Archive for August, 2024
Jet-Setting Starbucks Boss Makes a Mockery of the Company’s Green Claptrap
August 23rd, 2024haha. Charbucks is hilariously bad. It’s astonishing that so many people continue to buy that dreck. Anyway, this is easily the most delicious thing Charbucks has ever served. Via: Telegraph: What surely can’t be in doubt is the chain’s desire to show how committed it is to saving the planet. In fact, anyone who has […]
Fed Chair Powell Indicates Interest Rate Cuts Ahead
August 23rd, 2024haha Shocker: U.S. Jobs Revised Down By 818,000, Second Worst Revision In History: At the end of the day, all this does is cement the Fed’s 25bps rate cut next month. Via: ZeroHedge: Powell’s comments confirmed that a September rate cut is coming, as he said “the time has come for policy to adjust”, with […]
Images Show Utopian City ‘Telosa’ Planned For U.S.
August 23rd, 2024What to do until the first private burbclave gets built? I wonder if it will have a Yoshinoya: Via: Newsweek: One of America’s top billionaires is backing the construction of a 15-minute city in the middle of the American West desert, called Telosa. The city, which is the brainchild of former Walmart president Marc Lore, […]
Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs
August 23rd, 2024This is from 2010. Via: NumbersUSA:
Richard Medhurst: Journalist Critical of Israeli Genocide in Gaza Arrested in UK
August 22nd, 2024Via: Richard Medhurst:
RFK Jr. to Address His Candidacy on Friday in Arizona, Where Trump Is Set to Hold a Rally
August 21st, 2024Update: RFK Jr.: “We Are in a Kind of Cold Civil War” America is lucky it’s not in a civil war right now, yet we are in a kind of cold civil war. What is this experiment we call America? Let us look back and remember who we are, and how our greatest leaders—like Abraham […]
U.S. Jobs Revised Down By 818,000, Second Worst Revision In History
August 21st, 2024Via: ZeroHedge: At the end of the day, all this does is cement the Fed’s 25bps rate cut next month.
“Switzerland Moves Towards Cashless Future with Instant Payments”
August 21st, 2024Optional, for now. Via: AFP: Switzerland’s new instant payment system will bolster the future of cashless payments in the country, the Swiss central bank said Wednesday after the scheme went live. The Swiss National Bank said around 60 financial institutions were now able to receive and process instant payments, covering more than 95 percent of […]
Calley & Casey Means: “The System Is Rigged Against the American Patient to Create Diseases and Then Profit Off of Them”
August 21st, 2024Highly recommended. Via: Tucker Carlson: Casey Means was a Stanford-educated surgeon. Her brother Calley was a lobbyist for pharma and the food industry. Both quit their jobs in horror when they realized how many people were being killed by the systems they participated in. This is an amazing story. (0:54) Who Are… pic.twitter.com/1oIVLvPlAv — Tucker […]
New Samsung Solid-State EV Battery has 600-Mile Range and Charges in 9 Minutes…
August 21st, 2024As I read about Samsung’s new solid state battery, I started to wonder, “What’s the catch?” These batteries require about 1KG of silver per vehicle: He noted that while official numbers are currently unavailable, estimates show that there could be as much as five grams of silver per cell in Samsung’s solid-state batteries, meaning “a […]