Speaker Kevin McKarthy is Pitching for Trump and says He won’t allow Trump to be arrested – video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu-1T03u31c McCarthy says he’s going to crackdown on political prosecutions. AC
Scientists sound the alarm as plastic waste forms rocks off coast of Brazil
Melted plastic has become intertwined with rocks on the island, located 1,140 km (708 miles) from the southeastern state of Espirito Santo, which researchers say is evidence of humans’ growing influence over the earth’s geological cycles. “This is new and …
Jim Quinn: IS THE U.S. BANKING SYSTEM SAFE? – 15 YEARS LATER
Guest post from Jim Quinn at the Burning Platform: “We’ve got strong financial institutions…Our markets are the envy of the world. They’re resilient, they’re…innovative, they’re flexible. I think we move very quickly to address situations in this country, and, …
Strange Days! US Mortgage Rate Falls To 6.97% As Banking Crisis Persists (Yellen, Bank Consolidations, Bailouts And The Return Of QE)
by confoundedinterest17 Strange days, indeed. Despite endless promises from Washington DC that there would never be another bank bailout, the Biden Administration bailed out Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) by removing the $250,000 cap on deposit insurance. Then Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen …
Stand Up Comedy Clip “Chinese Spy Balloon” by comedian Jim Breuer
Comedic gold! You know we are in trouble when a comedian has to tell people this. h/t HAWK-03
FedNow launches in July 2023
via YAHOO: The Federal Reserve said Wednesday it will launch its long-awaited instant payment service FedNow in July. The instant payment network will settle payments in seconds, with the capability to support consumer-to-consumer, consumer-to-merchant, merchant-to-merchant, and bank-to-bank transactions. “With the …
Farm Moratorium? Democrats Are Intentionally Destroying Our Food Supply Over “Climate Change”
…”The bills would phase out petroleum-based diesel fuel, levy sweeping new taxes on tires and off-road agriculture equipment, and place a moratorium on new and existing dairy and poultry farms, the majority of which are family owned and operated. The farm …
Mike Lindell says he had to borrow $10 million last year to keep MyPillow afloat — and is running out of cash, too
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell told Insider he had to borrow $10 million in 2022 to keep MyPillow afloat. Lindell said he’d also sold a building for $2 million and borrowed a further $2 million for himself. Lindell says he’s burning …
Marjorie Taylor Greene: ‘We know that President Trump is innocent. People are not stupid.’
Marjorie Taylor Greene: “We know that President Trump is innocent. People are not stupid.” pic.twitter.com/CZZqYkOLdv — PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) March 18, 2023
B.C. man shocked to discover health file described him as a ‘redneck hick’
Robert Munro, 37, hurt his back in December while on the job, delivering furniture. He filed a WorkSafeBC claim and ended up in physiotherapy. But while reviewing his WorkSafeBC file, he came across comments referring to him as a “redneck …
Rubino: Morons We Should Know: Janet Yellen
Guest post from John Rubino, you can find him at his Substack: Watching almost any U.S. policymaker try to explain what they’re doing these days is a surreal experience. Whether it’s foreign policy — especially our multi-front plan to start …
Youtube just demonetized an objective and fact-based interview between three human beings with 1st amendment rights over a scientifically-conducted public opinion poll.
UPDATE: Youtube just demonetized an objective and fact-based interview between three human beings with 1st amendment rights over a scientifically-conducted public opinion poll. Thanks to @elonmusk for the continued 1st amendment protection.@KariLake https://t.co/WwJv299fTI — Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) March 18, 2023 …
AND AGAIN, ABOUT TIME: Renewable Fail: Britain to Now Class Nuclear Power as “Sustainable Energy”.
h/t Jim Lakely (Heartland): The British government has caved in to the reality that renewables don’t work, and will now include nuclear energy in its plan to transition to “sustainable” power. UK ‘to class nuclear as environmentally sustainable’ 15 March 2023 The …
Pivot already started, Jpow will have to explain why he printed money last week at the FOMC meeting
by hkboy3 I’m sure many of you know the Fed’s balance sheet increased by 300 billion last week. At the same time we have a sharp drop in treasury yields. This is a pretty good indication the Fed bought bonds …
Bank Failures 2001-2023 (Inflation Adjusted)
Live version allows you to hover over the nodes to see the names of the banks which are too small to have labels. Colour represents the year. Online Editor (Inflation Adjusted) Sources: https://www.fdic.gov/ https://www.rateinflation.com/consumer-price-index/usa-historical-cpi/ h/t dbacciPBI
When you see “Fact Checked” by Reuters …
https://twitter.com/Smurfs34Stephen/status/1636939928939687937
8 fascinating things GPT-4 can do that ChatGPT couldn’t, including tricking a human into doing its bidding
GPT is the acronym for Generative Pre-trained Transformer. GPT is a large language model and artificial neural network that can generate human-like poems, rap songs, tutorials, articles, research papers, and code websites. GPT-4 is bigger and better OpenAI touts GPT-4 …
North Korea claims almost 800,000 people have signed up for military to fight against US. IN ONE DAY!
North Korea claims that about 800,000 of its citizens volunteered to join or reenlist in the nation’s military to fight against the United States, North Korea’s state newspaper reported on Saturday. About 800,000 students and workers, on Friday alone, across …
We Are in the Eye of the Hurricane – What Happens Next?
ESA/A.Gerst, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO via Flickr From Peter Reagan at Birch Gold Group Today, March 16th, is the 15th anniversary of the first bank failure of the Global Financial Crisis. If you were paying attention to financial markets back then, you …
Cop car decides its had enough. Just runs over a bunch of people standing in its way…
Hold up while I grab my popcorn. pic.twitter.com/toXI5wD0Fm — Stew Peters (@realstewpeters) March 18, 2023
DEAR WOKESTERS, YOU NAMED YOURSELF
via commentary: In 2014, after the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the #staywoke hashtag became a digital rallying cry around Black Lives Matter activism. Then, in the Trump years, progressives freed the slogan from its BLM context …
Noted… In the future only deposit into banks that can’t fail
via CNBC: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told senators that government refunds of uninsured deposits will not be extended to every bank that fails, only those that pose systemic risk to the financial system. Yellen has been at the center of …
WHY DID NOBODY LISTEN? For nearly 2 months, a short seller was warning on Twitter that Silicon Valley Bank was about to blow up. ‘It was sitting there in plain sight.’
via fortune: The tweets started on Jan. 18, the day before SVB reported earnings, when Martin’s account posted a prescient thread that began: “Investors have rightfully been fixated on $SIVB’s large exposure to the stressed venture world, with the stock down …
I grew up in the Soviet Union. Even those universities valued merit more than some American schools do today.
via campusreform: Walking near Temple University, I noticed a flyer advocating for “socialism in our lifetime.” The message from an outside group reads in full, “Socialist Revolution: Join the fight for socialism in our lifetime.” Having grown up in Soviet-era Ukraine …
Over 400,000 gallons of radioactive water has leaked from a nuclear plant
🚨#BREAKING: Over 400,000 gallons of radioactive water has leaked from a nuclear plant 📌#Monticello | #Minnesota⁰The Minnesota Department of Health and other state agencies are currently monitoring the Xcel Energy Monticello Nuclear plant after over 400,000 gallons of water… pic.twitter.com/ZCeyH37plz …
Oregon now the U.S. leader in ‘suicide tourism’
It’s really a dark place, just around Portland. The rest of the state is pretty sane… Record numbers of people ended their lives in Oregon last year in America’s most advanced doctor-assisted suicide program, which now lets out-of-state ‘death tourists’ …
Joe Biden Says He’s ‘Really Not Irish’ Because He Doesn’t Have Relatives in Jail (VIDEO)
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! ‘I’m really not Irish because I’m sober…and I don’t have any relatives in jail…’ -Joe Biden at the Friends of Ireland Luncheon pic.twitter.com/v9gI8xYylo — Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) March 17, 2023