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More Banks Get Credit Downgrades as Financial Crisis Continues to Bubble Under the Surface
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The financial crisis precipitated by rising interest rates continues to bubble under the surface.
Earlier this month, Moody’s cut the credit rating of 10 small and midsize banks. It also placed six large banks on review for potential downgrades and revised 11 more banks from a stable outlook to a negative outlook.
This week, S&P Global followed Moody’s lead and downgraded the credit ratings of five banks. It also lowered the outlook for several others
The sharp rise in interest rates and quantitative tightening deployed since March 2022 to combat high inflation are weighing on many US banks’ funding, liquidity and spread income. These factors have also caused the value of banks’ assets to fall and raised the odds of asset quality deterioration.”
The five downgraded banks are:
Associated Banc Corp.
Comerica Inc.
KeyCorp
UMB Financial Corp.
Valley National Bancorp
These five banks have a combined asset base of $400 billion.
KeyCorp ranks as the 20th-largest bank in the nation with $192 billion in assets. Dallas-based Comerica comes in at No. 31 in the nation with $90 billion in assets. The other three banks also rank among the 50 largest banks in the US.
In addition to the credit downgrades, S&P Global revised the outlook for River City Bank and S&T Bank from stable to negative.
Along with the impact of rising interest rates on bank balance sheets, the S&P report also cited high commercial real estate (CRE) exposure as a reason for the downgrades. We have reported that the commercial real estate sector could be the next thing to break in the economy.
As Moody’s reported when it announced its downgrades, funding risks and weaker profitability in a higher interest rate environment are squeezing the entire banking sector’s credit strength.
The Federal Reserve managed to paper over the banking crisis with a bailout program. But the growing number of banks with credit rating downgrades reveals the problem wasn’t solved.
This isn’t the only indicator of an ongoing banking crisis. Banks borrowed an additional $3.7 billion from the Federal Reserve’s bank bailout program in July. Currently, there are $106.9 billion in outstanding loans in the Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP), the highest level since the program began in March.
Most people blame the shakiness in the financial sector and the broader economy on recent interest rate hikes, but the real problem started years ago.
After the Great Recession, Federal Reserve policy intentionally incentivized borrowing to “stimulate” the economy. But this monetary inflation inevitably led to price inflation. That forced the Fed to raise interest rates. The central bank managed to cool price inflation (for now) with rate hikes. But those hikes threaten to pop the bubbles blown up with more than a decade of easy money.
In other words, high interest rates are only a problem today because the Fed incentivized so much borrowing yesterday.
The Fed bank bailouts merely slapped a bandaid on the problem. It has not addressed the underlying issue – the impact of rising interest rates on an economy and financial system addicted to easy money.
Alasdair Macleod recently explained that rising interest rates have destabilized the entire global banking system.
The contraction of bank credit is in its early stages, and that alone will push up interest costs for borrowers. We have an old-fashioned credit crunch on our hands.”
Most people think the financial crisis ended with the collapse of three banks last spring, but it continues to bubble under the surface. It’s only a matter of time before more bank dominos fall.
-Michael Maharrey and Schiff Gold, Infowars
U.S. Doubles Uranium Imports From Russia
The United States’ uranium purchases from Russia have doubled since last year. The U.S. bought 416 tons of uranium from Russia in the first half of the year, more than double the amount for the same period in 2022 and the highest level since 2005.
Considering the U.S. rulers’ continual demonization of Russia, this seems strange to say the least. RIA Novosti reported on the uranium purchases Thursday, citing data from the U.S. statistical service. Russia is supplying the U.S. only with enriched uranium, a critical component for civil nuclear power generation, according to a report by RT.
RIA calculations show that Washington’s rulers paid $696.5 million for uranium deliveries from Russia, marking the highest value since 2002. Over the first half of the year, the cost of supplies increased by 2.5 times, and Russia’s share of American imports increased by 13 percentage points to 32%.
Germany and Canada were also in the top five uranium suppliers to the U.S. market, accounting for 13% and 11% of imports respectively. According to a recent New York Times report, roughly a third of enriched uranium used in the US is imported from Russia. GHS Climate, a clean-energy consulting company, states that one out of every 20 American homes and businesses was powered by Russian uranium last year.
Nearly half of the world’s enriched uranium is produced in Russia, and U.S. efforts to reduce its reliance on imports from the country have so far failed. American enrichment plants were shut down after the Cold War as it was significantly cheaper for importers to buy Russian uranium. Currently, only two US facilities – one in Ohio and the other in New Mexico – are licensed to produce high-grade nuclear fuel. -RT
Back in January, The Washington Post reported that if sanctions are imposed on Rosatom, Russia’s civilian nuclear firm, it could cut off exports of uranium to the U.S. and European nuclear industry. U.S. reliance on Russian nuclear fuel is substantial, but American companies have some options if Rosatom is hit with sanctions.
It looks like the U.S. is always trying to work around the rules it creates.
-Mac Slavo, SHTF Plan
US Government Wants China Spill the Beans On Its Economic Conditions
On August 22, 2023, United States national security adviser Jake Sullivan pushed the Chinese government to be more transparent about its economic conditions during a time when China is putting up with an economic slowdown that could destabilize the world economy.
Last week, the Chinese government stopped publishing data on its rising youth unemployment, which many speculate is due to concerns that it would expose new weakness in the recovery of its economy. It has also clamped down on corporate due diligence reporting throughout the country. “These are not in our view responsible steps,” Sullivan said to reporters on August 22. “For global confidence, predictability and the capacity of the rest of the world to make sound economic decisions, it’s important for China to maintain a level of transparency in the publication of its data.”
Sullivan continued by noting that the Biden regime had in the last few months witnessed a “reduction in the level of transparency and openness with respect to recording basic things” in addition to a crackdown on companies that offer “basic information to the world on the puts and takes in the Chinese economy”.
Economic tensions between China and the United States have been mounting over the last few months. Earlier in August, President Joe Biden signed an executive order prohibiting several outbound American investment in the Chinese technology sector. The Biden regime has taken gradual efforts to end the dependence on Chinese supply chains as part of the US’s new re-industrialisation and economic campaign.
While these steps are solid, there needs to be tougher America First measures implemented to ensure that China’s influence on the US is fully restrained. Namely, full-blown economic nationalism i.e fully economic decoupling from China and restricting immigration from China.
These are the most effective means of containing China’s rise without having to go to war with it.
-Jose Nino, Big League Politics
US government suing SpaceX for hiring Americans
The US Department of Justice has sued SpaceX for allegedly discriminating against asylum seekers and refugees in the firm’s hiring process. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has previously claimed that national security laws forbid him from hiring foreigners.
"The lawsuit alleges that, from at least September 2018 to May 2022, SpaceX routinely discouraged asylees and refugees from applying and refused to hire or consider them, because of their citizenship status, in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act," the Justice Department said in a press release on Thursday.
According to the lawsuit, SpaceX’s job postings have erroneously claimed for years that only US citizens or lawful permanent residents – often referred to as “green card holders” – could apply, as rocket technology is protected by the State Department’s International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) laws.
As of Thursday, a SpaceX job listing for a Propulsion Technician warns applicants that they “must be a US citizen, lawful permanent resident of the US, protected individual,” or able to receive a waiver from the State Department to be eligible to apply.
In a 2016 press conference, Musk said that while he would like to hire talent from abroad, the State Department restrictions prevent him from doing so.
The lawsuit argues that refugees and asylum seekers are entitled to the same employment rights as US citizens, under the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act. This sweeping law did away with the prior US system of preferential admission, which explicitly favored immigrants from northern and western Europe, and imposed a yearly limit on immigrants from the western hemisphere.
The Justice Department said that its lawsuit covers a range of jobs at SpaceX, including welders, cooks, crane operators, baristas and dishwashers. The lawsuit seeks “fair consideration and back pay for asylees and refugees who were deterred or denied employment,” as well as civil penalties on the company.
In Thursday’s press release, the Justice Department called on refugees and asylum seekers who had been denied work or discouraged from applying to come forward and join the lawsuit.
As of Thursday afternoon, Musk has not commented on the lawsuit. However, the billionaire has been engaged in a war of words with President Joe Biden’s administration since he purchased Twitter, since renamed X, last October. Since taking over the social media platform, Musk has published documents revealing a conspiracy by the White House, FBI, and other government agencies to control the flow of information on the site, prompting reports that the Biden administration had launched a national security investigation into the tycoon.
Shortly before the lawsuit was announced, Musk said on X that his company would be “filing legal action” against liberal megadonor George Soros over his support for controversial “hate speech” legislation in Ireland and Scotland.
-RT News
Americans Panic Search "Live Off Grid" As Housing Crisis Worsens And Democrat Cities Implode
What's piqued our interest is the sudden panic by some Americans searching 'live off grid' on the internet, hitting the highest level in five years. The driving force behind finding a rural piece of land for dirt cheap, buying or building a tiny home, installing solar panels, and sourcing your own food and water might have to do with the worst inflation storm in a generation while Democrat cities implode under the weight of soaring violent crime.
We're not going to speculate on the exact cause, but we'll give readers an understanding that a combination of the worst housing affordability crisis in decades plus out-of-control crime in progressive-run cities could be some of the largest drivers pushing people to explore living in the 'sticks.'
With the introduction of SpaceX's Starlink in 2019, remote workers no longer have to live in crowded, dirty, and dangerous metro areas -- many found this out during the exodus of major cities during Covid.
Capitalizing on off-the-grid living is Home Depot, which now sells tiny homes called "Getaway Pad."
We've also seen the RV Industry Association report multiple times this year that parked mobile home shipments are surging on a monthly basis versus the same months last year -- yet another indication of housing affordability issues.
Living off the grid can have many benefits, including financial independence, self-sufficiency, preparedness, and security, as well as promoting an active lifestyle, better sleep, and a healthier diet (no need for a Peloton bike or Eli Lilly's fat drug "Ozempic").
-Tyler Durden, ZeroHedge
"Election Interference": Trump Returns To Twitter After Georgia Booking
Update (2145ET): After more than two-and-a-half years without tweeting, Trump has finally returned to the platform following Thursday's booking in Georgia.
Meanwhile, Trump's already selling t-shirts with the mugshot. Great job Fani, you may have just cost Biden the election.
And the meme magicians are already at it...
Update (2025ET): After about 20 minutes to take a mugshot Trump left the Fulton County jail.
"It's election interference. ... I want to thank you for being here. We did nothing wrong at all. And we have every right, every single right to challenge an election that we think is dishonest. So we think it's very dishonest," he told reporters at Atlanta's airport, before leaving.
Former President Donald Trump surrendered at the Fulton County jail on Thursday on state charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
According to the Fulton County Sheriff's Office, Trump is 6'3" and 215 lbs (which he was allowed to pre-report to 'speed up the process,' so who knows).
Meanwhile, Trump supporters have been waiting for hours outside the jail:
Trump and 18 other people were indicted last week after being accused by Fulton County DA Fani Willis of participating in a scheme to flip the results of the election - many of whom have already turned themselves in, including Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis on Wednesday and John Eastman and Mark Meadows on Tuesday.
As the Washington Times reports;
the scene outside the jail was anything but normal Thursday.
It included supporters of the former president such as Cliff MacMorris, 66, from Naples, Florida, who held a flag that read, “Trump Won Save America.”
He and his wife, Georgine, spent the night in Atlanta.
“You don’t have the right to persecute somebody unjustly,” Cliff MacMorris said.
His wife said the indictments against the former president were politically motivated because of the four years of “prosperity, safety, freedom” that Trump achieved in the White House.
“They must be worried about him for some reason,” she said.
Sharon Anderson, 67, from east Tennessee, was outside the jail for a second straight day. She had spent the night in a car with the air conditioning running.
“I’m here to support Donald J. Trump. I want him to see some of the millions that show up at the polls for him.”
Trump faces 13 separate counts in Georgia, including a racketeering charge and several fraud and false statement count. Trump had until Friday to turn himself in.
-Tyler Durden, ZeroHedge
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Trump Declares Ramaswamy GOP Debate Winner – Watch His Highlights Here!
Republican presidential frontrunner, former President Donald Trump, praised fellow GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on Truth Social Thursday, saying the rising political figure had “a big win in the debate.”
Trump shared a clip from the debate where Vivek said the 45th President was “the best president of the 21st Century,” writing, “This answer gave Vivek Ramaswamy a big WIN in the debate because of a thing called TRUTH. Thank you Vivek!”
In the full response, Ramaswamy told the audience they could turn their televisions to MSNBC if they wanted to watch people “blindly bash Trump.”
When the candidates were asked if they’d support Donald Trump should he be the party’s nominee, Vivek’s hand shot up into the air first and stayed proudly raised while other candidates slowly lifted their limp wrists.
That wasn’t the only moment Ramaswamy had the crowd cheering for him as he consistently outperformed his establishment rivals.
Right off the bat, Vivek listed a slew of ideals Americans need to get back to, saying, “God is real. There are two genders. Fossil fuels are a requirement for human prosperity. Reverse racism is racism. An open border is not a border. Parents determine the education of their children. he nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to man. Capitalism lifts us up from poverty. There are three branches of government, not four. And, the U.S. Constitution is the strongest guarantor of freedom in human history.”
The young entrepreneur at one point said the rest of the GOP field is “bought and paid for” and bragged he’s not a career politician before slamming the left’s climate change agenda as a hoax.
The rising GOP presidential candidate also separated himself from the other competition by opposing U.S. support of Ukraine in its war with Russia and saying he’d shut down the entire U.S. Department of Education.
Ramaswamy landed a couple of blows on former Vice President Mike Pence and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie during the debate, hitting them with quick-thinking comebacks and laughing as the crowd loudly booed the career politicians.
Perhaps a Trump/Ramaswamy Republican presidential ticket is in our future.
-Kelen McBreen, Infowars
Vivek Ramaswamy calls climate change a hoax, on the debate stage
Business entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy said on the debate stage of the first GOP primary debate Wednesday night that the climate change agenda is a hoax.
"I'm the only person on the stage who is not bought and paid for," Ramaswamy said. "So, I can say this. The climate change agenda is a hoax."
This resulted in a round of boos from the audience.
"The reality is the anti-carbon agenda is the wet blanket on our economy. And so the reality is more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change," he continued.
Other candidates such as former Vice President Mike Pence and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley then interjected, resulting in multiple people speaking over each other.
Haley said that climate change is real, but other countries such as China need to be held accountable for their contributions for it.
-Charlotte Hazard, Just the News
House Judiciary Committee launches probe of anti-Trump district attorney Fanni Willis
Earlier today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan launched an investigation into Democratic District Attorney Fani Willis.
The Ohio Republican congressman is attempting to determine whether Willis worked with government officials, including the Biden White House, to indict former President Donald Trump earlier this month.
“There are questions about whether and how your office coordinated with DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith during the course of this investigation,” Jordan remarked in a letter published this morning.
Smith, who is serving as special counsel for the Department of Justice, hit Trump with four separate charges earlier this month that are related to his objection to the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
Conservatives have decried Smith’s efforts as a form of political retribution that has turned the United States into a banana republic. Others have argued that the indictments are a means to keep media attention off Joe Biden and corrupt son Hunter’s dealing in Ukraine and China.
“The circumstances surrounding your actions raise serious concerns about whether they are politically motivated,” Jordan said in his letter.
Trump was slated to arrive today at a Fulton County jail in Atlanta for arraignment. Throngs of supporters have been waiting to greet him upon arrival. His bail has been set at $200,000. He has said he will plead not guilty.
On X earlier today, Jordan openly questioned if Willis was plotting with the Biden administration.
“Was Fulton County DA Fani Willis working with Jack Smith? Was she communicating with the Executive Branch? Were any federal funds used in the investigation of President Trump?” he asked.
Jordan’s letter to Willis also recalled that “news outlets have reported that your office and Mr. Smith ‘interviewed many of the same witnesses and reviewed much of the same evidence’ in reaching your decision to indict President Trump.”
As LifeSiteNews previously reported, a grand jury submitted a 41-count indictment of Trump on Monday, August 14. The suit was filed against him and 18 of his allies in connection with his alleged attempts to pressure Georgia officials into tilting the 2020 election results in his favor – a claim his supporters have argued is inaccurate.
Among those who were charged include Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, and Sidney Powell, among others.
The Judiciary Committee is demanding Willis turn over any and all communications between herself and Smith, as well as the Biden DOJ and any federal agencies. She has also been asked to turn over documents related to her use of federal dollars. The committee has given her a deadline of Thursday, September 7 to comply.
-Stephen Kokx, Life Site News
BREAKING: Trump supporters, counter-protesters clash outside of Fulton County jail ahead of his arrival
On Thursday, both supporters and opponents of 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump gathered outside the Fulton County jail in expectation of his arrival to surrender to authorities in the 2020 election case.
By the afternoon, police had blocked off the road leading up to the jail, as a crowd gathered at the end of the road.
One person was seen standing with a "Donald J Trump did nothing wrong sign," while others flew American flags and wore red MAGA hats.
One anti-Trump man wearing a black and white striped jail suit blasted a bullhorn alarm into the ear of a Trump supporter. Three more behind him were dressed as rats.
Another anti-Trump protestor called the 2024 GOP frontrunner a "sociopath" and called the group "listless vessels."
Members of the group Blacks for Trump gathered as well, chanting "Trump, Trump, Trump" with one member holding a sign that read, "Republicans are not racist."
Armed lines of officers were seen guarding the entrance to the jail.
Trump is set to arrive in Georgia this evening to turn himself in, and is expected to get a mugshot, the first time this would occur in his four indictments currently being faced.
On Thursday morning, Trump replaced his lead Georgia lawyer with Steve Sadow, who last represented Atlanta rapper Gunna in the YSL RICO case.
Trump and 18 codefendants have been charged with violation of the Georgia RICO Act, solicitation of violation of oath by public officer, false statements and writings, impersonating a public officer, conspiracy to commit impersonating a public officer, forgery in the first degree, conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree, conspiracy to commit false statements and writings, criminal attempt to commit filing false documents, conspiracy to commit filing false documents, criminal attempt to commit influencing witnesses, influencing witnesses, conspiracy to commit election fraud, conspiracy to commit computer theft, conspiracy to commit computer trespass, conspiracy to commit computer invasion of privacy, conspiracy to defraud the state, and perjury.
-Hannah Nightingale, The Post Millennial
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Mark Meadows Surrenders, Released on $100,000 Bond in Trump Election Case
Image Credit: White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows speaks to the media at the White House on Oct. 21, 2020. (Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images)
Mark Meadows, former chief of staff to the president, surrendered on Aug. 24 at the Fulton County jail and was released on $100,000 bond, according to jail records.
Mr. Meadows’s attorneys had made attempts to prevent the arrest: a day after the Aug. 14 indictment naming Mr. Meadows alongside former President Donald Trump and 17 other defendants, they filed a notice of removal to move the case from state to federal court. An Aug. 28 hearing was ordered the day after.
The Georgia case had been brought by Fulton County District Attorney against the 19 defendants for violating the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act when they acted to challenge the 2020 election results in what Ms. Willis called a “criminal racketeering enterprise.” The indictment alleges the defendants knowingly committed false and fraudulent deeds while believing President Trump had actually lost reelection.
She gave the defendants until noon on Aug. 25 to surrender voluntarily or face arrest.
Mr. Meadows was charged with two counts; in addition to racketeering, he was accused of “unlawfully soliciting, requesting, and importuning” Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to violate his oath of office during a phone call where President Trump asked about the state’s votes and asked Mr. Raffensperger to investigate election fraud.
Mr. Meadows argues that all of his actions were taken as a federal official and that the actions listed in the indictment were things one “would expect a Chief of Staff to the President of the United States to do.” The removal to federal court would have also dismissed the case against him, under the supremacy clause in the U.S. Constitution.
On Aug. 18, Mr. Meadows’s lawyers filed a motion to dismiss all charges against him based on supremacy clause immunity. Federal law precedes state laws and courts, and precedents have ruled that federal officers conducting official duties do not have to consider state law and that cases against federal officers should be tried in federal court.
Meanwhile, Mr. Meadows’s lawyers sent several rounds of communications to Ms. Willis’s office, which they later submitted to court. The attorneys had requested to meet earlier than Monday, Aug. 28 to discuss the case removal, and Ms. Willis’s office said that would not be possible. Then, they requested the arrest deadline be delayed for their client until after the Aug. 28 hearing on his case removal, with the expectation that no arrest would be necessary once the case had been removed.
Ms. Willis refused, responding that Mr. Meadows would be treated like any other criminal defendant.
“We both know that is simply not true,” attorney John Moran wrote in response.
They then filed an emergency motion in court, requesting an immediate resolution. Ms. Willis was given an Aug. 23 deadline to respond, in which she called Mr. Meadows’s motion “baseless” and “meritless.”
U.S. District Court Judge Steve Jones of the Northern District of Georgia, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, denied the emergency motion the same day, citing the pending hearing.
Witnesses Subpoenaed to Testify
Only one notice of removal is required to move the entire case to federal court, Mr. Meadows’s lawyers noted. The issue of removal was raised by observers since the unusual indictment was handed up on Aug. 14. Because it is a state criminal case, not a federal one, a conviction could not be pardoned by a president.
Besides Mr. Meadows, former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark and alternate elector David Shafer have also filed notices of removal.
Ms. Willis is expected to contest the the request for removal, which she argued against in a response filed Aug. 23.
“Because the defendant faces charges that do not arise from conduct under the color of his office, and because he can offer no plausible federal defense, the State of Georgia respectfully requests that this Court remand the case to the Superior Court of Fulton County,” it reads.
It accuses Mr. Meadows of acting outside the lawful scope of his official duties. “Federal law prohibits employees of the executive branch from engaging in political activity in the course of their work,” it reads, citing the Hatch Act. She argued that Mr. Meadows was not acting as a federal official, but instead disregarding his duties as a federal official.
Ms. Willis also cites the report produced by a special grand jury after hearing testimony from 75 witnesses, which alleged that officials acted to “promote the reelection of President Trump in violation of the law.”
Mr. Meadows’s motion to dismiss charges gave additional defenses, including the First Amendment protections for political activity. Ms. Willis argued this was an admission that Mr. Meadows engaged in political activity, which meant his case could not be removed to federal court. She did not address the First Amendment protection.
Four witnesses have been subpoenaed by the district attorney’s office to testify in the Aug. 28 hearing: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Frances Watson, who served as the chief investigator for the Georgia Secretary of State, and attorneys Kurt Hilbert and Alex Kaufman.
From The Epoch Times
-Catherine Yang, NTD
Iran Unveils New Drone Capable Of Reaching Israel
This week, Iran’s military revealed a new drone, claiming it matches the United States’ MQ-9 Reaper drone and can easily reach Iran’s main rival, Israel.
Iran says the Mohajer-10 drone can stay in the air for 24 hours. They showcased it at the Defense Industry Day conference.
President Ebrahim Raisi inspected the drone in person at the conference. He praised it for showing Iran’s advanced technology to the world stating that it will “firmly introduce Iran as an advanced and technologic nation to the world.”
Reports from the region state that “the Islamic Republic’s media outlets claimed the drone can fly up to 24,000 feet at a speed of 210 kph, carrying a bomb payload of up to 300 kilograms. The drone can also allegedly hold electronic surveillance equipment and a camera.”
Some Western experts are unsure, especially about its resemblance to the MQ-9 Reaper. Steve Bucci, a former Pentagon official, said Iran tends to exaggerate, so he doubts it matches the Reaper’s capabilities.
According to Al Jazeera, “media reports said the drone can travel non-stop at an altitude of 7,000 metres (4,350ft) for up to 2,000km (1,242 miles), meaning that it could reach Israel.”
While there is agreement about Iran’s proficient drone program, it’s important to note their drones are widely used by Russian forces in Ukraine.
Recently shared video from Iran’s state media:
Furthermore, Iran’s advanced ballistic missiles have been a topic of heated discussion, often connected to their nuclear program.
The National Security Council spokesperson, John Kirby, stated that Iran and Putin are planning to build a military drone factory inside Russia.
Inside Syria, Iran and Israel are indirectly fighting, with Israel launching air assaults on Syrian and Iranian military sites, particularly in Damascus and the southern regions.
-Great Game India
RUSSIA Pentagon says Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin likely killed in plane crash, no evidence of missile attack
U.S. officials said they believe Wagner mercenary group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was likely killed in a plane crash Wednesday, as theories continue to swirl that the Russian government was involved in his death.
Speaking with reporters on Thursday, Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said the U.S. would not comment on whether Prigozhin's death was part of a deliberate assassination.
"First of all, our initial assessment is that it's likely Prigozhin was killed," he said. "We don't have any information to indicate, right now, the press reporting, stating that there was some type of surface-to-air missile that took down the plane. But, we assess that information to be inaccurate."
Prigozhin was killed Wednesday in a plane crash that left 10 people dead outside of Moscow, state media reported. The business jet was traveling from the Russian capital to St. Petersburg when it went down in the Tver region, according to the TASS news agency.
The death came two months after the Wagner chief led a brief mutiny that shocked observers and posed the most severe challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin's authority.
Putin labeled it a "stab in the back" and "treason." On Thursday, he spoke for the first time regarding Prigozhin's death.
"As for the aviation tragedy, first of all, I want to express my sincerest condolences to the families of all the victims. It is always a tragedy," Putin said while meeting with Denis Pushilin, the leader of the Donetsk People's Republic, a Russian-aligned Ukrainian separatist state. "Indeed, if there were — and the primary data indicate that there were employees of the Wagner PMC — I would want to note that these people made a significant contribution to our common cause of fighting the neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine. We remember this, we know it, and we will not forget it."
Many have speculated that Putin was behind the explosion of the plane carrying Prigozhin, given that political opponents, journalists and others critical of the Russian leader have died in mysterious circumstances over the years.
Immediately following the incident, President Biden was asked about reports that Prigozhin was possibly on the doomed aircraft.
"I don't know for a fact what happened, but I am not surprised... Not much happens in Russia that Putin's not behind. I don't know enough to know the answer," he said.
Wagner troops have mourned their leader and set up memorials where some have publicly prayed for him.
"I won’t be afraid to say that Yevgeny Prigozhin is a Russian hero," a Wagner supporter told the news website Fontanka. "He’s a man of his word. He’s done a lot not only in the course of the special military operation, [but] in defending Russia’s interests in the world, the Syrian campaign [and] in Africa."
Prigozhin, once a close ally of Putin, was given great latitude in his criticism of Russian military leaders amid Moscow's stalled war against Ukraine. Videos of him publicly assailing Russian military generals and officials went viral as the army encountered strong Ukrainian resistance and battlefield losses.
Training for Ukrainian pilots
During Thursday's news briefing, Ryder said the United States will start training Ukrainian pilots to fly and maintain F-16 fighter aircraft beginning in October.
The training will be held at Morris Air National Guard Base in Tucson, Arizona and will be facilitated by the Air National Guard's 162nd Wing.
The Ukrainian pilots will also undergo English language training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, in September before flight training.
"The training provided by the United States will complement the F-16 pilot and maintenance training that's already underway in Europe and further deepens our support for the F-16 training coalition led by Denmark and the Netherlands," Ryder said.
-Louis Casiano, Fox News
US barely ahead of Russia in military strength – report
Russia is right behind the US in military strength, with China rapidly catching up, the Global Firepower (GFP) website said in its 2023 rankings report, released this week.
GFP has been producing the annual report since 2006, ranking 145 countries around the world by “potential war-making capability across land, sea, and air fought by conventional means.” The in-house formula considers “manpower, equipment, natural resources, finances, and geography represented by 60+ individual factors” to arrive at an index, with zero being the theoretical perfect score.
The US “leads the world technologically and is advanced in key medical, aerospace, and computer / telecom sectors,” according to GFP, which assigned Washington an index of 0.0712. It also has “a certain degree of self-sustainment,” while displaying “commanding numbers in key material, financial, and resource categories.”
Factored into GFP’s calculations were the size of the Pentagon budget – over $750 billion, more than triple that of China – the US Navy’s carrier fleet, and the size of the US Air Force.
GFP claims that the Ukraine conflict has “showcased key limitations in Russian military capabilities” in terms of “preparedness, leadership, training, and supply issues,” admitting that it has relied on ‘open-source intelligence’ to estimate Russian combat losses. Even so, the outfit assigned Russia a score of 0.0714, just .0002 below the US.
China came in at third place with a PowerIndex score of 0.0722, but “continues its climb to the No.2 spot owned for some time by regional powerhouse Russia,” according to GFP.
India was fourth with a score of 0.1025, followed by the UK in fifth place at 0.1435. London’s ranking seemed to be influenced in part by the two Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers in Royal Navy service.
Global Firepower rankings showed France (9th) behind Japan (8th), Italy (10th) ahead of Türkiye (11th), and Iran (17th place) ahead of Israel (18th). Poland was supposedly 20th, ahead of Germany in 25th place.
Ukraine ranked 15th, up from 16th place in 2022, “as a result of its response [to the conflict], financial and material backing from the West.” It had a score of 0.2516 as of May 31, and its armor, artillery, and aircraft numbers were based entirely on estimates.
Global Firepower’s location, funding and ownership aren’t entirely clear. The outfit “does not assume responsibility as to the accuracy, correctness, completeness, reliability and ‘up-to-dateness’ of information made available throughout,” per its own disclaimer.
-RT News
US Will Start Training Ukrainian Pilots on F-16s at Air Base in Arizona
Image Credit: FA Norwegian air force F-16 fighter lands at a Turkish air base in the Central Anatolian Turkish city of Konya on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2004. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)
WASHINGTON — The U.S. will start training Ukrainian pilots to fly U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets, beginning at an Air National Guard base in October, the Pentagon said Thursday.
The training is part of a U.S. and European effort to get the advanced fighter jets to Ukraine for its defense against invading Russian forces.
American military officials stress it takes years of training to be able to field F-16 squadrons, limiting the impact the aircraft will have on Ukraine’s defense for the near future.
“This is about the long-term support to Ukraine,” the Pentagon spokesman, Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, told reporters in Washington. “This is not about the counteroffensive that they’re conducting right now.”
The training will take place at Morris Air National Guard base in Tucson, Arizona. The pilots will first undergo English instruction at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, to bring their fluency up to the level needed to operate the aircraft, starting next month, Ryder said.
Ukraine has long pressed for the American fighter jets to help defend its cities and forces from Russian artillery and aviation. Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway announced in recent days they would supply the aircraft to Ukraine.
Ryder said the U.S. decided to join European allies in the training to avoid bottlenecks in bringing Ukrainian pilots up to speed.
The U.S. training would accommodate “several” Ukrainian fighter pilots and dozens of maintenance people for the jets, he said.
For experienced pilots, training can range around five months, Ryder said. He sketched out courses covering basics. In addition to flying the advanced craft, they include formation flying, operating weapons, air combat and suppressing air defense systems, on top of centrifuge training on the ground to help pilots withstand the g-forces of an F-16 cockpit.
-Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press
Rock ‘N’ Roll Legend Carlos Santana Rebukes Trans Agenda Mid-Concert, Supports His “Brother Dave Chappelle”
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Guitar virtuoso and decades-long rock legend Carlos Santana told a New Jersey crowd last month that God made humans into males and females for a reason.
“When God made you and me, before we came out of the womb, you know who you are and what you are,” he said. “Later on, when you grow out of it, you see things, and you start believing that you could be something that sounds good, but you know it ain’t right because a woman is a woman and a man is a man. That’s it.”
Santana added, “Whatever you want to do in the closet, that’s your business. I’m okay with that.”
“I am like this with my brother Dave Chappelle. Totally like this,” he said lining up his hands in unison.
The musician was referring to Chappelle’s jokes about transgender ideology during stand-up comedy shows that stirred controversy in 2021, causing many liberals to try and “cancel” the top comedian.
The crowd cheered Santana on, but the crazed left-wing media predictably ran headlines claiming the 76-year-old guitarist went on a “bizarre anti-trans rant.”
Billboard, TMZ, Ultimate Classic Rock and other outlets all parroted similar article titles.
Santana’s rant is going viral as fellow rock star Alice Cooper said in an interview with Stereogum published Wednesday that gender-affirming care is “a fad,” and pointed out discussions surrounding the trans rights movement have “gone now to the point of absurdity.”
“I find it wrong when you’ve got a six-year-old kid who has no idea. He just wants to play, and you’re confusing him telling him, ‘Yeah, you’re a boy, but you could be a girl if you want to be.’ I think that’s so confusing to a kid,” Cooper told the outlet.
“It’s even confusing to a teenager,” he continued. “You’re still trying to find your identity, and yet here’s this thing going on, saying, ‘Yeah, but you can be anything you want. You can be a cat if you want to be.’”
As the world gets crazier, expect more influential people to begin speaking out about the various issues plaguing society.
-Kelen McBreen, Infowars
GOODBYE BATHTUB AND DINING ROOM—AMERICA’S HOMES ARE SHRINKING
From a Wall Street Journal story by Maggie Eastland headlined “Goodbye Bathtub and Dining Room. America’s Homes Are Shrinking.”
For many Americans, homeownership may be attainable only if they give up a dining room.
Home prices are near record highs, frustrating millions of potential buyers who feel priced out of the housing market. Home builders are having to find ways to make their product more affordable to increase their pool of customers.
Shrinking the size of a new single-family home is an increasingly popular way to do it. Smaller homes can help cost-constrained buyers facing high mortgage rates. They also boost the bottom line for builders who are contending with spiraling labor and construction costs.
Since 2018, the average unit size for new housing starts has decreased 10% nationally to 2,420 square feet, according to Livabl by Zonda, a listing platform for new construction homes. Construction starts for new single-family homes declined in 2022. But starts for homes with fewer than three bedrooms increased 9.5% over the same period, according to a Zillow report.
Home sizes are shrinking the most in some of the hotter markets of previous years. The Seattle area, where the size of newly built homes is 18% smaller than it was five years ago, tops the list. New homes in Charlotte, N.C., and San Antonio shrank by 14%, Livabl by Zonda said.
Most builders and architects follow the same basic playbook to produce tighter, more efficient living spaces. They are axing dining areas, bathtubs and separate living rooms. Secondary bedrooms and loft spaces are shrinking and sometimes disappearing.
At the same time, they are increasing the size of multiuse rooms like kitchens and great rooms. Shared spaces like bunk rooms and jack-and-jill bathrooms, which are located between and shared by two bedrooms, are on the rise. In some cases, the kitchen island has become the only eating area in the home.
Estridge Homes, a semi-custom new-home builder that operates near Indianapolis, recently launched a new neighborhood concept with detached homes 300 to 500 square feet smaller and $50,000 to $75,000 cheaper than it typically builds.
The builder is slashing some bedrooms and bathrooms and trading some indoor living space for outdoor space. Lots in the neighborhood are smaller too, but the builder is working with limited acreage by landscaping to create privacy.
Home buyers began moving in earlier this year, and demand has been strong from both entry-level buyers and empty-nesters.
Those two groups “are both big demographics,” said Clint Mitchell, chief executive at Estridge. “They kind of want the same thing.”
In December, Brad and Julie Redman downsized from their more-than 7,000 square-foot custom-built home to a 3,400 square-foot semi-custom model in Westfield, Ind., after their children left home.
Despite the smaller house and yard in a denser neighborhood, the couple is happy with the decision. They gave up a formal dining area when they moved, but their new eating area easily converts to space for entertaining guests.
“We can use the same space for more than one thing,” Julie Redman said.
Shrinking homes are also beginning to reshape the furniture market. Companies like Bob’s Discount Furniture are creating designs suited to tighter spaces. Demand has increased for items with multiple functions, from kitchen islands with drawers and wine racks to sleeper sofas and smaller, drop-leaf dining tables, said Carol Glaser, executive vice president of merchandising at Bob’s Discount Furniture.
“If they are in smaller homes,” she said of her customers, “they need their furniture to work harder.”
Still, even smaller homes won’t make a big enough dent in the purchase price for most entry-level buyers or provide an answer to the nation’s severe housing shortage. Estridge’s semi-custom homes and townhomes, for example, still range in price between $400,000 and $800,000.
The share of new home projects priced below $400,000 has declined in nearly every major home-building metro since 2018, according to Livabl by Zonda. For entry-level buyers across the nation, the cost of owning a home increased 72% from February 2020 to May 2023, according to an analysis by John Burns Research and Consulting that estimates monthly payments, maintenance and other costs of ownership.
And the smaller floor plans usually mean that buyers are getting less space for their dollar. Lower list prices might make the overall price cheaper, but buyers are still paying more a square foot, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Inflation-adjusted cost a square foot increased about 2.5% on average between 2012 and 2020. In both 2021 and 2022, it increased nearly 4%, according to John Burns Research and Consulting.
Builders have also ramped up activity for other cost-saving methods, like starting home construction off-site and building more attached homes. In Lexington, S.C., buyers are willing to share a wall with a neighbor when it saves thousands and makes homeownership more attainable.
Sonia Mendez, a real-estate agent in the area, said she has seen builders increase construction of 1,500 to 1,700 square-foot townhomes.
“They are being bought just as fast as the single family home,” Mendez said. “The first-time home buyers are excited. They don’t see a small home. They see it as a dream come true.”
-Jack Limpert
Elon Musk Vows To Sue Soros-Funded Censorship Groups
Elon Musk has committed to taking legal action against non-governmental organizations funded by philanthropist George Soros, alleging infringement on free speech. The move follows the institution of a lawsuit by Musk against the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), accusing the entity of disseminating false and misleading statements about X content, intended to repel advertisers from the platform in a manipulative “scare campaign.”
In the context of the global conversation on free speech, Musk’s legal ambitions coincide with the bubbling debate over a controversial censorship bill in the Irish Senate. Independent senator Ronan Mullen during the June discussions queried the limits of the proposed law. Mullen aired his concerns about the potential overreach of the law, which he fears might penalize individuals for engaging in debates on topics like gender identity.
Following Mullen’s public display of anxiety about the bill’s implications, Ireland’s Department of Justice responded by stating that the law sets a “very high” bar for prosecution. They reassured critics by suggesting that an inadvertent act would not likely lead to criminal prosecution under the proposed law.
In light of heated international dialogues around the erosion of free speech, the promised legal procedures by Musk against Soros-funded NGOs are set to fuel more discussions and debates, echoing the fervor of the Irish Senate discussions. His commitment, whether it’s ultimately only lip service or not, to secure open expression “by any means necessary” looks to add vigor to the free speech cause globally.
-Cindy Harper, Reclaim the Net
BREAKING: Maui County Files Major Lawsuit Over Negligence Causing Lahaina Wildfires
Maui County has launched a legal battle against Hawaiian Electric, accusing the utility of negligence in its handling of the catastrophic Lahaina wildfires. The county alleges that the company failed to deactivate its electrical equipment despite extreme weather conditions.
“This destruction could have been avoided,” the lawsuit said.
The electric utility knew that high winds “would topple power poles, knock down power lines, and ignite vegetation,” the lawsuit claimed. “Defendants also knew that if their overhead electrical equipment ignited a fire, it would spread at a critically rapid rate.”
The legal action, submitted to Hawaii’s Second Circuit Court, accuses the electric firm of failing “to properly maintain and repair the electric transmission lines, and other equipment including utility poles associated with their transmission of electricity, and to keep vegetation properly trimmed and maintained so as to prevent contact with overhead power lines and other electric equipment.”
Legal representatives contend that downed, energized power lines “ignited dry fuel such as grass and brush, causing the fires.” These fires erupted on August 8, resulting in a minimum of 115 deaths and the obliteration of over 2,200 buildings.
An extended drought had rendered vegetation, including “invasive grasses,” extremely dry. When Hurricane Dora moved about 500 miles (800 kilometers) to the south of Hawaii, it caused strong winds that knocked down at least 30 power poles in West Maui. Footage captured by a resident of Lahaina depicted a fallen power line igniting the dry grass. Firefighters initially managed to contain the blaze but were called away to other incidents. Residents reported that the fire subsequently reignited and sped towards downtown Lahaina.
Due to the fallen power lines and blocked roads by police or utility personnel, traffic came to a halt on Lahaina’s Front Street. Several residents took desperate measures, leaping into the ocean off Maui to avoid the fiery debris and suffocating black smoke that filled the downtown area.
As it stands, the official death toll is 115, a figure that county officials anticipate will increase. Both the FBI and Maui County police are in the process of determining how many people are still missing. According to a statement from the FBI on Tuesday, there are between 1,000 and 1,100 names on an unconfirmed list of missing and suspected dead.
This week, teams of searchers equipped with snorkel gear have been scouring a 4-mile (6.4-kilometer) section of the sea, looking for any signs of casualties. On land, search teams are meticulously sifting through the ashes of ruined businesses and multi-level residential buildings for remains.
The lawsuit also cites other utilities like Southern California Edison Company, Pacific Gas & Electric, and San Diego Gas & Electric as benchmarks for implementing effective shut-off plans that mitigated damages and saved lives. It suggests that Hawaiian Electric should have done the same.
In a recent press briefing, Hawaiian Electric argued that Hawaii lacks a formalized shut-off protocol, unlike states such as California, Oregon, and Nevada.
Additionally, on August 12, residents of Lahaina initiated a class-action lawsuit against Hawaiian Electric for maintaining active power lines while the fires were erupting.
According to risk modeling firm Moody’s RMS, the fires inflicted economic damages ranging from $4 billion to $6 billion on the Lahaina and Kula communities in Hawaii.
-The Politics Brief
WWE star known as Bray Wyatt dead at 36
WWE superstar Bray Wyatt, whose real name is Windham Rotunda, has died, WWE Chief Content Officer Paul "Triple H" Levesque announced Thursday on social media. Wyatt was 36.
"Just received a call from WWE Hall of Famer Mike Rotunda who informed us of the tragic news that our WWE family member for life Windham Rotunda - also known as Bray Wyatt - unexpectedly passed earlier today," Levesque wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. "Our thoughts are with his family and we ask that everyone respect their privacy at this time."
The news of Wyatt’s death was a devastating revelation as a report surfaced earlier this month that the former champion was nearing a return to the ring after battling a "life-threatening illness."
What Wyatt was dealing with was not made known. Pro wrestlers and fans sent their condolences across social media.
Back in October, Wyatt had made a return to the WWE in one of the most mysterious build-ups the company had done in a while. A white rabbit, mystery QR codes and other messages appeared on WWE programming leading up to Wyatt’s eventual return at Extreme Rules. The hints pointed toward his return about 15 months since he was released in July 2021.
Wyatt’s "Fiend" character was among the favorite programs that WWE ran in recent years. WWE was able to make the character thrive through the height of the coronavirus pandemic, and he was put into epic feuds with John Cena and Randy Orton.
Wyatt’s cult-leader character was also well-received when it began in 2013. However, Wyatt was released on July 31, 2021, marking the end of a 12-year run at WWE.
After his return on the premium live event, Wyatt cut a heartfelt promo thanking fans for welcoming him back and helping him through the tough times after his release.
"I am incredibly grateful. I’m really, really nervous to be here. I never thought this would happen," Wyatt said. "This right here, this is just me OK? This is a version of me I never got to introduce to you guys before. This is just me being me — genuine me — for the first time."
Wyatt explained at the time that over the last year, he had lost a lot of friends and things in his life.
"I lost my career. I lost my self-confidence. I lost two people who were very, very close to me. I lost my way," he said. "And I got to a point where I thought that everything that I’ve ever done here or otherwise, it was all meaningless. Nothing I’ve ever did has ever mattered to anyone. And I was wrong.
"Once I was done feeling sorry for myself, I decided to go out in the world again and see… people everywhere that would say, ‘Thank you, Bray, man. When you coming back home?’ And then every once in a while there would be someone I would meet that would be truly remarkable, and you know who you are. But these people, they would come to me. They would come to me, and they would say, ‘Bray, I just wanted to thank you, man, because I was in a time of need, and I lost people that were close to me, and I lost my self-confidence, and I felt weak, and I felt vulnerable, and in this weakened state I found your words, Bray. I found your words, and I just wanted to thank you, man. You saved my life, Bray.’
"The truth is, I don’t think about stuff like that. And the thing about that is, is that I can sit here right now today, and I can look all of you in the eyes, and I can say you were there when I was weak, when I was vulnerable, when I was down, and I just wanted to say, ‘Thank you, you all saved my life.’"
Wyatt feuded with LA Knight, which culminated in a Pitch Black match at Royal Rumble. He was set to start a program with Bobby Lashley before he reportedly fell ill.
He was angling for a September return before his unexpected death, according to Fightful Select.
Wyatt had two daughters with his ex-wife and a son with his fiancée. His father, Mike Rotunda, was known in the WWE as Irwin R. Schyster (IRS).
-Ryan Gaydos, Fox News
‘We will not comply’: Why a return to COVID lockdowns in America would fail
There are ominous signs that the Biden administration is gearing up for another lockdown in the coming months. Border Patrol and TSA whistleblowers are saying that COVID restrictions will be going back into place as early as September. Agencies have reportedly started stocking up on COVID-19 equipment, as well as hiring “consultants” to help enforce pandemic-era “safety protocols.”
And, in another tell, the COVID “experts” are back, warning us about “new variants,” their message amplified by the regime media. This includes CNN, which just warned, “If you’re at high risk of serious illness or death from COVID-19, it’s time to dust off those N95 masks, according to a growing number of experts.”
As the government payouts increase, the number of these “experts” will grow exponentially, of course. As will the censorship of opposing views on social and traditional media.
Universities, bastions of left-wing group think, have already begun signing on. Morris Brown College in Atlanta (where else?) has now imposed a mask mandate – even though there is not a single case of COVID on campus. Rutgers University has put a COVID vaccination mandate back in place, though only a handful of cases have been reported.
In fact, COVID cases nationwide remain low, but that hasn’t stopped the regime from beginning to push another COVID vaccination on the American people. As Fox News reports, “The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the White House’s Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy are expected to lead the rollout, which is expected to begin in earnest during the second half of September.”
And then you have the infamous Tony Fauci (will he ever just go away?), repeatedly opining that lockdowns are a great way of forcing everyone to get vaccinated.
If it’s clear what the regime is planning – a reprise of the lockdowns and mRNA vax campaigns – it is much less certain how the American people will react. Some will unthinkingly comply. But I am fairly confident that a sizable majority of us will not.
In order to properly terrorize the population, you need a scary new virus, the risk of which can be suitably inflated to deadly proportions. COVID doesn’t qualify anymore. Too many people have had it, recovered from it, and understand that the natural immunity they have acquired offers protection against nearly all future variants.
While there are still those who will once again lose their minds over a virus that has a 99.997% survival rate, most of us understand that COVID is no more of a threat than the seasonal flu.
After all, they’ve seen this movie before, and they know how it ends. They know that masks (aka face diapers) don’t work, and that school closures only succeeded in costing our kids a year of education – and in some cases their lives. They know that lockdowns had the same effect, denying some people vital medical care, while subjecting others to ventilators and drugs that only served to hasten their death.
Americans have also learned from sad experience to avoid the mRNA vaccines. Those who have seen friends and relatives fall ill, or even die suddenly, after receiving the jab would resist. Many would literally have to be rounded up at gunpoint.
People also haven’t forgotten that the result of the last COVID panic and associated lockdown was a shattered economy, a bankrupted working and middle class, and an ever-increasing and ungodly concentration of power in Washington, D.C. Not to mention that it allowed the kinds of voter fraud that resulted in a stolen election.
None of this, however, will be enough to deter the regime from its current course.
That is because the planned lockdown – like the increasingly absurd Trump indictments – has a singular goal. It has nothing to do with public health, or saving lives, or any of the usual excuses. Rather it is first and last keeping the current regime in power. A reprise of 2020 would enable Biden to once again flood the country with mail-in ballots, keep observers out of counting rooms, and hijack another election.
Now I grant you that, this time around, they will be even more ruthless in imposing lockdowns, heedless of the total economic collapse that may result. The censorship mechanisms they have put in place will be used to silence voices that protest these draconian measures, or speak the truth about what is really happening. They will also use even more coercive measures in an attempt to jab the entire population.
And this is precisely why they will fail.
Too many Americans are now awake to the danger that the Biden crime family and corrupt Deep State actors pose to the American Republic.
And the leading Republican candidates have indicated that they will vigorously oppose lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and other police-state methods. They will do so because they, too, know what is at stake in the upcoming election.
MAGA will do the rest.
-Steven Mosher, Life Site News
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LIKE CLOCKWORK: Hollywood studios led by Lionsgate re-implement forced masking, daily testing for second round of COVID TYRANNY
Déjà vu is hitting la-la-land as Hollywood studio giant Lionsgate reinstates Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) mask and "testing" requirements for all Los Angeles-based office workers.
The first Hollywood studio to do so this time around, Lionsgate is leading the charge in requiring all in-office employees at its Santa Monica headquarters to wear a face mask at all times while inside the building, except when alone in an enclosed office or large open workspace, effective immediately.
These same employees will also now be required to shove a large cotton swab laced with who-knows-what up their nasal cavity in "test" for Fauci Flu germs that might be hiding in the mucus next to their brain.
This time around, though, any old face mask or bandana will not do. Lionsgate is requiring its employees to wear "a medical grade face covering (surgical mask, KN95 or N95) when indoors except when alone in an office with the door closed, actively eating, actively drinking at their desk or workstation, or if they are the only individual present in a large open workspace."
JUST SAY NO to ALL forms of COVID 2.0 tyranny
The tyranny from Lionsgate arrives as the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is claiming that there has been a recent uptick in the number of new covid "transmissions," though the agency admits that "overall metrics remain at a low level of concern."
Sadly, but not surprisingly, Lionsgate is not alone in reinstating covid tyranny. Morris Brown College, a "historically black" no-name college in Atlanta, is likewise forcing everyone on its campus to mask up and stay away from other people, effective immediately, because of those scary covid germs they feel are floating all around us.
This is music to the ears of the Biden regime freak show as former Barack Hussein Obama official and MSNBC medical contributor Dr. Kavita Patel said just last month on the little-watched cable "news" network's "José Díaz-Balart Reports" program that covid is supposedly on the rise again and that everyone should be wearing a mask so she and the rest of the covid weirdos can feel "safe."
A repeat of 2020, which was also an election year, the sudden repeat of covid fearmongering is just in time for the 2024 election, which Democrats are gunning to steal a second time using covid as cover.
"Didn't we already just conclude that the masks don't work?" one commenter asked.
"Or the standing six feet apart which they made up on the spot," responded another.
"The six-foot rule, and masks too, were both debunked back in the 1950s with the tuberculosis research conducted by Richard L. Riley at the Baltimore VA hospital," explained someone else.
"Well, there is an election upcoming," wrote another, echoing the sentiment of many who have seen this play out once already. "Without the mail-in fraud ... I mean vote, how are Democrats going to win?"
"Maybe it's wishful thinking on my part but I do think the tide is beginning to turn," said someone else with slightly more optimism.
"The demon rats (Democrats) have been outed for the cheaters that they are, and I don't think it'll be quite so easy to get away with it this time, not that they won't try."
"This was as predictable as Joe falling up a flight of stairs boarding Air Force One," joked another about this tired playbook of tyranny and election theft.
The latest news about covid can be found at Plague.info.
-Ethan Huff, News Target
CDC: Vax May Not Protect Against New COVID Variant.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has admitted the COVID-19 vaccines do not prevent the transmission of the latest coronavirus variant, called BA.2.86 or “Pirola,” despite a growing number of medical professionals encouraging the public to get vaccinated once again.
The CDC said on Wednesday the Pirola variant may be transmitted to the vaccinated and those with natural immunity as it has 36 significant changes in its genetic makeup that set it apart from previous variants, such as Delta or Omicron. The variant has so far been detected in the United States, Denmark, the United Kingdom, and Israel.
This, however, has not stopped leading health practitioners such as Dr. Jayne Morgan, the executive director of Health and Community Education at Piedmont Healthcare, from claiming that getting vaccinated is vital to protect oneself against the new variants while also encouraging the public to wear masks, limit social interactions, and wash their hands regularly.
The COVID-19 vaccine failed to prevent the transmission of the previous coronavirus variants despite the initial claims of the CDC. The German Robert Koch Institute, for example, found that 80 percent of confirmed cases of omicron were among the vaccinated. Another study from the New England Journal of Medicine also found that the unvaccinated were contagious for a shorter time compared to those vaccinated or boosted.
-Jake Welch, The National Pulse