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After The Worst January Job Cuts ‘Since The Great Recession’, Here Are 12 Major Layoffs That Have Already Been Announced In February

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by Michael It appears that the tsunami of layoffs that started late last year is starting to accelerate.  January was a horrible month for job losses, and major layoff announcements are coming fast and furious here in February.  But of course the Biden administration would have us believe that everything is just fine.  Last week, the … Read more

When We Describe America’s Largest Cities As “War Zones”, We Aren’t Exaggerating One Bit

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by Michael Crime rates are soaring all over the nation, and this is especially true in heavily populated urban areas.  The complete and utter lawlessness that we are witnessing has caused many pundits to describe our largest cities as “war zones”, and unfortunately that is not an exaggeration at all.  In fact, there are some … Read more

More Narrative Dissonance From the Biden Admin

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by Chris Black Nobody believes us anymore. Everybody just assumes that we are full of crap, have an agenda or are just garden variety lunatics. Biden says China spy balloon "not a major breach" https://t.co/9uHRGuB39b pic.twitter.com/KvqGL5FwWL — The Hill (@thehill) February 9, 2023 Just wait  until they find out China has spy satellites.

The Empire of Lies Strikes Back

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by Chris Black O’Keefe breaks the biggest story of his career and a week later “the Board” gets “the call.” Project Veritas has been co-opted by US Central Intelligence’s Operation Mockingbird*.  O’Keefe was making too many waves telling the truth.  *when a successful program gets outed or becomes too well known they just shut it … Read more

South Africa declares nationwide state of disaster over power crisis

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JUST IN – South Africa declares nationwide state of disaster over power crisis. — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) February 9, 2023 JUST IN – South Africa's President declares state of national disaster to end blackouts — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) February 9, 2023 BREAKING: South Africa declares a national state of disaster over the energy crisis https://t.co/FCmysA3Zb5 pic.twitter.com/9xYeWxOOGU … Read more

We are governed by crooks, liars, and incompetents, and the worst of them aren’t even the ones who have to stand for election.

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OUR LYING GOVERNMENT. Holman Jenkins: A Balloon Pops D.C.’s Myth Bubble: Federal agencies have become too comfortable using disinformation. For those who couldn’t figure out why I devoted four columns to the Pentagon UFO debate, this is why. It became clear that, whether from serendipity or design, national security agencies were using UFOs to hide something … Read more

Lots of sizable layoffs today: Yahoo, GitHub, Canopy Growth, Olive…

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pic.twitter.com/OlJBqifhVS — The Punisher (of Wall ST) (@GregCrennan) February 9, 2023 Housing market recession signal 😓 How much more of a decline before the Fed is happy ? pic.twitter.com/TosFtSYF66 — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) February 9, 2023 LYFT CEO says the disappointing revenue outlook also reflects Lyft generating less revenue from higher fares from surge … Read more

We’re in a bull trap

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by hisenbearg We’re breaking all time highs in call options and have a high correlation between bonds and stocks. Also note a giant capital outflow by institutional investors (meaning they’re taking their chance to sell) and capital inflows by retail investors (i.e. dumb money). Just gotta wait for the ‘surprise’ (or in reality combo of … Read more

Commodity Trader Trafigura Faces $577 Million Loss After Uncovering Nickel Fraud

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Commodity trader Trafigura Group is facing more than half a billion dollars in losses after discovering metal cargoes it bought didn’t contain the nickel they were supposed to. Trafigura has spent the past two months uncovering what it believes is a systematic fraud against it. It has started legal action against Indian businessman Prateek Gupta … Read more

Russian Parliament Speaker on Nord Stream Attack: “Joe Biden is a Terrorist Who Must be Brought to Justice”

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The Speaker of the Russian parliament Vyacheslav Volodin branded US President Joe Biden a “terrorist” after a report by veteran US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh blamed Washington for sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines last year. Russia is calling for a special session of the UN security council, while the German AfD party wants a parliamentary … Read more