WORLD NEWS
Klaus Schwab to step down as Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum!
Arch-globalist and head of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab has reportedly
informed staff that he will be stepping down as WEF executive chairman.
The 86-year-old self-appointed Sultan of Davos sent an email to staff on Tuesday announcing that he will no longer run the world’s most prominent globalist advocacy group although he will likely stay on in some non-executive role, the website Semafor claimed.
A WEF spokesman told the website that the Forum will be changing its governance structure and that as a result, Schwab “will transition from Executive Chairman to Chairman of the Board of Trustees” by the start of next year. Although Schwab has not officially named a successor, the Financial Times reported that former Norwegian Foreign Minister and current WEF President Børge Brende will take over the top job in Davos.
Last year, the POLITICO website reported that, according to 29 WEF insiders, Schwab is treating the organization like a “family heirloom”, indicating that Schwab may have sought to appoint one of his two children, Nicole and Olivier — both of whom already serve in high-ranking positions within the WEF — as a next executive.
The final decision will reportedly need to be cleared by the government of Switzerland, which hosts the group’s annual Davos meeting. The reported move by Schwab to step down from his leadership role in the group comes despite his previous claims that he wanted to stay in power and run the WEF for decades to come.
A German-born economist, Schwab started the World Economic Forum in 1971 with $6,000 in startup funds. Now a $390 million per year business, the Forum sees world leaders, top-flight businessmen, and alleged thought leaders descend — often by private jet, ironically, given the frequent focus on climate change — to the Swiss ski resort town of Davos where they bend the metaphorical knee to Schwab every year.
Under his leadership, the WEF has become one of the leading forces behind numerous globalist projects, such as central bank digital currencies, transhumanism, artificial intelligence, world governance, veganism, carbon taxes, tech censorship, and a radical restructuring of the global economy, among others.
During the Chinese coronavirus crisis, Schwab controversially declared that it represented an opportunity to enact his notion of a “Great Reset“, demanding that the world “act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies”.
Key to his notion of a Great Reset is the implementation of the deceptively-titled and socialist-adjacent ‘stakeholder capitalism’ — a term coined by the WEF chief — in which there is “shared prosperity and equitable growth, based on sustainable production and consumption.”
Infamously, the WEF produced a video predicting that people would “own nothing and be happy“, sparking public outrage, with critics claiming that Davos was seeking to end private property by extending the subscriber-based economy to all walks of life.
Schwab has also popularized the concept of a “Fourth Industrial Revolution” which will see emerging technologies transform how humanity interacts with and understands the world. The WEF chairman has pointed to Artificial Intelligence as being central to this vision, saying last year that those who control AI will have the ability to become “masters of the world”.
The World Economic Forum founder has pointed to Communist China as a likely “role model” for many countries in the “systemic transformation of the world”, saying in 2022 that the “Chinese model is certainly a very attractive model for quite a number of countries.”
REPORT: Biden Administration has paid Taliban nearly $11-million since withdrawal disaster!
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) reported on Monday that the Biden administration has overseen $10.9 million in payments to the Taliban junta in Afghanistan since President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal of American forces in August 2021.
SIGAR said the bulk of this U.S. taxpayer funding for the Taliban regime came from “taxes” collected by the terrorists. About half a million dollars of the payments were for “payments for utilities, fees, and customs duties.”
Worse still, the report said the $10.9 million tracked by SIGAR’s auditors was “likely only a fraction of the total amount of U.S. assistance funds provided to the Taliban” because “U.N. agencies receiving U.S. funds did not collect data or provide relevant information about their sub-awardees’ payments.”
Furthermore, the Special Inspector General complained that many organizations working in Afghanistan simply failed to comply with the U.S. Treasury Department’s minimal recordkeeping requirements.
One of the U.N.’s “implementing partners” told SIGAR investigators that it paid taxes to the Taliban but kept no records of the transactions. Ironically, the very fact that the United States does not recognize the legitimacy of the Taliban regime was cited as a reason for not keeping records of taxes and fees paid because the junta in Kabul does not meet the technical definition of a “host government.”
The United Nations has collected about $1.6 billion from U.S. taxpayers for programs in Afghanistan since the fall of Kabul, with no requirements to “annually report on taxes, fees, duties, or utilities” paid to the Taliban regime.
While the U.N. itself claims it paid no taxes or fees to the Taliban because it was awarded tax-exempt status, SIGAR noted that its agencies “act as pass-through entities for State and USAID awards and use subcontractors to directly implement award activities.”
Since the regime did not grant those subcontractors tax exemptions, it is likely that a good deal of the American funding allocated to them wound up in the coffers of the Taliban.
SIGAR noted that U.N. officials have warned their subcontractors that the Taliban will punish them for failing to pay taxes and fees, with actions ranging from frozen bank accounts and closed offices to “attempts to divert aid or infiltrate NGOs [non-government organizations] and interfere with activities.”
Seventeen of the 65 organizations operating in Afghanistan that responded to SIGAR’s questionnaire said they had experienced “direct pressure from the Taliban,” including demands to hire “Taliban- approved individuals” and orders to divert food and medicine to “populations chosen by the Taliban.” The responding organizations said they were able to resist many of the Taliban’s demands, even though armed thugs menaced them on occasion.
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said he was not surprised by the results of the SIGAR audit, which he requested in March 2023.
“It is unacceptable for any U.S. funding to benefit the Taliban. The Biden administration must take immediate action to prevent U.S. taxpayer dollars from going to the Taliban,” McCaul told the Daily Caller on Tuesday.
U.S. NEWS, POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
Trump classified documents case: Judge holds hearing on dismissing the charges!
Prosecutors and defense lawyers in the classified documents case against the former president Donald Trump are due in court on Wednesday for the first time since the judge indefinitely postponed the trial earlier this month.
The case, one of four criminal prosecutions against Trump, had been set for trial on 20 May but US district judge Aileen Cannon cited numerous issuesshe had yet to resolve as a basis for canceling the trial date.
On Wednesday, Cannon was scheduled to hear arguments on a Trump request to dismiss the indictment on grounds that it fails to clearly articulate a crime and instead amounts to “a personal and political attack against President Trump” with a “litany of uncharged grievances both for public and media consumption”.
Prosecutors on special counsel Jack Smith’s team, which brought the case, will argue against that request. Trump is not expected to be present for the hearing.
The motion is one of several that Trump’s lawyers have filed to dismiss the case, some of which have already been denied.
Also scheduled for Wednesday are arguments by a Trump co-defendant, his valet Walt Nauta, to dismiss charges.
The arguments come one day after a newly unsealed motion reveals that defense lawyers are seeking to exclude evidence from the boxes of records that FBI agents seized during a search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate nearly two years ago.
The defense lawyers asserted in the motion that the August 2022 search was unconstitutional and “illegal” and the FBI affidavit filed in justification of it was tainted by misrepresentations.
Smith’s team rejected each of those accusations and defended the investigative approach as “measured” and “graduated”. They said the search warrant was obtained after investigators collected surveillance video showing what they said was a concerted effort to conceal the boxes of classified documents inside the property.
RFK, Jr. changes abortion stance after massive pushback from the right!
An early campaign promise Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made when he was still running in the Democrat primary last year has seen a stern test in recent weeks amid his comment that he supported abortion up to full term.
Mr. Kennedy told The Epoch Times last August that he preferred to have advisers and team members who don’t fully share his views and, as a candidate and president, he would listen to differing opinions and even change his mind if presented with a convincing argument.
In May, a podcast interview with Sage Steele created a firestorm where Mr. Kennedy received a widespread backlash.
He said that women should be able to terminate their pregnancy “even if it’s full term.”
The comment drew criticism from pro-life groups and multiple people within his campaign.
Nicole Shanahan, Mr. Kennedy’s running mate, sat down for a talk with Ms. Steele that was released a week before Mr. Kennedy’s interview aired.
Ms. Shanahan said that she was unaware that the candidate did not support limits on abortion.
“My understanding with Bobby’s position is that, you know, every abortion is a tragedy, is a loss of life,” Ms. Shanahan said, adding that she thought that he believed in limits on abortion and, perhaps, there was a miscommunication in his interview.
A day after the interview with Sage Steele aired, Mr. Kennedy reiterated his early campaign promise that he would “always be willing to listen to people and change my position.”
“I support the emerging consensus that abortion should be unrestricted up until a certain point.
“I believe that point should be when the baby is viable outside the womb.
“Therefore, I would allow appropriate restrictions on abortion in the final months of pregnancy, just as Roe v. Wade did,” he wrote on X.
He noted that “even in the reddest of red states, voters reject total abortion bans.”
Mr. Kennedy has stressed that he does not like abortion, but he said he does not trust the government “to have jurisdiction over people’s bodies.”
Rudy Giuliani pleads not guilty in Arizona election case!
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has pleaded not guilty in a case that accuses him of illegally trying to overturn the election results of the 2020 election in Arizona.
Mr. Giuliani appeared remotely for his arraignment as it was held in a courtroom in Phoenix on Tuesday. He was joined by 10 other co-defendants in the case in entering not guilty pleas, according to court reporters.
The others who entered not guilty pleas include former Trump and Republican National Committee attorney Christina Bobb, former Trump aide Michael Roman, former Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward, and more. Former President Donald Trump was not charged himself in the case, but it was suggested he was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Arizona Attorney General office’s indictment.
Others who were named in the indictment include former Trump lawyer Boris Epshteyn and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. Last week, attorney and former law professor John Eastman pleaded not guilty to the charges after he was arraigned.
During his remote appearance, Mr. Giuliani stated he did not have an attorney at this time but will. When asked by the court whether he needed counsel appointed for the arraignment, he responded, “No, I think I am capable of handling it myself.”
Mr. Giuliani said he received a summons but did not have a copy of the indictment. He said he is familiar with the charges, though, by reading about them.
The defendants have been charged with conspiracy, fraud, and forgery for submitting an electoral certificate to Congress that said President Trump won the last election. Prosecutors say that it’s illegal and President Joe Biden won the state.
Federal judge is reopening David DePape’s sentencing hearing in Paul Pelosi attack case!
A federal judge will reopen the sentencing hearing for David DePape, the man convicted of assaulting Paul Pelosi, after failing to let him speak during the initial proceeding, according to an order.
U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Corley of the Northern District of California issued the order over the weekend in response to a motion filed by prosecutors on May 17.
The decision comes just days after Judge Corley sentenced Mr. DePape, a Canadian who moved to the United States over 20 years ago, to a total of 30 years in prison.
Vince Fong wins Kevin McCarthy’s seat for rest of the US House term!
Vince Fong, backed by Donald Trump, has won a special election to finish the term of the former US House speaker, Kevin McCarthy, who also lent his endorsement.
Fong, a California state assembly member, defeated fellow Republican and Tulare county sheriff Mike Boudreaux in the 20th congressional district, in the Central Valley farm belt.
It was not immediately clear when Fong would be sworn in – that is up to the current House speaker, Mike Johnson. Trump endorsed Fong in February, calling him “a true Republican”.
McCarthy last year became the only US House speaker in history voted out of the job, and resigned afterwards.
DA Fani Willis has won the Georgia Primary!
Fani Willis, the Fulton county district attorney overseeing Georgia’s expansive criminal case against Donald Trump and his allies for attempting to overturn the 2020 election, has won her Democratic primary bid for re-election with nearly 90% of the vote.
Willis and Judge Scott McAfee – who won his primary election on Tuesday – are central figures in the prosecution against the former president and associates in his orbit accused of conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Willis will now face the Republican lawyer Courtney Kramer in November. With her high name recognition, the advantages of incumbency and a hefty fundraising haul, Willis’s victory in the primary was not terribly surprising.
Fatal storms and tornadoes pummel Iowa overnight; parts of one town reduced to rubble!
A powerful tornado ripped through a small Iowa town yesterday, killing multiple people and leaving at least a dozen injured, authorities said.
Images from the town of Greenfield show a path of utter destruction, with homes reduced to splinters, debris strewn everywhere and several large wind turbines toppled.
“This tornado has devastated a good portion of this town,” said Sgt. Alex Dinkla, a spokesperson with the Iowa State Patrol, during an evening press conference in Greenfield.
“We can confirm there have been multiple fatalities with this tornado.”
Dinkla did not provide a death toll, but said it may not be before Wednesday that figures could be provided.
At least a dozen people in Greenfield, a town of about 2,000 people, were injured in the twister, Dinkla said. Because the local hospital sustained damage in the storm, those people had to be transferred to facilities in nearby towns.
At least one person, a woman in Adams County, was listed as a storm-related fatality, the county’s medical examiner Lisa Brown said. She spoke to Reuters by phone but said she could not yet provide more details.
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds declared a “disaster emergency” for 15 counties, including Adair and Adams, allowing state resources to be readily utilized in responding to the storm.
Also in Adams County, at least three wind turbines standing about 25 stories high were nearly snapped in half, with one catching fire, KCCI reported. It said several other wind turbines were damaged in Adair County.
The National Weather Service had issued tornado warnings and severe thunderstorm advisories for much of Iowa and several other Midwestern states on Tuesday, including parts of Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
Earlier in the day, the weather service confirmed at least one tornado over Rollingstone, Minnesota.
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
Michigan town loses bid to block Chinese-owned electric vehicle battery factory!
The Michigan community of Green Charter Township on Friday lost a court battle to block Chinese-linked electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturer Gotion Inc. from building a factory near the town.
Michigan is generally friendly to Chinese investments and the Gotion project in Green Charter Township was specifically endorsed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), who called it “the biggest ever economic development project in Northern Michigan.”
Gotion pledged to spend $2.36 billion on the factory, which is supposed to create 2,350 jobs. The company settled on Green Charter Township, a rural community northwest of Detroit that acts as a self-governing district of Big Rapids, as the location for its battery plant. The township signed a development agreement with Gotion in August 2023.
Sentiment among the township’s residents soon turned against the factory project, in part because Gotion Inc. is a U.S. company that is wholly owned and controlled by a Chinese firm called Hefei Gotion High-Tech Power Energy Co. Ltd.
Gotion Inc. was obliged to describe this relationship in detail in its filings under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA). In those filings, and in subsequent statements by Vice President of North American Manufacturing Chuck Thelen, the company has denied being controlled by agents of the Chinese government and insisted the Chinese Communist Party will not have offices in its proposed Michigan factory.
However, skeptical politicians and reporters in Michigan uncovered Gotion corporate documents that said the company is required to “set up a Communist Party of China organization” and ensure the implementation of Communist Party guidelines within all corporate operations. Investigative journalists discovered Hefei Gotion High-Tech employs hundreds of Chinese Communist Party members, and its CEO is a high-ranking Party official.
Thelen insisted these company documents were misunderstood or misrepresented by critics and their practical meaning was simply that the American subsidiary of Gotion was not allowed to do business in China. Somewhat awkwardly for the American branch and its CEO, Chinese state media enthusiastically celebrated the Gotion plant as a major step toward the Communist regime’s worldwide domination of the EV industry.
A controversy erupted over whether Gotion had misrepresented its relationship with the Chinese government or not, especially since the new factory would be located within a hundred miles of Camp Grayling, the largest U.S. National Guard training facility. Concerns were also raised about the plant’s compliance with wetlands regulations, and the heavy water use anticipated for large-scale battery manufacturing.
The Gotion project received the blessing of the U.S. Treasury Department Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), but that only added fuel to the controversy, as critics claimed CFIUS was derelict in its oversight duties, allowing the Gotion project to pass without full transparency by declaring the company was operating outside of its jurisdiction.
Red Lobster facing an old injury lawsuit in Indiana that the State Supreme Court just granted!
Abigail Fricke filed a Chapter 13 bankruptcy petition, which required her to disclose all her assets, including any lawsuits. Three years later, she filed a lawsuit against Red Lobster, alleging she was injured due to the restaurant’s negligence. However, she did not update her bankruptcy asset schedule to include this lawsuit until after Red Lobster moved for summary judgment based on standing and judicial estoppel. The trial court denied Red Lobster’s summary judgment motion, and the Court of Appeals affirmed. Red Lobster argued that Fricke lacked standing to sue because her personal injury claim was an asset that belonged to her bankruptcy estate rather than to her. The Indiana Supreme Court disagreed, stating that Fricke had standing to sue because she alleged a demonstrable injury allegedly caused by Red Lobster. The court clarified that while Fricke was improperly pursuing the claim on her own behalf rather than on behalf of the bankruptcy estate, this meant she was not the real party in interest, not that she lacked standing. Red Lobster also argued that judicial estoppel barred Fricke’s claim. The court disagreed, stating that judicial estoppel did not apply when the bankruptcy court permits a plaintiff-debtor to cure their omission by amending their asset schedule to include a previously omitted lawsuit. The court found that Fricke did not mislead the bankruptcy court and did not prevail on a position in her bankruptcy proceedings that contradicts her claim in this state court negligence action. Therefore, her representations to the bankruptcy court did not judicially estop her from pursuing her personal injury claim against Red Lobster. The court affirmed the trial court’s decision.
Pixar lays off 175 staffers in cost-cutting measure!
Pixar was hit with layoffs on Tuesday as approximately 175 employees, or 14% of its workforce, were let go.
In a note to staff, Pixar president Jim Morris said that individuals who have been impacted by the layoffs will be notified on Tuesday. “Calendar invites to speak with a leader have already gone out to those individuals, and we anticipate we will have connected with everyone impacted by the end of the day,” he wrote.
Pixar employees have been bracing for layoffs since January, but cuts were smaller than the speculated 20% reduction that was reported at the time.
HEALTH
STUDY: Gardening improves sleep quality in adults!
Adults who have trouble sleeping may want to try getting their hands dirty for a better night’s rest. A new study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders found that adults who spent time working in the garden had fewer sleep issues. The findings offer insight into the importance of unplugging from screens and devices and spending time outside.
Our modern world, rife with smartphones, tablets, and laptops all offering endless entertainment, social media updates, and after-hours work emails, can make it hard to disconnect and wind down before bedtime. The National Council on Aging reports that 13.5 percent of American adults feel tired or exhausted most days and that more than one-third report getting less than seven hours of sleep in a 24-hour period. Furthermore, about 30 percent of adults report having insomnia, with about 10 percent of those having it so bad that it affects their daily lives.
While a person can recover from one or two nights of poor-quality sleep, chronic poor-quality sleep and lack of sleep have been associated with an overall poorer quality of life. People who don’t get enough sleep are at a heightened risk for diabetes, obesity, heart disease, cancer, stroke, dementia, and death.
The research team looked at gardening as a potentially effective way to alleviate sleep issues because it offers multiple forms of physical activity with a low risk of injuries. Previous research has found that gardening correlates to reduced sleep-related disease outcomes. However, there have been no large-scale studies of community-based populations until now.
In the study, researchers examined data from more than 62,000 American adults who participated in a 2017 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System telephone survey. The data included information on adults who didn’t exercise, who gardened, and who exercised. The sample included 16,707 non-exercisers, 4,243 gardeners and 41,148 exercisers. Respondents also reported how well and how long they slept, noting any complaints, such as whether they suffered from insomnia, daytime sleepiness, or sleep apnea.
Gardeners and exercisers were less likely to experience multiple sleep complaints than people who didn’t exercise. Additionally, gardeners who spent more time gardening reported even fewer sleep complaints, indicating that the sleep benefits may increase for an individual the longer they spend in the garden. However, the effects gardening had on sleep apnea were unclear.
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
Biden releasing 1,000,000 barrels of gasoline to curb prices!
The Biden administration says it will release 1 million barrels of gasoline from the Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve to reduce pump prices ahead of the busy summer driving season, according to a statement sent by the White House.
Supplies will be released in 100,000-barrel quantities to facilitate a competitive bidding initiative to help curb gas prices, the Department of Energy confirmed. Gasoline will be sold from storage facilities in Maine and New Jersey, and retailers and terminals will receive the gas no later than June 3.
The Department of Energy noted that retailers and terminals will receive the 42 million gallons of gasoline no later than June 3.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Globalists aim to peacefully depopulate six billion people from the planet!
David Rockefeller started the Club of Rom in 1968.
In 1972, the Club of Rome’s Limits to Growth was not taken seriously except by the globalists for whom it was written. In 1973, David Rockefeller started the Trilateral Commission to create the New International Economic Order, aka Technocracy, aka, a resource-based Sustainable Development.
When the Georgia Guidestones were created in 1979, the first inscription read,
Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
Everybody yawned.
Now the unspeakable evil of this anti-human cult is just dawning on increasing numbers of humans caught in the crosshairs.
The powers that be are anxious to finally achieve their long-envisioned new world order, which for them means a whole lot fewer people roaming the planet.
Over the years, the true plot was buried in all sorts of deceptive narratives ranging from “climate change” and holes in the ozone layer to simple messaging that people are having “too many” babies for the planet to handle. In all of the narratives, the true underlying goal was always the same: mass depopulation.
One of the latest more-explicit calls for genocide came from Dennis Meadows of the globalist-led Club of Rome, who stated in no uncertain terms what the globalist plan for the world entails:
“We want to have freedom and we want to have high standards, so we’re going to have a billion people. We’re now at seven, so we have to get back down. I hope that this can be slow – relatively slow – and can be done in a way that is relatively equal.”
In other words, “we,” meaning the top 0.1 percent of the world’s upper crust, want to live in a world without all of the rest of us “useless eaters.” Such a world would have very “high standards,” as opposed to today’s low standards with so many extra people, so something has to change, in Meadows’ view. Not only did Meadows not beat around the bush concerning his intentions with the above statement, he also threw out some precise numerals illustrating just how many people have to go in order for he and the rest of the globalists to achieve their long-awaited paradise on earth.
“He wants the global population to go from 7 billion to 1 billion!” writes Daniel Bobinski on his “Keep the Republic” Substack. “He wants 6 billion people to disappear – equally. He also said he wants it to happen ‘peacefully,’ as in, ‘without violence’ …
CANCEL CULTURE
KC Star reporter Peter Hamm says the Chiefs should fire Butker; replace with a woman!
The Kansas City Star published an essay demanding that the Kansas City Chiefs drop kicker Harrison Butker and hire a woman as his replacement.
Butker, a three-time Super Bowl champion, is one of the best kickers in the NFL. But he’s now facing down the barrel of cancel culture for giving a pro-Catholic speech that affirmed traditional values.
As punishment for expressing his personal views, journalist Peter Hamm said Butker deserves “poetic justice” for his “Neanderthal outburst”: losing his job to a woman.
“This is not a joke. It’s not unrealistic. And it would be good for business,” Hamm wrote in the Star.
Hamm, who has connections to Democrats and liberal advocacy groups, claimed that successful female soccer players and a few examples of women attempting placekicking at the collegiate level are sufficient evidence to prove “the fact that girls can kick.” He even suggested that Maya Turner, a placekicker at the University of Manitoba, could be as good as Butker one day.
With such “evidence” in hand, Hamm called on the Chiefs to “make a strategic call about Butker’s future with the team” and said Butker needs to “shut his mouth.”
Then, in a bout of extreme irony, Hamm revealed his own views on the ability of female placekickers.
“Harrison Butker is not Patrick Mahomes. He’s a special teams player. That gives him less leverage with the team,” Hamm wrote. “They could trade him for a solid kicker, or they could make a statement by signing a woman to kick.”
By juxtaposing the idea of trading Butker “for a solid kicker” versus hiring a woman as Butker’s replacement, Hamm is suggesting that no female “solid kicker” currently exists.
This is true, and it is backed by the evidence: Some girls become successful placekickers at the high school level, and a few try their shot at the collegiate level. But none have ever been successful, except for Turner — and her career is still young. Importantly, no woman has ever made an NFL roster, let alone contributed to an NFL team’s success in the same way that Butker has. Butker’s success and talent likely mean his job as the Chiefs’ kicker is safe.
GOOD NEWS
Mom earns $25,000 a year from this side hustle; funds her house makeover and vacations!
A 33-year-old marketing professional has been able to make $25,000 a year by turning her passion for flipping furniture into a successful side hustle.
Carrie Anne Harmon lives in the Seacoast region of New Hampshire with her husband Steve, 39, and her stepson.
Ms. Harmon, who describes herself as a “crafty” person, has always enjoyed DIY. As a child, she would constantly work on little decoration projects for her bedroom.
After graduating from college and renting her first apartment at the age of 23, Ms. Harmon bought a few old pieces of furniture and worked on them as an affordable way to furnish her apartment.
At that time, one of the projects she worked on was a $10 wooden item. When she moved out of her apartment, she sold the piece for $40. A few years later, she refinished a rocking chair as a gift for an expectant friend. However, it wasn’t until the pandemic that Ms. Harmon’s hobby grew into a business. With plenty of free time—living in a condo with her then fiancé—she began trying things out.
When a new kitchen table arrived, Ms. Harmon recalls her now-husband suggesting they list the old one for free. Instead, she painted and sold it.
“I probably spent $35 on supplies and sold it for $300,“ she said. ”I flipped a desk, again making a few hundred dollars, and then I got hooked; I became obsessed.”
She would cruise the neighborhood, pick up discarded pieces of furniture left outside peoples’ homes, take them back to her garage, and create cool designs. She watched “a ton” of YouTube videos on woodworking, channeling her “can-do” attitude.
She’s found upcycling pieces of furniture is a great way for her to stay busy during time at home, learn something new, and bring in extra income.
She spends about six to 20 hours a week flipping furniture and an additional 10 hours each week creating content for her social media accounts.
Ms. Harmon said she’d love to make her side hustle to a full-time job and possibly even progress to flipping properties. However, for now, she’s excited about what she feels is a special moment in home DIY and furniture upcycling for women.
“There’s so much visibility around women doing these types of projects on their own,“ she said. ”You see lots of women online gutting their kitchens, renovating their homes, learning how to use power tools for the first time. I think it’s really empowering.”
Ms. Harmon believes that for women and moms, having their own practical skill set and extra income stream can offer much freedom.
“You never know what life is going to hand you. Having a backup … gives you that financial freedom to live your life more how you want to live it,” she said.
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