Entries by Tyler Durden

Israel Says Iran Poised For Major Retaliation; US Deploys Sub, Hurries Carrier Group

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In a significant shift in its recent assessment of Iran’s intentions, Israeli intelligence reportedly now believes that Iran is preparing a major strike on Israel after all — and that it will happen in the next few days. This comes after Israel had concluded that international pressure and US saber-rattling had persuaded Iran to leave it to Lebanese militant group Hezbollah to strike Israel for blowing up Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31.

Maricopa County Sued After Refusing To Remove Illegals From Voter Rolls

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On Monday the legal organization founded by former senior Trump adviser Stephen MillerĀ sued Richer and Maricopa County on behalf of the Strong Communities Foundation of ArizonaĀ and a registered voter and naturalized citizen, for allegedly refusing to verify the citizenship of voters registered in the county,Ā Just the NewsĀ reports. On July 16, AFL sentĀ lettersĀ to all 15 Arizona counties demanding thatĀ election officials follow state and federal lawĀ by ensuring that non-citizens were unable to vote, and warned of legal action if they didn’t by the following week.

Congress Headed For Showdown Over Ukraine, Israel Funds As Massie And Greene Say ‘NO’ To All

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House Republican opposition to Ukraine funding – a large part of why Kevin McCarthy was ousted by the Freedom Caucus –Ā is solidifying under newly crowned Speaker Mike Johnson, who hand-delivered a report to President Biden with a list of demands. In particular, the list – written by Rep. Mike Garcia (R-CA), informs Biden thatĀ Congress won’t […]

You Will Never Guess What Happened to the ā€œStrong US Consumerā€ After Todayā€™s Huge GDP Revisions

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It has become a running joke: the ā€œstrongā€ Bidenomics economy comes with an expiration date, as it is only ā€œstrongā€ for about a month, at which point the initial ā€œstrengthā€ is downgraded, and the data is revised sharply lower. That has certainly been the case with US labor data, as we first reported last month,Ā every […]

Newsom Funded Chinese COVID Lab Known To Bidenā€™s FDA

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The discovery last month of a Chinese COVID biolab in California shocked the nation but likely came as no surprise to the stateā€™s Democrat governor,Ā Gavin Newsom. He helped fund it. The now-notoriousĀ secret facility, which contained a massive stockpile of ā€œinfectious agents,ā€ including coronavirus, and nearly a thousand dead lab mice and vials of unidentified biological […]

Fauci, Collins Bagged 58 Royalty Payments Amid $325 Million Collected By NIH

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Editors’ Note:Ā  This information seems to go even beyond what is called “regulatory capture.” Rule making agencies often lack expertise and hence tend to recruit personnel from the very companies they regulate. Progressives argued that “market failure” required the guiding hand of bureaucrats to correct abuses. However, in this case, regulators actually stand to profit […]

“Caught Red-Handed”: Blue Cross Blue Shield Backtracks On Racist Grant Program, Opens Up To White People

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Earlier this week, the leader of a medical watchdog organization called out Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of North Carolina over a racist grant program which only applied to organizations run by non-whites. “If ever there was a bad idea, the notion that we should start to separate our country along racial lines is amongst […]

“Objectivity Has Got To Go”: News Leaders Call For End Of Objective Journalism

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We previously discussed the movement in journalism schools to get rid of principles of objectivity in journalism. Advocacy journalism is the new touchstone in the media even as polls show that trust in the media is plummeting. Now, former executive editor for The Washington Post Leonard Downie Jr. and former CBS News President Andrew Heyward […]

“Dirty Political Trick”: Bill Barr Says Hillary Clinton Guilty Of ‘Sedition’

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Former US Attorney General Bill Barr says Hillary Clinton engaged in a “seditious” conspiracy against Donald Trump, and that he named Special Counsel John Durham to investigate what appears to have been a “dirty political trick” to paint the former president as a Russian stooge. “I thought we were heading into a constitutional crisis. I […]

German Chemical Giant Warns Of “Total Collapse” If Russian Gas Supply Cut

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CEO of Germany’s multinational BASF SE, the world’s largest chemical producer, has warned that curbing or cutting off energy imports from Russia would bring into doubt the continued existence of small and medium-sized energy companies, and further would likely spiral Germany into itsĀ most “catastrophic” economic crisis going back to the end of World War 2.Ā  […]

Niall Ferguson: How Ike’s 1950s America Beat The ‘Asian Flu’ With Science & Common Sense

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This essay is adapted from Mr. Fergusonā€™s new book,Ā ā€œDoom: The Politics of Catastrophe,ā€Ā which will be published by Penguin Press on May 4. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In 1957, the U.S. rose to the challenge of the ā€˜Asian fluā€™ with stoicism and a high tolerance for risk, offering […]

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