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EXCLUSIVE: Firm Tied To China’s Military Industrial Complex Plans To Roll Out Massive Battery Chemical Plants In U.S.

By The Daily Caller The Chinese manufacturer of chemicals for electric vehicle batteries planning to build two U.S. factories has long-standing ties to China’s military industrial complex, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found. Capchem Technology USA, the wholly-owned subsidiary of China-based Shenzhen Capchem Technology (Capchem), plans to build factories in both Ohio and Louisiana that would […]

Islamic Terror State Wants to Buy James Bond

By Jihad Watch After buying The King, Qatar wants to buy Bond. Is there anywhere that Qatar, the Islamic terror state which has its bloody fingers in everything from Hamas to the Afghanistan collapse to Al Jazeera to 9/11 isn’t? What about Hollywood? Daniel Craig is looking for money in the desert; the financiers in […]

The Truth about Van Raalten Import

By Matthys van Raalten When I was a student at the University of Amsterdam, I needed an income. I had work at the flower auction in Aalsmeer, but I wanted more in life. That’s why I decided to start my own company. I soon knew that I wanted to import good olive oil from Umbria […]

A Tale Of Two Johns As SPEC [A John Kerry Tale]

By Duggan Flanakin Leave it to Joe Biden. When the 80-year-old plutocrat John Forbes Kerry steps down as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC), he chose 75-year-old John David Podesta, Jr., to finish out the year. The two climate czars could not have come from more different beginnings. For his self-important mission to “save the […]

Arizona Congressmen Call On IRS To Not Tax State Rebate

By Cameron Arcand March 17, 2024/in Arizona News, Economy, Featured, Latest News, Personal Finance, Politics/by Cameron Arcand Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute The chorus of voices in opposition to the Internal Revenue Service’s taxation of a state rebate many Arizona families received last year continues to grow. On Wednesday, U.S. Reps. David Schweikert, Greg […]

Poll after Poll Shows Biden Losing to Trump

By Family Research Council As November draws steadily closer, yet another poll is showing support for former president Donald Trump surging ahead of support for incumbent Joe Biden. According to a HarrisX poll conducted in the days following Biden’s State of the Union address, Trump is leading Biden by five percentage points (46% to 41%), with 13% […]

Biden Admin Hands Out $500 Million For Oil Drilling In Middle East

By Dr. Rich Swier The Biden administration is providing financing for oil development in the Middle East after taking numerous steps to restrict domestic production, according to Bloomberg News. The U.S. Export-Import Bank — a nominally independent government entity that aims to boost the American economy “by facilitating the export of U.S. goods and services” […]

Killing A Mosquito With A Bazooka [Corporate Transparency Act]

By Bruce Bialosky You have probably seen a cop show where there is a company owned by an entity that is owned by another entity to hide the real owners. A perfect example of someone using what can be referred to as “shell companies” is Hunter Biden having more than 20 of them. Congress wants […]

House Passes Bill That Forces Chinese Parent Company To Sell TikTok

By The Daily Caller The House of Representatives passed legislation on Wednesday that would force Chinese company ByteDance to sell TikTok in order for the social media app to be allowed to operate in the U.S. The Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act advanced from the House Energy and Commerce Committee by a unanimous vote […]

The Great Ponzi Scheme

By Daniel J. Mitchell and Leslie Rubin The fiscal burden of the United States is getting seriously out of hand. The United States is in fiscal trouble. The burden of government spending has increased by nearly $3 trillion over the past 10 years—nearly doubling in just one decade! And that means more resources are diverted […]

DEI is Dying. And It’s About Time!

By MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities Wall Street‘s DEI Retreat Has Officially Begun. As DEI gets more divisive, companies are ditching their teams. These are not headlines I thought I’d be reading in 2024, but it’s a happy day when legacy news sites as hegemonic as Bloomberg and The Washington Post are using such clear language to flag the […]

Biden Admin Sent ‘Hate Group’ List of Conservative Orgs to Banks after J6

By Family Research Council Last week, it came to light that the Biden administration provided a listing of “hate groups,” which lumped together mainstream conservative organizations alongside avowed neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups, to major U.S. banks for the purpose of monitoring financial transactions in the wake of the January 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol. Experts […]

A Lesson for America: Green Policies Crush German Economy

By Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Alexander Frei Germany’s gross domestic product has been falling since the third quarter of 2022, causing fears of the first 2-yearlong recession since the early 2000s. German farmers are openly protesting new climate regulations that would raise the price of diesel fuel, vital for tractors and farm machinery. This discontent is mirrored by the […]

What If A Market Roared And Nobody Heard It?

By Neland Nobel We all know about new highs in the Dow Jones Industrials, the NASDAQ, and the S&P 500. The market has been driven higher by a mere handful of very large tech companies. Some of the indices are already up 8% or so, just in the first two months of the year.  The […]

Americans Chip Away at Corporate Wokeness with Doritos Win [Video]

By Family Research Council It took Frito-Lay 63 years to build a $13 billion dollar empire. This week, 50 seconds almost destroyed it. That’s how close the brand came to corporate annihilation after its Doritos team posted a short video with a trans influencer that makes Dylan Mulvaney look like a youth pastor. Turns out, […]

PERKINS: State of Faith, Family, and Freedom Address

By Family Research Council  TRANSCRIPT I am Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C., with this year’s State of Faith, Family, and Freedom in America. The apostle Peter wrote to believers who had been scattered because of the persecution of the early church, instructing them to “always be prepared to […]

U.S. Economy LOST 1.87 Million Full Time Jobs In Past 3 Months

By The Geller Report Every month, the Biden regime’s job report is revised DOWN by 20-50%. It bears noting that it’s the government sector that continues to dominate the new jobs reports. Rich Baris posts: “Another MASSIVE downward revision to the prior monthly jobs report. These people are lying to us, and covering their tracks […]

Congress Overspends, but the Fed Inflates

By Alexander William Salter Writing in The American Conservative, Rep. Josh Brecheen (R-OK) recently blamed inflation on irresponsible fiscal policy. He cites a barrage of statistics on the magnitude of the national debt, the looming insolvency of Social Security and Medicare, and the burdens high prices create for American households. Rep. Brecheen is partly right: perpetual deficits are […]

More Deception from Once Reliable Medical Sources: Paxlovid — Part 2

By John Droz, Jr. Please read Part 1 here. As bad as the multiple failings in the Johns Hopkins article I outlined in Part 1 were, there is an even greater abdication of medical responsibility by Johns Hopkins. Their Mission Statement says: “The mission of Johns Hopkins Medicine is to improve the health of the community and the world […]

At Last! A new bill in Congress to hold Big Pharma companies responsible for Covid vaccine injuries!

By Cherie Zaslawsky Hats off to Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, for authoring this bill! While so many of us have been sounding the alarm over the experimental mRNA Covid “vaccines” and fighting localized battles as we were able, Rep. Chip Roy’s bill may be the colossal breakthrough we’ve all been praying for! Not only would […]

The Myth of National Defense Spending

By David Brady,Jr. Editors’ Note: Without discussing the wisdom of Ukraine’s military aid, the author is correct in taking on the persistent myth that defense spending is always good for the economy. Instead, it diverts resources that would have been spent by consumers and businesses and directs resources into things that are either blown up […]

Worst Monthly Spike of “Core Services” PCE Inflation in 22 Years, and Not Just Housing: Powell’s Gonna Have Another Cow

By Wolf Richter Core services inflation dished up bad head fakes last time we had this mess in 1966-1982. Mention of a rate hike crops up in a Fed speech. Over the past year or so, the Fed has been intensely discussing inflation in “core services,” which is where inflation had shifted to in 2022, […]

Historic Business Remington Flees New York For Georgia After 208 Years

By The Geller Report Remington is leaving Ilion, N.Y., ‘after two centuries, abandoning upstate for a gleaming new factory in Georgia. With it goes the village’s identity.’  so wrote the New York Times. NY village ‘losing its soul’ as nation’s oldest gun manufacturer flees blue state for Georgia Remington is the nation’s oldest gun manufacturer “Two […]

More Deception from Once Reliable Medical Sources: Paxlovid, Part 1

By John Droz, Jr. If we can’t trust Johns Hopkins, what established sources are left? I was periodically updating my webpage on the effectiveness of all the popular COVID early treatment options, and came across this current article: Feel free to read it, but be forewarned that it is woefully deceptive. I can understand that when Paxlovid first came […]

Javier Milei Delivers Argentina’s First Surplus in Over a Decade—and U.S. Media is Silent

By MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities Argentines witnessed something amazing last week: the government’s first budget surplus in nearly a dozen years. The Economy Ministry announced the figures Friday, and the government was $589 million in the black. Argentina’s surplus comes on the heels of ambitious cuts in federal spending pushed by newly-elected President Javier […]

Historic Business Remington Flees New York For Georgia After 200 Years

By The Geller Report Remington is leaving Ilion, N.Y., ‘after two centuries, abandoning upstate for a gleaming new factory in Georgia. With it goes the village’s identity.’  so wrote the New York Times. NY village ‘losing its soul’ as nation’s oldest gun manufacturer flees blue state for Georgia Remington is the nation’s oldest gun manufacturer “Two […]

The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America, Feb 2024 Update: 20-City Index Drops for 2nd Month from Double-Top.

By Wolf Richter These double-tops are weird. Prices coming off the second top. Only Miami home prices hit a new high. The overall home price index for the 20 metros that today’s S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Index covers declined by 0.6% from the prior month, the second month in a row of declines. The index […]

Poll Shows Biden Unpopular among Voters as Immigration, Inflation Worsen

By Family Research Council A sprawling new survey is revealing that voters are getting sick of the Biden administration, and Trump’s popularity is holding strong. According to the latest Harvard CAPS/Harris poll, President Joe Biden’s approval rating is floundering, underwater at 45% (23% strongly approve, 22% somewhat approve), with his disapproval rate (39% strongly disapprove, 15% […]

Are You Sick and Tired of Sending Your Tax Dollars to a Federal Government that Doesn’t Give Damn about You?

By Dr. Rich Swier As we the tax paying citizens of America approach the 2024 tax season, we are witnessing a growing anger against the federal government. Washington, D.C. doesn’t give a damn about you, they just want your money to spend on everything and anything that keeps them in power. All three branches of […]

The introduction of Corporate Fascism in The Netherlands

By Matthys van Raalten 13 years ago, Mr. Mark Rutte started to govern in my country Holland as Prime Minister. Though he is a member of the Dutch Conservative Party, he’s in his heart not for individual freedom at all. Right now, he is at the end of his last term. Elections for a new […]