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by Chris Black 🗳️ Election integrity is a #DSA enforcement priority 2024 is key for democracies in 🇪🇺 and worldwide My message today in Strasbourg, at the EU Parliament : we are fully using our DSA tools to ensure platforms conply. We will not tolerate any manipulation of our elections. pic.twitter.com/O0RYoLvLqu — Thierry Breton (@ThierryBreton) …
By Graham Summers, MBA The U.S. passed a debt ceiling resolution in May of 2023. Both the GOP and the Democrats claimed victory for the deal, but the reality is the government won and Americans were screwed. How do I know this? It took the U.S. 232 years to generate its first $10 trillion in …
More than 10,800 immigrants illegally crossed the border at Eagle Pass, TX within last 24 hours. They have now been processed and admitted into the country. This might be the largest single day illegal crossing on record: pic.twitter.com/XaQQhNA195 — Bashkarma🇺🇸🌏🇷🇺 (@Karmabash) December 20, 2023 The recent surge of over 10,800 immigrants illegally crossing the border …
by SilbergleitJunior It appears that we are heading into an extreme economic downturn.
by Chris Black Getting SSSS on your boarding pass means you are under FBI investigation and they are tracking and surveilling you. The US government loves to use this tool against journalists they dislike. https://t.me/JamesOKeefeIII/2580 Trying to understand the “SSSS” designations on my domestic boarding passes. PBI shut down entire passenger line while I went …
Will It Be Riot Season Again in 2024? Conservatives must learn the lessons of 2020—and prepare. via city-journal.org: The resurgence of public protests in support of Hamas has revealed a disturbing truth: the left-wing rioting following George Floyd’s death in 2020 was not an anomaly, but a tactic that activists can repurpose for any …
Normally this means war. Although with Biden it might just mean another spoon-feeding of pablum and some empty words.https://t.co/204aCaHI0H — Jim Rickards (@JamesGRickards) December 3, 2023 A US warship and three commercial vessels were attacked in the Red Sea off Yemen on Sunday — an intense development that American officials said appeared to be “fully …
With beef prices continuing to skyrocket, demand has shrunk and forced many of the largest food producers to import cheaper alternatives. Tyson Foods is among those who have been “squeezed” into not only importing more but also exporting less. Tyson CEO Donnie King in August warned low cattle inventories were leading to difficult export market …
by Chris Black According to a report by the WSJ, the National Intelligence Service of South Korea claim they have received credible evidence that DPRK Leader Kim Jong Un has ordered his government to begin providing support to the Palestinians. According to NIS, he has also ordered officials to begin looking into the possibility of …
Gen-Z shoppers think using cash doesn’t count as spending, that anything under $5 is effectively FREE and that riding a $400 bike 400 times means it only costs a dollar The new phenomena of ‘girl’ and ‘boy’ math is taking TikTok by storm as Gen Z shoppers bizarrely claim using cash doesn’t count as spending …
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mystery-solved-iran-backed-judge-seek-trump-arrest-visit-invite-washington-dc-confirmed h/t EuphoricTrilby
“Fake” American media have stopped talking about military operations in Ukraine, and this is bad news for Kyiv, former US President Donald Trump said in an interview with NBC. According to the politician, this indicates the dishonesty of American journalism, which has completely discredited itself, and also that Ukraine is actually suffering a defeat. Trump …
As a former Democrat, I can translate Democrat: “No evidence” in democrat means “evidence we ignore” https://t.co/P6Mu7sQbSR — Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) September 12, 2023 There is no evidence!The money just happen to flow from foreign sources into the Biden crime family. pic.twitter.com/Y8Pp8X3lGv — Big Fish (@BigFish3000) September 12, 2023
DON SURBER: Returning to nor/mal. Gendering is a means of torturing us. Remember the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode where the captain is tortured? His abductors shine four lights in his eyes. They ask how many lights he sees. He says four. They zap him and tell him the answer is five in an effort to break him …
by confoundedinterest17 Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are the digital form of a government-issued currency that isn’t pegged to a physical commodity (in other words, CBDCs are digital FIAT currency). They are similar to cryptocurrencies, except that their value is fixed by the central bank and equivalent to the country’s fiat currency, which is the US Dollar. …
The US has $17.1 trillion in household debt, $12.0 trillion in mortgages, $1.6 trillion in auto loans, $1.6 trillion in student loans, and $1.0 trillion in credit card debt. pic.twitter.com/xU9iQN2f5f — MapleMAGA 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@MapleMAGAw5) August 8, 2023 US Total Household Debt Hits an All-Time High of $17 Trillion; Credit Card Debt Also Sets New Record …
via dnyuz: Well, that didn’t take long. Like Threads before it, the network effect is at work for Apple’s new Savings account! Tech. Entertainment. Science. Your inbox. Sign up for the most interesting tech & entertainment news out there. Email: SIGN UP By signing up, I agree to the Terms of Use and have reviewed the Privacy Notice. …
So it’s “consensus” about something where politicians don’t even know what the exact meaning is.‼️🥴 — 🇳🇱RudolfJ🇳🇱💪 (@RUDOLFJ15) July 31, 2023
BREAKING: @whitehouse @PressSec says President @JoeBiden will not pardon his son, Hunter Biden if convicted of tax fraud and probably other crimes. WATCH pic.twitter.com/MKedWodHVe — Simon Ateba (@simonateba) July 27, 2023 BREAKING: @whitehouse @PressSec says President @JoeBiden will not pardon his son, Hunter Biden if convicted of tax fraud and probably other crimes. WATCH pic.twitter.com/MKedWodHVe …
By Graham Summers, MBA The Fed has raised interest rates from 0.25% to 5.25% in the span of 16 months. And yet…inflation has yet to disappear in any significant fashion. As I noted earlier this week, the ONLY data points in the CPI that are DOWN year over year are energy prices. When you strip …
by 2201992 I hate Fact Checkers. But god dam Community Notes is amazing. Community Notes is doing what real Fact Checkers are supposed to do. Which is call bull shit.
“Back in 2017 when the Fed Balance sheet was $4.5 trillion … this was their forecast going forward, shrinking the balance sheet to $2 trillion by 2022. Instead we are at $8.3 trillion today. With the US govt running deficits over $2 trillion and a recession coming, we are going to $15 trillion to $20 …
by UstaTheStockMan He stressed a need for more rate hikes ( Quantitative tightening ) after his one month tactical pause which was done to run bank stress test . He now says there is a need for two more rate hikes and did not rule out back to back hikes. With job growth doing exactly …
A headline crossed my desk that instantly caught my attention. I opened it in hopes that the leader of the largest asset manager in the world had come to his senses and realized his evil plans of forcing “Environment, Social, and Governance” (ESG) policies and investments were going to destroy capitalism, so he reversed course. My hopes …
Banks want you to buy. You know what that means.pic.twitter.com/xu7pK6LZtd — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) June 20, 2023 pic.twitter.com/yRnMeHvUVJ — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) June 20, 2023
