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Sigh: A hearing of the bipartisan task force investigating the assassination attempts against President-elect Donald Trump devolved into a shouting match when Republican Rep. Pat Fallon accused acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe of “playing politics” when he attended a 9/11 memorial event with the nation’s top leaders. Yelling between the two broke out after Fallon displayed a photo of Trump, President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Vice President-elect JD Vance at the event in New York City in September. Rowe was standing directly behind Harris, then a candidate for the presidency, in the second row. “Who is usually, at an event like this, closest to the president of the United States, security-wise?” Fallon, of Texas, asked Rowe. “The SAC of the detail,” Rowe answered, referring to the special agent in charge of security. Fallon then questioned whether the acting director was serving in that role at the 9/11 memorial. Rowe did not answer directly.
Trump announces the head of NASA and the USA’s future among the stars. Barbara Pocock speaks out on nuclear waste in our own backyard. An Israeli professor speaks out on the genocide, while Israel has continued attacks in Gaza overnight. On the anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s death we are reminded of his views of the Continue reading »
So, China has put export controls on rare earths.
People think “well, we’ll just mine them ourselves” but it often isn’t that simple. Gallium is refined as part of the process of aluminum smelting, for example, and the US has no aluminum smelting industry left.
More generally speaking the world is unfolding as I predicted: it’s splitting into two trade blocs, a cold war is developing (the Syrian “uprising” is a cold war maneuver) and the US is trying cannibalize its satrapies: that’s what Trump’s tariffs on allies are about.
Since the 50s it was deliberate American policy to offshore industry to its allies, especially South Korea, Japan and Taiwan, but also to Europe and the Anglosphere to some extent. Now it wants to pull that back in. This has been especially noticeable, of late, in Germany, where heavy industry is shutting down and much of it is moving to the US.
Harvard and MIT humanist chaplain Greg M. Epstein on his 3 greatest revelations while writing Tech Agnostic.
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Brian Beutler’s newsletter today proposes the idea that in light of the Hunter Biden pardon statement, in which Biden alluded to serious prosecutorial abuses in the case, that Biden needs to tell everything they know about Trump’s and the Republicans’ abuses before he leaves office. He writes: We don’t know what these Democrats chose to leave buried. But the Hunter Biden saga, culminating in his Sunday pardon, and his father’s accompanying statement justifying the decision, all suggest the party still fails to grasp the importance of sunlight, accountability, and clear communication. The election is over and they lost, but now the question is whether they will cede all power to the GOP in six weeks without doing everything they still can to inform and protect the country Between the lines, it’s clear Biden knows quite a lot that never made big splashy headlines.
Lawmakers will soon vote on a bill directing a nonprofit to draft curriculum on atrocities carried out by communist regimes.
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Policy bereft Opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has held a press conference in which he has provided another excuse as to why he has not released any details on his pie in the sky plan to bring nuclear power to Australia.... Read More ›
American troops are in Syria on questionable legal grounds. They continue to get attacked, according to new Pentagon data.
The post As Civil War Heats Back Up, U.S. Troops Are Still Deployed in Syria — And Under Fire appeared first on The Intercept.
Insurance companies generally have a loss ratio: a percentage of income from insurance policies they must pay out. In health insurance this percentage varies: it’s lower for individual plans, and higher for group plans. Most commonly it’s 80%.
If they pay out less, in many cases they have to return the difference to policy owners. (Not always though. Often with Medicaid, for example, this isn’t the case.)
This doesn’t mean that they have no reason to deny care, however. They want their health care costs as close to that bottom number as possible without going past it. If they spend, say, 83% rather than 80%, that will cost them billions. Denial of care is meant to get the margin as close to to loss ratio as possible.
This isn’t complicated. A man is a man, a woman is a woman, and if we have any questions, we simply consult the highest governing body of a random sport.
As the saying goes, when in doubt, turn to the International Association of Amateur Heptathlon Competitors.
Scripture tells us that God made man in his image. Biology tells us that men and women are different. The International Cycling Union tells us that if a person’s natural testosterone is above 2.5 nanomoles per liter, well, there’s no way that’s a woman.
An athlete might look like a woman from a distance. Upon closer inspection, however, that person will test positive for conditions such as “being the best athlete on the field” and “capitalizing on natural ability with years of training.”
We must stay vigilant to ensure these troublemakers don’t slip through the cracks.
Yes, male athletes take a host of supplements and quasi-legal hormones, but that’s just what men do. Doubling a man’s testosterone level through chemical injections is perfectly natural.
Almost certainly not, but someone really ought to try while it’s still possible. Geography isn’t everything in international relations, but it does explain a lot. You can’t choose the neighbours. Having a border with Russia understandably leads to well-founded paranoia or shameless, self-serving attempts at ingratiation these days. The leaders of Canada and Mexico are Continue reading »