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CORRECTING THE RECORD🚨 The Fake News says I admitted to lying in an overnight court filing. I didn't. We are simply moving to a point in the case where we can file a motion to dismiss. If you see a headline claiming I made an admission, just know it is #FakeNews.

The subject is AI. But the discussion takes place against a backdrop of financial crisis. Or, at least a faux financial crisis – the debt ceiling. You probably know more about Artificial Intelligence than we do. But since it is supposed to change life on planet earth – for the better – we thought we should get acquainted with it. We don’t want to be surprised by a sudden increase in our well-being. It might be unsettling. Here is the executive summary: If you are counting on AI to make you rich…or save the US from decline…you will probably be...

Bill Bonner, reckoning today from Dublin, Ireland... We left the question hanging yesterday…like a man dangling at the end of a rope…lynched and gurgling… Why didn’t the Argentines stop the cycle? Spending, borrowing, defaulting, printing…from excess to distress…back and forth, over and over, for the last 70+ years. Why didn’t they stop it? Why did Zimbabwe, Germany, Venezuela…et al…let inflation go to over a million percent? One of the ‘basket cases’ we hear little about is Lebanon. Here’s our son, Henry, reporting from Paris: In 2021, the Lebanese pound traded on the black market for 10,000 pounds to the dollar....

There is currently an active shooter situation developing at Trump Tower Chicago, according to multiple reports. Currently, not much is confirmed, but multiple sources on Twitter are reporting that Chicago police and SWAT teams are surrounding the building; it is alleged that a woman was armed with a rifle when she entered.

Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist, issued a warning after former President Donald Trump was indicted by a grand jury late Thursday for allegedly violating presidential campaign rules ahead of the 2016 election, saying "sow the wind, reap the whirlwind." Bannon told Newsweek on Friday afternoon that his warning is in reference to the "American globalist elites [prosecutors] who persecute Trump through tools like [Manhattan District Attorney Alvin] Bragg for leading a populist movement that is focused on stripping them of their unearned wealth, power, and privileges." Additionally, in a post on Gettr on Thursday, he warned that the...

“I’m becoming a racist. I never thought I was a racist before. I’m from New York, not Alabama. And I take people as they come; I really don’t care what race they are. “But now, I’m told that treating people as individuals is racist… being ‘color blind’ is supposed to be racist… That’s what they tell me. And if I notice that most professional basketball players are black while most mathematicians are white – it’s a racist comment. Everything is racist. So I must be racist too. “And you want to know why the chicken crossed the road? Because it...

I am going to prove that Durbin, Duckworth, Pritzker, and Beetlejuice were all selected and not elected. They are all frauds. Every person in Illinois knows this, I am focused on proving it beyond a reasonable doubt. These corrupt souls need to be removed permanently. The first county of Illinois that I did a deep dive on with over 100,000 people has over 20,000 suspect registrations or possible phantom voters. My initial estimate of 7 to 10% of all registrations in IL being fraudulent appears to be too conservative. I estimate that upwards of 22% of the registration files of...

Texas is one of only two states with a bifurcated court system: After going through intermediate appellate review, criminal matters are routed to the Court of Criminal Appeals while civil matters are routed to the Texas Supreme Court. It’s unique. But so is Texas! A few weeks ago, the CCA handed down an 8-to-1 decision in State v. Stephens declaring unconstitutional a statute giving the Texas Attorney General authority to “prosecute a criminal offense prescribed by the election laws of this state.” That statute—section 273.021 of the Texas Election Code—which has been around for several decades— has allowed Texas Attorneys...

🚨 Please contact the Texas court of appeals and let them know voter fraud must be prosecuted - don't allow back door plans that ultimately create an unfair election: *Clerk of the Court - Deana Williamson (512) 936-1640 / (512) 463-7061 *General Counsel - Sian Schilhab (512) 463-1597 *Chief Staff Attorney - Kathy Schneider (512) 936-1627

Ronnie Spector, whose hard-edged yet tremulous voice soared on the Ronettes’ girl-group hits of the early ‘60s, died on Wednesday of cancer. She was 78. “Our beloved earth angel, Ronnie, peacefully left this world today after a brief battle with cancer. She was with family and in the arms of her husband, Jonathan,” reads a statement on Spector’s official website. “Ronnie lived her life with a twinkle in her eye, a spunky attitude, a wicked sense of humor and a smile on her face. She was filled with love and gratitude. Her joyful sound, playful nature and magical presence will...

IRI Statement Regarding Work with Palestinians For Immediate Release October 29, 2008 Washington, DC – “Questions have arisen regarding the International Republican Institute’s (IRI) work with Palestinians in the 1990s. “In the 1990s, IRI gave grants to the Center for Palestinian Research and Studies (CPRS) for polling in the West Bank/Gaza. The polls measured support for the peace process, for various Palestinian political groups, and for efforts to enhance governance in the West Bank/Gaza. At that time no other organization could credibly conduct polling in the West Bank/Gaza. “We understand that Rashid Khalidi was one of the many founders of...

April 5, 1968 - the morning after one of the most catastrophic moments in American history: the assassination of Martin Luther King. The night before, America's inner cities began going up in flames. The night before, there was trouble in Roxbury, Boston's ghetto. Word on the street is that it's about to get worse. A lot worse. Up until this moment, James Brown has been an unsung civil rights hero. Being black in the music business, especially in the mid-1950s when James first hit his stride, made him a pioneering artist in a still-segregated business. "Crossing-over" wasn't easy, and he...

Barack Obama's speech about racism in America was splendid, flawed, misleading and unlikely to accomplish anything other than help his political career. Yet Obama, the agent of change, still is just another politician. His great speech on race relations was provoked by a political attack that threatened his candidacy. Hateful words spoken by his minister during a church sermon were caught on videotape, and the presidential candidate was deemed guilty by association. So Obama used the moment to discuss race relations, to explain to white folk how black folk behave differently in church. In addition, Obama said he could not...

Obama's speech was thoughtful, history-rich, deftly composed and, in parts, refreshingly candid about racial divides in America and the sources of those divides. However, he spoke as if he was an innocent bystander to the history he recounted. Obama discussed our nation's failings as though he was powerless to act previously or presently. Obama lamented, "Segregated schools were, and are, inferior schools; we still haven't fixed them, fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, and the inferior education they provided, then and now, helps explain the pervasive achievement gap between today's black and white students." That is true. Although...

CHICAGO -- Chicago's media gossip columnists are abuzz with news about Illinois' new political sensation, U.S. Senator-elect Barack Obama. Friday night, Obama will be featured on "Late Show" with David Letterman. CBS released a portion of tonight's transcript, and the Chicago Tribune's Maureen Ryan teased readers this morning by publishing part of the interview which will air Friday night at 10:30 PM CST: Letterman: " . . . Now was there a guy running for Senate, maybe an incumbent, maybe not, I think a Republican, and he had a problem because he and his wife would go to strip clubs...

The Republican expected to chair the Senate Judiciary Committee next year bluntly warned newly re-elected President Bush on Wednesday against putting forth Supreme Court nominees who would seek to overturn abortion rights or are otherwise too conservative to win confirmation.