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Preface: I am not looking for medical advice or help in decision making. Just venting and hoping to get an idea of how other folks in my situation are making out or how they are preparing. So… my job has a strict vaccine mandate that is set to start Jan 4th. Basically, if I don’t load my card into the HR system which collects these, I will be fired from my job on Jan 5th… no severance. My religious exemption, originally approved at first, was ultimately denied, and they are not allowing exemptions for remote workers (like me), nor periodic...

I am sharing this because I purchased a bit and a friend sent me a vid explaining what it really is. the domain spoken of in this vid re crypto currency is .io, apparently in on Diego Garcia and run by CIA The REAL Creator of Bitcoin ,, Excellent vid below. – Philip J. Venables This week we reported on “The Reveal” that was released by Ivy McLemore, a sophomoric website claiming that Bitcoin was started by a man named James Bilal Kahil Caan. We called a PROPAGANDA ALERT and informed our audience that this is just more CIA disinformation...

CNN's New Day Tuesday morning mocked Joe Manchin's statement explaining that as a West Virginian, he couldn't be intimidated into supporting Build Back Better. New Day aired a clip of Manchin saying: "Well, guess what? I'm from West Virginia. I'm not from where they're from. And they can just beat the living crap out of people, and think they'll be submissive." Co-host John Berman led the charge, saying: "You know I always love it when someone says, I'm from West Virginia, we don't back down to anything. People from all 50 states will say that."Get the rest of the story...

The initial handling of allegations by actor Jussie Smollett who staged a fake attack in Chicago was a “major failure” by the local prosecutor’s office, according to a damning investigative report released Monday. The 60-page report by special prosecutor Dan Webb, who was appointed to review the case, detailed several instances when Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and others in her office made false statements in 2019 when they first prosecuted Smollett and then abruptly dropped the charges weeks later. Foxx lied about having cut off contact with Smollett’s younger sister, Jurnee Smollett, after learning the actor had become...

A dean at San Diego State University has called out the “Right’s agenda” on Twitter, accusing conservatives of supporting racism and standing against equality.

This is a dense book. 450 pages long. Here are some methods for getting the gist of it in minutes. Yup, I know… It’s a long, dense book full of facts and evidence. Methods to get the gist of the book quickly: The first third shows that Fauci is the leader of the largest cabal of organized crime thugs to have ever walked the face of Earth. The middle third goes into more detail about the history of establishment of Fauci's criminal cabal. The final third ties together loose ends with more details and factual history. The overriding theme is...

WASHINGTON, Friday, Dec. 20. If any correspondence has taken place between Lord Lyons and Secretary SEWARD, it has been of an informal and confidential character, as no official communications have passed between them with reference to the Trent affair. LATER. -- Lord LYONS had an interview with our Government to-day, in which the Trent affair was informally talked over. The official dispatches of her Majesty's Government have not yet been presented, but the impression so generally prevails that there is no danger of war with England, that the interest in the subject has in a great degree subsided. The dispatches...

President Joe Biden’s disastrous economic agenda has set the U.S. economy on a collision course, so what does CNN do? The network pinned blame on older Americans. CNN released a ridiculous story headlined, “The data that shows Boomers are to blame for the labor shortage.” The story suggested that “Early retirement — whether forced by the pandemic or made possible otherwise — is having a huge impact on the labor market. And data show that retiring boomers, far more than ‘lazy’ millennials, are the biggest force behind the labor shortage.” But as Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen pointed out Oct....

“The Mask Has Fallen”: Interview with Dr. Kwasniewski in Inside the VaticanThe following interview appears in the January-February 2022 issue of Inside the Vatican magazine (reprinted here with publisher’s permission). The issue also features ITV’s annual “Top Ten People” of 2021, plus former Anglican archbishop and Catholic convert Gavin Ashenden on his embrace of Rome; Darrick Taylor reviewing Julia Meloni’s The St. Gallen Mafia; and Tad Wojcik on the prospects for ethical vaccines. Go to InsideTheVatican.com for information on subscribing.Inside the Vatican: You have edited a substantial new book called From Benedict’s Peace to Francis’s War. Tell us what...

In addition to the usual control gate (red) there is also a program gate (blue). Credit: TU Wien Revolutionary new electronic components can be adapted to perform very different tasks – a technology perfectly suited for artificial intelligence. Normally, computer chips consist of electronic components that always do the same thing. In the future, however, more flexibility will be possible: New types of adaptive transistors can be dynamically switched during run-time to perform different logical tasks. This fundamentally changes the possibilities of chip design and opens up completely new opportunities in the field of artificial intelligence, neural networks or even...

Not Lovin' It Fast-food restaurants make some of our favorite guilty pleasures, many of which have reached iconic status. But it takes a lot of experimenting to score a hit the likes of the Big Mac, Whopper, or Frosty. Whether they missed the mark on taste, customer enthusiasm, or something else, here are some of the biggest fast-food flops from the past few decades, including a burger that's getting a second chance to impress math-challenged Americans.

President Joe Biden will announce a plan Tuesday to send out 500 million coronavirus tests to Americans who want them, in his latest attempt to slow the spread of the virus. The plan is a sudden turnaround from just two weeks earlier, when White House press secretary Jen Psaki mocked the idea in a press briefing. “Should we just send one to every American?” she asked a reporter sarcastically who asked if the Biden administration would consider sending out free tests. “Then what — then what happens if you — if every American has one test?” she continued mockingly. “How...

The smash and grab epidemic popularized by Black Lives Matter and marginalized by the Democrat party has come to The backyard of Austin, Texas. According to witnesses, shortly before The Barton Creek Square Mall closed during the biggest shopping weekend before Christmas. Smash and grab looters broke into the display cases at the Helzberg Diamond store. As patrons fled for the exits. Gunshots were heard by many. An eyewitnesses claims that a voice came over the loudspeaker announcing that the doors had been locked. The innocent patrons now locked in with desperate armed lunatics in order to protect the profits...

Artist’s impression of the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), folded in the Ariane 5 rocket during launch from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. Credit: ESA – D. Ducros _____________________________________________________________________________ On December 17 the Ariane 5 rocket fairing was closed around the James Webb Space Telescope. This protective fairing, or ‘nose cone’, will shield the telescope during liftoff and its journey through the atmosphere on December 24. Last week, Webb was placed on top of Ariane 5 and a protective ‘shower curtain’ was put up to avoid any contamination. VIDEO AT LINK............ On the day of encapsulation in the fairing, a...

@ChadPergram Trump announces he will hold a press conference at Mar-a-Lago on January 6, the one year anniversary of riot at the Capitol

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Dave Chokshi stated that while COVID cases and test positivity have seen steep increases, “we have not seen the same thing with respect to the markers of severe disease, particularly hospitalizations.” And hospitals are currently in “a solid position” with hospitalizations well below the peaks from the spring of 2020 and last winter. Chokshi said, “We’ve seen cases and test positivity increase sharply, but, as yet, we have not seen the same thing with respect to the markers of severe disease, particularly hospitalizations. Right now, there are...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Former President Bill Clinton strongly believes his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should have been the president of the United States. President Clinton recently said in an interview with PEOPLE that not electing Hillary as president in 2016 was "one of the most profound mistakes we ever made". He went on to call his wife "the most qualified person to run for office in my lifetime, including me". He also believes Sec. Clinton's many qualifications for the job were a hindrance to her getting elected.

Unlike the John Mellencamp lyrics from Jack and Diane, “Don’t actually hold onto 16 as long as you can.” Context The first federal income tax was instituted in 1861 to pay for the Civil War, then repealed in 1872, a few years after the war’s end. After it was reimplemented in 1894, as the first peacetime national income tax, the Supreme Court struck it down as unconstitutional in the 5–4 decision Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company, because it wasn’t apportioned according to the states’ populations as the Constitution at the time required. So how to ensure that a...

"Almost all students cite getting a better job as a primary reason for attending college,” writes Preston Cooper in the opening paragraph of his new study, entitled Is College Worth It? A Comprehensive Return on Investment Analysis. He refers to an annual survey by UCLA that found that the percentage of incoming freshmen who state that “getting a better job” is a “very important reason for attending college” rose dramatically from 67.8 percent in 1976 to 87.9 percent in 2012. If this overwhelming emphasis on career training is the case—and there is no reason to doubt it—then higher education has...

HOUSTON, Texas – A gang member who was convicted of shooting one man, and remains charged with another murder, has been sentenced to life in prison. Jurors convicted Javan Oxavia Williams, 30, of murder for the death of a man he shot from behind as he sat in a car. While jurors were deciding his punishment, they were told about another pending case, in which Williams is charged with capital murder, for shooting a man in the man’s own living room and stealing his possessions. “Jurors listened to the brutal details of this cold-blooded crime spree that left two people...