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A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Port-Vila, Vanuatu, at a depth of 10 km, sparking concerns about aftershocks and triggering a tsunami warning. Local authorities are assessing the damage, including reports that the U.S. Embassy sustained damage. Residents are urged to stay alert as emergency services respond to the unfolding situation. 🚨🇺🇸🇻🇺BREAKING: U.S. EMBASSY DAMAGED …
New York CNN — Broadcast television licensing is not ordinarily a hot topic during a presidential election. But Donald Trump’s threats are not ordinary, either. In the past two years, Trump has called for every major American TV news network to be punished, according to a CNN review of his speeches and social media posts. …
The video shows an employee cutting up or hammering meat on the sidewalk or drive-thru pavement area right outside Tryyaki.
HE LITERALLY JUST PARDONED HIS SON FOR GUN CRIMES! https://t.co/IpGvieaSAI — Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) December 16, 2024
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: December 16, 2024 ~ According to the December 6 release of Federal Reserve H.8 data, cash assets at the 25 largest U.S. banks have dropped by a stunning $663 billion from their peak levels on December 15, 2021. (See chart above, taken from the St. Louis Fed’s FRED graph, which is …
Interest rates worldwide are hanging at the edge of a cliff. It may not seem like it from the current focus on the Fed and the possible pause in its rate cutting. This doesn’t mean other central bank rate cuts, either. Instead, two very critical signals have absolutely plunged just in the past few days. …
Both Macy’s and Foot Locker are 2 iconic American brands that are suffering right now and reporting much lower than expected holiday sales and earnings. Meanwhile, other companies like Walmart and Costco are crushing it and bringing in higher than expected sales. So what’s going on?
The US government and Federal Reserve inflated cost of living so high that Americans stopped having kids. To avoid running out of slaves, the government didn't make the slaves lives better, they began importing them from other slave camps. — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) December 16, 2024 The Fed has no possible excuse to cut rates …
Syria’s toppled leader Bashar al-Assad has made a statement for the first time since fleeing Syria after jihadist groups led by US-designated terror organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) took over the country and the army peeled away without a fight. The statement was posted Monday to the Syrian Presidency’s Telegram account; however, it can’t be …
President-elect Trump spoke about the drones over NJ and the tri-state area and said something very strange is happening, that Biden knows what they are and who they belong to, and he needs to tell the American people the truth. Also the latest dem who flipped to the Republican party and onto Team Trump. Also …
A new CNBC poll reveals a striking consensus: 73% of Americans support deploying the U.S. military to the southern border to tackle illegal immigration. The statistic signals widespread frustration over border security and immigration policies. Even within traditionally resistant groups, 49% of Democrats now favor military involvement—an eye-opening shift that underscores growing bipartisan concern. The …
JUST IN: Trump says he’s staying away from his New Jersey golf club amid the drone sightings. “The government knows what is happening. Our military knows – where they took off from. They know where it came from and where it went.” “Something strange is going on.” “For some reason, they don’t want to comment.” …
TikTok has requested an emergency injunction to stop or postpone the planned ban on the platform in the US. Back in March, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would effectively ban TikTok from the US unless Chinese owner ByteDance agreed to give up its share of the immensely popular app. TikTok claims this …
The People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) electronic warfare unit has produced a list of targets for a coordinated attack against US aircraft carrier strike groups. In a potential conflict, these precisely labelled US military radars, sensors and communication systems are likely to take concentrated fire from China’s electronic warfare weapons, according to a researcher involved in …
NEW: Donald Trump says there is “something wrong” with autism rates in America and promises a full investigation into what’s causing it. “We’re going to look into why the autism rate is so much higher than it was 20, 25, 30 years ago. I mean, it’s like it’s 100 times higher. There’s something wrong, and …
Congress Scrambles To Avoid Friday Government Shutdown Again! Congress has until Friday to avert yet another government shutdown with a game of kick-the-can (via Continuing Resolution, or CR), and a bipartisan funding deal is nowhere in sight. Here’s where things stand; though no one expects the lights to actually go out in Washington, this week …
An off-brand version of Dayquil and Nyquil has been recalled due to substandard quality. Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recalled 8,640 boxes of Kirkland Signature Severe Cold & Flu Plus Congestion, a product sold at Costco. One of the key ingredients in the Kirkland product is oral phenylephrine, which is facing …
Prisoner CNN Helped Free From Syrian Prison Was Actually Notorious Assad-Regime Torturer The prisoner CNN helped free from a secret facility in Syria was actually a notorious member of Bashar al-Assad’s forces known to torture those who refused to pay him off, according to a shocking local fact check. The network went viral last week …
Google claims it has accessed “parallel universes” with its new supercomputer https://t.co/EMhMnOgBpN pic.twitter.com/IO5VMUM5sk — End Time Headlines (@EndTimeHeadline) December 15, 2024 Google’s quantum computing breakthrough on Monday has left the physicist who heads the project a believer in ‘the idea that we live in a multiverse.’ ‘Willow,’ the tech giant’s new quantum chip, solved a …
The US Homeland Security secretary has said states need the power to shoot down drones following criticisms of the government’s response to sightings across the East Coast. Alejandro Mayorkas made the comments after state officials in New York and New Jersey said that Joe Biden’s administration had failed to get a grip on the issue. …
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The November death of former OpenAI researcher-turned-whistleblower, 26-year-old Suchir Balaji was ruled a suicide, reports.According to the medical examiner, there was no foul play in Balaji’s Nov. 26 death in his San Francisco apartment. Balaji had publicly accused OpenAI of violating US copyright law with ChatGPT. According to the NY Times; He came to the …
An American has finally captured one of these “Drones / Orbs” from the sky. This is what they look like from an airplanes point of view Filmed over LaGuardia Airport, New York pic.twitter.com/Eumq6uBTql — Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) December 16, 2024
And they’re fixing to go even higher in California in 2025… Gasoline Taxes, Water and Sewer Rates, Natural Gas and Electricity Rates, and God knows what else… Ain’t Democratic Communism Great? pic.twitter.com/S88uc5bn75 — Scott Langhoff (@67868DV) December 16, 2024
Empire Fed Manufacturing index drops to 0.2, biggest fall since May 2023. I predicted this last month when it went ridiculously high for one period. A couple of things on PMI reports: First, don’t take any new print to mean anything significant. It’s a jagged sawtooth because they don’t do backward revisions. Just follow the …
President Joe Biden leaves office in 36 days not with a bang but a resentful whimper, an opinion piece in the Washington Post argued Sunday. The op-ed by Cleve R. Wootson Jr. is headlined “Biden touts his legacy, but frustration seeps through.” It looks back over Biden’s years in office and posits that for all …
There is no end to the pit of evil that Joe Biden has fronted for. Mayorkas was sending planes to 50 airports around the world, filling them with illegals, flying them to the USA, and faking the documentation that they had ‘sponsors’. …rampant fraud in a program created by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro …
