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The Treasury Department has hired a former JPMorgan Chase executive to head a new government program aimed at addressing racial inequality issues in banking and other financial services industries. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced Monday that Janis Bowdler will be the department’s first counselor for racial equity. Bowdler’s hiring is a part of a multipronged strategy...

Mark Zuckerberg emerged from his walk-in T-shirt closet last week to make a stunning announcement: Facebook will be changing its name. And while we don’t yet know what the new name will be, I think I may be able to help here. How about this: Boomerware? Or in keeping with Silicon Valley’s penchant for trendy misspellings: LyfeSuck? Or instead of a name, there’s just the sound of Rome burning? The reason that “Facebook” is getting retired, per Zuck, is that he wants to “transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company.”...

Racist San Francisco arrests black women at 13 times the rate of women of other racesSplinter News reported the following: (The bolding is mine)Black women in San Francisco arrested way more often than white women, report showsBlack women in San Francisco are disproportionately arrested compared with their white counterparts, according to a new analysis of state arrest data from the Center on Criminal and Juvenile Justice.Black women represent 5.8% of the city’s female population, but accounted for 45.5% of all female arrests in 2013, according to the report from the nonprofit, which works to reduce incarceration. For arrests related to...

The fraud began in 2020 as stacks of envelopes started showing up in mailboxes across California and across the U.S. The addresses were correct but the names were for people who never lived there. Initially, the EDD (Employment Development Department) gave no estimate. In fact, during a previous legislative hearing, former director Sharon Hilliard told legislators they did not track that data. By January, in the wake of two state audits into dysfunction inside the department, the EDD gave a first, very broad estimate. That was for $11.9 billion paid out, with a possibility it could rise as high as...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - A grand jury has indicted the leader of an armed, self-proclaimed militia that protested in Louisville during the 2020 riots on new state charges, accused of pointing an assault rifle at officers and a federal agent on the roof of a downtown Louisville building last September. Johnson claimed he didn’t realize it was officers until he turned on the light on top of his rifle. The Not F******* Around Coalition, or NFAC, is led by John Fitzgerald Johnson, better known as Grandmaster Jay. A grand jury indicted him on Wednesday on five counts of wanton endangerment...

Perhaps today you are experiencing betrayal, persecution, torment in your mind, trouble with your children, the loss of someone close to your heart or some other experience that has left you with almost unspeakable pain. It has driven you to prayer where you ask, “Lord, is this really necessary? Can’t you just take it away in a moment? Why the struggle? Why the fury?” Our answer lies in the Psalmist’s poem, “He sent a man before them—Joseph—who was sold as a slave. They hurt his feet with fetters. He was laid in irons. Until the time that his word came...

Taylor said she was kept in a room and denied access to her child - who she thought was in class the entire time - while N.B was being questioned by police and staff about the drawing. An officer told Taylor that her daughter was "treating the situation as a joke," according to the ACLU's letter. "N.B. made comments to someone in school that she wondered what jail was like. I think the school administrators and the police took that as some sort of sign that she wasn't taking them seriously," Caballero said. "So they decided to arrest her based...

ransomnote: The hospitals in America are largely slave to the CDC, which pays them richly for following all of it's 'guidance' in a 350 Page CDC Protocol that is harming patients. The CDC assures hospitals that they are free from all patient liability as long as they adhere to the CDC's toxic Covid Protocol. In reality, the CDC will gladly throw hospitals under the bus, and the hospitals will respond in kind. GPs are currently less popular than traffic wardens, and they only have themselves to blame for this.According to The Guardian, which is a self-styled British newspaper with financial...

An Israeli Foreign Ministry official says the country is sending an envoy to Washington amid a deepening rift with the Biden administration over six outlawed Palestinian rights groups TEL AVIV, Israel -- Israel is sending an envoy to Washington amid a deepening rift with the Biden administration over six outlawed Palestinian rights groups, a Foreign Ministry official said Tuesday. Israel last week designated the prominent Palestinian human rights groups as terrorist organizations, sparking international criticism and repeated assertions by Israel's top strategic partner, the United States, that there had been no advance warning ...Zarka said he personally updated U.S. officials...

Public Citizen has published a report that outlines how pharma giant Pfizer created secret contracts and use its monopoly power to manipulate governments into buying and dispensing its Covid-19 vaccines.As one of the top vaccine producers, Pfizer used its position of power to “silence governments, throttle supply, shift risk, and maximise profits,” according to Public Citizen.Report author Zain Rizvi, law and policy researcher at Public Citizen’s Access to Medicines Program, said in a statement: “Behind closed doors, Pfizer wields its power to extract a series of concerning concessions from governments. The global community cannot allow pharmaceutical corporations to keep calling...

There have been two noteworthy changes in Australia during 2021: the “jab in arms” campaign began in February and more people died in the first six months of 2021 than the same period for the previous 6 years.Previously we took a bird’s eye view of Australia’s statistics for 2020 and found that Covid-19 is a rare disease and the “peak of the pandemic” was a result of more people losing their lives to cancer and dementia – most likely as a result of Government’s Covid policies and restrictions. In this article we take a similar look at statistics for 2021.But...

The epidemic of allegedly unexplained teenage deaths continues to shock us all.According to the UK Government’s own figures, published by The Exposé (see here) child deaths are 52% higher than the five year average since the jabbing started. And yet, officially, these are all unexplained. There is an epidemic of coincidental deaths. Perfectly healthy children are suddenly dropping dead. This is something incredibly rare. Tragically, now it is becoming common.And still the authorities deny the link…VIDEO AT LINK: Dr Vernon Coleman “They knew children would die if they were given the Covid-19 Vaccine” – The Expose

china's unannounced test of a hypersonic glide vehicle in August signals that the Chinese regime is about to violate the Outer Space Treaty. The United States should now withdraw from that global agreement so that it can develop a similar weapon. Unfortunately, Washington is not even trying to catch up to its geopolitical arch-foe. This month, the Financial Times revealed that China launched such a vehicle into "low-orbit space." The glide vehicle "circled the globe" and then cruised down toward a target, missing it by "about two-dozen miles." Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian on October 18 contradicted the FT...

A pair of new companies are being launched to tackle high drug costs, the latest sign of employer frustration with the middlemen, known as PBMs, whose job it is to keep down the spending. The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company PBC and the Purchaser Business Group on Health, a nonprofit coalition of nearly 40 large public and private employers, said they are each starting new pharmacy-benefit management companies. PBMs work on behalf of employers, labor unions and governments to decide which drugs are available to patients, negotiate rebates on the prices paid for those drugs and process payments to...

Mexican drug cartels are exploiting American teenagers into big paydays if they assist in the human trafficking crisis at the southern border – specifically paying them $1,000 per head to traffic illegal alien migrants to Texas' largest city, Fox Business has learned. On Monday, "Mornings with Maria" host Maria Bartiromo shared exclusive photos of a pickup truck reportedly driven by one of those teenagers that had flipped over into a culvert while transporting 13 illegal aliens in its cab toward Houston. ...She said the cartels are using the popular social media app TikTok to "entrap" youth as young as 15...

Australia will commit to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 but will not increase its goal for 2030 at an upcoming U.N. climate summit in Scotland, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Tuesday. Morrison’s conservative Liberal Party-led government was narrowly re-elected in 2019 with a climate policy that opposed the 2050 net zero target adopted by the opposition center-left Labor Party. Morrison wrote in an opinion piece published Tuesday in Australian News Corp newspapers that his government will indeed commit to the 2050 net zero goal, but will not up its election pledge to reduce emissions between 26%...

Would 'truly' trigger 'a national security crisis' The federal government is aiming to fire thousands of U.S. Border Patrol agents because they have not taken the experimental COVID-19 vaccines. This despite the fact the nation is facing what essentially is an invasion of illegal aliens.

FILE - Defendant Jennifer W. covers her face as she waits for the start of the trial beside her lawyer, Ali Aydin, in Munich, Germany, April 9, 2019. A German woman received a 10-year prison sentence Monday for allowing a young Yazidi girl, who was being kept as a slave in Iraq by the woman and her husband, to die of thirst in the hot sun. German authorities said the 30-year-old convert to Islam, identified only as Jennifer W., was a member of Islamic State in Iraq. The Higher Regional Court convicted the defendant on charges including membership in a...

Russia and the United States have released their latest nuclear weapons count at a time when ties between Moscow and the U.S.-led NATO military alliance were in freefall. The Russian Foreign Ministry published on Monday its latest report on "the total number of strategic offensive arms," a tally required every six months by both Moscow and Washington as per their bilateral New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) that entered into force in 2011.... Russia counted 527 deployed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), deployed submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) and heavy bombers, 1,458 warheads...

Swine Flu 2009 another scamdemic Big Pharma profiting through jabs and masks. What a business model, eh? Click link for video