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Ford will cut 3,800 jobs in Europe as the company restructures to focus on developing its all-electric fleet, the company announced Tuesday. The layoffs and restructuring are part of the company’s response to “rapidly changing market conditions” and increased competition in the electric vehicle industry, Ford said in a press release. The company missed its earnings expectations by $1.1 billion in the fourth quarter of 2022 and was down $11 billion from the same time the year prior, according to CNBC. (RELATED: Here’s How Elon Musk Started An Electric Vehicle Price War) “These are difficult decisions, not taken lightly,” said...

The Pentagon is considering sending illicit weapons intercepted from Iran to Ukraine, a defense official and a recent report outline. On Monday, Breitbart News asked a senior defense official on a press conference call: “Does the U.S. have weapons stocks or intercepted illicit arms in any of the [Gulf Cooperation Council] countries that it has sent or is considering sending to Ukraine?”

The excess mortality is staggering, often above 15 to 20% in highly vaccinated nations. In nations with elevated vaccine rates, there are elevated infections, re-infections, hospitalisations and deaths.Data from New South Wales, Australia, shows a clear correlation between the number of doses a person is injected with, and a higher incidence of hospitalisation and death. You can explore the data for New South Wales for yourself HERE…Hospitalisations: NSW Health Surveillance Data, retrieved 13 February 2023Deaths: NSW Health Surveillance Data, retrieved 13 February 2023 As Dr. Paul Alexander noted, “wherever there have been elevated covid vaccine rates, there are elevated excess...

Noting DC let the repeat offender off with light sentences, Rep. Craig asked, 'what the hell do you think's gonna happen?' Democratic Congresswoman Angie Craig, who was allegedly assaulted in the elevator of her Washington, D.C. residence by a 26-year-old man named Kendrid Hamlin, has been tied to the "defund the police" movement. One of Craig’s top staffers, Liz Young, has spoken out against the police and even called for property destruction on her Twitter account, according to a Washington Free Beacon report from last year. In 2020, Young responded to news about deaths related to police in New York...

The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) tried to quietly release sexually violent predators, including a child molester, into an unsecured, rural residential neighborhood in Tenino. It’s less than half a mile from a school bus stop and will cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands per year — per sex offender — to house. The Washington Department of Corrections noted its security concerns, but they appear to have gone unaddressed. Supreme Living, LLC is a privately-run supportive housing provider for what it calls “behaviorally challenged individuals.” They purchased a location in Tenino, described by the sheriff as a...

The Biden administration’s Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans Monday to sell an additional 26 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), and bringing the SPR to its lowest level since 1983, Reuters reported Monday. The Biden administration sold a record-breaking 180 million barrels of crude oil from the SPR last year in a bid to lower gas prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and Monday’s sale — fulfilling a congressional mandate from 2015 — is set to bring its level to roughly 372 million barrels, Reuters reported. The administration had previously rejected the initial bids made...

A new study from the Paragon Health Institute shows that Florida’s more open approach to the pandemic resulted in far fewer societal, educational, and economic disruptions than California’s draconian response while yielding approximately identical health outcomes. In fact, the study notes, while people fled California at an increasing rate during the pandemic, Florida saw significant population gains.

SHASTA COUNTY, Calif. — The chair of Shasta County's Board of Supervisors says he is willing to fight the state over anything he, and a majority of the board, find "unconstitutional."... ... ... Board Chair Patrick Jones ...plans to bring a resolution to the board meeting next Tuesday, Feb. 21,... ... ... "No appointed or elected official, that works for the County of Shasta, will enforce any law that is unconstitutional with regards to the Second Amendment," ... "As opposed to accepting court precedence, we're going to determine whether it's constitutional or not." .

Lula says Brazilians can receive financial aid only if they have taken the vax. Bolsa Família will require vax certificates from participants & their children: We can't play, it's a question of science. If I have 10 covid vaccines to take, I will take all that is necessary…💉 💰

The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile was the latest vehicle to be targeted by thieves in search of catalytic converters while parked at a Las Vegas hotel.

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) COVID-19 technical lead declared last week that countries need to strengthen surveillance systems and the standardization of medical care in order to “end” a supposedly ongoing COVID “emergency.”The WHO shared on Sunday a video in which Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, who also serves as head of the organization’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, offered a litany of COVID response recommendations, including the boosting of “100 percent” of people over 60 and who are immunocompromised.“We want to end this emergency in every country on the planet in 2023, and we can do this. So what we...

WASHINGTON, DC - Representative Ilhan Omar has cancelled a planned rally to support the victims of the East Palestine chemical spill after learning East Palestine is actually in America.

US inflation is causing The Federal Reserve to raise interest rates, and mortgage applications are suffering. Mortgage applications decreased 7.7 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending February 10, 2023. The Refinance Index decreased 13 percent from the previous week and was 76 percent lower than the same week one year ago. The seasonally adjusted Purchase Index decreased 6 percent from one week earlier. The unadjusted Purchase Index decreased 5 percent compared with the previous week and was 43 percent lower than the same week...

A group-wide IT system failure at Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) stranded thousands of passengers on Wednesday, which the German airline blamed on underground engineering works at a railway station in Frankfurt cutting several fibre optic cables. Repairs would take until Wednesday afternoon according to Lufthansa, citing information it had received from Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) . It expects flight operations to stabilise by early evening. Photos and videos from several German airports showed thousands of passengers waiting to be checked in.

TheBible InPaintings ~ Encouragement for Appreciating and Applying God's Word ~ •Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows• JESUS’ AGONY IN THE GARDEN ֎ Featuring 28 Paintings ֎ L U K E Chapter 22 Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him. On reaching the place, he said to them, “Pray that you will not fall into temptation.” He withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, knelt down and prayed, “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.” An angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him....

Cockpit audio of pilots trying to figure out what the unidentified object over Lake Huron has been released. The audio was authenticated by the US Airforce. The US military decommissioned another “object” over Lake Huron on Sunday. The Pentagon said the ‘octagon-shaped’ object shot down on Sunday likely fell into Canadian waters on Lake Huron. No debris has been recovered. “I wouldn’t really call it a balloon… I don’t know what… I can see it outside with my eyes,” one pilot said. “It’s so slow and so small you can’t see it.” “It’s just some kind of dark object. You...

Almost exactly two years ago today, the New York Times ran an article headlined: “Biden and Fed Leave 1970s Inflation Fears Behind.” That story has not aged well. Neither have the troika of ideologues and imbeciles behind the rebirth of ‘70s-era inflation. On Tuesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that prices climbed 0.5% in January, which is up from December’s 0.1% hike. Prices were up 6.4% over the year before, which is higher than economists had been predicting and comes amid warnings that inflationary pressures are building again. This all comes one week after President Biden reassured the nation...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — A rock that serves as a point of reference and billboard on Michigan State University's campus was repainted with a new message in the early hours of Feb. 15, 2023, hours after a mass shooting on the university's East Lansing campus. 'Allow Us to Defend Ourselves and Carry On Campus' is the message now spray-painted across 'The Rock' at MSU, with the paint appearing around 24 hours after a message asking 'How Many More?' was painted on.

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMark 4A Lamp on a Stand21 He said to them, “Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed? Instead, don’t you put it on its stand? 22 For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open. 23 If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear.”24 “Consider carefully what you hear,” he continued. “With the measure you use, it will be measured to you—and even more. 25 Whoever has will be given more; whoever does...

Ushi and Jacob were good children, full of giving, doing mitzvot [good deeds] with a full sack of mitzvot in heaven. Angel children. They received an education that the best thing to do is acts-of-kindness, mitzvot and Torah study. It was deep and rooted in them. They had an amazing character... these children are holy in the way that God decided to gather them to Him. Our message is to be united under faith, that everything is for the best and under Divine providence. The shatter is great, but the judgment is accepted with love.