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Anglo-American model eclipsed? China overtakes US as Europe's biggest trading partner


BBC
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 22:56 UTC
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China is now the EU's biggest trading partner, overtaking the US in 2020.

China bucked a wider trend, as trade with most of Europe's major partners dipped due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Trade between China and the EU was worth $709bn (€586bn, £511bn) last year, compared with $671bn worth of imports and exports from the US.

Although China's economy cratered in the first quarter due to the pandemic, its economic recovery later in the year fuelled demand for EU goods.

China was the only major global economy to see growth in 2020, stoking demand for European cars and luxury goods.

Meanwhile, China's exports to Europe benefited from strong demand for medical equipment and electronics.

"In the year 2020, China was the main partner for the EU. This result was due to an increase of imports (+5.6%) and exports (+2.2%)," according to Eurostat, the EU's statistical office.
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Attention

Breda O'Brien: Past time to question our unelected tech billionaire overlords

Breda O'Brien
The Irish Times
Sat, 13 Feb 2021 22:00 UTC
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(L-R) Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Elon Musk - unelected, unaccountable billionaires who have power on a level without precedent in human history
Out walking before it was quite dark enough to draw the curtains, I was struck by how many solitary figures were slumped at windows of bedrooms and kitchens. None was looking at the red-gold sky. Instead, they were staring at laptops and no doubt, like me, they had spent most of the day doing just that.

A cultural change with immense implications is already under way, and only being hastened by Covid-19. It is not just about remote working. It is about the huge disparity between the power and influence of tech companies and what we still think of as governments.

As Jennifer O'Connell pointed out recently, the giant tech companies and their founders have had a very good pandemic. Citing Oxfam research, she highlighted that the world's 10 richest people, including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, witnessed their wealth grow collectively by €451 billion during the pandemic.

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Snakes in Suits

Texas mayor resigns after telling people it was their own fault they froze when power went out in deadly winter storm

Sinéad Baker
Insider.com
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 22:26 UTC
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© AP Photo/David J. PhillipVehicles seen Monday in Spring, Texas.
  • A Texas mayor resigned after saying it was people's own fault if they froze in the deadly storm.
  • Mayor Tim Boyd of Colorado City said not to expect help and "Only the strong will survive."
  • The storm has been blamed for more than 20 deaths and has cut off power to millions.
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The mayor of a Texas city resigned after telling people it was their own fault if they were suffering from the vast loss of electricity in the state this week amid a historic cold snap.

Tim Boyd, the mayor of Colorado City, accused his constituents of looking for a "handout" as power went out across the state. He encouraged residents with no water to "think outside the box to survive."


Comment: If only that were the official position for The Covid...

Of course, when it comes to real natural disasters, authorities couldn't give a sh*t about people.

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Bad Guys

Executioners accused of sanitizing accounts of deaths in federal cases

Michael Tarm
Newsmax
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 21:30 UTC
Lethal injection facility
© California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via Getty ImagesThe lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison as seen on March 13, 2019.
Executioners who put 13 inmates to death in the last months of the Trump administration likened the process of dying by lethal injection to falling asleep and called gurneys "beds" and final breaths "snores."

But those tranquil accounts are at odds with reports by The Associated Press and other media witnesses of how prisoners' stomachs rolled, shook, and shuddered as the pentobarbital took effect inside the U.S. penitentiary death chamber in Terre Haute, Indiana. The AP witnessed every execution.

The sworn accounts by executioners, which government filings cited as evidence the lethal injections were going smoothly, raise questions about whether officials misled courts to ensure the executions scheduled from July to mid-January were done before death penalty opponent Joe Biden became president.

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NPC

'Breathing is optional': Internet groans after NYC requires double-masking inside federal court buildings


RT
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 21:06 UTC
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© REUTERS/Caitlin OchsA subway rider passes ads for face masks, in New York City, US, November 14, 2020
Two masks will now be required for those who want to enter a federal court building in Manhattan - but the new Covid-19 guidance has provoked more mockery than applause on social media.

The Southern District of New York announced the rule last week as part of its "phased re-entry plan." Individuals will need to wear two face coverings or be equipped with an N95 mask. The guidelines also specify that bandanas and coverings with vents will not be considered adequate. Visitors that lack proper face coverings will be provided with proper masks upon entrance to the federal buildings, the rules state. Security personnel will be tasked with enforcing the double-mask rule.

The new "dress code" covers Manhattan and the Bronx, as well as Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Orange, Dutchess, and Sullivan counties.

The guidance comes after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said experiments showed that "fitting a cloth mask over a medical procedure mask" could more effectively slow the spread of coronavirus.

Comment: We apparently live in a time where the individual has sacrificed so many of their boundaries that choice and autonomy are readily handed over to the external world. When a society freely gives their treasures away, the vacancy is easily filled.

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Roses

Legendary conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh passes away at 70

Joshua Caplan
Breitbart
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 20:28 UTC
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© Mario Tama/Getty ImagesRush Limbaugh receives the Medal of Freedom at a White House ceremony on February 4, 2020.
Conservative radio legend Rush Limbaugh died Wednesday morning at the age of 70 following a battle with advanced lung cancer, his wife Kathryn Limbaugh announced at the beginning of his Wednesday radio program.

"It is with profound sadness I must share with you directly that our beloved Rush, my wonderful husband, passed away this morning due to complications from lung cancer," Kathryn announced.

"Rush will forever be the greatest of all time, she added.

Comment: Love him or hate him, for decades Limbaugh was a dogged voice Americans who felt sidelined from the political arena.

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Bad Guys

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg privately took 'anti-vax' stance against his own platform's new policy


Project Veritas
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 19:39 UTC
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© Project Veritas
'I share some caution on this [vaccine] because we just don't know the long-term side effects of basically modifying people's DNA and RNA'

Project Veritas released a new video today provided by a brave Facebook insider exposing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's contradictory position when it comes to COVID-19 vaccines.

In July of 2020, Zuckerberg said he was worried about the impact a COVID-19 vaccine would have on an individual's DNA and RNA.

"But I do just want to make sure that I share some caution on this [vaccine] because we just don't know the long-term side effects of basically modifying people's DNA and RNA...basically the ability to produce those antibodies and whether that causes other mutations or other risks downstream. So, there's work on both paths of vaccine development," Zuckerberg said.

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Bad Guys

'Too white' has become the meaningless default criticism by the 'morally superior' elite

Frank Furedi
RT
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 19:09 UTC
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© AFP / ANP / Sander KoningA couple holds a placard during a demonstration against racism at the Koekamp park in The Hague, The Netherlands on December 6 2020.
Everything from US states to the classics to British TV is now routinely criticised for being 'too white'. How has this happened when describing something as 'too black' would be considered unacceptable?

Have you heard of the expression 'too white'? In the jargon of the Western elites, 'too white' serves as a synonym for words like 'unpleasant', 'problematic' or 'toxic'.

Just listen to Tom Perez, the former chair of the Democratic National Committee in the US. He claims that New Hampshire is 'too white' to have the first primary for the election of a president. He also thinks that Iowa is 'too white' to have the first caucus during the election campaign.

Comment: Furedi's observation regarding his visit to a Kenyan village underscores the distorted moralistic baggage that has been loaded onto the descriptor 'white' that is spreading around the world. It appears to have become shorthand for the whole of Western civilization, which many wish to bring down. But what would they replace it with? The utopias envisioned by the SJW crowd have proven a failure more than once.

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Dollars

Outlets like CNN, NBC paid BLM/Antifa activist who broke into Capitol on Jan 6 $77,000

Natalie Winters
National Pulse
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 19:25 UTC
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John Sullivan - the founder of a left-wing activist group - received $77,000 from various media outlets including CNN and NBC for his footage of Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt being shot at the U.S. Capitol.

Facing criminal charges for his involvement in the riots, Sullivan was forced to disclose payments he received for the footage of Babbit being fatally shot by a Capitol police officer.

Among the media companies that paid Sullivan were CNN, NBC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), and Left/Right Productions. CNN and NBC each paid $35,000, ABC paid $2,500, and Left/Right Productions paid $5,000.

"Defendant is legitimately self-employed as a documentarian and it is oppressive to require that he not be allowed to continue his primary area of employment for an extended period of time," Sullivan's lawyer reasoned in a court filing where Sullivan requested to be allowed to continue using Facebook and Twitter.
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Star

Supermarket calls police on disabled man for not wearing mask, tries to make him wear yellow sticker

Paul Joseph Watson
summit.news
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 19:20 UTC
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British supermarket Morrisons called the police on a disabled man who was medically exempt from wearing a face mask after attempting to make him wear a yellow sticker.

Yes, really.

The clip shows the man involved in a confrontation with a security guard and staff as they try to make him wear the sticker.

The man calls them out by asking how a sticker could stop the spread of coronavirus.

When he refuses to wear the sticker, he is asked to leave the store as staff claim they are just doing their job.


"Weren't they just doing their job in the Nazi Germany? Can you remember how they said that during the Nuremberg trials?"

The staff then call the police, although are unsure if they should be calling the '999' emergency number.

The security guard says the yellow stickers are to "explain to other people in the store that you're medically exempt," despite this not being part of the law.

Comment: Not the greatest optics, to say the least.

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