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(The Center Square) – The U.S. has been in a perpetual national emergency over terrorism threats since Sept. 11, 2001, which was again extended for another year. President Joe Biden on Wednesday extended an executive order that has been in place since it was first signed by former president George W. Bush on September 23, …
HOLY SH*T! Police Chief Shawn Taylor of Millersville Police Department in Tennessee exposes The Biggest Corruption Story In America. A few days ago, Assistant Chief Shawn Taylor of the Millersville Police Department was raided by the very State Bureau he had been investigating.… pic.twitter.com/La7RYF3Sbq — I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) September 10, 2024
This would be top national news in any normal country. Our media is silent. — Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) August 29, 2024 It’ll never be enough. Democrats will destroy this country and let it burn to the ground and watch thousands of Americans and their kids die to keep their voter fraud empire alive. …
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Thursday met with a senior Chinese military official in a bid to manage tensions brewing between China and U.S. treaty allies in the region. Sullivan met with General Zhang Youxia, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), which is China’s top military body helmed by the Chinese …
Liberty Counsel has announced it is bringing a free speech fight to the Idaho Army National Guard demanding the organization “restore” the career of an infantry officer who was removed from command and illegally pressured to resign because of a soldier’s complaints about the officer’s statements regarding his personal Christian beliefs. The statements were made …
Founding Father’s fear has come true: Federal debt burden now is the greatest threat to the U.S. economy, national security and social stability. In the late 1780s, the finances of the United States were in disarray. Revolutionary War debts incurred by the Continental Congress and former colonies were defaulting, and the democratic experiment in the …
Texas is now the national leader in business finance. Welcome to Y’all Street. pic.twitter.com/LpbWaPg3yX — Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) August 18, 2024
by confoundedinterest17 Too much debt? Kamala Harris doesn’t think so. She is proposing economic policies costing $1. 7 trillion without sufficicent offsets. Harris is putting the US on the path to default, following numerous other badly managed nations, like Ukraine and Greece. And much of Latin America. The US is already at $35+ trillion with unfunded liabilties totalling …
WGN News in Chicago reports: Downtown Chicago businesses board up ahead of Democratic National Convention A number of businesses in the city’s business district have covered windows and doors with plywood to better protect the buildings should demonstrations during next week’s Democratic National Convention turn unruly. Here’s the video report: AC
JPMorgan Chase (JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon has a plan to reduce America’s $35 trillion national debt—but it may not be welcomed by the country’s wealthiest. America’s public debt is increasingly capturing the attention of economic experts who warn that Uncle Sam’s spending is unsustainable and the economy simply isn’t growing quickly enough to keep up …
If the 2024 presidential election ever gets around to serious issues, you’re likely to hear a lot of happy talk from Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. The Democratic and Republican presidential nominees have a lot of plans for tax cuts and government giveaways, customized to please each candidate’s desired constituencies. Both candidates, however, are whistling …
MILWAUKEE – A new Marquette Law School Poll national survey finds Vice President Kamala Harris is the choice for president of 52% of registered voters and former President Donald Trump is the choice of 48%. Among likely voters, Harris receives 53% and Trump 47%. These results include voters who initially did not choose Harris or …
FL is uniquely expensive to insure bc of hurricanes. Their insurance already costs over 3x the national average Florida homeowners paid an average annual premium of $10,996 in 2023 The national average insurance premium in the same year was $2,377 — Amy Nixon (@texasrunnerDFW) August 7, 2024
A secretive government agency used to “spy on” anti-lockdown campaigners during the pandemic has been deployed to monitor social media amid the riots, The Telegraph has learnt. The Counter Disinformation Unit, now rebranded as the National Security Online Information Team, has been given the task just months after MPs called for an independent review of …
This is interesting. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/chinese-national-arrested-after-repeatedly-trying-get-mar/ A Chinese national was arrested after multiple attempts to breach the security of Mar-a-Lago, the private club and residence of former President Donald Trump. The suspect, Zijie Li, 38, of El Monte, California, claimed to possess documents implicating the Chinese government in a recent assassination attempt on Trump. Li alleged he …
The U.S. economy is headed in the wrong direction even faster. With debt growth outstripping economic growth this rapidly, should we put the dollar on deathwatch? From Peter Reagan at Birch Gold Group | Reading time: 5 minutes We are living through an incredible period of economic history in the United States. It should be discussed in …
BREAKING: Maduro says he can't show the true election result because @elonmusk hacked the National Electoral Council of Venezuela pic.twitter.com/Ef0Wnzb2n7 — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) August 2, 2024
It’s hard to be anonymous online in China. Websites and apps must verify users with their phone numbers, which are tied to personal identification numbers that all adults are assigned. Now it could get more difficult under a proposal by China’s internet regulators: The government wants to take over the job of verification from the …
TRUMP Vs. ABC: "Excuse me, you're the one who held me up for 35 minutes, just so you understand." pic.twitter.com/mtzpQLS9xX — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) July 31, 2024
I have errands to run this morning. Starting this thread now, to pick up when I return home. Will also add all live streams of this event. LIVE: Trump attends National Association of Black Journalists convention Scheduled for Jul 31, 2024 #FoxNews Former President Donald Trump participates in a Q&A conversation at the National Association …
Interest payments on the debt now exceed national defense spending. Economists are divided on whether this debt poses a serious threat to economic stability or remains manageable with economic growth. Political debates focus on whether to cut spending or increase taxes to address the growing debt. 🚨🇺🇸U.S. NATIONAL DEBT HITS $35 TRILLION Interest payments on …
The U.S. #NationalDebt just broke $35 trillion, up over $7.2 trillion since #Biden took office. It took 43 presidents 215 years to add the first $7.2 trillion. Biden did it in just 3.5 years. #Trump added a single-term record $7.8 trilion. Biden is on track to break that record. — Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) July 29, …
by confoundedinterest17 This scene from the film “McCabe and Mrs. Miller” sums up our political plight quite nicley. Politicians spend like crazy to stay in power (Biden/Harris) are excellent examples). Politicians promises endless money, then shoot the economy. The US is broke and relies on printing money and boowed funds to stay afloat. Harris wants to …
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by confoundedinterest17 Here is a chart of Non-commerciak net positions for US Treasuries, currently showing more bailing out of Treasury positions. Has the world sours on DC’s fiscal train wreck and The Fed? Of course, budget deficits are a disaster with Biden/Congress spending like drunken sailors in port and showing no signs of letting up. …
Inside our breaking oversight report “Schools for Radicals: The Secret Push to Institute Radical DEI Curriculums Within The Pentagon’s K-12 Public Schools.”
The Mel Rule, which is based on state-level data, has been triggered, indicating a potential recession. This rule is similar to the Sahm Rule, but it focuses on state-specific unemployment rates. When state-level unemployment rates rise by 0.5 percentage point or more over a three-month period, it signals a likely recession. The idea behind this approach is …
by Michael Over the past three years, millions of migrants have come pouring into this country looking for a better life. They were promised that things would be so much better once they got here, but for so many of them that has turned out to be not true at all. There just aren’t enough …
Our nation’s debt has grown from a merely economic challenge to a national security threat. Here’s why this much debt makes America less safe… From Peter Reagan for Birch Gold Group We’ve published more than a few articles about how the national debt makes our lives more difficult and diminishes the dollar’s purchasing power. But as we’ll cover in …