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In 1964 President Lyndon Baines Johnson, a Democrat from Texas, helped cement “The Great Society” into the fabric of American governmental policy.
The term refers to massive, Democrat-led spending programs to eliminate poverty and racial injustice, expanding federal roles in education, healthcare, and welfare...
Bitcoin is a type of digital money, often called a cryptocurrency. Unlike traditional currencies like the dollar or euro, Bitcoin exists only in electronic form and is not controlled by any government or central authority.
How can there be no central authority? Because its accounting -- its ledger -- runs on a globally distributed network of computers called the Blockchain. Motivating network participants are rewards denominated in various amounts of Bitcoin.
Globally, we've seen every geography and country adapt to the Alpha Male of cryptocurrencies.
Guest post by Otis Sistrunk
Despite the profound disruptions we've faced since Covid, it's surprising that few discuss the root cause. The pandemic's staggering societal impact ranges from a commercial real estate implosion to major disruptions in the automotive industry.
The financial impact of the pandemic is estimated at $14 trillion in the U.S. alone.The following are 10 key facts you should know about Covid-19:
1. Funding Confirmation: The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has admitted to funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) through grants to the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance. This admission contradicts previous denials by officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci.
2. Nature of Research: The research involved modifying bat coronaviruses to study their potential to infect humans, specifically testing if spike proteins could bind to human ACE2 receptors in a mouse model.
Joe Biden’s personal approval rating is at historic lows; almost all his policies do not poll fifty percent. He is behind Trump in almost all the swing states. And now he lies serially even to sympathetic interviewers. In short, finally Biden has been exposed for what he always was and represented.
Senator and Vice President Joe Biden was always sort of a buffoon. He is by nature a grandstander who handsomely profited from his office while posing as good ole Joe from Scranton.
He is a blowhard meddler, one who proverbially has been “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades (Robert Gates),” from dissenting on the Bin Laden raid to his trisection of Iraq scheme.
He is a fabulist who believes that the more animated he misleads and slurs (“semi-fascists” “fat”, “lying dog-faced pony soldier”, “chumps”, “dregs of society”, etc), the more likely he is to get away with it. He is a confessed plagiarist. And he has also invented much of his biography, from would be star, college-scholarship athlete and brilliant law student to semi-truck driver and jailed civil rights activist. His uncle, we are instructed, was eaten by cannibals. Joe assures us that he was the first in his family to go to college.
Editor's Note: The term Blob is borrowed from the esteemed James Howard Kunstler.
Earlier today, a reporter standing outside the Senate chamber told me that, after four months of secrecy, The Firm™️ plans to release the text of the $106 billion supplemental aid / border-security package—possibly as soon as tomorrow.
Wasting no time, she then asked, “if you get the bill by tomorrow, will you be ready to vote on it by Tuesday?”
The words “hell no” escaped my mouth before I could stop them. Those are strong words where I come from. (Sorry, Mom).
The reporter immediately understood that my frustration was not directed at her.
Rather, it was directed at the Law Firm of Schumer & McConnell (“The Firm™️”), which is perpetually trying to normalize a corrupt approach to legislating—in which The Firm™️
(1) spends months drafting legislation in complete secrecy,
(2) aggressively markets that legislation based not on its details and practical implications (good and bad), but only on its broadest, least-controversial objectives,
(3) lets members see bill text for the first time only a few days (sometimes a few hours) before an arbitrary deadline imposed by The Firm™️ itself, always with a contrived sense of urgency, and then
(4) forces a vote on the legislation on or before that deadline, denying senators any real opportunity to read, digest, and debate the measure on its merits, much less introduce, consider, and vote on amendments to fix any perceived problems with the bill or otherwise improve it.
Whenever The Firm™️ engages in this practice, it largely excludes nearly every senator from the constitutionally prescribed process in which all senators are supposed to participate.
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United States Invasion Route Exposed - FIRST EVER DOCUMENTARY REVEALING THE ENTIRE ILLEGAL ALIEN ROUTE FROM QUITO, ECUADOR TO THE UNITED STATES
— Muckraker.com (@realmuckraker) January 16, 2024
Muckraker followed the entire mass migration trail from Quito, Ecuador to the United States border, a journey which included:
Crossing… pic.twitter.com/ZedZvUwcGK
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The 2008 Financial Crisis was a seminal moment in American history. After a century of unchecked American economic dominance, the U.S. “came within 24 hours of melting down to the pre-industrial age”, as one of the world’s most respected CEOs put it a few weeks later.
The American financial system had frozen due to a cash panic among banks. Short-term loans to small businesses and even cash withdrawals from ATMs were hours from completely halting.
Thanks only to the Federal Reserve’s last-minute injection of trillions into key institutions was the system rescued.
But few know the true story of the root causes of the “Mortgage Meltdown”. Buckle up, because the truth is as interesting as it is painful.