Fortnite Addiction Is Real: 9-Year-Old Girl Checks Into Rehab “After Getting Hooked Playing Fortnite For 10 Hours A Day”

by Michael Snyder  Fortnite is the most popular video game in the entire world right now, and for some people it is literally taking over their entire lives. More than 40 million people have downloaded the game since it was released last July, and it just seems to keep getting more and more popular. In fact, … Read more

WHEN YOU’RE TOO WOKE FOR STARBUCKS…Leftist Starbucks Founder Says Democrats Have Gone ‘Too Far Left.’

via lidblog: Wow. In a surprising move, Starbucks founder, Howard Schultz, was recently heard arguing that the Democrat Party has swung too far to the left. He’s right, of course, but one can’t be blamed for cynically wondering if Schultz is saying this merely to make up for the many leftwing decisions the company has recently … Read more

Still Waiting for Evidence of a Russian Hack: More than two years after the allegation of Russian hacking of the 2016 U.S. presidential election was first made, conclusive proof is still lacking and may never be produced

This interesting article by Ray McGovern alleges that the reason actual discussion on the details of the 2016 “Russian hack” has waned is because there simply isn’t enough evidence that indeed occurred. If this is true, then much of the political foofaraw of the last 2 years has been based on a lie, or at … Read more

You’ll Never Eat At This Fast Food Chain Again After What’s Caught On Camera – Never Seen Before!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtiBPeJSxHg RWN reports, When it comes to fast food restaurants and let’s face it, all restaurants, we can never be too sure these days considering the videos that keep popping up on social media about their cleanliness. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://rwnofficial.com/youll-never-e…

Amazon Secretly Profits From “Unethical And Illegal” Chinese Sweatshop To Make Your Echo Speaker

by stockboardasset Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos recently became the world’s wealthiest man. Bezos’ fortune is mostly tied to Amazon’s inflated stock price trading at a nosebleed price/earnings ratio of approximately 265, with a market cap around $811 billion (as of June 08). But how did Bezos managed to become the world’s richest man by disrupting America’s retail industry? New evidence from … Read more

25 Things To Improve Your Home Security

Via Survival Sullivan With the state of the world today, it’s likely that you’ve begun to see some changes in your neighborhood. If you’ve witnessed increased activity in your area at night or an increase in “strangers” that seem to be visiting your neighborhood at various times of the day and night, it may be … Read more

Humans Need Not Apply: AI to Take Over Customer Service Jobs

“With Amelia, we graduate into automating the knowledge worker, the customer service agent.” By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. The last ten years have been a rough time for many bank employees in Spain. The country’s lenders have laid off 89,500 workers on the back of narrowing margins, industry consolidation, mass closures of branches … Read more

Brace for World Economy’s Most Important Week of Year

Trump meets Kim, Putin meets MBS, U.K. MPs vote on Brexit bill Fed to hike, ECB to update bond plan, BOJ to keep stimulating https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-10/brace-for-the-world-economy-s-most-important-week-of-the-year It’s supposed to be a week when many in Europe are on their to, if not already at, their first summer vacation, while Wall Streeters are enjoying the lovely weather … Read more

Anthony Bourdain – His Battle With Weinstein And Clinton – He Was No Lover Of The Elites.

by Ruby Henley Anthony Michael Bourdain (1956-2018) grew up in Leonia, New Jersey.  His parents had colorful backgrounds in the classical music industry for Columbia Records and with THE NEW YORK TIMES. Anthony, however, was a free spirit, owned nothing, and he loved wild adventures . In his own words  he had nothing until his … Read more

Americans Are House-Rich but Cash-Poor

via Marketwatch: When Mike Lindsay’s energetic young wife was diagnosed with cancer, it was a shock. To Mike, it seemed like one moment Vanessa was happily gardening in their spacious backyard, and the next she was gone. The couple and their two sons lived in a rambling Spanish-style house at the end of a cul-de-sac in … Read more

One in three Americans say their financial stability is dependent on receiving an inheritance.

via Marketwatch: The key to your financial future may lie in your parents’ bank account. One in three Americans say their financial stability is dependent on receiving an inheritance, according to a survey released Thursday by Merrill Edge, an online discount brokerage service provided by Bank of America Merrill LynchBAC, -0.27% Some 36% of Generation X-ers and 32% of … Read more

Metrics of Mania: Nobody Can Predict a Bubble Market’s Near-Term Direction

via Business Insider: Attempting to read the tea leaves and anticipate near-term market movement is nearly irresistible. Bold proclamations of just-around-the-corner seismic price movements reliably get a lot of attention, regardless of whether or not those making said predictions have been wrong about same a hundred times in a row. It is, far and away, … Read more

IRS sent CP14 letter stating 2017 taxes weren’t paid, but they were paid on time. This is our experience (a good one!) with getting it corrected.

by smelling_the_roses I’m posting this in the hopes that it helps someone else. On Thursday, my husband and I received a CP14 letter from the IRS saying our full balance of 2017 taxes were due. Of course we immediately worried that someone else cashed our check, which was withdrawn from our account on 4/24. We … Read more

Preparing for market crash

by Rutgeurr   So I realize that statistically speaking it’s generally a bad idea to time the market. Statistically speaking it’s a good idea to buy a few ETFs that are tracking some of the major indices and this was what I was doing up until recently. However, the more I study about history of … Read more

Seattle to help the homeless safely inject drugs with medical mobile unit

by DCG King County’s medical mobile unit Seattle’s homeless crisis is exacerbated by the fact that the local area politicians and government officials believe that enabling an addiction is part of the solution. Taxpayers are coughing up MILLIONS of dollars to provide assistance to those in need. Yet many of the homeless don’t want help any help. The … Read more

Neoliberalism and the Rise of Corporate Globalism

by Jesse Excerpted below is a recent book review of Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, by Quinn Slobodian, Harvard University Press. I have included a link to the entire article which I recommend reading if you wish to know more about how the rise of globalism, corporatism, and neoliberalism may go … Read more