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You will forgive me if from time to time I find myself silent and stymied in the doldrums. The past three years, in our Corona Epoch, weigh heavily on us all, but there is more: these past three years have revealed to those with eyes to see and ears to hear the rank depths of corruption within virtually every institute of government and within virtually every formerly honorable profession.

Joe Biden's Promises to Increase Interest Rates and Taxes Despite a Recession of which he Denies. He says this knowing that it will greatly increase inflation. I believe he is continually raising interest rates with fellow socialist in the federal reserve, to kill the housing market. I believe he wishes higher taxes to so weaken Americans and American businesses such that they fail and call for Socialism (causing the problem to get bad Solution).I believe he is causing inflation to rise rampantly for the same reason.I believe He is trying to Deconstruct America across the board so we will succumb...

A SAN FRANCISCO-BASED company that fights parking tickets by using artificial intelligence and automated processes has been sued for the unauthorized practice of law. In a lawsuit filed against DoNotPay Inc. in San Francisco Superior Court on Tuesday, Jonathan Faridian of Yolo County seeks damages for alleged violations of California’s unfair competition law, alleging that he would not have subscribed if he knew that the “World’s First Robot Lawyer,” as the company calls itself, was not actually a lawyer. The book “System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot,” written by three Stanford professors, begins with...

Federal regulators are conducting an auction for Silicon Valley Bank, with final bids due Sunday, according to a report from Bloomberg News. The bank was closed by regulators on Friday after massive withdrawals a day earlier created a bank run. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation took control of the bank on Friday, and started an auction process on Saturday night, according to the report. It is still possible that no deal is reached, the report said.

When LGBTQ Floridians, their families and their supporters arrive in the state capital Monday to start two days of what organizers are calling pride, passion and resistance, they’re more likely to encounter a brick wall of opposition than a welcome mat and an open door. In the last two years, the rhetoric and policies flowing from Gov. Ron DeSantis, his administration, and the Republican-controlled state Legislature have left the LGBTQ community, along with family members, friends and employers anxious as they adjust to a new reality and wait to see what comes next from Tallahassee. “They have just decided to...

Russia's metropolitan elites have avoided the impact of heavy battlefield casualties that the country's forces are sustaining in Ukraine, according to a new defense intelligence assessment. Russia's elite, particularly in the major cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg, have so far emerged "relatively unscathed" from the "extremely heavy casualties" being racked up in the ongoing Ukraine war, the British defense ministry said on Sunday. In the eastern regions of Russia, the death toll for Russian troops is likely more than 30 times higher than in Moscow, as a percentage of population, the ministry wrote in its daily update on Twitter....

The Argentine Association of Agricultural Producers (AAPA) seeks to add adhesions due to the lack of responses from the Executive to their claims. This Monday is the deadline set by the linking table. In the last month 15 million tons between soybeans and corn is what would have been lost throughout the country due the drought and the heat wave, according to the Rosario Stock Exchange (BCR). The projection for the remainder of the year is not encouraging either: it could reach 50 millions tons. In this scenario, sectors of the countryside threatened to carry out strong protest measures. The...

Parents in Elk Grove, California, are livid after a high school assembly featured a drag show that the parents say was inappropriate — and mandatory for students to attend.

The “slippery slope” isn’t a fallacy, it’s a tactic. That’s one of the truths the political right must internalize. For far too long, on nearly every issue of importance, the mainstream conservative movement has enabled the Left’s destructive march of “progress” though society by succumbing to the leftists’ narrative that critiques of their policy are nothing more than alarmist slippery-slope fallacies. “We don’t want to take away your guns, we just want commonsense gun reform” has now become “Yes, we do want to take all your guns away.” And the Left’s “We just want tolerance for homosexuals” has now become...

The House and Senate have already unanimously passed a bill requiring the Biden administration declassify intel on the origins of COVID. Democrats and Republicans all working hand-in-hand and agreeing 100% on something ... imagine that! So, hey, let's have it. Let's have the intel. Where is it? Despite being pressed for his official stance on the matter on Friday, the president refused to give an answer. Florida Rep. Kat Cammack thinks the president is afraid, and accused him of "dragging his feet" on getting this critical info to the American people because it will uncover "collusion" and cover-ups, expose dark...

A new innovative COVID-19 vaccine developed by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as other local universities could act against current and future variants. Researchers used an artificial intelligence system to sort through “a vast number” of compounds to identify 30 that would work well against COVID-19, according to lead author David Gifford, in a report published last week in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Immunology. Gifford, a professor at MIT teaching computer science and biological engineering, spoke to The Boston Globe about his work. Scientists at Boston University, Tufts University, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the University...

We have a new kind of overlord. This overlord appeals not to excellence. Rather his fitness to rule purportedly derives from his ability to render the entire planet as “standing-reserve” for a universal project. Everything just standing there, waiting, so it may be called upon at any time. In 2020, masks, tests, people, arms, needles, hospital beds, lives and deaths themselves became “standing-reserve” – on standby and ready to be put on order, available on demand. Even health came to mean supply. All this could not have happened if it weren’t for technology. Technology in the modern sense is not...

VIDEORECIPE: ************************************************8 to 10 chicken wings cut into 16 to 20 sections************************************************MARINADE:1 tsp salt 1/2 tsp ground pepper 2 tbs olive oil************************************************ BATTER:2/3 cup corn starch 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp salt************************************************ ORANGE GLAZE2 tbsp olive oil 1 tbsp garlic minced 1/2 tbs ginger minced (1 tbsp if you like it spicy) 1/2 tsp chili flakes 1/2 cup orange juice 1/4 cup white vinegar 1/2 cup dark brown sugar***************************************************Cook wings at 380 degrees for 20 minutes. Flip halfway.

This is the #1 download on iTunes, as We The People contemplate the events depicted. The totality of a corrupt American government, led by a system of control, is a painful realization. However, America always rises. And yes, “lambs become lions.” {Direct Rumble Link}

If you wondered if Joe Biden was going to run for reelection, wonder no more. You’re going to see some amazing gymnastics from Biden in that pursuit. Biden will be throwing everyone under the bus because what he’s doing now is a loser. Biden was initially in support of a DC Council bill to basically make crime legal in DC: The D.C. Council bill would reduce penalties for murders, carjackings, armed robberies, armed home invasions, and sexual assault offenses, even amid rising crime in the nation’s capital. Then suddenly Biden changed his tune The White House issued a Statement of...

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) Chief Executive Officer Greg Becker sent a video message acknowledging the "incredibly difficult" 48 hours leading up to its collapse on Friday. He stated that he is working with banking regulators to find a partner for SVB and wore a stylish black zip-up jacket from Gleneagles.

Saudi Arabia’s state-controlled oil giant Aramco on Sunday reported a record net income of $161.1 billion for 2022 — the largest annual profit ever achieved by an oil and gas company. Aramco said net income increased 46.5 percent over the year, from $110 billion in 2021. Free cash flow also reached a record $148.5 billion in 2022, compared with $107.5 billion in 2021. “This is probably the highest net income ever recorded in the corporate world,” Aramco CEO Amin Nasser said on a Sunday earnings call. The results are nearly triple the profit that oil major ExxonMobil posted for 2022,...

Oh so woke, oh so green, oh so diverse Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) just went bust. One can go to its website—still up for who knows how much longer—and see that it claims assets of $212 billion. But as they say, the bigger they are, the harder they fall; and SVB makes for the second largest bank failure in U.S. history. Remarkably, 93 percent of the bank’s $161 billion in deposits are uninsured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), which only covers accounts up to $250,000. And Roku, to name just one whale, had $487 million in Silicon Valley...

On this date in 1960, the former French colony of Vietnam made its last use of that most characteristically Gallic killing-machine: the guillotine. Communist cadre Hoang Le Kha of the Vietnam People’s Army — the insurgent force also known at different times, in different manifestations, and through different eyes as the Viet Minh, the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and the Vietcong* — earned the unpleasant distinction. According to a disappointingly truncated article (.pdf) from the Texas Tech University Vietnam Archive, the beheading took place notwithstanding an appeal pending before the International Control Commission, the multinational body charged with overseeing the...

You’ve heard the complaints: When am I ever gonna use this? How is this relevant to the real world? How is reading Shakespeare going to make me a better banker? I don’t run into this kind of thinking as frequently in the economics classroom, but I hear my students’ complaints about their other courses pretty regularly (and maybe professors in those courses hear students’ complaints about mine). Why, they wonder, are they expected to study art history? Or biology? Or “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”? Or Mesoamerican mythology? When are they ever gonna use this stuff? My answer?...