For a variety of reasons, the US is already one of the worst places in the world to build infrastructure. And now, president Joe Biden’s plan to “buy American” for future government infrastructure projects will likely make things even worse.
Biden’s “Buy American” plan could kill US jobs
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Emerging Markets Aim To Capitalize On Shifting Semiconductor Supply Chains
After the US levied sweeping restrictions against China’s semiconductor manufacturing industry last autumn, opportunities are emerging for other countries to bolster their positions in the supply chain for this critical component of the global economy and linchpin of future technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and next-generation computing.
Emerging Markets Aim To Capitalize On Shifting Semiconductor Supply Chains
Only one U.S. semiconductor plant! 😠
Center for a New American Security & MICIMATT say, “Be Afraid, Very Afraid” Of China
By Richard Fontaine, the chief executive officer of the Center for a New American Security.
China’s Balloon Could Be America’s Awakening
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Canadian residents are pleading with Ottawa to release assets frozen after sanctions were imposed on banks
Canada’s Russia sanctions are hitting people with no connection to Putin’s war
Leader of billionaire-funded protest of Surrey journalist expresses remorse for violent attack
The exiled Chinese billionaire connected to Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon paid $300 a day for picketers to march daily outside a Surrey journalist’s house in fall 2020.
Leader of billionaire-funded protest of Surrey journalist expresses remorse for violent attack
Western selective humanitarianism, Syria earthquake falls on deaf ears
Facebook Protects Nazis to Protect Ukraine Proxy War
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced on January 19 that the company no longer considers Ukraine’s Azov Regiment to be a “dangerous organization.” The far-right paramilitary group grew out of the street gangs that helped topple Ukraine’s president in the US-backed 2014 coup. Originally funded by the same Ukrainian oligarch that backed President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s rise to power, Azov was on the front lines of civil war in Eastern Ukraine, and was later fully integrated into the Ukrainian national guard.
Facebook Protects Nazis to Protect Ukraine Proxy War
I thought that this was old news but I guess I was wrong.
‘Take your dirty hands off Turkey,’ Ankara rails against US envoy
‘Take your dirty hands off Turkey,’ Ankara rails against US envoy
On Thursday, Soylu condemned the closures as an attempt to meddle in campaigning for Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections, which are scheduled for 14 May. The Turkish interior minister and other officials also suggested that the Western states had issued the security warnings in order to pressure Turkey to tone down its criticism of the sacrilegious move and resolve the NATO dispute.
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Turkish minister tells US ambassador ‘Take your dirty hands off Turkey’ as sanctions sparks fly
Turkey’s parliamentary and presidential elections scheduled for May 14 are fast approaching—angry rhetoric from the Erdogan regime, designed to nationalistically rouse its core vote, is no surprise. Nor are angry interventions from US politicians who dislike the unreliability of Turkey as a Nato ally, but at the same time stop short of anything that could irretrievably wreck relations with a country crucially located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
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Brian Nelson, the US Treasury Department’s top sanctions official, visited Turkish government and private sector officials on February 2 to urge more cooperation in disrupting the flow of goods that Russia can put to use in persisting with its war on the Ukrainians.
In a speech to bankers, reported by Reuters, Nelson said a pronounced year-long rise in exports to Russia left Turkish entities ‘particularly vulnerable to reputational and sanctions risks‘, or lost access to G7 markets.
When a weather balloon went rogue almost 25 years ago, fighter jets fired 1,000 rounds at it and couldn’t bring it down
Almost 25 years ago, a large runaway weather balloon proved to be quite challenge a for a pair of fighter jets trying to shoot it down, staying in the air even after more than 1,000 rounds were fired at it.
When a weather balloon went rogue almost 25 years ago, fighter jets fired 1,000 rounds at it and couldn’t bring it down
Wondering how Canada missed it?! Nothing was publicly said until it entered the US?!
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