FiveMemeFri - The Man Behind Trump’s VP Pick: It’s Worse Than You Think (Whitney Webb)
PLUS Sugar Daddy of Trump’s VP Pick Has Deep Ties to CIA
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We have updated our JD Vance - CIA "Created Legend" Meme now that he has been elevated to Trump's Vice Presidential pick. The fact-check page with references will be updated tomorrow. For those that missed last week's issue and our article: Trump "Picks" CIA/CNN-Connected “Created Legend” JD Vance as Vice President... After Vance Called him a "Total Fraud" & "America's Hitler", the Art of Liberty Foundation fingered Vance as an intelligence agency "Created Legend," CIA "Mockingbird Media" CNN commentator and CIA-installed politician in the 5th edition of "Government" - The Biggest Scam in History... Exposed! He was the only politician to appear in three separate "one-pagers" in the book and I am predicting that he will be installed as a CIA puppet President in 2028.
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In this issue we are featuring two articles by other investigative journalists breaking down JD Vance's connection to CIA contractor Peter Thiel including Whitney Webb's article: The Man Behind Trump’s VP Pick: It’s Worse Than You Think and an article from Covert Action Magazine: Sugar Daddy of Trump’s VP Pick Has Deep Ties to CIA. I am also including a FLASHBACK article: Israel-linked CIA-funded Palantir goes public, making espionage mainstream to bring folks up to speed on Thiel. When CIA Peter Thiel... err JD Vance is installed as puppet President in 2028, Remember where you heard it first!
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During Benjamin Netenyahu's speech to the US Congress, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian American in Congress, held up a sign that read "war criminal" on one side and "guilty of genocide" on the other while the rest of the organized crime Congress gave him standing ovation after standing ovation...
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Sugar Daddy of Trump’s VP Pick Has Deep Ties to CIA
Etienne Note: Please see our article: Trump "Picks" CIA/CNN-Connected “Created Legend” JD Vance as Vice President... After Vance Called him a "Total Fraud" & "America's Hitler" for more information on “Created Legend” JD Vance.
by Jérémy Kuzmarov
Surging in the polls after surviving an assassination attempt, Donald Trump boosted his prospects of becoming the next president by nominating J. D. Vance as his vice president.
Vance is an Ohio Senator whose best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy positioned him as a politician who could empathize with people living in poverty in the Rust Belt.
Hillbilly Elegy recounted Vance’s upbringing in a poor family that also served as a sort of sociological examination of white working-class Americans.
Less well known about Vance is his intricate ties to billionaire Peter Thiel, who has enabled Vance’s political career.
According to The San Francisco Standard, it was Thiel who, in 2017, hired Vance to work at his Silicon Valley Mithril Capital firm and later invested heavily in Vance’s firm, Narya Capital.
The Man Behind Trump’s VP Pick: It’s Worse Than You Think
By Whitney Webb
After the recent revelation that Donald Trump had selected J.D. Vance as his Vice President, public attention not only turned toward Vance, but also to the billionaire Peter Thiel. Vance has been one of several prominent Thiel protégés whose profile has risen in recent years, with other protégés of the PayPal co-founder including OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey.
Recent reports have also noted that Thiel first recruited Vance into his circle while Vance was still a student at Yale Law School. Shortly thereafter, Vance joined Thiel’s investment firm Mithril Capital, where he worked for two years before joining Revolution Ventures. Vance played a major role in Revolution’s “Rise of the Rest” seed fund whose major investors included Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and the Walton family of WalMart, who boast long-standing deep ties to the Clinton family. Vance later launched his own venture capital firm Narya Capital in 2020, which was heavily funded by Thiel as well as former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
Videos of the Week
Video: DEA Caught Red-Handed: Airport Intimidation
At airports across the U.S., Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents confront flyers as they are boarding flights and ask to search carry-on items. These interactions are supposed to be consensual.
"Government", Media and Academia
Criminality Exposed
Subscribe on Telegram: These articles also appears in “Government”, Media and Academia Criminality Exposed, A digest of HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of articles exposing and suggesting inter-generational organized crime's control of the "Government," Media and Academia by the Art of Liberty Foundation. You can view the other articles or subscribe on Telegram: https://t.me/Government_Scams
Sen. Bob Menendez guilty of taking bribes in cash and gold and acting as Egypt’s foreign agent
Etienne Note: This article also appears in “Government”, Media and Academia Criminality Exposed, A digest of HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of articles exposing and suggesting inter-generational organized crime's control of the "Government," Media and Academia by the Art of Liberty Foundation. You can view the other articles or subscribe on Telegram: https://t.me/Government_Scams
By Larry Neumeister And Philip Marcelo
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez was convicted of all charges Tuesday in a sweeping corruption trial in which he was accused of accepting bribes of gold and cash from three New Jersey businessmen and acting as an agent for the Egyptian government.
A jury in Manhattan deliberated for parts of three days before finding the Democrat guilty of 16 crimes, including bribery, extortion, honest services fraud, obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
Prosecutor said he abused the power of his office to protect allies from criminal investigations and enrich associates, including his wife, through acts that included meeting with Egyptian intelligence officials and softening his position toward that country as he speeded its access to millions of dollars in U.S. military aid...
"Daily News of The Week
Illegals Getting SSNs Within Four Months of Crossing Border
by Greg Reese
Over the past few years illegal immigrants have been given US bank debit cards from the United Nations. Reportedly, one-point-six billion dollars.
Catholic Charities have been managing the illegal invasion at the southern border. Spending millions while profiting billions. And the local police admit that they are under their direction.
Richard Poisso of Chicago reported that that these illegals are getting Social Security cards within four months of crossing the southern border.
Joe Biden opposes the SAVE Act, which would require proof of citizenship to vote for him this November. Without having to provide proof of citizenship, a social security card and a drivers license will certainly suffice. Voter fraud may not be necessary if thirty million UN migrants can vote.
Bird Flu Concern Prompts U.S. to Award Moderna $176 Million for Vaccine Development + More
By Children's Health Defense
The Defender's Big Pharma Watch delivers the latest headlines related to pharmaceutical companies and their products, including vaccines, drugs, and medical devices and treatments. The views expressed in the below excerpts from other news sources do not necessarily reflect the views of The Defender. Our goal is to provide readers with breaking news that affects human health and the environment.
Bird Flu Concern Prompts U.S. to Award Moderna $176 Million for Vaccine Development
Reuters reported:
The U.S. government has awarded $176 million to Moderna (MRNA.O) to advance the development of its bird flu vaccine, the company said on Tuesday, as concerns rise over a multi-state outbreak of H5N1 virus in dairy cows and infections of three dairy workers since March.
Shares of the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company rose more than 2% to $118.32 in early trade.
VAERS data shows Moderna causes 30% more deaths per dose than Pfizer
by Steve Kirsch's newsletter
Ernest Ramirez on X: "My good byes to my Baby Boy 💔💔💔 https://t.co/TQsbhG3aqp" / X
We FINALLY have the gold-standard official state government data that proves the mRNA vaccines increased all-cause mortality. The younger were disproportionately affected. So many children were killed due to the negligence of the FDA and CDC who refuse to look at the safety evidence like the Czech Republic data.
Executive summary
In this article, I want to prove to you that Moderna generates 30% more death reports in VAERS than Pfizer.
There is no way you can explain this other than the Moderna shots were more deadly than the Pfizer shots.
This is very important because in my next article, I’m going to show you gold-standard evidence that the VAERS data was the canary in the coal mine that everyone in mainstream medicine chose to ignore.
Neuralink Will Offer Telepathy and then Brain Control of Teslabots
by Brian Wang
Neuralink will double the bandwidth of its devices with more accurate placement of the threads into the brain. The next generation device will have 3000 channels. The company’s first system, called Telepathy, centers around 64 threads that are inserted directly into the brain. The threads are thinner than a human hair and record neural signals through 1,024 electrodes. They will double the bandwidth with minimal modifications. The next generation device will be about 25-50 times the bandwidth.
They want to go from 10 bits per second to megabits and eventually gigabit is possible.
If someone who does not have the of their arms, then telepathic control of a Teslabot would let someone disabled scratch themselves and feed themselves. It could communicate to any device with a bluetooth connection. It could connect to a powered wheelchair or a smartphone.
Inflatable house delivers quick comfort to your camping adventures
By Michael Franco
Inspired by the technology behind super-strong kite-surfing wings, French company Exod has developed the Air Station POD-01, a portable, inflatable housing solution. The capsule inflates in five minutes and has enough room for up to four people.
While tents have gotten quicker to put up over the years, they still typically involve some arcane origami involving poles and elastic. Exod is taking a different approach to housing in the great outdoors by using air to support its structures.
In 2020, the company ran a successful Kickstarter campaign for Ark, an inflatable hammock/tent that used inflatable beams to provide a support frame for a two-person camping solution that could be placed on the ground or suspended in the trees. A couple of years later, Exod paired things down with the release of Monolith, a one-person inflatable that was also equally comfortable on the forest floor or suspended in midair.
NATO Pushing for War with Russia Amid Unofficial Peace Talks
By Greg Reese
Washington announced plans to station “developmental hypersonic weapons” in Europe and Germany’s defense minister announced plans to deploy US long-range missiles. To target Russia.
The weapons deployed in Germany will include the Tomahawk cruise missile, which has an effective range of 2,400km and can strike Moscow.
Moscow’s Deputy Foreign Minister said “Without nerves, without emotions, we will develop, first of all, a military response to this new game.”
The German government is attempting to reintroduce a military draft to make Germany ‘war ready’ by 2025. With zero evidence, they make the radical claim that Russia is planning to invade Europe. But it was NATO forces that overthrew the government of Ukraine in 2014. It was NATO forces that were operating bio-weapons labs around the Russian border. And it was NATO forces that sabotaged the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. So far, Russia’s actions have shown calculated restraint. They understand that NATO is trying to provoke a major response. And eventually, NATO actions will demand one.
World’s first mobile bricklayer robot that boosts construction speed enters US
by Prabhat Ranjan Mishra
The world’s first bricklayer robot that’s capable of safely working outdoors in uncontrolled environments has arrived in the United States. Hadrian X can build the walls of a house in situ in as little as a day.
The giant machine is in the U.S. and once unloaded from the ship and cleared of customs, the next-generation Hadrian X will be transported to a facility in Fort Myers, Florida, according to reports.
The company claims that the next-generation Hadrian X is designed with distributed control architecture, leading to a highly reliable system which allows for individual modules to be customised, repaired and swapped efficiently.
Lengthened 32 metre telescopic boom arm provides further reach than its predecessor, enabling construction of walls three storeys high from the roadside as well as the ability to lay blocks within 50mm of existing walls, according to the company.
Southwest Airlines is teaming up with Archer to give passengers electric flying taxis
by Benjamin Zhang
The two companies signed an agreement on Friday that would allow Southwest Airlines customers to use Archer's Midnight electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft as a speedy means of getting to and from airports in the future.
"This is a pretty huge deal for us and the industry," Archer Aviation chief commercial officer Nikhil Goel told Business Insider. "This is the first time Southwest has done anything like this, and so at this point, we're working with two of the biggest airlines in the US and three of the five largest airlines in the world by market cap."
Kevin Carter/Getty Images
Archer has also been working with United Airlines, which ordered $1 billion worth of the company's Midnight eVTOL aircraft for similar use in 2021.
The firm has inked deals internationally, as well. Interglobe Enterprises, the parent company of India's largest airline, IndiGo, signed an agreement in late 2023 with Archer that includes the purchase of 200 Midnight eVTOL aircraft for air taxi service in India.
Avian flu virus H5N1: No proof for existence, pathogenicity, or pandemic potential; non-“H5N1” causation omitted
by Sasha Latypova
I was shocked to find this excellent and concise paper in peer review:
Med Hypotheses. 2006; 66(4): 855–857.
Published online 2005 Dec 20. doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.11.007
Short summary of the paper: pandemic potential avian flu H5N1 virus was determined a fake promoted by WHO, CDC, Robert Koch Institute and Friedrich Loeffler Institute in 2006.
The paper is easy to read by a non-expert, that I am reproducing it here entirely:
WHO, CDC, Robert Koch Institute (RKI), and Friedrich Loeffler Institute (FLI) claim that H5N1 (avian flu virus) is “highly contagious”. Further, Reinhard Kurth, president of RKI, says that H5N1 “threatens potentially all six billion people on earth”.
We identified four fundamental questions underlying these claims and requested supporting studies from FLI (which according to the German Government “possesses virus isolates of H5N1”):
Cyberattacks: A New False Flag Frontier
by Kit Klarenberg
At the start of June, Admiral Robert Bauer, head of NATO’s military committee, announced that the military alliance had finalised plans to recognise state-backed cyberattacks on its members as a dedicated pretext for activating Article 5. Reportedly “a joint decision of all allies,” from now on, foreign hacking blitzes can be countered with a collective NATO response, up to and including military measures. Bauer’s disclosure passed the media by entirely - but this is a seismic development, heralding a modern, digital form of ‘false flag’.
Article 5, which provides for collective defence in the event a NATO member is attacked, was a core component of the military alliance’s founding treaty. While it has been invoked just once - by the US, in the wake of 9/11, to invade Afghanistan - there have been efforts to spark it before and since. Most recently, in November 2022, the government of Ukraine falsely declared a missile fired by Kiev that struck Poland, killing two people, was Russian in origin.
Elon Musk Pledges Staggering Sum Of Money To Elect Trump
by YourDestinationNow
X owner Elon Musk has pledged that he will give a new super PAC supporting former President Donald Trump tens of millions of dollars per month.
The Wall Street Journal reported Musk that is committing to giving $45 million a month to America PAC. Other major backers of the PAC include Palantir Technologies co-founder Joe Lonsdale, the Winklevoss twins, former U.S. ambassador Kelly Craft and her husband, Joe Craft, who is the CEO of Alliance Resource Partners, the report said.
The political action committee is focused on “registering voters and persuading constituents to vote early and request mail-in ballots in swing states,” the report said, adding that the group wanted to neutralize the massive advantage Democrats have had for years with their “get out the vote” campaigns.
Allstate seeks 34% rate hike for California homeowners; State Farm threatens to exit without price increases.
by CWR
Allstate is seeking an increase in its California homeowners insurance premiums by an average of 34%.
According to the California Department of Insurance, the Allstate homeowners filing was received by the Department on April 14, 2023. The initial rate request was 39.6%. Consumer Watchdog petitioned to intervene in July 2023. In January of this year, Allstate amended their rate request to 34.1%. According to a reports, it would be the largest rate increase this year and would impact more than 350,000 policyholders.
“This is a complicated rate filing where Allstate is switching complex wildfire models and introducing its wildfire mitigation discounts in compliance with the commissioner’s Safer From Wildfires regulation,” a CDI statement reads. “The rate filing is currently under review by the Department.”
Flashback: Israel-linked CIA-funded Palantir goes public, making espionage mainstream
Etienne Note: We are including this Flashback article as part of our coverage of Trump’s nomination of apparent “Created Legend” and CIA Republican JD Vance as his vice presidential pick. Who has been funding JD Vance? CIA Contractor Peter Thiel!
by Magazine
Nearly two decades after the company was founded using a CIA investment, Palantir Technologies went public in a major stock market offering.
But in spite of the IPO, the company direction was already bought at birth by the CIA’s venture capital firm In-Q-Tel, which invests in companies that enhance its reach, power and capacity for espionage. While In-Q-Tel claims to be independent from the CIA, it only invests with CIA approval.
For Peter Thiel, with an estimated net worth of about $22 billion, it’s been a profitable arrangement.
For the CIA, data mining, computing and surveillance are the keys to the future, and that’s where Palantir comes in.
Flashback: How the CIA made Google
By Nafeez Ahmed
INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive story of how the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a plethora of private sector start-ups co-opted by US intelligence to retain ‘information superiority.’
The origins of this ingenious strategy trace back to a secret Pentagon-sponsored group, that for the last two decades has functioned as a bridge between the US government and elites across the business, industry, finance, corporate, and media sectors. The group has allowed some of the most powerful special interests in corporate America to systematically circumvent democratic accountability and the rule of law to influence government policies, as well as public opinion in the US and around the world. The results have been catastrophic: NSA mass surveillance, a permanent state of global war, and a new initiative to transform the US military into Skynet.
Snipers Were INSIDE Building Used By Trump Failed Assassin; Reported Him Using Range Finder, Took Pictures, And Command Did Nothing
By Tyler Durden
Three Beaver County police snipers were reportedly stationed inside the building used by the shooter in Saturday's assassination attempt on Donald Trump, a local law enforcement officer with 'direct knowledge' of the incident tells CBS News' Anna Schecter, and as first reported by the Beaver Countian.
It gets worse...
A sniper, stationed on the second floor providing overwatch, saw the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, outside the building and looking up at the roof. He then walked away, returned, whipped out his phone, when one of the snipers took the first of two pictures of him.
Crooks then took out a rangefinder - at which point the sniper radioed to a command post. Crooks then disappeared again and came back a third time with a backpack. The snipers called in once again with information that he had a backpack and that he (Crooks) was walking toward the back of the building.
Sen. Bob Menendez guilty of taking bribes in cash and gold and acting as Egypt’s foreign agent
Etienne Note: This article also appears in “Government”, Media and Academia Criminality Exposed, A digest of HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of articles exposing and suggesting inter-generational organized crime's control of the "Government," Media and Academia by the Art of Liberty Foundation. You can view the other articles or subscribe on Telegram: https://t.me/Government_Scams
By Larry Neumeister And Philip Marcelo
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez was convicted of all charges Tuesday in a sweeping corruption trial in which he was accused of accepting bribes of gold and cash from three New Jersey businessmen and acting as an agent for the Egyptian government.
A jury in Manhattan deliberated for parts of three days before finding the Democrat guilty of 16 crimes, including bribery, extortion, honest services fraud, obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
A Child Sacrifice Cult Walking In Plain Sight
Etienne Note: Bohemian Grove, a gathering of ex-Presidents, bankers, politicians, media personalities, and others kicked off last weekend. The group burns a child in effigy in a ceremony known as the Cremation of Care on the same day as Trump’s alleged assassination attempt. In this article, Jason Christoff breaks down the history of the child sacrifice cult.
by christoff
This is an ancient God called Molech. The effigy of Molech was always made of metal. The fire at the base of the statue was meant to heat the metal until it was red hot. The child was then placed on the red hot hands and immolated. Immolation is derived from Molech and means sacrifice by burning. The smoke that came from the child was deemed holy smoke and this is also why incense is thrown around in many similar ceremonies today. The phrase “holy moley” is also derived from Molech worship. The loud drumming, loud instruments and loud singing were meant to drown out the screams of the child.
ALL cars will now have to be fitted with speed-limiting AI tech due to new EU rules
by Jacob Jaffa
Intelligent Speed Assitance (ISA) systems became a legal requirement for motors across the EU as a law passed two years ago came into effect on July 7.
ISAs make use of AI, GPS data and even onboard cameras to assess your speed in real time as you drive along.
The system will then intervene if you go above the limit it has worked out for the road you are on.
For example, the system can assess things like road markings to determine whether you are in a 20mph or 30mph zone.
From there, there are three types of ISA which firms could opt to install, with each offering different levels of intervention.
First of all, informative ISAs only result in a warning message and sound to alert the driver that they are breaking the limit.
One level up from that is the supportive ISA, which works by increasing the upward force on the accelerator pedal to try and make it harder for drivers to speed up.
LEAKED Trump-RFK Jr. Conversation on Vax After Shooting Incident
by Aussie17
Unless you were living on Mars last week, you should know there was an assassination attempt made on former President Trump. After the assassination attempt, Trump called RFK Jr. to discuss vaccine injuries, recalling their previous conversations on the matter. It appears that Trump is aligned with RFK on the vaccine issue. Trump also pointed out Biden’s insensitive question about how he knew to turn his head when the bullet was fired. The whole shebang got recorded and put out there by RFK Jr.'s son.
The transcript is below. First, we see Trump agreeing with RFK Jr. on something—likely the state of the medical system. Then, in classic Trump humour, he switches gears to talk about vaccine dosages are “meant for a horse or 20 pound baby”:
"Agree with you, man. Something's wrong with that whole system. Remember I said I want to do small doses, small doses. When you, when you feed a baby, Bobby, a vaccination with 38 different vaccines, it looks like it's meant for a horse, not a ten-pound or twenty-pound baby. It looks like you're giving it to a horse. And do you ever see the size of it? It's massive. And then you see the baby all of a sudden starting to change radically. I've seen it too many times. And then you hear that it doesn't have an impact, right? But you and I talked about that a long time ago. Anyway, I would love you to do so. I think it would be so good for you and so big for you. We're gonna win.”
A growing number of parents are refusing to give their children smartphones — and the movement is going global
by Sawdah Bhaimiya
LONDON — The evidence linking smartphone use with mental health harms in children is growing and one grassroots organization in the U.K. is supporting parents who are refraining from giving their kids the devices.
Smartphone Free Childhood, founded by Daisy Greenwell and Clare Fernyhough in February, set up various group chats for parents locally across the U.K. and grew to over 60,000 members in a few weeks, according to its website.
Interest in the movement is driven by concerns about the normalization of children with smartphones. By the age of 12, 97% of children in the U.K. have a mobile phone, according to Ofcom, a government-approved regulator for the use of communication services in the U.K.
Meanwhile, in the U.S., 42% of children had a smartphone by the age of 10, climbing to 91% by the age of 14, according to a 2021 report by Common Sense which surveyed 1,306 young people in the U.S. between the ages of eight to 18.
The Century of Forgotten Vaccine Hot Lot Disasters
by A Midwestern Doctor
•Producing a vaccine has many opportunities for error or contamination. Because of this, disasters continually occur from “hot vaccine lots” being unleashed onto the public. Remarkably, as the years have gone by, there has been less and less accountability for this (e.g., previously public investigations were held and people went to jail whereas now government tends to keep the hot lots on the market and deny there is a problem).
•In 1967, an eminent bacteriologist wrote a book detailing many forgotten vaccine disasters under the belief (he shared with many of his anonymous colleagues) that unless his profession was honest about the dangers of vaccination, the mistakes which led to those disasters would keep on repeating.
•Many of the disasters he detailed related to an excessively dangerous vaccine lot being released onto the market. Remarkably, many of the disasters he detailed mirrored what occurred in the decades that followed (e.g., this article discusses the documented DPT and anthrax hot lots which caused a tsunami of injuries in infants and veterans).
Day of Reckoning for Social Security Draws Closer
by Craig Eyermann
In ten years, Americans counting on Social Security benefits for income will be in for a shock.
The shock will come because the trust fund that provides about one-fifth of the cash Social Security benefits receive will run out of money in 2033. Starting in 2034, under current law, Social Security will only have enough money to pay 79% of its promised benefits. Everyone who receives retirement benefit payments from Social Security in that year will see that income stream slashed.
That’s according to Social Security’s Trustees, who issued their 2024 report in May. When the Old Age and Survivors’ Insurance (OASI) trust fund is depleted, the agency can only pay benefits from the money it collects through its dedicated payroll taxes. Technically, because that’s what is written into the current law, those reduced benefits are also promised benefits.
The End of Restaurants as We Know Them?
by Peter C. Earle
Since the start of 2024, numerous well-known restaurant chains have announced sizable closures and incrementally more drastic restructuring efforts. TGI Fridays has closed numerous locations across the US and sold eight corporate-owned locations to strengthen its franchise model and close underperforming stores. Denny’s shut down 57 restaurants in 2023 and announced additional closures for 2024 due to inflationary pressures. Boston Market drastically reduced its number of restaurants from around 300 to just 27 by March 2024, driven by landlord evictions, unpaid bills, and state shutdowns due to unpaid sales taxes. Mod Pizza abruptly closed 27 locations across the US, including five in California, just before the new minimum wage law took effect.
Also, suddenly, Coco’s Bakery and Carrows chains closed 75 locations, leading to a federal lawsuit by former employees due to the lack of notice provided for the layoffs. PDQ, a regional restaurant chain, closed eight restaurants across North and South Carolina in February 2024 due to market conditions. Outback Steakhouse’s parent company, Bloomin’ Brands, announced the shuttering of 41 locations of Outback Steakhouse, Carrabba’s Italian Grill and Bonefish Grill in February 2024 as part of a major financial restructuring. Subway has been undergoing a massive drawdown, closing over 400 underperforming locations since last year alone. Applebee’s has been selectively closing locations since the start of 2024, focusing on optimizing its restaurant portfolio by shutting down low-revenue stores.
BREAKING: Supreme Court Greenlights Biden Admin. to Direct Social Media Censorship
by John Leake
This is a breaking story that will require followup with full legal analysis, but for now, the following is what we can say about the decision.
Until recently, most American citizens assumed that the Executive Branch was barred by the First Amendment from directing (by means of telephone calls and e-mails) social media companies to censor speech. The First Amendment reads:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
If Congress is prohibited from making a law that prohibits free speech, why is the Executive Branch authorized to infringe free speech by directing social media executives to do so in what is now the largest public forum in the Republic?
Maybe you have millions, even billions?… they will take it all… pretty soon.
By Dr. Mike Yeadon
This essay is constructed from many of my Telegram posts. The resulting repetition feels helpful under the circumstances. The central idea is not complicated but it is fiddly. Coming at it from many sides helps.
Unless you are very fresh to peeking behind the mainstream curtain, you will know of WEF’s infamous, arrogant and chilling prediction for 2030.
Maybe you’ve wondered what the number 1 in the top-left corner means? Still up on YouTube is the whole video of lunatic predictions it comes from.
Klaus Schwabb, Executive Chairman of WEF asserts that “The world needs a Great Reset”, only hinting at what this means between the lines and in the small print. He is using mendacious propaganda in order to pretend to build consensus on this act. You’ll recall that numerous people said, early in 2020, that there was a necessity to “Build Back Better”.
Kamala Nomination Odds Soar After Reports Biden To Drop Out This Weekend
By Tyler Durden
Update (2000ET): Things are escalating quickly with reports now that Biden could leave the race as soon as tomorrow.
WaPo reports that Nancy Pelosi believes Biden can be convinced to drop out soon with Fox Business reporting that President Biden is expected to drop out as early as tomorrow...
Mark Halperin summed up his latest thoughts above in a post on X:
Multiples sources outline the apparent state of play on Biden at this time:
Plans to announce withdrawal from nomination as early as this weekend, with Sunday most likely
Jon Meacham polishing up remarks
Biden with NOT resign the presidency
Biden will NOT endorse Harris
Open convention with Harris and about 3 others
Super delegates will not be allowed to vote on 1st ballot
Harris is vetting at least four possible running mates, including Andy Beshear and possibly Shapiro
Video: Detailed Analysis of Trump Assassination Attempt
By Dr. Peter McCullough and John Leake
We bring to the attention of our readers the outstanding production of the McCullough Foundation, featuring Peter McCullough and John Leake.
Global Research remains indebted to the McCullough Foundation
The incident on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania is the first time a would-be assassin has shot at a U.S. president or presidential candidate since John Hinckley shot President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981. As such, it is the first assassination attempt in our era in which most citizens are carrying cell phones equipped with video cameras.
Instead of one “Zapruder film,” we now have hundreds of videos of the incident, shot from multiple locations and angles.
The incident on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania is the first time a would-be assassin has shot at a U.S. president or presidential candidate since John Hinckley shot President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981. As such, it is the first assassination attempt in our era in which most citizens are carrying cell phones equipped with video cameras.
8 Shocking Details That Have Just Emerged That Are Sparking New Theories About The Attempt On Trump’s Life
By Michael Snyder
New information about the attempt on Donald Trump’s life that has just been revealed within the past 24 hours is causing major shockwaves all over the country. In this article, I will attempt to make sense of the new details that have emerged. Please share this information as widely as you can, and if you come across new details that I have not covered yet, please let me know. There is so much about the attempt on Trump’s life that does not smell right, and the American people deserve the truth.
No matter where you stand politically, we should all be deeply concerned about the safety of our leaders.
Donald Trump came within about an inch of losing his life on Saturday, and that should greatly alarm every American.
But is what we are being told about the shooting the entire story?
Tokenized, Inc: BlackRock’s Plan To Own The Fractionalized World
By Mark Goodwin
In the aftermath of the recent Bitcoin ETF approvals, BlackRock’s Larry Fink revealed that soon everything will be “ETF’d” and tokenized, threatening to fractionalize not just existing assets and commodities, but the natural world, reducing most living things into Wall Street financial products to be traded on a single, universal ledger.
Originally published at BitcoinMagazine.com
Just one day after the January 11 approval of 11 Bitcoin spot ETFs – including BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) – by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, BlackRock Chair and CEO Larry Fink sat down with Bloomberg’s David Westin to discuss the implications of the world’s largest asset manager entering the Bitcoin market. Not one to mince words, Fink articulated a clear framework for his company’s approach to Bitcoin, and furthermore for BlackRock’s intention to replicate similar ETF products for other assets. “If we can ‘ETF’ a Bitcoin, imagine what we can do with all financial instruments.” Fink continued, speaking about Bitcoin itself, stating “I don’t believe it’s ever going to be a currency. I believe it’s an asset class.”
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