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What Happens To Social Security Payments If The Government Shuts Down?

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– What Happens To Social Security Payments If The Government Shuts Down?:

Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

The looming government shutdown has some Americans worried about what would happen to their Social Security payments if the end-of-the-month deadline passes with no resolution to the gridlock in Washington and parts of the federal government start to grind to a halt.

It appears increasingly likely that Congress will fail to pass the 12 appropriations bills that fund various federal government agencies by the Sept. 30 deadline.

Failure to pass the bills would mean many government operations are halted and hundreds of thousands of federal employees are furloughed—including those at the Social Security Administration (SSA), which administers the Social Security system.

But while some Social Security operations might be affected by a shutdown, legal experts say Social Security recipients need not worry about one thing—their money.

Read moreWhat Happens To Social Security Payments If The Government Shuts Down?

Mayo Clinic Nukes Hydroxychloroquine Information Page After People Take Notice

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– Mayo Clinic Nukes Hydroxychloroquine Information Page After People Take Notice:

One day after the Mayo Clinic’s endorsement of Hydroxychloroquine was highlighted for use in Covid-19 patients, they scrubbed the page and then blamed a 3rd party vendor for supplying the information.

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Food Stamp Program Losing $1 Billion Every Month To Alleged Fraud, Errors: Sen. Ernst

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And those aren’t the only problems…

– Food Stamp Program Losing $1 Billion Every Month To Alleged Fraud, Errors: Sen. Ernst:

Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

The U.S. food stamp program is losing around $1 billion a month owing to alleged fraud and errors, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) has warned.

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Ukraine Used British Cruise Missiles In Devastating Sevastopol Attack, UK Confirms

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– Ukraine Used British Cruise Missiles In Devastating Sevastopol Attack, UK Confirms:

This week’s major Ukrainian attack on the Russian port of Sevastopol in Crimea was likely the largest strike on Russian naval targets since the war’s start.

Significantly, the UK’s Sky News has confirmed that British-supplied long range missiles were used in the overnight Sept. 12-13 attack which likely damaged a Russian submarine and warship. “A Ukrainian and a Western source said that British Storm Shadow cruise missiles were deployed,” Sky News reports.

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Nächste Stufe der Zensur ist da: Der Digital Services Act (DSA) der EU (Marc Friedrich Video)

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H/t reader U. A.

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Zensur, Kontrolle und Überwachung – Der Digital Services Act (DSA) der EU ist im August in Kraft getreten. Es geht um Privatsphäre im Netz, sowie Zensur und Macht von großen digitalen Konzernen. Was das für Dich bedeutet und was uns in Deutschland erwarten könnte, darum geht es im heutigen Video!

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Nächster Kosten-Hammer für Hausbesitzer: EU plant Sanierungs-Pflicht

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H/t reader U. A.

– Nächster Kosten-Hammer für Hausbesitzer: EU plant Sanierungs-Pflicht:

Nach Habecks Heizungsverbot plant nun auch die EU wichtige Änderungen für Hauseigentümer. Schon bald könnte Sanieren zur Pflicht werden.

Berlin – Ab 2024 möchte das Bundeswirtschaftsministerium den Einbau neuer Öl- und Gasheizungen verbieten. Besonders bei Hauseigentümern sorgte das für Aufregung, schließlich ist die Umstellung auf andere Heizmethoden häufig mit deutlich höheren Kosten verbunden. Kaum konnte diese Nachricht ein wenig sacken, droht nun der nächste Kosten-Schock – dieses Mal vonseiten der EU.

EU-Pläne zur Gebäudesanierung: Mindestens Energiestandard D

Laut einem EU-Richtlinienentwurf, der Bild vorliegt, soll schon bald eine Sanierungspflicht kommen. Wie die Zeitung berichtet, sollen demnach bis 2033 alle Wohngebäude in Deutschland den Energiestandard D erreichen.

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Iran Touts Hypersonic Missile Testing In Response To US Sending Troops To Region

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– Iran Touts Hypersonic Missile Testing In Response To US Sending Troops To Region:

In fresh statements aired by state media and picked up by Al Jazeera and other international sources, Iran says it has not only achieved hypersonic cruise missile technology, but is actually testing hypersonics, in what would mark a historic breakthrough for the Islamic Republic if true.

The missiles are reportedly currently undergoing tests and flight trials, which “will mark the beginning of a new chapter in the defense power of our country,” state media Tasnim announced Wednesday.

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Bots Have Taken Over Nearly Half The Internet, But One-Third Of Users Can’t Tell Difference

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– Bots Have Taken Over Nearly Half The Internet, But One-Third Of Users Can’t Tell Difference:

Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Crossing paths with a robot or “bot” online is as common as finding a pair of shoes in your closet.

It’s a fundamental part of the internet, but users have hit a critical tipping point: An increasing number of people are losing the ability to distinguish between bots and humans.

It’s a scenario developers have warned about for years, and it’s easy to see why.

A recent study concluded 47 percent of all internet traffic is now comprised of bot-generated content. That’s an increase of more than 5 percent between 2022 and 2021. Concurrently, human activity on the internet just hit its lowest point in eight years.

Coupled with advances in human-like exchanges driven by artificial intelligence (AI), almost a third of internet users can’t tell if they’re interacting with a person any more.

In April, a landmark study called “Human or Not?” was launched to determine whether people could identify if they were talking to another person or an AI chatbot.

More than 2 million volunteers and 15 million conversations later, 32 percent of participants picked incorrectly.

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Elite Universities Strategize To Maintain Diversity In Admissions Despite Supreme Court Ruling

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– Elite Universities Strategize To Maintain Diversity In Admissions Despite Supreme Court Ruling:

Authored by Charlotte Allen via The Epoch Times,

It’s no secret that the vast majority of the people who operate U.S. colleges and universities are unhappy about the Supreme Court’s June 29 decisions that the use of race in admissions decisions at Harvard and the University of North Carolina violated the 14th Amendment’s equal protection guarantees and Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which forbids recipients of federal funds to discriminate “on the ground of race, color, or national origin.”

The official reaction of the country’s top-tier institutions of higher learning – the ones that typically employ racial preferences (in contrast to their less-selective counterparts that admit almost all applicants of any race) – was dismay.

Within hours of the release of the court’s 6–3 ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, incoming Harvard President Claudine Gay issued a video message.

Its tone wasn’t outright defiance of the Supreme Court’s ruling, but it evidenced a distinct resolve to work around it.

Read moreElite Universities Strategize To Maintain Diversity In Admissions Despite Supreme Court Ruling

Obama ‘Repeatedly Fantasizes About Making Love To Men’: Biographer

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– Obama ‘Repeatedly Fantasizes About Making Love To Men’: Biographer:

Was Barack Obama the first gay US president?

According to an interview with Tablet magazine, Obama biographer David Garrow discussed a letter Obama wrote to a former college girlfriend in which he “repeatedly fantasizes about making love to men.”

“So when Alex showed me the letters from Barack, she redacted one paragraph in one of them and just said, ‘It’s about homosexuality,” Garrow told the outlet, discussing the 1,472-page biography of the former president titled “Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama.”

The letters made their way to Emory University, where Garrow associate Harvey Klehr manually transcribed the salacious details.

“So I emailed Harvey, said, ‘Go to the Emory archives.’ He’s spent his whole life at Emory, but they won’t let him take pictures,” said Garrow. “So Harvey has to sit there with a pencil and copy out the graph where Barack writes to Alex about how he repeatedly fantasizes about making love to men.”

Meanwhile, rumors abound that Michelle may satisfy Barry’s alleged proclivities.

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RIP Joan Rivers.

As for the rest of the interview, American Greatness’s Lloyd Billingsley has the following;

“Whatever you do. Don’t ask him about his father.”

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66% Of Finance Workers Would Quit If Work-From-Home Was Taken Away

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– 66% Of Finance Workers Would Quit If Work-From-Home Was Taken Away:

For further proof that the “work from home” trend that started during Covid has spoiled employees rotten, about 66% of respondents in a new survey of 700 financial executives working remotely said they would quit their jobs if forced to return to the office 5 days a week.

The revelation came as part of a survey published this week by Deloitte, reported on by Banking Dive.

Among the key revelations in the Deloitte survey were:

  • Overall survey results indicate that financial services institutions (FSIs) with overly strict in-office mandates could face dual challenges: possibly losing their pipeline of leaders and having difficulty recruiting talent.
  • Among respondents who still work remotely at least part-time, 66% say they will likely leave their current role if mandated to return to the office five days a week.
  • Among surveyed caregivers, those who work remotely or have hybrid arrangements are 1.3 times more likely than responding noncaregivers to say they’ll leave their current role if their ability to work remotely was eliminated.
  • Some FSIs now require their workforce to return to the office three to four days a week. But only 18% of respondents say this would be their ideal arrangement.
  • While remote working has improved respondents’ engagement and well-being, most of those surveyed believe remote work models will put them at a disadvantage. This could erode engagement and commitment levels over time.
  • Financial services firms face a palpable risk of losing talented women leaders. Almost half of women respondents in senior leadership roles report being likely to leave their current employer over the next year.

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A Soda-A-Day Could Result In Liver Cancer; New Study Finds

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FYI.

– A Soda-A-Day Could Result In Liver Cancer; New Study Finds:

It’s no secret that sugar-sweetened beverages cause obesity, but new research shows just one soda a day won’t keep the doctor away. In fact, soda pop might increase the risks of cancer and liver disease-related mortality.

Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, published a study titled “Sugar-Sweetened and Artificially Sweetened Beverages and Risk of Liver Cancer and Chronic Liver Disease Mortality” in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Tuesday, explaining a possible link between the regular consumption of sweetened drinks and death due to liver cancer. The study involved nearly 100,000 postmenopausal women followed for a median of twenty years.

The study’s lead authors, Dr. Longgang Zhao, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Xuehong Zhang, ScD, associate professor at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, revealed participants who consumed sugar-sweetened beverages daily had a chronic liver disease mortality rate of 17.7 per 100,000 person-years. In contrast, this rate decreased to 7.1 for individuals who consumed such drinks three times or less monthly. No significant cancer risk was observed for artificially sweetened beverages.

Read moreA Soda-A-Day Could Result In Liver Cancer; New Study Finds

Army Officer Court-Martialed After Refusing To Soften Findings Of Probe Of Suicides At Base

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– Army Officer Court-Martialed After Refusing To Soften Findings Of Probe Of Suicides At Base:

Authored by J.M.Phelps via The Epoch Times,

An Army officer was court-martialed after she refused requests to change recommendations she made that were critical of command while probing suicides at a military facility, according to her lawyer.

The Army brought 24 charges against Army Reservist Lt. Col. Joy Thomas, and her trial began on June 20 at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg, now known as Fort Liberty. Two weeks later, she was found guilty of only one charge of disrespecting a senior officer and given a $1,000 fine.

Read moreArmy Officer Court-Martialed After Refusing To Soften Findings Of Probe Of Suicides At Base

Southern Border Cameras Capture Heavily Armed Cartel Illegally Entering US

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– Southern Border Cameras Capture Heavily Armed Cartel Illegally Entering US:

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75 More Catholic Schools Nationwide Say They Are Shutting Down

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– 75 More Catholic Schools Nationwide Say They Are Shutting Down:

Authored by Alice Giordano via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

At least 75 more Catholic schools across the nation have announced they are closing their doors for good, with many breaking the news to families in the past few weeks.

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