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As expected, The Federal Reserve raised their target rate by 50 basis points to 4.50%, the highest Fed target rate since November 2007. The only thing interesting that happened was Powell’s hawkish statements about The Fed wanting to keep tightening to fight inflation caused under “Inflation Joe” Biden. But the NEW Fed Dots plot looks like an Olympic Ski jump with expectations of DECLINING Fed target rates.

Outgoing National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday on CNN’s “At This Hour” that he had “no clue” why Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) wants to investigate vaccines. Anchor Kate Bolduan said, “Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is now asking the Florida Supreme Court to greenlight an investigation into, and the way he put it is, any and all wrongdoing in Florida with respect to COVID-19 vaccine. What’s your reaction to that?” Fauci said, “I don’t have a clue, Kate, what he’s asking for. We have a vaccine that unequivocally is highly effective and safe and...

President Joe Biden (D) marked the tenth anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School attack by pushing for a ban on “assault weapons” and “high capacity” magazines. He released a statement in which he claimed Americans should feel “societal guilt” for having gone this long without banning AR-15s, AK-47s, and other commonly owned firearms which Democrats label “assault weapons. Biden then pointed to the gun control he signed during the summer–the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act–and moved on to push for more gun control now:

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 140 points, or 0.4%. The Dow was higher by 287 points earlier in the day. The S&P 500 declined 0.7%, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 1%. The Fed delivered a widely-anticipated 50 basis point rate hike at the conclusion of its December policy meeting. It’s a smaller bump from the prior four consecutive rate hikes of 75 basis points. A basis point is equal to one-hundredth of one percent.

Afirst-of-its-kind product containing human fecal matter has just been approved by the FDA for the treatment of potentially life-threatening bacterial imbalances in the gut. The challenge: The trillions of microbes that live in your gastrointestinal tract, known collectively as your “gut microbiome,” play an important role in your health, helping your body digest food, produce vitamins, and ward off infections. Every year, 15,000 to 30,000 people die from C. difficile infections in the US. If the balance of these microbes is thrown off, you may experience health issues. Taking antibiotics, for example, can kill off the helpful bacteria that compete...

House Democrats on Tuesday held a hearing on “white supremacy” as a threat to national survival so they could continue to portray Republicans as enemies of the state. Yet GOP Rep. Nancy Mace brought the receipts.

Salk Institute researchers have developed a new compound that acts like a master reset switch in the intestines. In a new study, the compound, called FexD, is found to prevent and reverse intestinal inflammation in mouse models of inflammatory bowel disease. New therapeutic has the potential to treat inflammatory bowel disease by targeting a molecule that keeps order in the intestines. Salk Institute scientists have developed a new drug that acts like a master reset switch in the gut. Called FexD, the compound has previously been found to burn fat, lower cholesterol, and ward off colorectal cancer in mice. Now,...

“St. John the Baptist, the Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness” (Matthew 3:1-12) Today’s midweek service is the last in our series called, “Three Saints of Advent.” We began on November 30 with St. Andrew, Apostle, since his festival falls on that date. Last week, on December 7, we remembered St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, since his commemoration falls on that date. Now today, December 14, is nobody’s festival or commemoration, but since the last two Sundays the Gospel readings have featured John the Baptist, that’s the saint we’ll go with today. Now there’s quite a lot in the...

A mother of a middle school student was shocked when the Joshua Independent School District in Joshua, Texas, charged her over $7,000 in public records fees to disclose how many bullying reports the district had received since 2015. The Goldwater Institute first reported this outrageous demand for a simple sum of documents. The mother is combatting the exorbitant fee via an appeal to the Texas Attorney General’s Office. The mother, Terrie Chumchal, filed the request following the district’s lack of aid over a two-year period of vicious bullying in which her son repeatedly tried to obtain help from his school,...

Erica Marsh @ericareport BREAKING: Prominent attorneys are investigating whether Elon Musk lied on his application for U.S. citizenship.

Flight 36 Sol 642 Date Dec. 10, 2022 Horizontal Distance 110m ~361ft Max. Altitude 10m ~33ft Max. Groundspeed 5.50 m/s ~12.3 ft/sec Duration 60.5 seconds Route of Flight Airfield X***Flight Log Flights 36 (as of 12/10/22) Distance Flown 7,517 meters (~24,663 ft) Highest Altitude 14 meters (~46 ft) Fastest Ground Speed 5.50 m/s (12.3 mph) Flight Time ~60.9 minutes (3,652 seconds)***This detailed article includes the audio of a press conference (37:38 min) given on December 12th by the Ingenuity team, but I haven't been able to find the video on the NASA sites.December 14, 2022Nasa's Ingenuity helicopter to fly...

VIDEO AT LINK.................. The Biden administration has provided too many excuses to keep track of regarding the state of the crippling inflation crisis that continues to take a heavy toll on hard-working Americans, especially as the winter season approaches and energy bills climb. On Tuesday, the White House trotted the 80-year-old president out in public to take a head-scratching victory lap over the latest news regarding the Consumer Price Index, a core inflation marker, which rose less than expected in November, at 0.2 percent, but continues to remain sky high overall. At the news conference, Biden was asked by a...

FTX CEO John Ray’s go-to, three-person team has worked with him on at least three bankruptcies throughout the last three decades, including restructuring Enron in the early 2000s, Nortel in 2009 and Overseas Shipbuilding Group in 2014. Individually, the new FTX CEO will collect $1,300 hourly plus expenses for his work on the FTX case, working out to $2.6 million annualized. In one bankruptcy case Ray worked on, he billed around 156 hours in a two-month period, netting him $120,582, so his billings for FTX may run higher or lower.

A major flu outbreak has reportedly hit officials in Kremlin. The outbreak has excited Putin's hypochondriac tendencies once again, the report said. Russian President Vladimir Putin has been moved to 'bunker-type premises' due to an outbreak of flu in the Kremlin, UK daily Express reported on Wednesday. News outlet Novaya Gazeta Europe reported that many presidential officials in the Kremlin were down with flu. The report comes just two days after Putin cancelled his annual year-end press conference for the first time in a decade. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday said that the Russian President will not hold the...

The United Nations voted Wednesday to immediately remove Iran from the U.N.'s Commission on the Status of Women, an insane position for the tyrannical country to ever have been granted by the global body. Iran was set to serve on the women's rights commission until 2026, but no longer has its seat. The resolution to boot Iran was introduced by the United States in the U.N.'s 54-seat Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and passed with the support of 29 nations over the objections of eight member countries while 16 voting members abstained from the vote. The countries voting against removing...

Most people like to travel to exotic places, especially tropical islands, which make for excellent vacation spots. But, if you want to gamble with death, you’ll avert this island at all costs. For starters, it’s also patrolled by the Indian Navy, which enforces a three-to-five-mile exclusion zone around the island. It sounds like something from Jurassic Park, which does share one real-life comparison: the inhabitants will kill you. No, it’s not dinosaurs, but native peoples who have yet to experience the Bronze Age in terms of technology. It’s no exaggeration—these island people are considered “uncontacted” and are viciously protective of...

Earlier today, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell discussed the greatest problem for the Republican Party as it exists with voters. Allowing people to vote is not in the best interests of the Republican Party. If the politicians could just devise a government system that didn’t need voters to support it, things would be much better. As noted by Mitch McConnell, “Our ability to control the primary outcome was quite limited in 2022 because of the support of the former president. Hopefully in the next cycle, we’ll have quality candidates everywhere.” Unless and until the Republican Party can figure out how...

One of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims has claimed to have copies of videos that the deceased sex trafficker secretly filmed to “blackmail” his powerful elite friends. Sarah Ransome says Epstein forced her to watch the videos that feature the late pedophile’s wealthy associates raping underage girls. However, Ransome alleges in a newly released deposition that she made copies of the videos and kept them. Ransome made the claims in the deposition taken as part of a lawsuit that Virginia Roberts Giuffre filed against Epstein’s convicted sex-trafficking accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell Ransome states in the deposition that she has seen footage of two...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hailed his dissolution on Tuesday of a Kyiv court as evidence Ukraine can fight to end a history of corruption and Russia's invasion at the same time. "This story has drawn to a close," he said as he announced he had signed a law liquidating the Kyiv District Administrative Court, which Ukrainian anti-corruption authorities had compared to a criminal organization and whose chairman was hit with U.S. sanctions Dec. 9.

On January 6, 2023, SCOTUS will have a meeting to consider hearing a case that could overturn the 2020 U.S. Presidential election. The mainstream media has been silent on this so far.On January 6, 2023, SCOTUS will have a meeting to consider hearing a case that could overturn the 2020 U.S. Presidential election.The mainstream media has been silent on this so far.The case is called Brunson v. Adams.Sources:https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/tim-canova-supreme-court-considers-case-seeking-overturn-2020-presidential-election/https://womenimpactingthenation.org/brunson-v-adams-scotus-election-integrity-case/https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-380/243739/20221027152243533_20221027-152110-95757954-00007015.pdf