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The House passed a bill 213 – 212 that will provide $1.9 billion for “additional security measures” at the U.S. Capitol. Texas Republican Rep. Lance Gooden argued that Democrats would rather spend money on a wall ”around this building in D.C.” than they would on finishing a border wall advocated by Trump. The bill includes … Read more

More than six months after the astonishing polling embarrassment in the 2020 U.S. elections, survey experts examining what went wrong are uncertain about what led to the sharpest discrepancy between the polls and popular vote outcome since Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter in a near-landslide in 1980. Lingering questions about the misfire in 2020, in … Read more

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/…oin-idaho/ Five rural Oregon counties voted on Tuesday to secede from the state of Oregon and join the state of Idaho. Thousands of people in eastern Oregon voted Tuesday for their elected officials to consider ditching their state and becoming part of Idaho. Voters in Sherman, Lake, Grant, Baker and Malheur counties all voted for … Read more

This is what I think of Speaker Pelosi’s letter. #FreeYourFace pic.twitter.com/9uujzmtCCP — Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) May 19, 2021

Pressure is still mounting on Kamala Harris to visit the southern border in her capacity addressing the migration crisis as a Republican representative introduces a bill Thursday that will restrict the vice president’s travel until she goes to the U.S.-Mexico border. Representative Ashley Hinson of Iowa is putting forward the ‘See the Crisis’ Act on … Read more

Social Credit may become a more powerful determinant of socio-economic inclusion: Rating a user’s credibility/trust (social credit), as is currently done by Uber, eBay and many others, is becoming more common. At the same time, new technologies such as blockchain bring new ways of capturing and assessing more information. Together, these developments could lead to … Read more

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1395441828430745602 The Fed this summer will take another step ahead in developing a digital currency The Federal Reserve will release a research paper this summer that explores a move to a central bank digital currency. The moves of multiple countries, most prominently China, in the central bank digital currency space has intensified talk about how … Read more

The crypto market had seen a bullish trend since the start of the year, but sustained major losses last week that are believed to have been driven by comments made by tech mogul Elon Musk on social media. The businessman announced that Tesla would no longer be accepting Bitcoin due to its impact on the … Read more

by Shaun Richards Yesterday brought falls and then no little panic to the world of Bitcoin and the other cryptocurrencies. This is how the London Financial Times reported events. Cryptocurrency markets swung in chaotic trading and related stocks were hit after Chinese regulators signalled a crackdown on the use of digital coins, which have soared … Read more

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh gave $100,000 to a private trust for Joe Biden’s grandchildren, the Daily Mail revealed. Louis Freeh also spoke with then-VP Joe Biden in 2016 to “explore with him some future work options” that included Hunter Biden. Freeh, who served as FBI Director under Bill Clinton and George Bush, ran a consulting … Read more

At this point, shortages of everything from microchips to potato chips are forcing American businesses to adjust to higher prices and supply shocks, while consumers are forced to pay higher prices at the store. And while high commodity prices (which have come off their highs in recent days as lumber, oil and iron prices declined) … Read more