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Good morning, Bay Area. the East Bay Times reports that the Richmond City Council this evening is expected to place a tax on oil refining businesses on the November ballot, an initiative that would target the Chevron refinery. If placed on the ballot by council and approved by voters, the refining business license tax would charge Chevron $1 per barrel of raw materials refined in Richmond, bringing an estimated $60 million to $90 million a year in revenue to the city. Final thought …Billionaire Michael Shvo went on a trophy property buying spree from 2018 to 2020 that culminated in...

Hal Lindsey’s book “The Late Great Planet Earth,” written in 1970, sold over 28 million copies. Gullible Christians got sucked into Lindsey’s soon end-of-the world poppycock. As time has passed without his version of Armageddon taking place, we can now objectively analyze where Lindsey went wrong: • Lindsey (p. 54, 181), like other dispensationalists, placed the beginning of the end with Israel becoming a nation in 1948. He thought all prophecy would be fulfilled within a 40-year generation (Matthew 24:34). But 1988 came and went, proving him to be a false prophet. (This should be adequate proof that 1948 has...

“We understand that the path toward Better at Together looks different for every business,” the statement says. “At Chick-fil-A, Inc., our commitment is to approach this work with intention and humility, always believing the best in one another and striving for common ground. We’re early on in our journey, but we’re honored by the opportunity to steward our organization’s greatest asset – our people – and are energized by the road ahead.” The statement was accompanied by another set of remarks from Erick McReynolds, Chick-fil-A’s Vice President and Executive Director of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Chick-fil-A restaurants have long...

Blair 'went to war on lies' Spain's next prime minister has broken from the Iraq alliance today and accused Tony Blair and President Bush of "organising a war on lies." He pledged to bring Spanish troops home from Iraq by the end of June. A day after his Socialists swept Spain's ruling conservatives from power in elections overshadowed by the Madrid massacre, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero harshly criticised the US led war even as he promised to maintain good relations with Washington.The war "divided more than it united, there were no reasons for it. Time has shown that the arguments...

So this is where all our money went, say Iraqis (Filed: 31/07/2003) Visitors to Saddam's opulent palace are astonished and very angry, reports Harry de Quetteville in Tikrit It was only after they had driven past the landscaped gardens, surveyed the marble sun decks overlooking the Tigris, noted the gilt door frames and the private cinema that Mudhfar Awad and Salih Fadhil's astonishment began to turn to anger. Standing at the heart of Saddam Hussein's palace in Tikrit, in front of a giant swimming pool, they could contain themselves no longer. "This is where all the money went - all...