Mapped: U.S. Households on Welfare by State

The map compares the share of U.S. households on welfare, defined as temporary cash assistance or supplemental food assistance, as of 2023.

By Pallavi Rao Graphics/Design: Amy Kuo

Between persistent inflation, trade wars, and AI-related job disruptions, the outlook on the U.S. economy is once again ticking to “uncertain.”

If things get worse and unemployment starts to tick up, then more Americans might be forced to rely on state support to make ends meet…

Viva Verdis: Man declares country in unclaimed pocket of land between Serbia and Croatia

The founder of Verdis says the country could be a place where "new systems of governance" can be tested.

By Claudio Lavanga

On a video call, 20-year-old Daniel Jackson, the self-proclaimed president of the Free Republic of Verdis, looks the part: He is sitting at a desk with the country’s flag to his right and a banner sporting the name of his country behind him.

Instead of a presidential palace, he is speaking from a humble house in Dover, a port city in the south of England. And the Free Republic of Verdis, the country he claims to have founded in 2019, is nothing more than a small strip of uninhabited forest on the border between Croatia and Serbia, more than 1,000 miles away…

Predictive Policing: Ex-Israeli Special Forces Agent Pushes AI-Powered Threat Detection for Law Enforcement

by InfoWars and Magic Prepper

Aaron Cohen, a former IDF Special Ops soldier from Israel is pushing ‘Gideon’, the first AI-driven threat prediction/ pre-attack platform for law enforcement using elite engineers from Palantir. Cohen said, “It scrapes the internet 24-7 using an Israeli grade ontology to pull specific threat language and then routes it to local law enforcement.“ He added, “It’s a 24-7 detective. It never sleeps and it’s going to get us in front of these attacks.”…

Massive Property Tax Fraud Exposed – $5.1 Trillion Bond Scam Will Crash System

Mitch Vexler is a real estate developer and whistleblower who alleges school district appraisers are inflating property values to jack up taxes.

by Daniela Cambone

Mitch Vexler is a real estate developer and whistleblower who alleges school district appraisers are inflating property values to jack up taxes. He said that in 2018 to 2019, there was a 30% jump in property taxes, but inflation was only 2.7%. After 5 years of compound cumulative fraud, real estate was over-valued. Based only on the face value of the bonds, he estimated that the fraudulent portion of the face value is somewhere around $5.1 trillion. He said that is an extremely conservative estimate, and it is likely closer to $17 trillion…

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