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The online video platform and web-host company Rumble scored a victory on Friday when a federal judge held Rumble could proceed with discovery in its defamation lawsuit against Nandini Jammi and Claire Atkin, the co-founders of Check My Ads. [snip]....meaning the country may soon learn much more about how the censorship-industrial complex functions — including Democrats and Media Matters’ alleged role. In late November, Rumble filed a two-count complaint in a federal court in Florida against Jammi and Atkins and ten unnamed John Doe Defendants. According to the complaint, Jammi and Atkins are co-founders of Check My Ads, a 501(c)...

Retail stores are fleeing San Francisco in droves as the California city collapses under the weight of rampant crime and theft. And rather than deal with the crime problem, city leaders instead want to punish the stores trying to leave. The so-called “Grocery Protection Act,” introduced by city Board of Supervisors member Dean Preston (Democratic Socialist), says stores that try to leave San Francisco would have to provide the city with six months’ notice, allowing city leaders time to look for a replacement retail tenant. This bill was introduced not long after Whole Foods Market closed down its flagship San...

35 years in business, family-owned market in South Beach is closing... Co-owner David Pesusic said high operation costs and mounting neighborhood crime were driving factors.Bayside Market, at 120 Brannan St. near the Embarcadero, will cease operations on Sept. 13. Some of its 12 employees will be transferred to RJ’s Market near Fisherman’s Wharf, the owners’ other location, but most will be laid off, Pesusic said. In addition to inflation-fueled bills and declining foot traffic, the small grocery and deli has suffered from “rampant” crime, near-daily shoplifting and three break-ins in the past couple years, Pesusic said. He blamed city officials...

Big Lots, the beleaguered discount retailer that previously warned it had “substantial doubt” about its survival, has filed for bankruptcy. As part of its Chapter 11 filing, the retailer announced that private equity firm Nexus Capital Management is acquiring “substantially all” of Big Lots stores and business operations. During the process, its locations and website will remain open for shopping. “The actions we are taking today will enable us to move forward with new owners who believe in our business and provide financial stability, while we optimize our operational footprint, accelerate improvement in our performance, and deliver on our promise...

A woman who owns a business adjacent to the apartment complex taken over by Venezuelan gangs in Aurora, Colorado, said she has been forced to put up bulletproof glass to protect her business, describing the chaos in her community caused by migrants to Breitbart News Daily host Mike Slater. “It’s horrible. Mike, I run a business right adjacent to that apartment complex,” she said, describing the current situation as “overwhelming.” “It’s out of control. Denver is just a sanctuary city. They’re just, they’re just flooding them into the smaller communities. Now they’re busing them out here. They’re busing them to...

Aug 28 (Reuters) - Billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRKa.N), has sold some more shares of Bank of America (BAC.N), opens new tab over the past few days, raking in $981.9 million, as the conglomerate continues to trim down its stake in the second-largest U.S. lender. Berkshire has now shed about $5.4 billion worth of Bank of America shares in a string of sales since mid-July. The conglomerate sold about 24.7 million shares of the lender between Aug. 23 and Aug. 27, according to a regulatory filing on Tuesday.

Opinion The American military-industrial complex, coined by President Eisenhower in 1961, has shaped US foreign policy and military strategy while perpetuating global conflicts The American military-industrial complex, a term popularized by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address in 1961, refers to the synergistic relationship between a nation's armed forces, its defence industry, and its political establishment. This complex has played a pivotal role in shaping U.S. foreign policy and military strategy, leading to extensive global influence and numerous conflicts over the past century. While wars undoubtedly bring immense destruction and suffering, they have also generated substantial profits for...

ATLANTA — A multi-agency operation led to the arrest of five men police say stole commercial roofing material from across job sites around Georgia. ‘Operation Rooftop’ was executed on Wednesday, with officers from 11 Georgia departments serving search warrants at four units of an apartment complex in the 6000 block of Peachtree Industrial Boulevard in Atlanta and in the 3000 block of McElroy Road in Atlanta. Five men, 27-year-old Jose Amaya Martinez, 30-year-old Juan Adrian Torres Tello, 30-year-old Gabriel Amaya Zalasar, 20-year-old Margarito Amaya Salazar, and 24-year-old Miguel Amaya Zalasar were arrested as the primary suspects in the theft ring....

A federal judge in Texas on Tuesday barred a US Federal Trade Commission rule from taking effect that would ban employers from requiring their workers to sign non-compete agreements. The ban, which had been scheduled to go into effect nationwide on September 4, is now effectively blocked. US District Judge Ada Brown in Dallas said the FTC does not have the authority to ban practices it deems unfair methods of competition by adopting broad rules. “The Court concludes that the FTC lacks statutory authority to promulgate the Non-Compete Rule, and that the Rule is arbitrary and capricious. Thus, the FTC’s...

On Friday these two ladies on my team at work we're comparing work ethics between the United States and Europe. They have 2 hours siestas everyday! They have free health insurance! They Take2 months off! United States sucks! We need all the workers protections Europe has! You can't get fired in Europe!! I almost lost my #$#$ but I can't tell at work. There is no place like the United States. I'm proud of my country and can stick it. Nothing's perfect.

Not able to source an outside writer, Zero Hedge does write some of their own articles, they have gotten better over the years on this issue. "It's Communism": Kamala's First Economic Plan Proposes Price Controls To "Combat Inflation" Thursday, Aug 15, 2024 - 06:45 AM After the unoriginal Vice President Kamala Harris stole former President Trump's proposed 'no tax on tips' policy, she's at it again with yet another recycled idea. This time, she's echoing President Biden's actions and rhetoric to crack down on sky-high food prices by proposing the first-ever federal ban on "corporate price-gouging in the food and...

The blighted dining sheds that sprang up en masse during the COVID-19 pandemic could soon be a thing of the past due to strict new regulations — with thousands shuttering across the city as restaurant owners say they aren’t worth the cash and hassle. Dubbed “Dining Out NYC,” the rules that went into effect Aug. 3 mandate restaurant owners to pay both a four-year $1,050 to $2,100 licensing fee and an annual fee based on the size of their sidewalk café — and shell out even more if their establishment is below 125th Street in Manhattan. Eateries must also be...

To all my entrepreneurial patriots out there, I've got a question on Gross Margin (GM) and how do most view the topic of 'paying the entrepreneur' question. Q:As a budding manufacturing business owner/engineer I would like to know if: 1) my $99 price point product has enough margin or if I need to up the price? 2) Would most entrepreneurs include the labor in the GM calc if they are the only one performing labor and they are not supposed to be paying themselves like the sharks on Sharktank always harp on? Background.... I'd really like to keep the price...

A recent trend of “quiet quitting,” doing the minimum effort in one’s job, has presented itself in the workplace, leading to negative work environments. The concept of quiet quitting came from TikTok, and the idea quickly became viral. TikTok user Sarai Marie was the loudest voice in the trend. Marie created several videos demonstrating the concept and how to “quiet quit” in your workplace. She included clocking in at 9 a.m., not taking on any additional work and clocking out at the end of her shift at 5 p.m. The purpose behind this movement is to show employers that employees...

BEIJING (AP) – Italy and China signed a three-year action plan on Sunday to implement past agreements and experiment with new forms of cooperation, Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on an official visit to the Chinese capital. Meloni is trying to reset relations with China as fears of a trade war with the European Union are interwoven with continued interest in attracting Chinese investment in auto manufacturing and other sectors.

Nearly half of 80,000 small businesses surveyed say they won’t survive the current economic climate, ongoing inflation or another four years of Biden administration policies, according to the survey conducted by RedBalloon and Public Square. Their May Freedom Economy Index found that small businesses “remain in survival mode,” with 40% delaying paying bills to manage cash flow and 70 percent putting staffing plans on hold, neither hiring nor reducing staff, “the highest reading … over the past year,” the report states. Among those surveyed, 64% said the U.S. is headed toward stagflation, when inflation continues to climb and the economic...

Bankruptcy courts are working overtime this year, with corporate America seeing the highest monthly bankruptcy count since 2020. According to S&P Global Market Intelligence, the US recorded 75 new bankruptcies filed by mid-size and large corporations in June. Given ongoing economic pressures, this trend could continue.So far, in 2024, there have been 346 bankruptcy filings, including 17 cases with liabilities exceeding ~$1B — outstripping any comparable figure from the last 13 years.The consumer discretionary sector accounted for 55 of these filings — while the healthcare and industrial sectors each had 40.‘Til debt do us part: S&P Global blames high interest...

A group of top business leaders sent a letter to President Biden Friday urging him to end his reelection campaign in the wake of his poor debate performance last week. As of Friday morning, the letter was signed by 186 people who said they were fearful about the future of the country. **SNIP** In the letter, the group said it admires the president’s decades of service and noted his legacy will be known as one that rescued democracy from a large threat. “To ensure that legacy is cemented, we ask that you pass the torch of leadership to the next...

Politics typically comes with plenty of spin. Even something seemingly unyielding or absolute like a number can get squished and twisted like putty. As such, flashy economic data points extolled by candidates always come with plenty of asterisks, caveats and “yes, buts.” In this election cycle, those qualifiers have multiplied in part due to quirks in the numbers themselves: A once-in-a-lifetime pandemic and a once-in-a-generation inflation event sent shockwaves through the economy, distorting data and presidential economic records in the process. “Interpreting economic data is like interpreting a Monet painting in the best of times,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at...

Rep. Ilhan Omar is facing a new ethics complaint alleging she did not report tens of thousands of dollars in assets from her husband's weed and alcohol business. Since Omar and Tim Mynett, a Democratic operative, wed in 2020, there has been scrutiny over his business ventures. Now, there is a scathing new complaint against Mynett following a Minnesota Reformer report. It states that he is being sued for failing to properly pay back his business investors. It calls on the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) to launch a 'preliminary inquiry' before referring the matter to the House Ethics Committee....