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Xi Jinpingpong blamed the US for the first time for his domestic failures, according to the Wall Street Journal. He's a commie reactionary with Chinese characteristics. Not a good sign of what's to come.
Some cracker Republican in Florida wants bloggers to register like lobbyists, and Ron DeSantis finally came out against that, thankfully. A little late, though. Newt beat him to it.
Vivek Ramaswamy says CPAC shook him down for $$$$ in exchange for which they'd see to it he did better in the straw poll. There's no report that Matt Schlapp also asked for a reach-around.
LIBOR surpassed 5% for the first time in 15 years on Monday.
Georgia fired up a nuclear power reactor this week. The country now has 93 operating. 67 were never finished after Three Mile Island.
A dog and her pups were rescued alive and well from a basement in Turkey more than a month after the Feb 6 earthquake. The death toll is up to 52k.
Thousands of Iranian schoolgirls are being systematically poisoned in Iran. There was a similar incident in Afghanistan during the first Obama administration. Rag-headed heathen bastards.
South Africa is going the way of Rhodesia.
The UST yield curve aggregate made a new high 4.674% Wednesday v Fed Funds Effective Rate 4.57.
The Obama of Big Oil said peak production from 2019 will never be surpassed.
Pundits who predict inflation won't spiral like the 1970s fail to understand that the price of energy inputs is determinative. Unless energy costs come down big, we're in for it.
Cumulative deaths per million from C-19 in the US are 3,285. In Africa just 181. Follow the science.
The tide is turning on the Wuhan Lab Leak Theory of the origin of C-19 in the press.
Anthony Fauci has authored a paper in CELL which calls for better vaccines than the ones we've got, whether experimental or not. No kidding.
Silicon Valley Bank failed today, the first failure since 2020 when there were four. There was a huge flight to safety. Stocks sold off and longer dated Treasuries rallied 3.45%. The yield curve aggregate plunged 230bp, 3.82%.
Full time employment rose a little in Feb to 49.66% of civilian population. The average last year was 50.1%.
The crime bill passed the D.C. City Council unanimously in January. After Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) vetoed it, the city council overrode it 12-1. Among other things, the bill would eliminate most mandatory sentences and lower penalties for a number of violent offenses, including carjackings and robberies. It would also expand the requirement for jury trials in most misdemeanor cases.
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Over 100k still out in DTE service area in the east, 28k in the Consumers Energy service area in the south.
Pretty shocking multi-day outage, with overnight lows averaging 26F for the last five nights.
Consumers Energy outages: ~36k still affected (~90k restored overnight).
DTE outages: ~279k still affected (~65k restored overnight).
This evening it will be four days since the power went out for these people.
127k of the current Michigan outages belong to Consumers Energy, 344k to DTE in the Detroit area.
Peak outages for Consumers Energy were ~237k at one point in this event.
Progress overnight: Just 12k restored for Consumers Energy.
In the last 20 years Michigan ranks 4th overall for total outages, but California remains the big daddy for outages, followed by Texas and New York.
Back together at the point of a gun isn't back together, Matt.
Abraham Lincoln made America purple.
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After 35 years of apologies, isn’t it time to forgive and move on?
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