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BREAKING REPORT: Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers Back Today After Taking Ivermectin, Pittsburgh QB Roethlisberger Vaccinated But Out with COVID... https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1459910377769082880

Reports of labor shortages may not end anytime soon because a hefty number of retirement age workers have left the labor force - and a whole lot of them may not be coming back. A Friday note from Goldman Sachs researchers led by Jan Hatzius finds that 3.4 million of the people who left the labor force - meaning they're not working or aren't actively looking for work - are over 55. Roughly 1.5 million of them were early retirements, and 1 million were normal retirements. Those two groups of retirements "likely won't reverse," meaning that, out of the five...

The boss of the world's second biggest airline has said that tackling climate change will make flying more expensive. "Over time, it's going to cost us all more, but it's the right approach that we must take," Delta Air Lines chief executive Ed Bastian told the BBC. Critics argue the best way to reduce them is by flying less. Atlanta-based Delta says that after spending $30m (£22.4m) a year on carbon-offsetting it has been carbon neutral since March 2020. It has also pledged to spend $1bn over the next decade to cancel out all the emissions it creates. More fuel-efficient...

A 56-year-old California man is dead ten weeks after receiving the experimental Moderna mRNA injection. A 56-year-old engineer from California, Mike Granata, initially did not want to get the experimental mRNA injection. He was terrified that he would die. But, at the insistence of his doctor, he finally was jabbed. On August 17, Mike received the Moderna vaccine, and three days later, he became ill. He developed multisystem inflammation syndrome and multisystem failure. Sadly, after ten weeks of suffering unbearable pain, medical professionals were unable to save him. Endless Torture“My muscles disappeared as if to disintegrate. I was in ICU...

Former President Trump slammed Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in a statement Saturday, saying the Senate minority leader should attend the White House signing ceremony for the bipartisan infrastructure package passed by the House on Nov. 5. McConnell has touted the infrastructure bill in his home state and was one of 19 Senate Republicans to vote to pass it in August. However, McConnell said he will not attend the White House signing ceremony for the bill. “Mitch McConnell has stated that he will not go to the signing of the ‘Non-Infrastructure’ Bill (only 11% for real Infrastructure) or, as it is...

Humanity will move most industry into space and allow only a select few to remain on our planet, which will be turned into a natural resort, according to self-funded space explorer Jeff Bezos. The Amazon billionaire enthusiastically shared his predictions for what human civilization will look like in the future – with him personally helping to bring that future closer – during a talk at the annual Ignatius Forum in Washington, DC. He expects vast cylindrical space colonies spinning to create artificial gravity for millions of residents to take over most industrial production. Meanwhile, Earth will be turned into a...

There's no more pretending that President Joe Biden may not be the Democratic nominee come 2024. Almost 11 months in, the Biden presidency has been catastrophic. The polls are not only finding Biden underwater when it comes to his approval rating, but that even a plurality of Democrats don't want him to run. Other options then may be Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Vice President Kamala Harris, as Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Sean Sullivan wrote for the Washington Post on Saturday. They weren't even coy in their headline, which read "Harris and Buttigieg under the spotlight amid uncertainty...

Strong Men and Warrior Women; Deer Season. The Bible says “If you want to steal from a family first you must bind up the strong man of the house”. It is deer season and all across America the manly men are getting their hunting gear ready to go out into the woods to enjoy the scents of the leaves and habitat of the animals. They get into a “hunting, finding food to feed the family” mode. They know the deer signs and scrapes and rub lines. These men are admired by country women because in nature females look for the...

More than 100 federal prison workers have been arrested, convicted or sentenced for crimes since the start of 2019, including a warden indicted for sexual abuse, an associate warden charged with murder, guards taking cash to smuggle drugs and weapons, and supervisors stealing property such as tires and tractors. An Associated Press investigation has found that the federal Bureau of Prisons, with an annual budget of nearly $8 billion, is a hotbed of abuse, graft and corruption, and has turned a blind eye to employees accused of misconduct. In some cases, the agency has failed to suspend officers who themselves...

From a purely criminal justice perspective, the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse should be only about a specific period of time that began perhaps 30 seconds or so before he fired his first shot through to the moment he squeezed the trigger for the last time on that evening in Kenosha, WI. Beyond that, though – and beyond any legal considerations – lies a swirling and bubbling cauldron of nuance, symbolism, and, of course, politics. Though it may seem, on the surface, that those who wish to see the 18-year-old convicted view him as being on the wrong side of a...

The U.S. gunboat Bienville, Commander CHAS. STEEDMAN, and A.E.R. BENHAM, Executive Officer, arrived at this port at 6 1/2 o'clock last evening, from the Great Naval Expedition, via Fortress Monroe, where she left dispatches for Commodore GOLDSBOROUGH, and whence Capt. STEEDMAN proceeded to Washington with dispatches for the Army and Navy Departments. These dispatches, from Capt. DUPONT, who commanded the naval portion of the Expedition and from Gen. SHERMAN, who commanded the military branch, will be found below, together with a detailed narrative of the operations of the Expedition since it left Hampton Roads. The fleet arrived at Port Royal...

How is it that more than 190 governments from all over the world ended up dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic in almost exactly the same manner, with lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccination cards now being commonplace everywhere? The answer may lie in the Young Global Leaders school, which was established and managed by Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum, and that many of today’s prominent political and business leaders passed through on their way to the top. The German economist, journalist, and author Ernst Wolff has revealed some facts about Schwab’s “Young Global Leaders” school that are relevant for...

The New York Times' ill-starred 1619 Project, those writings that sought to rewrite American history without some of its key facts and portray the nation as being started with the goal of protecting slavery, is going to be a … book! John Daniel Davidson at The Federalist, where he is the political editor, confirmed the forthcoming book version of the "error-riddled 1619 Project," and that it would double down on "junk history." That project, he said, is based on the "outrageous central claim" that it is "slavery and racism" are the true foundations for the American project. It claims that...

The son and one-time heir apparent of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi announced Sunday his candidacy for the country's presidential election next month, Libya's election agency said. Seif al-Islam, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of crimes against humanity related to the 2011 uprising, submitted his candidacy papers in the southern town of Sabha, 650 kilometers (400 miles) south of the capital of Tripoli, the High National Elections Commission said in a statement.

Pinkerton: Joe Biden and John Kerry’s Green Great Reset Punishes America, Rewards China Western Guilt and the Great Reset Here’s the bottom line on the just-ended COP 26, the international climate change conference that’s been meeting for the last two weeks in Glasgow, Scotland. The Biden administration, speaking for the United States, has committed itself to substantial cuts in carbon dioxide emissions in the coming decades; as President Biden himself said in Glasgow on November 1, the U.S. will commit to 50-52 percent reductions in CO2 from 2005 levels by the year 2030. Biden further pledged a “net-zero emissions economy”...

Over the last year, a growing number of progressives and liberals have pointed to police killings of unarmed black men, rising carbon emissions and extreme weather events, and the killing of trans people as proof that the United States has failed to take action on racism, climate change, and transphobia. Others have pointed to the war on drugs, the criminalization of homelessness, and mass incarceration as evidence that little has changed in the U.S. over the last 30 years. And yet, on each of those issues, the U.S. has made significant progress. Police killings of African Americans in our 58...

Don’t be surprised to witness more verbal fireworks between former President Donald Trump and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie with the publication this week of Christie’s new book, "Republican Rescue." The book’s subtitle, "Saving the party from truth deniers, conspiracy theorists, and the dangerous polices of Joe Biden," is a direct shot at the former president, who on a daily basis continues to re-litigate his 2020 election loss to now-President Biden as he repeatedly flirts with another White House run in 2024. And it appears to be a major effort by Christie to spell out his vision for the...

Something non-political (and uplifting) for a Sunday.

WASHINGTON -- Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary who holds the purse strings to much of President Joe Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure package, was holding forth with reporters on its impact — the promise of more electric cars, intercity train routes, bigger airports — when a pointed question came. How would he go about building racial equity into infrastructure? The 39-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate laid out his argument that highway design can reflect racism, noting that at least $1 billion in the bill will help reconnect cities and neighborhoods that had been racially...

On November 14 and 15, 1726, more than 20 Gypsy outlaws of Hesse-Darmstadt were executed en masse. Gypsies in Europe still suffer ample discrimination today, so it’s little surprise to find early modern Europe thick with anti-Gypsy legislation. No surprise, Angus Fraser writes in The Gypsies, this sort of thing: did in the end produce enormous changes in the life of the Gypsies in Europe. To survive, they had to adapt; they also had to make the most of the loopholes in a system which expressly sought, by denying them food and shelter, to make honest living impossible. Some found...