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Is Washington prepared for a geopolitical ‘tech race’? As Biden passes 100 days in office, how is the administration’s thinking shaping up on China? When Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan sat down with Chinese officials in Anchorage, Alaska for the first high-level bilateral summit of the new administration, it was not a typical diplomatic meeting. Instead of a polite but restrained diplomatic exchange, the two sides traded pointed barbs for alm...

Durant-Related Payments Durant-related payments refer to state expenditures that resulted from the Michigan Supreme Court’s 1997 decision in Durant v. State of Michigan. The court held that state government had mandated certain special education programs, but failed to finance adequately districts’ compliance with these mandates, thereby violating the Headlee amendment to the Michigan Constitution. As a settlement, the court awarded $212 million in damages to the school districts that had j...

Rabo: The Irony Is That Both Wall Street And Silicon Valley Went All-In To Get Biden Elected by Tyler Durden By Michael Every of Rabobank Now THATS escalation! What a relief that a Russian troop withdrawal and an explanation short of Iran targeting Israel’s nuclear reactor mean the near-term risk of Hot War is removed,…and we can get back to focusing on Cold War (as more bipartisan US anti-China legislation races through Congress). Let’s forget about military experts concluding that becau...

Biden Breaks Campaign Promise, Approves Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia Practically nothing seems to get in the way of war — and specifically, the sale of U.S. war weapons abroad. Cpl. Francisco J. Diaz Jr. / U.S. Marine Corps / Andrew Harnik-Pool / Getty Images / Truthout By Every so often, we get a glimpse at who is actually running this joint. People like President Biden, former President Trump, Minority Leader McConnell and House Speaker Pelosi give every appearance of being in charge of their...

April 12, 2021 If you want to take over the world, build an American corporate empire to monopolize the public square and ban dissent. Then, form a corporate coalition of like-minded peers who graduated from the same elite universities where wokeism is indoctrinated as a secular religion to strategize on circumventing republican governance. Over the weekend, more than 100 corporate executives met to do just that. “More than 100 of the nation’s top corporate leaders met virtually on Saturday...

In this appendix we motivate and discuss the empirical models and results used to produce the casual and commercial smuggling estimates presented in the main text under "A New Estimate of Interstate Cigarette Smuggling Rates" (see Page 12). The results of this study build upon the existing literature, which provides considerable support for the presence of substantial tax-induced smuggling, both casual and commercial. For instance, Lovenheim (2007) estimates that 13 percent to 25 percent of U....

Confessions of a Secular Jesus Follower: Finding Answers in Jesus for Those Who Don’t Believe, by Tom Krattenmaker (New York: Convergent, 2016, ISBN 978-1-101-90642-2) 245 pp. Hardcover, $25.00. Despite the title, Confessions of a Secular Jesus Follower, this book is classified by the publisher on the dust jacket as “Religion-Spiritual,” and it is. One wonders … This article is available to subscribers only.

Thu, Apr 1st 2021 10:57am — Tim Cushing Never let a good crisis go to waste. The federal government is always on the lookout for expansion opportunities and a bad actor known colloquially as "Current Events" keeps handing the government what its looking for. On January 6th, a bunch of Trump fans, who thought it was possible to overturn certified election results, raided the Capitol building. Five people, including a Capitol police officer, died during the attack. This horrific event was turne...

pasha the japanese have a similar concept, “ shinrin-yoku,” forest bathing — standing alone in the forest and bathing in healing green light. anecdotally, i can attest that living in a forest has lowered my blood pressure zagonostra >Biden 3/11 Speech I did not watch or listen to the speech, but I just read a transcript and I feel I woke up into a future dystopian world. While it was different for everyone, we all lost something — a collective suffering, a collective sacrifice… Tell...

$459,846,600 The Michigan Department of Career Development (MDCD) is the outgrowth of an initiative by then-Gov. John Engler (Executive Order 1999-1) to split the former Michigan Jobs Commission into two parts. One part became the MDCD, and the other part became the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC). The MDCD concentrates on delivering federally sponsored job training and placement services, and MEDC is the state’s chief dispenser of corporate welfare and “economic developmen...