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President Joe Biden took to Twitter yesterday to celebrate how well his economic policies are working, particularly the American Rescue Plan. Between Congress and The Fed pumping trillions of dollars of stimulus in the economy, how is this surprising? Or a reason for celebration? While declining unemployment is great, there is more to the story that President Biden failed to mention. Like … the number of people NOT in the labor force remains near 100 million (99,997,000 to be exact). Thanks to Covid-related policies (like job loss due to resisting vaccinations), increasing retirement, etc.), NOT in labor force remains elevated...

CARSON CITY — Nevada’s Supreme Court ruled gun manufacturers cannot be held responsible for the deaths in the 2017 mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip because a state law shields them from liability unless the weapon malfunctions.The parents of a woman who was among the 60 people killed in the shooting at packed music festival filed a wrongful death suit against Colt Manufacturing Co. and several other gun manufacturers in July 2019.

Rio de Janeiro on Saturday canceled its New Year’s Eve party due to renewed COVID-19 fears. Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes announced the decision on social media. Paes had previously promised the biggest New Year’s Eve party ever, with multiple firework displays and artists performing on a dozen stages across the city.

An Oregon family has turned to crowdfunding to send their 101-year-old Navy veteran dad back to Pearl Harbor — where he heroically helped fend off Japan’s surprise attack 80 years ago. Kimberlee Heinrichs’s GoFundMe page had raised nearly $9,000 of its $10,000 goal as of early Saturday. Her father, Ira “Ike” Schab, was a U.S. Navy musician, assigned to the destroyer USS Dobbin, on the quiet Sunday morning of Dec. 7, 1941, according to Hawaii News Now. He had planned to meet his brother, when Japanese planes began to attack. “It’s hard what to say the feeling that runs through...

ere's What You Need to Remember: Ultimately, the country with the more advanced AI-enabled sensors, long-range weapons and surface-to-air-to-undersea networking would destroy the other. A recent think tank wargame explores the prospect of a massive war between China and America and Japan in 2030, introducing many war-time questions about submarines, amphibious attack, surface ships and fifth-generation fighters. According to a story in Foreign Policy, the Center for New American Security’s wargame unfolds as follows: “…A Chinese flotilla lands 50 soldiers on Uotsuri Jima, an island in the East China Sea that is part of the Senkakus, an island chain owned...

Brings tears to my eyes to hear Rush again. You?

Local police and campus security shot and killed a Florida Institute of Technology student who allegedly chased dorm residents with a knife and then lunged at an officer with the weapon authorities said. Officers responded to Roberts Hall Friday night to reports of a “a male, reported to be armed with a knife and assaulting students,” according to a Melbourne Police Department news release.

President Biden and congressional Democrats' Build Back Better (BBB) Act is now in the hands of the Senate. That legislative body's 50-50 partisan split will undoubtedly make the bill's passage difficult. In order for BBB to become law, Democratic Senate leadership will need to convince moderates such as Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) that the legislation's $2.4 trillion price tag can be offset by expanding the IRS and its enforcement efforts while imposing substantial tax reform measures. Congressional Democrats have argued that one of the best ways to pay for the legislation is to raise taxes on...

The federal Election Assistance Commission has still not accounted for $74 million worth of election aid given to states in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic — and congressional Republicans suspect widespread abuse. “The EAC is supposed to be a watchdog,” Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) told Fox News. “But it turns out it has been a bad actor, spending large sums of money with little transparency.”

One of Richard Nixon’s defense lawyers claimed recently that Tricky Dick didn’t receive due process because “the prosecutors cheated.” Now Geoff Shepard, 76, has filed an official complaint of attorney misconduct with the federal Department of Justice against Watergate prosecutors — 47 years after the fact.

ICYMI, here’s the URL to file your comments before the comment period closes on Jan 19, 2022.NOTE: They extended the deadline to January 19th 2022 literally 3 hours after I made my post!ransomnote: the original date still in the article was Dec 6. I put the extended date in the thread so I wouldn't receive 200 queries. In a nutshell, OSHA believes that:Face coverings work and should be used.COVID recovered people who have not been fully vaccinated still face a grave danger from workplace exposure to SARS-CoV-2.They should impose a strict vaccination mandate ( i.e., all employers required to implement...

President Joe Biden will sit down for a video conference with Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, the Kremlin said, as fears of a Russian invasion of neighboring Ukraine escalate. “The presidents will decide themselves” how long the evening confab will last, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a state news agency on Saturday. The White House did not immediately confirm the plans.

[H/T Travis McGee]ransomnote: I enjoyed this article, even with the author's lack of capitalization.there is a point where even loquacious internet cats start running out of snark. THIS is just staggering in its predatory mendacity. there is not a shred of evidence to support it nor any remotely plausible reason to even put forward such a hypothesis.frankly, it’s patently absurd and has no precedent in other stressful events. being bombed nightly during the blitz did not cause this.this is a desperate lie from a desperate class of state run doctors desperate to shift the blame for that which they have...

Montana has seen a significant decrease in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations over the past few weeks. A readout for Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) from the state’s health department showed a decline of 43 percent decline in cases this week compared to the week prior, The Associated Press reported. In that same time, hospitalizations decreased 16 percent in the state after a surge of new COVID-19 cases in September.

Australians are officially the world’s biggest binge drinkers, but Britain and the US don’t lag far behind - featuring in the top five of the latest Global Drug Survey. Denmark and Finland ranked at second and third in the survey of more than 32,000 people from 22 countries which collected data from December 2020 to March 2021. The data also shows that the Irish felt the most remorse after drinking.

Turkish media: "A bomb designed to explode at Erdogan's speech festival is in southern Turkey today." The local media also reported that according to Turkish intelligence,

A South African official said Saturday that rising COVID-19 infections among children in the country are mild concerns about the rapidly spreading omicron variant in the country. South Africa has seen an increase in hospitalizations in young children and pregnant women, but it is too soon to tell if the increase is from the omicron variant that was first detected in the country, Reuters reported. Ntsakisi Maluleke, a public health specialist in the Gauteng province, told Reuters there were 113 children under the age of nine in the hospital with COVID-19 in the province, an uptick from past coronavirus waves.

Story at-a-glanceVia more than 30,000 grants, Gates has contributed at least $319 million to the mediaExamples of the Gates Foundations grants include $24,663,066 to NPR and $12,951,391 to The GuardianFrom press and journalism associations to journalistic training, Gates is an overarching keeper of the press, which makes true objective reporting pertaining to Gates himself — or his many initiatives — virtually impossibleWith a net worth of $130.5 billion, Gates yields incredible power over education, health and social policiesOther major players in media control include BlackRock and the Vanguard Group, the two largest asset management firms in the world, which also...

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo (D) disagreed with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s assertion that the pandemic is a root cause of the recent wave of smash and grab retail thefts and argued that criminals are at the root of the crimes. Co-host Dana Perino asked, “[T]he White House yesterday said that they believe that the pandemic is at the root cause of a lot of this smash and grab crime. Do you think that’s right?”

Milwaukee County DA John Chisholm, claims Darrell Brooks’ $1000 bail “was a mistake” and “human error”. Milwaukee is ranked one of the top 10 dangerous cities in the US. That’s no mistake. The #WaukeshaMassacre happened as a result of his policies. Chisholm needs to resign.