Shellenberger Exposes The Fear, Arrogance, & Greed Behind ‘News Rating’ Organizations

Shellenberger Exposes The Fear, Arrogance, & Greed Behind ‘News Rating’ Organizations Authored by Michael Shellenberger via Public Substack, The bewildering number of news organizations has inspired entrepreneurs to create ways to rank them. The most prominent of them is NewsGuard. It ranks media organizations based on their trustworthiness and then provides these rankings to large corporate […]
Germany Signs Long-Term U.S. LNG Deal To Replace Russian Gas

Germany Signs Long-Term U.S. LNG Deal To Replace Russian Gas By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Germany’s state-controlled firm Securing Energy for Europe (Sefe) has signed a 20-year deal with Venture Global LNG to import 2.25 million tons of LNG per year from Venture Global’s third project, CP2 LNG, as Europe’s biggest economy is looking to […]
Futures Extend Gains Into Fed’s Pause Announcement

Futures Extend Gains Into Fed’s Pause Announcement US equity futures are higher – again – with markets positioned for Jerome Powell to announce a hawkish, yet bullish pause, in the Fed’s rate hiking campaign at 2pm today. S&P futures rose 0.15% as of 7:45am ET following the S&P 500’s fourth consecutive increase — the longest […]
Bad News Is Now Good News In China As Market Awaits Stimulus

Bad News Is Now Good News In China As Market Awaits Stimulus By George Lei, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist China’s May PMI survey flashed the latest warning of mounting economic trouble, prompting investors to eagerly weigh the odds of more stimulus out of Beijing. Onshore equities have already relinquished the vast majority of their post-reopening […]
“We’re Heading Into 3rd Phase” Of Crisis – Ex-Fed Pres. Warns As Small Bank Deposits & Loans Surpringly Jump

“We’re Heading Into 3rd Phase” Of Crisis – Ex-Fed Pres. Warns As Small Bank Deposits & Loans Surpringly Jump Following yesterday’s ugly money-market fund (accelerating inflows) and Fed balance sheet (another jump to a record usage of the Fed’s Bank Term Funding Program emergency bailout cash), expectations are that bank deposits continued to leave US […]
“I’ve Been Here”: Feinstein Seems Unaware Of Months-Long Senate Absence

“I’ve Been Here”: Feinstein Seems Unaware Of Months-Long Senate Absence California Senator Dianne Feinstein returned to Washington last week after a nearly three-month absence as she battled a stubborn case of shingles. However, in a Tuesday conversation with reporters, the 89-year-old appeared unaware that she’d been in California from February to May. As she was […]
Georgia Passes Law To Crack Down On ‘Far-Left’ Prosecutors Who Are Soft On Crime

Georgia Passes Law To Crack Down On ‘Far-Left’ Prosecutors Who Are Soft On Crime As of Friday, Georgia will no longer cater to “far-left prosecutors” who are soft on crime, after Republican Governor Brian Kemp signed a bill into law establishing the Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications Commission (PACQ), part of a broader GOP thrust to get […]
The Tucker Text That Panicked Fox’s Top Brass: “It’s Not How White Men Fight”

The Tucker Text That Panicked Fox’s Top Brass: “It’s Not How White Men Fight” A Tucker Carlson text message captured during the discovery phase of the Dominion Voting Systems defamation suit against Fox News alarmed the network’s top brass and “contributed to a chain of events that ultimately led to [his] firing,” according to The New […]
Japan’s Ispace Shares Crash On Lunar Lander Fail

Japan’s Ispace Shares Crash On Lunar Lander Fail Update (Wednesday): Shares of Tokyo-based ispace tumbled after the private company said its Hakuto-R Mission lander probably crashed while on approach to land on the lunar surface. Recall, we provided a live stream of the lunar landing on Tuesday afternoon. About 25 minutes into the planned landing, […]
“We Are All On Borrowed Time”: Here Is ChatGPT’s Analysis Of The JOLTs Report

“We Are All On Borrowed Time”: Here Is ChatGPT’s Analysis Of The JOLTs Report One look at a particularly green subset of tech stocks and it becomes clear that there is a lot of hype surrounding AI. Yet when we look at how ChatGPT can complement – or even overhaul – financial analysis, we are […]
Ukraine, Russia Agree To Extend Black Sea Grain Deal

Ukraine, Russia Agree To Extend Black Sea Grain Deal Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Saturday that the deal between Russia and Ukraine allowing the export of grain from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports has been extended. “This deal is of vital importance for the global food supply,” Erdogan said. “I thank […]
Belarus Cracks Down On Pro-Ukraine Guerrillas As War Threatens To Expand

Belarus Cracks Down On Pro-Ukraine Guerrillas As War Threatens To Expand The Belarus government is implementing widespread measures to crack down on dissent as pro-Ukraine guerrillas attempt to sabotage railways and other logistics that could be used by Russia for a future offensive from the north. The move comes not long after the guerrillas, […]
“Take Our Nation Back”: Trump Calls For Protests As ‘Imminent’ Arrest Expected
“Take Our Nation Back”: Trump Calls For Protests As ‘Imminent’ Arrest Expected Update (1315ET): The Washington Post reports that Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said Saturday morning there had been no “notification” of an indictment and said Trump’s supporters should attend a rally he is holding next week in Texas for his 2024 reelection. Susan Necheles, a […]
Zelensky “Open” To China’s Peace Proposal, Wants To Meet Xi Jinping To Discuss

Zelensky “Open” To China’s Peace Proposal, Wants To Meet Xi Jinping To Discuss In a Friday press conference Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signaled he’s open to China’s new ceasefire plan which has been subject of widespread reporting after it was introduced Friday morning. “I believe that the fact that China started talking about Ukraine is not bad, […]
OnlyFans Creators Asked What They’re Thinking About AI-Generated Porn

OnlyFans Creators Asked What They’re Thinking About AI-Generated Porn Authored by River Page and Brandon Gorrell via Pirate Wires (Subscribe here) Intro by Mike Solana: Following a viral photo series of realistic, AI-generated “sexy” women, and in the wake of a Twitch deepfake porn scandal — in which the likenesses of real women were cloned without […]
Powell Perplexed: Initial Jobless Claims Plunge To 9-Month Lows

Powell Perplexed: Initial Jobless Claims Plunge To 9-Month Lows Following last week’s unexpected plunge in initial and continuing claims – despite numerous layoff announcements – analysts expected a small rebound this week but they were wrong as the number of American filing for unemployment benefits for the first time tumbled to 186k (205k exp). Unadjusted […]
China’s African Trade Takeover

China’s African Trade Takeover In 2000, China was the leading source of imports for only a few African countries: Sudan, Gambia, Benin and Djibouti. But as Statista’s Martin Armstrong shows in the infographic below, 20 years later the Asian superpower is now the top supplier of goods for over 30 nations on the continent. You […]
With Schools Ditching Merit For Diversity, Families Of High Achievers Head For The Door
With Schools Ditching Merit For Diversity, Families Of High Achievers Head For The Door Authored by Vince Bielski via RealClear Wire, Alex Shilkrut has deep roots in Manhattan, where he has lived for 16 years, works as a physician, and sends his daughter to a public elementary school for gifted students in coveted District 2. […]
Panel Rejects Navy Attempt To Boot Officer For COVID-19 Vaccine Refusal

A Navy officer who refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine is not getting separated from the force, an administrative board recently ruled. The board, composed of three officers, found that Lt. Bill Moseley did not commit misconduct by refusing to get the vaccine, according to R. Davis Younts, Moseley’s lawyer. The board also found unanimously […]
‘What I’ve Seen In The Last Two Years Is Unprecedented’: Physician On COVID Vaccine Side Effects On Pregnant Women

Dr. James Thorp is an extensively published 68-year-old physician MD board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology, as well as maternal-fetal medicine, who has practiced obstetrics for over 42 years. Thorp told The Epoch Times that he sees 6,000–7,000 high-risk pregnant patients a year and has seen many complications among them due to the COVID vaccines. “I’ve seen […]
EXCLUSIVE: Why Are Non-COVID Deaths Spiking Among Prime-Age Americans?

Americans have been dying at a significantly higher rate over the past two years or so, but the COVID-19 disease tells only part of the story. Among seniors, the pandemic could explain the increase in mortality more easily than among younger people, where there’s a gap requiring further explanation. Overall, there appear to be three […]
New Hampshire Seeks To Make Ivermectin An Alternative COVID Treatment Under Law

New Hampshire is poised to become the first state in the United States to make Ivermectin available as an over the counter medication and sanction it as a protected treatment for COVID-19, under a bill before the House Health, Human Services, and Elderly Affairs Committee. While similar bills proposed in three other states have been […]
Facts Matter (Jan. 7): Rejects FDA Request, Gives Agency 8 Months To Produce Pfizer’s Safety Data

After several months of legal back-and-forth in the courtroom, with the FDA requesting up to 75 years to release all of their vaccine safety-related documents, a federal court has just ruled against them. Instead, that judge said the FDA has only eight months to release all of their Pfizer vaccine safety data—meaning that we might […]
France Cuts Isolation For COVID-Positive To 7 Days From 10 Days

PARIS—French Health Minister Olivier Veran said on Sunday the isolation period for fully vaccinated people who test positive for COVID-19 would be cut to seven days from 10 days. French authorities followed other countries such as the United States, which this week cut the isolation period to prevent disruptions in industries for lack of staff. […]