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A Reddit post by an Indian professional who recently returned from the United States has reignited debate on the H1B visa system, workplace culture, and community-based favoritism in American tech firms. The techie, who previously worked at Amazon USA, said one of the key reasons for returning to India was the “toxic behaviour” of Indian managers abroad. According to him, many Indian managers exploit employees on visas, aware of their vulnerability due to complex immigration rules. “They avoid hiring Americans because they know they can’t push them to work 24/7. Americans won’t hesitate to sue if boundaries are crossed,” the...

Daily Readings from the USCCB“See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly Father.” Matthew 18:10The reality of angels is fascinating to most people, especially to children. The Guardian Angels, in particular, are often pictured in sacred art as walking hand-in-hand with children. And though this is true, they also walk hand-in-hand with each one of us throughout our lives. This is their sacred duty given to them by God. In quoting Saint Basil, the Catechism of the Catholic Church...

INDIANAPOLIS — A man recently arrested for attempted murder in Indianapolis has nearly 100 prior arrests. Courtney Boose, 41, was arrested after police say he stabbed a 69-year-old man at a gas station in Lawrence earlier this week. The victim was taken to a hospital in critical condition and is still in recovery. Court documents say Boose refused to comply with officers and tried to leave the gas station after being identified as the suspect in the stabbing. An officer ended up using a taser on Boose and then handcuffed him. Boose is being held at the Marion County Jail...

Detailed report on Zelensky’s bombing of the Russian held Zaparhoznia nuke facilty and Vlads response on St Z’s Chernobyl site.

@SenRandPaul I joined @LlamasNBC on @NBCNews and made it clear: I refuse to add $2 trillion more to the debt, no matter which party demands it. Republicans and Democrats both flip-flop for politics. I won't back endless deficits or Biden-era spending levels.

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Citing deteriorating conditions in Oregon, President Donald Trump said Wednesday the National Guard is in place to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement efforts. Trump announced Saturday he would send troops to Portland, the state's largest city, to handle what he called "domestic terrorists." He said protests were interfering with enforcement of immigration law. "As I determined on September 27th, when I activated and called into service the National Guard in Oregon, conditions continue to deteriorate into lawless mayhem," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Our GREAT Federal Law Enforcement Officers have not been able to enforce the Laws in Oregon. ANTIFA...

The H-1B visa has helped skilled professionals from across the world to advance America's technology sector. Three stalwarts who have made an indelible mark in the US after obtaining an H-1B visa are - Elon Musk, Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella. For many Indians, it has symbolised the realisation of the "American Dream", however, on September 21, US President Donald Trump imposed a new $100,000 fee on this visa, pushing it into major controversy. -snip- Satya Nadella Microsoft's chief executive officer had started his career in the 1990s under the H-1B visa program. He has highlighted the program's importance for...

When did the Wall Street Journal give up on making coherent arguments? It certainly seems to be the case with a recent WSJ article entitled, “The U.S. Is Forfeiting the Clean-Energy Race to China”. The premise of the article, as you might have guessed, is that the U.S. will lose out to China if it does not match China’s level of subsidization of clean energy. No where in the article did the authors ask, “Is it a race worth winning?” I contend that it isn’t. The authors start out by asserting that, “The rapid pace of EV adoption in China...

Participants of the “Revolutionary 1st of May Demonstration” light flares and wave flags of the left-wing Antifa movement during May Day events on May 1, 2018 in Berlin. John MacDougall / AFPIt remains to be seen who is responsible for the arson attacks on a van and threats to Munich’s famous Oktoberfest on October 1st. Police are currently treating a claim of responsibility posted on the left-wing extremist platform Indymedia as either a fake or plagiarism. But regardless of the investigation’s outcome, Germany faces a massive problem with ideologically motivated left-wing extremist violence—one that politicians and media have been reluctant...

In Germany, warmongers are talking about declaring a “military tension case” using the false flags they have created with drones. This is the step before the State of Defense, which carries the most severe restrictions. This is a precursor to the total capital controls I have warned about. This will include the limits on freedom of speech, the press, assembly, and travel. COVID was just a trial run. Of course. This is a complex and highly regulated area of German law, rooted in the country’s historical experiences. The restrictions allowed on population liberty and financial controls depend entirely on the...

VIDEOMargaret Dumont was NOT amused and in our era neither is Kaitlan Collins.

Jan of the Windmill, by Juliana Horatia Ewing https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5601/5601-h/5601-h.htm JAN OF THE WINDMILL. A Story of the Plains. BY THE LATEJULIANA HORATIA EWING.AUTHOR OF “SIX TO SIXTEEN;” “FLAT IRON FOR A FARTHING;”“MRS. OVERTHEWAY’S REMEMBRANCES,” ETC. WITH ELEVEN ILLUSTRATIONS BY MRS. W. ALLINGHAM(HELEN PATERSON). FIFTH EDITION LONDON: GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1890. DedicatedTO MY DEAR SISTER MARGARET.J. H. E. CONTENTS. PAGECHAPTER I.THE WINDMILLER’S WIFE.—STRANGERS.—TEN SHILLINGS A WEEK.—THE LITTLE JAN.1CHAPTER II.THE MILLER’S CALCULATIONS.—HIS HOPES AND FEARS.—THE NURSE-BOY.—CALM.14CHAPTER III.THE WINDMILLER’S WORDS COME TRUE.—THE RED SHAWL.—IN THE CLOUDS.—NURSING V. PIG-MINDING.—THE ROUND-HOUSE.—THE MILLER’S THUMB.20CHAPTER IV.BLACK AS SLANS.—VAIR AND VOOLISH.—THE MILLER AND...

We wuz everybody, apparently. Vikings, Samurai, Native Americans, Shakespeare — all of it. The greatest identity theft in history, presented as scholarship, swallowed by people with the IQ of a shoe. This is the “Collect Them All Edition” of WeWuzzery, where Erik the Red turns into Erik the Black, the Bard of Avon becomes the Bard of Abuja, and the Olmec heads get drafted into the Congo.

President Donald Trump on Thursday said Democrats have given him an “unprecedented opportunity” to slash federal agencies, signaling plans to harm his political opponents during the two-day-old government shutdown while blaming them for causing it.Trump’s warning came a day after his administration froze about $18 billion for two major infrastructure projects in New York City and canceled roughly $8 billion more for climate-related projects in Democratic-leaning states.

German prosecutors say police recovered an AK-47, several pistols and ammo intended to be used in deadly attacks on Israeli or Jewish institutionsGerman police arrested three men they suspect of preparing a serious attack against Jewish targets in Germany for Hamas, prosecutors said on Wednesday, a week before the second anniversary of the Palestinian Islamist terror group’s attack on Israel. Prosecutors suspect the three men of being foreign operatives for Hamas and of being involved in procuring firearms and ammunition to be used for assassinations targeting Israeli or Jewish institutions in Germany, they said. “In the course of today’s arrests,...

Well, that didn’t take long. The much-anticipated October Surprise in this year’s Virginia state elections arrived - like clockwork - yesterday. October 1. And it was ugly news for the Jay Jones campaign. He’s the Democrat candidate for Attorney General who’s in a tight race with incumbent Attorney General Jason Miyares. Turns out that at about 1 a.m. on Friday, January 21, 2022, Jones was clocked doing 116 mph in a 70 zone on I-64 in New Kent County.

The FBI is ending its partnership with the left-wing Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Director Kash Patel announced on Wednesday. The move comes after the organization got busted labeling Turning Point USA as an “extremist” group. “James Comey disgraced the FBI by writing ‘love letters’ to the ADL and embedding agents with an extreme group functioning like a terrorist organization and the disgraceful operation they ran spying on Americans. That was not law enforcement, it was activism dressed up as counterterrorism, and it put Americans in danger,” Patel said in a statement. “That era is finished. This FBI formally rejects Comey’s policies...

If Democrats were to succeed in their funding proposal, parolees — still illegal aliens in any common-sense understanding — would gain access to federal health care benefits.The federal government shut down on Wednesday after Democrats refused to vote on a clean continuing resolution to keep the government funded for the next seven weeks. When Republicans pointed out that Democrats were unwilling to vote to fund the government without restoring health care eligibility for illegal aliens, the media and other Democrats jumped into action, “fact-checking” Republicans and claiming that wasn’t true. These “fact checks” rely on the ludicrous claim that foreign...

Pope Leo XIV criticized those who question the prevailing narrative on climate change during a recent gathering in Rome.The pontiff slammed those who “ridicule those who speak of global warming” and affirmed the efforts of his predecessor, Pope Francis, according to The Guardian.Leo presided over the 10th-anniversary celebration of Francis’s landmark ecological encyclical, Laudato Si (Praised Be), at a global gathering south of Rome. The encyclical cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral concern and launched a global grassroots movement to advocate for caring for God’s creation and the peoples most harmed by its exploitation.Leo told...