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Texas, Missouri AGs Sue Biden Admin To Resume Border Wall Construction Authored by Isabel van Brugen via The Epoch Times, The attorneys general of Texas and Missouri teamed up to sue the Biden administration on Thursday, seeking to resume construction of the wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed a lawsuit (pdf) against…

After China Blocked Celtics Games, Kanter Re-Ups: Demands “Heartless Dictator” Xi Stop Uyghur “Genocide” Now Update (1220ET): Things are about to get serious for the NBA. Following his statements yesterday, lambasting China’s Xi Jinping over the treatment of Tibetans – that prompted China to ban all Boston Celtics games from TV –  Turkish player Enes Kanter has…

Putin Blasts Pushing Transgenderism On Children As “Simply Monstrous” In Critique Of West’s ‘Wokism’ Russian President Vladimir Putin issued some typically frank and devastating comments on woke culture afflicting the West and particularly the United States, in particular going after new emerging ‘norms’ on gender discussions, race relations, as well as ‘cancel culture’. His wide-ranging…

Illinois Sheriffs Reject Mayor Lightfoot’s Urgent Plea To Cover Police Shortage In Crime-Hit Chicago As hundreds of Chicago police are being put on “no-pay leave” over their refusal to submit their personal Covid vaccination status with the city, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot appears to have fewer and fewer allies as she desperately tries to fill the gap of…

Biden’s China Ambassador Pick Says Beijing Is “Greatest Threat” To US & The “Democratic World” Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, President Biden’s nominee to be the new US ambassador to China slammed Beijing in a confirmation hearing Wednesday and claimed the Asian country is the “greatest threat” facing the US. “China’s the greatest threat to the security of…

Baldwin Breaks Silence, Expresses “Shock And Sadness” After Killing Woman With “Prop Gun” Update (1315ET): Issuing his first public statement since reportedly accidentally killing a senior production staffer with a “prop gun” on the set of his movie “Rust” yesterday, Alec Baldwin tweeted on Friday that he was “shocked and saddened” by the incident and…

AG Garland Gaffes: Missed Leftist ‘Insurrection’, Admits Unions Steer Policy, Shrugs Off CRT Conflicts Attorney General Merrick Garland had a bad time on Thursday during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee. For starters, while the Biden administration, Congressional Democrats and their media support complex have branded January 6th rioters as domestic terrorists – Garland…

NIH Scrubs ‘Gain-Of-Function’ Definition From Website After Wuhan Bombshells, Rand Paul Vindicated Update (1400ET): The situation is becoming even more tenuous for Dr. Fauci as the day wears on. In a detailed tweet thread released this afternoon, Jeremy Redfern exposes the NIH – run by Fauci – for changing the definition of “gain of function”…

Retailers Lining Store Shelves With Props To “Hide Supply Shortage” Americans are waking up to the fact that shortages of everyday products such as ice cream, frozen food, soda, chicken, spices, coffee, fish sticks, snacks, and toilet paper are popping up all over the country as supply chains remain heavily congested 19 months after the virus pandemic…

“Bullsh*t”, “Dammit”, “F**k”- Biden Reportedly Swears Like A Sailor Behind Closed Doors Apparently, the bitter internecine political dogfight over President Biden’s “Build Back Better” economic agenda has transformed the septuagenarian president into a bit of a potty mouth. In a story that – according to the Politico reporter who wrote it – was intended to…

A Big ‘Thank You’ From The Global Oligarchy Authored by Rob Slane via TheBlogMire.com, Dear People, We are now almost two years into our great transition, and although there’s still a very long way to go, we wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for your help in allowing the project to run so…

Poor Americans’ Credit Card Usage Spikes As Their Savings Run Out Last week we explained why the widely propagated myth that there is north of $2 trillion in “excess cash” savings spread evenly across the US population courtesy of Biden’s trillions, was nothing but a fake pipe dream: as we showed then when looking at…

Hawkish Powell Hits Stocks; Bitcoin Flat As Breakevens, Bond Yields & Bullion Bounce A very mixed week across the asset-classes. Hawkish Powell: rate-hike expectations surged higher but stocks gained, crude rallied but copper tumbled. Growth and Value stocks basically ended the week up around the same amount (while Cyclicals modestly outperformed Defensives). Perhaps most notably,…

Watch: Marine Vet Single-Handedly Disarms Gun-Wielding Robber In Seconds  “Don’t mess with Marines”… A U.S. Marine Corps veteran was standing in a gas station on Wednesday when he single-handedly disarmed a robber.  The Yuma County Sheriff’s Office said the incident happened around 0430 local time at a Chevron gas station in Yuma County, Arizona.  Sheriffs…

Lies, Lies, Lies! Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Politicians may be morons when it comes to public policy, but they’re geniuses when it comes to inventing new ways to control your life and steal your money. Tax increases seem old-fashioned compared with new 21st-century ways to take over the financial system to your detriment…

“No One Can Tell What’s Ahead” – Brazil Tumbles Into Bear Market Amid Latest Economic Crisis Brazilian markets and the Brazilian real both extended their recent declines, with the former sliding into a bear market, as investors around the world reacted to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s push to ramp up government spending to a degree…

Supreme Court To Hear Arguments In Texas Abortion Case The US Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will hear arguments over Texas’s abortion restrictions, leaving the law in place for now despite dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The court has agreed to an expedited hearing on Nov. 1. The law, which President Biden called…

11.5% Of US Households Do Not Plan To Buy Holiday Gifts, More Than Twice The Normal By Marianne Wilson of Chain Store Age Not all consumers will be increasing their holiday spend this year. In fact, some will be spending less.  Supply chain and inflation challenges may dampen seasonal cheer for some consumers, according to…

Will Democrats Really Fail To Raise Taxes: Some Thoughts From Goldman Sachs Overnight, several media outlets reported that the White House is considering abandoning plans to raise the corporate and top individual tax rates, in response to opposition from Sen. Sinema (D-Ariz.). As Goldman’s chief political economist Alec Phillips writse today, the news here “is…

Intel Plunges After Sales Miss, Profit Forecast Disappoints In its preview of Intel’s Q3 earnings, Bloomberg writes that against a background of a 10-year high in personal computer shipments and surging demand for chips in general, Intel’s growth has dried up in 2021, causing concern it’s giving up market share. Rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.…

SNAP Crashes After Revenue/ARPU Miss, Blames Apple Privacy Changes, Labor Shortages Snap reported its Q3 earnings and it was not pretty, missing revenues and ARPU: Revenue: $1.07 billion vs. $1.10 billion forecast by Refinitiv Average revenue per user (ARPU): $3.49 vs. $3.67 per StreetAccount It also cut the outlook dramatically: *SNAP SEES 4Q REV. $1.17B…

Goodbye Middle Class: 50% Of All US Workers Made $34,612.04 Or Less Last Year Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, If we keep going down this path, soon we won’t have much of a “middle class” at all.  When I first started writing about the economy many years ago, I often wrote…