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Australia's Tobacco Taxes Have Fueled A Massive Black Market For Cigarettes
Australia's Tobacco Taxes Have Fueled A Massive Black Market For Cigarettes
One lesson governments never seem to learn is that when taxes push the legal price of something high enough, a black market will eventually show up to collect the difference.
Australia is now getting a particularly ugly demonstration of that principle. After more than a decade of relentlessly increasing tobacco taxes in an effort to crush smoking, the country has created an enormous price gap between legal and illegal cigarettes, and organized crime has rushed in to fill it, according...
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State Department Approves Massive $24 Billion F-35 Sale to Saudi Arabia
The State Department approved a $24.3 billion sale of F-35s to Saudi Arabia. The announcement comes as the Gulf kingdom is requesting military assistance from its allies as it fights a war against Ansar Allah in Yemen. The sale includes 48 F-35s and 49 engines (48 equipped with one spare), cryptographic equipment, electronic warfare support, […]
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Aug 5, 2026 / Tyler Durden
DHS Confirms Over 3 Million Total Deportations, Highlights Arrests Of Five More "Worst Of The Worst" Criminal Illegals
DHS Confirms Over 3 Million Total Deportations, Highlights Arrests Of Five More "Worst Of The Worst" Criminal Illegals
Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness,
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Monday arrested five more “worst of the worst” criminal illegal aliens convicted for heinous crimes, including voluntary manslaughter, criminal indecent exposure, aggravated assault, and fentanyl trafficking.
According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), more than three million illegal aliens have left the United States due to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown: 2.2 million self-deportations, and over 985,000 deported by...
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Apr 24, 2026 / Tyler Durden
House Panel Orders Southern Poverty Law Center To Turn Over Communications With Biden DOJ
House Panel Orders Southern Poverty Law Center To Turn Over Communications With Biden DOJ
Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on April 23 gave the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) until April 30 to hand over documents regarding its relationship with the Biden–Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI, as part of a federal prosecution of the civil rights group.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) during a hearing on Capitol Hill on March 4, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times
In a letter to...
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