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Both Parents Work Full-Time In Majority Of Families, Census Data Show Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Both parents work full-time in more than half of couples with children under 18, according to newly analyzed data. Fifty-two percent of couples comprised of a mother and father work full-time jobs as of 2025, according to the Pew Research Center analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau released on Ju....

How can we solve the divorce issue in Australia. Someone asked this or mentioned this in the comments the other day. Perhaps it is beyond our abilities to solve this. But while we are discussing the situation our nations are in. things are changing in the culture for very practical reasons. “Rising living costs trap couples in shared homes after separation Financial barriers to leaving: Nearly half of Australian women say money pressures de....



The Impact was Devastating": Chicago's Cross-Burning Was Set By Liberal, Anti-Trump Protester Authored by Jonathan Turley, After the  Southern Poverty Law Center scandal  of actually funding and encouraging racist protests, it appears that at least one individual has created his own orchestrated racist incident. In Chicago (where Jussie Smollett committed his  infamous racist hoax ), a burning cross was denounced by Mayor Brand....


Full guide on how to set up successful performance reviews based on my personal experience and what has worked best for me and my teams.

Energy Cliff, Supply Chain Shock: The Toxic Cocktail Behind The Urgent Push For An Iran Deal The U.S.-Iran interim peace deal has been signed, and the normalization of the Strait of Hormuz is now beginning. Tanker traffic through the critical waterway is slowly resuming, though a full return to pre-war or near-pre-war energy flows could take months. But behind the urgency to get the memorandum of understanding deal across the finish....

With what is going on in the UK would Airvpn ever bend the knee and submit to demands for user verification? Worth the ask. How does Italian law prevent this?

With what is going on in the UK would Airvpn ever bend the knee and submit to demands for user verification? Worth the ask. How does Italian law prevent this?

The “Memorandum of Understanding” has now been electronically signed. Because this has happened on Wednesday instead of Saturday-Sunday. you can bet your last shirt Trump had to make some last-minute concessions. Still. the text stays and the two translations are almost identical. Unbelievable already that the same English text has not been signed. In order (…)




Continuing Jobless Claims Hit 3-Month-Highs The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits for the first time fell from 230k (4 month highs) to 226k (vs 225k exp) last week - elevated but still within the range of the last four years ... Source: Bloomberg Pennsylvania and Oregon saw the largest rise in initial claims last week while Ohio and Illinois saw the biggest decline... Meanwhile, continuing jobless cl..



Futures Rise, Oil Drops As Market Prices In Iran Deal For Yet Another Day Futures rebounded from the post-FOMC selloff, and oil prices fell as Trump signed the Iran MOU two days early to end the war in the Middle East (in the symbolic Palace of Versailles  of all place) and some energy shipments began to transit the Strait of Hormuz. As usual, tech led the parade higher. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures were up 0.6%, but off overnight sessi....

Speculation About A SpaceX–Tesla Merger Is Already Growing SpaceX’s record-breaking IPO has fueled speculation that Elon Musk could take an even bigger step: merging SpaceX with Tesla to create a roughly $4 trillion technology conglomerate spanning rockets, AI, satellites, electric vehicles, robotics, energy, and social media, according to a new report from the New York Times .  The idea has gained traction among investors, analysts, ....

You are not going to believe what just happened up in Canada. In what can only be described as a final. desperate gasp of sanity. Conservative MP Andrew Lawton tried one last time to kill Bill C-9—the bill that basically... Continue Reading →

Congress Reaches Deal On Housing Bill With CBDC Ban Until 2030 Authored by Jesse Coghlan via Cointelegraph , reviewed by Felix Ng. The US House and Senate have reached a deal to move forward with a housing bill that includes a ban on the Federal Reserve creating a central bank digital currency (CBDC) until 2030. A bipartisan group of House and Senate leaders released an updated version of the 21st Century Road to Housing ....


The Situation Has Become Unsustainable": Apple To Hike Prices To Offset Soaring Memory Costs Up until now, Americans primarily hated the flood of data centers popping up around the country like mushrooms (at least those that haven't been canceled or delayed due to regulatory pushback, lack of electricity or outright hostility) because of surging electricity prices and the rising tide of unemployment as chabots gradually make America's ....


Jobcentre Plus employs more than 1.600 staff on visas and settlement schemes. costing taxpayers at least £52 million a year

So you can’t sing Church song outside of Church in England. Female cop in the UK tells a woman she’s not allowed to sing church songs outside of actual church grounds. She keeps repeating it. getting more worked up. while... Continue Reading →

Massive Ukrainian Drone Swarm Attack On Moscow Hits Refinery While attention this week has been fixed on the lower part of Eurasia, where the U.S. and Iran have finally signed an interim peace deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and begin normalizing tanker flows through the critical waterway, the other major conflict area in Eurasia is flashing new warning signs. Overnight developments in the Russia-Ukraine war suggest the fighti....

Trump And Iran Sign MOU Deal Ahead Of Schedule Summary: The US and Iran have remotely signed their memorandum of understanding to end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz ahead of schedule, and the agreement is now in effect, Axios reports. Trump admits energy stockpiles "run out in about four weeks"  MoU signing could be As Early As Today  Trump Says Will "Drop Bombs" If Bad Final Deal  14-Point US-Iran Draft Deal Re....

TLDR: My 20+ year-old WordPress wp-content directory was a complete mess. After many failed attempts to clean it up, I finally managed to do so. I've written before about the mess that is my WordPress /wpcontent folder on my daily blog . This WordPress installation is 20+ years old. I made some bad decisions and was not always completely aware of how WordPress handled images, which also changed over the years. In that post I descri....

TLDR: My 20+ year-old WordPress wp-content directory was a complete mess. After many failed attempts to clean it up, I finally managed to do so. I've written before about the mess that is my WordPress /wpcontent folder on my daily blog . This WordPress installation is 20+ years old. I made some bad decisions and was not always completely aware of how WordPress handled images, which also changed over the years. In that post I descri....


Reminder: The Thursday Class is only for those interested in studying uncertainty. I don’t expect all want to read these posts. Pease don’t feel like you must. Yet. I have…

Ryan Cohen’s Massive $35 Billion Pay Deal Draws Shareholder Lawsuit A GameStop shareholder has taken the company to court in an effort to delay a July vote on Ryan Cohen's proposed $35 billion pay package, arguing investors aren't getting the full story before being asked to approve it, according to Yahoo Finance .  The lawsuit accuses GameStop's board of repeatedly changing the voting process in ways that could tilt the outcome towar....


There is a very interesting article on the site of the Lepanto Institute about the extent and ramification of openly Marxist. Atheist. Pagan. violent. or otherwise degenerate [promotion of perversion] groups supported by Leo. This is all good and praiseworthy work. However. I have a big problem when I then read something like this: “Again. (…)

ECB: Iran Peace Deal Won't Erase Europe's Energy Price Shock By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Europe will have to contend with the energy price shock for months despite the tentative U.S.-Iran agreement to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, European Central Bank (ECB) officials said this week. The ECB last week raised key interest rates for the euro area for the first time since 2023 as the Middle East conflict hik....

Charlie Kirk’s media empire and his right-wing activist organization. Turning Point USA [TPUSA]. have come under the control of the Israel-directed forces he spent the last months of his life antagonizing. Erika Kirk now claims her husband supported Israel to the end. while TPUSA misrepresents his opposition to war on Iran.  The Charlie Kirk Show is now distributed by a federally registered agent of Israel tasked with seeding American media..


I’m pretty sure we did this four years ago. but screw it. it was funny enough to merit a repeat. Especially when I got nothin’. We know. of course. that nobody who plays for a “national” World Cup team is actually from there — they’re all ridiculous foreign ringers. I’m going to take the counterintuitive … Continue reading 'Metric Kickball: National Teams'

Normally it takes 20 years after a war ends to work out what really went on but I'm going to have a shot now.


Ferrari Reportedly Tells Buyers To Buy Unpopular Luce To Move Up On Wait List Ferrari is reportedly using its first-ever EV, the Luce, a €550,000 model that looks more like a cross between a Tesla and a Kia , as a loyalty test inside its highly coveted allocation system. Ferrari's allocation system is a notoriously exclusive, invitation-only process managed directly by the factory in Maranello. Rather than using waitlists, Ferrari cur....

We've seen innumerable examples. from local. state and national governments all over the world. that human greed and malfeasance can undo any amount of good that might otherwise be achieved.  It looks like a fundamental element of the human condition.It seems that the latest country to discover [yet again] the truth of that statement is China.In late May Chinese leaders travelled to the Zhoushan National Oil Reserve and discovered the natio....

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