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January 16, 2024
Ed Kozak
Politics

Biden Presidential Approval Rating Drops to Near 20-Year Low.

Joe Biden’s presidential approval rating has plummeted to a near 20-year low, according to a new ABC/Ipsos poll.

The Democratic president currently sits at 58 percent disapproval and only 33 percent approval — the worst presidential approval numbers since George W. Bush between 2006 and 2008. The poll also revealed that just 57 percent of voters who lean Democratic would be satisfied with Biden as the Party’s nominee in 2024.

A deeper dive into the poll results sheds some light on why. As the border crisis rages on, only 18 percent of respondents support Biden’s handling of immigration — the lowest number on record since ABC began polling the issue in 2004. Biden is also facing high disapproval numbers due to his mishandling of the economy. Seventy-one percent of those polled said the economy was bad, with nearly half saying they are worse off now economically than when Donald Trump was president. Overall, 56 percent of people disapprove of Biden’s handling of the economy.

President Biden is also hemorrhaging support among younger minority voters. While Biden maintains a 65 percent approval rating among Black people aged 50 and up, he has only a 32 percent approval rating among Black people younger than 50. His approval rating with Black people in general is 21 points below average, and among Hispanic people, it is 15 points below average, according to the poll. Biden has also seen women abandon him. Although he received the vote of 57 percent of women in 2020, he now only has the approval of 31 percent.

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Joe Biden's presidential approval rating has plummeted to a near 20-year low, according to a new ABC/Ipsos poll. show more
January 16, 2024
Health

Humans Consume Over 1,000 Microplastics Annually Through Table Salt.

A recent study by Indonesia’s Andalas University found that people may be consuming over 1,000 microplastics a year through table salt. The study, involving tests on 21 table salt brands, found that every brand contained micro fragments of plastic, fibers, films, and pellets. Consumption of microplastics has been linked to cancer, heart disease, dementia, and fertility problems.

Published in the Global Journal of Environmental Science and Management, the study was based on salt brands readily accessible in Indonesia. The aim was to examine if global table salt supplies, a significant portion of which are sourced from Indonesia and subsequently exported to the U.S., Singapore, and the Czech Republic, are contaminated with microplastics. The study did not mention the brand names studied.

Researchers detected up to 33 particles per kilogram of table salt, suggesting people consume more than 1,000 microplastics annually.

According to the study, researchers “successfully identified four different forms of microplastics contained in all 21 salt samples, of which fragments are the most common (67.49 percent), followed by fibers (23.82 percent), films (6.08 percent), and pellets (2.61 percent) as secondary components.”

“Salt can be contaminated by water taken from the sea to make the salt, which may contain microplastics, organic matter, and sand particles, as well as during its manufacture,” the study explains.

After carefully removing organic impurities through a controlled process, samples were thoroughly examined under a microscope. In addition to the four forms of microplastics, researchers also identified four types of polymers: polyethylene, polypropylene, polyethylene terephthalate, and polyester — all of which have potential implications for human health.

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A recent study by Indonesia's Andalas University found that people may be consuming over 1,000 microplastics a year through table salt. The study, involving tests on 21 table salt brands, found that every brand contained micro fragments of plastic, fibers, films, and pellets. Consumption of microplastics has been linked to cancer, heart disease, dementia, and fertility problems. show more
January 16, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Corruption
News
Politics
World

Poland’s New, Gay Deputy Justice Minister Announces Laws Banning ‘Hate Speech’ Against Gays and Transgenders.

Poland’s new deputy justice minister, a gay activist, has announced new laws outlawing “hate speech” on the basis of sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, and disability.

Krzysztof Śmiszek says the “hate speech” regulations will be finalized by the end of February. The populist Konfederacja (Confederation) party has expressed grave misgivings about the planned speech restrictions, which were included in the coalition agreement between the three globalist political alliances that have combined to govern Poland.

“In practice, this means nothing more than criminal prosecution for expressing views that are inconsistent with a specific ideology that is close to the new coalition,” warned Konfederacja politician Konrad Berkowicz.

“This is obvious censorship, an obvious attack on freedom of speech and obvious, creeping totalitarianism,” he added.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk is moving swiftly to completely undo the legacy of the previous conservative government, which governed Poland from 2015 to late last year. Not only have illegal aliens formerly turned away at the previous government’s border wall been invited to meet the Speaker, but conservatives working for state media have also been fired en masse, and former government ministers have been jailed and expelled from the legislature.

The process has been lawless, with the new government ignoring the Constitutional Tribunal, Supreme Court judges it disagrees with, and presidential pardons to implement its agenda. Nevertheless, President Joe Biden and his ambassador in Warsaw have signaled their approval of the regime.

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Poland's new deputy justice minister, a gay activist, has announced new laws outlawing "hate speech" on the basis of sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, and disability. show more
January 16, 2024
News

Biden Raised Nearly $100M in Q4 2023.

The Biden campaign and Democratic National Committee raised over $97 million during the Fourth Quarter of 2023, the campaign announced.

Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez called the campaign’s impressive fundraising a “historic haul” before claiming that “democracy and hard-fought basic rights and freedoms are on the line in 2024, and these numbers prove that the American people know the stakes and are taking action early to help defeat the extreme MAGA Republican agenda again.”

The campaign said more than 520,000 donors contributed to Biden and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in Q4 2023, with 97 percent of donations below $200. The Biden team conducted 39 fundraisers in the final quarter, benefitting from more than 130,000 donors who contribute monthly. A competition to meet Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris also raised over $3 million for the campaign.

The Biden campaign now has $117 million cash on hand.

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The Biden campaign and Democratic National Committee raised over $97 million during the Fourth Quarter of 2023, the campaign announced. show more
January 16, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Politics

Allianz CEO Raises Risk Barometer, Warning Out of Touch Elites Are ‘Number One Risk for Societies’.

Allianz chief executive Oliver Bäte has lifted the insurance giant’s Risk Barometer to a five-year high, warning “the political elite” have lost touch with the working class and risk losing power to populists in the many elections slated for 2024.

“You’ve seen recent elections in the Netherlands, you’ve seen it in France, and societies are polarizing because our leaders are not addressing the needs of the people,” said Bäte, referring to Dutch elections which saw anti-mass migration populist Geert Wilders place first and the increasing unpopularity of France’s globalists president, Emmanuel Macron.

“Italy elected a party with neo-fascist roots, Hungary re-elected Viktor Orbán, and the far-right Sweden Democrats took over 20 percent of the votes in a general election,” the German continued.

“We have an increasing detachment of the political elite from the working class and the people that actually go to work every day, and that, I see as the number one risk for our societies,” he added.

The Allianz boss urged the “elite” to remember that “a lot of people are going to vote” this year, not only in the United States and the United Kingdom but in roughly 40 nations worldwide.

“[W]e need to make sure that they vote for the right things and are not just venting anger,” he warned.

Bloomberg has adopted a similar tone to Bäte in terms of the need to ensure people vote for “the right things”, recently publishing an article suggesting elections represent “a threat to democracy,” because voters may elect Donald Trump and other populists.

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Allianz chief executive Oliver Bäte has lifted the insurance giant's Risk Barometer to a five-year high, warning "the political elite" have lost touch with the working class and risk losing power to populists in the many elections slated for 2024. show more
January 16, 2024
News

Trump Already Back in NY Court for Second E. Jean Carroll Trial.

Donald Trump returns to court on Tuesday to begin the hearing in the second defamation case brought against him by E. Jean Carroll.

Carroll previously brought a civil suit against Trump alleging that he raped her in the mid-1990s and then defamed her when he denied that the incident ever happened. Last year, a jury in that case found that Trump did sexually abuse Carroll and defame her, and awarded her $5 million in damages.

The current defamation trial centers on comments Trump made in 2019, once again denying Carroll’s story, which the former President maintains is a fabrication. The focus of this week’s hearings is to ascertain the amount of damages Trump, who is appealing the previous verdict, should pay Carroll for his 2019 statements.

As to the potential damages, Judge Lewis Kaplan dismissed the former President’s proposition to cap any future damages. Carroll is seeking more than an additional $10 million in damages. Trump, staunchly maintaining his innocence, has appealed all verdicts and rulings against him. The former president is expected to testify on his own behalf on Monday.

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Donald Trump returns to court on Tuesday to begin the hearing in the second defamation case brought against him by E. Jean Carroll. show more
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January 16, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Election 2024

DeSantis, Haley Each Spent Over $1,600 Per Vote to Lose Iowa.

Donald Trump’s blowout victory in the Iowa caucus cost the America First leader surprisingly little, while rivals Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley spent big for distant second- and third-place finishes. Placing first with 56,260 votes for an absolute majority of 51.0 percent, Trump spent the equivalent of $340 per vote earned in the Hawkeye State.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, meanwhile, spent $1,697.96 per vote to come in second on 21.2 percent, and the much-hyped Nikki Haley spent an even greater sum of $1,797.84 per vote to finish third.

DeSantis excused his loss by saying “[t]hey threw everything but the kitchen sink at us… almost $50 million attacking us,” but the numbers paint a different picture of the race: The governor and allied groups spent $35 million on Iowa ads, while the Haley camp spent $37 million. Trump and his allies spent only $18.3 million.

Like DeSantis, Haley adopted a position on the Iowa race at odds with reality, declaring: “I can safely say, tonight Iowa made this Republican primary a two-person race” – despite the fact she finished third.

Among the remaining candidates in Iowa, only Vivek Ramaswamy pulled in enough support to earn delegates. He has now dropped out of the race, however, and announced he is “endorsing Donald J. Trump and will do everything I can to make sure he is the next U.S. President.”

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Donald Trump's blowout victory in the Iowa caucus cost the America First leader surprisingly little, while rivals Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley spent big for distant second- and third-place finishes. Placing first with 56,260 votes for an absolute majority of 51.0 percent, Trump spent the equivalent of $340 per vote earned in the Hawkeye State. show more
January 15, 2024
Breaking

Trump Scores Historic Iowa Caucus Win.

Former President Donald Trump has won a resounding victory in the Iowa Republican Caucus.

With around 90 percent of the caucus reporting, Trump was carrying around 50.5 percent of the vote, with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis pulling in 21 percent of the vote, and Nikki Haley on around 19 percent. Outsider Vivek Ramaswamy, who claimed he would “win” the Iowa caucuses, carried around just eight percent of the vote.

Iowa represented a do-or-die primary state for Ron DeSantis, Florida Governor, whose Never Back Down SuperPAC has burned through $100 million or more in donor money so far in the primary contest nationwide. DeSantis has enjoyed the support of self-proclaimed Iowa influencers such as Steve Deace and Bob Vander Plaats. He also carried the endorsement of Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds.

In the end, none of it mattered, with Trump dominating the evening.

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Former President Donald Trump has won a resounding victory in the Iowa Republican Caucus. show more
January 15, 2024
William Upton
Economy
Immigration
News

YAHOO: Inflation ‘Cooling’ Thanks to Cheap Migrant Labor Depressing Your Wages.

Cheap migrant labor is the cause of subsiding inflation numbers — while also depressing the wages of American workers. While inflation ticked up slightly in December, the overall trend has shown prices falling — for the most part — as the demand for labor is easing and wages fall.

According to Yahoo Finance, foreign-born labor numbers by December of 2023 were nearly 10 percent higher than they were pre-coronavirus pandemic — with 20 percent of the U.S. labor force being comprised of immigrant workers. While Yahoo points to the immigrant labor increases as a reason for subsiding inflation, the increase in foreign workers has also driven down the wages of American workers — arguably decreasing their quality of life.

In addition, the increase in foreign labor could also have contributed to December’s elevated inflation numbers. The influx of immigrants also means an increase in consumers. Additional consumers mean an increase in demand for products — which often leads to higher prices. While the finance industry experts cited by Yahoo Finance fail to mention this problem, they do fret that the addition of non-productive immigrants “such as elderly relatives, stay-at-home mothers, and students” could negatively impact the economy.

Financial industry experts, cited by Yahoo Finance, argue the increase in immigrant labor helps the U.S. avoid a theoretical ‘wage-price spiral.’ However, there is scant evidence this was the case in the U.S. where wages have lagged behind inflation for years. Even the U.S. Federal Reserve has argued a minimal degree of inflation — around two percent — is desirable to avoid a deflationary trap – which was a top concern shortly before the coronavirus pandemic.

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Cheap migrant labor is the cause of subsiding inflation numbers — while also depressing the wages of American workers. While inflation ticked up slightly in December, the overall trend has shown prices falling — for the most part — as the demand for labor is easing and wages fall. show more
January 15, 2024
William Upton
Politics

Kamala’s Own 2020 Campaign Staff Declare of VP: ‘This Person Should Not be President.’

A former staffer on Kamala Harris’s 2020 campaign has harsh words for the prospect of a Harris presidency: “This person should not be president of the United States,” said the staffer.

The blunt assessment of Harris is reported in the upcoming book The Truce: Progressives, Centrists and the Future of the Democratic Party, by Hunter Walker and Luppe B Luppen.

This isn’t the first time Harris, who has been plagued by accusations of toxic pettiness, ineptness, and dysfunction, has been criticized by former staffers.

“Game of Thrones,” were three words used by another staffer in the VP’s office to describe Kamala Harris’s management style, according to the book which will be published later this month. The book details in part the internal schisms created by Harris’s most loyal adherents and her detractors — including First Lady Jill Biden who reportedly pushed her husband not to select Harris as VP.

Former Harris staffers emphasized her inability to move beyond her personal narrative and discuss policy in concrete detail. Harris’s story of growing up the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants is compelling, though as one staffer put it: “But you’ve got to back that up with: ‘What are you going to do?'”

Her lack of direction and rambling public speeches have made Harris a figure of derision among some Democrats and many Republicans. However, the VP has forged a tenuous political alliance with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, leading some to believe they’re eyeing a Harris-Buttigieg ticket for 2028.

Whether now in 2024 — should Joe Biden, 81, be forced to bow out due to declining health — or later in 2028, Harris appears determined to make another run for the White House. And despite her being deeply unpopular amongst voters — there may be little the Democrats can do to head off a Harris candidacy.

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A former staffer on Kamala Harris's 2020 campaign has harsh words for the prospect of a Harris presidency: "This person should not be president of the United States," said the staffer. show more