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Sen. Bernie Sanders has blamed a Trump-era banking law for the Silicon Valley Bank's failure. "Let's be clear. The failure of Silicon Valley Bank is a direct result of an absurd 2018 bank deregulation bill signed by Donald Trump that I strongly opposed," Sanders wrote in a statement on Sunday. Sanders was referring to the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, which former President Donald Trump signed into law in May 2018.

SOROS-BACKED SOS CAUGHT LYING TO LEGISLATURE: NEW MEXICO’S ELECTION SYSTEM IS COMPLETELY EXPOSED TO THE INTERNET Guest post from the Editor of the Estancia News During a March 10th hearing in the House Judiciary Committee on the controversial election bill titled SB 180, Representative Greg Nibert asked the Secretary of State directly, “Is the election system connected to the internet?” “No,” responded the SOS. This representation by the SOS to the legislature is patently false. The truth is that the SOS has gone to great lengths and spent almost $3 million of taxpayer money to get almost the entire election...

The continued refusal to allow the world's top-ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic to enter the US to play in the Miami Open tournament defies common sense. The hang-up is that he hasn't received a covid vaccine. The current scientific evidence indicates that (1) the vaccines are not effective in preventing infection or transmission of the virus, (2) Djokovic has already had and recovered from the disease, which means he has natural immunity that is as good as or better than any vaccine-induced resistance to the disease, and (3) vaccination is not required for the millions who have illegally entered the...

If you are able and over the age of 18 in the US, you are a member of the Constitutional (Part II) Militia. Here are books covering nearly all aspects of your education as armed citizens. Download all of them, burn them to disc, and share them with other members. Do your part to help safeguard your neighbors, your community, and the US Constitution. Topics deal with marksmanship, tactical shooting skills, communication, medical assistance, movement of formations and squads, tactics, command, communication, intelligence, ammunition, sniper skills and camouflage, breaching, rifle manuals, maps, and much more. Some of the books...

The Fed (Bernanke, Yellen, Powell) kept rates too low for too long (their new moto?), and hell is now being paid. US financial conditions index collapsed on the 3 bank failures … so far. Despite what Resident Biden said about banks, bank stocks fell again today.

Betting against the stocks that CNBC host Jim Cramer promotes appears to be a surefire way to make a fortune in the current stock market. Cramer dumped a new load of bad stock advice during the fallout from the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse. He tweeted March 10 that “[First Republic Bank (FRC)] is new focus... very good bank.” However — just three days after Cramer’s tweet — FRC’s stock value took a 65 percent nosedive during premarket trading on Monday morning after declining 33 percent the prior week, according to CNBC. Cramer just can’t seem to catch a break...

VIDEOIf Benny Hill did a bit on road rage, it would probably look something like this real life example. The really funny thing is that the Road Rage Guy in the video looks a lot like Benny Hill.

Financial expert Michael Burry sent one perfect Tweet on Sunday that explained why the economy is collapsing around us. Burry, best known for his portrayal by Christian Bale in hit movie “The Big Short,” has been signalling the alarm for an impending, massive recession for quite some time. After Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse Friday and Signature Bank’s shut down, Burry took to Twitter with one perfect statement: “2000, 2008, 2023, it’s always the same.” Burry wrote, now shared on his archive page. “People full of hubris and greed take stupid risks and fail. Money is then printed. Because it works...

'Thanks to him, a great danger was averted,' says R. Meir Mazuz, dean of the K. Rahamim. Mazuz argued, “prevented a very great danger,” referencing reports prior to Goldstein’s shooting at the Tomb of the Patriarchs of a planned Arab terror attack in Hebron. "The Arabs were bringing in axes and hiding them under the rugs in the Tomb of the Patriarchs, along with rifles, knives – there was a terrible danger at the time.”

All together now. The Fed has been printing too much money for too long and Biden restricts fossil fuel production. Ad in rampant Federal spending and we have INFLATION. Inflation led to The Fed to raise rates. And with rate increases and down go the banks. Of course, The Fed and Biden Administration will overeact (e.g. offering deposit insurance on ALL deposits above $250,000 creating moral hazard risk). As such, we are seeing gold prices soar by 2% this AM. In adddition to gold rising 2%, natural gas futures are up 6%

Let us resolve to reclaim our own words. The cloud of defeat enshrouding America is a spiritual, moral, and political conquest that seeks to control minds, debilitate character, and destroy institutions from within. That conquest starts with the power to control our words. We react, we write, we rail against them — but always using their words. They control the conversation. We have let the enslavers control our words. The disruptive force throughout American history has been Christianity. It disrupted slavery, segregation, and abortion because Christians rejected words of the oppressors. They called slaves their brothers; they call the pre-born...

Ben Siegfried played college football at a small Pennsylvania college Ben Siegfried, a former college football player who was serving as an athletic trainer for the St. Louis BattleHawks and D.C. Defenders of the XFL, died Thursday, the league announced. He was 22. The XFL and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson sent their condolences to his family and friends on Friday. "The XFL family mourns the loss of our teammate, Ben Siegfried, who passed away last evening," the league said. "Ben, a graduate student athletic trainer from Lebanon Valley College working with the XFL Athletic Training Department, was an integral part...

Feminist author Naomi Wolf offered a formal apology to conservatives who "put America first" after reviewing newly-released footage of the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot. "Peaceful Republicans and conservatives as a whole have been demonized by the story told by Democrats in leadership of what happened that day," Wolf said in a lengthy post on Substack Thursday. "Republicans, conservatives, I am sorry. I also believed wholesale so much else that has since turned out not to be as I was told it was by NPR, MSNBC and the New York Times," Wolf also said. "Anyone in leadership who misrepresented to...

On this date in 1493, Peter Dane was burned at the stake in the Baltic city of Rostock. Dane, the vicar of the church at the small town of Sternberg, allegedly sold consecrated communion Host to a Jew named Eleazar, who proceeded to destroy the pieces in a weird Jewish ceremony because Jews. From this imputation came the mass burning of 27 Jews at Sternberg in October 1492. (Eleazar himself, however, got away.) Those Jews not put to death were expelled from the Duchy of Mecklenburg, leading rabbis to pronounce a reciprocal ban against any of their people settling in...

Silicon Valley Bank on Friday paid out annual bonuses to eligible U.S. employees, BEFORE the bank collapsed and was seized, per Axios. The bonuses were for work done during 2022, and were previously scheduled to be disbursed on March 10. Axios reports some bonuses were not paid as they were also scheduled later. An FDIC spokesperson told Axios: "Without commenting on salaries, it’s our standard practice to ask retain [sic] bank employees to assist with an orderly transition as part of our resolution process." Notably, before the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, $SIVB, the CEO sold $3.57 million of stock...

Video creators that have been uploading to YouTube are very familiar with the over-the-top censorship at that site that has been going on for years. However, it is interesting to get the perspective of someone who has discovered this YouTube censorship perhaps for the first time. Even more interesting is that Helen Lewis of the Atlantic magazine can hardly be considered a conservative with a political axe to grind. So let us now go on a voyage of censorship discovery with Lewis in her Friday piece, "What You Can’t Say on YouTube."

In the movie The Untouchables, written by David Mamet and directed by Brian De Palma, a streetwise Irish cop named Malone tries to educate a starry-eyed fed named Eliot Ness in the ways of Chicago justice when up against an implacable, deadly opponent like Al Capone. The scene has become justly famous for this line: "“He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. THAT'S the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone."But for our purposes here, what even more important is the exchange...

The Kel-Tec P17 barrel was measured at 3.814 inches. Published Velocities for .22 cartridges are easily available, and are usually measured in rifle-length test barrels. Lapau reportedly uses a 660mm (26 inch) test barrel for .22 rimfire rifle ammunition. RWS uses a 650mm (25 inch) test barrel for rimfire rifle ammunition. US manufacturers are said to use 24-inch test barrels. It makes sense manufacturers would use the longest commonly available barrel to test their ammunition. Velocities of .22 ammunition in the US is seldom given for pistol barrels.In a previous article, information was published about the velocities of three pistols...

Now Biden FDIC and Federal Reverse Are Bailing It Out – Clearly Biden Is Working for China The Silicon Valley Bank has served as a huge bridge to China and Chinese tech engineers. Is this why the corrupt Biden Gang is bailing it out? Just this morning the US House reported that they have the goods on the Bidens’ corrupt and criminal actions with China. The Bidens are in bed with the corrupt China regime and the House has the evidence. The Bidens were receiving money from the CCP. Related to this is the failing Bank, the Silicon Valley Bank...

The Right Reverend David Farrer and Dixieland multi-instrumentalist Emzak combine for a poetic micro-movie at historic building Ercildoune in Footscray, Australia, wondering what is going wrong and what is going right in the process of learning from the past?