Archive for June, 2023
Off Topic: Which Double Edge Safety Razor Blades Should I Buy?
June 16th, 2023Apologies. I need to briefly go off topic to personal grooming. After decades of using disposable plastic razors, I decided to switch to a double edge safety razor to save money. I probably wouldn’t have thought much about it, but when the price for ten shitty plastic razors went to NZ$12 here, I refused to […]
“Nightmare Scenario”: U.S. Government Has Been Secretly Stockpiling Information on Americans Via Data Brokers
June 15th, 2023I’ll recycle some commentary from, FBI Finally Admits to Buying Location Data on Americans: In 2013, we learned that law enforcement was “laundering” data collected through U.S. national security intercept systems for use against Americans, U.S. Communications Intelligence Secretly Shared with Law Enforcement for Use Against Americans in Criminal Investigations: “It’s just like laundering money […]
Synthetic Human Embryos Created
June 15th, 2023Via: Guardian: Scientists have created synthetic human embryos using stem cells, in a groundbreaking advance that sidesteps the need for eggs or sperm. Scientists say these model embryos, which resemble those in the earliest stages of human development, could provide a crucial window on the impact of genetic disorders and the biological causes of recurrent […]
10% Of $4.2 Trillion US COVID Relief Was Lost To Fraud, Waste
June 14th, 2023I’d say the chance that it’s only 10% is somewhere around 0%, but since the entire situation was a fraud… Yeah. Via: ZeroHedge: As much as 10 percent of the $4.2 trillion the U.S. government has disbursed in COVID-19 relief aid may have been lost to fraud and waste. A new analysis of COVID relief […]
Joe and Hunter Biden Caught on 17 Recordings with Burisma Owner
June 13th, 2023Via: Washington Examiner: A top Senate Republican revealed Monday that an FBI informant said the Ukrainian oligarch involved in an alleged “criminal bribery scheme” with Joe and Hunter Biden also claimed to have 17 recordings of his conversations with the president and his son. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) revealed on the Senate floor that a […]
United States: Fifty Little Dictatorships
June 13th, 2023Via: Brownstone Institute: Just as a respiratory virus became the pretext for unrelated political aims like student debt relief and eviction moratoriums, leaders already seek to impose unrelated cultural change through fear-mongering and deception. But while the smoke clears, a more insidious development is taking place. The largely unknown Uniform Law Commission (ULC) has proposed […]
Westfield Stops Making Loan Payments on Massive San Francisco Mall
June 13th, 2023Via: Daily Mail: San Francisco’s struggling downtown has been dealt another blow as Westfield has stopped making mortgage payments on its massive mall due to crime and tanking sales. The firm has defaulted on the $558million loan and is handing it back to the lender, which will appoint a receiver. The mall will remain open […]
White House Set To Approve Depleted Uranium Munitions For Ukraine
June 13th, 2023More escalation. Via: ZeroHedge: The Biden administration is set to transfer depleted uranium shells to Ukraine for the first time since the Russian invasion began The Wall Street Journal reports Tuesday. Internal administration debate over the controversial munitions has been ongoing for several months, but an admin official quoted in WSJ says at this point […]
Covid-19 Created In Wuhan Lab Through Classified Bioweapons Program
June 12th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge: Researchers in Wuhan, China working with the Chinese military were genetically manipulating the world’s deadliest coronaviruses to create a new mutant virus right around the time that the Covid-19 pandemic began, according to the Sunday Times, which has reviewed hundreds of documents, “Including previously confidential reports, internal memos, scientific papers and email correspondence […]
JPMorgan to Settle with Epstein Victims for $290 Million
June 12th, 2023Via: Reuters: JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay about $290 million to settle a class action lawsuit by Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, a person familiar with the matter said, resolving a large part of litigation over the bank’s relationship with the disgraced financier. Monday’s settlement follows months of embarrassing disclosures that JPMorgan ignored internal warnings and overlooked […]
