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The French political class just lit a fire it may not be able to contain. Marine Le Pen, leader of the populist National Rally, was convicted for misusing EU funds and handed a four-year prison sentence. Two years are suspended. On top of that, she’s barred from holding public office for five years. The court …
President Trump’s social media company on Wednesday filed papers with securities regulators that would allow Trump’s trust to sell almost 115 million shares of the company’s stock. Why it matters: Truth Social may be hoping for a halo from Newsmax, the conservative media company that went public Monday and saw its stock rise from $10 …
🇺🇸 BOEING “LOST TRUST” – TRANSPORTATION SEC. DUFFY SAYS STRICT OVERSIGHT NEEDED Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says Boeing has lost the trust of the American people after multiple safety failures, including the Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 mid-air panel blowout and two fatal… https://t.co/auvzGF0OIq pic.twitter.com/0jtaw6HIDz — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 17, 2025
China 30 year continues to drift lower, yield 1.854%. Deflation and the lost decade are real possibilities. With over capacity in manufacturing it’s only a matter of time before deflation reached the west. pic.twitter.com/GUzESzA0QB — James E. Thorne (@DrJStrategy) January 8, 2025 🚨DEFLATIONARY IS COMING TO CHINA🚨 China's economy has seen deflation for 6 STRAIGHT …
Bitcoin is not digital gold. Gold is not a network asset. If you hold it, you hold it. I moved apartments recently and I simply took my gold with me. Can’t do that with bitcoin. You need to ask “the network” to move your bitcoin from one address to another. If the network says no, …
Trump transferred all of his nearly 115 million shares — worth around $4 billion on paper — in the parent company of social networking site Truth Social as a “bona fide gift” to the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, the Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Thursday said. Trump’s shares amount to more than half …
An NHS Trust has compared marriage between first cousins to white women having children over the age of 34. Material drawn up by Bradford health chiefs in 2022 describes cousin marriages as a “cultural practice” and likens it to white women and couples starting families later. It claims that this is because of “liberal values …
“This is the most important part – this is right after she was saying we are run by ABC News. You should trust us, not Joe Rogan, who believes in dragons. Saying we should trust them because they’re double-checked by ABC News, and then making the stupidest fucking statement.” ABC news is owned by Disney, …
THE FALL OF TRADITIONAL MEDIA'S INFLUENCE Mainstream media's credibility took another hit with their "too close to call" election drama. They wanted us to believe the election was too close to call and that a result might not be known for months. More trust flushed away in an… pic.twitter.com/oTR9IkzItM — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) November 12, …
The percentage of Americans who say they have a great deal or a fair amount of trust in the mass media has fallen to a record low, according to a new Gallup survey. The percentage of Americans who say they have a great deal or a fair amount of trust in the mass media has …
Trust in political and civic institutions highest for local and state governments, lowest for media and Congress WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans continue to register record-low trust in the mass media, with 31% expressing a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in the media to report the news “fully, accurately and fairly,” similar to last …
The latest inflation report contained bad news for banks. They’re deeply underwater, and still sinking – in such bad shape that even the head of the SEC doesn’t want anyone looking too closely… Image CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons The first inflation report since the Fed’s September interest rate cut begged some questions… Since …
Chinese authorities have detained four employees of Taiwanese Apple supplier Foxconn under “quite strange” circumstances. Police in Zhengzhou city of Henan province held the factory workers on an offence equivalent to Taiwan’s “crime of breach of trust”, the island’s mainland affairs council said. The council confirmed all four employees were Taiwanese and claimed that the …
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, This has now reached the point that corporations and institutions are in effect “mining what remains of our trust” to boost profits / private gains. Social cohesion is another ill-defined concept which is core to social and economic stability, despite the difficulty of measuring it. As with social trust, we sense its …
By Martin Armstrong I have said numerous times that your personal belongings are at risk in safety deposit boxes. The Fourth Amendment was intended to protect Americans from illegal search and seizures, but as we have seen in recent years, the government does not respect the Constitution or our freedoms. Governments will become increasingly tyrannical …
PEOPLE HAVE LOST TRUST IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA@Codie_Sanchez: “Think about what is happening right in front of us. The media is no longer actually reaching the masses because they've lost complete trust in them. In fact, 30-year-olds have more trust in social media… pic.twitter.com/tX9Bjr0DhA — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) October 3, 2024
When they admit their Biden laptop exchange w DJT was intentional election interference he could consider their request. — Keith Rabois (@rabois) October 1, 2024 It’s been a long time coming: CBS’s Scott Pelley Loses a Fight Rigged in His Favor. And since Dan Rather’s Rathergate implosion was a key mile marker pointing towards today’s result, …
By Martin Armstrong https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Biden-Double.mp4 As we head into the end of this cycle in 2032, this process concerns the collapse of Republican forms of government that is rapidly approaching on a global scale. I believe that this has become far more obvious since the COVID-19 scam. Even in Germany, friends think that something has seriously …
Miranda Devine has an interesting op-ed today in the New York Post, sharing information gleaned from a group of law enforcement who are no longer cooperating with what they see as a highly politicized FBI. The underlying issue is not a surprise to many of us, and the specific reasons for the distrust and lack …
The media needs to be broken up. Their bias and disinformation are not news. Why doesn't Congress see this? — floridanow1 (@floridanow1) July 25, 2024 Wait until they get a load of her! pic.twitter.com/3t9WXwwEAu — Remnantee (@TLTYNS) July 25, 2024
Once you understand the concept of the microbiome, it’s easy to see the problem with pesticide-laden food: Pesticides are poisons designed to kill small lifeforms, and ingesting such poisons risks wiping out or disrupting the good bacteria that keep us alive and functional. The obvious solution is to eat only organic produce and meat. But that’s …
💣 💣💣💥💥 Kash Patel Drops a Bomb — British Court Reveals Paul Ryan Was the First One to Receive a Copy of Steele Dossier Back in 2016 and He Hid This For Years! Steve Bannon: Are you telling me and telling this audience in a British court filing that Steele filed under… pic.twitter.com/WhD5jd1ba6 — MJTruthUltra …
Ukrainians’ trust in President Volodymyr Zelensky has fallen below 60 percent for the first time since Russia’s February 2022 invasion, according to a leading poll published Friday. Zelensky has faced many challenges in the past year, including a failed summer counteroffensive, a divisive debate on mobilisation and high-profile corruption scandals involving senior officials. Public trust in the …
You know the stereotype of the NPR listener: an EV-driving, Wordle-playing, tote bag–carrying coastal elite. It doesn’t precisely describe me, but it’s not far off. I’m Sarah Lawrence–educated, was raised by a lesbian peace activist mother, I drive a Subaru, and Spotify says my listening habits are most similar to people in Berkeley. I fit the …
Last December, wholesale retailer Costco announced that they had sold over $100 million worth of gold in Q3 2023. Now, Wells Fargo estimates that Costco “may now be running at” $100 million to $200 million per month in gold sales. “Our work suggests there has been significant interest given COST’s aggressive pricing and high level …
Most people in the U.S. are distrustful of autonomous vehicles. That’s the message from AAA’s latest study, which found that a surprising number of people express fear, and many are uncertain about autonomous technology. AAA found that 66 percent of drivers are afraid of autonomous vehicles, and 25 percent are uncertain about having them on …
Why Walmart’s quick success in generative AI search should have Google worried. Walmart is talking up its ability to use generative AI as a one-stop shop to search when you need to plan an event, rather than online destination to search for individual items. During a call with analysts after its February earnings, Walmart CEO …
You know a court case has jumped into the public consciousness when people with no connection to it start making casual conversation about details of court filings, like the question a fellow Little League parent asked me after a batting practice last week. “Did you hear the guy’s cell phone was in Hapeville more than …
