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There’s drunk, and then there’s this guy. Search and rescue teams in Turkey were looking in the Bursa region for a man who was reported missing. Friends of Bayhan Mutlu and area residents joined in the manhunt when another person soon linked up with the search party: The missing man himself. According to Turkish news channel NTV, once people started calling out Mutlu’s name, he came forward and asked, “Who are we looking for? I’m here. It is unclear how the 50-year-old came across his own search party, how his friends were unaware their pal was in their midst, or...

The annual Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) could increase by 6% in fiscal year 2022. This means that many retired and disabled veterans could receive a bump in pay by at least a hundred dollars per month. What is COLA? The COLA adjustment is determined based on inflation and is authorized to preserve the purchasing power of our nation’s veterans and those receiving Social Security. According to KWTX of Temple, Texas, this COLA increase would be the largest pay raise since 1983. RELATED: Military Benefits Changes in 2021 What is Inflation? According to Forbes, the economic phenomenon called Inflation “describes...

China’s factory activity shrunk in September for the first time since February 2020, following sweeping curbs on electricity usage, according to China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Data show the official manufacturing Purchasing Manager’s Index (PMI) in September was at 49.6, down from 50.1 in August. The economic indicator fell below score 50 for the first time in the past 19 months, which equals a decline in sector activity. The 50-mark separates growth from contraction on a monthly basis. “The manufacturing PMI fell below the critical point due to the low sentiment of high energy-consuming industries,” senior NBS statistician Zhao...

In an interview during the Texas Tribune’s virtual festival, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said that should Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) leave his role as the Republican leader in Congress’ upper chamber, Cornyn would want to take his place. “It’s been my honor to work with Sen. McConnell, who’s been in the Senate a lot longer than I have,” said Cornyn when asked about the possibility of a future majority or minority leader from Texas. -snip- “But should he decide to step down and no longer serve as leader, I’ve made it no secret that I would like to succeed him,”...

Three BART passengers were found dead this week, and in all cases drug overdoses are the suspected cause of death, BART police said. This news comes as accidental overdose deaths skyrocket across the Bay Area and the country. BART police responded to a report of an unresponsive male with no pulse on a Berryessa-bound train held at the Fremont Station on Monday, according to the BART police log. Officers performed chest compressions and administered two doses of Narcan, a medicine use to prevent overdose deaths, with negative results, the BART police log reported. Paramedics also arrived on scene and performed...

The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, has announced that he is no longer going to “deport people solely because they are undocumented” and is advising ICE to consider shielding mentally ill criminals from deportation in the name of “achieving justice.” CNBC on Thursday ran an article titled: “U.S. will no longer deport people solely because they are undocumented, Homeland Security secretary says.” “Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Thursday said immigration officers can no longer detain and deport people from the U.S. solely because they are undocumented,” CNBC reported. “The fact an individual is a removable...

hese experiments are designed to give agencies a better idea of how humans would interact and cope during a long space journey. The volunteer research subjects start their virtual journey to Phobos on October 1, in a ground-based habitat at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Their home for the 45 days will be a small habitat called the Human Exploration Research Analog, or HERA - with collected data informing the design of future missions to the Red Planet, expected to happen in the 2030s. HERA is a two-story, four-port cylindrical habitat unit with a total of 636 sq....

Nazi Arab: 1930s, 1940s & beyond Hitler was clear about his disdain for the Arab world, writing in Mein Kampf: "As a völkisch man, who appraises the value of men on a racial basis, I am prevented by mere knowledge of the racial inferiority of these so-called 'oppressed nations' from linking the destiny of my own people with theirs".[1] And the Grand Mufti al-Husseini has said "that after the Jews, the Germans would destroy the Arabs— he knew this."[46]In the 1930s, Arab students returning from studying in Europe were determined to found the Arab Nazi party.[2]In February, 1932, the predominat...

Alternate links: “People Will Bury Their Guns before They Surrender Them” https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322580192_People_Will_Bury_Their_Guns_before_They_Surrender_Them_Implementing_Domestic_Violence_Gun_Control_in_Rural_Appalachian_versus_Urban_Communities_Appalachian_Domestic_Violence_Gun_Control “People Will Bury Their Guns before They Surrender Them” https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/%E2%80%9CPeople-Will-Bury-Their-Guns-before-They-Surrender-Lynch-Logan/62d33ac59cd1604e798468266a5a0b5f885643e6 Public Health Policy for Preventing Violence | Health Affairs https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.12.4.7 “People Will Bury Their Guns before They Surrender Them” Political Science Rural Sociology Though gun violence is a global issue, the risk of firearm death is substantially higher in the United States than in other high-income nations. Guns are deeply rooted within American culture; however, different subcultures exist along the urban-rural divide. Such differences between urban and rural communities related to gun culture have been dubbed “firearm localism.”

Jen Psaki has an interesting job. She is one of the front people for a miserable old demented liar. Her trouble is that with each passing day she takes on more and more of that mendacious streak running through and controlling Biden. This has resulted in Psaki acquiring a new moniker- "Little Red Lying Hood" and it fits her perfectly. One does wonder, however, how long this deceit might continue. While she may gain some respect for tenacity she is destroying her reputation. She is as dishonest as is Biden- an echo chamber for a liar. Let's have a look....

In the first such action in the nation, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a mandate Friday requiring all eligible public and private schoolchildren in California to be vaccinated against COVID-19... The mandate would take effect for grades 7 through 12 the semester following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's full approval of the vaccine for children ages 12 and over, ...Students in kindergarten through sixth grade would be phased in after the vaccine is formally approved for younger children. Once in effect, students will not be allowed to attend classes in-person on campus without being vaccinated, just as with any other...

The formerly empty Halemaʻumaʻu Crater filled with lava, with molten rock gushing up in a spectacular fashion. The gurgling, roiling mess of lava continued into the evening as webcams and U.S. Geological Survey and National Park Service scientists captured striking images of Earth spilling its guts. As of now, the eruption is confined to the crater and poses no immediate threat to those living in the shadow of Kīlauea, meaning we can mostly gawk at the stunning images. That said, the USGS has issued a red alert warning, and the area near the eruption is closed due to hazards in...

Although too soon to know the exact COLA rate for the upcoming year, predictions from reliable sources can provide veterans with a frame of reference for the potential VA monthly disability benefits they will receive in 2022. The nonpartisan group The Senior Citizens League projects that the 2022 COLA may be as high as 5.3 percent. This is significantly greater than the 4.7 percent they estimated just one month prior. The Kiplinger Letter, a weekly economic and business forecasting periodical, predicted a 4.5 percent COLA increase back in May. Most recently, BLS calculated a Consumer Price Index for All Urban...

HEALTH AFFAIRS: The father of the BriLife initiative explains Israel’s strategic imperative to have its own vaccine. Israel is on the verge of finalizing a COVID-19 vaccine whose creators believe could offer better protection against variants than its international counterparts such as Pfizer. In an interview with The Jerusalem Post, the father of Israel’s BriLife coronavirus vaccine, Prof. Shmuel Shapira, predicted that when the country’s vaccine is ready, “it will be better” than what its citizens have today. BriLife was developed by the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR). Shapira served as its director for the last eight years, stepping...

Now roughly 72 percent of black New York City residents aged 18-44 are banned -- banned -- from entering dining establishments. _________________________________________________________________________________ Democrats’ summer of Black Lives Matter is over. Front-line nurses’ year in the sun has passed. Gone are the COVID cries to evict no one ever for any reason at all. Disparate impact? Never heard of her. It’s 2021 now; we’ve advanced. These aren’t simple proclamations. Go and read a newspaper from September 2020, and then glance at one from this past month. The political debates are nearly unrecognizable, it’s almost impossible to believe that the same people...

Inflation ran red hot in August, according to the Commerce Department, with the headline Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) index surging 4.3 percent over the year to a level not seen since 1991. Meanwhile, the core PCE inflation index, which excludes the volatile categories of food and energy and is the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge, rose in the year through August at 3.6 percent, the Commerce Department announced on Oct. 1. August’s 3.6 percent annual core PCE growth matched the June and July figure, which was the highest level in 30 years. That’s a rate of inflation well above the...

The Senate voted on Thursday to confirm President Joe Biden’s controversial nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Tracy Stone-Manning, in a 50–45 vote along party lines. Stone-Manning’s affiliation with ecoterrorists and her role in a tree spiking plot from three decades ago resurfaced in June during her nomination process, resulting in a wave of objections to her nomination to lead the BLM, the agency overseeing vast swaths of federal land in mostly western states. In addition to zero support from congressional Republicans, several counties in the West, national and state logger organizations, the Dallas Safari Club and...

VideoWhen former Trump speechwriter Darren Beattie reported in June that there was evidence suggesting FBI foreknowledge of the January 6 protest at the Capitol, if not active involvement, the corporate media mocked him and others who took it seriously for being deranged conspiracy theories. But now, the New York Times just reported that the FBI had at least one informant at the Capitol on that day. On the latest SYSTEM UPDATE, Glenn Greenwald speaks to Beattie about what do know now about involvement by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies. They also discuss whether concept of "right" and "left"...

ransomnote: I put a small sample of Trump's uplifting video below. The full 1 minute video with audio is available at the link.The Best is Yet to Come.https://rumble.com/vn6bt9-the-best-is-yet-to-come Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from...

"If you received a large, incorrect amount of COMP from the Compound protocol error: Please return it," Robert Leshner, founder of Compound Labs, tweeted late Thursday. "Keep 10% as a white-hat. Otherwise, it's being reported as income to the IRS, and most of you are doxxed," continued the Tweet.