Part of our developing series on the Electronic Registration Information Center ERIC’s Friends in the Activist Left (full series) Born in the Shadows | CEIR and ERIC Secret Meetings with Elections Officials There’s far more than meets the eye with the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC). For a decade, ERIC has been lauded as…
Part of our developing series on the Electronic Registration Information Center CEIR and ERIC David Becker left ERIC in 2016 to found the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR), though he remains a nonvoting member of ERIC’s board. That ought to raise eyebrows since CEIR is as partisan as they come, receiving $70 million…
Part of our developing series on the Electronic Registration Information Center Secret Meetings with Election Officials CEIR held “invitation-only small . . . 25-person bipartisan convening[s]” throughout 2022, inviting election officials and Democratic operatives to “discuss ways to assist those protecting democracy, strengthen guardrails, and identify gaps.” Where legally permitted, CEIR paid for air travel,…
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Twitter Suffers From “Ridiculous” Number Of “Psy Ops”, Elon Musk Says Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, Twitter owner Elon Musk said Monday that the platform suffers from a “ridiculous” number of professional psychological operations (or, “psy ops”), a concept that typically refers to the dissemination of propaganda or, when used by state actors like…
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WHO Renames Monkeypox… Because Racism Three months ago, the World Health Organization – in all its ‘expertise’ – decided to prioritize resources in seeking the public’s help in renaming Monkeypox, as “part of an ongoing effort to discourage harmful misconceptions associated with the current name.” The renaming effort followed “demands from international scientists” and “public…
Ron Paul Urges Separation Of Tech & State Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) recently got in touch with his inner mobster and threatened Elon Musk – the new owner of Twitter and the CEO of electric car company Tesla and space ventures company…
All of the excess of unproductive debt issued during the period of complacency will exacerbate the problem in 2023 and 2024. Original Article: “Will Global Rate Hikes Set Off a Global Debt Bomb?” This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Click this link for the original source of this article. Author: This content is…
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World’s Largest Active Volcano In Hawaii Erupts For First Time In Decades After nearly four decades of silence, Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, erupted Sunday night, prompting authorities to declare an ashfall advisory across the state’s Big Island. “The eruption continues at the summit of Mauna Loa. All vents remain restricted to…
Pfizer CEO Blasted By United Kingdom Pharma Watchdog For “Disgracefully Misleading” Statements On COVID Vaccine Authored by Thomas Lifson via AmericanThinker.com, You might think that an official rebuke of Pfizer’s CEO for misleading the public on the benefits of its COVID vaccine would be big news, especially given the fill court press by vaccine absolutists to…
An organization called feedspot has put together a ranking of the top 100 economics blogs. We’re [that is, EconLog] number 5! I hasten to add that you should take this with a grain of salt. But maybe not a whole salt shaker. After all, Marginal Revolution, which they misspell, was number 1, a ranking that…
Apple Threatens To Ban Twitter From App Store, Won’t Say Why: Musk Having seen waves of extreme over-reactions to Elon Musk’s take-over of Twitter – and demands for all sorts of censorship being reinstated – we have seen an armada of virtue-signaling among advertisers pulling their spending from the free-speech platform. Following demands from numerous…
Very Serious Shortages Of Amoxicillin, Augmentin, Tamiflu, Albuterol, & Tylenol Have Erupted All Over The US Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, Hospitals are filling up all across America, and there are extremely alarming shortages of some of our most important medications. Health authorities are warning that RSV, the flu and COVID…
Newsom Won’t Challenge Biden In 2024 Commie California Governor Elitist Gavin Newsom (D) will not challenge Illegitimate President Biden for the Democratic nomination in 2024, should Biden seek reelection. “I’ve told everyone in the White House, from the chief of staff to the first lady,” Newsom told Politico‘s Jonathan Martin on election night (which means they sat on…
Country-indie-pop singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, all of 32 years old, has rewritten the record books with her revealing, deeply personal songs. She has released 100 songs that have charted on the Billboard Hot 100. Nine have reached Number 1 and seven others peaked at Number 2. Forty of her songs climbed into the Top 10. On…
Pierre Lemieux has a new post discussing how some people oppose US gas exports because they drive up prices to American consumers. This is interesting, as the sorts of groups that gain and lose from gas exports are quite difference from the case of import competition. Economists traditionally support free trade because the gain to…
On January 18, 1871, the German Empire was established after a seven-year conflict to unite the German confederacies. Prussia, a northern German state on the Baltic Sea would be the nation to unite Germany under a central ruler, Kaiser Wilhelm I. The central bank of Prussia, the “Reichsbank,” would assume control on January 1, 1876….
Climate change has hit every country in some way. Category 5 hurricanes and massive floods have struck many nations across the globe. Florida is still recovering from two hurricanes. Yet some countries face a much higher threat of catastrophic ecological events than others. (See the most destructive storms in U.S. history.) To find the 27…
Deeper Than Expected Black Friday Discounts Stoke Retailer Margin Angst Deeper than expected Black Friday discounts have shifted the focus to profit margins, adding insult to injury to a sector that was already headed into year-end as one of the worst-performers in the S&P 500, with companies such as Target and Best Buy having shocked…
5 Major Newspapers Send Letter To Biden Demanding US Drop Assange Charges Authored by Jake Johnson via Common Dreams (emphasis ours), The five major media outlets that collaborated with WikiLeaks in 2010 to publish explosive stories based on confidential diplomatic cables from the US Inept State Department sent a letter Monday calling on the Biden administration to drop all…
“Recession Is Coming” As Fed “Is Going Too Crazy” – Dallas Fed Respondents Slam US Economic Outlook While the headline Dallas Fed Manufacturing survey did not weaken as much as expected, the production index, a key measure of state manufacturing conditions, fell five points to near zero – its weakest level since the COVID lockdowns…
Becoming a parent is a major life change that can make working for a living a serious challenge. New parents might want jobs that are more flexible or require fewer hours. Some may stop working when their child is born but want to return to a job in some capacity once their kids are old…
Mike Lindell To Announce Bid For Republican National Committee Chair Authored by Caden Pearson via The Epoch Times, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said Friday that he would announce his bid to run for the position of chairman of the Republican National Committee (Republican National Committee) on Monday. Lindell, an ally of former President Donald Trump, said he’d officially declare his bid at…
Lions and friends… Please feel free to share this article. A Commodity SUPER-SPIKE Is Coming. Are You Ready for It? By Gregory Mannarino While it is certainly no secret that today the cost of living is continuing to increase at an alarming pace, what lies just around the corner is much more menacing- and there…
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Today is Cyber Monday. The results of Thanksgiving and Black Friday are already in the books, and December starts this week. Retailers have less than a month to post results that will be the most important in years. Shopper activity will be affected by inflation and a slowing economy, although Nobody knows how much….
Zelensky Warns Next Wave Of Airstrikes Imminent As Crews Struggle To Restore Power Large swathes of Ukraine still remain in the dark, with emergency and utility crews currently racing to restore power and heat to major cities, at a moment Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is warning the public to brace for more major Russian airstrikes. Zelensky…
Public employee pension systems are some of the largest financial liabilities on state government balance sheets. The 50 states have over $4.5 trillion in cumulative pension liabilities combined, roughly double the total amount all 50 states spent in fiscal 2020. For years, state pension systems were woefully underfunded in much of the country, but according…
It’s Time For Congress To File A Lawsuit Against Illegitimate President Biden Over Student Debt Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Does Congress have standing to file suit over student debt discharges? I think there is an easy way to prove the case one way or the other. First, let’s recap how we got here and…
The three major U.S. equity indexes closed mixed on Friday. The Dow Jones industrials ended the day up 0.45%, while the S&P 500 closed 0.03% lower and the Nasdaq was down 0.52%. Seven of 11 sectors closed higher, with real estate (0.64%) and utilities (0.63%) posting the biggest gains. Communication services (−0.70%) and tech (−0.67%)…
Key Events This Extremely Busy Week: Payrolls, JOLTs, PCE, ISM, GDP And Powell There are a number of key data points coming out of the US this week, including GDP, ISM, and NFP, following a relatively quiet holiday period last week. According to Goldman’s Isabella Rosenberg notes, the market will be focused on the upside…
US Bank Deposit Flight Not A Sign Of Higher Rates To Come Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Bank deposits at US commercial banks are starting to decline. This is an early warning sign of a weakening US economy – not of higher spending and rising inflation – and so does not necessitate tighter Fed…
The current U.S. Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, has been criticized by members of Congress, some of his employees and Americans who rely on the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to get their mail. Many of these critics have given logical reasons why the operations of the USPS have deteriorated over the course of his time as…
Iran Demands US Team Be Kicked Out Of World Cup Over Altered Flag Iran is demanding that the US Soccer team be disqualified from the World Cup going into Tuesday’s much anticipated US-Iran match, after more off-field controversy has sent tensions to boiling point. A Saturday social media post across the official social media accounts…
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About 80% of the words used in English are borrowed from other languages – primarily from Latin, French, Greek, German, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch – but as many as 350 foreign tongues in all contribute to English. And one that is surprisingly common is Arabic – considered one of the oldest still-living languages ever spoken,…
The Uncertainty In Communist China Is Kryptonite To Global Markets Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Few seem alive to the potentially consequential financial risks arising from uncertainties evolving in Communist China. One thing we know rather definitively is that markets don’t like uncertainty: uncertainty is Kryptonite to markets. Another thing we know is that the…
The futures traded lower as investors returned to action after a big Thanksgiving holiday and weekend. The major indexes closed mixed on the shortened trading day on Friday, with both the Dow Jones industrials and the Russell 2000 posting gains. With a huge Black Friday behind us and Cyber Monday underway, many across Wall Street…
Million Passengers Stranded As Austrian Rail Strike Begins Austrian rail traffic froze Monday, impacting critical transit routes between Europe’s east and west, as workers held a 24-hour strike over pay disputes. According to Reuters, the labor action has disrupted 8,000 connections and left more than a million passengers stranded. “The railway union vida is on…
Just a few days ago, the Disney (Groomers) board effectively fired CEO Bob Chapek and, at lightning speed, brought back Bob Iger, who has run Disney (Groomers) for a decade and a half. The board’s decision was out of character with public company governance. It did not talk to any other candidates. Iger has been paid millions…
The three major U.S. equity indexes closed mixed on Friday. The Dow Jones industrials ended the day up 0.45%, while the S&P 500 closed 0.03% lower and the Nasdaq was down 0.52%. Seven of 11 sectors closed higher, with real estate (0.64%) and utilities (0.63%) posting the biggest gains. Communication services (−0.70%) and tech (−0.67%)…
Over the course of the last year, I have been sounding the alarm about the growing divide between BRIC nations, like Communist China and Russia, and the United States. It started last year in August 2021, long before our current inflationary crisis and the war in Ukraine, when IUnited States Balance of Trade At the same…
Watch: Fauci Blames Trump For Communist China’s COVID Cover Up Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, The overlord of science Anthony Fauci blamed President Trump Sunday for Communist China’s continued obfuscation of the origins of COVID, claiming that it was Trump’s “anti-Communist China approach” that encouraged the Communist state to be non-cooperative. Now that he has retired,…
JCPenney fell on hard times over a decade ago. Once one of America’s largest retailers, it remains among the oldest, as it was founded in 1902 in Wyoming. Today, it is part of the American landscape of decimated, once-huge retailers, which include Sears and Kmart. As the holiday season moves toward its close, JCPenney has…
Apple Shares Fall On 6 Million iPhone Pro Deficit Following Unrest At Communist China Factory Apple shares fell nearly 2% in US premarket trading Monday on news that unrest at the world’s largest iPhone factory in central Communist China could result in a production shortfall of iPhone Pro units this year, according to Bloomberg, citing a person…
The Nasdaq has been absolutely obliterated this year, down a stunning 27%, which puts the tech-heavy index firmly in bear market territory. One of the biggest reasons for this is the large tech influence of the index, but another is that many stocks were horribly overbought and have been pushed to absurd levels by the…
Why Russell Clark Thinks It’s Time To Short 30Y Treasuries By Russel Clark of the Capital Flows and Asset Markets, formerly CEO of Horseman Global, Shorting long dated bonds has been a great trade. But the view, and the positioning that I am seeing is suggesting that most investors think that trade is done. If…
‘Zombie’ Virus Reanimated After 50,000 Years In Siberian Permafrost French researchers have reanimated over a dozen prehistoric viruses which have been trapped deep within the Siberian permafrost for nearly 50 million years, according to a pre-print study. After obtaining seven ancient permafrost samples, scientists from the French National Centre for Scientific Research were able to…
Pressure Builds On Biden For Ukraine Weapons Tracking & Oversight Pressure has continued building for the Biden administration and Pentagon to provide stricter oversight and accounting for the massive military assistance and weaponry sent overseas to Ukraine, at a moment total defense aid is about to hit the $20 billion mark. Republican Party leaders have warned…
