Alzheimer’s patient lost at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue… Biden gets confused outside…

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1425135620557623298 Daily Mail has the full story… In Biden’s latest bizarre gaffe, the president was filmed returning to the White House after spending time in Wilmington, Delaware Secret Service agent points for him to follow the sidewalk path into White House Instead, Biden is seen following the agent up the lawn and through the gardening into … Read more

NSA Conspiracy Against Tucker Carlson to be Investigated by the NSA

by Chris Black .@FoxNews spokesperson says @NSAGov OIG probe is in connection with Tucker Carlson pic.twitter.com/ovh3je7Xek — David Shepardson (@davidshepardson) August 10, 2021 You know you are living in clown world when the people accused of conspiracy against Tucker Carlson are going to investigate themselves. Makes total sense. Even the shills at Faux News did … Read more

Twitter’s Image Cropping Algorithm is Racist and Prefers Young People

by Chris Black “Almost every major AI system we’ve tested for major tech companies, we find significant biases,” said Parham Aarabi, a professor at the University of Toronto and director of its Applied AI Group.https://t.co/JRPj9PJ9y0 — Cyrus Farivar (@cfarivar) August 9, 2021 The Guardian: Twitter’s image cropping algorithm prefers younger, slimmer faces with lighter skin, … Read more

US Real Average Hourly Earnings “Rise” To -1.2% YoY While Core Inflation Decreases Slightly To 4.3% YoY

by confoundedinterest17 US inflation remains nears its highest level since 1991, but moderated slightly. The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.5 percent in July on a seasonally adjusted basis after rising 0.9 percent in June, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased … Read more

Mortgage Purchase Applications Rise 1% From Previous Week, But Down 18% From Last Year Thanks To Unaffordable Home Prices

by confoundedinterest17 Simply unaffordable is what singer Robert Palmer would say. Homes, that is. Mortgage applications increased 2.8 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending August 6, 2021. The Refinance Index increased 3 percent from the previous week and was 8 percent … Read more

Jason Burack: Gold’s Paper Price Smashed Again + Another Guilty Metals Trader Gets Light Sentence

Wall St. For Main St., Released on 8/10/21 Ex-Merrill Lynch Gold Traders Found Guilty in Spoofing Trial https://news.bloomberglaw.com/banking… Yes, the trader was found guilty. But, what the article did not say was how many charges in the RICO investigation that the judge dropped, like commodities fraud, that were far more serious than the one charge that … Read more

Forget The “Taper,” More QE Is Coming Along With Higher Gold And Silver Prices

by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics In the last FOMC policy announcement, the Fed announced that it is establishing a “standing” $500 billion repo facility open to domestic and foreign banks. A repo facility provides overnight or short term liquidity to the banking system. It moves liquidity around from banks that have it to banks that need … Read more

The Misconception of the “Man of System”

via Jeff Thomas via International Man In 1759, Scotsman Adam Smith, who is widely regarded as the world’s first true economist, published his first great work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. In it, he postulated that all social evolution can be attributed to “individual human action,” as opposed to “individual human design.” By this, he meant that whatever … Read more

NSA Awards Secret $10 Billion Contract to AMAZON

The National Security Agency has awarded a secret cloud computing contract worth up to $10 billion to Amazon Web Services, Nextgov has learned. The contract is already being challenged. Tech giant Microsoft filed a bid protest on July 21 with the Government Accountability Office two weeks after being notified by the NSA that it had selected AWS for the … Read more

NYT Tech Staff to Walk Out, Escalating Union Fight…

(Bloomberg) — New York Times Co. technology employees plan to walk off the job Wednesday over what they say are the newspaper publisher’s illegal efforts to stymie their unionization campaign. Workers will stage a half-day stoppage, according to the NewsGuild of New York, the affiliate of the Communications Workers of America that the employees seek … Read more

SALMONELLA ALERT: Nearly 60,000 pounds of chicken products recalled

CNN — Serenade Foods is recalling nearly 60,000 pounds of frozen, raw, breaded and pre-browned stuffed chicken products that could be contaminated with salmonella enteritidis, the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Monday. The products were produced on Feb. 24 and Feb. 25, 2021, and were shipped to distributors across the country, the service said. They … Read more