The Keystone pipeline project was an immediate casualty when Joe Biden and his administration took office in 2021, as the incoming leader made a statement to appease climate activists. The pipeline was killed off by a first-day executive order by the president, titled Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science To Tackle the … Read more
SNIP The Federal Trade Commission today proposed a rule that would prohibit employers from imposing noncompete clauses on workers, arguing that “noncompetes constitute an unfair method of competition and therefore violate Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act.” The contract clauses currently “bind about one in five American workers, approximately 30 million people,” the … Read more
by Chris Black My first thoughts on factors contributing to this: – Emergent myopia from left-hemisphere colonization of institutions – Increasingly extreme over-socialization that systemically disincentives disruptive thinking outside the constraints of the dominant ideology – Universities over recruiting leading to a pandemic of retards that think more like dogmatic memorization machines than humans – … Read more
by Chris Black That’s friendship in the 1990s (https://www.jstor.org/stable/522486) vs. friendship today (https://archive.vn/BgnRP). Two major factors are to blame for this: Left-Wing politics and modern technology. Every single agenda pushed by the Left (multiracialism, anti-family, anti-religion, anti-traditional culture) fragments society, destroys cohesion, increases isolation, decreases trust, and so on. It’s basically a recipe for making … Read more
This week a historical 117-year-old church in downtown #Portland, Ore. was destroyed in a shocking arson attack. The arrested suspect is Cameron David Storer, a bearded trans woman who goes by the name, "Nicolette." Read my new report: https://t.co/FjklHf0g5L — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) January 6, 2023 #Trans woman Cameron David Storer, aka "Nicolette Fait" (she/her), … Read more
by Chris Black Just look at the top comments. We don’t even have to break the conditioning. They pushed it too far.
😳😱 WHAT IS THIS⁉️ SUM TING WONG‼️ #LionessDeb19 pic.twitter.com/YIzQVa9sNJ — Lioness Deb (@LionessDeb19) January 9, 2023
CNN’s Rosa Flores did not appear to be buying into a White House explanation for President Joe Biden not visiting with migrants during his trip to the border. Flores has reported for CNN directly from El Paso, Texas, highlighting the sometimes grueling conditions for thousands. In a Monday segment with CNN’s Poppy Harlow, Flores highlighted criticism from both sides of the political aisle … Read more
The U.S. Department of Energy, the nation’s chief funder of the physical sciences, is requiring scientific grant applicants to demonstrate their commitment to social justice ideals. The new policy, which began in October 2022, requires grant proposals that are submitted to the department’s Office of Science to include a “Promoting Inclusive and Equitable Research” (PIER) … Read more
Everything he says is 100% SPOT ON!! I’d prefer if he identified himself – much more impact!! #StoptheShots #VaccineDeaths pic.twitter.com/F9efm2eoml — aussie17 (@_aussie17) January 9, 2023 h/t JADR
The central banks know what is going on. When they buy gold in large quantities, it is for a reason. https://t.co/AB5t67g5dd — David Morgan (@silverguru22) January 7, 2023
JUST IN – Brazil's Bolsonaro admitted to hospital in the US. — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) January 9, 2023 View post on imgur.com https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-09/bolsonaro-hospitalized-in-us-after-brasilia-riots-o-globo-says h/t dr0id
by confoundedinterest17 Zoltan! The Federal Reserve will be the backstop of the Treasury market this year to alleviate dysfunction resulting from its increasing size and the retreat of regular buyers. That’s the view of Credit Suisse Group AG analyst Zoltan Pozsar, who in a note to clients Friday predicted the Fed will restart asset purchases during the summer … Read more
https://www.9news.com.au/national/home-value-record-decline-australia-corelogic-finds/0c3e7586-f310-411b-ab19-d38068078794 According to the CoreLogic Daily Home Value Index, this is the deepest peak-to-trough decline, surpassing the previous record-breaking fall between 2017 and 2019. The current record slump has been triggered by the RBA’s aggressive interest rate hikes – the fastest rate of tightening since 1994. CoreLogic noted previous housing market cycles in the mid … Read more
Prohibited Software Vendors, Products, and Services will include TikToK TRENTON – Governor Phil Murphy today announced that the State of New Jersey has issued a cybersecurity directive to prohibit the use of high-risk software and services, including TikTok, on State provided or managed devices. The New Jersey Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Cell (NJCCIC), in collaboration with … Read more
via opendemocracy: The working assumption, for governments and central banks across the world, is that at some point soon everything will get back to ‘normal’ – our economies will return to either pre-pandemic or, sometimes, even pre-2008 crash levels. These beliefs are reinforced by media economics commentary and across political parties. But what if they’re wrong? … Read more
by silvertomar SNB has been buying foreign stocks and bonds with newly printed Swiss francs as a way to weaken its currency… the only asset in its portfolio that went up was gold… BREAKING NEWS THE SWISS NATIONAL BANK POSTED AN ANNUAL LOSS OF $142.67 BILLION IN 2022 What a time to be alive. — … Read more
via APNEWS: Striking nurses chanted and waved signs outside two large New York City hospitals Monday after a weekend of negotiations over pay and staffing levels did not produce a deal for a new contract. The walkout involves as many as 3,500 nurses at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and about 3,600 at Mount … Read more
Less than a year into the job, Victoria’s Secret brand CEO Amy Hauk resigned from her position on Tuesday after she tried to push the woke agenda down regular people’s throats and it backfired. Hauk gave notice of her resignation last week The news comes after a few years of constant degenerate leftist propaganda and … Read more
The Chinese authorities have extended trading hours for the onshore yuan as part of the state goal to broaden cross-border use of the national currency and boost yuan trading activity, Bloomberg reports. Starting January 1, trading hours for the onshore yuan have increased so that foreign-exchange transactions are now possible until 3am in Beijing instead … Read more
Essential public service broadcasting. Too late though. Pity we have to ‘see’ it for ourselves before we can believe. Pity we have to rely on the media. Why such secrecy from HSE before this? Where was everyone when it was happening? — Emily O'Conor (@eoconor209) January 5, 2023
https://twitter.com/UUnspecified2/status/1612204192109834241 Damar Hamlin’s Collapse Highlights the Violence Black Men Experience in Football ‘The ordinariness of men running into each other at full speed represents a normalized—even rationalized—violence that is routine to this American game. This ordinary violence has always riddled the sport and it affects all players. But Black players are disproportionately affected. While Black … Read more
by Econ–Intel Team One of the tools that the Federal Reserve has to manage the money supply is the reserve requirement. Importantly, the reserve requirement is also a potent tool to manage systemic risk of the banking system. The Federal Reserve has recently abolished the reserve requirement. This article examines several possible impacts of this … Read more
Joe Biden on Sunday traveled to El Paso, Texas in his first visit to the southern border ever. After 50 years in politics, this is Biden’s first trip to the US-Mexico border at the age of 80. More than 5 million illegal aliens have crossed over the border on Joe Biden’s watch. Border facilities are … Read more
