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Turley: Biden’s Use Of Fake Names In Email Could Cost Him Authored by Jonathan Turley, Op-Ed via The Hill, Last year, at an event at the White House, former president Barack Obama jokingly referred to the current president as “Vice President Biden.” At the time, it was described as the more popular politician “reminding Biden who’s boss.” Yet,…

Alaska Military Base Eyes ESG-Friendly Micro-Nuclear Reactors for De-Carbonized Future  The Defense Logistics Agency Energy, on behalf of the US Air Force, is serious about decarbonizing a military base in Alaska. Surprisingly, the focus is on something other than solar or wind but on mini-nuclear reactors. According to a press release from Santa Clara-based Oklo…

FDA, CDC Hid Data On Spike In COVID Cases Among The Vaccinated: Documents Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), COVID-19 cases among vaccinated seniors soared in 2021, according to newly disclosed data that was acquired by U.S. health agencies but not presented to the public. Syringes and vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech…

‘Election Variant’ Prompts NYC Mask Advisory New York health authorities are asking residents to mask up during Labor Day weekend amid the latest wave of Covid-19 cases, and a broader resurgence of hysteria over the disease which generally laughs at face masks & kills less than 0.01% of those who contract it – with newer…

“Remarkably Dishenst” DA Fani Willis Violates The Law Authored by Techno Fog via The Reactionary (subscribe here), Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has gone from criminalizing court filings to committing crimes with respect to her own court filings. Georgia law makes it unlawful to knowingly file a court document “knowing or having reason to…

Calls Grow For Staten Island To Secede From NYC As Illegal Immigrant Crisis Escalates Authored by Matthew Lysiak via The Epoch Times, Growing safety concerns over the city’s bussing of illegal immigrants into the outer boroughs have intensified efforts from Staten Island to break away from the Big Apple. “The values of New York City…

Biggest Weekly Short-Squeeze Since Jan Lifts Stocks; Crude Jumps, Crypto Dumps Quite a week… sticky (or rising) inflation, mostly bad picture of the labor market, and sentiment softens – not exactly the goldilocks/soft-landing that The Fed and most of the talking heads keep dreaming of and in fact more stagflationary signals evident. ‘Hard’ data disappointed…

The Inflation Monster Is Alive And Kicking Philip Marey, Senior US Strategist at Rabobank Yesterday’s data from both sides of the Atlantic showed that the battle against inflation is far from over, which means that the ECB and the Fed are not going to cut rates anytime soon. While it has come down considerably, inflation…

Yellow Fever: Truck Transportation Jobs Plummet In August By John Kingston of FreightWaves Truck transportation jobs plummeted in August, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with the likelihood that the demise of Yellow Corp. was largely responsible for sending the employment total down by 36,700 employees. To put that drop in perspective, in the…

Philly Fed GDPplus Measure Sure Looks Like Recession Started In Q4 2022 Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, The Philadelphia Fed GDPplus measure, a blend of GDP and GDI, is flashing a signal that recession has already started… Data from Philadelphia Fed, chart by Mish GDPplus is a measure of the quarter-over-quarter rate of growth…

Oil Closes At Second Highest Level Of 2023 Amid Plunging Oil Inventories WTI prices just closed at the second highest level of 2023, up 2.5% at $83.64… … because, as John Kemp notes, among other things U.S. commercial crude oil inventories have depleted by 34 million barrels since the middle of July, contributing to a…

September Needs New Buyers To Keep Rebound Going By Jan-Patrick Barnert, Bloomberg markets live reporter and strategist August has played out largely as expected, with equities recording a familiar seasonal slump. But don’t get too excited about September, either: historical charts suggest it’s a time of frailty for stocks. Add to that underwhelming trading volumes and…

Are We Facing Lockdowns 2.0? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, National Public Radio was in a frenzy this morning but it felt like the movie Groundhog Day: they were spreading tremendous alarm about the rise of Covid cases. We have to stop the spread, the announcer said, and that’s why masks are…

Stocks & Gold Gain, Dollar Pain As ‘Soft Landing’ Narrative Implodes Another day, another disappointing set of macro data that curb-stomps the ‘soft-landing’ narrative as US Macro Surprise Index just suffered its biggest 9-day decline since May 2022… Source: Bloomberg Specifically, the suddenly disappointing labor market data has sent rate-change expectations plunging below pre-Powell-Jackson-Hole levels……

Proposed Labor Department Rule Would Extend Overtime Pay To Millions Of Workers A new rule proposed by the Department of Labor would mean that millions of workers would be eligible for overtime pay if they work more than 40 hours per week. In a Wednesday statement, the labor department proposed bumping the annual salary threshold…

Markets JOLTed No-good, terrible, bad news about the US labor market (coupled with a tumble in consumer confidence and uptick in inflation expectations) sparked chaos across multiple asset-classes today. US Macro data has disappointed for 8 straight days, its biggest serial disappointment since June 2022… Source: Bloomberg The bad news sent the market’s expectations for…

Parent Slams California School For Holding ‘No Whites Allowed’ Kids Playdate Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, A parent at a California elementary school has slammed officials for sanctioning a playdate for kids that essentially segregated them by race, and excluded white children. A flyer for the event at Anthony Chabot Elementary School in Oakland,…

Hurricane Chaos: FAA Warns “May Pause” Flights Across Florida; Tampa Port Signals Condition “ZULU” Update (1538ET): Parts of Key West are already observing high wind gusts and rain from Hurricane Idalia. The Federal Aviation Administration has begun rerouting planes from Florida and closing Gulf routes this afternoon.   The FAA warned on X, formerly known…

Venezuela Could Boost Oil Output If US Sanctions Are Eased Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, U.S. sanctions have crippled Venezuela’s crude oil production and exports. Last year, Venezuelan crude oil production hit a 50-year low of around 700,000 barrels per day. Analysts: If the Biden Administration further eases the sanctions and allows other Western…

Bankrupt Evergrande Crashes As Much As 87% After Resuming Trading Following 17 Month Halt Shares of bankrupt (former) Chinese property giant, Evergrande Group, crashed 79% on Monday, their first trading day following a suspension of more than 17 months. The stock of the embattled real estate developer – which trade in Hong Kong under what…

Trump Trial Set For March 2024 As Activist Judge Refuses Request For Election Delay Obama-appointed activist Judge Tanya Chutkan – who’s behind some of the most “extreme sentencing of January 6th defendants” while “openly supporting the violent Black Lives Matter riots of 2020” – has denied a request to move Donald Trump’s federal election-interference trial…

News Industry Behemoth Sued For Discrimination Against White Employees The largest newspaper publisher in the United States, Gannett Co., is being sued for discriminating against white workers in their efforts to ‘diversify’ newsrooms. The proposed class action was filed in West Virginia federal court on Friday by five current and former Gannett employees who say…