All across the economic dashboard, inflation indicators are blinking red. Most recently, the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) index, calculated by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, rose 5.7% from November 2020 to November 2021. That’s the biggest year-over-year...
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SWAT Team Blew Up Old Woman’s House, Sent Her Bill for $50,000 Repairs
by Matt Agorist | Dec 6, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In July of last year, Vicki Baker, 75, was excited to move on to the next chapter of her life in Montana by selling her home she owned for 12 years in McKinney, Texas. That sale would never take place on schedule, however, because the day before she was supposed to...
News Roundup 11/30/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 30, 2021 | News Roundup
US News Jack Dorsey announces his resignation as Twitter's CEO. [Link] A House committee is set to look at several bills reforming Section 230. [Link] Apple will notify users if their phones were hacked by state actors. [Link] Chrystul Kizer is facing homicide charges...
What We Have to Gain from a National Default
by Ryan McMaken | Oct 6, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
The Biden administration's rhetoric on the debt ceiling has become nothing short of apocalyptic. The Treasury Department has announced that a failure to increase the debt ceiling "would have catastrophic economic consequences" and would, as NBC news claims, constitute...
COI #153: Despite All-Out Media Effort, Americans Still Support Afghan Withdrawal
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 24, 2021 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #153, Kyle Anzalone updates events in Afghanistan. The Pentagon and State Department are working to remove some privileged Afghans and Americans from Afghanistan. The US claims it has evacuated tens of thousands so far, but it is still unclear how many will be...
News Roundup 8/23/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 23, 2021 | News Roundup
Afghanistan Polling shows Americans are supportive of Biden’s decision to leave Afghanistan. [Link] The US used three helicopters to airlift 169 Americans from a hotel outside of the Kabul Airport. [Link] UK officials report seven people were crushed to death outside...
Cops Break In Locked Gate in Wrong Yard, Shoot Dog In Front of 8 Year Old
by Matt Agorist | Jun 17, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
It is no secret that cops shoot dogs — a lot. Frequent readers of TFTP know too well how many beloved family pets are gunned down every year by public servants in the U.S. It happens so much that there is a term for it called “puppycide.” We have an endless archive of...
COI #122: The US, Taliban, Israel, Hamas: Who Are the War Criminals?
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 14, 2021 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #122, Kyle and Will break down a controversy centered on Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, who landed in hot water after suggesting that the United States, Israel, Hamas and the Taliban all commit atrocities alike. While she was accused of equating "democratic...
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Reader Request
Does anyone have the CRS or GAO report of the completed F35 OT&E [Pentagon’s Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E)]? Any documentation will do. They fielded the 1,000th airframe and it has NEVER jumped from initial operational capability (IOC) to...
Carrier Blues: Even the Mainstream is Waking Up
The ice is breaking on the stonewalling of the defense community and external observers to have an honest conversation on the aircraft carrier; they may be getting the message on how indefensible and anachronistic this extraordinarily expensive weapons system is. The...
Me at the Pentagon
The COVID Narrative Exposed on C-SPAN
Domestic Imperialists used the coercive apparatus of the state to stop hundreds of millions of people from enjoying their lives for years. Surely, we should see a great utilitarian benefit from these COVID lockdown policies and mask mandates. Why was it, that states...
Movie Bob’d
In the time just before the rise of Pewidepie as the most popular YouTuber there were the angry and nostalgic reviewers. The Angry Video Game Nerd formally Nintendo, Nostalgia Critic, Spoonyone, Cinemasnob and so on all were prominent on the platform. Mostly in their...
The Royal Navy Stumbles, Again
The Fat Amy follies continue apace. We discussed this recently and it looks more and more likely that the hapless and increasingly Orwellian Starmer junta in the UK may be reneging on plans to buy more than the present complement of shoddy F35B aircraft they currently...
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