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Breitbart: Pentagon Reveals It Actually Has 2,000 Troops in Syria, Not 900.
The Pentagon on Thursday admitted there are actually 2,000 American troops in Syria, not the 900 it previously said were in the country.
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Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder characterized the higher troop count as a “surprise” — without clarifying if Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin or President Joe Biden knew there were 2,000, not 900 U.S. troops in Syria.
Ryder said at a briefing Thursday:
As you know, we have been briefing you regularly that there are approximately 900 U.S. troops deployed to Syria. In light of the situation in Syria and the significant interest, we recently learned that those numbers were higher, and so asked to look into it, I learned today that in fact there are approximately 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria.
"We recently learned..." Yeah. Sure. What else is this administration not telling us? The Pentagon Press Sec is, "surprised" upon learning the number of U.S. troops is higher than he thought, or was told, or he's plain lying. What does Lloyd Autism or Herr Biden have to say about this?
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Breitbart: Transgender Drug lord series moves closer to Oscar nomination.
It would be an Oscar cinch had the writers created the character as also being disabled and confined to a wheelchair. (No, I'm not poking fun at the disabled or those in wheelchairs. If that's your take-away, you are terminally sarcasm-impaired.)
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BBC: US scraps $10m bounty for arrest of Syria's new leader Sharaa.
The US has scrapped a $10m (£7.9m) reward for the arrest of Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, following meetings between senior diplomats and representatives from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).
Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Leaf said the discussion with Sharaa was "very productive", and he came across as "pragmatic".
Someone considered a terrorist by both U.S. and Israel is now their best Fren. What a cohencidence. What are the odds the U.S and Israel find a terrorist who is,"very productive and pragmatic." It'll all work out for the best, no doubt.
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Time: COVID-19 Rates Are Strangely Low This Holiday Season.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh no! How will the Mask-wearing Branch Covidians cope?
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RT: US spent $9 million on ‘anal prints’ and on giving puppies cocaine – DOGE.
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has published a list of unusual programs funded by the federal government.
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[...]$6.97 million has been spent on studying ‘smart toilets’ that recognize the user’s ‘anal print,’ while $2.3 million went into studies on injecting dogs with cocaine. Some $118,000 was reportedly dedicated to studying whether a metal replica robot of Marvel Comics’ Thanos could snap his fingers, and $75,000 was given in grants on a Harvard study on lizards being blown off trees with leaf blowers.
Your Smart Toilet: "I recognize that ass."
Why inject cocaine into poor dogs when I'm sure there are plenty of humans who would happily volunteer as lab rats? 🤣
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Daily HODL: Bank Abruptly Shut Down by US Regulators in Second Bank Failure of 2024.
Financial regulators just shut down a bank in Oklahoma, marking the second US bank failure of 2024.
The First National Bank of Lindsay has been shuttered by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
The agency says it took action after identifying false and deceptive bank records and other information that suggests fraud depleted the bank’s capital.
“The OCC also found that the bank was in an unsafe or unsound condition to transact business and that the bank’s assets were less than its obligations to its creditors and others.”
The OCC is also forwarding the matter to the US Department of Justice.
Off to the DOJ, eh? Well Merrick Garland will be right on top of it, you betcha!
But wait, there's more! More banks on the verge of failing:
Cryptopolitician: U.S. banks’ unrealized losses soar to 7 times 2008 crisis levels.
Unsustainable. Awaiting the domino effect.
NY Post: Harris' husband cheated on first wife with nanny and got her pregnant.
Wow! Doug Emhoff knocks up the nanny! Child "no longer with us," (aka aborted). Way to go Dougie!
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Washington Times: Kamala Harris backed using 'lists' of gun owners to send police door-to-door to seize firearms.
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Served in IDF but not the U.S. Military. Once again, an American Jew puts Israel before America. His IDF service is being scrubbed online.
Once again, they do their own meme:
Breitbart: Michigan's Muslim Voters May Block Jewish Gov. Josh Shapiro from Being Democrats' VP Pick.
I thought dems lost the Muslim vote already by arming, supporting and propping up Israel's genocide. Muslims can't possibly support any democrat, anywhere really, can they? This is why Kamela should choose Shapiro as her VP.
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Breitbart: Mitch McConnell: ‘America First’ Is Foreign Policy ‘Nonsense’.
Breitbart: Poll - Most Say There Should Have Been 'More Competition' to Replace Biden.
TPTB and DNC anointed Harris. No contenders allowed. Sounds like a coronation, not "Democracy."
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Oh f#ck no, no, no. Not this sh*t scam again ⏬
Bloomberg: Top US Officials Discussed Minting Trillion Dollar Coin, Memo Reveals.
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ZeroHedge: "Millions" Wasted On Electric School Busses As Maryland Pivots Back To Diesel.
Everyone all together now: "WE TOLD YOU." 🤣
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County Local News: Bronx ADA resigns after predator sting: Bronx County ADA abruptly resigns after meeting underage boy.
I read the second and third PDFs. Likely to be scrubbed soon. There's nothing impressive or original in what he wrote. Same DEI talking points that you'd expect.
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The Mirror: Mom burnt 13-year-old daughter's rapist alive after he taunted her while out of prison.
Doused him with gasoline and set him ablaze. He died a few days later.
Five and half year prison term. She shouldn't have received any time.
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Omni: Giant pangolin rediscovered in Senegal.
It's not Godzilla big, but it's big.
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Substack - Gregory Mannarino: $517,000,000,000 in Unrealized Losses Hit US Banking System, FDIC Says.
In its latest Quarterly Banking Profile report, the FDIC notes that banks now face over half a trillion dollars in paper losses on their balance sheets, primarily due to their exposure to the residential real estate market. These unrealized losses, the gap between the purchase price of securities and their current market value, are becoming a significant burden.
DC Patriot: $517,000,000,000 in unrealized losses hits US Banking System as FDIC Warns 63 Lenders on Brink of Insolvency.
“The number of banks on the Problem Bank List, those with a CAMELS composite rating of ‘4’ or ‘5’, rose from 52 in the fourth quarter of 2023 to 63 in the first quarter of 2024. This figure represents 1.4% of all banks, a range considered normal for non-crisis periods, typically between 1% and 2%. The total assets held by problem banks increased by $15.8 billion to $82.1 billion during the quarter,” the FDIC stated.
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Despite these concerning trends, the FDIC assures that the US banking system is not in imminent danger. However, it warns that ongoing inflation, fluctuating market rates, and geopolitical issues continue to exert pressure on the industry.
"...and geopolitical issues..." Gee, I wonder what those might be?
Does the FDIC's assurance there's no imminent danger put you at ease?
How many posts, searches and uploads occur every second to FB, X, IG, You Tube, Pinterest, Google, Yandex and other social media sites or online Big Media? How many people are calling an Uber or using Skype every second?
This site Tracks that data it in real time: The Internet in Real Time. Check it out. It doesn't include Blooger or WP. Awwwwww...😠It should, I'd like to see real-time data tracking for posting on both Bloog and WP.
The $95B aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan will pass, imho. It shouldn't, but it will.
With cucks like Johnson, dems, RINOs and the UniParty - how can it fail? When was the last time the U.S. government gifted the American people with over $200 Billion? (... checking notes ...) ... N E V E R.
"Muh Ukraine! Muh Israel! Muh Taiwan!"
"Biblical admonition", my ass.
$3.3 Billion...for a guy Biden calls an, "a**hole,"?
Student Loan Deadbeats, pay your fucking loans!
CNBC: Student loan bills resume for 40 million Americans. How it could shake the economy.
Ryan Moran, a nurse in Jacksonville, Florida, hasn’t thought about his federal student loans in years. But this month, he’s scrambling to figure out how to make room in his budget for his $500 monthly bill.
He and his wife, Amelia, plan to dine out less and to skip the football games they love to attend. His grocery bills will also need to shrink.
“And it’s not only consumption that decreases,” said Moran, 26. “Increasing monthly payments means I have to work overtime, taking time away from my family.”
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Meanwhile, many people with student debt plan to cut back their spending on clothing, travel and food.
Oh, so during the past years these people knew this date was coming and instead of preparing for it many were spending on travel, sporting events and dining out. It didn't dawn on them to set X dollars aside per month for this day?
B-B-B-but..."the economy is so bad." I don't know why they think this, Biden tells everyone this is the greatest economy ever.
RochesterFirst: Payments resume for student loans; Rochester students, graduates react.
In Collegetown, local students shared their thoughts — with some saying they are not a fan of the idea of having to pay it back in this economy. [Do they mean the Biden Economy? Who did they vote for? - DD]
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“Students must have access to university and become something free for everybody and not become something for few people or just for who is rich.” Foreign college student Elona Ndoj said. “It’s not fair because education is the base of any society.”
And there it is; the fallback phrase of every whining liberal cuck student loan borrower: "It's not faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir."
Which one of you held a gun to Elona's head and forced him/her/it to travel to the U.S. for their education instead of staying home and mastering the art of baked mud pie or lizard-on-a-stick?
"Life is sooooooooooooooooooooo hard with a student loan. Waaaaahhhhhhhh!"
The Self Entitled Permanent and Coddled Infant Mind Generation.
Get a second or third job. Eat Ramen. Suck it up, Buttercups.
Biden was asked about the debt ceiling:
Why isn't The Diaper King wearing his wedding ring? Did he lose it? Did he eat it? Something amiss in his wedded bliss with Tamale Jill? 🤔
MSN: PacWest Shares Plunge 60%, More Banks Drawn Into Quagmire.
PacWest shares plunged by 60 percent in after-hours trading Wednesday, raising concerns that the Los Angeles-headquartered bank might be the latest victim of the turmoil sweeping through the banking sector ever since the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in March.
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Growing anxiety over the fate of PacWest and other smaller banks in the future would likely increase pressure on the Fed, which in the aftermath of the SVB's collapse was widely expected to pause its interest rate hikes.
Another smaller bank, Western Alliance, saw its shares drop by as much as 38 percent in after-hours trading on Wednesday.
But despite predictions and expectations, the Fed has so far persisted in its strategy.
Hit The Kobeissi Letter at Twitter for ongoing updates. The outlook...let's just say it's not optimistic.
Conservative Playbook: Are PacWest and Western Alliance the Next 2 Dominoes to Fall?
Things weren’t supposed to move this quickly. Just hours after First Republic was dissected, two more major banks are in very serious trouble.
Are the dominoes going to start to fall more quickly than we were anticipating? After his bank gobbled up First Republic, Jamie Dimon told the world that “this part of the crisis is over”, and many in the corporate media believed him.
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Both institutions are now highly vulnerable, and as Dick Bove has aptly noted, those that have made massive amounts of money from recent bank failures are searching for their next victim[.]
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Of course PacWest and Western Alliance are not the only potential targets.
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NY Mag: Jerome Powell Got Punked by Russian Prank Callers.
...it’s a little jarring to see that on Thursday, the gray-haired Powell was made the butt of a joke by two Russian pranksters crudely posing as Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. This happened back in January, but Powell apparently thought this call was a private one with the world leader and talked candidly about how a recession was just as likely as it was not, and it is now making the rounds on Russian media and Twitter.
BBC: Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell pranked by Russians.
Comedians Vladimir Krasnov and Alexei Stolyarov - known as Vovan and Lexus - claimed credit for the stunt.
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In one of the clips shared on Russian television, Mr Powell praised Russia's central bank chief Elvira Nabiullina for managing the Russian economy amid Western sanctions, according to the BBC Monitoring service.
Other video now circulating on the internet shows Mr Powell describing a sharp slowdown in growth in the US, following the bank's efforts to rein in price rises.
"We would tell you that a recession is almost as likely as very slow growth," he said of expectations for 2023. "I think that is partly because of us having raised rates quite a bit but this is what it takes to get inflation down."
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"Embarrassing moment for the Fed," chimed in Jesse Cohen, global markets analyst at Investing.com.
"Embarrassing moment for the Fed." Ya think?
Powell needs to go. Didn't care for his policies during Trump's term, he shouldn't have been appointed, still don't care for his policies.
This wasn't a perfect phone call. Resign.
U.S. Department of Defense: Biden Administration Announces Additional Security Assistance for Ukraine.
Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announces the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown of security assistance to meet Ukraine’s critical security and defense needs. This authorization, which is valued at up to $2.5 billion, is the Biden Administration’s thirtieth drawdown of equipment from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021. It contains hundreds of armored vehicles, critical support for Ukraine’s air defense, and other important capabilities including: ...
...A bunch o' $tuff. Hit the link.
A reminder from February 2015, The Guardian: Welcome to Ukraine, the most corrupt nation in Europe.
How nice of Biden's handlers to care so much about Ukraine's security and defense needs.
The Herd of RINOs Voting Yes (18) : Senators Blunt, Boozman, Capito, Collins, Cornyn, Cotton, Graham, Inhofe, McConnell, Moran, Murkowski, Portman, Romney, Rounds, Shelby, Thune, Wicker & Young.
Not Voting and Couldn't Care Less (3): Barrasso, Burr & Cramer.
Breitbart: $1.7 Trillion, 4,155-Page Omnibus Bill Passes Senate with Help of 18 Republicans.
When have 18 Democrats crossed over and voted with Republicans?
👆LINK and Thread 👇
No one is surprised by this.
Breitbart: Black Friday Disappoints: Thin Crowds and ‘Desolate’ Stores.
The busiest shopping day of the year is not as busy as retailers hoped.
Across the U.S., shopping malls are seeing only thin crowds, according to reports in business media. Inflation and depressed consumer sentiment appear to have dampened the holiday shopping spirit.
Reuters reported:
At Times Square in New York City, which was cloudy with occasional light rain, employees were seen waiting inside stores for crowds that so far had not arrived.
Outside the American Dream mall in East Rutherford, New Jersey, there were no lines outside stores. A ToysRUS employee was seen walking around the mall handing out flyers with a list of the Black Friday door busters.
Bloomberg reported:
Around 10:30am at Crossgates Mall in Albany, New York, the ultra low-cost brands and the higher-end buzzy retailers had the most foot traffic, while the middle-market stores were desolate.
Gap Inc.-owned Old Navy, which was offering 60% off most items, had a line so long that some shoppers turned around as soon as they entered the store. Athleisure favorite Lululemon Inc., which had only a few racks of discounted merchandise, and American Eagle Outfitters Inc.-owned Aerie, a popular intimates brand among Gen Z shoppers, also drew big crowds.
Meanwhile, stores like Banana Republic, Macy’s and Urban Outfitters had no lines at all, and only a handful of shoppers.
But - - - it's a transitory economic issue.
BBC (MSN Archived): White House strikes deal to avert US rail strike.
U.S. freight rail companies and unions representing their workers have reached a "tentative agreement" to avert the first national rail strike in 30 years.
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The agreement, which was announced early on Thursday, ensures that a strike that had been due to begin after midnight on Friday will no longer take place.
The deal includes a 24% wage increase and $5,000 bonuses, as well as changes to existing policies on time off which had been a crucial sticking point for workers.
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[Biden said], "We reached an agreement that will keep our critical rail system working and avoid disruptions of our economy[.]"
A disruption in our economy? Well, we don't want disruptions in our fantastic booming economy. Bidenomics! Build Back Better! Woo-Hoo!