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Authored by David Stockman via InternationalMan.com,As should be evident by now, Donald Trump is about 90% bombast and 10% substance when it comes to policy matters. But every now and then one of his word bombs finds its mark, as this one did when he dissed the presumptuous little pissant who shuttled-in from Kiev last week to embark upon still another American treasure hunt. Referring to Zelensky, the Donald averred,“…(he’s) the greatest salesman in history. Every time he comes into the country, he walks away with 60 billion dollars.”My god, times are indeed desperate when the once and former Peace…

Trump Supporters turn out before sunrise for rally in Coachella, California A massive crowd turned out early this morning before sunrise for President Trump’s rally in Coachella, California, this evening. Before 7 am PT, more than ten hours before Trump is set to take the stage, huge lines of cars were already waiting to park, and a massive line was waiting to be shuttled to the rally from the off-site parking lot. WATCH: It’s 6:56 am and There’s a huge line of cars waiting to park for President Trump’s rally in Coachella. Video @3sidedstory https://t.co/iXzShDqlwG pic.twitter.com/SmezRphZh6 — Johncast (@johncastnow) October…

David Howard Thornton in “Terrifier 3.”Cineverse The Joker is no match for Art the Clown as Terrifier 3 is dominating Joker: Folie à Deux at the weekend box office. Terrifier 3 is the third in the series of unrated shock horror films from writer-director Damien Leone starring David Howard Thornton as the brutally murderous Art the Clown. The Terrifier series kicked off in 2016 and resumed in 2022 with Terrifier 2. The sequel proved audiences’ thirst for shock horror, as Terrifier 2, per The Numbers, earned $15.7 million at the worldwide box office against a $250,000 production budget before prints…

A software developer in New York City discovered his girlfriend was breaking up with him when his iPhone delivered an AI-generated summary of her texts. Ars Technica reports that Nick Spreen, a software developer based in New York City, learned that his girlfriend was ending their relationship through an AI-powered text message summary on his iPhone. The early test version of Apple’s upcoming Apple Intelligence feature summed up the content of several breakup texts, coldly stating, “No longer in a relationship; wants belongings from the apartment.” Spreen shared a screenshot of the AI-generated message to X (formerly Twitter), which quickly went…

Nihon Hidankyo, an organization of survivors of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, the Nobel Committee announced on Friday. Nihon Hidankyo is primarily an advocacy group for survivors of the only nuclear weapon attack against a country during wartime, urging the Japanese government to help provide for them but also engaging politically in pursuit of the global abolition of nuclear weapons. The Nobel Committee said in its announcement of the prize that it chose Nihon Hidankyo in recognition of the “taboo against the use of nuclear weapons” facing “pressure”…

The education budgets for America’s small towns and states are skyrocketing as the huge wave of of the Biden-Harris administration’s migrant children are diverted into American primary schools. As these migrants flood into public schools, administrators are shifting more budget dollars towards dealing with children who speak a dozen different languages, and some who have had little or no education in their home countries before they came to the U.S., and this shift of budget dollars necessarily takes resources away from native students. The surge began in 2021 when Biden’s ill-fated border policies kicked into high gear and caused a…

The White House released a report Saturday detailing Vice President Kamala Harris’ medical history. REBECCA NOBLE via Getty ImagesThe White House released a report Saturday detailing Vice President Kamala Harris’ medical history, the first time she’s issued her health information while in office or running for president and a move clearly designed to pressure former President Donald Trump to release more information about his own health.“Vice President Harris remains in excellent health,” Dr. Joshua Simmons, Harris’ physician, wrote in a memo to one of Harris’ top aides, Kirsten Allen. “She possesses the physical and mental resiliency required to successfully execute…

The bloc’s economy is suffering without cheap Russian gas, Aleksey Miller has said EU industrial production is at record lows and the economy is suffering without cheap Russian gas, Gazprom CEO Aleksey Miller has said. His comments came after the German government warned that it faces a second consecutive year of recession in 2024. The EU gas market is seeing ‘demand destruction’, Miller told the St. Petersburg International Gas Forum on Thursday. The term refers to a situation in which persistently high prices or limited supply of a certain commodity lead to lower demand for it and trigger a search for alternatives. “Some…

The 2025 state budget faces a multi-billion-dollar shortfall, despite foreign aid Ukraine’s parliament has approved the country’s first major tax increase since the outbreak of the conflict with Russia in 2022, as the budget deficit continues to grow.The draft law, which has drawn sharp criticism from the opposition and the public, was passed by the lower house on Thursday. It proposes an increase in the war tax paid by residents from 1.5% to 5%, a 50% tax rate on bank profits, and a 25% tax on financial companies, among other measures. The Finance Ministry said the new levies, which are…

As noted earlier, expectations are high for China’s MOF meeting scheduled for 10am local time on Saturday, as the topic of fiscal stimulus has fast become the major data point/area of interest for Chinese investors. Bloomberg has reported today that Chinese investors expect $283BN of new stimulus this weekend.This number is in-line with Goldman economist Lisheng Wang’s expectations but the figure should not be announced on Saturday by the MOF.  Rather, the National People’s Congress (NPC) standing committee meeting, likely during late October or early November, sets the budget and the MOF raises the proceeds.  Separately, Yu Dong, an acidemia…