Kilauea volcano: A massive river of lava covered hundreds more homes overnight as it poured into the sea, filling all of Kapoho Bay and decimating entire neighborhoods. It’s believed to be the single most destructive day of any eruption in …
by Sabremesh A timely reminder that 1984 didn’t get it quite right. The agencies of state snoop, and can find out everything about those it targets, but the surveillance panopticon is largely corporate, and this is probably what most of …
Keeping children cocooned in ultra-clean homes away from other youngsters could trigger childhood leukaemia, a landmark study suggests. A major new analysis by Britain’s leading leukaemia expert has concluded a deadly chain of events is set in motion when susceptible children are …
by DCG That device is ALWAYS listening and recording you. It won’t be doing that in my home. I get that people enjoy new technologies but are you so lazy that you can’t get up to turn off the lights? From Daily Mail: Amazon.com …
The world is slowly going to all f*ck. Alexa is being built into new homes. Your cars weren’t enough. VALLEJO, Calif. — The nation’s largest home builder is betting voice-activated digital assistants and smart devices will become as expected …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Bonds, junk bonds, spreads, commercial real estate, leveraged loans, over-leveraged companies… all get named as risks to the banks. This is why tightening will continue. “If we have learned anything from the past, it is that …
Victorville, California Neighborhood Covered In Tumbleweeds; Many Homes Had Them Piled Up In Front Of Their Houses, Reaching the Second Story [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] http://abc7.com/weather/tumbleweeds-inundate-homes-in-high-desert/3357227/ h/t Panda Bears
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vipjNfaUzwY ICE EM ALL!!
by stockboardasset A little over a month ago, after we first brought the market’s attention to the crisis quietly unfolding in consumer debt, Business Insider has finally caught up, acknowledging that “lower-income consumers and younger borrowers with substantial student debt moving at a …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter A whole industry has sprung up on both sides of the Pacific to dodge the rules on both sides of the Pacific. Today, the Federal Reserve, in its function as banking regulator, wagged its finger at Industrial and …
As the corporatocracy tightens its grip on the masses – finding ever more ways to funnel wealth to the top – humanity responds in a number of ways, including the rising popularity of tiny houses. These dwellings, typically defined as …
by DCG No need for self-defense mechanisms such as firearms, folks! Nothing to see here, move along. The police will keep you safe! By Jason Rantz at MyNorthwest.com: A violent series of armed robberies have hit the Seattle’s Beacon Hill where three, armed men …
https://youtu.be/5S5fvoJ1Bqs And I’m going to sound a little harsh here, but WHERE IS THE FCC? THE DOJ? THE FBI?
An enforcement team targeting overcrowding, discovered twenty-six bunk beds in a four-bedroom house in Wembley. Those living there were mostly migrants. They say that despite the appalling conditions, it’s the only way they can afford to live in the capital. …
By Michael Snyder It is now being estimated that the total amount of economic damage caused by Hurricane Harvey will be somewhere in the neighborhood of 190 billion dollars. It is a disaster unlike anything that we have ever seen before in …