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On Monday, the San Francisco mayor’s office announced the launch of a government program called the “Abundant Birth Project,” which will give $1,000 per month cash payouts to black “and Pacific Islander women” for becoming pregnant and having children. The mayor’s office stated in a press release that “the pilot will provide an unconditional monthly income supplement of $1,000 to approximately 150 Black and Pacific Islander women in San Francisco for the duration of their pregnancy and for the first six months of their baby’s life, with a goal of eventually providing a supplement for up to two years post-pregnancy.”...

After Wyoming GOP Rep. Elizabeth Cheney read texts from three (Fox News hosts) to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows into the Congressional Record during the latest House January 6 Committee hearing, (Laura Ingraham) pushed back on claims and insinuations that she was being irresponsible, hypocritical or not publicly professing her true opinion of the rioting that was going on at the time.Earlier Tuesday, Cheney -- previously appointed the vice-chair of the committee by its leader, ( Mississippi Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson) after most of the party-leadership-assigned Republicans were blocked from participating earlier this year – read aloud text...

[H/T Whinecountry]In a candid interview with Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Dr. Fauci speculated that the vaccines might be making things worse.“This would not be the first time, if it happened, that a vaccine that looked good in initial safety actually made people worse.”https://twitter.com/i/status/1470592652340969472 ransomnote: Continuing the transcript...ANTHONY FAUCI: "It is the history of the Respiratory Syncytial Virus vaccine in children (RSV) which paradoxically made the children worse. One of the HIV vaccines that we tested several years ago actually made individuals more likely to get infected."ransomnote: I think it's more than obvious they've been trying to get a...

Italy Betrayed its Jews in fear of the PLO It has long been a "secret" that was always known that European countries had "secret" agreements to help with diplomatic aid certain Palestinian terror groups and allow them to work on its soil, as long as those grous didn't committ terror attacks against them. Now it turns out that Italy (at least) took this one step further as a report emerges in the news site "Times of Israel" which proves that Italy disregarded intel that a terror attack was planned against the Great Synagogue in Rome in 1982 and allowed it...

Arizona faith leaders are urging U.S. Sens. Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema to expand child tax credits as part of President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda. If the credits aren’t at least extended by the end of December, the recurring monthly payments of up to $300 for every child under the age of six and $250 a month for children ages 6-17 would lapse in the new year. As passed by the House last month, the Build Back Better bill includes a one-year extension of the child tax credit. Tamera Zivic, the CEO of WHEAT, an anti-hunger and poverty...

Sen. Joe Manchin on Wednesday angrily shouted at reporters to go away — telling one, “You are ********!” and “I’m done!” after he was peppered with questions about his reluctance to support President Biden’s mammoth social spending bill. “I’m not negotiating with any of you, OK?” the West Virginia Democrat said as reporters followed him around Capitol Hill. Manchin added, raising his voice: “You guys, let me go. This is ********. You are ********! OK? I’m done! I’m done! God Almighty.” The centrist senator appeared to be swiping at journalist Arthur Delaney of the Huffington Post when he said “you...

Is it time to resurrect hydrogen airships – not to carry passengers, but as fast, cheap and convenient cargo carriers?H2 Clipper VIEW 5 IMAGES California startup H2 Clipper wants to bring back hydrogen-filled airships, claiming they can unlock completely green intercontinental cargo operations carrying 8-10 times the payload of any cargo plane over 6,000 miles, at a quarter of the price. The H2 Clipper would carry payloads up to and beyond 340,000 lb (150,000 kg), says the company, and would offer up to 265,000 cubic feet (7,530 cubic metres) of cargo space. It wouldn't travel as fast as a plane,...

Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said Wednesday on CNN’s “New Day” that the House Select Committee investigating January 6 could send the Department of Justice a “criminal referral” for former President Donald Trump. Swalwell said, “We want to know what is Donald Trump thinking, what is he doing, not doing. We now know that concerned Fox News hosts, concerned family members, concerned legislators who were with me in the chamber are all aiming their concerns at the White House, and Trump is doing nothing. And this is just one witness who is only giving us a very little amount of information,...

U.S.—In a heated exchange on Twitter, a powerful white man viciously attacked Elizabeth Warren—a noble Cherokee squaw and Senator from Massachusetts. "This violent verbal attack on me was literally a hate crime," said Warren as a single tear slowly rolled down her cheek. "The white man continues to oppress my people by resisting the government's efforts to tax them into oblivion and waste all their money on spending bills that we write to pay off our campaign donors. This basically makes him a freeloader." The white attacker—named Elon Musk—simply responded with cruel memes showing Elizabeth Warren wearing eagle feathers and...

'One of the most artificial and calculating human beings on the planet' The White House is illuminated in gold light in recognition of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021. (Official White House photo by Erin Scott) Twice-failed Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton went on television just days ago to explain she thinks President Donald Trump will run for the White House again in 2024. And, she threatened, if voters put him in the Oval Office again, it "could be the end" of American democracy. In an interview on NBC she said, "If I were a betting person, right...

President Joe Biden was greeted with “Let’s go, Brandon!” chants in Kentucky on Wednesday as he arrived to view the damage caused by last week’s deadly tornadoes.

President Joe Biden’s energy chief extended an olive branch to the oil industry Tuesday, telling executives a crude export ban is not under consideration, while assuring them that the administration was “not a bogeyman.” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm made the virtual remarks Tuesday to an outside advisory group with members including executives from such companies as Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell Plc. Her conciliatory tone comes as the administration’s policies on energy production, which included a temporary halt to oil leasing on federal lands and the termination of a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, have drawn the...

Tucker Carlson had economist Peter Schiff on his show to discuss the current state of Biden’s economy.Trending Politics reported:Tucker leads the conversation by noting that CPI rose by nearly 7% year over year in November, the highest inflation in decades. While that’s bad enough, Schiff responded by noting that CPI probably isn’t even the right measure of inflation, with the true inflation number being far, far higher. In his words:In fact, one of the ways the Fed has been able to justify creating more inflation is because they claimed we didn’t have enough of it. But the only reason we...

One person has died in North Carolina due to influenza complications, the state’s first reported flu-related death of the 2021-22 flu season. The person, an adult in western North Carolina, died during the second week of December, state Department of Health and Human Services officials said Tuesday. The person tested positive for influenza and negative for COVID-19, according to the state. “This is a sad reminder that flu can be a serious illness and can lead to complications and even death in some cases,” State Epidemiologist Dr. Zack Moore said in a statement. “With flu cases increasing and the ongoing...

Question Is L-α glycerylphosphorylcholine (α-GPC), a choline analogue, associated with stroke after long-term use? Findings In this cohort study of matched cohorts including more than 12 million individuals aged 50 years or older without underlying stroke, Alzheimer disease, or cerebrovascular disease, α-GPC use was significantly associated with a 10-year incident stroke risk in a dose-responsive manner. Individuals using vs not using α-GPC had a 46% higher risk of stroke. Meaning The results of this cohort study suggest that the decision to use α-GPC must be carefully weighed with the consideration of potential stroke risk associated with α-GPC. Abstract Importance L-α...

PARIS (AP) — Harry’s Bar in Paris is celebrating the 100th birthday of the bloody mary, the vodka-tomato juice cocktail believed to have been invented at the iconic watering hole in 1921. The centenary events this week bring a welcome respite from winter gloom and worries about the omicron variant of the coronavirus. The bar is carefully checking COVID-19 health passes as foreign visitors gather to sample the drink closely associated with Harry’s Bar, whose patrons over the past century have included writers Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. According to the history of Harry’s, bartender Fernand Petiot invented the...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nannies, house cleaners, gardeners and other San Francisco domestic workers must be given paid sick leave under a groundbreaking law approved by city leaders this week. The city’s Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously passed the legislation, which the San Francisco Chronicle said is the first of its kind in the U.S. The measure would affect 10,000 people in the city who work in private homes cleaning, cooking, tending children, garden or providing non-medical care for seniors or disabled residents. Supporters of law said that workforce is typically low-paid with many women and immigrants. “I think...

In a bid to push more of its workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19, Kroger will eliminate paid pandemic-related leave and charge $50 per month to employees that haven't gotten shots.

The Fed statement and economic projections saw the central bank double the pace of its asset purchase tapering to USD 30bln per month (consisting of USD 20bln Treasuries, USD 10bln MBS – this will be doubled again in January, with similar reductions likely be appropriate each month thereafter), which puts it on course to conclude asset purchases by March, from the prior landing zone of around June, although this could be adjusted if warranted.Its updated projections now see three rate hikes in 2022, revising up its view from one hike pencilled in at the September FOMC (recall that September, the...

The Biden team has been trying to blunt the criticism of Joe Biden not doing interviews and not being accessible to the press by having him do some things in very controlled or friendly settings We saw him do a very friendly softball session with Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Show.” Then he made a few remarks to CBS’s Rita Braver who was doing a longer interview with his wife — and that was about as fawning of an interview as you can get. Yesterday, he did a virtual interview with a WHIOTV 7 reporter John Bedell. Now remotely, you...