Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Douglas Carswell
“Perhaps it is not so much the party of those we send to Congress or to our state legislature that counts. Perhaps what matters more is that so many of the decisions about how your money is spent are made in the dark. Setting a budget is complicated. The data might exist. Some of it might even be public. But it sits squirreled away on a spreadsheet somewhere, and you would need a CPA to make sense of it. Frankly, most folk do not have the time. But what if technology could suddenly take all that data and build something that makes it easy to see? Easy to see who gets your tax dollars, and what they do with them once they have them.” (07/06/26)
https://fee.org/articles/what-do-they-do-with-your-tax-dollars/
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Normal people use language to communicate and connect, while manipulative people use language to control and extract. Propagandists, hasbarists, politicians, and people with disorders which incline them toward manipulative behavior like narcissistic personality disorder or antisocial personality disorder, use language with the goal of advancing agendas rather than to convey information and connect with other people. Manipulators use their words to influence the thoughts people think about themselves, about others, and about their world. They use language to extract favors, money, resources, sex, esteem, loyalty, or submission from other people. They use it to trick people in order to ensure that life transpires in accordance with their will. For the manipulator, language is a tool you use to move people around and get them to do what you want them to do.” (07/06/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/07/06/manipulators-do-not-use-language-the-same-way-normal-people-do/
Source: ABC News
“Tanzanian authorities arrested dozens of people ahead of planned anti-government protests, part of a crackdown on calls demanding democratic reforms and the release of a key opposition figure. Sylvester Mangure, the army spokesperson, warned Sunday against any demonstrations, following last week’s government ban on political rallies. He also accused ‘some people,’ whom he didn’t identify, of ‘recruiting youth’ to join the protests as they claimed the country’s army supported the planned demonstrations. Young people have called for protests on Tuesday, coinciding with the 72nd anniversary of the ruling party’s establishment, to demand democratic changes and the release of opposition leader Tundu Lissu, who was arrested on treason charges after calling for electoral reforms ahead of last year’s general election.” (07/06/26)
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/tanzanian-authorities-arrest-dozens-ahead-anti-government-protests-134511391
Source: Fox News
“A scathing whistleblower letter alleges corruption inside New York City’s powerful hotel workers union, including claims that union leaders accepted gifts from hotel executives, manipulated lease arrangements and improperly influenced union business in a culture of quid pro quo dealings — claims that were corroborated by union sources who spoke with Fox News Digital. The letter, reviewed by Fox News Digital, asserts that top officials within the New York Hotel Trades Council and UNITE HERE Local 6, including President Richard Maroko, participated in actions that violated internal policies, fiduciary obligations and possibly federal law. The union denies all allegations of impropriety and organized two internal investigations carried out by third-party lawyers who found the whistleblower’s claims to be unsubstantiated.” (07/06/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sources-corroborate-whistleblower-claims-corruption-quid-pro-quo-culture-inside-powerful-nyc-union
Source: Show-Me Institute
“How to Grow Missouri’s Economy with Joseph Haslag.” (07/06/26)
https://showmeinstitute.org/article/uncategorized/how-to-grow-missouris-economy-with-joseph-haslag/
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Margaret Hampton
“Healthcare systems (insurers and other payers) only reimburse what is coded and billable. The lack of codes for all healthcare options started in 1983 when the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the American Medical Association (AMA) agreed that HHS would only use the AMAs codes to process Medicare and Medicaid claims. In 2002, HHS mandated use of the AMA’s codes for filing electronic claims. ABC codes were mentioned as an option but not adopted and the AMA currently has a monopoly on billing codes. … As a result, patients frequently experience long wait times and expensive interventions only after disease has advanced.” (07/06/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-reimbursement-code-monopoly-is-a-threat-to-health/
Source: New York Post
by Kirsten Fleming
“Hakeem Jeffries is rolling out the welcome mat for the people who want his head mounted on their trophy wall. The House minority leader offered a hearty “welcome aboard” to state Assembly members Claire Valdez and Micah Lasher as well as congressional candidates Darializa Avila Chevalier and Brad Lander, both progressive Democrats associated with the Democratic Socialists of America. All but Lasher were backed by slick DSA kingmaker Mayor Zohran Mamdani. ‘Congratulations to our newest members of the NYC congressional delegation,’ he wrote on X. ‘From public servants to union organizers to community activists, the path is different but the work is the same. We must decisively address the affordability crisis and crush far-right extremism!’ Never mind that Dems would classify immigration enforcement and strong borders as ‘far-right extremism’.” (07/05/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/07/05/opinion/scared-hakeem-jeffries-rolls-out-the-red-carpet-for-dsa-extremists-while-they-prep-to-feast-on-is-carcass/
Source: US News & World Report
“Sky, the UK-based TV, internet and mobile phone provider owned by Comcast, has agreed to buy ITV’s media and entertainment arm for up to 1.6 billion pounds ($2.1 billion) after months of talks to create a major competitor to the global streaming giants. … The combined Sky-ITV entity will become part of NBCUniversal following the completion of its split from Comcast, ITV said.” (07/06/26)
https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2026-07-06/sky-agrees-to-buy-british-broadcaster-itv-for-up-2-1-billion-to-compete-with-streaming-giants
Source: National Public Radio [US state media]
“Trump calls FIFA, then FIFA lifts ban on U.S. star player.” (07/06/26)
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/06/nx-s1-5883813/trump-calls-fifa-then-fifa-lifts-ban-on-u-s-star-player
Source: Washington Post
by Robert T Miller
“Endorsing individual stocks would be unusual behavior for any president, but in Trump’s case it is notable for a different reason: The president has disclosed owning shares in many of the companies he touts. But as troubling as it may seem for the president to own shares in a company, praise it and profit from the rise in price, it is almost certainly legal. Nothing the president has done rises to the level of insider trading or market manipulation, the two crimes most associated with stock trading. … That doesn’t mean retail investors should look to Trump for stock tips. Securities markets today are so efficient that, after the president says something about a stock, flash traders will act on that information in less than a second. By the time any retail investor waddles in, the stock’s price will already reflect Trump’s advice.” (07/06/26)
https://archive.is/Jb0mY
