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by Chris Black This is really the same thing as the Republicans vetoing Ukraine aid. It’s an excuse. #Ukraine’s swift accession to the European Union would have devastating consequences for European #farmers, the EU’s budget and European security. It serves the best interests of neither Hungary, nor the European Union, therefore we cannot support it! …
by Chris Black I was always wondering what was wrong with the Republican Party. I never thought it would be so obvious: the Republican Party should be run by black people. Everything that is run by black people works much better. Kevin McCarthy: “When you look at the Democrats, they actually look like America. When …
by Chris Black I’m glad Epic beat Google. I’m glad to see Google lose on anything, because they just never do. Victory over Google! After 4 weeks of detailed court testimony, the California jury found against the Google Play monopoly on all counts. The Court’s work on remedies will start in January. Thanks for everyone’s …
by Chris Black Poland is supposedly a Christian country. Why is there a menorah in their parliament? Polish member of parliament Grzegorz Braun used a fire extinguisher to put out candles on a menorah that was lit for Hannukah. Parliamentary proceedings were suspended. Braun has previously claimed there is a plot to turn Poland into …
by Chris Black In the unlikely but nonetheless possible scenario where Ukraine completely collapses and gets annexed by Russia, the new NATO front-line would have to be set up in Eastern Poland, in the heart of Europe instead of its fringes. Having taken Ukraine and having battle hardened generals and troops, Russians would likely set …
by Chris Black Healthy people in their teens and twenties are having heart attacks and cardiac arrests all over the country, every day now. It’s just usually not a news item, certainly not a national news item. It didn’t happen in 2020. Now, it happens constantly. Something changed. You get three guesses as to what …
by Chris Black It will be interesting to see if Russia accepts a surrender or if they want to take more territory. It would be a hard decision to make. I wonder if the West is thinking at all about the fact that Russia, which is not losing many soldiers, is going to have all …
by Chris Black Alex Jones went on Tucker Carlson, and they both claimed he was the most censored man. Ep. 46 The Alex Jones Interview TIMESTAMPS: 2:46 Alex Jones predictions 15:07 Deplatforming21:59 Dividing us on race25:37 The border28:09 Austin32:12 New World Order42:09 Brian Stelter demon video50:57 Depopulation1:07:51 Food1:13:51 Whiskey 1:16:22 Presidential… pic.twitter.com/IsJAQDUzDc — Tucker Carlson …
by Chris Black The blood of the women and children slaughtered in Gaza by Israel is on the hands of Americans. The government exists because the American people allow it to exist. That is, on some level, victim-blaming, but it’s also just true. Watch the moment the US vetoes the UN resolution calling for a …
by Chris Black >That didn’t happen. >And if it did, it wasn’t that bad. >And if it was, that’s not a big deal. >And if it is, that’s not my fault. >And if it was, I didn’t mean it. >And if I did, you deserved it. It’s official – the Great Replacement Theory is not …
by Chris Black Kushner would literally follow Trump to the bathroom when he had immigration restrictionists at the White House and refused to allow Trump to meet with his anti- immigration colleagues in private without him because he was so vehemently opposed to Trump’s America First immigration agenda. It wasn’t until Trump started pulling ahead …
by Chris Black It has been almost 15 years and Bitcoin still hasn’t become any more useful than it was when it was a fraction of a penny. In fact the volume for actual purchases is at an all time low. Bitcoin has lost all pretense of being an alternative to established currencies, and morphed …
by Chris Black If anyone actually cared about these Africans, the last thing they’d do is bring them over to the most expensive and overcrowded cities on earth, where every single item and service costs more than almost anywhere else, and instead try to help them where they are, or as close as possible to …
by Chris Black No joke: I’d rather give the money to Barbados than to Ukraine and Israel. It’s not an option to spend the money on our own people, so give it to Barbados. At least they’re probably friendly and good natured, and won’t use the money to murder innocent people. The Guardian: King Charles’s …
by Chris Black You create 10,000 widgets of no real value, that cost you $.50 each. You get ten friends to buy the widgets for $1 each, doubling your money. You say to get ten friends to buy the widgets from each of them for $2. They instantly double their money. All of a sudden …
by Chris Black Last Friday the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR), a repo rate serving as the Fed’s new target reference rate , jumped 6 basis points (6 bps, 0.06) to above the Fed’s target range. SOFR measures (https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/reference-rates/sofr) the median cost of Treasury repo borrowing. The jump not only caught most people off guard, …
by Chris Black COP isn’t a new acronym, but the United Nations’ climate conference and it’s been running for decades. Farhana Yamin is a key architect of the UN’s Paris Climate Agreement who seems to be involved (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhana_Yamin#Career) with the British deep state and she attended COP28 promoting decolonization and reparations. These aren’t just social …
by Chris Black Make no mistake: this is entirely due to Israel committing genocide in Gaza. The fact that this is taking place on the EU level is also a sign of desperation. Centralization of micromanaging type behavior as a way to keep an empire together is a sign of very small confidence in the …
by Chris Black They haven’t used them for many purposes that we’ve seen yet, but presumably they are planning to. January 6 was a big deal on this front, as we learned that it was possible and apparently legal for the government to demand location data and identify people as being in a place based …
by Chris Black The greatest thing is that McCarthy went down fighting against Russia. That’s sort of why the story matters. Putin beat McCarthy. Axios: Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced Wednesday he will step down from Congress at the end of the year, leaving the House GOP with an even slimmer majority until a special election …
by Michael In recent months, a number of high profile individuals have made headlines by deciding to give their lives to Christ. So exactly what in the world is going on here? Is this the beginning of a new trend? Ultimately, I believe that these high profile conversions to Christianity are just a very small …
by Chris Black The Russian economy is doing great by any measure, and if you compare it to what is happening in the West, it is like the ultimate dragon from the best manga farting on a crippled raccoon. The media doesn’t like to report it. Sanctions didn’t work. lol. New York Post: Russia’s richest …
by Chris Black Germany is the strongest economy in the EU. If Germany is running out of money… I told you a long time ago that Germoney was going to be “deindustrialized” by the American war on Russia. You can’t just shut down an industrial economy’s entire energy industry – even outside of the total …
by Chris Black Zelensky did sort of get screwed, if we’re honest. Words matter. Framing matters. “Zelensky to ask for more cash to support war with Russia” is such a disrespectful and manipulative take. People with additions or in trouble “ask for cash”. Countries that need military means to defend against the invasion don’t “ask …
by Chris Black The post Covid boom is over for discretionary items. When people were locked at home, and flush with stimulus cash, they all bought new furniture and redid their homes. Furniture has insane markup. A table that costs $20 to make sells for $200 retail. Retailers believe they are entitled to the obscene …
by Chris Black Recent IPSOS polling (https://www.euronews.com/business/2023/11/26/one-in-four-europeans-say-their-financial-condition-is-precarious) found several concerning trends among the populations of Europe 30% of Europeans can no longer afford a “surprise expense” 47% of Europeans have had to turn down the heat in their homes and go cold, due to energy prices 37% of Europeans have had problems affording health treatment …
by Chris Black 🔹Color revolution in Sri Lanka 🔹Soft coup in Pakistan 🔹Ongoing chaos in Nepal 🔹Meddling in Bangladesh elections 🔹Fueling ethnic wars in Myanmar 🔹Afghanistan is also a target to disrupt BRI It’s finally up to Asian people and governments to determine if they want to be geopolitical pawns or not.
by Chris Black Since January 2022, UBS stock has strengthened 50%. Stocks on insolvent banks don’t behave like this. Even its credit default swap (CDS; default risk) is not budging . Also since Jan 2022, Credit Suisse and SVB both lost about 60% each before their demise in March. Citibank lost 30%, but has been …
by Chris Black “I don’t think most people are aware of how possible it is to stop and reverse the current demographic changes occurring. A lot appear to have given up and accepted it as fate. There is, in fact, a multitude of policy changes that can and should be done. Essentially they can be …
by Chris Black The Elites believed their experiment of transforming America into a “multiracial democracy” had come to fruition with Obama’s installation. It was a lock. Just keep boiling the frog. Trump’s rise scared the elites to their core. MAGA elicited an unacceptable rebirth of White America. That could not stand. The institutional reaction has …