have reportedly blocked downloads or removed Alibaba’s “UC Browser.” CNBC was unable to immediately confirm the report. It comes after the UC Browser was … Read more

by GooeyZeus https://www.creditkarma.com/tax Just finished up my taxes. Would highly recommend. It was super easy despite having retirement, investment, self-employment, and regular income to file. EDIT: Just wanted to summarize some of the comments. Apparently, Credit Karma Tax isn’t free for every tax situation, but it does cover most of them. There’s also been some … Read more

Late last year, a thorn emerged in the side of the historically successful Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which provided $525 billion in forgivable loans to more than 5 million American small businesses hurt by the pandemic. Suddenly, business owners feared facing a tax consequence for the aid they received. Though the PPP funds themselves were nontaxable, … Read more

Google is slowly updating its many iOS applications with App Store privacy labels, detailing the type of data it collects from users. The Google and Chrome applications were recently updated with these new labels, and DuckDuckGo is already using them to its advantage. In a post on Twitter this afternoon, DuckDuckGo took issue with Google’s privacy labels … Read more

Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Democrats are rallying behind California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s effort to defend himself from a recall effort, which his campaign is attempting to characterize as an effort supported by right-wing extremists. Democrats unveiled an effort to combat the recall effort, dubbed “Stop the Republican Recall,” which has the support of Senators Elizabeth Warren, … Read more