The slideshow is part of a White House release highlighting the potential benefits of Biden’s proposal, which has been continuously held up in congressional negotiations. In the animations, a pregnant woman named Linda is shown. She is described as a “production worker” who makes $40,000 a year. Subsequent slides then …
Read More »Queen of Investing: Just how did Nancy Pelosi build a $120mn fortune on a $223,000 annual salary?
In case you missed it, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) is being panned by the Twitterverse, if not by regulators and ethicists, for a series of stock transactions conducted by her husband Paul. “The week before the House Judiciary Committee voted on reigning in big tech,” reported Fortune in July, “Speaker Nancy …
Read More »As tensions between China and Taiwan continue to build, has wishy-washy White House messaging caused Taipei to ‘blink’ first?
Tensions in the Taiwan Strait are surging. Over the past week, in line with China’s National Day, Beijing has sent record numbers of military planes into what is known as Taiwan’s “Air Defence Identification Zone” (ADIZ). Whilst it is important to distinguish this zone from the island’s actual “airspace”, as …
Read More »Critics call for AT&T boycott over report telecoms giant ‘helped build’ pro-Donald Trump OAN network
It was executives at AT&T, the world’s largest communications company, that first came up with the idea for OAN, according to a deposition given by Robert Herring Sr., the right-wing network’s founder. “They told us they wanted a conservative network,” he said in 2019, according to the report from Reuters. …
Read More »‘Doesn’t matter when’: Biden goes to Congress to convince Dems to ‘Build Back Better’ as his signature bills stall on Capitol Hill
Biden spoke with lawmakers from his party on Friday afternoon, shortly before they were set to decamp from Washington after another day without the passage of two mammoth spending bills: a $1 trillion infrastructure bill that already has bipartisan support in the Senate, and a whopping $3.5 trillion bill rolling …
Read More »‘Blah, blah, blah’: Greta Thunberg rips ‘empty’ slogans like ‘Build Back Better’ in climate change speech
During a speech at the Youth4Climate summit in Milan, Italy, Thunberg criticized the slogans which have been frequently used by US President Joe Biden, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and other world leaders. “Build Back Better, blah blah blah. Green economy, blah blah blah. Net zero by 2050, blah blah …
Read More »Three Eyes… against China? Biden says US & UK to help Australia build ‘conventionally armed’ NUCLEAR submarines
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison joined US President Joe Biden in a virtual three-way announcement of what Biden called the “new phase of trilateral security cooperation” between the old allies on Wednesday. The future of the three countries and even the world “depends on …
Read More »Russia to build new cargo port in Vladivostok to boost development of Far East
The deal was struck on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in Vladivostok. “VEB.RF, the Government of the Primorsky region, the Ministry of the Russian Federation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic, the Far East and Arctic Development Corporation and the Port Infrastructure Development …
Read More »Echoes of Hungary as Poland to build giant barbed-wire border fence on frontier with Belarus to stem flow of illegal migrants
Speaking at a briefing, Mariusz Błaszczak revealed that the country’s frontier would be reinforced with a solid fence “two and a half meters high,” and that work on installing it would begin this week. He also noted that more soldiers would be moved to the area to assist border guards. …
Read More »Kiev must harness its potential & build arsenal of missiles to ‘fight war on foreign territory,’ says Ukrainian ex-minister
Speaking to the Ukrinform YouTube channel on Wednesday, Zayets called for the Ukrainian authorities to create a “missile shield.” “Today, we have all the potential for us to build a lot of missiles and to make a defense system,” he said, according to news agency RIA Novosti. “We also need …
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