After 10 interest-rate increases in as many meetings, the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee held the central bank’s key federal funds rate steady at 5.0 percent on deposits and 5.25 percent on loans at its meeting last week.
Tag: june 20 2023
U.S. GOVERNMENT HIT BY CYBERATTACKS, WATCH FOR NEW DIGITAL CURRENCY PUSH
The U.S. is investigating the apparent hacking of several federal agencies—including a vendor for the Department of Agriculture—that “may impact a very small number of employees,” which will be used by central banksters to push digital currencies to the public.
NETANYAHU: ISRAEL WILL PROCEED WITH CONTROVERSIAL JUDICIAL OVERHAUL
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that his coalition government will pursue its controversial plans to overhaul the country’s judiciary, which sparked massive protests earlier this year.
WHAT SPY BALLOONS? BLINKEN MEETS WITH XI IN HOPES TO EASE TENSIONS
Secretary of State Antony Blinken told NBC News that the spy balloon incident that prompted him to cancel a February visit to China “should be closed” after a high-profile meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and his top diplomat.
U.S. “WE’RE #1”, THE FATTEST, SICKEST COUNTRY ON EARTH
Americans have the highest rate of chronic diseases in the world as obesity continues to skyrocket since the 1980s—with 42 percent of adults and 18 percent of youth who fit into this category.
SOUTH KOREA MORE CONCERNED ABOUT CHINA THAN A MILLION TONS OF RADIOACTIVE WATER IN THE PACIFIC
The South Korean government has decided that China is a bigger risk than Japan pumping over one million tons of radioactive water into the Pacific from its defunct Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
U.S. ATTEMPTS TO BULLY SOUTH AFRICA AWAY FROM RUSSIA
A bipartisan group of lawmakers want to bully South Africa into submission
WWIII: GERMANY IDENTIFIES RUSSIA AS WORLD’S BIGGEST THREAT TO PEACE
Germany’s latest strategic policy paper released last week identified Russia as the most dangerous country in the world after its invasion of Ukraine that flouted “international law and the European security order.”
6 PALESTINIANS KILLED IN THE LATEST ISRAELI RAID ON JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, U.S.-MADE APACHE HELICOPTER GUNSHIPS TAKE PART
Israeli forces carried out a massive military operation on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Monday in the latest flash of violence by Israel that will be all but ignored or justified in the Western media.
U.S. DEFENSE SECRETARY: UKRAINE HAS WHAT IT NEEDS TO DEFEAT RUSSIA
Lloyd Austin, the United States Secretary of Defense, said last week that Ukraine's counteroffensive will be bruising for both sides, but he believes Kyiv has what it needs to succeed on the battlefield.