Deny, Deflect, Defend: The Censors’ Strategy On Display

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Deny, Deflect, Defend: The Censors’ Strategy On Display Via The Brownstone Institute, Despite the uproar surrounding the case, Judge Terry Doughty’s order in Missouri v. Biden was straightforward. It prohibited government actors from colluding with social media companies to censor “content containing protected free speech.”  In other words, the defendants – including the White House, the CDC, […]

Abominable RFK Jr. Anti-Semitism Accusation A Harbinger Of Things To Come

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Abominable RFK Jr. Anti-Semitism Accusation A Harbinger Of Things To Come Authored by Roger L. Simon via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), It was sometime around 8 a.m. on July 15, the morning after I had interviewed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for our Presidential Roller Coaster 2024 series, when the following New York Post headline […]

UK Is Pushing Its Hawkish Defense Minister As Next NATO Chief

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UK Is Pushing Its Hawkish Defense Minister As Next NATO Chief The Telegraph has reported that British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will “encourage” the White House endorse the current UK defense secretary, Ben Wallace, for NATO’s top post. Wallace, long seen as an anti-Russia hawk who has helped lead the charge in giving advanced weapons to Kiev while tightening […]

US X-Date Is Now June 5 As Treasury Burns $52BN Cash In One Day, Only $87BN Left

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US X-Date Is Now June 5 As Treasury Burns $52BN Cash In One Day, Only $87BN Left Yesterday, in her crusade to scaremonger Republicans into submission and yielding to Biden on the debt ceiling negotiations, Janet Yellen repeated that the Treasury X-Date will be in early June, potentially as soon as the first of the […]

Antony Blinken And The ‘Made Men’ Of The Biden Administration

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Antony Blinken And The ‘Made Men’ Of The Biden Administration Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in The Hill on the recent disclosure that the organizer of the infamous “Russian Disinformation” letter on the Hunter Biden laptop was prompted by then Biden campaign adviser Antony Blinken. He is, of course, now our Secretary […]

Disqualified Ultra-Marathoner Apologizes For Cheating With Car

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Disqualified Ultra-Marathoner Apologizes For Cheating With Car A top Scottish ultra-marathoner who was disqualified from a race for using a car apologized on Wednesday, blaming jet lag and “miscommunication” for her decision to cheat (after which she still came in 3rd). Joasia Zakrzewski (Scottish Athletics) Joasia Zakrzewski, 47, traveled 2.5 miles during the GB Ultras […]

Pity The Child

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Pity The Child Authored by Bruce Abramson via RealClear Wire, About a decade ago, toddler son in tow, I found myself in a playground for the first time in 35 years. It was not what I remembered. The colors were far more vibrant. Plastic had replaced wood and metal. Sharp edges had been rounded, chains […]

Manhattan Real Estate Sales Tumble 38%, While Cash Deals Hit Record

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Manhattan Real Estate Sales Tumble 38%, While Cash Deals Hit Record Manhattan real estate sales experienced a significant 38% decline in the first quarter. The combination of high mortgage expenses and elevated property prices has led to widespread affordability challenges for the masses.  Total sales volume slumped to $4.4 billion in the quarter, with 2,242 […]

Politics Is Turning Us Into Idiots

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Politics Is Turning Us Into Idiots Authored by Lipton Matthews via The Mises Institute, Political correctness in Western societies fosters polarization and a toxic culture of ignorance. Although people are rightly outraged by the cancellation of prominent figures, the most glaring consequence of political correctness is the proliferation of ignorance. When speakers are cancelled for contradicting sacrosanct […]

The Return Of Michael Cohen: A Disbarred Attorney Takes Center Stage In Dubious Prosecution

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The Return Of Michael Cohen: A Disbarred Attorney Takes Center Stage In Dubious Prosecution Authored by Jonathan Turley, If former President Donald Trump is indicted, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg would be prosecuting a case that has been widely criticized as long on politics and short on the law. The courts would have to address a controversial case in […]

State Trooper ‘Base Camp’ Erected In Florida Keys As Boatloads Of Migrants Invade

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State Trooper ‘Base Camp’ Erected In Florida Keys As Boatloads Of Migrants Invade Hundreds of migrants have arrived in small boats along the Florida Keys over the last month in what local authorities have described as a ‘crisis.’ Food shortages and soaring inflation, inducing economic turmoil, have sparked a wave of migration from Cuba and […]

PBOC’s “Unrounded” MLF Operation May Put Floor Under China Rate

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PBOC’s “Unrounded” MLF Operation May Put Floor Under China Rate By Helen Sun, Bloomberg markets live reporter and strategist The PBOC injected a net 199b yuan of medium-term loans Wednesday, 1b yuan shy of the market expectation. This is the second month in a row it decided not to provide liquidity in a round number (was 779b […]

Study Reveals Insiders Use ETFs To Conceal Trading Ahead Of M&A Announcements

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Study Reveals Insiders Use ETFs To Conceal Trading Ahead Of M&A Announcements A new study published on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) reveals that exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are a “new form” of insider trading for those in the ‘know’ about upcoming merger and acquisition deals. The reason is that the ETF conceals their trading […]

WTI Extends Gains After Surprise Crude Draw, Despite Huge Gasoline Build

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WTI Extends Gains After Surprise Crude Draw, Despite Huge Gasoline Build Oil prices soared today after reassuring comments from Fed Chair Powell built on growing confidence in China’s reopening (as Aramco increased its selling prices for shipments to Asia) and that was all helped by a weaker dollar. Additionally, the devastating earthquake on Monday that […]

Pfizer Suffers Largest Monthly Loss Of Value Since 2009

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Pfizer Suffers Largest Monthly Loss Of Value Since 2009 Update (1339ET): Pfizer Inc shares recovered much of their premarket trading losses, down about 40bps to $43.38 by early afternoon trading. The big story today, besides the drug company forecasting Covid product sales will slump this year, is the massive losses in market capitalization this month.  […]

US PMIs Decline “Among The Steepest Since The Global Financial Crisis” In January

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US PMIs Decline “Among The Steepest Since The Global Financial Crisis” In January The preliminary US PMI data was slightly better than expected but remains in contraction: S&P Global US Manufacturing PMI (January Flash) 46.8 vs 46.0 exp vs 46.2 prior – 7th monthly print below 50 S&P Global US Services PMI (January Flash) 46.6 […]

Japan’s Experts Baffled By High ‘COVID Deaths’ Despite High Vaccination Rate

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Japan’s Experts Baffled By High ‘COVID Deaths’ Despite High Vaccination Rate Authored by Guy Gin via ‘Making (COVID) Waves In Japan’ Substack, After three booster campaigns in 2022, the Japanese are now in a league of their own among mRNA consuming countries, administering far more boosters than countries that had far more coercive vax campaigns. […]

Biden Admin Asks Supreme Court To Delay End Of Title 42 Border Policy Until After Christmas

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Biden Admin Asks Supreme Court To Delay End Of Title 42 Border Policy Until After Christmas Authored by Caden Pearson via The Epoch Times, The Biden administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to allow the pandemic-era Title 42 border policy to briefly remain in place for operational reasons until after Christmas. This comes after the Supreme Court […]

WTI Extends Gains After API Reports Surprise Crude Draw

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WTI Extends Gains After API Reports Surprise Crude Draw Oil prices rose modestly on a low volume, low liquidity day helped by the tumble in the dollar that The BoJ enabled. Ongoing hopes for China demand (post Zero-COVID policies) helped prices and continued supply disruptions in the US are also supporting oil. TC Energy pushed back its […]

Futures Rise On China Growth Hopes

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Futures Rise On China Growth Hopes After US stocks were set to start week with modest gains as optimism around an economic recovery in China offset fears that the Fed is pushing the US economy off a recessionary cliff. S&P and Nasdaq futures were both up 0.4% as of 7:45 a.m. ET led by energy […]