WASHINGTON (AP) — More than $200 billion may have been stolen from two large COVID-19 relief initiatives, according to new estimates from a federal watchdog investigating federally funded programs that helped small businesses survive the worst public health crisis in more than a hundred years. The numbers issued Tuesday by the U.S. Small Business Administration inspector general are much greater than the office’s previous projections...
"This whole scheme is not about ratings or news ... It is about controlling the narrative and what most people that are not "in the know" see on their TV and hear on their morning news. It is called propaganda for a reason and it tends to brainwash the simple who are just trying to get by in life. This is why in Communist countries the professors and those wise enough to not listen to the news or government are usually 'purged' every couple of years. Stay away from all the paid-to-play media. Listen to the Holy Spirit and use the gift of a discerning spirit to know what is the truth and what is fabrication. Malachi 3:17-18."
Sam Costanza/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images"New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) has brought the city to a new milestone with border crossers and illegal aliens now outnumbering New Yorkers in homeless shelters... “The tipping point took place Sunday, when 50,000 migrants were in the City’s care, outnumbering the 49,700 local shelter residents,” NBC New York reports...
1778 - Mary "Molly Pitcher" Hays McCauley, wife of an American artilleryman, carried water to the soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth and, supposedly, took her husband's place at his gun after he was overcome with heat.
1894 - The U.S. Congress made Labor Day a U.S. national holiday.
1902 - The U.S. Congress passed the Spooner bill, it authorized a canal to be built across the isthmus of Panama.
1914 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo along with his wife, Duchess Sophie.
1949 - The last U.S. combat troops were called home from Korea, leaving only 500 advisers.
1950 - North Korean forcescaptured Seoul, South Korea.
2007 - The American bald eagle was removed from the endangered species list.
2010 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Americans have the right to own a gun for self-defense anywhere they live.
North Korea held mass rallies across the nation Saturday, which marked the "day of struggle against U.S. imperialism," when government leaders promised to "annihilate the enemy," according to its propaganda outlet.
Rallies were held in each providence of the nation, and an extensive list of government leaders spoke to denounce the U.S. as "imperialist beasts," according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency. The gatherings in Pyongyang reached 120,000 attendees, the propaganda wing reported.
Michigan’s partner in advanced manufacturing wants 75% of cars off the road by 2050. How does that make sense for the American auto industry?
A World Economic Forum white paper published last month supports a vision where three in every four vehicles is removed from the road by 2050.
Last year, World Economic Forum and Automation Alley, in Troy, collaborated to create the U.S. Centre for Advanced Manufacturing. Why is Detroit, the one-time king of the American auto industry, partnering with a group so at odds with the way people in Michigan live and work?
...The World Economic Forum put this all on paper in 2019.
The partnership for advanced manufacturing was created three years later, at a cost of $6 million taxpayer dollars... The May 2023 paper is called “The Urban Mobility Scorecard Tool: Benchmarking the Transition to Sustainable Urban Mobility,” and was produced in collaboration with Visa. The future it envisions is one with “vehicle access regulations.”...
Under House Bill 4234, a union could double or triple its giving to preferred candidates
"...Rep. Penelope Tsernoglou, D-East Lansing, introduced one such bill, House Bill 4234.
The bill would amend the Michigan Campaign Finance Act to allow labor unions to collect political funds from consenting workers through a payroll deduction plan... In this bill, the deduction could fund contributions to the union’s political action committee, or PAC, something that was previously prohibited... Read it for yourself: House Bill 4234 of 2023 ...
Hundreds of suspicious packages containing white powder and threatening notes have been sent to GOP lawmakers in three states where Republicans have recently passed legislation unpopular with fringe LGBT activists, such as laws protecting children from sex-change mutilations and puberty blockers.
The latest was addressed to Montana House Speaker Matt Regier, bearing exterior post markings that "follow the pattern of the other letters."
“[Immortal cells] are, technically speaking, precancerous and can be, in some cases, fully cancerous,” Bloomberg freelancer Joe Fassler noted.
The typically left-leaning outlet quickly tried to assuage the obvious concerns it had just raised.
“Don’t worry: Prominent cancer researchers tell Bloomberg Businessweek that because the cells aren’t human, it’s essentially impossible for people who eat them to get cancer from them, or for the precancerous or cancerous cells to replicate inside people at all,” Fassler wrote.
"It's a chronic problem in some Detroit neighborhoods: blighted homes and vacant lots where homes once stood being used as dumping grounds or for other undesirable activity. Mayor Mike Duggan on Wednesday is slated to unveil anew initiative to turn at least some of those unloved neighborhood properties into hosts for solar power arrays, generating renewable energy for city-owned buildings — if the neighbors are OK with that...
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, a vocal critic of the Bidens, told the New York Post that the “fact that it took over five years to even secure a plea on a couple of small misdemeanors is a testament to a family that has leveraged Joe Biden public positions into a fortune of foreign influence peddling.”
Bill’s Blog: The Drought of 1988 - by: Bill Steffen - Posted: Jun 26, 2023 / 03:55 PM EDT GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — 1988 saw the worst drought we’ve had since the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. The drought began in April and lasted into July.
Here in Grand Rapids, we had a stretch of 73 days from April 28 – July 9 with only 1.32 inches of rain...
It wasn’t just the drought, it was the heat. Grand Rapids had a record 37 days that reached 90 degrees and we recorded our first 100-degree day since 1964...
This was also the year of the Great Yellowstone fire. Nearly 800,000 acres were burnt in that fire. That’s an area about 1.4 times the size of Kent County.
To our west, Milwaukee went 55 consecutive days with no measurable rain...
A disturbing look at the “queering of medicine”, policies impacted by climate pseudoscience, and the push for using hospice from hospital chains.
"Dr. Erica Li is a pediatrician practicing in the state of Washington, as well as teaching medical students from three medical schools and interns from four residency programs. Li recently published a chilling piece in Substack about the current state of medicine in this country, which she referred to as being “postmodern.”
...While it leverages the same technologies as Modern medicine, thereby superficially resembling it, it fundamentally seeks to dismantle Modern medicine’s underlying philosophy. While Postmodern medicine is being propagated across American medical schools through Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion bureaucracies, nothing exemplifies Postmodernity more than the gender ideology that drives American “gender-affirming” model of care. I wish to strongly advocate for Modern medicine and urge readers to resist the ideological shift towards the Postmodernizing or “queering” of my profession... However, I reject the overmedicalization of children propagated by many gender activists. At its core, Postmodern medicine is as far removed from Modern medicine as witch-burning. It poses serious risks to patient welfare and should be vehemently resisted...
COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization turned negative over time, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data presented on June 15.
The effectiveness against hospitalization plummeted to negative 8 percent for people who received one of the old COVID-19 vaccines, according to data from a CDC-run hospital network...
The White House received backlash Saturday after it was reported that Hunter Biden was accompanying his father to Camp David amid bombshell whistleblower allegations of political corruption – along with recently pleading guilty to federal tax charges and agreeing to plea deal on a felony gun charge.
The House Ways and Means Committee revealed Thursday its interview with an IRS whistleblower last month who shared a WhatsApp message from 2017 in which Hunter Biden allegedly told a Chinese business associate that he and his father would ensure "you will regret not following my direction."
"States are looking for ways to keep the funds coming in order to maintain the nation's roads. Gas taxes have been used for more than a century for the purpose. The problem that has developed is those taxes are generating less each year due to inflation, fuel efficiency and the rise of electric cars. States are experimenting with various ideas that could eventually replace those taxes. One proposal that seems to be gaining in popularity would be to charge drivers by the mile instead of the gallon...
1693 - "The Ladies' Mercury" was published by John Dunton in London. It was the first women's magazine and contained a "question and answer" column that became known as a "problem page."
1787 - Edward Gibbon completed "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." It was published the following May.
1893 - The New York stock market crashed. By the end of the year 600 banks and 74 railroads had gone out of business.
1929 - Scientists at Bell Laboratories in New York revealed a system for transmitting television pictures.
1954 - The world's first atomic power station opened at Obninsk, near Moscow.
1955 - The state of Illinois enacted the first automobile seat belt legislation.
2002 - In the U.S., the Securities and Exchange Commission required companies with annual sales of more than $1.2 billion to submit sworn statements backing up the accuracy of their financial reports.
