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Laura Suter, director of personal finance at AJ Bell, comments: “Keir Starmer’s pre-Budget speech made it pretty clear that significant tax hikes are on the horizon – no surprises there. Labour have consistently trailed that tax hikes are needed to plug the now-infamous £22 billion black hole and to boost public spending. But what is still as clear as mud is exactly how Starmer defines ‘working people’, after backing himself into a corner to protect this group of people. “Having set out to protect the working man, he still refused to clarify whether that includes people who earn money from...

The United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), the major teachers’ union in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), passed a resolution last week backing an arms embargo against Israel proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). The resolution, obtained by the Los Angeles Times, calls upon California’s Sens. Alex Padilla and Laphonza Butler, both Democrats, to back Sanders’s resolution in the Senate’s “lame duck” session after the November election. The Times reported: Union materials prepared for a board of directors meeting, which were obtained by The Times, state the rationale for taking such a stand: “the arms named have been used...

QUESTION: Marty, I know you will not say who you advise, but we know you were the only Western analyst called in by China during the Asian Currency Crisis. People have also seen you in India at that famous hotel that the terrorists attacked. China even issued a white paper on how their central bank uses Capital Flow Analysis, which you invented. That said, my question is: The BRICS had everyone expecting a gold-backed currency if that failed. You also said in an interview that the new BRICS currency would not displace the dollar. Would you comment on why a...

In 2020 there was something called the Transition Integrity Project (TIP). It was a bunch of wargames that were set up by the most deep state Trump hating people you can imagine run by Rosa Brooks. Rosa Brooks is the former assistant to George Soros, she was a Pentagon official, she is Georgetown law professor, and she is a Democratic Party operative. This nonpartisan TIP project was funded by Protect Democracy and United to Protect Democracy. Both of these were actually launched in January 2017 by former Obama administrative lawyers. One of those lawyers is former deputy White House Council...

News A conservative federal court said Mississippi cannot count mail-in ballots that arrive shortly after Election Day, however Friday's decision was not expected to affect the Nov. 5 election. Although the appellate judges firmly asserted that counting late ballots violates federal law, even if those ballots are postmarked by Election Day, the judges stopped short of an order immediately blocking Mississippi from continuing the practice. Their ruling noted federal court precedents have discouraged court actions that change established procedures shortly before an election. The outcome may be negligible in most elections in heavily Republican Mississippi, but the case could affect...

A migrant from El Salvador has been arrested for killing a young couple in Northern Virginia, prompting yet another plea from the local sheriff for border enforcement.

Barbara Pierce Bush, the daughter of former President George W. Bush and granddaughter of former President George H.W. Bush, spent time over the past weekend in Pennsylvania on the campaign trail for Vice President Kamala Harris as the 2024 election hits the final week before voting. She gave PEOPLE magazine a statement to confirm she is working on behalf of the Democratic candidate in the critical swing state. “It was inspiring to join friends and meet voters with the Harris-Walz campaign in Pennsylvania this weekend,” Barbara, 42, told PEOPLE on Tuesday. “I’m hopeful they’ll move our country forward and protect...

The new Tiangong team will carry out experiments with an eye to the space programme's ambitious goal of placing astronauts on the Moon by 2030 and eventually constructing a lunar base. The Shenzhou-19 mission is scheduled to take off with its trio of space explorers at 4:27 am Wednesday (2027 GMT Tuesday) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said. Among the crew is Wang Haoze, 34, who is China's only female spaceflight engineer, according to the agency. She will become the third Chinese woman to take part in a crewed mission....

Please pray for my father-in-law who is having heart surgery this morning. Thank you, and God Bless you!Daily Readings from the USCCBJesus said, “What is the Kingdom of God like? To what can I compare it? It is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in the garden. When it was fully grown, it became a large bush and the birds of the sky dwelt in its branches.” Luke 13:18–19This short parable should speak to many people far more than they realize. It should be a source of great encouragement to us all as we seek to...

Joe Rogan says his interview with former President Donald Trump faced an “issue” that prevented it from surfacing on YouTube’s search function, a problem Google reportedly said it is addressing, as some fans allege—without evidence—the video sharing site has intentionally suppressed the interview.

Steve Bannon returned to The War Room on Tuesday morning after his release from Danbury prison earlier this morning. And, Steve was ON FIRE! returned to The War Room on Real America’s Voice on Tuesday. And he was ready to go! “They sent me to a political prison. Nancy Pelosi take out your number 2 pencil and write this down. “We have never been more powerful!” Steve Bannon: “It’s Tuesday, the 29th of October in the Year of Our Lord 2024. We’re, what, six and a wake up away from one of the most important political days in the history...

Virginia attorney general Jason Miyares on Monday took the commonwealth’s noncitizen-voter case to the Supreme Court after a lower court blocked officials from purging their voter rolls of noncitizen aliens. A federal appeals court on Sunday backed a lower court’s Friday ruling that ordered Virginia to restore some 1,600 suspected noncitizens who are ineligible to vote to the state’s voter rolls. Miyares and Governor Glenn Youngkin, both Republicans, responded with a pledge to take the case to the Supreme Court with just nine days left before the election. They followed through on Monday. The request asks the Supreme Court to...

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—An FBI agent who investigated multiple Jan. 6 cases contributed more than $7,000 to Democrat candidates and causes, including President Joe Biden’s 2020 race, campaign finance records show. FBI Special Agent Clarke G. Burns also donated six times to The Lincoln Project, a political action committee that opposes Donald Trump, who lost the presidency that year to Biden. Burns, who works in the FBI’s Washington Field Office, has written numerous affidavits in cases related to the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021, and the arrests of defendants who were there. Democrats have blamed Trump for what...

Former President Donald Trump‘s explosive interview with podcast host Joe Rogan, which has become the most-viewed episode ever, has been removed from YouTube’s search results. It’s just another glitch, right? When typing in search terms such as Joe Rogan Donald Trump,” “Joe Rogan Donald Trump interview,” “Joe Rogan Trump,” or “Rogan Trump full interview,” YouTube only directs users to short clips of the interview, but the full interview is nowhere to be seen. The Federalist CEO and co-founder Sean Davis responded to the findings on X, writing: “There’s no way to search for the full interview that will actually return...

With Election Day one week away, NBC’s Steve Kornacki joins TODAY to break down where the presidential race stands and what the path to 270 looks like for Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. He also breaks down the gender gap between the two candidates and what to make of the early voting numbers.

@KamalaHarris ⁩ giving up on North Carolina..pulling money out. Maybe to drop in Virginia to try and stop the slide ?

The New York Times published a think piece last week strategizing how leftists might be able to thwart the will of American voters and rescue democracy from President Donald Trump should he win on Nov. 5. Using the term "democracy" euphemistically for a state of things in which Democrats or leftists of other stripes are in power, the authors — a pair of Harvard University professors hostile to Trump, the Constitution as written, and the Electoral College — recommended "societal mobilization" should the powers that be fail to get their way. Daniel Ziblatt and Steve Levitsky's call to action, which...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis and the Fast-Approaching FutureExcerpt: Moreover, as McCusker points out, “Francis is not universally and peacefully adhered to by the Catholic Church … On the contrary, many Catholics, including cardinals and bishops, publicly refuse to submit to his teaching on faith and morals as contained in a number of documents.” Indeed, Francis’s “teachings” on sex, gender, and homosexuality have been universally rejected by the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (the equivalent of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.) In short, a whole continent of Catholics refuses to adhere to his revisions of Catholic...

"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" So said Henry II about Thomas Beckett. Wikipedia explains it this way: "It is also commonly understood as shorthand for any rhetorical device allowing leaders to covertly order or exhort violence among their followers, while still being able to claim plausible deniability for political, legal, or other reasons." Indeed. Now let's rewrite it slightly for the democrat party. "Will no one rid me of this turbulent President?" There is no question about it. democrats would love to see Trump killed and they are doing everything they can to encourage it happening....

Far-left USA Today announced on Monday that it will not endorse a presidential candidate in the 2024 election. This makes USA Today one of the latest far-left major publications to steer clear of backing Vice President Kamala Harris and running mate Tim Walz, joining an unprecedented media shift that includes outlets like The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times. A spokesperson for USA Today told The Daily Beast that rather than endorsing a candidate, the paper plans to “provide readers with the facts that matter and the trusted information they need to make informed decisions.” But this sudden detour away...