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The "help-wanted" sections of newspapers and job sites are overloaded with small businesses begging for employees. Every fast-food restaurant you enter has help-wanted signs. There is an obvious employee shortage going on all around the country. Serious question: What is causing this issue? Gas prices and inflation are through the roof, which would suggest that even dead-beats would be forced to get jobs. Is there some sort of secret COVID payments still going out? I'm at a loss.

The federal government currently charges 18 cents in taxes per gallon of gasoline [cut] Biden's ex-boss, former President Barack Obama, called a gas tax a "gimmick" on the campaign trail back in 2008. At the time Obama said a gas tax holiday was a "gimmick" to save Americans half a tank of gas over the summer so that lawmakers could "say that they did something." There is also concern about a gas tax holiday's impact on already record-high inflation. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a non-partisan group that advocates for reducing the federal budget, previously argued that suspending...

UK consumers face an ever-higher bill for their weekly shop. Inflation in the country hit a new 40-year high of 9.1% in May, with the rise driven by soaring food prices. That leaves the country with the highest rate of inflation in the Group of Seven major economies. And there could be worse ahead. The Bank of England has said prices rises could hit 11% in October. Now some investors judge the UK to be at risk of persistent inflation and recession. That’s partly thanks to its large bill for imported energy, with prices driven higher by the conflict in...

Although mortgage rates have been rising quite fast, The Fed’s balance sheet is only being reduced quite slowly, leading to a continuation of the hot, hot, hot housing market. But the expectation of Fed rate hikes is causing mortgage rates to soar and borrowers are trying to get buy housing before The Fed chokes off rates. Mortgage applications increased 4.2 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending June 17, 2022. The seasonally adjusted Purchase Index increased 8 percent from one week earlier. The unadjusted Purchase...

The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) is threatening to revoke the medical licenses of two leaders in the alternative medical response to the COVID pandemic—Drs. Peter McCullough, and Pierre Kory—for allegedly “providing false and inaccurate information to patients.” CEO and President of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), Dr. Richard Baron, wrote to both doctors to let them know that the board would be meeting to determine “whether to recommend any disciplinary sanction” against them regarding their views on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. McCullough is an internist, cardiologist, and epidemiologist who has long been an outspoken critic of the...

A peer-reviewed paper released on Friday shows large decreases in sperm counts among men after the second dose of Pfizer’s mRNA COVID vaccine, with the decline continuing for over five months in many cases. The study, published in the medical journal Andrology, confirms that the mRNA shots have significant fertility risks for men, independent journalist Alex Berenson reported on his Unreported Truths Substack. The paper raises questions about mechanism of action that must be answered immediately. And on top of the myocarditis risk, the finding is more evidence that encouraging – much less forcing – men under 40 to take...

Former AG backs the Democrats’ Jan. 6 show trial.. Last week, former Attorney General William Barr told the Democrats’ Jan. 6 Committee he hadn’t seen evidence of voter fraud on a scale that could have affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. In late November of 2020, Barr told reporters, “to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.” Before the 2020 election, voters may recall, Joe Biden openly touted “the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” Voter fraud is a...

Five months after breaking the story of the CEO of One America insurance company saying deaths among working people ages 18-64 were up 40% in the third quarter of 2021, I can report that a much larger life insurance company, Lincoln National, reported a 163% increase in death benefits paid out under its group life insurance policies in 2021. This is according to the annual statements filed with state insurance departments — statements that were provided exclusively to Crossroads Report in response to public records requests. The reports show a more extreme situation than the 40% increase in deaths in...

Did you know that Kansas is known as “the Wheat State”? In 2021, it produced nearly one-fourth of all wheat that was harvested in the United States. Needless to say, we really need Kansas to come up big again this year because the war in Ukraine and a number of other factors have combined to bring us to the precipice of an absolutely horrifying global food crisis. Unfortunately, things are not going well in Kansas this year. In fact, wheat crops in much of the state are failing on a massive scale… This time of year, the wheat growing in...

On Sunday, Moderna’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Paul Burton announced the messenger RNA vaccine maker had officially kicked off phase 1 ‘human trials’ for its new two-in-one hybrid Flu-COVID jab. Lol, so you thought that all this was going to just ‘go away’, right? That’s soooo funny, after having established that yes, the world will indeed line up to receive the government injection, the New World Order has the Willy Wonka Golden Ticket of end times shenanigans. Messenger RNA is here to stay, and it’s going to start popping up everywhere you look. Should you be afraid of the messenger?...

This is classic misdirection, intended to keep Americans from noticing the administration’s horrible failures here at home. We’ve all seen it: A return to the empty shelves that plagued the first half of 2020, as the lockdowns sent people into a buying panic. The supply chain sort of adjusted to that but it’s happening again and this time there may not be an adjustment. Apparently, the Biden administration thinks things will get worse, not better, because it sent out a Pentagon spokesman to blame Putin preemptively for the coming food shortage. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out why...

22 June 2022Wednesday of week 12 in Ordinary Time St. Alban's Catholic Church, Rochester, NY Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First reading2 Kings 22:8-13,23:1-3 ©The Book of the Law is found in the Temple of the LordThe high priest Hilkiah said to Shaphan the secretary, ‘I have found the Book of the Law in the Temple of the Lord.’’’ And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, who read it. Shaphan the secretary went to the king and reported to him as follows, ‘Your servants’ he said ‘have melted down the silver which was in the Temple and have handed it over...

Billionaire Mark Cuban’s new drug company has shown how the U.S. government could have saved billions of dollars in just a few months. Cuban’s newest venture, Cost Plus Drugs, sells over 100 generic prescription medications at the cost of production, plus a 15% margin and $8 pharmacy dispensing and shipping fee. Medicare could have saved as much as $3.6 billion per year if it purchased the maximum quantity of generic drugs from Cost Plus Drugs, according to new research from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

I start by stating again, no healthy child in the US, or Germany, Sweden etc. have died of COVID post COVID infection. Not one! I warn again, these injections will kill normal healthy children. They are not properly safety tested. I warn again. Moving to inject our 6 month to 4 years children with a gene delivery platform is very very dangerous. Reckless. There is no sound justification for this. There is no one in the US government, globally even, or in public health, who can talk on the COVID lockdowns and this COVID vaccine (mRNA) like myself, for I...

The mother of an autistic boy who froze to death when his NYPD father made him sleep on a garage floor has been given the go-ahead to sue child protective services and school officials for $200million, a judge has ruled. Justyna Zubko-Valva claims she had warned child protective services and administrators at her son's school that the eight-year-old Thomas was being abused by his father. Her fears came true on January 17, 2020, when Thomas froze to death after his father, Michael Valva, locked him in a freezing garage as a form of punishment. Valva's girlfriend, Angela Pollina, allegedly participated...

On August 13, 1977, Cynthia Dusel-Bacon was working for her third summer as a geologist for the Alaskan branch of the United States Geological Survey. She was 30 years old and in excellent physical condition. She was field mapping, doing helicopter-assisted traverses of the Big Delta quadrangle. She had a geologist’s hammer, a walkie-talkie radio, and a rucksack with lunch, which she also used to stow rock samples she collected. The project chief believed “guns added more danger to an encounter than they would prevent”. Her views became policy on the project.Cynthia later said, in a taped interview for Larry...

Well ahead of the November election, ABC News has already made suspiciously detailed predictions of the outcome. Elections will not legitimize any government if they are rigged. We must end the absurdity whereby a private corporation can be hired to count our votes and then refuse to prove to us exactly how it got the final numbers. If the system is not completely transparent and auditable, you can never be confident in it. You can be completely justified in suspecting that it is fraudulent. When the public no longer trusts those who count the votes, then the outcome will be...

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Your double standards and Trump Derangement are the threat to the Republic. It has been over a week now. The Democrat Party and their allies in the mainstream media have tried to distract, deflect, and abstain from truthfully reporting the national disaster that is the Biden administration. Their primetime hearing about the January 6, 2021, breach, trespassing, and riot at the U.S. Capitol has been a crass political maneuver and a distraction. The double standards are glaringly obvious. The editing of video and testimony to hide exculpatory evidence, and the one-sided, Stalinist hearings will not improve our lives or solve...

.... On March 28, days before Shanghai went into a strict lockdown on April 1, and just as parents were preparing for the school enrollment period, the Ministry of Education issued a notice stating that inequalities related to school access must be overcome. Families registered in an area for at least six months must have equal access to local schools and without facing pre-enrollment academic testing, the notice stated. In Beijing, China's most prized educational zone, municipality and district-level implementation guidelines followed soon after. Furthermore, school application processes in Beijing and Shanghai were recently digitalized, with Shanghai having moderately relaxed...