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NEW YORK – Moving factories from China to Mexico is one of the few hot topics in an otherwise listless market, US investment bankers say. As American hostility to China rises, US corporations scramble to assure the public as well as inquisitive congressional committees that they are moving operations out of the Middle Kingdom to friendlier venues. It’s all a pantomime for political consumption. US imports from Mexico, Vietnam, India and other “friend-shoring” venues depend on imports of Chinese components, according to an Asia Times study of international trade data. China’s exports to non-Japan Asia and Latin America are booming,...

".....Dershowitz went on to suggest that Trump’s case will likely not be dismissed, saying that “I don’t think that if you had the best lawyers in the history of the world, Abraham Lincoln and John Marshall, a New York City judge would dismiss this case because that New York City judge’s life would be over.”.... .....However, he added that the case would “be reversed on appeal,” and it “will never be affirmed all the way up to the Supreme Court.”..."

The Book Depository is closing down after almost two decades in business. The company, which is owned by Amazon, confirmed the move on social media The decision was confirmed on 4 April when the company used Twitter to announce their closure. It comes after parent company Amazon announced major changes and cost cutting exercises in their book selling department. Amazon chief executive, Andy Jassy, said in a January blog post that more than 18,000 roles would be cut across the company, and discussed “the hard decision to eliminate a number of positions across our devices and books businesses”. “We are...

National Public Radio has been labeled as "U.S. state-affiliated media" on Twitter, marking the public radio outlet's account with the same icon placed on outlets like Russia's state-owned news agency TASS or China's New China News Agency, the official state news agency of the People's Republic of China The label has only been applied to NPR's primary Twitter account and is not currently on accounts like NPR Politics or NPR Health. Twitter, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, has long labeled state-owned media companies. According to the site, the labels "provide additional context about accounts that are controlled by certain official...

Nearly 50% of all global assets are now held in shadow banks, according to the IMF. These institutions, also called non-bank financial intermediaries (NBFIs), include pension funds, insurers, hedge funds, private equity funds, structured investment vehicles (SIVs), limited-purpose finance companies (LPFCs), and numerous other entities—each with their own acronym. Shadow banks are often the under-regulated middle men of the financial system, and they’re growing in number. For nearly a decade now, Federal Reserve officials have repeatedly warned about the hidden dangers present in these shadow banks. And it’s not just U.S. regulators that have expressed concern—from Ireland to China, the...

My daughter in law is fighting what seems to be long covid. She has been through so much and really needs to be able to travel to be with my wife and me this weekend in Florida. She and the rest of our family have been looking forward to this visit as a way to ease the pain of other problems.

The yield on the 10-year US Treasury note has fallen to its lowest level since last September. That is a warning sign that storm clouds are gathering over the US economy, says Jim Bianco. Recession fears are back in focus for investors thanks to the recent banking turmoil and weak jobs data. The bond market is flashing a warning sign that the US economy is heading for a rough patch, says Wall Street analyst Jim Bianco. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury note has fallen to its lowest level since last September - and that suggests rising expectations of...

1 - Eleven teens die each day because of texting while driving. Maybe it's time to raise the age of Smart Phone ownership to 21. (FACT) 2 - If gun control laws actually worked, Chicago would be Mayberry, 3 - The Second Amendment makes more women equal than the entire feminist movement. 4 - Legal gun owners have 300 million guns and probably a trillion rounds of ammo. Seriously, folks, if we were the problem, you'd know it. 5 - When JFK was killed, nobody blamed the rifle. 6 - The NRA (National Rifle Association) murders 0 people and receives...

Republican lawmakers in Tennessee advanced a bill through a House committee on Wednesday that would allow teachers to carry firearms in their classrooms – a move being criticized by Democrats, civil rights leaders and gun safety advocates as tone deaf in the wake of a shooting last week at a Nashville elementary school that killed three 9-year-olds and three school staff members. “Our community is still grieving last week’s mass shooting at Covenant elementary that took 6 lives – their solution is more guns,” said Democratic Rep. Justin Jones, who represents parts of Nashville. “Shameful.” Jones is one of three...

A Florida woman who was found with 24 homemade pipe bombs and a hit list pleaded guilty Wednesday to avoid prison, and will instead receive mental health treatment. Michelle Kolts pleaded guilty in a Tampa courtroom to reduce charges following her 2019 arrest. She was originally charged with 24 counts of making, possessing and discharging a destructive device. "Twenty-four months of community control followed by 15 years probation," prosecutor Lindsey Hodges said, Fox Tampa reported.

The report stated that Ruiz's vulgar reaction came about because she heard Republicans laughing after vote. She claimed one of her GOP colleagues was "gloating" when he came into the chamber. Another Democrat, Rep. Heather Meyer, who the report said has a transgender child, wore a shirt in the chamber that read "protect trans youth." The bill initially passed the state House on Feb. 23, with one Democrat joining all Republicans in support. It was passed by the Senate just days later before being vetoed by Kelly on March 17.

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Now that the trans activists have told us what an awful provocation our beliefs have become to their way of life, maybe the time has come for us to just go ahead and cancel Christianity altogether. Mightn’t that be the right thing to do in the interest of keeping our children safe? How else are we to ensure the goodwill of our LGBTQI+ neighbors if we’re not willing to dismantle the very structures that are so oppressive to them? We certainly don’t wish to continue driving them to the extremity of trying to kill us, do we?

LGBT activism groups can access millions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer money to promote the homosexual and transgender agenda, thanks to a State Department grant program.The $5 million comes from the State Department’s “Global Equity Fund.”

Since December 2022, new Twitter owner Elon Musk has been giving selected journalists access to the internal communications of Twitter from the past few years. They have revealed widespread collusion between Twitter executives and Democrats, intelligence agencies, and other government institutions, as well as the obvious bias against conservatives of most Twitter employees.Among the prominent journalists who have published parts of the so-called “Twitter files” are Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, Michael Shellenberger, and Lee Fang.

Covid's natural origin theory was today seemingly dealt a huge blow — by China's very own scientists. In a fresh twist to the never-ending saga, Beijing-affiliated researchers ruled there was no proof to definitively say the virus jumped from animals to humans at a now-infamous market in Wuhan. Swathes of patients struck down at the start of the pandemic visited or had links to its stalls, which sold bats, raccoon dogs, pangolins and other exotic species either proven to harbour similar coronaviruses or thought to.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is officially challenging President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination. Kennedy, 69, filed a statement of candidacy Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission, according to the Associated Press. He's the son of the late Attorney General and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in California in 1968 during a run for the presidency. Kennedy is the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in Dallas, Texas in 1963.

The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general and his career staff are suing an executive branch entity, alleging it tried to destroy them financially for exposing and unprecedented "level of dysfunction and dishonesty" inside the agency. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in the Virginia suburbs of Washington D.C. alleges workers were subjected to a "Kafkaesque system" of retribution, and that one federal official even joked about assassinating the current Homeland Security inspector general's predecessor. Inspectors general were created in the aftermath of Watergate to work as independent watchdogs to police for waste, fraud and abuse inside large federal...

Meduza has obtained a copy of a pamphlet that was written by Russia’s military leadership shortly after the army’s retreat from Kherson in fall 2022. The document, which the military has begun issuing to Russian soldiers upon deployment to Ukraine, reiterates Moscow’s ideological justification for the war, condemns the Kherson retreat as a “shameful surrender,” and draws extensively from Joseph Stalin’s infamous Order No. 227, where the Soviet dictator called for “alarmists and cowards” to be “annihilated” on the spot. In English, Meduza summarizes the booklet and what we know about its origins.‘This is Goebbels stuff’In the fall of 2022,...

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