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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Bongino on 'Cashless Society' and more
[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.


Posted by: Besoeker || 07/18/2020 08:04 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


-Land of the Free
Expect The Media To Sensationalize Minor Adverse Reactions To The Vaccine
[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.

Posted by: Mercutio || 07/18/2020 06:56 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Of course. If the virus was 100% effective and benign as well, the world's newest religion would collapse overnight. Can't have that.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/18/2020 9:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Not virus, vaccine. RTDTF.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/18/2020 9:45 Comments || Top||


#4  Expect the media to sensationalize...

(fill in the blanks.)
Posted by: Tom || 07/18/2020 11:59 Comments || Top||


Economy
On eve of bankruptcy, U.S. firms shower execs with bonuses
(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.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/18/2020 08:07 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "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".
Posted by: Clem || 07/18/2020 8:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Close the loophole with a 365 days prior to filing time limit.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/18/2020 9:14 Comments || Top||

#3  In fairness, their efforts in diversity, Muslim outreach and climate change initiatives have been outstanding.

And isn't that the whole point of corporations?
Posted by: charger || 07/18/2020 12:02 Comments || Top||

#4  99% of corp execs these days are idiots. That is why their companies are in bankruptcy in the first place.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 07/18/2020 20:49 Comments || Top||


Europe
France’s feud with Turkey
[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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Posted by: Fred || 07/18/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  La Belle France still has no business being a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
Posted by: Clem || 07/18/2020 0:27 Comments || Top||

#2  The French are correct.
Dumb USA will never learn, expect even worse if Biden winds the election.

"La Belle France still has no business being a permanent member of the UN Security Council."

Something should not exists.
Posted by: Thorong Grundy1520 || 07/18/2020 3:40 Comments || Top||

#3  "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.
Posted by: Thumper Grundy4208 || 07/18/2020 5:46 Comments || Top||

#4  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.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/18/2020 6:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Too bad Reagan didn't take out Qaddafi after the Le Belle disco bombing in Berlin & PanAm flight 103.
Posted by: Clem || 07/18/2020 6:42 Comments || Top||

#6  France’s feud with Turkey

Red on red?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/18/2020 6:49 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ no, more like mauve on red
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/18/2020 7:11 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Media are just plain lying about Kayleigh McEnany 'science' quote
[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."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/18/2020 08:38 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Quelle Surprise. Perfect opportunity to display the Rantburg surprise meter..
Posted by: Warthog || 07/18/2020 8:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Allow me the honors:

Posted by: Clem || 07/18/2020 8:52 Comments || Top||

#3  "Media are just plain lying" about Kayleigh McEnany 'science' quote

FTFY - no charge.
Posted by: Barbara || 07/18/2020 10:11 Comments || Top||



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Sat 2020-07-18
  Jordan’s top court dissolves country’s Muslim Brotherhood
Fri 2020-07-17
  Nigeria: 602 Boko Haram terrorists surrender
Thu 2020-07-16
  Video footage from Iranian port after 7 ships caught fire
Wed 2020-07-15
  Explosion as fire breaks out at Iranian industrial complex
Tue 2020-07-14
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Sat 2020-07-11
  Turkey issues presidential decree to convert Hagia Sophia back into mosque
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  Latest explosions in Tehran reportedly hit warehouses of rockets that belong to the IRGC
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  22 Taliban militants killed, wounded on Kabul-Jalalabad highway
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