Archive for December, 2023
Self-Checkout Kiosks At 4,500 Walmarts Now Offer ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Loans For Basic Items
December 21st, 2023Via: ZeroHedge: “Buy now, pay later” (BNPL) loans surged in popularity during Black Friday and Cyber Monday in late November. As Christmas is less than a week away, Walmart shoppers have been greeted with a new BNPL payment at the checkout line. The increased use of BNPL is incredibly problematic for consumers with insurmountable credit […]
Colorado Supreme Court Disqualifies Trump From 2024 Ballot, Setting Up Supreme Court Challenge
December 19th, 2023As Biden collapses in the polls, and Trump rises, Democrats are going to resort to increasingly desperate — and anti-democratic — means to ensure Trump can't run, all while they insist that only they are the Guardians of Democracy. This is playing with real fire: https://t.co/UFdoju77UW — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 20, 2023 Via: ZeroHedge: […]
Sanguis Balneum
December 19th, 2023pic.twitter.com/9KVquEXbKs — Bob Moran (@bobscartoons) December 19, 2023
Illegal Border Crossings Hit New Record High
December 19th, 2023Via: Daily Mail: U.S. apprehensions of migrants at the border hit a new record Monday, with at least 12,600 encounters during a period of just 24 hours. The stunning spike comes as US Customs and Border Protection announced it would suspend rail operations at a pair of international crossings. The agency pledged to continue to […]
New Zealand: High Court Ruled Vaccine Mandate for Police Was Unlawful
December 19th, 2023Via: Radio New Zealand: The police have settled personal grievance claims over how dozens of staff were treated over refusing to get the Covid-19 vaccine. The claims were lodged in May 2022 on behalf of 91 staff after the High Court ruled a vaccine mandate for police was unlawful. … The police now say that […]
Pentagon Launches Expansive Naval Coalition To Defend Red Sea Passage
December 18th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge: A US-led naval coalition is finally coming together to protect international shipping transit in the Red Sea and vital Bab al-Mandab Strait, per a breaking development from Politico’s chief Pentagon correspondent: “The Pentagon is expected to announce tomorrow the formation of Operation Prosperity Guardian, a new task force to protect shipping from Houthi […]
EU Countries Destroy €4 Billion Worth of COVID Vaccines
December 18th, 2023Via: Politico: At least 215 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines purchased by EU countries at the height of the pandemic have since been thrown away at an estimated cost to the taxpayer of €4 billion, an analysis by POLITICO reveals. And that’s almost certainly an underestimate. … It’s not easy to discover how many vaccines […]
Human Breathing ‘Contributes to Global Warming’
December 18th, 2023pic.twitter.com/jg4m3TJFzB — cryptogon (@cryptogon) December 19, 2023 Via: Climate Depot: A new government-funded study out of Britain, conducted by scientists at the U.K. Center for Ecology and Hydrology, purports to show that “human breathing is contributing to greenhouse gas emissions.” Therefore, the study authors are urging “caution in the assumption that emissions from humans are […]
U.S. National Debt Hockey Stick
December 18th, 2023The US added another $2.6 trillion of debt between June 2023 and December 2023. $31.4 trillion to $34 trillion now. The rate of growth in the US national debt is accelerating into a hockey stick chart and nobody in Washington DC is even talking about. How does this end? pic.twitter.com/BGIJPHR4o2 — Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) […]
NASA: Engineers Working to Resolve Issue With Voyager 1 Computer
December 18th, 2023Via: NASA: Engineers are working to resolve an issue with one of Voyager 1’s three onboard computers, called the flight data system (FDS). The spacecraft is receiving and executing commands sent from Earth; however, the FDS is not communicating properly with one of the probe’s subsystems, called the telemetry modulation unit (TMU). As a result, […]
