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Inflation’s Impact: American Families Spending About $371 More a Month Than Year Ago… Thousands Laid Off by Big Tech as President Brags of ‘Booming Economy’

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via local21news: That $371 more families are spending due to inflation is a Moody’s Analytics estimate and compares this December with December 2021. Here’s some of how the increase breaks down: $72 more spent on food compared to December 2021 $82 more spent on shelter $47 more spent on utilities $17 more spent on health care $15 more … Read more

Europe to Buy Refined Russian Oil from India Because of Sanctions

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by Chris Black It’s so funny, I can’t even… I mean: India now buys 33 times more Russian oil than last year—Bloomberg pic.twitter.com/YuhKCs1lOc — Hassan Mafi ‏ (@thatdayin1992) January 16, 2023 Basically, the Russians sell their “embargoed” oil to India, India refines it and sells it to Europoors at a markup, and everyone wins except … Read more

Just Another Episode in the Race Hustle

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by Chris Black Banks have to be forced to accept bad loan risks because refusing to allow blacks and Hispanics with negative credit ratings to have $100k+ bank loans is racist until that inevitably crashes the economy at which point it’s no longer racist and is swiftly swept under the rug and forgotten about until … Read more

WHOLE HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM HOSPITALIZED

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by Chris Black From being forced to do too many pushups? Or global warming strikes again? How many pushups are considered excessive in 2023? CPS Investigating Football Workout at Rockwall-Heath After Students Hospitalized https://t.co/DIPAVroilA — NBC DFW (@NBCDFW) January 18, 2023

We Are Witnessing An Enormous Wave Of Bankruptcies And Layoffs During The Early Stages Of 2023

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by Michael Is your job safe?  Right now, we are witnessing so much turmoil is so many different sectors of our economy.  The housing market is crashing, the cryptocurrency industry has imploded, the tech industry is laying off workers at an extremely frightening pace, and some of our most important retailers are heading into bankruptcy.  … Read more

Retail Tales Tell a Bad Story about the Economy

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by David Haggith December is supposed to be the month when retails sales flourish. Instead, retail sales came in way below expectations. Retailers were left with warehouses full of overstock, and this situation has been dragging on for about a year now with little sign that it is getting any better. Consensus expected a headline decline … Read more

Elon Musk calls out Mainstream News & should WEF control the world YES or NO!

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Media want to control what you know, which is why citizen journalism is essential https://t.co/cVL6C1VZXm — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 18, 2023 Why did American media go from questioning the State and “speaking truth to power” to doing their bidding? — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 18, 2023 The World Economic Forum should control the world … Read more

DirecTV announces layoffs of hundreds of managers after large drop in subscribers

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by: Cassie B. (Natural News) Satellite TV provider DirecTV has announced that it will be laying off hundreds of managers in response to the cord cutting trend that has seen countless customers abandon its platform in favor of alternative methods of TV viewing. The cuts will amount to around 10 percent of their current management, with … Read more

Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer, on the street in Davos today. We finally asked him all the questions the mainstream media refuses to ask.

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🚨WE CAUGHT HIM! Watch what happened when @ezralevant and I spotted Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer, on the street in Davos today. We finally asked him all the questions the mainstream media refuses to ask. Full story: https://t.co/wHl204orrX SUPPORT: https://t.co/uvbDgOk19N pic.twitter.com/c3STW8EGH3 — Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi) January 18, 2023 h/t A Deplorable Neanderthal

Republicans demand spending cuts…

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WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled House has planted the seeds for a debt-ceiling showdown, with Speaker Kevin McCarthy endorsing a push by his hard-liners to demand spending cuts as part of any extension of the country’s borrowing authority. The political divide is deep and the stakes are high. Ultraconservative lawmakers insist they don’t want the country … Read more

One in three US Congress members received campaign donations from Sam Bankman-Fried or other FTX executives

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More than one in three of the 535 senators and representatives in the U.S. Congress showed up to the new session with FTX baggage, having received campaign support from one of the senior executives of the fraud-ridden crypto giant. CoinDesk has identified 196 members of the new Congress – many of whom were just sworn … Read more

Legal weed is wreaking havoc on return to office: ‘all of NY is wake and baking’

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SNIP The ubiquitous reek of pot smoke is making NYC’s streets stink to high heaven. And with NYC’s first legal dispensary for recreational marijuana open since late last month — and more to follow — the haze is no longer limited to neighborhoods popular with nightcrawlers. Now it’s pervasive on Midtown sidewalks during the morning … Read more

Getty Images is suing the creators of AI art tool Stable Diffusion for scraping its content

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SNIP Getty Images is suing Stability AI, creators of popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, over alleged copyright violation. In a press statement shared with The Verge, the stock photo company said it believes that Stability AI “unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright” to train its software and that Getty Images … Read more