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Labor Relations Board Says Student-Athletes Should Be Classified as Employees Andy Berg Dec 16, 2022 The National Labor Relations Board asserted this week that the NCAA is breaking the law by refusing to classify student athletes as employees. According to Politico, NLRB officials in Los Angeles determined that the NCAA, along with the Pac-12 and University of Southern California are joint employers of athletes. NLRB general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo said Thursday that the NCAA's refusal to classify student-athletes as employees is in violation of the their labor rights. “This kind of misclassification deprives these players of their statutory right to...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Three alleged gang members have been arrested and charged in the shooting death of a toddler on an Oakland freeway last year, the Alameda County District Attorney said Thursday. The suspects, Trevor Green, 22, Ivory Bivins, 24, and Johnny Jackson, 28, face charges of murder, shooting at an occupied vehicle, and possession of a firearm by a felon, said District Attorney Nancy O'Malley at a news conference on Thursday.

When Alexandra Barkovskaya spoke at the Palm Beach County school board meeting, she may not have expected to get treated well, but it’s doubtful she thought she’d get yelled at by a clownish-looking School Board Chair wearing a Christmas suit. Barkovskaya, who often uses the last name Berk for convenience’s sake when she addresses the school board, started out by criticizing radical leftist and neo-racist District 2 school board member Alexandria Ayala’s three-thousand dollar “equity” junket. Earlier this month, the Palm Beach County School Board voted 6-1 to send Ayala on the trip.

Senate Votes Against Measure to Reinstate Troops Kicked Out over COVID Vaccines By Eric Lendrum December 16, 2022 On Thursday, the United States Senate overwhelmingly rejected a measure that would have ordered the Department of Defense (DOD) to reinstate military personnel who had been discharged or otherwise separated from their branch due to refusing to take a COVID-19 vaccine. As reported by the Washington Examiner, the measure was defeated with 54 votes against and just 40 votes in favor. The vote precedes the coming vote on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), an annual bill that funds the DOD. Republicans...

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Denver issues emergency declaration as hundreds of migrants continue arriving from Central, South America By: Óscar ContrerasDec 15, 2022 DENVER – Mayor Michael Hancock on Thursday issued an emergency declaration to prevent what he called a “local humanitarian crisis of unsheltered migrants” as hundreds of people from Central and South America continue to arrive in the Mile High City. Speaking to reporters Thursday afternoon, Hancock said that while the city had been prepared to welcome groups of migrants that had been coming to the city over the past several months, it’s been only recently that the migrants started to arrive...

Geneva (AFP) – Climate change is fuelling a global cholera upsurge, the WHO said Friday, warning the situation was compounded by vaccine shortages and will only worsen unless it is stamped out soon. The World Health Organization is responding to cholera outbreaks in 29 countries, including Haiti, which has more than 1,200 confirmed cases, more than 14,000 suspected cases and more than 280 reported deaths. This week, Haiti received almost 1.2 million doses of oral cholera vaccines. But the WHO said that vaccine stockpiles were extremely low -- and that manufacturers were not enthusiastic about producing a vaccine chiefly aimed...

he biggest pay raise for troops in two decades is headed to President Joe Biden's desk for his signature after the Senate approved the annual defense policy bill late Thursday. This year's National Defense Authorization, or NDAA, endorses a basic pay raise for 2023 of 4.6%, far higher than 2022's 2.7%. The bill, a piece of compromise legislation that had been debated for months, was approved with overwhelming support with 83 votes for and 11 opposed. That follows House passage last week, meaning all that's needed for the bill to become law is Biden's signature.

16 December 2022 Friday of the 3rd week of Advent St. Adelaide Parish, Peabody, MA Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingIsaiah 56:1-3,6-8 ©My house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoplesThus says the Lord: Have a care for justice, act with integrity, for soon my salvation will come and my integrity be manifest. Blessed is the man who does this and the son of man who clings to it: observing the sabbath, not profaning it, and keeping his hand from every evil deed. Let no foreigner who has attached himself to the Lord say,...

According to the sheriff's office, the 19-year-old lives in Georgia and told them that he came to Orlando a couple of days ago to try to enroll in a local university. The sheriff's office said Houston told them that he went to Westgate Lakes Resort on Wednesday and got frustrated when the hotel said he could not check in because he is not 21. According to the arrest affidavit, Houston then drove to a store where he bought ammunition and magazines and loaded an AR-15 rifle that he brought with him. The report said he drove back to the resort,...

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Appreciating and Applying God's Word ~ JESUS' APOSTLES: Philip, Nathanael, Matthew, Thomas ֎ Featuring 16 Paintings, 8 Statues and 8 Windows ֎ P H I L I P 1 PETER PAUL RUBENS "St Philip" 2 ALBRECHT DÜRER "Saint Philip" 3 ANTHONY VAN DYCK "The Apostle Philip" 4 JAMES TISSOT "Saint Philip" 5 Source 6 Source 7 Source 8 Source N A T H A N A E L Called BARTHOLOMEW 9 PETER PAUL RUBENS "St Bartholomew" 10 ANTHONY VAN DYCK "The Apostle Saint Bartholomew" 11 Source 12 Source 13 Source 14 Source...

Forty-one House Democrats filed a bill on Thursday to bar former President Donald Trump from running for president in 2024, citing section 3 of the 14th Amendment. “Donald Trump very clearly engaged in an insurrection on January 6, 2021 with the intention of overturning the lawful and fair results of the 2020 election. You don’t get to lead a government you tried to destroy,” Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) wrote in a press release: Even Mitch McConnell admits that Trump bears responsibility, saying on the Senate floor that ‘[t]here’s no question, none, that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for...

EU leaders are looking for ways to counter aspects of the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that they fear will unfairly discriminate against European firms. With the IRA giving generous subsidies and priority access to American businesses, the EU is now considering a subsidy program of its own. European Union leaders on Thursday sought ways to stand up to the United States over its new green technologies plan that they say unfairly discriminates against Washington's best global ally when both should be standing shoulder to shoulder in their rivalry with Russia and China. While the 27-nation EU argues the U.S....

Its NOT always sunny in Philadelphia. Here is a video of the Philly Fed economists explaining massively overstated job numbers to Fed Chair Jerome Powell. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia estimates that the employment data was vastly overstated in 2022. 10k jobs added instead of 1.1 million reported from March to June of 2022. Here is a chart (courtesy of Zero Hedge) showing reported payrolls and REVISED payrolls. Somehow, I don’t think Jean Pierre (Biden’s spokesperson, not the French chef) will be touting “Unlike Trump, our administration barely added any jobs in March, April, May and June 2022. How...

LAUREL — Multiple Laurel parents say they are currently— or planning on— homeschooling their children following claims of bullying in Laurel schools. The parents voiced their concerns on a social media post in a private Laurel resident group after a concerned mother posted asking for advice on dealing with bullying for her son. Samantha Willis from Laurel is a mother of six and told MTN News on Wednesday that the problem is so bad, she's considering pulling her children from the schools and switching to homeschooling. “I actually pulled them (temporarily) from school last year due to it. You bring...

Why has Gov. Tom Wolf’s Office of General Counsel paid nearly $400,000 of taxpayer money to several private law firms? It’s a simple question, and there may be a simple and reasonable answer. But the administration’s failure to answer it raises questions about what causes and activities the governor has used state resources to pursue, and why he didn’t use the state’s attorneys to do it. Secrecy always raises suspicions, even if they are entirely unwarranted. In terms of legal bills for complex institutional litigation, $367,500 spread across six firms is a pittance. The Office of General Counsel employs hundreds...

Multinational investment bank HSBC announced that it will no longer finance new oil and gas projects in order to meet the green agenda goals of globalist elites. The largest bank in Europe, which has nearly three trillion dollars in assets, has said that it will no longer finance new oil or gas fields to supposedly meet its commitments to achieving the UK government’s goal of reaching net zero carbon emissions by the year 2050. According to a report from the BBC, HSBC came to the decision after “follow[ing] consultation with leading scientific and international bodies”. In 2020, the British bank...

Five members of Antifa are in custody on domestic terrorism charges after they were protesting outside of a planned $90 million police training center. The site of the planned center has been the focal point of protests for months by Antifa who have referred to the site - which protesters have made an autonomous zone - as Cop City. Many of those who were arrested were holed up in treehouses where police later recovered explosives. Prior to Tuesday's arrests, police detained several people at the site for crimes including destruction of property and arson along with car-jacking and attacks on...

[Catholic Caucus] The Best Canonical Critique of "Traditionis Custodes" to Date, and the Clearest AccountThe inaccuracies, difficulties of interpretation, and problems of concrete application of Traditionis Custodes and the Responsa ad Dubia have raised many questions among canonists, pastors, and institutes whose proper law binds them to the liturgical forms of the Latin tradition.It was time for a competent canonist to write a full critique of the letter. This has been successfully done by Fr. Réginald-Marie Rivoire, F.S.V.F., who in a lengthy French article undertook a careful canonical analysis of these documents, chiefly from the point of view of their...

Below are a list of things to pray about that was generated by the OpenAI ChatGPT. I thought it did an amazing job generating the lists. I especially liked the tag line it put on many of the lists that there is no limit to what can be prayed for and the most important thing is to pray with a sincere heart. (The bot also says it doesn't know if God exists or if there is evidence that God exists.) The prayer lists generated are also an example that as with many things, such as guns, music or role playing...