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>>51250

bred #157 be locked

welcome to #158

>>51250

what timin yo

checkin in

shall I bakez it now?

>>51250

>>51254

tybs

https://thenewamerican.com/lawsuit-filed-against-covid-restrictions-in-oregon/

A group of business owners and the Oregon Moms Union has filed a lawsuit against Oregon’s Democratic Governor Kate Brown after “Extreme Risk” restrictions went into effect on April 30, Fox 12 Oregon reported.

Last week, Governor Brown extended Oregon’s state of emergency by 60 days, allowing her to continue to issue restrictions on businesses, according to the Oregonian. The “Extreme Risk” restrictions went into effect on Friday in 15 Oregon counties, encompassing nearly 70 percent of the state’s population.

Under these restrictions, indoor dining is prohibited at restaurants and bars; gym members are permitted just 45 minutes to exercise; movie theaters, bowling alleys, gyms, and swimming pools are limited to a maximum of six patrons indoors; and religious institutions have been asked to voluntarily limit indoor capacity to 25 percent or 100 people, whichever is smaller. Brown claimed the restrictions will last one to three weeks.

When asked why she would not allow vaccinated people to patronize businesses indoors, Brown claimed such a policy would be unfair to certain races and ethnicities who she claims have not been immunized at the same rate as the state’s overall population.

“Our vaccine distribution efforts, while fairly effective and efficient, have not been as equitable as I would like,” Brown said. “And we are working hard to close the vaccine gaps that exist among our communities of color.”

Four plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday demanding a temporary restraining order against Brown’s restrictions. They include The Heart of Main Street; Oregon Moms Union; Melissa Adams, the owner of Spud Monkey’s Bar and Grill in Gresham; and Adams’ corporation.

“I can’t pay my rent. I come in here seven days a week for the last 14 months, trying to make this work,” Adams said. “I did everything that Kate Brown asked me to do. I can’t do this anymore.”

The group of plaintiffs stood outside of Spud Monkey’s this week to make the announcement and were joined by Sandy Mayor Stan Pulliam, a second-term mayor considering a run for governor.

“The constitution provides us specific guarantees of liberty,” said Pulliam, who has also encouraged businesses to defy the state’s COVID mandates. “The Governor’s broadly applied authority continues to be shrouded in opaque rationale, undisclosed science, and arbitrary metrics. After 14 months, it’s time to put an end to this and restore our constitutionally protected rights as Americans.”

Iron Ore, Steel Hit All Time High As Monster Commodity Rally Breaks Records

While most of the attention in recent days has focused on copper, overnight both Iron ore and steel climbed to records as Chinese investors returned from a three-day holiday and sparked a furious rally.

Spot iron ore prices topped $200 a ton for the first time ever, as futures in Singapore and China climbed. Iron ore with 62% content hit $201.15 a ton on Thursday, according to Mysteel. Futures in Singapore jumped as much as 5.1% to $196.40 a ton, the highest since contracts were launched in 2013. In Dalian, prices closed 8.8% higher. The story is familiar: steel demand is soaring as economies emerge from covid lockdowns just as the world’s biggest miners have been hampered by operational issues, curbing ore supply.

The boom as Bloomberg notes, comes even as China’s steelmakers keep output rates above 1 billion tons a year, despite a swath of production curbs aimed at reducing carbon emissions and reining in supply. Instead, those measures have boosted steel prices and profitability at mills, allowing them to better accommodate higher iron ore costs. "China’s plan to cut steel output is not showing any success,” wrote RBC analyst Kaan Peker. While steel production outside China has been slow to ramp up, output should start to recover from late in the second quarter, he wrote.

Meanwhile, according to Fitch, the rally has more room to run, though prices will likely grind lower during the second half of 2021 as supply improves and demand growth slows. There’s also a risk that China could engage in policies that may stymie the rise in iron ore prices abruptly, it said. As a reminder, a similar surge in copper prices which pushed them above $10,000 last week and set to make a new all time high, has unleashed havoc on China's copper-reliant economy, as "some Chinese manufacturers of electric wire have idled units and delayed deliveries or even defaulted on bank loans, according to a survey by the Shanghai Metals Market." Meanwhile, end-users such as power grids and property developers have also been pushing back delivery times, unable to pay for the metal, while producers of copper rods and pipes saw orders slump this week, said the researcher."

Indeed, it's all fun and games as long as leveraged speculators can keep piling on even more leverage to push the price higher, but to buyers of the end product, the price surge is nothing short of catastrophic. The Thursday surge in iron ore came after Beijing said that it was suspending a ministerial economic dialog with Australia. While a largely symbolic move, ties have worsened in recent years and China has hit Australian barley and wine with crippling tariffs and told traders to stop buying commodities including copper, sugar, timber and lobster. So far iron ore has been spared in the spat, as the Asian nation relies on Australia for about 60% of its imports. Should iron be swept up in the growing trade war, there is no telling how high its price will rise.

Meanwhile, on the steel front, rebar closed at the highest since futures started trading in 2009..... and hot-rolled coil was at the highest since contracts were launched in 2014.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/iron-ore-steel-hit-all-time-high-monster-commodity-rally-breaks-records

>>51254

take the bakes cakes from yo bro wakes

Confirm Handoff

Tesla Permabull Baillie Gifford Dumped 40% Of Its Stake In Q1

Baille Gifford and company has been one of the most ardent Tesla bulls over the course of the last few years, sticking with Musk through thick and thin, and vowing that it would always be a supportive shareholder refusing to sell its shares even when many others did.

But now, perhaps not unlike Tesla's relationship with China, it looks as though the honeymoon could be over. The firm appears to have dumped 40% of its stake in Tesla in Q1 2021. It previously held more than 27 million shares of Tesla. In a Form 13F filed on Thursday, we learn that that Baillie Gifford sold 11,088,110 shares of Tesla in Q1, according to WhaleWisdom. This leaves the firm with a 1.68% stake in the company. Recall, back in September 2020 when Baillie Gifford's holdings in Tesla fell under 5%, the firm said they would remain significant holders in the name:

Anderson said Baillie Gifford would remain ‘significant shareholders for many years ahead’.

‘Tesla no longer faces any difficulty in raising capital at scale from outside sources but should there be serious setbacks in the share price we would welcome the opportunity to once again increase our shareholder,’ he said.

It looks like Baillie Gifford could be rethinking that strategy.

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/baille-gifford-dumps-11-million-tesla-shares-q1-2021-13f-indicates

>>51227 pb

SAM395 USAF G5 on final at Memphis Int'l Airport, TN from JBA depart

>>51258

cakers taken the bakers from wakers yo!

habby wrenchin n hammerin

don't forget the beer and fuud

Why does Biden Admin continue to disregard science in order to punish American children? All these rules will achieve is keeping kids indoors & away from summer camp altogether. @POTUS

runs exec branch, CDC included—he should rescind this guidance & open America’s summer camps.

https://twitter.com/StephenM/status/1390327469815877632

Read it and fight fight fight Blue States

Florida took action this legislative session to increase transparency and strengthen the security of our elections. I’d like to thank the leaders on this issue – @WiltonSimpson

, @ChrisSprowls

, @dennisbaxley

, and @GovGoneWild

https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1390299491132219393

>>51264

SAM277 USAF C-32A departed Kyiv, Ukriane west

Secretary of State departing Kyiv after....

Blinken in Ukraine reaffirms US support amid Russia tensions

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with top Ukrainian officials in Kyiv Thursday and reaffirmed Washington’s support for the country in the wake of heightened tensions with Russia, fueled by its recent troop buildup near the borders with Ukraine. The top American diplomat met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and reiterated the U.S.’s commitment to Ukraine’s “sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence,” while also underscoring the importance of Ukraine’s efforts to tackle widespread corruption and carry out reforms.

https://apnews.com/article/europe-ukraine-government-and-politics-cdfd9b277f6bade5697e042742987939

FORTE10 USAF Global Hawk Q-4B drone south of the departing SAM

It’s hard to believe this a real statement from an elected official. The Atlanta Mayor is saying she terminated an officer not based on the law but in order to appease rioters. This is antithetical to the American system of justice and the entire notion of a law-based society.

https://twitter.com/StephenM/status/1390314692921503746

I don’t think @SenFeinstein

or Justice Breyer should be forced to retire by the extreme far left.

https://twitter.com/StephenM/status/1390312016582266885

Soros-Backed Mag Pushes For 5 New States To ‘End Whiteness’ Of Government.

Written by Karl Widerquist, a Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University-Qatar, the piece argues that “one of the most transformative things Democrats could do with their narrow majority in Congress would be to grant statehood to all the remaining inhabited US territories”: Washington DC, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Mariana Islands.

The article – “The Case For Five New States” – argues that doing so would assist in “ending the whiteness of Congress.” “These territories have so far been prevented from becoming states as part of a larger, long-standing project to keep the Senate and Electoral College White,” it argues before adding “given American history, it’s reasonable to believe that their ethnic makeup is a primary reason why they are not states already.”

“And by refusing to grant them statehood, the White majority is effectively choosing to guard and maintain its outsized influence in the federal government,” Wilderquist notes.

OpenDemocracy has taken several grants from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, including a grant from the left-wing group’s policy center worth $55,000 to $83,000 and a grant worth over $138,000 from the foundation in 2020 alone. The organization has been funding the outlet annually since at least 2012.

https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/soros-mag-pushes-statehood-to-end-whiteness/

Rep. Matt Gaetz: ‘We MUST Do Better Than Liz Cheney’.

Luntz "roommate" leads the pac

“We’re going to a retreat!” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy victoriously exclaimed as he rallied representatives to support Liz Cheney against group of pesky conservatives three months ago. Two-thirds of Republican representatives dutifully followed the Leader. I didn’t, having just returned from Wyoming where the Washington Post declared my Pro-Trump rally to be a “voter rebellion” against the Congresswoman, drawing nearly a thousand America First patriots.

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82-8000 USAF 747 and 09-0017 USAF c-32A continue on to Lake Charles, LA-17 will go to a different Airport as already mentioned

The Chinese regime paid subsidies to maintain and develop the freight train operations that connect China with Central Asia and Europe, according to government documents exclusively obtained by The Epoch Times from a trusted source. Experts said that this railway would allow China to build ties with other countries in a bid to decouple from the United States.

“The Chinese regime is preparing for a potential decoupling from the United States, as well as maintaining its fragile economic system, by using the freight train to export more products to Europe and Central Asia,” Tang Jingyuan, U.S.-based China affairs commentator, told The Epoch Times on May 4.

In 2020, the trade between the United States and China reached 4.06 trillion yuan (about $627.14 billion), which accounts for 12.6 percent of China’s foreign trade, according to official data.

In 2019, amid the U.S.-China trade war, the United States was the second largest importer of Chinese products, buying $418.5 billion worth of goods, and suffered a $295.8 billion trade deficit, according to a report by China’s Ministry of Commerce. In 2018, when the trade war started, the trade between the United States and China amounted to $633.52 billion, accounting for 13.7 percent of China’s total foreign trade, and China enjoyed a $323.33 billion trade surplus, the Ministry reported.

Jin Canrong, one of Beijing’s top China-U.S. relations specialists, also said China is creating new business circles as it anticipates a potential decoupling from the United States.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/china-funds-trans-eurasia-trains-in-a-bid-to-decouple-from-us_3803713.html?utm_medium=epochtimes&utm_source=telegram

>>51264

https://t.me/s/EpochTimes

Beau Show

States are pushing back against Joe Biden’s administration over issues such as energy, immigration, COVID restrictions, security, fiscal policy, and many others that have intruded on state autonomy. This is indicative of a fundamental balance between state and federal authority laid out in the Bill of Rights.

https://youtu.be/Eqx92c7Bx7M

Bloomberg Forum Moves Back to Singapore Amid Concerns Over Press Treatment in China

Read: https://www.ntd.com/bloomberg-forum-moves-back-to-singapore-amid-concerns-over-press-treatment-in-china_608830.html?utm_medium=NTD&utm_source=telegram

#Texas state senators unanimously passed a resolution condemning communist China’s practice of #ForcedOrganHarvesting. A transplant specialist from a Texas clinic explains why this resolution is necessary.

https://t.me/s/NTDNews

🔥Watch the full episode👉https://youtu.be/_Ir0uUYxCBQ

Merkel Breaks With Biden, Opposes WTO Plan To Waive Vaccine IP Protections

Stocks are surging Thursday on reports that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has reportedly announced that she will oppose a proposal to waive IP protections for COVID-19 vaccines. The decision represents a major break with the Biden Administration, perhaps the biggest rift between Berlin and Washington since President Trump left office.

MERKEL OPPOSES BIDEN PLAN TO WAIVE CORONA VACCINE PATENT

According to a spokeswoman, the plan would create "severe complications" for the production of vaccines, according to German government spokeswoman. Biden's top trade rep revealed yesterday that the White House had decided to back the proposal for a waiver at the WTO, breaking ranks with a host of developed countries to join a host of developing nations in a conflict between rich and poor nations. Shares of vaccine makers and biotech stocks more broadly sold off on news that Biden was backing the waiver. But they've bounced back on reports of Merkel's opposition. The Nasdaq biotech stocks trimmed their losses, leading the index higher, while Moderna erased some of its losses. The news dragged US stocks higher, reversing the losses triggered by news of Biden's support for the proposal, which was originally put forward by India and South Africa. The countries are pushing for resolution of the issue by December.

Analysts at BofA pointed out that waivers are "not an existential threat.." but instead a "relatively modest threat" for the biotech sector given: (1) high barriers to vaccine development.. (2) a short window for competitors to contribute to supply given that $PFE $MRNA expect to .. produce >9B doses by YE22 .."

It still remains to be seen whether other major developed powers, like Japan, Norway and the UK, will weigh in on the proposal.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/merkel-breaks-biden-opposes-wto-plan-waive-vaccine-ip-protections

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI

https://www.kitco.com/charts/livegold.html

https://www.kitco.com/charts/livesilver.html

https://t.me/s/real_DonaldJTrump

Technocrats are merging “Health security” and “national security” to create the ultimate digital dictatorship. Three Technocrat-laced government agencies will operate in a lawless James Bond-esque fashion to sidestep all regulations.

This is a must-read article. Note that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, is right in the middle of HARPA (actually, the acronym is ARPA-H but “HARPA” is more easily pronounceable.) Also note that the HARPA initiative started under the Trump administration but is being implemented by Biden.

HARPA is the Holy Grail of massive, ubiquitous surveillance seen by Technocrats as necessary to control society according to their “science of social engineering.” What if you don’t want to be scientifically engineered? Read on… ⁃ TN Editor

Far from “ending cancer” in the way most Americans might envision it, the proposed agency would merge “national security” with “health security” in such as way as to use both physical and mental health “warning signs” to prevent outbreaks of disease or violence before they occur. Such a system is a recipe for a technocratic “pre-crime” organization with the potential to criminalize both mental and physical illness as well as “wrongthink.”

The Biden administration has asked Congress for $6.5 billion to fund the agency, which would be largely guided by Biden’s recently confirmed top science adviser, Eric Lander. Lander, formerly the head of the Silicon Valley–dominated Broad Institute, has been controversial for his ties to eugenicist and child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his relatively recent praise for James Watson, an overtly racist eugenicist. Despite that, Lander is set to be confirmed by the Senate and Congress and is reportedly significantly enthusiastic about the proposed new “health DARPA.”

This new agency, set to be called ARPA-H or HARPA, would be housed within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and would raise the NIH budget to over $51 billion. Unlike other agencies at NIH, ARPA-H would differ in that the projects it funds would not be peer reviewed prior to approval; instead hand-picked program managers would make all funding decisions. Funding would also take the form of milestone-driven payments instead of the more traditional multiyear grants.

ARPA-H will likely heavily fund and promote mRNA vaccines as one of the “breakthroughs” that will cure cancer. Some of the mRNA vaccine manufacturers that have produced some of the most widely used COVID-19 vaccines, such as the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, stated just last month that “cancer is the next problem to tackle with mRNA tech” post-COVID. BioNTech has been developing mRNA gene therapies for cancer for years and is collaborating with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create mRNA-based treatments for tuberculosis and HIV.

Other “innovative” technologies that will be a focus of this agency are less well known to the public and arguably more concerning.

read more at

https://www.technocracy.news/trifecta-darpa-iarpa-and-now-harpa-to-complete-digital-dictatorship/

One of the hallmarks of totalitarian systems is the criminalization of dissent. Not just the stigmatization of dissent or the demonization of dissent, but the formal criminalization of dissent, and any other type of opposition to the official ideology of the totalitarian system. Global capitalism has been inching its way toward this step for quite some time, and now, apparently, it is ready to take it.

Germany has been leading the way. For over a year, anyone questioning or protesting the “Covid emergency measures” or the official Covid-19 narrative has been demonized by the government and the media, and, sadly, but not completely unexpectedly, the majority of the German public. And now such dissent is officially “extremism.”

Yes, that’s right, in “New Normal” Germany, if you dissent from the official state ideology, you are now officially a dangerous “extremist.” The German Intelligence agency (the “BfV”) has even invented a new category of “extremists” in order to allow themselves to legally monitor anyone suspected of being “anti-democratic and/or delegitimizing the state in a way that endangers security,” like … you know, non-violently protesting, or speaking out against, or criticizing, or satirizing, the so-called “New Normal.”

Naturally, I’m a little worried, as I have engaged in most of these “extremist” activities. My thoughtcrimes are just sitting there on the Internet waiting to be scrutinized by the BfV. They’re probably Google-translating this column right now, compiling a list of all the people reading it, and their Facebook friends and Twitter followers, and professional associates, and family members, and anyone any of the aforementioned people have potentially met with, or casually mentioned, who might have engaged in similar thoughtcrimes.

You probably think I’m joking, don’t you? I’m not joking. Not even slightly. The Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution (“Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz”) is actively monitoring anyone questioning or challenging the official “New Normal” ideology … the “Covid Deniers,” the “conspiracy theorists,” the “anti-vaxxers,” the dreaded “Querdenkers” (i.e., people who “think outside the box”), and anyone else they feel like monitoring who has refused to join the Covidian Cult. We’re now official enemies of the state, no different than any other “terrorists” … or, OK, technically, a little different.

As The New York Times reported last week (German Intelligence Puts Coronavirus Deniers Under Surveillance), “the danger from coronavirus deniers and conspiracy theorists does not fit the mold posed by the usual politically driven groups, including those on the far left and right, or by Islamic extremists.” Still, according to the German Interior Ministry, we diabolical “Covid deniers,” “conspiracy theorists,” and “anti-vaxxers” have “targeted the state itself, its leaders, businesses, the press, and globalism,” and have “attacked police officers” and “defied civil authorities.”

https://www.technocracy.news/first-propaganda-then-the-criminalization-of-dissent/

Liberty steel owner in talks over £200m lifeline

The owner of Liberty Steel is in talks about a loan facility from California-based investment firm White Oak Global Advisors. The arrangement is at a preliminary stage but a skeleton agreement - a so called "term sheet" has been drafted.

Any loan would need the approval of Gupta Family Group's creditors which include Credit Suisse and Tata Steel. GFG has been scrambling to raise new financing since its major financial backer Greensill Capital went bust in early March, which threw the future of Liberty Steel and its 3,000 workers into doubt. A further 2,000 people work at other GFG steel sites in the UK.

Mr Gupta has already asked the government for £170m of support which has been rejected. Sources close to the matter say the injection of new money would increase the chances of Liberty's creditors recovering a greater portion of the cash owed to them, as it would potentially allow Liberty to return to full production and therefore benefit from higher steel prices. The agreement is still subject to further due diligence by the lender and there is no guarantee the loan will materialise. White Oak and GFG declined to comment.

The government has pledged to preserve Liberty Steel in some form and says it will consider "all options". In April, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng told the BBC said he wanted to give GFG more "time to find finance". But Labour has called for it to step in before the firm collapses, not after, to save thousands of supply chain jobs and millions of pounds. In the meantime, the clock is ticking as "victims" of the Greensill collapse prepare their claims to liquidate some of the assets Gupta pledged to Greensill to keep the cash flowing. Applications to compel the liquidation (winding up orders) of three Liberty Steel group companies have been filed and were originally due to be heard by a judge this week.

Insolvency experts say winding up orders are the "nuclear option" for creditors trying to get their money back and their very existence will severely hamper Mr Gupta's own attempts to save the business.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57008206

https://twitter.com/LouDobbs/status/1390253629479833604

American Express puts $40 million into a fund to provide loans to small business owners of color

Helping small businesses owned by people of color, immigrants and women recover from the Covid pandemic is the goal of a $40 million investment American Express is making with Accion Opportunity Fund.

The loans, which started going out this week, range from $5,000 to $100,000, depending on business need. The average is expected to be around $28,000 according to forecasts from the nonprofit fund, which aims to help build a financially inclusive world. “Our intention is to look at underfunded small businesses that are really looking to get stronger, to reopen, to stabilize and grow in 2021 and beyond,” Luz Urrutia, CEO of the Accion Opportunity Fund, told CNBC. ”[Businesses] we know are trying to invest, buy inventory, perhaps pivot and they need reasonable terms and credit to get back on their feet.”

To qualify for the loans with 12 to 60 month terms, an applicant must be in business for 12 months, have proof of $50,000 in revenue per year and own at least 20% of the business. Applicants with low FICO credit scores will be considered, but their credit rating will be a factor in determining the loan’s interest rate, which can range from 5.99% to 25.99%.

Underfunded small business owners often use cash advances or other products from “alternative” lenders with an average interest rate of 94%, according to Accion research.

“We specialize, particularly in businesses that don’t have the traditional documentation that don’t fit nicely into traditional credit boxes of much larger lenders like American Express,” said Urrutia, who spent her career in lending, including 18 years at Wachovia Bank before it was acquired by Wells Fargo. “FICO for us is a data point, but if a customer doesn’t have a FICO score. It’s OK. We will still loan if they meet other criteria. That takes specialized lending. A lot of the traditional mainstream lenders really don’t have the capacity,” she said.

Black-owned businesses will be a focus on the Accion loan program.

Last fall, American Express announced a $1 billion plan, which included a pledge to provide capital and financial education to 250,000 Black small businesses and provide $25,000 grants to Black female entrepreneurs in partnership with nonprofit IFundWomen.

moar

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/06/american-express-puts-40-million-towards-loans-to-small-businesses-of-color.html

May 6

Gen Mc

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May 6

CM

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The Bee: Internet Inventor Al Gore Bans Trump From Internet

https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1390335552327725060

Not The Bee: Coke is pausing its woke "diversity" plan after extreme backlash and the resignation of its chief lawyer

https://twitter.com/Not_the_Bee/status/1389942795264217092

>>51287

I Timothy 2:1-2 says to pray for ppl in govt On natl day of prayer I pray for wisdom & strength for leaders in their communities + for our freedoms & liberties

https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1390337524069961729

US-China relations: Biden’s trade team set for first talks to discuss phase one deal

US Trade Representative Katherine Tai is expected to talk to her Chinese counterpart Liu He soon to review the agreement. Topics up for discussion likely to include the Chinese commitment to buy US$200 billion of goods and intellectual property protections.

Top trade negotiators from China and the Biden administration may hold their first conversation soon to review the phase one trade deal

, two sources familiar with the discussion said.

“The talk at the principal level may come soon. Both sides need to review the progress of the deal and put on the table the divergence and conflicts”, said one of the sources.

Katherine Tai,

who was sworn in as the US Trade Representative on March 18, has held over 20 virtual meetings with her counterparts, covering all major economies apart from China.

The last time the two biggest economies discussed the phase one deal – a two-year agreement signed in January last year that took effect one month later – was in August last year.

The deal stipulates that senior level consultations take place every six months. Tai said on Wednesday that she expects to engage “in the near term” with the Chinese side, led by vice-premier Liu He, to assess the implementation of the trade deal. Tai said last week that her office has yet to start a comprehensive review of US trade policy toward China, but she would closely monitor how China follows through on its commitments.

China agreed to increase imports from the US by at least US$200 billion over the two years covered by the deal in exchange for the removal of tariffs on its exports to US, but actual purchases have fallen behind, partly due to the coronavirus pandemic.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3132486/us-china-relations-bidens-trade-team-set-first-talks-discuss

Eventually, all dots connect.

https://twitter.com/kshadyacct4/status/1390319599913259008

>>51293

It’s over.

https://twitter.com/kshadyacct4/status/1390315929700118528

Check out this WSJ reporter’s twitter feed and then look at the DNC’s twitter feed: @michaelsderby

Hard to tell the difference.

https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1390341260171378694

It used to be (like last year) that drag queen story hour was widely condemned with disgust by all conservatives. Now we have conservatives of all stripes openly embracing a drag queen running for governor, not just as a role mode for kids but for the entire state.

https://twitter.com/MillerStream/status/1390339351725309953

>>51297

Even if he were the most based transgender in the world, it wouldn’t matter to me, but the fact that he wants to “modernize” our immigration system by amnestying his illegal friends seals the deal.

https://twitter.com/MillerStream/status/1390293275358023680

>>51294

muh sides

whilst most of us got it long ago just makin sure those who didn't do

levels and layers yo

>>51297

>>51298

Meet the new boss....

>>51299

tried to 'splain some of that with Gates/Dominion/server traces on election night etc

They just will not hear it at all.

>>51300

g1 was talking about a woman running for governor, GOP, said he liked the sound of it

didn't have the heart to splain it, they are limits herre

did go into detail bout vax, shedding, complete lift of mask orders now, church, he gonna make a stand I think and prolly gibs em his 2 cents too

>>51272

82-8000 USAF 747 on descent for Lake Charles LA with 09-0017 behind

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RCH596T USAF C-17 Globemaster departed Buckley AFB after a ground stop-inbound from Travis AFB, CA

The handler "Jill" went to Las Vegas after Salt Lake City and is heading to Ft. Carson later

JCPenney cuts hundreds of jobs

Department store chain J.C.Penney has slashed hundreds of jobs as its new owners try to reshape the company that emerged from bankruptcy in late 2020.

J.C.Penney’s retail and operating assets were acquired by Brookfield Asset Management Inc. and Simon Property Group after the company sought protection in bankruptcy court at the beginning of the pandemic. Despite new owners, the woes continue for the ailing company, which cut 650 jobs last week as a way to streamline operations. The move impacted store, field and corporate teams. However, less than 1.5% of its total associate base was affected, the company told FOX Business.

"After months of operational review by our new owners, Simon Property Group and Brookfield Asset Management, JCPenney has adjusted our structure to better meet our strategic priorities," J.C. Penney said in a statement to FOX Business. "We have streamlined our organization, resulting in the elimination of positions across our corporate, field, and stores teams." The company said the layoffs were a "necessary step to ensure the long-term success" of the company.

However, the company focused on eliminating open positions first and tried to offer alternative positions to affected employees when possible.Last May, the company became one of the largest retailers to seek bankruptcy protection during the pandemic amid a wave of store closures forced by the spread of COVID-19 infections in the U.S.

As part of its efforts to restructure under Chapter 11, the company planned to permanently close nearly a third of its 846 stores over the next two years, which would leave it with just over 600 locations.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/jcpenney-job-cuts-jobs-bankruptcy

>>51310

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IMF reaches staff level agreement with Honduras, proposes more support

The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday it reached a staff-level agreement with Honduras and proposed to raise total support to $769 million to help the central American country recover from two hurricanes and the coronavirus pandemic. The fund had initially planned to provide $554 through a Stand-By Arrangement and a Stand-by Credit Facility. “The increase is justified in the context of balance of payments needs brought on by the tropical storms and continued pandemic,” said Joyce Wong, the Fund’s team leader for Honduras. The COVID-19 pandemic and hits by tropical storms Eta and Iota lead to a sharp economic contraction in 2020 that will only be partly reversed in 2021, the Fund said. The agreement is subject to approval by the IMF’s Executive Board, tentatively scheduled for June.

https://www.reuters.com/article/imf-honduras/imf-reaches-staff-level-agreement-with-honduras-proposes-more-support-idUSL1N2MT1YO

"sweet"

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Speakin of Honduras...this is Honduran AF1 with President Juan Orlando Hernández

Honduran AF FAH001 Embraer Legacy 600 departed Miami Int'l after a ground stop-depart from Tegucigalpa Toncontin Int'l Airport earlier today

UK board on it

UK board Q post update and decode, great work done by UK anons

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>>51269 “The Case For Five New States” – argues that doing so would assist in “ending the whiteness of Congress.”/Dims be desperate

need to run an errand

mostly collected

will bake on return

not too long

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EXEC1F USAF C-40B State Dept AC departed Las Vegas, McCarran after an overnight-heading to Colorado Springs and Ft. Carson eventually

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