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There have been more cases of Polio, and many headlines this month have been "Polio is back".

And as there is talk about starting to vaccinate people again for Polio, the conspiracies are running wild. Just like Covid-19, polio is apparently political and is being used to control the narrative. Or even worse, never actually existed.

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I got this from my father yesterday. And he firmly and genuinely believes this to the the truth.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
There have been more cases of Polio, and many headlines this month have been "Polio is back".

And as there is talk about starting to vaccinate people again for Polio, the conspiracies are running wild. Just like Covid-19, polio is apparently political and is being used to control the narrative. Or even worse, never actually existed.

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I got this from my father yesterday. And he firmly and genuinely believes this to the the truth.
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Well, I’m convinced. Does he have a mailing list?
 
What is everyone's thoughts on the Feds raising the interest rates and will continue to do so until inflation has ended?

I just watched an interview with Elizabeth Warren about this topic and she is very concerned.

She says you have to look at what is driving inflation. It's Covid still interrupting the supply chain, it's the war in Ukraine and its large corporations price gouging just because they can. Raising interest rates does nothing to resolve those issues. Jerome Powell has admitted as much in congressional hearings.

Elizabeth Warren also translated what Jerome Powell meant when he said "some are going to hurt". That hurt is going to be the loss of jobs as corporations lay people off and small businesses going out of business because they can't afford to borrow money.

The feds current plan is to continue to raise interest rates and keep them high until inflation has ended and is well behind us. But doing so may cause a recession.

Some will say the economy is strong and that by definition a recession is not coming. But Elizabeth Warren's concern is what is a strong economy when the working class are hurting.

Is raising interest rates more about keeping wages down than controlling rising prices? Because the reasons behind the current inflation will not just go away just because interest rates go up.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
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Russia Confounds the West by Recapturing Its Oil Riches — The Wall Street Journal

Moscow is raking in more revenue than ever with the help of new buyers, new traders and the world’s seemingly insatiable demand for crude
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Why are so many counties turning to Russia for crude? And are the people of a Russia benefiting any or are they still undergoing hard times from all the sanctions?
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Because China and India are as interested in a European war as Europe and America would be in an South Asian or Indochinese one that didn’t effect our economic interests.
 
Jan said:
www.theguardian.com

The lesson from Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness? Go big or go home | Hamilton Nolan

Biden will get backlash from Republicans whether he does a little or a lot – so you might as well do a lot
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This pretty accurately sums it all up

The conflation of defeatism with wisdom means that expressing the belief that we should just do what needs to be done in order to make the world a just place is enough to convince the political world that the speaker is a rube.
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Of all the modern Russian leaders (post-Stalin), Gorbachev was definitely one of the most fascinating. I'm looking forward to reading one of the now inevitable biographies that will come out on him now.
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Last Soviet leader Gorbachev, who ended Cold War and won Nobel prize, dies aged 91

(Reuters) -Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said. Gorbachev, the last Soviet president, forged arms reduction deals with the United States and...
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RenegadeMonster said:
There have been more cases of Polio, and many headlines this month have been "Polio is back".

And as there is talk about starting to vaccinate people again for Polio, the conspiracies are running wild. Just like Covid-19, polio is apparently political and is being used to control the narrative. Or even worse, never actually existed.

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I got this from my father yesterday. And he firmly and genuinely believes this to the the truth.
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Whenever I see the conspiracies heat up I think of something a friend of mine said around May 2020: "See the people on your friends list that say 'Plandemic?" Those aren't the smart ones."
 
The Mayor of Salem is running for Lieutenant Governor in Massachusetts.

I've always found her to be progressive, she made Salem a sanctuary city and has been pushing hard for affordable housing since taking office. Unfortunately, the affordable housing hasn't panned out as she has been blocked at every attempt by the requirement to have a supermajority vote to pass zoning in MA.

You should see the attack ads on TV right now bashing her. Their angle of attack is who she's accepted political donations from. And someone found that one of her donners, a developer, is also one of Mitch McConnell's donners. So obviously, this means she has ties to Mitch McConnell and that's the whole point of the ad attacking her :rolleyes:

When I was at the barber shop last week, the barber and the customer ahead of me were talking about the Mayor of Salem. And they didn't like her one bit. They are angry that Salem is a "sanctuary city" and blame this action by the mayor for the increase in the homeless population and crime Salem has seen under her.

Of course these are unrelated issues, but you couldn't convince them of that. Being a sanctuary city has nothing to do with the homeless population, nor crime. It just means the police won't deport or report people who are not legally in the United States. And I can almost guarantee you the "illegals" are most likely not part of the homeless population or committing crime. They are trying to fly under the radar and make a living.

As the cost of living goes up in MA, so too does the number of homeless. The pandemic didn't help either and only helped to increase the number of homeless. Salem has more homeless for 2 reasons. The cost of living is going up and Salem is one of the city that provides the most services for the homeless in the state. So homeless people migrated from other areas to Salem for services they require to live. So what's the answer here? Providing no services / amenities for homeless is not the answer, but sadly most default to this because it's the easy answer and they despise their tax dollars going to the homeless.

As for Crime, people are hurting. With more homeless, and people struggling to make it day to day it's not surprising that crime is up as well. And I don't think this is something a mayor has the means to really properly address.
 
F*ck these people. For Christians, they are seriously lacking in the empathy department.

A federal judge in Texas agreed on Wednesday with plaintiffs -- a handful of employers in the state -- that requiring insurers to cover the costs of medications for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) infringed on their religious rights, effectively scrapping a central tenet of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

O'Connor's decision came in response to Braidwood Management v. Becerra (formerly Kelley v. Becerra) in which the plaintiffs argued that the ACA requirement for insurers to pay for certain preventive services was unconstitutional, because it encouraged behavior that clashed with their personal and religious beliefs. While the lawsuit would eliminate the mandate for all preventive services, some plaintiffs appeared most concerned about services related to reproductive and sexual health.

One plaintiff, Steven Hotze, MD, a family medicine doctor according to The Texas Tribune, argued in the complaint that he did not want to pay for employer insurance that includes coverage of PrEP, "because these drugs facilitate or encourage homosexual behavior" and are contrary to his "sincere religious beliefs."

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Federal Judge's Ruling Threatens Preventive Care Coverage in ACA

Plaintiffs argued HIV drugs 'encourage homosexual behavior,' and Judge O'Connor took their side
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