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Deloitte’s new report sees a messy future. A new report from the big-time, grownup pants Deloitte consulting firm indicates just how big an undertaking that is proving to be. Much of what Deloitte reports is unsurprising. People still vastly prefer personal vehicles over public transportation; are willing to embrace high technology as long as they don’t have to pay for it; that they still want to buy new vehicles in person and not over the internet; and that they’re fine with electric vehicles as long as they’re affordable and at least as good as those relying on internal combustion. Governments...

Starting this month, third-party payment vendors will report $600 in total annual transitions to the IRS. That’s not every transaction of $600 or more. That’s if you do more than $600 worth of business with any of them over the course of an entire year. Vendors will also need to see your tax information, comrades. PayPal, Venmo, and others are acting in compliance with the American Rescue Plan Act, passed by Democrats on a strict party-line vote in both houses, and signed into law last year by Presidentish Joe Biden. Are you feeling rescued yet? Biden had promised not to...

Despite an unprecedented spike in cases fueled by the Omicron variant, Los Angeles County hospitals are seeing far fewer critically ill coronavirus-positive patients than they did last winter. Officials emphasize that the healthcare system still faces serious challenges because so many people are being infected, and it’s unclear how close the Omicron wave is to peaking. L.A. County ambulance services and hospitals also are contending with coronavirus-related staffing shortages as more of their workers become infected. But the early data seem to reflect the experience elsewhere — that Omicron, while far more transmissible than the previously dominant Delta variant, also...

People don’t realize that these vaccines are vastly different from the many childhood vaccines we are now used to getting early in life. I find it shocking that the vaccine developers and the government officials across the globe are recklessly pushing these vaccines on an unsuspecting population. -snip- Our paper showed that there are several mechanisms by which these vaccines could lead to severe disease, including autoimmune disease, neurodegenerative diseases, vascular disorders (hemorrhaging and blood clots) and possibly reproductive issues. There is also the risk that the vaccines will accelerate the emergence of new strains of the virus that are...

Last month, China's Yutu-2 rover sent home a striking image appearing to show—albeit very blurrily—a cube-shaped object off in the distance. Dubbed the "mystery house" by Chinese media (blissfully disinterested in how this would set off Western conspiracists, magonians and ironists) the object was tagged for closer inspection. Yutu-2 has now gotten closer, and, well, alas, sadly no.

Priest’s Book Tells Sad Tale of Jesuits’ Abortion Complicity in the USCOMMENTARY: The late Jesuit Father Paul Mankowski knew how badly some of his brother priests and his superiors had betrayed the Society of Jesus.Need a prominent cleric to give cover to Catholic politicians who vote to preserve and expand abortion access? For more than 50 years, the Jesuits have had a man at the ready. It is a grave scandal in one of the Church’s most venerable orders.Jesuit Father Pat Conroy, who served as chaplain of the House of Representatives from May 2011 to January 2021, gave an...

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Like anyone newly betrothed, Bailey Kenworthy wanted to shout her news from the rooftops of New York City. Her mistake was thinking New York City would give a crap. “I’m engaged, New York!” Texan Bailey Kenworthy, 24, shouted out an apartment window, unable to contain her joy in a TikTok posted last week. The response? Downright aggressive indifference. “Shut the f–k up!” a cyclist can be heard yelling below. “I love it here,” she joked to the camera. The video — captioned “The nicest city” — has amassed 2.1 million views and more than 316,800 likes.

As COVID-19 hospitalizations climb into uncharted territory, fueled by the highly contagious omicron variant, Maryland’s medical work force is increasingly diminished by illness and exposure, burnout and turnover. Gov. Larry Hogan has responded with pleas for people to get vaccinated and boosted and wear masks to spare the hospitals. The state opened several testing sites near hospitals so people would stop flooding emergency rooms with nonemergencies. Hogan’s also sending Maryland National Guard troops to hospitals to perform nonmedical tasks and relaxing guardrails on licenses for medical workers, particularly nurses.

Brussels Airlines has operated 3,000 empty or near-empty flights this winter to avoid losing take-off and landing rights at major airports, it has been revealed. The airline's parent company, Lufthansa, operated 18,000 flights this winter that would otherwise have been cancelled due to lack of passengers, including 3,000 flights under the Brussels Airlines banner, reports Le Soir and RTBF.

Not just humans, animals also feel the love, heartbreak and loss. And while they may not be able to express it with words, their actions speak. Recently, a peacock passed away following a long illness in the Nagaur district of Rajasthan. It was heartbreaking for locals to see its partner, a fellow peacock, sit by its side for hours. When the dead bird was taken for funeral, its partner followed the locals to the funeral site.

Flashback: After Bill Ayers bombed the U.S. Capitol building, Ayers hosted a fundraiser for Barack Obama in Ayers’s living room. Ayers also got hired as a college professor. The left doesn’t find this to be even the slightest bit embarrassing or shameful.By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)January 11, 2021In 1969, a guy named Bill Ayers co-founded a terrorist organization called Weather Underground, whose founding document called for “world communism.”In 1969, Ayers set off a bomb in Chicago at a statue that was dedicated to the city’s police. At the time of the explosion, no one was close enough...

MONOLOGUE WRITTEN BY CLYDE LEWIS For days, I knew that the January 6th topic would have to be addressed because we have had one year of propaganda demanding that something should be done — that it should be investigated as a coup or an insurrection or whatever else the media is trying to drum up and whatever the left can conjure to prove that there are right wing domestic terrorists planning a repeat performance. I noticed an oddity of sorts that on the eve of the January 6th observance it had been 666 days since the COVID -19 pandemic was...

The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Friday in two sets of challenges to the Biden administration’s authority to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. For over two hours of debate, the justices were skeptical of the administration’s attempt to impose a vaccine-or-test mandate for workers at large employers. In the second case, which lasted for roughly an hour and a half, the justices were more receptive to the administration’s efforts to impose a vaccine mandate for health care workers at facilities that receive federal funding. Both cases came to the Supreme Court last month on an emergency basis and, in an...

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday people who have not taken COVID-19 shots will be arrested if they disobeyed stay-at-home orders as infections hit a three-month high. Duterte in an televised address to the nation said he was asking community leaders to look for unvaccinated people and make sure they were confined to their homes. "If he refuses, if he goes out his house and goes around the community, he can be restrained. If he refuses, the captain is empowered now to arrest recalcitrant persons," Duterte said.

Royal Caribbean International canceled cruises on four of its ships Friday amid a global surge in COVID-19 cases. "In abundance of caution, Royal Caribbean International is pausing operations" for a few ships, the cruise company announced in a statement obtained by The Hill.

Penn Athletics is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive environment for all our student-athletes, coaches and staff and we hold true to that commitment today and in the future,” the university tweeted. Statement regarding our women’s swimmer, Lia Thomas “As a member of the NCAA, Penn is governed by the policies of the national governing body. Lia Thomas has met or exceeded all NCAA protocols over the past two years for a transgender female student-athlete to compete for a women’s team. She will continue to represent the Penn women’s swimming team in competition this season,” the statement added. “We...

President Biden on Friday celebrated a jobs report that showed far fewer Americans were added to payrolls than expected last month — then claimed Republicans concerned about high inflation simply want people to be too poor to afford cars. The president accused GOPers of spewing “malarkey” about the economy in remarks following the release of the December jobs report, which showed the unemployment rate dropping to 3.9 percent — but also showed just 199,000 jobs were added to the economy, fewer than the 210,000 added in November and far below the predicted 422,000.

Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson will seek reelection and part ways with a 2016 promise to only serve two terms, according to multiple online reports. The Associated Press, which spoke with Republicans who have knowledge of Johnson's plan, reported Johnson "has decided to seek reelection to a third term" and "could announce as soon as early next week." Another report from Politico stated Johnson is "expected to run for reelection this year," while CBS News echoed similar claims in its reporting on the matter, citing a source familiar with Johnson's decision.

You can only leave home for 3 reasons: - Medical treatment, vaccine - Groceries - Care for disabled loved one "Work is not a reason to leave the home." (Video at link)