“Faced with historically long delivery times, global manufacturers’ stockpiling of inputs continues to run higher than before the pandemic,” Lagarde explained.
Government
The CIA Created Its Own Private Venture Capital Firm…Allegedly
In the early 2000s, the CIA’s venture capital arm decided to fund a satellite mapping software operation known as Keyhole, which later became Google Earth.
Trial Over Assassination Of Thomas Sankara “Africa’s Che Guevara” Opens In Burkina Faso
Sankara publicly denounced the World Bank’s structural adjustment programs and was one of the first African leaders to raise awareness about the growing AIDS epidemic in the ’80s.
Texas Law Tells Schools To Give Books On Holocaust And Slavery An “Opposing Perspective”
“We find it reprehensible for an educator to require a Holocaust denier to get equal treatment with the facts of history,” Robison said. “That’s absurd. It’s worse than absurd.”
Newt Gingrich’s 2012 GOP Presidential Campaign Still Owes $4.6M But Refuses To Pay Past Due Bills
The $4,631,534.55 figure makes Gingrich’s 2012 lackluster campaign one of the most indebted in all of American history.
8 Million People Removed From UI–Only 194,000 New Jobs Reported In September
The stated purpose of slashing UI benefits was to get people back to work, but this strategy didn’t work in September when pandemic benefits ended nationwide.
US cybersecurity Is “Kindergarten Level” Compared To China–Pentagon Official Resigns
Google stopped working with the Pentagon in 2018 after 12 employees quit because of a project helping them make software improving the accuracy of drone strikes.
Yet Another Facebook Whistleblower Feels Like She Has “Blood On Her Hands”
Ms. Zhang says Facebook fails to tackle abuse and stated, “I’ve found multiple blatant attempts by foreign national governments to abuse our platform.”
Gallery Selling Hunter Biden’s Art Saw Federal COVID-19 Loan Go From $150k To Over $500k
“We’ve reached a new low in American politics where the President’s son gets his midlife crisis art career subsidized by the American people,” said Anderson.
$11 Million Every Single Minute Goes To Subsidize The Global Fossil Fuel Industry: IMF Report
“The IMF report is a sobering reading, pointing to one of the major defects of the global economy,” said Maria Pastukhova from the thinktank e3g.
