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The rate is a marginal fall from the 10.1% seen in August, prompting hopes that the UK might narrowly avoid a recession. The rate of inflation eased slightly to 9.9% in the 12 months to August, aided by a fall in fuel costs. The Office for National Statistics said that the fall in fuel prices was the main factor in the fall from the 10.1% CPI seen in July. The rise in food prices has been the main reason the overall inflation figure has remained high, however.

Kevin McCarthy, Congressional Leadership Fund, and Defending Main Street spent $5 million to prevent Karoline Leavitt from winning her primary election for New Hampshire’s District 1 that was held on Tuesday. McCarthy, GOP Elites and Super PACs dumped $5 million to stop Karoline Leavitt. It is the same tactics the GOP elites use in every state. They can’t win on the issues so they spend MILLIONS to slander and smear MAGA Republican candidates .Karoline Leavitt Joins Tucker Carlson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ25_Pi0o50 a must watch

President Joe Biden will attend an auto show in Detroit, Michigan on Wednesday, where he will tour the newest models in auto-manufacturers electric vehicle portfolios and announce a new infrastructure plan to make driving electric vehicles more accessible. Biden, a vintage car enthusiast and owner of a 1967 C2 Corvette Stingray, will meet with dozens of automakers at the North American International Auto Show to boast about the Inflation Reduction Act — a recently signed climate and health care law that offers tax incentives for buying electric vehicles. On Wednesday, he will also announce a $900 million plan to build...

BLOOD clots are either dangerous or beneficial depending on how and where they form. According to a case study published in the Lancet, a woman almost lost her leg due to a dangerous blood clot after eating the same fruit daily - how much do you eat? =================================================================== Blood clots often form in response to injury. This is the body's way of stemming bleeding. However, blood clots that form in one or more of the deep veins in the body can spell trouble. This is known as deep vein thrombosis (DVT). According to a chilling case report published in the...

Major cities across the US are introducing smart streetlights with the promise they'll provide safer and more sustainable public spaces. But behind the scenes, the technology is being appropriated as an instrument of surveillance within a larger network of smart sensors. “This is not a surveillance system—nobody is watching it 24 hours a day,” said Erik Caldwell, director of economic development in San Diego, in an interview where he was asked if the wide deployment of “smart” streetlights had turned San Diego into a surveillance city. Innocuous at first glance, this statement demonstrates the pernicious impact of artificial intelligence on...

Now that the primaries are officially over, it's clear that even in "blue" New England, Republicans are abandoning Establishment "moderate" Republicans Connecticut: Republicans nominated Trump-endorsed Leora Levy for US Senate instead of pro-gun-control, pro-gay marriage, pro-abortion, McConnell-preferred Themis Klarides Maine: Republicans nominated former Governor Paul LePage for governor again Massachusetts: Republicans nominated Trump-endorsed Geoff Diehl for governor instead of Charlie Baker and Chris Sununu-endorsed Chris Doughty New Hampshire: Republicans nominated Don Bolduc for US Senate, Karoline Leavitt for US House District 1 and Robert Burns for US House District 2 (all three defeating Chris Sununu-endorsed candidates) Vermont: Republicans nominated Gerald...

Two big admissions regarding the vaccine surfaced this week. First up- the CDC knowingly lied to us! I’d like to pretend I’m completely surprised by this, but I’m not that good of an actor. I’m more of an “uh-huh, I knew it!!” kind of girl. Now, the Epoch Times is reporting: The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has acknowledged publicly for the first time that the agency gave false information about its COVID-19 vaccine safety monitoring. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the agency’s director, said in a letter made public on Sept. 12 that the CDC did...

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) is leading Republican contender Leora Levy by 13 percentage points, according to a new Emerson College Polling/The Hill survey released Wednesday. The poll found that 49 percent of likely voters in the state said they would vote for Blumenthal if the election for Senate was held today, in comparison to Levy, who received 36 percent support.

London (AFP) – Entrants in the mass-participation event at next year's London Marathon will be offered a non-binary gender option. Organisers said it was part of a drive to make the race the "most diverse, equitable and inclusive marathon in the world". Three gender options -- male, female and non-binary -- will be offered to all participants registering for the mass participation element of the event. The Boston Marathon announced a similar change this week.

New Hampshire state Senate President Chuck Morse (R), an establishment favorite, early Wednesday conceded defeat to retired Army Gen. Don Bolduc, who has espoused former President Trump’s false 2020 election claims, in the state’s Republican primary to face incumbent Sen. Maggie Hassan (D) in November. The Associated Press has not yet called the race for Bolduc, but he leads Morse by 1 percentage point with more than 80 percent of the vote reported.

The European Union will propose measures to cap revenues from low-cost electricity generators and force fossil fuel firms to share the profits they make from soaring energy prices, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday. “In these times it is wrong to receive extraordinary record revenues and profits benefiting from war and on the back of our consumers. In these times, profits must be shared and channelled to those who need it most," von der Leyen said in a speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg. A draft of the Commission proposals, seen by Reuters, would skim...

A true crime fan who runs an online account called Checkit TV said he found a laptop and other items belonging to 16-year-old Kiely Rodni in the California lake where her body was found submerged in her car last month. The sleuth, who does not make his name public, claims to have made the discovery while out rowing in the reservoir and dived down to retrieve the items, The Sun reported. The other objects included a duffel bag, hairbrush, charge cord, and gift box. Rodni, an honors student, went missing just after midnight on Aug. 6 after a rowdy end-of-school...

Keene Mayor George Hansel conceded to Hillsborough County Treasurer Robert Burns in the GOP primary for New Hampshire's 2nd Congressional District on Wednesday. Although no major outlets have called the race, Burns leads Hansel by 2 percentage points, 32.8% to 30.8%, with 76% of the votes counted. Businesswoman Lily Tang Williams trailed in third place with 25%. Burns, who aligned himself most closely with former President Donald Trump in the race, is slated to face six-term congresswoman Annie Kuster (D) in the general election for the slightly left-leaning seat. "Last night didn't go our way, but I would like to...

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Rob Wardell, 37, died suddenly after suffering fatal cardiac arrest Scottish world champion cyclist Rob Wardell unexpectedly passed away at his home on August 23, just two days after winning the elite Scottish MTB XC Championships. Wardell, 37, suffered a fatal cardiac arrest at his home. “We are devastated to confirm the news that international mountain biker & former employee, Rab Wardell, has passed away today,” a statement from Scottish Cycling read, confirming Wardell’s passing. “We have very little information at this stage, but we send our love & support to his family, friends & all those in our community...

“Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, ‘What do you seek?’ They said to Him, ‘Rabbi (which translated means Teacher), where are You staying?’ He said to them, ‘Come, and you will see.’ So they came and saw where He was staying; and they stayed with Him that day, for it was about the tenth hour” (John 1:38–39). As Andrew and John walked after Him, “Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, ‘What do you seek?’” He already knew what the two wanted. The Lord asked the question to challenge them to consider their...

When John Durham was assigned by the Justice Department in 2019 to examine the origins of the investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, President Donald Trump and his supporters expressed a belief that the inquiry would prove that a “deep state” conspiracy including top Obama-era officials had worked to sabotage him. Now Durham appears to be winding down his three-year inquiry without anything close to the results Trump was seeking. The grand jury that Durham has recently used to hear evidence has expired, and while he could convene another, there are currently no plans to do so,...

It’s September, in an even year. Labor Day has passed. The big mid-terms are less than two months away. It’s time for a pre-election bait and switch on poverty statistics to deceive any low information voters who aren’t paying attention to how the poverty scam works. The poverty scam has been a big topic over the years at this blog, although perhaps less so in the most recent couple of years. This link will take you to all my prior posts on Poverty, some 129 in total. The most important recurring theme has been that the government cynically manipulates the...

As yet unaffected by the slings and arrows of governing, Giorgia Meloni is poised to carry her hard-right Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia) party to victory in Italy’s general election on September 25, putting her in the running to become the country’s first female prime minister. ... The speaker, Giorgia Meloni, is the leader of Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia or FdI), a far-right outfit that has emerged from its south-central power base to become a dominant force all the way up to the Alps. At 45, she is the favourite to become Italy’s first female prime minister after the...

The United States launched at least 251 military interventions between 1991 and 2022. This data was published on March 8, 2022 by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), in a document titled “Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2022.”This is according to a report by the Congressional Research Service, a US government institution that compiles information on behalf of Congress.The report documented another 218 US military interventions between 1798 and 1990.That makes for a total of 469 US military interventions since 1798 that have been acknowledged by the Congress.