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Forgiving school loans and now giving away money to buy houses… Biden wants to give 500,000 Americans money to buy homes, per NewsWeek. — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) December 18, 2023
via Yahoo: The media industry has been rocked this holiday season by news of newsroom layoffs as outlets downsize to combat volatility in advertising, after an already-brutal year of job cuts. In the last month alone, Condé Nast, G/O Media, Vice Media and Vox Media have all cut staff, most of whom already had layoffs …
Judicial Watch President @TomFitton appeared at Freedomfest 2023 to discuss what Judicial Watch has done to expose corruption, waste, fraud, and abuse in the government, the Biden administration’s targeting of former President Donald Trump, online censorship by Big Tech, and more!
China is phasing out Apple. This is what China does with US Manfs. They now have the tech./knowledge and can move on from Apple. Now you see Apple making some phones in India. — floridanow1 (@floridanow1) December 18, 2023 Chinese government entities and state-supported companies throughout China are instructing employees to refrain from using iPhones …
“Agriculture contributes about 33% of all the emissions of the world… And we can’t get to net zero, we don’t get this job done. unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution… You just can’t continue to both warm the planet, while also expecting to feed it. It doesn’t work. So we …
Florida condo owners are about to get hit by the perfect financial storm. With insurance rates already going up as much as 300% for some buildings along with recent changes to the Florida Condominium Act and new changes going into effect in 2025, many are going to face tough times in the coming months and …
Mia Lee is a professional escort and stripper in New York City. She makes nearly $68,000 during the first two weeks of December. Lee gave a look into one of her busiest and most lucrative weeks leading into the holiday season. Mia Lee spends most of December entertaining Wall Street bankers during hourslong stints in …
by Chris Black America’s best friend and ally ladies and gents: An Israeli soldier in Gaza shot and killed a Christian mother and her daughter near a catholic church for sport. This was never about Hamas. This was never about “terrorism”. This was always about ethnically cleansing all Palestinians. pic.twitter.com/uQWY1XZOAr — Hadi (@HadiNasrallah) December 17, …
New York county to enforce travel bans for weather and other ‘catastrophes,’ announcing portal for ‘essential worker’ movement passes There has yet to be a reckoning for all of the government tyranny we witnessed since 2020, leaving power hungry politicians under the impression that they can go back to the Covid era rights restricting toolbox …
In a statement to 9to5Mac, Apple has announced that it will soon halt sales of its flagship Apple Watch models in the United States. The Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 will no longer be available to purchase from Apple starting later this week. The move comes following an ITC ruling as part of a …
Rich countries, facing higher interest rates, boost taxpayer funding for state spending. Record tax revenues, exceeding GDP shares, support diverse needs amid global challenges. via WSJ: Rich countries are raising more money from taxpayers than they have in decades to finance a burst of state spending as surging interest rates make borrowing less attractive. Tax …
via thesun: ELECTRIC vehicle owners have been notified of new road plans that promise to act as a charging station as cars drive on them. In Florida, between Lake and Orange Counties, EV enthusiasts are excited about what has been dubbed a “tremendous evolution.” The Central Florida Expressway Authority (CFX) confirmed the approval of an …
Fetterman is right: "The acquisition of US Steel by a foreign company is wrong for workers and wrong for Pennsylvania. I’m gonna do everything I can to block it." pic.twitter.com/s7VCv9eP1R — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) December 18, 2023
BREAKING – Emergency response launched after shallow China earthquake: Xinhua https://t.co/HnjXWg43GT — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) December 18, 2023 https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ljvg/executive Rapid-fire aftershocks. Near a dam on the Yellow River 23:59 An earthquake of around 6.5 magnitude occurred near Jishi Mountain in Linxia, Gansu! Earthquake rapid reporting systems in many places in China have issued warnings! pic.twitter.com/6jsLGDdzgh …
Illegal cars are a growing problem in NYC, and the city appears poised to crack down on them, with severe consequences for anyone caught in a ‘ghost car’.
US confronts military recruitment crisis with smallest force since WWII, falling short by 41,000 personnel, prompting concerns under new defense bill. via DailyMail: The United States is set to enter 2024 with its smallest military in more than eight decades and faces one of its ‘greatest challenges’ as it tries to boost recruiting from Gen …
JUST IN — Honor guard collapses on live TV in front of the casket of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. pic.twitter.com/AOE4eZ1d1w — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) December 18, 2023 AC
A new camera developed at MIT can photograph a trillion frames per second. Compare that with a traditional movie camera which takes a mere 24. This new advancement in photographic technology has given scientists the ability to photograph the movement of the fastest thing in the Universe, light. The actual event occurred in a nano …
via APNEWS: Pope Francis has formally approved allowing priests to bless same-sex couples, with a new document explaining a radical change in Vatican policy by insisting that people seeking God’s love and mercy shouldn’t be subject to “an exhaustive moral analysis” to receive it. The document from the Vatican’s doctrine office, released Monday, elaborates on …
Hageman Rips Head Of SEC For Rule To Allow Foreign Land ‘Rights’ Harriet Hageman is hot over a proposed SEC rule that would allow foreign nations to buy undefined “rights” to certain private and public lands. By Leo Wolfson | December 15, 2023 (cowboystatedaily.com) – U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman signed a letter with 31 other members …
by purell_man_9mm I was initially thinking 5% PayPal seemed like a useless category for CFF. But as the quarter has gone on I’ve realized how many places accept PayPal and how many hacks there are to route spend through it. Here are my favorites so far: Boosting Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales. I use …
Electric vehicle subsidies are ending in Germany abruptly, the government announced Saturday, a blow for Tesla (TSLA), Volkswagen (VWAGY), BMW (BMWYY), Stellantis (STLA) and more. But Tesla stock was little changed Monday, off morning highs. German’s coalition government, facing a budget crisis, ended the “environmental bonus” program as of Sunday, not Dec. 31 as planned. …
Highest call volume literally hit 42069. Thanks for calling the top. Highest call volume literally hit 42069. Must be a huge crisis in this pivot. byu/AdvancedLong inwallstreetbets 46% of S&P 500 components have an RSI that exceeds 70, the highest level since 1991 according to data compiled by Goldman Sachs That's just a bit stretched. …
Vivek Ramaswamy has said, if elected: I will reduce headcount at the U.S. Federal Reserve by >90% and limit its scope to doing exactly *one* thing: stabilize the dollar as a stable unit of measurement. pic.twitter.com/8lZBGZqkwH — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) December 17, 2023 Hedge Funds have turned bearish on the U.S. Dollar for the first time …
“Sirhan was a distractor, and the real shooter was behind my father. He was a man called Eugene Thane Cesar,” claimed RFJ Jr. strongly. Cesar was reportedly a CIA operative and an alleged “enemy” of the Kennedy family. After briefly introducing Cesar and explaining his motive to kill the late Attorney General, RFK Jr. went …
Israeli bulldozers have demolished tents of displaced Palestinians outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip, “burying people alive” inside them, according to a report. Video footage from Al Jazeera showed mangled tents and belongings of Palestinians at the courtyard of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, north of Gaza, on Saturday. The report said …
A new quinnipiac university poll shows NYC’s mayor Eric Adams has 28% approval, but are the big problems in the big apple really his fault, or would former mayors Deblasio and Bloomberg have the same poll numbers if they were the current mayor?
How price controls started, how they are going pic.twitter.com/P9Bipfn2Xf — kevin Tart 🔆 (@KevinTartis) December 17, 2023
This is such a 2023 headline pic.twitter.com/qCFDNrlSP5 — Markets & Mayhem (@Mayhem4Markets) December 17, 2023
