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I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is you probably put a little more money in your pocket in November. The bad news is inflation ate up all your income gains and then some. Real personal incomes fell 0.2% in November despite a healthy gain in nominal income. Personal income from all sources, including wages, salaries, interest dividends, rental income, unemployment, Social Security, etc. rose by 0.4% in November. Year on year, personal income is up a healthy 7.4%, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis today. (Keep in mind a chunk of...

Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of five of the six charges against her at her sex-trafficking trial Wednesday evening – capping a stunning fall for the disgraced British socialite, who groomed underage girls for financier Jeffrey Epstein to abuse while mingling with the rich and famous.

Jurors have reached a verdict in the case of Ghislaine Maxwell, the former British socialite accused of helping dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein mount a “pyramid scheme of abuse” involving underage girls. The 12-person panel began deliberating just before 5 p.m. on Dec. 20, after more than six hours of closing arguments from prosecutors and the defense.

Although major economies and markets fared well in 2021 despite all of the uncertainties surrounding new variants of the coronavirus, 2022 will bring new challenges. In addition to central banks shifting toward policy normalization, geopolitical and systemic risks are multiplying. Despite dips and disruptions from new variants of COVID-19, 2021 turned out to be a relatively positive year for economies and markets in most parts of the world. Growth rose above its potential after the severe recession of 2020, and financial markets recovered robustly. This was especially the case in the United States, where stock markets reached new highs, owing...

CNN has confirmed on Wednesday that Jake Tapper's producer, Rick Saleeby, has resigned from his position after it was revealed that he allegedly solicited sexually explicit photos of an underage girl. Fairfax County police seized devices from his residence. The news broke to Twitter via Jack Posobiec of Human Events, along with Project Veritas' James O'Keefe, who first reported the revelations. Rick Saleeby was a CNN producer for "The Lead with Jake Tapper." Allegations emerged that he had asked an underage girl for explicit photographs. This led to a seizure of his devices and hard drives from his Virginia home.

It is interesting how the propaganda “fact-checkers” who have NO medical background went into panic mode to claim that the CDC did not mean what they said and desperately tried to spin it around. Claiming the CDC did not mean what it plainly wrote that the COVID tests cannot distinguish between the Flu and COVID was clearly political. Look at all the lockdowns, people forced into home confinement all over tests that are not valid. I previously wrote that I had a breathing problem so I did go to the ER in the hospital. They x-rayed my lungs and assumed...

[H/T Sacajaweau]KEY POINTSWhite House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday he is “not particularly concerned” about the safety risk of a potential coronavirus vaccine by Moderna, despite the fact that it uses new technology to fight the virus. The vaccine, which entered a large phase-three human trial Monday, uses messenger ribonucleic acid, or mRNA molecules, to provoke an immune response to fight the virus. While early studies show promise, mRNA technology has never been used to make a successful vaccine before.“I’m not particularly concerned,” Fauci said. “But I don’t want a lack of severe concern to get in the...

We’ve all learned to wash our hands more carefully over the last couple of years, but no one has soaped his dirty digits as fastidiously as Joe Biden. His announcement that “there is no federal solution” to COVID-19 puts him up there with history’s greatest hand-washers. Like Pontius Pilate, Biden is leaving it to the mob: “this gets solved at the state level.” Unlike the procrastinating procurator who surrendered his responsibilities to the jeering Judeans, Biden’s got it right... ...Nothing accrues power to politicians’ hands faster than panic. It is a sign of this administration’s ineptitude that it can’t even...

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Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the Lord hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years. And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years. And it came to pass at the seven years’ end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth...

Cases of Covid in South Africa are continuing to fall, as the wave caused by Omicron appears to burn itself out... However the figures for deaths reflect the evidence from the UK that Omicron is significantly less severe than the previous Delta variant. At the very start of the year, in South Africa, deaths hit their peak at an average of 578 a day in the seven days to January 4. The daily toll now is around 60 deaths, bearing out suggestions that patients in South Africa have milder symptoms and are less likely to end up in hospital... Last...

With M&M’s Mars leaving NASCAR many fans are wondering both “why?” and also “who’s next?” Over the last 10-15 years there have been many sponsors jumping ship from the sport as revenue and viewership have dipped lower and lower. So today I want to look more into this trend and see what is going on and why it may be worse or not as bad as many think it is. This is NASCAR’s mass sponsor exodus.

"If you refuse to be governed by GOD, you will be ruled by tyrants." - William Penn 1668

[H/T grey_whiskers]ransomnote: I’m amazed the video clip is still on Twitter when I checked just now. In case it’s deleted, I transcribed Fauci’s statements below.Phil on Twitter: "How many minutes before this gets taken down? https://t.co/vjFAxPxbLx" / Twitter3:49 AM · Dec 28, 2021·Twitter for iPhoneTranscript begins:Antony Fauci: “…to a normal volunteer for a phase I trial to see if it is safe. That’s the fastest it’s ever been done.That’s the good news. The challenging news is that even at that rocket speed, it’s gonna take a few months to show that the initial safety is okay, then you go into...

Dr. Anthony Fauci is “strongly” warning against hugging and kissing your friends and loved ones on New Year’s Eve this year. Fauci also told people to avoid large gatherings during the White House COVID-19 briefing on Wednesday. “If your plans are to go to a 40- to 50-person New Year’s Eve party with all the bells and whistles and everybody hugging and kissing and wishing each other a happy new year, I would strongly recommend that this year we do not do that,” Fauci said.

Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams sounded off on the push to pass voting rights legislation on Wednesday. Abrams told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that expanding voting rights “is not about partisanship.” Instead, she asserted it “is about patriotism.” “I’m working very closely with members of the U.S. Senate to ensure that they both understand the urgency of the moment but that we recognize the complications of the structure of the Senate,” Abrams outlined. “And that’s why we need to frame this as restoration of the Senate. This is not about breaking tradition. It is about protecting the fundamentals of our...

"Most patients I’ve seen that had 2 doses of Pfizer/Moderna still had ‘mild’ symptoms, but more than those who had received a third dose. More fatigued. More fever. More coughing. A little more miserable overall. But no shortness of breath. No difficulty breathing. Mostly fine," he said. For those who just had the one shot of the J&J vaccine and never took a booster, the situation isn't as good. "Most patients I’ve seen that had one dose of J&J and had Covid were worse overall. Felt horrible. Fever for a few days (or more). Weak, tired. Some shortness of breath...

Marissa Selvig, a candidate for Wyoming’s U.S. House seat in 2022, announced Monday that she will be campaigning as a member of the Constitution Party and leaving the Republican Primary. snip The standing theory is that the more Republican candidates join the field, the easier it will be for Cheney to win, because candidates do not need a majority, only a plurality. With Selvig out of the primary, Hageman’s chances should be better in theory. snip “[Cheney] is so low that her only chance would be if vast numbers of people run against her which, hopefully, won’t happen,” he said...

The parents of a teenage girl killed by an alleged Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer’s stray bullet tearfully recounted the tragic incident. In a press conference in Los Angeles Tuesday, the family of 14-year-old Valentina Orellana Peralta said they are devastated by her death. Valentina was killed last Thursday after allegedly being shot by a stray bullet fired by police officers in a Burlington Coat Factory store while the officers were shooting at an armed suspect. The girls father, Juan Pablo Orellana, said he cannot put into words the loss of his only biological daughter.

Only approved journalism, thank you! That appears to be Twitter’s logic behind suspending Just the News founder John Solomon for 12 hours. Solomon bashed the censorship as “outrageous and unfair.” Just the News released a statement Dec. 28 noting that Solomon was suspended from the leftist Big Tech platform “for sharing an article about the legal distinctions between Pfizer's fully approved and emergency use authorization (EUA) COVID-19 vaccines.” The distinction “could affect the legality of vaccine mandates.” Twitter slapped the article Solomon attempted to share with a “Warning: this link may be unsafe” label and propagandized that it “could lead...