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No. Prices are not falling. Inflation continued to rise in June. Itbhas risen every month of 2023. Only three items fell in June. When someone tells you lower Inflation means lower prices, a kitten dies. Save the kittens. pic.twitter.com/qxiMzMnCp5 — Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) August 10, 2023
A vigilant neighbor shot this 23-second clip in the moments leading up to Robertson’s death. The footage shows agents in protective clothing advancing on his door and yelling at him. After several words are exchanged, one agent then throws a smoke bomb, which explodes near the elderly man’s front door. …
‘Moscow and Tver plan to accept 3,000 families from South Africa A rural community about halfway between Moscow and St. Petersburg has been selected as the location of an “African village,” according to the African International Congress in Russia. The project is a part of a five-year pilot program to …
(The National Pulse) The number of scientific papers retracted annually rose from just 40 in 2000 to almost 5,500 in 2022, representing a whopping 13,650% change over the past 22 years, with researchers estimating an astonishing 100,000 would have to be withdrawn every year with more thorough vetting. Delivering a …
BREAKING: ECOWAS announces its member states are mobilizing their armed forces and will use them to “restore constitutional order in Niger” Nigeria has decided to intervene. 🇳🇬🇳🇪 pic.twitter.com/1UqKFGv8nr — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) August 10, 2023 Nigeria has one of the largest militaries in West Africa and they are the first …
“He said based on his detailed record and additional records provided by sources, Mickelson’s gambling between 2010 and 2014 included: — Betting $110,000 to win $100,000 on 1,115 occasions, and betting $220,000 to win $200,000 on 858 occasions. That alone comes out to just over $311 million. — Mickelson in …
There is a serious security flaw in billions of Intel CPUs that can let attackers steal confidential data like passwords and encryption keys. Firmware updates can fix it, but at a potential significant performance loss. Well this is bad. “Downfall” is the name Daniel Moghimi, a security expert at Google, …
China’s top tech companies, including Alibaba, Baidu, ByteDance, and Tencent, have placed orders worth $5 billion for Nvidia chips to make generative AI systems. The orders include $1 billion for 100,000 A800 processors to be delivered this year, as well as an additional $4 billion worth of graphics processing units …
California couple loses homeowners’ insurance after draining their swimming pool to save water SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — It’s becoming harder and harder to get a homeowner insurance policy in California. State Farm and Allstate stopped writing new policies, citing wildfire risks. Others are limiting new customers. And now, several viewers …
Nadine Dawkins, 59, and her husband Kim, 61, have bought a house in the town of Latronico They decided to leave America following murder of George Floyd in 2020 Nadine said the ‘racism’ and ‘divisiveness’ of the Trump administration had led to an exodus of black people from the US …
SERIOUS DELINQUENCY UPDATE pic.twitter.com/VKDtgWWetI — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) August 10, 2023 Delinquency rates on credit card loans from small lenders are now at an all time high of 7.1%. That's above the 6.0% peak in 2008 and up sharply from 3.8% in 2020. pic.twitter.com/4WHnGUOF6w — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) …
via thecentersquare: This fall, the University of California system is growing its freshman class by 3,017 slots from 85,268 students to 88,285. Black students aren’t getting a single one of the new slots according to preliminary University of California data analyzed by The Center Square. Hispanics gained 1,435 slots in …
‘An Australian woman was fired from her job after 18 years when her boss used keystroke technology to check how much work she was actually doing. One of the biggest insurance companies in Australia had a claim of unfair dismissal made against them rejected after it was judged that there …
We need much, much more of this. Everywhere the cancer lies. LAWSUIT: Kellogg Bus Driver Sues School For Civil Rights Violations After Being Fired For Attending Graduation Protest (Kellogg, Idaho) — After banning a student from graduation for saying “guys are guys, girls are girls, there is no in between,” …
Lady Gaga’s dad is leading the charge against unruly migrants living near his Upper West Side home and restaurant — griping they’re flooding the ritzy neighborhood with a constant stream of hookers and other bad behavior. “If it was like this when my girls were growing up, I wouldn’t be …
A scientist has observed a “gravitational anomaly” in certain star systems that could potentially upend a fundamental assumption about the universe, according to a new study. The anomaly arises when loosely orbiting stars, known as wide binaries, seem to move in ways that defy established models of gravity, which are …
‘There’s a new coronavirus variant topping the leaderboard in the United States: EG.5. Nationally, EG.5 is causing about 17% of new Covid-19 cases in the country, compared with 16% for the next most common lineage, XBB.1.16, according to the latest estimates from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.’ …
For Washington Post’s Feared ‘Pinocchio’ Fact Checker, Forthrightness Dies in ‘Updates’ to Biden-Burisma Story. For the second time in three years, the Washington Post has quietly “updated” one of the most consequential fact checks in the history of American politics – its October 2020 article undercutting reports that Hunter Biden …
by betsharks0 Didn’t they literally say no rate cuts before 2025?
The state of Massachusetts is now asking families to host illegals in their homes Hotel owners and landlords are also called upon to host illegals on their properties pic.twitter.com/OmYdLhFiy7 — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 10, 2023 The state of Massachusetts is now asking families to host illegals in their homes …
It was only discovered because somebody noticed a green garden house connected to this building that was supposedly abandoned. AC
https://www.activistpost.com/2023/08/new-global-internet-censorship-tool-kit-by-google.html https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/new-global-internet-censorship-tool-kit-by-google/ h/t Patagonians
The 6-year-old boy accused of shooting and seriously wounding his first-grade teacher in Virginia last winter later said, “I shot that b**** dead,” according to newly unsealed redacted search warrants. A reading specialist was restraining the boy when officers arrived at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News on Jan. 6, …
via mirror.co.uk: The ringleaders responsible for the riot on Oxford Street must be “hunted down and locked up”, the Home Secretary has demanded. Violence erupted between hundreds of teenagers and police on Wednesday provoked by viral TikTok videos encouraging youngsters to loot stores. Shocking pictures show hundreds of people gathered …
After Turkey, France is next. Those pesky grain elevators… PARIS: A major fire was under way in four grain silos in La Rochelle, France, on Thursday, local authorities said. https://www.zawya.com/en/world/uk-and-europe/major-fire-ongoing-in-four-grain-silos-in-frances-la-rochelle-c92eviqk ‼️Grain storage facilities caught fire in the French port of La Rochelle, residents say. pic.twitter.com/yE47VjxN1T — Truthseeker (@Xx17965797N) August 10, …
B of A: “.. US debt to GDP is at an all-time high, and the US now ranks in the bottom 5 (vs. Top 5 in 2000), in line with Emerging Europe. Worldwide Governance Indicators data show the US shifting closer to emerging economies on other measures like political stability …
by confoundedinterest17 “Bidenomics is indeed working!” claims Karine Jean-Pierre. “Cost is going down … wages going up, that is Bidenomics.” Excuse me Karine. REAL weekly earnings growth remains negative as inflation outpaces weekly earnings growth. As of Q2 2023, REAL median weekly earnings growth is a dismal -3.57% YoY. And …
