MELTDOWN. After Republicans BLOCK “Voting Reform” Bill, Dems SCRAMBLE to Pick up the Pieces

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNDPupIWPBQ Leah Barkoukis from Townhall reports, Liberals did not handle the news well that Senate Republicans used the filibuster to block the Democrats’ corrupt “For the People Act”—a federal takeover of the local elections. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbar…

Civil War in Myanmar

Myanmar violence is escalating as armed militias confront the army: report https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/internati…ups-report NGOs warning of the danger of civil war which would have devastating impact on civilians Violence in post-coup Myanmar has escalated as anti-junta “self-defense” forces step up to confront the military, a report said Monday. Myanmar has been in turmoil since the February … Read more

Disney Offers $1K Signing Bonuses, 9 Months After Layoffs

Disney Offers $1K Signing Bonuses, 9 Months After Layoffs Employers willing to pay higher wages and big sign on bonus for workers – good sign imho https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/walt-d…d/1026496/ Walt Disney Co. is offering $1,000 bonuses to recruit new housekeepers and select kitchen staff at its Florida theme parks, just months after laying off some 32,000 employees. … Read more

TheDailyBeast Columnist: “I see packed restaurants and people inside stores and malls and their kids aren’t wearing masks. I feel I’m in a horror movie.”

I see packed restaurants and people inside stores and malls and their kids aren't wearing masks. I feel I'm in a horror movie. — Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) June 27, 2021 https://twitter.com/bimboubermensch/status/1409267809440382976 https://twitter.com/MorgaineSW/status/1409258641463513089 https://twitter.com/KnightOfVienna/status/1409315949535191044     h/t dr0id

Govt Bailouts Plagued by Potential $260 Billion in Fraud

All told, Congress has authorized about $5.9 trillion in spending to address the social and economic fallout from the pandemic, of which $4.32 trillion has been disbursed or committed already. By now, more than a year into this unprecedented burst of spending, there’s sufficient hindsight to assess the federal pandemic response, and the early results bode poorly … Read more

BITCOIN CLIMBS on Mexican billionaire’s tweet TO ALLOW BITCOIN TO BE CURRENCY IN MEXICO

“Bitcoin rose Monday after Ricardo Salinas Pliego, the owner of Mexico’s Banco Azteca, said he was pushing his country to accept the cryptocurrency and encouraged his Twitter followers to buy it. “Me and my bank are working to be the first bank in Mexico to accept #Bitcoin,” he tweeted Sunday. Pliego has been vocal about … Read more

Interventionism Turns Crisis into Depression

via Mark Thornton: Austrian economists have a well-developed theory that explains the boom, bubble, bust, and recovery. A good introduction to the Austrian theory of the business cycle can be found in Larry Sechrest’s article “Explaining Malinvestment and Overinvestment.” Larry wrote the article to provide a pedagogical device for economics students, but academic economists will probably be … Read more