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The latest “Twitter files,” published Thursday by investigative journalist Matt Taibbi, reveal how the federal government weaponized private companies, taxpayer-funded non-governmental organizations and commercial news media to target social media accounts disseminating content that ran counter to official narratives.
The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States has announced that it is launching an instant payment transfer service called “FedNow Service,” which has features of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and some analysts believe is the first big step towards a “digital dollar.”
From the Wall Street Journal – Economists are now estimating that 186 US banks may be prone to the same risks as Silicon Valley Bank. This number is likely higher as the pressures that regional banks are facing are ramping up.
China’s President Xi Jinping increases defense budget with conflict in mind.
It’s no secret the People’s Republic of China (PRC) will not, borrowing from Dylan Thomas, “go gentle into that good night” when it comes to Taiwan. Instead, just the opposite is happening. Beijing is gearing up for conflict with the West, bolstering its battle plans by significantly increasing its spending on a growing military. Combine a budget for defense increasing faster than the PRC’s gross domestic product with the threatening rhetoric coming from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and trouble from the mainland across the Taiwan straits seems more imminent.
Continue reading “Is China Gearing Up for War? By: Dave Patterson”
Former Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), who famously co-authored the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law in response to the 2008 financial crisis, served as a director of Signature Bank, which failed Sunday.
Continue reading “Silicon Valley Bank Director Was Author Of Dodd-Frank Reform Law by Jack Birle”
Peacekeepers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) (In French : FINUL) take part in the annual Bastille Day military parade on the Champs-Elysees in Paris July 14, 2012. AFP PHOTO / BERTRAND GUAYBERTRAND GUAY/AFP/GettyImages
If Americans really understood what’s going on behind the scenes, and learned that our own
has agreed to allow the UN military to take over “in the Event of Civil Unrest,” they’d be petrified!
Continue reading “American Government Agrees To Allow UN Military Takeover BY: STEVE ALLEN”
While this fact was conveniently withheld, Newsom simultaneously promoted the Biden administration bailing out SVB customers with more than the $250,000 limit covered by Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) insurance.
It’s interesting that Newsom seems to have just above the threshold typically covered by the FDIC in SVB, but the same is true for more than 90% of the bank’s clients.
 
Israeli firms managed to transfer $1 billion out of Silicon Valley Bank to accounts in Israel just before the bank was seized by the feds, the Times of Israel reports. |
From The Times of Israel (via If Americans Knew:):
Israel’s two largest banks, Bank Leumi and Bank Hapoalim, set up a situation room that has been operating around the clock to help firms transfer their money from SVB — before it was seized — to accounts in Israel. Over the past few days, teams at LeumiTech, the high-tech banking arm of Bank Leumi, have been able to help their Israeli clients transfer about $1 billion to Israel, the bank said.
If Americans Knew has more:
Israel’s Ha’aretz newspaper reports that “a good many Israeli companies had been able to get their money out in time, but that it was clearly not the case for everyone” and that “companies whose deposits are now locked will seek to conceal this, concerned that any rumors might drive away customers, suppliers and employees.”
The FDIC has announced an emergency bailout program that will pay depositors 100% of the money they had in the bank. It’s unclear whether this U.S. money will go to Israeli companies. Israel already receives over $10 million per day from American taxpayers.
The Washington Post reports: “While the fund going to the depositors is paid into by U.S. banks, it is ultimately backstopped by the Treasury Department — and therefore U.S. taxpayers.”
How nice of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to look the other way while these funds were transferred out.
Lord Arthur Ponsonby was a British diplomat and politician, dates 1871–1946.
This keen and cagey fellow pinpointed 10 rules of propaganda. They are these:
1. We don’t want war, we are only defending ourselves.
2. The other guy is solely responsible for this war.
3. Our adversary’s leader is evil and looks evil.
4. We are defending a noble purpose, not special interest.
5. The enemy is purposefully causing atrocities; we only commit mistakes.
6. The enemy is using unlawful weapons.
7. We have very little losses, the enemy is losing big.
8. Intellectuals and artists support our cause.
9. Our cause is sacred.
10. Those who doubt our propaganda are traitors.
Continue reading “The 10 Rules of Propaganda BY BRIAN MAHER”
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge
WSJ reports that a new investment round of $100 million has been secured by a secretive startup called Humane Inc., founded by ex-Apple executives, along with a partnership with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. Although the startup’s device is shrouded in mystery, it seems to be developing a wearable camera powered by artificial intelligence.
Twitter moderators were instructed to censor truth-based posts which they felt could fuel vaccine hesitancy, internal company documents published Thursday by independent journalist Matt Taibbi show.
Screenshots from a guide outlining moderation policies appearing in the latest “Twitter Files” drop show moderators were instructed to flag “True content which might promote vaccine hesitancy.”
It’s no secret that Philadelphia’s voters elected a mayor and district attorney so incompetent that the city has experienced its worst violent crime surge in three centuries of its history. This is mainly because of the radical (and incompetent) left-wing criminal justice policies and reforms that were put into effect during their terms. Nor is it a secret that Philadelphia is one of the worst poverty-stricken cities in the nation. It is consistently ranked as the “poorest” of the country’s biggest cities.
Last week, a former Democratic City Council member was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison after being convicted on bribery and fraud charges. Among his crimes was his involvement in a scheme in which he tried to force the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to use labor unions to install MRI machines. Bobby Henon attempted to extort a hospital dedicated to helping terminally ill children to make money. There were other crimes too, but this was the most egregious.