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More Americans continue to rely on Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) services to combat inflation and consumer debt

July 17, 2023 -

According to a survey by the Federal Reserve, approximately one in eight consumers has used a BNPL service at least once in the past 12 months, slightly up from the one in 10 who used the service in the same time period the previous year. GlobalData said the BNPL industry, valued at $309 billion, is projected to expand by over 25 percent in 2026 due to increasing demand.

Meanwhile, in a separate study of Adobe Analytics, the first two months of 2023 revealed a 40 ...

Prestigious cancer institute retracts studies following allegations of DATA FORGERY

January 31, 2024 -

According to NBC News, the Boston-based DFCI requested the retraction of six studies and corrections in 31 others as part of an ongoing investigation into the allegations. The issue reportedly involved four of its administrators and senior cancer researchers.

"More than 50 papers, including four co-authored by [CEO] and President Dr. Laurie Glimcher, are part of a continuing review. Some requests for retractions and corrections have already been sent to journals, [while] ...

Economic disparity: 8 Richest households in Silicon Valley have 6X more wealth than poorest 500,000

June 16, 2023 -

The fourth annual Silicon Valley Pain Index (SVPI) published June 13 by San Jose State University's (SJSU) Human Rights Institute revealed this stark inequality in the region. SJSU sociology professor Scott Myers-Lipton, the report's lead author, noted: "After producing the SVPI for the fourth time, we have a clear understanding of the astronomical wealth gap.

He continued: "It is time for the community and elected officials to create social solutions to address the ‘social ...

Harvard controversy saga continues: University DEI officer apparently plagiarized husband’s academic work

February 07, 2024 -

An anonymous letter reportedly sent to the Ivy League university, the University of Michigan (UMich) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) this week alleged that the school's DEI head committed 40 instances of plagiarism over the years, as per the Washington Free Beacon.

The news outlet reported first on the complaint and described the details of how Sherri Ann Charleston allegedly committed these counts of plagiarism, including not properly attributing sources ...

Microsoft, Intel and Adobe team up to eliminate human knowledge and halt all questions under the guise of stopping “disinformation” online

February 24, 2021 -

Microsoft, Intel, BBC, and Adobe, along with lesser-known Truepic and Arm, have joined forces to develop new censorship tools, the likes of which the world has never seen.

In this age of digital censorship, where prominent buzzwords are used as justification to silence free speech, the coalition sees a new opportunity to trample the First Amendment while claiming some kind of moral high ground for preserving "truth" online.

"There's a critical need to ...

Online shopping hit by inflation during pandemic

September 17, 2021 -

The growth in digital prices across the industry means that e-commerce transactions are set to account for roughly $1 of every $5 spent by Americans, up from $1 of every $6 in 2017. These insights come from tracking more than 1 trillion visits to U.S. retail sites and over 100 million products across 18 categories.

Prices for online goods grew 3.1 percent year over year and climbed 0.1 percent from the previous month. From 2015 to 2019, online prices decreased 3.9 ...

Holiday shoppers shift focus to used goods amid shipping delays and shortages

November 30, 2021 -

Sellers told Insider that the secondhand economy is getting a boost from the supply chain crisis as more people are buying used goods from couches to holiday gifts.

"I've had people specifically say 'we just moved here and there are six months delays for Pottery Barn, Restoration Hardware ... and we just can't wait that long to have a dresser,'" said Leslie Jarett, who sells  flipped furniture on Facebook Marketplace. "Why wait three months to find my dresser when I ...

SUPPLY CHAIN PAIN: Shoppers see record number of out-of-stock messages as they scan retail websites

October 26, 2021 -

Out-of-stock messages on the internet are expected to be up 172 percent this holiday season compared with 2020 levels, and up 360 percent on a two-year basis, according to new data from Adobe Analytics. The apparel category is forecast to have the highest out-of-stock levels, followed by sporting goods, baby products and electronics.

To compile its holiday expectations, Adobe tracked more than 1 trillion visits to retailers' websites in the United States ...

Supply chain crisis affecting holiday shopping despite early start

November 11, 2021 -

Electronic products have the highest out-of-stock levels, followed by jewelry, apparel, home and garden and pet products.

Adobe reported that consumers started shopping ahead of time this year as they've been enticed by earlier deals, "but as e-commerce demand picks up, shoppers are feeling the impact of ongoing supply chain constraint."

In October, some $72.4 billion was spent on U.S. retail sites – an eight percent growth from a year ago. In the first ...

Online censorship even worse than ‘Twitter Files’ reveal, as leftists plan to ban ALL content they disagree with

January 23, 2023 -

"If you thought the Twitter Files were as bad as it gets for the “Trust & Safety” of Big Tech merging with government, you ain't seen nothin' yet," he begins the thread, which was posted on Thursday.

"Safety by Design' might be the biggest tech threat you’ve never heard of. The World Economic Forum, the Australian Government, and a radical bureaucrat named Julie Inman Grant are using it to impose their woke ideology onto the internet for everyone worldwide," he continued ...

Boycott these 60 companies that donate money to fund the systematic murder of unborn human babies

January 28, 2019 -

As the biggest single provider of abortions in America, Planned Parenthood performs more than 300,000 abortions each year, and their political arm works tirelessly to influence elections and implement liberal policies around the country. Undercover videos that came to light in recent years showed top execs from the group wining and dining agents who posed as buyers of baby body parts and cutting deals with them.

More than 25 percent of the $1.3 billion in revenue Planned ...

Online shopping GOOD for the environment: Research shows we’re saving lots of energy by staying home

February 10, 2018 -

A study was conducted by a team of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and Rochester Institute of Technology who looked at how developments in information technology are changing the lifestyle of Americans, specifically those below the age of 65.

Today, more people are spending time at home. The study was based on 10 years of American Time Use Surveys with around 11,000 participants each year who were asked to report how they spend their time. The surveys ...

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USDA and General Mills flee “GenderCool” associations as public learns about the horrors of corporation-backed GROOMING and genital mutilation of children

May 30, 2022 -

The USDA, General Mills and State Farm were just a few of the American corporations and federal agencies that supported GenderCool. Now these corporations are rescinding their support for GenderCool as the public learns about the horrors of corporations backing the grooming and genital mutilation of children.State Farm rescinds their support for GenderCool but is all for children questioning their gender

On May 24, State Farm announced they have withdrawn support for GenderCool, ...

Orwellian audio editing breakthrough allows your audio recordings to be edited like text to insert words you never said

May 25, 2017 -

New technology produced by computer scientists at Princeton University will have the ability to add words into a voice recording by editing the transcript of the recording. So let’s say you record the sentence “I like to drink coffee early in morning,” leaving out the word “the” between “in” and “morning.” The software, officially called VoCo, would automatically synthesize your voice and add the word “the” in the sentence, so that the recording never misses a beat.

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Bokhari: Microsoft and friends want to destroy online privacy

February 26, 2021 - Microsoft has teamed up with a number of tech and media companies to create a system of tracing content around the internet that could destroy online privacy and anonymity, radically transforming the nature of the web.

(Article by Allum Bokhari republished from Breitbart.com)

Against stiff competition, the alliance of tech and media giants has devised a plan that may constitute Big Tech’s most brazen power-grab yet.

According to Microsoft’s press release, it has partnered ...

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Seawater Minerals and the Coming Agricultural RevolutionAn exclusive interview with Ocean Grown, producers of mineral-rich, seawater concentratesDid you know that conventionally grown produce is grown in mineral-deficient soils that create mineral-deficient food? Most of the fruits, vegetables, root crops and other plants being eaten by consumers today are chronically deficient in minerals. A healthy tomato, for example, can absorb as many as 56 minerals if grown ...

Barclays research reveals that Americans are spending LESS on services

June 23, 2022 -

"All through 2022, the narrative has been that as [Wuhan coronavirus] COVID-19 faded, households would ramp up spending on services. This indeed has been true for much of this year," Barclays analysts wrote in a note.

However, they added that both high- and low-income Americans have begun pulling back, particularly on services, in the past four to six weeks. Also, the slowdown in spending is now concentrated on services instead of goods.

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Supply chain crisis threatens lucrative holiday sales of many companies

December 21, 2021 -

America's supply chain collapse has led to businesses having trouble sourcing everything from gaming consoles and other potential gifts to holiday decorations like Christmas trees. (Related: Supply chain crisis causes shortage in toys, spoils Christmas for millions of kids.)

Hot-sauce producer Eli Dicklich of Herbadashery LLC in Casper, Wyoming, said he does not have enough eight-ounce glass jars to bottle his sauces and ship them to customers. He has lost a lot of ...

The Natural House: A Complete Guide to Healthy, Energy-Efficient, Environmental Homes

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