The US Treasury on Friday added seven more individuals to its roster of entities sanctioned over what it sees as Beijing’s reneging on commitments to Hong Kong’s autonomy. Together with other parts of the US government, it also issued an advisory to “highlight growing risks” of doing business in the …
Read More »Biden admin official: ‘Absolutely the government’s business’ to know whether you have been vaccinated
Becerra, who is helping in the country’s vaccination push, was asked Thursday on CNN to defend President Joe Biden’s recently announced “door-to-door” outreach strategy convincing people to get vaccinated. Numerous Republican lawmakers and pundits have blasted the White House’s aggressive vaccination push – 160 million Americans are expected to have received …
Read More »Facebook’s autocratic Trump ban has tightened big business’s grip on democracy & freedom of expression. We should shudder in fear
Every democrat in the world should be sitting up and trembling in fear and indignation over the decision taken by Facebook to suspend Trump from the platform until at least January 7, 2023, and the idea that posts by politicians will be subject to more scrutiny by the company’s censors. …
Read More »Chinese emissions to turn Beijing into leader of climate business boom as carbon may shapeshift into new currency
The expert noted that the country is turning into a leader in innovative green finance as the scale of China’s emissions creates opportunities. “Carbon could become a new currency, with China creating the terms, the standards and the pricing,” she said speaking via video at the International Finance Forum 2021 …
Read More »‘Very business-like’: Top US diplomat acknowledges stable relations with Russia would be ‘good’ for world
“A more stable, predictable relationship with them [Russia], I think, would be good for us [the US], good for them, and I’d even argue good for the world,” Blinken told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS on Sunday following his recent talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The secretary of state …
Read More »Keynote speaker Snowden crashes ‘elite’ business investment seminar, urges public NOT to give organizer money
Snowden was booked as a keynote speaker at last Saturday’s get-rich-quick online conference hosted by the Canadian-based Private Investment Club (PIC), which promotes itself as “the largest elite real estate investment club in North America.” The group was founded by Sunil Tulsiani, who is described on PIC’s website as a …
Read More »How Republicans and big business are turning up the heat on ‘forced labor’ in China… to make life difficult for Biden
On Sunday, the US and China issued a joint statement on climate change following a tense visit to Shanghai by Joe Biden’s special envoy John Kerry. But don’t think that Beijing is now a US partner on this issue and Biden has a clean shot towards achieving his goals on …
Read More »WATCH business owners clash with police as anti-lockdown protest turns violent in Rome
The protest turned violent as demonstrators clashed with police, reportedly leaving two policemen and at least one protester injured. A number of arrests were made. Led by the ‘Movimento Imprese Italiane’ (The Italian Business Movement), the protesters wore shackles and chains and chanted for freedom. “We put chains on ourselves …
Read More »Wayne Dupree: Biden’s lies on a ‘voter suppression’ are backed by big business. Let’s ensure these woke corporations pay a price
On March 25, Georgia’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp signed a new voting bill, SB 202, into law which has sparked a huge backlash from Democratic officials and activists who have called the legislation “Jim Crow in the 21st century.” Democrats know that no one is suppressing voters’ right to vote, …
Read More »Twitter cries foul after McConnell calls big business ‘woke parallel government’ for leaning on Georgia over election law
“Americans do not need or want big business to amplify disinformation or react to every manufactured controversy with frantic left-wing signaling,” Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement on Monday. The unusual attack from McConnell against big business – which for a long time was a reliable …
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