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On October 7, the US Department of Commerce expanded licensing requirements for exports of advanced semiconductors and the equipment that’s used to make them to cover all shipments to China and not just shipments to particular companies. The share prices of companies expected to be affected had already dropped, discounting previously announced sanctions and the downturn in the semiconductor cycle that was already underway. From their 52-week highs to recent 52-week lows: Intel (INTC) was down 56%; Micron (MU) was down 50%; Nvidia (NVDA) was down 69% (its products having been directly targeted by the Biden administration); and AMD (AMD)...

Rise of the Revisionists April 19, 2018 Gary J. Schmitt on The Challenge Ahead with Russia, China, and Iran. This excerpt is taken from the introduction of Gary J. Schmitt’s new book Rise of the Revisionists: Russia China and Iran. To buy the book, please click here. If the vast majority of foreign policy analysts and commentators agree on one thing, it is that "the unipolar moment" has passed. American dominance—be it political, economic, or military—is no longer so overwhelming that history can be said to have ended. To the contrary, the security challenges the US confronts are spread across...

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SOUTH FULTON, Ga. – Several voters in South Fulton, Georgia, refused to reject Stacey Abrams' claim that the 2018 gubernatorial election was stolen from her, while some outright supported the Democrat's assertion. "Based off of character, I’m gonna support her on it," one woman, Jasmine, said. "If she said that’s how it happened, if that’s how she really feels, I’m gonna have to support her on that." Another voter was more skeptical of the claim. "The way I see it is - to what degree?" he said. "There's always some type of tampering or something that people use, even if...

Russian troops shot and killed an orchestra conductor who refused to perform at a concert Russia allegedly staged in the occupied southern region of Kherson, according to Ukrainian officials. The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine said in a Facebook post that it confirmed Friday that Russian soldiers shot Yuri Kerpatenko in his own home. Kerpatenko, the main conductor of the Gileya Chamber Orchestra, refused a Russian invitation to perform a concert with the orchestra group “to demonstrate the so-called ‘improvement of peaceful life’ in Kherson,” according to the ministry. The late conductor was also affiliated with the...

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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) -- Hawaii Island police have identified the badly composed body discovered on Tuesday at a residence in Mountain View. Officials said identified the victim as 47-year-old James Paul Phelps of a Lehua Street address, in Mountain View. Authorities said they responded the scene shortly after 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday after police say a caller reported going to check on the welfare of an acquaintance and discovering a foul odor coming from within. Responding officers said they located the decomposing body on the floor of the residence. An autopsy was performed and the forensic pathologist concluded that the victim...

Jill Biden was loudly booed at the Eagles vs Cowboys game Sunday night at the Lincoln Financial Field in her home town of Philadelphia (she was born in Jersey and grew up in Philly). Dr. Jill attended the NFL game Sunday night to promote breast cancer awareness. Joe Biden’s nurse and handler Jill didn’t get a warm welcome. The crowd booed Jill Biden during the coin toss. Update: It appears video of Jill Biden getting booed has been scrubbed from the networks so we will keep looking!

Ninety-two migrants were found almost naked and bruised after allegedly being forced across the Evros river from Turkey into Greece, Athens said Sunday, a charge fiercely denied by Ankara. EU border agency Frontex confirmed the arrival of the group in circumstances which the Greek ministry for civil protection said sent out an 'inhuman image.' 'The Frontex officers reported that the migrants were found almost naked and some of them with visible injuries,' said Paulina Bakula, spokeswoman for the organisation. The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said in a tweet that it was 'deeply distressed by the shocking reports and images of...

Inflation has taken an average of 25 percent - at least $2.1trillion - off the 401Ks of American workers, despite President Joe Biden's insistence Sunday that the 'economy is strong as hell.' The analysis was done by conservative economists Stephen Moore and EJ Antoni, who said that the balance of Americans' 401ks will 'ruin your whole day, week and month.' Moore and Antoni note that inflation has been going at 8 percent for the past seven months, despite the White House claiming things were temporary.

The man who murdered two cops after luring them to his home with a fake 911 call allegedly interacted with officers at a local bar earlier that night. Nicholas Brutcher and local cops crossed paths at Bleachers Bar in Bristol, Connecticut, though it is unclear what the interaction consisted of, according to CT Insider. Earlier reports suggested Brutcher had been kicked out of a bar before he carried out his rampage, though it is unclear whether that was Bleachers Bar. Bleachers declined to comment when contacted by DailyMail.com, with the revelation offering a possible motive for the ambush double-murder. The...

“He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief. He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy” (Proverbs 17:20-21).

An Israeli Minister on Sunday urged the country’s government to provide military aid to Ukraine amid reports that Iran will supply Russia with ballistic missiles during the ongoing conflict. “This morning it was reported that Iran is transferring ballistic missiles to Russia,” tweeted Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai. “There is no longer any doubt where Israel should stand in this bloody conflict.” “The time has come for Ukraine to receive military aid as well, just as the USA and NATO countries provide,” he demanded.

On this date in 1730, the Ottoman Grand Vizier Nevsehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha was deposed by strangulation. Ibrahim Pasha (English Wikipedia entry | Turkish)* was the minister of Sultan Ahmed III; more than that, he was the sultan’s son-in-law.** It was the Lâle Devri in Istanbul, whose great families thrilled to the voluptuary pleasures of tulips — a consumption conspicuous not only of wealth but of European affectation.† Ibrahim himself was a great connoisseur of the fashionable bulb that defines his 1718-1730 administration as the “Tulip Period”. Arts and culture in the empire — there’s no other way to say...

Join together with Fellow FREEPERS to Pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.'I Urge, then, First of All, that Requests, Prayers, Intercession and Thanksgiving be Made for Everyone: for Kings and All those in Authority that we May Live Peaceful and Quiet Lives in All Godliness and Holiness.' 1 Timothy 2:1-2Religion Forum Threads Labeled [Prayer] are Closed to Debate of Any Kind.'And this is the Confidence that we have in Him, that, if we Ask Anything According to His Will, He Heareth us.' 1 John 5:14Isaiah 46:4I Am He,...

Russian military attacks in Syria and Ukraine. First to Ukraine where tonight explosions were reported in multiple locations... Russian aerospace forces launching strikes against jihadists in northwestern Syria... Russia also says its ground forces were involved in a military operation in southern Syria... In Bernburg, Germany today thousands of protesters marching against the government's energy and economic policies as well as its hostility to Russia. In the Eastern European nation of Moldova bordering Ukraine with a large Russian minority population, a protest march of tens of thousands... The "Left" on the march in Paris today a mass protest of economic...

It should be a no-brainer for America’s leaders to permanently slam the door on the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO.In Washington, D.C., the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is the equivalent of a foreign policy holy sacrament. To listen to many policymakers and foreign policy commentators, you would think NATO is as essential to America as our Constitution, apple pie, or baseball.Questioning its continued utility in the post-Cold War era — or its further expansion — elicits accusations of being everything from un-American to a Putin stooge. This has made it almost impossible to have a substantive discussion about a...

In the event of a nuclear strike, President Joe Biden could be rushed to a little-known complex inside a mountain near Blue Ridge Summit, which sits along the Pennsylvania-Maryland state line, according to Newsweek. The Raven Rock Mountain Complex, which is near Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, "is this massive, hollowed-out mountain. It's a free-standing city ... with individual buildings, three-story buildings, built inside of this mountain,” journalist Garrett Graff, the author of the 2017 book Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself — While the Rest of Us Die, told NPR in 2017. “It...

The prime minister is facing calls to resign from within her own party just six weeks after entering Number 10, following the economic turmoil in the wake of the mini-budget. Tory MPs Crispin Blunt, Andrew Bridgen and Jamie Wallis have all publicly stated they believe she should resign, as Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused Ms Truss of being "in office but not in power". The Daily Mail reported that Tory MPs will try to oust Ms Truss this week, with more than 100 ready to submit letters of no confidence. It comes after the PM dramatically ditched a major...