Jacinda Ardern resigns: Departure reveals unique pressures on PM
Brainard resigns from the Fed to head to White House economics role
From 34.2 average annual 2022 to 33.4 in Jan 2023.
That's on top of the 7.3% average fall between 2021 and 2022.
Inflation. It's what's for dinner.
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If Gen Zers continue to eschew driving, it could have significant effects on the country’s carbon emissions. Transportation is the largest source of CO2 emissions in the United States. There are roughly 66 million members of Gen Z living in the United States. If each one drove just 10 percent less than the national average — that is, driving 972 miles less every year — that would save 25.6 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from spewing into the atmosphere. That’s the equivalent to the annual emissions of more than six coal-fired power plants.
Six!
Oooh. Sounds like a lot.
The incursions in the past week have changed how analysts receive and interpret information from radars and sensors, a U.S. official said Saturday, partly addressing a key question of why so many objects have recently surfaced. The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said that sensory equipment absorbs a lot of raw data, and filters are used so humans and machines can make sense of what is collected. But that process always runs the risk of leaving out something important, the official said. “We basically opened the filters,” the official added, much like a car buyer unchecking boxes on a website to broaden the parameters of what can be searched.
Totally garbage poll.
The poll questions don't match the rhetoric about them . . . by a long shot. Nothing anti-democratic asked at all.
Pure fantasy masquerading as truth.
POLL: Many Americans Want Strong, Anti-democratic Leader...
. . . not over immigration, but hey, I'll take it.
They're embarrassing enough anyway, on both sides, without the antics from the peanut gallery.
Dog and pony shows, trottin' out their acts.
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Grand Rapids, MI, had its 5th warmest January by average temperature in Jan 2023 since 1892. Case is similar in many US cities which broke into the top 10 warmest Januaries on record, including Indy, Syracuse NY, Columbus OH, and Madison WI.
Part of Trump's success in 2016 was his appeal to the former greatness of America, which resonated most with those who remembered what it was like in this country before the elites shipped their jobs to China.
Americans are not working up to their potential because it's not worth it. They have voted with their feet. 2019 was but a shadow of what might have been.
No cash, no hope, no jobs, no bacon. Alcohol, drugs, and accidental death.
The virus was most likely illegally engineered at Wuhan in sub-standard lab conditions funded against the rules in part by Fauci's NIH, subsequently accidentally escaped, and went on to kill millions and destroy the economies and livelihoods of millions more.
I think one low-level guy went to jail for the 2008 financial crisis, but so far no one is even being investigated for the travesty which occurred under Fauci.
Thankfully @R_H_Ebright of Rutgers University won't let go of this story.
Caused by deficit spending.
In other words, required spending by legislated programs is not being matched by required tax increases to fund that spending. The gap produces the deficits naturally year after year.
Eventually it goes to the moon.
Here.
Seriously, if we continued to pay interest on the debt out of current tax revenues as we do, and then amortized the debt principal of ~$32 trillion, you'd have to extract ~$3,212.85 in additional taxes every year for thirty years for every man, woman, and child alive now to have a hope of paying it off ($1.066 trillion per year).
Current federal receipts average in excess of $4 trillion already, so that's an increase of annual revenues to the federal government through taxation in excess of 25%.
About as likely as spending curbs.
Autologous donors have long been permitted to donate blood for their own use even if they do not meet certain donor eligibility criteria that apply to allogeneic donors because autologous donors are not exposed to new transfusion-transmitted infections in receiving their own blood.
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"Tipping is about making sure the people who are performing that service for you are getting paid what they're owed," said Schenker, who's been working in the service industry for roughly 18 years.
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If they weren't too busy checking their pronouns.
Finland Floats Solo NATO Entry After Erdogan Rejects Sweden
. . . on Monday, Erdogan ruled out supporting Sweden’s bid after a far-right activist burned Islam’s holy book in Stockholm.
Erdogan has an election coming up, and needs the Koran crowd's vote.
Whole lotta refried confusion goin' on.
The initial documents, including some classified at the highest security level, were discovered in an office that didn’t open until 2018—meaning they were moved there from yet another unauthorized location and heightening the likelihood of more document finds. ... Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden are handled with kid gloves. Carter Page and Donald Trump—not to mention low-profile suspects—face the bluntest federal law-enforcement tools. ... The Justice Department seems unlikely to be done bestowing conveniences on this president.
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“We here at Mug Club, we thought that we were all in this together, that we were fighting the media-entertainment industrial complex,” he fumed. “We thought that we were all genuinely taking it to Big Tech. But, too many of those in charge of the big conservative platforms are verifiably in bed with them. Big Tech is in bed with Big Con. The people you thought, the people I thought were fighting for you, a lot of it has been a big con.” ... (Crowder, in his initial rant, failed to mention that he was offered $50 million over four years.)
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There's a lot of money to be made in so-called conservatism.
DOJ and FBI are as corrupt as the day is long.
The Wall Street Journal, here:
Over and over, Twitter – which was hardly sympathetic to Trump – told
Schiff and his colleagues there was simply no evidence of Russian
involvement. As much as some Twitter employees may have liked to report
the opposite, to their credit they refused to participate in the scam.
Even after Twitter had informed Schiff and his fellow hoaxers that there
was no Russian involvement, Sen. Blumenthal released a statement he
knew was not true: “We find it reprehensible that Russian agents have so
eagerly manipulated innocent Americans.” Again, this was right after he
had been informed by Twitter employees - who were by-and-large strongly
opposed to Trump - that there was just no evidence to back up such a
statement.
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Abolish the FBI. Impeach Biden.
Jonathan Turley, here:
". . . there was no 302, which is the type of document that many of us use on
criminal defense work. It is essentially the record created in criminal
cases by FBI agents. So this was treated as a very informal interview."
"The fact is that by November 2nd, they had found highly classified
documents," Turley said. "They did not know how many more existed. They
did know that these documents likely had been transferred more than
once, and that they had been out there for probably six years. So in the
midst of all of that, according to the 'Wall Street Journal,' they were
offered the opportunity to search the Biden residence. Now, why on
Earth would the FBI not take that opportunity? I mean, what is the
possible reason for saying, no, we're really not inclined to do that.
You're embarrassing us. You, you go ahead and do it. It's bizarre. And
so not only did they allow uncleared lawyers to look for highly
classified information, but those lawyers then continue to find them
over 60 days and the FBI doesn't seem to have done a thing."
. . . popularized in a recording by Fats Domino in 1956, also on Imperial (catalog # 5417), on which the songwriting credit was shared between him and Bartholomew.
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The term Blue Monday was coined by psychologist Dr Cliff Arnall, who worked out a formula to show how the third Monday in January is especially bad.
It takes into account factors including the average time for New Year's resolutions to fail, the bad weather, debt, the time since Christmas and motivational levels. ...
The main theory suggests that a lack of sunlight may stop a part of the brain called the hypothalamus from working properly.
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With a population of over 920,000 residents, DuPage County is the largest county to defy the law.
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Why was it not until Nov. 2, 2022, that his lawyers were emptying the old [UPenn] office? ... The biggest problem with the Joe Biden documents story is that we know only what Joe Biden's lawyers have told us. And that is just the way Biden wants it.
Byron York here.
The Mar-a-Lago raid was on August 8, 2022, that's why.
What a crock.
The only frenzy was "Holy shit, now that Trump's elected, not Hillary, we've got a lot to hide before he takes over or we're toast".
