The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America, January Update

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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.

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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

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Food Shortages! Areas Barricaded! Hong Kong Closes Schools!

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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)

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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

Virginia Congress Continues Gun Control Frenzy With 9 More Bills, Ignores Massive Protest

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This article was written by Daisy Luther and originally published at The Organic Prepper Despite a massive and peaceful turnout on the Lobby Day rally on January 20th, the Virginia State Congress remained totally unfazed by what the people wanted and proceeded to advance numerous unconstitutional gun laws over the following week. While everyone has been focused on … Read more

AMAZON’s Ring Doorbell Secretly Shares Private User Data With FACEBOOK

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Amazon’s Ring smart doorbell surveillance product has been caught sending user data to Facebook and other companies without making Ring users aware their data was being shared. That’s according to an investigation from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). What’s even more alarming is Ring users are having their data sent to Facebook even if they themselves don’t … Read more

Fourth coronavirus victim confirmed in France. UPDATE: Three more confirmed cases in Bavaria/Germany

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LIVE – Coronavirus : a fourth case confirmed in France https://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/2020/01/28/01008-20200128LIVWWW00001-en-direct-chine-wuhan-coronavirus-contagion-virus.php Three additional cases of infection with the new coronavirus have been found in Bavaria, where also has been identified in a first case this morning, was announced by the bavarian state ministry of the Health. “These patients are also employees of the company district of Starnberg, … Read more

Police Allowed To Conduct Illegal Searches Of Vehicles At Concerts And Music Festivals

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by mapi credit: Hudson Valley 360 A recent Appeals Court ruling in Tennessee reveals a disturbing window into how police use concerts, music festivals and sporting events to trample our Fourth Amendment rights. When Brian Wiley purchased tickets to the Bonnaaroo Music Festival in 2016 he never thought that police would be allowed to search his car without probable cause. … Read more

SARS 2003 total infected was only 8098! Wuhan Coronavirus already at 4500! Will keep numbers UPDATED!

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Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory disease of zoonotic origin caused by the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV). Between November 2002 and July 2003, an outbreak of SARS in southern China caused an eventual 8,098 cases, resulting in 774 deaths reported in 17 countries,[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome Don’t think it will be long before this number … Read more

XI’S DISEASE UPDATE

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Wuhan virus: Know the symptoms of this disease. Related: Germany and Japan Report First Coronavirus Cases in People Who Haven’t Visited China. UPDATE: ‘It was like a horror movie’: In one Wuhan hospital, long lines, fear and frustration over coronavirus.“One spoke of a fear that sick patients with fevers will infect each other while waiting in long … Read more

HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN

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Gallup: U.S. Satisfaction Surpasses 40% for First Time Since 2005. Astounding numbers as US heads into 2020 election season.. Nation strongly more satisfied re: Economy, Security, Social Issues, Race Relations etc under President Trump/Pence than under President Obama/Biden. Gallup: U.S. Satisfaction Surpasses 40% for First Time Since 2005.Astounding numbers as US heads into 2020 election … Read more