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by Charles Hugh-Smith Here is the moral decay of America’s ruling elites boiled down to a single word. There are many reasons why Imperial Rome declined, but two primary causes that get relatively little attention are moral decay and soaring wealth inequality. The two are of course intimately connected: once the morals of the ruling Elites … Read more
by originalmuggins I had a theory last night about what might have gone down in the Trump-Xi meeting, from reading between the lines. When I cite a credible news source I put (FACT). The rest is conjecture. I think that the series of meetings Trump had with business leaders (including Tim Apple) and the … Read more
via Zerohedge: A new study has provided evidence linking unaffordable housing in Vancouver to foreign ownership, Chinese capital and millionaire migrants, according to the SCMP. A white paper published by Josh Gordon, an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University’s school of public policy, found a stunning 96% correlation between metro Vancouver municipalities’ price to income ratios and the proportion … Read more
via Bloomberg: Mental health problems manifest in a number of ways and encapsulate a wide range of conditions, including substance abuse disorders, crippling anxiety, schizophrenia, and suicidality. A person’s susceptibility depends on genetic, social, and environmental factors. These contributors are believed to be intertwined; psychological stressors can activate a genetic predisposition, so life circumstances matter … Read more
In 2007 a handful of people started to wake up. They realized that taking something out of thin air, assigning it the highest rating possible, and then leveraging it to the maximum was a bad idea. Well after the Financial Crisis, we were told that everything had been fixed and that measures were put into … Read more
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by DCG Fun fact about this demorat governor: “He is a private business owner based in Chicago and a managing partner and co-founder of the Pritzker Group and a member of the Pritzker family who own the Hyatt hotel chain; he has an estimated personal net worth of $3.2 billion. Pritzker was the Democratic nominee for governor … Read more
By Nick Cunningham Canada is desperately trying to build the much-delayed Trans Mountain Expansion, but even as it tries to advance the ball on one front, another pipeline has found itself in the crosshairs. Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline carries more than a half a million barrels of oil and products per day from Alberta, across … Read more
via theatlantic: No novel of the past century has had more influence than George Orwell’s 1984. The title, the adjectival form of the author’s last name, the vocabulary of the all-powerful Party that rules the superstate Oceania with the ideology of Ingsoc—doublethink, memory hole, unperson, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, Thought Police, Room 101, Big Brother—they’ve all entered the English language as instantly recognizable signs of a nightmare future. … Read more
by The18YONormie Let’s state two things first: More and more people are relying on headlines to get all the information. According to this Forbes Article “A recent study confirmed this phenomenon isn’t in our heads; in fact, 59 percent of all links shared on social networks aren’t actually clicked on at all, implying the majority of article shares aren’t … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4ae2VGjk_4 Recently Twitter has decided that it will start shadow banning or removing any tweets by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, which they deem offensive. They state they will start by labeling these tweet as potentially offensive, thus diminishing their exposure. This no doubt raises a lot of questions as what Donald … Read more
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Most job vacancies in the Public Sector as Boomers retire (Link to article below) https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/job-…
While not as ‘mainstream’ as other candidates Yang has been getting a lot of attention online. This was his first chance to make an impression to audiences at home and his mic was cut off whenever he would try to get a word in when not directly asked. He was given the least amount of … Read more
via readtheticker When valuations for the boring water company or the boring electric company is trading like your Facebook, Apple, Amazon or Netflix or Google (ie FANG) you know something is wrong. This is when a seriously over valued market is screaming at you. Of course the reader must understand in a world where money … Read more
via THEMINDUNLEASHED: (TMU) — A Google Maps mishap last weekend resulted in nearly one hundred people driving their cars into the middle of a muddy field, where many of them became stuck. Some of them even caused damage to their cars trying to get through the rough terrain. It all started on Sunday with an accident on Pena Boulevard … Read more
The first 2020 Democratic presidential primary debates, featuring Cartoons Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Marianne Williamson, Beto O’Rourke, Cory Booker, Bill de Blasio, Amy Klobuchar, and the rest of them. New episodes of Our Cartoon President premiere Sundays at 8/7c, only on SHOWTIME.
via dailycaller: A New York Times op-ed calls for the public shaming of U.S. government employees working in migrant detention facilities. “These agents’ actions should be publicized, particularly in their home communities,” writes Kate Cronin-Furman. Cronin-Furman said she is not calling for the “doxxing” of government workers, but she describes a scenario where a border protection … Read more
