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The last time Americans were this unhappy about prices of big-ticket purchases was 1982, when the Federal Reserve was fighting a war against double-digit inflation. The University of Michigan’s survey of consumer sentiment showed U.S. consumers more concerned with higher prices of appliances, houses, and cars than anytime in 39 years, according to the survey’s chief economist Richard Curtin.

Amy Handleman was upset about Vice President Harris. "It's bad enough that the previously friendly mainstream media have been hectoring her about her alleged failure to visit our border with Mexico," she wailed, "but it has been even worse to learn that poor Kamala hasn't even been to Europe!" Amy paused briefly for breath, then continued, "It is essential that she go to Europe because she needs to fill out her presidential credentials by meeting with our NATO allies and taking tea with Vladimir Putin. "She needs to show she can hold her own with that despot … maybe tell...

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The variant, which first emerged in India, is already the dominant strain in the UK. Researchers are working to uncover the secrets of its success. ============================================================================ Covid cases are on the rise in England, and a fast-spreading variant may be to blame. B.1.617.2, which now goes by the name Delta, first emerged in India, but has since spread to 62 countries, according to the World Health Organization. Delta is still rare in the US. At a press conference on Tuesday, the White House’s chief medical advisor, Anthony Fauci, said that it accounts for just 6% of cases. But in the...

Update (2000ET): The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that it will convene an "emergency meeting" of its advisers on June 18th to discuss rare but higher-than-expected reports of heart inflammation following doses of the mRNA-based Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.The new details about myocarditis and pericarditis emerged first in presentations to a panel of independent advisers for the Food and Drug Administration, who are meeting Thursday to discuss how the regulator should approach emergency use authorization for using COVID-19 vaccines in younger children.As CBS reports, the CDC previously disclosed that reports of heart inflammation were detected mostly...

Cohen intimated that his agency blew up Iran’s underground centrifuge facility at Natanz, gave a precise description of the 2018 operation in which the Mossad stole Iran’s nuclear archive from safes in a Tehran warehouse, confirmed that Iran’s assassinated top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh had been in Mossad’s sights for years, and said the regime needs to understand that Israel means what it says when it vows to prevent Iran attaining nuclear weapons. In what would appear to be the most revelatory interview ever given by a Mossad chief so close to the end of his active service, Cohen, who...

Officially called the "2018–20 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament," that mouthful is traditionally pared down to "Euro 2020" or, even more succinctly, the "Euros." This is the 16th edition of the tournament, which is designed to crown the top international team in all of Europe. After years of qualifying matches, we're down to the final 24 teams, broken into six groups of four for the group stage.

A third member of a panel of outside advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has resigned in protest over the agency’s decision to approve Biogen Inc’s Alzheimer’s disease treatment despite the committee’s recommendation against doing so. Aaron Kesselheim, a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School who had served on the FDA’s advisory committee for nervous system drugs since 2015, told Reuters on Thursday he was stepping down from the panel. “My rationale was that the FDA needs to re-evaluate how it solicits and uses the advisory committees … because I didn’t think that the firm recommendations from...

As we move into the second half of 2021, interest rates and the dollar continue to shape the outlook. Of course, much of the debate focuses on whether rates and the dollar continue to miss the bigger picture. For example, just recently, Jim Bianco tweeted a critical point. However, while I very much respect his opinion, I am not sure I entirely agree. Such is where the analysis of rates and the dollar suggests a different story. The Inflation PremiseWe previously discussed that inflation might indeed be more transitory given the drivers of increased prices were artificial. (i.e., stimulus, semi-conductor...

Remember last spring when University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researcher Bing Liu was found dead inside his home, just days after it was speculated that he was on the “verge of making very significant” discoveries about the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19)? Could it be that Bing was planning to blow the lid on the alleged lab origins of the virus?NBC News reported on May 5 of last year that Bing had at the time just uncovered something very important that would help in “understanding the cellular mechanisms that underlie” the Chinese Virus. What could these “cellular mechanism” have been that...

Last April, we reported that foreign scientists had uncovered AIDS insertions inside the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19), pointing to it being an engineered bioweapon rather than a random act of nature. Now, we have more evidence showing that Tony Fauci threatened many of these scientists to withdraw their research or else he would try to destroy their careers. ========================================================================== Great Game India was among the first to publish some of these studies, which drew such intense criticism that the authors ended up retracting them. Since that time, leaked Fauci emails show that it was Fauci himself who issued threats against these...

There's nothing like a trip to the coast to blow the cobwebs away, and Kate Middleton appeared in great spirits as she joined Dr Jill Biden today at the start of the G7 summit. The Duchess of Cambridge, 39, cut an elegant figure in the £1,125 fuchsia midi dress from Alexander McQueen and carrying a £225 L.K. Bennett handbag that matched her shoes as she arrived to meet the President's wife, 70, who also wore pink, for the first time. They were meeting children aged four and five in reception class at the Connor Downs Academy near Camborne this afternoon...

California Governor Gavin Newsom is set to receive almost a $9,000 raise following a vote from the California Citizens Compensation Commission (CCCC). The unanimous vote would also apply to 132 other elected state officials, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Oh look. We’re going to FINALLY get an outpatient treatment for COVID19!Its only $700 per course!We just have to wait a little bit longer. And – what are those side effects again? Any data on that?Well don’t you worry your pretty little head about such things. NIH, WHO, and CDC have your back.And since MOLNUPIRAVIR will be your only option for outpatient treatment in “The West”, you really won’t have a choice.https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210609005142/en/Merck-Announces-Supply-Agreement-with-U.S.-Government-for-Molnupiravir-an-Investigational-Oral-Antiviral-Candidate-for-Treatment-of-Mild-to-Moderate-COVID-19KENILWORTH, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced it has entered into a procurement agreement with the United States government for...

Google’s YouTube has stepped up its draconian censorship of a sitting U.S. senator. The powerful video-sharing company removed a video of a speech given by Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and banned him from uploading new videos for at least seven days. The action took place several months after YouTube removed two videos of testimony given at a hearing he hosted of the Senate’s Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on the topic of early treatment of COVID-19. In the video YouTube censors are prohibiting the public from viewing, Johnson took bureaucrats in the Trump and Biden administrations to...

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A faster-than-expected recovery in domestic air travel is helping Boeing Co. find new homes for unclaimed 737 MAX jets whose buyers walked away or collapsed during the pandemic. The Covid-19 vaccine-fueled travel rebound in the U.S. and some other parts of the world has left the Chicago-based plane maker with around 10 stored MAX aircraft needing buyers, people familiar with the matter said. Last July, it counted around 100. While previous travel rebounds have been cut short by new waves of infections and restrictions, airline executives are more confident now that the recovery has begun in earnest and their finances...

The Biden administration says it can defend federal exemptions for faith-based colleges and opposed a motion by Christian organizations to intervene in a lawsuit seeking to strike down religious colleges' exemptions to Title IX law dealing with LGBT discrimination. The Oregon-based Religious Exemption Accountability Project, an LGBT activist organization, filed a federal lawsuit in March on behalf of dozens of LGBT current and former students at several Christian colleges and universities who felt discriminated against because their school's upheld policies consistent with gender and sexuality beliefs. REAP’s lawsuit seeks to end what it says are “sexual, physical and psychological abuses...

https://uncoverdc.com/2021/06/09/agent-of-disaster-part-1/ (Part 1 appeared here a couple of days ago) What if we were to tell you a story? Of course, this wouldn’t refer to anyone living or dead, you understand. That might be, er, messy. Our story begins with an assumption that supporters of Donald Trump (and people on the right, generally) have had for several years, that Communist China is a mortal enemy of the United States; that the ChiComs (as we affectionately call them) were being badly hammered back into their 2nd class status by the aforementioned Donald Trump; and that they would do pretty much anything...

Food prices are absolutely outrageous now, but they appear only to be moving higher as the year progresses. According to a new Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) report, global food import costs are estimated to jump in 2021 to a record due to increasing commodity and shipping costs. FAO's "Food Outlook" report, published Thursday, estimates the global food import bill, including shipping-related costs this year, will be around $1.72 trillion, a 12% rise from its previous high of $1.53 trillion in 2020. For readers who are not familiar with the Food Outlook report, it's a bi-annual...