Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Apple Data Shows Shelter-In-Place Is Ending, Whether Governments Want It To Or Not
May 3rd, 2020Via: Forbes: Bye-bye shelter-in-place. Hello re-opening. Apple’s Mobility Trends report shows that traffic in the US and other countries like Germany has pretty much doubled in the past three weeks. It had been down up to 72%. And location data provider Foursquare says that gas and fast food visits are back to pre-COVID-19 levels in […]
How Bill Gates Monopolized Global Health
May 2nd, 2020Via: Corbett Report:
Gluts Forming Across Multiple Sectors of Wrecked Economy
May 1st, 2020Via: Bloomberg: The length of almost two football fields, the cargo ship Jupiter Spirit arrived in Los Angeles’ harbor on April 24 after an almost three-week journey from Japan, ready to unload its cargo of about 2,000 Nissan Armada SUVs, Rogue crossovers and Infiniti sedans in a quick, half-day operation. But when the ship, operated […]
How a ‘Private Coup’ in Venezuela Funded by U.S. Billionaires Fell Apart
May 1st, 2020Via: Daily Mail: A secret military operation to overthrow Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro Moros was simple, but perilous. Some 300 heavily armed volunteers would sneak into Venezuela from the northern tip of South America. Along the way, they would raid military bases in the socialist country and ignite a popular rebellion that would end in […]
Las Vegas Casinos Turned Into Food Banks
May 1st, 2020Via: Daily Mail: Mass lay-offs of casino staff in Las Vegas have left thousands of unemployed workers in dire need of support, and food banks have popped up to sustain the needy. Las Vegas, casinos are being transformed into food banks for those unemployed workers, some of whom may of worked there just months earlier, […]
Guess Who’s Growing Your Meat?
April 30th, 2020Via: Corbett Report:
Funeral Directors in COVID-19 Epicenter Doubt Legitimacy of Deaths Attributed to Pandemic, Fear Numbers are ‘Padded’
April 30th, 2020Via: Project Veritas:
Cities Face 100 Million ‘New Poor’ in Post-Pandemic World
April 29th, 2020Via: Reuters: About 100 million people living in cities worldwide will likely fall into poverty due to the coronavirus pandemic, urban experts said on Wednesday, calling for mapping tools to identify vulnerable communities and investment focusing on slum areas. Densely populated cities are poised at the frontline of the contagious outbreak, hard hit where people […]
GOP Senator Asks DOJ to Open a Criminal Investigation Into Amazon
April 29th, 2020Via: CNBC: Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is asking the Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation into Amazon, citing reports that he says suggest the company has used “predatory and exclusionary data practices to build and maintain a monopoly.” Hawley’s request follows Friday’s Wall Street Journal report that said Amazon employees had used data […]
Bill Gates: “The Final Solution, Which Is a Year to Two Years Off, Is the Vaccine.”
April 29th, 2020“Just to head off the conspiracy theorists, maybe we shouldn’t call the vaccine the final solution. Maybe just the best solution.” You couldn’t make it up if you tried. Maybe I need to start watching TV. This is incredible. Via: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert:
