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Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday unveiled California’s “endemic” virus policy – and it’s going to cost billions of dollars. Newsom used an acronym to best describe his shift to an ‘endemic’ approach: SMARTER: Shots, Masks, Awareness, Readiness, Testing, Education and Rx (prescriptions). “This disease is not going away,” he told The Associated Press. “It’s not … Read more

Amazon suspended Black Lives Matter from its charity platform this week BLM will be deprived of funds raised on AmazonSmile after they were not able to disclose where its $60 million in donations has gone The move comes after California DOJ has threatened to hold the leaders of Black Lives Matter personally liable over the … Read more

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A total of 20 former and current elected Republicans are named in Peter Schweizer’s new bestseller Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win as having business dealings and political ties to the United States’ largest adversary, China. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/17/red-handed-20-republicans-who-sold-out-to-china/

Mayor Eric Adams’ first effort to clean up the city’s increasingly dangerous subway system will involve squads of school nurses and outreach workers joined by cops to convince homeless people and the mentally ill to accept help, The Post has learned. Adams is scheduled to announce the initiative Friday morning at Manhattan’s busy Fulton Transit … Read more

by hearsdemons The company formerly known as Facebook, now likes to call itself Meta, has nearly lost half its value in 6 months. People like to tout investing in stocks because it’s supposedly safer than you-know-what, but losses like this show that even stocks aren’t a safe bet. One of the biggest companies in the … Read more

These flows show that investors are clearly positioning for larger recession odds and are somehow short any acceleration of growth and FED delivering on their hiking cycle. Let’s say it looks a tad premature at this stage and the slaughterhouse might not be far… https://t.co/5Gcos3sZr9 — KKGB (@INArteCarloDoss) February 18, 2022 This is a time … Read more

A mammoth cargo ship believed to be carrying thousands of vehicles including 1,100 Porsches was on fire and drifting off the coast of the Azores on Thursday after its 22 crew members were rescued from the vessel. The fire broke out on Wednesday morning in the cargo hold of the ship, called the Felicity Ace, … Read more

  via thefederalist: Although it’s impossible to predict economic crashes with certainty, a key economic indicator suggests the U.S. housing market is on the verge of an unprecedented crash, one that could end up being the biggest in America’s history. a shockingly large price bubble appears to have formed in the real estate market. The average … Read more

Is Trudeau’s Canada still investable? — KKGB (@INArteCarloDoss) February 18, 2022 https://twitter.com/PriapusIQ/status/1494666028395151360 Why Does Trudeau's Protest Prohibition Order Exempt Refugees, Immigrants, & Ethnic Minorities? https://t.co/VuSWOE6uh4 — zerohedge (@zerohedge) February 18, 2022 Trudeau has long said he admired China, but no one expected him to start going full Hong Kong crackdown on his people. The ghostings … Read more

Americans enjoy a Bill of Rights, and soon California pets could as well. A California lawmaker has introduced a bill that would enshrine a dog and cat bill of rights into state law, requiring every animal shelter and animal rescue group to post a copy of said rights on their premises. Assembly Bill 1881, introduced by … Read more

  APPLE STORE EMPLOYEES SAY WAGES HAVE NOT KEPT UP WITH INFLATION – WAPO$AAPL — *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) February 18, 2022 $AAPL | Some US Apple Store Employees Are Working To Unionize, Part Of A Growing Worker Backlash – WP https://t.co/mmizfg0mUw — LiveSquawk (@LiveSquawk) February 18, 2022 APPLE Store employees working to unionize, part of … Read more

Today : *CATHIE WOOD SAYS HER TECH STOCKS `WAY UNDERVALUED' TO POTENTIAL https://t.co/yOz6UcmxNb — GregTheAnalyst (@Analyst_G) February 18, 2022 Will they do the same with $ROKU today , down -25% premarket. 6% weight in $ARKK, almost 5mil shares. https://t.co/I7jLvboOKt — Greg (@GS_CapSF) February 18, 2022 Cathie 6Ms ago and today : pic.twitter.com/4E6oCxqorC — GregTheAnalyst (@Analyst_G) … Read more

Democrats in Congress have proposed a plan that would declare an unconditional “war” on “racism,” and fund it with $70 billion for a new, Cabinet-level “Department of Reconciliation.” The report said the key sponsors are Ilhan Omar, Maxine Waters, Rashida Tlaib and Bennie Thompson. The concept has been assigned to the Committee on the Judiciary. … Read more

President Biden has repeatedly blamed tangled supply chains for the surging inflation that has seeped into every part of the U.S. economy – but a former Obama administration official on Thursday dismissed that as a “totally dishonest” argument. In an op-ed for The New York Times, Steven Rattner – who served as counselor to the … Read more

Some Democrats here in rural Pennsylvania are afraid to tell you they’re Democrats. “The hatred for Democrats is just unbelievable,” said Tim Holohan, an accountant based in rural McKean County. https://t.co/SQeq5H77hj — Yahoo News (@YahooNews) February 17, 2022