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PopKiller boutique, Los Angeles. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The Commerce Department released data on consumption and prices for the month of February today, and the picture is not good. Consumption is slowing and inflation is rising. Also, spending on health care continues to increase rapidly, which is bad news for the affordability gang. Real Consumption Story Starting with the consumption story, real consumption rose just 0.1 percent in February after being flat in January. In the last three months it grew at just a 0.8 percent annual rate. Many of us have noted that consumption seems to be driven largely…
President Donald Trump’s profanity-laced Easter Sunday social media post threatening to bomb civilian infrastructure in Iran led some Democratic lawmakers to call for his removal via the 25th Amendment. Trump wrote on Truth Social, spelling out the f-word: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F—–’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP.” Reacting to Trump’s post, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., wrote on X, “If I were in Trump’s…
Sound reasoning, I think, from Judge Andrew Hanen (S.D. Tex.) Tuesday in Brown v. Splendora Indep. School Dist. Plus a bit more on other topics, which should offer a flavor of the set of complaints that plaintiff brought: “On or about March 12, 2025, during a class testing period, Teacher [Name Not Specified in Allegations] removed RB from the classroom and referred him for suspension.” (emphasis added). The reason he was removed, as specified in Plaintiff’s Amended Complaint, was that RB refused to sit in his assigned seat, was being difficult, and was talking across the room while others were…
Robert Inlakesh for Mintpress News Contradictions, Costs, and a Failed Mission in Iran. The F-15E rescue Iran operation, sold by the Trump administration as a ‘biblical’ triumph, stands exposed as one of the most costly and contradictory failures in modern military history. Not only did it set back the US taxpayer over $300 million dollars, Iran now claims that they foiled an attempt to seize the nation’s highly enriched uranium – explains geopolitical analyst Robert Inlakesh in this week’s MintPress Livestream. A triumphant success of biblical proportions, was the way US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth described his nation’s mission to…
Those who care about such things have been noting that the report required to be sent to Congress on UFOs (or “UAPs”) by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) on October 31 is late. By now, more than a month late! Just before the deadline The New York Times reported (October 28) that “Many Military U.F.O. Reports Are Just Foreign Spying or Airborne Trash.” That would seem to be a big embarrassment to those claiming that UFOs represent something mysterious and unknown.Now the Wall Street Journal has popped the Government UFO bubble, so to speak. In an…
Creationism, in all its various manifestations, is sophisticated pseudoscience. This makes it a great teaching tool to demonstrate the difference between legitimate science and science denial dressing up as a cheap imitation of science. Creationist arguments are a great example of motivated reasoning, providing copious examples of all the ways logic and argumentation can go awry. It has also been interesting to see creationist arguments (at the leading edge) “adapt” and “evolve” into more complex forms, while maintaining their core feature of denying evolution at all costs. I am going to focus in this article on young Earth creationists, specifically…
In the world of UFO phenomena, there have always been conspiracies swirling around that run the range from the merely odd to the downright ludicrous. One corner of these UFO conspiracies is the existence of top-secret documents towards which all manner of conspiracies gravitate. These documents might outline UFO secrets, cover-ups, information on alien tech or aliens, and who whole bunch of other secretive things concerning UFOs, but they have always drawn intrigue and mysteries to them, and here we will look at some of these. Source link
Believe it or not, that is true.A lot has been happening in UFOdumb these past few weeks. I didn’t write about it because the media coverage was omnipresent, and I didn’t really have anything to add to the cacophony. On December 3 I noted that the report required to be sent to Congress on UFOs (or “UAPs”) by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) on October 31 was late. When it was finally released on January 12, it was a huge disappointment to all. As the Canadian UFO researcher Chris Rutkowski noted on Facebook’s UFO Updates,Yes, the…
The results from an important race in Wisconsin this week suggest the Republicans could be in very big trouble. Source link
US officials believe that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convinced President Donald Trump to attack Iran during a meeting in February. According to US officials speaking with The New York Times, Netanyahu told Trump on February 11 that the US and Israel could install a new government in Iran by military force and supporting the opposition. Netanyahu claimed that after the US and Israel killed Iranian leaders and destroyed military facilities, Washington and Tel Aviv could then provide support to opposition forces and encourage protests. The Israeli leader explained that the son of the former Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi,…