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Well, Powell and The Fed Gang failed to tackle inflation with its 25 basis point increase in their target rate. The result? Inflation is still roaring and REAL Treasury yields remain NEGATIVE (nominal Treasury yields – inflation). In fact, the US Treasury 10-year yield hovering around 0% when Biden first became President, then the inflation kraken was unleashed leading to progressively declining 10-year Treasury yields. As on late night, the REAL 10-year Treasury yield is -5.71%. REAL mortgage rates (Bankrate 30Y rate – inflation) were positive at the beginning of the Biden Administration, but have sunk to -3.40%. With negative...

President of Russia @KremlinRussia_E Russia government organization Meeting with Head of the Federal Medical-Biological Agency Veronika Skvortsova: the AmpliTest system and the Mir-19 antiviral medication https://vk.cc/cbTIyn

The new standards state that five-year-old children in Oregon’s government schools will be instructed and trained to “Engage in respectful dialogue with classmates to define diversity comparing and contrasting visible and invisible similarities and differences” and “Develop an understanding of one’s own identity groups including, but not limited to, race, gender, family, ethnicity, culture, religion, and ability.”

How the Chinese Communist Party Enslaved One Billion People With Their ConsentWhat Americans Need to Learn from the ChineseI grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution. Back then, we needed permission from the government for every aspect of life: How much food we could have. (For my family, it was one pound of meat per person per month, and we were the lucky ones.) Where we could live. To which school we could go. Where we could work. When we could get married. When we could have children. How many children we could have - only one per couple....

Russia began the war in Ukraine with the world’s largest tank force, but the losses it has suffered reveal its weaknesses on the modern battlefield. Moscow’s forces have lost more than 230 of the heavily armored tracked vehicles since they invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, according to Oryx Blog, an open-source site that tracks military-equipment losses. Many were destroyed. Others were abandoned, captured or damaged, Oryx says.

In an interview on CNBC’s “The Exchange,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) blamed the coronavirus pandemic, the oil industry, and the meat industry for the record-high inflation in the United States. Warren argued COVID primarily affected the supply chain and shifted the demand curve but also accused companies of increasing costs on top of the rising costs in an effort to generate additional profit.

@RandPaul This morning I joined @Foxnews Anytime the left pushes for ‘clean energy,’ realize it's code for limiting energy from fossil fuels and nuclear. Segment...

Despite fears that China may help Russia avoid economic sanctions and may even provide military support to Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime, China's ambassador to Ukraine told officials in the western city of Lviv this week that his country will support Ukraine both economically and politically. "We will always respect your state, we will develop relations on the basis of equality and mutual benefit. We will respect the path chosen by Ukrainians, because this is the sovereign right of every nation," Fan Xiangong, who relocated with the Chinese embassy from Kyiv to Lviv after Russian forces invaded on Feb. 24,...

Is China Next?Xi acts aggressively in pursuit of an expanded global role.The world, we’re told, has never been more divided. In recent weeks, however, united by its hatred of Vladimir Putin, the world—or at least NATO and other U.S. dependencies—has come together. The U.S., UK, and EU have slammed Russia with a wave of sanctions, designed to cripple the Russian economy, and the approach seems to be working. The ruble has collapsed, and inflation is running close to 20 percent.Right now, Russia is a dangerous country. But as far as the U.S. is concerned, China is far more problematic, and...

A New NationalismForeign threats demand a muscular domestic response.With our natural resources, our productive capacity, and the genius of our people for mass production we will…outstrip the Axis powers in munitions of war.- Franklin Roosevelt, Message to Congress, June 10, 1941War, or the threat of war, should awaken nations from their dogmatic quarrels. So too should concentrated economic threats and assaults on our political system from unfriendly powers. It is not so much a matter of good global intentions but the embrace of hard-headed national interests, not only in the realm of energy and manufacturing, that will be key in...

Sinus Anatomy New research from Griffith University has shown that a bacterium commonly present in the nose can sneak into the brain and set off a cascade of events that may lead to Alzheimer’s disease. Associate Professor Jenny Ekberg and colleagues from the Clem Jones Centre for Neurobiology and Stem Cell Research at Menzies Health Institute Queensland and Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery, in collaboration with Queensland University of Technology, have discovered that the bacterium Chlamydia pneumoniae can invade the brain via the nerves of the nasal cavity. Chlamydia pneumoniae The bacterium Chlamydia pneumoniae (green) in the olfactory bulb region...

Woke Yale Law students were filmed threatening two guest speakers and staff at a free speech event where a conservative guest successfully defended a Supreme Court decision of a Colorado baker who refused to make a cake for a gay wedding ceremony. Police were forced to escort the guest speakers from Yale Law School's free speech debate after more than 100 students intimidated the conservative panelist by yelling they would 'literally fight you, b***h' and caused a riot in the auditorium by blocking the hall's exits. The chaos broke out last week at the start of a panel featuring progressive...

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Xi considered invading Taiwan this fall: FSB whistleblower Document believed to be leaked from Russian FSB claims Xi considered invading Taiwan in fall for 'little victory to get re-elected' By Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer 2022/03/16 11:38 TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A whistleblower from Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) reported that Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping (習近平) had considered launching an invasion of Taiwan in the fall of this year before the "window of opportunity" closed with the disastrous Russian invasion of Ukraine. The head of the Russian human rights group Gulagu Net, Vladimir Osechkin, recently on Facebook began releasing...

In 36 days of fighting on Iwo Jima during World War II, nearly 7,000 Marines were killed. Now, 20 days after President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia invaded Ukraine, his military has already lost more soldiers, according to American intelligence estimates. The conservative side of the estimate, at more than 7,000 Russian troop deaths, is greater than the number of American troops killed over 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

Why have kids been masked in school? Adam Carolla has a theory, and it’s depressingly dark. We’ve long known who’s vulnerable to COVID. The CDC released survivability rates near the end of 2020 — before any vaccine had been made available:

Drivers of bigger vehicles such as pickup trucks and SUVs are more likely to hit pedestrians while making turns than drivers of cars, according to a new study. The research released Thursday by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety points to the increasing popularity of larger vehicles as a possible factor in rising pedestrian deaths on U.S. roads. The authors also questioned whether wider pillars holding up roofs of the larger vehicles make it harder for drivers to spot people walking near the corners of vehicles. “The link between these vehicle types and certain common pedestrian crashes points to another...

The single infrared image of 2MASS J17554042+6551277, with a red filter applied to optimize visual contrast. Image: NASA/STScI The Webb Space Telescope has passed a critical milestone in its commissioning phase, as mission controllers fully aligned the observatory’s primary imager. Before we get into the details of today’s announcement, take a moment to bask in the glory of this new Webb image. The star is called 2MASS J17554042+6551277, and mission controllers have been using it to align the space telescope’s 18 hexagonal mirrors. But just look at it—look at how sharp it looks. And check out all those galaxies in...

Facilitating the loosening of former President Trump’s iron grip on the Republican Party are cumulative sets of actions and statements emanating from spheres of GOP influence. Meanwhile, elected leaders’ fear of Trump backlash and name-calling is diminishing — signaling the post-Trump era has begun. Trump’s unraveling is akin to a “decline by 1,000 cuts.” Let’s examine it. The players are prospective 2024 presidential candidates, officeholders, the Republican National Committee (RNC), former high-ranking Trump officials, a conservative think tank and a mega-donor kingmaker who owns a jet. We begin on March 4 at the RNC’s major donor retreat in New Orleans,...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU environment ministers will assess their progress on negotiating a raft of new climate change policies on Thursday, with countries divided over whether soaring energy prices should speed up or slow down their green agenda. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia, Europe's top gas supplier, has put the EU on a mission to quit Russian fossil fuels within a few years - by hiking gas imports from elsewhere, and doubling down on its plans to slash planet-warming emissions this decade. Those plans, which Brussels says will both fight climate change and help wrest countries free of Moscow's...