New claims for unemployment benefits dropped to 712,000 in the week ending 5 March from 754,000 the week before, the fewest new filings since early November, the U.S. Labor Department reported. In February, U.S. employers added 379,000 jobs, the most since last October, the Department noted. Although the trend is positive, weekly unemployment filings had...
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VALUE STOCKS OUTPACE GROWTH STOCKS
So-called “value” stocks – those trading at low multiples of their net worth – are outperforming growth stocks, such as those in tech, by the widest margin since the tech bubble burst in 2001, Dow Jones Market Data reported. Stocks trading at those low multiples in 2020 tended to be the ones hit hardest by...
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ANOTHER WEEK, ANOTHER RECORD FOR DOW
Rising for six consecutive sessions, the Dow Jones Industrial Average grew 4.1 percent for the week ending 12 March and closed at 32,778.64, its best week since November. The S&P 500 added 2.6 percent last week, and the NASDAQ gained 3.1 percent, reversing a three-week string of losses, although it remained 5.5 percent below its...
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
BEYOND BITCOIN: OTHER CRYPTOS MIGHT BE FUN IN ‘21. Bitcoin continues to be a main object and a target for both investor and government scrutiny. In the last few weeks, it has traded wildly up and down. It caved from a high of around $58,000 to territory in the range of $43,000 after negative comments...
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NBC REPORTER WROTE THE PRIMER ON DIGITAL DOXXING
Investigative Journalism, the Technocracy, and Cancel Culture are sitting in a bar. “Hey, get a load of that nerdy chick married to her cell phone in the corner,” says IJ. “Who is she?” “Just a second,” says Technocracy. “Blonde, glasses, 20s. Okay, did a Same Energy search, this looks like her. Dark data scan in...
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TWITTER, FB, APPLE GET A PASS WHILE TEXAS GOV. CONDEMNS GAB
Child porn and exploitation on Twitter, wholesale censorship on YouTube, and Apple doubling down on banning the resurrected Parler media social platform from its app store might all seem like worthy matters for government officials to address. But none of that was a target this past week of Texas Governor Gregg Abbott. At a meeting...
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AMAZON USING DIGITAL BOOK DOMINANCE TO CENSOR
It seems every week some aspect of a classic dystopian novel jumps off the page and into the designs of the Technocracy. This week, two congressmen were shining a spotlight on Amazon’s bolder moves into censoring books. Why does it matter? Because over the last decade, the tech behemoth has gained a de facto monopoly...
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SELF-DEFENSE SPRAYS
by Bradley J. Steiner I have always been against mace, tear gas, pepper sprays, etc., for self-protection. This is why: After experimenting with a relatively large number of students years ago, I found that the effectiveness of these sprays was unimpressive. They did work effectively to make some individuals stop in their tracks and cease...
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CLEAN, GREEN SEAWATER BATTERIES
For all their usefulness, batteries are a toxic mess. Electrolytes, the medium that moves a battery’s electric charge from one pole to the other, are a slough of sometimes-flammable toxins that can include cadmium, ammonium chloride, and sulfuric acid. When batteries are used up and thrown away, those poisons can go into soils and water...
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mRNA VACCINE EFFECTIVE AGAINST MS, PERHAPS OTHER ILLNESSES
The mRNA vaccine design effective against the COVID virus also shows promise in battling multiple sclerosis (MS), a complicated condition in which the body’s immune system peels away the protein sheath surrounding nerve fibers, causing them to short-circuit. Traditional vaccines carry a fragment of a hostile virus or a weak version of the whole bug,...