Care UK, which runs 120 care homes, warned on Thursday that “everyone applying for a role which requires them to go into a home will be expected to have been vaccinated before they start work.” A spokesman told the Evening Standard, “For new recruits, we now ask at both the …
Read More »Biden’s China policy is a ‘diet coke’ version of Trump’s trade & tech war sledgehammer
On Wednesday evening Joe Biden and Xi Jinping concluded their first phone call. The move might be described as breaking the ice, given the previous administration of Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo opted for all-out confrontation. Yet, the content of the call was hardly more amicable. The President stated that …
Read More »Biden’s China policy is a ‘diet coke’ version of Trump’s trade & tech war sledgehammer
On Wednesday evening Joe Biden and Xi Jinping concluded their first phone call. The move might be described as breaking the ice, given the previous administration of Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo opted for all-out confrontation. Yet, the content of the call was hardly more amicable. The President stated that …
Read More »Biden’s softer deportation policy to let some felons stay, say DHS guidelines leaked to media
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will focus on recent illegal border crossings, national security threats, and people completing prison terms for “aggravated felony” convictions, according to emails sent by acting director Tae Johnson last week and quoted by the Washington Post on Sunday. “Generally, these convictions would not include …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Biden’s Iran policy is just Trump’s Iran policy with a rainbow flag emoji
In a new interview with CBS Evening News, President Biden confirmed that his administration will not be lifting sanctions imposed upon Iran in order to bring Tehran to the negotiating table for the restoration of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal. “Will …
Read More »US Navy must rename warships that have ‘racist’ and Confederate names, policy task force says
“Certain Navy ship names have been highlighted by Congress and in the media for connections to confederate or white supremacist ideologies,” Task Force One Navy said in its report, published on Wednesday. The 141-page report called for a review to “identify assets honoring those associated with the Confederacy and identify …
Read More »WhatsApp delays privacy policy update as fleeing users voice concerns over Facebook data-sharing with NO opt-out
The chat application announced on Friday that it would delay the update until mid-May, blaming “confusion” and “misinformation” for growing privacy concerns among customers while insisting that it would not hand additional user data, such as private messages, to Facebook under its new policies. “We will always protect your personal …
Read More »Trump once had a strategy for China. Now it’s turned into a scorched earth policy
The Trump administration is on its last legs. It’s been deplatformed almost universally across social media, it’s been impeached again, and it’s got a week to go – yet that still has not stopped an endless spree of utterly reckless and bizarre measures against China that serves no purpose other …
Read More »One-China policy ‘null & void’? Trump creates diplomatic hot potato for Biden as Pompeo ends all restrictions on Taiwan relations
“Our two democracies share common values of individual freedom, the rule of law and a respect for human dignity,” Pompeo said Saturday in a statement. China doesn’t acknowledge Taiwan’s sovereignty, and the US has operated under a geopolitical compromise with Beijing in its dealing with the island. Neither the US …
Read More »Top economic policy voice under Obama & Clinton says $2,000 stimulus checks could OVERHEAT economy… and even $600 is too much
“I’m not even sure I’m so enthusiastic about the $600 checks, and I think taking them to $2,000 would actually be a pretty serious mistake that would risk a temporary overheat,” Summers said Thursday in a Bloomberg TV interview. The former Harvard University president added that he would like to …
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