by Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds:
By this terminal stage, the competent have been driven out, quit or burned out.
What happens with the competent retire, burn out or opt out? It’s a question few bother to ask because the base assumption is that there is an essentially limitless pool of competent people who can be tapped or trained to replace those who retire, burn out or opt out, i.e. quit in favor of a lifestyle that doesn’t require much in the way of income or stress.
by Laurel Duggan, The Daily Caller:
by Jon Forrest Little, Silver Seek:
Last week, Citigroup analysts published a report calling for silver to reach $30 per ounce within 9 months.
Could Citigroup be exaggerating or on target? Today’s silver spot price is about $23.50 per ounce; so a move to $30.00 would be a 28% jump.
Let’s look at a few data sets that augur for higher silver prices…
by Robert Lambourne, Gold Seek:
From the information contained in the recently published March 31 and April 30 statements of account of the Bank for International Settlements —
https://www.bis.org/banking/balsheet/statofacc230331.pdf
https://www.bis.org/banking/balsheet/statofacc230430.pdf
— the bank’s gold swaps can be estimated at 78 tonnes as of March 31 and 135 tonnes at April 30. These compare to the 136 tonnes estimated as of February 28.
by Kyle Becker, Becker News:
According to a recent study published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly everyone in the United States has some form of protection against COVID-19.
The new CDC study analyzed blood donations from 142,748 individuals aged 16 and older between July and September 2022. The researchers found that 96.4 percent of the donors had evidence of antibodies against COVID-19, indicating prior infection, vaccination, or both.
by Christina Maas, Reclaim The Net:
Google Wallet, the Android version of the Wallet app on iPhones, has started supporting digital IDs and driver’s licenses. The company said the feature will begin rolling out this month, supporting the growing global push to get citizens to adopt digital ID measures.
Maryland residents can use the feature immediately, but residents in Colorado, Georgia, and Arizona will get the feature “in the coming months.” The feature will require Android 8.0 and above.
by Rhoda Wilson, Expose News:
The New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs has released a consultation document containing proposed changes to censorship procedures. Read a sobering commentary by the Free Speech Union HERE.
The proposals include the appointment of a chief regulator who will be empowered to decide whether online content – including social media posts – is “harmful.” To do so, he will be empowered to make up his own “guidelines” without the input of parliament. The proposals will also allow fines exceeding NZ$200,000 to be levied on those who don’t comply with his ideas.
by Brian Shilhavy, Health Impact News:
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published a warning to consumers this past week stating that funds held in popular online payment apps, such as Paypal, Cash App, and Venmo, lack FDIC insurance and should be transferred to “insured banks and credit unions.”
by Alex Berenson, Unreported Truths:
Just what America needs.
Another Covid hysteric running the Centers for Disease Control.
Proving it has learned all the wrong lessons since 2021, the Biden Administration is about to choose Dr. Mandy Cohen to replace Dr. Rochelle Walensky as director of the Centers for Disease Control.
Cohen shares the same health authoritarian impulses as Walensky. She supported mask and vaccine mandates – and lockdowns even in 2021. But she is apparently more bureaucratically competent, and thus more dangerous, than Walensky.
from Moonbattery:
Until such a time as Democrats can pack the Supreme Court and thereby render the Constitution moot, the First Amendment limits the political censorship that can be imposed directly by the federal government. So censorship is outsourced to NGOs and the leftist authoritarians who control universities — although taxpayers still pick up the tab:
