Archive for the 'Economy' Category
New York: Warehouse Distribution of Stolen Goods
April 16th, 2024“What does it tell you about the people who make the laws here?” Easy: They’re in on it. Mafia State: “In politics, a mafia state or pakhanate is a state system where the government is tied with organized crime to the degree when government officials, the police, and/or military became a part of the criminal […]
Lockheed Martin Wins $17BN Interceptor Contract
April 16th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge: With one massive war in Eastern Europe grinding past two years and with another potential major war brewing in the Middle East, Western defense contractors are perhaps the only ones with a smile on their faces while much of the rest of humanity suffers. On Monday the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced […]
California Auditor Finds Homeless Council Can’t Account For Money Spent
April 16th, 2024Imagine my shock. Via: Epoch Times: …we have no idea even where most of the money is going.
Germany’s Transport Minister Threatening to Ban Driving on Weekends to Meet Climate Goals
April 16th, 2024Via: Politico: Germany’s transport minister is threatening to ban driving on weekends to meet climate goals if the ruling coalition does not pass reforms to the Climate Protection Act by July. “The fact that the amendment is still not in force leads to considerable legal and factual uncertainties,” liberal politician Volker Wissing wrote in a […]
From ‘Conspiracy Theory’ to ‘Cover-Up’? Agencies Hid 2018 Pitch to Fund Chimeric Coronavirus
April 15th, 2024Via: Just the News: More than a dozen federal agencies asked to fund the creation of a “novel chimeric SARS-CoV spike protein” with a highly infectious furin cleavage site, two years before COVID-19 emerged, seem likely to follow the “I don’t recall” playbook of the federal government’s record-setting pensioner under congressional scrutiny. The onetime lab-leak […]
Tesla Lays Off ‘More Than 10%’ of Its Global Workforce
April 15th, 2024Via: Electrek: Tesla has announced layoffs of “more than 10%” of its global workforce in an internal company-wide email.
Crime-Ridden San Francisco Seeks To Allow Lawsuits Against Grocery Stores Fleeing The City As Mass Corporate Exodus Continues
April 12th, 2024Via: Benzinga: San Francisco has long been feared to be falling into a doom loop, a situation where taxpayers leaving the crime-ridden city results in lower tax revenues leading to cuts in services and rising taxes, making it even less desirable to live in. It can be especially devastating when a community’s essential businesses, such […]
U.S. National Debt Interest Exceeds Defense Spending
April 10th, 2024Via: Fox Business: The latest budget update from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found that the federal government has spent more on paying interest on the national debt than on the military in fiscal year 2024. The CBO’s budget report for March showed that the U.S. has spent $412 billion on military programs at […]
Wells Fargo Thinks Costco Is Selling Up To $200 Million In Gold Bars Per Month
April 10th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge: Last December, wholesale retailer Costco announced that they had sold over $100 million worth of gold in Q3 2023. “You’ve probably read about the fact that we’re selling one-ounce gold bars. We sold over $100 million of gold during the quarter,” sad CFO Richard Galenti. Now, Wells Fargo estimates that Costco “may now […]
Cash-Strapped Argentines Queue for Eye Scans
April 9th, 2024Via: AFP: Argentines eyeing a financial boost are lining up by the thousands to have their irises scanned in exchange for a few crypto tokens as part of an online biometrics project under scrutiny in several countries. … For volunteering their data, initial participants receive 10 tokens each of Worldcoin’s own cryptocurrency, the WLD. In […]