A trio of stories this week highlighted the trend of censored Americans becoming increasingly proactive in fighting for social media platform access.
Author: admin (Kendrick Williams)
PRO-PUTIN SPEAKER IS ELECTED IN ITALY JUST WEEKS AFTER MELONI ELECTION WIN
Last month’s election of Giorgia Meloni for prime minister in Italy was seen as the first sign that the country could change its pro-EU posture and its nearly unlimited support of sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
U.S. DRAWS LINE IN THE SAND FOR MEXICO: WITH US OR NOT
Mexico, which has spoken out against the Ukraine War but has not chided Russia over its invasion, is feeling increased pressure from the U.S. to take a more assertive role as the war drags on.
MORTGAGE RATES RISE TO 20-YEAR HIGHS AS HOME PRICES FALL AT RECORD PACE
The national average interest rate on a fixed-rate, 30-year mortgage nudged up to 6.92 percent on 13 October, climbing from 6.66 percent a week ago to its highest since April 2002, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) announced.
UNIONIZATION, TOP TREND 2022: OKLAHOMA APPLE STORE VOTES TO UNIONIZE
Employees at an Apple store in Oklahoma voted to unionize and be represented by the Communications Workers of America—becoming the computer giant’s second store in the U.S. to vote in favor of union representation.
ECONOMIC UPDATE—MARKET OVERVIEW
Welcome to the global freak show. What a sick, deadly joke. Ben Bernanke, the clown boy who played Fed Head prior to, during and following the “Panic of ’08” (the economic collapse forecast by Gerald Celente who took out the domain name in November 2007) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics last week.
EU’S BORRELL SAYS RUSSIAN ARMY WOULD BE ‘ANNIHILATED’ IF PUTIN USES NUKES IN UKRAINE
Josep Borrell, the European Union’s foreign policy head, said at an event in Belgium on Thursday that Russia’s military would be annihilated by overwhelming force if Moscow used nuclear weapons during its war with Ukraine.
UKRAINE’S FOREIGN MINISTER ADMITS BOMBING CRIMEA BRIDGE
Dmitry Kuleba, Ukraine’s foreign minister who has been one of the most outspoken advocates of more weapons and war, was caught in a prank Zoom video admitting to being behind attacks on civilian infrastructure in Crimea and Belgorod.
SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
The value of mergers and acquisitions that companies announced during the first nine months of this year is 34 percent below those making the news during the same period in 2021, data service Refinitiv reported.