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The US has a disability crisis

Jeffrey A. Tucker
The Epoch Times
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:00 UTC
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics has an ongoing household survey to provide a snapshot of where we are in the jobs and the labor market generally. This survey has usually proven to be the most accurate measure. Part of the survey includes questions concerning disability. It's not about claims; it's about answers to the following questions.
  1. Are you deaf, or do you have serious difficulty hearing?
  2. Are you blind, or do you have serious difficulty seeing even when wearing glasses?
  3. Because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition, do you have serious difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions?
  4. Do you have serious difficulty walking or climbing stairs?
  5. Do you have difficulty dressing or bathing?
  6. Because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition, do you have difficulty doing errands alone, such as visiting a doctor's office or shopping?
You can take issue with this questionnaire and observe that people might perhaps exaggerate. Who, for example, hasn't navigated a long flight of stairs and found himself rather fatigued at the end? Chronic obesity would tip the scales. At some point in the aging process, we all become disabled.
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Bizarro Earth

Can the Dark Ages Return?

Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:41 UTC
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Western civilization arose in the 8th century B.C. Greece. Some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial culture of Mycenaean Greece.

But what reemerged were constitutional government, rationalism, liberty, freedom of expression, self-critique, and free markets — what we know now as the foundation of a unique Western civilization.

The Roman Republic inherited and enhanced the Greek model.

For a millennium, the Republic and subsequent Empire spread Western culture, eventually to be inseparable from Christianity.
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Vader

Brussels: EU blocks protesting farmers using barbed wire, tear gas and water cannons


ReMix News
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:08 UTC
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© AP Photo/Marius BurgelmanA fire burns in a barrel as European farmers block a road with their tractors during a demonstration outside the EU Summit in Brussels, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025
EU farmers protesting the free trade Mercosur agreement are being met with force in Brussels. Hungary PM Orbán says farmers are '100% right'

As the EU moves to crush protesting farmers demonstrating in Brussels, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán offered full backing to the farmers and their efforts to stop the EU's Mercosur free trade deal, which threatens to destroy food security in Europe.

"Farmers are 100 percent right," said Orbán, who is currently in Brussels attending the EU Summit.

He added that the farmers have obvious issues with the Mercosur package, a free trade agreement with Latin American countries, because it "kills the farmers."

"Hungary is one of the countries that does not support the Mercosur agreement. There were serious professional debates about this in Hungary, and the Hungarian position was that we do not support this," said the prime minister.
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Bullseye

DOJ quietly plugs Clinton-era loophole that expanded immigrant welfare benefits

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:23 UTC
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© AP/J. Scott ApplewhitePresident Bill Clinton signing the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
For almost 30 years, a key part of America's 1996 welfare reform laws has existed mostly on paper after the Clinton DOJ effectively nullified it with a loophole. Now, the Trump DOJ says it's time to enforce those laws as Congress originally wrote them.

Earlier this week, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel quietly reversed a Clinton-era legal opinion that had sharply limited when immigrants could be denied federal welfare benefits. The earlier interpretation narrowed the law so much, critics say, that it allowed many immigrants - including some who were not lawfully eligible - to continue receiving benefits Congress intended to restrict.

The new DOJ opinion restores a broader reading of the law, potentially expanding waiting periods for benefits, strengthening sponsor repayment requirements, and closing loopholes that have existed since the late 1990s.
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Light switch

30% of San Francisco hit with power outage that left 130,000 in the dark

Nicholas McEntyre
New York Post
Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:08 UTC
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© Associated PressThe power failure left a large swath of the northern part of the city in the dark, beginning with the Richmond and Presidio neighborhoods and areas around Golden Gate Park in the early afternoon and growing in size, December 20, 2025
Self-driving cars stalled in middle of streets

San Francisco plunged into darkness when nearly 30 percent of the city was struck by a power outage, which brought vital transportation, such as self-driving cars, to a grinding halt on Saturday night.

Over 130,000 houses and businesses were left in the dark, largely in the northwest part of San Francisco, including the Richmond, Sunset, Presidio, and Golden Gate Park sections, officials said on Saturday.

As of early Sunday morning, more than 29,000 people were still without power, according to PowerOutageUS.

The "citywide" outages forced Waymo to halt its driverless car service, stranding the autonomous vehicles in the middle of the streets, SF Gate reported.

Comment: Given San Francisico's dismal record on maintaining municipal assets, buckle up. This event will not be a one-off.

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Hiliter

Fulton County: 'We don't dispute' 315,000 votes lacking poll workers' signatures were counted in 2020

Brianna Lyman
The Federalist
Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00 UTC
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© screenshotFulton County meeting
'When the law demands three signatures on tabulator tapes and the county fails to follow the rules, those 315,000 votes are, by definition, uncertified.'

Earlier this month, Fulton County admitted that approximately 315,000 early votes from the 2020 election were illegally certified but were nonetheless still included in the final results of that election.

The admission came during a Dec. 9 hearing before the Georgia State Election Board (SEB) stemming from a challenge filed by David Cross, a local election integrity activist. Cross filed a challenge with the SEB in March 2022. Cross alleged that Fulton County violated Georgia statute in the handling of advanced voting ahead of the November 2020 election, counting hundreds of thousands of votes even though polling workers failed to sign off on the vote tabulation "tapes" critical to the certification process.

And Fulton County admitted to it.
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Shopping Bag

Instacart to pay $60 million in refunds after feds allege it deceived customers

Megan Cerullo
CBS News
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:19 UTC
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Instacart has agreed to refund $60 million to customers to settle allegations that the grocery shopping service engaged in deceptive marketing and billing practices, the Federal Trade Commission said Thursday.

The agency alleged in a lawsuit that Instacart charged hidden fees and refused to issue refunds, raising the cost of groceries for consumers and harming shoppers.

"Instacart misled consumers by advertising free delivery services — and then charging consumers to have groceries delivered — and failing to disclose to consumers that signed up for a free trial that they would be automatically enrolled into its subscription program," Christopher Mufarrige, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a statement.
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Sherlock

Canadian intelligence officer charged with spying for Ukraine - media


RT
Wed, 17 Dec 2025 15:07 UTC
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The suspect allegedly shared state secrets without authorization, but prosecutors claim it did not pose a "serious" national security risk.

A Canadian military counter-intelligence officer has been charged with espionage after allegedly sharing sensitive state secrets with Ukraine, according to local media reports.

Master Warrant Officer Matthew Robar was arrested last week and appeared before a military court on Monday to face charges of "communicating special operational information," breaching Canada's Security of Information Act, and delivering "special operational information to a foreign entity or to a terrorist group." The offences carry a potential life sentence.

The foreign entity has not been named during the proceedings but sources cited by The Globe and Mail have identified it as Ukraine.
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Take 2

Leaked Video: Woke Elite College Held "Disgusting" Sexual Orientation Performance

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:08 UTC
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Amherst College, proudly one of America's wokest institutions, has once again outdone itself in the name of "sexual respect."

A group of traumatized students claim they were effectively coerced into a mandatory orientation spectacle where student performers humped under blankets, moaned theatrically, and pelted the audience with condoms "like confetti," footage leaked to the Washington Free Beacon shows.

Junior Isabella Niemi, who endured an earlier edition of the show, told the Free Beacon the "grossly sexual" skit nearly broke her impeccable rule-following streak.

"I thought about leaving 10 minutes in. I'm not someone who breaks rules or skips mandatory events, but it was disgusting enough it almost forced me to leave," Niemi lamented.
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Black Magic

Knife attacker kills three after smoke bombing Taiwan metro

Martin Yip and Seher Asaf
BBC
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:02 UTC
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At least three people have been killed and nine others injured as a knife-wielding attacker ‍went ‍on a ​rampage in the Taiwanese capital Taipei.

The 27-year-old suspect set off smoke bombs at Taipei's main metro station, before running to another station in a busy shopping district, stabbing people along the way, Taiwanese Premier Cho Jung-tai said.

The suspect, named by officials as Taiwanese man Chang Wen, later died after falling from a multi-storey building, Cho added. His motive remains unclear.

Attacks of this kind are rare in Taiwan, which has low rates of violent crime. The last time a similar incident struck Taipei was more than a decade ago in 2014.
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