The Jones Act of 1920 or J.A. for Short, Regulates Maritime Commerce in The United States, but Unfortunately in Modern Times it has Created a Severe Hardship for US Energy Maritime Commerce

| April 17, 2020

Ahh, now I get it. Another outdated law from a hundred years ago.  That time line alone should explain the problem here. The Merchant Marine Act of 1920, also commonly known as the Jones Act, is the fundamental law of the U.S. maritime industry. The Jones Act when used in the sense of maritime law refers to federal statute 46 USC section 883. […]

Fungi That Absorbs Radiation Has Been Growing All Over Chernobyl Power Plant

| February 12, 2020

Very interesting happenings at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Russia. Authored by John Vibes via TruthTheory.com, For a long time, scientists have known that certain types of fungi are attracted to radiation, and can actually help to break down and neutralize radiation in certain environments. The radioactive site of the abandoned Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant has […]

College Enrollment Skids For 8th Year In A Row, But Student Loans Skyrocket

| February 9, 2020

This was a time bomb waiting to happen, especially since most colleges have spent millions on expanding campuses for more profits and ever increasing student populations. To bad they didn’t use common sense in their actions! Authored by Wolf Richter via WolfStreet.com, With college costs blowing through the roof, with “luxury student housing” and not […]

Don’t Let Anybody Tell You That Coronavirus Isn’t A Big Deal!

| January 30, 2020

Putting this in the context of the deadly SARS epidemic, the coronavirus pandemic has now officially exceeded SARS in cumulative cases in just two weeks. Summary: First human-to-human transmission confirmed in US 9,821 confirmed cases worldwide, 213 fatalities South Korea confirms first human-to-human transmission China reported largest one-day jump in fatalities on Wednesday with Hong Kong warns of […]

2020: The Lowest Solar Activity In Over 200 Years

| January 14, 2020

Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com, Predictions for solar cycle #25 made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), NASA and the International Solar Energy Society (ISES) anticipate a deep minimum and a maximum that will occur between the years 2023 and 2026. During that maximum, they predict the Sun will have between 95 and 130 sunspots. *  *  * […]

Yellowstone’s Steamboat Geyser Eruptions Break Record

| January 12, 2020

In 2019, it counted 48 eruptions, according to the USGS Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz details, this number by far surpassed the previous record set in 2018 of 32 eruptions. You will find more infographics at Statista The last time the geyser was remotely this active was in 1964, when it counted 29 eruptions. Records published on […]

So You Think Next Generation 5g Technology Known As 5th Generation Mobile Data Networks Is Being Built For You, Think Again! The New 5g Networks Have A Dual Use Far More Important Than Cell Phones! Here’s Why…

| December 22, 2019

The Hidden Military Use of 5G Technology . By Manlio Dinucci Global Research, December 2019 .  . At the London Summit, the 29 member countries of NATO agreed to “guarantee the security of our communications, including 5G”. Why is this fifth generation of mobile data transmission so important for NATO? While the earlier technologies were perfected […]

$3 Billion, 300-Acre MegaCity Envisioned For California’s Record Homeless… But There’s A Twist

| December 21, 2019

Why not just call it the HH (Homeless Hilton)? Ask any San Franciscan what the state of California has an excess of and the most likely answer will be homeless people (and their excrement, especially with the liberal mecca recording as many as 16,000 “feces complaints” in one week ). Actually, ask just about anyone […]

The Best and Worst Investments During The Last 10 Years

| December 15, 2019

It’s almost time for the month-end, year-end and, yes, decade-end retrospectives from various investment banks. And so, without further ado, here is “2010s did you know…” Central banks: most activist…Brazil (25 cuts, 24 hikes); least activist…Japan (1 cut, 0 hikes). Population growth: most…India +149 million since 2010; least…Syria -4 million since 2010. US jobs: in […]

Who Has Spent The Most Dollars Lobbying Washington In 2019?

| October 27, 2019

This explains why healthcare is out of control. Healthcare lobbying costs have parked the field, with electronics a distant 2nd. The pharmaceutical industry is holding on to its title as the top lobbying force in Washington amid pressure from lawmakers at all ends of the ideological spectrum.Drugmakers have spent more than $129 million through September, slightly down […]

A Second Earth, Is It Possible

| August 1, 2019

This would be amazing, we will know more in 2021 when a pair of telescopes that are expected to begin operating in 2021 and 2025 should reveal whether the planet is rocky or has oceans.   Astronomers have discovered a ‘super-Earth’ just 31 light-years away. But, is it habitable or glacial? N’dea Yancey-Bragg A potentially habitable […]

Big Data Never Sleeps

| July 21, 2019

The Data Explosion, by Source Today’s infographic comes to us from Domo, and it shows the amount of new data generated each minute through several different platforms and technologies. Sources: ZeroHedge.com

Wealthy Millennials Are Now Moving To These States

| June 13, 2019

This makes sense, until a big earthquake hits the U.S. west coast. According to a new SmartAsset study, wealthy millennials are moving to the coasts, but the Northeast isn’t one of them. We defined millennials as people under the age of 35 and looked specifically at millennials with adjusted gross incomes (AGI) of at least $100,000. To determine […]

5G Cell Phones – Do We Really Need The Extra Radiation?

| May 5, 2019

Advancement in technology isn’t always for the better. It would appear that 5G radiofrequency has many health risks, along with other draw backs. 5G radiofrequency (RF) radiation uses a ‘cocktail’ of three types of radiation, ranging from relatively low-energy radio waves, microwave radiation with far more energy, and millimeter waves with vastly more energy (see below). […]

An Internet Minute In Action

| March 16, 2019

Degree’s That Earn You The Most, and Those That Don’t

| March 2, 2019

So, there you go, Degree’s for high earners and those for all the rest …

Which Car Color Is Most Popular In Your State?

| February 21, 2019

Black was the top choice among CarMax buyers, with 22.25% of all sales. White was a close second, with 19.34% of sales. Gray (17.63%) and silver (14.64%) rounded out the top four most popular colors. The chart below shows the national best-selling vehicle colors at CarMax.

This is Probably Not How Miss Lube Rack of 1955 Wants to be Remembered …

| February 3, 2019

Subject: Miss Lube Rack of 1955……… For what it’s worth…..sometimes your past can come back to haunt you!! Who was MISS LUBE RACK OF 1955 ?  Can You believe this?  Take note all you young people . . . pictures, especially on the Internet, never go away. Guess who was Miss Lube Rack of 1955 […]

Guess Who is the Least Trusted Profession? Yep, We Think You Already Know …

| January 25, 2019

Some professions have a better reputation for honesty than others.

A Hacker-Proof Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) Network

| January 17, 2019

This is impressive, innovative, and potentially dynamic advanced technology. We are thinking in terms of huge potential in a variety of industries. Is this the next great thing? Time will tell … by Tyler Durden Thursday, 01/17/2019 New Yorkers traveling in the Holland Tunnel, a vehicular tunnel underneath the Hudson River connecting Lower Manhattan and New Jersey, are now discovering that the next […]

Least-Educated State: California No. 1 in Percentage of Residents 25 and Older

| December 20, 2018

Hmm…Massachusetts ranks No. 1 for the percentage of its residents 25 and older—42.1 percent–who have earned at least a bachelor’s degree. (CNSNews.com) – California ranks No. 1 among the 50 states for the percentage of its residents 25 and older who have never completed ninth grade and 50th for the percentage who have graduated from […]

A Thanksgiving Feast With A Big Turkey Fades Into The Sunset

| November 22, 2018

Millennials cut back on large Turkey diners… There are signs that wee birds are in greater demand. Inventories of whole hens, which are smaller than males, are down 8.3 percent from a year ago, the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture data show. Whole toms, the males, are up 6.9 percent.

Want To Know When You’ll Die? UCLA Scientist Decodes Lifespan

| October 20, 2018

Boy, wouldn’t your life insurance company like to know this! Want to know when you’ll die?  UCLA biostatistician Steve Horvath stumbled across a reliable method of predicting a person’s lifespan based on 300-500 DNA markers which reveal whether someone is aging unusually fast or slowly compared to their chronological age, according to a recent research paper. […]

How To Impeach A President … Hint, It’s Not As Easy As You Might Think!

| September 2, 2018

An impeachment is a lengthy process and, as Statista’s Fabian Moebus notes, requires a simple majority from the House Judiciary Committee, the House of Representatives and a two-thirds majority of the Senate. While each step is quite explicitly described by the constitution, the possible indictments are worded rather vaguely. Consequently, most attempts to impeach the president are rejected by the House Judiciary […]

Every Major US Valuation Milestone From 1781: The Road To Apple’s Trillion Dollars

| August 5, 2018

Apple goes from near bankruptcy in 1997 to a trillion dollar market cap in 2018, what a run! The market has been buzzing about Apple’s $1 trillion market valuation. It’s an incredible amount of wealth creation in any context – but, as Visual Capitalist’s Jeff Desjardins notes, getting to 12 zeros is especially impressive when you […]

Generation Z Will Be Economic Power, Baby Boomers Fading Away

| July 4, 2018

“Sorry Millennials, your time in the limelight is over.” That’s the conclusion of a new report from Barclays analyst Hiral Patel, who writes that it’s time for the Millennials to make way for the new kids on the block – Generation Z – a generational cohort born between 1995 and 2009, and already larger in […]

Who Americans Trust The Most and Least

| July 4, 2018

Gallup recently polled U.S. adults about their confidence levels in 15 different societal institutions, finding only three had a majority-level of trust.

Want To Save Money, Then Here’s What You Do

| June 22, 2018

By far, getting dinner delivered from a restaurant is the most expensive meal option.  At over $20 per serving on average, a restaurant delivered meal is almost three times as expensive as a meal kit and five times as expensive as cooking at home from scratch. Obviously when you cook at home, you’ll spend more […]

Presidential Popularity By Own Party

| June 15, 2018

Interesting numbers…Donald Trump‘s popularity among members of his own party in is higher than any other post-war President except for George W. Bush.

The Supercomputer Race Goes to Summit As The United States Retakes The Lead For Fastest Computer In The World

| June 8, 2018

America’s new supercomputer beats China’s fastest machine to take title of world’s most powerful supercomputer. Summit is a stepping stone toward a world of exascale computing. The winner: The US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee has taken the wraps off Summit, which boasts peak computing power of 200 petaflops, or 200 million billion […]

Advertising Revenues Listed By Media Type

| May 21, 2018

  TV falls further behind, suffers first ad revenue decline since the Financial Crisis. You might think you never look at these ads or click on them, and you might think they’re the biggest waste of money there ever was, but reality is that internet advertising revenues in the US are surging, and are blowing […]

Top 10 Wealthiest Countries In The World

| May 8, 2018

Looks like its the United States and China, then everybody else…

U.S. Air Force’s X-37B Military Space Plane Marks 200 Days In Orbit

| April 8, 2018

  The U.S. Air Force’s unmanned X-37B space plane has marked its 200th day in orbit on a clandestine mission. Known as Orbital Test Vehicle-5 (OTV-5), the latest mission began September 7, 2017 after it was launched into space atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. According […]

Retailers Face Poor Future

| March 15, 2018

The future of retailers couldn’t look more bleak…we expect to see a wave of new BK’s

Fastest 4G Network Surf Speeds In The World, Hint … U.S. Ranked 62nd

| February 23, 2018

The United States takes pride in being a technological leader in the world. Companies such as Apple, Alphabet, IBM, Amazon and Microsoft have shaped our (digital) lives for many years and there is little indication of that changing anytime soon. But, as Statista’s Felix Richter notes, when it comes to IT infrastructure however, the U.S. is lagging behind […]

The Worlds Wealthiest Cities

| February 19, 2018

The data shown in this chart represents the total amount of private wealth held by all the individuals living in each of these cities. Figures here include all assets (property, cash, equities, business interests) less any liabilities. Meanwhile, government funds are excluded from these figures. New World Wealth also mentions that there were eight cities that […]

The Billionaire Quagmire – Rich Man, Poor Man

| January 22, 2018

In 2017 the world’s richest 1% raked in 82% of the wealth created last year while the poorest half of the population received none, Separately, chief executives of the top five global fashion brands made in just four days what garment workers in Bangladesh earn over a lifetime.

U.S. Nuclear Weapons, Power Plants and Labs

| January 12, 2018

Nuclear warheads are still stored in a number of sites around the continental United States. The map below also highlights laboratories and interstate shipping routes. (Yes, nuclear weapons are apparently shipped in big rigs.)

Biggest Lobbying Groups

| January 11, 2018

Here are the biggest lobbyist movers…

Biggest Breakthroughs of 2017

| December 31, 2017

Here we go…it’s all about the FUTURE…

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