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Snowfall began around 4 p.m. Saturday in the Lower Hudson Valley region and continued, occasionally mixing in with rain, overnight, during the first significant snowfall of the season. The steady snow turned to a mix with rain around 1 a.m. in Northern Westchester and Rockland and then switched to consistent rain throughout the area by …
Planes dropping out of the sky. Your mobile rendered useless, just like your car. As a Netflix film portrays a nightmare that security experts insist is a very real prospect… How will YOU survive on the day an enemy state switches off the internet? An oil tanker ploughs into a tourist beach. Planes fall from …
via antiwar: A US drone strike in Baghdad killed a senior militia leader on Thursday, marking another significant escalation that could lead to a full-blown regional war. The strike killed Mushtaq Talib al-Saidi, also known as Abu Taqwa, a deputy commander of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) operations in Baghdad. The PMF is a coalition of mostly …
Oh boy. Global freight rate for containers just surged 61% this week. Not the time to celebrate the end of inflation. A second wave is likely underway. H/t @dailychartbook pic.twitter.com/X9K2DZJDWR — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) January 5, 2024
by confoundedinterest17 Well, kiss that anticipated March rate cut goodbye. According to the BLS, total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 216,000 in December. But to quote Cousin Eddie from Christmas Vacation, “Now hold on to your wad.” While the headline screamed remarkable, please note that the civilian labor force actually declined. As did the Employment-population ratio (to …
Oh my God An MSNBC anchor is straight up CRYING on air over the third anniversary of January 6th This is your “media”, America How pathetic pic.twitter.com/e5q5Wu1OUo — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 6, 2024
The Jan 6 protestors rot in jail. The George Floyd rioters get $24,000 checks. https://t.co/Z4x6KTvQna — Nate Fischer (@NateAFischer) January 6, 2024
Palantir (NYSE:PLTR) stock fell 3.4% in early Friday trade after Jefferies analysts downgraded the rating to Underperform (equivalent to sell). The new price target of $13 suggests a 20% downside risk based on yesterday’s closing price. While analysts acknowledge that Palantir “is a unique data asset with a particularly wide technology moat and a data …
Joe Biden is calling Trump a “dictator” while simultaneously supporting his chief political opponent getting kicked off the ballot pic.twitter.com/dER9htucqu — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 5, 2024 Democracy pic.twitter.com/DfJ8rqil0w — Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) January 6, 2024
SHOCK REPORT: Epstein Documents Mention Hillary Clinton; Lawyers for Virginia Roberts-Giuffre Imply CLINTON FOUNDATION MAY HAVE BANKROLLED Ghislaine Maxwell.. For the first time, Hillary Clinton's name has surfaced in legal documents associated with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine… pic.twitter.com/iHoITBouuS — Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) January 6, 2024 🔥🚨BREAKING NEWS: Hillary Clinton has been named as a witness …
by Dampish10 $O, $MAIN (when it can) both fall into this category as being good sustainable dividend stocks that grow their dividends on a Quarterly basis (again $MAIN only when it can). I’m in the middle of making a list for ‘multi-hike stocks’ but a few of these I’ve never heard of and actually look …
Now, they just lead Biden off the stage by the hand. pic.twitter.com/F59w3elUIm — Russian Market (@runews) January 6, 2024 Cognitive Decline: Biden appeared very confused as he left DC for a short vacation to one of his DE estates. He just returned from two weeks of vacation and a 32-minute speech.pic.twitter.com/8dNZeaijyc — @amuse (@amuse) January …
NBC: "Defense Sec. Lloyd Austin has been hospitalized since New Year's Day," but the Biden admin didn't disclose it until tonight — and "refuses to say how serious his condition was or why he was not able to perform his duties" pic.twitter.com/vLVAPLz6un — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 6, 2024 Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin hospitalized …
Israeli officials are scrambling to head off mounting frustration in Washington in the run-up to a potentially difficult meeting between the top US diplomat and Benjamin Netanyahu by offering a series of policy proposals on Gaza that critics say lack detail or commitment. The US has offered staunch support to Israel since the outbreak of …
But the first step is to say, ‘We want to support you and assist you in whatever way we can, but we’re not staying in Europe. We’re going to go home, and we’ve got other fish to fry here, and you’re going to have to pick somebody who’s a European four-star.’ h/t AndyS62
We got attacked, me and my colleague Aaron Mate, at The Grayzone. We got attacked in The Nation by Katha Pollitt, who’s sort of the voice of the Democratic Party, pro-Hillary feminism, for challenging Israel’s Hamas mass rape October 7th propaganda. h/t AndyS62
I would say that it absolutely is. All of the activity that we’ve been seeing ever since October 7th when the Hamas situation developed basically is being, I would say, distorted in a way to protect Israel by limiting the ability of critics here in the United States and elsewhere to make the arguments that …
The problem in Europe is European politicians stop telling the truth about almost anything years ago because all they want to do is side with the United States.
Read Victor’s July 2018 article about Rules Of The Bond Game here: The Rules of the Bond Game https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion… During this 35+ minute interview, Victor talks about the bond bear market and how the rules for many “markets” and economic data like CPI and Jobs Reports are constantly being changed. Victor doesn’t think that the …
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, The mainstream holds the Fed is busy planning a return to the glory days of zero interest rates, but ZIRP is on the downside of the S-Curve; it’s done, gone, history. Let’s summarize what the Federal Reserve accomplished since embarking on its massive interventions to control volatility, risk, bond …
1 in 10 Torontonians used a food bank from April 2022 to March 2023 https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2282857539847#:~:text=1:26-,1%20in%2010%20Torontonians%20used%20a%20food%20bank%20from,to%20March%202023,%20report%20says&text=About%20one%20Torontonian%20in%2010,North%20York%20Harvest%20food%20banks. Crazy expensive houses/rent nothing left for food; better hungry than frozen. AC
DEI officer Leslie Marant was fired just hours before new commissioner Kevin Bethel was set to take office. Marant’s base salary was a whopping $170,568. She was told her “services” were no longer needed. The move also comes as Philadelphia mayor Cherelle Parker signed an executive order declaring a public safety emergency. “I want the …
CHINA SPARKS FEARS OF IMMINENT TAIWAN INVASION AS MILITARY SWARMS ISLAND BY SEA AND AIR (MSN) Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense has tracked six Chinese military aircraft and six naval ships moving near the island nation, once again sparking fears of an invasion. One of the… pic.twitter.com/FPs3A5v694 — FXHedge (@Fxhedgers) January 5, 2024
I never understood the second rule. If you return stolen property to the rightful owner the next year, can you then claim tax deduction? h/t TonyLiberty
It's believed that a high-end sex ring operating in Washington, D.C. was a "honeypot" scheme to compromise politicians and government officials. The brothel was raided in November on the SAME DAY that 70 Republicans voted to fund a new FBI HQ larger than the Pentagon.… pic.twitter.com/mHdVffruiw — Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) January 4, 2024 High-end sex …
Mayor Eric Adams of New York on Thursday ratcheted up his feud with Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, filing suit against 17 transportation companies that he said had carried out a plan by Mr. Abbott to send more than 30,000 migrants to New York City and make the city pay for their care. New York …
