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Fastest in 40 years! Stagflation! A 1970s redux! Inflation has dominated headlines all year, majorly contributing to 2022’s unusual, sentiment-driven bear market. The fear is understandable. Fast-rising prices pressure people’s budgets and cause disruption. Rightly or wrongly, inflation stokes FED hikes fears and weighs on economic expectations. Theories abound on its causes, ranging from COVID lockdown-related disruptions, big government spending, vast money supply increases, war, tight labor markets and more. But, no matter which theories you champion, signs are emerging inflation may have crested. If so, that would be a major relief—a fillip for stocks’ recovery. Here I offer you...

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has filed for divorce from her second husband, science teacher Dan Jewett, in a puzzling and unexplained move. Scott, who recently removed all mention of her husband from websites outlining her charity initiatives, filed for divorce in Washington State on Monday, according the New York Times. According to the petition, a division of property will be 'laid out in a separation contract' that Scott and Jewett agree upon. The contract is not public. Jewett did not contest the divorce, court records said.

The NY Times published this report today. The intercepts in question aren’t recent but come from back in March (snip) Still, the content of the calls reveal just how quickly the Russian offensive fell apart. A soldier named Sergey told his mother, “No one told us we were going to war. They told us the day before we left.” Another soldier told his partner, “I didn’t know this was going to happen. They said we were going for training. These bastards didn’t tell us anything.” The soldier’s take on the attempt to take Kyiv was just as blunt. “We can’t...

Sep 28, 2022, 07:03 Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump U.S. “Leadership” should remain “cool, calm, and dry” on the SABOTAGE of the Nord Stream Pipelines. This is a big event that should not entail a big solution, at least not yet. The Russia/Ukraine catastrophe should NEVER have happened, and would definitely not have happened if I were President. Do not make matters worse with the pipeline blowup. Be strategic, be smart (brilliant!), get a negotiated deal done NOW. Both sides need and want it. The entire World is at stake. I will head up group???

While everyone in media, both corporate and alternative, has been theorizing about who sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines, what we should really be concerned about is what this means going forward. Editor’s Commentary: The story below by Kit Knightly at Off-Guardian comes out and says what a few have been thinking. And by “a few,” I’ll admit I’m very disappointed that the conclusion we’re coming to is not being embraced by every single alternative or “fringe” media outlet. Whoever pulled the trigger to take out the Nord Stream pipelines did so on orders from the globalist elite cabal to push...

Gavin Newsom GAVIN NEWSOM New California law requires employers to include salary range in job postings Gavin Newsom asked if he ever talks to Kimberly Guilfoyle: ‘Nope, not lately’ Webb: Democrats weaponize power MORE(GAVIN NEWSOM) wants to bring the California model nationwide. The Golden State governor is likely preparing a bid for the White House in 2024 if President Biden doesn’t run. Assuming Biden and Donald Trump choose not to run (or are beaten in primaries), the result likely will be a battle between Newsom and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The election would present voters with a choice: Will the...

Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), a drug used to treat lupus and malaria, was proposed as a treatment for SARS-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, albeit with controversy. In vitro, HCQ effectively inhibits viral entry, but its use in the clinic has been hampered by conflicting results. A better understanding of HCQ’s mechanism of actions in vitro is needed. Recently, anesthetics were shown to disrupt ordered clusters of monosialotetrahexosylganglioside1 (GM1) lipid. These same lipid clusters recruit the SARS-CoV-2 surface receptor angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) to endocytic lipids, away from phosphatidylinositol 4,5 bisphosphate (PIP2) clusters. Here we employed super-resolution imaging of cultured mammalian cells (VeroE6, A549,...

At 105, Song Ping is the Chinese Communist Party's oldest retired official. Famous for once pressing former President Jiang Zemin to fully retire, Song has recently appeared in public for the first time in years. Due to his advanced age, it was only a video message. But it has caused a stir in Chinese political circles ahead of the party's once-every-five-years national congress that begins on Oct. 16. In a congratulatory message for an event on Sept. 12, the centenarian said that the policy of reform and opening-up "has been the only path to the development and progress of contemporary...

A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of the victims of the July 4 shooting in Highland Park, Ill., against a gun manufacturer for advertising that the plaintiffs argue encourages criminal behavior. The law firm Edelson PC and anti-gun violence organization Brady filed the lawsuit on Wednesday against the manufacturer Smith & Wesson, arguing that the company played a role in the mass shooting during the Fourth of July parade that killed seven and injured dozens. The plaintiffs argue that Smith & Wesson should be held liable for unlawful marketing and advertising of its M&P 15 rifle, which the gunman...

"The View" co-host Joy Behar slammed Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., on Wednesday for previous comments about climate change while discussing Hurricane Ian and his leadership. "According to NPR, Florida's climate challenges are among the biggest in the country. Hurricanes intensified by climate change, rising sea level, extreme heat and drought, and this one is the worst one, health threats from mosquito-born diseases," she began. "This is the quote from Governor DeSantis about climate change, quote — ‘I am not in the pews of the church of the global warming leftists.’ "This is what he thinks about climate change," Behar said,...

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Last night the SEC announced charges against 15 broker-dealers and an investment adviser for “widespread and longstanding failures by the firms and their employees to maintain and preserve electronic communications.” The firms, including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Barclays and UBS, agreed to pay combined penalties of more than $1.1 billion. Separately, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission also announced $710 million in penalties. The SEC “uncovered pervasive off-channel communications.” That means that many broker-dealers were communicating with each other either on their personal cell phones directly, or using personal email, or using messaging apps like Telegram or WhatsApp that are hard...

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The Russian leader has a record of weaponising fuel supplies and believes his people can endure economic pain longer than western Europe The suspected sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines could be a page ripped straight from Vladimir Putin’s playbook of panic, escalation and misdirection. The former KGB agent’s illegal war on Ukraine resulted in unprecedented Western sanctions against Moscow. But the Russian president is confident that his people can endure economic pain longer and better than Europeans. His calculation is that soaring gas prices and the cost of living crisis in a continent hopelessly addicted to Russian energy will...

Comparing his opponent’s record to toilet paper that’s “soft on bottoms,” Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mehmet Oz put up a billboard near Democrat John Fetterman’s home in Braddock on Wednesday that calls the former mayor “soft on crime.” Mr. Oz, the cardiothoracic surgeon and TV celebrity, has been repeatedly hitting Mr. Fetterman on crime in recent weeks, alleging that the Democrat’s policy proposals and past statements indicate that he’d let criminals run rampant through the streets at a time when Pennsylvania is experiencing rising violent crime rates. “John Fetterman is so soft on crime, the Oz campaign thought we would...

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Social media influencer An0maly has had it with the leftist social media fact-checkers and decided it was about time to put their ‘evil’ operations on blast in a new documentary. An0maly’s “MINI DOCUMENTARY” ripped Facebook fact-checking partners like Science Feedback and Lead Stories for shoddy work that causes posts to get censored. An0maly proclaimed he was going to “expose you frauds on every single platform” and make them “answer to the public.” He continued dressing down fact-checkers for their history of left-wing spin on facts while disguising themselves as truth gatekeepers. “Do you know you’re dishonest,” he asked. “Do you...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson's long-running quest to blame the Biden administration for the war in Ukraine hasn't borne much fruit, despite his prominent perch on the most-watched cable news channel. We know very little about what happened to the pipelines, which carry natural gas from Russia to Europe, or who was responsible if the explosions were due to sabotage, which authorities say is likely. Anything seems possible at this point. But Carlson's supposed evidence for this being a U.S. operation is decidedly weak. Nonetheless, Carlson continued, that's where some people are pointing. "The Washington Post got right to it,"...

A historic moment for zero-emissions flight, as the 9-seat Alice commuter plane makes its first test flightEviation After showing off with some extravagant runway wheelies last week, Alice, the "world's first all-electric commuter aircraft," lifted off overnight on a historic first flight. It's another major milestone toward zero-emissions medium-range air travel. Alice took off at 7.10 am local time from Grant County International Airport in Washington state, and made a short, 8-minute circuit, reaching an altitude of 3,500 ft (1,067 m) before coming in and touching down. "Today we embark on the next era of aviation – we have successfully...

Calcium supplementation in young adults can significantly improve bone mass, offering a potential new window for intervention to prevent osteoporosis. "However, although calcium supplementation has been widely used in older age to increase bone mass, a number of studies suggest that it is unlikely to translate into clinically meaningful reductions in fractures. On the other hand, intervention before young adults reach peak bone density might have a greater impact on bone health and prevent osteoporosis later." The team searched randomized controlled trials, often considered the gold standard for clinical research, comparing calcium or calcium plus vitamin D with a placebo....