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Former asset manager @DowdEdward drives this point home, highlighting that real wage growth is at negative 2%. What this means in simple terms is that people have 2% LESS buying power through their wages than they did just a year ago. This economic reality paved the way for Trump’s victory because no matter how much …
Natasha Miller says she was getting ready to do her job preserving donated organs for transplantation when the nurses wheeled the donor into the operating room. She quickly realized something wasn’t right. Though the donor had been declared dead, he seemed to her very much alive. “He was moving around — kind of thrashing. Like, …
by Steve Seriously — I’ve been carefully observing the people around me who are actual supporters of this woman, as opposed to reflexive Democrat voters who aren’t actually very political. The Harris supporters align almost 100% with the people who robotically changed their entire attitude on things during the “pandemic”. The people who on a …
by Mike Shedlock The BLS defines full-time as 35 hours. That means the average person works part-time. Average Weekly Hours vs Year Ago Total Private: 34.2 Down 0.2 Manufacturing: 40.0 Down 0.1 Construction: 39.2 Up 0.1 Production and Nonsupervisory: 33.7 Down 0.1 Retail Trade: 29.5 Down 0.3 Leisure and Hospitality: 25.3 Down 0.4 Total private …
A Chicago police SWAT team responded about 6:50 p.m. Tuesday to the River North skyscraper at 401 N. Wabash Ave., police said. One person was taken into custody https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/10/08/gun-trump-tower-chicago-cpd-cfd-city-hall-crime-river-north-person-in-custody A massive police response was seen at Trump Tower—with dozens of squad cars and an armored SWAT team car staged in front… https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/large-police-response-chicago-trump-tower/ h/t Tess
A former employee of a nonprofit organ recovery group has claimed she was asked to harvest organs from a person who was still living – and then fired after airing her qualms to members of Congress. Nyckoletta Martin, 38, made the latter revelations Tuesday to the Wall Street Journal, describing how she was let go …
Gold is telling you the Federal Reserve is full of shit. Not a single person on earth thinks inflation is 3% pic.twitter.com/E8XedI6Nj1 — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) September 24, 2024 Today, silver prices reached their highest level in over a decade. Widespread skepticism surrounding the metal remains, which, in my opinion, represents one of the most extreme …
Military Deployed to Guard a Migrant Hotel in New York at ‘Request of the State Officials’: Report One day after it went viral the hotel was vacant On Tuesday, citizen journalist Jason Goodman, founder of Crowdsource the Truth, captured footage of military stationed outside The Wolcott Hotel. The Wolcott Hotel, located on West 31st Street …
Related: Joe Rogan Drops Bone-Chilling Election Prediction https://t.co/QY30huPGAW — The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) August 1, 2024 They didn’t even need the high power equipment to see, a person with less than 20/20 vision could see him. They were either in on it or were given orders not to shoot. This was not incompetence on …
This is the person the queer director chose to represent Jesus Christ in the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. The choice is intentional. They intended to cause offense, to mock and to ridicule Christianity. pic.twitter.com/E6yln7rpy6 — Ian Miles Cheong (@ianmiles) July 27, 2024
A 60-year-old German man has likely been ‘cured’ of HIV, in a medical milestone only achieved by six other people, doctors have announced. The man is believed the have undergone a stem cell transplant, once known as a bone marrow transplant, after he developed leukaemia, a type of blood cancer. Primarily a cancer treatment, stem …
“The basic prerequisite for leadership is love of the people you lead and the willingness to die for them.” “If we believe in democracy then we’re gonna let people vote for their own leaders because we believe in democracy as a principle.” “So as you’re choosing your leaders ask yourself: Does this person mean it …
Both @esaagar, and then others who just contacted me and provided pictures of the briefing, say the person asking this question is NYT's David Sanger. The least surprising answer, as he's long been one of DC's chief spokesman for the intel community.https://t.co/tICZgHArcj — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 9, 2024 It sounds like a question KJP …
The moment she realized that her hero doesn’t like black people. pic.twitter.com/2bhfLJf8yP — Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) July 6, 2024 This movement is happening and it can’t be stopped. Democrats have used us and divided us long enough. Time’s up. #WalkAway pic.twitter.com/bvkMUiGZx4 — Brandon Straka #WalkAway (@BrandonStraka) August 29, 2023 h/t Coastie Patriot
Some White House staffers have been forced to tiptoe around President Biden when briefing him on certain topics because they want to avoid eliciting his wrath and are “scared s–tless” of him, a new report says. “It’s like, ‘You can’t include that, that will set him off,’ or ‘Put that in, he likes that,’”a senior …
PHILADELPHIA — Former President Donald Trump said Saturday that he knows who his vice presidential pick will be — and gave a clue about his or her likely debate night plans. When asked by NBC News during a Philadelphia campaign stop whether he has decided on his vice presidential pick, Trump responded, “In my mind, …
Vandaag is er een afschuwelijk incident geweest waarbij een persoon in een vliegtuigmotor is beland. Onze gedachten gaan uit naar de nabestaanden en we hebben zorg voor de passagiers en collega’s die dit hebben gezien. De Koninklijke Marechaussee voert momenteel onderzoek uit. https://t.co/G7QD0Ihevl — Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (@Schiphol) May 29, 2024 a KLM flight which …
NEW YORK – Police have arrested a man they say randomly punched a woman in the face in Chelsea. Halley Kate’s video about the attack went viral on TikTok, garnering tens of millions of views. Word of the arrest comes as NYPD sources confirm they are now looking into several similar random attacks on women between …
JFC — every single person on the Google AI team should be fired $GOOGL https://t.co/1xjvutSIqm — The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) February 25, 2024 pic.twitter.com/wVpNjtmsLj — Salt Creek Ghost (@creek_ghost) February 25, 2024
An elderly man from Alaska has become the first person to die after contracting Alaskapox. The recently discovered viral disease is a double-stranded DNA virus which is believed to mainly circulate between mammals, occasionally transmitting to humans. Symptoms include skin lesions, swollen lymph nodes, and muscle pain. The victim, from Kenai Peninsula in Alaska, was …
by Chris Black Reuters: The European Union reached agreement early on Wednesday on new rules designed to share out the cost and work of hosting migrants more evenly and to limit the numbers of people coming in. I welcome the historic agreement on the Pact on Migration and Asylum Congratulations to the European Parliament and Council for …
Vivek Ramaswamy: "Why am I the only person on this stage at least who can say that January 6 now does look like it was an inside job? That the government lied to us for 20 years about Saudi Arabia's involvement in 9/11…?" pic.twitter.com/yZfGQuoTrr — The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) December 7, 2023 Vivek Ramaswamy calls …
BREAKING: Britain’s First Human Case of Swine Flu Strain H1N2 Has Been Detected – UK Health Security Agency. Here we go again🐷 pic.twitter.com/1Uzvc5IZCX — Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis (@DrLoupis) November 27, 2023 Per The Guardian: Health officials are scrambling to trace contacts of a person infected with a new form of swine flu, after the …
Hui Ka Yan, the founder and chairman of embattled Chinese property developer Evergrande, was once Asia’s second-richest person worth $42 billion in 2017. But the tycoon has fallen far from his perch. Hui — who is now under police surveillance — recently lost his billionaire status after his fortune plunged 98% from its peak amid …
Adults should be able to cover rent for a one-bedroom apartment AND groceries. h/t ChefAccurate942
Time and time again, we see DC big wigs use the same, exact key buzzwords in their social media. We all know most of these people don’t write their own Tweets… but with all that money they spend, can they at least put in some originality to it? h/t EuphoricTrilby
If shopping feels more like a hassle than it used to, that’s because it probably is. More American stores are doing with fewer employees and many have locked items up to keep them from being pilfered. With slowing sales and rising theft eating into profits, the risk is that retailers’ countermeasures will make in-person shopping …
