February 11, 2021 - 9:50am
At 85, the most influential Republican political donor in modern U.S. history says he has some regrets. According to soft-ball corporate media interviews and a new book he s written, billionaire industrialist Charles Koch wishes that his more than five decades of organizing and funding far-right, partisan politicians, advocacy groups, and academia had slightly less partisan results.
Koch s latest media makeover strains credulity. The man spent his entire adult life, while helming one of the largest and dirtiest private companies in the nation, working to fundamentally alter society and move it towards his ideal: a libertarian utopia with low taxes, no unions, weak regulations, and unlimited corporate political spending.
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Republican Minnesota Rep. Tom Emmer’s Zoom video showed his face upside down in a House Financial Services Committee meeting video on Wednesday.
Emmer requested time to speak and his face on the Zoom call appeared to show his face upside down, video shows. Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters interrupted Emmer, asking him to suspend and inquiring if he was alright.
“You’re upside down Tom,” one man said in the video. Emmer responded, “I don’t know how to fix that.”
Someone said, “at least you’re not a cat” and another added, “You’re going viral Tom.”
Biden withdraws from Trump-era policy to track Chinese influence in American schools ANI | Updated: Feb 10, 2021 09:12 IST
Washington [US], February 10 (ANI): The Biden administration has withdrawn from Trump s policy on tracking Chinese influence in US schools and universities, reported Daily Caller.
Chuck Ross, writing for the publication, informed that the Biden administration has quietly withdrawn from the proposed rule to the Department of Homeland Security on December 31, 2020, entitled Establishing Requirement for Student and Exchange Visitor Program Certified Schools to Disclose Agreements with Confucius Institutes and Classrooms.
The rule requires American schools and universities to disclose their partnerships with Confucius Institutes, which allegedly are front groups for Chinese Communist Party propaganda according to some US officials.
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Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation’s Samantha Renck about the World Health Organization’s latest announcement on COVID-19, former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial and more.
Cotton discussed the World Health Organization’s (WHO) announcement that it is no longer pursuing a lab leak theory regarding the origins of COVID-19 and what the United States’ relationship will look like with China.
Cotton criticized the WHO, saying that they have been a “Chinese Communist stooge from the very beginning.” He called for an “independent team of western scientists” to investigate everything that happened in Wuhan from the Fall of 2019, “to include the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
Republican senators blasted Joe Biden for withdrawing a proposed rule that would require U.S. schools to disclose their partnerships with Confucius Institutes.