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Calls made for IRS probe into Biden's Ukraine spending policy


RT
Fri, 11 Nov 2022 18:54 UTC
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© Fox News
US conservative commentator Candace Owens said on a TV show that America's aid for Kiev is a "money-laundering operation"

The generous aid packages provided by the US to Ukraine in recent months are nothing but an underhand scheme aimed at defrauding American taxpayers, a prominent conservative commentator and talk show host has claimed. Candace Owens also urged the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to look into the alleged abuse.

Appearing on Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight, Owens argued that it was "suspicious" that immediately after the US pulled its troops from Afghanistan on August 31, 2021, the Biden administration announced it was joining an effort to "help Ukraine join NATO."

"We left one money-laundering operation, in which we gave 50 billion dollars of American payers' hard-earned money, and we jumped right into the next one," she claimed.

Comment: Love her or hate her, Owens is correct with respect to Zelensky. If she's got the receipts she should release them.

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Family

Chick-fil-A operator introduces 3-day workweek. Result: 100% employee retention


KABC
Fri, 04 Nov 2022 18:18 UTC
chick fil a store florida happy employees
Justin Lindsey's Kendall, FL store
What staffing shortage? One Miami Chick-fil-A owner-operator has been deluged with applications after switching his staff to a three-day, 14-hour-per-day workweek.

Justin Lindsey was looking for a novel way to reward workers who were "literally working 70 hours a week, week in and week out," he recently told QSR magazine.

The popular franchise was profitable and sales were robust but that was coming at the expense of staff burnout. So, early this year, Lindsey cooked up a new recipe for success: overhauling weekly schedules.

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Hammer

Nailed It: Amazon becomes the first company ever to lose $1 trillion in stock value

Mack DeGeurin
Gizmodo
Wed, 09 Nov 2022 17:35 UTC
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© Drew Angerer (Getty Images)
The top four most valuable U.S. companies reportedly lost a combined $4 trillion in market cap this year. Ouch.

Amazon, one of the first companies to join the prestigious $1 trillion dollar valuation club, just passed another, admittedly less desirable milestone. This week, Jeff Bezos' Everything Store became the first publicly traded company to lose $1 tillion in market valuation.

The mind boggling figures, first noted by Bloomberg, are the results of a worsening economy, repeatedly dour earnings reports, and massive stock selloffs. Amazon, valued at $1.882 trillion on June 21, on Thursday reported a comparatively measly $878 billion valuation. Microsoft, which briefly surpassed Apple as the world's most valuable company last year, wasn't far behind, with market valuation losses hovering around $900 billion. Combined, the two companies' declines capture the effect of a lousy year most in tech would like to soon forget.
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Attention

Downtown San Francisco Whole Foods slashes store hours due to 'high theft' and hostile people

Garrett Leahy
The San Francisco Standard
Wed, 09 Nov 2022 13:57 UTC
Whole Foods San Francisco
© Camille Cohen/The StandardA Whole Foods customer shops at the Mid-Market location in San Francisco on June 17, 2022.
A Downtown San Francisco Whole Foods Market slashed its operating hours due to "high theft" and hostile people, according to one of the store's managers.

As of Oct. 24, the store — located at 1185 Market St. — is now opening an hour later and closing two hours earlier: from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

"It's to better serve our customers, and it's more or less because of the area and security issues," said the store's manager, who asked to remain anonymous. "There's just high theft and people being hostile."

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Roses

The funeral business is booming. And not because of Covid

Alex Berenson
Unreported Truths
Wed, 02 Nov 2022 00:00 UTC
funeral business
How bad is the rise in mortality?

So bad funeral companies are starting to worry.

Today Service Corporation International, the largest for-profit funeral operator in North America, had its quarterly earnings call. SCI had another great quarter, you'll be pleased to hear! So far in 2022 the company has made almost $500 million in profits - and its stock rose more than 10 percent today after its earnings report.

(Death is your best investment!)

Comment: We're reminded of several statements made by those in a position to know:
Medical doctors and scientists predicted sharp death increases after vaccine distribution

In fact, as early as March 2021, board-certified pathologist Dr. Ryan Cole reported that he was seeing a massive "uptick" in various autoimmune diseases and cancers in patients who had been COVID-vaccinated.

"Since January [2021], in the laboratory, I'm seeing a 20-times increase of endometrial cancers over what I see on an annual basis," he said.

For many doctors who have examined these experimental COVID-19 injections, the increased death rates are not surprising.

Geert Vanden Bossche, a former senior officer of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, drew significant attention in March 2021 when he issued an open letter and video warning of a "global catastrophe without equal" due to experimental COVID-19 vaccination programs.

Around the same time, Yeadon, who is a former Pfizer vice president and chief scientist for allergy and respiratory, stated, "If someone wished to harm or kill a significant proportion of the world's population over the next few years, the systems being put in place right now will enable it."

"It's my considered view that it is entirely possible that this [system of widespread gene-based vaccination] will be used for massive-scale depopulation," he said.

Others have said that these shots are a "technology designed to poison people," and Dr. Shankara Chetty of South Africa concluded that the purpose of the pandemic and vaccine campaigns is to "control and kill off a large proportion of our population without anyone suspecting that we were poisoned."

Furthermore, "the deaths that are meant to follow the vaccinations will never be able to be pinned on the poison. They will be too diverse, there will be too many, and they will be in too broad a timeframe for us to understand that we have been poisoned."


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Oil Well

Russian oil Price Cap Will Not Apply To Resold Cargoes

Michael Kern
Oil Pice
Fri, 04 Nov 2022 07:44 UTC
Oil Ship
The United States and its Western allies have agreed that a cargo of Russian oil will only be subject to the price cap mechanism at the first sale of the oil to a buyer on land, sources familiar with the ongoing discussions told The Wall Street Journal on Friday.

This means that the upcoming price cap will not apply to the resale of the same Russian cargo. The price cap will not apply to a cargo of Russian crude processed into gasoline when the gasoline is sold, either.

However, intermediary sales and trades of Russian oil happening at sea should be subject to the price cap, according to the Journal's sources.

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Dominoes

Activists launch 'Don't Run Joe' campaign against Biden


RT
Thu, 10 Nov 2022 03:23 UTC
Joe Biden
© AP / Susan WalshJoe Biden listens to a question from a reporter as he speaks at the White House in Washington, DC, November 9, 2022
A left-wing fundraising group has launched a campaign demanding that the Democratic Party run someone else instead of President Joe Biden in 2024. Citing Biden's low approval rating and the risk of a Republican victory over the incumbent, the group wants a more progressive candidate to usher in "systemic changes."

RootsAction fundraised for Biden in 2020, after backing progressive stalwart Senator Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Party's primaries, and previously in Sanders' 2016 campaign.

"While I appreciate the many good things that Biden has proposed - specifically, student debt relief and the American Rescue Plan - I am not confident that Joe Biden is the leader we need to take us into the next term," New Hampshire state Representative Sherry Frost said in a statement on RootsAction's website on Wednesday.

Frost cited "the fatal dysfunction in our economy" and Biden's closeness to "the military-industrial complex and oligarchy" as factors behind her support for the 'Don't Run Joe' campaign.
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France charges right-wingers over plot to attack Macron


RT
Thu, 10 Nov 2022 02:53 UTC
Emmanuel Macron
© AFP / Ludovic MarinEmmanuel Macron waves upon the arrival of Colombian President Gustavo Petro at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris, France, November 10, 2022
A group of people with far-right views have been ordered to stand trial over an alleged plot to attack President Emmanuel Macron in 2018. The suspected leader of the accused allegedly discussed stabbing Macron with a ceramic knife at a public event.

The group - 11 men and two women - are facing charges of terrorist conspiracy and preparing terrorist acts, crimes carrying sentences of up to 30 years in prison, AFP reported on Thursday.

In conversations in a Facebook group in 2018, the suspects allegedly planned attacks on mosques, migrants, and members of Macron's government. Their suspected leader, a retired man named Jean-Pierre Bouyer, allegedly discussed sneaking an undetectable ceramic knife into an event attended by Macron, with the aim of attacking the president.

Comment: Quite a plot for only 13 people. Works out great for the French government who get to parade the useful idiots about as proof of the danger of right wing views.

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Hardhat

EU country's biggest nuclear reactor suffers turbine failure


RT
Fri, 11 Nov 2022 02:22 UTC
Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant
© Mikael Fritzon / TT News Agency / APThe Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant in Sweden, 2008.
Sweden's biggest nuclear reactor was taken off the grid after a turbine failure on Wednesday. It is the third incident at the country's southern Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant this year.

"The issue that caused the shutdown has now been fixed," Desiree Liljevall, the spokeswoman for the plant's operator, OKG, said, adding that the reactor will be relaunched soon.

"We know what has happened, but we can't comment on it," Liljevall added.

The Oskarshamn facility is one of the country's three active nuclear power plants. Its reactor is Sweden's biggest electricity producer.

The reactor was previously shut down for a week in February due to a fuel leak, and later shut down for a day in July.

The plant's two other reactors stopped operating in the 2010s, as Europe has largely been on course to transition to alternative energy sources and a 'green economy'.

Comment: Most likely a one-off event. But even being shut down for a short time can cause significant disruptions considering the wider energy crunch within the EU.

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Stormtrooper

Mask mandates coming back to Canada?

Sharon Kirkey
National Post
Thu, 10 Nov 2022 23:51 UTC
kids masks
© Denis Poroy
Masks remind people of what they've been through, "and would sooner not experience again," says clinical psychologist Steven Taylor. Which is one reason why governments and public health leaders may be understandably reluctant, he and others said, to bring mask mandates back, despite growing calls to do just that.

Toronto's public health board has requested the city's top doctor "urgently explore" re-issuing mask mandates, beginning with schools. Ottawa's children's hospital, overrun by such an extraordinarily high surge in seasonal infections it's had to open a second ICU, is pleading for residents to mask-up for the sake of their kids. Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada's chief public health officer said Thursday that masks, as an added layer of protection, "might actually make a difference" in dampening the respiratory viral surge. At the University of Waterloo, masks are now required for lectures, seminars, tests, exams, and all other forms of "indoor academic instruction."


Comment: In other words, it's the same people calling for masks as last time as there is no growing call for it in Canada.

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