"It Was Like Two Bucks": Homeless Residents Say They Were Paid To Vote In Los Angeles Mayoral Race

Demoralizing The Whole Citizenry To The Max Authored by James Howard Kunstler, The Curse It Is Cast... “I have nothing to hide. I can explain and validate everything that I’ve done.” - Dr. Anthony Fauci, recorded for TV in 2022 However you cut this Fauci business, one thing Americans have learned is how slippery and treacherous this thing called The Law has become. You saw it in the sundry Trump prosecutions of 2024, too - a marvelous demonstration of how to play Hide-the-Salami with the truth about anything and everything. You saw it in the...

China To Impose Mining Controls On Strategic Minerals The Trump-Xi meeting is now history, so Beijing can go back to doing what it does best: squeezing US supply chains with its near chokehold on most strategic and rare-earth supply chains. China plans to impose mining controls on certain strategic minerals to ensure supply security and protect the finite resources, Beijing revealed in a government notification published by the official Xinhua News Agency.  The new rules will take effect from June 15 and allow Beijing to control total output, restrict mining entities and...

The Pentagon has told Congress that it needs $80 billion to pay for the Iran war and other non-war-related costs, The Wall Street Journal has reported. The Pentagon had previously claimed that the war cost $29 billion as of mid-May, a number that doesn’t hold up to scrutiny, as an analysis from Stephen Semler of […]