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ZD Net – by Corinne Reichert

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is dead in the water after the administration of new United States President Donald Trump announced the country’s withdrawal from the trade agreement following his inauguration on Friday.

In a formal statement issued over the weekend, the White House said the president has decided to base its foreign policy on an “America first” attitude that involves returning “millions of jobs to America’s shores” by backing out of multilateral trade agreements such as the TPP.   Continue reading “Trump dumping Trans-Pacific Partnership”

USA Today

HATTIESBURG, Miss. — At least four people were killed in southern Mississippi early Saturday when a destructive tornado roared through the Hattiesburgarea, leveling homes, ripping off roofs and tossing trees into roadways across the region.

The city of Hattiesburg on Twitter and Forrest County emergency management confirmed the deaths. Forrest County Coroner Butch Benedict said two of the fatalities were in a trailer park.   Continue reading “Tornado rips through southern Mississippi, leaving 4 dead”

CNN

A new bill wants to give first dibs on H-1B visas to the “best and brightest” foreign students educated in the U.S.

Senators Chuck Grassley and Dick Durbin, both long-time H-1B reform advocates, plan to reintroduce their bill for revamping the program imminently. The bill was first introduced in 2007.   Continue reading “Bipartisan bill aims to reform H-1B visa system”

The Hill

President Trump on Friday signed an executive order directing federal agencies to “ease the burden of ObamaCare.”

Trump signed the order in front of reporters at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, one of his first official acts as president.

The order did not direct any specific actions, but instead gave broad authority to the Department of Health and Human Services and other agencies to take actions available to them under the law to ease regulatory requirements from ObamaCare.     Continue reading “Trump signs ObamaCare executive order”

CNN

Paramount Pictures has announced a $1 billion financing deal with two Chinese firms, strengthening the U.S. studio’s ties with a lucrative but difficult market.

Huahua Media and Shanghai Film Group will put money into all Paramount’s films over the next three years, the companies said in a statement. The Chinese firms will even set up an office on the Paramount lot later this year.   Continue reading “China’s latest Hollywood move: Pumping $1B into Paramount movies”

Yahoo News

A contentious exchange Thursday between treasury secretary nominee Steve Mnuchin and Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, marked the most direct attack by Democrats on the Goldman Sachs banker whom some groups have attempted to brand as “the foreclosure king.”

“Is it true,” Brown asked during Mnuchin’s Senate confirmation hearing, “that OneWest’s independent audit firm found it violated the Civil Service Relief Act by initiating foreclosures on 54 active duty military families. That’s what the independent audit firm said, yes or no?”   Continue reading “Treasury pick Steve Mnuchin grilled over foreclosures”

Washington Post – by Samantha Schmidt

When a utility worker in Key Largo, Fla., noticed that a section of a paved street was not settling properly, he decided to remove a manhole cover and descend into the earth.

Moments later on Monday morning, the 15-foot-deep hole went silent. Sensing the man was trapped, a fellow utility worker climbed into the drainage hole to rescue him. When he, too, stopped responding, a third worker entered the same hole.   Continue reading “One by one, 3 utility workers descended into a manhole. One by one, they died.”

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Antonius Aquinas

John Connally, President Nixon’s Secretary of the Treasury, once remarked to the consternation of Europe’s financial elites over America’s inflationary monetary policy, that the dollar “is our currency, but your problem.”  Times have certainly changed and it now appears that the dollar has become an American problem.   Continue reading “Donald & the Dollar”

New York Times

WASHINGTON — President Obama on Tuesday largely commuted the remaining prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the army intelligence analyst convicted of an enormous 2010 leak that revealed American military and diplomatic activities across the world, disrupted the administration, and made WikiLeaks, the recipient of those disclosures, famous.

The decision by Mr. Obama rescued Ms. Manning, who twice tried to commit suicide last year, from an uncertain future as a transgender woman incarcerated at the male military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. She has been jailed for nearly seven years, and her 35-year sentence was by far the longest punishment ever imposed in the United States for a leak conviction.   Continue reading “Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence”

Yeah, we want Bayer to conduct research and development in this country.

Times of India, April 25, 2013

NEW DELHI: As many as 2,644 people, called subjects, died during the clinical trials of 475 new drugs on human beings in last seven years and only 17 of the medicines were approved for marketing in India, the Centre has informed the Supreme Court.    Continue reading “Flashback: Bayer’s research and development helps kill 2,644 during clinical trial of drugs in India”

The Hill

German-based Bayer AG has committed to President-elect Donald Trump that it will invest $8 billion in American research and development as part of its deal to acquire Monsanto, Trump’s transition team said Tuesday.

Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters that Bayer will also protect all of Monsanto’s 9,000 American jobs while creating an additional 3,000 high-tech positions in the country. That agreement, he added, came after Trump met with CEOs from both companies last week.    Continue reading “Trump team touts $8 billion Bayer investment”

KY 3 News

EVERTON, Mo. A local highway is closed to traffic– after a pipeline spilled thousands of gallons of crude oil. The leak was detected Saturday morning in rural Lawrence County, near Everton.

And while crews work to vacuum the oil, Highway M remains closed.   Continue reading “Oil spill worse than initially thought”

Fox News – by Malia Zimmerman

A proposed law that would punish countries that refuse to take back their illegal immigrant criminals is two years too late to save Casey Chadwick, but the Texas congressman behind it figures it’s the least Washington can do.

Chadwick was murdered in 2015 by Jean Jacques, an illegal immigrant from Haiti and one of thousands freed onto U.S. streets each year after they serve prison time because their homelands refuse deportation. But a proposal by Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas, the Criminal Alien Deportation Enforcement Act, would force such countries to take back their citizens or risk losing foreign aid and travel visa privileges.   Continue reading “Law would cut off aid to countries that refuse to accept illegal immigrant criminals”

Activist Post – by Nicolas West

Since the first known deployment of a domestic drone to aid in police work made headline news in 2011, civil liberties advocates have been warning of the slippery slope upon which we’ve descended.

In that North Dakota case, drone surveillance led to the arrest of three suspected cattle thieves; police used the justification of an armed standoff and even a potential bomb threat to call in a Predator B drone. Naturally, once this precedent was established, at least two dozen more drone surveillance flights were documented in the subsequent months.   Continue reading “Los Angeles To Use Drones For Extreme Threats, NOT Public Surveillance, Sheriff Claims”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In a “mass layoff” event reported late last week by the Department of Labor, the Clinton Foundation announced it would lay off some 22 employees at the Clinton Global Initiative, which attained notoriety during the John Podesta leaks, when the various details of the fallout between between CGI head Doug Band and Chelsea Clinton were revealed; it also emerged that long-time Bill Clinton friend Band was soliciting donations for Clinton through his PR firm, Teneo in an sordid example of “pay for play” which most of the mainstream media refused to cover, especially after Band emailed Podesta “If this story gets out, we are screwed.”   Continue reading “The Clinton Foundation Is Shutting Down The Clinton Global Initiative”