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A week ago the government announced that the consumer price index rose 7.5% from a year ago, marking the fastest increase since February 1982 (which was a very bad year in case you don’t remember). Yesterday Biden went to Ohio where he touted his “growing” economy – if by “growing” he means inflation. In the same visit he proposed $1 billion in funding for a “greening” clean up of the Great Lakes. Now, it’s hard to be opposed to cleaning up the Great Lakes, but timing-wise one might question the need to do so while inflation is running unchecked. Even...

Storm Eunice rips apart The O2: Large panels fly off iconic dome as 122MPH tempest claims first victim, leaves tens of thousands of homes without power and sparks chaos on roads, railways and at airports Top wind speed of 122mph is provisionally highest gust ever in England - even higher than 1987 Great Storm Met Office warns of 'flying debris resulting in danger to life', 'roofs blown off' and power lines down Hundreds of schools close, all trains in Wales suspended and rail passengers in England told not to travel British Airways cancels dozens of flights and major attractions including...

Surprise! US existing home sales in January rose to 6.50 million units SAAR versus the expected 6.10 million units. That is a 6.7% increase over December. The disturbing news is the continued lack of available inventory that peaked in Q4 2007 and has continued its decline to today … the lowest level of available inventory since 1981. Despite the Fed’s massive stimulus that they allegedly will take away. Median price of existing home sales rose to 15.4% YoY. Making homes affordable should NOT be a slogan for The Federal Reserve, the Biden Administration or Congress. The massive Federal stimulypto (fiscal...

A burning car transport ship drifted in the mid-Atlantic on Thursday after the huge vessel's 22 crew members were evacuated due to the blaze, the Portuguese navy said. Shipping in the area was warned that the 650-foot-long Felicity Ace was adrift near Portugal's Azores Islands after the crew were taken off on Wednesday, Portuguese navy spokesman Commander José Sousa Luís said. The Felicity Ace can carry more than 18,700 tons of cargo. Typically, car transport ships fit thousands of vehicles on multiple decks in their hold. Volkswagen Group said in a brief statement the Felicity Ace was transporting to the...

Two California lawmakers have proposed removing the word “squaw,” a slur against Native American women, from all geographic features and place names in the state. Assembly Bill 2022, introduced by Assemblyman James Ramos, D-Highland, and Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, D-Bell Gardens, would go into effect on Jan. 1, 2024. Ramos said the word is an idiom that came into use during the westward expansion of America, and is not a tribal word. “AB 2022 would ban the use of the S-word and establish a process for renaming locations with that offensive racial and sexist term which began as derogatory word used...

The Jewish state’s dream of warm peace with its Arab neighbors has eluded it for more than 72 years. In September 2020, President Donald Trump helped engineer the Abraham Accords between Israel, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates. The very treaty signing on the White House lawn projected human warmth, and signaled a warm peace. Subsequently, Sudan and Morocco joined the normalization of relations with Israel. It is true that peace, as opposed to war, came much earlier than September 2020. Israel signed a peace treaty with Egypt in 1979 and with Jordan in 1994. These peace treaties, however,...

Greek rescue forces are desperately trying to save two people trapped onboard a stricken ferry amid fears that 14 passengers were missing nearly eight hours after the ship burst into flames. A Super Puma helicopter had attempted several times to approach the Euroferry Olympia, an Italian liner en route to Brindisi, when the fire broke out at around 4am. Four lifeboats carrying an estimated 279 people had meanwhile headed for the Ionian island of Corfu, where authorities were hoping to match arrivals with the passenger list assembled by crew. By midday, Hellenic navy ships, and at least three coastguard vessels,...

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald Instructing journalists to keep away from the police and threatening them with arrest if they don't.Given that the target of the police in this case have the Wrong Ideology, many journalists will be not angry but grateful: Ottawa Police @OttawaPolice All media who are attending the area, please keep a distance and stay out of police operations for your safety. Anyone found within areas undergoing enforcement may be subject to arrest. There will be a media availability later today at 474 Elgin Street. #ottnews

Bill Gates told actor Dax Shepard mRNA vaccines will not only end Covid, but they will eliminate the common cold and the flu.

Gail Halvorsen, a former U.S. airman known as the “Candy Bomber” for delivering sweets to children during the Berlin Airlift, died on Wednesday at the age of 101. The Gail S. Halvorsen Aviation Education Foundation confirmed the veteran's death in a statement on Thursday. The foundation said he passed away peacefully and surrounded by family at the Utah Valley Hospital following a brief illness. Halvorsen gained his "Candy Bomber" moniker during the 15-month Berlin Airlift after World War II that saw western allies drop essential supplies into West Berlin after it was blockaded by the Soviet Union. The airman had...

Nearly a dozen men associated with the Brooklyn-based Woo gang were charged Thursday with allegedly stealing more than $4 million in COVID-19 relief cash — and boasting about the scam in a music video, the feds said. The 11 suspects – nine of whom live in Brooklyn – used personal information, including driver’s license numbers, from 800 people to submit unemployment claims worth about $20 million, according to a criminal complaint against them. The gang members were able to fleece some $4.3 million from the unemployment program between March 2020 and October 2021 as part of the scam, the feds...

A new bill aimed at giving a financial boost to low-income workers is gaining momentum. On Thursday, lawmakers and organization leaders weighed in on HB 4157 during its public hearing. Rep. Andrea Valderrama, D-Portland, is one of the chief sponsors of the bill. KATU talked with her on Wednesday as she was preparing for the public hearing. To be eligible for a one-time $600 check, workers had to file for Earned Income Tax Credits, a break for low- and middle-income families, on their 2020 tax filings. Valderrama estimates there are about 260,000 Oregonians who qualify. At $600 each, that equals...

---SNIP--- Yet there are many powerful and fairly straightforward reasons people cite for why they are suspicious of authorities, both with respect to the Covid-19 vaccine and other pandemic-related public health guidance. In no particular order:

Publix is one of the latest major grocery chains to modify its mask mandate for employees, now allowing fully vaccinated workers to forgo masks while on the job.The grocery chain made the announcement on its coronavirus FAQ page, reiterating that it does not require customers to wear a mask in the store. While it did, however, require employees to wear a mask, it modified that requirement. As of February 14, fully vaccinated employees no longer have to wear a mask while working. The company attributed the move to a “decrease” in coronavirus cases and the mass availability of the vaccine:As...

U.S. Rep. Jim Hagedorn, R-Minn. 1st District, has died. Hagedorn’s wife and former GOP chairwoman Jennifer Carnahan confirmed the news with 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS Friday morning. He was 59. Hagedorn was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer in 2019 and began receiving care at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. He announced he had a kidney removed as well as cancerous tissues surrounding the kidney. Then in July 2021, he announced a reoccurrence of his kidney cancer.

Unbelief, the Opiate of the MassesReligion is the opiate of the masses.” In a single, swift turn of phrase, Marx had created a credo for the secular left. Opium, of course, is the drug of addicts; addicts cannot see beyond their chemical dependency. But if they were to lock themselves in a room and face the cold sweat withdrawals of truth, the addicts could be freed from their affliction. The veil of ignorance blinding their judgment would be torn away. Rationalist sobriety saves.But what if irreligion is the true opiate of the masses—what if unbelief is the valium of the...

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Friday called on Democrats to listen to Hillary Clinton and focus on calling out the “do-nothing Republicans.” Scarborough said highlighting that the House GOP doing “absolutely nothing” “would not be a bad theme for Democrats to pick up” ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

Separatists in east Ukraine have announced they're evacuating the entire civilian population to Russia, citing increased shelling on the front lines. Pushilin claims Zelensky will give Ukraine's army the order to attack.

An Illinois appellate court rejected Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s appeal of a lower court's ruling against a mask mandate in schools, writing the request is “moot” because the governor’s emergency COVID-19 rules already expired. The highly-anticipated decision from the three-member panel of the Illinois Fourth District Appellate Court was published just before midnight Thursday. In their decision, the appellate court justices wrote there is no “actual controversy” to decide. “Because the emergency rules voided by the TRO are no longer in effect, a controversy regarding the application of those rules no longer exists. Thus, the matter is moot,” the justices wrote....

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