[YouTube] In this episode, I address the troubling policy being pushed by radical leftists in the Senate which could become reality if Biden wins in 2020. I also discuss the mounting evidence that the Democrats’ efforts to keep your kids out of school are solely political.
[AspenBeat] American science is making terrific progress on a COVID vaccine.
Not just American science, but do go on...
This is great news for America, which of course makes it bad news for Democrats.
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Which brings us to the media and other Democrats. They have bigger fish to fry than saving the world, namely regaining the presidency.
Recall that in the early weeks of the pandemic the Democrats criticized Trump of "xenophobia" and "racism" for banning travel with infected regions. To contrast themselves with Trump, the Dems themselves encouraged people to get together for parties.
As the pandemic worsened, the Dems realized they could get more political mileage by adopting the opposite strategy. So, of course, that's what they did.
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To the Dems, the terrible consequences of their fear-mongering is just collateral damage in their justifiable war for power. To me, it’s despicable.
(Reuters) - Nearly a third of more than 40 large companies seeking U.S. bankruptcy protection during the coronavirus pandemic awarded bonuses to executives within a month of filing their cases, according to a Reuters analysis of securities filings and court records.
Under a 2005 bankruptcy law, companies are banned, with few exceptions, from paying executives retention bonuses while in bankruptcy. But the firms seized on a loophole by granting payouts before filing.
Six of the 14 companies that approved bonuses within a month of their filings cited business challenges executives faced during the pandemic in justifying the compensation.
Even more firms paid bonuses in the half-year period before their bankruptcies. Thirty-two of the 45 companies Reuters examined approved or paid bonuses within six months of filing. Nearly half authorized payouts within two months.
Eight companies, including J.C. Penney Co Inc and Hertz Global Holdings Inc, approved bonuses as few as five days before seeking bankruptcy protection. Hi-Crush Inc, a supplier of sand for oil-and-gas fracking, paid executive bonuses two days before its July 12 filing.
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"But the firms seized on a loophole by granting payouts before filing."
"Seized on a loophole" like hyenas over a zebra. And I suppose that loophole will be closed very soon? Yeah, right.
And we should hardly be surprised. Although I different scenario, I think the most egregious was United Airlines C-Suite pukes receiving (awarding themselves?) bonuses when they demanded their employees to take pay cuts after 9/11 to "save the company".
[Al Ahram] Despite being a founding member of both NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , La Belle France usually maintains its own independent position in international affairs. Occasionally, its stances may align with the rest of the EU or with the NATO alliance, but in other cases they can set the country on a collision course.Such policies led La Belle France to be one of the first countries in the world to independently test a nuclear weapon during the rule of former president Charles de Gaulle. De Gaulle believed that La Belle France should have its own arsenal of nuclear weapons to maintain its independent power of political decision-making from the influence of the United States or other global powers. La Belle France managed to develop its nuclear weapons capability by 1960, being the fourth country in the world to do so.
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La Belle France still has no business being a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
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"Macron believes that Erdogan is a major cause of instability in the Middle East"
The US is a major cause of instability in the Middle East.
"These moves represent a clear and present danger to French national security"
How so? France is in no danger whatsoever.
"especially since Libya borders both Tunisia and Algeria which have long historical, political and economic ties with La Belle France."
This doesn't make sense. France bombed Libya into the stone age and caused the current problem in the first place. Nobody liked Khadaffy but he was stable.
"Macron has accused Turkey of "criminal responsibility" in Libya and stressed that the country’s intervention there threatens European security."
France's intervention in Libya threatened European security by removing the stopper from the refugee bottle. But maybe that was the intention all along.
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The US is a major cause of instability in the Middle East.
It was stable for hundreds of years under the Ottoman yoke. It was the European grab for territory after WW1 that created the fracturing of the place into new tribes. De-colonization in the aftermath of WW2 made sure that things would never be 'stable' for generations and oil/gas only put more fuel into that fire. We didn't start the fire, it was always burning.
[Wash Examiner] It has been said before, but it bears repeating: You are better off watching raw footage of the White House press briefings than trusting the word of journalists.
Put more simply, members of our vaunted Fourth Estate cannot be trusted to report accurately on this administration. They are just making stuff up at this point.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday tried to explain President Trump’s position that schools in the United States should reopen sooner rather than later.
"The president has said, unmistakably, that he wants schools to open. And I was just in the Oval [Office] talking to him about that. And when he says ’open,’ he means ’open in full’ — kids being able to attend each and every day at their school," she told reporters at a White House press briefing.
"The science should not stand in the way of this," McEnany continued. "And as Dr. Scott Atlas said — I thought this was a good quote — ’Of course we can do it. Everyone else in the Western world, our peer nations, are doing it. We are the outlier here.’ The science is very clear on this — that, you know, for instance, you look at the [Journal of the American Medical Association's] pediatric study of 46 pediatric hospitals in North America that said the risk of critical illness from COVID is far less for children than that of seasonal flu."
The White House press secretary concluded, "The science is on our side here. We encourage for localities and states to just simply follow the science. Open our schools."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
(Reuters) - Nearly a third of more than 40 large companies seeking U.S. bankruptcy protection during the coronavirus pandemic awarded bonuses to executives within a month of filing their cases, according to a Reuters analysis of securities filings and court records.
