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By Syndicated Content WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. employers likely maintained a strong pace of hiring in February, pushing the labor market closer to maximum employment, but rising headwinds from geopolitical tensions could hurt business confidence and slow job growth in the months ahead. The Labor Department’s closely watched employment report on Friday is expected to show labor market conditions tightening further, with the unemployment rate resuming its downward trend and a shortage of workers continuing to drive up wages. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell this week described the labor market as “extremely tight,” and told lawmakers that he would support...

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At least 30 people were killed and 80 wounded in a suicide attack at a Shiite mosque on Friday in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, where rescuers frantically ferried the dead and wounded from the scene. One witness saw the attacker enter the mosque before Friday prayers and open "fire with a pistol", picking out the worshippers "one-by-one". He "then blew himself up", Ali Asghar said. The attack comes on the first day of a cricket Test match in Rawalpindi -- around 190 kilometres (120 miles) to the east -- between Pakistan and Australia, who haven't toured the country...

PITTSBURGH — AAA said the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded in Pennsylvania hit $4.00 on Friday morning. That price was up 13 cents from Thursday...

As World War III looms in Europe, we must put narrow partisan differences aside and tap the brain power of the greatest minds among us. It is time for the Biden White House to call upon ... Jared! Speaking of the best and the brightest, our foreign policy mandarins must have felt like it was Christmas Day when a senile dementia patient became president. Finally! No meddling politicians to get in the way of our beautifully designed plans worked out at the Council on Foreign Relations. Although Joseph R. Biden is technically, in a strictly legal sense, "president," it's progressives...

The full import of what is happening to American national security remains apparently unclear to the media, both left and right. Even Biden’s harshest critics accuse him merely of incompetence and weakness. They avoid the increasingly obvious truth. Joe is guilty of malfeasance. What he is doing to America is deliberate. And, so far remarkably successful. Afghanistan is lost. A new terrorist superstate has been born. Ukraine is in flames and all of Europe is destabilized. And meanwhile, as the world fixates on Kyiv and Odessa, Biden’s team in Vienna is preparing to surrender to Iran and the ayatollahs. Rob...

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY): "The American economy is booming.” https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1499595027806306306

A New Zealand high court has ended the government’s vaccine mandate, ruling that the order represented a “gross violation of human rights.” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was left reeling after the court determined that forcing New Zealanders to take vaccines is a breach of the Bill of Rights. The landmark ruling now means that the police and New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) cannot be fired for refusing to get vaccinated. Legal experts cheered the move, noting that the case will now be used to overthrow all of Ardern’s illegal mandates in New Zealand. Justice Francis Cooke ruled that ordering frontline...

One week into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and military analysts are united on one front, at least: Russia’s invasion has not gone entirely to plan, looking disorganized, uncoordinated and sluggish to observers. ... “It’s going to be worse than what the Russians had in Afghanistan, that’s what the Ukrainians are going to do,” he added, alluding to the then Soviet Union’s drawn-out, bloody, costly and unpopular invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 that lasted 10 years and led to the loss of around 15,000 Soviet soldiers. ... Russia has not been able to swiftly achieve its military objectives, he said, because...

The link below is a 2 minute and 20 second rant about coming together after 2 years of blaming the unvaccined for everything bad. https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/epic-jesse-kelly-dont-ever-tell-me-were-not-enemies/

An ever-expanding list of public companies, including Apple, Exxon, GM, and Nike, are proudly announcing they are cutting ties to Russia as its invasion of Ukraine brings condemnation and sanctions. But while all this sounds very ‘politically-correct’ and ‘shared-sacrifice’-y, Bloomberg reports that if every U.S. tech firm followed Apple and disconnected from Russia, it would reduce revenue by only 1%-2% in a worst-case scenario, according to Wedbush analyst Dan Ives. So far, the lost business looks like it won’t have a major impact on profits (or stock prices), especially with China being by far Russia’s largest trading partner.Infographic: Russia's Most...

Former Colorado pizza delivery man accused of stalking young customers By Lindsey Grewe Mar. 3, 2022 FORT COLLINS, Colo. (KKTV) - A pizza delivery driver is accused of stalking and an assortment of other crimes after alleged disturbing behavior with a customer’s young daughter. Fort Collins police say 21-year-old Cyrus Warren repeatedly made moves on a girl under 13, including showing up out of uniform and trying to talk his way into to her home. Police said Warren twice delivered pizza to the family, and both times one of the family’s daughters answered the door. While no unusual behavior was...

Commodities markets from agriculture to energy to metals have been upended by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as Bloomberg’s index of raw materials is set for the biggest weekly gain in nearly half a century. The invasion has sent commodity prices soaring as western sanctions force Russia into growing isolation. Banks, importers, and shippers avoid Russian exports as traders price in new fears of shortages in energy, grains, and metals, sending the Bloomberg’s gauge of raw materials to its largest weekly gain since 1974. The Bloomberg Commodity Index (BCOM), which updates at the end of each session, was up 8.6% on...

BREAKING REPORT: NFL Suspends All Covid Protocols – DROPS ALL MASK AND TESTING Requirements Regardless of Vaccination Status... https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1499722017792217088

As inflation caused by resident Biden's policies continues to drive fuel prices higher, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the international instability that's followed has resulted in a new record-setting highs at the pump beginning on Thursday: $5.067 per gallon on average in San Francisco — the first time a U.S. city passed the $5 mark. Following Thursday's spike in San Francisco, California's statewide average for regular unleaded also crossed the $5 threshold for the first time ever to reach $5.074 per gallon early Friday morning while California's statewide average for diesel also set an all-time record of $5.335 per gallon....

Rochester, N.Y. — Rochester Police are asking the public to help them solve several crimes at a home on Park Avenue. Police are looking for information about a masked man they say jumped over the homeowners' back railing and approached their door with what appears to be a knife. His image was captured on doorbell camera video in January. This is the 12th time in less than a year the home has been threatened, and each time, it has only gotten worse. The homeowners have been in the house in 2001 and it wasn't until 2021 when all the attacks...

The container shipping giant Maersk warned Wednesday that shipping delays caused by increased customs inspections as a result of Western sanctions might spoil or damage food and medical shipments that are bound for Russia.Maersk announced on Tuesday that it was cutting service to Russia to comply with sanctions but is allowing exemptions for food, medical, and humanitarian goods. But now the Denmark-based company is warning against bookings for the exempted goods due to delays. “We do, however, warn caution on still placing bookings for perishable cargo due to significant delays in key transshipment hubs that may damage the cargo,” Maersk...

WASHINGTON, Monday, March 3. The following dispatch was received this evening: CAIRO, March 3, 1862. To Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy: Lieut.-Commanding SHIRK has this moment arrived from the Tennessee River, and brings full dispatches from Lieut.-Commanding GWINN, of the Tyler, a synopsis of which is, that the two gunboats proceeded up to Pittsburgh, near the Mississippi line, where a battery was opened upon them, consisting of six guns, one of them being rifled, which were soon silenced by the gunboats. Ninety mounted men landed, under cover of the gunboats, and charged upon the enemy, driving them at...

When half the country has lost its sense of pity for fellow citizens, and the ruling class reserves pity only for themselves and faraway lands, what can be left of American civilization? country without pity has lost its soul. Sadly, that is the state of America in 2022. On the eve of the two-year anniversary—which is too celebratory a word to describe its aftermath—of useless, destructive lockdowns sold as a way to stop the spread of COVID-19, our country has been exposed as a place overpopulated with pitiless citizens gratified by the suffering of others. The common bonds that tether...

The war between Ukraine and Russia will make the world’s hunger crisis even tougher to fight. The countries – one of which has traditionally been called Europe’s bread basket – are two of the world’s major suppliers of staple grains like wheat, and a protracted crisis increases the likelihood of supply interruptions and higher food prices for many people — including those who can least afford them. Gallup data offer insight into the populations most likely to suffer from a prolonged disruption: People in countries reliant on wheat from Ukraine or Russia, where large segments of their populations were also...