Archive for the 'Economy' Category
U.S. House Passes $95bn in Aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan
April 22nd, 2024Meanwhile… Via: Al Jazeera: The United States House of Representatives has passed a $95bn legislative package providing security assistance to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. The long-awaited bill, which passed on Saturday, saw broad bipartisan support and could be signed into law as early as next week after it passes through the Senate and lands on […]
Pentagon Speeding Up Work On First New Nuclear Warhead In 40 Years
April 19th, 2024I feel safer already. Via: Washington Times: The United States is building the first new nuclear warhead in 40 years but will do so without nuclear testing, Energy Department officials told Congress on Wednesday. The W93 warhead will be used on submarine-launched ballistic missiles and is being built with $19.8 billion requested by the National […]
National Security Implications of Baltimore Bridge Catastrophe
April 19th, 2024In short, coal. Via: Real Clear Defense: Domestically, the impacts of these hiccups in the energy supply chain are already being felt. CSX’s Curtis Bay Piers in particular – heavily impacted by the bridge collapse – supplies coal to power the Maryland electric grid and provides metallurgical coal critical for the steel industry. The inability […]
Trump Media Stock Spikes After CEO Pens “Naked” Short Letter
April 19th, 2024Remember this from last month? And now… Via: ZeroHedge: Shares of Trump Media spiked on Friday after the company alerted the Nasdaq to ‘potential market manipulation’ from ‘naked’ short selling of its stock. The warning came as the company, which trades under the symbol $DJT, offered shareholders detailed instructions on how to prevent someone from […]
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.
