from The Post Millenial:
On Tuesday, it was revealed that Fox News’ settlement with Dominion Voting Systems over claims made in 2020 about the company’s voting machines’ role in the presidential election was the reason why former Fox News host Tucker Carlson was taken off the air.
Two people briefed on the conversation told Axios that Carlson had been told by a Fox board member that he was taken off the air abruptly last month as part of the settlement with Dominion Voting Systems.
by Daniel Greenfield, FrontPageMag:
The one thing we’ve learned from the pandemic is that we’ve learned nothing from the pandemic.
Peter Daszak, whose EcoHealth Alliance had moved millions in grants from the National Institutes of Health to study bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, thanked Fauci for protecting the lab.
Daszak offered Fauci a “personal thank you on behalf of our staff and collaborators” for backing “a natural origin for COVID-19 from a bat-to-human spillover, not a lab release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” The entire middle part of the email was curiously redacted. It’s unclear if the collaborators would have included the Chinese scientists laboring away in Wuhan.
by Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Wall St On Parade:
The systemic threats to the U.S. financial system were not remedied when Congress passed the watered-down Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation in 2010. While that has been evident with each Federal Reserve bailout of the mega banks and their derivative counterparties, the threat has now gained increased urgency for Congress to confront as a result of a new academic study. A team of four highly-credentialed academics at four separate universities present compelling evidence that one of the four largest U.S. banks, with “assets above $1 trillion,” could be at risk of a bank run.
by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Blog:
Those that are wrecking our economy don’t seem to have much empathy for the millions upon millions of people that they are hurting. As you will see below, one Fed official is actually suggesting that interest rates may need to go even higher even though the interest rate hikes that we have already seen are turning lives upside down all over the country. Everywhere you look people are in severe pain, but this is only just the beginning. And I would encourage you not to ever look down on those that have had a run of bad fortune, because it could happen to you too.
by Harley Schlanger, LaRouche Organization:
Only the most ignorant can accept the words of Fed Chairman Powell that the banking system is “fundamentally strong.” In reality, nearly half the banks in the U.S. are insolvent, due to the collapse of the physical economy. The collapse of the German economy, under Green deindustrialization policies, is moving even faster. Yet, instead of addressing this, NATO governments are lunging into a war against Russia and a possible war against China. Lyndon LaRouche presented an alternative in 2000, which much of the world is moving towards now, i.e., rejecting neo-liberal monetarism and adopting Hamiltonian credit policies, to upgrade physical economic production. Here is a link to his prescient article from July 18, 2000.
by Kerry Lutz, Financial Survival Network:
John Rubino explains that regional and local banks are still facing a banking crisis due to bonds on their balance sheets and commercial real estate losses. He also discusses how the experts have failed to manage the economy, leading to instability and mistrust. Finally, he suggests that markets should dictate policy instead of dictators.
John and Kerry discussed the potential of a movie script featuring two presidential candidates running from prison, as well as the implications of Fox News firing Tucker Carlson, who was a popular truth-teller. They also discussed the possibility of Carlson leaving Fox to make more money and the potential of a three-letter agency being involved in JFK’s assassination.
by Harvey Organ, Harvey Organ Blog:
ALL PRECIOUS METALS HAVE A GREAT DAY TODAY: GOLD CLOSED UP $9.70 TO $2035.50, SILVER WAS UP 7 CENTS TO $25.64 AFTER BEING DOWN ALL DAY//PLATINUM WAS UP $29.00 TO $1108.25//PALLADIUM WAS UP $14.70 TO $1570.20//COVID UPDATES//DR PAUL ALEXANDER//VACCINE IMPACT//SLAY NEWS//VACCINE DEATHS AMONG YOUNG CHILDREN//DEBT CEILING MEETING IS TODAY BETWEEN BIDEN AND MCCARTHY//CRE CONTAGION SPREADS TO SWEDEN WITH ITS LARGEST REAL ESTATE CONGLOMERATE SHREDDED TO PIECES AS ITS BONDS GO TO JUNK AND ITS DIVIDEND SUSPENDED//BIDEN AGAIN DELAYS FILLING UP HIS SPR//TROUBLE IN PAKISTAN AS OPPOSITION LEADER KHAN ARRESTED AND THAT COULD LEAD TO CIVIL WAR IN THAT COUNTRY
by Martin Jay, Strategic Culture:
What the hell is going on in Mali? Many will be asking this question as to the future of the UN’s mission there, after Germany just announced that intends to withdraw its troops from the mission
What the hell is going on in Mali? Many will be asking this question as to the future of the UN’s mission there, after Germany just announced that intends to withdraw its troops from the mission
According to newswire reports, the German government said on May 3rd it had decided to end its participation in the UN mission in Mali by next May over problems, it claims, with the ruling junta.
by Stefan Stanford, All News Pipeline:
The stories over at Substack the last several days from numerous different authors are absolutely alarming and tell a story that must be told considering the mainstream media won’t touch these with a 50-foot pole and instead, are helping the anti-America terrorists/squatters sitting in the White House, Congress and the Pentagon wage a deadly war upon the American people, now aimed at your children and mine.
by Joseph P. Farrell, Giza Death Star:
I may or may not be seeing things correctly, so that’s why I’m filing this one under the “You Tell Me” category. But the way I’m seeing this is that the state of Texas seems to be leading some sort of “revolt of the states”. It began some years ago with Texas starting its state bullion depository, placing the state out in front of other states that had already passed “constitutional money” resolutions recognizing gold and silver as legal tender. Texas, by starting its own state bullion depository, took practical action to give those resolutions teeth, and now a number of other states are adding teeth to their resolutions, including exemptions from taxes and Wyoming took the unprecedented step of passing laws requiring the state to accept specie in payment of taxes. My point with all of this has been that as that federal-enclave- of incompetence and bottomless corruption called Swampington, DC, an enclave surrounded by an unfortunate circumstance called reality, continues to print money at throw it at the Ukraine, the cultural divide in the country continues, and its becoming more and more clear that the two sides of that divide are mutually incompatible.
by Peter Schiff, Schiff Gold:
After a record-setting 2022, central banks continued to buy gold in the first quarter of 2023, setting a new Q1 record.
Overall, global central bank gold reserves increased by 228 tons through the first three months of 2023. This was 38% higher than the previous first-quarter record set in 2013.
Total central bank gold buying in 2022 came in at 1,136 tons. It was the highest level of net purchases on record dating back to 1950, including since the suspension of dollar convertibility into gold in 1971. It was the 13th straight year of net central bank gold purchases.
