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Trump’s foreign policy: simple minded money grubbing

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Fri, 20/01/2023 - 10:30
We’re going to be hearing a lot more about Mike Pompeo’s new book and it’s actually promising to be an interesting sideshow. Trump isn’t going to be happy about it, so it’s not all bad. From the Triad: Mike Pompeo, the former secretary of state, is coming out with a memoir to promote his 2024 presidential candidacy. In it, he writes that in early 2020, President Trump tried to quash Pompeo’s criticism of China. Here’s Pompeo’s account, according to an early peek at the book, as reported by Shelby Talcott and David Weigel in Semafor: This isn’t the first time the trade deal has come up in reporting about Trump, Xi, and COVID. Here’s the rest of the early 2020 sequence, as I previously outlined it in Slate: In the Slate article, I traced Trump’s behavior during those weeks: He adopted Xi’s talking points on COVID, defended Xi’s efforts to suppress bad news about the virus, and tried to copy some of Xi’s suppression tactics in the United States. Pompeo’s story backs up that analysis. Xi threatened the trade deal, and Trump responded by telling Pompeo to shut up.

Doctor Who: The Complete History Digital Re-Release

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Fri, 20/01/2023 - 08:00

Doctor Who: The Complete History is getting an international digital re-release, providing the definitive story of the making of the show Doctor Who: The Complete History is receiving a new lease of life as a digital download series available through Panini and Pocketmags. The series was original released as a fortnightly part-work of hardback books. […]

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Who are the groomers again?

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Fri, 20/01/2023 - 07:30
The right wing is obsessed with children’s nether regions This is so sick. More red state proposals for children’s genital inspections. Here’s North Dakota this week: The North Dakota House of Representatives has introduced a bill that would strictly prohibit expanded use of pronouns outside of the gender that the person was born. House Bill 2199 restricts the definition of gender to the person’s natural gender at birth and then requires that all pronoun use be reflective of that same gender. Any violation by anyone who works at an institution that receives state funding, including public schools would be subject to a $1,500 fine. If gender is challenged, the bill puts the responsibility on the individual to prove their gender. “Say, they’re a boy, but they come to school and say they’re a girl. As far as that school is concerned in this bill, that person is still a boy. If it becomes contested, the burden will be on the girl, the so-called girl, or the boy, to prove that he is a girl,” said North Dakota State Senator David Clemens while speaking in favor of the bill.

Video: Mexican president accuses Smeeth and group of antisemitism ‘campaign’ against Corbyn

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Fri, 20/01/2023 - 07:17
“The most important thing is to make people aware how all this works and how many of these associations are managed from abroad for political purposes.” In a dramatic video, the President of Mexico points out what the UK media won’t – despite even the Starmer-commissioned Forde Report coming to the same conclusion – that […]

They’re GOPers after all

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Fri, 20/01/2023 - 06:00
If anyone was thinking (as I was) that the so-called GOP moderates who won in swing districts carried by Biden would sign on to a discharge petition early enough to have it work (it’s a long arduous process) we all need to wake up. They are going to drag out “negotiations” to cut the shit out of government programs that benefit actual humans (that’s what they all live for) and then it will be too late: House Republicans from swing districts are flatly rejecting the White House’s position that there be no negotiations with Congress over raising the national debt ceiling, insisting that they won’t bend to the Democrats’ take-it-or-leave-it approach to avoid the first-ever debt default with no conditions attached. The Republicans, many of whom hail from districts that President Joe Biden won or narrowly lost and are seen as the most likely to break ranks with their party’s leadership, said they are not willing to back a “clean” debt ceiling increase, insisting there must be some fiscal agreement first.

India aims to become key semiconductor supplier for world — [Communications Minister Ashwini] Vaishnaw

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Fri, 20/01/2023 - 05:47
"Our university system that produces a large number of talent is also helping a lot as we have tied up with many universities to prepare right talent," he said.

Asked about the government's own investment plans, he said the government itself is putting in USD 10 billion and it has chalked out a long haul programme....
Business Standard (India)