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The State Department revealed in a Monday filing that they are “substantially likely” to shut down their $100M Global Engagement Center (GEC), which was revealed in early 2023 to have been funding a “disinformation” tracking group which worked to pressure advertisers to demonetize outlets it accuses of spreading “disinformation.” Except, they’re really just “realigning” the …
TLDR: Bitcoin’s original purpose was a decentralized, scalable, peer-to-peer electronic cash system. Designed for low-cost, scalable transactions, freeing people from banks and inflation. Whitepaper doesn’t advocate speculative holding to inflate prices for profit. Criticizes financial manipulation by figures like Saylor and BlackRock ETF access. Questions reliance on layers like Lightning Network for scalability. Argues Bitcoin …
A new superconducting system for #HiLumiLHC is coming together 🧩 Here, we can see the above-ground facility and test stand, assembled earlier this year, where many of the novel components will be validated together. The high-luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider… pic.twitter.com/raet4HDe7H — CERN (@CERN) December 10, 2024 https://home.cern/news/news/engineering/test-stand-high-luminosity-lhc#:~:text=CERN%20is%20currently%20constructing%20a,underground%20configuration%20of%20the%20LHC.
NEW: A McDonald’s bystander says Luigi Mangione heard his friend talking about him but decided to stay at McDonald’s anyway. “My one friend thought he looked like the shooter. He probably heard us. That surprised me that he stayed there as long as he did.” “From what I was told, the worker that took his …
🚨 Suleiman Hilal al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad's cousin, was executed in the public square of the city of Latakia. I will spare you the gruesome video. — Raylan Givens (@JewishWarrior13) December 9, 2024 https://twitter.com/_/status/1866165376544842225 h/t Truther Speaks
Brandi Glanville has revealed doctors suspect her facial condition may be caused by a parasite that ‘jumps around’ her face. On Sunday, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum, 52 — who suffers from stress-induced angioedema — revealed she has been frequently hospitalized due to her ongoing health concerns and that she has incurred substantial …
Thats US tax dollars hard at work — Satoshi Slacker (@akyoung8) December 10, 2024
Citing the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act as an achievement tells you everything you need to know. I’m surprised they didn’t praise the Afghanistan bugout while they were at it. h/t King_in_a_castle_84
🔥🚨HAPPENING NOW: The UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione uploaded a cryptic pre-recorded video on his YouTube channel titled “The Truth” after his arrest. It is believed that he is using a script to release this content. The assassin claims that more will be revealed… pic.twitter.com/r4qOURShPX — Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) December 9, …
Want to know the terrifying part? I work in financial information systems. Their solution to this is to train an AI that’s going to rewrite all of that old legacy code into a more modern programming language (this is for a major bank) because re-writing it manually would be “too much work”. h/t FiveMagicBeans
(By Carleen Johnson at The Center Square)—The average American household credit card balance as of the third quarter of 2024 was about $10,757 after adjusting for inflation, according to a new study. The personal-finance website WalletHub on Friday released its new Credit Card Debt Study, which found that consumers added $21 billion in debt during …
Liz Cheney, a former member of the partisan January 6 Committee, said Monday that she should not go to jail for allegedly destroying 117 of the panel’s files. President-elect Donald Trump accused members of the partisan panel on Sunday of destroying committee evidence that he said exonerated him from allegations of wrongdoing. The accusation came …
I srael attacked “strategic weapons systems, residual chemical weapon capabilities and long-range missiles and rockets” in Syria to prevent extremist groups from obtaining them, foreign minister Gideon Saar said Monday. Some unverified videos purported to show the Russians move large military hardware inside Syria, but it was anything but clear whether the two key bases …
Elon Musk’s DOGE Dept. to Start Downsizing Government: 14,000 Federal Employees Accessed Americans’ Private Financial Data Over 3 Mill Times to Target Trump Supporters A new report by the House Judiciary Committee exposed how more than 14,000 federal employees accesses the private financial data for Americans over 3,000,000 times. The Committee and Select Subcommittee launched …
The suspected killer of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson is the heir to a holiday resort fortune created by his grandparents – and the brother of a top doctor. Luigi Mangione, 26, comes from a powerful Maryland family centered around the late patriarch Nicholas Mangiano, a first-generation American who built a real estate empire in the …
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, The lifestyle of a stable New Gilded Age is out of stock. History is either “one damned thing after another”–a chaotic collection of random events–or there are connections between events that are not readily visible. The study of history includes both rooting around for more factual evidence to aid our …
Donald Trump isn’t off the hook for Jan. 6 just yet. Though the criminal cases against him are all but dead, Trump is likely to be fighting eight civil lawsuits — from members of Congress and injured police officers — deep into his second term. They may be the last form of legal redress Trump …
We previously discussed the defamation lawsuit brought by Navy veteran Zachary Young against CNN and anchor Jake Tapper. Young has been doing well in court and last week he won on additional major issues against CNN. In a pair of orders, the jury will be allowed to award punitive damages and his experts would be …
A new report by Open the Books, a nonpartisan government watchdog, has revealed that since 2021, the Biden administration has spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on research related to “misinformation,” a significant rise compared to the first Trump administration. The increase in spending raises serious concerns about civil liberties and free speech online, …
Young people will be able to use government-backed digital ID cards to prove they are old enough to drink alcohol under legal changes to take effect next year They will be able to sign up to digital ID companies that are certified against Government-set standards for security and reliability and then use the app on …
WATCH: Mitch McConnell, 82, claims he is not responsible for the managed decline of the US ‘America will not be made great again by those who are content to manage our decline’ Mitch is the longest-serving Senate party leader in American historypic.twitter.com/dVYOZbrQWq — Wendell Husebø (@WendellHusebo) December 8, 2024 “Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) displaced blame …
Once again we’re back to no accountability from our govt. Corporations wilfully break the law, Snipped UnitedHealthcare (UNH) is facing increasing scrutiny for its allegedly high claim denial rate. However, since insurers try to keep these numbers hidden, the true extent of its denials remains uncertain, especially when it comes to private plans. At the …
Nvidia shares were under pressure Monday after a Chinese regulator said it was investigating the chipmaker over possible violations to the country’s antimonopoly law. Shares slipped about 2% before the bell. The State Administration for Market Regulation opened an investigation into the chipmaker in relation to acquisition of Mellanox, the Chinese government said Monday. “In …
Wow! El Salvador is securing a $1.3 billion loan deal with the IMF—but it comes with a condition: scaling back #Bitcoin as legal tender. And just like that, they succumbed to the globalist elites, as we predicted! — Jacob King (@JacobKinge) December 9, 2024 EL SALVADOR TO SCALE BACK #BITCOIN DREAMS TO SEAL $1.3BN IMF …
A Secret Santa in eastern Idaho recently surprised a young man who stays positive even though he has daily struggles. Aiden, who is a high school sophomore living in Soda Springs, was born without feet and has endured several surgeries, East Idaho News reported on Sunday. His prosthetic legs sometimes give him trouble, therefore, he …
Federal law enforcement has been manipulating the Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) system to gain access to Americans’ financial information without warrants or probable cause , the House Judiciary Committee said Friday. The panel and its Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released its interim report, first obtained by Fox News Digital, which details …
