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Universities adopt Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) plans with a host of promises. Advocates pledge, for instance, that, through reforms, the university will come to approximate the racial composition of the local community or state. Yet “equity” has proven to be an elusive goal, selectively pursued. It is sought only when it advantages supposedly underrepresented minorities. There are no “Men in Elementary Education” programs and few dedicated to “Men in Nursing.” The inconsistency between the stated goals of equity and its implementation reveals that equity is about disrupting and dismantling more than achieving any kind of parity. If equity is...

The 2023 Grammys made a huge splash, while horrifying Christians with its blatant satanic imagery and pagan religious overtones. But this is not so new! As I sat to write an article about the 2023 event, I remembered my reaction to the 2014 Grammy Awards. I wrote the following account:In 1971, Don McLean sang “Bye-bye, Miss American Pie,” and asked: “…do you have faith in God above, if the Bible tells you so, [or] do you believe in rock and roll, can music save your mortal soul?” Back then there were still options. Asking these two questions in a pop...

White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates found himself in hot water Wednesday after sharing a video from an account mocking President Joe Biden. Bates shared a video of White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre that had been posted by Greg Price, the senior digital strategist at XStrategies LLC and a former Daily Caller social media coordinator. Before Bates shared the clip, Price had temporarily changed his account name to “Joe Biden Showered With His Daughter,” causing the moniker to show up under Bates’ post. Bates also retweeted Price’s original tweet containing the video, apparently without noticing Price’s account name....

(Reuters) – A record number of women and minorities hold seats this year on the boards of the Federal Reserve’s 12 regional banks, providing perhaps the most diverse range of input ever as those banks’ presidents – alongside Fed governors in Washington – wrestle with how to slow inflation without tanking the economy. Fed bank directors generally stay out of the limelight, but many U.S. central bankers view them as a critical resource. Indeed, some argue prospects for a best-case outcome to their policy-tightening campaign are heightened by the advice from such a wide spectrum of voices. “I think the...

Buttigieg appeared on MSNBC's 'The ReidOut' with Joy Reid to defend his visit.. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg appeared to blame former President Trump and Republicans like Sen. Marco Rubio’s, R-Fla., for the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, Thursday after facing intense backlash for his own performance. [cut] Reid continued to harp on Republican criticism of Buttigieg, remarking on Rubio's call for him to resign. "You mentioned political silly season. I mean, it is. It’s a campaign season. One of the people who have taken a lot of the blame and taken a lot of the bricks is you. Senator...

Goldman Sachs has hired Jared Cohen, a former Google executive nicknamed the “director of regime change” by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, for a new project that will use technology to advance the notoriously powerful investment bank’s policy goals around the world. Cohen was also a senior official in Hillary Clinton’s state department who will now manage “shifts in the geopolitical landscape” for the financial giant.

Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday that the only way for Moscow to ensure a lasting peace with Ukraine was to push back the borders of hostile states as far as possible, even if that meant the frontiers of NATO member Poland.

A measure the Federal Reserve watches closely to gauge inflation rose more than expected in January, indicating the central bank has more work to do to bring down prices. The personal consumption expenditures price index excluding food and energy increased 0.6% for the month, and was up 4.7% from a year ago, the Commerce Department reported Friday. Wall Street had been expecting respective readings of 0.5% and 4.4%. Including the volatile food and energy components, headline inflation increased 0.6% and 5.4% respectively. Markets fell following the report, with futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average off more than 300...

The Biden administration's $1.2 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) gives cities a blank check for hundreds of billions of dollars in federal grants. An astonishingly massive windfall for municipal budgets. Janet Yellen, U.S. Treasury Secretary, followed up by forming an Advisory Committee on Racial Equity (a.k.a. TACRE) to ensure cities channel those funds and future federal grants towards racial equity justice. The Committee's mission is to "identify, monitor, and review aspects of the domestic economy that have directly and indirectly resulted in unfavorable conditions...for persons of color." The ulterior motive is to produce a permanent mechanism that is a...

(Last Updated On: February 21, 2023) NATIONAL TORTILLA CHIP DAY National Tortilla Chip Day on February 24th celebrates a crunchy chip that provides a multitude of ways to enjoy it! The day also shares the chip’s history and many ways to enjoy this delicious snack food. #NationalTortillaChipDay Everyone loves tortilla chips! We most commonly served them with salsa, chile con queso, guacamole, cheese dips, or other dips. Tortilla chips are made from corn tortillas cut into wedges and then fried. The tortillas are made from corn, vegetable oil, salt, and water. Typically made with yellow corn, tortillas can also be...

Even though he was fired for cause, Pete Arredondo, the Texas school district police chief terminated for his actions on the day of a schoolhouse massacre last year, won an appeal to remove a blemish from his discharge file, according to a state think tank that studied his case file. The decision does not enable Arredondo to get his job in Uvalde back, but it clears his record in the event he seeks employment at another agency. "The whole point of this … discharge system is to be a red flag for hiring agencies," said Luis Soberon, a policy adviser...

USDA does not allow animal tumors to enter food chain. But lab-grown meat is made of tumor cells According to Bill Gates and the World Economic Forum, ongoing global warming threatens to destroy humanity. Methane, coming from the belches and farts of cows, is a greenhouse gas (GHG). So, cows are a problem! Fortunately, Bill Gates has a solution for us, explained in this video. We need to stop growing cattle and switch to lab-grown synthetic beef. The World Economic Forum expects we will eat “synthetic meat” in 16 years. (the article below was written 4 years ago) Bill Gates...

A man put to death on Thursday used his last words to attack Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Donald Dillbeck, 59, brutally murdered Faye Vann more than three decades ago, committing the crime after he had escaped from a work-release job while he was already serving a life sentence for murdering Lee County Deputy Dwight Lynn Hall, according to the Tallahassee Democrat. "I know I hurt people when I was young. I really messed up," Dillbeck reportedly said. "But I know Ron DeSantis has done a lot worse. He's taken a lot from a lot of people. I speak for all...

With return to pre-pandemic office attendance increasingly unlikely, how much distress is the sector facing this year? Since the COVID-19 pandemic first took hold and lockdowns kept American office workers from their on-site desks, observers of the U.S. office real estate sector have been bracing for a surge of distressed properties. Thankfully, while the office sector has been through its share of difficulties in the COVID era, this surge has thus far been averted. But with some of the factors holding back distress activity no longer applying, Yardi Matrix is projecting a pickup in distressed assets this year. For one...

So I’m sharing this Prophetic Warning with you all today. It was received on 22 June 2022. I have spent almost 3 months praying daily over this Word, and The Holy Spirit instructed me to post today. Please weigh and carefully pray over it before just sharing. It’s a weighty Word that requires serious Prayer and Warfare. Journal Entry — 22 June 2022 Urgent Warning: A Threat of Nuclear Weapons, A Snare and a Trap Set for the Bear So, today while busy in my office, I was suddenly alerted by a powerful Vision that stopped me in my tracks....

The downtown office market in major cities continues to struggle after changes brought on by the pandemic, as another major investor has defaulted on loans for a pair of Downtown Los Angeles skyscrapers. According to an SEC filing, Brookfield DTLA Fund Office Trust Investor said that subsidiaries that owned the 52-story Gas Company Tower at 555 W. 5th St were in default on $465 million in loans related to the building. In addition, Brookfield DTLA has defaulted on $319 million in loans related to its 52-story building on S. Figueroa Street, the 777 Tower. In both cases, lenders for both...

In what may be a world-first effort to tackle the climate impact of cars, the government of Wales said Tuesday that it would scrap all its major road building projects, and place tight carbon-related restrictions on future proposals. Wales, a country of 3 million and one of the four nations that make up the U.K., set up a panel in June 2021 to review the environmental cost of 59 planned road projects. Most of the schemes, including new bypasses, highways, and road expansions, were designed to relieve congestion. But the panel concluded that ultimately these projects would encourage more private...

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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or LBNL, researchers Michael Wehner and Alan Rhoades worked with Binod Pokharel, a researcher at Utah State University and Tribhuvan University in Nepal, to help link drought and fire in Nepal to climate change. They also established a model for predicting future fires. According to Pokharel, the project arose from his own interest in the topic, specifically during March 2021 when there was an unprecedented amount of pollution and fire in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. “It was very dry in the nation, that’s for sure,” Pokharel said. “It was also very still. March in Nepal is called...

The US Federal government reminds me of the Peggy Lee song “Is That All There Is?” Since the outbreak of Covid in 2020 and the absurb spending spree by Pelosi and Schumer, the Federal government has increased their debt by 36% to help pay for the Federal spending spree. That amounts to $54.8 TRILLION in additional Federal debt since January 2020. What did the US economy get for all that Federal spending? In Q4 2022, Real GDP rose by … 0.91% YoY. Seriously? Is that all there is from $54.8 TRILLION in additional Federal debt? What do you expect when...