Apparently, no one ever died before the COVID vaccines My god this is stupid … so stupid it makes my head hurt. Many of Donald Trump’s fiercest supporters are convinced MAGA influencer Rochelle “Silk” Richardson—half of the “Diamond and Silk” duo—attempted to send the former president a secret message during Saturday’s ceremony to celebrate her sister’s life. And what supposedly was that covert message that Silk floated while speaking at Lynnette “Diamond” Hardaway’s funeral? A plea for Trump to stop pushing COVID-19 vaccinations. In her nearly hour-long speech, Silk shared what occurred during Diamond’s final minutes with around 150 attendees at a theater in Fayetteville, North Carolina. “She said to me, ‘I can’t breathe.’ It was something out of nowhere and no warning,” Silk recalled. “Each breath was less and less and less.” “What I want to say to everybody is don’t you dare call me a conspiracy theorist. Because I saw it happen. I saw how it happened.
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Warning, if you own cats or have neighbourhood felines, you may not be aware of the significant consequences of a cat bite. read now...Simon Thompson recalled by parliamentary committee to answer for alleged false claims The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has spoken out about the decision of a committee of MPs to recall Royal Mail CEO Simon Thompson to Parliament to answer for allegedly misleading in his answers to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee alongside […]
I’m posting a talk, which I gave nearly two years ago. Whoops! Forgot to publish it! This was an original talk for Lead Night 2021 which was hosted by OU President’s Community Scholars (PCS). The event was held on March 11, 2021 and included four TED Talk-style presentations. The theme was “Leadership Unmasked” (very 2021, […]
Officials from India's ruling right-wing party said American tech companies like Twitter and YouTube complied with demands to remove the documentary.
The post Elon Musk Caves to Pressure From India to Remove BBC Doc Critical of Modi appeared first on The Intercept.
Paul Krugman on where we stand From his newsletter today (subscription only) The U.S. federal government last ran a budget surplus in the fiscal year 2001. (Fiscal years begin in October of the previous calendar year. Don’t ask.) Since then, the government has borrowed roughly $20 trillion. That’s a large number, even for an economy as big as America’s: Federal debt held by the public has roughly tripled as a percentage of gross domestic product, from 32 percent to 94 percent. I argued in my last column that, despite all this borrowing, we are not in any kind of debt crisis. Historically, in fact, U.S. debt isn’t all that unusual. For example, over the past three centuries Britain emerged from each major war with debt as a percentage of G.D.P. well above the current U.S. level, and took many decades to bring that debt ratio back down:Britain has borrowed a lot over the years. Still, the political history of America’s 21st-century deficits isn’t edifying. George W. Bush squandered that 2001 surplus he inherited largely on tax cuts that favored the wealthy and the invasion of Iraq, both sold to the public on false pretenses.
Around 15 advisers, deputy ministers and regional governors either resigned or were fired as a massive corruption drive shakes up the Ukrainian government.
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Low rating cable channel Sky News Australia has demanded that the fictional green M&M spokes candy be named this years Australian of the year. ”For too long we have had to sit back and watch a parade of woke leftists... Read More ›
While Paul Budde is an expert in the field of technology, this week he's letting artificial intelligence speak for itself to discuss the current state of AI. read now...By Ben Cohen: Salon.com
Ben & Jerry's co-founder: Joe Biden stood up for press freedom as a candidate — but backtracked in the White House
It is far past time to reenact an assault weapons ban and get these weapons of war out of our communities.
The post ‘This Is a National Emergency’: Dems Push for Assault Weapons Ban Amid String of Massacres appeared first on scheerpost.com.
Father Time is ticking away in our DNA.
The post The Universal Clock of Aging appeared first on Nautilus.
You knew they would be, right? The WaPo reports: House Republicans have started to weigh a series of legislative proposals targeting Social Security, Medicare and other entitlement programs, part of a broader campaign to slash federal spending that could force the new majority to grapple with some of the most difficult and delicate issues in American politics. Only weeks after taking control of the chamber, GOP lawmakers under new Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) have rallied around firm pledges for austerity, insisting their efforts can improve the nation’s fiscal health. They have signaled they are willing to leverage the fight over the debt ceiling — and the threat of a fiscal doomsday — to seek major policy concessions from the Biden administration. So far, the party has focused its attention on slimming down federal health care, education, science and labor programs, perhaps by billions of dollars. But some Republicans also have pitched a deeper examination of entitlements, which account for much of the government’s annual spending — and reflect some of the greatest looming fiscal challenges facing the United States.
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Jeff Zients has spent most of his career working in for-profit health care companies with worrying allegations.
The post Biden’s New Chief of Staff Might Be Very Bad News appeared first on The Intercept.
“Mike Pence kept me from having a complete collection of documents, and that, quite frankly, is a disgrace,” the former President said.
Today, I have a few news and information items. First, I detail how to migrate to Mastodon so that you can continue to follow me as I escape Twitter. Second, I provide enrolment details for the next offering of our MMT edX MOOC. Third, I provide access details to my annual Helsinki public lecture which will take place tomorrow starting at 19:00 EAST.Bill Mitchell – billy blog
Migrating to Mastodon and some additional announcements
Bill Mitchell | Professor in Economics and Director of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE), at University of Newcastle, NSW, Australiael