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Biden makes fresh appeals to Black voters, hoping they can return him to the White House

 CNN By Michael Williams, Kevin Liptak and Arlette Saenz 5/17/2024

Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies.

President Joe Biden is working to reverse an erosion of support among Black voters this week, placing renewed focus on a group he hopes can once again help propel him to the White House like they did four years ago.

A string of events designed to commemorate civil rights milestones and address the next generation of leaders at Martin Luther King Jr.’s alma mater comes amid polls showing Black voters flocking from Biden, frustrated by what they regard as inaction on their top priorities and turned off by his handling of the economy and the Israel-Hamas war.

In marking the anniversary of the historic Brown v. Board of Education case that found laws promoting segregation unconstitutional, Biden hopes to reiterate his commitment to promoting and advancing historic gains by the Black community over the past 70 years.

And a speech at Morehouse College in Atlanta on Sunday, already the subject of controversy amid nationwide campus protests, will aim to uplift the next generation of Black men – a voting group where Biden’s decline in support has been most marked.

Since the Civil Rights era, Democratic presidential candidates have enjoyed wide support from Black voters. Yet leaders of several Black grassroots organizations have warned the president should not take for granted the support of Black Americans.

In the months before November, Biden is hoping both to underscore his own record and to reinvigorate the memories of all voters about what life was like under a Trump presidency.

“He has to answer two questions: Why go out and bother to vote, which is almost the same question of what’s in it for me for voters,” said Biden campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond. “And then he has to answer the Janet Jackson test of: ‘What have you done for me lately?’”

More: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/17/politics/biden-black-voters/index.html
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The minimum wage in Mejifornia has become a regular Frankenstein! :yowsa:
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California Town Raises Hotel Workers' Minimum Wage to $23— Workers Claim It's Not Enough
Story by Ben Campbell • 17h
 
With over 8000 hotels in the Golden State, California has one of the largest hotel workforces in the United States.

In the last year, many who work in the industry have been campaigning to their local councils in an attempt to increase their minimum hourly wage, claiming that the pandemic has left staff with more responsibility and fewer hours.     

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/california-town-raises-hotel-workers-minimum-wage-to-23-workers-claim-it-s-not-enough/ss-BB1mDrk5?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=24f646acd08f4296beea5e649d765f22&ei=23#interstitial=1
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Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/flood-of-fake-science-forces-multiple-journal-closures/ar-BB1mmDKS

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Fake studies have flooded the publishers of top scientific journals leading to thousands of retractions and millions of dollars in lost revenue. The biggest hit has come to Wiley, a 217-year-old publisher based in Hoboken, N.J., which Tuesday will announce that it is closing 19 journals, some of which were infected by large-scale research fraud.

In the past two years, Wiley has retracted more than 11,300 papers that appeared compromised, according to a spokesperson, and closed four journals. It isn’t alone: At least two other publishers have retracted hundreds of suspect papers each. Several others have pulled smaller clusters of bad papers.

Although this large-scale fraud represents a small percentage of submissions to journals, it threatens the legitimacy of the nearly $30 billion academic publishing industry and the credibility of science as a whole.

The discovery of nearly 900 fraudulent papers in 2022 at IOP Publishing, a physical sciences publisher, was a turning point for the nonprofit. “That really crystallized for us, everybody internally, everybody involved with the business,” said Kim Eggleton, head of peer review and research integrity at the publisher. “This is a real threat.”

Which is the greater scandal, that scientists readily lie to get grants and get published or that peer-review has devolved into a this-is-consistent-with-what-I-want-to-believe back-slapping-circle echo chamber.

I will say, though, that I frequently "test" Ohm's and Watt's Laws and "verify" the First Law of Thermodynamics, yogi555 .
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California Ranks Last in Opportunity Due to Cost of Living
Heartland Author
May 17, 2024
 
(The Center Square) – According to new state rankings, California ranks dead last in opportunity due to its high cost of living, says the U.S. News and World Report.

USNWR’s report uses cost of living, economic opportunity, and equality to create its opportunity metric. California’s nation-worst cost of living was the main driver of the opportunity ranking, as its economic opportunity and income inequality were both better than more than half of American states’.

“California was the birthplace for opportunity where our ancestors came to seek a better life and pursue the California Dream,” State Sen. Brian Dahle, R-Bieber, who was California Governor Newsom’s opponent in the 2022 general election, told The Center Square. “Housing, electricity, and gas continue to rise, and [Democrats’] solution is to tax, regulate, and mandate no matter the outcome.”

https://heartlanddailynews.com/2024/05/california-ranks-last-opportunity-cost-of-living/
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Editorial/Opinion/Blogs / What is a tariff, anyway?
« Last post by mystery-ak on Today at 01:33:36 pm »
May 18, 2024
What is a tariff, anyway?
By Ira H. Schoen

I have been patiently waiting for someone in the media to explain the meaning of “tariff” to the general public, rather than going on endlessly about the implications of imposing, for example, a 50% tariff on vehicles, a 20% tariff on steel, and a 10% tariff on aluminum on foreign nations, specifically now on China.

It’s my belief that the general public would like an overview explaining tariffs instead of listening to political tirades from numerous politicians and knee-jerk journalists, reporters, editors, and “talking heads” about what might happen if the United States adopts these new tariffs.

I’m no economist, but my undergraduate degree from the George Washington University was in American studies.  I worked at U.S. Customs in the 1980s, having interacted directly with the commissioner of customs on a number of issues, including his frustrating attempts to interest Congress in the “boring” subject of revising tariff laws for trade equality/reciprocity with foreign nations.  Congress was much more interested in U.S. Customs’ other mission, law enforcement, which included immigration and illegal activities including alcohol and drug interdiction, all of which I was party to as well.

U.S. Customs, at that time (until 2003), was a part of the U.S. Treasury.  Why?  To collect tariffs.  What’s a tariff?  Simply stated, it’s an import tax (AKA a duty) on foreign goods, primarily in place to protect and support U.S. economic and financial interests, including industry and defense.  Tax = money (AKA revenue), and therefore the U.S. Treasury, through U.S. Customs, was directly involved.

Now let’s briefly go back in history for a perspective.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/what_is_a_tariff_anyway.html
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Come to Texas mofos.....

"WEF!!!"  might be the sound you hear as you become speed bumps.
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More from this enviro-whacko joker....

https://olivermilman.com/other-writing/

I'm sure this was a Pulitizer winner......     :silly:

"it's like hunting aliens":  Inside the town beseiged by Armadillos
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Biden has secretly flown nearly half a million illegals into the US. This alone stands as one of the gravest criminal acts in American history. Yet this is all in addition to the daily mass resettlement program on our southern border. The Democrat Party is destroying us.
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NEW: Per new CBP data through April, at least 434,800 migrants have flown directly into the US and have been paroled into the country via the Biden administration's controversial CHNV mass parole program. This includes:

184,600 Haitians
101,200 Venezuelans
91,100 Cubans
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World News / WEF Demands Limits on Car Ownership Among General Public
« Last post by Elderberry on Today at 01:27:19 pm »
SLAY by Frank Bergman May 17, 2024

The unelected World Economic Forum (WEF) is calling on global governments to begin placing limits on private car ownership among the general public.

The globalist WEF is demanding that regular families with more than one car should be forced to give up one of their vehicles.

Despite the fact that a person can only drive one car at a time, the WEF insists that limiting the number of vehicles people can own will help to “save the planet” from “climate change.”

The WEF argues that members of the public must be forced into giving up a vehicle as part of the organization’s “One Less Car” agenda.

However, the agenda appears to be a stepping stone for the WEF’s long-promoted plan to eliminate all private car ownership.

This week, the WEF published a new article detailing the expectations for families to begin adopting the “One Less Car” lifestyle.

More: https://slaynews.com/news/wef-demands-limits-car-ownership-general-public/
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