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A new study from WalletHub suggests the Garden State may be one of the happiest places in the entire country. In overall happiness, New Jersey ranked number five. Hawaii, Maryland, Minnesota and Utah claimed the top four spots respectively. Additionally, New Jersey ranked second on the topics of emotional and physical well-being. Unfortunately, the state was also ranked as one of the worst (#47) when it came to long-term unemployment.

People in New York questioned the effectiveness of the United Nations and the amount of money it spends as the General Assembly convenes for its 77th session. “I’m not a fan of the UN,” one man, Elias, told Fox News. “It’s a money-making corrupt organization.” Giovanni, an Italian who moved to Brooklyn in 1977, made similar remarks. “I’ll tell you the truth: I don’t know why they exist,” he said. […] While the U.N. has carried out 71 peacekeeping operations since 1947, in recent years, the international body has put its energy behind social justice issues. It hosts an annual...

Crowds at events for former US president and a Republican candidate in Pennsylvania raise their right hands in unison in possible reference to QAnon conspiracy movement JTA-Crowds at separate weekend rallies headlined by former US president Donald Trump and his favored nominee for Pennsylvania governor, Doug Mastriano, raised their right hands in unison, a gesture critics of the two politicians compared to the Nazi salute. New York State Senator Anna Kaplan, a Jewish Democrat, said Sunday in a statement that both rallies invoked Nazi imagery. "Last night at a rally held by the former President, and today at a political...

Dr. Anthony Fauci crassly mocked “ass-backwards” restaurant patrons who removed their coronavirus masks when seated — and laughed at the absurdity of his own idea for anti-COVID-19 goggles, according to a new book. The inside account is included by former White House spokesman Brian Morgenstern in “Vignettes & Vino” — out Oct. 25 — which calls Fauci “awful” and an “egomaniac.” “[I]n January 2020, [Fauci] said the virus was nothing to worry about for the American people. Then in the months that followed, he said that people should not wear masks and that they were ineffective. By June or July,...

With most pandemic restrictions a thing of the past and isolation periods shortening, Australians are enjoying lives as close to pre-COVID times as they have since early 2020. Nationally the COVID isolation period has changed from seven days to five, and this week Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia have all announced they would no longer require masks to be worn on public transport. Internationally, there is growing hope of a light at the end of the tunnel. The World Health Organization has said that while the pandemic is not over, "the end is in sight". US President Joe...

The fallout from President Joe Biden’s assertion on Sunday that the pandemic is over continued into Tuesday, with experts warning that winter may bring new variants and more infections. The Washington Post published two editorials: In one, contributing columnist Leana S. Wen argued that Biden is correct that the emergency phase is over and with it the true crisis. In the second editorial, the editorial board took the view that with deaths in the U.S. averaging more than 400 a day, the pandemic “is surely not over.” “The average of new daily cases is 60,000, way higher than in the...

Denver Newsroom, Sep 16, 2022 / 12:00 pm Pope Francis expressed his “availability” to meet with Chinese president Xi Jinping while both men were in Kazakhstan this week, but China declined, according to a Reuters report citing an unnamed Vatican official. Pope Francis was in Nur-Sultan, the Kazakh capital formerly known as Astana, Sept. 13–15 for an interreligious meeting, while Xi was in the same city to meet with Kazakh president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, one day after the pope did. According to Reuters, the source said the Vatican made “an expression of availability,” and the Chinese side said they “appreciated the...

President Biden defended his management of the US-Mexico border crisis Tuesday by claiming that record-high illegal border crossings are because people are “fleeing communism” — despite the fact that most migrants are not. Biden spoke after US Customs and Border Protection said about 158,000 migrants were caught in August, bringing the 11-month tally so far for fiscal 2022 to more than 2.15 million. Biden invoked “communism” despite the fact that just 35% of migrants in August left the authoritarian socialist governments of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. “There are fewer immigrants coming from Central America and from Mexico. This is a...

Recently demoted CNN host Don Lemon was caught like a deer in the headlights Monday night when he asked British royal commentator Hillary Fordwich whether the British royal family should pay reparations, claiming that some in the United Kingdom “want to be paid back.” “England is facing rising costs of living, a living crisis, austerity budget cuts, and so on. And then you have those who are asking for reparations for colonialism, and they’re wondering, you know, $100 billion, $24 billion here and there, $500 million there,” Lemon explained. “Some people want to be paid back, and members of the...

‘If they want to bully and put ships around Taiwan, they very much can do that,’ said Vice Adm. Karl Thomas China’s armed forces are capable of blockading Taiwan, a senior U.S. Navy official said, pointing to the size of the country’s navy, which is the world’s largest and growing at a rapid pace. “They have a very large navy, and if they want to bully and put ships around Taiwan, they very much can do that,” Vice Adm. Karl Thomas, commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.

In regard to the contribution of the German experience to the World Synod, Cardinal Marx says that “some persons in Rome and in other places look at the German synodal path with some apprehension.”ZENIT News / Frankfurt, 14.09.2022).- In an interview with the French newspaper La Croix, the Archbishop of Munich, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, revealed that the texts of the recent Synodal Assembly of the German Synod “will soon be translated into several languages and will be able to influence the debate in other parts of the world.” In one of her questions, the interviewer, Delphine Nerbollier, stressed that the...

The FBI has responded as if people opposed to abortion are also carrying out violent attacks in response to the Supreme Court leaked opinion.(LifeSiteNews) — The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has still not made any arrests in its investigation of the attacks on pro-life centers and churches following the leaked Supreme Court opinion and the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Since the draft was made public in May, over 20 attacks have occurred, many followed by the pro-abortion extremist group Jane’s Revenge claiming responsibility. However, the FBI has responded as if people opposed to abortion are also carrying out...

he EU may have a plan to ban all Russian diesel purchases in February, but in the meantime, European buyers are happy to pay more for Russian diesel now than they did back in May, industry sources told Reuters. The ban on Russian seaborne diesel imports, set to go into effect as part of a larger strategy to cut off Russia’s revenue stream, follows the EU’s crude oil ban set to go into effect in December. Two months later, the ban on Russian diesel imports—and all its refined products—will go into effect. The discount on Russian diesel was at $30...

In 2017, San Francisco’s top officials announced an audacious goal: Cut the city’s chronic homelessness number in half over the next five years. A few months earlier, the city had received support to help reach that goal — $100 million in pledged private expenditures from a nonprofit aiming for the same five-year reduction, complementing the city’s more than $250 million annual homelessness budget. “This is going to be huge,” then-Mayor Ed Lee told The Chronicle at the time about the initiative by nonprofit Tipping Point. “I do believe we’ll be able to cut chronic homelessness in half with this help.”...

Moscow has made a decision how to proceed in the proxy war with NATO in the Ukraine. We do not yet know what the decision is. The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin will hold a TV speech at 8 pm Moscow time (17:00 UTC) (Since changed to 8 am Moscow time (05:00 UTC, 1 am Eastern US Time) followed by an announcement by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. In July Putin has held a press conference or speech where he said with regards to Ukraine something like: "We haven't even started yet." It may be that Russia will do...

The NOAA GFS model is showing a hurricane moving north through the Gulf and making landfall on the western Florida panhandle on September 30. The 12Z 09/20 run had it approaching Apalachicola, while the 18Z run has it making landfall at or near Pensacola. I suspect future model updates will continue to have the hurricane tracking further and further west. JMO.

PHOTO: information stand about the Caucasian Native Cavalry Division, formed by order of Emperor Nicholas II, in 1914A unique exhibit dedicated to the Caucasian Native Cavalry Division, is currently on display at the Akhmat Kadyrov Museum, in Grozny, Chechnya. The Heritage of the Empire exhibit is a project of the Grozny branch of the Union of Historical and Educational Societies. In the center of the exhibit is a model of the future monument to the Caucasian Native Cavalry Division, to be installed in the Chechen capital of Grozny. The sculptural composition includes the figures of Emperor Nicholas II, his son...

Multiple pro-Moscow officials in Ukraine on Tuesday announced their intent to stage referendums on joining Russia, including the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic Denis Pushilin, as well as the Russia-installed official over the southern Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo. “I think that people have long been waiting for a referendum here and it will probably be a political move that will help ensure the safety of civilians,” Pushillin said Tuesday. ...

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Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said Monday on SiriusXM’s “The Dean Obeidallah Show” that Republicans “through their silence” condone former President Donald Trump’s threats of violence. Obeidallah said, “In the last seven days, you had Donald Trump threaten, if he’s indicted, that we’re gonna see problems in this country like of the which, perhaps we’ve never seen before, we’ve seen some bad things in this country.”