TO BE FAIR, IT WAS A BATTLE OF WITS: James Delingpole: Kanye wipes the floor with David Letterman.

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via spectator.co.uk: The key moment comes when Kanye, after discussing his bipolar disorder (which he refuses to treat with drugs, preferring to enjoy what he calls ‘ramping up’), chooses (in his oblique, meandering way) to lament the climate of fear that has been generated among men in the witchhunt atmosphere of #MeToo. Letterman looks uneasy at … Read more

Wondering why low mortgage rates haven’t goosed the housing market? Here’s the answer

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Via The Housing Wire American household income fell in May, even with the unemployment rate at the lowest level in almost 50 years. Median household income fell 0.6% from the prior month to $63,799, according to a report by Sentier Research on Tuesday. That’s combined gross wages plus retirement and military benefits of all people sharing a housing unit. … Read more

Bizarro World: The Fed is concerned about families’ economic hardship–that their policies fueled.

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by Sparky1   “Just because folks on Wall Street think things are fine doesn’t mean most Americans feel like things are fine,” said Ray Boshara, director of the Center for Household Financial Stability at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. “When every day is a rainy day for millions of families, things are not fine.” … Read more

This whole “feel safe” thing is bullshit that needs to be shut down

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Starbucks shop boots police officers because customer ‘did not feel safe’ around them: reports. “Some police officers in Tempe, Ariz., say they were asked to leave a Starbucks coffee shop on the Fourth of July because a customer complained they ‘did not feel safe’ with the cops present, according to reports. Five officers were drinking coffee … Read more

Julian Assange and the Real War on the Free Press

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via theamericanconservative: Trump administration officials were enthusiastic when Ecuador decided to expel Julian Assange from its embassy in London, where he had received sanctuary for nearly seven years. British authorities promptly jailed him for jumping bail on sexual assault charges in Sweden, and U.S. officials began plans to have Assange extradited to face espionage charges in … Read more

SPACE: Amazon Seeks Permission To Launch 3,236 Internet Satellites.

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Amazon is asking the FCC for permission to launch 3,236 satellites that would be used to establish a globe-spanning internet network. Seeking Alpha reported that Amazon expects “to offer service to tens of millions of underserved customers around the world” via the network, which the company is developing under the codename Project Kuiper. Tom’s Hardware reports:So what does this … Read more

The Extreme Temperatures of the Universe

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by visualcapitalist For most of us, temperature is a very easy variable to overlook. Our vehicles and indoor spaces are climate controlled, fridges keep our food consistently chilled, and with a small twist of the tap, we get water that’s the optimal temperature. Of course, our concept of what’s hot or cold is actually very narrow … Read more

Jeffrey Epstein arrested

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via thedailybeast: Billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was arrested for allegedly sex traffickingdozens of minors in New York and Florida between 2002 and 2005, and will appear in court in New York on Monday, according to three law enforcement sources. The arrest, by the FBI-NYPD Crimes Against Children Task Force, comes about 12 years after the 66-year-old financier essentially got … Read more

Poland moves to exempt young workers from income tax

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via france24: Polish lawmakers have approved a measure that would exonerate most workers under the age of 26 from income taxes as the country seeks to stem the flow of its young people to other EU nations in search of better paying jobs. The lower house of parliament approved the measure introduced by the ruling conservatives … Read more

A republican worth 1.8 billion and big time Republican donator entire bloodline wiped out as him and family die in heli crash

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via NYPOST: West Virginia coal tycoon Chris Cline was rushing his 22-year-old daughter to a Florida hospital for a medical emergency when their helicopter plunged into the Bahamian sea, according to a report. Kameron Cline, 22, began experiencing the unspecified medical issue while attending her dad’s birthday party on his private island near Grand Cay, a friend of … Read more

Ten Big Steps down the Road to Recession

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by David Haggith First, a decline in manufacturing, and then a slump in service industries, now a broad-spectrum inversion of the yield curve hitting its most critical metric this week, unemployment finally starting to rise again, a one-year relentless housing decline across most of the nation and the world, carmageddon pressing car dealers to offer big incentives once … Read more

Berlin’s Government Is Making Housing Unaffordable

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Authored by Maurus Adam via The Mises Institute, As a reaction to an extremely tight housing market, the government of the German capital of Berlin hasintroduced price controls on rents which took effect on June 18, 2019. For the next five years, rents cannot be increased. This interventionist measure, made by a coalition of center-left to … Read more