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Ryan Salame, Part of ‘Inner Circle’ at Collapsed Crypto Exchange FTX, Sentenced to Prison
(Headline USA) A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced former FTX executive Ryan Salame to more than seven years in prison, the first of the lieutenants of failed cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried to receive jail time for their roles in the 2022 collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange. Salame, 30, was a high-ranking executive at FTX for…
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WHO Assembly Urges Pandemic Prep, Despite Stalled ‘Treaty’ Project
(Headline USA) Member countries kicked off the World Health Organization’s annual assembly on Monday with plans of improving global readiness for deadly outbreaks like COVID-19, after an ambitious—and highly controversial—“pandemic treaty” ran aground last week. Health officials are racing to get the world to agree to new ways to prepare for and fight an inevitable…
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Congress Moves against Totalitarian Central Bank Digital Currency
(Mike Gleason, Money Metals News Service) As hopes for rate cuts fade, metals markets are giving back some of their recent gains. On Wednesday, minutes from the Federal Reserve’s latest policy meeting showed central bankers are frustrated by the lack of progress on inflation. After several months of official inflation readings coming in hotter than…
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Price Inflation Isn’t an Accident; It’s a Policy
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) If you listen to government officials and central bankers talk about price inflation, you might think they don’t have the foggiest idea of what caused it. It might have been supply chain problems, or perhaps it was Putin’s fault. Maybe greedy corporations are jacking up prices. Or it could…
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Woke Retailers Slash Prices in Last-Ditch Effort to Bail Out ‘Bidenomics’
(Headline USA) With the U.S. economy stuck in an inflationary holding pattern, one of the only ways to bring prices back down—short of the government stopping its aggressive spending and open-borders policies—is for the stores themselves to intervene. Biden has regularly barked at retailers to lower their prices, blaming “corporate greed” for the problems his…
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Jury Awards Drag Queen $1 Million Over Blog Post
(Headline USA) A jury has awarded more than $1.1 million to an Idaho drag queen who accused a blogger of defaming him during a Pride event in June 2022. The Kootenai County District Court jury unanimously found Friday that Summer Bushnell defamed Post Falls resident Eric Posey when she posted a doctored video of his performance…
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News Anchor Laughs at Buttigieg’s Explanation for Biden’s EV Shortfall
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A major network’s news anchor couldn’t hold back her laughter after Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg tried to explain a significant failure involving President Joe Biden’s radical green agenda. CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan burst into laughter after asking Buttigieg why the Biden administration has managed to build only seven or eight electric…
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Citizenship Qualification Sought in Constitutional Amendment
(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) – Citizenship in the United States by those voting in North Carolina is being sought in a constitutional amendment. The proposal was filed Thursday by Rep. Destin Hall, R-Caldwell, chairman of the Rules Committee in the House of Representatives. “Tightening our elections laws so that only U.S. citizens are voting…
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Republican AGs Sue to Block Five Blue States’ Energy Litigation
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) – Nineteen Republican attorneys general filed a Bill of Complaint with the U.S. Supreme Court, taking legal action against five Democratic-led states. They argue these five Democratic-led state governments have “brought unprecedented litigation against the nation’s most vital energy companies for alleged ‘climate crisis,’ and they demand billions of dollars in…
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Is Cracker Barrel’s #Girlboss CEO Trying to Make It the New Bud Light?
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Countless studies have confirmed that evil happens incrementally. Consider, if you will, Penn State’s Milgram experiments of the early 196o, during which respondents were unwilling to administer a high dosage of electric shock to participants right off the bat, but they could be conditioned to do so when authorities began with…
