REPORT: Trump Indictment Imminent
I’m treating a Trump indictment like Congress banning TikTok — technically possible, more likely than one would think, won’t believe it until I see it, will laugh hysterically if it comes to pass.
Silicon Valley Bank fails in 2nd-largest collapse in U.S. history
Brendan Morrow 2023 Oscar predictions: Who will win, and who could surprise? The Week Staff Regulating the rails The Week Staff Tax status: Happily separate Advertisement from Wisebread Best Rewards Card of 2023 With $200 Bonus Justin Klawans Silicon Valley Bank fails in 2nd-largest collapse in U.S. history […]
French Protesters Take On Amazon
Krystal Kyle & Friends 4 hr ago If you’re looking for international inspiration in the world of labor organizing, look no further: David Adler @davidrkadler Holy shit. French trade union CGT cut the power to Amazon facility in Morlàas to protest Macron’s pension reform. “We have placed Amazon […]
Japan marks 12 years since quake and tsunami prompted Fukushima crisis
Top News Stories Japan marks 12 years since quake and tsunami prompted Fukushima crisis Recovery from the magnitude-9.0 earthquake and resultant tsunami has progressed, but some 31,000 people remain displaced as of November 2022. Japan considers inviting South Korea’s Yoon to Hiroshima G7 summit G7 host nations often […]
Whose Streets?
Sponsored by The New Press In the February 23, 2023, issue of the Review, the journalist and critic Ursula Lindsey writes about the Arab Spring as recounted in Yasmin El-Rifae’s book Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution. Through interviews and her own account, El-Rifae tells the story of the rise […]
Biggest bank failure since 2008
March 11, 2023 Hello, Insiders. Get ready: Daylight-saving time kicks in overnight. It’s one of the most controversial and impossible issues of our time. So be prepared to lose an hour of sleep. But that’s later — let’s get started. On deck today: Silicon Valley Bank’s crisis could […]
The U.S. Government’s War on Tik Tok Is Idiotic
SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 2023 FBI debacles in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing foreshadowed far worse antiterrorism failures in the following decades. – James Bovard “30th Anniversary of the FBI’s Biggest ‘Bomb’” (2023) HORNBERGER’S BLOG March 10, 2023 Killing Communists with Impunity The New York Times recently carried […]
‘Sheer panic’ has gripped VCs and founders as Silicon Valley Bank implodes
March 11, 2023 ‘Sheer panic’ has gripped VCs and founders as Silicon Valley Bank implodes Silicon Valley Bank is no more. The FDIC seized the assets of the bank, a fixture of the VC world and a prolific lender to the tech and life sciences sectors, on Friday, […]
Large antiwar protests rock Europe
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the wave of antiwar protests that have erupted across Western Europe, from Berlin to Brussels, in response to escalatory arms shipments to Ukraine and new revelations about the destruction of the Nordstream pipelines.
Dear Conservatives, I Apologize
My “Team” was Taken in By Full-Spectrum Propaganda Dr Naomi Wolf Mar 9 There is no way to avoid this moment. The formal letter of apology. From me. To Conservatives and to those who “put America first” everywhere. It’s tempting to sweep this confrontation with my own gullibility […]
How Many Guns Are Circulating in the U.S.?
We attempt to pin down a central — yet elusive — data point in the conversation around gun violence. By Jennifer Mascia Mar 6, 2023 AP Photo/Charlie Riedel The Trace We’ve heard for years that there are more guns in the U.S. than people, but a precise accounting remains […]
AIPAC Israeli Economic Espionage Against US Hits $366 Billion
IPAC Israeli Economic Espionage Against US Hits $366 Billion Posted on February 20, 2023 by IRmep Listen to this and other reports on the Israel Lobby Damage Assessment podcast! 2024 will mark the fourth decade since AIPAC and the Israeli Minister of Economics stole classified American industry data […]
Three Years of Lunacy: A Retrospective
Ep. 2295 Three Years of Lunacy: A Retrospective
The Totalitarians Fall, with Michael Malice
Ep. 2296 The Totalitarians Fall, with Michael Malice
Why So Many ‘Leftists’ Become Right-Wing GRIFTERS
There is a recent trend happening in American politics recently and that is former progressives becoming Right-Wing. Most famous among them are people like Tulsi Gabbard and Jimmy Dore, who over the last 4 years have made a dramatic shift rightwards. But why is this happening? Can it […]
FLASHBACK: Requiem for the Suicided: Terrance Yeakey (2010)
FLASHBACK: Requiem for the Suicided: Terrance Yeakey (2010) The Corbett Report 2 hr ago SHOW NOTES AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/yeakey FROM 2010: This week we turn the focus of our open source investigation to Sgt. Terrance Yeakey, one of the first responder heroes at the scene of the OKC […]
Cathy Young On Ukraine And CRT In Schools
Her upbringing in Soviet Russia sheds light on both of these issues. 8 hr ago Cathy is a libertarian journalist and author. She’s currently a staff writer at The Bulwark, a columnist for Newsday, and a frequent contributor to Reason magazine. She has written two books: Ceasefire!: Why […]
Ukraine, Iran, Nuclear Fallout, & How I Learned to Love the Algorithm Ghetto
Hügo Krüger: Ukraine, Iran, Nuclear Fallout, & How I Learned to Love the Algorithm Ghetto Hügo Krüger gives his realpolitik perspective on the U.S.-provoked war in Ukraine. He explains how the U.S. is again attempting regime change in Iran. While he does fear the destructive force of nuclear […]
8-year-old raises $100,000 after finding out his favorite Waffle House server lived in a motel
1 Co-workers prank retiring employee by dressing exactly like him. Including his bald head. Well, well, well, if it isn’t one of the cutest pranks I’ve ever seen pulled off. (I know I started that off like I was going to say something negative, but sometimes you’ve gotta […]
UNDERSTANDING THE TOTALITARIAN HUMANIST REVOLUTION
By Keith Preston March 10, 2023 The beginning of the pandemic three years ago this month sparked a revolution. First, the global capitalist classes used the pandemic conditions as a pretext for massive economic consolidation and upward wealth distribution. The economic and social effects of pandemic conditions triggered […]
BOJ maintains monetary easing at Kuroda’s last policy board meeting
View it in your browser. Top News Stories BOJ maintains monetary easing at Kuroda’s last policy board meeting Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda is set to end his 10-year term and pass the torch to incoming chief Kazuo Ueda, whose appointment was approved by parliament … Japan reports first death […]
Cartels Part 2: Origins of the Drug Trade
by Peter Zeihan on March 10, 2023 Back in 2014, Peter predicted that the Ukraine War would occur by 2022. But that’s not the only thing he predicted in his book “The Accidental Superpower”…click the link below to learn more about his outlook on the cartels and see […]
Americans need to wake up to the realities of a post-unipolar world before it’s too late.
TAC Editor’s Weekly The latest in Main Street conservative news View this email in your browser Dear Reader,Imagine, if you will, Napoleon Bonaparte. How tall is he? It is a complex question, you say. Units of measurement have changed; he only seems short to us now; he was […]
‘The Man of Your Dreams Might Be a Chatbot,’
— Jordan Larson, features editor, the Cut When we think about romantic relationships with AI chatbots, we tend to picture something like the 2013 movie Her: a lonely man falls for a subservient female bot designed to cater to his every desire. But when the Cut’s Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz started […]
How to start an AI panic
View this email in your browser | Manage newsletter subscriptions 03.10.23 WIRED is going global—and we’re making some changes to our newsletters as a result. If you want to keep receiving Plaintext every Friday, please tap the link below. SEND ME PLAINTEXT Hi, everyone. Between talk of the debt […]
How Denmark’s Welfare State Became a Surveillance Nightmare
How Denmark’s Welfare State Became a Surveillance Nightmare Gabriel Geiger Once praised for its generous social safety net, the country now collects troves of data on welfare claimants. READ This Algorithm Could Ruin Your Life Matt Burgess, Evaline Schot, and Gabriel Geiger A system used by the Dutch […]
The Disappearing of Julian Assange: Death To A Story
Caitlin Johnstone 9 hr ago This is the second video in my ongoing art series The Disappearing of Julian Assange, about the way Assange’s image is being deliberately erased from the public’s consciousness: Transcript: Like a stretched-out loop of VHS tape, if you do a Google Image search for […]
Silicon Valley Bank crisis
March 10, 2023 Hello, Insiders. There’s major news going on today, so we’ll get right to it. My usual note will be shared as a final thought below. Let’s go. In today’s edition: The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has pushed big banks into a state of turmoil. […]
3/10/23: Taibbi Attacked By Dems in Twitter Files Hearing, US NYT Nordstream Report, Jon Stewart Backlash Over Lab Leak Jokes, Chris Rock on Meghan Markle, Work Monitoring Employee Brain Waves, Migrant Child Labor Abuse
In this episode we discuss Matt Taibbi attacked by Democrats as a “so called journalist” in Twitter Files hearing, the New York Times releases a report saying the Nordstream pipeline was destroyed by “Pro Ukranian groups”, Jon Stewart speaks about the backlash he received from his Lab Leak […]
Three Dots: Well, that was weird…
The Weaponization of Government, World War III, and other news of the week. Michael Shellenberger and Leighton Woodhouse 8 hr ago “So-Called Journalists” Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD “So-called journalists” @mtaibbi 8:04 PM ∙ Mar 9, 2023 54,097Likes5,332Retweets Well, that was weird. Yesterday we helped break what could be […]
Killing Communists with Impunity
FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2023 I’d rather that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober. With freedom we might in the end attain sobriety, but in the other alternative we should eventually lose both freedom and sobriety. – W.C. Magee, Archbishop of York, Sermon to […]
Do You Have Enemies?
Peter R. Quiñones 7 hr ago I’m old enough to remember when politicians disagreed, they didn’t act like they hated each other. I use the word “act” because it’s hard for me to believe the combative way politicians treat each other in the current climate is genuine. Does […]
The contradictions of ballet, Fox News’s lies, the Oscars, and more
Read our current issue. March 10, 2023 “Pain, of course, is not the same thing as effort,” writes Glory Liu. But “ballet relies on this economy of pain: The ability to withstand pain, both physical and emotional…it is the spectacle that draws audiences in the first place.” For […]
The Eradication Of An “Ism”
The creeping illiberalism of the anti-woke right. Andrew Sullivan 4 hr ago Michael Knowles appears as a guest on “Candace” hosted by Candace Owens in January 2022 (Brett Carlsen/Getty Images) In a sign of growing extremism and illiberalism on the anti-woke right, the Daily Wire writer, Michael Knowles, […]
President Biden’s shifting views on immigration
Justin Klawans President Biden’s shifting views on immigration Peter Weber America’s ‘cataclysmic’ drop in college enrollment Harold Maass Is it time to ditch the SAT? Advertisement from Wisebread Best Rewards Card of 2023 With $200 Bonus Theara Coleman China’s Xi Jinping secures unprecedented 3rd term Devika Rao Even […]
Fed Chairman Powell Lies to Congress: “the Dollar Has Held Its Value Over Time”
By Mike Gleason, Money Metals Exchange As the Fed signals further rate hikes ahead, precious metals markets are probing for support levels. Notwithstanding today’s bounce, precious metals markets have struggled after Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell delivered testimony to Congress. Powell seemed to walk back his remarks from […]
ONLY STATE SANCTIONED NARRATIVES ALLOWED!- House Dems SHILL For Censorship
House Democrats try to “kill the messenger” with personal attacks against investigative journalists, Matt Taibbi and Micheal Shellenberger, who testified today about the Government agencies colluding with Twitter executives to censor users of Twitter violating the first amendment using tax payer money. —- Thank you for watching the […]
Casual Stream #43: Class Analysis of the English Civil War
I will be joined by Keith Preston to discuss the nature of class conflict on the English Civil War for a fresh new perspective. Shout out to Censored Anon for the great thumbnails! For more information on Censored Anon For Portfolio and business inquires. https://arbalestediting.online For more art […]
‘INVADE MEXICO’: More Republicans Call For WAR
Lindsey Graham is the type of people Eisenhower warned everyone about.
How Many Died as a Result of Capitol Riot?
By Robert Farley Posted on November 1, 2021 | Updated on March 21, 2022 In a tweet on Oct. 24, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez referred to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6 as “a terror attack,” which she said resulted in “almost 10 dead.” She called for “any member […]
Leaving Phnom Penh, to Hug the Mekong, Upriver
Linh Dinh [Phnom Penh, 3/9/23] Very early tomorrow, I’ll take a $15 bus to Stung Treng, a town no one has heard of. Even those who live there are shocked to learn its name. “You mean this isn’t Cleveland, Ohio?! We wasted all these decades rooting for the […]
Cybernetics, Hamilton, and Success
Posted by Withered Rose on March 9, 2023 Politics is not metaphysics, so looking for an arche, one principle that rules all and explains all, is a wild goose chase at best, or a fatal distraction at worst. Being (with a capital “B”) is as different from […]
Does the Right need techno-Trumpism?
His vision is Reaganism with a side order of Jetsons BY Mary Harrington One of my informal metrics for political cut-through in our synapse-frazzled age is “could you play this sentence over a bass drop and have the crowd go wild?”. The last time a British politician managed […]
Watch Russel Brand AGREE With Tucker Carlson, SLAM The WOKE GRIFT Of Big Corporations
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave react to actor Russell Brand’s recent conversation with Tucker Carlson over the relationship between corporations and culture wars.
Why metalheads are happier people
Music makes us happy. Millions of people can agree on that. But heavy metal? A genre that is often described as deafening and aggressive, how is can that make people happy? Are the headbanging, beer-drinking and blackclad metal fans even happier than other people? Surely, that can’t be.But […]
Fritz the Cat at 50: The X-rated cartoon that shocked the US
By Tamlin Magee1st November 2022 Ralph Bakshi’s bawdy and outrageous 1972 film sparked controversy when it was released 50 years ago – changing animation forever, writes Tamlin Magee. A A blazer-clad student called Fritz attends drug-fuelled orgies, steals guns from corrupt cops, sets his college on fire, finds […]
Fact Check to article from Scott Adams
Robert Stark 1 hr ago Twitter comment from Scott Adams, in response to my article, How the Scott Adams Situation vindicates the case for Symmetrical Multiculturalism. READ MORE
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol to visit Japan on March 16
Top News Stories South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol to visit Japan on March 16 The meeting is expected to help mend bilateral ties, which have been impacted for years by a dispute over wartime labor. Ten years on, reconstruction tax continues to stir debate Critics have increasingly pointed […]
My Statement to Congress
In testimony to the House Judiciary Committee about the Twitter Files, a few words about why state-funded “anti-disinformation” and free speech can’t coexist Matt Taibbi 15 hr ago Editor’s note: at around 10 a.m. EST this morning, Michael Shellenberger and I will be testifying at the “Hearing on […]
Iran Discovers a Huge Deposit of Lithium
by Peter Zeihan on March 9, 2023 The Iranians have stumbled upon what every Green dreams of…a massive store of lithium ore. If the numbers prove true, it would be the 2nd largest deposit ever discovered. But is it too good to be true? Before I go crushing […]
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