Posted on 04/20/2020 2:34:04 PM PDT by ransomnote
Newsom’s secretive $1-billion mask deal with Chinese automaker sparks bipartisan concerns
https://news.yahoo.com/newsoms-secretive-1-billion-mask-190626226.html
BYD, a Shenzhen-based company whose initials stand for “Build Your Dreams,” has staked its reputation on building electric vehicles. It has a U.S. subsidiary based in Los Angeles, with a vehicle manufacturing facility in Lancaster. The company currently employs about 1,000 people in California, a company spokesman said.
Exactly how BYD has converted some of its manufacturing efforts in China to begin producing protective masks is unclear. On March 13, it touted the creation of “the world’s largest mass-produced face masks plant” in a news release posted on the company’s website. The company announced that it would make 5 million masks a day — far surpassing the 100 million masks a month promised by 3M, the company best known for producing N95 masks, used to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
A spokesman for BYD referred all questions about negotiations over the purchase of masks to Newsom’s office.
Newsom and other top officials have described the gambit as straightforward: Leverage the state government’s purchasing power, backed up by a multibillion-dollar cash surplus, to buy 200 million masks a month. The masks would then be distributed to healthcare and emergency workers across California, a supply chain that would continue through the end of June.
Administration officials have said that each monthly shipment from BYD will contain 150 million N95 masks and 50 million surgical masks.
“We made a big, bold bet on a new strategy, and it is bearing fruit,” Newsom said on April 8.
That same day, The Times asked for a copy of the contract to purchase the masks. On Monday, the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services delayed responding to the request until May 4.
BYD is well known in California government circles. In 2013, then-Gov. Jerry Brown announced the company’s decision to build electric buses in Southern California during a trade mission to China. It was a key component of the state’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gases, he said.
Thank you.
Trump Campaign Releases The Most Brutal Anti-Pelosi Ad Ever: https://trendingpolitics.com/video/trump-campaign-releases-the-most-brutal-anti-pelosi-ad-ever-7049.html
And on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7DKYML2MRs&feature=youtu.be
Breaking News at 9:30P on CNN (sorry)
National Security reporter Jim Sciutto reporting North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un in “grave danger” after surgery.
USA monitoring intelligence closely for further information.
Not being described as corona virus related.
Well, if they can spare nurses to protest at the White House, the ongoing crisis must not be too serious anymore then.
Trump should order an end to the quarantines, on pain of “Violation of Civil Rights under Color of Law” prosecutions for all governors too stupid (I’m Looking At You, Gretchen “Abortion Barbie” Halfwit ) to get out of the way.
Sean Hannity just announced he will show this new Trump video on Nancy Antoineete, “Let them eat ice cream.” ... or maybe he’ll talk about it. TBD + WWG1WGA :)
ThankQ for that report - interesting it comes via #FakeNews CNN ... enjoy the show? TBD + WWG1WGA :)
It's Schrödinger's Cat.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3837181/posts?page=1
FBI Informant Bragged About Links To Russian Spies In Secret Recording Of Trump Aide
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https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3837193/posts?page=1
AOC celebrates oil crash in now-deleted tweet: ‘You absolutely love to see it’
Foxnews ^
“You absolutely love to see it,” Ocasio-Cortez, a self-described “democratic socialist,” wrote on Twitter. She was responding to a post which stated: “Oil prices now at ‘negative values,’ meaning oil producers have to pay people to take it off their hands and store it because when demand plunges (like now), that is less expensive for them than building more storage and/or shutting wells down.”
“This along with record low interest rates means it’s the right time for a worker-led, mass investment in green infrastructure to save our planet. *cough*,” Ocasio-Cortez continued.
Do I get a prize? Sean Hannity showed 5 seconds of new Trump ad and then started talking.
great!
“https://twitter.com/KarluskaP/status/1252353692860248071
Awww baby, this is getting freaking good!
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Holy cow, check out the blink rate. I think she’s a malfunctioning robot. Hope Body Language Ghost checks this out.”
I am beyond lost, sorry. Where’s the vid with who blinking? I saw Fatima’s post regarding Woody on the floor. I saw Karluska’s post about the hot mic.
I don’t understand the hot mic, it’s hard for me to hear.
But who is blinking where lol??
Thanks, Petey
Yikes! These days are beyond Interesting. So interesting that I wonder if I should go out to the middle of the street, pop off a manhole cover climb to an underground level.
So is our money. 😀 Of course now it mostly exists only as a bunch of Ones & Zeros somewhere.
"*Cough*?"
QUARANTINE HER BEFORE SHE INFECTS PELOSI ...!
...oh wait.
There are two videos in play here:
1) video from White House ferd before the press conference. The reporters are talking amongst themselves marveling how chaotic they’ve played things, death rate based on new study from California show far less serious than normal flu... it’s a hoax.
2) video of Birx posted in response below from a few weeks ago standing behind POTUS and blinking her eyes like crazy. Some even suggested Morse code (not lol)
Ingram trolling Hannity about his Anon pin, lol
All I saw on that tweet was a hot mic picking up less than a minute (or so) of some talk between two people, no eyes visible, and their speech was almost unintelligible.
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