No, China Isn’t Gobbling Up America’s Farms

Source: US Department of Agriculture

Fears over Chinese purchases of US cropland are vastly overblown. Lawmakers should slow down before imposing damaging new restrictions.

No, China Isn’t Gobbling Up America’s Farms

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I’m more worried about ‘Farmer Bill’, who claims that he owns “less than 1/4000 of the farmland”.

‘To Save Money, Maybe You Should Skip Breakfast’ WSJ Headline

‘To Save Money, Maybe You Should Skip Breakfast’ WSJ Headline

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To Save Money, Maybe You Should Skip Breakfast

Breakfast lovers might be better off just having a cup of coffee—but go with roasted, not instant. Prices for roasted coffee declined by 0.1% last month, but instant coffee rose by a 3.6% monthly increase for instant coffee.

I thought that breakfast was the most important meal of the day?!

A New Study Suggests That Black Southerners’ Access to Firearms Reduced Lynchings

In her 1892 pamphlet Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, the journalist Ida B. Wells argued that firearms were an essential tool in preventing the deadly white supremacist violence that she chronicled. “Of the many inhuman outrages of this present year, the only case where the proposed lynching did not occur, was where the men armed themselves in Jacksonville, Fla., and Paducah, Ky, and prevented it,” she wrote. “The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.”

A New Study Suggests That Black Southerners’ Access to Firearms Reduced Lynchings

‘Hell yeah, I’m bitter’: Obama’s ethics ex-chief rails against Biden White House nepotism in Twitter meltdown

‘Hell yeah, I’m bitter’: Obama’s ethics ex-chief rails against Biden White House nepotism in Twitter meltdown

“So, yeah. I’m disappointed. I’m angry. I supported this guy. I provided help to the campaign and the transition because I believed ethics was going to be a priority. Well, it isn’t even in the top 100 things the administration cares about,” he said.

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US forces ‘Xinjiang forced labor’ narrative on enterprises, industry agencies

US forces ‘Xinjiang forced labor’ narrative on enterprises, industry agencies

The US Agency for International Development has also been found to be supporting and participating in BCI activities.

Influenced by the council team, the BCI head office set up a special team on April 1, 2020 to investigate “forced labor” in Xinjiang, which included 11 member retailers, consulting companies and civil organizations, such as Shelly Heald Han from the FLA, Komala Ramachandra from Human Rights Watch, and Allison Gill from International Labor Rights Forum.

“Currently, BCI’s activities in Xinjiang have been suspended, which means it has lost nearly 90 percent of its business in China – it is cutting off its own limbs,” an insider who requested anonymity told the Global Times.

Western Media Source:

China branch of cotton trade body finds no forced labour in Xinjiang

*Xinjiang*