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Ahead of The Federal Reserve meeting today, here are some interesting numbers that they won’t consider. 🙂 The US export price index (end use) for all commodities for 17.43% year-over-year in May. The import price index rose 10.83%. We were seeing a surge in commodity prices, like lumber and copper. But today we are seeing some air let out of the commodity tires with copper and nickel both down 4%. Gold and silver are up today. Here is a Tweet by famed investor (The Big Short) Michael J. Burry.

The White House on Wednesday scrambled to explain what Joe Biden meant when he nodded affirmatively in response to a question about whether or not he could trust Russian President Vladimir Putin. Biden briefly appeared with Putin for the press ahead of their meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.

President Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, while in office, said the United States is "a nation of cowards" when it comes to race relations. He went on to say that, although there have been improvements in race relations, our country is still socially segregated. It was kind of odd to hear that from our country's first black A.G., appointed by our first black president. After all, tens of millions of whites voted for Obama against his opponent, John McCain, a white guy. Therefore, if more than half the nation wanted to be represented by a black man, wouldn't that indicate...

Pennsylvania legislators last week officially ended the state's COVID-19 "disaster emergency," which Gov. Tom Wolf repeatedly extended after declaring it 15 months ago. While the immediate practical effect of the legislature's vote will be minimal, it exemplifies an important step toward reining in the vast powers that Wolf and other governors have exercised during the pandemic. The Pennsylvania resolution was authorized by a constitutional amendment that voters approved last month, which changed the requirement for terminating a state of emergency from a two-thirds vote to a simple majority. Voters also passed an amendment that reduces the length of future emergency...

How bad? District-wide, just 28 percent of black students in grades 3-8 passed their 2019 state math exams and just 37 percent passed English. At some schools, almost no one passed: A whopping 94 percent of fifth-graders at PS 134 in Hollis, for example, flunked math; 83 percent bombed English. https://nypost.com/2021/06/15/black-parents-righteous-fury-at-nyc-public-school-failure/

Citing election irregularities, Calif. GOP candidates push case to Ninth CircuitStaff ReportSan Francisco – Thirteen congressional candidates intend to take their fight for fair and honest elections in California to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, a nonpartisan elections watchdog group announced on Wednesday. The plaintiffs are challenging laws, regulations and election practices creating an environment ripe for irregularities, according to the Election Integrity Project California. “This is a potentially groundbreaking case that challenges the blatantly unconstitutional election practices taking place in California and increasingly, in other parts of the country” said Linda Paine, president of EIPCa. “Unlike other recent...

Until last year, Daniel Elder—a 34-year-old musician who lives in Nashville, Tennessee—had a promising career ahead of him. The theme of the prize-winning composer's work, truth through emotion, is evident across his catalogue of choral music, including his debut commercial album, The Heart's Reflection. Elder isn't composing very much these days. And even if he were, no one in the industry is willing to buy his work. His publisher has blackballed him. Local choral directors refuse to program his music for fear of provoking a backlash. They won't even let him sing in the choir. "My artistic wellspring is capped,"...

I've been very open about my own decision to get vaccinated, while highlighting excellent news about the vaccines' efficacy. They work remarkably well and have worked wonders, unlike the Chinese Communist Party's less sophisticated and less effective versions. Two points, before proceeding further. We know that some "breakthrough cases" do occur among vaccinated people, hence news accounts about recent positive tests from comedian Bill Maher, several New York Yankees, and a pair of passengers on an all-vaxxed cruise ship. The incredibly reassuring news about these examples is that Maher "never was sick, I felt nothing," which was also the case...

The latest battle front in the culture wars is over Critical Race Theory (CRT), a dangerous concept that makes race the prism through which all aspects of American life should be analyzed. Recently, stories about corporation inculcation of CRT among employees, and the embrace of CRT in core curricula of grade schools starting as early as kindergarten, have caused a severe backlash and clash of ideologies that have initiated a national debate and fight over this dangerous and controversial policy.Advocates for CRT (CRATs) specialize in sweeping generalities and vague assertions to sneak in a dangerous racist concept in order to...

Take a popular protest song and make it upbeat. Put up there somebody that's as smooth and hip as they come. Just look at how he improvises and puts his own stamp on it. Removing the mike from the stand as his voice rises-3 things at once-totally undistracted. That was Obama. Both tapped into an American yearning for things upbeat as we are an upbeat people. It's just not our style. We do not pretend to be messiahs. Check it out and go to work on an answer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMj_vWA0_9U

Artistic representation of Gunggamarandu maunala. (Eleanor Pease) Say hello to Gunggamarandu maunala, or the "hole-headed river boss" – the biggest extinct croc yet found in Australia, and an important addition to the jigsaw of crocodylian evolution. The newly named species, known from a partial skull that was unearthed in Queensland's Darling Downs region, belongs to a group called the tomistomines. Before this, tomistomines had never been found in Australia. Today, there are only two crocodile species living in Australia: the Australian freshwater crocodile and the Indo-Pacific crocodile (also known as the estuarine or saltwater crocodile). The latter is the largest...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Top Democratic lawmakers expressed deep dismay after learning that Israel, having at last ousted the villainous Netanyahu, plans to replace him with another Jew."Another Jew? I mean, are you kidding me?" said Ilhan Omar. "That has to be like, eight Jews in a row now as prime minister. Israel really can't find one Hamas guy, or one ISIS guy out there that can do the job? And people want to try to tell us they haven't established an apartheid state. Ridiculous." Although still head of the most popular party in Israel, Prime Minister Netanyahu has become something of an...

A month ago, Tucker Carlson raised concerns over the unusual number of deaths associated with the COVID vaccines. Prominent "fact-checkers" immediately scrambled to discredit these concerns as "misleading" and "lacking in context." FactCheck.org even went on to say, "it's wrong to suggest that reported deaths in the VAERS System database were all caused by vaccines," but Tucker Carlson never made this claim.The news site Revolver provided context with a graph that showed an astonishing 3,000% spike in vaccine-related deaths. Unfortunately, the article did not provide a link to the source, and the "Open VAERS" website is cumbersome to navigate. Fortunately...

In response to China's increasingly powerful blue-water navy and deployment of long-range "carrier killer" anti-ship ballistic missiles, the U.S. Army has developed a suite of weapons designed to destroy or suppress Chinese targets from very long ranges, and do so quickly and precisely while reducing the threat these Chinese weapons pose to vital Navy and Air Force offensive weaponry. The commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Navy Admiral Philip Davidson, recently told the Senate Armed Services Committee he likes the Army's idea. When Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) posed a question about China's disruptive military power in the western Pacific, Davidson replied,...

It’s the first Hawaii hate crime case brought by the feds in 20 years, but U.S. Attorney Kenji Price is hoping to send a strong message about victimizing others because of their race or color. In 2013, Chris Kunzelman and his wife bought a house in Maui’s remote Kahakuloa village despite being warned that neighborhood residents “do not like white people.” Every time a non-Native Hawaiian had tried to view the house, Hawaiian residents from the deeply rooted village of approximately 150 people harassed and threatened them, scaring other potential buyers of the foreclosed property away, according to court documents....

Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cautioned former President Donald Trump and other elected officials from questioning election results. After claiming Russian President Vladimir Putin “helped elect Trump” in 2016 instead of her, Clinton said suggesting the 2020 presidential election was rigged or not conducted fairly is doing the work of Putin. She explained Putin wants to “sow distrust” and “sow divisiveness” in the United States.

Revolver.news is a new site and turned out to be one of the last honest outlets on the internet. A new piece on the site suggests an answer to some of these questions. We know the government is hiding the identity of many law enforcement officers who were present at the capitol on January 6, not just the one who killed Ashli Babbitt. According to the government's own court filings, those law enforcement officers participated in the riot. Sometimes in violent ways. We know that because, without fail, the government has thrown the book at most of the people who...

European Union countries have reached an agreement to ease entry restrictions for travelers from the United States and seven other nations and territories, officials said Wednesday. The whitelist, which permits nonessential travel from outside the bloc, will now reportedly be expanded to include Albania, North Macedonia, Serbia, Lebanon, the United States, Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong. The change means people from those places should have an easier time entering the EU. However, it will still be up to individual member states to decide whether to impose additional requirements, such as a negative COVID test or mandatory quarantine period. Some EU...

In a show of bipartisanship, Vice President Kamala Harris invited all 24 female senators to dinner at the Naval Observatory Tuesday evening. According to Politico, bipartisan dinner parties used to take place more regularly prior to the past two election cycles. “The quarterly dinners were started by former Sens. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) and Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-Texas). They were hosted at the home of a different senator every six weeks, with each lawmaker bringing a different dish," the outlet reported. "But since Mikulski retired in 2017, the dinners became less regular.” Another factor making the dinner parties more difficult to...

Antivirus software creator John McAfee is fighting his extradition to the U.S. from Spain as American authorities look to bring him in on tax evasion charges. While speaking via video call from a Spanish prison on Tuesday, the 75-year-old millionaire argued the charges were politically motivated. McAfee was arrested in Barcelona in October for allegedly failing to report income made from promoting cryptocurrencies. However, he claimed the U.S. just wants to make an example out of him.