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Dumbocracy Achieved: ACT Test Scores For US Students Drop To 30-Year Low
from ZeroHedge:
The government-enforced lockdown of schools and months of forced remote learning during Covid have devastated the education of America’s future leaders. New data on ACT college admissions tests shows high school students’ scores have plunged to the lowest in over three decades.
According to data published by ACT, the nonprofit organization that administers the college readiness exam, the average composite score on the ACT test fell to 19.5 for the class of 2023, a decline of .3 points from 2022. The average scores in mathematics, reading, and science subjects were below ACT College Readiness Benchmarks, indicating fewer seniors than ever are ready for college.
Fed’s Vice Chair for Supervision Says Another Financial Crisis Could Cost U.S. $5 Trillion to $25 Trillion – Potentially as Much as 100 Percent of GDP
by Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Wall St On Parade:
On Monday, Michael Barr, the Vice Chair for Supervision at the Federal Reserve, addressed a contentious issue in a speech before the American Bankers Association’s annual convention in Nashville. The topic was why federal banking regulators have proposed higher capital levels for the largest U.S. banks, those with assets over $100 billion.
As we reported on September 20, there has been aggressive pushback on the proposal from large banks, their lobbyists and their trade associations. (Community banks are not impacted by the proposal.)
Ep. 30 What’s happening at the southern border isn’t just an invasion, but a crime
Ep. 30 What's happening at the southern border isn’t just an invasion, but a crime. The politicians and NGOs responsible for it are criminals, who should be punished accordingly. pic.twitter.com/cbkTSUyogC
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) October 12, 2023
If Israel, Hezbollah And The U.S. All Do What They Say They Will Do, Prepare For The Hot Phase Of World War III
by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Blog:
Most people have no idea what is about to happen in the Middle East. The mainstream media is treating this crisis as simply a temporary conflict between Israel and Hamas that will eventually pass. But that isn’t what this is. This is the final conflict between Israel and Hamas, and it is going to spark a much wider war. Sadly, after the atrocities that Hamas has just committed, the Israelis have no choice. If U.S. women were raped and U.S. babies were ruthlessly slaughtered most Americans would feel the exact same way. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is telling us that “every member of Hamas is a dead man”, and the only way to accomplish that is to go into Gaza and kill them…
Fully Jabbed Suffering Psychosis, Violent Rage, and Hearing Voices
by Sean Adl-Tabatabai, The Peoples Voice:
All around the world, people who used to be healthy are sicker than ever before after getting the COVID jab. Their symptoms are not just physical, according to experts.
One fully jabbed person who can no longer even do his job is 60-year-old Dr. Patrick William Slater, a neurotologist. Prior to Operation Warp Speed, Slater ran a successful practice in Austin, as well as fished and hiked in his spare time.
USA DATA: CPI RED HOT AND THAT SENDS USA STOCKS LOWER
by Harvey Organ, Harvey Organ Blog:
GOLD CLOSED DOWN $3.00 TO $1870.20//SILVER WAS DOWN 19 CENTS TO $21.80//PLATINUM WAS DOWN $17.90 WHILE PALLADIUM ACCERATES ITS DOWNSPIN FALLING ANOTHER $14.95 TO $1142.40//TWO MUST COMMENTARIES TO READ TODAY: JOHN RUBINO ON THE CENTRAL BANK GOLD PURCHASES AND CHRIS POWELL ON THE HORRIFIC EVENTS INSIDE ISRAEL AND GAZA//COVID UPDATES//VACCINE UPDATES/DR PAUL ALEXANDER//SLAY NEWS/NEWS ADDICTS/EVOL NEWS//MICHAEL EVERY ANOTHER IMPORTANT COMMENTARY//EVENTS IN ISRAEL UPDATES//USA DATA: CPI RED HOT AND THAT SENDS USA STOCKS LOWER
New Study Finds Trump-Backed Hydroxychloroquine Was an Effective Covid Treatment After All
by Jack Montgomery, The National Pulse:
Coronavirus patients treated with a combination of hydroxychloroquine – furiously denounced by the media and medical establishment after then-President Donald Trump revealed he was taking it – and azithromycin enjoyed better survival rates, a study has revealed.
The study, published in the scientific journal New Microbes and New Infections, evaluated “the efficacy and safety of a treatment protocol with [a] standard dose of hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 infection” by comparing the 28-day mortality rate of 352 patients treated with the drugs to a contemporary control group of 3,533 patients who received standard care.
Did Israel Just Experience a 9/11-Style “Intelligence Failure”?
by Kevin Barrett, The Unz Review:
Probably not. Here’s why.
Yes, Israel’s failure to foresee and mitigate Operation al-Aqsa Flood was a monumental intelligence failure. But did elements of Israel’s government deliberately stand down their defense of the Gaza border wall? That’s the clear insinuation of David Ignatius’s new Washington Post article, which compares al-Aqsa Flood to the 9/11 false flag.
Ignatius, widely viewed as the CIA’s unofficial scribe, calls October 7 “Israel’s 9/11.” Ignatius asserts that the same “strange blindness” that afflicted the US national security apparatus during the run-up to 9/11 also struck Israel on October 7.
Time Is Running Out As We Witness Middle East And European Wars With Nuclear Capable Countries Taking Different Sides – Can You Survive In The Aftermath?
by Stefan Stanford, All News Pipeline:
No matter which side of the Hamas/Israel war you come down on, when we step back and look at events happening right now, including the Ukraine/Russian war which has been raging since February 2022, it is clear we are witnessing events that will alter the world as we know it.
It is not just Russia versus Ukraine, or Hamas versus Israel, nor is it Democrat versus Republican on which side of either war they come down on. It has become citizen against citizen, friend against friend, neighbor against neighbor, brother/sister against brother/sister and husband versus wife.
America and Israel Are Not Democracies
by Eric Zuesse, The Duran:
In both countries, only candidates who are approved-of by the dictatorship are allowed for their names to appear on the ballot to be voted on (selected from) by the public. This pre-approval process is just as much of a dictatorship as is any other type of dictatorship.
A series of legal cases concerning whether donors to the 2016 U.S. Democratic Party Presidential primaries campaigns of Bernie Sanders had been cheated when the Democratic National Committee (DNC) violated its public verbal commitments and rigged the delegate-allocations etc., so that Hillary Clinton would win the Party’s nomination in 2016 regardless of what the Party’s voters wanted (“Bernie v. DNC” on 18 December 2015, and “Beck v. DNC” on 28 June 2016, which turned into the ultimate ruling, “Wilding v. DNC”, on 28 October 2019). That final ruling stated (p. 19):
Hamas Hides Behind Civilians
by Martin Armstrong, Armstrong Economics:
Anyone inciting more violence does not understand that the civilians are trapped. Hamas continually hides behind civilians because they are cowards pretending to be men who attack vulnerable children and women on BOTH sides. The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed this fact shortly after the group overtook Gaza and portions of the West Bank. The Palestinian Authority reported then that Hamas militias were using civilian hospitals as their military bases. “The Ministry of Health, along with all the Palestinian people, was shocked to discover that Hamas militias have returned to their old ways and have expelled all the medical staff responding to the calls of the homeland (to continue their work.) Unfortunately, these same militias used the medical centers, especially in a number of hospitals, converting them into centers for interrogation, torture, and imprisonment,” Palestine stated in 2009. Palestine begged Hamas to “act responsibly” and leave these medical centers, but Hamas is more powerful than the actual government.
The Myth of the Invincible Dollar
by Michael Maharrey, Schiff Gold:
I write a lot about the national debt.
And most people don’t care.
That’s because there’s a widespread belief that the dollar is invincible.
It isn’t.
The prevailing attitude is that the US government can borrow and spend indefinitely. After all, it hasn’t caused a problem so far. But a long fuse can burn for a long time before it finally reaches the powder keg.
