Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Travel chaos impacted thousands of Americans trying to catch a flight during the Father’s Day and Juneteenth holiday weekend.

Flight tracking website FlightAware shows more than 10,000 flights were delayed or canceled nationwide between Friday and Sunday due to pilot shortages and bad weather, which comes days after top airline executives spoke with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg about how to resolve flight disruptionsContinue reading “10,000 Flights Delayed Over Holiday Weekend As Aviation Chaos Concerns White House”

The Counter Signal

Hungary has vetoed the European Union’s landmark deal to impose a global minimum tax rate on multinational enterprises by 2023.

The agreement, which has been in the works for years and was agreed upon by over 130 countries, would impose a 15 per cent minimum corporate tax rate on multinational companies making over 750 million EUR worldwide, ostensibly to hone in international tax avoidance. Continue reading “Hungary vetoes global minimum corporate tax”

CNN

That’s how Sen. John Cornyn, the lead Republican negotiator on the bipartisan gun safety package, described last week’s deliberations.

Talks to try to resolve key sticking points moved in a much more positive direction since Thursday, a source familiar told CNN’s Lauren Fox on Sunday. But senators have been racing against the clock ahead of the July Fourth recess, which begins at week’s end, to turn a general agreement on gun safety into legislative text that can actually clear both chambers. Continue reading “Here’s what you need to know about the ‘boyfriend loophole’ holding up gun safety negotiations”

PGPD

Prince George’s County Police detectives charged a man for vandalizing two public libraries in the county. These incidents occurred at the Greenbelt Branch Library and the New Carrollton Branch Library. The suspect is 30-year-old Charles Sutherland of Takoma Park. Continue reading “PGPD Arrests Suspect for Vandalizing Two Public Libraries; Suspect Charged With Hate Crimes”

Free Thought Project

(ZH) — If Congress won’t ban AR-15s, Democratic Rep. Don Beyer (VA) wants to slap a 1,000% tax on them – which would of course mean only people with lots of money, such as drug dealers and rich people, could afford them, while punishing lower-income Americans. Continue reading “Disarming the Poor: Congress Proposes 1,000% Tax on AR-15s”

OPB

The Oregon Health Authority has reported the state’s first probable case of monkeypox.

Confirmation testing is being done at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The patient is a man who traveled to a country where monkeypox is currently prevalent, OHA said. He remains isolated and is following recommendations from health professionals, state health officials said on Thursday. Continue reading “Oregon’s first probable case of monkeypox reported by health officials”

RT

Israeli strikes against Iranian-linked targets in Syria have been carried out with the secret approval of the US military, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have been coordinating their attacks on Syrian targets with the Pentagon and US Central Command, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday citing current and former US officials. Continue reading “Israel secretly coordinates Syria airstrikes with US – WSJ”

Activist Post – by BN Frank

According to the company website, Smart Grid – AEP Ohio:

“As of 2021, AEP Ohio has installed more than one million smart meters in its customers’ homes and businesses. A proposal to install smart meters to the remaining AEP Ohio customers is being evaluated by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. If approved, AEP Ohio will communicate with those customers on an expected installation date.”   Continue reading “Utility Accused of Disproportionately Disconnecting Service in Low-Income Neighborhoods “to preserve the grid””

Zero Hedge – by Frank Fang and David Zhang, The Epoch Times

BlackRock, the world’s largest investment manager that oversees $10 trillion in client funds, has positioned itself as a socially conscious firm. However, the company is choosing China over the United States as it advances its environmental and social priorities, according to Will Hild, executive director of Washginton-based nonprofit Consumers’ Research. Continue reading “BlackRock Sells Out US Interests for ‘Personal Favors’ in China, Consumer Group Director Says”

Spectator Australia

The Covid-19 crisis illustrates how the source and scope of many critical problems are global and require multilateral solutions, but the policy authority and requisite resources for tackling them are vested in states. An efficient architecture of global health governance would have detected the emerging epidemiological threat early, sounded the alarm and coordinated the delivery of essential equipment and medicines to population clusters in the most need. Continue reading “WHO wants a new pandemic treaty?”

100% Fed Up – by Jesse Martin

Public high schools across the nation have come under fire in recent years for their blatantly far-left and liberal teaching and administrative habits. Whether it’s covering up and promoting transgender children, inviting drag queens to the school to talk to kindergartners, or teaching critical race theory–many schools have embraced the left’s cultural Marxism. Continue reading “COMMUNISM 101: Seattle High School Demands Students Sign Pledge to Support BLM, Abortion and Immigration”

KTVZ

A suspect is in custody at a church in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, following a shooting Thursday evening, police said.

“We have multiple people that have been shot,” Capt. Shane Ware with the Vestavia Hills Police Department said. Continue reading “Multiple people were shot at church near Birmingham and a suspect is in custody”

Reclaim the Net – by Dan Frieth

The government, on both the federal and state level, is increasingly trying to police online speech – despite several lawsuits and complaints of First Amendment violations.

The White House has now created a task force that is set to combat “online harassment,” with a particular angle of addressing what it calls “gender-based” violence. The group met today.  Continue reading “Vice President Harris launches task force to shut down “online harassment””

New York Post – by Alex Mitchell

There’s no strategic olive oil reserves to tap into here.

A slew of ongoing issues have been drizzling trouble over the olive oil industry for the better half of the past decade, according to experts in the field, and things are getting increasingly dire. Chief among the problems is a rapidly spreading olive tree-killing bacteria. That coupled with COVID-related production problems and supply issues stemming from the ongoing war in Ukraine, are wreaking havoc with supplies of the world’s favorite healthy oil. Continue reading “A terrifying olive oil shortage could be in the future”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

There’s nothing like the sweet smell of Building Back Better…

Pennsylvania farmers are being “crushed” by the record cost of diesel – so much so, that questions about a food crisis are starting to loom, the Morning Call reportedContinue reading ““We Are Teetering On The Edge”: Food Shortage Worries Mount As PA Farms “Crushed” By Record Diesel Prices”