18th February 2022
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Reduce, reuse and recycle have always been the pillars of sustainability. But what happens if one of them doesn’t work?
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17th February 2022
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17th February 2022
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17th February 2022
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While the federal government can avoid some of the harmful effects of wage-setting by politicians, this executive order may provide a temporary—though limited—dose of economic reality.
At least within the current fiscal year, federal agencies’ budgets are limited by what Congress has allocated to them. Thus, having to pay certain workers more to do the exact same thing will force agencies to make some of the same decisions that businesses have to confront when policymakers set minimum wages above market wages.
The natural response of employers to government-imposed minimum wage hikes is to lay off workers or to shift the composition of their workforce to eliminate lower-skilled labor. Employers also respond by reducing or eliminating benefits like health insurance and retirement contributions and taking away scheduling flexibility.
But most of those things aren’t options for federal agencies. For starters, it takes about a year-and-a-half to fire a federal worker, and the convoluted and painstaking process takes so much time and effort on the part of managers that most have determined it’s not worth the effort—even if it does result in deadweight and adverse workers keeping their jobs.
Moreover, federal agencies have very little control over salary and benefits, and federal unions staunchly oppose anything that might result in less flexibility for federal workers.
Thus, federal departments are likely to have to cut back on services and on needed modernizations. In particular, this will most directly impact the Department of Defense and defense contractors.
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16th February 2022
You’re going to feel this, Biden tells Americans, as Ukraine war looms (The Guardian) No, I won’t.
Russia-Ukraine: Biden warns of ‘bloody, destructive war’ if Russia invades Ukraine For Biden, maybe.
It’s 11:59 in Ukraine, and Joe Biden needs to ascend the bully pulpit (Chicago Tribune) Step back, nonbelievers, or the rain may never come.
Inside the White House preparations for a Russian invasion (Washington Post)
An American Fight In Ukraine Brings Big Costs, No Benefits
“A Recurring Fountain Of Revenue”: FDA Exec Admits Biden Planning Annual Shots, Including Toddlers
Russia Mocks US, Requests ‘Full List Of Ukraine Invasion Dates’ For Year Ahead Not the Babylon Bee.
Biden Energy Policies Added $1,000 To Typical Household’s Costs In 2021: Report
5 New Numbers That Prove That America’s Horrifying Inflation Crisis Is Getting Even Worse
The Truth About Biden’s Fake War With Russia
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16th February 2022
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15th February 2022
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15th February 2022
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15th February 2022
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In November, the Biden Administration released the President’s Management Agenda Vision, outlining its agenda to overhaul the federal workforce and its operations. At the top level are some goals all Americans should like, such as improving how citizens interact with the federal bureaucracy and rebuilding domestic industrial capacity. Other goals, as well as the methods of achieving them, reflect an expressly progressive ideology. If fully implemented, this risks further entrenching partisan politics into the machinery of the federal bureaucracy, undermining the ideals of a meritocratic and nonpartisan civil service, and misdirecting agency funding and activity away from their fundamental missions and toward costly ideological goals such as eliminating climate change. If we stay on this course, we will soon find it impossible to reform wasteful programs and inefficient institutions, even when principled advocates of limited government are elected.
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15th February 2022
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I must have missed where in the Constitution it says that this is the business of the Federal government.
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14th February 2022
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14th February 2022
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13th February 2022
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13th February 2022
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13th February 2022
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The Russia collusion hoax is the dirtiest trick in the history of American politics, but if the latest filing by John Durham is correct, the Steele dossier wasn’t the half of it.
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12th February 2022
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12th February 2022
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10th February 2022
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10th February 2022
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On Monday the Department of Homeland Security issued an updated National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin, which purports to summarize the “Terrorism Threat to the U.S. Homeland”. It begins with a paragraph that, read carefully, should chill the blood of anyone who cherishes liberty.
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10th February 2022
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The future of public transit is nearly empty buses and railcars. Yet President Biden’s American Jobs Plan calls for spending $85 billion on transit. Although transit carries less than 1 percent of passenger travel in the United States, and no freight, this represents 28 percent of the funds Biden proposes to spend on transportation.
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10th February 2022
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On Friday, January 28, 2022, about 6:40 a.m. eastern standard time, the Fern Hollow bridge, which carried Forbes Avenue over the north side of Frick Park, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, experienced a structural failure. As a result, the 447-foot-long bridge fell approximately 100 feet into the park below. At the time of the collapse, a 2013 Ne?w Flyer articulated bus, operated by the Port Authority of Allegheny County, and four passenger vehicles were on the bridge. A fifth passenger vehicle drove off the east bridge abutment following the collapse and came to rest on its roof on the exposed ground below. As a result, 10 vehicle occupants sustained injuries.
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9th February 2022
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On September 7, 2021, Warren dispatched a letter to Amazon in which she claimed that certain books sold by the internet giant contained “COVID-19 misinformation.” In her letter, Warren singled out “The Truth About COVID-19”as the most blatant example of “disinformation” about vaccines and treatments being “peddled” by Amazon, even including a screenshot of the book as shown on Amazon’s webpage.
The next day, the Massachusetts senator issued a press release, publicizing her letter to Amazon and posting a link to a copy of that letter on her government website. “Senator Warren is calling on Amazon to take aggressive action to stamp out COVID-19 misinformation,” the press release read.
After Warren issued her press release, national media widely publicized her letter, causing publisher Chelsea Green to immediately fear this would cause booksellers to stop stocking or promoting “The Truth About COVID-19.” Those concerns proved valid. On September 10, 2021, Barnes and Noble informed Chelsea Green via email that it would stop offering “The Truth About COVID-19” as an e-book. Barnes and Noble’s brick-and-mortar stores and most independent booksellers are also refusing to carry the book.
Additionally, while Amazon continues to sell the book, the online giant notified Chelsea Green it would not run ads promoting, or simply including, “The Truth About COVID-19.” Amazon also removed the book from the “medical work” category, where it had previously been listed. Amazon also stopped advertising “The Truth About COVID-19”to users whose purchase history would indicate an interest in the text.
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9th February 2022
GiveSendGo founder rips ‘authoritarian’ Big Tech after GoFundMe seizes Canadian trucker’s cash
Canadian lawmakers grow increasingly uneasy about economic impact of truckers protesting vaccine mandate
‘Now is not the moment’ to drop mask rules, CDC director says as states end mandates (Washington Post) Exactly! It ought to have been done six months ago.
QAnon Flags Fly Onscreen After Fox News Describes Anti-Vax Truckers as ‘Mainstream’ (Daily Beast)
You should plan for the next major COVID-19 variant now, expert says (Deseret News) You know they’re going to find one – or make one up.
YouTube Removes, Then Restores, Video of Mom Fighting Mask Mandates in School
Hospitalization: Vaxed or Unvaxed, Makes No Difference
Austrians Being Stopped Randomly By Authorities And Forced To Prove They Are Vaccinated
10 Most Absurd Excuses From Democrats Caught in Mask Scandals
Why remdesivir, a highly effective COVID treatment, is a last resort for providers
King Felipe VI of Spain has Covid He was fully ‘vaccinated’, of course. Fine vaccines ya got there, bubba.
Canadian ‘Freedom Convoy’ Raises $7 Million On New Crowdfunding Platform
CNN ‘Doctor’: “The Science Has Changed” So Lift COVID Restrictions
STUDY: CensorTrack Documents Over 800 Cases of Big Tech Censoring COVID-19 Debate
Big Tech Censored Dozens of Doctors, More Than 800 Accounts for COVID-19 ‘Misinformation,’ Study Finds
CDC Spreads Misinformation On Masking, Not Science
Truckers Block Critical US-Canada Bridge For Third Day, Alternate Routes Become Congested
New York To Ditch Indoor Mask Mandate While LA County Warns Its Could Remain For ‘Weeks Or Months’
Report: Ineligible Labor Unions Received Over $36 Million in Federal COVID-19 Relief Loans
Fauci Talks Fourth Dose, Eventually Ending Restrictions In US
Sweden Declares The Pandemic To Be “Over”
“They Will Not Silence Me”: Doctor Who Discovered Omicron Was Pressured Not To Reveal It’s Mild
Early ‘lab-grown’ Covid virus found in sample lends weight to Wuhan theory
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9th February 2022
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8th February 2022
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8th February 2022
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7th February 2022
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7th February 2022
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The city is carrying out a bizarre medical experiment in which they are helping homeless drug addicts use drugs. ‘It’s handing a loaded gun to a suicidal person.’
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Over the past two years, more than 1,360 people have died from drug overdoses in San Francisco. That is more than double the number who have died from Covid.
But you don’t need more stats. You don’t need more numbers about how the tent encampments are exploding. Or about the amount of money that the city is paying for each person doing drugs on the sidewalks. You need to see it.
I’m serious. Everyone in San Francisco should make a trip downtown. Walk around. And do not avert your eyes to the people dying slowly on the streets.
Think of it as evolution in action.
(How many people remember that Progressive were the original eugenicists?)
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6th February 2022
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5th February 2022
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said on Saturday it was fraud for GoFundMe to “commandeer” $9 million in donations sent to support protesting truckdrivers in Canada and that he will investigate what he called “deceptive practices” by the website.
GoFundMe took down the so-called Freedom Convoy’s page on Friday, saying it violated its terms of service. It said donors had two weeks to request a refund, then remaining funds would be disbursed to “credible and established charities.”
DeSantis, a Republican, said on Twitter it was fraud for GoFundMe to give the money “to causes of their own choosing,” and he would work with Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to investigate. “(T)hese donors should be given a refund.”
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5th February 2022
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Be the first on your block….
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5th February 2022
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…along with their weapons, their laptop computer, their body cam, etc. With all the new “police reform” laws and regulations, they need to carry a thick book of regulations, which tell them how they must respond to any possible situation they encounter.
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4th February 2022
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3rd February 2022
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2nd February 2022
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2nd February 2022
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When Joe Biden still had sufficient mental competency to merely be “Slow Joe” Biden, he and his Senate Democrat cohorts helped torpedo the Supreme Court future of a black woman. Her name is Janice Rogers Brown, no earthly relation to me, and she was finally confirmed from the California Supreme Court to be a United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit. Yet, the bitter two-year delaying action kept her from potential consideration for the Supreme Court, and she retired to an academic life.
I remember President George W. Bush nominating this outstanding jurist, with an eye to potential future Supreme Court consideration. I did not know at the time that there was talk of turning to her, a California Supreme Court justice, when Bush’s attempt to get his Texas crony, Harriet Miers, on the court was crushed by real conservatives. He took the easier route, although not one of his first choosing, of nominating Samuel Alito to replace Sandra Day O’Connor. Brown persisted, not withdrawing her nomination in the face of Biden and his gang’s obstruction.
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1st February 2022
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1st February 2022
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Anyone who had a reaction short of anaphylaxis that caused throat swelling (and only that), is guided by the CDC to receive the vaccine.
Cardiomyopathy? Get the booster.
Venous Sinus Thrombus? Get the booster.
Deep vein thrombosis? Get the booster.
Total body rash? Get the booster.
The CDC’s guidelines do not take into account the unique nature of people and their strange immune systems. The State of California’s Department of Public Health also does not take into account people’s conditions and previous reactions. California’s Board of Medicine is still creating an environment of fear for doctors who are willing to treat their patients as individuals. BoM is still coercing doctors to deny appropriate care and guidance to their patients for fear of losing their own careers.
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1st February 2022
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I must confess that I was shocked — shocked! — to learn that there are hoaxters among those who promote the experimental mRNA treatments for the Wuhan Coronavirus. What happened to the incorruptible physicians of the utmost probity who previously inhabited the profession?
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31st January 2022
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30th January 2022
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30th January 2022
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Nebraska state Sen. Steve Halloran (R), the resolution’s sponsor, said in an email to Newsweek he pushed it because “it is evident that Congress cannot control its runaway spending,” noting the significant increase of the national debt under presidencies of both political parties.
“Additionally, over time the federal government has exceeded its constitutional authority, taking too much authority from the States,” Halloran, of Hastings, said. “The States need to exercise their constitutional authority by proposing amendments through an Article V Convention of States to restrain the federal government from driving our country into insolvency.”
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29th January 2022
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29th January 2022
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A new court filing by special counsel John Durham reveals that Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz concealed crucial information from Durham in connection with the ongoing prosecution of Michael Sussmann, a former attorney to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
The Crust takes care of its own.
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29th January 2022
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A Pennsylvania court ruled on Friday that the state’s two-year-old mail-in voting law is unconstitutional, siding with Republicans who challenged the law following the 2020 election.
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28th January 2022
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28th January 2022
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