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Lebanon hopes that Moscow will play an important role in resolving the current tensions in the Middle East, Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib said after a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, at the UN headquarters in New York on Monday. Lavrov stressed during talks with Bou Habib that the involvement of other countries, …
“Leaked: A Ukrainian soldier filmed how Ukrainian command buries the bodies of its dead soldiers in mass graves. The killed soldiers are then listed as missing to leave relatives without financial assistance or pensions. Dishonor in the name of US taxpayers” https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1749411712862994773
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder and notorious whistleblower, lost another appeal challenging his extradition to face legal charges in the United States Friday. Now his lawyers say Assange, who previously spent seven years seeking refuge in an Ecuadorian embassy, is “dangerously close” to spending the rest of his life in an American cell. Assange faces …
Mexico and Chile filed a lawsuit with the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday, requesting that it probe crimes committed against Palestinians. According to Anadolu Agency, Mexico’s Foreign Ministry called the ICC the best platform for investigating the ongoing war on Gaza, citing it as the most appropriate entity to potentially establish criminal culpability for any …
TEL AVIV—The Israeli military said at least 24 soldiers were killed when two buildings rigged for demolition in Gaza collapsed after militants fired at a nearby tank, by far the deadliest incident for Israel in the enclave since the start of the war. The blast from the rocket-propelled grenade on Monday likely caused the explosives …
How many people don’t have a bank account? And just how difficult has it become to live without one? These questions are becoming increasingly important as more businesses refuse to take cash in cities across the U.S. People without bank accounts are shut out from stores and restaurants that refuse to accept cash. As it …
Paramount Global — the parent company off CBS, Paramount Pictures, Showtime, and numerous other media properties — is reportedly set to lay off “hundreds” of employees across nearly all of its divisions. The impending cuts represent the latest Hollywood bloodbath following layoffs at other corporations, including Disney, NBCUniversal, Amazon MGM Studios, and Universal Music Group. …
It’s been an ugly ‘sell the news’ period since spot bitcoin ETFs were unleashed by a desperately begrudging SEC. Having peaked above $49,000 on the day the new ETFs opened, bitcoin has broken back below $39,000 overnight.. This is (purely coincidentally) ‘great news’ for Liz Warren and Gary Gensler who can gloat at their warnings …
Russian crude shipments take a hit from storms and a drone strike, reaching a two-month low. Adverse weather and geopolitical events impact exports. Russian crude shipments hit by storms and Baltic drone strike Russia’s seaborne crude shipments fell to the lowest in almost two months, undermined by adverse weather and a Ukrainian drone strike that …
via NYP: In 2021, early on in America’s historic border crisis, I wrote that the United Nations was abetting the problem by handing out debit cards and cash vouchers to aspiring illegal border crossers on their way north. One outraged group of 21 border security-minded lawmakers pitched a bill that would require the United States, …
So it may seem like a lot of competing stablecoins, but ultimately, they’ll be very tied up with the US government and also US intelligence because there’s a broader push to merge a lot of data sharing between Wall Street, banking regulators, and intelligence agencies that’s been promoted really heavily by groups like the Carnegie …
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He doesn’t have a basic understanding of non-physical things. He’s incapable of logic, of reason.
The U.S. faces a global movement to join the Russia-China-controlled BRICS trade group away from G10-controlled SWIFT, to remove the dollar as the world’s currency. While most predictions claim it will be a slow process, not everyone agrees. Some experts say the pain will begin this year. Watcher Guru: Among the greater BRICS de-dollarization plans, one …
Tucker Carlson: So it’s unanimous: everyone in power, from the White House, to the hedge fund managers, to the Supreme Court of the United States has decided to destroy the country by allowing it to be invaded. That leaves the population to defend itself. Where are the men of Texas? Why aren’t they protecting their …
In a surprising turn of events, a recent Harvard CAPS-Harris poll reveals that immigration has taken the lead as the primary concern for voters, surpassing even the persistent worry of inflation. With 35 percent of respondents pointing to immigration, this marks a significant 7 percentage point increase compared to the previous month. The poll also …
Another key finding: Nearly six in 10 ‘elites’ say there is too much individual freedom in America Nearly 90 percent of Ivy League grads support the “strict” rationing of gas, meat and electricity to fight climate change, according to a new poll. The conservative Committee to Unleash Prosperity, in a survey that sought to measure …
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The looming economic transformation being peddled by the Deep State including “Natural Asset Companies,” public-private partnerships, Central Bank Digital Currencies, and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) plan for a global unified blockchain ledger seek to enslave humanity, explains The New American magazine Senior Editor Alex Newman in this episode of Behind The Deep State. …
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Bill Maher, the political satirist who hosts Real Time with Bill Maher on Max, is trusted more by the American public than several other high-profile names in the media, according to a new poll from WPA Intelligence obtained by Mediaite. According to the survey of 1,000 respondents, which has a margin of error of 3.1%, Maher is …
Yet another state – this time, Massachusetts – has rejected claims that former President Donald Trump is ineligible to be on GOP presidential primary ballots because he participated in an “insurrection” on Jan 6, 2021. If he had in fact participated in an insurrection, he could not run for president because of the 14th Amendment’s …
However, the bill does not include the biggest business of all: the federal government. These sponsors are all worth millions! Democrat Sens. Bernie Sanders, Ed Markey, Chris Van Hollen, Elizabeth Warren and Reps. Barbara Lee and Rashida Tlaib have drafted legislation to punish CEOs for running a successful business. The press release and bill have all the …
Two new polls out this morning both point in the same direction: a big win for former President Donald Trump in Tuesday’s New Hampshire GOP primary. Trump’s lead over former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has slowly but steadily increased in the Suffolk University/Boston Globe/WBTS daily tracking poll over the past week. In interviews conducted Saturday and …
Trump — ‘I love Vivek, he’s a dynamo.’ https://twitter.com/H4Harrry/status/1749621496497000548 Trump press secretary drops hints on VP choice. Not Marco Rubio, no chance. https://twitter.com/JesseBWatters/status/1749617036366381186
By Graham Summers, MBA On November 28th, 2023, I predicted that stocks would hit new all-time highs before February 1, 2024. Bear in mind, the S&P 500 was at 4,550 when I wrote this. So my prediction meant that the index would have to rally to over 4,818 (the former all-time high established January 3, 2022) in …
Federal Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre was in Vancouver on Monday, where he claimed that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has “launched an outright crusade against pizza ovens,” as the Liberal government considers requiring certain restaurants that use wood-fired ovens to report their air pollution emissions.