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WHOs Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus calls on young people to raise their voices “to counter the lies that are undermining the [pandemic] agreement on social media” 1/2WHOs Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus calls on young people to raise their voices "to counter the lies that are undermining the [pandemic] agreement on social media"‼️🙏👇 pic.twitter.com/7CBTplrXDD — Sophie still fighting …
by confoundedinterest17 Yikes! Bidenomics is a disaster! MBA mortgage purchase applications are down 54% from Pandemic Peak. I was going to play “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by Gordon Lightfoot and rename it “The Wreck of The US Economy.” Mortgage demand fell to a new 30-year low in January 2024, down 54% from the pandemic …
by Michael Do you remember the supply chain problems that we experienced during the darkest days of the COVID pandemic? Well, now we are being warned that the crisis in the Red Sea could actually disrupt global supply chains to an even greater degree. Needless to say, this comes at a really bad time because …
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is closely monitoring potential market liquidity risks as countries move to refinance debt issued during the pandemic, warns Gita Gopinath, the IMF’s first Deputy Managing Director. Expressing concern over the already elevated debt levels, Gopinath points out the additional worry of projected fiscal deficits surpassing pre-pandemic levels. This highlights the …
Chairman @RepBradWenstrup's statement following Dr. Fauci's two-day testimony⬇️ pic.twitter.com/VcSPsMv6fn — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (@COVIDSelect) January 10, 2024 h/t DOORBERT
In a significant market development, the 10-Year minus 3-Month Treasury Yield Curve has remained inverted for a historic 278 consecutive trading days, marking the longest inversion in financial history. The inversion has deepened recently, reaching its lowest point since August, adding to economic uncertainty. Notably, Broadcom has emerged as a front-runner in the semiconductor industry, …
via JAMES RICKARDS: Are gold prices and interest rates joined at the hip? Based on recent market action, it would appear the answer is: yes. A major rally in gold is now underway. Gold moved from $1,831 per ounce on Oct. 6 to $2,091 per ounce on Dec. 1, a 14.1% rally in just eight …
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via expose-news The newly sworn-in New Zealand government intends not to be pushed around by UN resolutions or by the World Health Organisation anymore. According to a coalition agreement with New Zealand First, the new government will undertake a “National Interest Test” before accepting any agreements from the United Nations or the World Health Organisation’s …
In a significant move, the Prime Minister of Slovakia has confirmed that the government will not proceed with the ratification of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Pandemic Treaty. The decision comes as the treaty is criticized for potentially transferring health powers from national ministries to the WHO, granting the global organization unprecedented decision-making authority. Slovakia’s …
There are more Americans who say they have serious cognitive problems — with remembering, concentrating or making decisions — than at any time in the last 15 years, data from the Census Bureau shows. The increase started with the pandemic: The number of working-age adults reporting “serious difficulty” thinking has climbed by an estimated one …
JUST IN – Anthony Fauci-run lab in U.S. state of Montana used tax payer money to experiment with coronavirus strain shipped in from China's Wuhan a year before Covid pandemic began, Daily Mail reports — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) October 31, 2023 https://twitter.com/_/status/1719481043491647666 h/t DOORBERT
The Parliamentary Sovereignty (Referendums) Bill is a private members bill introduced under the 10 Minute Rule. Because there was no opposition to the bill, it has now had its first official reading and the second reading is scheduled for November 24th. If the bill is passed, the UK Gov will not be able to reverse …
Need to mask the fish. https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1715808291899498858 MARION, Va. – Officials had to euthanize 40,000 trout in Virginia to prevent the spread of whirling disease, the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources announced Thursday. Whirling disease is caused by a microscopic parasite and leads to skeletal deformities in fish from the trout and salmon family, according to …
https://t.co/zmQWd4sGpu — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) October 16, 2023 It was also reported that sales of multi-tenant apartment buildings dropped 74%, reaching a new record since 2009. Read more: https://t.co/z4NqPdSVqo — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) October 17, 2023 The housing market … 2023 pic.twitter.com/nJu7YiHVYu — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) October 17, 2023
Corporate bankruptcies in 2023 are now at the same levels seen during the 2020 pandemic. We are also seeing the highest number of bankruptcies since 2010. Needless to say, many companies are feeling the pain. Follow us @KobeissiLetter for real time analysis as this develops. — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) October 16, 2023 via dailymail: …
Obtaining credit will be “much harder” pic.twitter.com/Pd2gXm5mn3 — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) October 11, 2023 Rapid rate hikes have helped fuel an increase in company failures this year—and there’s probably more pain to come. Bed Bath & Beyond is one of the more well-known brands to implode this year under the weight of, among other …
WARREN BUFFETT PREDICTS NEW PANDEMIC WORSE THAN COVID pic.twitter.com/qS3IZOrSOv — illuminatibot (@iluminatibot) September 21, 2023
This is the real pandemic – 46 teaspoons of sugar in a Dunkin Donuts coffee drink. https://t.co/ftJ0fwS3dz — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) September 13, 2023
We’ve hit an ignominious milestone. 600,000 Excess Non-Covid Natural Cause Deaths Adding ~4,850 per week consistently since Wk 14 of 2021. This is 82% of the avg weekly deaths from Covid during the pandemic. A full-blown echo pandemic underway – and no one cares. However, when we tally all the mistakes from disruption, denial of …
Global stock markets peaked a month ago at the end of July. Then fell for the first three weeks of August. Today, Nasdaq breadth was strongest since the market top. September will be hell. pic.twitter.com/FST2UcLsci — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) August 30, 2023 The FDIC is literally using the same script as 2020… They're changing the reserve …
via WSJ: Each technological age renews the fight over speech infringement. If given an inch, government censors inevitably take a mile. In July, pushback came when a federal court issued a temporary injunction against federal bureaucrats leaning on social-media companies. The decision takes particular trouble to note the bureaucracy’s campaign to silence dissenters to its …
The number of chronically absent schoolkids jumped by 6.5 million from before the pandemic to the 2021-22 year, says a study on how COVID lockdowns hurt classroom attendance. More than a quarter of students missed at least 10 percent of the 2021-22 school year, making them chronically absent, Stanford University research shows. Before the pandemic, …
“Zoom has told its employees to return to the office for the first time since the video communications tool saw a boom during the remote work revolution of the coronavirus pandemic. The tech company is now requesting all employees within 50 miles of a company office to return for in-person work at least two days …
https://twitter.com/backtolife_2023/status/1686094534906728449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw h/t Tonight We Ride!
via thepostmillennial: According to an analysis of data from the Internal Revenue Service by The Oregonian from income tax returns filed in 2020 and 2021, Multnomah County lost a net 14,257 tax filers and their dependents, many of whom were high earners who could do jobs remotely, resulting in a net income loss of over …
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