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via torontosun: Have you heard about the latest epidemic that the City of Toronto has to deal with? No, it’s not a measles outbreak or a strange new infectious disease, it is worse than that. People — specifically millennials — walking up and down the streets with coffee cups. If you haven’t noticed the “epidemic,” Ward … Read more
via CNBC: The smartphone industry plans to tackle a global slowdown in sales by selling new, pricey foldable devices and handsets that can support the super high-speed mobile internet standard known as 5G. But that may not be enough to sway people to trade in their old phones as long as they remain in good … Read more
via frontpagemag: Standardized testing is the engine of meritocracy. When the College Board standardized testing through the SAT, it introduced merit to an educational system where status was determined by family history. A poor immigrant who studied hard and worked hard might have a shot at the best schools in the land. Over a century later, … Read more
via khn: Emergency room patients increasingly leave California hospitals against medical advice, and experts say crowded ERs are likely to blame. About 352,000 California ER visits in 2017 ended when patients left after seeing a doctor but before their medical care was complete. That’s up by 57%, or 128,000 incidents, from 2012, according to data from … Read more
by Jeff Thomas Via International Man Left-wing activists have recently been increasingly active in seeking to limit opposing political viewpoints, in order to create a more ubiquitous “groupthink.” One effort in accomplishing this has been to propose the creation of a “Human Rights Committee” in order to monitor the economic transactions of “white supremacist groups and … Read more
Via The Babylon Bee WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a moving speech to honor Memorial Day, National Security Advisor John Bolton announced seven new wars the U.S. will launch in the coming months. It’s customary for military leaders to say a few words on Memorial Day, sometimes thanking past soldiers for their sacrifice or reminding Americans of the … Read more
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The economy is an interesting thing. You generally hear the same statistics over and over again. The fake unemployment rate, the wonderful consumer confidence, and everyone’s favorite, the GDP. Now I love a good comedy myself, but it’s also important to actually spend some time looking at facts. The jobs numbers are definitely not giving … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Tesla shares are down 50% from last December and are back where they’d first been in September 2013. Bonds dropped to a new low on Friday, reflecting what the market thinks the probability is that Tesla will default, and what bondholders will get if it does. This poses a unique existential … Read more
by Charles Hugh-Smith If you want to identify tomorrow’s superpowers, overlay maps of fresh water, energy, grain/cereal surpluses and arable land. The status quo measures wealth with “money,” but “money” is not what’s valuable. “Money” (in quotes because the global economy operates on intrinsically valueless fiat currencies being “money”) is wealth only if it can purchase … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Madrid, Barcelona, other markets are well on their way. But some markets are still crushed. Spain’s last epic housing bubble, one of the biggest in living memory, propelled median home prices to €2,100 per square meter, at which point the bubble began to burst. The national median price eventually plunged 31%, … Read more
by Michael Snyder In this article I am going to share with you a perfect example of why so many people believe that there is so little hope for the future of America. The young adults of today are going to be the leaders of tomorrow, and generally speaking the young adults of today are … Read more
Collins released transcripts on several FBI, DOJ officials including: Trisha Anderson William Sweeny Loretta Lynch James Kybicki Andrew McCabe George Toscas Jonathan Moffa John Giacalone Sally Moyer In her testimony, (Trisha Anderson) alleges that the application process for the FISA warrant was handled in an “unusual” fashion and that numerous Obama era FBI officials were … Read more
Macron vs. Salvini: Two leaders face off over EU’s future BRUSSELS (AP) — France’s pro-EU president and the leader of Italy’s euroskeptic, far-right movement jockeyed for the role of chief powerbroker on the continent Monday after elections to the European Parliament hollowed out the traditional political middle. The four days of balloting that drew to a close … Read more
Have the day off? Try doing nothing. Doing nothing — ironically — can be a great way to make yourself more creative and productive over time, according to New York Times Smarter Living editor Tim Herrera. “There’s a lot of studies that show that building laziness and building idle time into you schedule and into … Read more
A private group announced Monday that it has constructed a half-mile wall along a section of the U.S.-Mexico border in New Mexico, in what it said was a first in the border debate. The 18-foot steel bollard wall is similar to the designs used by the Border Patrol, sealing off a part of the border … Read more
Sixteen pupils waiting for their school bus and two parents of pupils who were nearby were stabbed by a man wielding knives in Kawasaki near Tokyo on Tuesday morning, leaving a girl and a man dead, police and school officials said. The 16 schoolgirls, pupils of Caritas elementary school, a private Catholic school in the … Read more
Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com, The dystopian future George Orwell warned us all about in his iconic novel, 1984 has quickly become our reality. Widespread facial surveillance in the “land of the free” is an “imminent reality.” A tech privacy report, that has been swept under the rug by the mainstream media has declared that Americans are about to live … Read more
by Michael Snyder All across America, U.S. farmland is being gobbled up by foreign interests. So when we refer to “the heartland of America”, the truth is that vast stretches of that “heartland” is now owned by foreigners, and most Americans have no idea that this is happening. These days, a lot of people are … Read more