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Amazon.com Inc has increased its average starting wage in the United States to more than $18 an hour and plans to hire another 125,000 warehouse and transportation workers, an executive told Reuters. The world’s largest online retailer has raised pay from an average of around $17 since May. In some locations, the company is giving signing bonuses of $3,000, said Dave Bozeman, vice president of Amazon Delivery Services, or triple what the company offered four months ago. The fatter paycheck, which Reuters was first to report, shows how big employers are desperate to draw workers in an increasingly tight U.S....

[Catholic Caucus] “Men Must Be Changed by Sacred Things, and Not Sacred Things by Men”The title of this article is taken from the words uttered by Cardinal Egidio da Viterbo in 1512 during the inaugural oration of the Fifth Lateran Council: “Homines per sacra immutari fas est, non sacra per homines.” Against that backdrop, imagine the following conversation between two seminarians, both studying for their dioceses. They have discovered and fallen in love with the traditional Latin Mass and want to embrace its riches, but they disagree over how to go about doing so.Michael: It’s possible to bring tradition into...

The same people who spent the last decade telling you health care is a human right now want to be able to deny it to you.As if it wasn’t enough to hound people without the COVID-19 shot out of their jobs, schools, and even effectively whole cities, pundits and even some doctors are now floating the idea of denying medical care to people based on COVID-19 vaccination status.“Is it time to put those who are endangering public health by refusing vaccines on notice that if they need care they will go to the end of the line, behind the patients...

Former Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) has fallen short in his bid to return to his old job as Cleveland’s mayor. Kucinich, who became the youngest mayor of a major U.S. city when he was first elected to the job in 1977, placed third on Tuesday in a seven-way primary to replace longtime Mayor Frank Jackson. Nonprofit executive Justin Bibb emerged as the first-place finisher in the primary, winning about 27 percent of the vote. Cleveland City Council President Kevin Kelley came in second, beating out Kucinich by just over 1,100 votes.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy this month asking the company to modify its algorithms to suppress books she believes spread “COVID-19 misinformation.”“Despite the fact that vaccination remains our greatest tool to protect Americans from the virus, myths about COVID-19 vaccines continue to spread, often facilitated by technology companies that refuse to curb misinformation,” she said.After conducting a variety of searches in Amazon related to COVID-19 and the vaccine, Warren claimed her staff found that “the top results consistently included highly-ranked and favorably-tagged books based on falsehoods about COVID-19 vaccines and cures.” Former New York...

This is a video of a doctor in a large auditorium speaking about what hospitals are using that’s killing people. Specifically Remdisivir. True or not I felt it needed to be shared.

A new report from a watchdog organization alleges school officials in an Illinois district imprisoned children to closets because they were not wearing masks during class. The report comes from the Edgar County Watchdogs blog site, where a posting first charged the officials in the Teutopolis School District "without so much as even contacting the parents," put the five students in "separate confined rooms for several hours." The reason was that the students "were trying to breath freely without a mask on their face," the report said. The state's governor had announced a mask requirement for people in schools.

There’s going to be a rally in Washington DC this weekend. It’s why the fencing is going back up around the US Capitol Building. There have been over 400 arrests stemming from the January 6 riot that has incorrectly been dubbed an armed insurrection. It was not worse than 9/11. It was not worse than Pearl Harbor and it sure wasn’t as bad as the Civil War. That’s the narrative in newsrooms. Everyone else has moved the hell on with their lives. NO ONE cares. MSNBC and CNN don’t count. It was not our nation’s best day. It was dark...

Christians mourned publicly across continents Tuesday as news spread of the passing of David Yonggi Cho, the controversial co-founder of Yoido Full Gospel Church, the world’s largest congregation headquartered in Seoul, Korea, which encompasses a network of churches that once claimed more than 800,000 members. He was 85. Yonggi Cho, who retired from leading the church in 2008 and was named pastor emeritus, died at 7:13 a.m. at a Seoul hospital, The Korea Herald reported. The beloved pastor was being treated for cerebral hemorrhage since July 2020. “He conveyed the gospel of hope to the Korean people who fell into...

President Biden’s job approval ratings continue to tank, as the latest poll shows ​50 percent of Americans disapprove of his performance in the White House — with independents’ disapproval of Biden’s job putting him in negative territory. The president, dealing with intense criticism over his bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan and a surge in COVID cases, has seen his approval rating fall to 42 percent, a drop of four points since early August, according to the Quinnipiac University poll released on Tuesday. ​ It also marks the first time Biden’s ratings have fallen into negative territory in the Quinnipiac poll since...

The Green Party has lost more than 50 members since the weekend, according to a report by news group Uutissuomalainen, after the party voted in favour of an initiative calling for the legalisation of cannabis in Finland. The initiative was approved by a very narrow margin of 183 votes to 181, and has sparked widespread debate over the issue in the days since the vote.

The United Nations has demanded that Western countries provide $600 million in taxpayer funds to support Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan. The United Nations convened a high-level donors meeting on Monday, demanding that member states help fund the terrorist regime’s strategy in Afghanistan over the next three months. The Taliban has committed to spend the cash to ‘assist vulnerable Afghans’, the United Nations has told possible donors. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is leading the globalist body’s PR drive on behalf of the terrorist regime following Biden’s botched withdrawal. Guterres says “recent developments” have increased the vulnerability of Afghans who have already...

A federal judge has blocked the state of New York from forcing medical workers to be vaccinated after a group of healthcare workers sued the state, including the governor, the health department, and others, claiming their constitutional rights were violated. Judge David Hurd in Utica issued the order on Tuesday. Several litigants, including doctors and nurses, claimed their First Amendment rights were violated by a vaccine mandate, which does not allow for religious exemptions. For the last seven weeks, New York radio talk show host Shannon Joy has been rallying the medical community in Rochester and huge groups of health...

WHISTLEBLOWER: VACCINE COMPLICATIONS WIDESPREAD, DOCTORS KNOW, WILL REFUSE MANDATORY VAX “We are being pressured to vaccinate, and we see the large number of Vaccine complications in our ICU’s and ER’s that are going unreported. Doctors are afraid to report all of these vaccine complications even though we are clearly seeing them,” said Dr. Mollie James, an ICU (Intensive Care Unit) Doctor in New York City. “The serious risks of complications are coming from those with natural immunity who then receive the vaccine or boosters, and frontline doctors and nurses have natural immunity after a year of fighting COVID and being...

Can we believe the shocking allegations of misconduct on the part of General Mark Milley in a new book to come from Bob Woodward? His paper, the Washington Post has published excerpts. Briefly:Twice in the final months of the Trump administration, the country's top military officer was so fearful that the president's actions might spark a war with China that he moved urgently to avert armed conflict.In a pair of secret phone calls, Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, assured his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People's Liberation Army, that the United...

<p>An Idaho man who served more than four years in federal custody for his part in an armed 2014 standoff against federal agents near states’ rights figure Cliven Bundy’s Nevada ranch is suing the U.S. government and prosecutors for damages.</p>

Is it too much to ask for science literacy in government? Joe Biden at least has somewhat of an excuse for being science illiterate. He's pretty much fact illiterate in general, so expecting him to understand even basic science is a total non-starter. As a lifelong professional BS-er in the Senate, command of the facts wasn't a prerequisite for Joe. Neither was it a requirement for him holding office as vice president under Barack Obama. No, political life for Joe Biden has been one gigantic BS session devoid of any real command of the facts, so in all fairness we...

One of the biggest stories in the media concerns hospitals filled to overflowing with COVID patients. However, as an article in The Atlantic (of all places!) informs us, these numbers are misleading. Almost half of the people in the hospital with COVID are either mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic. In other words, to anyone running around screaming, "We're all gonna die!," the answer is "No, we're not."The biggest story is that of a 73-year-old Alabama man who purportedly died from a treatable heart attack after dozens of hospitals across a three-state region turned him away owing to the fact that their...

The 4 Biggest Problems with Biden’s Vaccine Order Surely, the White House's vaccine mandate plan cannot stand. Back in December of 2020, then President-elect Biden said that he would not make vaccines against COVID-19 mandatory, nor did he think they should be mandatory. Given the new vaccine mandate by the White House, set to affect nearly 100 million Americans by some estimates, one could reasonably conclude that Biden misled the people. However, Biden’s actions will likely increase vaccine hesitancy, lead to further distrust of the government, and can expect multiple legal challenges – as well as civil disobedience. These outcomes...

One economic sector where prices are rising dramatically is meat. The White House blamed the four biggest companies in the meat industry, accusing them of "raising prices while generating record profits during the pandemic." White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese charged that "this blatant profiteering is a disservice to both farmers and consumers. We need a food production system that is focused on need, not greed. President Truman seized the steel industry in 1952. Maybe government needs to take a bigger role in the food industry so we can ensure a more reliable and efficient system. If we...