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Since becoming President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard’s rosy posture toward Moscow has prompted some Democratic critics to suggest that she could be “compromised,” or perhaps even a “Russian asset” — claims the ex-Hawaii representative and Army officer has forcefully denied. But former advisers to Gabbard suggest that her views …
Ronald Rowe needs a GOOD FIRING. He is a DISGRACE. — Rightwingmadman (@Rightwingmadman) December 5, 2024
A local Secret Santa is giving $1 million to deserving people in eastern Idaho this holiday season and the East Idaho News elves are helping out. Every day from now until the end of the year, we’ll be posting a Secret Santa surprise, and today we are delivering a special gift to a woman named …
Home sales in Miami, FL have collapsed. Down 48% from their pandemic peak. Miami has experienced the largest drop in buyer demand of any large metro area in the last 3 years. Prices in Miami are still high. But could start dropping in 2025 as a result of this monumental collapse in demand. Home sales …
NATO ran out of purpose when the USSR fell. If anything they have helped create new enemies — Brian Peotter (@Brian_Peotter) December 1, 2024 When Trump demanded NATO allies meet their obligations – for their own defense – Democrats & the media called it "alienating our allies". Remind me. Why did NATO expand rather than …
Start the deportations! pic.twitter.com/q2EF9Nd2Yh — Marc 🇺🇸 (@gopher_marc) December 3, 2024
You’re left with little after taxes, while costs and foreign aid keep rising. Let this sink in. You pay 30% of your check as Federal Income Tax. You pay 10% in most States Income Tax. You pay another 7% in Sales Tax. You pay another 8% in Property Tax. 55% of your check is taken …
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BRAND NEW AUDIO FROM AIR FORCE ONE. KJP says Biden wasn't lying when he promised not to pardon Hunter.pic.twitter.com/LSN96s8Wjk — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) December 2, 2024
Canadians feel unsafe due to being prohibited from defending themselves. — Jim G 🏁🎸 (cońvictèd fèloń) (@DemetriosG) December 2, 2024 Residents in Oakville, Ont. are on high alert as break-ins targeting homes backing onto green spaces and trail systems have surged since October. For Maqsood Soomro, whose home borders a green space, the break ins …
EAGLE PASS, Texas — Human smugglers in Mexico raised their rates to cross migrants across the border into the United States as the task of even reaching the southwest border becomes more difficult. Among the number of reasons for that and the causes cited for the rise in smuggling fees is the outcome of the …
That's a good brother who saved his sisters life. This a good example of why kids need to get outside and have fun learning things like a slingshot or climbing trees. — floridanow1 (@floridanow1) December 1, 2024
More work is needed to tackle risks outside the banking sector, according to a Bank of England study which found that a market crisis would be amplified by fire sales of assets by pension funds, hedge funds and other investors. The BoE said a sharp rise in sovereign and corporate bond yields caused by “a …
If real ID is required to fly, then I refuse to go to any of these Blue states until they require ID to vote. pic.twitter.com/8Rjv3RhgwL — synergytruth (@synergytrusa) November 30, 2024
Out of America. — Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) November 29, 2024 https://twitter.com/_/status/1862605361418539325 https://twitter.com/_/status/1861792630004183286 Some shills are clearly still being paid. They all received the same talking point to post on X word for word. Yes, President Trump spent his Thanksgiving having dinner with family and friends at his home, like most normal people. Kamala was not …
via Reuters A look at the day ahead in Asian markets. If deepening gloom around China and a surging Japanese yen are the local market drivers in Asia, the Fed’s upcoming interest rate decision hangs heavily over world markets as growing hopes for a 50 basis point cut push the dollar to new lows for …
If you have 1,000,000 in circulation and you inject an additional 1,000,000 overnight into the system so you now have 2,000,000 without any additional GDP or productivity all you have done is devalue that existing million by 50%. Profit margins are not creating inflation. “record profits” are due to record spending. h/t Reinvestor-sac
A double parked car blocking the path of fire trucks and an ambulance cause chaos and gets sideswiped byu/Rave4life79 inPublicFreakout
Trump today claims that crime is down 72% in Venezuela because they emptied all their prisons into the U.S. Fox – “Sir, where are those numbers coming from?” Trump – “Ahhhh, ummmmm. I guess I get ‘em from the papers in this case. I think it’s a Federal statement or, well, they’re coming actually from …
View post on imgur.com Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump FROM THIS POINT FORWARD, ARE YOU LISTENING U.S. SENATE(?), NO MONEY IN THE FORM OF FOREIGN AID SHOULD BE GIVEN TO ANY COUNTRY UNLESS IT IS DONE AS A LOAN, NOT JUST A GIVEAWAY. IT CAN BE LOANED ON EXTRAORDINARILY GOOD TERMS, LIKE NO INTEREST AND AN …
by Chris Black Amazon started out as an online book seller. Today they are basically the go-to place for fatmericans looking to buy cheap crap from China. Amazon controls the online retail market quasi-totally, together with maybe another one or two big players like eBay and the like. Amazon is embedded with the US government …
Poland goes OFF on the EU! 🔥🔥🔥 "The lowest unemployment is in Poland. The highest GDP after COVID in the European Union is Poland. One of the lowest debts in Europe is Poland. Don't give us this rubbish about the need for educated immigration. We don't need your doctors, your… pic.twitter.com/EGV7bGJQqT — Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) …
There won’t be a bull run, the money supply growth rate is negative right now https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL Where did that liquidity go to? Yes equities, real estate, bonds and consumer goods all around the world. What happens if the liquidity that got borrowed and is collaterized by bonds, real estate and equities gets less? Yes prices …
by Dismal-Jellyfish https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2023/34-97632.pdf Source: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2023/34-97632.pdf In the Order, the Commission found that BBPLC failed to put into place any internal control around the real-time tracking of securities being offered or sold off of its Commission-registered shelf registration statements. As a result of this failure, between June 26, 2019 and March 9, 2022, BBPLC offered and sold an …
Nudity and private information – like social security and credit card numbers –were redacted from the photos A trove of photos from Hunter Biden’s laptop has been made available to the public through a new website that launched Thursday. The website – BidenLaptopMedia.com – will house almost 10,000 photos spanning from 2008 to 2019 and took months to …
by confoundedinterest17 Under Biden, the US economy is a land of confusion. Under Biden’s Reign of Error, Mortgage Purchase Demand is down -44%, Refi Demand is down -87%, and Mortgage Rates are UP 106%. Mortgage applications (demand) decreased 3.7 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for …
‘A court ruled the owners of Purdue Pharma, the Sackler family, will be protected from civil lawsuits linked to the opioid crisis in exchange for a $6 billion settlement. Purdue, which filed for bankruptcy in 2019 amid thousands of lawsuits, made drugs like OxyContin and is blamed for fueling the opioid epidemic.’ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/purdue-pharma-family-protected-from-lawsuits-in-exchange-for-addiction-treatment-funding There’s a …
by Chris Black These are the biggest loans (a little bit different from QE though, as they must be repaid with interest >0 ) in the history of the Federal Reserve by the way. RT: US banks took out a combined $164.8 billion in loans from two Federal Reserve facilities over the past fortnihght, Fed …
by Dismal-Jellyfish It gets even more interesting! 1 year ago: 3/16: 18,073.5395 Billion. High was hit 4/13/2022: 18,130.6814 Billion. Over half a trillion in deposits pulled in the last year! Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (US), Deposits, All Commercial Banks [DPSACBW027SBOG], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DPSACBW027SBOG, March …