PRIVACY: Google will soon restrict loan apps from accessing users’ photos and contacts. Google will implement a new rule for apps providing personal loans starting on May 31st that could help protect users from abuse and harassment. The tech giant has …
NEW YORK – Carjackings have skyrocketed 200% — or more — in multiple big cities across the county in past years, as law enforcement officials and crime experts pleaded with lawmakers on Tuesday for help addressing the rampant issue, with one official …
Lockdowns did next to nothing of benefit. Only harm. h/t SonnyBoy96
MELT-UP: a sustained improvement in the investment performance of an asset, driven partly by a stampede of investors who don’t want to miss out on its rise, rather than by fundamental improvements in the economy. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/melt-up.asp …………… Gains that a melt-up …
This WashPost op-ed makes a vital often-overlooked point: Facebook is spending millions *advocating* for social media regulations because only they and Google would have the resources to comply, making it virtually impossible for competitors to survive:https://t.co/1avRug7Ivd pic.twitter.com/k2mPpdVlIc — Glenn Greenwald …
Tucker Carlson on Wednesday night continued the coverage on his Fox News primetime show of the alleged spying a whistleblower claimed the NSA had done of the host. Carlson dedicated much of the episode to the topic and was joined by Glenn …
My daughter flies and was beyond amazed this happened without any injuries!!! My hats off to both pilots!! Just by chance the smaller plane has the parachute rescue system for their plane! h/t The Old Timer
The Washington Post's media-spread error about Trump's Georgia call shows the deceitful playbook first invented to undermine Trump and promote Russiagate. As they rely upon partisan audiences, news outlets are incentivized to recklessly publish against political enemies. — Glenn Greenwald …
Granted, Variety Magazine is hardly the stuff of insightful or particular detailed reporting, but using Christine Amanpour as a springboard to repeat a canard is pretty low. Being a Hollywood-based publication, it’s not surprising how a sly but false anti-Trump innuendo would …
by cbus20122 The dotcom bubble peaked and burst right as the curve inverted. There is zero guarantee that the markets keep going up from here, although history definitely says its quite possible. There is even a risk for a short-term blowoff …
STEVE SCALISE: No forgiveness for shooter, Trump ‘motivated’ recovery. Rep. Steve Scalise is a good Catholic who won the prayers of many church leaders as he recovered from a bullet fired by an angry liberal while he and his Republican baseball …
The stock market often seems to defy logic. Consider that good news is often followed by plummeting prices, and bad news is often followed by rising prices. Here’s how to make sense of it all … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-CaaLGuOlA
via John P. Hussman, Ph.D.: Chuck Prince famously said we have to dance until the music stops. Actually the music had stopped already when he said that. – George Soros In recent days, the combination of extreme valuations and unfavorable market …
by Jesse You have often heard me say that ‘gold is flowing from West to East.’ Much of that gold flow is through the refineries of Switzerland, where London good and NY gold bars are converted to the kilo specifications …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B7H7A8VWRE This sounds rather trite and simple and perhaps it is. But nothing could be more true than this most evident gravamen.
by Chris Black Motto: An armed man is a Citizen. An unarmed man is a subject. Considering Canada’s latest (and worst in thirty years) mass killing from yesterday (10 people dead and others injured), it’s pretty obvious that when a …
It’s really stunning when one hears of school districts getting in trouble because they discipline disabled students at higher rates than non-disabled students. The problem is that we DEFINE students who are chronically misbehave as “disabled.” So, of course, they get disciplined …
by Adam Taggart Dreamstime A few years back, I received an unexpected knock on the door late one Friday afternoon. The polite stranger standing there simply said, “This is for you” as he handed me a piece of paper and …