November 22, 2024 No Comments Markets
Via Remix News, Data from the German federal government shows that the overwhelming majority of those receiving welfare payments, known as citizen’s money in Germany, have a foreign background. The statistics from the Federal Employment Agency (BA), provided to Welt newspaper, show that of the more than 4 million people who can work but receive social […]
November 22, 2024 No Comments Markets
On Thursday Moscow issued a fresh warning to the US and West, following Washington and London giving the greenlight for Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles against Russian territory, which at this point has already happened in at least two instances (separate cross-border attacks using the US ATACMS and UK Storm Shadows). Russia has said a […]
November 22, 2024 No Comments Markets
Authored by Pepe Escobar, At the APEC annual summit in Lima, Comrade Xi Jinping was practically coronated as the King of Peru, as a lively moveable feast celebrated the brand new $1.3 billion Chancay-Shanghai Maritime Silk Road across the Pacific. There could hardly be a more auspicious counterpart to the action in South America than […]
November 22, 2024 No Comments Markets
Authored by Eva Fu and Cara Ding via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A Chinese agent who tried to bribe the IRS and manipulate the agency into advancing Beijing’s transnational repression of a U.S. nonprofit has received a 20-month prison sentence. U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in White Plains on […]
November 22, 2024 No Comments Markets
Threats to safety in the U.S. range from health crises and natural disasters to financial challenges like unaffordable mortgages, lack of health insurance, and inflation. While no place is risk-free, the level of danger we face often depends on where we live. This map, via Visual Capitalist’s Kayla Zhu, visualizes the 50 safest cities in […]
November 22, 2024 No Comments Markets
Authored by Jonathan Draeger via RealClearPolitics, Over 30 lawsuits, modeled after the tobacco cases of the 1990s, have been filed by state, county, and city attorneys against energy companies seeking damages for the alleged effects of greenhouse gas emissions. An important factor in these lawsuits is the role of third-party funding and nonprofit activists working […]
November 22, 2024 No Comments Markets
Authored by Rachel Ann T. Melegrito via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The shirt on your back, the carpet beneath your feet, and the takeout container from last night’s dinner share a troubling secret: They’re slowly breaking down into invisible particles that are turning up everywhere from Mount Everest’s peak to your bloodstream. Kwangmoozaa/Shutterstock These […]
November 22, 2024 No Comments Markets
Authored by Adam Ellwanger via RealClearEducation, Imagine these words as the first speech delivered by the incoming Secretary of Education. Today, I am here to deliver bitter medicine: American education has failed. Teachers and parents, administrators and government—and even students—all bear some responsibility. The most common explanations for our educational crisis are inadequate funding, overuse […]
November 22, 2024 No Comments Markets
The release of ChatGPT in the fall of 2022 and the many AI-powered tools that followed in its tracks have sparked an excitement around artificial intelligence that sometimes feels like a 21st century gold rush. “AI is transforming every industry, company and country,” Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia said this week. But, as Statista’s Felix […]
November 22, 2024 No Comments Markets
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, During a discussion with Joe Rogan, former Green Beret Evan Hafer, noted that if president-elect Trump decides to go to war with the cartels he could opt to use US Special Forces to destroy them. Hafer noted “if we declare war on the cartel, these dudes are not going to […]