NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio just comes right out and says it, "I'd like to say very bluntly: our mission is to redistribute wealth." https://t.co/Oq1sGQaRj6 pic.twitter.com/Abdy3P9BvU
— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) December 18, 2020
While the government continues to peddle the CPI fairy tale and the true cost of living (as measured by real-world inflationary indicators like the Chapwood Index) appears to be closer to 10%, instead of 2%, the middle and lower class are bearing the brunt of the pain.
This was the topic of a new NPR piece that took a look at exactly why Americans were having trouble paying their expenses. What they found shouldn’t surprise anyone: incomes were being vastly outpaced by the cost of living. “An unexpected bill like that is what separates millions of Americans from financial disaster,” the piece says.
While some of this can be attributed to poor financial planning, some of it can also be attributed to an increasingly skewed playing field that’s being created as a result of monetary policy.
With at least two COVID-19 vaccines expected to receive federal approval in the U.S. within a matter of weeks, hopes for beating the coronavirus are looking up. Yet for millions of workers and businesses, the emerging immunizations also raise a host of questions, not the least of which is this: Can your employer require that you get vaccinated?
The answer: Yes, in many cases, employment attorneys said.
In general, companies have the legal right to mandate that employees get a COVID-19 shot, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said Wednesday. More specifically, employers are entitled — and required — to ensure a safe workplace in which “an individual shall not pose a direct threat to the health or safety of individuals in the workplace.” That can mean a company requiring its workforce to be vaccinated.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran has begun construction on a site at its underground nuclear facility at Fordo amid tensions with the U.S. over its atomic program, satellite photos obtained Friday by The Associated Press show.
Iran has not publicly acknowledged any new construction at Fordo, whose discovery by the West in 2009 came in an earlier round of brinkmanship before world powers struck the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran.
While the purpose of the building remains unclear, any work at Fordo likely will trigger new concern in the waning days of the Trump administration before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. Already, Iran is building at its Natanz nuclear facility
Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams celebrated news Friday a “record 7.7 million Georgians” are registered to vote ahead of the highly contentious Georgia Senate runoff elections.
“A record 7.7 million Georgians are registered to vote ahead of the Jan. 5 runoff election,” Abrmas wrote in a tweet to her 1.6 million followers.
A record 7.7 million Georgians are registered to vote ahead of the Jan. 5 runoff election. 🗳
So many deserve credit for expanding GA’s electorate: @nseufot, @NewGAProject, @BlackVotersMtr, Helen Butler, @Georgia_NAACP and more. Let’s get it done➡️https://t.co/lClnYYPro6 #gapol pic.twitter.com/jY6Ysw97BQ
— Stacey Abrams (@staceyabrams) December 18, 2020
In two recent broadcasts, the PA reiterated its internal narrative that it tries to hide from the international community: All of Israel is Palestinian land – including Safed, Haifa, Acre, and Jaffa:
The Trump administration will be withholding Medicaid funds from the state of that requires pro-life churches and Christian groups to fund abortions in their healthcare plans.
On Tuesday, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced the Trump administration will be withholding $200 million per quarter from California until it removes the abortion-funding requirement.
Life News reports churches in California, pro-life groups, and religious organizations have been fighting the abortion mandate since 2014, when the California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) reclassified abortion as a “basic health service” under the Affordable Care Act and required all insurance plans in the state to cover elective abortions without exemptions for churches. Read More
The retirement savings and investment accounts of millions of Americans are being used to pressure corporate Americans into adopting the left’s climate agenda and divisive racial politics.
Blackrock, the world’s largest asset manager, has been moving steadily leftward for years and has been putting pressure on public companies to comply with a set of “principles” that read like they were written by Green New Deal and Black Lives Matter activists.
In his annual letter to chief executives, BlackRock Chairman and CEO Larry Fink wrote that “climate change has become a defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects … But awareness is rapidly changing, and I believe we are on the edge of a fundamental reshaping of finance.”
In a “stewardship expectations” report released last week, Blackrock essentially doubled-down on its woke capitalism pressure campaign, saying it would increase the pressure it puts on companies on environmental and racial issues. Read More
Israel plans to launch a mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign as early as next week, with the country’s health maintenance organizations rolling out plans to meet public demand.
President Reuven Rivlin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein have volunteered to be the first to get vaccinated in order to boost public trust. The military said that IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi will also be vaccinated next week, ahead of a campaign to inoculate soldiers.
HMOs have reportedly offered celebrities a hefty payment to get vaccinated and post about it on social media. While it is unknown at this time which celebrity agreed, Israel Hayom has called on local trendsetters, leaders of public opinion and lawmakers to do so for free. Dozens have heeded the call and have already urged the public to be immunized.
“I will be vaccinated on Saturday night,” Edelstein announced on Thursday. “I do it for myself, my family, and because getting vaccinated is the only way for us, as a society, to overcome the pandemic.
This is rather inexcusable. The University Medical Center in El Paso, Texas, decided to televise COVID-19 vaccines for staff members. I am sure the leaders’ intentions were good. Showing medical workers taking the vaccine helps to increase confidence in the process and may encourage those hesitant to receive it.
However, if you watch this video of this vaccination, the syringe is clearly empty. The black plunger is fully depressed when the person administering it correctly pulls back on it. The vaccine is an intramuscular, or “IM,” injection. When you give someone an IM injection, you pull back slightly to ensure you have not mistakenly entered a blood vessel.
You're a professional but don't know when you have an empty syringe?
Allegedly, this is the first COVID-19 vaccinations at UMC this week. pic.twitter.com/E6yMYplnfk
— Hotep Jesus (@HotepJesus) December 17, 2020
