Archive for June, 2019
Los Angeles: Homeless Disaster Getting Worse
June 4th, 2019I hope Catherine Austin Fitts investigates California’s spending on the homeless situation. Something is obviously very wrong. Who is winding up with the billions of dollars? Via: KTLA: The number of homeless people counted across Los Angeles County jumped 12% over the past year to nearly 59,000, with more young and old residents and families […]
Apple Forces Developers to Place Its Login Button Above Google, Facebook
June 4th, 2019Just a few days ago, someone was asking me how to sign into the AirBNB app on her iPhone without using Google or Facebook credentials. I thought that there would be an option to enter her email and password, but there wasn’t. That app forces users to supply either Google or Facebook credentials. I don’t […]
Thirty Years After Tiananmen…
June 3rd, 2019Via: Reuters: Three decades after China’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, increased government suppression of rights activism has pushed the demonstrators’ original goals further away than ever. In April 1989, weeks before Chinese leaders ordered a military assault to clear the protesters from central Beijing, tens of thousands of […]
More Americans Working in Their 70s
June 3rd, 2019Via: Quartz: Katharine Abraham, an economics professor at the University of Maryland, was chatting with her hairdresser one night about retirement plans. The economist said she plans to continue working because she wants to and has no plans for retiring. The hairdresser agreed but for different reasons: She needs the money. Both scenarios are contributing […]
U.S. Forces Blow Up Three Oil Tankers In Syria Enforcing Oil Embargo
June 2nd, 2019Via: OilPrice: US-led forces have blown up three oil tankers in Syria as the United States increases its pressure on Syria by thwarting the oil trade between the PKK/YPG and the Assad regime, according to local sources quoted by several media sources. The strike was carried about by coalition planes, which hit three oil tankers, […]
Pentagon: “Mr. Elizondo Had No Responsibilities with Regard to the AATIP Program While He Worked in the Office of Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence”
June 2nd, 2019Via: The Intercept: There is no discernible evidence that he ever worked for a government UFO program, much less led one. Yes, AATIP existed, and it “did pursue research and investigation into unidentified aerial phenomena,” Pentagon spokesperson Christopher Sherwood told me. However, he added: “Mr. Elizondo had no responsibilities with regard to the AATIP program […]
Deloitte: Net Worth of Average 18 to 35-Year-Old Has Plummeted 34 Percent Since 1996
June 1st, 2019Via: The Hill: The net worth of the average 18- to 35-year-old has plummeted 34 percent since 1996, according to new study from accounting group Deloitte. Despite stereotypes that millennials overspend on entertainment and dining out, the Deloitte study found that the generation is paying more for education, food, transportation and other basic needs, while […]
Televangelist on Needing to Use Three Private Jets: “It’s a Biblical Thing”
June 1st, 2019If you don’t believe in the Devil, you might after watching this. Via: Daily Mail: Televangelist Kenneth Copeland has appeared in a bizarre interview where he defends using three private jets to travel the world after previously claiming he didn’t want to fly commercial with ‘demons’. The 82-year-old’s chat with Inside Edition features him angrily […]
